WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:09.199 All right, here's an odd story from a man who 2 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:14.519 I think this occurs in the United Kingdom. I don't think, 3 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:16.960 he says. Maybe he does somewhere in the story, and 4 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:20.399 you'll hear it if he does. But the way he writes, 5 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:22.960 and the way he describes some of these places and 6 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:26.519 the vernacular he uses, I think this guy is from 7 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:28.480 the UK. But let's read us. This is not a 8 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:31.760 bigfoot story. But this is really good, he writes. My 9 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:35.840 first strange encounter happened in two thousand and seven. There 10 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:38.560 were no leaves on the trees. That is the only 11 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.679 thing I can recall determining the time of year. We 12 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:46.320 lived four miles away from the local town in the countryside, 13 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.240 on the bank of a large reservoir. From the high 14 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.479 spot where our house sat, we had a fantastic view 15 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:57.960 of the rolling countryside. We own twenty two acres that 16 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:02.119 included two large lakes that had excavated and acres of 17 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:05.799 trees I planted. I was blessed to live in such 18 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:11.000 a beautiful and imposing home. The house itself is a 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:14.719 converted L shaped barn. My wife and I lived in 20 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:17.799 the two story section, and her parents lived in the 21 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.319 smaller l that was only one story. It was like 22 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.480 two separate properties, but we could walk straight through each 23 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:30.040 other's homes. On the night in question, I was sitting 24 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.239 with my feet up on the setti watching TV. It 25 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:36.959 was dark outside, and I imagine it must have been 26 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.400 getting close to bedtime. I prefer to go to bed 27 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:44.239 early and get up early. The next morning, my wife 28 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.640 came walking into the lounge and told me that she 29 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.959 was going to let the dog out, but there was 30 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.760 someone standing in the back garden. I asked what they 31 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:57.239 were doing, and she said nothing, they're just standing there. Well, 32 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:59.680 the hair stood up all over my body, and I 33 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:04.319 was engulfed in fear. I'm certainly not the cowardly type, 34 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.359 but I had the sudden feeling that something really bad 35 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:11.560 was about to happen. My wife prompted me to get 36 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:13.800 up and come with her to have a look. So 37 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.680 I followed her through the house to her parents' side. 38 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:20.400 She took me to her dad's bedroom because it was 39 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.800 on the farthest side and closest to the back garden. 40 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.639 The light was off, so I looked out the window 41 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.560 and allowed my eyes to adjust to the garden, which 42 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:34.439 obviously I knew well. The part I was looking at 43 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:37.400 was only thirty feet across to where our garden meets 44 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:41.680 the neighbor's pasture land. There was a three bar wooden 45 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.919 fence with barbed wire across the top, and we had 46 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:50.120 planted some fruit trees there. After letting my eyes adjust 47 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.639 and looking around to identify the objects I knew were there, 48 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:58.240 I said I can't see anybody. My wife said, now 49 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:03.560 look through this, and she had my night vision scope. 50 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:06.000 By now her dad was standing next to her and 51 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.479 looking quite concerned, and I took the scope from her 52 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.400 and I returned to the window to look. I instantly 53 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.400 saw the likeness of a person standing in the neighbor's field, 54 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:21.439 but right next to the fence. My wife asked if 55 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.719 it could be one of my friends messing about to 56 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.639 scare us, and I replied, who the hell would stand there? 57 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:30.520 On the off chance that you might look outside with 58 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:35.159 a night vision scope, I just died the focus on 59 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.400 the scope and I looked again, and this time seeing 60 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:42.680 something that filled me with terror. It looked like an 61 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:47.319 extremely tall man with a heavily woven cloak pulled over 62 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:53.680 and around him. The cloak or shroud, whatever it was, 63 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.280 was coarsely woven twill. The strands were as thick as 64 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:02.759 jumper wool and tightly woven, and it looked heavy, so 65 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:05.240 much so that I guessed I would have had a 66 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.319 difficult time lifting it if it were on the floor. 67 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:12.919 It was only thirty feet away, so with the scope 68 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.560 zoomed in, it was the equivalent of being right next 69 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:20.439 to it. I could see the waving and the shroud 70 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:24.360 as it came below the waist and flared out. The 71 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:27.639 arms were to the side and the hands weren't visible. 72 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:32.759 In fact, I couldn't see anything of this being outside 73 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.480 of the intimidating figure with its head leaning forward and 74 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:40.879 the cloak pulled over it. You've probably figured out by 75 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:45.000 now that what I'm describing is the grim Reaper, and 76 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:50.600 it was terrifying. It wasn't carrying a scythe as depicted 77 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:54.319 in so many stories. Judging by the fence it was 78 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:57.680 standing next to, I determined it to be nine feet 79 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:02.120 tall and as much as three and a half eat wide. 80 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:05.959 I opened the window slowly and quietly looked again. I'm 81 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.360 not sure if I did that to get a better look, 82 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:11.759 or if I needed confirmation that what I was seeing 83 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:15.879 wasn't a reflection in the glass. When I took the 84 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.879 scope away, I couldn't see it, but when I looked 85 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:23.120 through the scope again, it was there. Through the scope, 86 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.720 I could also see the grain in the wood on 87 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.439 the fence rails, the cobwebs on the fence, and the 88 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:33.879 long strands of grass in front of its cloak. There 89 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.319 was truly some kind of being in front of me, 90 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:39.439 but there was totally no explanation for what it might 91 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:45.000 be in our world, our knowledge of what exists among us, 92 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:49.000 be it in other dimensions or whatever else. I don't 93 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:53.839 think could ever explain this. I later asked my wife 94 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.519 what she had been doing standing in her dad's bedroom 95 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.720 window with my night scope. She said that the dog 96 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.839 won it to go outside, but she had heard foxes 97 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.600 barking at the back of the house. She thought that 98 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:09.000 she would have a look around the garden before letting 99 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.480 the dog out, to make sure there were no foxes. 100 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.120 She had a little pug that she treasured and didn't 101 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:18.720 want the foxes to attack it. I know this is 102 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.920 a far fetched story, but it is what I and 103 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.480 my wife and her dad all witnessed. Her mother refused 104 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:32.240 to look. She said it was a bad omen Sadly, 105 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.439 the truth of that statement came to pass when my 106 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:39.240 wife passed away in twenty and thirteen after a four 107 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.879 year battle with ovarian cancer. She was only forty six 108 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.519 years old. We had been married for nineteen years and 109 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:52.079 five days. She left me with the most beautiful, blond, 110 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:55.040 four year old son any parent would be proud of. 111 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.120 How could such a mythical being have been in my 112 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.480 back garden, as real as the apple trees, the fence 113 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:07.199 and the grass, and as true as the myths. I 114 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:11.800 lost my wife and my son lost his mother. I 115 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.439 know neither you nor anyone else can give me answers, 116 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.480 but at least you can listen to my story, a 117 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:22.360 nightmare really, and be sure that not all things are 118 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:27.439 a myth. I have a second, unexplained story that happened 119 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:31.600 in twenty eighteen. I had moved from my lovely home 120 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:33.920 in the country to a home in a quiet village 121 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.240 only ten miles away from my original home and encounter. 122 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.279 I had fallen asleep on the city and awoke in 123 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:44.759 the early morning hours. The TV had timed out and 124 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.480 it was turned off, and I just lay there, fully 125 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:50.240 dressed and regaining enough energy to get up and go 126 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.319 upstairs to bed. There was a street light at the 127 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.959 end of the drive, and with all the curtains open 128 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.360 in the lounge, there was an ambient light coming through 129 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:04.240 that allowed me to see reasonably well. I had been 130 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:06.720 lying there for a good ten minutes and was awake 131 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.480 enough now to go upstairs when I noticed something coming 132 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:12.920 around the corner from the other part of the l 133 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:17.720 shaped lounge. I would not call it smoke or a mist. 134 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:20.839 The only way I can explain it would be to 135 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:24.519 call it a cloud. It was just like in the 136 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.120 Predator film. There were loads of pixels, and with each 137 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:32.559 pixel being an inch square in size. Although I could 138 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.879 see straight through them, they distorted whatever they passed in 139 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:40.360 front of. This cloud was two feet deep, three feet 140 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.200 wide and a good six feet long. It was just 141 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.679 floating under the ceiling, and it passed above me and 142 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:51.120 went through the wall behind me. It must have been 143 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:53.879 another half hour before I picked up enough courage to 144 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.399 get up from the couch and go to bed. I 145 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.279 had never heard of this before until I listened into 146 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:04.879 a Sasquatch story where someone had explained this same strange 147 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:09.039 phenomenon at a time when they had seen a bigfoot. 148 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.440 I was excited that someone else had also witnessed this. 149 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:16.519 Thank you if you find time to read my story. 150 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:21.440 All our best from far away in Staffordshire. Yep, see, 151 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:23.879 I was right. I could tell that was from the UK. 152 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.440 And first, let me say my condolences to you. It's 153 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.080 been a while since your wife passed away, but I'm 154 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.440 so sorry that you lost your wife. And I have 155 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.440 to say, in my humble opinion, this you're losing your 156 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.159 wife had nothing to do with this grim reaper figure 157 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.120 that you saw out by your garden. I'm so sure 158 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:48.360 of that. There may be entities floating around and moving around, 159 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:54.960 and I don't know the explanation for them, strange entities, ghosts, apparitions. 160 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:59.840 Maybe they're demonic, maybe they're not. Maybe it's something God created. 161 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:03.159 It just moves around in the spirit realm. I don't know, 162 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:07.039 but this was such an interesting story. Thank you Ian 163 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:10.840 is the author. Thank you Ian for sending this. We 164 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:14.840 really enjoyed it. And I hope your son's doing well 165 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:18.320 and your family has adjusted to missing your wife and 166 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.399 your son's mother, and that life picks up and gains 167 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:25.559 good meaning for you and you can move on. I'm 168 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:27.559 sure that's what your wife would want you to do. 169 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.000 At any rate, I'm probably stepping out of bounds talking 170 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.639 about any of this, but I just, you know, it 171 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.440 just breaks my heart when I hear stories like this. 172 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.159 But at any rate, it was a great story, and 173 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:44.840 thank you for sending it. I grew up in the 174 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.639 mountains of central Washington around the four thousand foot level. 175 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.080 Our neighbors were twenty miles away and in a different 176 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.360 zip code and a different area code. The view from 177 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.320 our front deck was nothing but tree covered mountains and 178 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:04.080 huge racks walls. We were as remote as you can get. 179 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.360 My father was the caretaker of an old mine that 180 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.120 had been shut down in the nineteen sixties. We lived 181 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.440 there rent free, as long as the family took care 182 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.799 of the property and the buildings on the property. My 183 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.639 father had worked at that mine since before he met 184 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:24.399 my mother, so he was extremely knowledgeable of the surrounding areas. 185 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.159 When I got old enough to join him on some 186 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.440 of his excursions into the woods, he was quick to 187 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:32.960 teach me that for a number of reasons, we didn't 188 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:36.240 go out alone at night. We always carried a rifle. 189 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:40.879 We hunted every year and fished almost every day, and 190 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:44.639 shoveled a ton of snow during the winter. We normally 191 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:48.279 got seven or eight feet of snow each year. Our 192 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.840 road was closed in the winter, and that meant we 193 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.759 had the snow mobile twenty miles to the nearest plowed 194 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:57.279 road when we needed to go anywhere. I wasn't kidding 195 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:01.039 when I said we were remote. When I was six 196 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.600 years old, I heard a howl that still rings in 197 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:06.919 my head today. I didn't know what it was until 198 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.480 recently when I heard something close to it on a 199 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:13.559 TV show. Back then, Pops would say it was only 200 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.039 a bear, not to worry about it. I had no 201 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.600 reason not to believe my dad. He also told me 202 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:21.759 it was a bear that often watched me through the 203 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:26.000 window at night, but it never bothered anyone. I was 204 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.399 proud as ever when my parents would let me stay 205 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.559 up until ten PM. I felt like a man, even 206 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:34.840 though I was only twelve years old. Oh staying up 207 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.320 at night. I remember that one night, while I was 208 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.960 watching TV satellite at the time, I looked into the 209 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.840 kitchen and saw a large black arm reach through the 210 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.759 window and grab an apple and an orange my mom 211 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:50.600 had left on the counter. I was too scared to 212 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:55.200 even move, much less say anything. The next morning. When 213 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:57.799 I told my dad, he just said, yeah, bears will 214 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:02.080 do that from time to time. When I was sixteen, 215 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.559 we finally got a power source at the camp that 216 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:08.200 changed our world. We were able to continue working until 217 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.720 much later at night. Those lights allowed us to see 218 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.399 well into the night, and on occasion we would see 219 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:17.840 something tall, black and bipedal walking through the camp or 220 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:21.480 between the buildings. It scared my mom so much that 221 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:25.039 we moved a few months later. Dad stayed up there 222 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.919 and completed his mission. Obviously, I grew up knowing about 223 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:34.120 sisquatch and the power they possess. For instance, a grizzly 224 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:37.320 bear ran through our camp one evening. It didn't seem 225 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:40.000 to care if we were there or not. It just 226 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:42.840 kept looking behind it as if something was chasing it. 227 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.399 We heard sisquatch fight each other for other territory too. 228 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.519 We've even seen them do some miraculous physical things that 229 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:55.559 even machinery couldn't do. When I was in the military, 230 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.679 I shared these stories and from there I was ushered 231 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:02.960 into another department of the government. That department led me 232 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:07.799 to another one that actually studies the sasquat species exclusively. 233 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.279 I'm here to tell you that the DNR, Forest Service 234 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:16.919 and BLM all know about these things, they just don't 235 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:21.279 confirm it publicly. But these departments have hair, scat, body parts, 236 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.759 and supposedly whole bodies from various places where they've been studied. 237 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.960 I've never seen any of the bodies, but I would 238 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.200 have loved to. In twenty fourteen, after twenty two years, 239 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.919 I retired from government service. I've since lost contact with 240 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:40.279 all the individuals from the group, so I have no 241 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.200 idea what the scuttle butt is around the coffee pot 242 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:47.639 these days. I do know that certain wildlife area documents, 243 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:52.879 especially the newer ones, include wording about keeping areas untouched 244 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.679 for these bipedal beings. It started showing up in the 245 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.240 mid nineteen nineties. The problem is, as you have to 246 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.720 dig pretty deep and have a lot of patience to 247 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:06.600 get through these extremely boring book link documents to find it. 248 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.039 And that's by design. And that's the end of his email. 249 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.879 And that's pretty interesting. I mean, he had encounters with 250 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.240 bigfoot when he was young, only to get out of 251 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.200 the military after telling people about his experiences, and they 252 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:25.240 moved him into a government agency that studies these things. 253 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:27.399 But I find it odd that if he's in the 254 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.799 group that studies these things, I wonder why he never 255 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:34.320 saw a body or even more evidence, apparently he was 256 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:38.480 on the peripheral or maybe in some clerical position with 257 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:42.080 one of these agencies. I don't know. I'm just guessing, 258 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:45.519 but from these people's letters, you have to guess at 259 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.919 these things if they're not very specific. So that's my guess. 260 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.279 What's your guess. I don't know. I've heard of these 261 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:57.519 government agencies knowing about these things. Will Jevining even hints 262 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:01.519 at that in some of his podcasts, and so does 263 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:05.279 Mark Knuble and Larry Porch and Shelley Reid and their 264 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:08.879 their podcasts, and I I'm gonna put a little ad 265 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.000 at the end of this video for their podcast. You 266 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.639 guys need to go check out the Sawdust Beast channel. 267 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.399 I'll put a link in the description. If you're into 268 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:20.279 this bigfoot thing, you will love these guys. They're happy, 269 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:24.200 super nice guys. They're they're just I've hung around them 270 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.679 some and going on trips with them, and I love 271 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.120 being around Mark Nouble, Larry Porch and their crew. They're 272 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:39.039 just good, good people. Okay, this isn't a necessarily a 273 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:41.919 bigfoot story. But it is a good story. It's a 274 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.840 hunting story. Everybody likes a good hunting story, and I 275 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.080 think you guys are going to find this captivating, the 276 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:51.840 writer says. During trapping season in nineteen eighty four, my 277 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:54.720 friend and I went up to his family's cabin on 278 00:16:54.799 --> 00:17:01.559 the musket tattootuck muskut muskeet tattoo River to set our 279 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:05.160 trap lines. Okay, everybody make sure and make a comment 280 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:10.160 and correct me on that pronunciation, because I just mangled 281 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.039 it and blew it. But I can barely read that work. 282 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.720 That day, a mangy blue tick hound kept following us 283 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:20.839 around while we were setting our traps. At daybreak. The 284 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.759 next morning, we were up and stoking up the fire 285 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:27.880 and getting ready to check our traps. A very thick 286 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:32.079 fog blanketed the area. While we were sitting around the campfire, 287 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:34.920 a voice that seemed to be coming from a well 288 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:39.440 called out, have y'all seen my coon dog around here? Well? 289 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:43.440 We nearly jumped out of our skins. We were at 290 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.559 a remote camp, yet the hollow voice sounded like it 291 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:50.880 was right beside us. I slowly eased my hand toward 292 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:53.400 my rifle, and I yelled out Is it a blue 293 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:58.279 tick hound? I'll never forget how he answered. The eerie, 294 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:04.559 dejected voice simply replied no. My buddy was getting nervous 295 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:07.400 by this time. I had my rifle in my hand, 296 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:10.400 and I called out, why don't you come on into 297 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.799 camp have some coffee. There was silence for a moment, 298 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.960 and then the voice asked, are y'all trapping well? I 299 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.200 said we were, and then got up to try to 300 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.400 locate him in the fog. My buddy was already looking around, 301 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:27.759 and he whispered to me, I can't see him. I 302 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:31.519 can't tell where he's at. All of a sudden, the 303 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:35.559 fog began to lift, and we frantically searched around for 304 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.240 the man that belonged to the eerie voice. I looked 305 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:41.200 toward the river and I spotted the figure of a 306 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.720 man with a fedora hat and a plaid hunting shirt. 307 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.680 I ran toward the figure, waving my arm, saying, who 308 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.599 should we contact if we see the dog? As I 309 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:56.319 got close, I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. He appeared 310 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:59.359 to be an image projected onto the fog, and as 311 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:02.759 the fog began began to break up, his projection began 312 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.319 to break up with it. He shouted out a name, 313 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.920 and it escapes me to this day. And as the 314 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.559 fog lifted, we went down to where I saw him, 315 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:16.559 but there were no tracks. The rest of the weekend 316 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:20.160 was uneventful, and when we got back to Clarksville, we 317 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.920 told my buddy's dad about what had happened. He said 318 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.720 that he had heard stories about a ghost that roamed 319 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:32.240 the river bottoms around North Vernon. Twenty years later, I 320 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:36.759 was at a historical reenactment in southern Ohio. A bunch 321 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:40.000 of us were standing around the campfire one evening, passing 322 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.839 around a bottle of whiskey and telling stories. Two of 323 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:47.440 the guys were from the North Vernon area. The bottle 324 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:50.920 came my way, and after a stiff shot, I started 325 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:55.759 to tell my story. A buddy and I had something 326 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.960 where it happened to us up on Musk Attack Musket 327 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.839 Attact Muska Ta Tuck River. One time. One of the 328 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.839 men from North Vernon interrupted me. He asked, did a 329 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.680 man ask you about a coon dog? My luck told 330 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.559 him the answer, and he told me the story that 331 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:19.400 was passed down through his family. The ghostly hunter once 332 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.160 had a number of children and was a widower and 333 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.640 a passionate raccoon hunter. He dearly loved his children and 334 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.279 was their sole support. Well. One night, he lost his 335 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:34.480 dog out while hunting. Fearing to lose his treasured hound, 336 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.440 the hunter left his oldest child in charge and went 337 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:43.319 out searching. Tragically, he died that night, never finding his 338 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:47.799 beloved hound or getting back to his children. As the 339 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:51.640 years passed, my memory fades. Now I try to convince 340 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:54.920 myself that someone had shouted at us from a couple 341 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.839 of hundred yards away and it was just a fog 342 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:01.559 playing tricks on my ears. But in the back of 343 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:03.960 my mind, I know what happened that day, and I 344 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.119 know I'm lying to myself to think otherwise. That's what 345 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:13.200 people do when they don't have reasonable explanations for supernatural events. 346 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:17.960 Looking back, there was nothing malicious about the ghostly hunter. 347 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:21.839 He asked a few questions, and he was gone. To 348 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:26.400 this day, fishermen, hunters, and trappers along the Muscatatuck River 349 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:30.440 still have encounters with him, or so I've been told. 350 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:36.920 I've been listening to your channel for a few months 351 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.160 since my best friend recommended it to me, and your 352 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.720 show is fantastic. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that. 353 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.960 I love the stories, especially the ones that occur in 354 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:51.119 locations I've been to myself. They made me wonder what 355 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:53.559 I've been missing in the woods when I'm there. But 356 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:56.839 the story I'd like to share is an experience that 357 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:02.279 went far beyond my imagination. I've been a firm believer 358 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:05.759 in Bigfoot since the age of seven, when I discovered 359 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:09.000 its tracks in the snow behind my house in New Jersey, 360 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:12.960 where I grew up. That was in nineteen seventy three, 361 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:15.920 and it would be forty five years before I had 362 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:19.920 another encounter with the elusive cryptid, and this one was 363 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:24.039 really strange. I still don't know exactly what to make 364 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:30.480 of it. On August twenty one, twenty and seventeen, the 365 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:35.119 day the solar eclipse traversed the entirety of the United States, 366 00:22:35.799 --> 00:22:38.160 my wife and I took a ninety minute trip from 367 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:42.240 our home in western North Carolina to the Calpins National 368 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:46.960 Battlefield in Gaffney, South Carolina to view the eclipse. Our 369 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:50.160 house was just outside the area of totality, but the 370 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:55.000 battlefield was inside of it. We arrived about twenty minutes 371 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:57.720 before the eclipse started, and we milled about in the 372 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:03.359 open area around the visitor center. Calpin's Battlefield is a flat, 373 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.400 thinly wooded park that allows a visitor to see one 374 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:11.599 hundred yards in every direction. There were approximately seventy five 375 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:14.440 people sitting in our immediate area, and I could see 376 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:18.480 perhaps one hundred more walking across the battlefield proper from 377 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.240 my viewpoint. Many of the people brought their dogs that 378 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:28.519 day too. When the eclipse got underway, naturally all eyes 379 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:32.119 turned to the sky, viewing it with their paper glasses. 380 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.119 I was also looking at the moon crossing the Sun's path, 381 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.279 but a few seconds after the totality of the eclipse started, 382 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:46.359 my attention was diverted by low, disturbing, grunting sounds coming 383 00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:51.200 from nearby my spot. I never heard sounds like this before. 384 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:54.839 They seemed to be a combination of human grunts and 385 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:58.400 pig snorts, only much louder and deeper than a man 386 00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:03.440 or pig could make. It also sounded pretty upset, like 387 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:05.680 it had been woken up when it didn't want to be. 388 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:09.680 It didn't come from any of the dogs present either. 389 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:14.000 Whatever made the sounds came from something far larger than 390 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:18.799 the biggest dog present. Besides, once it got dark, all 391 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.720 the dogs just lay in the grass, and they stayed quiet. 392 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.039 I know that animals are supposed to behave strangely during 393 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:28.799 an eclipse, but I've never known a dog not to 394 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:30.799 bark its head off at the sound of a pen 395 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:35.200 drop day or night. It seemed as if they weren't 396 00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:38.160 aware of what I was hearing, and I was soon 397 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.839 to discover that that was virtually the truth. Before I 398 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:45.799 could say anything, my wife, who was much less a 399 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:49.519 believer in Sosquatch than I am, turned to me and asked, 400 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:54.599 is that a bigfoot I hear? The grunting continued for 401 00:24:54.759 --> 00:24:59.039