WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:28.879 At a book. 2 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:28.920 If you'd like to be able to listen to the 3 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.959 show without ads and have full access to bonus content, 4 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:35.519 that's an option. To find out how, please go to 5 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:42.519 Dogmanencounters dot com Forward Slash Podcast. Tonight's guest is Kyle 6 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.560 Roth Ki. Welcome to the show. 7 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.280 Hey, Vic. Yeah, it's an absolute pleasure being here. Thank 8 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:50.000 you for having me. 9 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:55.280 Oh, you're welcome. Thanks for being here. We appreciate your time. Ki, 10 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.599 please give us a brief bio on yourself. 11 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.359 My name is Kirath. I've been born and raised in 12 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.959 South Africa. My whole life moved around quite a lot. 13 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.639 Currently I reside in a small holiday village called Pringle Bay, 14 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.800 which is on the east coast outside of Cape Town. 15 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:19.960 And yeah, I've been living there for the past few years. 16 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.280 Made a good group of friends there. I lived there 17 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:27.280 with my dad and my stepmom and then my three 18 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:31.039 younger sisters. My mother unfortunately passed away in the year 19 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:36.360 twenty nineteen. But yeah, I can't complain much about where 20 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:41.080 I live. Fantastic place and it's the perfect combination of 21 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.199 having a social life but also being able to be 22 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:48.159 in the wilderness and be in nature. Then yeah, I 23 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:54.400 mean I matriculated from high school two years ago. It's 24 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:57.639 not last year, the year before and then last year 25 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.719 I went to a gap year program in Zimbabwe where 26 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:03.800 I met one of my close friends whom you all 27 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:09.639 will share in a few minutes about. And yeah, that's 28 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.919 pretty much a brief bye on myself. I love nature. 29 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:13.960 I don't know what else does that. 30 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:18.360 Well, that's a great bio. I'm wondering though, Kayle, what's 31 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:22.840 your favorite thing about living in South Africa? 32 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:28.400 Me personally, I would say the culture and the vibes 33 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:31.199 with people. So obviously, everywhere you are in the world, 34 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.120 there's going to be people that are root to you 35 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.759 and whatever the story may be, but specifically South Africa. 36 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.159 If you if you find the right people, you build 37 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.439 really really close friendships and bonds with these kinds of people, 38 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.400 to the point where within a few weeks of knowing 39 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:51.439 these people, you feel like family already, and everyone's like inviting. 40 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.800 And it's a very diverse culture. It's like you've got English, 41 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.479 you've got off a Count, You've got Closer, You've got Zulu, 42 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.479 You've got all these different cultures that merge together. And 43 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:06.039 even though they're different, like we all, I don't know 44 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:09.080 how you say it. But we can all work together, 45 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.240 and we all live together, and we all bond together. 46 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.639 Yeah, it seems like an amazing place. They're sure we'd 47 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.000 like to visit someday, but with my work schedule, good 48 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.759 luck on that. Don't see that happening. But that's all right. 49 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.959 I can live vi curiously through other people, so I 50 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.680 guess it's not all that bad. Kai. From what I understand, 51 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.120 you were listening to the show for a long time, 52 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.240 Free had your first encounter. How'd you find out about 53 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:35.920 the show though? 54 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.920 So, yeah, I've been listening to your podcast since twenty 55 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.160 twenty one. The first one that I got on was 56 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.480 My big Foot Startings, and yeah, I suppose quite literally 57 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.560 my whole life. I remember it was about the age 58 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:57.720 of six or seven years old. I was watching on YouTube. 59 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:02.120 I think it's called Searching for Monsters or something along 60 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.680 those lines, and it's a documentary about these people that 61 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:09.399 travel to different countries and places like that, And at 62 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.839 first it scared me, and then a couple of years later, 63 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:14.879 once i'd grown up a beds, I think around the 64 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:19.959 age of twelve, I started to regain interest. And I 65 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.360 suppose you could say the unknown and the often looked 66 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:29.120 over what do I say topics that this world has 67 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.360 to offer, And so I kind of just went into 68 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:36.279 a big rabbit hole and searched the internet, went looking 69 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.839 for everything that I could find on bigfoot and dog 70 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:44.360 men and skin walkers. And then eventually I got a 71 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:48.160 Spotify account, and I was quite eager to listen to 72 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:51.879 a podcast, because I found that listening to these things 73 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.399 helped me obtain them for a lot better. So I 74 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:01.839 looked up bigfoot bigfoot podcasts, and up came your My 75 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.519 Bigfoot Sightings, and so from there it kind of just 76 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:07.079 took off. I'd looked at your profile, I saw you 77 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.680 had a few other channels up, and so I was 78 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.439 listening and bouncing between the few and just listening to 79 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.000 different podcasts, and every time you posted each week, I'd 80 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.800 be there on the dot listening. But yoh, that's a 81 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:21.879 story of how I found you all. 82 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.199 Your podcast, Well, it goes without saying I'm so glad 83 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.560 you knew about it and found it. And yeah, a 84 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:29.879 lot of people who listened to dog Mean Encounters. I 85 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.360 think this is the only podcast I produce, but no, 86 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:36.680 I produce four, so that does keep me busy. You 87 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:39.279 told us a few things about Pringle Bay, just a 88 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.639 moment ago, that small village where you live, but please 89 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.079 tell us more about the place and the area around it. 90 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:52.759 So Pringle Bay is about to give you perspective. There's 91 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:57.680 a few small towns villages close by. One is a 92 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:01.600 little bit smaller and the others is a little bit bigger, 93 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.560 but they both within five minutes in each direction along 94 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.480 the coast, and then you're nearest bigger towns are about 95 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:14.360 an hour or so away. So it's not entirely secluded, 96 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.199 but it's secluded enough that you feel like you're still 97 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:19.959 in nature and you don't feel like you're in a 98 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.800 big city and everything's being built up and developed. And yeah, 99 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:27.639 I mean it's the perfect place. I mean it sits 100 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.879 in this almost ball type thing where the mountains are 101 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:35.639 all around, and it's covered in what we call fame boss. 102 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:40.600 It's a local flora. And I mean the mountains are 103 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:44.360 like a thirty minute walk from the beach, so you 104 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.480 have this perfect combination of mountains if you want to 105 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.800 go hiking and cycling and camping or whatever you enjoy. 106 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:57.040 And then down to the beach you've got literally everything diving, surfing, 107 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:04.279 going out on boats, fish, whatever your heart desires. So yeah, 108 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.079 I mean for me, in terms of the natural aspect, 109 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.079 Pringle Bay is pretty perfect for me because I get 110 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.199 to enjoy nature as well as still have a sense 111 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:19.839 of society around me and socialization and obviously make friends 112 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.920 of whom of which I've been friends for years now 113 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:26.079 and we've built some really close bonds and had some 114 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.800 amazing adventures out in the wilderness. 115 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:33.200 Sure does sound like a beautiful place. What kinds of 116 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.399 dangerous animals live around the town and how often do 117 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:37.559 they come into the town. 118 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.240 So, to be honest with you, we don't have many 119 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:50.759 dangerous animals. Our most dangerous would be obviously snakes because 120 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:55.440 the town is so in the wilderness and it's in 121 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:59.399 a biasphere, so there's a lot of building regulations and 122 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:02.080 also lots of things, and oftentimes people have to have 123 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:08.279 open fences, not walls, and so your most common dangerous 124 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:12.200 animal per se that side is snakes going in to 125 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.759 people's gardens, houses, whatever the story may be. And then 126 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:20.159 another problem that we have is the baboons. They will 127 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.679 rob people, they'll break into houses. They're literally the thieves 128 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:30.759 of our town. And then yeah, I would say that's 129 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:34.320 about it. I mean, obviously the ocean is universal for sharks, 130 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.840 but yeah, I'd say those are the only three three 131 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.840 animals you'd really need to look out for in pringle Bao, 132 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:42.879 the snakes, baboons and sharks. 133 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:47.559 So you don't have any alliance around. 134 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.600 Not where we are. Where we are, we quite it's 135 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.519 a different it's a different kind of biome and what 136 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:57.679 do you call it, ecosystem to what the larger animals 137 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:01.759 were thriving. So your elephants and your lions, and your 138 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:06.840 rhinos and your buffalo are more north and along the coasts, 139 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:10.360 but quite a ways up. To give you perspective of 140 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.720 the nearest place where you can go to see big 141 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.159 cats is about a two and a half to three 142 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:21.320 hour drive east along the coast towards this big cat sanctuary. 143 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:24.600 And in nature, you're going to have to drive about 144 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.919 four hours into the center of South Africa to find 145 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:32.000 something a game reserve where you can see them naturally. 146 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:36.120 So locally don't have any big game or anything dangerous 147 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:36.440 like that. 148 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:40.720 Well, that's a definite perk here. It's a beautiful village 149 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.519 with all this beautiful scenery around it, and you don't 150 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.440 have to worry about bumping into a line when you 151 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.279 step out the door. That makes it even better. Yet, 152 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.200 if you've had a dog mean encounter that you need 153 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.000 help dealing with, or if you'd like to be a 154 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:56.840 guest on the show, please go to Dogmanencounters dot com 155 00:10:56.840 --> 00:10:59.960 and submit a report. If you've had a big foot sighting, 156 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.360 I would like to be a guest on one of 157 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.720 my two big foot podcasts, please go to my Bigfoot 158 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:09.799 Sighting dot com. All right, Kyle, please tell us about 159 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.799 your encounters. Now, give us every last detail that comes 160 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:13.279 to mind. 161 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.840 My encounter started well, the first and only encounter I've 162 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:26.519 ever had, or should I say sighting, was back in 163 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:32.039 March of twenty twenty three, and we'd just moved into 164 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.919 Pringle Bay. We'd been there for just short of a year, 165 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:41.360 and I'd made a very good group of friends, one 166 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:45.480 of which named Marcus. He will remember that name. He'll 167 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:50.759 come in later on. But we were a very good 168 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:57.080 group of mates, and obviously being nineteen this year, so 169 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.919 we were probably like fourteen and fifteen, and you know 170 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.639 how to go to bars, So we would find other 171 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.320 ways to entertain ourselves, and that the main activity that 172 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.039 we did was walking in the streets at night. I 173 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:14.759 mean there's no street lights, it's mostly gravel roads. But 174 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:22.200 the town Pringle Bay is so quiet and seclusive that 175 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:25.960 the concern of being robbed at night just isn't there, 176 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.240 or being endanger at night isn't there. So we would 177 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.720 go for walks at night until four o'clock in the 178 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:36.879 morning and we would just walk kilometers and talk and 179 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.919 go on the side adventures. And we'd been doing it 180 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.200 pretty much since I became friends with these guys off 181 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:51.759 the bat. And then fast forward about a year. One 182 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.679 week we went for a walk, and tradition would be 183 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:58.600 we'd do our walk wherever it may be, and then 184 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:04.080 we always off at the town square and then we 185 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.200 all say our goodbyes and we go our separate ways 186 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:10.559 towards our houses. And my house was about five minutes away. 187 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.639 Now to give a bit of layout on the road 188 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:19.559 and what my house actually looks like, So if you've 189 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.639 got a bird's eye view to the north to the 190 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.960 top part of the house is the driveway with the gate, 191 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:31.480 and then running along the west boundary is a small 192 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.000 little pathway about a meter and a half wide, and 193 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:38.679 that little pathway alleyway, takes you to the back of 194 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.639 the house where the back porch is that opens up 195 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:45.600 into the garden, and then when you come into the 196 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:52.399 driveway on your left, you will have this open room 197 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.480 with glass panes instead of wall. And that was our 198 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.279 open plant study. And that's pretty much was our quote 199 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:06.000 unquote front door. Now directly across the road from us 200 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.200 was a double empty plot, and there was a small 201 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:15.519 little animal pathway that ran from the back road and 202 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:19.399 connected the two roads together. So whenever i'd finish my 203 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:22.600 night walks, i would come from the circle and I'd 204 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.039 get onto the top road and I'd walk across the 205 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:27.279 te empty plots and end up on my road and 206 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:29.639 then literally just hop over the road to get to 207 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:34.399 my house. So this particular night, we'd all said goodbye, 208 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:38.559 we'd made plans to meet up again tomorrow, and I'd 209 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:44.159 walked and I'd just gotten to the double plot. And 210 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.600 as soon as I've turned and stepped onto the double plot, 211 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:52.720 I just felt this like this blanket, this wave of 212 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:58.200 this feeling of something watching me very very intently, to 213 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.360 the point where the the hair on the back of 214 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.440 my neck rose, and I even recalled looking at my 215 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.840 arm and seem like my arm was just chicken skin, 216 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:12.120 or my hair was all raised. And I paused for 217 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:16.519 a second, and I thought something obviously seemed very off. 218 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:21.120 But I'm generally quite a skittish person, so I didn't 219 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:23.519 want to sit there and play over in my head 220 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.879 what the possibilities could have been, so I just put 221 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:29.080 my head down and I carried on walking. I didn't 222 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.399 look up, I just watched it. I was putting my feet, 223 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.840 and then as soon as I hit over the road 224 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.000 and to my gate, we had a manual gate, so 225 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.320 I had to pull the thing open and pull it closed. 226 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:43.960 And as soon as I got to the gate, the 227 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.679 feeling went from like a five out of ten to 228 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:51.159 an eight or nine. So at that point I turned 229 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.000 and I had my body facing the road in the 230 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.879 empty plot, and I had my back facing the house, 231 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.360 and I just put my hands down my back. I 232 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:04.159 opened the gate, it closed, it walked inside, and that 233 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:08.440 was me for the night. Now we carried my friends 234 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.600 and I carried on having night walks throughout the week, 235 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.799 and each time i'd walk over the plot, the feeling 236 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.559 would get more and more and more intense. And then 237 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.639 about a week a week and a half after I 238 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:25.960 had that first feeling of walking through the plot. It 239 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.840 was about eight o'clock at night, closer to nine, and 240 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:32.320 I was sitting in my room and my dad was 241 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:36.039 sitting in the lounge, and my sister, my elder sister, 242 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:42.039 was in her room, and my dad had let my 243 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:44.320 dog out so that she could go do her business 244 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:49.200 before we locked up the house for the night. And 245 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:54.279 the dog started barking to which wasn't an unusual It 246 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:57.320 wasn't an a usual event. It was quite normal for 247 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.279 her to bark at night. She box it almost everything, 248 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:04.039 so we never we didn't think much of it. So 249 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:05.720 my dad just called me and he said, can you 250 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:09.680 go get your dog? So I grabbed the flashlights, the headlamp, 251 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.000 and I asked my sister if she wanted to come with, 252 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:17.160 and so we stepped outside. And by this time sun's 253 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.599 long set. It's pitch dark, and I've got this dim, 254 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:26.000 little cheap headlamp, and we walk on that alleyway on 255 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:29.960 the west hand side of the property. We jump onto 256 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.119 the drive where we walk across, and my dog is 257 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:37.039 in the far northeast corner of the house barking, and 258 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.000 my dog's part bought a colin I've been training her 259 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:44.680 for nine years and her recall is insane. Sometimes I 260 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.240 don't even need to say something. I can just make 261 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:52.319 a gesture with my hand and she knows. And when 262 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.519 I got to the driveway, I was about seven meters 263 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:59.359 from her, between seven and ten meters, and I started 264 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:04.160 calling like, hey, Cara, come come, and she just ignored me, 265 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:09.160 and she was just going crazy. And at some points 266 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.680 I just paused and I thought to myself, like, she's 267 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.839 she's going a bit crazy right now. She's something's definitely 268 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.880 not okay. And so about often probably a minute of 269 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.079 me standing there shouting at her, I gave up and 270 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:24.000 I walked up to her and I grabbed her by 271 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:27.119 the collar. And the first thing I noticed when I 272 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:29.759 grabbed her by the collar was all the hair on 273 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:33.359 her neck felt fluffy. And so I looked down and 274 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.319 all the hair from the back of her head to 275 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.759 where her bone connects to her body, I mean her 276 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:43.599 tail connects to her body was just hair, all standing 277 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:47.279 up vertically. And that's when I paused to myself and 278 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:51.359 I was like, okay, I no, something is really off you. So, 279 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.440 without wanting to draw any attention again, she kept my 280 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.160 head down and I pulled her and walked back to 281 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:02.039 the driveway where my sister was standing waiting for us, 282 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:07.640 and I heard gravel crunching, so instinctively I looked up 283 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.079 and I saw what it first seemed to be a tall, 284 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:16.119 tall man with long gray hair wearing a white coat, 285 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.440 and so I assumed it was one of our old neighbors. 286 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:21.960 And so I agreeed to the person and I said, hey, 287 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.559 how are you? How's your night? As I said hey, 288 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:32.640 the thought person was about twenty meters away on the 289 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:36.000 opposite side of the road, and they had just gotten 290 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:40.200 in line with the empty plot as I said hey, 291 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:45.079 And I just remember watching this person fall face first, 292 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.839 not like they pushed themselves or they jumped. It literally 293 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:53.359 just stopped in their track and fell forward and didn't 294 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:57.160 flinch an armed, did anything. And I want to say 295 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:01.720 about when they were about thirty sent to me about 296 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:05.079 to hit the ground, I just watched these two front 297 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:09.400 legs pop out and just grab it almost just before 298 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:12.359 it was about to hit the floor, and that just 299 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.880 shook me. I just froze as soon as I saw that. 300 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:20.160 I just I was looking at this thing and I 301 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.839 was trying to assess what is this I was trying 302 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.680 to rationalize to myself. I was like, Okay, maybe it's 303 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:28.000 a leopard, and I'm looking at it and I'm but 304 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:30.640 it's pure white and it's got a short, fluffy tail. 305 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.160 And while I'm trying to analyze this, my sister notices 306 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:40.599 that I'm frozen, and she starts calling my name and 307 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.319 breaks my train of thought. But I'm still frozen, and 308 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.599 she's asking God, what's wrong? What's wrong? And I say 309 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.079 to her, do you see that over there? She comes 310 00:20:50.119 --> 00:20:52.519 next to me and I can feel her putting her 311 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:54.839 head and shade like shifting it around next to me, 312 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:56.440 trying to see it. And she goes the white thing 313 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:00.359 and I said yes. She goes what is that? And 314 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.799 I said, just go get that? And she starts freaking out. 315 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.960 My sister's prone to having panic attacks, and she's freaking out, 316 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:10.480 and I'm trying to be stone with her because this 317 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.960 is a situation. I don't want her and I can 318 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.039 handle myself in it, I don't want my sister. I 319 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:20.079 start shouting it on Bella, just go get that. She 320 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:25.519 runs and she fetches my dad. Now I'm stuck there. 321 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:30.079 My dog's gone. I'm stuck there with this little cheapy flashlight, 322 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:35.279 and this dog man just posted up on the other 323 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:38.960 side of this road, and we were just both frozen 324 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:43.920 in place, kind of assessing each other. And I'm so 325 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:46.680 grateful I had those five minutes to myself because it 326 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:51.359 gave me time to properly assess the details of what 327 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:54.000 I was looking at from head to the tip of 328 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:58.319 the tail. And so I'll work you through it. The 329 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.200 first thing that caught my attention was the face. It 330 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:05.039 had black eyes, not sunken eyes. It it didn't look 331 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:08.200 like it was missing eyeballs. It definitely had eyeballs, but 332 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:11.680 they were black. I couldn't see any white. And then 333 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:18.319 it had this beautifully, almost perfectly circular shaped face with 334 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:21.839 these ears that came out on the top, but they 335 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:25.839 weren't they weren't as harshly pointed as like the Doberman 336 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:28.000 ears that a lot of people talk about. They were 337 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:33.519 a little bit curved at the top. And then I 338 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.200 saw little black nose and I couldn't see any details 339 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:39.880 on the teeth as the whole body was just white. 340 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:43.079 And so from there I kind of moved down and 341 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:47.720 the next thing that really caught my attention was the 342 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.480 size of this thing's main like it had this mass 343 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.599 of just fur from its from the back of its 344 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:59.599 head all the way down to its middle back, and 345 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:03.319 it kind of disappeared along the lads a bit, so 346 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.119 by the lads where you would imagine the front leg 347 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.039 would rub a lot, it was more shorter hair, and 348 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:15.559 then underbelly as well, and then the long hair continued 349 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.119 till about just where the chest if a human was 350 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:20.759 sitting down, like that where the chest would have ended. 351 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:25.119 But the main it was just I don't even know 352 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:28.839 how to describe it. It was just massive and luscious, 353 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:34.799 long white hair. And then onto the physique of this thing. 354 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:37.799 The best way I can describe it is had that 355 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:42.480 big chest with a very small waist, classic of like 356 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:49.039 a greyhound. But the muscular definition on this animal was 357 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:52.720 nothing I've ever seen before in my life. It was 358 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:59.559 like if you took if you took a greyhound and 359 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:02.839 came it the muscle mass of a football and then 360 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.839 put it to the size of a great day, That's 361 00:24:05.880 --> 00:24:08.519 pretty much what I was looking at with a bit 362 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:13.640 of a longer body. And so once I figured out 363 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:17.160 this physique, I started paying attention to the smaller details 364 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.480 like the feet and the tail. And one thing that 365 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:24.079 caught me was the front I want to call them 366 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:29.200 hands were like perfectly flush on the floor, and then 367 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:34.039 the thumb was like a place higher than where it 368 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:36.039 would be on our human hands. So if you can 369 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:38.519 imagine your thumb on your hand, you could take it 370 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.319 off and put it a place higher. That's pretty much 371 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.599 where this thing's quote thumbs were. And then as I 372 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:50.680 moved towards the back pause, it looked there was a 373 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:54.599 little bit of finger definition in the different toes, but 374 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:57.960 it still had the main part of the foot still 375 00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:02.160 had that classic canine shaped to it where it was 376 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:07.880 like squarish or rectangular, and that that caught me off 377 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:10.079 god a little bit because I was expecting both to 378 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:15.200 look the same. And then the tail wasn't excessively long. 379 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:18.400 If I were to put it into a ratio with 380 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:23.160 the length of the of the actual creature, I would 381 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:26.720 put it at about a fifth the length of its body, 382 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:29.119 made up for about a fifth of its total length. 383 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:36.039 And it was bushy and yeah. So for about five 384 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:39.720 minutes I just stood there looking at this thing and 385 00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:44.559 taking in everything, And after a while I started to 386 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:50.039 notice that it was frozen there, almost in a self 387 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.279 defensive way, like I'm looking at this thing and I'm 388 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.039 assessing its body language and it's just completely still, but 389 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:58.960 it knows that I've seen it. So it was almost 390 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:01.440 as if though it was like a cat when they 391 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:03.799 turn their side to you and they lift their back. 392 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:07.759 It was just sat there assessing me. I think it 393 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:11.519 was almost processing like if I do if I do this, 394 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:14.200 it's going to retaliate like that, or I do this 395 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:18.359 is going to respond like that. And so when I 396 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:20.440 kind of came to that confusion that it was in 397 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:24.200 defense of mode, I just kind of stood still. I 398 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:26.920 didn't move fast, I didn't move at all, and I 399 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:29.480 just carried on taking it all in as much detail 400 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:33.240 as I possibly could. And then five minutes passed and 401 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:37.079