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thanks so much for coming on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Vick. It's good to be here.
Speaker 2: Well, it's great having you. Randy. Please give us a
brief bio in yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm forty six, I live in Miland, Tennessee. I have
grown children, and I'm just a simple guy. I live
in a simple life now, well.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. Normally, it's when things get
complicated that life starts to be a little bit of
a pain in the butt. So I'm glad to hear
that your encounter happened in or close to Bradford, Tennessee,
on a road that your friend had an experience on
that kind of ties into your encounter. Please tell us
more about that.
Speaker 1: It's a scullball in Tennessee. It's in West Tennessee, you know,
right where I live to at Miland. It's all West Tennessee.
Scollbolle in Tennessee. With the listeners, don't know, it's pretty
much it's country. It's the stick. There's no town to
it really at all. It's just houses, land woods, back roads. Yeah,
it's just it's the sticks. Basically, there was one day
he was coming to see me. He would come out
there periodically, you know, about once a week because it's
down the country, so pretty out there where I was
living at that time. And he had hit a cow.
And I couldn't understand how he hit a cow because, well,
it's a cow. It's not like it's deer. You know,
deer run out in front of you. While I lived
in Scowbone. Yeah, I hit two deer. They would run
out in front of me. But I would never think
a cow would just run out in front of you.
But yeah, he hit a cow in they rode.
Speaker 2: Hitting a deer is one thing, but hitting a cow
that's totally different. Did he get hurt.
Speaker 1: No, No, he he had a pretty expensive car at
that time, so I think it was wall was hurt
more than anything.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness for that he hit a cow. It's easy
to get some pretty serious injuries. Randy, you grew up
on horror movies. He told me, did the encounter that
we're going to talk about tonight, though, have any effect
on your interest in watching them?
Speaker 1: Uh no, I mean that's I mean I've been a
horror fan all my life, still watching to this day.
Speaker 2: Well, well that's the case. If you can say that,
then that's a really good thing. It must not have
been that traumatized by the experience, and thank goodness for that.
If you're such a horror fan, what's your favorite horror monster?
Speaker 1: I would have to go with.
Speaker 2: Frankensteon Frankenstein. I wasn't expecting that. I thought you were
going to say were wolves.
Speaker 1: Well, one of my favorite horror movies is American Werewolf
in London.
Speaker 2: Man, you have good taste. Yeah, that's a good movie.
It sounds like you can. Can you watch werewolf movies? Now?
After that experience without any problems.
Speaker 1: No problems at all.
Speaker 2: Well that's really good. Then now you described your encounter
to me the first time we spoke, is being priceless.
Why do you think of it.
Speaker 1: That way, because there's once in a lifetime, literally once
in a lifetime.
Speaker 2: Oh that it was. But you're doing fine now. But
right after you had that experience, or you told me
that you didn't have any nightmares, there wasn't any blowback.
Everything was just smooth sailing.
Speaker 1: No nightmares. I just kind of went on about my life.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, your experience is a lot different
than most of the people I speak with about their encounters,
how their encounters play out. But thank goodness for that.
I'm glad you weren't traumatized. Now. You told me also
that you didn't fear anything before you had that encounter.
Were you afraid of many things afterwards? It sounds like
you handled it so well that you weren't. But I
don't want to assume anything.
Speaker 1: At that moment. That was the time I was scared.
That's when I found out I wasn't so fearless.
Speaker 2: So you were afraid when the encounter was playing out,
but afterwards, you didn't have any lingering issues with going
out after dark or being in the woods or anything
like that.
Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't exactly the woodsy type, so to speak.
You know, I kind of kind of live the same
life I do now, you know, work, come home, that
kind of thing.
Speaker 2: If you've never been the woodsy type, does that mean
you live in town or do you still live out
in the country.
Speaker 1: I live in town. I don't think I would ever
live back in a country. Yet, be honest with it, you.
Speaker 2: Don't think you'd ever live in the country after that experience,
or it's just not your bag.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say both. It's not my bag,
it's too far out and you never know what you're
going to see out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. I can't fault you for that mentality,
because you're right, you never do. Know. That experience occupied
your thought for days. You told me, did that persist
or eventually did you stop thinking about it?
Speaker 1: I eventually stopped thinking about it.
Speaker 2: What do you think it is about you that allowed
you to handle that experience so well? Because a lot
of people, if they had an encounter like that, they
would have all sorts of problems.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where you know, it's so
outrageous even know that happened. If one of those nobody
would believe you kind of thing, you know, or they'd say, ah,
you watched too many horror movies, you know, something like that.
So I just kept it to myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how it normally goes. They come up with
any excuse to explain it away, except for the possibility
that the person standing in front of them is telling
them the truth, so I can understand how frustrating they
must be. How far did that encounter happen from where
you were living at the time.
Speaker 1: Let's see, it was about half way toward going toward
where I lived. Because the skullbone, you start out on
Gan Road. I'm not sure if it turns into anything,
but it's pretty much just a straight shot all the
way until you get to where this big church is
and you have no choice but to go around the curve,
and the curve either goes left or you go right.
If you go left on that curve, you're going to Bradford, Tennessee.
If you go right on that curve, you're going to Treason, Tennessee.
I lived on the right part of that curve.
Speaker 2: How many miles would you say it was from home?
Speaker 1: I would say it was probably probably eight miles.
Speaker 2: Did you drive straight home after you saw it? I did, huh,
and never had anything happen then gave you the impression
that might have followed you home.
Speaker 1: No, that was the one and only time. And I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I don't blame you for being glad about that skullbone Tennessee.
That's a strange name for a town. Most towns have
a reason behind their name being named what they are.
Any idea how Skullbone got its name.
Speaker 1: No, I don't really have any idea how. It's kind
of like I said, it's country. But for whatever reason,
the monumental thing is there is a store there that
it's kind of a landmark, I guess you could say.
And it's not a grocery store. It's more of a
convenience store than anything. But there's I don't recall any
gas on or anything like that. You could buy T shirts,
scull Ball and T shirts. So it's like here, you know,
even in my town of Milin you'll you'll see, you know,
people wearing scull Ball in Tennessee shirts. You know. It's
kind of the kind of been a tradition here for
a lot of years. And I think I remember they
made pretty good sandwich too. That's about it.
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please tell us about your encounter. Now, give us ever
last detail that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was a year two thousand. It was in
the summer. It was a beautifu day too. And so
I'm coming home and I see something in the distance
in the road. I'm sitting here thinking, okay, great, it's
a cow. And I'm also thinking, okay again, how did
he hit a cow? I can see from that distance
something's in the road, and I get closer, closer, closer.
I stopped my car and I'm looking and that's not
a cow. I'm looking at something tasting back and forth
in the road. I'm thinking, this is a really big dog.
And I'm also thinking, okay, like this, what y'all do
in the country. I'll get these big dogs because you
can't have them in town. And back then, you know,
I wasn't afraid of anything, and I was honestly going
to get out of the car and kind of shoot
it out of the road because it's blocking the road.
And I opened my car door slightly because there was
a tiny voice or reason that said, Frandy, hold on,
set this one out. Something's not right about this. And
I gently closed the door back and kind of pushed
down with my shoulder and making sure it was closed
all the way and hoping I didn't make a loud noise.
And I'm looking and I just said, dude, what is
that out loud to myself in the car. I'm looking
at something that is on all fours, six feet tall,
shaggy fur like a sheep dog. That's mangy, but not
that mangy. It has a human face, yellow cat eyes,
a ginormous head, and the nose it was it was
really really long and flat and the nostrils were really big.
And I'm looking at this saying I have eye contact
with it. We are just looking at each other while
it's going back and forth in the road. And I'm
looking at this, I just say to myself, that is
a werewolf through and through. That is a werewolf. I'm
looking at a werewolf that shouldn't exist. And here's the thing.
The road that I lived on was a very busy rope.
I have been with this thing for a solid minute.
This is a very busy rope. Somebody should have done
come by now because either A you're driving on this
road because you've lived here, or B you're driving on
this road because you can speed on this rope. It's
technically there's no speed limit. I mean if there was one,
none of us, none of us went by it. I
mean I drove on it throughing sixty five. I mean
it was curvey, but I can handle it. And I'm
sitting here thinking, Okay, is am I on a different
spectrum right now? Like you know, somebody should have done
come by now, And so I'm kind of getting worried
here because I have never seen that before in my
life and that shouldn't exist. So I'm a little scared
right now. So I started immediately thinking about how I'm
going to escape this, how I'm going to get out
of this, because I did not want to reverse my
car and take my eyes off this thing because it
was pretty scary and freculous. So I start seeing a pattern.
Every time it goes right, there's a little bit of
road there I can get. So what I'm thinking I'm
gonna do is every time it goes there, I'm just
gonna nudge my car up just a little bit. So
that's what I start doing about three times I've done that,
and as I'm passing this thing, it's right beside me,
I'm ignoring it, just looking straight ahead, and I'm saying
out loud, okay, man, okay, I'm just gonna go right
by here, just gonna go right by you. I'm just
going home. I got by it. I'm looking at my rearview.
I still have eye contact with this thing. Well, it's
still pacing the same way it was. I looked at
this thing in my review until it was no longer
in my vision. And I got home. I sat on
the couch and thought about what I seen. Never told
anybody about it, thought about it for a few days,
and I went on about my life.
Speaker 2: Did you elect not to tell anyone about it because
you had this fear of how it would be received
and the possible damage you would do to your reputation,
or for some other reason.
Speaker 1: Just how it would be received. You know, it's one
of those things where you didn't want anybody to think
that it was crazy for you know, making stuff up,
or you were seeing things or you know. Yeah, I
just kept it to myself. It was just better that way.
Speaker 2: Now that's understandable. There can definitely be some serious blowback
when you come out and talk about an experience like that.
You had your encounter during the day, You said, but
what time of day was it? Do you remember?
Speaker 1: It was? Probably see I was second shift back then,
so it was definitely around two.
Speaker 2: Huh, right in the middle of the afternoon. Then do
you remember what month it was?
Speaker 1: I don't remember the exact month. I just know it
was summertime because the weather was really nice.
Speaker 2: If it was summertime and the weather was so nice,
you said you went right by it when you left,
were your windows down? Were up?
Speaker 1: They were up? Now, the car I was driving at
the time was a nineteen ninety five thessigned at so
I had air so I was enjoying the air conditioning.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't blame you there. If your windows were
up and you went right past it, how close exactly
was it to you when you went by?
Speaker 1: It was really close. It literally could have brushed up
against me. But I was trying to time it where
like I said, I've seen that pattern. I got literally
way on the road there. I mean, some some of
me was, you know, on the dirt there, put it
this way. It was. It was close enough. It's reason
why I was not looking at it, because I didn't
want it to just knock me off the road.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's better not to look as you're going by it. Though.
Did it ever make any movements to give you the
impression that was about to try to do something to you?
Or did it just stand still?
Speaker 1: No, I didn't give me any pression. It actually acted like, okay,
I guess I'll let you go.
Speaker 2: Huh, well, thank goodness for that. I mean, it definitely
could have rinted things up more than it did. Now
you saw it, and at first you thought it was
just a cow like what your buddy had hit on
the road as you're approaching it, But as you got
closer and closer to it, did it seem to get
agitated by your approaching.
Speaker 1: It. I wouldn't say agitated, but it definitely got a
different look on its face. At the look it was
giving me is like I want you to try something.
Speaker 2: As you got closer and closer, it was giving you
that look. But was it standing stock still or was
it doing something?
Speaker 1: It was just painting back and forth in road like
it was in Preder remote especially whenever I got you know,
got close though in my car. It may they went in,
maybe they went into predator mode. Put it that way.
Speaker 2: That is awfully strange. So here it is in the
middle of summertime, it's two pm in the afternoon, broad daylight.
It's a beautiful day out, and this thing is just
pacing back and forth, back and forth on road that
is normally pretty busy. Did you ever see anything that
might explain why it was there pacing back and forth
on that road or is it just a mystery?
Speaker 1: As a mystery to me, that's still a mystery to me.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't think for these things, though, who knows
why they do half the things they do? Now, when
you saw it, you said it was about six feet tall,
but it was down on all four Still with that
in mind, when you saw its profile as it was
pacing back and forth, did its back have a slope
to it or was it pretty flat across the back?
Speaker 1: It was flat? Huh.
Speaker 2: So its arms were just about as long as its
legs in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, huh.
Speaker 2: I see what about its fingers and claws? Did you
see them?
Speaker 1: I've seen the fingers, but I couldn't really see any
claws because every time it's stepped fur was hanging over
its hands, so every time it stepps, that fir kind
of got thrown over it, so it's hard to see
if there was any falls.
Speaker 2: What about its legs structure? Would you describe it as
having hominid style legs like humans? Ever? Were they digitigrade
style legs like a dog or a horse?
Speaker 1: It was more human?
Speaker 2: More human? Okay, Well, let's talk about its face. Then
you said it had a flat face, But what can
you tell us about its nose?
Speaker 1: Its nose was, for it was really long and flat,
and the nostrils were really big. It was I'm not
gonna lie, I was a weird looking nose for it
to be that long.
Speaker 2: When you say it was really long, its nose was
really long and flat, I don't understand what do you
mean by that?
Speaker 1: Okay, you know how the top bridge of the nose
and I go, you know, to the to the tip
of the nose. That would I'm trying to think of
a comparison, say, for instance, like an outside thermometer that
like the ships against the you know, against the house,
or something like that.
Speaker 2: If that makes sense, Oh, that does make sense.
Speaker 1: That's the best comparison I can think of.
Speaker 2: Well, when you consider the fact it had hominid style legs,
it had a flat face. It had that nose, kind
of like a Jimmy Duranty nose almost, But the fact
they had a flat face, it sounds like it didn't
have any kind of a muzzle. It'd be easy to
jump to the conclusion that this thing must have just
been some kind of a sasquatch, but we're going to
talk about next. It precludes the chance that it was
a sasquatch. What I'm getting at here is, please tell
us about its ears.
Speaker 1: The ears they were pointing, I mean, just like a
just like a dog. They were more definitely canine type ears,
But they weren't They weren't that big. They were actually
kind of small.
Speaker 2: Were the ears on top of its head or on
the sides?
Speaker 1: It was on its side?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it sounds listening to all these details,
and I even told you this the first time we spoke,
it sure sounds like you did see a freaking wear wolf.
But I don't believe in wear wolves, so that's a problem.
But I believe it. Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure, sure,
But no, I believe you. I believe everything that you're
telling me. And telling us tonight, and yeah, it sure
does sound like you saw a freaking werewolf. Holy cow,
what a wild world. Now, when you stopped your car,
how close were you to it? Of course this is
all before you drove past it, but yeah, when you stopped,
how close was it from the front of your car?
Speaker 1: I want to say it was at least five feet
at least five ft. I would not get any closer.
Speaker 2: So between five to ten feet is a safe bet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a going bet. I was willing to take.
Speaker 2: No, I understand. Yeah, a lot of people wouldn't have
gotten that close if it had shaky for like a
sheep dog, kind of like a sheep dog. Did it
for a block much of its face because you know
sheep dogs are their fur hangs down and blocks a
lot of their face.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. Picked. That was one
of the weird things. There was no, say, for instance,
hair on its face. But what it did have, I'm
sure you've heard the term peach fuzz, right, Oh yeah, okay,
that's what it had. The type of hair it had
on its face. It was just really short, peach fuzz.
Speaker 2: Type, and it didn't have long bangs. That hung down
in front of its eyes or anything like that. No, well,
that's probably a good thing, because well, it could be
a bad thing too. Sometimes not knowing is better than
knowing something really well, such as what a freaky looking
thing like that looks like. But when you described it's
for looking that way, I was wondering how much of
his face it blocked. Which idea frightens you more, Randy,
the knowledge that you just might have seen of where
a wolf or the idea that, if where wolves exist,
what else is out there that we don't know about?
Speaker 1: Both both?
Speaker 2: Neither idea is going to give you the warm and fuzzies.
That's a given. If you stop that close to it,
and you drove by it at such a close distance,
you got a really good look at this thing. And
with that in mind, would you describe what you saw
as being a flesh and blood creature or possibly some
kind of a spiritual being.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's a tough one, Vick, It really is, because
you just don't see something like that. You just don't.
Speaker 2: And that's a good thing too. You said you were
pretty much making eye contact even when you were driving away.
How far did you get down the road before you
lost sight of it, And did you lose sight of
it because it went off the road or because you
wouldn't around a bend or something else like that.
Speaker 1: It seemed like it was the same distance it took
for me to approach it for me to get away
from if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: No, that does make sense. And from the way you
describe it, did you wind up going around to bend
and that's how you lost sight of it? Or did
it move off the road and disappear that way?
Speaker 1: I had to have been going around a band because
it stayed in the saying spot, just looking at me like, hey,
come back here.
Speaker 2: You know, oh boy, I can only imagine the thoughts
it must have been going through your head. Let's talk
about its eyes now. Did its eyes seem to be
back lit because it was two in the afternoon and
during the summer. Did its eyes seem to be back
lit or did it seem to be reflecting somehow?
Speaker 1: I would say back with yeah, there was nothing reflective
about them.
Speaker 2: But you did say that had a yellowish color.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they were definitely, is right, just like a cat,
Just like a cat.
Speaker 2: And you did notice some kind of a glowing effect
it wasn't just yellow pupils. There was a definite glow.
Speaker 1: There was some glow there, there's some glow.
Speaker 2: Goodness, gracious, I'm so glad you're able to deal with
that experience as well as you have, because, like I said,
a lot of people would have had a lot of
trouble dealing with that. There was a guest on the
show who had an encounter in England. From what I understand,
you said something that really resonated with you. Please talk
us through that.
Speaker 1: Well, it's one of those things where just like he said,
I've never seen a dog man, but I've seen a
were wolf and that, Yeah, I identify with that because
I have seen a were wolf.
Speaker 2: They exist, Yeah, sure, sounds like you have. Even though
I don't believe in wear wolves. I'm not going to
say that they can't exist, because that would really be
a conceit. There's so much that we just don't know.
But there's a difference between knowing they don't exist and
not believing they exist. I don't believe they exist, but
when I talk with a credible person like you who
talks about an experience like this, it's just really hard
to wrap my head around it. Really is, but if
it's of any interest to you, I most definitely do
believe you. What's about time for us to get out
of here, Randy. But before we do, do you have
any clothes and comments you want to put out there
for us?
Speaker 1: I'd just be safe out there, especially if you're driving
on country back roads, even if you live there. Just
be safe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always good advice. Well, Randy, I can't thank
you enough for coming on. I'm sureing the details of
that experience with us, I really appreciate it. No problem, Vick,
thanks again so much of your time, and have a
great night.