1 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: In November of nineteen eighty three, my dad and his 2 00:00:11,359 --> 00:00:14,560 friend John decided they wanted both our families to spend 3 00:00:14,599 --> 00:00:19,160 Thanksgiving together in the mountains. I was fifteen years old 4 00:00:19,199 --> 00:00:22,600 that year. My two brothers were thirteen and eleven, and 5 00:00:22,679 --> 00:00:26,719 my sister was only three. The other family, i'll call 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,000 them the Smiths, had four boys, ages fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, 7 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:35,679 and eleven. We had rented two cabins, one for each 8 00:00:35,759 --> 00:00:39,240 family in Mentone, Alabama, and we all drove up from 9 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,000 Birmingham the evening before Thanksgiving Day. I think we're in 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,359 a state park, but I don't really know for sure. 11 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,479 The next day we all gathered at the family's cabin 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,719 to cook and hang out together. I remember the sound 13 00:00:53,719 --> 00:00:58,119 of football games, so somebody must have had a radio. 14 00:00:58,439 --> 00:01:02,039 The cabins didn't have TV. The dads were smoking a 15 00:01:02,119 --> 00:01:04,640 turkey and a goose and some other stuff outside and 16 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,640 a smoker they'd brought with them. We ate our Thanksgiving 17 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,879 meal around four thirty as the sun was beginning to set. 18 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:15,079 The meal lasted a few hours, followed by a few 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,680 more hours of conversation. I think there might have been 20 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:23,680 more football on the radio. Eight o'clock we began hearing 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,079 a very loud howl or scream combination just outside the 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,159 back of the cabin. It had simultaneous high and low 23 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,400 pitches and tones within the same screen. It's not a 24 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,000 sound of human vocal core could recreate. Not that any 25 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,439 of us thought this could be a human, and the 26 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:46,439 boys all concluded that it was a bear. I knew 27 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:49,560 what bear sounded like from my elementary school days of 28 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:54,400 watching after school specials and TV shows like Shazam Shazam. 29 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,480 That guy ran into a bearer mountain lion almost every episode, 30 00:01:59,799 --> 00:02:03,799 soll I also knew what mountain lions sounded like. It 31 00:02:03,879 --> 00:02:07,599 must be hurt, I said, that's not what bears usually 32 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,680 sound like. Well, what else could it be, one of 33 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:14,840 the Smith boys asked. We all discussed that it didn't 34 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:18,960 sound feline or canine. There were no cougars in Alabama 35 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,719 at that time, and since then the Florida panther has 36 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:27,080 migrated north into Alabama, but probably not that far north. 37 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,560 So the only possible feline might have been a bobcat, 38 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,120 and their mating calls are pretty loud, but not as 39 00:02:34,159 --> 00:02:38,719 loud as this thing was. Codies can also make loud sounds, 40 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:42,919 but this didn't sound like a codey at all. There 41 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,240 are no wolves in Alabama. Alabama black bears are really small, 42 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,199 one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, and this 43 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,800 sound was massive. Bears in the Florida Panhandle are much 44 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,599 bigger five to six hundred pounds than Alabama bears, so 45 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,840 I would guess bears and South Alabama may be bigger 46 00:03:01,879 --> 00:03:05,120 than bears in North Alabama, but at least back then, 47 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,319 North Alabama bears as far as I know, or small. 48 00:03:09,719 --> 00:03:12,159 I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure even the 49 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,120 largest grizzly couldn't have sounded as big as this thing did. 50 00:03:17,759 --> 00:03:21,560 It definitely sounded masculine, even during the high pitched parts 51 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:26,240 of the scream. It never sounded feminine at all. Some 52 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,319 people have described bigfoot screams as sounded like a woman 53 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:33,120 being murdered. This one never sounded like a woman. It 54 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,479 was extremely powerful, and I think I remember feeling of vibration, 55 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,800 but my memory could be faulty since this was so 56 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,840 long ago, and also I'm just now realizing what this 57 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:48,960 thing most likely was thirty seven years after the fact, 58 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:51,800 and it's all coming back to me in bits and pieces. 59 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:58,360 The howl growl screams continued for an hour, with only 60 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:02,800 seconds between each out burst. It sounded like the animal 61 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:05,240 must be just outside the back of the cabin, up 62 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,000 under the back deck, which was about a story and 63 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:11,879 a half off the ground. The cabin sat on a 64 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,960 slope so that the front door was almost leveled with 65 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:17,079 the road, but the back of the cabin was high 66 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:20,079 off the ground, with terrains sloping down toward a creek 67 00:04:20,199 --> 00:04:25,040 that ran behind it. The area was densely wooded, with 68 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,399 total privacy between the cabins, which were positioned ten yards 69 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:32,399 from each other, and at the end of the road 70 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,560 a city blocked Down the hill from our cabin was 71 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,560 a camping area where there were a few tents set up. 72 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:43,079 I mentioned that I was worried whatever was screaming could 73 00:04:43,079 --> 00:04:46,560 be a danger to the campers in the tents. All 74 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,360 the boys were saying, oh, they'll be fine. It was 75 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:52,319 like this, how a growl scream thing was a normal 76 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,600 occurrence for campers, nothing to worry about. There was a 77 00:04:56,639 --> 00:04:59,399 lot of want to be testosterone in that cabin. I 78 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:03,839 must admit the thought of it being a bigfoot would 79 00:05:03,879 --> 00:05:07,279 never have occurred to me or any of us at 80 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,120 that time, I had only ever heard of Bigfoot living 81 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,839 in the Pacific Northwest. I had seen the Patterson Gimlin film, 82 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,680 but had never seen or heard of the Legend of 83 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,959 Boggy Creek movie that came out in nineteen seventy two, 84 00:05:21,639 --> 00:05:23,759 since I would have been only three years old at 85 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,160 the time of its release, and nobody I knew ever 86 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:32,000 talked about Bigfoot until just a few months ago. I 87 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:35,639 had never heard any Bigfoot stories from Alabama, so the 88 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:40,279 possibility of Bigfoot never crossed our minds. The only thing 89 00:05:40,319 --> 00:05:43,120 that came close to making any sense to us was 90 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,759 that it must have been a bear. We also heard 91 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,720 wood knocks throughout the hour of hal growl, screaming, but 92 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,240 we didn't connect those sounds with the animal. Why would 93 00:05:55,319 --> 00:06:00,560 we and our repertoire of vast knowledge only and would 94 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:04,680 hit two pieces of wood together. We assumed the campers 95 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,040 were building a fire or something, but that didn't make 96 00:06:08,079 --> 00:06:11,160 sense either, because the wood knocks were far too loud 97 00:06:11,439 --> 00:06:14,720 and far too close to be anything any campers a 98 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,120 block away could have been doing. Nothing was adding up, 99 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,600 and my brain was all over the place trying to 100 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,839 get a grasp of any of it. I don't recall 101 00:06:24,879 --> 00:06:29,040 any whoops or whistling. But who knows, maybe my brain 102 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,839 just refused to calculate any more variables than it just 103 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:38,120 couldn't process. At ten pm, the Smiths were ready to 104 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,360 go back to their cabin. We hadn't heard the howl 105 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,240 grouse scream for an hour, and no one seemed concerned 106 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,360 about going outside, so I assumed it must be safe, 107 00:06:48,759 --> 00:06:53,279 or all the adults would be worried. We said goodnight 108 00:06:53,399 --> 00:06:57,439 and invited them to come back for leftovers tomorrow. My 109 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,040 dad walked outside with them as they left, and I 110 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:03,279 watched as they walked to their cabin. I guess whatever 111 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:05,959 was out there was either gone or just didn't let 112 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:09,120 his presence known, as the sixth of them walked back 113 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,480 through the woods rather than along the road. The next morning, 114 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:17,639 I slept in and when I woke, nobody was in 115 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:22,839 the cabin, so I took that opportunity to enjoy being alone. 116 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,240 I stayed in bed and I read for a while, 117 00:07:25,399 --> 00:07:28,079 and then I got up and I ate some leftovers. 118 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,879 I figured i'd go for a walk after I ate, 119 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:33,800 I left a note on the kitchen counter that I 120 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:36,079 was going for a height, and I went out the 121 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,360 back door and down the stairs off the deck, and 122 00:07:38,399 --> 00:07:40,839 then down the hill to a path along the creek. 123 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:45,920 I didn't think about the screaming animal from the night before. 124 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,000 I'm sure my mind was too blown to think. So 125 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:54,480 off I went alone and unarmed, dody doo doody doo, 126 00:07:54,519 --> 00:07:58,639 walking along, not a care in the world, men, tone 127 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,120 in the fall is beautiful. How could there be any 128 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,759 danger here? I saw no wildlife of any kind, not 129 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:12,000 even fish jumping or birds flying. I didn't hear any 130 00:08:12,079 --> 00:08:15,959 animal sounds or birds singing. It was weirdly quiet, but 131 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,680 it didn't occur to me to be scared or weirded 132 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,920 out by that. I was just glad I didn't run 133 00:08:21,959 --> 00:08:26,240 into any snakes. I walked along the creek for about 134 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,279 an hour, thinking i'd run into members of my family 135 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:33,960 or the Smith family, but I never did. I walked 136 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,440 back and stopped by the Smith's cabin to see if 137 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,159 they were all there, but I only found the four 138 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,759 Smith boys sitting around the radio listening to a football game. 139 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,200 I walked up to the road to the general store 140 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:47,720 at the top of the hill to see if I 141 00:08:47,759 --> 00:08:50,759 could find my mother and Missus Smith, but they weren't 142 00:08:50,799 --> 00:08:53,840 there either, and there were no other options for where 143 00:08:53,879 --> 00:08:56,200 they could be, so I bought a coke and I 144 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,240 went back to my family's cabin to eat more leftovers. 145 00:09:00,879 --> 00:09:03,919 The two moms and my little sister came in while 146 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,360 I was making a sandwich, and they joined me for 147 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:10,399 a late lunch. For some reason, we didn't talk about 148 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,159 the howl grouse screams. We had all just put it 149 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,639 out of our minds. After we ate, the moms went 150 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,559 to the smith's cabin and they left my sister with me. 151 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:24,879 She and I decided to walk up to the store 152 00:09:24,879 --> 00:09:28,399 and get something sweet. It was after four o'clock at 153 00:09:28,399 --> 00:09:32,559 this point. Twilight was just beginning, but still light enough 154 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,639 that I wasn't concerned about getting too dark before we 155 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,480 could get back to the cabin. The general store was 156 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:42,200 only half a city block up the road from the cabin, 157 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:45,519 and I held my sister's hand as we walked slowly 158 00:09:45,799 --> 00:09:50,200 up to the store. The woods on either side of 159 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,720 the dirt road were thick enough that it was really 160 00:09:52,799 --> 00:09:55,399 dark in the woods, but the road was not at 161 00:09:55,399 --> 00:09:59,559 all dark yet. About halfway to the store, I noticed 162 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,000 on the side the road, just inside the woodline, there 163 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,600 was a dark animal three feet high sitting very still 164 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,159 and watching us. At the point I noticed it, we 165 00:10:11,159 --> 00:10:13,759 were almost parallel with it on the road and less 166 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:18,320 than ten feet away. My brain processed what I saw 167 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,519 as a bear sitting there in the dark, because that's 168 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,399 what we all decided it had to be. After all 169 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:29,159 that logical analysis the night before, I just went into 170 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,080 full blown cognitive dissonance and had accepted that it was 171 00:10:33,159 --> 00:10:36,759 a bear. But recently it occurred to me that I 172 00:10:36,799 --> 00:10:39,919 didn't see a snout on its face or ears on 173 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,080 the top of its head. I remember knees like a 174 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,960 biped would have squatting down. A sitting bear would not 175 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,559 have bent knees out front. Also, bears don't sit perfectly 176 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:57,519 still for long periods of time. At the very least, 177 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,480 his head would have moved. This thing had to have 178 00:11:00,519 --> 00:11:04,200 been watching us perfectly still for at least ten minutes 179 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,960 before I saw it, because I had not seen or 180 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,639 heard any movement at any time during our walk. And 181 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,279 if you've ever walked with a three year old, you 182 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,679 know we were walking very slow. Thinking it was a bear, 183 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,000 I calmly and slowly picked up my sister and walked 184 00:11:23,039 --> 00:11:26,240 as fast as I could without running. I didn't want 185 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,720 it to chase us, and it didn't, thank God. I 186 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,840 don't remember a smell. That's the only thing that makes 187 00:11:33,879 --> 00:11:37,440 me question whether it was a bigfoot, But I don't 188 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,399 know what else it could have been. I know the 189 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,120 shape of what I saw was not a bear, and 190 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,879 what I remember could only have been a hairy man 191 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,919 squatting down by a tree. When we got to the store, 192 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,080 I was winded and panicky, but I didn't want my 193 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,320 sister to know there was anything wrong, so I carried 194 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,320 on normally. I let her pick out what she wanted 195 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,480 to eat, and I got us eat something to drink 196 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,039 in a candy bar for myself, and after paying, I 197 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,600 looked for a place to sit inside the store. I 198 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,840 planned to just stay there forever. I was not walking 199 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:19,120 back to that cabin, no way, after trying to entertain 200 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,679 a three year old for a while. After we finished 201 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,039 our snacks and drinks, I was thinking about buying us 202 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,759 a second round. When the moms and one of my 203 00:12:27,799 --> 00:12:31,559 brothers walked into the store. I told them that I 204 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,720 saw a bearl on the side of the road and 205 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:37,000 that I was too scared to walk back. They said 206 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:40,840 they hadn't seen anything, and there was nothing to worry about. 207 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:45,279 Take note that by this time it was completely dark outside, 208 00:12:45,519 --> 00:12:49,559 and of course they didn't see anything. But I felt 209 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,639 safety in numbers, so my sister and I walked back 210 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,960 with them, and I just didn't think about it. The 211 00:12:57,039 --> 00:12:59,639 Smiths came over for dinner that night, and when we 212 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:05,159 finished off our Thanksgiving leftovers again at eight pm, we 213 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:08,399 heard the same screams for an hour, just like the 214 00:13:08,519 --> 00:13:12,879 night before, and again nobody seemed very concerned about it. 215 00:13:14,039 --> 00:13:16,600 I told the boys I'd seen a bear earlier and 216 00:13:16,639 --> 00:13:19,360 it was only three feet tall and it was sitting down. 217 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,720 No big deal. But I stayed inside the cabin with 218 00:13:23,759 --> 00:13:27,080 my sister all the next day and until we left 219 00:13:27,159 --> 00:13:35,440 on Sunday morning. After that, we never went back to mentone. 220 00:13:35,639 --> 00:13:38,720 I take special interest in the stories here in Mississippi. 221 00:13:39,279 --> 00:13:41,840 I was born and raised down here on the coast 222 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:45,600 near Pascagoula, and now I live on five acres here 223 00:13:45,639 --> 00:13:48,919 in Moss Pointe, Mississippi, in an area known as Helena, 224 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,360 which is out in the country. I've been an outdoorsman 225 00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:55,480 all my life. I'm fifty seven years old and I've 226 00:13:55,519 --> 00:13:58,840 been in the woods since i was a child. My 227 00:13:58,919 --> 00:14:02,600 grandfather had a camp up at Creole Byu, deep in 228 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,039 the Pasca Goula Swamp, just off the Pasca Goula River. 229 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:11,240 It's only accessible by boat. After his retirement from the 230 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,480 US Navy, we would spend many nights at his camp, 231 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,919 hunting and fishing and just enjoying life. And there wasn't 232 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,559 hardly a weekend that went by that I wasn't with him. 233 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 I remember one Saturday morning getting up and going out 234 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,879 of the cabin and setting down by Popaul by the 235 00:14:27,919 --> 00:14:31,080 fire that he already had going around five am, and 236 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:36,240 he was drinking coffee. He was being unusually quiet. When 237 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:38,879 I asked what our plans were for the day, he replied, 238 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:43,279 sh listen. Boy. Off in the distance, I could hear 239 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,639 what sounded like people talking in a foreign voice. It 240 00:14:47,679 --> 00:14:50,639 was pitch black, dark, and it was very still, and 241 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,720 a light fog hung close to the ground. No other 242 00:14:54,879 --> 00:14:58,240 sounds or the usual owls, bugs or frogs could be 243 00:14:58,279 --> 00:15:01,639 heard at all. Only the faint chatter is the only 244 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,759 way I know to explain it. Of voices down in 245 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:08,639 the swamp behind his camp. We sat and listened for 246 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,519 I guess about another five minutes when I whispered, what 247 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,440 is that Papa, he whispered back to me, it's just 248 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:20,159 them old harpies arguing over breakfast. The hair stood up 249 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,320 on the back of my neck and I got instant 250 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:25,559 chicken skin when he said that. But I thought me, 251 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:28,200 being only twelve years old at the time, I had 252 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,240 often heard him talking about the harpies that lived behind 253 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:34,200 his camp, but I only thought that he was joking 254 00:15:34,279 --> 00:15:37,480 with me, as he always did. But this time, when 255 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,120 he said that, he was very serious and didn't crack 256 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,480 a smile, I knew he was serious. I can still 257 00:15:44,519 --> 00:15:46,879 see his face in the glow of that campfire, and 258 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,799 hear those voices in my head to this day. I wish, 259 00:15:50,919 --> 00:15:53,000 to this day I would have asked him more about 260 00:15:53,039 --> 00:15:55,639 the things that lived behind the camp and if he 261 00:15:55,679 --> 00:15:59,600 had ever seen them. After he passed away, my father 262 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,440 sould the camp, and since then many other people have 263 00:16:02,519 --> 00:16:05,879 purchased property up there and built more camps, so it's 264 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,679 not nearly as secluded as it used to be. I 265 00:16:09,759 --> 00:16:12,720 still occasionally will ride by there in my boat, and 266 00:16:12,759 --> 00:16:15,279 the property has all grown over and the camp has 267 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,159 fallen in. Apparently nobody ever used the camp or has 268 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:23,960 rebuilt on the property. I have recently listened to recordings 269 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:28,480 of what seems to be sisquatch conversations, and the recordings 270 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:31,159 I have listened to sound very similar to what we 271 00:16:31,159 --> 00:16:34,960 were hearing that morning at my grandfather's camp years ago. 272 00:16:36,399 --> 00:16:39,879 At present, I go camping once every month rain or shines, 273 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,559 lead or snow deep in the DeSoto National Forest, but 274 00:16:43,639 --> 00:16:46,320 I have yet to hear anything like that ever. Again, 275 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,240 do you have any reports of sightings or sounds from 276 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,559 DeSoto Forest? I camp all over the National Forest from 277 00:16:54,679 --> 00:16:56,960 south end up to the north end for the last 278 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,000 two years, and I found no sounds of a big 279 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:06,079 foot anywhere. I was a young boy when this encounter 280 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,319 took place, but I still think about it. It was 281 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:14,240 late spring, I was seven years old. My father decided 282 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:17,240 to take me to our favorite camping area in an 283 00:17:17,279 --> 00:17:21,599 isolated spot deep in the mountains of Trinity County, California. 284 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,160 The campground has since burned in a forest fire and 285 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:31,240 is no longer in use. Deep in the backwoods forest, 286 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:35,480 there was a small prairie. Grouse prairie, as it was called, 287 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,319 was an enchanting place. You had to travel up an 288 00:17:39,319 --> 00:17:42,400 old service road and through logging roads to get there. 289 00:17:43,599 --> 00:17:46,039 A small creek came down the mountain and cut through 290 00:17:46,079 --> 00:17:49,119 the prairie, and we had camped there many times and 291 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,680 we were familiar with it. We arrived a little after 292 00:17:52,759 --> 00:17:56,599 ten am and began to set up our camp. Our 293 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:01,279 dog came along on these camping trips, was big, thick bodied, 294 00:18:01,319 --> 00:18:04,599 black lab and the dog began making his rounds and 295 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,640 scouting the campground and sniffing everything in sight. He was 296 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:14,160 doing what dogs do. Once camp was up and after lunch, 297 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,519 we went on a quick trek through the woods. Everything 298 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:21,279 was fine for the first couple of hours until something 299 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,920 changed in the air. The birds went quiet, the dog 300 00:18:26,079 --> 00:18:31,119 became uneasy. We were still aways from the prairie area, 301 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,200 but we trudged ahead, and a bit further down the trail, 302 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,200 the air began to feel heavy and smoky. Our dog 303 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,839 started growling. It wasn't until we made it into the 304 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,680 prairie that the heavy feeling in the air became a 305 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,640 feeling of being watched. And in the middle of that prairie, 306 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,599 even though I felt creeped out, I stopped and I 307 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,480 began taking it all in. It was beautiful. I scanned 308 00:18:57,519 --> 00:19:00,039 the edges of the woods and in one area I 309 00:18:59,799 --> 00:19:04,000 saw a shadow of a large person hiding behind a tree. 310 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:08,039 Now yelled out to the person. That got my father's attention, 311 00:19:08,519 --> 00:19:10,559 and he turned to see who I was calling to, 312 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:15,279 but by then the shadow was gone. Then we heard 313 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:19,079 it running and tearing through the trees. I thought that 314 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,119 was unusual that something would make that kind of noise 315 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,240 going through the woods. The dog's hackles went up and 316 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:29,519 he pranced around the area, sniffing and growling, but the 317 00:19:29,559 --> 00:19:34,640 rest of the afternoon was uneventful. The next day things 318 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,880 were calm. My dad and I did some target practice 319 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,720 in the morning, and then we went on another hike, 320 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:45,440 sticking closer to camp this time. We returned around five 321 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:50,319 pm and began making supper. While we ate, we could 322 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,640 hear crickets and other critters in the distance. It was 323 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,640 calm and it was pleasant. It was the perfect place 324 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,279 to be in that moment. But like a lights which 325 00:20:00,319 --> 00:20:04,240 being flipped, the sounds of the woods went silent. I 326 00:20:04,279 --> 00:20:07,480 could hear the blood even flowing through my ear drums. 327 00:20:07,519 --> 00:20:12,119 It was so quiet. I watched Smoky Low crawl like 328 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,279 a bird dog, creeping up on a covey of birds 329 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,880 over to a thicket of brush by the creek. He 330 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,960 looked like a razorback pig, with all that hair standing 331 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:25,440 up on his back. He stopped just short of where 332 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,400 the thicket began, and he remained motionless and growling and shaking. 333 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,119 Something was in there. Dogs don't do that for the 334 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,279 hell of it. There was an odor now present about 335 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:40,359 the area that made me want a gag, and my 336 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,200 father stood up and armed himself with a pistol he 337 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:48,319 carried in his vest. Smokey burst off into the brush, 338 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,279 growling and huffing. That scared me more than anything. It 339 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,039 let me know there was something in there. Dad moved 340 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:59,279 to the brush thicket with his pistol in position. He 341 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,680 was almost when Smokey yelped and whimpered off in the brush, 342 00:21:04,039 --> 00:21:07,400 and then a weird roar I had never heard followed. 343 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,240 I will never forget that sound. Smokey was hurt, and 344 00:21:12,319 --> 00:21:15,039 I doubted I would see him again. But what the 345 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:17,880 hell was he fighting? Was it a bear? Maybe a 346 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:23,079 big cat? Finally the dog burst from the brush in midair, 347 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,680 and it sailed several feet before hitting the ground, and 348 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:29,599 it rolled and tried to right itself, but Smokey couldn't 349 00:21:29,599 --> 00:21:33,119 get up. Dad snatched me up by the collar and 350 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,640 he dragged me backwards to the truck. The tailgate was 351 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,880 down and the topper lid was open, and he threw 352 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,519 me in there, all the while calling to the dog 353 00:21:41,599 --> 00:21:43,880 that had finally gotten on its feet and was limping 354 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,880 toward us. Dad stood between the truck and Smoky and 355 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,000 began firing into the brush until his pistol was empty. 356 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:54,680 Smokey had made it to Dad by then, and by 357 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,039 the collar. Dad drug Smoky and threw him in the 358 00:21:57,039 --> 00:21:59,799 bed of the truck with me, and then he ran 359 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:02,160 to the cab and came back with a shotgun, and 360 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:06,359 he fired three more shots into the brush. He was 361 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,799 now out of shells, and Dad slammed the truck bed 362 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,359 shut and then sprinted to the cab. I heard the 363 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,160 truck start, and then I felt the truck lurch forward 364 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,079 and watch gravel slung out behind us, and we took 365 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,079 off out of the campground, leaving all of our stuff there. 366 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,200 There was a stretch of road we needed to traverse 367 00:22:26,279 --> 00:22:28,440 before climbing a hill that would take us out of 368 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,200 the area, and it gave me time to watch out 369 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,519 the back to see this thing step out into the clear. 370 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:39,079 I could not believe it. There was a creature, taller 371 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,759 than any man I know, and it stood motionless, arms 372 00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:47,400 to its sides, and it watched as we left. I 373 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,039 didn't know what it was back then, but I do now. 374 00:22:50,759 --> 00:22:53,599 It was covered hair and had thick arms and legs. 375 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,400 Now I think my jaw hung open for an hour. 376 00:22:57,319 --> 00:23:01,559 It was the strangest thing I had ever seen. Just 377 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,839 when the truck was about to take me out of 378 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,079 that field of view, I watched it turn and walk 379 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,039 away from the camp and into the creek, and then 380 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:14,680 there was nothing but dust swirling behind the truck. We 381 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:17,880 drove for thirty minutes, and finally my father stopped and 382 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,160 came back to check on us. Smoky lay there beside me, panting. 383 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:26,039 He was hurt. There was no way to know how bad. 384 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:30,359 To my surprise, Dad said that we would be staying 385 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,920 right there for the night. He wasn't going to leave 386 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,240 all that gear in the woods. It had value, he said, 387 00:23:36,279 --> 00:23:38,279 and we would sleep here and then go back and 388 00:23:38,319 --> 00:23:42,240 get our stuff the next day. We were five hours 389 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:45,599 from home here, so I guess it made sense. And 390 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,000 I spent that night curled up with my dog in 391 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:50,880 the front seat of that truck. While Dad never slept. 392 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,960 His pistol now reloaded in his lap and was ready 393 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:59,640 for use if we had any further trouble. The next morning, 394 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,480 I let Smoky out the door, and I was thrilled 395 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,200 to see that he was walking and sniffing the area 396 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,400 and peeing all over the place. It appeared that he 397 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,559 would make it. Other than him moving a bit slower 398 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:16,480 than usual, he was going to be okay. Thirty minutes 399 00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:20,079 later we arrived at the camp site. Once again, we 400 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,119 sat in the truck and watched from a distance. Our 401 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,759 gear was strown about and the site looked nothing like 402 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:29,799 it had the day before, but Dad wanted to wait 403 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:34,720 and watch and make sure the area was clear. Finally, 404 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:37,319 he drove on down into the site and he got 405 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,319 out and began gathering our stuff while Smoky and I 406 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,880 stayed put. And while he dragged everything to the truck, 407 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,599 I could see that it was all torn up. Even 408 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,160 the cooler we had hung bear proof lay on the 409 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:55,680 ground and was broken into several pieces. Once everything was loaded, 410 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,279 we left and I was glad to get out of there. 411 00:24:58,799 --> 00:25:01,400 What a creepy place that area turned out to be 412 00:25:01,559 --> 00:25:06,119 after all those times we had camped there. The next 413 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,119 day was Monday, and Dad called in to the Fish 414 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,720 and Gain people to report the incident. I heard him 415 00:25:12,759 --> 00:25:14,799 tell the person on the phone that a bear had 416 00:25:14,799 --> 00:25:18,559 attacked our camp site. Well, I knew it wasn't a bear, 417 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:22,240 but I didn't say a word. Later that week, three 418 00:25:22,279 --> 00:25:25,440 men from the agency came to our house and I 419 00:25:25,559 --> 00:25:29,400 listened while they spoke in the living room. They had 420 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,640 visited the site, and I heard them specifically say that 421 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,960 it was not a bear that had torn up our 422 00:25:35,079 --> 00:25:39,759 camp and that they were sure My father knew that. Well, 423 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:42,839 he didn't know it because he didn't see what I saw. 424 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,440 He was driving. I was about to walk in the 425 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:48,680 room and tell them what I had seen when I 426 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,200 heard one of the men say, it doesn't matter at 427 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,680 this point what you saw, sir. What matters is that 428 00:25:54,759 --> 00:25:57,559 this will be classified as a bear attack no matter what, 429 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,680 and we would appreciate it if you would leave it 430 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,480 that way and not talk about it to anyone. Well. 431 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,440 I couldn't see my dad in the other room, but 432 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,359 I'm sure he must have had a confused expression on 433 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,640 his face as he told them that he would keep 434 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,920 it quiet. The discussion he had with my mother later 435 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,440 was quite animated. Dad just could not understand what the 436 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,160 hell was going on. But in the end, I suppose 437 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,519 it didn't have a huge impact on his life, not 438 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,359 so much that he would pursue the truth as some 439 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,079 sort of a crusade. Why would he do that if 440 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,359 they didn't want him talking about a bear tearing up 441 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,400 our camp? So what he went on with his life. 442 00:26:41,519 --> 00:26:43,880 For the next few days, I thought about that day 443 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,920 in the woods and everything we had been through. The 444 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,680 image of that creature is still as vivid today as 445 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,519 it was the day had happened. And then there was 446 00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:56,119 the game and fish people and what I overheard them say, 447 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,079 and it stayed on my mind for many days. I 448 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,200 finally decided not to say anything to my father. There 449 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,680 were a few other reasons I kept siling on this, 450 00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:11,000 but mainly what it would have been the point. It's 451 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:14,519 now over thirty years later, and I'm finally revealing this 452 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,279 thing that I have kept to myself all these years. 453 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,279 It feels good to tell someone, well, to tell many 454 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,880 thousands at one time. If you choose to share this 455 00:27:24,039 --> 00:27:28,400 story in a video, it's finally out. I was chased 456 00:27:28,519 --> 00:27:32,920 out of a campground by a bigfoot. Every word is 457 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:39,559 the truth. I grew up oblivious to the existence of 458 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,960 Bigfoot until about fifteen years ago. My grandparents live in 459 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,759 a rural part of Mississippi. They live only a few 460 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:52,480 minutes drive from our house, and I visited them a lot. 461 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,079 On a warm summer morning, I was awakened by a 462 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,880 strange sound coming from the woods that surrounded their house. 463 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:04,720 It was almost like shotgun blasts from a long way off, 464 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,839 but the sounds were not random. They were in a 465 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,839 series of reports over and over. Even as a kid, 466 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,079 those sounds were peculiar to me, and I listened to 467 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,279 them while I laid in the guest bed where I 468 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,680 always slept, and I noticed the cadence and the rhythm 469 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,680 of the sounds. The knocking eventually stopped, and in just 470 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,000 a few seconds, I heard a series of hair raising, 471 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,279 bone chilling roars blast out of the woods that scared me. 472 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,680 The knocks were one thing that interested me. The roar 473 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,839 meant that it was a monster. The next day, I 474 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,720 went home, but I didn't stop thinking about what I 475 00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:51,160 had heard. Two weeks later, I was back at my 476 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,839 grandfather's house to stay awhile, and my nine year old 477 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,319 mind got curious, so I picked up an aluminum baseball 478 00:28:59,359 --> 00:29:02,880 back from the I went out to the furthest tree 479 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,640 to the creek, and I tore into that tree. I 480 00:29:06,759 --> 00:29:09,880 hit that tree several times so that the sound would carry, 481 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,599 and I kept up a steady rhythm. I did this 482 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,039 for four days, and I got no response from the woods. 483 00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:19,799 I began to think that I had been dreaming the 484 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,480 event that I described earlier. On the fifth day, I 485 00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:29,480 got a response. The shotgun blast sounds started from a 486 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:33,519 long way off. The knocks matched my cadence, and they 487 00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,240 started getting closer each day. I had to go home 488 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,559 that last day, and I wondered what those noises meant. 489 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:46,880 They were obviously answering my knocks. After church the next week, 490 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,079 we went over to my grandparents' house for dinner. I 491 00:29:50,119 --> 00:29:52,880 didn't even have time to get outside before the knox 492 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,559 started up, not forty yards into the woods, and they 493 00:29:56,599 --> 00:30:00,559 were really loud. Fear washed over me, but I had 494 00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:04,039 to see where this was going. I chose a different 495 00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:07,240 tree closer to the house. I wasn't going closer to 496 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:10,720 the loud knocks. I wanted to be close to the house, 497 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:13,279 and I picked a tree at the edge of the yard, 498 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,000 and I swung the bat at the tree attempting to 499 00:30:16,039 --> 00:30:19,119 create the rhythm I had been doing the previous week. 500 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,680 I never finished the series of knocks. A menacing roar 501 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,720 came from the woods, and I heard something big moving 502 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,720 like it was intentionally letting me know that it was 503 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:34,920 coming my way. It wasn't trying to be quiet. It 504 00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:38,880 sounded like heavy equipment pounding through the woods. And then 505 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:43,000 it appeared right in front of me. I was nine 506 00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:46,519 years old then and about four foot three tall. The 507 00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:49,000 creature in front of me had to have been eight 508 00:30:49,079 --> 00:30:53,319 feet tall. It was covered in dark, matted hair, and 509 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,359 it stood there, heaving and staring at me. I was 510 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,440 frozen with terror. This caught the attention of some dogs 511 00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:06,240 that lived at my grandparents' neighbor's house. They must have 512 00:31:06,319 --> 00:31:09,240 seen this thing step out into the clear or heard it. 513 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,640 I heard them barking at first, and when I turned 514 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,640 to look, they were running full speed across the field 515 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,240 towards the creature and I. The beast turned to look 516 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:22,440 at the dogs and instantly started running straight at them 517 00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:25,880 in the field. I could not believe how fast this 518 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,480 thing was running. It closed the distance on those dogs 519 00:31:29,519 --> 00:31:32,839 in a flash, and when the dogs realized what was happening. 520 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:36,000 They stomped on the brakes and headed straight back to 521 00:31:36,079 --> 00:31:42,079 their house. I never moved. The beast turned back towards me, 522 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,480 and just as fast as he left, he was back 523 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,599 right in front of me. Rage was all I could 524 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,359 see in his face. I don't know if it realized 525 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,559 my fear or took into account that I was just 526 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,079 a kid, and maybe it was confused, but in a 527 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,759 remarkable time of events, its facial expression began to soften. 528 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,599 Its brow raised, and I could see its eyes looking 529 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,480 right at me, and with a slow movement of its 530 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,640 arm in hand, it motioned for me to head back 531 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,920 to the house. I walked slowly backwards the distance to 532 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,960 the house, and I went inside. I stayed with my 533 00:32:22,039 --> 00:32:25,799 grandparents that whole week, but I never went outside, other 534 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,640 than to try to get the house dog outside to 535 00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:32,480 use the restroom. The dog was always nervous and would 536 00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:35,920 not go outside. She would use the carpet next to 537 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:40,559 the window. She knew something was out there. For the 538 00:32:40,599 --> 00:32:43,839 next three nights, I heard those knocks, and occasionally I 539 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,480 would hear a distant roar, and I didn't sleep well 540 00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:51,519 for all those days. If I remember right, it was 541 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:54,799 the fourth night that I didn't hear anything from the woods, 542 00:32:55,319 --> 00:32:59,319 no knocks, no screaming from the dark woods. I got 543 00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:02,680 a decent knight. I't sleep that night. As abruptly as 544 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,519 the sounds and encounters had started, they stopped. Joy the 545 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,599 dog started going outside again. I became more at ease 546 00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:15,319 just being out, and things seemed to settle down for 547 00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:18,000 the rest of the week that I was there. I 548 00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:20,240 went home with a memory that I would take with 549 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,920 me the rest of my life. It is several years 550 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,799 later at the time of this writing, and to my knowledge, 551 00:33:27,079 --> 00:33:38,759 nothing else has occurred on my grandfather's property.