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Speaker 1: Okay, here's a bigfoot story that I thought was interesting.

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I grew up just outside of Davenport, Iowa, in the

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nineteen sixties and seventies. We grew up around cornfields as

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well as apple, pear and cherry orchards. My first encounter

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was around at the age of seven. I would wake

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up and hear sounds that were really strange, even for

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the countryside. We had a German shepherd who stayed outside

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and would usually not make noise at night unless there

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was something moving around. But one night it was barking

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his head off. I decided to get out of bed

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to see what was causing him to make so much noise.

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I had walked to our back door when I suddenly

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stopped in the living room. There was a hairy face

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in the window watching me. Unfortunately, it wasn't the only

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time I saw it. It happened several times in my youth.

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As I got a bit older, some of the other

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girls and I would walk up to the corn field

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just before dark. We were rather daring as young girls

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playing at night. On one of our walks, we started

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to hear something growling. We knew it wasn't a dog

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because the farmer lived quite a way from the field.

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There weren't many boys who lived by us, or we

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didn't think it was one of them either, And when

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we reached the street light at the opening of the cornfield,

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we saw something moving and then suddenly we heard a loud,

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rib shaking growl, and we took off running. We all

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went home, and we never said anything to anyone about

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what had happened. The last time I had heard or

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seen anything was just before I became a teenager. I

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would see a face in the window every now and then,

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and it would be smiling at me. Now that I

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think back on what happened, I'm beginning to believe that

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the one in the window was possibly what we heard

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in the cornfield, because around that time I was being bullied.

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Perhaps the face in the window had followed us to

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the cornfield to give the other girls a scare. Well.

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I'm retired now, though, and I still think about that face.

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I never did figure out who or what that was.

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Thank you for giving me the chance to share my story,

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And to those who are afraid to tell of their encounters,

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please don't bottle it up, send them to cam oh Well.

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Thank you for that that's a full visual of a

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creature looking at you from outside the house through a window.

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That's really really interesting. It's really sort of profound, and

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I have no doubt that you will never never forget

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that as long as you live. So I really appressed.

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Was an exciting story and I really appreciate the writer.

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Thank you. Here's an Australian bigfoot or Yowi story that

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I thought was great. I've been a solo Yowi researcher

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for about twelve years. My amazing and totally unexpected encounter

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happened in the rainforest walking track between Baron Dam and

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Condolila Falls on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. It

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was February twenty twelve and it was one pm in

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the afternoon. After a significant five day rain event had

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passed through the Sunshine Coast. I decided to go to

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the Bahroon Pocket Dam to have a look at the spillway,

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which was apparently going mental. I could see from the

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walking track that the spillway was closed as the track

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was damaged. I thought, to hell with it, I'm going

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to go for a walk to flat Rock roughly four

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kilometers return on the Condolila track, but I didn't make

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it that far. I was ten minutes past the junction

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into the walk when I noticed that all the birds

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had gone silent. Prior to this, I heard the familiar

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cats and birds and whipbird calls echoing through the rainforest,

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along with the frogs and the cicadas. It was like

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someone had flicked a switch. At this point, I should

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have retreated, but I didn't. I stopped and slowly looked about,

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and I saw and heard nothing, just did silence and

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a slight breeze under the rainforest canopy. I dismissed the

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silence what would have been normally a foreboding sign to

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leave the area, and to this day I still don't

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know why I continued. I got to a bridge and

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I heard a scratching noise thirty meters to my right.

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My neck hair stood up. I stopped and looked in

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that direction, but I saw nothing. Without thinking, it took

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me one step forward, and my walking boot made a

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clunk sound on the wooden planking on the bridge. That's

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when I saw it, and that's when it saw me.

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The first thing was a pair of huge, dark colored

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eyes and the top of a big head, and then

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it just rose from behind a dead tree and two

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giant ferns to full height. I was stunned. I estimated

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him to be nine feet tall. He had dark brown

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fer and he was built like a barn. He was

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easily three feet across at the shoulders. I was totally

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gobsmacked and in awe at the same time. I just

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stared at him, and he stared right back at me.

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It felt like forever, and then he did the most

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unexpected thing that I'll never forget. He let out a

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big sigh that snapped me out of it. My brain

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was going nuts over what to do. My video camera

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was in my backpack, but I didn't dare to reach

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for it. I knew if I ran, I was screwed,

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so I just put both hands up in the air

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to be as non threatening as I could be and

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as calm as humanly possible verbally apologized for disturbing him.

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Then he did another amazing thing. He relaxed. His shoulders

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sagged a bit, and I saw this as my avenue

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to escape. I think he understood, and I slowly backed up.

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He didn't move, he just kept staring. I never felt threatened.

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It was more surprise and curiosity, but there was no

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aggression on his part. I must have crab walked one

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hundred and fifty meters, not taking my eyes off him

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until I got around the corner, and then I took

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off like a bolt back to the car park. I've

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never run like that in my life. I made it

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back to my car with my heart in my mouth

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and my adrenaline level out the window. I unlocked the

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car and threw my raincoat and backpack in and suddenly

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felt my hair on the back of my next day

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up again. And then that awful dead smell hit me

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like a slap in the face. It was so strong

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I felt nauseous. It was incredible. I couldn't see him,

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but I know he was there. I thought to myself,

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you sneaky bugger. Had he tricked me into thinking there

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wasn't a threat just to come after me without me

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being prepared? Or was he just making sure I was

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really leaving? And then as quick as it started, it

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ended when the car appeared in the parking lot. I

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thank God for saving me. I felt the tention in

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the air dissipate, and I never went back to that

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place alone. I've been a lifelong transmission rebuilder, and in

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the year two thousand, I opened my own shop in Summerville.

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It had three lifts and it was joined by an

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automotive shop with a solid block wall dividing the two.

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The automotive shop was run by a man named Keith,

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who had been there for twenty years. Keith was a

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good man and he and I became friends. My nephew, Raymond,

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was also a transmission man. About four weeks after I opened,

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he would come to help me. I opened my shop

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and I was there all day. That night, I had

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another friend who would come in and pull the transmissions

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out so I could rebuild them the next day. The

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following night he would put them back in. One morning,

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I arrived at seven am. I opened the roll up

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shop door and out of the corner of my eye

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saw a black looking animal run by me and then

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hide behind a trash can. It looked more like a

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shadow than a solid critter. I picked up a shovel,

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ready to defend my shop now. I quickly pulled the

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can back and there was nothing there. I soon forgot

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about it, but at that point things started to happen.

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I would be in the shop during the day reb

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building a transmission, and I would hear a wrench or

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a metallic object hit the floor as if it had

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been dropped from six feet in the air. I'd walk

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around the cars and there wouldn't be anything there. I

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knew right off it wasn't from the shop on the

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other side. He was in there with me. I had

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a restroom at one end, and I could see the

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mirror in the hallway from the shop. Around the corner

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from it was a toilet, And sometimes when I would

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go to relieve myself, I would smell a woman's perfume,

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and sometimes I would smell pipe tobacco. Sometimes I would

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hear a loud bang on the side of the building.

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I would walk out and look, but nothing would ever

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be there. One night, my friend Benny was putting a

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transmission in for me. Around eight pm. He called me

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and he told me that I needed to come in.

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I asked him why, and he said the lift wouldn't

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come down and the car was stuck up in the air.

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I hung up and I started putting my shoes on

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when he called back, and he said the lift had

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come down on its own and he was leaving the

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next day. Keith came over and laughed. He said he

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was up there working late. When Benny came over to

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his shop scared to death. I asked him why, and

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Keith told Bennie that he had seen Henry. I asked

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who that was, and Keith informed me that it was

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a ghost that lived in the building. Henry was the

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name his wife gave him. I asked Keith if he

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had seen strange things too, and he said, strange stuff

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had happened all the time for the past twenty years.

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I called Benny and I asked him to come up

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and put in a transmission for me that night. He

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asked if I was going to be there, and he

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said that he wouldn't come back by himself to work

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in that shop again. He told me that I had

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a ghost. I asked him what had happened, and what

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he told me made my hair stand on in. Benny

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said that when he worked and in a burgundy colored shirt,

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watched him from the mirror. Ben he heard him sometimes,

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and sometimes he'd see him walk by. My nephew finally

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came to help me. Instead never told him anything. He

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had an old race car and at night he would

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stay and work on that. After maybe three weeks, I

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asked him if he had seen or heard anything strange.

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He started telling me stories about all the strange noises

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and shadows that he would see walking by. One day

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he went out of town for a race and I

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was in the shop with the doors closed and I

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was working. All of a sudden, I felt a pair

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of lips against the back of my neck, and I

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felt air blow and took on me. I turned around.

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I was ready to fight, but there was nothing there.

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There was another time I was walking across the shop

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when something put its fingers in my right back pocket

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and gave me a hard tug. I turned around, and

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again there was nothing there. My nephew and his friend

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were in the shop one night talking when his friend

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did a double take. He swore that he saw a

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man standing there, and then the man vanished. On another night,

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my nephew was working on his race car. He was

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by himself, and he was whistling a tune, and when

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he stopped whistling, right in front of him, someone whistled

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the exact same tune. After that he left for the night.

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And then on another time I had a customer in

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the shop and we had a slight disagreement. We were

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raising our voices at each other when suddenly he stopped talking.

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In the corner, about five feet away, he could hear

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muffled voices of two people arguing back and forth, just

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like we had been arguing. The man looked in the

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direction it came from, and then he turned white. He

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turned around and just left. Finally, after a year, I

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closed up and moved to another shop closer to home.

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Have many other stories from that creepy place, but I'll

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save them for another time. I'm retired now, and every

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time I ride by that old building, I still think

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about Henry. I spent twenty five years in Alaska, and

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it took me over five years to gain the confidence

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of the elders in several tribal groups, allowing them to

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share their stories and experiences of encounters, as well as

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the history of the creatures and critters and their living legacies.

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An elder once handed me a wooly rhinoceros tooth that

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his elders had hunted in Alaska and handed down from

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generation to generation. We documented that it became extinct in

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its region around the late sixteen hundreds or early seventeen hundreds,

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having previously been used as food. Alaska is the land

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of extreme beauty and extreme hardship. I have worked and

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travel from the Alaska Pipeline in the Arctic, to Dutch

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Harbor and fishing ports in the Eleusian Chain, to the

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Alaskan Panhandle gold mines, to the Keen Eye Peninsula into

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our big city of Anchorage. I have the adventures of

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Jack London, but I live to tell about it. In Alaska,

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it is common to see moose, grizzly bears, links, porcupines,

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and more strolling along the streets and alleys looking for

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careless individuals who leave their garbage accessible and unsecured. Black

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bears will work together to open a dumpster. One keeps

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watch and another acts as a stepping stone to go

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inside and gather a meal. We used to put our

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kids in pajamas and take them to the dump and

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watch the bears rummage around. Then the animals navigate by

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using the power line easements and retreat back into their wilderness,

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which is just a few blocks away. After many good

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years there, I moved to East Texas, where it was

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one hundred and thirty seven degrees fahrenheit warmer than it

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had been in Alaska the previous winter. My bones appreciated it,

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and I learned just how prevalent the cryptids are here.

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I used to think it was just the wild dogs

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in the countryside running about, but I learned there is

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so much more. They are out there, cryptids lurking in

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the shadows, nestled in their dens during the day, but

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at night, watching and waiting and sometimes making themselves revealed

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to people like me. I live in a suburb with

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a population of just under one hundred thousand, yet I

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encountered what some stated as a dog man. If you

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travel east to Texas, your first observation is likely to

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be the lush greenery everywhere. It is gently spread out.

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You do not have big city landscapes with skylines blocking

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the views of the heavens. Rather, you have houses and

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small businesses with strips of green trees and plants lining

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the streets everywhere. It's not the wilderness of Alaska, but

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it is open in this beautiful country, and it's refreshing.

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You often hear dogs barking in certain areas, and then

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everything suddenly goes quiet, leaving you the sense that something

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is amiss. But most of us just turn over and

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go back to sleep, feeling that we are safe inside here.

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Most areas are open with single story business office strips

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and homes. My doctor's appointment was at one such location,

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a traditional one story multi building office complex. After my

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doctor's visit, my service dog and I went outside to

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wait for my ride. My dog is a smaller jack

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Russell terrier. She caught a scent and began pulling me along,

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which is unusual for her, and then she stopped. By then,

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I had developed some vision loss and I could not

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see my surroundings clearly. I wondered what the issue was.

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She was trained to bark when someone approached to learning me,

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to visitors at the house or around me, but she

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did not bark or make a sound. I knelt down

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and I felt her shaking violently. She leaped into my

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arms and I held her shivering body. I suddenly heard nothing.

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It was too quiet, even for me, like when a

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heavy cloud passes in front of the sun and it

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blocks the light and cast the ground in shadows, except

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it was some sort of presence blocking out the sound.

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I didn't move or make sudden motions. I just held

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my dog and continued to breathe quietly and waited for

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the presence to move away. In Alaska, my dog's behavior

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usually indicated the presence of a moose nearby, or a

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predator such as a wolf or once a black bear

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that slept in our tree. Up there, we lived next

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to the nature reserve where we were part of a

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game trail. So I breathed the cautious exhale of concern.

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What was it? Then my nose was assaulted. What was

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that smell? I wondered if my dog had made a

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mess on me. But that wasn't it. And then suddenly

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the presence and the smell moved on. I heard birds

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chirping and even frogs croaking. If it weren't for my

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dog's behavior, I would have thought my hearing was experiencing

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a lapse. But as soon as the sounds came back,

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she jumped out of my arms and started sniffing a

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spot nearby. I have some vision loss, but even I

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could see the footprint and the soft earth next to me.

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My weigh over two hundred and fifty pounds, and my

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foot barely left a crease, while the one next to

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me left a deep print in the mud. It was

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long and narrow, ending with three long and distinct claw

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arks deeply imprinted in the mud. Now wear USIZ thirteen shoe,

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and I took a picture for comparison. It was longer

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and wider and heavier than mine. I'm not a hunter gatherer,

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so I sent my pictures to experience hunters and expedition

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hunters back in Alaska, and not one of them could

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identify what it was. Others in my area have shared

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their encounters with creatures here in East Texas, including run

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ins with beasts that are ten to twelve feet tall,

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and they aren't always friendly. From listening to various broadcasts,

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what I encountered was best described as a dog man.

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There's more to share, but only for those not faint

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of heart. Let me know and I'll tell you all

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the details. I'm a loyal subscriber to your channel. You

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read our stories without disputing or belittling the events and

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encounters that we share. I love your reading style too.

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It is based and honest and good natured and enthusiastic.

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This is great since the reason is not to create

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debate and endless supposed scientific criticisms and disputes, but to

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relate our stories and allow us to share experiences which

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challenge our perspectives and oftentimes leave us in bewilderment. And

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he goes on to tell me how much he likes

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the channel, and I really appreciate that. I thought, for

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a minute this was going to be a full on

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visual encounter with a dog man, because Rebecca had listed

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this as a dog man story. Usually when I see

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dog man stories, we don't get the anecdotal type stuff.

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We get full blown visual sighting encounters. However, this story

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is interesting because for some reason something stopped him and

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his dog in their tracks and they look down and

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they see a track of some kind of a canine

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I'm guessing canine. I don't think he ever said he

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what it was. He said what he thinks it is.

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But I thought the story was very interesting and maybe

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the way it was written was the way what really

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pulled me in. And that can sometimes happen. You can

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read a story that's not really full of, you know,

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shoot him up type action, but it's written so well

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that it pulls you in to where you want to

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know what's going on. So I really like this story,

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So I appreciate the writer for sending it Okay, as

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another short podcast. I'm doing these in the morning and

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trying to crank out as many as I can because

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I've been absent a lot the last few months and

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i want to try to catch up and get caught

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back up on this content. So I really appreciate you

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listening this far, and we'll see you guys on the

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next one. Thank you.