1 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:09,839 Speaker 1: This email is from a gentleman in South Mississippi. And 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:14,199 what's interesting about this is that this family has kept 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:20,519 records of these paranormal events, written records since nineteen twenty two. 4 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,879 That's what makes this so fascinating to me. So I'm 5 00:00:23,879 --> 00:00:26,000 gonna go ahead and read the email he sent, but 6 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,640 I think you're going to be quite blown away by this. 7 00:00:29,719 --> 00:00:32,600 The gentleman rights, I have a story that might interest 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,039 you in your listeners. It is not about Bigfoot, but 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,600 is given as being true, and all who were involved 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,479 believe what they saw. I'll use first names only to 11 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,320 keep out of trouble. This occurred on land that has 12 00:00:47,359 --> 00:00:50,880 been in our family for five generations before me and 13 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,719 now belongs to my brother Anthony. There's a lot of 14 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,719 history and family secrets on this ground. The story starts 15 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:04,359 in eighteen twenty two when Fred owned the land. He 16 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,200 was twenty four years old and he was married and 17 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:11,120 they had one child. This was taken from a letter 18 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,000 written to a family member concerning the death of his 19 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,480 only child. Fred and Florence lived there until their divorce. 20 00:01:20,239 --> 00:01:23,400 They had a little boy, James, who died from a 21 00:01:23,519 --> 00:01:29,159 fast acting sickness and is buried in Hester Cemetery. Aunt 22 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:32,079 Cora told me that he was the cutest little boy, 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,680 and Uncle Fred was plowing and the little boy was 24 00:01:35,719 --> 00:01:39,319 following him up and down the roads. He got real 25 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,680 sick and he died, perhaps spinal meningitis. That's what Aunt 26 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,079 Lily told me. After they buried him, uncle Fred went 27 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,319 back to the field to finish plowing. He came to 28 00:01:52,359 --> 00:01:55,200 the house crying because the little boy's tracks were in 29 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,319 the fresh plowed ground. Frank bought the place from Uncle Fred. 30 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:06,120 Frank was our grandfather. My brother Anthony built his house 31 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:09,400 on this property in nineteen ninety and he lives there now. 32 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,360 Archaeology digs on the site have yielded pottery, coins, nails, 33 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,360 and even gun parts. Anthony's daughter Ashley writes of her 34 00:02:20,439 --> 00:02:23,840 experience in two thousand, when she was fifteen years old. 35 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,199 I woke up in the middle of the night and 36 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,520 I sat up and the room was pitch black dark. 37 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,759 The bed was facing west. At that time, I looked 38 00:02:34,759 --> 00:02:37,360 toward the door and there was a tall, dark figure, 39 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,919 a full grown man's stature. The figure was standing just 40 00:02:42,039 --> 00:02:44,080 on the backside of the door where it would have 41 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:47,960 opened into the room. I yelled out hey and it 42 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:52,000 crouched down. I was sure I was crazy for seeing 43 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:55,240 such things, since we always heard footsteps coming up the 44 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,439 stairs and other creeks in the house. So I rolled 45 00:02:58,479 --> 00:03:01,800 over and I went back to sleep. I assumed it 46 00:03:01,879 --> 00:03:05,800 was one of the Plumber and crew. Now Plumber was 47 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,199 a member of the Klan who was killed on the 48 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,439 site in eighteen sixty four by Jayhawkers, and he is 49 00:03:12,479 --> 00:03:17,280 buried nearby. We sometimes joke about Plumber still roaming about 50 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,840 the land that it once was his. Brock, Anthony's grandson, 51 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,840 was staying over when he saw the little boy. It 52 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:29,840 was in twoenty and ten and Brock was ten years 53 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:32,879 old at the time, and he wrote of his experience. 54 00:03:34,319 --> 00:03:37,240 I can remember it being around eight thirty or nine 55 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,159 on a school night, and not everyone in the house 56 00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:44,000 was asleep. The bedroom light was off, but the hall 57 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,719 light was on, and the door was cracked just enough 58 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:50,560 to let very little light in. I remember not being 59 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:53,520 able to sleep and feeling like someone was watching me. 60 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,159 I sat up to find what looked like a shadow 61 00:03:57,319 --> 00:03:59,680 of a little boy crouched down at the corner of 62 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:03,199 the dress her. I stared at it for a second 63 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:05,639 to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, 64 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,719 and it felt like my eyes would never adjust. So 65 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,560 I called out to the shadow, Hey. As soon as 66 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:15,800 the word left my mouth, the figure bolted toward the 67 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:20,879 door and seemed to have vanished into thin air. In 68 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,600 twenty twenty, Anthony's son Eric and his wife Elizabeth were 69 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:31,360 staying with Anthony when the last sighting occurred. She writes, 70 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,920 I was asleep in the bedroom upstairs to the right. 71 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:38,600 It was dark, with only light from the television glowing 72 00:04:38,639 --> 00:04:42,519 throughout the room. I'm unsure why, but I woke up 73 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,800 for a minute, and when I opened my eyes, I 74 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:49,120 saw someone standing or crouching behind the closed bedroom door 75 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,560 with a blanket wrapped around them. I assumed it was Eric, 76 00:04:53,639 --> 00:04:57,240 so I asked, what are you doing. When I didn't 77 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,759 receive a response, I rolled over and I tried going 78 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:03,240 back to sleep. A few minutes later, the room door 79 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:06,920 opened and Eric walked in. I asked him where he was, 80 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:10,360 and he said that he had been downstairs. I explained 81 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,959 to him what I saw, and he told me it 82 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,120 definitely was not him in the room. The apparitions were 83 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:20,959 seen in the same upstairs room in intervals of ten years. 84 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:25,639 The room is now used for storage only was the 85 00:05:25,639 --> 00:05:29,439 first apparition the father searching for his two year old son, 86 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,319 and was the second apparition the little boy himself? And 87 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,279 who was the third apparition? Perhaps it was the father again, 88 00:05:39,519 --> 00:05:43,319 we believe they were indeed father and son. And the 89 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,879 writer signs off, and I thought this was very interesting 90 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,879 because later family members who experience some kind of paranormal 91 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,439 or ghostly figure in the house can look back to 92 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,319 letters going back to nineteen twenty two of them other 93 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:04,519 people that have passed and gone who experienced the same thing. 94 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:08,199 Now that's kind of uncanny. I thought this was so 95 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,839 interesting I wanted to share it with you, and thank 96 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,399 you to the writer for sending it. It was fascinating. 97 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,319 I've been staring at my keyboard for the last twenty 98 00:06:20,399 --> 00:06:23,839 minutes asking myself if I really want to open this 99 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,600 can since it's been almost thirty years and thanks to 100 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,160 your channel, people have been given a platform to share 101 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:36,160 experience with this beast. I also just recently started asking 102 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,519 my brother about that day in nineteen eighty nine. My 103 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:43,759 brother was there and did not see the thing, but 104 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:48,920 he remembers my strange behavior after my experience, even though 105 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,199 I didn't come clean with him and tell him what 106 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,680 I saw. He helped piece together the puzzle of my 107 00:06:54,879 --> 00:06:59,519 experience that I have been carrying most of my life. 108 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,120 How I start, I guess to fully understand what I 109 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,720 went through and the trauma I suffered after. It's important 110 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,079 for me to share a bit of my life leading 111 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,560 up to the experience because my father walked out on us, 112 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,160 and I spent most of my teenage years angry. Fighting 113 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:21,199 was a way to either fit in or prove myself. 114 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,720 At the age of fifteen, my mother could no longer 115 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,920 deal with my teenage angst and I was shipped out 116 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,600 to live with my older brother. He was ten years 117 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:34,800 older than me, so we didn't have much of a relationship. 118 00:07:35,639 --> 00:07:38,480 He was, however, a good brother and I could lean 119 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,959 on him and he understood some of what I was 120 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,600 going through. He also introduced me to the outdoors. Soon 121 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:50,399 after moving in with him, I was hunting, fishing, and camping. 122 00:07:50,879 --> 00:07:54,240 I love the outdoors, but I was never good at hunting, 123 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:58,600 mainly because I didn't enjoy it. I was good with 124 00:07:58,639 --> 00:08:02,319 a rifle, but I would rather target shooting than killing animal. 125 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:08,519 We lived in Builton, California, and Lost Padres National Forest 126 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,360 was only thirty minutes away. It was the spring of 127 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,680 nineteen eighty nine, and my brother and his friend invited 128 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,040 me to go shooting with them. My brother had just 129 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,120 bought a new thirty thirty Winchester, and I couldn't wait 130 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:26,279 to shoot that rifle. There was snow in the mountains, 131 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:29,319 so before we started target shooting, we found some great 132 00:08:29,439 --> 00:08:32,639 hills to sled down, and we did that for an 133 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,559 hour or so, enough time for me to get my 134 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,960 jeans wet from all the slush. As they started setting 135 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,120 up the targets, I changed into some sweatpants I had 136 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:46,440 brought in a gym bag. My brother's truck had a 137 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,960 camper in the bed and was parked about one hundred 138 00:08:49,039 --> 00:08:52,799 yards away. I was anxious to get into some dry clothes. 139 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,120 I was about to start putting my sweats on when 140 00:08:56,159 --> 00:08:59,960 out of nowhere, I was hit with a gripping, paralyzing fear. 141 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:05,000 I could not understand what was happening to me. There 142 00:09:05,039 --> 00:09:10,279 was an irritating, pulsating sound in my head. It scared me. 143 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,480 I thought I was sick or was about to pass out. 144 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,600 So I sat down to steady myself and hope the 145 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:20,639 feeling would go away. I raised my head looking out 146 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,039 the camper door, and I saw a large, dark figure 147 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,080 come from the tree line only a few yards away. 148 00:09:28,399 --> 00:09:32,000 Everything slowed down to slow motion and I felt like 149 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,519 I could only move my eyes as the figure came 150 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,320 into view. It was a light brown creature and my 151 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:44,440 estimation was over eight feet tall. From the camper shelled window, 152 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,759 I could only see from its hip to its chest. 153 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,840 It carried a dead dove tucked in its side like 154 00:09:51,879 --> 00:09:55,320 a football. The dove appeared to have died from a 155 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:00,200 broken neck. The walking movement of this creature caused the 156 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,600 head of the dove to wiggle like a snake. The 157 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,759 whole scene was surreal and it scared me. I will 158 00:10:07,799 --> 00:10:10,480 never forget the way that tiny dove looked as this 159 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,279 creature walked towards me. Its head was flopping from side 160 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,200 to side, and its eyes seemed to be fixed in 161 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:21,919 a state of terror. The creature walked past towards the 162 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,639 front end of the truck and then made its way 163 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,519 back up into the woods and disappeared into the forest. 164 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,240 The animal was massive. I saw details that stick in 165 00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:37,399 my mind still again, the light brown hair and the 166 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,840 evil expression on its face. I even saw scars on 167 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,519 its face. I kept telling myself it was a bear 168 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,000 walking on its back legs, but deep down I knew 169 00:10:49,039 --> 00:10:53,120 this was not a bear. Our minds try to rationalize 170 00:10:53,159 --> 00:10:56,919 the strange things we see, and my mind was comforting 171 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,759 me by telling me it was a bear, but it 172 00:10:59,879 --> 00:11:04,039 was no bear. That feeling I had had for the 173 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,600 last three minutes vanished as soon as the creature moved 174 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,200 away from me and into the forest. I sat on 175 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,879 the rear seal of that camper door and I could 176 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,240 not believe what I had just seen. I must have 177 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,399 lost track of time, because the next thing I remember 178 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,120 was my brother and his friends showing up. They were 179 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:26,639 asking me why I didn't come back and why I 180 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:30,240 missed out on the shooting. How much time had I 181 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,399 lost I still don't know, but I suppose they shot 182 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,960 rifles for thirty or forty five minutes before coming to 183 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,879 look for me. The strange thing was I never heard 184 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:46,279 a shot, I mean nothing. They kept asking me if 185 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,120 I was okay, and all I could say was a 186 00:11:49,159 --> 00:11:51,440 bear walk right up to the truck. It was a 187 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,600 huge bear. We gathered all our gear and within a 188 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,960 few minutes we left for home. That's pretty much the 189 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:03,000 whole story. I have emotionally struggled with this for years. 190 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,159 What bothers me most is that I felt like I 191 00:12:06,279 --> 00:12:10,720 was paralyzed during the encounter. The creature was scary, for sure, 192 00:12:10,799 --> 00:12:13,240 but what would cause me to lose my senses for 193 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:16,919 that amount of time. I recently asked my brother what 194 00:12:17,039 --> 00:12:20,480 he remembers. He only recalls that I would not come 195 00:12:20,519 --> 00:12:22,919 out of that camper and that I crawled into the 196 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,960 bunk and slept the whole way home. That is about 197 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,440 all I can remember. It's a crazy story that I've 198 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:38,720 never shared with anyone. Best regards George, and I thought 199 00:12:38,759 --> 00:12:41,240 I would send this story told to me by my mother. 200 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,919 I generally avoid sharing these types of stories with other 201 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:51,639 podcasts since my first attempt, when the podcaster responded that 202 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,759 he would not include it since he avoids reading stories 203 00:12:55,799 --> 00:13:00,000 with religion in the story. I found this very disingenuous 204 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,600 because he had no problem with non Christian pagan wick 205 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,679 and voodoo inclusions in his podcast. And I trust you 206 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,799 with how you present stories and you don't judge. My 207 00:13:11,879 --> 00:13:14,120 mom said this happened to her when she was in 208 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,840 her late teens before she married my father. She was 209 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,440 visiting some friend one evening when her friends decided to 210 00:13:21,519 --> 00:13:24,399 make a spirit board by drawing it on top of 211 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,559 one of those old folding card tables. They also used 212 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,440 to invert a tea cup with the handle as the 213 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:36,000 point of the plashett plan chet point of a plan 214 00:13:36,159 --> 00:13:41,080 chet pla n cchett. I don't know what that word is. 215 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,240 I don't know if she had ever heard of the 216 00:13:44,279 --> 00:13:47,440 bad things that could happen with these things. The group 217 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:51,279 was asking their questions and she made the accusation that 218 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,320 someone was making the answers by pushing the tea cup. 219 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,039 At several points in this session, it stopped working, and 220 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:00,840 someone noticed that it always stopped when one of the 221 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:04,360 young men came into the room, so when he left 222 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:06,919 the room, they asked why it was always stopped when 223 00:14:06,919 --> 00:14:10,320 he was there, and it responded with a misspelled word 224 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:16,600 p r e s t hod or something meaning priesthood. 225 00:14:17,759 --> 00:14:21,480 She said it couldn't spell very well. Apparently the young 226 00:14:21,559 --> 00:14:25,559 man was a priest in his church. Her friends kept 227 00:14:25,559 --> 00:14:28,080 denying they were doing it, so she wanted to do 228 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,120 it on her own. They all said it doesn't work 229 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:34,159 with just one person, and she said, if it really 230 00:14:34,279 --> 00:14:37,840 was working, it would work with only one, so she 231 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,240 tried it and she said it work. She said there 232 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,600 was an oppressive feeling, dark responses, and she got really uneasy, 233 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,159 so the lighting things up. She asked if Santa Claus 234 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:55,559 was real. The entity did not respond, so she started singing, Oh, 235 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,960 here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus. And she 236 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,720 said she got the impression that it was angry at 237 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:05,399 her and taunting because the cut suddenly flew across the 238 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,600 room and shattered on something across the room. We were 239 00:15:09,639 --> 00:15:12,120 always taught not to mess with these things because of 240 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:20,159 the evil associated with them. This is an email from Tammy, 241 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,600 and this is one of the strangest stories I've read 242 00:15:23,639 --> 00:15:26,720 in a while. It's really good, she writes. Hello, my 243 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:29,440 name is Tammy, and first, I love listening to all 244 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,039 the stories you tell from other people's encounters with cryptids 245 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:36,879 and aliens. I liked the stories about Bigfoot the best. 246 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,960 I decided to write my true encounter of a different kind. 247 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,720 I don't think I've ever heard you tell a story 248 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,720 like this, but I could be wrong, so here it goes. 249 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:50,679 I'm from Texas and I live in a small town 250 00:15:51,039 --> 00:15:55,759 not far from Brian and College Station, Texas. I drive 251 00:15:55,799 --> 00:15:58,120 a garbage truck, and I go to other towns to 252 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:01,759 pick up carts. On one occasion, I was on my 253 00:16:01,879 --> 00:16:04,879 way back to park my truck at my job. It 254 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,840 was around dusk, where the sun had already gone down, 255 00:16:08,279 --> 00:16:10,639 and there was just enough light that I could still 256 00:16:10,679 --> 00:16:14,159 distinguish colors all around me without having to shine a 257 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:18,440 light on it. As I was approaching a stretch of trees, 258 00:16:19,039 --> 00:16:22,799 large creatures began flying out of the treetops and gliding 259 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,639 across the road. Now it may sound strange, but they 260 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,559 looked like gargoyles that I've seen in films. These were 261 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:35,240 much larger than buzzards. I know what a buzzard looks 262 00:16:35,279 --> 00:16:39,039 like when I see one. They're quite common here. But 263 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,559 I counted eight of these creatures, and in the fading light, 264 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:45,399 I could see clearly that their skin was a muted 265 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:50,120 gray color and they had no feathers. Once I couldn't 266 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,600 see them, I began questioning the whole episode. I mean, 267 00:16:53,639 --> 00:16:57,320 I was in disbelief or denial, if that makes sense. 268 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,320 Had I really seen what I thought I saw. I 269 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,039 ran all the animals that I know of through my mind, 270 00:17:04,039 --> 00:17:08,559 and nothing fit. They looked like gargoyles. That's all I 271 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,599 can come up with. And I had not dreamed this up, 272 00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:15,319 and it was not my imagination. And here's how I 273 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,279 know that. A few miles down this road and I 274 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,160 was beginning to shake off the strangeness of what I 275 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,839 had seen, and up ahead there was another grove of trees. 276 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,440 My eyes went straight to the treetops. I didn't expect 277 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,599 to see the same vision, but to my great surprise, 278 00:17:33,839 --> 00:17:37,400 I saw their huge wings launch them from the treetops. Again. 279 00:17:38,279 --> 00:17:40,519 They flew to a point across the road where the 280 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:44,839 trees obscured my view of them, and then they were gone. 281 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,559 This time I counted six of the creatures, and now 282 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,240 I had confirmed it. Something odd in the shape and 283 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,680 movement of a gargoyle was flying around the woods close 284 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,759 to College Station, Texas. And prior to this event, I 285 00:17:59,759 --> 00:18:03,880 had seen spirits. I've even seen a UFO, and my 286 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,799 brother has seen a bigfoot, but I and no one 287 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:11,359 I know, has ever seen anything like what I saw 288 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,559 that evening. I would really like to know if, by 289 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:19,039 any chance, has anyone in the audience seen anything like 290 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,359 I've described. Thanks for reading my story. Well, Tammy, there 291 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,440 it is is out there for the public to hear, 292 00:18:27,319 --> 00:18:29,200 and I would like to know if you guys have 293 00:18:29,319 --> 00:18:34,279 seen big flying creatures like this. That would absolutely freak 294 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,960 me out. I mean I would I don't know what 295 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:39,119 I would do if I saw something like that, but 296 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,960 it's kind of scary, but it's kind of mystical, and 297 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,680 you know, it sparks your imagination a little bit. But 298 00:18:45,079 --> 00:18:49,599 I believe she saw something like this absolutely. Her email 299 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,599 is very short and very genuine, and I really appreciate it. 300 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,920 So you guys comment below if you've ever heard of 301 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,559 or seen anything like this. Thanks Tammy for the email. 302 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:08,160 I'm a pastor from Memphis, Tennessee. Back in the nineteen nineties, 303 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,240 I moved to a rural area south of Jackson, Tennessee, 304 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:14,279 to serve at the church here. As a kid in 305 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:17,559 the nineteen seventies, I watched the Patterson Gimlin film and 306 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:21,359 the Legend of Boggie Creek. I wanted to believe in Bigfoot, 307 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,240 but even if it were true, I seriously doubted there 308 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,440 were any in Tennessee. And then I read a book 309 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,079 about a bigfoot encounter in Carroll County, Tennessee that shook 310 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:35,960 me to my core. On October eleventh, two thousand, and two. 311 00:19:36,039 --> 00:19:38,640 The church I was serving had planned a camp out 312 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,599 for the kids. We put up eight tenths near the 313 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:44,720 pond and a pasture located in Hardiman County near the 314 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,359 Madison County line. To the east of the pasture were woods, 315 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,680 and to the south was a creek that ran along 316 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:56,240 some heavily wooded bottomlands. The house of the church family 317 00:19:56,279 --> 00:19:58,799 who owned the land was one hundred and fifty yards 318 00:19:58,839 --> 00:20:01,720 to our north, and we had twelve kids with us, 319 00:20:01,759 --> 00:20:06,000 including my two children and six adults. My wife and I, 320 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:08,920 along with our two children, were in one tent together. 321 00:20:10,519 --> 00:20:12,799 In the late afternoon on the day of the camp out, 322 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,519 the landowner's son and I set up the tents and 323 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:18,559 we got the camp ready, and after supper we went 324 00:20:18,599 --> 00:20:22,799 on a scavenger hunt. We stayed mainly around the pond 325 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,240 that was to our west, near a grove of trees, 326 00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:28,200 and during the hunt I couldn't shake the eerie feeling 327 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:33,480 of being watched from those trees. The evening went without incident. 328 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,599 By eleven o'clock we all turned in, and not long 329 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,119 after I entered my tent, I heard a powerful and 330 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,279 frightening howl to our northeast. Then I heard a second 331 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:48,200 howl coming from the same direction. Those were answered by 332 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,559 a faint howl coming from the woods to our southeast. 333 00:20:52,599 --> 00:20:55,319 I don't remember how many howls I heard in total. 334 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:58,480 I just remember that I was quite frightened by them. 335 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,000 My wife was awake and she heard them too, and 336 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:05,400 our daughter, who was in another tent with some of 337 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,160 the girls, later told us that she'd heard the howls too. 338 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,160 A few minutes of silence passed, and I decided to 339 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,000 go outside of the tent. I wanted to watch the 340 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:17,759 fence row and the woods beyond it to make sure 341 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:20,079 that we weren't being approached by whatever it was out 342 00:21:20,079 --> 00:21:22,960 there howling, and I wanted to add wood to the fire. 343 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:26,799 I kept my eye on the woods as I approached 344 00:21:26,799 --> 00:21:30,519 the fire, but I didn't see anything. The landowner's Jack 345 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,720 Russell terrier was sitting in a long chair by the fire, 346 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,759 and I could tell by how still an alert he 347 00:21:36,839 --> 00:21:39,039 was that he was just as frightened as we were. 348 00:21:39,839 --> 00:21:42,119 I didn't hear anything the rest of the night, though. 349 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,440 After that camp out, I decided to investigate what I'd heard. 350 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:51,759 Now listened to the Ohio howl by an alleged bigfoot 351 00:21:52,599 --> 00:21:56,359 that howl is a long, moaning sound with a dog barking. 352 00:21:57,279 --> 00:22:00,599 What I heard that night was closer and louder, and 353 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,680 there were no other sounds except the answering how it 354 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:08,039 was very quiet before the house and deadly quiet afterward. 355 00:22:08,759 --> 00:22:11,799 One thing I know for certain, whatever made those howls 356 00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:16,519 was a large creature. Next I spoke to the landowners. 357 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,119 They told me they'd had numerous encounters with ape like 358 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,160 creatures on their property and in the surrounding area. Now 359 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,640 remember I was their pastor, and there was absolutely no 360 00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:31,920 reason why they would lie to me about this. In 361 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:34,759 January of two thousand and three, I was invited over 362 00:22:34,799 --> 00:22:37,680 to the landowner's house to investigate the woods where I 363 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,079 had heard the holls. Their son and I ventured into 364 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:44,039 the woods to the east around three o'clock in the afternoon, 365 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,079 and then we traveled south. It had snowed, so we 366 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:53,319 were hoping to find some tracks. Five yards into the woods, 367 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,839 we came across a large X shape formed by two 368 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,480 trees that had been pushed over, and as we can continued, 369 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:04,039 we found other territorial markers, such as saplings that were 370 00:23:04,039 --> 00:23:07,920 twisted down five to seven feet off the ground. My 371 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:11,960 companion was familiar with these sites but had never investigated 372 00:23:12,039 --> 00:23:15,920 to find out what had been done. We came across 373 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,440 one track that was roughly twelve inches in length. We 374 00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:22,839 also found him anewer pile of unknown origin and some 375 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,240 hair caught on a fence row. My companion had hunted 376 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,160 and fished his whole life. He was familiar with a 377 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,359 wide variety of animals, but he couldn't identify either the 378 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,440 scat or the hair. And last we found what were 379 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:42,680 possibly bedding areas for something extremely large. We searched for 380 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,119 two more hours and then we headed back to the house. 381 00:23:46,799 --> 00:23:50,319 In February of that same year, the landowner's son and 382 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,200 I visited the October camp site at eight thirty pm 383 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,680 in the evening. We sat down and talked for a while, 384 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,240 but mainly we were listening for what we had begun 385 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,839 to call our friends friends as our code word for bigfoot. 386 00:24:05,799 --> 00:24:08,119 Not long after we got there, we heard an owl 387 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,240 hooting and it was answered by a mimicking sound. Well, 388 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:14,319 we looked at each other as if to say, what 389 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,599 was that, and then it happened again, and we knew 390 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:21,680 it was bigfoot when we didn't hear anything else for 391 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,279 a few minutes. We decided to head back to the house, 392 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,640 and we knew we needed to come back with night 393 00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:29,640 vision binocular sometime in the future if we were going 394 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:34,200 to see anything. I have had several more encounters, including 395 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,799 an actual sighting, and I'll send you those stories soon. Well, 396 00:24:39,079 --> 00:24:42,599 very good, I'd love to have your sighting story, Sir, 397 00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:46,920 the pastor from Memphis. This is interesting. These are people 398 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:52,119 who have heard you know, this word is so commonly used, 399 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,319 but it's anecdotal type stuff like the owl hooting and 400 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,640 then getting answered by another howl or another owl. Does 401 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,440 that not sound like owls talking back and forth. I 402 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,480 have owls back here behind my house, and some you know, 403 00:25:06,559 --> 00:25:09,720 some owl will start raising sand down in these bottoms, 404 00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:12,000 and then all the way on the other side of 405 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,279 the woods, I'll hear another one calling back. That doesn't 406 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:17,079 necessarily mean it's a big foot. I'm not arguing with 407 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,559 the man, but I'm wondering how they come to these conclusions. 408 00:25:20,599 --> 00:25:23,559 And he didn't say it in this story, but are 409 00:25:23,599 --> 00:25:27,319 they typically can you listen to them and tell that 410 00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:31,039 that is something mimicking an owl? That's what I'm asking 411 00:25:31,559 --> 00:25:33,960 and so I'd be curious about that. If anybody in 412 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:39,039 the audience listens to this, can you tell the difference between, like, 413 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,680 for instance, a human doing an owl hoot or an 414 00:25:42,799 --> 00:25:46,240 actual owl hooting. I use an owl hoot called turkey 415 00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:49,839 hunting all the time. Sometimes you know, it doesn't work 416 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:54,279 all spring, but it's usually about the first month of 417 00:25:54,319 --> 00:25:57,480 the turkey season. If you'll hoot, if the turkeys are 418 00:25:57,519 --> 00:26:00,799 still up on the roost, especially if it's just getting daylight, 419 00:26:01,319 --> 00:26:04,119 you can blow that owl call. Man, they'll all sound off. 420 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,519 But you get later in the season and they don't 421 00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:08,880 seem to do it as much. So it's not like 422 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,839 fool proof. But the point is, I have an owl call, 423 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,079 and to me it sounds like an owl, and I've 424 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,000 had owls call back at me when I use it. 425 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,680 And anyway, I'm just trambling on about this owl thing. 426 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,480 But this is one of those cases where a man 427 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,960 hears some things. He's heard a few things about bigfoot, 428 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,599 and he's investigating. He's real interested in this, and I 429 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,319 think that's cool. I think that that's something you enjoy doing. 430 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,480 That is, and you have time to do it. That's 431 00:26:38,519 --> 00:26:40,839 a fun thing to do. I know a lot of 432 00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:43,440 people who do it and they love it, so thank you. 433 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,559 To the pastor for sending this preacher. Send me some 434 00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:53,880 more stories on your sightings. I'd love to hear them.