WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:09.839 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