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Speaker 1: All right, I want to talk to you for a minute,

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and I need you to hang around and listen because

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this is important, very important. I'm not bragging, but I

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did get invited to do a Massy Oak properties podcast.

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The name of the podcast is A Fist Full of

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Dirt and it is hosted by a guy that I've

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watched on television and in videos, and just in the

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last year or so have seen some of his videos

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from old. His name is Ronnie cuz Strickland. And I

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got to drive down to West Point, Mississippi, where the

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headquarters of massioak is sit in their studio, and they

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asked me all kinds of questions about my podcast and

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all that stuff. You all know how I am. I

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don't really like talking about myself. I had so many

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questions for them, but I had to bite my tongue

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because it's their show. They wanted me to talk about

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the podcast, and so I did that. I'm going to

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put a link in the description for the Fistful of

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Dirt Halloween episode, which they uploaded yesterday it would have

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been October twenty ninth. It's called a Redneck Telling Monster Stories.

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It's a pretty good podcast. Not because I'm in it

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because these people really know how to put on a

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good podcast. There'll be a link that they're not on YouTube,

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they're out on the podcast networks, so they're on Apple, Spotify,

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all the podcast apps that you use out there. Just

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do a search for a fist full of dirt. You

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might want to put mossy oak behind that. It'll be

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right up there at the top. The episode I'm in

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is called a Redneck Telling Monster Stories. It's their first

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Halloween episode. They're uploading another Halloween episode to tomorrow or Friday.

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I'm not sure. I think it's Thursday the thirtieth or

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the Thursday the thirty first, actually on Halloween, and it

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should be a good one. But you all looked them up.

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Listen to their podcast. It's really good. One thing that

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happened when I walked into their studio first was I

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got to meet two really nice people. I got to

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meet Cuz Strickland. He's a legend, an absolute legend in

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hunting circles. Everybody knows who Cuz Strickland is. If you've

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ever watched a hunting show. If you don't remember his name,

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when you see his face, you'll remember it. And then

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I met his daughter, Lauren, and they're the producers of

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a fist full of Dirt podcasts. But he handed me

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a book, which I didn't say this when I sat

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down with him, but I had actually read it a

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few years ago. A buddy of mine had it sitting

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on his desk. I said, let me borrow that book,

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and I read the book. It's called Ain't Nothing but

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the Truth about Spring Turkey Hunting. According to cuz Now,

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this book is not a strategy type tactics kind of book.

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It's his commentary on turkey hunting and in modern culture,

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and it is full of unbelievably great stories. I don't

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know where to buy this book. I'm gonna check with

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them before I upload this podcast and see if it's

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on Amazon or wherever. But I called Lauren yesterday and

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I asked her if her dad wouldn't mind if I

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read a chapter out of this book, and she said,

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I think that'd be great. So that's what you're about

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to hear. So I wanted to announce that I'm on

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that podcast and I want you to stick around and

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listen to this story. It's one chapter out of Ain't

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Nothing but the Truth about Spring Turkey Hunting. According to

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Cudz Strickland, the title of the chapter is Hexes and

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Haints or Haints and Hexes. I thought it was fitting

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for this channel. Its close to Halloween, it's about superstitions,

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and I think you will enjoy it, So hang on

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and listen to that. I really appreciate it. Thanks, Hanks

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and Hexes. Most people will not admit in public, or

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even out loud, that they are superstitious. Some consider it

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a sign of a weak mind or lack of education.

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Well that's fine, but I say why I take chances.

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Baseball players as a group may be the most superstitious

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of all, but I think hunters would be a close second.

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I have always been deathly scared of snakes, but not

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too much else. I'm good to round most other things

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that can make folks uneasy, stuff like spiders and haunted

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houses and the dark and electricity. But you could still

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describe me as jumpy. Even though I'm not afraid of spiders,

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I don't pick them up and play with them, and

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I might jump if one land in my lap. It's

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the same with superstitions. I don't go asking for trouble.

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I don't pick up spiders. I don't throw my hat

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on the bed or look at a new moon over

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my left shoulder. For me, it's all about the odds.

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If I feel my odds are better if I don't

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step on a crack in the sidewalk, then I will

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step over the cracks. Now call me uneducated or weak

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mind at all you want. Most people find my superstitions

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funny or at best interesting, But for me, it's just

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part of my routine. I'm not trying to be different

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or make a statement of any kind. I'm just being careful.

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Back in the mid nineteen eighties, I was hunting outdoor

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writers out of my house in Natchez, Mississippi. My wife

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Pam and I, along with both of our girls, would

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bring in dozens of writers each year and hunt them

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around Natchez for primos and mascio in hopes of getting

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mentions or photos in hunting magazines. One of my favorite

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writers to visit our home was Nick Sisley. Nick and

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I hit it off really fast, even though he was

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a highly intelligent professional writer and a Pennsylvania Yankee who

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had traveled the world and seen and done way more

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than I had. By being a simple, laid back redneck

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from South Mississippi. Nick liked real people who hunted in

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real places, under real conditions and did it really hard,

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so we actually had lots in common. He didn't want

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some plush wine and cheese hunt where he didn't have

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to walk too far or wait too long, so hunting

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with me out of our house was right up his alley.

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On the first morning of next turkey hunt, we were

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running about ten minutes late leaving my house. I was

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heavy on the gas most of the way to our

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hunting ground and had made up for most of the

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ten minutes and felt good about being in our spot

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to listen for gobbles on time. And then it happened

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A damn black cat ran across the road right in

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front of us. There are a few actions you can

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take in this situation. For instance, you can pull over

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and wait for another vehicle to cross the path first.

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on the windshield dead center. You can turn your hat

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around and raise your feet off the floorboard and the

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speed across. But the fastest thing to do is to

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turn around and take another route. And since that was

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five in the morning, I knew the chances of another

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vehicle busting that path were slim. I could have turned

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my hat around and picked up my feet and ex

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the windshield, but I knew Nick would not do it,

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and it would not help if he refused, so I

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stopped and turned around. He was in shock that I

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would do that. I knew another gravel road that would

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not cost us much time, and it was my best option.

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It would have taken way too much time to explain

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to Nick all the options and possibilities we had to

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cancel out that cat's mojo, so I just do it

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in reverse and took off. I could tell he was

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pissed off a bit, because he didn't say a word

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to me until after his gun went off at five

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minutes after six, when he dispatched a big old gobbler.

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black Cat episode, which I'm sure he thought was theater

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for him, but later realized it was indeed for his benefit.

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No theater was involved, just scientific preemptive tactics to keep

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luck on our side. Now, I'm sure there's not much

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sites involved in superstitions, but there is a lot of

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history that backs up at least the fact that people

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have been aware of them. For example, Friday the thirteenth

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has some very substantial meaning that dates back thousands of years.

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the twelve demic gods that were joined by the thirteenth,

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who was evil. It was also said that Crass was

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crucified on a Friday, and the number of people present

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at the Last Supper was thirteen, the thirteenth being Judas

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the Trader. If you don't believe things like that, then

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a lucky penny or a four leaf clover may not

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mean much to you. But I'll admit I do, especially

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when biblical examples are thrown into the mix. Now, I'm

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pretty sure superstitions are like being afraid of snakes. If

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you look for them like I do, then you'll find them.

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Maybe it's all in the mind, but I think the

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mind is indeed a powerful thing and can affect outcomes

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in many ways. I remember a few years back, while

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at Portland Landing near Camden, Alabama, we were scouting locations

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in September to hang tree stands for an upcoming mossy oakhunt.

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It was so hot you could hardly breathe, and we

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were covering lots of ground. I've heard the old saying

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that seeing an owl in the daylight was bad luck,

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but it never paid much attention to that one. The

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chances of seeing an owl in the middle of the

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day down south anyway are very slim. But on this day,

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while scouting acorn trees for sign, I actually saw two

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owls in trees and both were looking at me. I

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remember thinking that it was strange, but the old bad

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luck thing did not enter my mind. On one of

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the last spots we checked, I was walking across a

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freshly plowed food plot to look at a shady oak

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tree on the other side. One of the two guys

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with me jumped back and grunted, so my first reaction

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was to jump also, which I did. I looked back

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and saw a two foot long rattlesnake cooled up in

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a strike mode right where I had just stepped. The

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snake was covered in dirt, which explained why me, of

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all people, did not see him. The other fellow said,

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he struck your boot. By this time, I was getting

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flushed and feeling sick. Now I moved away and looked down,

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and sure enough, there was some type of liquid on

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the lower portion of the soul of my left boot.

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The snake was small, so I guess the glancing strike

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just hit the harder rubber on my boot, but it

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was enough to send me indoors with an ice pack

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on my neck for a while to try to calm down.

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Did seeing two owls in the broad daylight have anything

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to do with that? Damn right? It did. If I

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had been thinking and realized the owls were a sign,

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I would have gone from being an active member of

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the scouting party to taking more of a supervisory role

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and hung around the truck again. All this could be

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nothing more than chance or a combination of actions that

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result in where you end up at a certain time,

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but my list of examples of luck playing a part

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in an outcome are numerous. I was filming turkeys in

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South Dakota one spring and met this guy who some

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folks might call a jinx. I was not calling that

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because I don't want to say that word out loud,

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but this guy certainly had some of the qualifications worthy

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of that handle. If I remember right, his name was Frank.

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I was not hunting with Frank, but I did visit

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with him at night and some during the midday while

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eating lunch. And my first introduction to Frank came on

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the first morning of the hunt, when I ran into

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him outside the old house where we were staying. He

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was trying to fish his keys out of the cab

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of his truck, and he locked them inside and had

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the old bent clothes hangar in the window and was

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cussing like crazy. The next time I saw him was

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later that night, when he was asking if anyone had

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seen a shotgun. I assumed he found it later, but

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the thought came to me then that I better keep

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an eye on this guy. Before I go deeper into

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this encounter, let me state that all of this is true.

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That night, the people who owned the house cook supper,

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which turned out to be baked fish with some vegetables.

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Frank said he did not eat fish, and he rode

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into town and got a sandwich and chips from a

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convenience store. The next morning, I was up early gathering

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camera gear, and I heard a strange noise outside. Old

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Frank was bent over by his truck and was sure

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as hell not trying to get his keys this time.

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He was sick as hell. He told me from a

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distance that he thought the deli style roasted beef had

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given him food poisoning. I felt bad for old Frank,

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but I kept my distance just in case what he

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had was contagious. That evening, Frank was looking kind of puny,

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but was sitting up outside sharing some hunting tails with

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some of the other fellows around a small campfire. I

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listened for a while, and I heard some sad tales

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of close encounters and misses and getting lost and so on,

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and discovered he had never killed a long beard. Against

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my better judgment, I offered to go with him to

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see if I could up his odds of at least

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an encounter or two with my tube call. I explained

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the whole camera deal and what I needed him to do,

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and he perked up big time. The next morning, I

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went to Frank's room just to make sure he was

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good to go, and what I saw made my knees buckle.

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His hat was on the bed, and there were two

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knives with the blades crossed on the night stand. He

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was putting his left boot on first, and there was

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a cracked mirror in plain view in his shaving kit,

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and he was singing before breakfast. Just one of those

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things is enough to screw your hunt for the day.

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But he was a virtual buffet of bad mojo. I

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expected his head to spend around in puke pea soup

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at any minute. I started grabbing hats and knives and

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such and gave him a quick rundown on just what

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I could see and how it could affect his hunt,

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not to mention his day to day life. Well. Frank

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was shocked but listened while I made a few more

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adjustments in the room. Once I made him get his

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boots on correctly and checked him for other land. Once

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I made him get his boots on correctly and I

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checked him for other land minds, we headed to the

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woods and I told Frank to relax and just think

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positive thoughts and we would have a good day of hunting.

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Lord knows he was do one. Around ten am, after

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some far off gobbles and a couple of sightings, we

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had a gobbler responding and closing in fast. I had

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Frank set up in front of me, gun ready and

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still as a rock. The gobbler closed the distance, and

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just as he appeared a little to our left, my

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camera shut off. I knew it was a dead battery,

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but I had just put a fresh one in before

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we left camp. I thought about trying to reach into

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my vest to grab a backup, but I had tried

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this move the spring before on a hunt with my

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youngest daughter and had screwed up the whole deal. I

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told Frank to shoot, and he smacked the merry im

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upside the head, and the celebration was on. I felt

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worse about missing his reaction with the camera than I

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did missing the kill shot. He was fired up. On

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the ride back to camp, Frank quizmy on all the

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superstitions I knew, and he took notes as though he

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was going to be tested the next day. Now, looking back,

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I think the mysterious dead battery was a result of

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me touching too many bad things in Frank's room. I

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moved the mirror, took the hat off the bed, and

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uncrossed the knife blades. I am convinced some of his

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bad mojo got on me. And just so you'll know,

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whether you believe it or not, here are some things

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to avoid in the future. The order is of my choosing,

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beginning with the worst hat on the bed, black cat

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crossing your path, crossed, now walking under a lighter anything

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yellow spilled salt, singing an owl in the daylight, and

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hearing a rooster crow at night, singing before breakfast, putting

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your left boot on before the right, sitting on a table,

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passing someone on a staircase, and last cleaning out a

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fireplace and leaving no embers. Okay, thanks for listening to that.

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Now we're going to get on with our regularly scheduled regularly.

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Did I say that right? You know I live in Mississippi.

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We it's hard to say words that are longer than

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two syllables. I don't know why that is. I got.

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I got an email the other day from a lady.

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I'm gonna read that email to y'all. I want y'all

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to see how nasty people can be when you put

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yourself out there, like on the internet or in public view,

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how filthy and nasty people can be. Let me find

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this email all right here. It is here, It is here,

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it is Okay. I got this email back on October

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twenty seventh, just a few days ago. I want you

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all to listen to this. Your idiocy and ignorance about

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being a brother in Christ are bad enough, as are

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your like of beer, motorcycles and pit bulldogs, all three

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or garbage, and you're continuing to I won't say the

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word if up. How words should be said in your

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abuse of grammar are just as bad. Stop saying laying

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when you should be saying lying, and further for farther

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and there is there are theres at any time. I

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don't even know what that means. I am really beginning

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to wonder about your intelligence level. Any of people in

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Mississippi are smart, so don't be so don't so don't

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use being a Mississippian as an excuse to talk like

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a dumbass. And bipedal is pronounced by pedal, not by pedal.

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Ge damn it, get a brain, man, I'm sorry, excuse me.

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I got this email, and I get these. I don't

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get these often, but I bet I've gotten two or

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three dozen of these through the years. Normally I just

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delete them because there's something wrong with this person. I

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don't what makes these people so angry, So I responded with,

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I'm sorry that you think so poorly of me. I'm

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just having fun. You certainly don't have to watch the videos.

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I actually corrected some of her spelling in a first response,

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because she spelled a couple of words incorrectly, which you know,

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I thought would be a fine comeback. She responded with,

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something is nasty anyway. I don't know. I don't normally

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do this. I don't normally read these kind of emails,

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but I do get them, not very often, but I'll

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get a dozen a year. Let's let's say it that way.

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I'll get a dozen of those a year. But I

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am just having fun. I know I don't have good

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command of the English language, and I have trouble pronouncing

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some things because I'm just not used to pronouncing some things.

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And bipedal is by pedal. I don't give a crap

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what this lady says. Anybody you run into that says

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that word will generally, ninety nine percent of the time

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say by pedal. But if you like to say bipedal,

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you say by pedal, everybody will know what you mean.

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You know, she said, get a brain, man, I don't,

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you don't. I don't know why these people are so angry.

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I'm just having fun. I love these stories, and I

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want you all to enjoy them. All right, I'm gonna

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quit talking about that. I want to thank you for

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listening to cuz Strickland's that chapter out of his book.

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I want you to look up a fist full of Dirt,

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and I want you to listen to their podcast. It

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is a relaxing, good podcast. Couzin and Lauren are such

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good storytellers, and I think you'd love it and all

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the stories in this book that he wrote. I'm sure

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if you go back through their podcast for years, you'll

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hear these stories all over again, or you can buy

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the book. All right, enough of that, appreciate y'all clicking

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on the video. I've got five or six stories in

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this one. That's gonna be a long podcast, and I

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hope you all enjoy it. All Right, here we go.

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This could be a bigfoot creature. I'm not sure, but

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this is a great story. The writer says, Hello, Cam,

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this story may interest you because I know how much

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you love dogs. I've never seen a dog behave in

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this manner before or since this incident. It happened in

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the autumn of nineteen seventy one in East Texas and

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the river bottom land of the Trinity River. My family

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owns a ranch that raises cattle, but we used dogs

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to help us round up and pen the herds. We

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had at least three to six dogs specifically used for

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that purpose, and one or two dogs for security on

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the homestead, and throughout the years we've had the occasional

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hunting dog too, And as you can guess, our family

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well understands the behaviors and mannerisms of man's best friend.

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My father was good friends with a man named mister Jim,

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who has since passed away, and he was a gruff

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wiry man who loved to raccoon hunt. He was getting

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older and he needed someone to accompany him on the

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hunts for safety reasons. This wasn't a blood sport, but

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a side income and a love of hunting. He sold

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the pelps to one and the meat to local families.

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On many occasions, my dad took me and my sister

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with them on the outings. It was our job to

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kill the raccoons with a shot to the head so

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as not to destroy the pelt. Once the dogs treed

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the raccoons, their eyes shine from the flashlight would give

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away their location in a tree. The kill was done

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with a twenty two rifle with open sights and my

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dad holding a flashlight behind us, illuminating the gun barrel

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in the eyes of the raccoon. At the same time,

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us girls were competitive and we would try to get

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the kill shot in one attempt. We were pretty good

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at it, being only eleven and nine years old at

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that time. That night, mister Jim had brought his best dog, Bonnie,

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instead of the usual two or three that he would

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bring when we hunted. Bonnie had the traditional white, brown

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and black markings of a treeing walker hound, which is

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also known as a coon hound. We met mister Jim

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I'm at the entrance of the private property, and we

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drove into the pasture on a dirt road that hugged

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along a thick stand of timber on the left. A

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field spread out to the right about seventy yards wide

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and met the border of thick timber. Again, this field

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was long and narrow, the road continuing for about a

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half a mile and ending at a barn and cattle pins.

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We stopped and parked the vehicles approximately twenty yards from

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the gate. We got our gear out and mister Jim

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released Bonnie. She shot off like a bullet across the

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pasture and disappeared into the woods. Occasionally we could hear

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her sound off with some excited yelps. We waited quietly

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in the dark, following her movements and listening for her

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to stop and begin barking incessantly. This would be the

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signal that she had treed a raccoon, and then we

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would go find her. She was moving down the property

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toward the barn, all the while staying in the woods,

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and then everything got quiet. I remember waiting by our car,

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looking at the dark woods where Bonnie entered the timber,

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when a foreboding feeling came over me. And I had

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never felt that before. I was always excited to go

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raccoon hunting and never afraid of anything in the woods.

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But as we stood there waiting in silence, I heard

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a voice in my head say, we don't belong here.

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I promptly dismissed it, thinking it was just a weird

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thing to be feeling and thinking. Some time passed and

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we still had not heard from Bonnie, and then suddenly,

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in the darkness, we heard her running toward us. She

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burst out of the woods and ran straight to mister

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Jim's shaking and trying to get between the safety of

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his legs. She almost tripped him as she tried to

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cling onto him, looking up at him with these terrified eyes,

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without making a sound. I couldn't tell if she was

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warning him to hide or begging him to get out

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of there. We were all shocked, and we stood there

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staring at her until mister Jim abruptly called it a night.

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We're done, he said, and with that we began to

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load everything back into the trucks without argument. We all

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knew something had traumatized that poor dog, but we didn't

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know what. Could this night get any more weirder? Well,

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it sure did. Mister Jim loaded Bonnie on the truck

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and tied her up and said he wanted to go

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to the barn to look at some equipment. My dad

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followed behind him in our car, and when we pulled

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up at the barn, he told us girls to stay

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put and that they would be right back. When he

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got out of the car and walked a few steps,

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something came flying through the air and hit the car

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in ten and next to him. It was so big

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and loud that my dad ducked and covered his head.

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What was that? He shouted. We sat there frozen. We

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didn't see or hear anything. My father composed himself and

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said it must have been a bat. Well, it must

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have been the biggest bat in Texas because it almost

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snapped the antenna off. Dad mister Jim walked onto the

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barn and looked at some equipment that was illuminated by

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the car headlights. As my sister and I waited quietly,

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still disturb by the antenna incident. In Bonnie's behavior, that

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foreboding feeling came over me, and once again I heard

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the words we do not belong here in my head.

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I was relieved when my dad got back in the car.

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I didn't want to be there A minute longer. I

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got the point though, because we did not belong there,

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and she signs off. She put a name on this email.

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It's Raccoon Annie. I don't suspect she didn't say whether

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to use that name or not, So anyway, I thought

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it was such a cool name. I thought I'd just

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say it. But this is one of those stories where

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someone has a bit of a premonition or a feeling,

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or a sixth sense or a I guess that's all

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the words I can think of to call it. But

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then it's proven true by a dog that is probably

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hunted for years and knows the woods and it's not

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scared of anything, comes running out of the woods and

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hides behind its owner. Usually you turn some raccoon dogs out, man,

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they want to run all night long. You have to

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you have to drag them out of the woods to

477
00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:31,960
keep them to stop, to make them stop hunting. And

478
00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:34,759
this dog just comes out of nowhere and then something

479
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,039
is thrown at them at the barn. I don't know

480
00:28:37,079 --> 00:28:40,640
what that was. This was a great story. It's one

481
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,160
of those creepy, kind of subtle all the scary things

482
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,799
or things that you can't see but you know are there.

483
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,039
It was perfect, perfect story. Thank you Raccoon Annie for

484
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:58,240
sending this. I loved it. This is really not an

485
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,480
encounter story, I guess, but some strange experiences that I've had.

486
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,880
We lived in Florida and we bought a mobile home

487
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,000
and we put it on a rental piece of land.

488
00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:12,599
A little while after we moved in, I started feeling

489
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,680
really creeped out. At one end of the trailer, there

490
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,119
were two bedrooms in a bathroom, and right outside the bathroom,

491
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,319
the carpet was always wet to me, but there were

492
00:29:23,319 --> 00:29:25,960
no water leaks. And when I asked my husband if

493
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,559
he felt it too, he said, now it doesn't feel

494
00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:32,559
wet to me. That certainly didn't make me feel any better.

495
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,799
I knew what I felt, and I knew it wasn't

496
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,240
just in my head. The carpet was wet, and something

497
00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:42,720
strange was going on. But as it does, life goes on,

498
00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,799
and I learned to live a new normal of seeing

499
00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:49,359
the ghostly water leak and not letting it ruin my day.

500
00:29:50,839 --> 00:29:53,440
A few years later, we pulled up the carpet to

501
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,759
put down wood flooring, and in that same spot, right

502
00:29:56,839 --> 00:29:59,960
where I felt the water, it was black and wet,

503
00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:02,599
and I pointed at it and I told my husband,

504
00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:07,000
see it's right there. But to my dismay, that man

505
00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:10,640
didn't see anything at all. It was the strangest thing.

506
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,920
Some time later, after that floor was finished, that black

507
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,160
spot bled through the wood floor. Each time I went

508
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,079
or looked down the hallway, I could see it, and

509
00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:25,279
when I brought it up to my husband, he still

510
00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:29,359
didn't know what I was talking about. As frustrated as

511
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,480
I was, I accepted that he didn't have whatever gift

512
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,000
that I had suddenly developed, and I let it go,

513
00:30:36,319 --> 00:30:40,920
and again, as it does, life went on. Two years later,

514
00:30:41,079 --> 00:30:43,880
our daughter had a baby girl, and when I took

515
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,960
her to the bedroom at the end of the hall,

516
00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:49,319
the baby would cry right at that spot. If I

517
00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:51,640
took her into the bedroom next to the spot, she

518
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,279
would fuss in there too. When our granddaughter was two

519
00:30:55,359 --> 00:30:57,640
years old, she told her mom to tell the little

520
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,680
girl playing in her kitchen outside to even alone. My

521
00:31:01,799 --> 00:31:04,400
daughter looked outside, trying to figure out who she was

522
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,480
talking about, but even though she saw no one, my

523
00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:12,279
granddaughter insisted that there was someone there. Two days later,

524
00:31:12,319 --> 00:31:15,599
I was home alone, just me and my cat. We

525
00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:18,079
were in my bedroom with the door closed, when all

526
00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:21,000
of a sudden, we heard running coming toward the bedroom.

527
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,759
A second later, something banged on the bedroom door. I

528
00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:27,920
know my cat heard it too, but he tendsed up

529
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,799
and looked right at the door when it happened. I

530
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,880
remember looking at him and saying, yeah, buddy, I heard

531
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,119
it too. But unfortunately, we had experiences like that quite

532
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,680
a bit. Another strange thing that started to happen was

533
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,920
that I began to have a prophetic dream, as in

534
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,200
I would dream about something only for it to come

535
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,880
true in real life. And not long after, it started

536
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,440
to happen so frequently that if I had a dream.

537
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,920
We would all count the hours or days until it

538
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,640
came true. And after a while, all of this happening repeatedly.

539
00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:04,720
I dreamt that my son was in an accident with

540
00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:07,640
his truck, and the sheriff's officer was telling me that

541
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,440
he had died. Immediately the next day, I call my

542
00:32:11,519 --> 00:32:14,079
son and I told him about it. He knew all

543
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,839
about my dreams coming true. And you better believe that

544
00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:19,480
that boy couldn't get rid of his truck fast enough.

545
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:23,599
I have more experiences that I can share with you,

546
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,400
but i'll stop for now. I don't know if the

547
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,880
trailer we bought was haunted, but I sometimes wonder if

548
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,720
something dreadful happened there and the spirit hasn't found a

549
00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:37,640
way out to let go yet. Or maybe I developed

550
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,920
a gift later in life and seeing this, spirits have

551
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,160
found their way to me, hoping someone will notice them

552
00:32:44,519 --> 00:32:48,160
who can be sure. Thank you for reading our stories,

553
00:32:48,319 --> 00:32:51,359
mine and the rest of your listeners. I can relate

554
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,920
to many of them, and with plenty of the bizarre

555
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:57,200
experiences under my belt, and I believe the world is

556
00:32:57,319 --> 00:33:01,160
much stranger than many people realize. It's a curious thing

557
00:33:01,319 --> 00:33:03,759
to sense things no one else can and to know

558
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,519
we are surrounded by things that we cannot see. But

559
00:33:07,599 --> 00:33:11,200
even for those of us who have developed those involuntary gifts,

560
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,519
as it does, life goes on. Oh that's cool. I

561
00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:19,640
mean that's scary. You know. I read these stories and

562
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,319
sometimes I think, I mean, I like the story and

563
00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:24,880
I'm like, oh, that's a great story. But actually for

564
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,440
this woman it was a traumatic story or traumatic set

565
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,119
of events, especially dreaming that her son is going to die.

566
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,279
Obviously he didn't die, but he got rid of the

567
00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:41,359
truck because apparently they thought the truck was the way,

568
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,599
was that specific vehicle was the vehicle he was going

569
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,519
to have an accident in, and they got rid of

570
00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:50,160
the truck. I don't know what to think about a

571
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,519
lot of these things. I'll tell you this. I've had

572
00:33:52,519 --> 00:33:57,119
a dreamer too in my life of a totally off

573
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,720
the wall traumatic event that one and I woke up.

574
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,720
I felt so horrible after dreaming. You know what happened,

575
00:34:06,319 --> 00:34:09,679
And I swear to you those dreams came true. They

576
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,840
didn't happen to me, and it was not any well,

577
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,800
they did kind of happen to me, I guess, but

578
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,119
it's not worth going into. But I've had two two

579
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,599
of those dreams. And the first one I was in

580
00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:24,840
my thirties and I dreamed this terrible, heartbreaking thing and

581
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,280
it eventually came true, probably if I remember right, within

582
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,000
like a year it came true, and I connected it

583
00:34:33,079 --> 00:34:36,360
with the dream. How does that happen? I have no idea.

584
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,239
The other one was a little more subtle, it wasn't

585
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:45,039
quite as traumatic, but it's not happened since I'm sixty

586
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:47,159
two now, and they both I think they both happened

587
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,639
in my thirties or forties, and I haven't had anything

588
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,159
like that since, Thank goodness. I don't want to know.

589
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,960
I don't want to know what's coming. I don't know

590
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,719
about y'all. But unless it's good, you know, unless I'm gonna,

591
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:05,039
you know, land a really good, profitable job, or if

592
00:35:05,079 --> 00:35:07,639
I'm gonna one of my kids is going to be

593
00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:11,800
I don't know, you know, discover the cure for cancer

594
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,719
or whatever it is. I don't really want to know

595
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,400
if it's bad. It is a strange story. I've asked

596
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,280
for these stories. This woman sent me the story and

597
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,599
I read it. I've had it for a long time,

598
00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:26,880
and I'm glad I got to put it out now,

599
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:33,079
so that was wonderful. Thank you, ma'am for sending it all. Right,

600
00:35:33,119 --> 00:35:36,800
here's a Bigfoot story. My name is Renee, and you

601
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,519
can use my name if you'd like. I grew up

602
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:43,840
in the nineteen seventies in a very small place called Pelican, Louisiana,

603
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,079
at a time when you didn't have to lock your

604
00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:50,159
windows or doors. My family and I lived way back

605
00:35:50,199 --> 00:35:52,880
in the country. It was so far back that if

606
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,920
someone was coming to your house, you knew it because

607
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,119
there was only one way in and one way out.

608
00:36:00,039 --> 00:36:03,760
One day, my mom got a message to call her uncle. Heck,

609
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,639
I never knew she had one because I'd never met him.

610
00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:10,639
The next day, we were told to pack our stuff

611
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:14,719
because we were moving to Converse, Louisiana, about thirty miles

612
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,960
from where we lived. We were moving in with Uncle

613
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,880
Willy to take care of him. Uncle Willy was an

614
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,960
older man who wore overalls and dip snuffed, and he

615
00:36:25,039 --> 00:36:28,519
smelled like an alcoholic. He would get drunk every night

616
00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:31,840
and sit outside and sing and peel on himself before

617
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:37,039
going to bed and passing out. Oh my gosh. My

618
00:36:37,079 --> 00:36:40,199
mom and dad, on the other hand, were respectable folks.

619
00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:44,079
They loved to go fishing almost every day. It wasn't

620
00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:47,679
until years later that I understood why there were nine

621
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:50,199
of us kids to feed and my dad was disabled

622
00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:53,239
from his hands being frozen to the handlebars on a

623
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:58,400
motorcycle in Germany during World War II. One day, my

624
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,880
mother wanted to find a creek and go fishing. Uncle

625
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,280
Willy told her about a creek way back in the

626
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,440
woods with a good road leading to it, because they

627
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,039
had been drilling for oil down there. We loaded up

628
00:37:11,079 --> 00:37:14,280
our dark green station wagon, the green Machine as we

629
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,440
called it. My older brothers drove our other vehicles, a

630
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:22,239
green van, and we took off. It was a beautiful

631
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,880
day and the sun was shining and the weather was warm,

632
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,159
and we drove ten to fifteen miles down dirt roads,

633
00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:30,480
and by the time we got there we were all

634
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:34,280
dusted out. We made it down this sandy, dusty road

635
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,000
and got out and started down to the woods to

636
00:37:37,119 --> 00:37:40,360
the creek Uncle Willy had told us about. There was

637
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,039
a tree lying across the creek and it had a

638
00:37:43,159 --> 00:37:45,800
nice cool place for us younger ones to play away

639
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,039
from the water. I remember watching my dad and two

640
00:37:50,039 --> 00:37:52,960
of my brothers crossed the fallen tree across the creek

641
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,119
when my dad suddenly put his hand in the air

642
00:37:55,199 --> 00:37:58,960
and made everyone stop. Hold up, boys, you boys, don't move,

643
00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:02,480
I heard him say. I remember the look on my

644
00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:06,000
mother's face as a foul smell crept into the area.

645
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:10,880
What's that smell? She said, something's dead over here. Let's

646
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,360
find it and bury it. And all of a sudden,

647
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,639
my dad told my brothers to turn around and get

648
00:38:15,679 --> 00:38:17,800
over the tree and get back on the other side

649
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,280
of the creek again, and he told the rest of

650
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,280
us to get in the car. Then I saw a

651
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,280
look on his face that I will never forget. My

652
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,440
dad may not have been a big man, but he

653
00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:31,960
wasn't scared of anything. But right then that was the

654
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,840
first time I had ever seen him scared. We did

655
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,599
what he told us to do when we got back

656
00:38:37,639 --> 00:38:39,880
in the car, and I remember what my dad told

657
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,000
my brothers when they got in the van. Don't stop

658
00:38:43,079 --> 00:38:45,440
until you get out of here. I don't care what

659
00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:48,599
you have to do. Go fast, he said, and then

660
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,960
quickly got into the green machine with the rest of us.

661
00:38:52,599 --> 00:38:56,679
Buckle up, he said, And he never said that. Buckle up,

662
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,320
roll up the windows, and lock the doors. You can

663
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,519
believe that we did what Dad told us to do,

664
00:39:03,119 --> 00:39:05,360
and then he looked at my mom and said, Katie,

665
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,559
floor it and do not stop. The whole time this

666
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,000
was happening, we could hear a growl and something yelling

667
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:16,119
from the creek, and when we got home, my dad

668
00:39:16,199 --> 00:39:19,119
was shaken up. We were all sitting in the living

669
00:39:19,199 --> 00:39:22,159
room wondering what it was that made him so scared.

670
00:39:23,159 --> 00:39:25,760
He didn't tell us everything right then, but he did

671
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,719
tell us to look up every animal with five toes.

672
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,440
Years later, my dad finally told us what he saw.

673
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,760
When he and my brothers went across that tree to

674
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,480
the other side of the water, he saw huge barefoot

675
00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:44,159
tracks and handprints, and while he and my brothers were

676
00:39:44,159 --> 00:39:47,159
looking at them, he had a funny feeling that something

677
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,440
wasn't right. And when he looked up there, it was

678
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:55,440
the meanest, ugliest creature he had ever seen. It had

679
00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:59,239
hair all over its body and big eyes and yellow teeth,

680
00:39:59,639 --> 00:40:02,480
and it looked mad. And he said it was watching

681
00:40:02,559 --> 00:40:05,159
us kids playing on the creek bank like we were

682
00:40:05,199 --> 00:40:08,480
going to be at next meal. That's when Dad made

683
00:40:08,559 --> 00:40:10,800
us get out of there. He said he didn't believe

684
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,639
in bigfoot until that day. If you have a guessed already.

685
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,800
That was the last time we went to the creek

686
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,679
bank again. And it was the last time my parents

687
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,719
took advice from Uncle Willy on where to go fishing.

688
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,679
Oh man, that is terrifying. That is a scary story.

689
00:40:28,199 --> 00:40:31,000
And why would you take advice from uncle Willy? Anyway,

690
00:40:31,039 --> 00:40:33,840
When he sits out on the porch and drink, gets

691
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,159
drunk and sings and peas on himself, that was a

692
00:40:37,199 --> 00:40:39,840
funny part of the story. But that was man. Can

693
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,440
you imagine being a child. You don't see what your

694
00:40:43,519 --> 00:40:47,119
dad has seen, but he's telling us. He's getting everybody together.

695
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,639
Get him in the car, get him down the road,

696
00:40:49,679 --> 00:40:52,840
get him out of the woods. You knew these folks

697
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,400
had to know something was good. And it's great. The

698
00:40:55,519 --> 00:40:58,480
dad told him the story later on in life. This

699
00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:01,639
is really, really a good story. Thank you Renee for

700
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:08,760
sending this. Okay, here's a story. Let me move the

701
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,440
mic a little closer here. This is a story that's

702
00:41:12,519 --> 00:41:15,559
really different than a lot of the stories I do,

703
00:41:15,679 --> 00:41:18,440
but it is so good. I hope you all enjoy this.

704
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:23,000
I sure enjoyed reading this. The man writes, I am

705
00:41:23,199 --> 00:41:26,199
writing to you because I believe people need to know

706
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,480
there is much more to this life than the eye meets.

707
00:41:30,079 --> 00:41:34,079
My story is proof of that. In nineteen ninety five,

708
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:37,000
I was living in Rhode Island with my lovely wife

709
00:41:37,039 --> 00:41:40,280
and our three year old son. My wife told me

710
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,480
about a new non denominational church called Word of Life

711
00:41:44,519 --> 00:41:47,559
that was opening around the corner from us, and we

712
00:41:47,639 --> 00:41:51,400
decided to check it out. One afternoon. We took a

713
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,960
walk over and we entered the nicely renovated lobby just

714
00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:58,039
as a woman came out of the church office. She

715
00:41:58,159 --> 00:42:00,039
and I looked at each other and we stopped. We

716
00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:02,599
had in our tracks. It was a friend of mine

717
00:42:02,639 --> 00:42:06,320
from art school named Annabelle, whom I had lost touch with.

718
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,880
It turned out that she and her husband were starting

719
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,599
the church, and her husband, Lance was the pastor. Well,

720
00:42:13,679 --> 00:42:17,039
Lance and I became fast friends. In addition to the

721
00:42:17,079 --> 00:42:21,519
Sunday service, Lance encouraged Tuesday night Bible studies and he

722
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:25,719
offered a Thursday night service as well. Word of Life

723
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,519
became our church home for several years. I grew in

724
00:42:29,639 --> 00:42:32,480
my faith and I started leading a Bible study group

725
00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:35,960
at a friend's house on Tuesday nights. A couple of

726
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,519
families and singles attended the Bible study. People brought their children,

727
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:43,159
who were all around the ages of three to five,

728
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,199
except for one. Matt was ten or eleven. He was

729
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,599
quiet and somewhat withdrawn. He's a good kid, just trying

730
00:42:50,599 --> 00:42:54,880
to make sense of life. One night, instead of leading

731
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,840
the Bible study, I decided to sit and talk with him.

732
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,159
Maybe because I was an only child raised by a

733
00:43:01,199 --> 00:43:05,239
single mother who often dragged me to boring events, I

734
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,760
guess I felt a connection with him. He lit up

735
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,800
when I asked him about his hobbies. He loved video

736
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,039
games and electronics. He liked taking things apart and tinkering

737
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:20,000
with stuff like broken radios. Later, when I shared the

738
00:43:20,039 --> 00:43:23,119
conversation with his mom, she told me that he played

739
00:43:23,159 --> 00:43:26,440
around with stuff but had never fixed a darn thing.

740
00:43:27,119 --> 00:43:30,039
I told her that she might want to encourage him.

741
00:43:30,559 --> 00:43:33,079
My mom let me draw as a kid, and it

742
00:43:33,119 --> 00:43:37,320
was a hobby that turned into a successful career. On

743
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,840
the night of the encounter, I entered the church sanctuary

744
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,800
for a Thursday night service. Lance was big on media

745
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,639
even back then in nineteen ninety five, and he recorded

746
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,880
every service with two video cameras. One was close to

747
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,440
the platform on a tripod with a cameraman recording him

748
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,039
in the message, and the other camera was on a

749
00:43:59,079 --> 00:44:02,480
tripod alcove at the back of the church to get

750
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,519
a long shot. Lo and behold, Little Matt from the

751
00:44:06,559 --> 00:44:10,079
Bible Study was manning the rear camera, which made me smile.

752
00:44:10,639 --> 00:44:13,400
I guess his mother must have taken the advice and

753
00:44:13,559 --> 00:44:18,159
encouraged him. That night, one hundred people gathered near the

754
00:44:18,199 --> 00:44:20,519
front to be close to the platform so they could

755
00:44:20,559 --> 00:44:24,000
hear better. As we entered the church, my wife took

756
00:44:24,039 --> 00:44:27,400
our son and sat with everyone filing in, while I

757
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:31,000
went to sit with Matt in the alcove. When the

758
00:44:31,079 --> 00:44:34,800
church band wrapped up, Lance took the podium and Little

759
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,360
Matt sat to the left of the camera, beaming happily,

760
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,880
ready to pop in another cassette when needed. I sat

761
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,440
to the right of the camera and decided to stay there.

762
00:44:45,519 --> 00:44:49,920
As Lance started his message that night, he was preaching

763
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:55,199
on demons in spiritual warfare and Smith Wigglesworth, the great

764
00:44:55,199 --> 00:44:58,960
evangelist who was known for his great faith, courage, and

765
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:04,320
deliverance of people from demonic possession. As Lance spoke about

766
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:09,039
Wiggleworth's encounters with the supernatural and the demonic powers, Matt

767
00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:11,320
and I were alone at the back of the church,

768
00:45:11,559 --> 00:45:14,400
with the exception of an usher seated in front of

769
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,119
us across the aisle. Now, I'm not a person who

770
00:45:18,159 --> 00:45:21,599
frightens easily. I once had a huge Doberman charge me

771
00:45:21,679 --> 00:45:25,920
and run circles around me, jaws snapping, slinging, spit and

772
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,639
barking and snarling until the owner took a sweet time

773
00:45:29,679 --> 00:45:32,920
to call them off. And while that was alarming, I

774
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,679
could see it coming, and I could prepare myself. I

775
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,800
can tell you there was no way to prepare for

776
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,760
the bizarre encounter that was about to happen there. Matt

777
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,119
and I were sitting quietly as Lance spoke, when a

778
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:50,599
sudden and terrifying sound erupted behind us in the alcove.

779
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,679
Within a second, an invisible beast let out two furious

780
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,360
and hateful roars. The first was like it was gathering

781
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,960
itself to launch, and the second was like it was

782
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,960
on full on attack mode. I will never forget the

783
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,880
spirit of the thing and the terrible sensation it projected.

784
00:46:10,519 --> 00:46:16,079
It was pure hatred, rage, evil, and savagery all in one.

785
00:46:16,159 --> 00:46:18,840
The sound was so loud and so real and so

786
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:21,800
powerful that Mitt and I dove out of our seats

787
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,440
and onto the floor to escape whatever it was that

788
00:46:24,599 --> 00:46:27,199
was coming at us. I was sure it was going

789
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,639
to kill us, and as I hit the floor, I

790
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,159
threw my arm up to fend it off, knowing its

791
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:34,800
teeth and claws were coming and I was about to

792
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,840
be mauled. I even remember thinking, say goodbye to your arm.

793
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,840
When nothing tore into me. I hisstantly looked up, fully

794
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,880
expecting to see some monstrous beast, but there was nothing there,

795
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,639
and I lay there staring up at the blank wall,

796
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,360
my arm in the air, my heart racing and my

797
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,559
mind reeling. I looked over to see little Matt mirroring

798
00:46:56,679 --> 00:46:59,760
my position, staring at the back wall with his arm

799
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,360
up in the error protectively too. Did you hear that?

800
00:47:03,679 --> 00:47:06,559
I whispered. He looked at me like it was the

801
00:47:06,639 --> 00:47:10,480
dumbest question he had ever heard. Yes, he gasped, His

802
00:47:10,599 --> 00:47:14,679
eyes were bulging. We sat up cautiously and looked around

803
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,920
for some sign of this invisible, hateful beast when I

804
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,239
noticed the usher scowling at us with the what the

805
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,440
hell are you two doing? Look on his face. Apparently

806
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,559
no one else heard it but me and Matt. As

807
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:32,440
Lance continued the service, uninterrupted. We got back to our

808
00:47:32,519 --> 00:47:37,159
seats and awkwardly tried to compose ourselves. It wasn't only

809
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,719
alarming because of the sound and the sensation it gave off,

810
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,239
but also because it didn't make any sense where it

811
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,079
came from. It would have had to come through the

812
00:47:46,119 --> 00:47:49,599
wall or manifest in a few inches of space right

813
00:47:49,639 --> 00:47:53,960
behind us. I saw the construction of that area, and

814
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,719
there weren't any hidden doors or windows or vents or

815
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,519
openings or something to sneak in. It was just the

816
00:47:59,559 --> 00:48:03,920
back of the alcove. I was impressed when later on

817
00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:06,599
Little Matt had the presence of mind to replace the

818
00:48:06,679 --> 00:48:09,960
tape when it ran out and the service ended, and

819
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,599
I rushed to tell Lance what had happened. My wife

820
00:48:13,639 --> 00:48:16,599
and Annabelle listened as I tried to explain, and I

821
00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:19,000
could see they were all totally taken off guard and

822
00:48:19,039 --> 00:48:21,960
didn't know what to say. So I told Lance the

823
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,719
camera was right there and it was running, and I'm

824
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:29,079
sure it recorded the noise. He said, Unfortunately, the audio

825
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,159
was off on that camera, but if it was loud enough,

826
00:48:32,199 --> 00:48:34,400
the mic on the camera up front may have picked

827
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:38,119
it up. Sure enough, A couple of days later, Lance

828
00:48:38,159 --> 00:48:41,199
called me into his office. He had found the spot

829
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,960
on the video where you could clearly hear the faint

830
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:48,519
but distinct double roar in the background. He was amazed,

831
00:48:48,599 --> 00:48:51,199
and I was relief someone else heard it too, so

832
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,400
I didn't feel like a raving lunatic. This experience was

833
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,519
so intense that afterward whatever doubt I had in my

834
00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:02,400
mind about the existence of God and the angelic realm

835
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,719
was totally dispelled. I'm convinced it was some sort of

836
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:12,400
demonic manifestation, perhaps somehow provoked by Lance's message that night.

837
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,079
It is by far the most bizarre thing that has

838
00:49:16,159 --> 00:49:18,760
ever happened to me, And as I said, I will

839
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,039
never forget it. Thanks Cam and keep up the good work.

840
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,400
And he signs off. That's like the second story of

841
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,159
some people seeing and hearing things and other people not.

842
00:49:31,599 --> 00:49:34,119
I just picked these stories at random. I don't pick

843
00:49:34,119 --> 00:49:37,760
them because they have a specific theme unless I'm trying

844
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,880
to do one with a specific theme. I just picked

845
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,119
these at random and put them out there. And there's

846
00:49:43,159 --> 00:49:46,119
two stories in a row of people dealing with what

847
00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:50,920
they think could be some kind of paranormal or demonic thing.

848
00:49:51,039 --> 00:49:54,760
I'll tell you something about this writer, though I'm a

849
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,719
read you note that he wrote. He says, and I

850
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,360
appreciate him writing this. It says you are such an

851
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,159
inspiration to me that I started my own little podcast.

852
00:50:05,559 --> 00:50:10,559
It's called The Brave Traveler Podcast. It's basically me reading

853
00:50:10,599 --> 00:50:14,639
a book I wrote years ago entitled Majesty, about two

854
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,199
kids who go off in search of the White Horse

855
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,400
of Revelation. Check it out when you get the chance.

856
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:26,280
The Brave Traveler Podcast, Majesty Marathon. I'm going to find

857
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,920
that and put a link in the description below so

858
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,559
you guys can go check his podcast out. I assume

859
00:50:32,599 --> 00:50:36,559
it's on YouTube. Yeah, it's on YouTube, and you guys

860
00:50:36,559 --> 00:50:38,679
can listen to it. I got this story a long

861
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:42,480
time ago. Here's the thing with these stories. There was

862
00:50:42,519 --> 00:50:46,719
a point in time, back in twenty to twenty twenty two,

863
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,079
a two year period where I was getting ten or

864
00:50:49,119 --> 00:50:53,960
fifteen stories, oh more than that, twenty or thirty stories

865
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,280
from viewers a week. Now I'm not getting I might

866
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,000
get three or four a week. It's really gone down

867
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:04,639
in volume. I still have all these stories in my

868
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,280
inbox to pull up and read to you, and that's

869
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,519
what I'm doing. But so his YouTube channel might be

870
00:51:10,559 --> 00:51:14,199
a couple of years old, so he might be interested

871
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:18,039
to hear from you in the comments section and telling

872
00:51:18,079 --> 00:51:20,480
him that you heard his story on the Dixon on

873
00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:23,880
the Dixie Crypti Channel and that's why you came over.

874
00:51:24,119 --> 00:51:27,079
Otherwise you wouldn't have known about it. Anyway. This was

875
00:51:27,119 --> 00:51:30,920
a great story. I appreciate the writer sending it. Man,

876
00:51:31,199 --> 00:51:34,000
it's really kind of weird, kind of a weird story

877
00:51:34,039 --> 00:51:36,559
that happened in a church. I'm gonna have to think

878
00:51:36,599 --> 00:51:40,400
about this one. This is really interesting. Okay, thanks to

879
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:46,360
the writer. Let's go to another one. I've been listening

880
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,719
to your stories for a long time, and I've heard

881
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,719
you say many times about being a skeptic of the

882
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:57,679
existence of these entities. I'm actually glad this is the case.

883
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,400
I was a skeptical person myself for a long time,

884
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,760
and I always enjoyed listening to the stories. And that

885
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:09,599
was that until one night six years ago. I had

886
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:13,000
purchased three acres of land outside of Atlanta in a

887
00:52:13,079 --> 00:52:17,039
rural community. It was surrounded by thousands of acres of

888
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:21,320
farms and forested areas. There were natural creeks and other

889
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,159
waterways nearby, and it was full of deer and coyotes

890
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:29,360
and bobcats and rabbits. I'd been pretty busy clearing the

891
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,480
land and cutting down trees and burning the brush and

892
00:52:32,599 --> 00:52:36,159
left over debris. This was kind of a nightly routine.

893
00:52:37,039 --> 00:52:39,199
I would grab a cold beer and chair and throw

894
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,360
a bit of diesel fuel on the pile and light

895
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:43,920
it up, and I would sit there and just enjoy

896
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,360
the end of the day with a nice fire and

897
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,199
think about what I would do the next day. It

898
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,719
went on like this for a while until the night

899
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,000
I heard something on the other side of my fire.

900
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,360
I couldn't see anything, so I grabbed a flashlight, lit

901
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,639
up the area, and I caught some ice on the

902
00:53:00,679 --> 00:53:04,000
other side of another brush pile I had not burned yet.

903
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:06,599
I threw a rock at the pile in the hopes

904
00:53:06,639 --> 00:53:10,079
of scaring off whatever it was, But to my surprise,

905
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,639
whatever it was just stayed there. This spoke to me

906
00:53:13,679 --> 00:53:15,639
a little, and I figured it was better to call

907
00:53:15,679 --> 00:53:19,719
it an early night. This happened a few more times,

908
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,519
to the conclusion of no surprise or excitement. It just

909
00:53:23,639 --> 00:53:26,320
left me with questions about what it was and why

910
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,679
it wouldn't go away, even after I tossed rocks at it.

911
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,320
I had a lot to do on the land still,

912
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,840
and not too much time to spend thinking about that,

913
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,960
so I just let it go. At the end of

914
00:53:38,039 --> 00:53:40,760
the summer, I needed to get my garage and closed

915
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,039
in preparation for the coming winter, and I was working

916
00:53:44,159 --> 00:53:48,320
late hanging plywood and making all kinds of racket hammering

917
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,239
and nailing it all down. I was up on the

918
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,800
ladder doing my thing, just banging away at these nails,

919
00:53:55,159 --> 00:53:57,280
when all of a sudden, I heard a tree hit

920
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,639
the ground behind me with a crash. I stopped for

921
00:54:00,679 --> 00:54:03,239
a second, and I knew it had not been raining

922
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,000
or windy, and that this was a strange and random

923
00:54:06,079 --> 00:54:08,800
thing to happen. But I went back to work on

924
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:12,719
those nails, pounding them down flush, and I continued working

925
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:16,440
for another half an hour, and then bam and a

926
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,519
crash and another tree came down in the same area.

927
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:24,039
Now that got my attention. As my skin filled up

928
00:54:24,079 --> 00:54:27,079
with goosebumps, I got off that ladder and wrapped it

929
00:54:27,159 --> 00:54:30,400
up for the night. I knew something strange was going on,

930
00:54:30,559 --> 00:54:33,960
but I had no idea what it could be. I

931
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,880
had always thrown out a coffee can or so of

932
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,199
apple scent in corn to bring in the deer. They

933
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,679
would usually move in just before dark, and I enjoyed

934
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:47,559
watching them. Their visits became predictable to the point of

935
00:54:47,679 --> 00:54:51,519
several times a week. Early one morning, I took a

936
00:54:51,639 --> 00:54:53,880
visit to the Port of John when it was still

937
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,480
dark out. I headed down the driveway and just as

938
00:54:57,519 --> 00:54:59,800
I got close to the door, I heard a short

939
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:03,719
and deep growl. Well this caught me so off guard

940
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,639
that it shook my entire stomach area and brought me

941
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,360
to a standstill in midstep. The hair went up on

942
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,880
my neck and a cold chill ran down my spine.

943
00:55:14,119 --> 00:55:17,400
I just stood there, frozen in place, thinking what the

944
00:55:17,639 --> 00:55:22,280
f was this? When nothing attacked me, I continued onto

945
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,440
the toilet, I did my business, and made a beeline

946
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:30,760
back inside afterward. Two days later, early Saturday morning, I

947
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,880
couldn't sleep, so I stepped outside to have a cigarette,

948
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,480
and while I was sitting there, I heard some noises

949
00:55:36,519 --> 00:55:39,519
coming from the far side of my garage. So I

950
00:55:39,559 --> 00:55:42,000
grabbed a flashlight and lit up the area, and I

951
00:55:42,039 --> 00:55:45,039
saw some deer backed up to my fence line. They

952
00:55:45,079 --> 00:55:48,639
were acting nervous and excited. Their heads were moving left

953
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,440
to right, and their ears were moving this way and that.

954
00:55:52,679 --> 00:55:55,079
So I moved the light around and caught some eyeshine

955
00:55:55,079 --> 00:55:57,519
on the far side of them, and I decided to

956
00:55:57,519 --> 00:56:00,679
get a better look at what it could be. I

957
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,320
moved around to the front of the garage and started

958
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,880
panning the light around. The deer were still there, acting

959
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,599
the same, and I couldn't figure out why they didn't

960
00:56:09,639 --> 00:56:13,760
just run off. As I moved the light, I noticed

961
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,840
more eyes shine next to a large pine tree. This

962
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,920
time it was just a single lie, but as I

963
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,679
started at it, that thing moved its head until both

964
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:26,559
eyes stared right at me in the light. The worst

965
00:56:26,599 --> 00:56:30,320
sinking feeling I ever felt filled my stomach, and I

966
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,119
realized that not only had I gotten in the way

967
00:56:33,119 --> 00:56:35,960
of these things hunting the deer, but now its attention

968
00:56:36,199 --> 00:56:40,320
was on me. I made a straight shot back inside,

969
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,599
and I locked the door, and I grabbed my handgun,

970
00:56:43,039 --> 00:56:46,559
and I made sure my shotgun was close too. I

971
00:56:46,599 --> 00:56:48,480
don't know if I slept the rest of the night

972
00:56:48,599 --> 00:56:51,360
or not, and the next morning, still nervous as I

973
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,480
could be, I went out looking around for footprints or

974
00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:58,000
whatever I could find. I did find a track, but

975
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:03,599
strangely only one. A short time later, I moved to Atlanta.

976
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:07,400
I was a wreck for a long time after that experience.

977
00:57:08,079 --> 00:57:12,840
I guess that would be the PTSD that they talk about. Well,

978
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,920
now time has passed and I've come to terms with it.

979
00:57:16,519 --> 00:57:18,559
If it wanted me, there wasn't much I could have

980
00:57:18,639 --> 00:57:21,920
done to stop it. So when you have an encounter,

981
00:57:22,119 --> 00:57:25,000
your view of the world changes and you begin to

982
00:57:25,079 --> 00:57:29,119
question everything you thought you knew. Your head is always

983
00:57:29,159 --> 00:57:32,599
on a pivot looking around, and you never relax again.

984
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:36,480
My hope to those listening is that you don't ever

985
00:57:36,559 --> 00:57:39,760
have an encounter of your own. No matter how interesting

986
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:44,000
some of these encounter stories may seem, it will unwind

987
00:57:44,079 --> 00:57:46,920
your view of reality and life won't ever be the

988
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:51,400
same in the worst possible way. Well, that is true,

989
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:55,119
you know. I think PTSD is at certain levels with

990
00:57:55,239 --> 00:57:59,239
certain you know, with different people. I would say this

991
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,519
would bother me a little bit. We live out in

992
00:58:02,559 --> 00:58:05,679
the country and it's really dark. I could have had

993
00:58:05,719 --> 00:58:08,239
some you know, these street lights put up on a

994
00:58:08,239 --> 00:58:11,599
couple of polls around. I think it's like seven dollars

995
00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:14,880
a month to rent those from the utility company. But

996
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,159
I kind of like it dark out here. I wear

997
00:58:17,199 --> 00:58:20,039
a head lamp everywhere I go when I'm out at

998
00:58:20,159 --> 00:58:23,199
night to lock the birds up, or I don't know,

999
00:58:24,079 --> 00:58:28,320
go find a dog or whatever, and I never see anything,

1000
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,480
never hear anything. It's always quiet, the stars are pretty.

1001
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,400
But I guess if these things are in your neighborhood

1002
00:58:35,519 --> 00:58:39,400
or in your area, you could be in for some trouble.

1003
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,719
But I'll say this, I read a lot of these

1004
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:46,239
bigfoot type stories, and it's very rare that anyone gets

1005
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:49,280
attacked or even hurt. I mean, we have had stories

1006
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,039
where they the video I put up last week, the

1007
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,000
bigfoot was break trying to break in two people's houses.

1008
00:58:57,719 --> 00:59:00,880
I mean, that would be terrifying, slapping on the pushing

1009
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:05,159
trees over on the house. But they never actually I

1010
00:59:05,199 --> 00:59:08,320
guess if bigfoot are as smart and as strong and

1011
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,000
as stealthy as people make them out to be, which

1012
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,800
I don't doubt, why wouldn't they just come in and

1013
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:15,760
grab people out of the house and drag them out

1014
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,440
in the woods and kill them and eat them or

1015
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,599
whatever they do with people. I don't know. It's pretty

1016
00:59:20,679 --> 00:59:25,519
rare that people get injured by these mythical creatures. Matter

1017
00:59:25,559 --> 00:59:28,920
of fact, I don't remember. I think I remember one

1018
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,519
where a guy was killed. He was writing a story

1019
00:59:31,519 --> 00:59:34,960
about his grandfather, but he didn't see it happen. He's

1020
00:59:35,039 --> 00:59:37,920
just assuming it was a bigfoot. I don't know. The

1021
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:39,840
guy could have fell out of a tree stand, but

1022
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,719
I'm not doubting the story. I'm just saying there's always

1023
00:59:43,199 --> 00:59:47,320
other explanations. But this story kind of creeped me out,

1024
00:59:47,599 --> 00:59:49,960
kind of made kind of gave me goosebumps. It was

1025
00:59:50,039 --> 00:59:52,679
kind of creepy. That's why I like these stories are scary.

1026
00:59:53,159 --> 00:59:56,480
Thank you to the writer for sending it. It was awesome. Okay,

1027
00:59:56,559 --> 00:59:59,360
thank you all for following along all the way to

1028
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,480
the end of the podcast. I really appreciate that, and

1029
01:00:02,519 --> 01:00:05,239
we will see you on the next one. Thank you.