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Speaker 1: All right, here's a bigfoot story. When I was twenty nine,

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my wife and I lived near Olympic National Park in

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Port Angels, Washington. My wife loved to go for night

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walks just before sunset. One night, we had been walking

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down the trail for about an hour. We came upon

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a lake. She wanted to take a break, so we

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stopped and rested for a bit. After a few minutes,

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we heard a twig snap. First, we thought it was

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a deer or another tiny creature, so we didn't worry

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about it. And then more sticks started cracking, and leave

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started crunching. My wife started freaking out. I always have

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a pistol with me, so I pulled it out and

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I clicked the safety off. Only one thought ran through

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my head at that moment, Steve Frickin' Lily. I had

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to suppress the laugh, thinking it could be a bigfoot

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in those trees. As the sounds got closer, my wife

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started crying and then ran back the way we came.

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I had no choice but to follow her, and to

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my horror, the sounds started chasing us. As we were

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reaching the end of the trail, our vehicle came into

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view and the damn thing stepped out in front of us,

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and it scared the hell out of me. I shot

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at it four times and it took off back in

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the woods. We hopped in the truck and sped off,

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and my wife asked me what the hell that was.

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I told her I didn't know, all the while laughing

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to myself thinking of Steve Lily. We were driving and

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I kept glancing out the window expecting it to jump

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out on us. A few hundred feet down a dirt path,

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we started hearing something crashing through the woods again. We

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rounded the bend in the dirt path and I slammed

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on the brake so hard that I thought I was

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going to fly through the windshield. There stood this giant

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beast again. It was nine feet tall. It had brown hair,

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and it had an ugly face and hands like the Hulk.

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My wife screamed and I held my pistol out the

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window and I shot at it twice. I reloaded faster

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than I ever had, and I started shooting again. I

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ran out of bullets again, but this time I was

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out for good. But at least I got it bleeding.

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Twelve bullets in it, and it started walking away with

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a limp. We sped off got home safely, but the

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event was so terrifying that my wife started hallucinating. Two

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days after this encounter, she thought she saw it behind

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her and had a stroke. I never could stop thinking

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of that creature for the next couple of years. I

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started researching and found your email address. In telling my story,

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it feels like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders,

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though I guarantee I still have nightmares of that night

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for the rest of my days. Thank you for the

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great stories and the great podcast. Well you're welcome. You

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guys may think that since he talked about Steve Lily,

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this might be a fictional story, but it's not. He's

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submitting this as true. But he's got a great attitude

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about it. He wasn't scared of this thing. Well, I

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guess he was scared of it, but he's got a

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great maybe a sense of adventure. It's kind of like

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when you're a kid and you wanted to be Audie

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Murphy or Steve McQueen or somebody in a movie. He

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was thinking of Steve Lily, this is my chance to

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kill a bigfoot. Anyway, that is a terrifying encounter. He

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saw it twice stepped out in front of his car.

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Twelve shots. I think that's what he said. Twelve bullets.

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Finally walked off with a limp. Man. What a story.

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Thanks to the writer for sending it. It was awesome.

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Since that last writer mentioned Steve Lely, I pulled up

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some Steve Lelly fan fiction. This is where people in

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the audience read or write about the character Steve Lily,

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and this is pretty good. Here's what the man writes.

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I'm a high voltage distribution lineman. I worked pretty much

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all over the South. Today I had the mixed pleasure

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of meeting mister Lily. I received a trouble call from

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a business complaining of no voltage, and I started rolling

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to the call. From a distance, I could spot the trouble.

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A barrel knife switch was open and hanging. I moved

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into this industrial area where this business was and I

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set up to troubleshoot it. I got into the aerial

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basket and ascended. I refused the switch and closed it

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to see if it held, and then boom, the fuse

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blew from the ground below me. Some guy called me

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a son of a bitch. You want your shit fixed,

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I asked him. Keep your mouth shut. The guy looked

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pissed for a second, and then he broke into a

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wide smile and I got back to work. I changed

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he'sed out the transformer and threw the switch, and it

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was all good. When I came down to earth, this

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guy walked up to me. He noticed the knife I

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wore on my belt, and he pointed to it. It

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was a Randall Bowie. It's a beautiful, expensive knife last year,

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like your knife. I washed. His eyes light up, like

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one who knows a good blade when he sees one. Here,

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take a look, I said, ah, man, this is the

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cat's ass. He said, are you a hunter? I nodded,

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but was guarded about it. What do you hunt? He asked,

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handing my knife back. I didn't answer him right away.

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Dangerous things, I said, You don't say, he said, and

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he gave me a funny look. You and me ought

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to have a beer sometime. Well, sure thing. My name's

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Craig Brooks, Steve Lily, He said, all right, Steve, I said,

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I'll buy the first round. I pulled out my business

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card and wrote my personal number on the back. Steve

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said he would be in touch. We shook hands and

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he left. I figured it would be fun to shoot

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the breeze with him. He reminded me of me. I

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got in the truck and I called in and told

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him the ticket was complete. I thought Steve would shit

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a brick if I told him what me and my

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uncle Jack hunted in the North Florida swamps. Boy was

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I wrong about that. His story's just about scared the

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snot out of me. Oh man, that was a good

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Steve Lily. One of the things he wrote. And I've

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had this a long time, I just haven't gotten to it.

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But he says, if you want to hear more, just

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send me your email address and I will send more.

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I love your channel cam. I've been writing cryptid stories

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for a long time. I'd be happy to share some

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of the stuff with you, Craig. That'd be great. You

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want my email address, but you sent this to my

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email address anyway, it's Dixie Crypti at gmail dot com

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and it's in the description of this video. If you

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want to send me some more stuff, because I'll read them.

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I appreciate it. Craig, what a great Steve Lily fan fiction.

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He said, he reminds me of me. That's awesome. Thanks

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for the story. On a moonlit night in Florida, I

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think I killed a werewolf. My uncle had a Honda

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Odyssey van and he had just installed rims on it

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and given it a fresh pain of pearl white paint.

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It was his pride and joy. Well, one night I

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asked to borrow it so I could go on a

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date with a girl. She lived forty five minutes north

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of me, But to get her I had to cross

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a section of Jonathan Dickinson State Park, which has areas

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of thick woodland that turn into scrubland and beach dunes

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the closer you get to the water. In the mornings

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and early evenings, it's common to see deer wild hogs

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in that area. And knowing that I was driving my

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uncle's van carefully, it had gotten dark quickly and was overcast,

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so the moon wasn't very bright. I was crew using

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along listening to the music when on my left a

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large black animal came out of the tree line. It

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was moving fast and it tried to cross the road

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in front of me. Well, my first thought was that

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it was a large wild boar because I saw hair

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and its back came high as the windshield. But when

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the high beams hit the animal, I could see its long,

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muscular arms and broad shoulders propelling itself forward. It may

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have been running on all fours, but it was no

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wild boar. It took less than a second for the

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beast to move from side of the road in front

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of the van, but I felt time slow down and

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my heart sank. I knew I could not stop in

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time or swear fast enough to avoid hitting it. I

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closed my eyes and I braced myself for impact, racking

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my brain for what on earth I was about to hit.

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The van struck it at full speed. My body slammed

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backward into the seat. The front bumper crumpled from the impact,

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and I swerved left and right as the front and

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rear tires ran over it. Well. I slowed down and

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pulled off on the shoulder. I knew my uncle was

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going to kill me for wrecking his van, but I

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couldn't stop thinking about the thing I had just hit.

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I sat there for a second, catching my breath, when

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I figured i'd better get out and survey the damage

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and think about how to break the news to my

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uncle and my date that I wouldn't be making it

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to dinner. I grabbed a flash like my uncle kept

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in the van, and I cracked the door open and

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stepped out. And as soon as the door opened a

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few inches, the air around me grew thicker. It seemed

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like the air was energized, and the hairs on my

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whole body started to rise from static electricity. A light

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fog had come out of the trees where the beasts

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crossed the road and traveled over the median. Whatever it was,

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it had been going really fast. I stepped out of

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the van and brushed off the weird feeling. But before

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I could even close the door, I was confronted with

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a horrible smell. It was a mix of wet dog

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and rotting meat. I held back my urged vomit and

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wondering how I was going to load this huge, stinking

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creature into the van to take it home. When I

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came around the front of the van and shine the light,

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I saw there was absolutely no damage. I had a

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lucky break. I thought maybe I hit it with the

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tires in the side of the van only, so I

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walked to the opposite side of the van, but it

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was damage free too. I shined the light toward the

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back of the van, not eager to look at the

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beast I had just killed, but knowing I had to

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get it over with. I needed to know what this

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thing was. Had I imagined this or did that thing

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look like a giant dog man? When I came around

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the van, there was nothing there. There was no blood,

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no fur, no tracks anywhere. I shined the light in

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the direction the beast had been going, thinking maybe i'd

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see it in the ditch, but there was no sign

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of it there either. It had been hit and run

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over by a two ton van going full speed, and

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it made it out alive. I sat in the van

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and I calmed down. I started the engine after a while,

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and I got back on the road and I drove

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toward my date's house, knowing I didn't have any proof

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of the experience I just had, other than a wild

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story that I knew no one would believe. My name

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is Gage, and I'm a very small YouTuber who makes

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videos about my resale business. You can use my name,

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and I'm not worried if people think I'm crazy or not.

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What happened to me was real, as if I can

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find his channel and link it in the description. But

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this was this was kind of an intriguing story, and

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I'm continually, never endingly confused on what is the difference

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between a werewolf and a dog man? Can someone explain

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that to me in the comment section? Anyway, I hope

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you guys enjoyed that story. Somebody made a comment the

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other day claiming I write all these stories? Are you crazy?

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Do you really think I have time to write all

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these stories? These are real stories from real people. They

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send them to me. People want to share their experiences

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and hear them on a podcast. I think they send

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them to me for various reasons. One to kind of

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get the word out. One they've probably told other people

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and they get laughed at. And they want to be

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taken seriously. And they know that this audience will take

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them seriously. They'll listen to these stories and think about

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them and comment on them. I think it's a pretty

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cool deal. So no, I don't write all these stories.

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I have written a few, but I don't write. There's

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no way a human being could write all these stories

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that I do. I've got about fifty of them sitting

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ready to go, already edited in a folder that I

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mean to write a short story just this length. Excuse me?

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Would probably take me three or four hours, and I

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ain't got no time for that. I ain't got no

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time for that. I gotta work. I got a job.

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So now I don't write these stories, but I sure

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hope you enjoy them, and I appreciate the people that

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send them. If it weren't for them, this channel would

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not be possible. I don't thank you guys enough for

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sending these stories in, but I really do appreciate it,

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and I love doing them. It has been one of

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the joys of my life to share these stories with

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the audience. And I never dreamed in a million years

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this many people would send me their stories. But there's

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one about to wear a Wolf, and I hope you

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enjoyed it. I hope you guys have a good day.

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We'll see on the next work. Thanks