1 00:00:06,759 --> 00:00:10,759 Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Thanks for clicking on this podcast. I'm so 2 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,279 glad that you're here. Before I get into this story, 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,760 matter of fact, this story coming up is pretty good. 4 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:20,160 It has to do with a bigfoot and a chupacabra. 5 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:24,280 It's a wild story. But I wanted to talk about 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,800 a couple of things. First, thank you to all the 7 00:00:26,879 --> 00:00:32,240 people who followed me over to the podcast Universe from 8 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:37,200 YouTube after YouTube changed the rules and my channel did 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,079 not fit the rules. And that's fine. I'm not upset 10 00:00:40,119 --> 00:00:43,200 about that, but I wanted to thank you for coming over. 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,719 It's really helping me out. It's keeping me encouraged to 12 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:50,560 keep doing these podcasts. And I want to let you 13 00:00:50,679 --> 00:00:54,119 know there are about twenty or thirty people who have 14 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,840 joined my Supporters Club. If you've joined that club and 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,320 you're paying for nine a month, I want I've said 16 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:05,480 this before on this podcast, but I want you to 17 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:09,000 know I cannot guarantee that I'll be putting a lot 18 00:01:09,079 --> 00:01:14,400 of exclusive content up. So if you want to discontinue 19 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:19,560 your subscription, please feel free to do that because Spreaker 20 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,040 asks that we do that, that we start the supporters 21 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,519 Membership Club. I've always not liked I've never liked that, 22 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,519 never liked it on YouTube. I don't like Patreon. I 23 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,280 don't know if I could generate any income off Patreon. 24 00:01:36,439 --> 00:01:38,519 I'm just I just don't feel like I need to 25 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,280 try it, because I think that the stories that I 26 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,280 deliver and that you hear on this podcast are good 27 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:48,680 enough that I can generate income off of ad revenue. 28 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:51,159 So I just want to let you know that if 29 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,280 you'd like to discontinue that, please feel free. If I 30 00:01:54,319 --> 00:01:57,359 see your name come off of it, it does not 31 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,959 hurt my feelings one bit. Look, I wouldn't do it. 32 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,280 I wouldn't do it for it just some random redneck 33 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:09,360 podcast out here of some guy I don't know trying 34 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,960 to scrounge change up. It just doesn't make sense and 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,319 it's not good use of your money. You could spend 36 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:20,360 that money. That's about half of what subscriptions are to 37 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:25,879 major movie platforms like Netflix. I don't know. Netflix is 38 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,000 about twenty or twenty five dollars a month now, but 39 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,919 you get my point. That's a big chunk of money 40 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,439 for a bunch of nothing, really, So if you'd like 41 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,360 to leave, just feel free to do that. It won't 42 00:02:37,439 --> 00:02:40,120 hurt my feelings. A bit. The other thing i'd like 43 00:02:40,199 --> 00:02:43,439 to say is I am working on a new YouTube channel. 44 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,639 I'm only announcing that here because there's a real small 45 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,000 audience with this. I get about one hundred and fifty 46 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,439 thousand downloads a month to wear on YouTube, I was 47 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:57,960 getting close to half a million views per month, and 48 00:02:58,039 --> 00:03:00,080 I'm fine with that. It's not a big deal. Well, 49 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,879 but i'd like to just announce it, and I will 50 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,599 announce it. I'm not actually announcing it. I'm just kind 51 00:03:06,599 --> 00:03:09,479 of letting you know. I'm working on a different way 52 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,879 to deliver these stories that I think will be more 53 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,759 fun for me and it will be interesting for the audience. 54 00:03:18,719 --> 00:03:22,680 And I don't think it'll be anything revolutionary, but I'm 55 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:24,680 just going to just bring you the stories in a 56 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:28,159 different way. There'll be a different type of story. There'll 57 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:33,360 still be cryptids, of course, because people actually have encounters 58 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,520 with cryptids they claim, and I love reading those stories, 59 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,759 and you know me, I'm all about the story. As 60 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:42,080 long as it's a good story, I'm all about it. 61 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,159 So I wanted to just let you know that, thank 62 00:03:45,199 --> 00:03:48,960 you for coming over. Drop the Supporters Club if you want. 63 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,360 No big deal. I'm working on a new YouTube channel, 64 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,639 and I hope to have it up and maybe about 65 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,199 thirty days. And I'm kind of having fun planning it. 66 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,639 And I've bought I don't have to buy much gear. 67 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,759 I bought a pretty cool microphone, it's about one hundred bucks, 68 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,280 and a couple other things that I think will help. 69 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,520 Just those three things I wanted to convey to you. 70 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:15,759 All right, thank you. Let's get into the story that 71 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:21,240 this man sent from Oklahoma about a bigfoot and cupocabra. 72 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:27,199 Should be interesting. All right. Here we go. Growing up 73 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,680 dirt poor in the sticks of Oklahoma, I spent a 74 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,079 great deal of time in the woods, often alone, often 75 00:04:34,079 --> 00:04:38,720 in the dark, and hunting first arrival. Batteries cost money, 76 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,600 so a flashlight was not a common accessory. It was 77 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,120 generally just me at either a twelve gage or an 78 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,920 old lever Action thirty thirty, and I could not skap 79 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,680 out of the air with both of them. I've encountered 80 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,720 more critters in the dark that I can recount, including 81 00:04:56,759 --> 00:05:00,720 big cats. I'm not easily fooled or spoof even in 82 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:04,639 the dark, even in the middle of nowhere. Aside from that, 83 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,439 I'm nearly seven feet tall and it takes a lot 84 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:14,639 to make me feel threatened seven feet tall. What twenty fifteen, 85 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,240 I was living in de Witt County, Texas. There had 86 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,720 been a rash of reports of chupacabra, including the remain 87 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:25,720 sent to A and M University for studies from that area. 88 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:29,439 There was also a dash can video from a sheriff's 89 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:33,600 deputy of a creature running down a gravel road. One 90 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,160 day in mid July, I had driven a couple of 91 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,199 miles south of town to my in laws their old 92 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,399 family farm to turn off the irrigation. My six year 93 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:47,600 old son and my four year old daughter were with me. Well. 94 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:49,879 We pulled out of the driveway and headed west on 95 00:05:49,959 --> 00:05:53,199 a gravel road toward the highway some two miles away. 96 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,120 It was around six pm. The summer sun was still 97 00:05:57,199 --> 00:05:59,920 high in the western sky, not yet low and en 98 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,800 enough to affect my vision. I never drive fast on 99 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,680 roads like that, and out there I would let the 100 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:10,639 kids forego their seat belts until we neared the highway. 101 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,480 If you encounter any traffic, it's usually an old farmer 102 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,720 checking as cows or moving a tractor. We drove about 103 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,439 a quarter mile with a plowed farm land on each 104 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:24,920 side of the road until we approached a small creek 105 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,959 that was densely overgrown in a wide swath on each bank. 106 00:06:29,879 --> 00:06:32,839 The county hadn't been out to mo since spring, and 107 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:36,040 wild grass was nearly five feet tall in the bar 108 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:40,759 ditches forty yards ahead of us. Something exited the grass 109 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,639 on the right side of the road. The closest thing 110 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,720 I could compare the creature to is a kangaroo with 111 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:50,160 a mange. The bottom of its head was about the 112 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:54,560 same height as a hood of my suv. It was splotchy, 113 00:06:54,879 --> 00:06:59,759 mottled gray, and covered with sparse, bristly hair. It reminded 114 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:03,439 me of a wild dog's skin and hair, and overawed 115 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,720 had a color similar to an elephant. The head was 116 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:11,000 like that of a kangaroo with a long snout. It 117 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:15,800 was tall, elliptical ears and dark round eyes, and it 118 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:19,360 was bipedal and had very short arms that it held 119 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:23,120 close to its body, almost like a t rex. Its 120 00:07:23,199 --> 00:07:27,160 gait was probably the most perplexing. That had an awkward 121 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,879 locomotion like I've never seen, and it looked like the 122 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,680 little wooden toy dogs with different sized wheels that childs 123 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,519 would pull on a string and making them appear to walk. 124 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:43,560 It wabbled in the least graceful fashion I'd ever seen, 125 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,040 moving slowly as it ambles, scarcely lifting its feet across 126 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,480 the road, and never looking in our direction or acknowledging 127 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:56,879 that we were there. Both of my children began yelling wildly, Daddy, 128 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,279 what is that? What is that? I mumbled, I'm not 129 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:04,319 sure what that is. I slid up even to where 130 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,399 it had disappeared, and I watched the grass waving to 131 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,480 and fro as it continued at a relaxed pace. I 132 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:14,319 reached under the seat and grabbed my smith and Western 133 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,079 forty caliber pistol, and I bailed out of the vehicle 134 00:08:18,199 --> 00:08:21,680 into the grass behind it. I had only taken a 135 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,759 couple of steps into the ditch before the reality of 136 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,360 the situation set in. I was in shorts and flip flops, 137 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:31,759 and I had two children in the car sitting in 138 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,799 the middle of the road. And beyond that, I had 139 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,120 absolutely no clue what this thing was, if it was aggressive, 140 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,440 or what it might do if I cornered it. I 141 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:46,039 had no intention of harming it. I simply wanted a 142 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,600 better look at the creature and maybe get a photo 143 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,799 with my phone. I let my better judgment rustle me 144 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,279 from my mission, and I stood silently watching the swaying 145 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,759 grass until it disappeared into the tree line along the creek. 146 00:09:00,759 --> 00:09:03,919 I turned to the car and two silent, wide eyed kids. 147 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,720 I told them, well, y'all saw what I did, and 148 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:11,440 you know about as much as I do. I don't 149 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,879 know if this was a true cryptid, some strange mutation, 150 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:19,039 or a cross breed or what. There are many exotic 151 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,399 game ranches around South Texas. I have wondered if something 152 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,720 just escaped and got into and bred with something it 153 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,080 shouldn't have. But whatever it was, it was undoubtedly a 154 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,600 flesh and blood creature, and it seemed neither scared nor 155 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:39,000 aggressive to me. It looked poorly adapted to its surroundings, 156 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:42,559 but it's possible its gait was the product of some injury. 157 00:09:43,879 --> 00:09:47,759 Whatever it was, I think its population is growing in 158 00:09:47,759 --> 00:09:50,559 addition to being displaced by the oil boom. They're in 159 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:55,519 the eagle Ford Shale. I'm a musician who has toured 160 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,879 and recorded with many of the bigger names in country music, 161 00:09:59,279 --> 00:10:02,919 and I've traveled the world extensively since the age of sixteen, 162 00:10:03,519 --> 00:10:09,000 including USO tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, and as a musician, 163 00:10:09,159 --> 00:10:13,240 I frequently find myself on lonely stretches of highway around 164 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:18,080 Texas and the Southwest. I'm often on a bus, but 165 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,159 I've done more than my share of driving all night alone. 166 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:26,240 I've seen plenty of roadside tragedy, death, and high strangeness. 167 00:10:27,879 --> 00:10:31,840 On Valentine's Weekend of twenty nineteen, I played an event 168 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,559 called the Love End at the old Lukenbach dance Hall 169 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,200 near Fredericksburg, Texas. That would be the same Lukingbok that 170 00:10:40,279 --> 00:10:45,200 Willie and Whalin immortalized. There is no actual town there. 171 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,159 You leave the highway and travel a few miles down 172 00:10:48,159 --> 00:10:51,559 a curvy road past an old one room prairie school 173 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,399 house and a few scattered farmhouses. That night, I departed 174 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,960 around two am. After visiting with fans, I loaded out 175 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,960 and settled up. The crowd had all left by that 176 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,639 point and the area was deserted. I departed, beginning my 177 00:11:08,759 --> 00:11:11,840 two hours sojourn home, and I was getting settled in 178 00:11:11,919 --> 00:11:15,159 as I passed to school and entered the general curving road, 179 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:19,000 and as I rounded to my left, my headlights illuminated 180 00:11:19,039 --> 00:11:21,879 the tree line running in a narrow fringe between the 181 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,039 road and the creek and I saw two large, pale 182 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:32,039 yellow eyes ten feet above the road. My immediate thought 183 00:11:32,159 --> 00:11:34,759 was that it was an owl, and then it moved 184 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:38,879 and its form became clear, and those eyes were unlike 185 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:44,559 anything I had ever seen. They looked massive. Even more disturbing, 186 00:11:44,879 --> 00:11:48,720 they appeared to be wider apart than my head, And 187 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:51,320 as the eyes began moving toward the ground, I got 188 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,559 to look at its figure. It was a massive humanoid 189 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:59,519 with no neck, disproportionately long arms, and it was covered 190 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:04,440 in dark well. The form dropped and its eyes glowing 191 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,879 through the underbrush a couple of feet off the ground, 192 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,320 and I continued on without speeding up or slowing down, 193 00:12:10,639 --> 00:12:14,440 fearing that any change in speed or engine timber might 194 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,600 cause it to stand up and prepare to fight. So 195 00:12:17,639 --> 00:12:21,679 I anxiously passed the eyes at an agonizing thirty miles 196 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,639 per hour, only a few feet from where the beast 197 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,519 lay and where it was peering back at me. With 198 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,480 arms like that it could have reached out and smacked 199 00:12:31,519 --> 00:12:35,399 the car as I passed. I climbed over a gentle hill, 200 00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:38,919 my eyes checking the rear view the whole time, and 201 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,759 once the road evened out, I stepped on it. Putting 202 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:46,559 as much space between the beast and me as I could. Now, 203 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,919 I've been back there since, arriving early enough to investigate 204 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,759 that area in the daylight, hoping to get a better 205 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:57,879 sense of the scale and the understanding of what I saw. Unfortunately, 206 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:01,279 there was absolutely nothing else to it explain about what 207 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:06,240 I witnessed that night. I really appreciate your podcasts, and 208 00:13:06,279 --> 00:13:10,080 I'm a longtime listener. My encounters are beyond my explanation. 209 00:13:10,759 --> 00:13:14,320 I simply saw what I saw, and it is what 210 00:13:14,399 --> 00:13:17,120 it is. I want to thank the writer for taking 211 00:13:17,159 --> 00:13:20,399 the time to write this. He didn't say whether or 212 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,440 not to use his name, so I just won't. I 213 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,039 think there's a lot of cryptid sightings down in Texas, 214 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 and you know, maybe some of that is some of 215 00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:35,039 that exotic animal maybe exotic animals escaping. I don't know. 216 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,879 I don't know what it is. But the stories that 217 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:41,279 come out of Texas are usually kind of different there, 218 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:46,639 and the people down there write them different. They it's 219 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,600 more kind of like a matter of fact. They're just believable. 220 00:13:49,639 --> 00:13:51,960 The way they write them isbelievable, and that's all I 221 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,679 wanted to say. Okay, it's Saturday morning. I got to 222 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,120 get out here and cut grass and pick up limbs 223 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,720 from this blasted eye storm we had back this. So 224 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:06,000 I'm gonna drop a couple of archived podcasts from the vault. 225 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,279 Some newer listeners may not have heard them, and if 226 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,000 you've even been around a year or so, you may 227 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,679 not have heard some of these because I've been doing 228 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,679 this podcast for going on nine years now, and almost 229 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,679 every story I've ever done I thought was very interesting. 230 00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:23,360 So if you haven't heard it, stick around and listen. 231 00:14:23,799 --> 00:14:26,679 But I appreciate you clicking on this podcasts. Been a 232 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,399 pleasure doing it today, and I will be back early 233 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,919 next week with another podcast. I appreciate you. We'll see 234 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,639 on the next one. Here come the archived podcast. Here 235 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:41,519 we go. I live in andover in the United Kingdom. 236 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,480 Now I have a story for you that I have 237 00:14:43,639 --> 00:14:46,639 only told just two other people, and I don't think 238 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:50,840 they believe me. I moved into my bungalow four years 239 00:14:50,879 --> 00:14:53,879 ago and I've been complaining that someone's been coming into 240 00:14:53,879 --> 00:14:58,720 my garden at night. I can hear footsteps, thinking it 241 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,200 was one of my neighbors for O, an ex boyfriend. 242 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,480 I put a lock on my gate. I don't sleep well, 243 00:15:04,519 --> 00:15:07,279 and I'm up most nights when everyone else here seems 244 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,279 to be in bed by ten pm. Here in the UK, 245 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,759 the local council turns the street lights on and off 246 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:18,480 as a cost cutting measure on the housing estate. I 247 00:15:18,519 --> 00:15:22,399 have a strange, unavoidable feeling someone has been watching me. 248 00:15:23,639 --> 00:15:25,840 I put up a blanket on my kitchen window so 249 00:15:25,879 --> 00:15:30,279 I wouldn't feel uncomfortable. My friend, who lives twenty feet 250 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,600 away from my front door, got curious and asked me why. 251 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,279 I was honest with her, but it was awkward. I 252 00:15:37,279 --> 00:15:39,639 didn't want her to think I was blaming her or 253 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:44,320 her husband, so I reluctantly took down the blanket. It 254 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,480 was a few months later, deep into December, and as usual, 255 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,600 I was awake in the middle of the night because 256 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:53,960 I couldn't sleep. There was a full moon and it 257 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,639 was a little windy outside. I walked into my kitchen 258 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,600 to make myself a drink when I spotted something that 259 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:05,000 rendered me speechless. Across the way, peering into the window 260 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,399 of my next door neighbor's kitchen, there was some sort 261 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,840 of a small gray being with a faint shimmering light 262 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:16,440 around it. The stream whistling from my kettle must have 263 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:19,840 startled it. The being turned and it looked at me 264 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,399 and proceeded to conceal itself inside the bush next to 265 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:28,039 the fence that separated our properties. I lost sight of 266 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,679 it when the street light went off. The bushes were rustling, 267 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,519 as if a wild animal had gotten itself tangled up 268 00:16:34,559 --> 00:16:38,759 within its branches. The street light came back on, and 269 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,320 I swear I spotted this thing struggling to get free, 270 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,840 when suddenly it vanished from view, as if it had 271 00:16:45,879 --> 00:16:50,159 turned invisible. It ripped the bush right out of the 272 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,320 ground and carried it along, scurrying right over the fence, 273 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,799 still entangled. Well. The next morning, I followed the trail 274 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,639 of dirt out of my and found the bush blowing 275 00:17:01,679 --> 00:17:05,039 around in the alleyway. I started to pick it up, 276 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,319 thinking I could replant it, but thought better of it. 277 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,480 What if there was some sort of alien residue on 278 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:14,160 the leaves, And if there was, I didn't want any 279 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,720 on my clothes or my skin. I left the bush 280 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,680 for the rubbish men in their gloved hands. My next 281 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,200 door neighbor's front door has a motion sensor next to it. 282 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,440 They owned two massive dogs. But on that night, when 283 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,640 I saw whatever I saw, they didn't bark, and the 284 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:37,599 motion sensors didn't come on. I'd clearly seen something, but 285 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,720 I didn't know what to do. If I called the police, 286 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,759 what would I say. I went on the Internet and 287 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,359 first reported it to the mutual UFO network in the 288 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,640 States and then the British equivalent, but no one ever 289 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,240 got back to me. In the interim, I developed a 290 00:17:55,279 --> 00:17:59,359 phobia about entering my kitchen after dark, and for six 291 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,400 months I couldn't go to sleep at night. It might 292 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,880 have happened again a couple of months later, when I 293 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,960 heard something scamper across the roof. I have never been 294 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,079 afraid of the dark, but now I keep a night 295 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,839 light on. I'm so full of anxiety these days that 296 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,759 it's hard to cope. Am I excited to have possibly 297 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,799 seen something alien? Believing in them and watching UFO movies 298 00:18:24,839 --> 00:18:27,920 and documentaries and hearing all the stories and viewing the 299 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,000 odd UFO flying over a pasture is all well and good. 300 00:18:32,599 --> 00:18:36,079 But seeing a day glow being in real life just 301 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:41,839 inches from your unlocked door is a different thing altogether. Oh, ma'am, 302 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,039 I this thing didn't hurt you. I hope you're I 303 00:18:45,039 --> 00:18:47,640 hope you've let go of your anxiety. I don't remember 304 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,559 when I got this story, but I kind of feel 305 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,799 bad for folks like this because they're just scared to death. 306 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,039 You know, the things showed no aggression towards you or 307 00:18:57,079 --> 00:19:01,079 your neighbors, and if it is something from space or 308 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:06,240 some whatever, who knows what it could be, it's obviously 309 00:19:06,319 --> 00:19:09,279 not after you, so I would just I would let 310 00:19:09,279 --> 00:19:12,839 it go. Sorry to comment on that story, but I 311 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:17,279 just kind of felt sorry for this lady. But thanks 312 00:19:17,279 --> 00:19:23,519 for the story. My husband and I were house sitting 313 00:19:23,599 --> 00:19:26,759 for some friends while they took off for Florida. It 314 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:28,559 was kind of a test run to see if they 315 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,119 liked living down there before deciding if they would sell 316 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,720 their home and make a permanent move to the Sunshine State. 317 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,039 They left us one key and it was given to 318 00:19:38,079 --> 00:19:41,559 my husband, who worked until midnight. The kids and I 319 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:44,079 would usually be asleep by the time he got home. 320 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,519 Late one afternoon, my mom wanted us to go with 321 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:51,000 her to the department store. I left the door unlocked 322 00:19:51,039 --> 00:19:53,039 while we were gone, and by the time we got 323 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,039 back it was already dark. It was kind of a 324 00:19:56,079 --> 00:20:00,680 gingerbread neighborhood where you knew your neighbors. My mother helped 325 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,599 me get the kids to bed. There were ages four 326 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,920 and one at the time, so it took a little 327 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,359 bit to get them settled. After she went home, I 328 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,079 started to clean the house and remembered I had laundry downstairs. 329 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:15,960 I went to the basement to gather up the clothes, 330 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,160 but as I was removing them from the dryer, something 331 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,319 caught my eye. Now, mind you, I've always felt creeped 332 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:26,039 out in that grubby basement. Whenever I had to tend 333 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:29,119 to the laundry, I would rush through it as quick 334 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,400 as a whip, before heading to the safety of the 335 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,319 well lit upstairs. I turned my head really slow, and 336 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,880 I looked toward the wall, at the hole in the 337 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,799 cement blocks. At one time, our friends thought that they 338 00:20:42,799 --> 00:20:45,119 would make a basement bigger, so they dug it into 339 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,039 solid earth until they hit some really big boulders and 340 00:20:48,079 --> 00:20:52,000 they couldn't finish the job. I stared into the hole 341 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,599 and I saw a shadow like something was hiding in there. 342 00:20:56,519 --> 00:20:58,839 I grabbed the laundry basket and I tailed it back 343 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,680 up the stairs, stopping just long enough to latch the 344 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:06,400 basement door behind me. That little eyron hook wasn't going 345 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,359 to discourage anyone or anything from busting through, but it 346 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,559 gave me a peace of mind. Well, I phoned my 347 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,359 mom and I begged her to come back for us. Now. 348 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,680 I called my husband at work and I demanded that 349 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:22,359 he had straight home at that moment. I wasn't going 350 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,440 to set a foot in the place until he gave 351 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,160 it the once over twice. But after a thorough search, 352 00:21:28,599 --> 00:21:33,039 he found nothing. He accused me of overreacting, and I 353 00:21:33,079 --> 00:21:36,000 still couldn't shake the feeling that there was something unusual 354 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,400 going out inside this home. I had a friend of 355 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,279 a friend who was a psychic, and she offered to 356 00:21:43,279 --> 00:21:46,599 go through the house. She took her time walking through 357 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,279 each of the rooms, absorbing what she called the vibrations 358 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:55,079 left behind by previous occupants. She suspected that a murder 359 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,880 of some kind had taken place, suggesting that a victim 360 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,160 possibly died in a fall after being pushed down the 361 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:06,680 basement stairs. My husband, not a great believer in the 362 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:11,440 paranormal or the psychics, scoffed at her conclusions. But I 363 00:22:11,559 --> 00:22:14,279 was ready then and there to leave the premises and 364 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,039 move in with my mother. Our friends had gotten a 365 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:21,640 great deal on a place. The original owners and their 366 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,000 two children were a text bookcase of dysfunction, mainly due 367 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,640 to the husband's drinking and violent temper. Feeling trapped in 368 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,759 a hopeless situation, the wife chose to leave behind the 369 00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:37,720 husband and her children, and she never came back. A 370 00:22:37,759 --> 00:22:40,400 few months later, the man was driving drunk and was 371 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,640 killed in a single car accident, and with the mother 372 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,119 of the children unable to be located, the orphans went 373 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,160 to live with their grandparents and the house was sold 374 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,599 to our friends. My husband was a carpenter and we 375 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,640 decided to help out with some badly needed upgrades. While 376 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,519 we were digging out some writing timbers around the foundation, 377 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:04,519 our four year old pulled a bone out from a 378 00:23:04,599 --> 00:23:09,599 dirt pile. Eventually we unearthed a human skull and several 379 00:23:09,599 --> 00:23:13,799 more bones, and through DNA testing, the authorities determined that 380 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,759 the remains were those of the wife the corner, having 381 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,319 confirmed her skull had been fractured, likely by a fall. 382 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,160 The husband had apparently murdered his wife and buried her body, 383 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:29,599 and then concocted a tale claiming that she had abandoned 384 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,559 him and their children. It was a shadow that caught 385 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,000 my eye that day among the cobwebs of a musty basement, 386 00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:41,079 a glimpse of something that, for whatever reason, filled me 387 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:45,799 with a dread I couldn't shape. My psychic friend claims 388 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,880 that spirits will reach out from beyond the grave to 389 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,799 redress an injustice done to them while alive on earth. 390 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,680 Think of that the next time your eyes play tricks 391 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,680 on you, or if that sounds you here might be 392 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,880 something other than creaking pipes in the walls of an 393 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,960 old house. You never know what might be lurking just 394 00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:13,720 below the floorboards. This writer doesn't give his name, but 395 00:24:13,839 --> 00:24:16,960 this is Bigfoot related and I think there are several 396 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,279 stories in this account, so get ready to strap in. 397 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,759 This is a collection of true stories that happened to 398 00:24:24,839 --> 00:24:27,079 me when I was growing up in the Las Cosas 399 00:24:27,319 --> 00:24:33,279 area of Tennessee, fifteen miles outside of Murfersboro. From day one, 400 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,240 my grandfather was my favorite person in the world and 401 00:24:36,279 --> 00:24:39,880 my best friend. He didn't officially raise me, but I 402 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,240 spent every summer there, Thanksgiving and Spring and even Christmas break, 403 00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:48,400 as well as weekends at his house. As I got older, 404 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,920 I pretty much knew every inch of the hundred acres 405 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,359 that he owned, as well as the surrounding land of 406 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,640 his neighbors. My grandfather claimed for years that someone was 407 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,720 building a barn and hammering nails somewhere in the woods. 408 00:25:01,559 --> 00:25:04,400 On nights, I heard the sounds of tools striking wood. 409 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:08,720 The noise seemed to come from different directions. It was 410 00:25:08,759 --> 00:25:11,279 odd because there weren't any lights to be seen through 411 00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:13,799 the trees, and nothing to the naked eye that would 412 00:25:13,839 --> 00:25:18,440 suggest laborers out there hard at work. His advice to 413 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:21,000 us was that if we ever heard anything that sounded 414 00:25:21,079 --> 00:25:23,880 like a woman screaming in the woods, to get out 415 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,599 of there, because it was probably a bobcat. He thought 416 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:32,559 all of these unusual occurrences were somehow connected. I spent 417 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,440 a lot of time hunting deer and squirrels in those woods. 418 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,440 His land was split up into two different parcels, the 419 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,960 smaller one he lived on and the larger one that 420 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,240 stretched out to his property line at a mile from 421 00:25:45,279 --> 00:25:48,599 where his home sat. All I chose to haunt on 422 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,440 the parcel he lived on because of its proximity to 423 00:25:51,519 --> 00:25:55,400 the house. I was following a trail from the bottom 424 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,240 of the yard through a large open field, past his 425 00:25:58,319 --> 00:26:02,000 old log barn, and into some thick woods. There was 426 00:26:02,039 --> 00:26:05,720 an access logging trail two hundred yards long that ended 427 00:26:05,759 --> 00:26:09,880 by my grandfather's sage grass field. I would walk the 428 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,839 length of the field to a deerstand. It's not a 429 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:15,359 good idea to tramp through the area where you're going 430 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,000 to hunt, but I didn't know that at the time. 431 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,880 I had a twenty gauge single shot shotgun with a 432 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,680 quail load, and there was one in the chamber and 433 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,400 two in my pocket. I noticed movement coming out of 434 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,599 the thick woods on my right. I saw the outline 435 00:26:32,599 --> 00:26:37,559 of a very large man, seemingly dressed in all brown boots, gloves, 436 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:42,119 and coveralls and topped with a toboggan hat. In cased 437 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,400 in all that brown, he resembled a walking hershey bar. 438 00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:49,519 The air around him seemed to shimmer like the rising 439 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,279 heat from a hot tar road. There was a janitor 440 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,839 at my school who was seven foot three inches tall, 441 00:26:58,319 --> 00:27:00,799 and he was the largest man that I had ever seen. 442 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,039 I realized then that the Good Lord made people this big, 443 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,519 but maybe not a lot of them. Well, this man 444 00:27:08,559 --> 00:27:12,039 I was watching walk slow and deliberate, and his enormous 445 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,920 arms stretched almost to his knees, and he swung them 446 00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:19,480 in an exaggerated motion. There was an unusual arch to 447 00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:22,559 his back, and he seemed to almost fall forward with 448 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,279 each step. His necklace head was wedged between his shoulders 449 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,640 like it was a jam dispenser on a liquid soap bottle. 450 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,559 When he looked up at me, I realized it wasn't 451 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,640 a man at all. It was four o'clock in the afternoon, 452 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,960 and this human like creature was bathed in sunlight. His 453 00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:46,440 hairy body glistened as he stared back at me. His 454 00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:50,200 manner suggested that we could both be passive with each other, 455 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,559 or that we could go to war. Well, I watched 456 00:27:53,559 --> 00:27:57,200 the beast walk across my grandfather's field, and when it 457 00:27:57,279 --> 00:28:00,599 vanished into the horizon, I ran the half back to 458 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,559 my grandfather's house. Oh Junior, my grandfather, Josh. When I 459 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,759 described the man beast in the woods, you just saw 460 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:13,359 slew foot. I went back to that same field during 461 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,880 deer season. My curiosity was greater than than any fears 462 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:22,119 that lingered from my initial encounter. This time, I chose 463 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,640 to carry my Marland thirty thirty with one in the 464 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:29,119 chamber and five more rounds in the magazine. I was 465 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,799 deep in the woods when I heard voices coming from 466 00:28:31,799 --> 00:28:34,759 somewhere ahead of me, and because of the trees in 467 00:28:34,799 --> 00:28:37,000 the distance, I could only make out a few bits 468 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:41,160 of what sounded like a conversation between two very guttural 469 00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:45,799 sounding males. The dialect wasn't like anything I'd ever heard 470 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:50,440 in Tennessee. Four years later, when I was sixteen, I 471 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,640 sold my fourteen foot v bottom boat to a neighbor 472 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,400 named Benny. He was thirty, and he was a rugged 473 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,759 out doorsman who wasn't afraid of anything, or so it seemed. 474 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,960 I was more interested in cars and girls than I 475 00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:07,920 was fishing. Benny and I put in the boat below 476 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,759 Guy James Bridge on a chilly night in April, and 477 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:15,759 we drifted down toward Brown's Mill Dam fishing for smallmouth. 478 00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:19,359 That night, we camped on a gravel bar two miles 479 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,640 away from any roads or houses, and I was familiar 480 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,119 with the police because we used to limb lying for 481 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,480 catfish and stay the night there. My buddy's dad once 482 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:33,400 hooked something there that suggested an object larger than a fish. 483 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,759 It was late in the evening, Bennie and I were 484 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,359 catfishing with no luck. Now about the time he turned 485 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,680 to me and uttered, sure is quiet out tonight as 486 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,160 if one queue, the biggest splash I ever heard in 487 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,000 my life broke the surface of the water sixty feet 488 00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:53,119 away from us. We sprang to our feet, alive with 489 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,319 the adrenaline coursing through us, and Benny grabbed the flashlight 490 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,640 and I followed him to the end of the gravel bar, 491 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,920 where the rocks along the edge were wet with splash marks. 492 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,279 His flashlight battery was dying and had all the power 493 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:10,160 of a live firefly with its butt pointed in a 494 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:15,000 given direction, but we pressed onward. Benny leaned out and 495 00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:17,880 pointed his fading light at something massive in the water. 496 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,559 It looked like the top portion of a half submerged 497 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,240 head with two glowing red eyes the sizes of bicycle reflectors. 498 00:30:28,119 --> 00:30:31,599 Benny started muttering under his breath, it's a monster. It's 499 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:36,519 a monster. You're crazy. I encountered, that's a cow. The 500 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:39,680 cow's come down here to get in the water. Well, 501 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,160 it was obvious, judging by the sides of this thing, 502 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,079 that this was no Mama heifer. A shiver went up 503 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,079 my spine as I realized it was turning its enormous 504 00:30:49,079 --> 00:30:52,400 head in our direction and it was checking us out. 505 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,759 I knew that the water surrounding the gravel bar was 506 00:30:55,839 --> 00:30:58,920 eight feet deep. Well, this thing pushed off from the 507 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,559 rocks towards the middle of the river and went downstream 508 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:06,279 and his zigzag pattern, and it outpaced the current. It 509 00:31:06,319 --> 00:31:09,720 didn't appear to be swimming, but taking measured steps, like 510 00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:14,200 an adult slashing through a kid's waiting pool. Benny had 511 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,720 his twelve gags loaded with buckshot, and he put it 512 00:31:17,759 --> 00:31:20,319 to his shoulder and took aim as the thing duck 513 00:31:20,359 --> 00:31:23,119 beneath the surface of the water. It's got to come 514 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,400 up for air, he whispered, and his hands were shaking. 515 00:31:28,039 --> 00:31:30,960 After fifteen minutes of waiting for the beast to resurface, 516 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,519 Benny suggested that we take turns sleeping at night with 517 00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:37,440 the shotgun. I think could come back up out of 518 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,839 the water and kill us, he said, his eyes nervously 519 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,599 skinning the black river. I slept through my turn at 520 00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:48,519 guard duty, and when I awoke the next morning, Benny 521 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,000 was still holding his shotgun. He was staring at the river. 522 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,720 It never came up for air, was all he muttered. 523 00:31:56,519 --> 00:32:00,960 It was a quiet ride home that day. I'm fifty 524 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,000 three years old now, and I've never had any experiences 525 00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:07,759 quite like what Bennie and I encountered that night. A 526 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:11,440 friend of mine, heavily into cryptids, played me some audio once, 527 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,400 something he referred to as the Sierra Sounds, and it 528 00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:17,920 reminded me of what I heard when I was a kid, 529 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,240 way back when stalking the deer in the backwoods of 530 00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:26,680 my grandfather's place. Benny was a genuinely good man who 531 00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:29,400 was dealing with a lot of demons. I have no 532 00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:32,440 idea how he chose to process what he saw that 533 00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:36,240 night on the gravel bar. I was sixteen and too 534 00:32:36,359 --> 00:32:40,839 naive to recognize the signs of PTSD, and about a 535 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:51,119 year and a half later, Bennie took his own life.