1 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: Here's a Bigfoot story. I went to visit my friend 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:16,640 Travis in the little town of Rosefield in Catahula Parish, Louisiana. 3 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,839 It was nineteen seventy, the summer before our senior year 4 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:25,760 in high school. Travis's family used wood burning stoves and 5 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,839 had an outdoor pit toilet, and there were no other 6 00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:32,880 houses anywhere near their property. There wasn't much to this 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,039 little town. You can find it on Google Maps, and 8 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:38,880 it seems to me much like it was back fifty 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,560 years ago, mostly pine forests, and it will probably look 10 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,079 the same in another fifty years. There were no jobs, 11 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,719 but some old geezer down the road would pay five 12 00:00:50,799 --> 00:00:54,920 dollars for raccoon pelts. One day on my visit, we 13 00:00:55,039 --> 00:00:57,479 decided to give it a try and harvest a raccoon. 14 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,960 Travis and I each had a single shot twenty two 15 00:01:01,079 --> 00:01:04,400 rifle and probably no more than a handful of bullets 16 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:08,879 between us. At four o'clock that afternoon, we loaded up 17 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:12,120 and walked across the big field beside the house. The 18 00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:14,680 other side of the field was bordered by a heavy 19 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:19,120 pine forest. Many years before it had been logged, so 20 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,159 there was an old hall road that we followed deeper 21 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,959 into the woods. We had a small fis dog with us, 22 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:29,599 not much more than an oversized chihuahua, and it wasn't 23 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,040 long before the dog treed a raccoon. Travis killed it 24 00:01:34,079 --> 00:01:36,879 without any problem. It was a big one, and we 25 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,000 took turns carrying it. It was so heavy that we 26 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,599 decided to hang it on the fork of a small 27 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,439 sapling and then pick it up on our way back. 28 00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:49,799 We walked another half an hour or so deeper into 29 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,879 the woods, but it was getting too dark to see much, 30 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:56,480 so we decided to go back home. We only had 31 00:01:56,519 --> 00:01:59,079 one flashlight and it was taped to the barrel of 32 00:01:59,079 --> 00:02:02,879 my rifle with electrical tape. My rifle had a small 33 00:02:02,959 --> 00:02:06,120 scope on it, but it was almost worthless as it 34 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:08,960 was getting too dark to see anything through the eyepiece. 35 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:12,759 About that time we got back to the sapling and 36 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,560 the dog started acting strange, and it circled around us, 37 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:20,080 and it was looking back, and it was howling. I 38 00:02:20,159 --> 00:02:22,919 shined the light around and I saw two red eyes 39 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:26,159 high off the ground, but only for a second before 40 00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:32,360 they vanished. There had always been stories about panthers in Louisiana, 41 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,520 but Travis said the eyes were much too high off 42 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:38,719 the ground, and there weren't any thick enough trees nearby 43 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,120 for a panther to have been perched over us, Plus 44 00:02:42,159 --> 00:02:45,240 a panther's eyes shine would have been green, not red. 45 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,439 We continued walking and occasionally shine the light behind us. 46 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,840 The dog went nuts the whole time, howling and looking 47 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:57,719 back into the darkness. The eyes were not always visible, 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,719 but we could feel that we were being fallen, and 49 00:03:00,759 --> 00:03:03,680 at one point we were so scared that Travis dropped 50 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,800 a cartridge into his rifle, But in his haste, he 51 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,639 tried to slam the bolt shut before the cartridge was 52 00:03:09,719 --> 00:03:13,560 properly aligned, and it mangled the cartridge, and it's a 53 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:17,719 miracle that it didn't explode. After we left the woods 54 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:20,039 and walked into the field, we could see the lights 55 00:03:20,039 --> 00:03:23,159 of the house ahead. We checked our rifles to make 56 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:25,879 sure that we both had a cartridge ready to fire, 57 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:29,120 and then we looked back at the trees, expecting to 58 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:33,159 finally see what had been following us. We could tell 59 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:35,800 it was there, but it wouldn't come out of the woods, 60 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:40,000 stayed just inside the tree line. We even saw its 61 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:44,080 eyes a couple of times. We decided to drop the 62 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:47,719 raccoon after about one hundred yards, and then continued walking 63 00:03:47,879 --> 00:03:51,000 a short distance, and we waited, thinking that it would 64 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:54,520 come after it, But still it wouldn't leave the woods, 65 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,000 and when the light of Travis's mom's car turned into 66 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:01,400 the driveway, we left the raccoon in the field and 67 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:04,960 we ran back to the house. The next morning, we 68 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,639 went back for the raccoon, but it was gone, and 69 00:04:07,719 --> 00:04:11,759 so was our five dollars. I have told this story 70 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,919 a few times when people have asked me if I 71 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,519 thought it might have been a bigfoot in nineteen seventy 72 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,279 I had never heard the term bigfoot. I don't remember 73 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:25,360 hearing anything or smelling anything. I've heard people say they 74 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:29,399 often hear knocks and screams or bad smells, but none 75 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:33,040 of that happened to us. Still, the presence of this 76 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,920 thing was uncanny. We didn't have to see it to 77 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,680 know that it was there with us. Travis and I 78 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:43,519 drifted apart after that, and I never did figure out 79 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,759 what was in the woods that night. Baby Travis is 80 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:49,839 a Dixie Cryptid fan too, and will remember the good 81 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,800 times that we had and that night that those red 82 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,240 eyes followed us all the way through the woods. Okay, 83 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:03,000 that is the perfect To me, that's the perfect Bigfoot story. 84 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,240 It's almost like, you know how they say girls these 85 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,959 days dressed too revealing and they don't leave anything to 86 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:16,279 the imagination. That's what this story is. It's a story 87 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,879 that's not showing us too much, but it's making us 88 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,560 wonder what in the world followed these guys out of 89 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,000 the woods. And there's some drama to it. I know 90 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,199 that sounds corny, but there's some drama to it. As 91 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,000 I was reading it, I kept I think ahead while 92 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,040 I'm reading. Sometimes I'm not even thinking about what I'm reading. 93 00:05:37,079 --> 00:05:39,120 I'm thinking what's going to happen next, What's going to 94 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:42,240 happen next? And I kept thinking that in this story, 95 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,720 and it wasn't resolved in the end, which is almost 96 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,680 great because we get to figure, we get to imagine 97 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:51,079 what in the world was following this guys. Now, I 98 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,240 know people who follow the Bigfoot topic and all that 99 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,680 stuff are going to say, well, hell, that was a bigfoot. 100 00:05:57,199 --> 00:05:59,000 Why would you think it was anything else? But it 101 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,879 could have been something else. It could have been it 102 00:06:01,879 --> 00:06:04,279 could have been a mountain lion, it could have been 103 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,079 I don't know what has red eyes, Does anything have 104 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,920 red eyes in the woods. People always have an opinion 105 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,920 on that. Anyway, The point is it was a great story. 106 00:06:12,959 --> 00:06:15,959 I really appreciate it. And I hope Travis is a 107 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:18,639 Dixie Cryptid fan and he hears this, and you two 108 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,399 guys can connect again. Wouldn't that be cool? So Travis, 109 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,040 send me an email if you want to reconnect with 110 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,600 your buddy, and I'll pass the email address on to him, 111 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:32,879 and you guys can reconnect. Talk about old times and 112 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:35,839 talk about that time that thing followed, y'all, raccoon hunting 113 00:06:35,879 --> 00:06:39,000 all the way out of the woods down in Louisiana. 114 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,600 Lose Aarner as my grandparents, you say, down to lose Arner. 115 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:49,199 All right, let's go to another story. Thanks brother. Okay, 116 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,519 here's Rebecca says. This is a bigfoot and a grizzly 117 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,920 bear story. You know, I never talk about Rebecca Weston, 118 00:06:57,199 --> 00:07:01,680 the woman who actually cleans up every single e I 119 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,680 don't even read them anymore. I just go through my list, 120 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:07,959 I copy them and paste them in a word file, 121 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,680 and I'll send her anywhere from ten to thirty at 122 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,600 a time. And she's always so fast, and she says 123 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:18,040 she loves doing this. I'm going to have her on 124 00:07:18,079 --> 00:07:20,800 a live stream pretty soon. I would have done it 125 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:24,639 by now, but I have a computer. My computer used 126 00:07:24,639 --> 00:07:27,279 to do live streams, but now I can't get it 127 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:29,759 to do anything. It's a computer I've had for about 128 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,639 six or seven years. I have a brand new computer, 129 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:35,519 but I haven't. I've got all my work software on 130 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:38,879 this one right here, and I kind of hate as 131 00:07:38,879 --> 00:07:41,240 long as it's working. I hate to change it, you know, 132 00:07:41,279 --> 00:07:43,120 because then I have to go through two days of 133 00:07:43,279 --> 00:07:46,600 loading up software and blah blah blah. But as soon 134 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,439 as I get my new computer installed this spring, we're 135 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,360 gonna She's agreed to come on for a live you know. 136 00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:56,279 Rebecca is an author. She's written a great book called 137 00:07:56,319 --> 00:07:59,360 No Good Man. If you want to read it, do 138 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,639 a cir on Amazon for No good Man by Rebecca 139 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:07,160 Lee Wesson. I actually read the first chapter of that 140 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:10,800 book as a promo several months ago. And she's written 141 00:08:10,839 --> 00:08:14,240 a couple of She's written one really good short story 142 00:08:14,319 --> 00:08:17,079 for this channel called The hat Man. I thought it 143 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,560 was a great story. But I think she's a really 144 00:08:19,639 --> 00:08:24,480 talented writer and man, she can smoke out these edits 145 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,360 for these emails like you wouldn't believe. And I really 146 00:08:27,399 --> 00:08:31,120 appreciate her so much, so I never say much about Rebecca. 147 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,679 If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be able to 148 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,919 do hardly any of these stories because it takes forever 149 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,159 to kind of weed through them and make sure they're 150 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:40,039 written right, or at least make sure that they're written 151 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,840 so that I can just jump in and read them. 152 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,919 And that's the whole point of it. So, Rebecca, if 153 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,840 you're listening to this podcast, I appreciate you. I love you, 154 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,840 love your family, and I hope you guys are doing good. 155 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,080 All right, let's get on with this Bigfoot and Grizzly 156 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,559 Bear story. I am a seventy one year old female 157 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:03,200 born in Scott County, Arkansas. We lived in the backsticks. 158 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:07,799 Our farm bordered and was isolated by the Watchtaw National 159 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:11,240 Forest to the north and the foul lethe River to 160 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:14,519 the south. My two sisters and I had to be 161 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,399 up and out of bed at four thirty am. We 162 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,600 had to walk out of the river bottoms and cross 163 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,399 the river in an old wooden boat and then walked 164 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:25,440 two miles to catch the school bus. And if we 165 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,039 hadn't left the house by five thirty am, we would 166 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,519 miss the bus. I was nine years old and my 167 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,399 sister was twelve. Mama usually milked the cows, but this 168 00:09:35,519 --> 00:09:38,200 morning she was sick, so my dad sent me and 169 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,679 my sister to do it instead. I was holding a 170 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:44,759 lnern so my sister could see, and we were almost 171 00:09:44,799 --> 00:09:47,960 finished with the chore when something began to push on 172 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:51,000 the back of the barn. We thought it was our 173 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,480 old horse that had run outside. I held up the 174 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,159 lantern so I could see what was going on, and boy, 175 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,120 did we get the scare of our lives. There was 176 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:04,320 a giant, hairy man at least six feet tall at 177 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,279 the armpit, reaching and swatting at the thin air, trying 178 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,679 to grab onto something. From where it reached its arm end, 179 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,279 the creature would have been over seven feet tall, and 180 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,519 if it had pushed any harder on that door, it 181 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:21,559 would have been in the barn with us. We ran 182 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:24,000 back to the house and got ready and walked our 183 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,519 way to the bus stop. That thing must have followed us, 184 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,960 because a giant, barefoot track was freshly made in some 185 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:33,840 mud in the middle of the road. It was so 186 00:10:34,039 --> 00:10:36,840 fresh that the water was still running into the track. 187 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,919 The track looked like a large man's foot track. But 188 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:43,200 this was in the middle of the winter, so no 189 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:49,279 one goes barefoot in the winter in Arkansas. Not even then. Then, 190 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,960 in the summer of twenty twenty, my husband and I 191 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,799 would often go down to the general area to fish 192 00:10:54,879 --> 00:10:57,360 and just get out of the house. It was a 193 00:10:57,399 --> 00:11:02,440 good escape from people. Exciting times with our cryptid friends 194 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,039 over the course of about four weeks. The first time 195 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,799 was quite exciting because the river was full and had 196 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,320 been flooded frequently, and finding bigfoots in the area really 197 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,360 took me by surprise. We had been fishing and we 198 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,080 were waiting for darkness, hoping that we could catch a 199 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,200 fish or two. I had seen some movement in the 200 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,320 wooded area across the river from us, and just as 201 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,320 it was getting dark, we heard a whooping yell. It 202 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:33,720 came loud and clear, just fifty yards straight across the 203 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,360 river from us, and not a moment later, a second 204 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:40,679 one did the same thing. Now this was the sound 205 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,480 that no human could have imitated. The second one came 206 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,399 fifty yards from us to our left. Altogether there were 207 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:53,440 about eight different whoops done within two minutes. Now, these 208 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,200 whoops sounded female to me, and there was a group 209 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,320 of whoops about one hundred yards that sounded really young. 210 00:12:00,279 --> 00:12:02,759 I let out a whoop as loud and clear as 211 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:07,480 I could, and that's when all hell broke out. The 212 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:10,759 adult sounding critters got really excited and the young one 213 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,039 started screaming. I think my husband got scared, because he said, 214 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,360 let's get out of here. On another night, we went 215 00:12:19,399 --> 00:12:23,240 back to the same spot the same exact time, and 216 00:12:23,279 --> 00:12:27,159 the creature started whooping again, only this time they began 217 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,360 trying to yelp like coyotes, and they weren't doing a 218 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,519 very good job of it. We got our stuff and 219 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:37,960 got out of there. I have multiple scle Excuse me, 220 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,440 I can't pronounce that I have multiple sclerosis, and I 221 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,639 can't move very fast. Anyway, A week later we went back. 222 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,679 This time there was a handprint on the edge of 223 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,360 the river bank and there was a track next to 224 00:12:51,399 --> 00:12:55,559 my chair. I looked at the handprint and the footprint 225 00:12:55,639 --> 00:12:59,879 and determined they were not human. That footprint was tend 226 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:03,320 to fifteen inches long, and the handprint was what I 227 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,120 assumed a gorilla would have made. That evening, we didn't 228 00:13:08,159 --> 00:13:12,000 try to disturb the sasquatches. After fishing for a while, 229 00:13:12,039 --> 00:13:14,840 we called it today and we went home, and then 230 00:13:14,879 --> 00:13:17,960 a week later we went back again. We always kept 231 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,679 a baseball bat in the truck to make woodknocks with, 232 00:13:20,879 --> 00:13:24,039 so this time we decided to make some knocks before 233 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,600 we left. My husband sounded off with three loud knocks, 234 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,480 and we got a surprise when just five seconds later, 235 00:13:31,519 --> 00:13:34,639 woodknocks began sounding off on the other side of the river. 236 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,720 I counted nine separate individuals knocking. That was the last 237 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:43,720 time we heard from them. After all that, I won't 238 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:46,120 be happy until I get to see a sasquatch out 239 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,279 in the open. Once when I was living in Wyoming, 240 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,279 my husband and I, along with some friends, decided to 241 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,279 go on a high altitude fishing trip in the wind 242 00:13:56,399 --> 00:13:59,919 River Mountains. The highest mountain in this area was thirty 243 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,240 teen thousand feet. We were going to hike into some 244 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,120 of the lakes and fish for brook trout and rainbows 245 00:14:06,159 --> 00:14:09,799 and grayling and anything else that would bite. We made 246 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,399 camp on the first evening and we ate our supper. 247 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,600 It was getting late and we were standing around the 248 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:19,720 campfire when out of nowhere came a bull moose. Now 249 00:14:19,759 --> 00:14:22,879 that moose was running as if the devil himself was 250 00:14:22,919 --> 00:14:26,480 after him. It just about ran over the campfire and 251 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:29,480 down the road about one hundred yards, and then he 252 00:14:29,519 --> 00:14:33,080 wheeled around, and here he came again. We couldn't see 253 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,120 anything that could have spooked him so bad. My husband 254 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,759 and I cautioned everybody to be sure and to put 255 00:14:39,799 --> 00:14:42,240 all their food away before turning in, so it was 256 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:46,840 not to attract unwanted visitors. Thinking nothing more of it, 257 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:50,039 we crawled in our tent and at five am, our 258 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,080 labradoodle let out a blood curdling growl that woke us up, 259 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,519 thinking codies were messing with her. I grabbed my flashlight 260 00:14:58,559 --> 00:15:01,679 and my pistol and an unzip the tent. I shined 261 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,799 the light and I saw blonde hair on some kind 262 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,960 of animal. I told my husband to shoot up in 263 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,200 the air to scare it off. He shot twice, and 264 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,720 when that thing stuck its head around the tree, we 265 00:15:13,799 --> 00:15:17,720 got the scare of our lives. It was a grizzly bear. 266 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,279 It stood flat footed, a head taller than I was. 267 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,399 I told my husband that that thing could have bitten 268 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,360 my head off, and it was a wonder that it didn't. 269 00:15:27,759 --> 00:15:30,720 My husband shot up into the air twice, more like 270 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:33,679 a bolt of lightning. The bear was gone. It was 271 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,759 only a blur and it happened really fast. But knowing 272 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,120 the bear was in the area, we gathered all our 273 00:15:40,159 --> 00:15:42,480 stuff and we got out of there. That was the 274 00:15:42,559 --> 00:15:45,919 last time we ever slept on the ground. We went 275 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,919 the next weekend and got ourselves a topper for our truck. 276 00:15:49,799 --> 00:15:52,559 That bear was and still was the most frightening thing 277 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:55,200 that has ever happened to me. But then again, I 278 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,240 have yet to see a sasquatch in the open, and 279 00:15:58,279 --> 00:16:01,519 if that happens, I may stay and corrected. I hope 280 00:16:01,559 --> 00:16:05,720 you enjoyed my short story. Yes, we enjoyed your short story. 281 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:09,919 That was wonderful. Wow. She's had encounters with bigfoot since 282 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,279 she was a kid, and then it just stopped. She's 283 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,960 not seeing them everywhere or hearing them everywhere anymore. It 284 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,080 just stopped, which is unusual for someone who has experiences 285 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,480 with bigfoot because they normally have bigfoot experiences all their lives. 286 00:16:24,039 --> 00:16:29,039 And then so the bigfoot, the sysquatch experiences stop. And 287 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,840 then came the grizzly bear experience, which I think would 288 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,720 scare me more than anything. I don't know why, but 289 00:16:34,879 --> 00:16:38,519 being out west in the mountains and even seeing a 290 00:16:38,559 --> 00:16:42,679 grizzly bear that's close enough to run me down. It 291 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,960 puts such a fear in me. It's hard to describe. 292 00:16:46,519 --> 00:16:49,759 And I'm reluctant to go out there and just do 293 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,960 like solo hiking or even group hiking because of the bears. 294 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,080 I've just heard too many stories. But it's almost like, 295 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,559 you know, people tell bigfoot stories and so other people 296 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,039 won't go in the woods, but I know bears that 297 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,160 killed people, they'll eat you. And if they have cubs around. 298 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,559 It's a female with cubs around, you're almost sure to 299 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,960 get that bear's attention and that full attention on you. 300 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,039 I don't know, it's hard to describe it. It's a 301 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:21,359 scary thing for me. And now we have black bears 302 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,319 in Mississippi. And I ran up on a track not 303 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,359 too long ago. That was the biggest track I've ever 304 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,440 seen of some kind of critters back here behind my house, 305 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,960 on my neighbor's property, and it's up on a levee 306 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,960 where it's muddy, and it was a clear track. I 307 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,799 couldn't tell exactly what it was. I took a picture 308 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:42,240 of it, and I started, not right away, but a 309 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,480 few days later I started looking for wildlife in this 310 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:47,200 area and what kind of tracks they made, And I 311 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,119 found out it was a beaver track. A beaver has 312 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,359 the strangest track you've ever seen. But I thought for 313 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,440 a minute it might be a bear. There's more to 314 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,319 that story, but I'm not going to bore you with 315 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,480 it anyway. I'm just rambling. This was a great story 316 00:18:00,519 --> 00:18:03,559 about Bigfoot and her encounter with a grizzly bear. I 317 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,880 love this story. Seventy one years old. I think I 318 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,720 got this story back in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one, 319 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:14,200 so this is an old one. I'm still reaching back 320 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,400 that far to get stories, so I've still got thousands 321 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,240 to do. So I appreciate the woman for sending it, 322 00:18:20,599 --> 00:18:23,319 and it makes me wonder if she's ever seen Sosquat 323 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,400 since that time out in the open, if she still 324 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,160 thinks the grizzly bear thing is the scariest thing she's 325 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,839 ever seen. I don't know. Let's go on to another story. 326 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:38,640 Thank you, ma'am. This is a dog story. A few 327 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,480 months ago I asked people if they had dog stories 328 00:18:41,519 --> 00:18:44,319 they'd like to share with the audience to send them in, 329 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,759 and I got probably a dozen of those. I think 330 00:18:46,799 --> 00:18:48,720 I've done four or five of them, and so I've 331 00:18:48,759 --> 00:18:51,880 got several to do and I'll drop them in podcast 332 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,400 as we go along. But here's one that I thought 333 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,480 was pretty good. We have a dog named Dipstick, but 334 00:18:58,559 --> 00:19:02,160 we didn't name him that because he's stupid. Our daughter 335 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:04,519 named him after one of the pups and the one 336 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:09,240 hundred and one Dalmatians show, her favorite movie. We got 337 00:19:09,319 --> 00:19:13,440 him and his brother, Domino, in February of twenty sixteen. 338 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,000 They were half Great Pyrenees and half Blue Healer. We 339 00:19:18,039 --> 00:19:21,039 lost Domino when he was four due to a mass 340 00:19:21,039 --> 00:19:23,960 in his abdomen. I held him all the way home 341 00:19:24,039 --> 00:19:26,599 after the bat put him down, and my husband buried 342 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,599 him in the back of our property. He was sweet 343 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:33,079 and loving and brave too, and always standing between me 344 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,880 and any stranger who might have passed by our home. 345 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,319 He never heard anyone, but I have no doubt he 346 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,240 would have if someone had tried to harm me. We 347 00:19:43,279 --> 00:19:45,880 had a strange neighbor at the time who would often 348 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:47,960 come to the fence and talk to me while I 349 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,640 worked in the garden. Domino would stand by the fence 350 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:57,160 and growl, low his eyes on him the entire time. Dipstick, meanwhile, 351 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,559 would hide behind me. Is comforting to know that Domino 352 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,839 picked up on my and Dipstick's discomfort around this person. 353 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:09,480 Dipstick is still around and has matured into a good watchdog. 354 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,599 He howls the most mournful howl you've ever heard anytime 355 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:18,160 he hears a siren. He's also an unrelenting chicken killer, 356 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:22,079 so we do keep an eye on him. Once, when 357 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,680 our two dwarf Nigerian goats escaped their pen and got 358 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,680 into the yard with Dipstick, we were amazed that he 359 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,920 didn't hurt them. Instead, the three of them took up 360 00:20:32,039 --> 00:20:35,079 like buddies, and since that day they frolic around our 361 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:39,720 property together. They're the best of friends. A stray dog 362 00:20:39,839 --> 00:20:43,039 recently climbed the fence and entered our yard, intent on 363 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,400 reaching the goats. They ran away and climbed up on 364 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,799 their table, while good old Dipstick stood in front of 365 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:54,079 the intruding dog, barking and keeping him away. As soon 366 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,880 as my husband got there, the stray took off, but 367 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,359 I swear Dipsticks took his chest out and strutted around 368 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,519 the proud protector. It makes me smile just thinking about it. 369 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,279 I think the small female goat. Buttercup has been love 370 00:21:08,319 --> 00:21:11,920 struck ever since. Oh that's a great story. You know, 371 00:21:12,079 --> 00:21:16,200 dogs have different demeanors. Every dog I've had has got 372 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,559 a drastically different personality than all the rest of the 373 00:21:20,599 --> 00:21:25,119 dogs I've never I've had one dog, my dog Roxy. 374 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:29,599 She's dead now, but she's in some of my old videos. 375 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,960 She's the brown brindled dog. And she was like our 376 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,400 She's the smartest dog we ever had, and she was 377 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,680 like Domino. If the grandkids were here and they were 378 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,759 out wandering around in the woods or were around this property, 379 00:21:43,799 --> 00:21:46,200 she stayed right with them the whole way. She never 380 00:21:46,279 --> 00:21:49,000 let them out of her sight, and she would only 381 00:21:49,039 --> 00:21:52,160 see them maybe once every two months, but she remembered them, 382 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,480 and she knew them, and she knew that they needed 383 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,000 to have someone with them in the woods. And I'm 384 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,720 sure if they got turned around, she'd have got them home. 385 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:04,880 She's like Domino. She was kind of the pack leader. 386 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,160 And then I have plenty of dogs. I've had plenty 387 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:12,519 of dogs like Dipstick. They're kind of the followers, you know, 388 00:22:12,599 --> 00:22:14,599 they're part of the pack, but they're not a leader. 389 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:17,960 And they'll do a lot of barking. They'll stand behind 390 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:20,720 Ji in bark, but they won't really do anything serious. 391 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,119 So anyway I could relate to this story exactly. I 392 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,559 could see all my dogs' personalities in these in Domino 393 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,400 and Dipstick. I thought it was great. If you've got 394 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,039 dog stories and you'd like to hear it on this podcast, 395 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,559 email it to me. I'm not promising i'll get to 396 00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:39,920 it next week or even next month, but I will 397 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,839 get to them. I will do them all. They're so good. 398 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,680 I love to read about dogs, and I appreciate this 399 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:52,200 person sending the story because I loved it. Thank you, ma'am. 400 00:22:52,519 --> 00:22:56,480 The story took place near the East Tennessee, North Carolina border, 401 00:22:56,799 --> 00:23:01,200 right in the Cherokee National Forest many years ago. When 402 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:05,039 I was in college and had fewer responsibilities, a few 403 00:23:05,039 --> 00:23:07,880 friends and I used to drive around the back roads, 404 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,759 listening to music and talking. We usually went at night, 405 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,119 well after we'd gotten off work, and since we worked 406 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,559 a restaurant and fast food jobs, that could be pretty 407 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,400 late in the evening. One summer night, there was going 408 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,359 to be a meteor shower, and I convinced my friend 409 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,160 John to drive out and see it, so we took 410 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,039 his car and another friend Jim tagged along. The road 411 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,960 we were on was residential, but rural enough to only 412 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,640 have houses every few hundred feet or so. And then 413 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,240 suddenly the road took somewhat of a sharp turn. On 414 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,880 the left hand side there was a bank about five 415 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,680 feet high with the manicured bushes on top. I saw 416 00:23:50,799 --> 00:23:54,680 gray furry legs from the ankles to the hips, step 417 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:58,640 twice up the bank and disappear into the bushes. Did 418 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,160 you see that? Show? Got it? Neither of my friends 419 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,359 had noticed it, but of course they took the opportunity 420 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,279 to make fun of me. I was sure it had 421 00:24:08,319 --> 00:24:11,240 been by a pedal and large. I didn't think it 422 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:14,599 was a bigfoot immediately. My first thought was that it 423 00:24:14,599 --> 00:24:18,359 had been the mythical wampus cat of the Cherokee, especially 424 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,880 since what I saw reminded me of my sister's cat 425 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,880 with silver, gray white tips that made it look like 426 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,400 it was constantly covered in dust. But it was only 427 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,119 later that I knew what I had seen. Twenty minutes 428 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,000 after I saw these legs, we got to our destination, 429 00:24:36,759 --> 00:24:40,039 the man made dam of a Tva lake, right on 430 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,359 the edge of the National Forest. It was a good 431 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,920 spot to see the stars, because there were no lights 432 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,000 around to interfere with a meteor shower. There was a 433 00:24:50,039 --> 00:24:53,839 gate that closed its sundown to prevent people from driving 434 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,119 out onto the dam after dark, but there was a 435 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,680 parking lot close by with a grass median in the middle. 436 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,599 John drove around the median so that we'd be facing 437 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,599 the exit once we got back to the car, and 438 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,640 parked across several spots, since we were already the only 439 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,960 ones crazy enough to come out to the middle of 440 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,039 Nowhere to look at the stars. At one am in 441 00:25:17,079 --> 00:25:20,960 the morning, John hadn't even turned the key to shut 442 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,440 off the car when there was a loud banging on 443 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:28,880 the roof that startled and scared us. Four raccoons had 444 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,680 jumped from their tree and landed on the roof of 445 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,359 the car, and they were running as fast as they 446 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,680 could down the windshield and across the hood. It scared us, 447 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,240 to say the least. Jim gave a quick laugh, but 448 00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:44,960 I felt the hairs rise on the back of my neck. 449 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:50,240 There was something else out there. From the back seat, 450 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,440 I caught a quick glance at John's expression in the 451 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,759 rear view mirror. He was staring at something behind the vehicle. 452 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,640 I've never seen fear that in anyone's eyes. Sense I 453 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,960 turned and looked out the rear window at what he 454 00:26:05,039 --> 00:26:08,759 was seeing. It was at least ten feet tall, and 455 00:26:08,759 --> 00:26:12,079 it had a cone shaped head, had broad shoulders and 456 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,000 long arms. I could only see the silhouette of this 457 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,880 creature against the night sky. I couldn't see any color 458 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:23,400 than black. I couldn't see a face, and no fur 459 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,519 or any other details. It was barely ten feet behind us, 460 00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:31,400 and its legs were so long it could have reached 461 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,200 us in two steps if it wanted. Before I could 462 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:40,400 gasp or scream, John gunned the gas. One of the 463 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,759 back tires hit the curb on our way out of 464 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:46,319 the parking lot, but he never slowed down. I put 465 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,519 my head down and I tried not to think about 466 00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:51,880 what would be scarier, wrecking and flipping the car on 467 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,599 one of these scary curves, or having Bigfoot catch up 468 00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:59,680 to us. Jim kept yelling what are you doing? Where 469 00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:04,000 you going? But John never answered. He just drove back 470 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:06,880 to the city lights as fast as he could. I 471 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,920 don't remember most of the trip back home. I'm sure 472 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,079 I was in shock. It wasn't until months later that 473 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,279 I realized the first sighting I had that night was 474 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,440 probably also a bigfoot. Based on the lay of the land. 475 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:24,960 It's entirely possible that it was the same one, as 476 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,319 it could have climbed the mountain much quicker than we 477 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,279 did driving slowly along a curvy mountain road with only 478 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,599 our headlights. Whether it was one or two of them 479 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,200 that I saw that night, I'll never know. We all 480 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:42,599 drifted apart. In college, we never told Jim what we'd seen, 481 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:47,559 though based on John's reaction, Jim knew something frightening had happened. 482 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,599 He never asked why we didn't get out of the 483 00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:53,960 car and see the meteor shower. Now. I've told this 484 00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:58,400 story maybe twice since then, always to other believers. It's 485 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,160 not as exciting or in up as many of your 486 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,680 other stories, but it was pretty scary at the time. 487 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,640 A few years after college, I went back up to 488 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,440 the dam during the daylight hours and with a family 489 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,960 member to go fishing. I noticed that the gates were 490 00:28:14,039 --> 00:28:17,279 brand new, but the older ones nearby hadn't been removed. 491 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,680 A ranger happened to be nearby, and he'd said that 492 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,079 they'd been damaged by a car crashing into them, but 493 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,799 the cagy way that he said it and the way 494 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:30,759 that they had been twisted out of shape told me 495 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,359 that he knew that wasn't what had happened. I just 496 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,519 nodded and made a mental note to be gone long 497 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:43,319 before sunset? Man, what are you talking about? That? This 498 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:48,039 is not an in depth exciting story like the others 499 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:51,400 that I read. This is just this is just exactly 500 00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,680 or more exciting than any of them. This is a 501 00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:58,559 typical Bigfoot encounter, at least the ones that I get. 502 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,960 I thought it was too terribly exciting. And this podcast 503 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,960 seems to be full of people recounting older episodes in 504 00:29:08,039 --> 00:29:12,000 their lives where they either see or hear. This one 505 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,559 was an actual visual, but they see or hear or 506 00:29:15,559 --> 00:29:18,839 smell something that they just know they know what it was. 507 00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:21,920 I thought this was fantastic. I wish I could say 508 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,319 more about it, because I'm just plumped after reading it. 509 00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:27,799 But that's about all I can say. What a great story. 510 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,480 And he's revisited the place and the gates are all 511 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,400 twisted up, and he knows what twisted those gates up. 512 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,279 That's what's kind of creepy. Anyway, Thanks for the story. 513 00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:40,359 We loved it. Thank you so much. To you and 514 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,119 all the writers who send me stories. This was fantastic. 515 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,279 Listening to the stories you tell has brought back a 516 00:29:49,279 --> 00:29:52,200 lot of good memories. I grew up hunting and fishing 517 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,680 and pulling gen seeing and exploring God's beautiful Appalachian Mountains. 518 00:29:57,559 --> 00:30:00,440 I had more exposure to Bigfoot than most people would 519 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,759 have or even want. We lived beside a clan that was, 520 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,519 for the most part, relatively passive. Not to say they 521 00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:11,200 didn't get an attitude every now and then, but we 522 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:14,799 learned to deal with them. I remember the first time 523 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:18,279 I ever saw one up close. Grandma used to bake 524 00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:21,400 pies in the late afternoon for dessert or for breakfast 525 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,880 the next day. She had just finished putting one pecan 526 00:30:25,079 --> 00:30:27,480 and one apple pie on the shelf next to the 527 00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:31,079 window over the sink to cool well. I was finishing 528 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,200 lunch at the table when I heard my Grandma start yelling. 529 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,559 She came through the door of the living room with 530 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,000 a switch in her hand and headed straight for the 531 00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:43,920 window where the pies were. There. In the window, I 532 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,519 saw a furry hand grab a hold of the pie. 533 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,759 Grandma wielded that hickory like a ninja sword, smacking that 534 00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:53,720 hairy hand on the knuckles. As it and the pie 535 00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:57,079 went out the window. I ran over to see who 536 00:30:57,079 --> 00:30:59,119 had done it, and what I saw would be the 537 00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:02,200 first of many times that I saw him and his family. 538 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:06,119 This creature was six feet tall, and he was running 539 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,839 with a pie in his hand, faster than any animal 540 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,440 I'd ever seen. He made a beeline straight for the woods, 541 00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:16,720 making a grunting and laughing sound the whole way. A 542 00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:20,079 Grandma was hollering at it, as any good Christian woman 543 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,480 would have done to any pie thief. Grandpa came running 544 00:31:24,519 --> 00:31:26,799 through the living room door just in time to see 545 00:31:26,839 --> 00:31:30,640 it disappear into the darkness of the tree line. He 546 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:33,720 started to chuckle because of Grandma, but he clambed up 547 00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:37,119 real quick. With one look from her and her country's sword, 548 00:31:38,319 --> 00:31:40,480 he wiped that smile right off his face, and his 549 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:44,000 hand fell on my shoulder. Said he needed my help, 550 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,559 and I followed him out to the front porch, and 551 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,319 he sat down in his rocking chair, and he bit 552 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,519 off a chew at tobacco and offered me some. We 553 00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:55,319 sat there for a quiet minute until he said, I 554 00:31:55,359 --> 00:31:57,440 bet you want to know what that furry creator was, 555 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:01,359 don't you? At twelve years old. I'd been exposed to 556 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,079 a lot of things on the farm. I had killed 557 00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:07,839 and plucked chickens. I had prepped hogs and cattle for slaughter. 558 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,240 I had hunted and skinned deer, squirrels, and about anything 559 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,519 else that ran or crawled but failed to get away 560 00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:16,759 from us. I was shocked by what I had seen, 561 00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:22,079 but more curious than anything else. Grandpa told me that 562 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,039 this was a bugger, at least that's what us folks 563 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:28,119 in the hills call them. He explained that there was 564 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,400 a family of them that lived several miles over the ridge. 565 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:34,559 Last he counted, there were six of them. But what 566 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,480 I saw was a young male about my age. He 567 00:32:38,519 --> 00:32:40,720 said it wasn't the first time Grandma had had to 568 00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:43,759 get on that one. He never did any harm, but 569 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,000 like Grandma's cooking, couldn't get mad at that. Everybody loved 570 00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:51,599 Grandma's cooking. He went on to tell me that the 571 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,160 klan had lived in the area most of his life. 572 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,200 Every now and then they would come in for a visit, 573 00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:00,640 but they never got real close. Only the younger male 574 00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:04,079 had the courage to test the speed of Grandma's hickory switch. 575 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,519 They sometimes came around at night, but usually just to 576 00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:11,640 pass through or take a peek through the windows. He 577 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,920 went on to say that they'd run into them in 578 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,200 the woods on occasion, though you'd never get a clear 579 00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:21,680 view of them unless they wanted to be seen. The key, 580 00:33:21,759 --> 00:33:24,119 he said, was that if you feel like someone's got 581 00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:27,960 eyes on you, they probably do. And he warned me 582 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:31,200 to never approach them, and if I did happen upon 583 00:33:31,279 --> 00:33:36,000 one accidentally, it was gunned down, hands up, big smile, 584 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,680 and back away real slow. He said, they might growl 585 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,640 or make a weird noise at me, but that would 586 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,079 probably be the end of it. Well, sure's rain. I 587 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,119 was blessed to have many encounters with them, and not 588 00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:53,039 all of them were pleasant. There were a few times 589 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:55,279 when I was caught face to face with one, but 590 00:33:55,359 --> 00:33:59,240 I remembered what Grandpa taught me, gun down, hands up, 591 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,720 big smile. I never had a problem. If I have time, 592 00:34:03,759 --> 00:34:06,559 I might write down some of my experiences and send 593 00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:09,639 them in to you. I think your audience would enjoy it. 594 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,119 I'm fifty seven years old now and I don't really 595 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:16,360 care what people think. Am I crazy? Well, hell, yes, 596 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,159 I'm crazy, but delusional, not at all. I'm like you, Cam. 597 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,519 I don't live to prove their existence or disprove their existence. 598 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,679 I know they exist from my own experiences, and make 599 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,519 no mistake. They can hurt you, but they will also 600 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,679 live with you if you let them. You have to 601 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,440 treat them as you would any other of God's predators. 602 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,039 Give them respect, give them room, and everybody most of 603 00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:45,360 the time will get along. By the way, that young 604 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,480 fellow who took grandma's pie, she found six fresh apples 605 00:34:49,559 --> 00:34:54,079 on her window seal the next morning. Oh man, hey, first, 606 00:34:54,119 --> 00:34:58,400 let me say I'm gonna apologize about that chicken outside 607 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:06,719 my door. It keeps yapping. Listen to her, Listen to her. 608 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,719 You know what, I think I got my side by 609 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,719 side out there. I think she's just laid an egg 610 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,679 in the seat. That's what they do when they they 611 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,519 celebrate after they lay an egg. I bet I find 612 00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:24,519 an egg in the seat. Anyway, this story was great. 613 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,800 I really appreciate it. I think bigfoot in Appalachia is 614 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,000 quite common. And these people that claim that they live 615 00:35:32,079 --> 00:35:36,760 with them, I have no reason at all to doubt 616 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,280 these people. They are so matter of fact about it, 617 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,360 like this man was in his story. He's just a 618 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,039 matter of fact about it. Well, there, we live with them. 619 00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:49,559 They steal my grandma's pies, they love her cooking. They're shy. 620 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,559 Only one of them's brave. Everything he said in this 621 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,639 really makes a lot of sense to me. So I 622 00:35:55,679 --> 00:35:58,360 appreciate the story. Thank you for taking the time to 623 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,760 write it. I know the audience loved it. And if 624 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,280 you do have time, I'd love to read some of 625 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,880 your other experiences, so please send them in. Thank you 626 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,599 for the story. Okay, that was a great set of stories. 627 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,039 You know, I just randomly run my cursor through the 628 00:36:15,119 --> 00:36:18,280 folder and I just pick out random stories four or five, 629 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,679 and I slide them over into this podcast file and 630 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,159 I just start reading them. I'm just getting lucky and 631 00:36:24,199 --> 00:36:26,960 getting some really good ones. So with that, we'll go 632 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,239 ahead and wind this one up. Thank you all for listening. 633 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,079 I really appreciate you, and we'll see you on the 634 00:36:31,119 --> 00:36:37,679 next week. Thank you.