WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:10.880 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