1 00:00:08,759 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: Okay, I've got another story here from Australia. The gentleman 2 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,640 is from Townsville in Queensland, Australia. He writes, one time, 3 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,280 when I was a younger lad, I saw some yowis 4 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:25,239 attack a boomer that's an old gray kangaroo. When I 5 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,000 saw them come out, I hid behind an old tree stump. 6 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,600 They grabbed his back legs and ripped them right off, 7 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,880 and then held them up like trophies. Another yowie, much 8 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,880 bigger and older looking than the others, came out of 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,840 the bush. I was six feet seven inches tall back then, 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,920 and even the smallest of the three made me look small. 11 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:50,079 The big one's body had more muscles than the incredible hult. 12 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:54,399 I watched them and they started fighting over the kill. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,600 The two younger ones took the legs from the boomer. 14 00:00:58,039 --> 00:01:01,439 The growl like lions and start smashing each other with 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,799 the legs. It was so powerful that I felt the 16 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,280 ground vibrating under my feet. The bigger Yaowi towered over 17 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:12,200 them like a tree, and he growled. It was so 18 00:01:12,439 --> 00:01:16,120 loud that I lost control of my bowels. He banged 19 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,120 the two younger ones heads together like wrestlers, and then 20 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,079 kicked one in the chest. It flew into the air 21 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,560 and into the bill of bong. In Australia, a billabong 22 00:01:25,719 --> 00:01:28,560 is like a small lake. But this was no small 23 00:01:28,599 --> 00:01:31,079 bill of bong. It was big enough to hold some 24 00:01:31,159 --> 00:01:35,480 big old saltwater crocs, some as long as twenty feet 25 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,480 that I had seen myself. The Yaowi hit the water 26 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,920 right by an old salty croc. He grabbed the croc 27 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,879 by the tail and picked it up right out of 28 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,000 the water, and he punched it in the head. The 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,480 old croc grabbed onto the yawi's leg, and the aoy 30 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,359 screamed and roared, and the croc grabbed onto his hand 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,959 and fingers. The other yaoi stopped fighting over the kangaroo 32 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,959 and joined the one in the billomong. One of them 33 00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:05,120 jumped in and smashed the croc's head with his fist, 34 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,599 and then it grabbed the croc by the jaws and 35 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,000 opened them so wide that its head bent backward and 36 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:16,479 the jawbone snapped. Then they tore the thing apart. One 37 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,759 ripped its tail off, and another ripped its back legs off. 38 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:22,800 One pushed its finger into the belly and ripped it 39 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,719 open and tore the guts out and then started eating them. All. 40 00:02:27,759 --> 00:02:30,800 The blood in the Billomong brought more crocs, and the 41 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,240 alleys took what body parts they could, threw it over 42 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,680 their shoulders and jumped back onto land. I felt the 43 00:02:37,719 --> 00:02:42,400 earth shake again like an earthquake. After they vanished into 44 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,199 the bush. I crawled out from behind a tree stump 45 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,919 in complete shot. I slapped my face to get my 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 head working again, and then I went out to measure 47 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:56,159 one of their footprints against my own. I'm a big guy. 48 00:02:56,439 --> 00:03:00,719 I wear seventeen shoes. You can't get that of shoe 49 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:03,080 in Australia, so I have to order them from the 50 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,360 United States. When I put my shoe next to the footprint, 51 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,639 it was much longer and wider, the biggest footprint I 52 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,240 had ever seen. I look into the bill of Bong 53 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,159 and saw the other crocs eating the one the Yooi's 54 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,879 ripped up. I've seen yowis and other parts of Australia too. 55 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,599 I think they must be magical or something. I told 56 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,520 my experience to some Aboriginals and they told me the 57 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:32,520 Yoois talk to them and work with them too. Some 58 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,879 are very wonderful at heart, the brother of people and 59 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,280 guardians to the earth long before white men landed in Australia. 60 00:03:40,879 --> 00:03:46,319 But tribal Yoois are cannibals. The aboriginals told me stories 61 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,400 about years of giant lizards fighting with the Yoois. It 62 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,120 started with a young yaowie playing in the bill of 63 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:56,800 bong just like human kids do, splashing in the water 64 00:03:56,879 --> 00:04:00,360 and playing around. A giant lizard much bigger than the 65 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,479 old salty crocs went after it, and it bit the 66 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,520 young Yaoi's leg off and bloodied the water, and all 67 00:04:06,599 --> 00:04:10,360 hell broke loose. The other Yaois heard the younger one 68 00:04:10,439 --> 00:04:13,560 howling and then went to the billabong. A group of 69 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:16,120 them jumped in the water and smashed the lizard's ind 70 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,920 and tried to free the younger one. In the end, 71 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,000 two yaois died. The man who told me the story 72 00:04:24,079 --> 00:04:26,480 said the mother of the young one that died was 73 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,399 mummified holding her dead child, showing they have great power 74 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:32,920 of love for each other, just like us humans do. 75 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,279 This event started the Yaoi's hatred for the lizards and 76 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:40,839 the crocs, and that's the end of the story. That 77 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,040 is a woo man. This guy witnessed an action packed 78 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:50,199 day at the at the Billabong right behind the stump. 79 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,800 I thought this was pretty amazing. I wanted to share 80 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,720 it with you, A pretty good story from Australia. I 81 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:59,279 hope you liked it. I appreciate the writer sending it. 82 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,319 Read them all. I can't attest that any of these, 83 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,759 not one single story I've ever read is true, but 84 00:05:07,879 --> 00:05:09,959 I read them all, so I hope you guys enjoyed that. 85 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:17,040 It's pretty suspenseful. Okay, let's go to another one. Welcome 86 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,879 to the Dixie Crypti Channel. My name's Cameron Buckner. We 87 00:05:19,959 --> 00:05:24,319 don't ask for money, we don't have membership dues. Everything 88 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,759 on this podcast is free. I've got five stories brand 89 00:05:28,759 --> 00:05:32,120 news stories for this podcast, and at the end, after 90 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:34,160 the fifth one, I'm going to drop a couple of 91 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,199 archive stories for people who may not have heard them. 92 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,120 Hope you enjoyed this podcast. All right, here we go. 93 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,959 I was raised in the small town of Eldridge, Alabama. 94 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,360 One night in the summer of nineteen ninety, my family 95 00:05:54,399 --> 00:05:57,720 and I were watching TV with the windows open. Out 96 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,000 of nowhere, my father jumped up, He grabbed the remote, 97 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,879 and he shouted, did y'all hear that? My mother and 98 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:07,240 I shrugged and he told us to wait and listen. 99 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,199 We got up off the couch and walked out the 100 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,879 front door, and we looked around right across from us 101 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,800 as my grandfather and cousins trailer. As we looked toward 102 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,600 their home, we saw an eight foot tall bigfoot standing 103 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:24,079 at my cousin's window, staring at him as he slept. 104 00:06:25,439 --> 00:06:27,279 My dad got on the phone and he called my 105 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,040 grandfather and he told him what was happening. My grandfather 106 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,720 grabbed his thirty thirty Winchester rifle and he walked quickly 107 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:39,040 but quietly to my cousin's bedroom. When he opened the door, 108 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,199 he caught the bigfoot reaching in the window toward my 109 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,519 little cousin. And when he realized what he was looking 110 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,120 at and what this big brute was trying to do, 111 00:06:48,759 --> 00:06:51,439 we heard him yell out, I don't think so, you 112 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,600 stinking sob and he opened fire on it. He shot 113 00:06:55,639 --> 00:06:59,920 it straight in the chest. The bigfoot roared and hit 114 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,120 the side of my grandfather's trailer so hard that the 115 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:07,600 force knocked it off its brick foundation. There we were 116 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,160 in our home right across from it, watching it all happen, 117 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,319 and my dad and I were in productive mode at 118 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:18,199 that point, we grabbed our rifles and joined our grandfather 119 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:23,519 outside and we unloaded into the beast. That thing roared 120 00:07:23,639 --> 00:07:26,879 and tore through the trees like a D nine bulldozer. 121 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,240 My mother called the police while we were checking on 122 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,680 my cousin. He was unaware of anything happening. The gunshots 123 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,959 in the same room barely even woke him up. I 124 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,519 swear that kid could have slept through a raging hurricane. 125 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,279 Thirty minutes later, his two deputies showed up and we 126 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,879 told them what happened. After hearing everything, one of the 127 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,319 deputies took his flashlight out and he shown it in 128 00:07:52,399 --> 00:07:55,800 our eyes and asked us where the drugs were. I 129 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,360 thought my grandfather and dad were about to whoop his 130 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:03,240 ass until the other deputy stepped in. He told his 131 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:06,079 partner to open his eyes and look at the condition 132 00:08:06,199 --> 00:08:09,360 of the trailer. There was no man who could cause 133 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,680 that kind of damage to a mobile home and knock 134 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,519 it off its foundation. Then he pointed his flashlight a 135 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,480 few feet away and lit up a massive footprint this 136 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:23,199 beast had made. There were complete right and left prints, 137 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:27,160 and then another right print and three steps, and that's 138 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:29,480 all it took for the bigfoot to reach the wood. 139 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,600 We measured the tracks and they were nearly seventeen inches 140 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:38,120 long and six inches wide. The deputy with common sense 141 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,120 said it looked like a bigfoot. He took the report 142 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,159 and took the pictures right before he left, and he 143 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,960 looked at us and he said, don't let nobody tell 144 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,759 you that this was a bear, and then he left. 145 00:08:51,919 --> 00:08:54,120 We love your show, and we've been listening for almost 146 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:57,519 six years now. It's okay to use my name. I 147 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,000 know what I saw, and the writers as Elvis man, 148 00:09:02,039 --> 00:09:04,519 what an exciting story. I wonder if they've had any 149 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,080 other activity around there. I wonder what happened to the 150 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,279 bigfoot that got shot up. Do those things just heal 151 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,519 miraculously or do bullets just not hurt them? I don't know. 152 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,039 I don't know. This thing got shot up pretty good. 153 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,759 These folks were ready. Don't be reaching in and grabbing 154 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:23,559 a little cousin through the trailer window. You're gonna get 155 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,879 shot Bigfoot. This was really exciting. I appreciate you Elvis 156 00:09:27,919 --> 00:09:30,440 for sending it. It was great. I hope you guys 157 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:37,480 are doing okay. I was raised believing that Bigfoot is real, 158 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,320 but I never gave it much thought, and I never 159 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,000 went out of my way to look for it. And 160 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,320 my dad was raised on the reservation in Nevada, and 161 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,759 he told me about the thigh eaters and the hairy people, 162 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,200 they're not the same thing. I was raised in Hawaii. 163 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,639 Even there you can find the mummy fied remains of 164 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,840 the red haired giants in massive canoe use, including those 165 00:10:01,879 --> 00:10:05,440 of a warrior woman who was seven feet tall. They 166 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,519 came from a comet and began the ruling class, though 167 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,399 the truth of that has been lost to time. I 168 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,720 left Hawaii to explore the mainland and pursue a career 169 00:10:15,759 --> 00:10:20,240 in modeling. After graduating from high school in twenty eleven, 170 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:25,639 I found myself frequently traveling to California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, 171 00:10:25,919 --> 00:10:29,759 and Mississippi for weeks to months at a time. Each 172 00:10:29,799 --> 00:10:35,279 place I've been, I've had experiences. I've noticed many correlations 173 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,759 between the missing people in state parks. I believe the 174 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,440 giants and the hairy people have an affinity for human women, 175 00:10:42,799 --> 00:10:45,519 and I do believe they have preferred the look of 176 00:10:45,639 --> 00:10:49,039 human women. It's just a gut feeling, but it seems 177 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,600 there's a preference for First Nations women. The first time 178 00:10:53,639 --> 00:10:56,759 I saw the pictures of missing women in British Columbia, 179 00:10:57,159 --> 00:10:59,080 the hair on the back of my neck stood up 180 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,279 on end. It made every experience I've had suddenly more troubling. 181 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,080 I'm Native American and Polynesian and of European descent. These 182 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,200 women looked like they could be my relatives. It was 183 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:17,360 hard to ignore. My first experience was in twenty thirteen 184 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,399 when I was in Texas. There wasn't a whole lot 185 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,399 to do if you were in the sticks. That evening, 186 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,879 I was at a friend's house. It was around nine pm, 187 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,080 and my friends and I decided it was a great 188 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,519 time to play hide and seek in the woods. I 189 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,840 was hiding under another house on this property with my 190 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,879 teammate when a smell came out of nowhere and saturated 191 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:42,799 the air. I said to my friend, this is a 192 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,840 stupid spot to hide. The pipes must be leaking. The 193 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:49,159 last thing I want is pink eye because of this. 194 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,600 But when we climbed out of that spot, the smell 195 00:11:52,759 --> 00:11:56,759 was much worse, and it hit us like a wall. Somehow, 196 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:59,200 my eyes were drawn to the tree line, and as 197 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,840 soon as I looked, a section of the trees started shaking. 198 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,799 As if something had its hand around the trunks and 199 00:12:05,919 --> 00:12:10,200 was waving them back and forth to get my attention. Well, 200 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,759 I couldn't see anyone out there, but I noticed that 201 00:12:12,799 --> 00:12:17,039 the tree line was opaque when before the moonlight splintered 202 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,600 through it. Well, I screamed like a pansy and I 203 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,799 ran away. I never played that game again. When I 204 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,200 was at my friend's house, the experience scared her so 205 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,080 bad she refused to talk to me about it. A 206 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:34,639 month later, thirty miles away from the first encounter, I 207 00:12:34,759 --> 00:12:38,200 was home on the back ten with my dog. I 208 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,759 had just had an argument with my boyfriend and I 209 00:12:40,879 --> 00:12:44,679 was crying, sitting on the ground like a baby. This 210 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,720 wasn't my finest moment, but I think that's how things 211 00:12:47,879 --> 00:12:51,799 unfolded the way they did. Now. The neighbors had cows 212 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,440 that frequently got up on the property that i'd help 213 00:12:54,519 --> 00:12:58,039 wrangle up and bring home. I was all too familiar 214 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,240 with what a cow sounded like, how loud they can be, 215 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,399 and what it sounds like when they were walking through 216 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,679 the thicket. I could hear the cows making a lot 217 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,279 of noise, but they were far away and getting farther, 218 00:13:10,159 --> 00:13:13,440 And there I was crying about a stupid argument. When 219 00:13:13,519 --> 00:13:17,039 my dog went suddenly on the edge, his tail straight 220 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,240 up and the hair on his back standing up. He 221 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,679 was looking out the treeline, not moving. He was growling. 222 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,039 He wasn't doing anything, but he was frozen. I could 223 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,559 hear the footsteps, one after another as the autumn leaves 224 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,279 crunched underfoot. It was loud and heavy, and I could 225 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:38,039 feel each of its steps in the ground underneath me. 226 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,759 And then I heard a mooing, only it didn't sound 227 00:13:41,799 --> 00:13:45,120 like a cow. It sounded like someone being a fool 228 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,639 and imitating a cow. Well, I sat there, confused as 229 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:55,000 this voice in the footfall got closer. My dog was 230 00:13:55,039 --> 00:13:59,639 still frozen. Nothing clicked for me until the footsteps stopped 231 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,360 right in front of me and the trees thirty feet away. 232 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,679 That's when my dog started growling. And when my eye 233 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,960 searched the trees, I saw the top of the creature's head, 234 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,480 back lit by the sunset. I jumped up, grabbed my 235 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,960 dog ran back to the house. I wasn't afraid I 236 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:20,440 was going to be taken. I wasn't afraid I was 237 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,480 going to be killed. I was afraid that I would 238 00:14:23,519 --> 00:14:26,919 see its face. I don't know why, but the thought 239 00:14:27,039 --> 00:14:31,519 terrified me. In the end, I didn't make out any 240 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,440 details because all I saw was this round head. I 241 00:14:35,559 --> 00:14:38,480 later returned to that spot to measure its height, and 242 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,000 I felt sick to my stomach with shock because the 243 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:44,360 creature would have been nine feet tall. I knew it 244 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,440 wasn't some giant cowboy because I think I would have 245 00:14:47,559 --> 00:14:52,200 noticed a nine foot tall cowboy walking around our town. 246 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,480 When I told my dad about it, I got in trouble. 247 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,720 He believed every word he told me. My crying called 248 00:14:59,759 --> 00:15:03,279 it it probably thought I was in danger or hurt 249 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:07,120 and was coming to check me out. My stomach sank. 250 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:09,759 I thought about the pictures of the missing women I 251 00:15:09,799 --> 00:15:13,519 had seen, and I thought about our remarkable resemblance and 252 00:15:13,559 --> 00:15:16,720 how close I might have been having my picture on 253 00:15:16,759 --> 00:15:20,639 a heartbreaking list next to theirs. That was the last 254 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,440 time I cried like a baby in the woods. My 255 00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:26,759 dad made me promise that I would never do it again. 256 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,679 I once made a trip across the country from my 257 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,320 school in San Diego, California, all the way to Tallahassee, Florida. 258 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,960 I stopped on top of a mountain somewhere in Arizona 259 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,960 for a break in the middle of the night, something 260 00:15:45,039 --> 00:15:48,320 rocked my car and it woke me up well. I 261 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,320 finally made it to Tallahassee, but my Ford fair Lane 262 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,720 had stopped cooperating. I ended up having to hitch a 263 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:57,720 ride to my girlfriend's house, and she lived a good 264 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,639 distance from town. On my way back to my car 265 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,000 later that night, I had to walk through the woods. 266 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,399 Her father and I would go squirrel hunting in those 267 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,159 same woods, and we would always come back with enough 268 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,720 of those tree rats to make a good size purlough 269 00:16:13,759 --> 00:16:17,679 for the entire family to feast on. Sometimes I would 270 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:20,159 go out on my own and track deer that lived 271 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,159 out there. I was a good tracker, if I say 272 00:16:23,159 --> 00:16:26,279 so myself. I could walk up on a pile of 273 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,240 scat that was still steaming and feel satisfied knowing how 274 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,399 close I was to my prey. I guess that's the 275 00:16:33,519 --> 00:16:37,799 Native American in me. My grandfather was Park Creek Nation, 276 00:16:38,399 --> 00:16:42,480 better known as the Seminoles. On my way through these 277 00:16:42,519 --> 00:16:45,080 woods that I had been in many times before, I 278 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:48,679 kept noticing something walking just out of sight but in 279 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:52,000 hearing distance. I stopped a few times to take a 280 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:54,559 good look to see if I could spot something, but 281 00:16:54,679 --> 00:16:58,279 when I stopped, it stopped, and that gave me the creeps, 282 00:16:58,399 --> 00:17:02,840 Like you would not believe something was tracking me. I 283 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,519 guess it's the way the deer felt when I tracked them. 284 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,960 It was a six mile hike back into town, and 285 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,279 for most of the way, something heavy in the woods 286 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:16,319 walked with me. I did make it home okay, but 287 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,759 the creepiness of that walk has stayed with me. Thank 288 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:22,480 you for letting me share my story. I was a 289 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:27,079 good story. Really good story too. Stories in this podcast 290 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:32,400 by Native Americans who have frequent encounters with Bigfoot. It's 291 00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:34,839 pretty awesome. I don't know if it's something in their 292 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,799 blood or what it is, but Native American people seem 293 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,640 to see them all the time. Thank you for the story. 294 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:49,039 It was great. All right, here's the story from my hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, 295 00:17:49,079 --> 00:17:51,880 where all the National Guard people are at right now 296 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,400 cleaning that city up. Well, I'm sure happy about that. 297 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:57,440 Maybe I'd go over there next spring and go to 298 00:17:57,519 --> 00:18:00,799 a Redbird's game. I won't even go oh there. There's 299 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:04,960 so much crime in Memphis, and I'm so happy that's happening. Anyway, 300 00:18:05,039 --> 00:18:08,400 here's a story from Memphis. Hey there, mister Dixie. I 301 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,480 hope this finds you well and happy. I'm in my 302 00:18:11,599 --> 00:18:15,000 fifties and I lived north of Dallas, Texas. I was 303 00:18:15,039 --> 00:18:16,799 born in your neck of the woods, and I lived 304 00:18:16,839 --> 00:18:20,599 in Frasier for much of my childhood. A while back, 305 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,759 you shared a story about a UFO siding in Memphis, 306 00:18:24,079 --> 00:18:26,319 and it reminded me of something my mom and her 307 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,359 best friend saw in the late seventies when I was 308 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,839 nine years old. They were driving to her friend's apartment 309 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,359 when a huge, glowing orange ball appeared in the sky 310 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,480 in front of them. They stopped and got out of 311 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:43,599 their car. They watched it move like nothing they had 312 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,960 ever seen, until it went straight up and it was gone. 313 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,519 The strange thing was is that it was in the 314 00:18:50,519 --> 00:18:53,880 middle of the day on a Saturday. People were in 315 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,559 their yards and on the sidewalks, and they stopped to 316 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,759 watch it. But there was no noise at all. Dogs 317 00:18:59,799 --> 00:19:03,880 even and stopped barking. When it disappeared, everyone just went 318 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,039 back to what they were doing. No one said a 319 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:08,680 word or even seemed to care about how big and 320 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:14,160 bright this glowing ball zipping around the sky was. My 321 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,440 mom had another strange story about a hermit who lived 322 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:21,079 down at the Mississippi River. One night, she and my 323 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,160 dad and another couple on a double date heard about 324 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,000 this hermit, and they wanted to see if it was true. 325 00:19:27,799 --> 00:19:30,000 They walked through a small patch of the woods before 326 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:32,880 reaching the water, and when they got there they saw 327 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,160 a hand dug ditch in the river bank looked like 328 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:38,559 something was living in there, and there was a big 329 00:19:38,599 --> 00:19:43,039 pile of bones nearby. Well, they had seen enough, and 330 00:19:43,079 --> 00:19:45,599 when they turned tail and ran back the way they came, 331 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,880 they heard something running toward them. They jumped in the 332 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,039 car and tried to take off, but the hermit had 333 00:19:51,039 --> 00:19:54,519 appeared out of nowhere and slammed his hands on the 334 00:19:54,519 --> 00:19:57,960 trunk of the car, leaving big dents in it. That 335 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,359 was no easy feet, considering those cars were made of 336 00:20:01,519 --> 00:20:06,279 real steel. I asked my mother the other day about 337 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:09,720 what the hermit looked like. She said, this thing was huge, 338 00:20:09,759 --> 00:20:13,000 and it was dirty and hairy. Ask if she thought 339 00:20:13,039 --> 00:20:15,400 it could have been a sosquatch, but she said no, 340 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,319 he was wearing tattered pants. He was a man who 341 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:23,039 went wild. I have a couple more stories that happened 342 00:20:23,039 --> 00:20:25,480 to me, but I will save those for another day. 343 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,640 I love your channel, and now listen as I clean 344 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,680 my house. Thanks for reading. I really appreciate this story. 345 00:20:32,759 --> 00:20:36,079 When I was younger, I remember hearing stories about that 346 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,039 hermit that lived down on the river. Now, Memphis is 347 00:20:39,079 --> 00:20:42,359 a big city, and even back then when we were 348 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,920 kids in the seventies, it was a pretty big city 349 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:51,039 and we didn't know everybody, but words got around Memphis, 350 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,599 and it was almost like a always kind of characterized 351 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,240 where I grew up as a giant town, because even 352 00:20:58,279 --> 00:21:01,319 though you know, there were huge neighborhoods, it's just a 353 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:06,200 big metropolitan area. But these rumors and stuff seemed to 354 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,880 spread all over Memphis about all kinds of things. And 355 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,920 I remember I lived out east toward kind of where 356 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,960 Perkins and Summer Avenue intersect. Anybody from Memphis will know 357 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,839 where that is, but I lived in that area, and 358 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:26,119 we had rumors around our neighborhood about hermits living down 359 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,200 in the ditches, which we would go looking for. We'd 360 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,240 put our bikes down in those ditches and ride for miles. 361 00:21:33,279 --> 00:21:35,519 I remember this story, is what I'm trying to say, 362 00:21:35,519 --> 00:21:38,039 And I thought it was interesting to get a to 363 00:21:38,079 --> 00:21:40,640 get it, actually get an email about it from somebody, 364 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,720 because it was those were all always intriguing rumors, and 365 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:46,759 come to find out, this one down at the river 366 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,000 was true. So I really appreciate this story. Thank you, 367 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:51,119 ma'am for sending it.