WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:12.160 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.