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Speaker 1: My name is Danny, and I've been a bigfoot enthusiast

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since i was a teenager when I saw the Patterson

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Gimlin film. I'm now sixty nine years old and still

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just as enthusiastic. My first encounter was from my father.

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I never thought he would admit to seeing a bigfoot

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because he always said there was a reasonable explanation for

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things that you think you see. One day, when the

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subject of bigfoot came up, I expected to hear him

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say that he didn't believe in them. He then shared

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a story of something that happened to him, either before

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he left for World War Two or after he came home.

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He was at home on my grandfather's farm. A large

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field out in front of the house had been plowed

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and worked up ready to plant. That field and pasture

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was separated by a creek that ran between them. Part

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of the pasture was also woodland and hills. He was

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on his way to the pasture, and as he crossed

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the yard, he heard a loud roar and then a scream,

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as if something had attacked a woman. He wondered what

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it was and began to walk the path to the

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creek to get a better look at the area of

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the field. The entire field was now in view, and

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he saw a big black thing that looked like a

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man crossing. It walked to the fence line at the

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edge of the field and stepped over the fence like

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it was stepping over a doorway threshold. It then had

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to step over the bank to the creek and cross

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over it, and then up the bank to the other side.

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He said he watched it cross the pasture and walked

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into the woods. I was surprised that he even admitted

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to all this. This is my first encounter as a teenager.

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I grew up on a small forty acre farm that

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sat between two hills, otherwise known as a holler. My

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home was at the lower part of the farm, and

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in the narrow part between the hills. Dad had built

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a pond for fishing. He charged money for the people

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to fish there, so it was a source of income

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and a source of water for our gardens. In the summer,

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I spent my youth roaming those hills, hunting and camping

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and wandering like farm boys do. One evening I was fishing,

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and just as it began to get dark, my sixth

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sense kicked in and I realized that something wasn't right.

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There were no frogs, singing birds, and bugs were silent.

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I realized that something was going on when I heard

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something walking through the leaves just inside the woodline. I

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knew it wasn't a deer because at that time we

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didn't have deer in our area, and I knew it

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wasn't a bear because we didn't have them either. There

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was a long pause between each step, and I could

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tell it was stepping flat footed in the leaves. That

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sixth sense told me that it was time to leave,

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so I picked up my gear and I headed home.

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The sound followed me until I got to the dam,

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and then it just stopped. The next event happened in

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two thousand and five. While I was working the evening

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shift at our main post office here in Huntington, West Virginia.

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I got off at eleven unless I had to work over.

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It was during the summer, so the nights were warm,

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and on this night, I arrived home at two am.

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When I pulled into my driveway, I got out of

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the car and I noticed that every dog for a

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mile around was barking. I wondered what had them riled

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up about? That time, on the hill above the creek,

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I heard a huge roar that lasted for several seconds.

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It echoed off the hills, and the instant it stopped,

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every dog shut up. All I could do was smile

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and say, there's a bigfoot for sure. I was watching

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your channel on YouTube last night listening to a report

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with the Lady Cat that's Cat Rabbit from Alabama, and

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when you played the recording she had made, I told

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my wife that's exactly what I heard out here, just

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not as deep sounding. Well, there's something for your records

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on West Virginia. I hope it was of some value.

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Keep up the good work and all the best for

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the coming year. I don't have the date on this,

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but I think I don't think this one's too old.

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But Danny, thanks for thanks for the well wishes on

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the channel. I appreciate it. Your dad actually saw one,

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and then you experienced something which you I think used

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his experience and kind of came to the conclusion it

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was probably a bigfoot tracking you out of the woods

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when you were at that pond. Then you heard that

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howl above your house when you came home at two

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in the morning. I don't know what I would do

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if I heard something like that. I heard something weird

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out here. It was the weirdest sounding. It was an animal.

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I'd like to imitate it, but I don't think I can.

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But it was one of those sounds that, all right,

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here's the truth. Sometimes I step out on my front

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porch and I just peep. My wife gets real aggravated

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with me. But the bathroom is way down the house,

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and the front porch is just right there. And I

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live right out in the middle of nowhere where nobody

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can see me. We don't have any street lights. We

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don't even have any lights outside unless you turn them on,

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so it's dark. I go out there and pee in peace.

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You know. Well, I'm standing out there doing my business,

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and right in front of me the way I'm pointing,

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I could hear this thing making some kind of call.

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It was like a er er er, but it was

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different than that. It had more base to it. It

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kind of God. I don't think it was a bigfoot,

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I'm just telling you that right now. But it had

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more like of a vibrating kind of a voice. But

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it sounded like it could either be a mile away

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or it could be like right in front of me,

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like out at my driveway, which is only a few yards,

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maybe thirty yards, Like it was right in the woods.

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I don't know. I don't know what it was. I

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don't think it was bigfoot, but it was some kind

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of animal making a noise that I had never heard.

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Do you know what I mean when I say it.

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You can't judge the sound because you've never heard that

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sound before, so you can't really judge how far it was.

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But it sounded close, but it could have been half

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a mile away. I don't know. I don't know, but

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I haven't heard it again. I went out later that night.

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I went out the next two nights. It was dark

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and the moon was out. There was some light I

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could see, but I never heard it again. It's pretty interesting.

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I don't think it was a bigfoot, but it was

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a weird sound. You know, sometimes cows those weird sounds.

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Whether people have cattle around here all over the place,

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and they make and mules are not mules, but donkeys,

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these little donkeys that people keep. My son used to

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have a couple of those. They make the freakiest sounds

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I've ever heard. Could have been something like that. Anyway,

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I'm just rambling on. Let's move on to another story.

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Thanks Danny for the emails really good. I grew up

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on a small mountain called Beechy Ridge in Clay County,

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West Virginia. It's one of the tallest mountains in the region.

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One afternoon in the summer of nineteen seventy seven, my

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mother and I were sitting on our front porch when

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all seven of our dogs went on alert. As we

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looked around to find what had them on edge, a

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large animal ran on two legs from round the side

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of the house and crossed our front porch. It passed

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the light my dad had mounted on an oak tree.

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That light was seven feet off the ground, and the

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animal was every bit as tall as that light, maybe taller.

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It was reddish brown, with long hair on its shoulders

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and arms. The dogs all began to chase after it,

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but less than five minutes later they all came running

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back with their tails tuck. Not long after that, we

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had a visit at night. My dad worked at midnight

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shift at a coal mine forty miles away and widen.

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We kept two of our dogs inside with us. Dad

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had already left for the night when they began barking

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at the front and back doors. Something was walking around

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the outside, and then bam, whatever was out there had

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slapped the side of our house, and the dogs went silent.

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The smaller one went under the bed, and the larger one,

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pretty boy. He hopped up on the couch with my

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younger brother. Go get the shotgun, my mother whispered as

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she hung a blanket over the front door to cover

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the multiple glass panes. When I came back with the gun,

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she was lighting a fire in the stove. Summertime and hot,

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and I gave her a strange look, and she said,

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it'll keep them from getting on the roof. It was

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the longest night of my life. We went around the

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house and covered all the windows before joining my brother

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on the couch. Mama read the Bible with the loaded

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shotgun laying across her lap, and pointed at the door.

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A commotion came from the chicken coop. My brother and

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I looked helpless at our mother. Tears were welling up

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in our eyes. We'll have to sacrifice some chickens tonight,

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she said, with a calm voice that did nothing to

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disguise the haunted look in her eyes. It's the price

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we have to pay to save our own lives. She added.

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The next morning, when Dad came home, we were missing

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twenty four chickens. Something had ripped off the roof of

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the coop. It looked like it had eaten at least

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three of them right there. Dad said, there were six

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chicken feet and some feathers there by the fence. The

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rest of the chickens were gone. He said, the booger's

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got them. Have you ever seen a booger before, my

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mother asked. She told me about when she was a

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little girl and lived in a small lumber mill boom

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Town in Clay County. My mother was born during World

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War Two. Her father worked in the mill, operating the

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cris soak tanks for the railroad ties. They lived in

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a house at the end of the road on top

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of a hill. Mama and her sister walked through the

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woods every day to and from school and up and

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down that hill. One day, she and her sister had

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dilly dialed around the mercantile score, buying a poke a

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penny candy and playing with her friends after school. Suddenly

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they realized the sun was beginning to set, and they

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knew they had to get home quick. Their mom would

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have supper on the table soon. They raced up the

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hill toward home, and they decided to take the shortcut

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through the woods to save time. They'd only gone a

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few yards when they began to hear heavy footsteps behind them.

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It was late summer, so the leaves were still on

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the trees. It made the woods much darker than the

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rest of the world, so they couldn't see who was

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following them. We have candy and you can have it.

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Just leave us alone, they yelled, thinking it might be

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one of the older boys trying to prank them. Satisfied

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that they sufficiently told off the older boy, they continued

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walking a little faster now, and despite their bravado, they

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were a little frightened. As they moved faster, so did

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their stalker, and Mama's little sister panicked then and took

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off running, leaving her standing in the woods, crying, you're

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scaring me. Mama cried as she looked all around her.

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Stop it, but the footsteps were getting closer. She took

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off at a brisk pace, but the footsteps were keeping

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up with her, and every once in a while, as

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she made her way up the hill, she glanced back

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over her shoulder, hoping to get a glimpse of whoever

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was back there. Finally, she reached the clearing in the

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woods where a house had once been but had long

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since burned down. She looked back again, and this time

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she saw a massive black figure covered in hair. She

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dropped her candy in books as she broke into a

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dead run, with tears running down her cheeks and her

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lungs felt as though they would burst, but she didn't

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stop till she got to the front door of her

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own house. My grandmother was standing there waiting for her

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with a switch in her hand, but when she saw

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the look on Mama's face, she pulled her into her arms.

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What's wrong, honey, she asked, brushing away her tears. There's

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a monster chasing me. Mamma, are you sure? Grandmother asked, yes.

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It was big and black, and it was covered hair.

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Mamma's words were coming in short blast between gulps of air.

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I dropped my candy in books at the old barnt house,

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she explained. My grandma thought to herself that Mama might

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have seen a hobo. She wiped away her tears and

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gave her a hug and sent her inside to clean

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up for supper, and that night, after my grandfather got

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home and the children were in bed, Grandma told him

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what happened. Grandfather took his flashlight and pistol and walked

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down to the old burnt house to have a look around,

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and there he found my mother's books with three pieces

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of candy set on top of them. The bag and

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the rest of the candy were gone, and he saw

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what he thought were bear tracks in the area. But

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that was it. In nineteen fifty two, when my mother

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was seven and her sister was five, there was no

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information out there on Bigfoot. People here in West Virginia

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had to go on what they knew. Back then, they

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knew about bears and hoboes and buggers in the woods.

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As for my mother, until the day she died at

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age seventy one, she never went in those woods alone again.

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My name is Julie and I went to Yellowstone in

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nineteen eighty eight with my father to celebrate my high

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school graduation. We went to a picnic spot right behind

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the Yellowstone Lodge. There was a grill to the left

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and a picnic table to the right. We started to

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put out the food and the utensils and started the

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grill to have a bite to eat. All of a

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sudden we felt threatened. A rock came flying at my head.

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I poured water on the grill and ran to the

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car and we left everything there. I snapped one photo

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and then rock too hit the car and I looked

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up on the ridge and standing there was a giant,

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ten foot mucky, chocolate brown bipedal creature growling at us.

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I could see small eyes, a brow ridge, a cone head,

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and a flat gorilla nose, huge canines top and bottom,

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bigger than a gorilla's. Long arms reached down to the knees,

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and I could see hands, not poles. I could see

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the feet, and the big toe was sticking out, but

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the feet looked like ours, except when he walked. He

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did so picking up the front of the foot and

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put it down. Legs were thick and looked like tree trunks,

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very muscular and short, round eyes, and they were brown

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in color. The scream was primate or a tiger scream

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that filled the whole area, and I could feel it

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in my chest. And there was that awful smell, like

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a dead dog or garbage rotting in the sun. It

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would make you sick. Oh man, these smells just cracked

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me up. Okay, I'm sorry I did that, y'all. It

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just hits me when I read them. I think back

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on all the funny descriptions of smells. This girl had

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a traumatic experience. And I'm not trying not to laugh

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at the story. But the smell descriptions, you have to admit,

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they're pretty good. They're pretty good. When it ran, the

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knees were at a ninety degree angle, and they were

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bigger than ours, and I could see the fir just

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coming off the body. When we got to the car

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and started to leave, this huge creature chased us down

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the road. It chased us seventy five hundred feet down

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the road. Dad told me to keep going, and I

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was trying to go faster. I look behind us, and

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there he was. Now. I put the car in faster

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gear and we got away, and then he turned off

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into the woods. We drove all the way back to Jackson,

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and we got on a plane and we left. We

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made it home, and we left all the gear there

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on the ground. We didn't care the bigfoots could have it.

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I felt that we were food and that he wanted

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to do serious damage. Maybe he wanted it a side

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of the area. What I saw was another creature hiding

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behind a tree, and all I saw all was eyes.

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I've studied wildlife conservation, animal science, birds, fire science, and virology.

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I don't know if that's a virology v I R

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L O G Y. I'm not sure what that is.

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This was no bear, because when a bear stands up,

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the paws are up in front of the body. This

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had no ears. The fur was stick and long, it

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had two legs, and it knew how to throw rocks.

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I'm sorry that many say these things are gentle, because

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they are not. I feel like David Pilates is right.

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The people who go missing go missing because these creatures

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are taking them. They do not want us in their

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area of the woods. To me being chased away, mints,

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stay out, you're not wanted, Go away. I got the

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message loud and clear. I refuse to ever step in

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the woods again. The nightmares have not stopped, and I

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feel stuck in the woods and I see this thing

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come after me, and it was the scariest face I've

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ever seen. And now reading what I've written on paper,

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it makes it more real. Leave them alone. And stay

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out of the woods. For me, I love the woods,

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but now I know the best thing to do is

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to stay in the city parks where I'm safe. I

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would hate to think if this happened at night, that

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it would have been fatal. I understand the park not

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saying anything, but I feel people should know for their safety.

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If you go in the woods, do so at your

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own risk. This is my story and I'm not lying

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or trying to get attention. This really happened. This is

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what I saw. You can believe it or not. Many

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say that they're not real and then explain the DNA

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Prince scat Hare's vocal calls. They are real and they

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are out there, and what are they. I don't understand.

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Some kind of link between man and us is presented.

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We will not know. She signs off. Julie, that story

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is one that I did not edit for, you know,

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to polish it up and make it sound real good.

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And you can you can kind of feel how kind

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of choppy it is. There's very little punctuation. And I'm

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not criticizing Julie. Probably ninety percent of the stories I

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get are like that, are written like this, and that's

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why when I say, we edit these. We edit them

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for a good listening experience for you, and so bring

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on the bring on the criticisms. I know it's coming

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that all these are fake stories, but they're not. They're

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not fake stories. They're actually emails that people send me,

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and we clean them up and we make them sound good.

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But back to this story, I y'all, Stone Park, nineteen

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eighty eight. They stopped for a picnic. Something throws a

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rock at them. It spooks the Julie and her father.

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They douse the fire, get in the car, and then

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this thing throws another rock and hits the car and

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then chases them down the road. That's pretty that's pretty spooky.

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I mean, but you know what, I don't have many

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stories where people actually run into these things in Yellowstone.

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This may be one of the very few, if not

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the only story that I can remember, that has an

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event in Yellowstone. And that's kind of interesting. Yellowstone's quite

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the beautiful remote area. All I know is grizzly bears.

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I want to ride my motorcycle through Yellowstone and I wonder,

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I wonder if a grizzly bear could chase me down

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on a motorcycle. I bet he could. I bet he could.

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And boy, if you slip in the gravel, they got you.

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They got you. Maybe I'm just a scaredy cat.