1 00:00:07,919 --> 00:00:10,519 Speaker 1: Back in the summer of nineteen eighty seven, my friend 2 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,359 Ron and I were on a retreat with a Catholic 3 00:00:13,599 --> 00:00:18,879 youth organization where we served as youth ministers. We arrived 4 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,719 at the camp site and we felt strange as if 5 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,960 something were watching us, but we blew it off due 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,600 to the fact that we were in the mountains and 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,359 we were a large group of youths and adults. The 8 00:00:31,399 --> 00:00:33,799 weekend so far had gone off without a hitch, as 9 00:00:33,799 --> 00:00:37,640 we had team building exercises, we had some free time 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:43,159 and informational seminars to contend with. Ron, myself and a 11 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,799 few young ladies volunteered to prep breakfast the next morning, 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,880 so we got started at about eleven pm and finished 13 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,039 at two am. Afterward, we headed back to our cabins 14 00:00:54,079 --> 00:00:58,840 for some sleep in preparation for the next day's busy schedule. Well, 15 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,799 we were walking across large field that combined three soccer 16 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,000 and football fields side by side. It was a full 17 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:09,239 moon out and things seemed peaceful, and as we walked 18 00:01:09,239 --> 00:01:11,760 across the fields to get back to our cabins, we 19 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,519 saw a dog come out of the woods. At least 20 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:18,000 that's what we thought we saw. We were from the 21 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,040 city and we thought that we could coax it over 22 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,000 to us and pet it. But then it suddenly stood 23 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:27,040 up on two legs, and everything around us got really quiet. 24 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,920 When it stood up, it was far enough away that 25 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:32,359 we could tell that it wasn't a dog, but it 26 00:01:32,439 --> 00:01:35,959 wasn't a man either, And whatever it was, it was 27 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,400 an off white color and much larger than anyone in 28 00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:43,680 the group. All of the here boy left our lips immediately. 29 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,760 Whenever we went on these retreats to different wooded locations, 30 00:01:48,879 --> 00:01:52,280 I always carried a large pocket knife. We were all 31 00:01:52,359 --> 00:01:55,640 totally shocked and afraid at the same time, but someone 32 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,439 had to do something, so I grabbed my knife. This 33 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,280 thing took two steps forward, but stopped dead in its tracks, 34 00:02:03,519 --> 00:02:08,080 and it just stared at us. I slowly walked forward 35 00:02:08,159 --> 00:02:10,840 to see if it was someone playing tricks on us. 36 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,759 When it took a step back, I started running toward it, 37 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,159 but before I could get much closer, this thing took 38 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:20,280 three steps into the woods and disappeared without a trace. 39 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:23,800 Once we made it back to our cabins, the authorities 40 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,599 were notified and we made a report, to which we 41 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:31,319 heard someone say I'm not surprised. Needless to say, we 42 00:02:31,439 --> 00:02:34,719 cut our trip short and left mid afternoon the next day. 43 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,159 Thanks for listening to my story. Okay, this was a 44 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:41,400 dog man's story where the guy actually ran at the 45 00:02:41,479 --> 00:02:45,080 dog man. Now that's pretty brave. I could not add 46 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,879 one thing in commentary to this story other than you 47 00:02:49,479 --> 00:02:54,439 are a stud man a stallion running right at a 48 00:02:54,439 --> 00:02:57,680 dog man with a pocket knife. That's awesome. What an 49 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:03,400 awesome little story. There's your dog man's story, folks. When 50 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:05,879 my wife was fourteen years old, her dad took the 51 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,879 family to Yellowstone National Park and in a camper, they 52 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,719 stayed in the Fishing Bridge campground. Sometime during the night, 53 00:03:14,879 --> 00:03:18,520 my wife was awakened by a noise outside. She pushed 54 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,960 the curtain back just enough for her to see out 55 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,319 the window, and she was surprised to see a large man. 56 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,680 She woke her mother up and told her that a 57 00:03:27,759 --> 00:03:30,280 man was looking in the window at her, but her 58 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,319 mom told her that she was dreaming and to go 59 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,120 back to sleep. She decided to take another peak to 60 00:03:36,159 --> 00:03:39,400 convince her mother that something strange was out there, but 61 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,000 again her mother told her to go back to sleep. 62 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:45,080 The next day they found dents of a large finger 63 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:50,280 impressions on the top of the camper. In nineteen seventy two, 64 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,280 when I came back from Vietnam, I decided to go 65 00:03:53,319 --> 00:03:57,960 to Bible College. We moved to Toko, Georgia and lived 66 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:01,199 in a low income government housing pet to be nearer 67 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,360 the school. In the woods behind our house, we would 68 00:04:04,439 --> 00:04:07,879 often hear knocks coming from the woods at night. The 69 00:04:07,879 --> 00:04:11,879 college had eleven hundred acres. Students were allowed to hunt 70 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:15,240 above the main campus. On the upper campus there was 71 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,800 a large lake with an earthen dam. One day, my 72 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,399 wife and I were up there scouting for upcoming deer season. 73 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:25,639 We were walking beside the beaver pines when we began 74 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,759 to hear footsteps paralleling hours in the woods. I thought 75 00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:32,000 maybe it was a black bear, but I wasn't too 76 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,000 worried because I had a thirty thirty rifle with me. 77 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:39,279 But something was unsettling about the sound of it. It 78 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,839 didn't sound like a bear. It sounded like a heavy 79 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,360 footed human. After the new year, we moved to a 80 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,319 different house on the mountain. The owner of the house 81 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:51,720 was a farmer who gave me permission to hunt on 82 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:56,519 his land, including the forested port. We never ran into 83 00:04:56,519 --> 00:04:59,079 bigfoot while we were hunting, but we would hear them 84 00:04:59,079 --> 00:05:01,959 in the woods at night from the house. When one 85 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,199 of them came close to the house, all the sounds 86 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,040 would come to a sudden halt, and then the strange 87 00:05:07,079 --> 00:05:12,199 house and other unnatural vocalizations fill the air. My wife 88 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:14,439 and I are in our seventies now and we plan 89 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,920 to go camping this summer and we hope to see 90 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:19,879 a Bigfoot or two. We live in Wyoming and are 91 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,560 planning to go to northern California, Oregon, and Washington. Oh Man. 92 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,720 I hope you get to see a couple of bigfoots. 93 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:29,720 That would be that would make the trip worthwhile, that 94 00:05:29,759 --> 00:05:32,000 would be worth going camping. I think long as they're 95 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,040 not too close. We don't want Bigfoot too close to us. 96 00:05:35,319 --> 00:05:38,240 We want to see them way over there. That's where 97 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,879 we want to see Bigfoot. Thank you to the writer 98 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:46,319 for sending this story. I thought it was great. On 99 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:50,360 a cloudless spring day in the California Central Valley, I 100 00:05:50,399 --> 00:05:53,759 could see the Sierras clearly to the east, one hundred 101 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,079 miles away. I had been outside in the backyard from 102 00:05:58,079 --> 00:06:03,319 my Saturday morning chore of airing dog poo. Fortunately, our 103 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,800 dogs were savvy enough to relieve themselves in generally the 104 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:11,800 same area of our half acre yard. Seven redwoods lined 105 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,000 the west side of the fence, and a shallow concrete 106 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,839 pool filled with colorful koi adorn the east side. I 107 00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:22,160 began to dig a hole near the tool shed at 108 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,680 the south corner without a conscious thought, and I turned 109 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,600 my head to the east, as if anticipating something was 110 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:33,639 coming at me. In midair, a gray colored creature stopped 111 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:37,920 abruptly and hovered upright about a shovel's length away, just 112 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,720 above my eye level. What the heck, I thought. As 113 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,720 we observed each other for five long seconds, it was 114 00:06:45,879 --> 00:06:47,519 enough time for me to get a good look at 115 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,319 it close up in bright daylight. I looked first, where 116 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:56,519 most animals have eyes. The flying creature had tiny black eyeballs, 117 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,639 if that's what they were. The rest of the eye 118 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,240 area were darker shades of gray. I saw no mouth 119 00:07:03,319 --> 00:07:07,319 and no nose. The thing had a body like a worm. 120 00:07:07,639 --> 00:07:11,120 It was two feet long and one fourth of that wide. 121 00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:14,000 It had transparent wings, but they did not reach out 122 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,560 like a bird's. Instead, they were adjoined alongside its entire 123 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,560 body on both sides, and they moved in waves, very 124 00:07:21,639 --> 00:07:25,720 much like a cuddlefish. As quickly as it appeared, it 125 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,319 flew off to the south, and I lost sight of it. 126 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,879 When it passed my neighbor's plum tree. It seemed to 127 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:36,639 dissolve into the sky. Now I'm no stranger to paranormal activity, 128 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,000 but this was weird even for me. I finished my 129 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,079 chore while engraving every detail of that buggish bird in 130 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,680 my mind. I told my wife as soon as I 131 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,160 entered the house, I just saw something out of a fairytale. Sweetheart. 132 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,560 Of course, she didn't know what to say, although we 133 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:57,560 had been married only a few years by then, she 134 00:07:57,639 --> 00:08:02,160 had witnessed several unnerving events in my company. Because of 135 00:08:02,199 --> 00:08:06,519 those scares and resolutions involving the dead, she gave me 136 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,000 the benefit of the doubt. Two weeks later, I watched 137 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,120 an episode of Monster Quest. A news cameraman had captured 138 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:20,800 on film an unexplained flying object at lax on several occasions, 139 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:25,399 streaking across the sky at low altitude. The UFOs appeared 140 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,720 like long, thin, gray forms, traveling so fast that human 141 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:34,960 eyes can only see them on film. Monster Quest named 142 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:41,519 them rods. A news anchorman seconded the recorded sightings videos 143 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,919 by other camera personnel and other places around the world 144 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,120 showed that humans didn't notice them as unknown animals. Started 145 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:52,720 by that's it, That's what I saw. I was so 146 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,159 excited that others had seen them too, even if only 147 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,200 on film. I jumped off the sofa and googled Tom, 148 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,679 the cameraman who first videoed these creatures. He had a 149 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,399 website just on this subject. Most of his narrative was 150 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,440 about how extremely upset he was that Monster Quests primarily 151 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,519 attempted to debunk what he had captured on film, so 152 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,159 typical of such TV programs when something new is explored. 153 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:23,320 I email my experience to him. In it, I presented 154 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,279 a question and he gave me an answer. Why would 155 00:09:26,279 --> 00:09:29,399 it stop and study you? I believe the speedy creature 156 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,799 stopped to take note of me because I since it coming. 157 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:37,480 That may not happen often. It's been more than twenty 158 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,320 years since I met that rod animal. I would be 159 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:46,960 pleased to encounter it another time anywhere. I live in 160 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,879 the East Midlands of England, a rural area about fifteen 161 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,720 miles from the nearest city. There are only twenty houses 162 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,960 in our village, and close by are the acres of woodland. 163 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:03,279 I've walked in those woods countless times with friends, and 164 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,200 I never found anything unusual other than the occasional tent. 165 00:10:08,159 --> 00:10:11,000 A man lives in those woods with his well trained 166 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:15,600 dogs that regularly compete in dog shows. I've never heard 167 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,559 them bark once and all the times I visited them. 168 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,080 During the COVID epidemic, I decided to take up running. 169 00:10:23,759 --> 00:10:26,679 Due to the situation, we were only allowed to exercise 170 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,759 outside once a day, and I decided to go for 171 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,080 a run in the mornings. It went well for a 172 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,960 few weeks. I improved a lost weight and I enjoyed myself. 173 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,759 I would run about a half mile up the road 174 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:43,600 and back. Eventually, I decided to run to a small 175 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,240 bridge over a ditch about a mile up the road 176 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,480 around there. Every day for a week or so, when 177 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:53,480 I ran, I listened to music to help distract myself 178 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:59,960 from from fatigue and exhaustion. My music was never too loud, 179 00:11:00,279 --> 00:11:03,960 just in case a car came down the road. One day, 180 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,639 I was approaching the bridge and I kept hearing something 181 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,600 other than my music. So I got to the bridge 182 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,360 and I stopped to listen. As I took my earphones out, 183 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:17,039 I heard a loud howl from the woods another mile ahead. 184 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,639 I stood there for a moment, trying to catch my breath, 185 00:11:21,039 --> 00:11:24,639 and moments later another howl came, but this time it 186 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,559 was closer. I searched my brain to think of what 187 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,759 could be making that noise. I knew that the man 188 00:11:31,799 --> 00:11:34,679 who lived up the road had dogs, but like I said, 189 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,639 they were trained in obedient. Another disturbing howl came, and 190 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,440 that was enough for me, and I ran straight back home, 191 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,840 and I spent the next days trying to think of 192 00:11:44,919 --> 00:11:48,080 what it could have been. I didn't say anything to 193 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,000 anyone because I didn't think it was that important, and 194 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,559 I came to the conclusion that it must have been 195 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,440 those dogs. Well, a few days later, I saw the 196 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,600 man outside gardening and I stopped to say hello, and 197 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:04,360 I asked him whether his dogs howled in the mornings. Well, 198 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:06,440 he looked at me like I was crazy and said 199 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,320 they never howled. I asked whether they were kept outside, 200 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,080 but he said that he kept them indoors until they 201 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,639 went on a walk, usually around nine am. I used 202 00:12:17,639 --> 00:12:20,279 to run at seven am, so whatever I heard out 203 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,960 there was not his dogs. But I put the house 204 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,240 to the back of my mind anyway, and I moved on. 205 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,360 Sometime later, I went on a walk with a girlfriend. 206 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:34,320 Her auntie lived in the village over. To get there, 207 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,519 you had to pass the man's house to go through 208 00:12:36,519 --> 00:12:38,879 the woods, and I dropped her off and I went 209 00:12:38,919 --> 00:12:40,919 back through the woods and I said hello to the 210 00:12:40,919 --> 00:12:43,759 man and his dogs, and I made my way home. 211 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,639 Between the woods and my house is a private gated 212 00:12:47,759 --> 00:12:52,879 lane where pheasant feeders are kept for shooting season. Well, 213 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:55,840 I approached the lane and I heard that same howl, 214 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,919 this time from the pheasant feeders. The gate was shut 215 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,679 and there were no vehicles at the entrance. I knew 216 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:06,679 the farmer checked the area regularly to ensure no one 217 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,679 could enter the property. So I came to the unsettling 218 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:13,120 conclusion that the creature in the woods had snuck its 219 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,639 way in. Well, I picked up my pace and I 220 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,879 went home. Whatever that howl was, it scared me enough 221 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:23,799 not to go on my morning runs at all. Thank 222 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,120 you for reading this far I don't mind if you 223 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,600 use my name. I know this story isn't very interesting, 224 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,080 but I know your viewers won't judge me. Keep up 225 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,159 the amazing work and I love listening to your podcast. 226 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,399 And the writer's name has Ben is from the East Midlands. 227 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,639 Of England. I really appreciate these stories from England and 228 00:13:45,159 --> 00:13:49,799 anywhere in Europe. I love hearing from those people. Australia, Europe. 229 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:56,759 You know, does Russia, does the Far East get these podcasts? 230 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,120 Is it like excluded? I've always wondered do Russians listen 231 00:14:01,159 --> 00:14:04,480 to this stuff? They probably don't understand English, and hell 232 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,000 I don't even speak English very well. But I was 233 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:13,840 just wondering, regarding the international audience, if anybody in Russia 234 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,559 or Ukraine or any of those countries in that area 235 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,720 of Europe and in Russia. Does China get podcasts? Probably not, 236 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:26,840 I know Japan does. I've heard from people from Japan, Okinawa, Africa. 237 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,559 I've heard a few from Africa, a lot from South Africa, 238 00:14:30,159 --> 00:14:34,279 north of South Africa, maybe one or two. Nobody from 239 00:14:34,279 --> 00:14:37,720 the Middle East, maybe one from Iran. I think Iran 240 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:40,360 must be able to get some of these. I'm not sure. 241 00:14:40,399 --> 00:14:43,440 I don't know how that works. Some countries block Western 242 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:47,600 websites and some countries don't, and people have access to them, 243 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,039 and I really don't know what I'm talking about. It 244 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,080 just kind of crossed my mind, so I said it. 245 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,200 So pay no attention to the village idiot here. I'm 246 00:14:56,279 --> 00:14:59,600 just rambling, but it was on my mind anyway. Thank 247 00:14:59,639 --> 00:15:03,120 you Ben for the story, and thanks for listening way 248 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:09,440 over there in England. I appreciate you, buddy. Thanks. I 249 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,200 live in Washington and I fished for most of the year. 250 00:15:13,039 --> 00:15:16,639 Last week was opening day of fishing on the Green River, 251 00:15:16,879 --> 00:15:20,360 just north of my home. The fishing was good. We 252 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:23,559 even hooked a fourteen inch trout on that particular day. 253 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,000 I stayed fishing for a while longer in that spot. 254 00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:29,799 My dad went down river to another hole not far 255 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,279 from me. I was fishing and a softball sized rock 256 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,720 flew six feet over my head and landed in the 257 00:15:36,799 --> 00:15:39,720 river in front of me. I looked back up into 258 00:15:39,759 --> 00:15:43,399 the thick timber, but I couldn't see anything. I got 259 00:15:43,399 --> 00:15:46,200 my dad's attention and I told him what happened. We 260 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:49,120 walked out of there, expecting to see someone on that hill. 261 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:51,639 I thought it was a guy or kid throwing a 262 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,519 rock into the river, not knowing we were there, But 263 00:15:54,559 --> 00:15:57,679 there was no one up there. I knew something had 264 00:15:57,679 --> 00:16:00,320 thrown it because I heard it hitting the treetops before 265 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,960 it hit the water in front of me. Now there's 266 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,759 a chance it could have been a person, but I 267 00:16:04,759 --> 00:16:07,039 don't know how they could have gotten out of the 268 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,080 area that fast without us seeing them. I don't think 269 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,879 a kid can throw a softball sized rock very far, 270 00:16:14,559 --> 00:16:16,960 and if it were an adult, he'd have to have 271 00:16:17,159 --> 00:16:19,320 been a big guy, in which case I would have 272 00:16:19,399 --> 00:16:24,000 seen him. This event confuses me to this day. Now 273 00:16:24,039 --> 00:16:26,679 I still fish out there, but that experience is in 274 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:32,440 the back of my mind every time. In the late 275 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:36,240 nineteen nineties, when my mother was in her sixties, a 276 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:40,279 memory returned to her. It was a vision long buried 277 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,120 in her mind. She was born in nineteen thirty three, 278 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,200 the third of ten children, and she had grown up 279 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,519 on a shared plot of land that held both her 280 00:16:49,559 --> 00:16:54,120 family's home and her aunt, Doris's house. This was a 281 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,039 land filled with memories of daily life and family, a 282 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,279 place where even the extraordinary might be given a practical explanation. 283 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,559 But this particular memory, once it returned to fight all 284 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:11,480 ordinary reasoning and challenged even her deeply rooted Christian faith. 285 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,839 In nineteen forty four, when she was eleven years old, 286 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,759 something startling happened. Her father thought the barn was on fire. 287 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:24,240 When they rushed closer to investigate, they were not met 288 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:29,480 with flames or smoke, but something entirely different. Suspended in 289 00:17:29,599 --> 00:17:33,480 midair above the barn was a perfect sphere, a phenomenon 290 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:37,400 that none of them could have expected or explained. The 291 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,720 sphere appeared almost alive. As my mother described it, it 292 00:17:41,759 --> 00:17:45,160 was beautiful. It was a liquid like surface, and it 293 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,240 shifted with vivid colors, so bright that it should have 294 00:17:48,319 --> 00:17:52,759 hurt her eyes, but it didn't. They approached it in silence, 295 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:55,599 unable to see it until they were nearly upon it 296 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,759 due to the slope of the land. Once they were 297 00:17:58,759 --> 00:18:02,920 close enough, words seemed to disappear. The only sound came 298 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,400 from her mother, who murmured a low, almost reverent tone, 299 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,559 always heard if you see something like this, there's going 300 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,200 to be a death in the family. They gazed at 301 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,559 the sphere in silence and bound together by a shared 302 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:22,640 awe and foreboding, And although the experience was powerful and unsettling, 303 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:26,960 none of them ever spoke about it again. My mother 304 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,440 couldn't remember how they returned to the house afterward. The 305 00:18:30,519 --> 00:18:34,200 memory simply faded, hidden somewhere in her mind, as if 306 00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:39,400 shielding her from something that lay beyond understanding. Then, on 307 00:18:39,559 --> 00:18:42,200 a day in nineteen ninety seven, as she was going 308 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,079 about her day, the memory resurfaced, as vivid as the 309 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,480 moment had happened, and she found herself asking aloud, where 310 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,920 did it go? The vision returned with such force that 311 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,119 it felt less like a memory and more like a 312 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:01,359 glimpse into an unresolved part of her life. She shared 313 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,559 it with me, describing the sphere as if she were 314 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:08,319 seeing it again. The liquid colors, the eerie silence, and 315 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:13,599 the brightness all still so real to her. Her devotion 316 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,559 to honesty left no room for doubt in my mind, 317 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,039 and her telling was so detailed that we even talked 318 00:19:20,039 --> 00:19:23,279 about visiting the hypnotist to try to uncover more, but 319 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,240 we never did. Now that my mother has passed, I 320 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,720 often think back on her story, and I wonder what 321 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,759 she might have discovered if we had pursued it further. 322 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:37,119 I imagine that in some way she finally knows all there 323 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,000 is to know about that sphere and the mysteries of 324 00:19:40,039 --> 00:19:43,960 that day. Her memory of it remains vivid in my mind, 325 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,200 a story that transcends time and serves as a reminder 326 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,440 of the mysteries that lie just beyond what we can see. 327 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,079 Thank you, Cameron for letting me share this, Keep up 328 00:19:55,079 --> 00:19:58,200 the good work and stay just as you are. God 329 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,799 bless you and your family, Tina. God bless you, Tina. 330 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,000 Thank you for that memory of your mother. That's really 331 00:20:05,839 --> 00:20:09,400 it's really intriguing. And what a don't how do you 332 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,279 describe these things. It's like it's just a warm memory 333 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:15,200 of something unusual. I don't know. I'm not even gonna 334 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,759 try it. She has her feelings about it, and that's 335 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:21,000 all that counts. What a nice story, What a nice 336 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:28,839 unusual story. Thanks Tina. All right, here is a set 337 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:35,319 of multiple encounters from Carl and Michelle in Arkansas, and 338 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,240 she titles this email our encounter. So I'm just gonna 339 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,319 read it. At the end of the email, she says, 340 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:45,200 if you need to edit it, go ahead. Michelle, I 341 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,160 didn't have to. I didn't have to change a word 342 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,839 in this. She wrote it perfectly, at least perfectly enough 343 00:20:51,839 --> 00:20:53,480 for me to read it. So here we go. All right, 344 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:56,480 here we go, Here we go. My name is Michelle 345 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,720 and I'm fifty four years old. My husband, Carl is 346 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:04,200 four six and we're both prior military, and my husband's 347 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,160 been in combat on more than one occasion, so he 348 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:12,799 suffers from severe PTSD. We both have our Bachelors of 349 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,839 Science degree from UCA and we've been happily married for 350 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,400 twenty one years now, so we're not a couple of flakes. 351 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:23,599 I grew up in the foothills of the Ozarks in 352 00:21:23,599 --> 00:21:27,039 a town called Shirley, which only has a population of 353 00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:31,079 three hundred and thirty six. I occupied myself in the 354 00:21:31,079 --> 00:21:34,200 woods growing up. In fact, when I wasn't in school, 355 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:37,400 that's where I could be found. My father was a 356 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,960 rock mason and a woodcarver. Being his only child, I 357 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:44,759 was raised a tomboy. He taught me about plants and animals, 358 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:46,960 and he taught me how to hunt, so I'm very 359 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:51,759 familiar with the woods here in Arkansas. My husband grew 360 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:54,720 up in the shadow of White Rock Mountain in a 361 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,079 little community called Pleasant View here in Arkansas. His father 362 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,400 served in the Spoke Forces during Vietnam and taught him 363 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,680 to be a survivalist from birth. So we're both at 364 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,079 home in the forest, to say the least. In twenty ten, 365 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,200 we were spending the night with a friend of ours 366 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,759 by the name of Austin. He and my husband were close. 367 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,440 He lived in an old single wide trailer and that 368 00:22:19,559 --> 00:22:22,319 sat on a hill and away, so that one end 369 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,559 was higher than the other. The tongue d was a 370 00:22:25,559 --> 00:22:27,759 foot off the ground and the other was four and 371 00:22:27,799 --> 00:22:31,160 a half feet off the ground, So the small, sideways 372 00:22:31,279 --> 00:22:34,720 rectangular window in the bedroom was eight feet off the ground. 373 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,319 Now Austin lives in a community that is way out 374 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:43,160 in the sticks, just outside Plumberville, Arkansas. It was a 375 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,759 pleasant summer evening and we were all hanging around the house. 376 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:49,599 Carl got up to go to the restroom as the 377 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,400 rest of us were talking. He hadn't been out there 378 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,720 long when I heard him calling my name. I noticed 379 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,960 that his tone sounded strange and off, so I rushed 380 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,119 to the bathroom to see what was going on. When 381 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,079 I opened the door, the first thing I heard was 382 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,559 a low, rumbling growl. I looked at my husband, who 383 00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:10,119 was still sitting on the toilet with a shocked look 384 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,440 on his face and his pants around his ankles, and 385 00:23:12,519 --> 00:23:15,519 asked him what the hell was that. I don't know. 386 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,119 He said it was dark outside and I couldn't see 387 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,440 anything out the long, skinny window. So I ran over 388 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,160 and I turned out the light and I went back 389 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,400 to the window. The street light was just out of 390 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,440 my line of sight but still illuminated in the end 391 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,599 of the yard. There was a small strip of mode 392 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,079 grass at the end of the trailer, and then it 393 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,119 was just short brush. All I could see was a 394 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,240 large mass on all fours, parting the grass and shrubbery. 395 00:23:44,079 --> 00:23:46,640 It looked to be four feet across the shoulders and 396 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,319 at least six feet long from shoulder to butt. I 397 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,000 did not see a tail, and I turned around and 398 00:23:53,039 --> 00:23:56,480 I asked him what just happened. He told me that 399 00:23:56,599 --> 00:23:58,759 he had just come in the bathroom and sat down 400 00:23:58,799 --> 00:24:02,359 when he heard a loud growl that made his insides vibrate, 401 00:24:02,759 --> 00:24:04,680 and tried to yell from me, but he didn't want 402 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,680 to be loud. At the same time, he said that 403 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:11,079 it had growled a low, rumbling growl that was similar 404 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,359 to the one that I had heard just after this. 405 00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:17,720 I know that what we heard was no dog, no coyote, 406 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,799 or bear, none of which could ever growl like this. 407 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,400 Only my husband heard the first and loudest and scariest 408 00:24:25,599 --> 00:24:29,599 growl of them all, which scared him stiff. He said 409 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,880 he felt all the blood in his body pour down 410 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,279 to his feet in fear. Worst of which was that hee. 411 00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:38,200 That first growl in the back of his neck, literally 412 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,359 through the open door, which only had a screen between 413 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,680 him and the beast. He said he was afraid to 414 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,279 turn around and look out the window, and he swore 415 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,680 it sounded like a werewolf from a movie and was 416 00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:54,920 canine for sure, and doesn't remember if he smelled anything. 417 00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:58,920 At this time, he had never researched or knew about 418 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,519 dog men or wear being real. My husband said that 419 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:04,599 when he was setting on the toilet and the beast 420 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,599 growled on his neck, it was the scariest moment of 421 00:25:07,599 --> 00:25:11,279 his entire life. Now that's coming from someone who has 422 00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:15,519 seen the absolute worst and best of all humanity. He said, 423 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:17,960 if he hadn't been on the toilet, he'd probably have 424 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:22,640 wet or sold himself. Austin had the pit ball outside 425 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,359 tied up in the back corner of the trailer, almost 426 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,799 right next to the window that was located behind my 427 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,279 husband as he did his business in the toilet, and 428 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,440 we never heard a peep out of her during all 429 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,680 of this. This all happened late in the evening and 430 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,960 in the morning we found out why she was lying 431 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,960 in the yard with her chest and stomach ripped out 432 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,640 and the contents were gone. We felt so bad for 433 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,559 that dog. Carl thinks he interrupted the beast while it 434 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,160 was eating her, and it voiced its displeasure at him. 435 00:25:55,799 --> 00:26:00,759 Good lord, that's man. That is shocking. Sorry. I don't 436 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:02,880 normally stop in the middle of a story, but that 437 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,960 is man. That was scare me to death. I walked 438 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,640 out and saw a dead dog like that after hearing 439 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:13,079 all those growls. Anyway, let's move on years later in 440 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,519 twenty fourteen. In twenty fifteen, we were in Bush, Arkansas. 441 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,839 We had ten acres with a medium sized creek that 442 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,880 ran down the backside of our property and it empties 443 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,559 into the White River at the southeast corner of our land. 444 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,759 Beyond the creek at the backside of the property is 445 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,200 Army Corps of Engineer Land. Our property was roughly rectangular shaped. 446 00:26:36,599 --> 00:26:39,559 The road we lived down dead ended and became our 447 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,000 long curvy driveway. The house was in the middle of 448 00:26:43,039 --> 00:26:46,119 the acreage. You couldn't see the house from our steel 449 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,960 gate at the entrance. If you were standing at the 450 00:26:49,079 --> 00:26:52,000 end of our driveway, the house and shed would be 451 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:54,319 on your right, and the only house that was close 452 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,200 to us was back down the drive to the left 453 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,759 of our gate. About one hundred and fifty feet and 454 00:26:59,839 --> 00:27:02,440 it had two eight by eight metal sheds at the 455 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:06,079 end of a single wide mobile home. Their fence ran 456 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:11,039 the full length of our driveway. The first time something happened, 457 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,000 I was taking Sugar Bear, our miniature poodle, out to 458 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,960 go to the bathroom around two am. I usually walked 459 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,119 her on a leash because there are bobcats and codies, 460 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,400 and husband even went face to face with a mountain 461 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,640 lion one evening. Even though gaming fished and ice that 462 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,200 they are here, it was clear out and it was 463 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,240 a full moon, so I didn't take a flashlight. I 464 00:27:36,319 --> 00:27:39,000 was just across the driveway near the fence that marked 465 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,759 the property boundary when I heard a rock hit a 466 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,480 tree near me from across the fence. It went thwack 467 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,319 against the tree and then thump, thump, thump to the ground. 468 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,559 My heart began to beat faster as I struggled to 469 00:27:51,599 --> 00:27:54,640 see what was there. I could not see what threw it, 470 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,279 but my first thought was it was a bigfoot. Now 471 00:27:58,319 --> 00:28:01,000 Sugar didn't bark, but she was headed toward the house, 472 00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:03,960 tugging on the leash, so I took her advice and 473 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,680 I'm back toward the house never taking my eyes off 474 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,920 the woodline, and then we went inside. I told my 475 00:28:11,039 --> 00:28:13,880 husband the next morning. He said that he believed that 476 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,279 I had heard something out there, but he doubted it 477 00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:20,759 was bigfoot. Days later, a friend came by to do 478 00:28:20,839 --> 00:28:24,920 some fishing. We will call him Wily. He took his gear, 479 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,359 a water jug in one of our large handled spotlights. 480 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,359 This was around five pm when he went down to 481 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,720 the creek. Around seven or eight, it was after dark. 482 00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:38,759 He came running in the front door with no stuff 483 00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:41,839 and only one shoe. He was breathing heavy and his 484 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,839 eyes were white, and he was white as a ghost. 485 00:28:45,559 --> 00:28:48,880 When we asked Wily what happened, he said, I don't 486 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,440 know what's down there, but it's big and it's pissed off. 487 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,200 We asked where all the stuff was, and he added, 488 00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:58,000 I left it down there, and I'm not going back 489 00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:00,240 for it. I ran plumb out of my shoe and 490 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,680 I'm never fishing here again. He told us that the 491 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,359 spotlight had died on him, so he didn't get a 492 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,440 good look at it. Well. He stayed the night. We 493 00:29:09,519 --> 00:29:11,359 told him that we would go get his stuff the 494 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,920 next day. The next morning, my husband and I went 495 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,759 to the dock to get his things. His fishing gear 496 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,960 was untouched, but his shoe was missing, as well as 497 00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:24,920 his water jug. We found his shoe thirty feet up 498 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,599 the creek and his bottle on the bank ten more 499 00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,880 feet up stream. My husband didn't know what to think 500 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,160 because Wiley was a bit of a lush and he 501 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,799 had a tendency to spin a good yarn now and then. 502 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,319 But I believed him. I mean, the man ran out 503 00:29:39,359 --> 00:29:42,839 of his shoe and he kept running. Later, I was 504 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,759 taking Sugar out at approximately two thirty or three am. 505 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,279 This was a week or so later. This time, instead 506 00:29:50,319 --> 00:29:52,680 of heading toward the river, I took her toward our 507 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,839 gate at the opposite end of the driveway. I had 508 00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:00,200 a small hand held spotlight with a click switch on it. 509 00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:03,240 That night, we had turned off the street light that 510 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:05,880 stood between the house and the shed because we liked 511 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,720 to look at the stars. As we walked past the sheds, 512 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,160 which was on my right, I heard a loud bang. 513 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,319 It's something huge smack the side of one of the sheds. 514 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,759 I was so startled that when I jumped, I clicked 515 00:30:19,799 --> 00:30:21,839 off the light and I dropped it at my feet 516 00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:24,920 as fast as I could get it picked up. I 517 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,839 turned it on and scanned the shed area, but there 518 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,920 was nothing. Absolutely nothing is what I saw. I figure 519 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,160 it was hiding behind one of the sheds. This time, 520 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,240 Sugar ran behind me barking. I was tired and I 521 00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:40,640 hadn't forgotten to put her on a leash, and I 522 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,440 had backed up towards the house, my heart thumping as 523 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,039 we went inside. He did this for about a month 524 00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:49,440 and a half, but each time it smacked the shed, 525 00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:53,319 I jumped less and less. I was startled, but I 526 00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:55,839 was curious At the same time. I really wanted to 527 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,720 see this thing. After this, I brought my twelve gage 528 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,240 pump with me every night as a precaution. After all, 529 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:07,240 there are wild animals and they can be unpredictable. The 530 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:09,640 next morning, I told my husband what had happened, and 531 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,799 he just looked at me, puzzled and gave me the 532 00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:16,440 typical spouse who hasn't seen or heard anything response. I 533 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,720 don't know, he said, maybe you're imagining things, even after 534 00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:23,720 what happened to our friend. I wasn't angry with him 535 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,039 for his response. He just hadn't seen or heard anything yet. 536 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,359 I never felt like I needed to use the shotgun 537 00:31:31,559 --> 00:31:34,519 at any time as these things were happening, because I 538 00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:37,880 never felt threatened. It never growled at me or made 539 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,680 any vocalizations. It felt more like it was laughing at 540 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:46,400 me inside, thinking watch the silly human jump. I never 541 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,279 smelled anything, but I think that was because it crossed 542 00:31:49,319 --> 00:31:52,000 the river and possibly the creek to get there, depending 543 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,480 on where he crossed the river. One evening, I was 544 00:31:55,519 --> 00:31:58,640 on the back deck barbecuing dinner when downward the creek 545 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,079 and the river meet, I heard loud, grunting sound. It 546 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,599 reminded me of a gorilla, but it had a different 547 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,480 quality to it. There was so much more base. That night, 548 00:32:09,559 --> 00:32:12,240 it was around eleven PM when I took Sugar out 549 00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:16,279 now Sugar and I passed our shed. I heard crashing 550 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,920 like an elephant was coming through the woods, except it 551 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,480 was on two legs. It was moving from right to left, 552 00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:26,000 behind the canoes toward the house. This time I did 553 00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:30,119 raise my shotgun and it froze, and at first I 554 00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:33,640 couldn't hear anything. Then I heard a shuffle and a shuffle, 555 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,319 and the leaves were moving, and I knew it was 556 00:32:36,359 --> 00:32:39,279 standing there, and I got the impression that it didn't 557 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:42,279 know what to do at that moment. I just didn't 558 00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:45,039 want our puppy being a snack for this thing, and 559 00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:48,960 I shined the shotgun's flashlight into the woods. But I 560 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,079 never saw it. Now, why I shine nothing? So once 561 00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:54,680 again I backed my way toward the house and went in. 562 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,119 I figure it must have been shot at before by 563 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,920 the way it froze. Intended to shoot it unless I 564 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,039 had to. I told my husband when I got in 565 00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:07,759 the house what had happened. So the next morning he 566 00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:10,599 went out to look, but he found nothing. He didn't 567 00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:13,920 even find a broken tree limb. I couldn't believe he 568 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,000 didn't find anything. It really blew my mind. It was 569 00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:20,720 so loud that it sounded like it was breaking everything 570 00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:24,200 in its path. He was beginning to think I was nuts. 571 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:30,079 But then something else happened. A week later, he was 572 00:33:30,119 --> 00:33:33,079 taking Sugar out with a shotgun in tow when he 573 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,440 got a surprise. They got out the door and onto 574 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,640 the middle of the driveway when in the woods on 575 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,960 the other side of the fence came something huge crashing 576 00:33:42,039 --> 00:33:46,559 through the trees. My husband does not scare easy. He 577 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,240 was raised in the woods of Arkansas by a Vietnam 578 00:33:49,319 --> 00:33:54,039 Green Beret veteran turned Southern Baptist preacher, and he himself 579 00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:57,480 was a combat veteran. Both my husband and his father 580 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,480 are tough, old school guys. But he raised that twelve 581 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,519 gay shot gun and it froze. He shined the flashlight 582 00:34:05,599 --> 00:34:08,280 into the trees high and low, but he could see nothing. 583 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,840 He said, it sounded like a prehistoric mammoth crashing through 584 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,719 the woods coming toward him, but he couldn't see or 585 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:21,239 find anything. Like myself, he backed into the house, shot 586 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,719 gun at the ready. A few days later, the neighbors 587 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,039 at the gate end of our driveway told us that 588 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,360 just after dark the night before, they had chased a 589 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,360 large man off their property onto hours. Now. I've always 590 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,760 wanted to go back there and see if this thing 591 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,760 is still there, but I can't get anyone to go 592 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,159 with me. We moved not long after that. We moved 593 00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,880 to a suburb of Rogers on Beaver Lake. After all this, 594 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:53,559 my husband bought us all a glock ten millimeter. Our 595 00:34:53,599 --> 00:34:57,519 son lives with us, so that's three glocks. We now 596 00:34:57,559 --> 00:35:00,559 have a house rule that no one goes out at 597 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:04,599 all without their ten millimeter. He also bought two Rock 598 00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:08,880 Island VR eighty semi auto twelve game shotguns with mags. 599 00:35:09,599 --> 00:35:13,800 He turned our Yukon Excel Denali into an adventure vehicle 600 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:20,400 and is planning to get more guns, a Ruger Precision 601 00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:24,000 Rifle in three hundred win mag and a Marlin Lever 602 00:35:24,159 --> 00:35:27,440 Action forty five seventy before we move back out to 603 00:35:27,519 --> 00:35:31,280 the country again, which I hope is soon. Thank you 604 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,719 for reading this. Let me know what you think about 605 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,679 our encounters. Feel free to use our names. These events 606 00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:41,159 are absolutely true. If you need to edit, feel free. 607 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,920 Blessings Michelle and Carl, and she goes on to say 608 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,719 contact us by phone. I very rarely do that. I 609 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,960 just want to read your story and try to get 610 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,000 to as many as I can with the mand this 611 00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:57,480 family they've had. This is one of those deals where 612 00:35:57,519 --> 00:36:00,800 these people just have so much trouble with a creature 613 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,880 and they never see it. They never see anything, they 614 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,000 never find any evidence of it being there. Yet they 615 00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:12,159 experience something like a dump truck coming through the woods. 616 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,400 It is so odd. I guess you can make a 617 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,360 lot of noise maybe coming through woods, like in the 618 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,679 spring or summer when there's a lot of leaves on, 619 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,320 and you can go up there and not see the 620 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,199 damage because there's so much going on in the woods. 621 00:36:26,199 --> 00:36:29,719 There is so much, so many leaves, tree limbs and all. 622 00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:32,880 And you know, sound is deceptive. You might think it's 623 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,320 right on you, but it could be fifty yards away, 624 00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:38,000 or it could be right. It could be fifty yards 625 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,960 away and be one hundred yards away. You know, they 626 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,960 could sound like it's fifty yards away and be one 627 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,199 hundred yards away. So the point is, sound does weird 628 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,320 things in woods. I hear my dog barking sometimes, and 629 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,960 I think that dog is a mile away, and I'll 630 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,039 stand up on my porch we kind of face a 631 00:36:56,039 --> 00:36:58,159 big patch of woods right out in my back door, 632 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,039 and he'll just be twenty yards in the woods, just 633 00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:03,519 standing there. I can seem, but he sounds like he's 634 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,800 really far away. So anyway, the point is, it's so odd. 635 00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:11,360 And this is not the only set of experiences I've 636 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,280 heard that people have all this stuff go on, yet 637 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,039 they never see anything. They never find any evidence, no tracks, 638 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:23,360 no nothing. Now some people do find tracks, but this 639 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,719 couple is one of the unlucky few who they just 640 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,360 can't prove what this thing is. And I know they'd 641 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,599 like to know just for themselves, not to prove it 642 00:37:32,639 --> 00:37:37,519 to the world. But it's a that's just an interesting phenomenon. 643 00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:41,440 But I appreciate didn't have to edit one bit of this. Normally, 644 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,840 I send this stuff to Rebecca and she cranks it 645 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,199 out real fast. And y'all have heard me mention Rebecca 646 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,519 Rebecca Lee West and the author's she helps me edit 647 00:37:51,559 --> 00:37:54,400 these emails. I don't know if you guys have read 648 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,840 her book or not, but she's got one book out 649 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:01,440 called No good Man. Actually it's on audiobook right now. 650 00:38:01,559 --> 00:38:06,159 I did not do it. Christopher Lane, who is an exceptional, 651 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:12,639 exceptional audiobook narrator, narrated her book, and but I did 652 00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,199 one chapter of it just to help promote her book. 653 00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:21,679 Rebecca's pretty cool. She's she's a writer, she's a screenplaywriter. 654 00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:25,920 She's got a young family. I don't know. She's an 655 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,480 exceptional person and stays busy all the time. Look her 656 00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:33,480 website up Rebecca Lee Wesson and find her book No 657 00:38:33,599 --> 00:38:37,880 good Man on audible or on Amazon bite and read 658 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,559 it or by it and listen to it. Christopher Lane 659 00:38:40,559 --> 00:38:42,920 did a great job. I'm just once again one of 660 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,199 these things. I don't ever hardly mention Rebecca, but she's 661 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,400 she's an exceptional writer. She does a great job, and 662 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,960 she's working on a book two of No good Man. 663 00:38:53,079 --> 00:38:58,679 She's working on a fictional podcast called the River Stills 664 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,519 Trailer Park Phenomenon, on which I've actually had the pleasure 665 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:06,679 of reading her first three episodes in the fictional podcast 666 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,039 the screenplay, and it is so good. I can't wait 667 00:39:11,119 --> 00:39:14,280 till she's able to get that produced and get it out. Anyway, 668 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,000 check her out, Rebecca Lee Wesson. Look her name up 669 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,800 on Google. You can go to her website check out 670 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,119 what all she's doing. Or you can look her up 671 00:39:24,159 --> 00:39:30,079 on Amazon or Audible. Anyway, thanks for the story this story. 672 00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:33,840 It didn't require any editor Sorry, it didn't need you, Rebecca. Sorry, 673 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,159 didn't need any editing on this one. That was the 674 00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:40,199 whole point of that. Anyway. Thanks for listening to the story. 675 00:39:40,199 --> 00:39:45,760 Thanks for thanks for sending the story Michelle and Carl Man. 676 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,440 What an experience. Awesome. Thanks again, thanks for listening to 677 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,840 the podcast. This is Easter Sunday and I'm just finishing 678 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,800 this podcast up. I hope you have a blessed day. 679 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,320 Hope you got to hang around with a family, Hope 680 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,239 that Easter Bunny got to come see your kids and 681 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,599 your grandkids, and remember that the holiday is about Jesus 682 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,159 rising from the tomb after he was crucified three days earlier. 683 00:40:12,599 --> 00:40:15,400 And also remember that his last name is not Christ. 684 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,960 It's not jesus first name, Christ's second name. His name 685 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,159 is Jesus. He is our King and I'm so glad 686 00:40:22,199 --> 00:40:24,480 he came out of that tomb. Hope you guys have 687 00:40:24,519 --> 00:40:26,440 a good week and we will see you on the 688 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,519 next podcast. Thanks