1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,519 Speaker 1: In the late summer of twenty fourteen, my husband and 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,160 I were enjoying a relaxing afternoon in our apartment watching TV. 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,120 It was rare that our days off coincided, so we 4 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,079 were content just being on the same sofa together. I 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,679 got up to retrieve something from the kitchen, but when 6 00:00:29,719 --> 00:00:32,759 I walked back into the living room, I witnessed something 7 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,399 that I will never forget, and I couldn't make up 8 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,200 even if I wanted to. Six or seven feet away 9 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,399 from the sofa and four feet off the ground, a 10 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,200 glowing orb appeared out of thin air right in front 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,320 of me. I blinked several times, thinking it was dust 12 00:00:50,359 --> 00:00:53,399 on my contact lens or something in my head, but 13 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,560 it remained. It was smaller than a cantalope, but bigger 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,000 than a grapefruit, maybe six orven inches in diameter, and 15 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:06,599 it had the most unusual but beautiful, soft bluish purple 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,959 luminescence to it. It was semi transparent and appeared to 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 be hollow in the center. It reminded me of a 18 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,239 giant soap bubble, but the nearest bathroom was around the 19 00:01:18,239 --> 00:01:21,040 corner and down the hall, much too far for a 20 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,599 bubble that size. To travel without popping. I remember how 21 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,560 puzzled I was trying to figure out how it was 22 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,719 being illuminated. Was it lit from the inside? No? From 23 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,319 one of my lamps? No? Again, it was late in 24 00:01:37,359 --> 00:01:41,680 the afternoon and the only light source was our open window. 25 00:01:41,719 --> 00:01:44,920 This sounds strange, but it seemed like the surface or 26 00:01:45,079 --> 00:01:48,280 the skin of this orb was radiating its own light. 27 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,760 All of a sudden, I felt very calm, and for 28 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,319 some reason I knew that it was benign. It hung 29 00:01:55,359 --> 00:01:58,640 in the air, barely moving as I stood in place 30 00:01:58,719 --> 00:02:02,239 and watched it. I wanted to get my husband's attention, 31 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,439 who was glued to the TV, and I wanted to 32 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,000 say something, but I was fixated and under the spell 33 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:12,680 of whatever this was. I was in awe and I 34 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:15,599 didn't care to speak, or look away or even move, 35 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,759 even though I had the urge to reach out and 36 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,319 touch it. I was worried it would disappear at the 37 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:27,039 slightest disturbance. Mentally, I was begging my husband to look 38 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,680 over in my direction to concur with what I was seeing, 39 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,360 if not also have the chance to see something truly awesome, 40 00:02:34,719 --> 00:02:39,520 but to no avail. Within ten seconds, the orb vanished 41 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,840 into thin air just as quickly and randomly as it 42 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:47,680 had appeared. It didn't pop or implode. It simply disappeared, 43 00:02:47,719 --> 00:02:51,719 like someone turning off a light switch. My feet were 44 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:54,039 glued to the floor, and I turned at the hip 45 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,199 toward my oblivious husband. Please tell me you saw that, 46 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:02,639 I said excitedly. He finally looked up and gave me 47 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,439 a look that read huh that orb thing. You didn't 48 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,599 see it, I said, I stammered, and almost irritated with 49 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,479 him for not noticing. He looked at me like I 50 00:03:14,599 --> 00:03:18,439 was crazy, until he read the expression on my face. Baby, 51 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:22,840 What did you see? He asked, half suspicious and half concerned. 52 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:26,080 I told him everything. I just relate to you, and 53 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,680 he went through the same rational checklist I had. Was 54 00:03:29,719 --> 00:03:33,960 it a soap bubble? Was it just the light? No? No, no? 55 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,360 Were the answers to all the sane and reasonable possibilities? 56 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,159 He offered. My husband knows that I am an eccentric person, 57 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,840 but an honest one too, and I firmly believe in karma. 58 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,080 So he believed me, and he still does. However, neither 59 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,360 of us can accurately or definitively identify what I saw. 60 00:03:55,719 --> 00:03:59,520 This experience heightened my fascination and jump started my study 61 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:02,240 of this anomaly, and I have come to find that 62 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,280 people all over the world have seen these orbs for centuries. 63 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,199 It counts vary, as do the descriptions. They can be 64 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:15,960 any size, any color, and some are even mobile and recurring. 65 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,800 Another interesting point is that most of these sightings take 66 00:04:20,879 --> 00:04:26,879 place in energetically charge locations where other supernatural sightings have occurred. 67 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:30,839 There are hundreds of photos of these online, but much 68 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,600 like any paranormal or supernatural phenomenon, it's hard to obtain 69 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:39,160 scientific and physical proof, so we have to rely on 70 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,040 first hand accounts like this. I don't mind if you 71 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,439 use my name or not, because I have nothing to 72 00:04:45,519 --> 00:04:49,120 lose or gain by telling my story. It was just 73 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,639 a really amazing but true event that happened to this witness. 74 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:57,439 I still have no idea what these orbs are, or 75 00:04:57,439 --> 00:05:00,680 where they come from, or what they mean. Either way, 76 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:05,040 it was a beautiful materialization of energy, and I feel 77 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,680 privileged to have seen it. Recalling this story makes me 78 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,879 smile and reminds me that we don't know what we 79 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,480 don't know about this world, but it is truly a 80 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:19,720 wondrous place. Nonetheless, and it deserves the same respect and 81 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,480 care that we all do. I hope something random and 82 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,199 awesome happens to you today. She's talking to me and 83 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,240 the people listening. Thank you for your time and your 84 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,720 wonderfully eye opening channel. Okay, she's going to talk about 85 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:38,160 all that. What I thought was the reason I pulled 86 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,240 this story up and read it was because Brittany said, 87 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:46,120 I hope something random and awesome happens for you today. Now, 88 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,759 people who are sad and ugly and mean and grouchy 89 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,879 and curmudgeon don't say things like that. So I can 90 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:57,600 tell this woman as a very happy person, and she 91 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,319 looks at things I cannot kind of identif with what 92 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:04,839 she's saying. I've seen things in my life and I 93 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,439 just look at them in wonder. I'm just I look 94 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,240 at things in all that are strange like this, and 95 00:06:13,319 --> 00:06:15,680 I think to myself, how lucky I was to get 96 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,800 to have seen that. I've talked about a few of 97 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:20,879 those things in some of my podcasts, and none of 98 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,480 them are spectacular. But even the slightest unusual beautiful light 99 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,160 or you can even be a sunset or a group 100 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,040 of geese lighting in a field, or being buzzed by 101 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:36,360 twenty wood ducks right at the end of the day 102 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,399 when they're coming into roost, or watching a big bass 103 00:06:40,399 --> 00:06:42,879 bust of water. I could go on and on and on. 104 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:47,920 The last six days, as I ride through the woods 105 00:06:47,959 --> 00:06:53,079 with my dogs, I have seen deer up close five 106 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,240 out of six days. I didn't see them today, but 107 00:06:56,399 --> 00:07:00,600 the previous five days it's like I almost know they're there, 108 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:03,120 and I know where to look, and there I set 109 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,360 up close. Some of them are pretty far away and 110 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,439 they're in the woods and you can barely see them, 111 00:07:07,439 --> 00:07:10,600 and you don't see them until they move or twist 112 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,680 their tail or whatever they have to move for you 113 00:07:13,759 --> 00:07:16,319 to see them, or you will not see them. I 114 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:20,000 don't know. There's something going on right now, and I'll 115 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,240 be riding down a lane or through one of these 116 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,040 old logging roads and something will tell me to look 117 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,959 to the left. And maybe it's God. Maybe he knows 118 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,079 I like looking at wildlife, and he's just saying, look 119 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,399 to your life. There's a couple of idea over there. 120 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,319 Take a peek. So I'm I'm I'm kind of the 121 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,519 same way this woman is. I look at everything I 122 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,560 don't know with young eyes. I'm sixty years old. I'm 123 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,519 getting older, but I try and I think I look 124 00:07:45,519 --> 00:07:48,800 at everything with young eyes. So maybe that's a good 125 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:52,959 motto for today or something to tell yourself throughout the week, 126 00:07:53,199 --> 00:07:55,480 is just say, I want to look at things with 127 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,279 young eyes like a kid. And when you see something, 128 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,079 just look at it. If it's if it's a dog, 129 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:04,199 if it's a child, if it's your wife, it's whatever. 130 00:08:04,399 --> 00:08:06,639 Look at those things like a child and have those 131 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:10,720 childlike experiences. Brittany, thank you very much for the story, 132 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,439 and thanks for the good vibes on this whole thing. 133 00:08:13,839 --> 00:08:20,399 I really appreciate you. In September of nineteen seventy eight, 134 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:23,439 a deer hunting buddy of mine got permission for us 135 00:08:23,439 --> 00:08:27,959 to hunt a local resident soybean filled. It was bow 136 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,200 season in West Tennessee. This hunting spot was narrow wide, 137 00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:37,440 but usually shallow creek that had been channeled out. At 138 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,399 this time, however, it was flooded and had some timber 139 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,759 in the bottom that had been cut. Brush and logs 140 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:47,440 and stumps were all in the flooded area. A person 141 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,200 couldn't get through there without breaking a leg or running 142 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,799 into the big cotton mouse that were there. Now, I'll 143 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,679 stop here and tell you guys, it's hot. At the 144 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,120 beginning of bow season in the South. The cotton mouse, oh, coaljaw, 145 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,159 he's still out, So I know what this guy is 146 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,039 talking about. I found a spot to hunt in a 147 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,039 narrow strip of woods that extended between two fields. I 148 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,600 could see one field in front of me, and by 149 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:17,360 glancing over my shoulder occasionally I could kind of watch 150 00:09:17,399 --> 00:09:20,919 the other field using a bow. Of course, we could 151 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,039 only take a close shot. My buddy, his name is Larry, 152 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,279 found a spot at the end of the field that 153 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:32,000 I was watching. He could climb like a squirrel, and 154 00:09:32,039 --> 00:09:34,519 he managed to get pretty far up in a tree. 155 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:39,120 This was real early in the morning. We hadn't been 156 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,360 out there long when I heard what I would describe 157 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:45,360 as a deep bellow sounded like a bull that ended 158 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:50,240 in a high pitched screen. At first, I guess because 159 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:53,399 I was half asleep, it really didn't register to me 160 00:09:53,519 --> 00:09:57,240 what I was hearing. But there wasn't really anything about 161 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,879 Bigfoot on TV in those days, and I didn't have 162 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,279 a clue what made that sound. And then the bellow 163 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:08,320 or scream happened again. It seemed to follow the same 164 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:13,279 pattern as a siren. It was deep to high. This 165 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,679 time I understood what I was hearing wasn't anything that 166 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:20,200 I had ever heard before, and wasn't any known animal 167 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,080 in this part of the country. The hair on the 168 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,679 back of my neck stood up. The sounds were coming 169 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,440 from the creek area right behind Larry. The low bellowing 170 00:10:31,519 --> 00:10:34,799 it started with I could feel in my chest and 171 00:10:34,879 --> 00:10:38,960 it was so deep it's hard to convey in words 172 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,639 how loud it was. Once again, the sound was echoing 173 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,679 in the bottom, this time a little further away. I 174 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,159 couldn't have moved that fast. This was another creature that 175 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:56,559 made that sound. Now I knew there were more than one. 176 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,440 I've never been a nervous or jumpy person, but I 177 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,000 was in kind of a day's trying to figure this out. 178 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,519 Larry and I were both good shot, so I wasn't 179 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,120 worried about an animal attack. But I was so confused 180 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,840 that I was ready to get out of there. The 181 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:15,039 fun of the day was gone, and hunting the rest 182 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,360 of the day was shot. It's like something told me 183 00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:21,919 to leave. It wasn't a vocal command, but I got 184 00:11:21,919 --> 00:11:25,679 the message. I got down out of the tree and 185 00:11:25,759 --> 00:11:28,039 crossed the field to the truck that was sitting at 186 00:11:28,039 --> 00:11:31,279 the opposite end of the field from Larry. I sat 187 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:36,559 there for fifteen minutes, utterly, dazed and confused, staring straight ahead, 188 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,000 still trying to figure this out. And then I saw 189 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,639 Larry come into the truck in the rear view mirror. 190 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,960 He sat down without cranking the truck and stared straight 191 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,399 ahead without saying a word. Now keep this in mind, 192 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:56,399 the booger was right behind him. But unlike me, he 193 00:11:56,639 --> 00:11:59,039 was a nervous type, so this really shook him to 194 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,240 the core. I finally broke the silence and I asked, Larry, 195 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,240 did you hear that? Well, of course he heard it, 196 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,960 and that broke the ice. Larry started talking. We discussed 197 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,440 anything and everything, but we couldn't come up with an answer. 198 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,080 We finally left and went by his father's house to 199 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,279 tell him about it. Well, of course, he made fun 200 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,840 of us at first and said somebody was pranking us, 201 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,639 but he realized that I wasn't joking. If it had 202 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,279 just been Larry telling it, his father would never have 203 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,759 believed it. He knew Larry's nervous personality. There was no 204 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,320 way we were being pranked because there was only one 205 00:12:40,399 --> 00:12:43,639 field road in and out of there. The flooded creek. 206 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,759 Bottom behind Larry was another barrier. We could have seen 207 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,519 anyone driving in from at least a half a mile away. 208 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:55,039 Two weeks later, we just happened to go to drive 209 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,519 in movie theater. Of all the shows to be playing 210 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:02,360 was a legend of Boggy Creek. When we heard the 211 00:13:02,399 --> 00:13:05,600 creature sounds in the movie, we looked at each other. 212 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,039 It was identical to what we heard. By the way, 213 00:13:10,159 --> 00:13:15,879 the Ohio howel sounds very similar. As a side note 214 00:13:15,919 --> 00:13:18,799 on this, I found out later that when the creek 215 00:13:18,919 --> 00:13:21,759 was being channeled out, the work crew was having their 216 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:26,559 equipment messed with. Full drums of diesel and gas were 217 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:31,200 thrown around, and other stuff was moved or destroyed. This 218 00:13:31,279 --> 00:13:35,200 happened a mile or two from where Larry and I hunted. Well. 219 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,759 They put a small guard shack near their stuff, and 220 00:13:37,799 --> 00:13:40,799 they paid someone to stay there, But it wasn't long 221 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,559 before something shook the whole guard shack so ferociously that 222 00:13:45,639 --> 00:13:50,519 the guard quit. Also, at a church a few miles away, 223 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,000 they found bigfoot tracks all around the church, and then 224 00:13:55,039 --> 00:13:58,039 another man I know followed the tracks a long way 225 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:03,039 into the woods, about five miles from where they ended again. 226 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:07,320 All this happened in the year nineteen seventy eight. Of course, 227 00:14:07,399 --> 00:14:10,679 this wasn't a sighting. Neither one of us saw anything. 228 00:14:11,279 --> 00:14:15,679 We only heard the vocalizations. A timber crew that was 229 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,320 cutting on that creek seemed to be real interested in 230 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,759 my story. I had to go over it again and again. 231 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,480 It was enough to make me think that they had 232 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:28,360 seen or heard something. There have been a few other 233 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,440 things in this area, but my opinion of what we 234 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,960 heard was bigfoot. And it doesn't live here, but it 235 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:39,159 migrates through. I haven't been able to forget this after 236 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,720 all these years. And now I'll watch and listen to 237 00:14:41,759 --> 00:14:46,519 everything on TV and online concerning Bigfoot. And then he 238 00:14:46,559 --> 00:14:48,840 goes on to write. He says, feel free to use 239 00:14:48,879 --> 00:14:51,240 this edit do whatever you need to do. Since I'm 240 00:14:51,279 --> 00:14:54,840 not a writer, Dan, you're a good writer. I didn't 241 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,519 have to do much at all to this. He said, 242 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,919 use my name Dan if you wish. You're doing a 243 00:15:00,039 --> 00:15:02,159 great job with these stories. I'm a big fan. Well, 244 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,080 thank you very much, thank you very much. You know, 245 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:07,080 the one thing that stands out to me in this 246 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,679 story is and I hear this a lot. People will 247 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,000 hear things or see things in the woods and people 248 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,240 will tell them they're being pranked or whatever, you know, 249 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,519 like somebody's messing with them. Look, I'm going to tell 250 00:15:21,559 --> 00:15:27,399 you nobody is going to do that, especially during hunting season. 251 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:32,200 People who live around here, like for instance me, I 252 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,679 know not to walk around in the woods off of 253 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:39,320 my property in somebody else's woods. You know, people just 254 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,320 don't do that. And as far as pranking goes, that 255 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:46,159 takes a lot of time and effort, and it's really 256 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,200 hard to move in and out of an area undetected. 257 00:15:49,279 --> 00:15:52,519 I mean, you can do it, you know, I could 258 00:15:52,559 --> 00:15:55,679 probably do it if I was thinking about, you know, 259 00:15:55,759 --> 00:15:58,399 being clandestine. I want to get in and out of 260 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,039 a place and no one see me, especially hunters. The 261 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,279 problem is you don't know where the hunters are. Unless 262 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,320 you know exactly where there are, how would you prank them. 263 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,320 I don't know. Like I've heard people walk around in 264 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,200 bigfoot or want to walk around in bigfoot suits and 265 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,799 scare people. You're an idiot. You're going to get shot, 266 00:16:16,679 --> 00:16:21,559 especially during hunting season. So the pranking thing, I agree 267 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,519 with Dan. It's just hard to do. You know, this 268 00:16:24,679 --> 00:16:27,759 is almost impossible to do. Okay, let's move on. To 269 00:16:27,799 --> 00:16:30,600 another story. Thanks Dan for this email. It was really good. 270 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:34,480 Good to hear from somebody from West Tennessee. I missed 271 00:16:34,519 --> 00:16:40,360 living up there, see you, ma'am. In two thousand and nine, 272 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,679 we were driving from our home in Houston, Texas, up 273 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,960 to a football training camp for our nine year old son. 274 00:16:47,919 --> 00:16:51,159 The camp is located in Austin, normally a two to 275 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,679 three hour drive west. The traffic on Interstate ten was 276 00:16:55,799 --> 00:16:58,360 light and we were making good time, so we decided 277 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,919 to exit at the next small to look for a 278 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,079 place to have lunch. My son spotted a Waterburger restaurant, 279 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,160 so we pulled into the parking lot. We couldn't help 280 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,039 but notice all of the old nineteen forties and nineteen 281 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,920 fifties vintage cars and trucks. My husband said there must 282 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,359 be a car show nearby, or maybe a weekend cruise. 283 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:26,319 We walked inside and approached the counter. Right away, I 284 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,240 noticed the girl who took our order was wearing clothing 285 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,400 and sporting hair and makeup right out of the forties 286 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,680 of the fifties. She was also very polite, maybe even 287 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:41,039 a little too polite. Her manners and vernacular seemed strange 288 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:44,759 and out of place. Once we placed our order, we 289 00:17:44,839 --> 00:17:49,039 found a booth and sat down. My husband pointed out 290 00:17:49,079 --> 00:17:53,000 that all the employees seemed odd, like something wasn't right, 291 00:17:53,519 --> 00:17:56,839 but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. We 292 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,839 all turned our attention to the counter and kitchen area 293 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:04,240 to study them more closely. The men weren't wearing polo 294 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:07,920 style shirts like we were used to. Their shirts were 295 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,319 more of a polyester type and colors that were old schools, 296 00:18:11,319 --> 00:18:14,880 so to speak. Both of the women were wearing dresses, 297 00:18:15,039 --> 00:18:18,279 definitely not the usual top and pants uniform they wear 298 00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:22,240 in the big city. As my husband and I discussed 299 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,400 the attire of the staff, my son interrupted us to 300 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,240 point out that we were the only customers in the 301 00:18:28,279 --> 00:18:31,839 dining room. That was odd considering the two dozen or 302 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,000 more vehicles in the parking lot, and that they were 303 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:39,400 the only business on that block. Our name was called 304 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,160 over the speaker, and my husband walked over to get 305 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,200 our food. Where is everyone? He asked the woman behind 306 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,880 the counter as he pointed to all the cars and 307 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,319 trucks out front. She looked at him and then out 308 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,599 the window, and then back at him as if she 309 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,359 didn't understand what he meant. Nothing more was said. He 310 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,880 brought the food back to the table. We asked for 311 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,640 blessings on our meal, and we ate. Once we'd finished, 312 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,720 I checked my watch and I said we'd best be 313 00:19:08,839 --> 00:19:11,079 on our way, and we thanked them for lunch and 314 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,599 went out to our car. My husband looked around at 315 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,000 all the vehicles and pointed out that they were all 316 00:19:17,039 --> 00:19:21,119 empty and there was no one around. We left the 317 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,759 restaurant headed back down the two lane road towards I ten. 318 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,240 We approached a four away stop sign and came to 319 00:19:28,319 --> 00:19:32,079 a stop. No other vehicles were in sight, so I 320 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,720 began to pull forward through the intersection. Suddenly I spotted 321 00:19:36,759 --> 00:19:40,480 a flash of turquoise to my right. Out of nowhere, 322 00:19:40,599 --> 00:19:45,480 an old vintage pickup truck was barreling towards us. It 323 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,440 all happened so fast. He was going to hit us, 324 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,319 and my husband tucked his head in his hands and 325 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,960 then between his knees. At the same time, my son shouted, 326 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,000 he's not going to stop. I knew we were not 327 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:00,920 going to make it a loss the road and there 328 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,799 wasn't enough room for the truck to get by us, 329 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,559 so I gritted my teeth and braced for impact, closed 330 00:20:07,559 --> 00:20:12,000 my eyes, waiting for the collision. A moment later, we 331 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:15,480 opened our eyes and looked around. We had, in fact, 332 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,839 and made it across the intersection without colliding with the truck. 333 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,200 But how my husband looked down the road and saw 334 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,720 that the truck was already nearly a half a mile 335 00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:30,359 away had it gone right through us? What just happened? 336 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,160 He asked, in astonishment. We just sat there, looking around, 337 00:20:34,279 --> 00:20:39,240 unable to find any answers or justify the situation. My 338 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,079 son finally said, we better get going or we might 339 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,319 be late. That's enough for one day, I said, looking 340 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,960 up to heaven. My husband agreed and suggested our angels 341 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:53,079 must have been looking out for us. We made it 342 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,680 to my son's camp with a few minutes to spare. 343 00:20:56,319 --> 00:20:58,759 Once we got him enrolled, my husband and I hung 344 00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:01,319 out in the gym for a while while contemplating all 345 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:05,559 the strangeness of the day. So if you figured out 346 00:21:05,559 --> 00:21:09,640 what happened back there, he asked, No, even that burger 347 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:15,720 joint was weird, I answered. He offered a pensive yeah. 348 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,839 The next morning, we said goodbye to our son and 349 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,359 wished him well before heading back to Houston. On our 350 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,279 way home, we decided to stop at that waterburger to 351 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:29,039 see if we'd lost our minds or something. We drove 352 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,880 up and down that stretch of roads several times, but 353 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,279 the water Burger wasn't there. There were a few farmhouses 354 00:21:36,319 --> 00:21:39,039 for about a mile, but not a business in sight, 355 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,200 let alone a burger place. The intersection was there, and 356 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:45,480 we double checked to make sure we went the same 357 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:49,799 direction this time, and we had. It was like something 358 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:54,640 out of the Twilight Zone. On our return trip to Austin, 359 00:21:54,759 --> 00:21:58,519 we didn't even bother to take that exit again. My 360 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,079 son asked about it when we passed it on our 361 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,839 way back home, but we couldn't bring ourselves to tell 362 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,559 them the restaurant wasn't there. We just said that we 363 00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:14,279 still hadn't figured out what happened at that intersection. My 364 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,920 best friend and I were coming back to Corpus Christy 365 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,480 after being out on her dad's ranch close to Premont, Texas. 366 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,200 I'm going back many years. Her and I are sixty 367 00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:28,079 years old now and we were about nineteen at the 368 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,359 time of this incident. We were there to tend to 369 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,200 some things on her dad's ranch and it took us 370 00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:38,200 longer than we expected. Instead of going straight home, we 371 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:42,119 took a detour to her Aunt VI's house. Aunt V 372 00:22:42,279 --> 00:22:45,039 insisted that we stay and have supper with them, which 373 00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:49,319 we did. She asked what route we would take home. Well, 374 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,640 I knew of a shortcut that would save us time, 375 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,079 and I told her that was the plan. Aunt V 376 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,279 shook her head and warned us not to go down 377 00:22:57,319 --> 00:23:01,400 that shortcut at night. The road was narrow and sometimes 378 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,519 it was in bad shape. She said, stay on the 379 00:23:04,559 --> 00:23:09,079 main highway. She told us it'll be safer. We promised 380 00:23:09,079 --> 00:23:11,680 her that we would, but after filling the tank at 381 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,160 the gas station, we chose to take the shortcut. Anyway, 382 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:19,160 it would turn out to be a big mistake. We 383 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,440 knew about a few of the legends concerning the area 384 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:25,680 where the shortcut passed through, but we didn't believe them. 385 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,319 We were in a Cadillac and it was fast and smooth, 386 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:32,599 and it had a great sound system. On we went 387 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,480 toward the shortcut. We drove with music way up loud. 388 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,400 We sang along. We were having a great time. It 389 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:43,640 was a dark and spooky sword tonight. But the last 390 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,680 worry on our minds was that shortcut. It's isolated and 391 00:23:48,839 --> 00:23:51,960 there are no houses or gas stations or even cows 392 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:54,920 in the area. It's creepy even in the middle of 393 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,920 the day. This was during the fall, sometime close to 394 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,240 Thanksgiving Bray. The leaves were mostly fallen and we could 395 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,119 see a long way even in the dark. Because of 396 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,759 the moonlight and the stars, the woods were clear to us. However, 397 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,759 when we approached that back road, it suddenly became oppressively 398 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,359 dark and cold. I didn't want to go any further, 399 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,960 and I told Addie to turn around. It felt creepy 400 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,920 to me, I said, But we couldn't turn around because 401 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,720 the car was too long. The road was narrow, and 402 00:24:28,759 --> 00:24:31,119 there were ditches on either side of it, and there 403 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,599 was nowhere to get off the road. It started to 404 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,440 get foggy, and Addie switched the headlights to see better. 405 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,680 The atmosphere changed rapidly and we lost the radio. The 406 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,920 fog was so thick we could barely make out the 407 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,400 front of the car, and it was stick as soup, 408 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,720 seeming to absorb the light from the headlights. The car 409 00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:57,279 slowed down on its own. It seemed to crawl no 410 00:24:57,319 --> 00:25:02,079 matter how much Addie depressed the accelerator. Well, we started 411 00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:05,400 to freak out a bit, and Addie was screaming. I 412 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,559 pushed myself over the console and pressed my foot onto 413 00:25:08,599 --> 00:25:11,640 ADDIE's to give the car some gas. But still the 414 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,319 car just creeped along, almost as if something were blocking 415 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:20,319 our way, like we were pushing something. Now, we were 416 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,960 both terrified that the car would stall. The fear was 417 00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:26,079 so thick you could have cut it with a knife. 418 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,920 I could sense something otherworldly and outright evil around us, 419 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:34,799 something we couldn't see. We began to pray out loud 420 00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:37,880 for God to help us get out of there. I 421 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,720 told Addie over and over not to look out the car. 422 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,039 I didn't know what was out there, but I felt 423 00:25:43,039 --> 00:25:44,880 like if we looked at it that it would gain 424 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:50,160 full control of us. Time began to twist in a way. 425 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,519 One minute I felt like we were in slow motion, 426 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,200 and the next we were speeding through time at light speed. 427 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,319 We soon became disoriented, but we struggled against this force, 428 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:07,039 and we kept praying. The car finally started moving, and 429 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,880 before we knew it, we were flying down that foggy 430 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,720 road at one hundred miles an hour. I had enough 431 00:26:13,799 --> 00:26:16,799 wits about me left to scream at Addie to slow down, 432 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,640 but in her fears, she had pressed the pedal to 433 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,480 the floor, not thinking of anything other than getting away 434 00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:26,759 from the area. By some miracle, we didn't hit a 435 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:29,559 tree or even run off in the ditch, which by 436 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:33,240 all rights we should have. The fog began to thin 437 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,519 and I saw that we were square in the middle 438 00:26:35,559 --> 00:26:38,759 of the road. She didn't slow much, but she was 439 00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:42,920 finally under one hundred. The further we drove, the better 440 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,240 the visibility became, and soon we rolled into town. And 441 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:51,079 as soon as we crossed into civilization, the radio popped 442 00:26:51,079 --> 00:26:53,160 on again and it was blaring the song we had 443 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,440 been so happy listening to, and it made us jump 444 00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,200 and I reached over to turn the radio off. We 445 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,240 were now going at the speed limit, and I could 446 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,920 see smoke coming from under the hood and wafting over 447 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:09,160 the windshield. The fuel gage showed less than one eighth 448 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,359 of a tank. We had just filled it up a 449 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:18,200 few minutes ago. The shortcut is fourteen miles long. It 450 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:21,400 was supposed to save us a net thirty five miles, 451 00:27:22,279 --> 00:27:25,799 but two hours had ticked off the clock. Two hours 452 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,960 to travel fourteen miles. Figure that one out. We told 453 00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:33,880 her mom about what we did and what happened to us, 454 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,519 and she said she started to pray because we were 455 00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:40,079 so late getting home. A look of horror came over 456 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,079 her face when we told her about the road that 457 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,559 we had taken, and she made the sign of the 458 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,400 cross as we unloaded. The whole story. Her mother is 459 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,519 gone now, but she was the only one who believed us. 460 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,119 Her dad thought we were drag racing boys because the 461 00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:00,440 engine was rough and the oil was low. Mother and 462 00:28:00,519 --> 00:28:03,119 father just looked at each other when I told them 463 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,480 the story, and they never said a word, but I 464 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,680 could tell they knew something. My parents sternly changed the 465 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,400 subject to something else, and that was the end of it. 466 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,960 Years have gone by, and Addie and I talk about 467 00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:20,599 this incident occasionally, and we count ourselves blessed that we 468 00:28:20,799 --> 00:28:24,960 escaped with our lives. There are many different stories about 469 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:29,279 this back road, from ghosts to alien abductions. The ghost 470 00:28:29,319 --> 00:28:32,720 stories go back centuries to the time of the conquistadors. 471 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,599 Something evil lives there and it wants that area all 472 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:44,559 to itself. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. I love 473 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,480 that story. So, if they're sixty now, they were nineteen. 474 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,759 That was probably back in the eighties, early eighties, late seventies. 475 00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:56,480 Sometime around then, those Cadillacs had those giant engines in them, 476 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,480 and they were huge cars, and I can see them 477 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,640 not being able to turn that car around. You'd had 478 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,000 to back all the way out the way you came 479 00:29:04,079 --> 00:29:08,200 in to get back to where you started. So really 480 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,839 there's no choice but to go forward. So maybe that's 481 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:16,119 a lesson sometimes shortcuts down old, torn up roads, or 482 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,240 maybe not a good idea. I love the story and 483 00:29:19,319 --> 00:29:20,920 I couldn't wait to share it with you guys. I 484 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,799 hope you enjoyed it, and thank you to the writer. 485 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,440 It was. It was really good. Thank you very much,