WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.519 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