1 00:00:08,199 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 1: We live in Spokane, Washington. One night, my husband and 2 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,800 I decided to run away like a couple of kids 3 00:00:14,839 --> 00:00:18,039 with a day of freedom with no grandkids to watch. 4 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,839 We ran around checking out some local host towns and 5 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:26,519 ended our day going up to Mount Spoken. We were 6 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:30,760 halfway up when nature called and we hit a pit stop. Afterwards, 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,640 we were checking out the trail maps, amusing about our 8 00:00:33,679 --> 00:00:36,399 younger days, when a park ranger walked out of a 9 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,719 trail and struck up a conversation. As he was answering 10 00:00:40,759 --> 00:00:44,000 some of our questions, we heard aloud whoop. We looked 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,320 at the ranger and watched him turn pale. I tried 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,320 to lighten the mood by saying, looks like Bigfoot's home, 13 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:55,079 but the ranger didn't find that amusing. He started to stutter, 14 00:00:55,479 --> 00:00:57,600 So there must be a dog loose on the trail. 15 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:03,039 I remember thinking, this is his first day. My husband 16 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:05,680 and I are always camping and doing something in the woods, 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,319 and we know that there was no dog. He and 18 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:10,959 I looked at each other and we winked. We both 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,920 have plenty of stories from when we were kids, and 20 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,239 we know you don't have to see Bigfoot to know 21 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:21,280 one's there with you in the woods. Ooh, what's up everybody? Hey, 22 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,599 my name's Cam Buckner. This is the Dixie Crypted podcast 23 00:01:24,879 --> 00:01:27,719 that you can also find out on the podcast network 24 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:32,599 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean. That's the one I use, whatever 25 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,400 app you use on your phone, and it's called the 26 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:37,079 what If It's True? Podcast. You can also search for 27 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:41,319 Dixie Cryptied it'll pop up. We do story after story 28 00:01:41,359 --> 00:01:45,280 after story from real people who tell about strange things 29 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,719 that have happened in their life. A lot of them 30 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:49,799 are Bigfoot. Most of them are Bigfoot, but some of 31 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,000 them are UFOs, some of them are demon encounters. Ghost stories. 32 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,760 Did a story the other day about a mad trapper 33 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:01,920 who was called by the local native people to be 34 00:02:02,239 --> 00:02:06,680 acousta Kai, which is a spirit that they recognize that'll 35 00:02:06,719 --> 00:02:10,120 just grab people's personalities and drag them into death. So 36 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:13,319 we do all kinds of stories, but they're all really good, 37 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,080 and I hope you guys will stick around and listen 38 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,520 to this whole podcast. I've got six good stories and 39 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,280 I'm gonna put an archive story or two in the back. 40 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:26,919 Got a big snowstorm coming. Today is Friday, the I 41 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,360 don't know what the date is. The twenty third, everybody's 42 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,319 gonna be snowed in across the south in the east, 43 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,280 and maybe this podcast will break the monotony a little bit. Well, 44 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,159 if everybody's staying warm, I expect that we will be 45 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,400 out of power for if we get as much ice 46 00:02:43,479 --> 00:02:46,120 as they are predicting, we're gonna be without power for 47 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,240 at least a week. It could be two weeks. I've 48 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,439 been through these ice storms before. We're ready plenty of 49 00:02:52,439 --> 00:02:55,159 pro paying. I got a generator with about twenty gallons 50 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:59,319 of gas. Over the last few years, I've cut down 51 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,319 every true that could possibly drop a branch on my 52 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:07,680 house or my office or my fifth wheel. Chicken houses 53 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,759 could get clobbered, but you know, we'll just deal with 54 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,639 that if that happens. Anyway, it's if you're listening to this, 55 00:03:14,719 --> 00:03:17,840 you're probably snowed in somewhere. I hope you enjoy it, 56 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,479 all right, I'll quit rambling. How about some good stories? 57 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:28,800 All right? Here we go. In twenty ten, my family 58 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:31,960 and I relocated to Colorado so I could pursue a 59 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,159 new job with better pay and benefits. Every year we 60 00:03:36,199 --> 00:03:39,199 would venture into the local wilderness to take in the 61 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:43,879 vastness of the rockies and check out the critters. One day, 62 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,680 I found the perfect camp site on Google Maps, and 63 00:03:46,719 --> 00:03:49,680 I decided that we would try it starting in the spring. 64 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,879 The location bordered between Rawa Wilderness in northern Colorado and 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,719 seemed to be an old hunting camp. Coincidentally, the word 66 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:04,400 Khowa is a Native American word meaning wild place. Not 67 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,280 many people are seen in this area because you'd need 68 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,159 a high clearance, a vehicle or an ATV just to 69 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:14,360 get there. Even the road getting there is mostly overgrown, 70 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,639 and often you'll find yourself having to move down to 71 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:23,120 trees and creating makeshift bridges over creeks. Motorized vehicles are 72 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,240 not allowed in the Rabble wilderness, but we found our 73 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,319 camping spot on its border on Forest Service land. Now 74 00:04:31,319 --> 00:04:34,439 I'm a combat veteran and I'm a little paranoid. I 75 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,560 go to the woods heavily armed with full tactical gear. 76 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,639 They say paranoria is just the overactive sense of awareness, 77 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:46,560 and in my case it might be true. My son 78 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,879 and I went to check out the camping spot in 79 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,879 the spring of twenty nineteen. It took us five hours 80 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,560 to get there. The place was beautiful, with a panoramic 81 00:04:56,639 --> 00:05:00,560 view of the surrounding mountains in the valley below. It 82 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:03,399 was right about nine thousand feet in elevation, and it 83 00:05:03,439 --> 00:05:07,800 could get very cold in the early spring or late summer. Thankfully, 84 00:05:07,879 --> 00:05:12,079 there was a large firepit built, built, built, built, Let 85 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:15,759 me start over. Thankfully there was a large firepit built 86 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,160 beneath an old, towering pine tree. Hey, y'all, if you 87 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,000 don't think I mess up on these stories, I really 88 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,759 do sometimes. Anyway, on with a story. We spent four 89 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,600 days there hiking around. We saw moose with a calf 90 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:32,920 and a few elk, and we were really enjoying our trip. 91 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:36,959 But we also saw some weird things that we couldn't explain. 92 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,160 In the middle of the forest, two hundred meters from camp, 93 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,759 we found some old, ripped up pajamas in a nearby tree. 94 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,600 We saw a backpack fifty feet up and it was 95 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:51,879 stuck in the branches. My son and I both couldn't 96 00:05:51,879 --> 00:05:54,560 figure out how the hell that happened, but we moved 97 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,199 on and the rest of the trip was beautiful and 98 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:02,720 serene and uneventful, hiking and eating MRIs, and then it 99 00:06:02,759 --> 00:06:07,279 was time to head home. A year later, my wife 100 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,079 and son and I went back to count that same location. 101 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Since we were fans of the show Vikings, we decided 102 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:20,360 to have Viking Night during our stay wearing period Viking clothing, armor, shields, 103 00:06:20,399 --> 00:06:24,879 swords and spears. Whoa. We had a blast the first night, 104 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,800 listening to Viking music and sipping on mead and hanging 105 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:33,560 around the fire till about two am. My son, just 106 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,759 an hour before, blew our Viking horn, which echoed through 107 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,800 the mountains in the valley below. Now. I don't know 108 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,839 if something came to investigate, but right when we were 109 00:06:43,879 --> 00:06:47,560 about to call it a night, a powerful guttural scream 110 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,759 from the ridge directly behind us cut the silence. We 111 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,439 thought we were hearing a woman being murdered. It was horrible, 112 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,519 It scared us, and it put us on alert. Ten 113 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,360 minutes la later, the scream tore through the night again. 114 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,279 A pack of codes started yipping along and then went 115 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,959 abruptly silent. Right as I grabbed my night vision goggle, 116 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:15,639 something started attacking the coyotes. We could hear them yelping 117 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,839 and whimpering and pain and then silence. I told my 118 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,600 family that it could be a mountain lion killing something, 119 00:07:24,079 --> 00:07:27,920 or it could be a bigfoot. I was joking The 120 00:07:27,959 --> 00:07:30,399 next morning, we woke up and walked around to see 121 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:34,000 if there was anything strange to be found. From the 122 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,959 south of the camp there was a horrible smell of 123 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,040 grass and rotten meat. My son and I hiked over 124 00:07:41,079 --> 00:07:43,759 the southern ridge line and we found a dead cow 125 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,959 in a small meadow. It looked as if it had 126 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,959 been dead only a few days. It was bloated up 127 00:07:49,959 --> 00:07:52,879 from decay, but had no bite marks on its body 128 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,279 from predation. Nothing seemed to want to go near it. 129 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:00,279 This was strange to me, knowing plenty of creatures in 130 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:03,000 the wilderness out there would have loved a free meal. 131 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:06,160 I figured it must have been sick and passed by 132 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:09,959 natural causes where it lay until I saw its head, 133 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,040 The bottom jaw, and its whole tongue were missing. There 134 00:08:14,079 --> 00:08:19,560 was nothing natural about this. That evening, around the campfire, 135 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,360 we talked about the screams and the dead cow. Now, 136 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:26,399 what didn't help the situation was that we were listening 137 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:31,279 to bigfoot in alien abduction stories from various podcasts. That night, 138 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,360 we went to bed armed with booby traps around the 139 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:38,679 perimeter of our camp with trip wires and twelve gay 140 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:43,080 shotgun blank rounds. Weapons were good to go, and thermal 141 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,039 and night vision goggles were prepped and ready to rock 142 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,519 and roll if we needed them. If anything decided to 143 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,799 come into our camp. I had assault shotguns and buck 144 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:57,320 shots and slugs and flamethrow arounds ready not to mention. 145 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,519 By nineteen eleven, I was on wick of the wilderness 146 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:07,519 anyone paranoid yet very good. That night we slept well, 147 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:11,159 no shotgun blasted or blood curdling screams in the middle 148 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,679 of the night. The outside temperature was pleasant, and we 149 00:09:14,759 --> 00:09:17,240 heard the sounds of the owls hanging out with us 150 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:20,759 in the camp. But the next morning we woke up 151 00:09:20,799 --> 00:09:24,279 to the smell of something burning. We quickly got out 152 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,639 of the tent and we saw smoke and fire off 153 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,360 in the distance. My son and I were walking up 154 00:09:30,399 --> 00:09:32,600 on the ridge line where we saw the dead cow 155 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,039 the day before, when he screamed, what the hell is that? 156 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,159 We were in shock and disbelief. I couldn't make sense 157 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,440 of what I was seeing. Right in front of us, 158 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,279 clear as day, we saw a creature at least seven 159 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,919 feet tall, walking on two legs, dragging a decaying colcarcas 160 00:09:52,039 --> 00:09:55,480 toward the woods. It was covered in dark hair and 161 00:09:55,519 --> 00:09:58,960 its hand had fingers just like mine, but much bigger, 162 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,600 had a strange profile, had a small nose and a 163 00:10:03,639 --> 00:10:08,320 strong brow line, and a conical shaped head. At that point, 164 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,960 we needed to pack up and leave, not because of 165 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,200 the encounter, but because of the encroaching camera and peak 166 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:17,559 force fire. The smoke was so thick that it was 167 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,639 gagging us and burning our eyes, and when we got 168 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,080 into our vehicle, forcing us to take an alternate route 169 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,840 through Wyoming to get home. My family now believes that 170 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,600 sometimes legends may be true. We've all discussed this encounter 171 00:10:33,759 --> 00:10:37,000 and depth. At first, I thought I was a few 172 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,159 fries short of a happy meal, until my son gave 173 00:10:40,159 --> 00:10:43,559 me his account of what he saw. Well. A few 174 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:46,440 years later, he and I went back. We went to 175 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,320 the spot where we saw the creature enter the foliage 176 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:54,279 and actually found the cow's remains. After that long, it 177 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,080 was impossible to tell what the creature had done to it, 178 00:10:57,159 --> 00:11:00,320 but we were able to retrieve the ear tag, and 179 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,240 we kept it as a souvenir. We still go to 180 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,440 that spot to leave apples and candy, bigfoot action figures, 181 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,480 and marbles, just little gifts to say thanks for letting 182 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,519 us camp in their woods, and each time we return 183 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,960 everything is usually gone. We were never afraid, we were 184 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,039 just in total awe. I grew up in Sonora, California, 185 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,720 and was an avid out doorsman and hunter. As a child, 186 00:11:28,759 --> 00:11:31,759 I spent many nights around the camp fire, listening intently 187 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,279 as my uncle told bigfoot stories in and around the 188 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:39,080 Yosemite National Park area. So I'm not new to the 189 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,519 sasquatch topic. But never in my wildest dreams could I 190 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,399 have guessed I would actually see one of them with 191 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:51,440 my own eyes. I'm still paranoid about stuff sneaking around 192 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,240 our camp and by nature. I still pack weapons, never 193 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,960 with the intention of killing anything, unless it's in self defense. 194 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,480 My goal is to observe nature and hope to again 195 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,960 witness a Bigfoot, the myth and the legend. Thanks Cam 196 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,200 for all you do, and he signs off Mountain Mike, 197 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,320 that's a great story. Sometimes it may seem like a 198 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,879 pope fund at people who see a shadow in the 199 00:12:17,879 --> 00:12:21,480 woods and they claim they've seen Bigfoot, and you can 200 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,200 kind of understand that, But this guy actually saw the Bigfoot. 201 00:12:25,759 --> 00:12:28,519 The way he writes is, I don't know. It's just 202 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,159 there's something about the way some people write, maybe they're 203 00:12:32,159 --> 00:12:35,759 a little self deprecating. They don't act like an expert. 204 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,559 They just act like an innocent, humble witness to something 205 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,240 that does not fit in the woods, at least in 206 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:46,080 our minds, it does not fit in the woods. I 207 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,440 thought this was a good story. Had somebody comment the 208 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:54,360 other day about all these fake stories on Bigfoot. I 209 00:12:54,399 --> 00:12:58,440 don't He's probably up somebody else's butt on some other channel, 210 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,039 but and I think I know who that will be. 211 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:06,440 But it's a It's like, my response was, can you 212 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,639 give me one Bigfoot story that you can absolutely, without 213 00:13:09,639 --> 00:13:13,519 a doubt, prove is true. Nobody in this audience can 214 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,960 give me a story they can prove is true. You 215 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,960 either believe these stories or you don't. If you don't 216 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,559 believe them, just enjoy them. I'm just reading them the 217 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,679 way people send them to me. But this particular story 218 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,120 from this guy, I kind of tend to believe what 219 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,879 he saw, just basically because of the way he wrote 220 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:35,360 the story. Anyway, I really appreciate the writers sending at 221 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,679 Mountain Mike, thanks for taking the time to write this down. 222 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:48,200 I've never been particularly interested in Bigfoot or sosquatch until recently. 223 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,360 I sometimes wondered how they could possibly be real, because 224 00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:55,360 I thought people had roamed and explored every inch of 225 00:13:55,399 --> 00:13:59,320 this country. I'm retired now and I love to research 226 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,600 on the internet. At I came across information that made 227 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,519 me want to research Bigfoot, and that led me to 228 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,039 your stories. That got me started, and I listened to 229 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,799 many accounts, and I saw photos and footprints, and I've 230 00:14:12,799 --> 00:14:17,480 been particularly impressed by this tree structures. All of that 231 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,840 research that I had been doing made me remember something 232 00:14:21,799 --> 00:14:24,759 Many years ago. My two daughters told me about a 233 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:29,039 creature they saw in their bedroom. As I said, I 234 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,120 had never been particularly interested in Bigfoot, so I brushed 235 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,200 the event off to the imaginations of my children. But 236 00:14:37,279 --> 00:14:40,519 everything I've read about recently made me take a hard 237 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:44,240 second look at what they saw. If I had only 238 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,240 known then what I know now, I would have taken 239 00:14:47,279 --> 00:14:51,840 them more seriously. In nineteen eighty we moved on to 240 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,159 five acres of virgin land in the sand Hills of Texas, 241 00:14:56,519 --> 00:15:01,240 about forty five miles east of San Antonio. Big ranches 242 00:15:01,279 --> 00:15:04,679 and forests surrounded us, and our land was so heavily 243 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,720 wooded that we had to have a bulldozer come in 244 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,679 in clear a space big enough for our home. After 245 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,759 a few years, our home was built and we quickly 246 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:18,240 fell in love with the peace and quiet. My girls, 247 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:20,519 who were six and eight at the time, slept in 248 00:15:20,559 --> 00:15:24,200 the corner bedroom. We didn't have air conditioning yet, so 249 00:15:24,279 --> 00:15:27,279 we slept with the windows open with screens to keep 250 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,360 the bugs out. One day, my older daughter, Amy woke 251 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,759 up in the middle of the night and saw a big, black, 252 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:39,080 hairy ewalk alike creature standing over her little sister. It 253 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,759 was just standing there, watching her as she slept. Amy 254 00:15:42,799 --> 00:15:46,159 said she opened her eyes wide and stared, and then 255 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,320 she accidentally moved and made a rustling sound with their sheets. 256 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:54,440 The creature was startled and looked at her, and then 257 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,919 it just disappeared. Poof, it was gone. She woke her 258 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:01,240 little sister up and told her what she had seen. 259 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,240 I don't know if it scared them or not, but 260 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,000 they didn't come and wake me up. They just told 261 00:16:07,039 --> 00:16:10,480 me about it. The next day. I figured Amy had 262 00:16:10,519 --> 00:16:13,200 just had a bad dream. I didn't make much fuss 263 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,720 about it, and life went on. But now, after listening 264 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:21,679 to so many stories and other accounts, I wonder was 265 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:26,360 this a bigfoot? After discussing it with my husband. He 266 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,879 reminded me of a time that our son came running 267 00:16:28,919 --> 00:16:31,840 out of the woods behind the house. He was terrified. 268 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,159 He told us that he had seen a great, big, black, 269 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,919 hairy creature in the woods. But we reacted just like 270 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,360 most people do today when you say that you may 271 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:44,879 have encountered bigfoot. We just rolled our eyes and told 272 00:16:44,919 --> 00:16:47,120 our kids that there was no such thing as big 273 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:52,519 hairy monsters. Go figure. Thank you for sharing everyone's stories. 274 00:16:52,679 --> 00:16:54,679 You may use my name if you want. There may 275 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,399 not be any blood or guts or terror in this story, 276 00:16:57,879 --> 00:17:04,519 but it did happen, just like I've told I was 277 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:08,400 hired to drive for a Midwestern trucking company. My first 278 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,599 truck was a single bunk freightliner and I had a 279 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,920 load going west. The truck drove well. It was night, 280 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,799 my favorite time to dry because it was less traffic. 281 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,920 It was around two am in New Mexico when I 282 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,359 had driven into a storm like I'd never seen. It 283 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,160 rained so hard that I could barely see fifty feet 284 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,759 in front of the truck. The lightning lit up for miles. 285 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:36,000 I noticed I was the only vehicle on the road. 286 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:40,640 Nothing too unusual, but it was isolating to say the least, 287 00:17:41,759 --> 00:17:45,039 and then I couldn't hear my engine anymore. It died 288 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,119 right in the middle of nowhere. I pulled over and 289 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,279 set the brakes and turned off the headlights. I put 290 00:17:51,319 --> 00:17:54,519 on the four way flashers and cursed to myself, Now 291 00:17:54,559 --> 00:17:58,039 what do I do now? No mechanic. I had a 292 00:17:58,079 --> 00:18:01,759 computer in the truck for dispatching in formation or emergencies, 293 00:18:02,279 --> 00:18:05,319 but I knew it would be hours before any help arrived. 294 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,079 I grabbed my flashlight, stepped out of the truck, and 295 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:13,440 I started looking around. Good instinct told me to check 296 00:18:13,519 --> 00:18:16,480 the power cord running under the trailer from the rear 297 00:18:16,519 --> 00:18:20,000 of the truck. The cord had a seam, and I 298 00:18:20,039 --> 00:18:22,559 pulled it apart, and I found that water had crept in, 299 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,519 and I dried off everything with my handkerchief, and I 300 00:18:25,559 --> 00:18:29,160 put it back together. I hopped in the truck, soaked 301 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,240 wet from the rain, and I looked heavenward and I 302 00:18:32,279 --> 00:18:35,079 said I could use some help to get my truck 303 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,400 to the garage. I turned the key and hit the 304 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,880 starter button, and the engine fired to life. I looked 305 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,519 up again and I said, thank you. I stopped for 306 00:18:45,559 --> 00:18:48,880 the night. It took some carry new Mexico and changed 307 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,720 into some dry clothes, and I fell asleep in the sleeper. 308 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,720 I was out in an instant. Hauling a truck takes 309 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:58,599 it out of you. Driving through the storm didn't help. 310 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:03,359 I slept hard, and I dreamt too, first time in 311 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,240 a long time. And in my dream I saw a 312 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:10,720 beautiful Native woman dressed in white fur, bright and vivid 313 00:19:10,759 --> 00:19:14,119 and full of color. There was an older Native man 314 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,440 beside her, wearing a full headdress, only he was black 315 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:22,119 and white. There was no expression on his face. In 316 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,880 the morning, I went into the little store nearby for coffee, 317 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:27,720 and for the heck of it, I told the clerk 318 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:32,960 about my strange night. She turned pale. Asked her what 319 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,839 the matter was, and she pointed to a postcard right 320 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,480 behind me, and she told me there was a card 321 00:19:38,519 --> 00:19:41,599 there that I should take a look at. I found 322 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,920 the one she meant. I saw the picture of a 323 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,079 woman who looked a whole lot like the woman in 324 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,920 my dream, and I read the text on the back. 325 00:19:49,759 --> 00:19:53,400 It was the history of Tucumkayrie, New Mexico, and how 326 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,160 it got its name. An Apache chief was preparing himself 327 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,319 to step down, but he couldn't up his mind between 328 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,799 Tucum and Tonopah, two warriors competing to be his successor. 329 00:20:07,079 --> 00:20:10,000 In the end, the chief settled on a duel. The 330 00:20:10,039 --> 00:20:12,599 winner would not only become chief, but he would also 331 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,359 marry his daughter Carrie, but Carrie was already in love 332 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,680 with Tokum. The duel began and both warriors fought and 333 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:24,920 Tokim was killed. Carrie was so distraught that she killed 334 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,920 Tonopah and then she took her own life. Her father, 335 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:33,880 in his grief, killed himself too, but not before calling 336 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:39,119 out Tokum Carrie, hence the name of the town. I 337 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,960 left that town rested, but I wasn't really rested. I 338 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,440 had never been to that town before. But the dream 339 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,440 I had was vivid and real. Somehow I was blessed 340 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,119 with a visit from Carrie and the chief, and I 341 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,920 will never forget it. Okay, that's not a bigfoot story 342 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,240 or any kind of monster story, but I had read 343 00:20:58,279 --> 00:21:02,079 it before send it to Rebecca. She cleaned it up 344 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,200 and did a great job on it. And the writer's 345 00:21:05,519 --> 00:21:09,440 original story was fine, but we just sometimes we kind 346 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,640 of rearrange things to make it more story Like, it's 347 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,599 a very interesting story. Some of these Native American legends 348 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,759 and the oral history of the Native people. You know, 349 00:21:20,559 --> 00:21:23,359 Native people don't have a written language, they never did, 350 00:21:24,079 --> 00:21:28,440 so everything was an oral history. This is one that 351 00:21:28,599 --> 00:21:31,759 goes I don't know how far back, but it's really interesting. 352 00:21:31,799 --> 00:21:34,240 And that story if it's put on the back of 353 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,079 a postcard, I don't know. I guess some of them 354 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,960 could be made up. I remember reading I love to 355 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,920 read about wildlife, and I was reading a history of 356 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,160 the coyote. As far as we know about the coyote, 357 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:49,079 and the Native people out west almost look at the 358 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,200 coyote and almost all the animals is some kind of deity. 359 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,839 I'm not going to go deep into that because I 360 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,000 don't fully understand exactly how they see wildlife. But the coyote, 361 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,079 he was considered a wily you know, wiley cody was 362 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,119 crafty and knew how to survive, and boy do they 363 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,240 know how to survive. But anyway, there were so many 364 00:22:10,279 --> 00:22:15,240 different takes on the cody, and one story the cody 365 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,720 might be the highest deity or the highest spirit that 366 00:22:18,799 --> 00:22:22,519 they look to, maybe for guidance or for teaching them 367 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:25,680 how to approach life. And then in other ones, the 368 00:22:25,759 --> 00:22:28,359 coodi is the lowest, so I guess from one tribe 369 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,279 to another, they look at different animal spirit animals in 370 00:22:32,319 --> 00:22:35,000 different ways. Anyway, I don't know why I told you. 371 00:22:35,079 --> 00:22:36,839 That just made me think of the what I had 372 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,640 read about the CODI because when I got to the 373 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,799 end of the book, I'm like, Okay, I don't have 374 00:22:40,799 --> 00:22:46,519 any definitive information really on the coyote, other than different 375 00:22:46,559 --> 00:22:49,480 tribes think different things about it. So I don't know. 376 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:51,680 That probably wasn't that interesting, but it made me think 377 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:56,440 of it. Anyway, this story about this man's dream is interesting. 378 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:03,000 I appreciate you sending it. I come from a devout 379 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:06,480 Mormon family, and I was raised to believe in the 380 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:11,039 spirit world, angels, and demons, and I always saw these 381 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:15,400 experiences through the lens of my faith. The supernatural ist 382 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,720 something I believe in deeply, and the spiritual aspects of 383 00:23:18,759 --> 00:23:23,640 my religion gave context to what I was experiencing. One night, 384 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,039 I was sleeping on my parents' floor when I woke 385 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:30,319 up feeling tingly and cold and unable to move. I 386 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,160 was scared and I didn't know what was happening. And 387 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,240 suddenly I saw something right in my face. It was 388 00:23:36,279 --> 00:23:39,799 a man, and after a few seconds he disappeared, and 389 00:23:39,839 --> 00:23:44,119 I was left terrified and paralyzed with fear. I didn't 390 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:49,119 move until sunrise. This happened again another time, and oddly enough, 391 00:23:49,319 --> 00:23:51,920 my mom had the same experience, and not too long 392 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,440 after mine. The last experience in my parents' room was 393 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,200 when I woke up from a nightmare and I opened 394 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,480 my eyes and I saw awe man without a face 395 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,680 sitting on my mother's dresser. She couldn't see him, but 396 00:24:05,799 --> 00:24:08,559 I saw him. I think I scared the crap out 397 00:24:08,559 --> 00:24:11,200 of her when I told her. My faith told me 398 00:24:11,279 --> 00:24:14,279 that this wasn't just a bad dream, but possibly a 399 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:20,240 spiritual warning or a manifestation of something unseen. Years later, 400 00:24:20,279 --> 00:24:22,799 when I was in the fourth grade, I had outgrown 401 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,839 sleeping in my parents' room and I now shared a 402 00:24:25,839 --> 00:24:29,359 bunk with my brother. One night, I opened my eyes 403 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,480 and I saw a giant man standing in my closet. 404 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:35,799 He watched me, and as I stared at him, he 405 00:24:35,839 --> 00:24:38,720 moved into the closet, and when I looked away, he 406 00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:41,759 kept peering out and staring at me, and he didn't 407 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:48,039 disappear until daylight. This went on for months. I was terrified, 408 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,119 and my belief in the supernatural made it feel real 409 00:24:51,279 --> 00:24:55,680 in a way that I couldn't explain. My last experience 410 00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:58,960 in that house happened in the same room. My brother 411 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,400 and I had shared an an L shaped bed in 412 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:06,359 the corner. One night, at around eleven pm, I couldn't sleep. 413 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,160 I opened my eyes and I saw something right in 414 00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:13,119 my face, and it was growling. At first I thought 415 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,519 it was my brother playing a trick, but then I 416 00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:19,720 realized he was asleep. The thing disappeared shortly after that. 417 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:24,039 It solidified my belief that what I encountered was more 418 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:29,400 than just my imagination. It was something real, something spiritual. 419 00:25:33,519 --> 00:25:37,279 When I was a teenager in the suburbanserve, Toronto, Oh, 420 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,640 let me start that again. When I was a teenager 421 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:44,480 in the suburbs of Toronto, my friend and I would 422 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,440 sometimes sleep out in a pup tent in the backyard 423 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,359 on hot summer nights. We would drag the sleeping bags 424 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,880 out onto the lawn where it was cooler and we 425 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,720 could watch the sky. Now this was back in the sixties, 426 00:25:57,759 --> 00:26:01,880 so there wasn't much like pollution. One night was so 427 00:26:02,039 --> 00:26:06,519 clear and had no clouds. We talked, pointing out interesting 428 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,720 things as we saw them. There was a lot of 429 00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:12,599 time between those moments, and we mostly quiet in our 430 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,119 own thoughts, even though we were shoulder to shoulder. When 431 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,839 it was good and dark in the southern sky, my 432 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,720 eye caught what I thought at first to be a star. 433 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,559 It moved slowly and smoothly for a few seconds before stopping. 434 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,440 I didn't alert my friend because once it stopped it 435 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,799 was next to impossible to pick out. But within a 436 00:26:34,799 --> 00:26:37,680 few seconds, another light from the other direction did the 437 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,799 same thing, moved steadily in the direction of the first one, 438 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,880 and then it stopped. That's when I could make out 439 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,480 a pattern with a third star that moved toward the 440 00:26:47,519 --> 00:26:52,440 others until they formed a perfect equilateral triangle. Nothing else 441 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,160 in the sky was as perfectly arranged. After a few seconds, 442 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,920 all three of these lights rotated slowly as a triangle 443 00:27:01,079 --> 00:27:05,680 and then shot off information out of sight. The disappearance 444 00:27:05,799 --> 00:27:09,119 wasn't immediate, like a light going off. I could see 445 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,839 some acceleration was involved, but it was still over in 446 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,039 just half a second. What I still remember to this day, 447 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,880 more than fifty years later, is when I turned to 448 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,119 tell my friend. He was already looking at me, silent, 449 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,000 with his mouth open. It was like one of those 450 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,559 scripted moments you see in the comedies. He had seen 451 00:27:29,559 --> 00:27:34,039 it too, the whole thing. That was the satisfying part. 452 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:37,319 This wasn't something I got wrong from a few mixed 453 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,319 up observations or my eyes playing tricks on me. He 454 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,240 told me what he saw happen, and it was exactly 455 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,599 what I had seen that same summer and about the 456 00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:51,680 same area of the night sky. I watched one star 457 00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:55,759 go haywire. It seemed to arise from outside my field 458 00:27:55,839 --> 00:27:59,880 of vision, and it stopped right over us. It rapidly 459 00:28:00,079 --> 00:28:03,000 moved up and down and left and right in diagonals 460 00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:05,839 and so on, and then it stopped moving all together. 461 00:28:07,039 --> 00:28:10,599 These moves transversed the sky only with the width of 462 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,319 two fingers of my outstretched hand, and were incredibly fast, 463 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,920 And then, like the previous sighting, it zoomed like a 464 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,559 bat out of hell into the darkness. By two thousand 465 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:25,240 and five, I was an adult and I was living 466 00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:29,119 in a small town over an hour north of Toronto. 467 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:32,319 The night sky was even better for stargazing, and I 468 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,880 made a point of taking the dogs out at eleven 469 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,920 PM because I knew that some satellites traveled overhead around 470 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,519 that time of the night. I'd sometimes see other things 471 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:47,119 going on different paths and blinking. I knew they weren't aircraft, 472 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,640 and I later found out through much research that they 473 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,079 were likely space junk, and the blinking effect was due 474 00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:58,039 to it tumbling as it orbited. One night, walking the 475 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:01,119 dogs and getting a wicked cricket my neck from having 476 00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:03,599 to turn my head toward the sky for so long. 477 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,839 I saw something that weirded me out, and it took 478 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,680 me back to my childhood. There were three lights on 479 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:16,119 the eastern sky, traveling slowly in an equilateral triangle. I 480 00:29:16,119 --> 00:29:19,359 couldn't mistake what I was seeing. They were moving from 481 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,559 north to south, staying level, with one light in the 482 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,559 lead and the other two behind, like wingmen. If they 483 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:30,240 were aircraft, which I knew they were definitely not, I 484 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,400 couldn't wait to get back to the house to browse 485 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,720 for an answer. I'm a real science guy. I have 486 00:29:35,839 --> 00:29:39,559 been since grade school and I completed four years of 487 00:29:39,599 --> 00:29:44,640 science at university. I don't jump to conclusions, a weigh 488 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,359 the evidence, even if it's not what I want to hear. 489 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,119 I don't go on hearsay or conspiracy theories. I didn't 490 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,599 browse for UFOs. I browsed astronomy topics, and I got 491 00:29:56,599 --> 00:30:01,880 my answer in less than an Hourtional Oceanic and Atmospheric 492 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,759 Administration is a branch of the US Department of Commerce 493 00:30:06,119 --> 00:30:09,880 and has been deploying satellites for a long time that 494 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,359 survey all kinds of information about the oceans. What I 495 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,920 saw was a system that I think has been discontinued. 496 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:21,880 They put up trios of satellites that were tethered by 497 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,000 cables to a fixed triangle, and they orbited in that way, 498 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,680 running in a path from pole to pole. What I 499 00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:32,720 was seeing was then passing north to south over the 500 00:30:32,759 --> 00:30:38,400 Atlantic Ocean. My inquiry got some replies from enthusiasts who 501 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,920 were pleased to read I had seen them, and they 502 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,319 were surprised that I could spot them without the use 503 00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:47,279 of a telescope, because that is rare. I was just 504 00:30:47,359 --> 00:30:50,119 happy that I had gotten a rational answer and that 505 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,200 I wasn't getting a replay of those strange nights as 506 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,279 a kid in my parents' backyard. My friend from back 507 00:30:57,319 --> 00:31:00,880 then never brought it up, and I didn't either. I 508 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,000 wish I could have told him about the satellites. That's 509 00:31:04,079 --> 00:31:06,839 all I have. Cam have a good one. Signed Charlie 510 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,000 here's a guy who saw lights in the sky and 511 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:13,960 could have made this a big deal. He could have 512 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:18,119 made it like, oh man, it's absolutely aliens and all 513 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,400 this stuff. But he did a little digging, some extensive digging, 514 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,720 when I say extensive, more than I would ever do, 515 00:31:26,079 --> 00:31:29,319 and he finds out that these are satellites tether together 516 00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:32,000 to map maybe map out the ocean or study the 517 00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:35,319 Atlantic Ocean. I thought that was cool. I wonder if 518 00:31:35,319 --> 00:31:38,079 Bigfoot people ever do that. I wonder if Bigfoot people 519 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,920 ever go Maybe what I saw was the light moving 520 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,279 in the woods. Maybe what I saw was a tree stunk. 521 00:31:46,079 --> 00:31:48,559 Maybe what I saw was this or that. Maybe I'm 522 00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:50,759 going to go back and look in that same area 523 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,359 and see what it looks like at different times of 524 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,680 the day and make sure that lights and shadows aren't 525 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,559 playing tricks on me. Nope, Bigfoot people never do that, 526 00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:02,039 but these UFO people do. Obviously, Charlie did it, so 527 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:05,200 I thought that was pretty cool. Charlie. Thanks for the story. 528 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,119 I really enjoyed it.