WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:12.039 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