1 00:00:08,199 --> 00:00:11,439 Speaker 1: My wife, her cousin, and I decided to camp out 2 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:15,119 one weekend and go squirrel hunting. We packed our tent 3 00:00:15,279 --> 00:00:18,280 and got our food and water and tools ready not 4 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,280 cleaned and checked by Remington Mohawk and my savage Stevens, 5 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,239 and then we took off. We got to the campsite 6 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,719 and cleared a space for the tent and the fire pit. 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,640 We gathered some firewood and got cooking and talking, And 8 00:00:33,679 --> 00:00:37,359 when we finished eating supper, we heard by podle footsteps 9 00:00:37,359 --> 00:00:41,640 somewhere nearby in the woods. As we sat there in 10 00:00:41,759 --> 00:00:45,399 silence and listened to it walk around us, my wife's 11 00:00:45,399 --> 00:00:49,280 cousin and I exchanged a look. We both knew what 12 00:00:49,359 --> 00:00:53,799 it was. We'd seen its con before on another hunting 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,000 trip at that camp site, we ran into an entire 14 00:00:57,159 --> 00:01:00,359 clan of boogers. Based on our line, I asked to 15 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:03,119 encounter with them. I wanted them to know that we 16 00:01:03,119 --> 00:01:05,840 were armed, so I fired a warning shot into the 17 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:11,159 hillside and the walking stopped. Two hours later, we heard 18 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:16,040 more heavy footsteps. I fired another warning shot into the hillside, 19 00:01:16,079 --> 00:01:20,959 and again it stopped. Another hour passed uneventfully, but at 20 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:25,280 one am the whooping started. My wife and I had 21 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,760 been sleeping in the tent, but her cousin chose to 22 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:31,159 stay outside by the fire. Do y'all see this. I 23 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,200 heard him whisper outside. I joined him by the fire pit, 24 00:01:35,239 --> 00:01:38,000 and I saw something up on the ridge about thirty 25 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,439 yards away, and then, with no warning, all hell broke loose. 26 00:01:43,359 --> 00:01:46,239 There was whooping and whistling, and a group of them 27 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,280 ran through the woods around us, making as much noise 28 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:53,200 as they could. We decided it was time to leave camp, 29 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,159 and it only took us minutes to pack up, but 30 00:01:56,239 --> 00:01:58,239 it took a good thirty minutes to get out of 31 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,920 there because we had a crappy fly. That was a 32 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,680 long thirty minutes. Soon it will be deer season. My 33 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,080 wife's cousin and I are going back up there for 34 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,120 another weekend to fill the freezer. Wish me luck. I'd 35 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:15,759 like to stay anonymous, but if you don't mind, please 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,120 say hi to Jenny King. She's a big fan of 37 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:23,879 yours and she watches every episode. Jenny King, I went 38 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,360 to grade school with a girl named Jenny King. Matter 39 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,240 of fact, I was, y'all, I read this cold and 40 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:33,840 I just saw that name. I was in love with 41 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,919 that girl. She was a beautiful. I think we were 42 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,439 in sixth grade. I think she may have been the 43 00:02:40,439 --> 00:02:44,840 first girl I ever kissed. We were okay, I remember 44 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,639 it now. We were at a skating rink and you 45 00:02:47,759 --> 00:02:50,680 got picked to go in and hand out skates and all. 46 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,319 And it was like a school gym, and they had 47 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,639 roller skates that they gave out and they would pick 48 00:02:57,719 --> 00:03:02,400 students to This is so crazy, This is so crazy. 49 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:05,599 This is all coming back to me. Well, where you 50 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,240 gave skates out everybody, you were cool. If you worked 51 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,319 in the in the skate handout behind the counter, that 52 00:03:11,479 --> 00:03:14,319 was cool. Her and I were working that and we 53 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:18,960 were very back in the backrack pulling skates, and we 54 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,960 had been kind of talking and I kind of got 55 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,840 the undercurrent maybe she liked me, and I couldn't help it. 56 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:28,840 I just leaned over and kissed her. And it wasn't 57 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,439 a big, long, passionate kiss. Hell. I didn't even know 58 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:35,680 how to kiss. Oh, this is so crazy. And uh, anyway, 59 00:03:35,759 --> 00:03:39,639 we were. We may have gone steady for about two days, 60 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:43,360 and that I thought, or maybe she thought, she wanted 61 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,240 to be free again. So we just didn't do that anymore. 62 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:50,680 Jenny King anyway, Memphis, Tennessee. I wonder if she I 63 00:03:50,719 --> 00:03:53,439 wonder if she would ever remember that or if this 64 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:56,960 is the same Jenny King. I don't know where this is. Uh, 65 00:03:57,319 --> 00:03:59,439 I don't don't I don't remember it. No, I don't 66 00:03:59,479 --> 00:04:02,759 see anything in here where this anyway, y'all, I'm sorry 67 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,319 this caught me by surprise. You know what's funny. I 68 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,599 remember I used to call her. We called and talked 69 00:04:09,639 --> 00:04:12,680 for about a week, and I remembered her phone number 70 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:15,719 for about ten years. I can't remember it now, but 71 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:18,959 kind of a sweet memory. And if it's the same one. 72 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,720 Hope your life turned out great, mind, Sure did, And 73 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,959 I hope you're happy and got a house full of 74 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,439 kids and grandkids. All right. Thanks to the writer for 75 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,480 sending the story. I know I didn't talk about the story. 76 00:04:31,519 --> 00:04:34,800 I just talked about my first girlfriend. But that was 77 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,279 pretty grad. It was great to go down that lane. 78 00:04:37,519 --> 00:04:41,560 Thanks for the story. Hey, everybody, Sorry I've been gone 79 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,839 so long. I've been busy at work. Matter of fact, 80 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,879 I've been busier in the month of March than I 81 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,680 think i've been in the last ten years. But I'm 82 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,920 winding down on some work. I've got one other thing 83 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,720 to do in April, but it's not quite as pressurized. 84 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,759 And then I'm hoping this spring and summer will be 85 00:04:58,959 --> 00:05:02,480 the season of might be able to do them every 86 00:05:02,519 --> 00:05:05,879 other day. But that's where I'm at. So welcome to 87 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,759 the Dixie Crypti Channel, where there are no memberships. Everybody's 88 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,959 a member. Everything's free. You get to listen for no charge, 89 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,399 and if you don't like it, I'll send you your 90 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,639 money back. How ya get all right? Guys, thanks for 91 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:24,560 joining me. I've got several more stories to go. Let's 92 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:35,079 get it rolling all right, here we go. This is 93 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,800 a nice story about a bigfoot. And think, I know 94 00:05:38,879 --> 00:05:42,360 the women like these stories, and I do too. I 95 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,519 like them too. Some of the guys like them too. 96 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,839 So and if I have to stop, y'all, I've got 97 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,439 my door open because the weather is so pretty outside, 98 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,079 and I've got about a half a dozen chickens just 99 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,600 kind of loidering right in the threshold of my door. 100 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,759 I'm sitting here looking at them. They're so pretty happy. Anyway, 101 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:05,199 let's read this nice story about a bigfoot. In late 102 00:06:05,319 --> 00:06:08,120 June of nineteen seventy nine, my family and I spent 103 00:06:08,199 --> 00:06:13,399 a week at Salt Creek Resort in Lake Shasta. It 104 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,920 was late afternoon, but the sun was still high in 105 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:18,759 the sky. Six or eight of us kids from the 106 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,000 boat club were exploring around the cabins when we saw 107 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,160 what looked like a dark, tall person far off in 108 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,240 the woods. What was peculiar about it was it had 109 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,879 something yellow and blue on top of its head. It 110 00:06:32,959 --> 00:06:36,040 was maybe part of a bikini just above where its 111 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:40,240 eyes would be what. We chased after it, but it 112 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,439 was moving twice as fast as us. We saw it 113 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:46,639 hide behind a big tree and then reappear fifty feet 114 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:51,279 further away behind another tree. At one point, one of 115 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,480 the older boys railed us together since we were too 116 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,439 spread out and separated, and it took us a while 117 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,040 to get back to the cabins. We all felt we 118 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:02,839 ought more than a little confused because we had traveled 119 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,519 so far in such a short period of time. None 120 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,079 of it made any sense. On the way back, we 121 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,920 found the younger boy's orange clad action figure in a 122 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,759 US Army canvas bag that was buckled closed. We also 123 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:21,279 found a towel from one of the girls in the group, 124 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,160 which she had wrapped over her shoulder when we went 125 00:07:24,279 --> 00:07:29,439 chasing after that thing. But something wasn't right. We all 126 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,199 knew the towel had just been on her shoulder a 127 00:07:32,279 --> 00:07:35,759 minute before, Yet there it was hanging from a tree 128 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,040 branch fourteen feet in the air, nowhere close to where 129 00:07:39,079 --> 00:07:43,360 we were when we decided to turn back. It would 130 00:07:43,399 --> 00:07:45,879 have been impossible for her to climb up that tree 131 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,319 on her own and hang the towel there. It took 132 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,000 the two oldest boys and the oldest girl and me 133 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,439 to boost her high enough up to get a hold 134 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,199 of the branch and then climb out and grab that towel. Well, 135 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,279 we kept walking and we passed a massive patch of 136 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,720 giant logan berries. We all snacked on them, and by 137 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:09,480 the time we got back to the resort it was dark. 138 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,360 A day or two later, my middle brother, the towel girl, 139 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,680 and I went after some more of those logan berries 140 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,600 we had snacked on the other day. We found the 141 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:23,600 same massive patch, a lot closer to the cabins than 142 00:08:23,639 --> 00:08:27,399 we remembered. The three of us had two buckets about 143 00:08:27,399 --> 00:08:30,720 a quarter full when a ten inch round rock landed 144 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,480 in the woods behind us. We concluded it was the 145 00:08:34,519 --> 00:08:37,399 other kids, and we looked around for them. Well, we 146 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,799 couldn't see them, so we kept picking the berries. That's 147 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,679 when we heard the weirdest sound. It was a cross 148 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:47,440 between a coyote howl and a pissed off parrot, and 149 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:50,519 it was so loud that we felt it. And then 150 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,720 another rock landed between me and my brother. We found 151 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:57,799 the same massive patch, a lot closer to the cabins 152 00:08:57,799 --> 00:09:01,840 than we remembered us had two buckets about a quarter 153 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,720 full when a ten inch rock landed in the woods 154 00:09:04,799 --> 00:09:08,159 behind us. We thought that it was the other kids 155 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,200 and looked around for them, but we couldn't see them, 156 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:14,679 so we kept picking berries. That's when we heard the 157 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,159 weirdest sound. It was a cross between a coyote howl 158 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:21,480 and a piste off parrot. It was so loud that 159 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,559 we felt it, and then another rock landed between me 160 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,320 and my brother. This one was bigger. It was thirty 161 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,919 inches long and eighteen inches wide. It was closer to 162 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,320 a boulder than a rock, and we exchanged a look 163 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:39,759 and we beat it back to the resort. The next morning, 164 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,480 I got in trouble. There was a hole in the 165 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,000 window screen of our cabin and berries were smashed all 166 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,960 over our mattress in my sleeping bag, as if I 167 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,320 had rolled over onto a pile of them while I 168 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:56,000 was sleeping. Towel Girl was in trouble too. Her swim 169 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,279 suit and the top half of her mom's bikini were missing. 170 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,399 They were blue and yellow, just like we had seen 171 00:10:02,639 --> 00:10:05,919 on that thing's head the other day. They had a 172 00:10:05,919 --> 00:10:08,519 broken screen too, and there was a pile of berries 173 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:13,000 on the outdoor table that stained the tablecloth. What we 174 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,799 saw wasn't ape like at all. It was gracefully fast, 175 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,919 and I think impishly playful. My little brother says he 176 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,360 doesn't remember it, but he's agitated whenever he hears our 177 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:30,240 local codies. Towel Girl wants nothing to do with those memories. 178 00:10:30,799 --> 00:10:34,519 She says that that noise haunts her dreams to this day. 179 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,759 Oh that was cool. A bigfoot stealing mom's swimsuit and 180 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,360 wearing it on his head. There's probably some dudes around 181 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:47,360 that might do that. That's kind of that's never mind. 182 00:10:47,399 --> 00:10:49,480 I won't even go down that road. This was a 183 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:51,879 cool story. It was a playful, kind of a fun 184 00:10:51,919 --> 00:10:56,159 bigfoot story. I appreciate it. Appreciate the man for sending it. Thanks, 185 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:01,559 all right, this is it's a monster story, but it's 186 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,440 really good. It's kind of a heartwarming. Little story. It's 187 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:09,440 short and it's I think you like this. When I 188 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:12,360 was a teenager, I worked as a summer staffer at 189 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:16,039 a religious conference center in the mountains of East Ashville, 190 00:11:16,159 --> 00:11:20,840 North Carolina. Being from Florida and my friend from Oklahoma, 191 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,639 we enjoyed the lush mountains. When we had time off. 192 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,360 One late afternoon, we decided to climb a mountain with 193 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,320 a lookout spot facing the northwest. We wanted to see 194 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,840 the sunset. We started hiking later than usual, knowing the 195 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,919 sunset was coming and it would be dark soon. I'm 196 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:43,399 not sure why, but we didn't even think about taking flashlights. 197 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,559 It was the nineteen seventies and there were no cell 198 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,200 phones with lights on them to help us find our way. 199 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,720 It was a beautiful afternoon, and as we watched the 200 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:57,200 sunset over the mountains, time got away from us. We 201 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,639 realized just how dark it was getting and knew that 202 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,919 it was to start the hike back down. The upper 203 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,240 half of the hike was a regular trail, but it 204 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:09,120 led onto an old logging road, which was much easier hiking. 205 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,159 It was so dark by the time we started our 206 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,200 hike down the mountain that we had to hold onto 207 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,000 each other's hand, just to know that we hadn't lost 208 00:12:17,039 --> 00:12:20,720 each other. After only a couple of minutes, we stopped 209 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,360 and realized that we were not on the trail anymore. 210 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,600 We became frightened at the thought that we would be 211 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:28,720 forced to spend the night on the mountain with no 212 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:33,879 supplies or food. In our desperation, we prayed for help, 213 00:12:34,639 --> 00:12:37,240 and just as we ended the prayer, we looked up 214 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,960 and we saw a bush with a light streaking through 215 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,679 it from top to bottom. It wasn't enough light to 216 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,360 illuminate the area around it, but it was enough to 217 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:49,360 guide us toward it, and when we reached it, we 218 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,600 realized we were back on the trail. Believe it or not, 219 00:12:52,759 --> 00:12:55,279 this happened to us three times before we made our 220 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,120 way down to the old logging road and back to safety. 221 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,200 Now they say God works mysterious ways, and I for 222 00:13:02,279 --> 00:13:06,320 one believe that. Oh that's a good story. That's a miracle. 223 00:13:06,519 --> 00:13:09,919 Those are miracle things that happen with people. Sometimes they 224 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,240 only happen once in a lifetime. Sometimes they happen for 225 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,759 people over and over. I believe what this girl said 226 00:13:16,759 --> 00:13:20,039 that sometimes you can pray for help and sometimes God 227 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,799 will answer it's just it's according to his will and 228 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,639 you if he hadn't shown you the light, he wanted 229 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:29,440 to keep you on that mountain for a night to 230 00:13:29,519 --> 00:13:32,360 teach you something. But it's all good, it's all for 231 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,120 our good. So I love this story. Now, sometimes we 232 00:13:36,159 --> 00:13:38,519 get stories that aren't monster story. As matter of fact, 233 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,840 I ask a couple of months ago for some dog stories. 234 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:44,200 I've got a whole pile of dog stories and I'm 235 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,759 going to do in one episode soon, probably in the 236 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:49,759 next couple of weeks. And so I enjoyed this. I 237 00:13:49,799 --> 00:13:55,559 really appreciate it, and thanks to the writer. All Right, 238 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:00,000 here's a story a man sent me. It's called a crew. 239 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,080 You're in the snow. It's got some mystery to it, 240 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,879 claims this is true, so hang on. In the winter 241 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,799 of nineteen seventy six, I lived on a mountain pass 242 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,080 in Washington State, and I worked at a restaurant and 243 00:14:14,159 --> 00:14:17,679 bar that has since burnt down. Back then, there were 244 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,600 four ski areas on that pass, and I lived a 245 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:24,039 mile from the restaurant on the summit, halfway into a 246 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,559 narrow valley that ended in another one of the ski areas. 247 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,559 And when the snow came, I left my car at 248 00:14:30,639 --> 00:14:33,720 my parents' house fifty miles away in town, and I 249 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:37,080 walked everywhere on the pass. It was much easier than 250 00:14:37,159 --> 00:14:39,559 having to shovel out all of the snow in the winter. 251 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:43,600 The last quarter mile to my chalet was a path 252 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:46,639 I made straight up a steep hill, and on one 253 00:14:46,679 --> 00:14:49,919 side of the path were stairs I stumped into the snow, 254 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,639 and on the other side was a slide. The path 255 00:14:53,799 --> 00:14:56,679 was steep enough that you could squat and slide down 256 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,720 on the soles of your boots. I usually worked until 257 00:15:00,759 --> 00:15:03,879 two thirty am, but they didn't turn the ski area 258 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,279 lights off until three. Most of the time you could 259 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,480 see pretty well, but not into the thick forests that 260 00:15:10,519 --> 00:15:15,039 the few scattered homes were nestled into. The restaurant had 261 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:17,519 a room at the back of the building access from 262 00:15:17,519 --> 00:15:20,960 the outside, where we kept the garbage. We had had 263 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,679 problems with black bears breaking into it, so the Forest 264 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:27,600 Service placed the cage there to try to catch and 265 00:15:27,679 --> 00:15:32,080 relocate the troublemakers. I didn't think twice about walking or 266 00:15:32,159 --> 00:15:36,200 hiking anywhere anytime while I was living there. I don't 267 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,000 even know if they made bear spray back then, but 268 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,440 my overconfident self wasn't going to let a bear keep 269 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,759 me from doing what I loved. Now. I told myself 270 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:47,879 that if I made noise and tried to look as 271 00:15:47,879 --> 00:15:51,039 big as I could, most things would just run away. 272 00:15:52,399 --> 00:15:55,279 We were blessed with lots of snow in a storm 273 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,320 that came in, and they closed the pass until they 274 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,080 could plow and do avalanche. The other restaurant and two 275 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,480 gas stations in the combined post office grocery store all 276 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,480 closed early, but I was tending bar at the time, 277 00:16:10,519 --> 00:16:14,080 and the locals hung around enjoying some peace without the 278 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:18,519 intrusion of skiers. After work. I was really looking forward 279 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,759 to the amazing walk ahead of me, having the pass 280 00:16:21,919 --> 00:16:26,679 all to myself. The snowflakes were big and beautiful, and 281 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,120 they were coming down hard. I had a waterproof hooded 282 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,159 poncho big enough to cover my backpack too, and it 283 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,240 got really warm under there when I was walking, so 284 00:16:36,399 --> 00:16:40,080 I was in no hurry. What I didn't expect was 285 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,960 for everything to be so deserted. Everyone had gone to 286 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,720 their warm fireplaces and shut themselves in, so it was 287 00:16:47,879 --> 00:16:51,320 just me and the mountains and all the beautiful snow. 288 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,120 And then the ski lights went out. There were street 289 00:16:56,159 --> 00:16:59,120 lights right on the summit, but once I turned into 290 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,679 my little valley it got pretty dark. The snow was reflective, 291 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:06,400 which helped, and there was a good sized berm on 292 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:09,559 either side of the small two lane road. I knew 293 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,640 I wouldn't get lost, but being in the middle of 294 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,960 the mountain wilderness and the pitch dark all by myself 295 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:17,720 did take some of the fun out of my track. 296 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,519 The only lights came from the porches of the chalet 297 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,319 scattered along one or two short roads like the one 298 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,240 I lived on, which was on a hill rather than 299 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,559 near the road. Now, heavy snow muffles noise and has 300 00:17:32,599 --> 00:17:36,079 a way of cutting you off from everything else. As 301 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,920 I continued my trek home, I thought I heard something 302 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,200 in the woods next to me, just far enough in 303 00:17:41,559 --> 00:17:44,880 that I couldn't see what it was. It sounded like 304 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,160 something heavy had leaped out of the trees and landed 305 00:17:48,319 --> 00:17:52,119 in the four foot snow well. I knew not to run, 306 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,279 because there were mountain lions and lynxes and bears and 307 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:59,000 lots of animals in those woods, But whatever it was 308 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,160 sounded much better. What could jump high enough up out 309 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,160 of four feet of snow and make such a crashing 310 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,839 sound when it landed well. I tried to stay calm, 311 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,119 and I kept going forward. The deep snow that had 312 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,400 seemed so awesome earlier in the night had suddenly become 313 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,480 more of a trap. I couldn't run in it, and 314 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:23,079 the closest house was too far away. I wouldn't be 315 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,960 able to make it there before the creature got me. 316 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,839 And then I heard another crash. I heard it leap 317 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,599 again and land not far from me. It stayed out 318 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,720 of sight in the woods, but I could hear it 319 00:18:35,799 --> 00:18:39,519 following me. I moved as fast as I dared, dreading 320 00:18:39,599 --> 00:18:41,680 having to go up that path on the hill to 321 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:45,480 my house. I felt like I was being toyed with, 322 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,519 and I heard it crash through the trees, keeping up 323 00:18:48,559 --> 00:18:52,400 with me, but I stayed calm. There was nothing else 324 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,240 I could do. Even if I screamed, no one would 325 00:18:55,279 --> 00:18:57,960 be able to hear me, and it was so dark 326 00:18:58,039 --> 00:19:00,079 that I had to use my hands to fill my 327 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,960 way up the hill, all the while waiting for something 328 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,319 to jump on my back and sink its teeth and 329 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,920 claws into me. Halfway up the hill, the trees weren't 330 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,599 as close together, and I was hoping it would stop 331 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,240 following me for fear of exposing itself, And when I 332 00:19:16,279 --> 00:19:18,400 finally saw the deck of my house ahead of me, 333 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:21,839 I flung myself forward with all of my might and 334 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:26,039 nearly took the door down trying to get inside. The 335 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:28,880 next day, I set out at daylight to go back 336 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,440 to work. There was a thick blanket of fresh, beautiful 337 00:19:32,519 --> 00:19:37,079 snow and an entirely different journey in the sunlight. But 338 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,000 as soon as I got down to the path in 339 00:19:39,079 --> 00:19:43,359 the trees, I heard those sounds again, crash and thumps 340 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:48,599 and crashes. I froze in fear, realizing whatever it was 341 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,240 had told its friends and they were all about to 342 00:19:51,319 --> 00:19:54,519 rip me to pieces. And then it occurred to me 343 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,359 all at once, the sound was coming from the trees. 344 00:19:59,319 --> 00:20:02,160 All of that beautiful, heavy snow was falling off the 345 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,319 heavy laden, tall fur branches. Each time I passed by 346 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,440 a tree, I could hear the snowfall. It only sounded 347 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,279 like something was following me, because every several steps I took, 348 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,680 another tree would lose its load of snow. I have 349 00:20:17,759 --> 00:20:20,680 to say I was pretty happy with myself for staying 350 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:23,839 calm and not trying to run. It goes to show 351 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:29,759 that some bumps in the night really are just our imagination. Okay, 352 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:36,519 this is what I actually read before I recorded it. Rebecca, 353 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,319 the woman that edits my stories, she had a note 354 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,000 up here that this is not really a creature's story 355 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,279 and that he thought what he thought was following him 356 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,720 was just snowfalling from the trees. There's no actual monsters 357 00:20:50,319 --> 00:20:52,519 in case you want to put it in a different category. 358 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 And she said, but it was still a good story, 359 00:20:55,039 --> 00:20:58,079 and that's the truth. It was a great story. And 360 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,400 you have to wonder how so many times people have 361 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:06,000 fought Bigfoot was following them when it was totally something else, 362 00:21:06,319 --> 00:21:10,160 like snow falling off of trees. Who knows, I don't know, 363 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,599 but it could happen. This story is proof of that. 364 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,200 Thank you to the writer for sending this. It was great, 365 00:21:19,559 --> 00:21:22,519 all right, this is a show enough story about Bigfoot. 366 00:21:22,559 --> 00:21:26,079 Here's what the writer writes. One night, when my brother 367 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,799 was younger, he had just been dropped off near his 368 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,000 tree stand to go hunting. To get there, he had 369 00:21:32,039 --> 00:21:34,720 to walk by an old, abandoned school, which our father 370 00:21:34,839 --> 00:21:38,400 had attended when he was little. As he was walking 371 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,119 through the rubble of the old school, he heard two 372 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,079 sticks being hit together. Then he heard a scream like 373 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,519 a man was getting torn apart. When he took his 374 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:52,200 flashlight out and went into the woods to check it out, 375 00:21:52,319 --> 00:21:55,200 he saw a twelve foot tall creature there staring back 376 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:00,000 at him with yellow orange eyes. My brother ran his fast, 377 00:22:00,039 --> 00:22:02,640 asked as he could, hearing this thing chasing him the 378 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,680 whole time, and when he made it to his tree stand, 379 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,519 he pointed a shotgun at the creature and he shot it. 380 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,480 The creature let out a horrible scream and disappeared back 381 00:22:12,519 --> 00:22:15,039 into the night. And when he got back to our 382 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,559 Nana and Pop's house later, he kept his mouth closed. 383 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,079 He told me that he was afraid that they would 384 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,759 tell our parents that they wouldn't let him hunt there anymore. 385 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,119 When I was in the first grade, my family and 386 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,480 I were on our way home after a visit to 387 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:35,240 my grandfather Sonny's house for Christmas break. During the drive, 388 00:22:35,599 --> 00:22:37,960 a car ahead of us crashed out of the blue 389 00:22:38,039 --> 00:22:41,319 with nothing in front of it. My dad stopped the 390 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,720 car and my parents went to check on the driver 391 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,440 while we kids stayed in the car. I remember seeing 392 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,559 a dent on the side of the car that looked 393 00:22:49,599 --> 00:22:54,079 like a footprint, and then we heard a scream from 394 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,880 somewhere off the side of the road in the forest. 395 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,279 My parents said it was just a coyote. The way 396 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:02,920 they quickly got back in the car and kept driving 397 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,519 made me think it must have been something else. They 398 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:09,160 didn't tell us what happened to the car that crashed, 399 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,720 They just kept driving. After a few minutes, I fell 400 00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:15,359 asleep in the back, and in my dream I saw 401 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:19,519 something following our car, something tall and dark, running on 402 00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:23,359 two legs and coming after us. When I woke up, 403 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,160 I thought of my dream, and I looked through the 404 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,079 window behind me. Sure enough, something was following the car, 405 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:32,960 something tall and dark and running on two legs. It 406 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,359 terrified me. It was too dark to tell what it was, 407 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,680 and I was too scared to say anything. Looking back, 408 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,319 I'm almost positive it was a bigfoot. Well, if you're 409 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,839 going full speed, and that's the end of a story. 410 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,119 By the way, if you're going full speed in the 411 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,599 car and you look back and something's running after you 412 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,559 was keeping up with a car, man, these things must 413 00:23:53,559 --> 00:23:56,680 be fast, I would say. Yeah. If it's a big 414 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,200 and dark and running really fast and keeping up with 415 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,799 the car right behind you, I think you're right. It 416 00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:05,960 may have been bigfoot. But these were great stories. It's 417 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,720 two bigfoot stories from one writer. I thought it was 418 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:11,400 really cool that he sent this in. But it was 419 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:17,920 to the point and really good. Thank you to the writer. Okay, 420 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,880 here's one that I thought was really cool. I enjoyed 421 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,920 the way this person. It's a woman who sent the email, 422 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,160 and I enjoyed the way she wrote it. Settled down 423 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,200 now and let's listen to a spooky story, because this 424 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:35,240 is good. It was a summer night in small town, 425 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,519 Kansas in nineteen to eighty. I was sixteen years old. 426 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,119 I lived in a mobile home with my mom, my stepdad, 427 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,440 and my little brother. We had just moved there from 428 00:24:46,519 --> 00:24:50,240 southeast Ohio. My mom wanted to move somewhere new, and 429 00:24:50,279 --> 00:24:53,559 she had a friend in that small town. I had 430 00:24:53,599 --> 00:24:56,119 one friend that I had met at school. Her name 431 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,559 was Sandy, and she had a car. She would take 432 00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:02,039 me right around with her now and then, and I 433 00:25:02,079 --> 00:25:05,759 loved it. On one particular evening, she dropped me off 434 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,160 just before dark. My family was not home, so I 435 00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:12,000 sat on the old couch that we had outside on 436 00:25:12,039 --> 00:25:14,440 the ground and at the back end of the mobile home, 437 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,960 near the fence. It was just after sunset, but it 438 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,400 wasn't dark out yet. The fence bordered a large pasture 439 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:25,319 on the other side. I was sitting on that old 440 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,799 couch when something caught my eye. I got up and 441 00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:32,000 walked to the fence line, and I went numb. I 442 00:25:32,079 --> 00:25:35,319 was in shock and disbelief, and my head spun and 443 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,839 for a minute I could not move. I heard a 444 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,279 car coming, and thank God, it was my family. I 445 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,240 ran over to the car and I told them what 446 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,880 I saw crawling away in the field. My mom believed me, 447 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,000 and she even drew a picture of what I had described. 448 00:25:52,599 --> 00:25:55,640 And my mother passed away in twenty eleven, but through 449 00:25:55,640 --> 00:26:00,000 the years we discussed this many times. Only by love 450 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,599 did I see it, because it blended in with the tall, 451 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,480 dry grass in the field. What I saw was silent 452 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,960 and long and crawling away fast, like a spider. I 453 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,240 never saw hands or feet. I didn't see ears or tail. 454 00:26:14,759 --> 00:26:19,279 I only saw tangled, matted hair and strange humps covering 455 00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:23,000 its whole body. Its rear end was not sticking up 456 00:26:23,079 --> 00:26:25,319 like a human's wood if it were trying to walk 457 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,079 with its hands and feet. After that night, we had 458 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,400 rocks thrown at our trailer on multiple occasions. My little 459 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,880 brother heard something outside the trailer sometimes and the next 460 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,119 morning we would find claw marks cut into the screens. 461 00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:44,720 There were cattle mutilations in the area, and other teenagers 462 00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:47,880 witnessed several strange creatures standing in front of the old 463 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,599 barn and the pasture at night. One night, my mom's 464 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:54,839 friend who lived close to us, saw bright red eyes 465 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,720 from the fence line while she was doing dishes. Another 466 00:26:58,799 --> 00:27:02,000 neighbor said she was going to call the FBI, and 467 00:27:02,079 --> 00:27:06,079 a week later she up and moved away. Sincerely, and 468 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,599 she signs off on the letter. This is cool to me. 469 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,359 The best part of this story is they had an 470 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,720 old couch out in the yard next to the field. 471 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,920 I would love to, you know. I think I'm gonna 472 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,799 find me an old couch and just put it out 473 00:27:21,799 --> 00:27:24,480 in my yard. You think I'm joking, but I'm not. 474 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,720 That would be if you could just keep all the 475 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,839 bugs and rights out of it, that would be a 476 00:27:28,839 --> 00:27:31,680 pretty good thing. Maybe I should just get some lawn furniture. 477 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,599 I don't know, and I'm just kidding around. This was 478 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,079 really a good story. This person saw something crawling away 479 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,880 and the first thing I thought, I think she sends 480 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,200 something long and spindily crawl away like a spider. But 481 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:49,599 I've heard stories of bigfoots getting down and crawling on 482 00:27:49,759 --> 00:27:55,279 all fours. I've also heard stories of bigfoots camouflaging themselves. 483 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,599 This thing could have stuck things in his fur like 484 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,799 a sniper will with a gilly suit, and tried to 485 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:06,119 blend in with the surrounding and could have been crawling away. 486 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,799 I don't know. I don't know. She said it was dark, 487 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,200 so it couldn't be. It wasn't like totally camouflage with 488 00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:14,119 the grass. I don't know. I didn't see it. And 489 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,799 the description is a little it's a little lacking, but 490 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,000 it's enough to be a scary story. Anyway. I thought 491 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,839 this was great. Thank you to the writer for sending it. 492 00:28:22,839 --> 00:28:28,079 It was really good. Thank you. Okay, this has been 493 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,880 a podcast for most of these stories have been kind 494 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,640 of lighthearted and not scary, but this one is different. 495 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:39,759 This one is one. If you like the hard hitting 496 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:44,720 Sasquatch stories, you're gonna like this one. In nineteen seventy four, 497 00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:48,920 on a Marine Corps base in North Carolina, four other 498 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,880 men and I encountered four sasquatches. The five of us 499 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,480 were Marines. Some of who had served multiple tours in Vietnam. 500 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,400 To say that we were not easily intimidated would be 501 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,240 putting it lightly. That said, I have never been as 502 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:10,200 scared in Vietnam as I was on that day. It 503 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,359 was early spring and the fishing on base was really good. 504 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,480 We parked our cars off the road and walked a 505 00:29:16,519 --> 00:29:19,079 mile on a rail line to a bridge that went 506 00:29:19,119 --> 00:29:22,480 across a small river. In the middle of the river 507 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,400 was a small island, and we had fished off the 508 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,799 bridge and on the island several times before and had 509 00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:33,839 always been successful catching bass and catfish. It was swampy, 510 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,319 with mostly tall brush and grass, although a few larger 511 00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:40,039 trees were standing on the banks on both sides of 512 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:43,400 the river. The brush was at least ten feet high 513 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,039 and was so thick that you couldn't see more than 514 00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:50,039 a few feet into it. That afternoon, the five of 515 00:29:50,119 --> 00:29:52,759 us were at our spot having a great time in 516 00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:57,519 catching fish when everything got real quiet, no birds, no 517 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,680 animals or bugs, and the river from us we watched 518 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,640 a large branch get launched into the river. We started 519 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,119 commenting on where that branch could have come from and 520 00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,319 what had been strong enough to throw it in, and 521 00:30:13,359 --> 00:30:16,319 then we heard something massive walk through the brush along 522 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:19,839 the river bank. It sounded like it was walking on 523 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,319 two feet, and we could hear it breaking small trees 524 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,039 with each step, and we saw the tall brush sway 525 00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:28,319 out of the way as it made its way through. 526 00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:32,319 At first it was slow, but when it got closer 527 00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:36,079 to the train tracks, it sped up. We had all 528 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:39,839 been in Vietnam. We were all too familiar with what 529 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,720 it took to get through a dense jungle and vegetation. 530 00:30:43,799 --> 00:30:46,039 There was no way a human could have gotten through 531 00:30:46,079 --> 00:30:50,000 that tall brush with such speed and ease. Not to 532 00:30:50,079 --> 00:30:52,759 mention that any human in their right mind would stay 533 00:30:52,759 --> 00:30:56,640 out of there. It was riddled with snakes, cotton mouths, 534 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:01,160 and rattlesnakes and copperheads, just to name a few. We 535 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,000 heard this thing run through the brush toward the tracks 536 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,839 and stopped just short of coming into the open, and 537 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,400 then run back toward a thick tree that had a 538 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,039 fork in the middle eight feet off the ground. And 539 00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:16,359 then it did it again and again, repeating this strange 540 00:31:16,599 --> 00:31:19,920 charge toward the train tracks, only to stop short of 541 00:31:20,039 --> 00:31:25,680 coming out and exposing itself. There we sat five combat 542 00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:28,839 veterans who had each seen some rough times in Vietnam, 543 00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:32,440 each of us more than a little worried. One of 544 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,279 the men suggested it was a bear, But being that 545 00:31:35,359 --> 00:31:37,599 I had spent my life in the woods hunting bear 546 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,759 and deer, I knew it wasn't a bear. They were scary, 547 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,119 but they weren't as coordinated as this thing sounded, and 548 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,440 they didn't run on two feet. Just as I told 549 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,279 the others this, it let out a scream so loud 550 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,400 it hit us like a gust of wind. It went 551 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,799 deep into our chest and vibrated. It was like nothing 552 00:31:57,839 --> 00:32:00,920 I had ever heard. One of the men picked up 553 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,519 a large rock lying on the railroad track bed and 554 00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:07,319 chunked it into the trees. The creature went silent for 555 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,759 a moment in response, and then let out another scream, 556 00:32:10,839 --> 00:32:15,359 even louder than the first. Then a response came from 557 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,240 downstream on the opposite side of the river. Like the 558 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,839 first creature, the second one ran toward the railroad, slowly 559 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,279 at first, and then it sped up. It stopped just 560 00:32:27,359 --> 00:32:29,880 short of being seen, and ran back into the woods. 561 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,960 And then the first one did the same. And now 562 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,559 we had two of these unseen creatures to deal with. 563 00:32:36,559 --> 00:32:40,079 They seemed to be taking turns turning toward the train tracks. 564 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,200 A couple of the other men picked up large rocks 565 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,880 and chucked them into the direction of the creatures in 566 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,799 the bush well. I told them to knock it off. 567 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,839 Knowing it would take a lot more than a rock 568 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,960 to stop whatever these things were, and not wanting to 569 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,680 really make them mad, we decided the best thing that 570 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,039 we could do was go onto the island and the 571 00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:02,720 middle of the river. At least it would give us 572 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,640 a little time to prepare should they actually come onto 573 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,720 the tracks to get us. This bluff attack of theirs 574 00:33:09,799 --> 00:33:14,359 continued for fifteen minutes, with intermittent screams coming from both 575 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,799 sides of the river. At one point, near the large 576 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,839 tree with a fork, and we finally saw what it was. 577 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,400 This thing was over eight feet tall, and it had 578 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,799 to be four feet wide at the shoulders. It raised 579 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,559 its head above the fork of the large tree with 580 00:33:30,599 --> 00:33:34,799 a flat face and rust colored hair. It was so 581 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,759 wide that its shoulders stuck out on each side of 582 00:33:37,799 --> 00:33:41,440 the tree. It was nothing like a bear. It was 583 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,720 not an ape, and it was too large to be 584 00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:47,680 a human. This had to be a sisquatch, a bigfoot, 585 00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:51,240 or whatever you call it. The first one let out 586 00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:54,160 one more scream, and it sounded different than the ones 587 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,960 it made before, and then both creatures tore off into 588 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,799 the brush, heading down stream away from us. We heard 589 00:34:01,839 --> 00:34:04,640 two more of these creatures. They tore out of the 590 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,839 same area the others had been, and they went up river. 591 00:34:09,119 --> 00:34:11,079 When we heard them run off, it occurred to me 592 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,519 that the two making all the noise might have been 593 00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:15,960 trying to scare us into the path of the two 594 00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:19,840 who were hiding like dogs, chasing their prey right into 595 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,320 the hunters. We waited in silence for half an hour 596 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,480 just to make sure everything had calmed down, and we 597 00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:29,719 got our gear and got the hell out of there. 598 00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:32,760 We had to walk a mile on the railroad tracks 599 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,679 back to our cars. We were worried they made double 600 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,239 back on us. It was the longest mile I had 601 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,280 ever walked, and it was the last time I ever 602 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,719 went back to this spot to fish. Once we were 603 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,159 back in our cars, we agreed not to say anything 604 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:49,760 about this to anyone, worried about what it would do 605 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,280 to our careers in the service. We figured that the 606 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,920 Marine Corps would just kick us out for being crazy 607 00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:59,480 or accuse us of being on drugs, so we never 608 00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:03,199 spoke of what happened after that. I trained as a 609 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,760 sniper in the Marine Corps, and the one thing that 610 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,639 becoming a sniper teaches you, beyond shooting your rifle, is 611 00:35:09,639 --> 00:35:13,119 that you have to be extremely articulate about what you see. 612 00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:16,440 Your life depends on being able to describe what you 613 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,079 see with extreme accuracy. That can mean the difference between 614 00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:25,039 life and death. Now, these things were bigfoots. They were 615 00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:29,039 something I never wanted to see again. Unfortunately, I got 616 00:35:29,039 --> 00:35:31,760 out of the Marines and went back to Washington State, 617 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,599 and there I had another experience. It was a little 618 00:35:35,679 --> 00:35:39,599 less intimidating, but nonetheless an experience that I could have 619 00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:43,559 done without. I now live in Oregon, near Mount Hood, 620 00:35:44,039 --> 00:35:45,880 and although I've heard that there are a lot of 621 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,719 bigfoot encounters in this area, I have been fortunate enough 622 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,400 not to have seen any more of these things. I 623 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,920 wish more people were aware of the danger they put 624 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,559 themselves in when they go out in nature's place. If 625 00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:05,280 you go, go prepared and pay attention to your surroundings, 626 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,519 yes there may be some friendly, happy occurrences, but ours 627 00:36:09,639 --> 00:36:14,559 was neither happy nor friendly. Bigfoot is real, He's cunning, 628 00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:18,079 and he can be dangerous for those who want to 629 00:36:18,159 --> 00:36:20,679 encounter to these things. I have but one thing to say, 630 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,960 be careful what you wish for. You just might get it. 631 00:36:24,679 --> 00:36:27,400 And then he goes on to say, feel free to 632 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,239 use his name. I'm too old to care about what 633 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,159 people think, and I know what I saw. Anyway. His 634 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,599 name is Dennis, and this is a good story. Him 635 00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:41,400 and four marines outfish and encounter are four bigfoots. There's 636 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,199 nothing I can add to this that's even funny or 637 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,440 comical or adds anything to the story. It just is 638 00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:51,360 what it is. The man had an encounter. Him and 639 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,639 his buddies had an encounter with a pack of sasquatches. 640 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,519 Now that's pretty cool. I know it scared him, but 641 00:36:57,599 --> 00:37:00,519 to us it's pretty cool. Thanks Dennis for the story. 642 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,119 Thank you for listening to us podcast. I appreciate you 643 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,840 very much, and I guess we'll see you guys on 644 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,480 the next one. Thanks for listening. See you then.