WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:11.439 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