1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty eight, we moved into a house southwest 2 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:17,160 of Densville, South Carolina. It wasn't long after moving in 3 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:21,079 that we noticed someone was picking in our windows. My 4 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:24,039 friend across the street said someone had been messing around 5 00:00:24,039 --> 00:00:27,160 in his garden too. I went over to the house 6 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:30,800 and I noticed large barefoot prints in the soil. But 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,079 at the time we didn't know anything about bigfoot, so 8 00:00:34,119 --> 00:00:37,560 it didn't cross our mind. It wasn't until after I 9 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,640 enlisted in the Air Force that I learned about Bigfoot 10 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:45,960 from the Patterson film. In nineteen sixty seven, I came 11 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:49,600 home on leave. I spent most of my younger years 12 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:52,359 hunting and planned to do a little when I was home. 13 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,359 I went down the street from our house and into 14 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:59,119 the woods. There was a long, swampy length of area 15 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:02,479 that had a going through it, which was covered in 16 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,920 a mass of thorn bushes. In the center was a 17 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,879 tunnel like structure. I went inside and looked around and 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,000 found some giant barefoot tracks in the mud. I wasn't 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,640 in the tunnel long when I heard something coming toward 20 00:01:16,719 --> 00:01:19,519 me from the other end. I rushed back to where 21 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:22,120 I entered and hid, just in time to see a 22 00:01:22,159 --> 00:01:28,159 big black thing coming in my direction. I quietly cocked 23 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,920 my gun and waited for it to get closer so 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,239 I could see better through the thorn bushes. I could 25 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,519 see it was a black bigfoot. Luckily he didn't see me. 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,599 I knew better than to shooting him. I'm afraid I 27 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,400 would have been killed if I tried. I told my 28 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,959 friend to cross the street about my encounter, and I 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,680 left it at that. All these years later, I found 30 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:55,640 a bigfoot track in my yard here in Hillsville, Virginia. 31 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,359 Seeing it brought back memories of my encounter when I 32 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:06,159 was young, and I will never forget it. In the 33 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,240 summer of nineteen seventy six, I was five years old. 34 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,080 My brother and I were on a two week camping 35 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,520 trip with my grandparents in North Idaho, and visiting them 36 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,879 in the summer became a regular thing when I was 37 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,159 a kid. My grandfather was an avid out doorsman, and 38 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:25,960 he had all the gear you could want. Had a 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,560 truck and a camper and a couple of Honda ninety 40 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:33,280 trail bikes. We were camped in my grandparents' favorite spot 41 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,520 on a creek near the Saint Joe River. There was 42 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,960 another party camping nearby, and they stopped to let us 43 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,800 know that a cougar had been seen early that morning 44 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:46,360 walking down the middle of the gravel road. They wanted 45 00:02:46,439 --> 00:02:48,879 us to be aware that it could still be around, 46 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,919 and my grandpa thanked them and let them know that 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,080 he would tell them if he saw it. And my 48 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:58,560 grandpa took me fishing while my brother and my grandmother 49 00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:02,560 worked on collecting firewood for the fire pit. There was 50 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,039 a part of the creek that my grandpa could walk 51 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,319 in without getting too wet and fish a good area 52 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,919 on the other side. I followed a little bit into 53 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,280 the creek, and then I lost interest and I started 54 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:19,280 looking for rocks. My grandpa wasn't very far away, maybe 55 00:03:19,319 --> 00:03:22,439 thirty feet or so. When his line got a hit 56 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,919 from a big trout. He yelled for me to get 57 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,439 the net that he had forgotten on the camp side 58 00:03:28,479 --> 00:03:31,199 of the creek. Well. I ran and got it, and 59 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,439 when I started heading back through the water to give 60 00:03:33,479 --> 00:03:37,039 it to him, I tripped and I fell. I got 61 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,479 up and I looked at my grandpa's direction. Stay there, 62 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,800 he yelled. I saw movement on the bank of the 63 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,159 creek in front of my grandpa. It was a gigantic 64 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,719 cougar reaching down into the water and grabbing fish off 65 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:54,319 of his fishing line. It happened so fast that I 66 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,199 didn't even know what to do. My grandpa started swearing 67 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,680 and yelling at the cougar and waving his arms in 68 00:04:00,719 --> 00:04:04,080 the air, but instead of running off, the cougar dropped 69 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,680 the fish and headed into the water toward him. Lie froze, 70 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,080 thinking we were both cougar bait, when behind it, on 71 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:15,319 the bank of the creek, a large black figure walking 72 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,879 on two legs crashed through the trees. It frightened the cougar, 73 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,639 who ran away from the sound, right into my grandpa, 74 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,480 knocking him down and making him drop his fishing pole. 75 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:30,040 My grandpa left his fishing pole and grabbed me by 76 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:32,240 the neck of my shirt, and he picked me up 77 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,199 out of the water, and we headed quickly toward our 78 00:04:35,319 --> 00:04:39,480 camp without saying a word. We ran the entire way there. 79 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:43,600 When my grandpa finally put me down, he told me 80 00:04:43,759 --> 00:04:46,399 to be quiet and catch my breath while he talked 81 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:50,680 to my grandmother that damn sasquatch is back again. I 82 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,879 heard him say. I could tell he was flustered, but 83 00:04:53,959 --> 00:04:59,040 he didn't sound afraid. My grandmother just laughed, Well, tell him, 84 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,360 we're not leaving, I heard her say. I wasn't sure 85 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,759 what to think. I was more curious than I was scared. 86 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,759 And that night we had a camp fire. I had 87 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:14,240 almost forgotten what had happened earlier in the day. The 88 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,879 air was warm, and a cool breeze came up from 89 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:20,360 the creek. We heard a couple of strange noises in 90 00:05:20,399 --> 00:05:23,720 the bushes, but my grandparents distracted us with some moors 91 00:05:24,199 --> 00:05:28,160 and we didn't pay any attention to it. The next morning, 92 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:30,480 my grandpa got up early and would to see if 93 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:32,639 he could find his fishing pole, but he didn't have 94 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,240 any luck. Later in the morning, my brother, who had 95 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,120 been running in and out of the bushes pretending to 96 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,439 shoot the invisible enemies with a cool stick he found, 97 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,720 called my grandpa over to look at something well. I 98 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,199 tagged along, and I found my brother pointing at my 99 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:52,439 grandpa's fishing pole leaning against the trunk of a big 100 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:56,240 cedar tree. It was almost like someone placed it there 101 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,720 for safe keeping. The line was broken and the metal 102 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,399 loopop on the tip was a little bent, but my 103 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,439 grandfather said it was almost as good as new. The 104 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,120 rest of that day was uneventful, but that night I'll 105 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,560 never forget it. We were all sitting around the campfire 106 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,040 listening to music on a radio tape player when my 107 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,399 grandpa got lost in his thoughts and he stared off 108 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:25,040 in the woods. The boys are back in town. I 109 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:28,720 heard him mumble to my grandma. We heard a loud 110 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,800 whoop coming from the creek area where we had seen 111 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,879 that sidequatch. Two more whoops came from the opposite direction, 112 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:40,000 over by the gravel road. The sounds continued for a 113 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,720 few minutes until I felt like they were right next 114 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,120 to us. My grandpa told my grandmother to take us 115 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:49,199 boys to the camper and get the beds ready, and 116 00:06:49,319 --> 00:06:52,360 as we walked, he heard a huge crash come out 117 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,279 of the bushes. Two large black figures came out of 118 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,240 the bushes, wrestling on the ground and making deep growling sounds. 119 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:04,279 They looked like they were rough housing more than they 120 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,560 were fighting, like the way dogs play, And if they 121 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,560 knew we were right there looking at them, they couldn't 122 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,879 have cared less. My grandfather was calm as he could be, 123 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,079 but my grandmother cursed and pushed my brother and me 124 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:21,920 into the camper. I looked back at the two figures, 125 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,519 and I saw them stand up and walk toward the creek, 126 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,759 and then I heard them crashing through the water, and 127 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,199 then there was silence. After that, there was no sound 128 00:07:32,279 --> 00:07:36,199 except for the creek flowing. My grandfather just laughed and 129 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,639 headed to the cooler for a beer, and then he 130 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,360 sat back down at the campfire and he enjoyed the night. 131 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,120 I didn't feel scared at all, maybe because my grandparents 132 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,959 were so calm and easy going about the whole thing. 133 00:07:49,879 --> 00:07:52,720 My grandmother went to bed, but my brother and I 134 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,160 went back outside and we sat with Grandpa late into 135 00:07:56,199 --> 00:08:00,000 the night and we listened to the radio. We didn't 136 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,360 hear or see the sasquatch for two days. My brother 137 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,000 acted like he had forgotten what had happened, but I 138 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,439 thought about it the whole time. When I asked my 139 00:08:10,519 --> 00:08:13,240 grandpa about it, he told me that the sasquatch were 140 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:16,519 the keepers of the forest and they protected all things 141 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,639 that were good. He died when I was sixteen. I 142 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:24,920 remember talking with my grandmother about the sisquatch scaring the 143 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:28,680 cougar and driving it right into my grandpa, and to 144 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:31,759 my delight, she even verified the story by reading me 145 00:08:31,839 --> 00:08:34,879 a part of the diary she wrote from that camping trip. 146 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,960 She kept clear and detailed notes, especially when the sasquatch 147 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:45,320 came to visit. There were several entries about sasquatch. My 148 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:48,600 mom ended up buying my grandparents' house, and when she 149 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,200 passed away, my brother and I sold it. I kept 150 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,759 all of my grandma's diaries and well, one day right 151 00:08:54,840 --> 00:09:00,360 about the incredible experiences she and my grandfather had since 152 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:04,039 that camping trip. I've been lucky to have other strange experiences, 153 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,039 and I will write you about those two soon. Oh man, 154 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,480 I hope you do send it. That would be wonderful. 155 00:09:10,519 --> 00:09:16,879 That is an exceptional, exceptional experience with a sasquatch. Very 156 00:09:16,919 --> 00:09:19,639 impressed who did a great job, right, And thanks for 157 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:26,720 sending it, sir. Okay, this is another Bigfoot story, and 158 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,159 this one may ruffle some feathers. It's a little bit 159 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,279 provocative to the big orthodox Bigfoot people. But I hope 160 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,279 you guys will listen to the whole thing because it's 161 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:41,480 really interesting and it's a lot of fun. My grandfather, Calvin, 162 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,639 was born in Jefferson County, Florida, in eighteen eighty six. 163 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,399 He grew up in the Kody area, hunting and fishing, 164 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,639 and roaming the local woods. When he was a teenage boy, 165 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,759 he began working in logging camps deep in the woods, 166 00:09:56,759 --> 00:10:01,639 accessible only by railroad laid to access the timber. He 167 00:10:01,759 --> 00:10:06,320 was an excellent woodman, a hunter, and an expert with firearms. 168 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,279 In nineteen twenty nine, after the stock market crashed and 169 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:14,559 his employer went broke, he became a sharecropping farmer and 170 00:10:14,639 --> 00:10:18,440 eventually bought his own farm A few months after he 171 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:21,320 died in nineteen fifty one. I went to live with 172 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,720 my grandmother until I graduated from high school and joined 173 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:28,279 the Army. When I was growing up, one of the 174 00:10:28,279 --> 00:10:31,679 family stories I heard from my grandmother was about an 175 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:35,200 encounter my grandfather had one night during the years that 176 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:39,480 he was sharecropping in Lafayette County. This was during the 177 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:44,120 Great Depression and the family was struggling to survive. Their 178 00:10:44,159 --> 00:10:47,320 only means of transportation was a mule and a wagon, 179 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:52,000 or they walked. One night, my granddaddy was walking home. 180 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,480 It was after dark, but it was clear night, and 181 00:10:55,519 --> 00:10:57,679 there was enough light from the moon and stars for 182 00:10:57,759 --> 00:10:59,519 him to be able to see the road for a 183 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,559 little way ahead. He was walking along the dirt road 184 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:07,120 in a wooded area that was sparsely populated, with no 185 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:12,279 houses nearby. When he approached an intersection, he saw what 186 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,000 appeared to be a large man standing upright, silent and unmoving. 187 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,639 Being a lifelong woodsman and hunter, he was well aware 188 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,000 of all the wild animals living in their area, including 189 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,879 black bears. He was also aware of all the domestic animals, 190 00:11:29,919 --> 00:11:33,000 which at that time were allowed to roam free on 191 00:11:33,039 --> 00:11:36,840 the open range. He knew most, if not all, of 192 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,559 the men who lived in the area, but didn't know 193 00:11:39,639 --> 00:11:42,879 anyone as large as the one standing in front of him. 194 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,639 He couldn't pass through the intersection without walking past him. 195 00:11:48,399 --> 00:11:51,720 At twenty yards, he could tell this was no normal man, 196 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,960 but some type of creature. It was far too tall 197 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,320 and far too wide. It looked too human to be 198 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,000 an animal, but too animal to be a human. He 199 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:06,559 was apprehensive about approaching the strange being under those circumstances, 200 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:10,200 so he stopped short of the intersection and challenged the 201 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:16,879 giant to identify himself. He got no response. After challenging 202 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:21,799 the creature several more times to identify itself, he threatened 203 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,320 to shoot it, and when he still received no response, 204 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,200 he fired two shots from a Smith and Wesson thirty 205 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:34,200 eight special into its chest. Considering his expertise with the 206 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,559 revolver and the close range, it is not likely he 207 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:41,919 missed as mark. After he shot, the giant creature moved 208 00:12:41,919 --> 00:12:45,360 off into the woods, walking upright on two legs like 209 00:12:45,399 --> 00:12:49,559 a man, and it never made a sound. If it 210 00:12:49,639 --> 00:12:52,440 had been wounded, if it had been in pain, it 211 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,039 didn't show it. After a few minutes, standing there, alarmed 212 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:01,320 and ready to fire again, my grandfather continued on his 213 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:06,080 way home. The next morning, he and some neighbors, all 214 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:09,120 of them armed, went back to the intersection in the 215 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,440 daylight to find the creature, or at least find its 216 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,720 tracks to determine what it was. They didn't find anything. 217 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,720 There was no sign at all. No man or animal 218 00:13:21,039 --> 00:13:24,600 was ever reported as having been shot or seen at 219 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:28,679 the time in location, and the mystery was never solved. 220 00:13:29,919 --> 00:13:32,600 I was born in nineteen thirty seven, and I grew 221 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:36,679 up on farms. I was allowed to start hunting squirrels 222 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,759 by myself when I was ten. I grew to love 223 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:43,320 turkey and woodduck hunting and did so for around sixty 224 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,679 four years. After high school, I joined the army, and 225 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,000 then I was sworn in as a police officer in Tallahassee. 226 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,519 In my years of hunting, I heard sounds in the 227 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,279 woods that I could not identify or explain. Most of 228 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,639 the places I hunted had a haul in the woods, 229 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,960 and I always attributed those sounds to them nosing around. 230 00:14:05,399 --> 00:14:08,159 I was a long time hunter, and I never believed 231 00:14:08,159 --> 00:14:12,519 the so called bigfoot hunters had any knowledge whatsoever of hunting, 232 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,240 and in the woods they couldn't seem to find their 233 00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:18,799 rear end with both hands. They would go out at 234 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:22,679 night where a bigfoot was reportedly sighted twenty years ago 235 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,440 and beat on trees, making human like yells. One so 236 00:14:27,679 --> 00:14:32,039 called researcher claimed he constantly saw bigfoot scat piles in 237 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,759 the woods, but scoffed at the suggestion that he collect 238 00:14:35,799 --> 00:14:41,080 the sample and belittle the person who would make the suggestion. Now, 239 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,559 I'm somewhat familiar with bear dogs and know that they 240 00:14:44,639 --> 00:14:48,559 have more grit than the average dog. I've always thought 241 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,200 that they would trail a bigfoot if it existed. If 242 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,679 the bigfoot hunters were really serious, they would use a 243 00:14:55,799 --> 00:14:59,960 large pack of bear dogs, preferably plot hounds, to track one. 244 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,600 From a current sighting. I've heard people say that a 245 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:06,440 gun shot is not enough to stop a bigfoot. With 246 00:15:06,559 --> 00:15:09,519 some guns, I don't doubt that to be true. But 247 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,799 an elephant rifle, a cape buffalo rifle, a thirty six, 248 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,759 and many other high powered hunting rifles would kill any 249 00:15:17,799 --> 00:15:21,639 mammal on the planet. A brain shot would kill anything, 250 00:15:21,679 --> 00:15:24,519 and a spine shot would paralyze it, if not kill 251 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,799 a bigfoot. Almost all people who claim to have had 252 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,399 a bigfoo experience report feeling a sense of being watched, 253 00:15:32,639 --> 00:15:35,879 followed by the sighting of the creature, an object, or 254 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,559 some form of movement. In my opinion, the feeling of 255 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:43,320 being watched is not caused by actually being watched. It 256 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,639 is caused internally by fear. Now, when I hear that statement, 257 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,679 I assumed that they were, for some reason afraid of 258 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:56,840 the circumstances in which they found themselves. In addition, bigfoot 259 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,480 encounter reports are subject to hoaxes. There are also numerous 260 00:16:01,519 --> 00:16:04,879 ways in which the different shapes of footprints and faces 261 00:16:04,919 --> 00:16:10,519 are reported cave man faces, ape like faces, human like faces, 262 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:15,240 dog like faces, wolf like faces, human like teeth and 263 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:21,080 canine like teeth, and benevolent, aggressive, indifferent, etc. Is there 264 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:24,440 that much variation in the appearance in shape of that 265 00:16:24,559 --> 00:16:28,240 same type of creature. Are there many different types of 266 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:32,799 huge creatures? I don't think so. To me, these variances 267 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:38,799 diminish the overall credibility of bigfoot encounter reports. Yet here 268 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:43,600 I am a skeptic, reminiscing on my grandfather's encounter all 269 00:16:43,679 --> 00:16:47,399 those years ago, and I think to myself, what did 270 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,080 he have to gain by telling that tall tale? What 271 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,360 benefit it would bring to him an honest man to 272 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:58,080 tell a lie so fantastic as that at a time 273 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,720 when a man's character was joe udge by his mental hardness, 274 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,079 at a time when a negative notch in a man's 275 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:09,200 reputation could cost him his livelihood and mean the difference 276 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:13,680 between putting food on his family's table or not. Yet, 277 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,200 this man, hardened by the times and hardened by experience, 278 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:21,039 risk it all by telling his neighbors what he saw, 279 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,359 and to his credit, they must have believed him, or 280 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,799 they would not have joined in on the search. The 281 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:32,480 only conclusion that I can come to is that my 282 00:17:32,559 --> 00:17:36,720 grandfather was telling the truth. There was a giant creature 283 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:39,400 standing on two legs in that road, and it was 284 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,359 so powerful that it did not react to the bullets, 285 00:17:42,839 --> 00:17:45,559 and it was so enormous and out of this world 286 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:50,400 that my grandfather, a seasoned hunter, couldnot begin to identify 287 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,599 it as a man or animal. Now, I may be 288 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,039 a healthy skeptic, and the concept of the creature is 289 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,319 more than my mind can accept without actually seeing one myself. 290 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,559 Seeing is believing, as the saying goes. But with all 291 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,319 that said, if Bigfoot is truly out there, I don't 292 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:15,400 want to see one. I'm sorry. I'm almost sorry. It 293 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,720 took so long to get to this email. I don't 294 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,960 even know when I got it. It could have been 295 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,759 in the last two or three years. But this is 296 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:27,920 exactly how I feel about he is a healthy skeptic. 297 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,440 I was talking to some people in an RV resort. 298 00:18:31,559 --> 00:18:35,160 We drove down to the coast this past weekend to 299 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,920 get in one last couple of days at the beach 300 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,079 before it's before the weather got too cold. So I 301 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,319 was wearing shorts and sandals yesterday morning, and when I 302 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:47,119 got home last night I had to bottle up. It 303 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,000 was like thirty degrees outside. I think it's still thirty 304 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:53,839 degrees it's about noon the next day. Anyway, the topic 305 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,279 of I don't tell people I do this channel. People 306 00:18:56,319 --> 00:18:59,559 don't recognize me. You might think they would, but they 307 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:02,960 don't know. Nobody's ever recognized me out in a Walmart 308 00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:06,880 or anything like that, and I don't, So I didn't 309 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,960 initiate the conversation, is what I'm saying. But the topic 310 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,319 of bigfit came up, and people were people were given there, 311 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:17,880 some people were laughing, and some people were saying, well, 312 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:19,680 I like, I think it could be true. And then 313 00:19:19,839 --> 00:19:21,480 there was a couple of people that's go, oh, I 314 00:19:21,559 --> 00:19:23,839 know it's true. I know it's true. My cousin or 315 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,920 my ann or my buddy, or I've got some you know, 316 00:19:27,279 --> 00:19:30,759 they have stories they've heard that make them believe. But 317 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,039 there is a degree of healthy skepticism that goes with 318 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,240 this topic. And he just named several of the reasons. 319 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,200 Why do we get so many reports of so many 320 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,359 different behaviors, so many reports of different appearances, hair color, 321 00:19:47,519 --> 00:19:52,079 Some are aggressive, some are benevolent, some are kind of agnostic. 322 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,640 They don't really engage at all, They just stand there. 323 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:59,960 Some of them run away. Now, people that this is 324 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,119 my opinion, People who don't know, they'll just make up something. Well, 325 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,920 there's a certain type of bigfoot. This this way, then 326 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,920 there's a certain type of big you don't know that 327 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:14,400 there's nobody knows that. And so this is what causes 328 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:19,039 the skepticism in the bigfoot community, is because there are 329 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:22,480 so many different stories that nobody can really get a 330 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:25,799 beeline on what these things are or what they do 331 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,599 or what their behavior is. The only explanation I can 332 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,000 ever come up with is that these things are maybe supernatural. 333 00:20:33,519 --> 00:20:36,480 But I don't even know that. And I always go 334 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,559 back to the thought that and I've said this one 335 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,759 hundred times in this podcast. I don't care if bigfoot 336 00:20:43,839 --> 00:20:47,000 is real or not. I really don't care because it 337 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,640 just has no impact on my life. If I saw 338 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,680 one out behind my house, that might change my life. 339 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,359 So I'm not discounting people who have claimed to have 340 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,240 had a traumatic encounters. But to me, bigfoot's proven real, 341 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,599 I'm happy for that. If it's never proved real, it 342 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,839 makes no difference to me. It doesn't matter to me 343 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:11,279 at all. But I do have a level of healthy skepticism, 344 00:21:11,319 --> 00:21:13,519 and I'm glad he described it that way because I 345 00:21:13,519 --> 00:21:17,640 would have never come up with that those words healthy skepticism. 346 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:22,920 And it's okay if people are skeptics it's okay, you 347 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,200 know the real statch of bigfoot people. You don't have 348 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,319 to get mad at people who are skeptics. You don't 349 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,359 even have to get mad at people who think it's 350 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,519 just a big lie. I mean, it really doesn't matter 351 00:21:33,599 --> 00:21:37,680 what someone else believes to your life, to your life anyway. 352 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,920 I don't ever comment on these stories hardly anymore, because 353 00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:45,079 I think some people get and I know the comments 354 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,200 are going to be, oh, we love to hear you talking. Well, 355 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,920 there's a little bit of talking, but for the most part, 356 00:21:50,319 --> 00:21:53,119 and in the spirit of storytelling, it's probably best if 357 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,440 I don't run my mouth. But I did on this one. 358 00:21:56,039 --> 00:21:58,519 It's just my opinion. I don't know. I probably made 359 00:21:58,519 --> 00:22:01,240 some people mad. Don't get mad at me. Show me 360 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:03,839 your proof, Show me your proof if you've got it, 361 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:06,200 show me your proof, not a blurry picture. Don't want 362 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:11,720 any blurry pictures. I have seen some things online that 363 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,720 has been uploaded by people who I know personally that 364 00:22:15,799 --> 00:22:21,359 I've gotten to know through this storytelling experience that really 365 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,799 really look very convincing tracks. That's probably the biggest one. 366 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,400 None of the videos that I see that people claim 367 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:36,079 or bigfoot are convincing to me. The Patterson Gimblin film 368 00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:39,680 is very convincing to me, but I can't I can't 369 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,240 figure out what that thing is. Nobody knows what that 370 00:22:42,279 --> 00:22:45,000 thing is in the in the video. Now, some of 371 00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:47,480 y'all are so deep into this subject, you've got it 372 00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:51,119 all figured out there. There are not enough facts for 373 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,519 me to really delve deeper in it. It's all subjective. 374 00:22:55,319 --> 00:22:58,200 We don't have any firm proof. We don't have a 375 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,640 we don't have a specimen. They're dead or alive. It'd 376 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,279 be cool if we could ever get one and put 377 00:23:04,279 --> 00:23:08,119 it in a zoo. People could go see it. That's 378 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,720 my opinion. But anyway, I'll shut up. We'll go to 379 00:23:11,759 --> 00:23:14,759 another story. Thank you very much to the writer who 380 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,839 sent this. He didn't say whether to give his name 381 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,160 or not. But Rebecca, my editor, she did a good 382 00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:25,799 job on this one. She even put me a warning 383 00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:28,759 in the front, highlighted that says, the story goes from 384 00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:31,880 a neat recounting to something that happened to his grandfather, 385 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:34,319 and then he talks about his own doubts. And I 386 00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:36,079 think she was like, do you really want to read 387 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,759 this skeptic? He kyah, Yeah, I love these I like 388 00:23:39,839 --> 00:23:44,599 every facet. If you don't believe in Bigfoot, send me 389 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,559 an email, give me your opinion on it. I'll read 390 00:23:47,599 --> 00:23:52,359 it on here. I like a good discussion and people 391 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,440 need to be challenged on one side or the other. 392 00:23:56,279 --> 00:23:59,160 But I'll tell you this, the people who believe in Bigfoot, 393 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,759 you're gonna have to come up with a lot more proof. 394 00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:05,240 And you can't just say, how could all these people 395 00:24:05,319 --> 00:24:09,039 be lying? If you want the general and I'm not 396 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:12,359 talking about me, if you want the general public to 397 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,720 be aware of this creature and believe it exists, you're 398 00:24:15,759 --> 00:24:18,880 gonna have to show them some proof, a specimen or 399 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:24,079 a live or dead, or a corpse or a skeleton 400 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,240 or something. It's going to take something. So anyway, all right, 401 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,200 I said ten minutes ago, I was going to shut up. 402 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,279 Now I really am going to shut up. Let's go 403 00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:39,519 to another story. Okay, here's a little short email, but 404 00:24:39,599 --> 00:24:44,880 this is really good, really good. On December tenth, nineteen 405 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,920 sixty nine, the Patterson Gimlin film was playing at the 406 00:24:49,039 --> 00:24:52,640 local theater. I really wanted to go, but I didn't 407 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,920 want to go by myself. I was a nineteen year 408 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,039 old single woman and I was shy. Now, I asked 409 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:01,240 my mom if she thought it was okay to ask 410 00:25:01,279 --> 00:25:04,400 a guy friend to go with me. She said sure, 411 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,000 he was nice and to go ahead. He and I 412 00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:11,200 had been friends for a couple of years. Well, I 413 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,440 gave him a call. I was embarrassed to be asking him, 414 00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:17,279 so I offered to pay for both of us. He 415 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,440 laughed and said that he wanted to see it too, 416 00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:23,599 and he would be paying. It was a date. After 417 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,319 the movie, we went for coffee and we spent hours 418 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,000 just talking. He asked me to marry him that night. 419 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,519 We got married on December thirty one, nineteen sixty nine. Yes, 420 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:40,079 just twenty one days later. When my husband was working 421 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,519 on his master's degree in anthropology at the University of Idaho, 422 00:25:45,039 --> 00:25:47,599 he was asked to become a bigfoot hunter as an 423 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,039 idea for his master's thesis. We would be living in 424 00:25:52,079 --> 00:25:55,599 the woods for who knows how long. We talked about it, 425 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,359 but decided not to. I'm happy with our decision, but 426 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,400 it was fun to think about what we might have 427 00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:06,319 experienced had my husband said yes. On New Year's Eve, 428 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,680 this year, we will have been married for fifty years. 429 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,400 Oh my gosh, that would mean I got this in 430 00:26:15,799 --> 00:26:20,519 twenty nineteen or twenty twenty, so that's like four years ago. 431 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,119 Must have just got locked off somewhere in my inbox. 432 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,519 But this was such a sweet little story. I had 433 00:26:27,519 --> 00:26:30,400 to read it to y'all. She got up enough nerve 434 00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:32,839 to ask a friend of hers to go see the 435 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,680 Patterson Gimlin film at the local theater in nineteen sixty nine, 436 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,680 and he asked her to marry her that night. That 437 00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:43,319 is so cool. I'm so glad I finally found this 438 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,599 and got it got it up on the podcast because 439 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,279 I really love these happy stories. Thank you to the 440 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:54,920 writer for sending it. Okay, two or three months ago, 441 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,480 I asked for some dog stories, and I've got three 442 00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:00,519 left to do. I'm going to do one right here. 443 00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:02,920 That'll leave me too to go. If you've got dog stories, 444 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,400 send them to me. Heartwarming fun. If you just love 445 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,279 your dog, send me a story about it. I'd love 446 00:27:10,319 --> 00:27:13,240 to read it. But let's let's do this dog story. 447 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,319 My name is Joshua, and I used to live in Toledo, Ohio. 448 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,039 I lived in a middle class neighborhood with my parents, 449 00:27:21,519 --> 00:27:24,880 my younger brother, and a pure bred colliage named Sonny. 450 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,359 I love that dog more than life itself. We were 451 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,720 one year apart in age, and I grew up with 452 00:27:31,799 --> 00:27:35,559 him by my side until I was sixteen. We had 453 00:27:35,599 --> 00:27:37,720 some woods at the end of our dead end street 454 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:41,359 that I love to explore no matter the season. Sonny 455 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,160 and I would go down there when I would let 456 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,000 him off his lease, to run and play and explore. 457 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,359 There was a creek that ran through those woods that 458 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,720 was twenty or so feet across. There was a path 459 00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:55,480 that had been worn along the creek over the decades 460 00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:58,559 by people walking and exploring, just like we were doing. 461 00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:02,559 On an early summer day when I was ten years old. 462 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,440 I had just been sprayed from head to toe with 463 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,960 a mosquito repellent by my mom, and Sunday and I 464 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,359 went exploring in those woods like we had done dozens 465 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,279 of times before. We strolled down the path from the 466 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,960 end of my street to the creek which connected with 467 00:28:19,039 --> 00:28:24,319 the creekside path. Panting with anticipation, I let my dog 468 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,559 off the leash and off he went. Lucky for me, 469 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,799 Sonny was very protective and never stayed too far away 470 00:28:30,839 --> 00:28:34,000 from me. I took a left on the path along 471 00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:36,480 the creek and I found a large branch that made 472 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,599 a great walking stick, and I started my walk. In 473 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,759 some areas there were small trees and brush, but nothing 474 00:28:43,839 --> 00:28:46,960 too thick. As I got close to a bend in 475 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,920 the creek, I noticed some rustling and some brush twenty 476 00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:52,759 or so feet in front of me. I thought it 477 00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:55,279 was a squirrel or a bird, or some other small 478 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:58,799 animal I had seen a thousand times before, and I 479 00:28:58,839 --> 00:29:02,519 took a couple of steps closer. Out from behind the 480 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:05,720 bush came a German shepherd, black and brown, who quickly 481 00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:09,759 decided I was some sort of threat, and in two steps, 482 00:29:09,839 --> 00:29:12,680 he ran and started to leap at me, teeth bared 483 00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:17,440 and ready to pounce. Everything around me seemed to slow down. 484 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,960 As the shepherd leaped, I saw a brown blur out 485 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,200 of the corner of my eye. It was Sonny, with 486 00:29:24,359 --> 00:29:28,839 his teeth, beard, and angrier than I had ever seen him. 487 00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:32,880 In one ferocious, elegant move, he caught the shepherd by 488 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,160 the neck, spun around, and tossed it into the banks 489 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,440 of the creek, a good seven or eight feet away. 490 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,480 Sonny whirled around in protective posture, and the shepherd slowly 491 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,960 got up and backed away down the edge of the creek. 492 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,200 My dog was starling and baring its teeth and staring 493 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,240 this shepherd down as it backed away. The shepherd turned tail, 494 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,920 ran along the stream and back into the woods, realizing 495 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,680 the fight probably he was not worth it. When he 496 00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:06,200 was sure the German shepherd was long gone, Sonny turned 497 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,160 around with those Collie eyes this tail wagging, making sure 498 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,240 I was okay. I gave that dog the biggest hug 499 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,960 I had ever given him, and he walked by my 500 00:30:17,079 --> 00:30:19,160 side until we made our way out of the woods 501 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,319 and back home. He got hugs and treats for me 502 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:25,839 the rest of that day. The colleagues can be the 503 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,359 sweetest dogs I would know. I've had four other colleague 504 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,519 or colleague mixes since Sonny in my lifetime. They're great 505 00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:38,039 around kids, and they love to play, and they're endlessly 506 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,960 curious and or quick to learn. They are also fearless 507 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:46,839 and ferocious protectors of their families. Thanks for the stories, Cam. 508 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,640 If you decide to read mine, I know you'll do it. 509 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,920 Justice love the podcast in the YouTube channel. They helped 510 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,839 me get through some long days while working from home. 511 00:30:57,599 --> 00:31:00,960 Oh man, what a great dog story. I don't know 512 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,839 if it's a big colleague. Some of those colleagues are 513 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,920 big and some are kind of small, like the border colleagues. Anyway, 514 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,720 I got a friend of mine, I think I announced 515 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,279 it in a podcast in the last couple of months, 516 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:17,680 that his father had died had always had colleagues and 517 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,400 had a pair of females, and we were trying to 518 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,720 find a new home for those dogs. A couple of 519 00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:27,759 people emailed me and then they just vanished. I don't 520 00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:31,240 know what the point of that was, but anyway, the 521 00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:34,519 widow of this man who died decided to keep the dogs. 522 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,519 So if y'all are remember that she's keeping them. She 523 00:31:37,599 --> 00:31:41,119 loves the dogs. They're really well behaved, so I'm kind 524 00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:43,119 of glad it worked out that way. So that's my 525 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,799 experience with colleagues. That's all I know about colleagues. I 526 00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:49,880 think I've been around them. They're not there are so 527 00:31:50,079 --> 00:31:53,119 full of energy, and it would seem to me like 528 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,599 you'd need a big place for them to run. And 529 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,839 they're kind of hurting dogs, you know, like to herd 530 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,160 and nippers. What are those dogs healers. Healers are kind 531 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,880 of nippers and herders, and it almost feels like they're 532 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,240 kind of in that family. I'm not a dog expert. 533 00:32:09,279 --> 00:32:13,440 I just like dogs. But anyway, this was just a wonderful, 534 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,599 wonderful story, and Sonny saved this boy's life from a 535 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,519 German shepherd. I thought that was awesome, What a great story. 536 00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:29,519 All right, here's another Bigfoot story. I think it's gonna 537 00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:31,599 be pretty good. Looks like it's going to be pretty good. 538 00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:34,920 Back in nineteen ninety five, my buddy and I were 539 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,759 both eighteen years old and we loved taking his dog 540 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,079 coon hunting. Like most teenagers, we were night owls, and 541 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,519 it was one type of hunting that allowed us to 542 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:50,119 still talk without having to be extra quiet. The place 543 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,119 we normally went was called five Woods because it was 544 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:58,000 five separate plots of woods surrounded by cornfields. Each block 545 00:32:58,039 --> 00:33:01,559 of woods was roughly thirty acres in size, and it 546 00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:04,640 was located one hundred yards or more away from the others. 547 00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:08,880 The first set of woods, where we normally parked, was 548 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,880 grown over and difficult to traverse, so we never hunted there. 549 00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:15,599 From the edge of the road to where the first 550 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,319 woods started was fifty yards. There was a single path 551 00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:21,839 through the middle of the trees and brush leading to 552 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,599 the other side, so we kept the dog on her 553 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,359 leash until we made it out and closer to the 554 00:33:27,359 --> 00:33:32,319 next set of woods. I always felt uneasy walking through there, 555 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,319 and I usually had my can light up a little 556 00:33:35,359 --> 00:33:39,119 brighter because it made me feel a little safer. For 557 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,440 those who don't know what a can light is, just 558 00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:44,359 picture old miners with the light on their helmets and 559 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,839 a big battery pack on their belt. You keep your 560 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,680 can light dim when walking around, and then when your 561 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,480 dog trees a coon, you crank up the light so 562 00:33:53,519 --> 00:33:55,759 that you can get ey shine back from the coon 563 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,960 in the tree. Well, one night, my buddy's dad decide 564 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,880 to go with us. He was an old farmer who 565 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,000 was no stranger to Honting, and from what I gathered, 566 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,039 he used to go out and investigate bigfoot sightings. After 567 00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:13,239 a night of hunting, we decided to head back to 568 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,360 the trucks and go home. I don't know why, but 569 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:18,800 having as dead with us made me feel not so 570 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,119 uneasy walking through the last set of woods. Just before 571 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:25,559 we got back to the trucks, as soon as we 572 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:28,119 hit the road and we're about to turn off our lights, 573 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:32,440 we heard a massive bellow coming from the woods. Thirty 574 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,519 seconds later it happened again. We stood next to each 575 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:38,480 other on the edge of the road and fired up 576 00:34:38,519 --> 00:34:41,079 all three can lights as bright as they would go, 577 00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:44,119 and we panned back and forth through the trees, trying 578 00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:46,800 to get some eyes shine from whatever this thing was. 579 00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:51,159 We never saw eyes or any kind of movement, but 580 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,199 every thirty seconds or so we would hear that same 581 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,400 loud bellow come from just inside the woods. Now, I've 582 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,159 been around all types of animals, and I'd never heard 583 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,880 anything like that. The closest thing I could think of 584 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,679 with that lung capacity in our area would be a cow. 585 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,119 But I can assure you there could not have been 586 00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:14,039 a cow in those woods. It was hard enough for 587 00:35:14,159 --> 00:35:16,639 us to walk through there, and there wasn't a pasture 588 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,920 anywhere near. After a few minutes of this, his dad 589 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,039 nonchalantly said, I'll tell you what it sounds like to me, 590 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,440 to which my buddy said, bigfoot. His dad half grinned, 591 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,280 he nodded yes and said, well, boys, I'm heading to 592 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,199 the house. Don't stay out too late. Then he got 593 00:35:37,199 --> 00:35:40,239 in this truck and he left. My buddy and I 594 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,440 looked at each other, and we looked at our little 595 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,000 twenty two rifles, and we decided to get the hell 596 00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:48,400 out of there too. Once we got back to their house, 597 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,840 his dad got out the old original VHS copy of 598 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,239 the Legend of Boggy Creek. I'm not going to say 599 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,280 it was definitely Bigfoot, but it wasn't anything like I'd 600 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,800 ever heard before or since, and that night sparked my 601 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,280 curiosity about this subject. Since then, I've spent a lot 602 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,320 of time in the woods of Tennessee and West Virginia, 603 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,360 off roading and trail riding four wheelers now my side 604 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,440 by side, stopping at night on the trail with all 605 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,679 the lights off for long periods of time just to 606 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:24,599 hang out with friends and listen for strange noises. Unfortunately, 607 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:31,400 I've not heard anything since that night.