Speaker 1: Ivish. That next morning, something came into camp, but this
had a totally different feel, and we could actually see
the shadows on the tent. It was huge, and we
could make out the shoulders and head. And another one
came up to the left side of it, and it
was coming up from the front of our tent where
the fire was out there, and I pushed on Sandy's
colot with my foot when she looked over, and I
went and she looked up and she could see the shadows.
She pushed on Barber's tent did the same thing, so
they all saw that. You could hear the footfall. And
I had my recorder going out in the back left
corner of my tent, and Barbara had hers out in
the front. So anyway they walk around, you could hear
them moving. They weren't running around throwing crap at us
like the look we think juveniles, you know. But anyway,
it was just a totally different feel. And I've never
ever been scared or felt any kind of fear until then,
you know. And so anyway about well, it was six
twenty nine, because I keep my phone under my palace
so I can see what time it is, six twenty nine,
from the back left corner from my audio recorder. Kids,
it was this high pitched female sounding scream and it
was real shrill, and then it ended in like a whoop.
And then ten seconds later another one from it was
the same being that did it, I'm sure because it
was the exact same scream, exact same area, same thing,
and we were like, that's the Medusa scream. That guy
was legit. He we understood now what he was talking about.
But it was bigfoot, I'm sure. So the next night,
same exact stuff. Those juveniles they're back, you know, a
little less activity, you know, But and then that next morning,
same about the same time, they coming to camp again.
It did it three nights in a row. The fourth
night it was raining and it was a lot less activity,
but we still had them coming into camp. But on
that second night, if you went on past where that
guy had been camping, you go another several miles down
and the road ends and there's a campground and there
were some bear hunters down there, and we had talked
to them every day we'd go down there because we
wanted to keep up with who was where, you know,
And so the second night, way off in that direction,
where the bear hunters were. We heard four gun shots
and I said, well, they're either drinking and getting rowdy.
Are theyre having something going on in camp? And then
just a few not even a minute or so later,
we heard two more gun shots, and then within a
minute or so we heard that Medusa screen from that
area over there, and I'm like, oh, yeah, they're having
activity and that's what they're shooting at. And so we
were excited. And then the third night, somewhere between them
and us, we heard the Medusa scream again, and so
we're like, that poor young guy must have been scared
out of his mind. And but anyway, that was that
was really cool because we thought he was on drugs
or something talking about sounded like a killer carry sword
around with it. Yeah, yeah, that's funny. When you say
Medusa's scream, you call my sister that really, I know,
That's what I was like. We even talked about it
after he left, you know, before we went down there.
I'm like, what was he talking about Medusa's scream? It
just didn't make sense. But then we were like, okay,
because it did. It was so high pitched, you know
how you hear on movies pterodactyls and stuff. That's exactly
what it was reminiscent of. But I got excited because
my recorder was right in that corner where that screen
was coming from. And Barbara went ahead that next morning
and got hers and played it back, and it picked
it up good on hers and hers was in front,
so when Shelley listens to it, she ought to hear
something good on that. Well, it was really high pitched,
and all three of us we all said it sounded female,
but we just had a feeling that it was like
a like an alpha female. I think she was finally
like saying, this is it? Leave this? Yeah, So it was.
It was pretty interesting, saying let's go out. That's fascinating.
I'd never heard that scream like that before. And if
it hadn't had the whoop on the end, I would
have said, don't know what the heck that was, But
it had a whoop on the end. Well, I've heard
other stuff, but not sound like that.
Speaker 2: Tell them about your daddy and y'all's experience down there.
Speaker 1: Well, where I grew up, I was. I lived in Malta, Texas.
We only had just a few hundred people in the
little community. The school went to eighth grade, and I
was valedictorian in my eighth grade class. And I normally
don't tell people, but there was only three of us.
We had like two grades in each classroom, you know,
So fifth and six were together, seventh and eighth were together.
And once you got out eighth grade, you had to
go to high school in either New Boston, which was
seven miles in one direction, or in DCAB, which was
seven miles in the opposite direction. And I ended up
I ended up going to both, you know, And so
because Decap was just more down to earth, I think.
And anyway, so where this place was located though, was
only probably about thirty forty miles from Falk, Arkansas, which
is legendary in the Bigfoot community, you know, because of
the legend of Boggy Creek, and a lot of my
cousins lived up in Texa, Cana in that area, and
some of my cousins lived in falc and uh like I,
you know, my Mama and Daddy had adopted me when
they were forty one, and so I already had two
brothers that were twenty some odd years older than me.
So all my first cousins were in their you know, twenties,
and so I grew up with my second cousins, and
I grew up playing with my second cousins in those
woods in Foulk, Arkansas. But back then, when I was
a kid, we didn't know that Bigfoot even existed. We
didn't know what a bigfoot was, you know, and I
didn't even really know about it until I was in
my early twenties or so. But what we called that
creature in fout, Arkansas was the fount monster. That's that's
all we ever heard, was a fount monster, you know.
My mama and daddy and everybody would say, oh, honey,
it's not real, you know. But then the Legend of
Boggy Creek movie came out and we went to see it,
and she really had to tell me that because it said,
you know, based on true events. And I went with
my cousins and we were all looking at our parents
like what, and they were saying, no, honey, that's just
a movie. They just do that to make it more exciting,
and so we were like, okay. You know. Anyway, when
I was about fourteen years old, it was Christmas time
and my mama was sick. She had cancer and so
she was in the bed in the front room of
our house, and my daddy and I were on the
front porch hanging Christmas lights and they were blue Christmas lights,
and so it didn't light up very much, you know,
and we had the front porch light off because we
could see better where we were putting them in space
and the Christmas lights out. We had a long house,
it was almost like, you know, a long shotgun type house.
On the left hand side of the porch was the
car port, then on the right it was just you know,
we had woods all the way around and a pond
back behind us and a dirt road in front of us.
It was so dark out there, and we were on
the right hand side of the house, opposite from the
car port. And when we were hanging the Christmas lights,
coming from the left hand further on down, you know,
away from us, sounded like it was coming from on
the other side of where my Mamma's house used to be.
Next door, we heard just this. It was gosh, it
was so scary. It was like a moan, a roar,
and a growl altogether. And I had never heard anything
like that before. And it was so loud, you know,
it's just and it scared to crap out of me.
And I looked at my daddy and I was like,
what was that, Daddy, and he was He just paused
for a second and he said, I don't know what
that was, but let's just hurry up and finish this. Well,
my daddy, like I said, he was forty one when
he adopted me, and that was back in sixty six
when I was born. So my daddy had been in
three wars, Vietnam, World War two, and Korea, and he
never was scared of anything. But I could just tell that,
you know, he stopped and looked in that direction, but
he's like, let's go ahead and finish this. And so
I was like, well, let's let's go in because I've
never heard anything like that before. And he was like, no,
let's just go ahead and finish this. And so we're
trying to get it up, and thank goodness, it was
not a very long porch. But as we're working our
way to the left, you know, we get to about
the center and we hear it again, but this time
it's closer up and he says, go in the house
and get my gun, and I said, I'm not leaving
you out here, and I said, please, come on, let's
go in the house. He goes, no, just hurry up,
go in the house and get my gun. I said, no, Daddy.
I was about starting to cry, you know, I said,
let's go in the house please. And about that time,
from the carport area, we heard it again, and this
time I've just busted out in tears, and he's pushing
me in the house and he just pushes right on
by me. Well, my mama was, you know, right there
and that first room in the bed, and she sees me,
you know, crying, and he's running through the house going
to go find his gun, and he's coming back out
and she's like, what's going on. And I'm like, there's
a monster outside of his war, you know what I'm
trying to make the sound for. And I'm worried because
Daddy now is just going out there. And so I
go into my room, which was on the opposite side
from where my mama was and on the side that
the carport was on, and I'm looking out the windows,
following him around the house to make sure nothing got him.
And he comes back in there and he's like, there's
there's nothing out there, I don't see anything at all,
and he had a flashflight, you know, and had his
gun and all that, and I'm still just shaking, you know,
and Mama's scared now. So he tells me, he said,
go in there and call your ain't Overly. Now. My
Ain't Overly was my Mama's sister, and they had all
grown up in that area, and Ain't Overly was already
in her probably sixties at this time, so she had
lived there forever and ever. And so I'm in there
or what we've just heard roaring and growling and moaning
on the phone by trying to make this sound, and
she said, oh, honey, that's probably just Miss clay Shilti's
bulls across the street from us, you know. And Miss
clay Shiltie was an older, elderly woman lived there by herself,
and she did she had, you know, her husband, whod
passed away, but she still had the bulls and the
cows and the chickens and all that. There was a
water tower over in the right side of her pasture
and everything. And I'm telling you, we were in the
country anyway. So that made me feel better, made my
mama and daddy feel better, and so we slept okay. Well,
the next day, Miss clay Shilty was at our house
because she would come and give Mama her shots for
pain relief, and so she was up there in the
front room. My daddy was in there and he calls
me and to ask me come up. You know, I
was in the back of the house where the liver
room was at, and he said, did we come up
here and make that sound? But we heard last night
from Miss clay Shilty and she's just sitting there, you know,
rocking the rocket chair. And so he had already told
her the story. And so I'm up there roaring and
moaning and growling, and she's like, oh, mister Bob, I
wish she hadn't told me that. And he said, no,
he it's okay, because overly told me that it was
probably alls bulls or something. And she said, oh, no, no,
mister Bob, I don't have any of my cows. Are
my bulls over there right now? They're all up in
decab and I don't remember what was having done. I
can't remember exactly. It's like they were being bred or something.
But anyway, she said, there's none of my bulls or
cows are over there right now, and she says, as
a matter of fact, something's been stealing my chickens. Of course,
we didn't know anything about anything at that time. We
didn't know anything about Bigfoot. Looking back, I remember I
was Daddy's girl, you know, and anywhere Daddy went, I went.
I helped him with everything. He had killed apolsum one
time that was up around the house and we didn't
it was late in the evening, so we didn't have
time to bury it, and so he said, well, let's
just go around back. We'll put it in the trash can.
We had, you know, a metal trash can, and so
he said, we'll put it in the trash can. We'll
come back out in the morning, we'll bury it. And
so he put the lid on it, and he put
a big old rock on top of the lid so
nothing would get into it and get it. And so
the next day he called me and he said, come on,
let's go out and bury the possum. And we go
out the back door, and you know, the trash can
is still sitting there with the lid and the rock
and everything. So he takes the rock off, takes the
lid off, he said, looked at me, what'd you do?
I said, we told about He said, the possum's gone
and I said, day, I didn't get that possum. I
didn't do anything with that possum. He said, you serious,
and I said no. And you know, we had no
clue what had happened, but that lid was still on it,
and that rock was still on that lid, but that
possum was gone, so something had to have taken that heavy.
I mean it was a big rock, it was, yeah,
it was at least the rock was at least like
a foot all the way around foot with you know,
foot wide, foot high. It was a heavy rock. That
was interesting. So now looking back, I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah.
And we would hear all sorts of stuff. We'd hear
high pitched screams. When we first moved there, I was
a lot younger, but there was a railroad track on
the other side of that water tower, and we used
to hear screams and it sounded like a woman's screaming.
And so, of course Ain't Over we lived there, and
we'd always call ain't ovally anytime we didn't know what
was going on, and she said, no, we thought it
was a little lady that lived in that little pothouse
by the water tower getting beat up or something. And
she's like, oh no, no, that's that black panther that
walks up and down the railroad tracks. And so that's
just what I always thought, you know, that was. And
it may have been a panther for all I know.
But yeah, there was lots of strange things wow going
on around there, and.
Speaker 2: That wasn't really the catalyst that got you interested. You
just reflect back on math and you you put those.
Speaker 1: Things together, right right, Yeah, I mean because.
Speaker 2: I just love that. I don't it's not the craziest
story in the world. That's not the most action pack.
But she told me that story, like what three years ago?
Would you ever retail that on camera? And she goes,
and I haven't really seen her much or I had
an opportunity.
Speaker 1: To do it since it's just so cool, you know,
looking back. And I remember too, I dated a guy
from Forem in Arkansas and I was but I've always
been interested in like the Fount Monster. I just didn't
know what it was. You know. We knew that there
was supposed to be a monster, and some people called
him the Boogeyman. My mama would always you know, when
she said, will you be careful going out there? You know,
the boogieman will get you. We just thought that was
the saying back then. But the Fount Monster. Once we
started hearing about the Fount Monster and stuff, and then
the movie was made about Boggy Creek, we thought, okay,
even though Mama and Daddy is telling us, it's not real.
When you start having people in the area talking about it,
you know, you listen to that stuff. A guy I
dated was from Foreman, Arkansas, and he had said that
him and his daddy would go hunting and Foreman and
that's not too far from foulc either, you know. He
said that he remembers one time that they were they
were coming out of the woods. They had parked alongside
of the road and there was a big pasture out there,
and then the pasture was lined with trees and stuff.
And he said that we're sitting in the front yard
of my house in the car talking about this. And
because I had told him about what I had heard,
you know, you know, a couple of years earlier, because
I was dating him when I was sixteen and he
was seventeen, and so we're talking about stuff, and I
was telling him about what I had heard when I
was fourteen everything, and so he starts telling me this,
and he said, well, you know, we were loading up
the truck, putting our guns and stuff in there, and
my daddy was kept staring across the pasture and he
goes and I looked over there, and I said, he said,
what are you looking at? And he goes, do you
see that that creature? And he said there was an
upright creature walking along the tree line on the backside
of the pasture and it just went into the woods.
And I remember but while he was telling me that,
I was like, do you think you could have been
a fout monster? And he slung his car door up
and a way like he was being pulled out of
the car, and I screamed, bloody Murdier. And my daddy
came out on the front porch to see what was
going on. But what's funny is we're Facebook friends on
you know now on Facebook. And he had been living
in North Carolina and him and his family were going
to move back to Arkansas, but they found a cattle
farm in Oklahoma, so they're living in Oklahoma now, and
I'll post stuff on my Facebook sometimes my personal Facebook
about Bigfoot and then I share the show and stuff,
and then I'll delete it after I've shared it and stuff.
But anyway, so he was seeing Bigfoot stuff and so
he messaged me after he moved to uh, Oklahoma and
where he's living now is not far from where we
recorded the gibberish what we call tribulation Babe. So he
started asking me questions, well, does bigfood do this? And
do they do that? And do they do this? And
so I'm finally I said, why are you asking me
all this stuff? And he said, well, my daughter's dating
a guy. And he said that he's been hearing some
weird stuff and he's describing all this stuff. And I'm like,
that sounds really interested Todd. And he goes, well, do
you think it could be Bigfoot? And I said, I
think it could. I don't know if it is, but
I think it could. And I said, I said where
does where does he live? And he was telling me
and so I'm pulling up Google maps. He said he
lives just like three miles from me, and so he's
telling me where he lives. I said, can you just
send me a pen. You know, on Google Maps, it
was like five miles from Tribulation Bay, who recorded. And
I told him, I said, I said, you don't want
to hear what I'm fising to tell you. And he's
like what, And I said, your house is real close
to this. He's like yeah, And I said, let me
send you a link, and so I sent him the
link that carry Arnold did on Sisters of the Moon
where we're talking about all that. I said, I said,
you're going to hear a story where we recorded gibberish
and had a lot of activity. I said, that's about
five miles from your sparre and he was like yeah.
So now he's all the time sending me stuff. But
it's pretty cool.