WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:13.240 Back in twenty and seventeen, I purchased ten acres in 2 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:17.359 northern Michigan, a few miles away from Huron National Forest. 3 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.199 I bought the property to use as a weekend getaway 4 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.879 from my mother and myself. The area is set up 5 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:28.480 for RV camping, close to the road frontage and adjacent 6 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:32.479 to a garage. The rest of the property consists of 7 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:36.399 unused wooded areas and a long narrow drive lined with 8 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.200 thick trees and scrub, and there's also a shared pond 9 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:44.280 all the way in the back. During my first overnight stay, 10 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.560 I was awakened by a loud whoop from something close 11 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.240 to the bedroom window. It caught me off guard. I 12 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:55.000 almost fell out of bed. Well. I grabbed my flashlight 13 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:57.320 off the nightstand and I walked to the front of 14 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:01.920 the RV where Mom was. She was sound asleep. I 15 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.439 was sure the sound would have awakened her, even though 16 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:09.280 she cannot hear thunder without her hearing aids. On another visit, 17 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.159 I took the garden wagon loaded with tools to get 18 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.439 some work done back by the pond. I was standing 19 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.680 fifteen feet across from a thick tree line, clipping branches 20 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.079 to widen the drive path enough not to scratch the vehicles. 21 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.400 The trees and the bushes are so heavy that it 22 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:30.640 looked dark there even during the day. As I was 23 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.400 busy clipping away, I heard a loud grunting directly opposite 24 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.040 me from the thick trees. I was so startled that 25 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.840 my skin was crawling and my hands felt like they 26 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:44.120 were moving in slow motion as I grabbed the wagon 27 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:47.560 handle and pulled it along, walking out as fast as 28 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:51.560 I could. After that, I never went past the culvert 29 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.280 by the pond without carrying a weapon. Every time I 30 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:58.599 mowed past that point, I had the strong gut feeling 31 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:02.319 that I was being watch At times, I'd get so 32 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:05.200 creeped out that i'd keep my weapon trained on the 33 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.240 tree line as I moved near the trees, not that 34 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.840 a nine millimeter would do much good with the size 35 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:14.599 of whatever this was. Lady, if you can do that, 36 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.919 I bet you're not driving a zero turn lawnmower. I 37 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.439 have a zero turn, and if I even let go 38 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.759 of one handle, I just start going in circles. So 39 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:27.319 I always I just can't see myself holding a pistol 40 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:32.319 and steering a zero turn with one hand. But I 41 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:34.560 don't know that just hit me. I thought I'd talk 42 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:38.039 about it. Let's get back to the story. After about 43 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.039 a year, I thought it would be nice to put 44 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.680 a small shed down by the pond to use for 45 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.759 a more private getaway place further from the road. I 46 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:50.560 had an area cleared, the shed delivered, My father and 47 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.479 I spent the day up there mowing and trimming weeds. 48 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.439 When we reached the covert at the start of the pond, 49 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:02.199 we saw an enormous pile of gap. We got out 50 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.159 of the truck and tried to figure out what could 51 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.800 have made such a large pile. It didn't look like 52 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.800 bear droppings. When we gave up on trying to identify it, 53 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.240 I realized that one of the large logs I hadn't 54 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:18.319 split yet was floating in the middle of the pond. 55 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.960 It had been taken from a stack I had under 56 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.159 a lean to at the road. Now, how on earth 57 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.560 did it get all the way to the pond. Well. 58 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.800 My dad was puzzled just like I was, and he 59 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:36.400 quietly mumbled under his breath that it looked intentional. It 60 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:39.280 wasn't until later that I got the impression that something 61 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.280 was upset that I had invaded their space so I 62 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:47.159 stopped using the property as an overnight getaway. I only 63 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.479 went up for the day to mow and hang out 64 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.599 in nature until the early evening, when I would drive 65 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:56.319 home well. I fixed the shed with a small front 66 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.439 porch and placed a small metal table on it. It 67 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.599 had a raw iron base and an umbrella tightly secured 68 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.800 in the center. I drove my mother down with refreshments 69 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.080 and she sat in the chair next to the table 70 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.800 under the umbrella, with a nice view of the pond. 71 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.399 I started trimming trees, and after a few minutes I 72 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.879 looked down to check on my mom. She was standing 73 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.160 behind her chair, looking into the woods and trying to 74 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.399 get my attention. When I got back to her, she 75 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.279 said she heard a loud grunting across from where she 76 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:33.480 was sitting. This time, I brought a long gun. I 77 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.800 went to the vehicle and grabbed the rifle, and I 78 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:38.439 walked over to where my mother pointed at the noise. 79 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.040 I wasn't planning on shooting anything, but I had a 80 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:44.680 good scope and I hoped I could get an idea 81 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.800 of what was responsible for all the strange activity happening 82 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:52.800 on the party. I stepped several feet into the trees, 83 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:57.560 and then I heard something say sh fear took hold 84 00:04:57.560 --> 00:04:59.759 of me and I only had enough courage to make 85 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:04.000 a quick scan with my scope. My instincts were yelling 86 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.000 at me to get out of the area immediately, and 87 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.120 I listened, and I packed Mom in the vehicle, and 88 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:14.120 I grabbed our goodies and we drove out. That was 89 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:18.519 the last time my mother went to that property. Later 90 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:20.519 that fall, my father and I went up for the 91 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.000 day to mow and trim, and after we finished working, 92 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.720 we decided to eat our sandwiches next to the little 93 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.519 pond area. When we got there, we saw the umbrella 94 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.639 lying on the ground. I picked it up to put 95 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.240 it back in its slot in the table, and I 96 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.600 noticed the folded metal in the center hole was bent, 97 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:43.120 as if something had slammed it around before picking it 98 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.920 up out of its holder and throwing it to the ground. 99 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:49.720 In the winter of twenty twenty, I drove up to 100 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.600 check the grapevines and see if I should trend them 101 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.079 back and check on the shed. The snow was pretty 102 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:58.360 deep and the plows had done their job on the 103 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:02.879 main road, but that driving onto my property was impossible 104 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.920 due to the wall of snow blocking my entrance, so 105 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.879 I parked across the street in the church parking lot 106 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:14.360 instead and walked to my property. It was a typical 107 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.040 Michigan winter weather day, and I had my down coat 108 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:20.680 on with a large poncho over it to make sure 109 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.680 that I stayed warm. It was cold and overcast and 110 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.279 only two more hours of daylight left, and I tracked 111 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:31.399 on into the property and checked on the grapevines and 112 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.319 I did a bit of cutting back, and I noticed 113 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:37.600 strange tracks in the snow that I could not figure out. 114 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.639 But it was the huge length of stride that caught 115 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.959 my attention. I tried to measure them using my own stride, 116 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.160 stretching my legs as far as they would go next 117 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.319 to the tracks, but I didn't even come close. It 118 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.120 looked like whatever made these tracks had done it on 119 00:06:56.279 --> 00:07:01.439 three legs. Sure as rain as I reached the culvert, 120 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.639 a sick, dark feeling hit me hard in my stomach, 121 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.439 and I stopped in my tracks. My senses were telling 122 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.439 me that something menacing was only feet away and it 123 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.160 wanted me dead. And then within seconds the feeling of 124 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.600 danger lifted. I was confused but relieved, and I saw 125 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.319 my neighbor was pulling into his driveway all the way 126 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.680 up at the end of the road, and must have 127 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.839 accidentally scared off what had been there with me. There 128 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:31.439 have been numerous times while I was at the property 129 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.800 that I felt watched. If I walk along the drive 130 00:07:34.839 --> 00:07:37.759 I hear something pacing me slowly in the tree line. 131 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:41.160 I never smell anything foul or out of the ordinary, 132 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.079 but often I will walk back a short distance and 133 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:48.519 find a feather placed directly in my path. For the 134 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.680 entire day last summer, I was tracked by something in 135 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.000 the trees. The neighbors were gone for a weekend at 136 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.360 a wedding, and I knew I was alone. I popped 137 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:03.519 up a small privacy tent to place my lugaloo. I 138 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:06.079 don't know what a lug aloo is. He set up 139 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:08.839 a table with a wash stand just outside the door. 140 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.360 I hammered in new tent steaks as I lost the 141 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:16.199 last ones, or so I thought. As the day was 142 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:18.759 coming to an end, I felt a very strong presence 143 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.800 in the bushes next to the pop up tent. Well, 144 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:25.759 this time I spoke to it. Don't worry, I'm leaving soon, 145 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:29.879 I said aloud. I went to use the bathroom before 146 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:32.519 the drive home, and after I finished, I could hear 147 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:35.120 a loud sniffing sound in the bushes right where I 148 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:40.200 had been standing. I couldn't see anything, but it was alarming. Nonetheless, 149 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.000 I'm leaving if you would just stop, I said louder 150 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:48.399 this time, thinking it would calm my nerves. I folded 151 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:50.919 the table down and grabbed the water jug and I 152 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.240 walked about thirty feet to the truck put the items 153 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:56.440 in it, and when I turned around, the pop up 154 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.840 tent was flat on the ground. I walked over to 155 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:02.240 it up and put it in its travel bag, and 156 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:06.480 again all of my tent steaks were gone. I looked 157 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:08.840 all around and I could not find a single one 158 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:13.240 of them. What on earth I thought? Was that bigfoot 159 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.360 that made the sniffing sound? Was he the one who 160 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.120 stole my tent steaks? I told it once more that 161 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.159 I was leaving, and I finished packing up and I left. 162 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.720 After all of this, I decided to sell the RV, 163 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.200 and after the buyer removed the trailer, I went up 164 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.600 to the property and found a tree that had been 165 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.080 near the RV that had been snapped clean off fifteen 166 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.279 feet up from its base. There hadn't been any storms 167 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:44.120 or high winds that I was aware of, And even 168 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:47.240 if there had been, why had the surrounding trees not 169 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.960 been affected. I pondered the strength that it would have 170 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.960 taken for the creature to break a thick, healthy trunk 171 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.519 like that, and I wondered if it had been Bigfoot. 172 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.759 I bought another shed in place to near the road, 173 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:04.320 and I currently use it for storage. I rarely go 174 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.120 back near the pond and contemplate whether I should just 175 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:10.639 sell the property because I cannot muster up enough courage 176 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.399 to spend any real time there. It's a shame, too, 177 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:18.320 because it's a lovely place. I guess Bigfoot seems to 178 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:21.600 think so too. Oh that was a good story. But 179 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.279 the sad part of it is, and I've heard this 180 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.840 so many times, so many times, that people are run 181 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:32.399 off of their property by these creatures. You know what's 182 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:34.799 the answer to that. I have no idea. It's the 183 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.159 luck of the draw. You buy some property that you 184 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.039 haven't frequented, and then you know, within the first few 185 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.279 months you find out you have these weird creatures on 186 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.480 the property. You can't enjoy it, you can't go out 187 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.120 at night. They run you off, They scare you all 188 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.720 the time. You're paranoid every time you go, and then 189 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.600 you wind up selling it. It's really a shame, and 190 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.679 I hate that this person had to move her RV. 191 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:02.480 It's she can't enjoy the pond anymore and she's thinking 192 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:05.720 about selling it. It's just a sad state of affairs 193 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.879 in my opinion. Maybe you'll get it worked out. I 194 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.799 don't know what would be a method to run these 195 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.799 things off. That's that what I might need to call 196 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.759 Steve Lilly get him out of there. Of course he 197 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:20.440 doesn't just run him off, he kills them. But maybe 198 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.399 that's the answer. Who knows. All Right, that was a 199 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.960 good story. Thank you, ma'am for sending it. I thought 200 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:32.360 it was great. Thank you. Okay, here's another Bigfoot story. 201 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:35.000 I think this whole podcast is going to be nothing 202 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.559 but Bigfoot, which people seem to enjoy. So let's get 203 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:44.600 into story number two. I'm from southern Virginia, about two 204 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:48.279 hours north of North Carolina. When I was fourteen, my 205 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.200 buddy and I were going to do an archery bear hunt. 206 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.919 We set out around lunchtime after school and we made 207 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.519 it to the location we wanted to hunt. My buddy 208 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:03.360 made his way northwest and I went northeast. Thirty minutes 209 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.759 in he texted me and he told me that he 210 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:08.120 saw a bear cub and that he was going to wait, 211 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:11.200 hoping there may be a boar or a sow nearby. 212 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.639 I sat down and I waited too, until fifteen minutes 213 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:19.799 later when I heard him screaming. I had just drawn 214 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.639 my gun and was running in his direction when a 215 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.200 five foot tall black creature running on two legs ran 216 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.240 past me, going the opposite direction at full speed. When 217 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:34.679 I got to my friend, he was bawling tears. I 218 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:38.279 asked him what happened, but he couldn't speak. When he 219 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.720 finally got a hold of himself, he said that as 220 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.200 he drew back his spow, the bear cub he thought 221 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.120 he was looking at stood up on two feet and 222 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:49.039 looked him in the eye, and it snarled, and then 223 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:52.519 it took off. To this day, we don't go near 224 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.480 that area where we saw it. Another time, I was 225 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.159 out fishing, but the bike was slow and I hadn't 226 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.360 caught much. I decided to quit for a while and 227 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.519 check the trail cams. I've decided to carry a shotgun 228 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.559 to our ponds because of snakes, and that day I 229 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.840 was carrying a pump action shotgun. I had just set 230 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.320 my fishing pole down on the picnic table and was 231 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.480 making my way to check my cameras, hoping to see 232 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.799 if I had any good bucks to look at for 233 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:25.759 the coming rifle season. I walked on and I heard 234 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:29.639 a loud crunching sound twenty yards to my left. I 235 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:32.720 shouldered my gun in case a wild boar, pig or 236 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.600 a black bear was about to attack me, and as 237 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:38.559 I looked in the direction of the sound, a creature 238 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.720 stepped out from behind the trees, and he was covered 239 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.639 head to toe in brownish blonde hair. I couldn't do 240 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.879 anything but stop and stare at it, and when it 241 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.080 started coming toward me, I yelled at it to stop. 242 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.200 It backed up forty yards or so and I relaxed, 243 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.200 but I tensed again just as quickly when it turned 244 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:03.159 around again in it charged right at me. I knew 245 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.159 right then that I'd have to shoot at it. I'm 246 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.480 six foot seven and I weighed two hundred and forty pounds, 247 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.480 but this thing was so tall I had to point 248 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.679 up when I shot at it. Way up. It was 249 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:19.559 easily over ten feet tall. I had number four buck 250 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:23.600 shot in that pump action. Each shell has fifty four pellets, 251 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.200 and I swear all fifty four of those pellets bounced 252 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.440 off of this thing when I shot it, and it 253 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:32.879 roared in a way I had never heard, like it 254 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.879 was speaking, yelling at me to get the hell out 255 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:38.639 of there. And as I watched it run back into 256 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.879 the dense forest, I knew that was the last time 257 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:46.919 I would hunt there. Oh my gosh, buck shot bouncing 258 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:51.679 off of bigfoot didn't even penetrate its hide. Now that 259 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.639 is amazing. The longer I do this podcast, every once 260 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.039 in a while I come across something new, and this 261 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.639 is really new. Most time when people shoot a bigfoot, 262 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:06.279 it either bleeds or tears a hole in it, or 263 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:11.519 makes it limp or kills it. I've never heard of 264 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:17.600 bullets or shotgun shot bouncing off of bigfoot of bigfoot hide, 265 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.320 But lucky for you, it was good enough to send 266 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.320 him on his way. You're six foot seven, two hundred 267 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.600 and forty pounds. You're a big man. But even at 268 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:31.720 that size, a ten foot bigfoot coming down on you, you 269 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:34.960 gotta start shooting. You just gotta start shooting. Thank you 270 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:41.440 for this exciting story. I thought it was great all right, 271 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:46.320 Bigfoot story number three. In twenty and twelve, my family 272 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.960 moved into a new home that we built in Grandview, Missouri. 273 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.919 It's located in a small valley next to Longview Lake, 274 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:59.360 which consists of nine hundred and sixty acres. Woods surround 275 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.480 the house property and behind us as a trail that 276 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:07.240 completes a circle, and there's wildlife galore, deer, Turkey's codes, 277 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:12.000 mountain lions, and everything in between. A year after moving in, 278 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.480 my wife and our lab and I were walking the 279 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:18.440 trail almost at dusk. As we cleared the end of 280 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:20.960 the trail directly at the top of the hill, we 281 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:24.960 heard a strange call. It sounded like a bird of prey, 282 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.960 but ended in a long whistle, and it was moving 283 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:31.639 from left to right. When we got back to our house, 284 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:34.320 I saw my next door neighbor was out working on 285 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.360 his car. He heard the noise too, and we both 286 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.200 agreed it was unusual. A few months later, I was 287 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.120 wakened by something hitting the house. It sounded like a 288 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.399 big tree had fallen, Though now I don't have trees 289 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.039 anywhere near the property big enough to make that kind 290 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:54.320 of racket. I figured the wind had knocked something down, 291 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.600 and I didn't think much more of it. We have 292 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.080 a mating pair of great horned owls nested up on 293 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.480 the hill, and I used to have fun calling back 294 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.000 and forth with them because they always responded to me. 295 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.920 Late one night, I was waking to the sound of 296 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:13.000 one of the owls in the back of the house. 297 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:16.680 I enjoyed listening to its call for a while, and 298 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:20.119 then I went back to sleep. A little while later, 299 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:22.880 I realized that it wasn't an owl. It was way 300 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.880 too loud, and the tone suggested it was from a 301 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:30.000 much bigger creature. Not only that it was coming from 302 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.799 the other side of my window, and the owls had 303 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.720 never gotten that close to our house before. I was 304 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:39.960 feeling ill at the time, with a scratchy throat, and 305 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.119 I had a glass of water on my nightstand. When 306 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:45.640 I coughed and leaned over to take a drink, something 307 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:50.200 right outside my window mimicked my cough exactly. I nearly 308 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:54.200 choked on the sip of water. Later on, my son 309 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.680 and I measured the height of that window. It's eight 310 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.559 feet off the ground. After that night, it took me 311 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:01.799 a couple of years to get the courage to sleep 312 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.720 in that room again. I finally moved to bed, but 313 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:09.559 I still had trouble sleeping. In December of twenty twenty two, 314 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.880 my neighbor called me in a frenzy and asked me 315 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.480 if I was home. I told him no. When I 316 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.279 asked him what was going on, he told me it 317 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:20.160 sounded like a tree had hit the house. He said 318 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:22.519 that when he heard the noise, he went outside with 319 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:27.240 a flashlight, but he couldn't find anything wrong. Our neighbor 320 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:30.519 had heard it too. He went up into my attic 321 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:32.640 to see if there had been some kind of damage, 322 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.839 but he couldn't find anything broken or out of the ordinary. 323 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:40.079 A year later, I was taking a shower when all 324 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:43.640 of a sudden, a scream came from outside. It sounded 325 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:47.519 like a cross between an elephant trumpeting and a lion roaring. 326 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.720 I was twenty feet from the window and in the 327 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:54.640 shower with the water and exhaust fan running. I usually 328 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.599 can't hear anything when I'm in there, but this screen 329 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:01.519 was so loud that I felt it. It took me 330 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.000 so off guard that I had to catch myself from 331 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.039 slipping on the floor of the shower. I thought someone 332 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:09.440 had broken into the house, and my system went in 333 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:13.119 to fight or flight mode. I quickly got out and 334 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:16.759 looked around my house, but thankfully I didn't see anything. 335 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.599 I have always enjoyed watching those Bigfoot shows, and one 336 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:23.759 of them a couple was woken in the night by 337 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:28.480 a strange whistle. I found myself screaming at television and saying, 338 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.400 that was the same whistle that I heard. How could 339 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:35.039 that be? The people in the TV show were sixteen 340 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:39.400 hundred miles away, but it's all woods where I live, 341 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.839 and I'm next to the water overrun by deer, and 342 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:46.039 I guess it makes perfect sense that if Bigfoot lived anywhere, 343 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:50.279 he would live near me. That's a good story. I 344 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:52.559 don't think he ever saw it, but he's getting some 345 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:56.279 really really good evidence that Bigfoot does live near where 346 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.359 he lives in Grandview, Missouri, close to long View, late 347 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.640 nine hundred and sixty acres of woods. It's a perfect 348 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.519 habitat for a Bigfoot. Missouri is a big hotspot. I 349 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.160 think that's where the let's see what what is the 350 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:18.119 what is the Bigfoot in Momo? Momo is the Missouri Bigfoot? 351 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.000 Maybe it's Momo living around your house, brother, I don't know. 352 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:24.880 It's a great story, thank you so much for sending it. 353 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:31.839 I know everyone enjoyed it. Okay, Rebecca says, this is 354 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:35.640 a heartwarming story from the other side. I think it's 355 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:40.039 a bigfoot maybe not. I'm reading this cold. Let's see 356 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:43.119 what this story is about. I'm kind of excited. In 357 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:45.920 nineteen ninety four, I was twenty three years old and 358 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.279 my wife and I had been married for just under 359 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:51.039 a year. It was that spring when I got a 360 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.559 call that my grandmother wasn't going to be with us 361 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:57.599 much longer. I went to the hospital to say goodbye. 362 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:02.240 My grandparents were parents to fourteen children, most of whom 363 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:06.000 were parents to at least four children, so our extended 364 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:10.799 family was massive. Oh that is such good news. We 365 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:14.839 need to be having more kids in this culture. We 366 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.480 need more people. You guys need to be getting married, 367 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:23.960 having kids, raising families. You will not regret it. If 368 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:27.319 we don't, We're going to lose our population. There are 369 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:31.240 other cultures that are reproducing three or four times as 370 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:35.440 many kids as we are, and someday this American culture 371 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.440 will be gone. But I digress. That just made me 372 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.480 think of it. This is a topic that I worry about. Anyway, 373 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:45.599 back to the story, we saw our grandparents from time 374 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.279 to time, but being a bit of a drive for them, 375 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:50.720 we didn't see them nearly as much as we should. 376 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:54.599 That afternoon, not long after I had left the hospital, 377 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:58.319 my grandmother passed away. I phoned my wife and I 378 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:02.000 told her the news. She offered words of love and support, 379 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:04.759 and before we ended the call, she asked if there 380 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:07.799 was anything she could do to lift my spirits, and 381 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:10.559 I said, how about some hugs when I get home? 382 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:14.920 And she replied, you got it. I finished work and 383 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:17.880 went straight home. When I walked into the door, my 384 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:20.720 wife had taken post it notes and written the word 385 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.119 hug on them. There must have been a hundred of 386 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.359 them that were stuck all over the place, the walls, 387 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:31.599 the tables, on chairs, on the TV, even a half 388 00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:35.880 a dozen spots on the ceiling. This was no small feat, 389 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:40.240 seeing she is only five foot six. She also offered 390 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:43.240 the real thing, a big, long hug that truly did 391 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.640 make me feel better, and thirty years later, it still does. 392 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:51.440 We ate supper, and we cleaned up and watched some 393 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:55.160 TV to pass the time. Later that evening, when it 394 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.599 was time to turn in for the night, we decided 395 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:00.680 that we should probably take down all those papers, her hugs. 396 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.000 We each started to pull them down and we tossed 397 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:06.880 them in the trash, and we climbed into bed. And 398 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:09.480 that's when I noticed one post it note on the 399 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:13.720 ceiling directly over the bed. I decided I'd get that 400 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:17.200 one in the morning. My wife falls asleep quickly, but 401 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:20.160