WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.000 The first time I saw si squatch was in December 2 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:15.199 of twenty eighteen. It was late bow season in my 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.920 great state of Michigan. My mother's horse had just passed away, 4 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.120 and we were devastated at the loss of our show boy. 5 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.719 So I did what I do best from October until January, 6 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:31.519 I went hunting. I took my crossbow and headed down 7 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.079 the road to a nearby property that I should have 8 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:37.320 never gone to. I had managed to slip in and 9 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.479 out of there on many occasions. I was working my 10 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.119 way up a deer trail through deadfall poplar trees, with 11 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:47.439 the wind in my face. The plan was to stalk 12 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.320 the upper meadow and wait until dark and attempt to 13 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.719 ambush any large buck or fawnless dough that stepped out. 14 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.479 As I approached the meadow, my thoughts and vision began 15 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.600 to swirl, and I thought I was going to pass out. 16 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:05.760 I stepped to the edge of the meadow, stood five 17 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:08.959 feet from an old maple that was almost six feet across, 18 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.599 and I looked to my left and I was horrified. 19 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:16.319 Thirty yards away from me, I saw two large sasquatches 20 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:20.799 walking away. I distinctly remember the muscle mass of the 21 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.680 male's back and shoulders and the large girth of the female. 22 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.400 She was the ten foot tall blonde version of the 23 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:32.439 Patterson Gimlin film. The male was taller than her by 24 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.159 two feet, and his hair was black and buckskin brown. 25 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:39.680 He was half as white as that old maple tree. 26 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.120 The pines he walked through just came above his knees 27 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:46.719 nine five foot six, and those same trees came up 28 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.280 to my chest. Had he been right next to me, 29 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.719 he would have dwarfed me. And it scares me as 30 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.040 I think about it. I don't like to go in 31 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.599 the woods in the darkness, and this experience almost ruined 32 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:02.519 hunting for me. I've had many more encounters since and 33 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:06.120 have learned plenty. I've lost my fear of forest neighbors 34 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.960 now and have grown fond of them. I feel safe 35 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:12.560 with them as I've seen them protect me. But it's 36 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.840 not all good news. I'm actively dealing with one in 37 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.400 my new territory that has proven to be aggressive. If 38 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.960 you're interested in any of the other encounters, all you 39 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:26.800 have to do is ask, and the gentleman signs off 40 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:31.319 Coyode Wild Bay, which is the name of his YouTube channel. 41 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:33.840 If I think about it, I'll try to find it 42 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:37.080 and link it in the description below. But if I 43 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.319 forget about it, which I'm likely to do, just look 44 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.599 up Coyote wild Bay in your search bar and his 45 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.080 channel should come right up. You could probably hear a 46 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:50.639 lot more of his other stories. I really appreciate this 47 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:54.000 encounter story. Thank you for sending it, Cody wild Bae. 48 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:01.120 You de man. Appreciate you all right. Here's a story 49 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:05.919 about a dog man or rugaroo or a werewolf. The 50 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:10.719 category is rugaroo according to my editor, let's us read 51 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.560 this story. This looks really good, looks kind of spooky. 52 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.919 In the mid nineteen eighties, I was visiting my great 53 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.879 aunt Cat. I had just broken up with my first boyfriend, 54 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:23.919 and I was pouting on the back porch looking out 55 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.479 into the by you. My Aunt Cat could walk like 56 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.039 a ghost if she wanted. We all called her Cat 57 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:35.479 because she was as silent and graceful as one. She 58 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.759 asked what I was upset about, but I didn't want 59 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.639 to answer her, so I asked her a question instead. 60 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:45.159 Do you believe in the rugaroo? I ask for your 61 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:48.560 listeners who don't know, the rugaroo is our version of 62 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:52.479 Bigfoot of the by You, Aunt kat sat down beside 63 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:56.120 me and smiled, looking out as well. Well, I believe 64 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:00.680 in many things, she said in her strong but frail voice. 65 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.000 I believe in the magic of the bay you, and 66 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.159 there's a good and evil in the world. Well, do 67 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:09.639 you think the rugaroo is evil? I ask? No, No, 68 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:13.039 she said, They're trying to survive, just like the rest 69 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:16.079 of us, hiding from humans. Will you make it sound 70 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.639 like humans are the evil ones? I told her. She 71 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.240 gave me a strange look, as if she were searching 72 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:26.759 for something. Then she nodded and continued, Now you're old 73 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.399 enough to understand that not everything is so simple or fair, 74 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.680 she said, looking out again. I could tell she wasn't 75 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.879 looking into the by you sparkling in the sunlight, or 76 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:42.480 the dragonflies that fly about. But in her own past, 77 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:46.199 I knew not to disrupt her. The story she went 78 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.759 on to tell me is something I will never forget. 79 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:53.879 She was born to a wealthy and influential family, but 80 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:57.000 life was never easy for her. She never had the 81 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:01.480 true luxury of wealth since she was born girl. She 82 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:03.879 had a room, and she had food and clothing and 83 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:07.920 an education, but that was it. At that time, girls 84 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.560 were only good for being sold off into marriage to 85 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:15.879 increase their empires for future sons. For some reason, her 86 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.800 elder brother always hated her and made her his target. 87 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.160 When he would practice hunting, he would do it with 88 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.279 her as the prey, and as he grew older, his 89 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.360 hunts grew as well. Once, when my aunt was only 90 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:31.399 ten years old, she had to put a lock on 91 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:33.920 the outside of her bedroom door to keep her brother 92 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:38.040 out because he was putting rats and spiders and scorpions 93 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.319 in her bed. She had made the mistake of screaming 94 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.839 bloody murder and telling her father what had happened, thinking 95 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.720 it would help. She couldn't have been more wrong. Not 96 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.759 only did her father not offer any help, but he 97 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:54.959 also scolded her for yelling, and he cut the lock 98 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:59.360 off her door. She rushed into the bedroom and whipped 99 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.680 the bedspread off the bed and found a copperhead snake. 100 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.279 Though it wasn't her fault, her father was so furious 101 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.959 with her he sent her away to their summer house 102 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.879 in the woods. She never complained. It was wonderful out there, 103 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:18.240 away from her family. The only other people there were 104 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.800 the servants. She ran wild and free in the woods 105 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:25.279 and learned every nook and cranny of the landscape and 106 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:28.800 memorized every tree and learned about each of the animals. 107 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:32.439 But her joy at the summerhouse was short lived, and 108 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.519 her brother came to visit the property to continue his 109 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.439 hunting games with her. As she grew up, the game 110 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.519 became more dangerous, and spending time alone in the woods 111 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:47.160 became her salvation. When she told her parents about what 112 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:50.160 her brother had been doing, they were of no help. 113 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.920 Her father's only comment was to her brother, don't hurt 114 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.279 her too badly. She's going to be married off in 115 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:01.160 her seventeenth birthday. The sneer on her brother's face was 116 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.600 pure evil. He told her that night that he would 117 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:06.720 be taking a young woman deep in the woods so 118 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:10.000 he and his friends could haunt her down. Don't you 119 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.040 ever worry that they'll talk, she asked him, But her 120 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.399 brother only laughed as he walked away, saying the dead 121 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:22.879 can't talk. One day, a few months before her seventeenth birthday, 122 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:25.639 she came downstairs to a room full of her brother 123 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.639 and all of his hunting friends. He introduced her as 124 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.759 that day's prey, and then he gave her a twenty 125 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:36.680 minute head start, But instead of running in fear, she 126 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.319 calmly turned away and walked back upstairs, not letting him 127 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.480 see her. Scared, she knew that she had to disappear 128 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.120 into the woods, even though it was late in the day, 129 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:50.879 so she changed into brown and green clothing and left 130 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:54.279 her shoes in the closet, and then she shimmde down 131 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.279 the tree outside her window and she ran off into 132 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:02.720 the forest. She ran silently, stepping with great care to 133 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:06.120 avoid leaving any footprints for them to follow, as she 134 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.079 rubbed wildflowers all over her skin to get rid of 135 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.199 any scent. And when she was deep in the forest, 136 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:15.439 she climbed a large tree until she was twenty feet up, 137 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.839 and she waited, and she caught her breath. Even though 138 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.879 she knew she was still alone, she was drawn to 139 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.839 look over into the tree next to her. There looking 140 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:31.439 back at her were two big orange eyes. The being 141 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.639 was huge and massive as the tree it sat in. 142 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:37.879 At that time of day, the sun was setting and 143 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.360 the shadows were growing quickly. She could not see the 144 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:45.759 details of the creature, except that it had a shaggy outline. 145 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.720 She sat there staring at this being, and she heard 146 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.159 her brother's hunting party in the distance looking for her. 147 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.679 Are you sure you saw her run into these woods, 148 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:59.799 her brother said positive. One of the others said, laughing, 149 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:04.000 no one has a body like your sister, Mat. Can't 150 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:08.240 you trailer yet, her brother asked another friend. Not yet. 151 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.519 Another from the party said, kneeling on the ground with 152 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:14.840 a handful of leaves and rubbing them between his fingers 153 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:18.000 to catch a set. She looked back to where the 154 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:21.039 monster was in the tree. It was looking down at 155 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.000 the men as if trying to figure out what they 156 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.679 were doing. When their eyes locked again, she could tell 157 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.639 it realized that it wasn't the one being hunted she was. 158 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.480 Its eyes widened and then turned to red slits. A 159 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.240 commotion came from below, and she turned to watch the 160 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:42.320 men arguing about what to do. When she looked back 161 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:45.600 at the other tree, the creature was gone. She waited 162 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.159 until she heard the hunting party move further away, and 163 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.919 then simmy back down the tree and she made her 164 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:55.039 way back to the house. She climbed back into her bed, 165 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.399 and just as she was about to close the window, 166 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:02.039 she heard an ear shattering roar and vibrated through the forest. 167 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:06.639 A few minutes later, she saw movement outside. Her brother 168 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:09.600 and his hunting team came running toward the house, yelling 169 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.159 and tripping over themselves as they ran for their lives. 170 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:17.159 She could see stones being thrown at their backs. She 171 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.399 heard the roar again and nearly laughed at how ridiculous 172 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.240 the hunting party looked. And when she heard them rush inside, 173 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:26.960 she went down the stairs and found them all as 174 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:31.440 scared and angry as they could be. One of the hunters, 175 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:34.639 full of rage and adrenaline, exclaimed that he was going 176 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:37.720 back out there to kill the thing, and he rushed 177 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:42.919 back outside. After a few gunshots and more roars, the 178 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.440 other two men were so terrified they jumped in their 179 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:50.159 vehicles and they sped away, and then everything was silent 180 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:55.279 again in the woods. In the end, my aunt left 181 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.759 her family and didn't marry the man her father had 182 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:00.559 planned for her. It turned out that he had been 183 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:04.320 in the hunting party. Now that is a story from 184 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:08.480 my great aunt Kat and her bigfoot encounter. I know 185 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:10.679 it was a dark story, but I felt that it 186 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:15.679 answered some of the questions I hear repeated on your channel. Often. 187 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.600 I hear someone say, no one can be that silent, 188 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:21.919 or no one could run full out and not leave prince. 189 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.039 But I'm here to tell you that my Aunt Kat could. 190 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.840 And if your life is in constant survival mode, you 191 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.000 become what you have to be to live and to survive. 192 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:37.240 I think humans like Bigfoot can be extremely adaptable if 193 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.519 and when the circumstances call for it, and we should 194 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:44.519 never underestimate the human drive to survive. Thank you for 195 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.639 reading my story. I love your channel. Keep doing what 196 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.440 you do, just the way you do it, and she 197 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.320 signs off. B what a cool story. I thought a 198 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.320 rugaroo was like a werewolf. Maybe maybe it can be 199 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.600 all sorts of things down in louis that's a Louisiana 200 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:06.559 Bayou monster, the rugaroo or loop garu. There's two or 201 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.200 three different names for them. Maybe the loop garou is 202 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.480 the werewolf and the rugaroo is the bigfoot. I don't know. 203 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.159 I don't know anything about this stuff. I just do 204 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.480 these stories. But I think this was a great story, 205 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.480 and I really appreciate miss b sending this. What a 206 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:29.480 great nostalgic story to share with this audience. Thank you, ma'am. 207 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.080 I live in a ranch style house. The garage is 208 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:35.320 at one end of the house and the bedrooms are 209 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.120 at the other. My bedroom is the master bedroom and 210 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.720 it has a large picture window that looks out onto 211 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.360 the backyard. Due to the slope of the yard and 212 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.399 the door to the cross space being directly under my 213 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.200 bedroom window, the window is nine feet off the ground. 214 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.559 Now I'm five foot six, and the window is still 215 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.279 probably a good four feet over my head if I'm 216 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.679 outside underneath it. There's this evergreen tree in my backyard 217 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.559 twenty feet from the window. The needles are broad and flat, 218 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.399 and the bar can be peeled off in stringy bits. 219 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.039 The lower branches of this tree are six feet off 220 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:19.159 the ground. In September of nineteen ninety eight, I was 221 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.799 a sophomore in high school. It was a Sunday, and 222 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.159 once church was over, my mom and I went to 223 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:29.200 eat lunch and then went home. Within minutes of walking 224 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:31.639 in the door, my friend called and I took the 225 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.919 handset of our cordless phone into my bedroom so we 226 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:38.600 could have a conversation. While I was on the phone, 227 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.639 I started pacing back and forth in my bedroom. I 228 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.279 walked toward the window, and turn and walked toward the 229 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:47.440 opposite wall, and then turn and do it all over again. 230 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.559 At some point in the conversation, I walked toward the 231 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:55.840 opposite wall and turned around to face the window. Right 232 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:58.559 then I noticed a dark shadow at the base of 233 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.639 the window that resembled a human head and a neck. 234 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.440 At first, I tried looking for a tree or something 235 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.279 that could have cast a shadow of that shape, but 236 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.559 I couldn't find anything. Then I realized that the shadow 237 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:16.000 had a three dimensional quality to it, and I said, 238 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.440 oh my God, out loud. The shadow dropped down out 239 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.200 of sight. I rushed over to the window in time 240 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:26.360 to see this human shaped shadow run across the yard 241 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:31.000 toward the evergreen tree and he climbed it. And when 242 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.799 it reached the lower branches, it stopped and turned its 243 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.320 head to see if I was looking at it, and 244 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:41.120 then it kept climbing and it disappeared. My friend asked 245 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:43.360 me what was happening. I told him what I saw, 246 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:46.000 and he said I needed to thank God because what 247 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.000 I had described to him sounded like a demon that 248 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.600 he had read about in a book on demonology. Well, 249 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.159 not really knowing what this thing was, I thank God anyway, 250 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:00.080 and I figured it couldn't hurt. Two days later, I 251 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.200 in my backyard and went over to that tree. The 252 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.759 branches this thing had grabbed on too had died, and 253 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:09.799 all the leaves on those branches had turned brown and 254 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:14.399 fallen off to the ground in a loose pile. In 255 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.960 two thousand and five, I was working as a third 256 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:20.360 shift security guard and my favorite thing to help pass 257 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:22.679 the time was to listen to the late night radio 258 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:27.320 talk show about the paranormal. I finally summoned the courage 259 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:30.120 and I called into the show and I shared my story. 260 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.159 I told the host that I wasn't sure what the 261 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.840 thing was, even though my friend said it was a demon, 262 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:39.039 and the host asked me if it had glowing red 263 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:43.039 eyes and I said no. The host believed that since 264 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.120 it didn't have glowing red eyes that it wasn't a demon. 265 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.960 I still don't know what it was, and I haven't 266 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:54.200 seen anything quite like it since. Oh man, that is spooky. 267 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:57.440 Young girl pacing back and forth in her room looks 268 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.840 out and sees this giant thing in her backyard. The 269 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.799 creepiest thing about this is the limbs dying on the 270 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.840 tree wherever it touched it. I guess demons are all 271 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:12.120 about death and everything they touch is contaminated like that, 272 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.200 and the tree just couldn't take it. But what an 273 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:18.440 interesting story. Only demons It's only a demon if it 274 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.279 has red eyes, apparently to this person on I bet 275 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:26.399 it was an art bell show about the paranormal. Apparently, 276 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:28.440 if it doesn't have red eyes, it's not a demon, 277 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.759 according to this guy. I don't know. I'm thinking maybe 278 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:35.000 all demons don't have red glowing eyes, but who knows. 279 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.799 What a great story. Thanks for sharing it with us, 280 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:44.320 and we certainly do appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am. My 281 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.200 sighting happened when I was fourteen years old, and I 282 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.679 remember it well. I haven't told many people about it 283 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:53.240 because I know they will look at me like I'm nuts, 284 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.120 but I want my story to be heard. I live 285 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.840 in Oklahoma. My youth group went to an ast forest 286 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:04.000 for a camping trip for the weekend, a three hour 287 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.599 drive from our town. Our clearing was surrounded by hundreds 288 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:13.079 of miles of forests. To the left, thirty yards away 289 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.880 was a creek, and forty yards to the right was 290 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.160 a sad excuse for a toilet, which out in the 291 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:21.279 middle of nowhere as a hole in the ground with 292 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:25.440 a concrete building around it. There was plenty of game 293 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.319 in the area. We saw deer, and we heard there 294 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:31.599 were bison and bear and all the other little critters. 295 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.160 We figured that out when we found bison poop in 296 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:38.799 our campsite. No one was allowed to drink from the 297 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:41.519 creek because it had E cola in it and it 298 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:45.559 would make you sick. On the second night, I got 299 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:49.119 up to use the bathroom. Everyone else was sacked out 300 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.960 because some of them had gone rock climbing and other 301 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.039 tiring activities. I was the only one up at the time. 302 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.039 I had taken a flashlight so I could see where 303 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:01.119 I was going and make sure I didn't step on 304 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:04.720 a snake or something. When I lifted my light toward 305 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.839 the creek, I saw a huge black figure. It was 306 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.759 at least eight feet tall and four feet wide and 307 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:14.000 had long black hair hanging from its arms and body. 308 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:18.160 But I wasn't able to see any features, and it 309 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:22.319 didn't seem aggressive in the least. I was only half awake, 310 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.160 so I was thinking it was my shadow, and I 311 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:29.559 waved and it waved back. In my sleepy mind, that 312 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.359 confirmed that it was my shadow, and I did my 313 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.839 business and I went back to bed. It didn't strike 314 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.440 me until about a week later that it was not 315 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.200 my shadow. My flashlight had been in front of me 316 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:45.519 not behind me. It would have taken a huge light 317 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:49.160 from far back to cast a shadow of me that size. 318 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:54.079 There was no possible way that was my shadow. The 319 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:57.039 fact that it mimicked me by waving back shook me 320 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.559 to my core, and it still does. I think back, 321 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:02.839 and I wonder if this thing had been coming into 322 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.079 our camp all along and we didn't know about it. 323 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:09.359 Thank you for all the videos and the awesome content. 324 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:11.559 I hope you'll see this, and I think it's a 325 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:14.000 good enough story to put in the video. Heck, yeah, 326 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.079 it's a good enough story. I think I've had this 327 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:18.799 for a long time, maybe a year or two. But 328 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:21.480 I'm getting through them all, getting through them all, even 329 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:25.279 with the breaks and the lags between me posting podcasts. 330 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.799 I'm going to do every single one of them. If 331 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:30.920 it's illegible. This was a great story. I thought this 332 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:34.000 was very interesting. It's kind of a unique take on 333 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:39.119 running into a bigfoot in your campsite. It was very good. 334 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:45.839 Thank you for sending the story. It was wonderful. Okay, 335 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.039 this is kind of a creepy story that I thought 336 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:52.359 was really good. It's a swamp story. I love swamp stories. 337 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.960 I don't know why maybe because I've been in a 338 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:58.400 few swamps and I just think they're beautiful. But anyway, 339 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:02.720 never mind, let me just read the story. In twenty sixteen, 340 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:08.039 several hurricanes and tropical systems dumped copious amounts of rain 341 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:13.200 in North and South Carolina. All duckholes, creeks, and rivers 342 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:17.240 were flooded out of their banks. I have one particular 343 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:21.400 spot that shines when high water floods the moist soil vegetation, 344 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.960 allowing the ducks to access it. The spot is in 345 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.200 a swamp, flat off and artificially straight, man made canal 346 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:35.279 that is plainly visible from satellite images. I've talked with 347 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:38.839 locals and historians in the Police department and the low 348 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:43.640 country areas, and the consensus is that this complex of 349 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:47.759 canals was dug by slaves in the seventeen hundreds or 350 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:50.920 the eighteen hundreds in order to drain the swamp land 351 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.039 and allow access for farming, much like canals were dug 352 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:59.680 for rice propagation closer to the coast. It is no 353 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:04.039 sea that, with their involuntary servitude, slaves brought a great 354 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.759 deal of culture and beliefs with them from their original motherland. 355 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.640 To this day, their descendants that remain will tell you 356 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:15.759 stories of haints, mooo hags, plaid eyes, and the like. 357 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:19.440 Right up the road. A farm owner once told me 358 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.680 the story of Maggie, a local witch doctor in the 359 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.920 post Civil War area who leveraged her reputation to protect 360 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.680 a fishing hole via threats of putting a route or 361 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:34.400 casting a spell on anyone that poached her fish and game. 362 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:40.079 Are places like this still protected? Do ghosts move on? 363 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:44.599 Or do they still wander? I'm crossing some line by 364 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:48.319 going along a remote canal that was surely miserable and 365 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.279 grilling to handig in the slave days. Could it be 366 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:55.599 that the forced labor that dug the canal that facilitated 367 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:58.559 my duck hole dabbled in some sort of hoodoo or 368 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:03.720 voodoo or witch hundred years ago? The thought had certainly 369 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:06.599 crossed my mind as I hunted this spot. But still 370 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:09.960 I nearly always hunt solo, and I don't frighten too 371 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:15.200 easily to access this duckhole. I dropped my piro in 372 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:17.839 off side of the road, and I paddled about a 373 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:21.880 mile down the overgrown in beaver Dam canal before I 374 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:25.880 broke off into a grass flat on either side The 375 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.559 water was so high that there was no dry ground 376 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:31.839 or even waitable water for five hundred yards on either 377 00:22:31.880 --> 00:22:34.880 side of the canal for the length of a mile. 378 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:38.880 I was getting close to exiting the canal for the 379 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:44.480 flooded vegetation when I saw two rectangular reflections several inches 380 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:47.799 apart in my head lamp. They looked like they were 381 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:50.599 on a big tree five or six feet up, but 382 00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:53.079 I didn't get a great look because they were shining 383 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.799 back through the thick wax myrtle bush. They were so 384 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.920 large that I thought they must have been reflective taxure 385 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:03.720 tape left by another hunter to mark their spot. I 386 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:06.359 wasn't sure if I had paddled far enough to break 387 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:09.440 off from the canal, so I nosed my pirow into 388 00:23:09.480 --> 00:23:12.079 the wax myrtle and I pulled out my phone to 389 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:15.759 check my progress on the map. I saw that I 390 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:18.759 still needed to go another couple hundred yards down the canal, 391 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:20.920 so I backed out of the bush and made it 392 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:25.559 ten yards down stream. I don't recall what made me 393 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:28.200 look over my shoulder, but I did, and I saw 394 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:33.640 those two rectangular reflections still there. I thought it was odd, 395 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:36.079 since I was one hundred and eighty degrees on the 396 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:38.559 opposite side of the tree from where I saw them 397 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:43.160 the minute before, meaning that whatever it was had crawled 398 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:45.720 around the tree and was watching me from the other 399 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:50.000 side well. I paddled in reverse to turn my pirow 400 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:52.799 around to face the tree, and when I did, the 401 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:57.519