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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome to the podcast. I have one story in

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this episode. I got this email fairly recently, and it

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is a bigfoot encounter in near Cave Run Lake in Kentucky.

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Wasn't there a big story about a bigfoot sighting near

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a campground near Cave Run Lake. I'm trying to remember

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where Cave Rn I lived in that state for ten years.

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I can't remember exactly where it is. It seems like

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Cave Run is over in eastern Kentucky, but it might

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be it might be down around Mammo Springs. That's where Wait,

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is that the big Cave System. I don't know what

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I'm talking about. I've been to all these places. I

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fished Cave Run. I just can't remember where it is.

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I fished a bunch of lakes in that state. It's

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a different kind of fishing than I was raised on,

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but I enjoyed it. It was fun. Went muskie fishing

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one time. I think it was at Caveron Lake and

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the guy was with caught a musky. He said, he said,

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that's a fish of a thousand casts. I thought, dude,

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that's pretty cool. It wasn't a huge fish, but anyway,

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there must be kind of sparse. I don't know anyway

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back to the story. This is an exciting story, so

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hold on to the old weaves. Here we go. After

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forty five years of hunting and being in the woods

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and being successful and harvesting everything from coyotes, deer, turkey, bear,

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and other types of small game, I will be selling

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my guns, equipment and donating all my camo. I think

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I need some sort of therapy or medication to deal

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with what happened to me this past turkey season. I'm

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afraid to tell anyone, including my family and even my

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hunting buddies. I can't go to a shrink or tell

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my doctor because I'm afraid I'll be sent to the

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hospital for observation. I don't know for sure, but that

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might be a good thing to allow me time to

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sort this out in my head. I have opted to

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reach out to you and tell you my story and

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recount what happened to me the last weekend of April

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in the Cave Run Lake region of Kentucky, while hunting

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turkey by myself. I had already harvested one bird with

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a bow and called in several gobblers for my friends.

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So this was going to be my own time with

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mother nature and me having a battle of wits with

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an educated thunder chicken. It started like every other spring

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turkey hunt I have ever been on, in which I

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was up at four am, in the woods at five

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point thirty and at the top of a ridge. By

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six am, the birds, which had been quiet this year,

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roared to the rising sun, and I had my choice

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of five different directions to follow the gobbling. I knew

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my way around the area like I knew my own home,

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having hunted that region since I was thirteen, so I

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decided to take the ridge to a point that opened

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into a small clearing that dropped off on both sides

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and had a sawbriar thicket that ran adjacent to the backside.

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The bird was still in the tree when I set

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up one hundred and fifty yards away from it, and

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I increased the frequency of my calls, mixing in clucks

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and yelps and some very sexy cuts and cackles, and

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I had this bird fired up. I was cutting him off,

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and he was cutting me off with double and triple gobbles.

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So I knew I was going home early that day.

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As on many occasions, this bird wanted to stay on

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the roost until he got a visual confirmation that he

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was not being catfished by an ugly hen. I played

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the long distance love song for twenty minutes, and then

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he went silent. I realized the entire forest was still,

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but I knew this bird was coming. Sometimes birds in

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this area will do that. They'll stop gobbling and approach

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in silence. I had my shotgun on my knee and

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my call was in my mouth, and I was completely

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undetectable with my back against a large black oak that

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was almost as white as my shoulders. I tucked in

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the tree fifteen feet from the clearing, and my eyes

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looked for movement from this bird. I had been sitting

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there motionless for fifteen minutes when something reached around the

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tree from both directions, and with the top hand it

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grabbed my mouth and neck, pulling it back against the tree,

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and the other hand was around my waist, which also

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pulled my gun into my gut. I was unable to

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move anything other than my feet, and the more I kicked,

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the tighter its grip was on my waist until I

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stopped kicking. At that point, it relaxed its grip just

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a little. My eyes rolled wide, searching to see what

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had me in its grip. It was blurry, but I

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could see its hands and its arm as it held

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my face. It was a dark brown hair covered arm

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in areas where there was no hair, it was callous,

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dark gray skin, and thick fingers like a gorilla. I

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could not move my head, and I struggled to get

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air in the gaps between its fingers. If I kicked,

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the grip tightened, so I did my best to relax

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so that I could breathe. I focused on the sunlit

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fiel just outside the trees in front of me, and

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I tried to take in a measured breath. My heart

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rate began to drop just a little, and I relaxed

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just enough to think. When a doe walked out into

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the grass, I noticed her colors right away, that light

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brown tone that blazed in the sun against the new

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spring grass. I focused on her and I almost fell

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into a trance. She was panting and blowing after a minute,

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and then began to stomp, obviously trying to get us

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to move. They know when something is not right in

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the woods. A black streak shot across her and she

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went down. It was so fast that I almost missed it,

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and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The creature

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that had me tightened its grips lightly and took my

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mind away from the show in front of us. Another

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creature came into view and hovered over the deer, which

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was only quivering now in its death rattle. It raised

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its head. It was a dog like head with ears erect,

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and it scanned the area, made a clicking sound that

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I had never heard, and it raised its muzzle into

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the air and lifted its front jaws and white things

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shone in the sun. They had to be three inches long.

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It howled, and it was answered immediately by another howl

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not too far away. Less than a minute later, there

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were two of these werewolves standing in the clearing, devouring

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the dough. I will never experience fear like that again,

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I'm sure of that. My thoughts went back to whatever

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had me pinned against the tree, and I knew I

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was next on the menu. In a matter of just

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a few minutes, the deer carcass was gone, with only

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a large bloody patch on the ground. As they bit

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through the meat and the bones, swallowing mouthfuls as if

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it were a race to see which beasts could consume

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the most meat, and as fast as it began, it

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was over, and both creatures turned toward the backside of

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the clearing and began to sniff the air, at which

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time my heart sank into my stomach and my fight

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or flight instincts were in overload. Had I not been captive,

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I would have been running at that point, which would

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have been the worst mistake I could make. The creature

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started to look in my direction, and I could tell

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that they knew something was out of place. The head

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of the monster that held me against the tree came

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briefly into my peripheral view, and it let out a

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tremendous roar, so loud that I lost my hearing in

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my right ear for the rest of that day. The

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pair of beasts in the field took one step toward

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my location. They had not moved afoot when several roars

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lit up the area. I don't know how many there were,

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but a few, maybe four or five, and they all

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roared at one time, and just like that, the two

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dog creatures turned and bolted out of view, followed by

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a massive explosion of movement around me as the second

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group burst into pursuit of the dog creatures, leaving me

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held against the tree by my captor. The hand that

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held my waist grabbed my gun and snatched it out

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of my hands and threw it into the trees, and

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then it released my mouth. It took me a minute

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to gather my senses, but I got to my feet

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and I started to run to my shotgun. I didn't

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see my captor anywhere. As I took the first few steps,

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I couldn't see the gun, but I knew which way

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he had thrown it. Like a flash, it was in

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front of me, blocking my way. One more step and

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I would have bounced off the mast of beast. It

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groaned and it pushed me back onto the ground. Until

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that moment, I assumed these things all looked the same,

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like dogs. But what stood before me was different. It

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was bigger, and it was thicker. It was more heavy set.

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The color was not black, maybe it was dark brown.

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It towered over, and it's deep inhales and exhales intimidated

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me to no end. I locked onto its face, and

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I could see emotion and thought in those large dark eyes.

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Its nose was almost flat against its face, and its

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mouth could have held an NFL football. I got up

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and I ran. I ran down that trail that I

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came in on. But what had taken me over forty

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five minutes to travel before only took me maybe ten

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minutes to get back to my truck. And when I

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got in the truck, I kept the fast pace going

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and I flew down that gravel road, pushing the limit

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on how hard I could drive without putting it up

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a tree or over a cliff. A week later, my

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gun is still on that ridge near Cave Run Lake,

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and I'm not going in there to get it. I

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cannot sleep. I have called off work three days and

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I was sent home another. Some got as I work

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with walked in the bathroom and while I was in

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the middle of a crying episode. It was one of

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many I've had since this happened to me. I don't

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know what it is. I'm not a crier, but when

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the memories fled back in detail, I burst into a

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crying fit. I can't control it. I don't think the

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bigfoot type creatures meant me any harm, but I do

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believe I would have been consumed by those dogs slash

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wolf creatures if the Bigfoot had not wrapped me up.

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This is not a death I would want to experience.

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Right now, I'm so afraid of the woods. And now

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I drive an additional twenty minutes each day to drive

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to work on busy highways instead of county rows. I

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refused to sit on the porch anymore, which is something

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that I had cherished, spending time with my wife on

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the port, swinging and sipping sweet tea and listening to

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birds sing. I've even hired the kid down the street

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to cut my grass. I won't even get that close

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to the woods. My questions are, what should I do?

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Is there help for people who have had these experiences? Well,

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I'll be able to get past this and enjoy all

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those things I dearly loved in my past life. And

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that's the end of a story. That's Kentucky. That's not

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too far from me. I don't okay, run If I

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could remember where it is, I want to say it's

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on the east side of Lexington. That's some hilly country

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and there's some thick woods in there, and I'm sure

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there are other encounters in that area. But to this

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man's question, I mean, who do you talk to if

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you're in a war? And you come back with some

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terrible images in your head or memories of things that

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you've done. You can you know, psychiatrists know how to

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deal with that. In the military and even in civilian life,

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people equiped to deal to help you deal with those things.

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But I don't know where you go. And people have

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sent me first. I've been accused of not caring about

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people who've had these experiences, but it's kind of like this.

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I've never had that kind of experience, so I don't

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know what they're going through. I mean, there's a lot

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of things that people go through that I have sympathy

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for that may not look like I have sympathy for

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it because I've just never been through anything like that.

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I mean, you can just pick anything, you know. And

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I may have said this before, but the first thing

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we all think is, man, I'm glad that didn't happen

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to me. You don't say it. You don't say it,

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but you're thinking it. That's kind of what I was

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thinking when I was reading this man. This guy he

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needs to talk to somebody, But who does he talk

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to without being committed to the mental or mental floor

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of the hospital. I don't know. I wish I knew

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what to tell him. Maybe you guys, maybe there's a

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Bigfoot support group, you know, like a like a AA

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for Bigfoot encounter somewhere. If there isn't, there probably ought

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to be, because these people claim to have serious memories

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of this stuff. And I can sympathize with that, but

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I can't. I can't identify with it because I've never

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been through anything like that. But if I ever do

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go through something like that, I'm gonna tell you all

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about it. But I don't think Bigfoot even is interested

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in me. People see Bigfoot everywhere, and they see bigfoot

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sign everywhere. I never see anything, nothing, nothing, no signs,

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no nothing. But I don't know. I feel like I'm

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talking kind of slow. Am I talking too slow? I'm

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not sure. Sounds like I'm talking slow anyway. I had

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a few minutes this afternoon I've been writing Steve Lilly.

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I needed to take a break. I had to do

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a little editing on this, so that was I don't

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really like to do that, but sometimes I'll jump into it,

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and uh, it's kind of cathartic. Is that a word?

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Cathartic therapeutic? I don't know. I'm not very smart I don't.

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I don't have a big vocabulary. Cathartic sounds right, but

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it was kind of that way to edit this and uh,

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you know, get the get everything presentable to read. But

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I enjoyed reading it. I feel for this guy. If

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you guys have any advice for him, give him a comment.

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Let him know I didn't get this too long ago,

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so he's probably still listening. All right, man, thanks for

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the story. I'm sorry you're dealing with all that, but

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we will see you guys on the next podcast. Thanks

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for joining me.