WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.720 I have an email from a woman and she has 2 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:18.320 four separate stories. I really enjoyed reading this. I hope 3 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:23.960 you guys enjoy it all. Right, here we go, I 4 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.359 may put my good glasses on here now I can 5 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:30.559 see the screen. I was born and raised in southern Oregon, 6 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:32.880 and I spent a lot of time in the Cascade 7 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:38.759 Mountains growing up. Fishing, hiking, hunting, exploring. You name the activity, 8 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:42.719 and I did it. My father spent forty years working 9 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.640 in the timber industry, many of those as a log 10 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:49.039 truck driver. It wasn't out of the ordinary for me 11 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.359 to ride along with him in the truck for the day, 12 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.240 or for my mom and I to join him occasionally 13 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:56.520 when he had to camp out in the woods because 14 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.240 of work. I was a preteen at the time time 15 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.399 and my mom and I joined my dad for a 16 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.599 few days while he was working in the Marble Mountains. 17 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:09.640 This encounter took place there. It was thirty five miles 18 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:13.920 out of Fort Jones, California, with my dad working as 19 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.840 a log truck driver. Anyone who knows anything about that 20 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.560 knows it isn't unusual for those guys to be in 21 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:22.760 bed by seven pm and get up at three am 22 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:26.640 or earlier to start the day. At around midnight, my 23 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.400 parents were asleep and I was reading a book with 24 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.879 my reading light and the camp trailer. What took place 25 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:36.439 next changed me for the rest of my life. I 26 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.560 was reading my book and I got a whiff of 27 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.359 the famous foul smell everyone who has had an encounter 28 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:45.560 knows about. The next thing I noticed was that the 29 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.000 frogs and the crickets had gone dead silent. I knew 30 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.359 there was a predator of some sort in the area, 31 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.000 and I decided to shut off my light and take 32 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.680 a look out the window to see what I could see. 33 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.000 I got extremely lucky that night, as it was a 34 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.159 full moon and it lit the woods up like daytime. 35 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.120 I grew up in the era of the movie Harry 36 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:11.680 and the Hendersons, and this got me obsessed with Bigfoot 37 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.680 at a very young age. And when I picked out 38 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.919 the window, I knew exactly what I was looking at. 39 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.919 Fifty feet away, I saw the outline of a bipedal creature. 40 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.240 He was just sitting back observing, but I could tell 41 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:28.439 that he had places to be. I'm sure he was 42 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:30.919 making a judgment on if it was safe to go 43 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:35.319 on about his business. He was carrying a dead deer, 44 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.840 probably to feed himself and his family, and I watched 45 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.840 him cross the clearing behind our camp trailer, and he 46 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:44.840 crossed the logging road and then he strided up a 47 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:49.479 steep bank like it was nothing. I didn't mention anything 48 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.439 to my parents because my dad doesn't believe in bigfoot. 49 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.400 But the next morning I took my dad's tape measure 50 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:57.680 and I measured from the ground to a branch on 51 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:01.080 the tree where I saw his head roughly. I granted 52 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.199 I'm not an expert by any means, but I guesstimated 53 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:07.879 him to be probably eight feet tall. There were some 54 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.759 footprints and they were eighteen inches long and seven inches wide. 55 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.680 Later that day, one of his coworkers and good friends 56 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:19.400 showed up and said they found giant footprints at their 57 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.120 camp site. They also found the fur of a deer 58 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.759 that looked like it had been peeled right off the meat, 59 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:28.599 just like you would tear a paper towel in the middle. 60 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.520 The next day, my dad didn't have to work, so 61 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:34.319 he and my mom and I joined some of his 62 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.960 coworkers and their families at the nearby lake three miles 63 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.719 up the road. There was a group of maybe twenty people, 64 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:45.280 and everyone was fishing and visiting and hanging out and 65 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:50.800 enjoying the day, and nothing happened until twilight. This is 66 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.360 when I feel like we crossed over into their territory 67 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:57.280 by the lake. As the sun was going down, we 68 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.439 all started hearing tree knocks and getting closer and closer 69 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.319 from all directions. And after that came the growls and 70 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:07.360 the whoops and the house. And when that didn't scare 71 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.039 us off, that's when the rocks started being tossed in 72 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.080 our direction. I'm talking big, old, many boulders. One actually 73 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.199 almost hit another kid who was around the same age 74 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.759 as me, and it only missed him by maybe six inches. 75 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:24.959 That's when everyone decided to load up their stuff and 76 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.079 get the hell out of there. My mom and I 77 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.079 left the next day, while my dad and his co 78 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.600 workers had to stay up there another week or so. 79 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.439 My dad said no one had any other encounters, but 80 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:38.839 the rest of the time they were there, no one 81 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.399 went back to the lake. The only thing the workers 82 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:45.920 reported was what they found, more footprints and heard more 83 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:52.160 wood knocking and howling in whoop sounds Story number two. 84 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:54.600 It was two thousand and nine and I was twenty 85 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:59.600 five years old, living in Applegate, Oregon. Ironically enough, I 86 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.319 was on my way to see the famous Bigfoot Trap. 87 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.879 I had known about it since I was kid, and 88 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.959 I was technically a local. I just never had the 89 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.839 curiosity to check it out. But that day I was bored, 90 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:14.279 I had the day off, and there was nothing to do, 91 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.120 so naturally, I set off on an adventure in the outdoors. 92 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.199 The Bigfoot Trap, located in Applegate, is kind of an 93 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:25.839 icon around these parts. It was built in the nineteen 94 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:30.360 seventies by a research team. Obviously, they weren't successful in 95 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.879 trapping a bigfoot in it. You can easily google the 96 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:37.319 directions on how to get there or see pictures of it. 97 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.120 But to my knowledge, because it had become such a 98 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:45.279 tourist attraction and was becoming dilapidated, the Forest Service actually 99 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.959 decided to restore it. So hey, I thought that was 100 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:53.079 pretty cool in itself. I reached the trap and did 101 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.560 my investigation, and I checked it out, and I crawled 102 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.480 inside it, and I looked around, and there wasn't anything 103 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.600 super special about it. It was just a wooden box 104 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.839 with a green grated slide mechanism for a door. It 105 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.000 was just a normal day in the forest with all 106 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:12.879 the forest critters making their noises. Birds were chirping away 107 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.120 and frogs were croaking. And when I knew there was 108 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.519 about an hour and a half left of daylight, I 109 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:20.879 decided to head back to my car because it would 110 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:23.360 take about that long to get back to the Heart 111 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:32.160 Heart Heart Tish Picnic Heart Tish Picnic and parking area. Ooh, 112 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.079 I had trouble getting one out. When I turned around, 113 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:38.079 I knew I was no longer alone. At first, I 114 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.639 thought it might have been other hikers, but this was 115 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.120 a day in the middle of the week, and I 116 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:46.439 hadn't seen other human beings the entire four hours that 117 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:50.560 I had been there. Everyone has heard that Bigfoot can 118 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.319 malk other animals. Well, I can tell you that is 119 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:58.560 one hundred percent accurate. I heard whistling, but my train 120 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.160 tears knew it wasn't. They weren't close enough to me 121 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:05.439 to smell yet, but the complete silence was enough to 122 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:08.319 alert me to what I knew was present and watching me. 123 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:11.560 I picked up a stick and hit the tree next 124 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.680 to me three times, and it didn't surprise me when 125 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:18.680 I got a response. And after that, I said loud 126 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.199 enough for them to hear. All right, guys, I know 127 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:24.279 you're there, I'm not a threat, and I'm headed out 128 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:28.279 of here anyway. I heard two more whistles behind me, 129 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:30.800 and I started to walk out of there at a slow, 130 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.439 steady pace. I was afraid of going too fast because 131 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.959 I didn't want to trigger their predator instinct to chase me. 132 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.079 As I walked along, I heard branches snapping directly behind 133 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.480 me and off to the side, and I knew there 134 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.399 was more than one. I proceeded further and I heard 135 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:52.199 a third one come up on the other side. And 136 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:54.319 the more of them that I hurt surround me, the 137 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:58.079 more freaked out I got. But I just kept moving forward. 138 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.519 I just knew my little nigh one millimeter wouldn't protect 139 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:06.160 me if the situation were to go south. The forest 140 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:08.920 going through here isn't super dense, and you can catch 141 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.959 occsual things through the trees. I'm pretty sure it was 142 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.439 comical to watch me walking and trying to remain calm 143 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:18.959 as I talked to them and tried to see them 144 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.920 as non threatening as possible. I think they have a 145 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.680 sense of humor and like to mess with us humans 146 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:29.279 very often. And now eleven years later, I think that 147 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.679 is what this trio was doing. I was scared, and 148 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:37.159 I was nervous, but I didn't feel threatened. I never 149 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.360 got to see the one behind me, but I had 150 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.399 a feeling that he was the pack leader, so to speak. 151 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:44.759 I got a peak of the two on the other 152 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:48.480 side of me, though. The first one was to my right, 153 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:51.360 and it looked younger than the others, and the sounds 154 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:56.039 it made were quieter by comparison. I got a mischievous 155 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:59.639 vibe from this creature. It wasn't more than six feet tall, 156 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.519 and it had wide shoulders, and it looked around four 157 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:07.679 hundred pounds. Maybe that was a small female. I saw 158 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.919 the second one on my left a whole lot better. 159 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.360 I don't think he was trying to hide anyway, because 160 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:15.200 he was a good sized one and he was not 161 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:19.080 shy in the slightest. He was only maybe twenty yards 162 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.879 from me of that, and I stopped, and I turned 163 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:24.720 my head and I said to him, easy, big guy, 164 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:29.039 I see you, and I respect you. He and I 165 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.480 made eye contact, and I gazed at him for roughly 166 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.120 thirty seconds. His hair was black, and he was at 167 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.639 least seven and a half feet tall and four feet 168 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.600 at the shoulders, and I'm guessing he was seven to 169 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.519 eight hundred pounds, and while we were doing a stare down, 170 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:47.960 he stepped forward to let me know that he was 171 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:51.600 not afraid of me, and in response, I repeated my 172 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:56.320 words and continued to walk toward my car. They stayed 173 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.399 with me for probably another five minutes and proceeded with 174 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:02.840 their business once they figured out I was not a threat. 175 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.480 I thank them for the escort and protection, whether that 176 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.080 is what they were doing or not. And when I 177 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.200 was only five hundred feet from my car, they disappeared 178 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.279 back into the forest. I kind of regret not being 179 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.240 able to see the third one, but I knew he 180 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:20.320 was behind me. I was doing everything I could to 181 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:23.039 not make them mad or put them on alert, and 182 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.440 that's why I didn't turn around to look at him. 183 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:30.600 Something told me that would have been a mistake. All right. 184 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:35.360 Here is her story number three. It was October of 185 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:40.039 twenty fifteen and hunting season was in I was thirty 186 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:42.639 years old at the time, and the location was in 187 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.080 the middle of the woods in no man's land out 188 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.879 of Prospect, Oregon. I was by myself and going to 189 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:52.159 use my usual hunting spot that my family and close 190 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.440 friends had frequented for three generations. It was early in 191 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.480 the morning, between five and six AM, and I was 192 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:03.120 sitting up in a tree stand looking for wildlife. I 193 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.360 was armed with a Remington three to eight with a scope. 194 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:10.960 Based on my past experiences, I was alert to any 195 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.960 sign of bigfoot that might be in the area. But 196 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.720 as I spent the day up in the stand, scanning 197 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.559 the area and looking for any sign of game, without 198 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.679 any luck. I was comforted by the sounds of the 199 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.639 birds and the other animals, knowing if something dangerous were nearby, 200 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:31.559 they would have gone quiet. By now, night was coming 201 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.679 upon me quickly, and I decided to head back to camp, 202 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:37.480 which was less than a half a mile away, And 203 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.279 when I got there, I found nothing out of the ordinary, 204 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:44.879 and still no sign of any predators or bigfoot. The 205 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.600 first night was quiet, and I heard some wood knocking 206 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.720 and chirps, so I knew they were nearby, But the 207 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:55.559 night went smoothly and without any problems. On day two, 208 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:57.799 I went back to my tree stand and had a 209 00:11:57.879 --> 00:12:01.399 day like the one before, with little on both the 210 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.320 wildlife and the bigfoot fronts. But that night I got 211 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.360 a little entertainment the woodknocks and the chirps were louder, 212 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.639 and they were closer, and I could hear them chatter 213 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.480 amongst themselves. I figured there were at least three of 214 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.519 them based on the different tones and sounds of the chatter, 215 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:22.559 and again based on past experience, I thought it couldn't 216 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.879 hurt to let them know that I was there, that 217 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:26.840 I was only trying to get some food, and that 218 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.200 I was not a threat. It may have helped me 219 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.200 because even though I caught one of their outlines among 220 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:35.639 the trees in the light of my fire, I knew 221 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:38.639 they were just watching me, and the night went smoothly. 222 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:42.559 Day three was the same, but by the time I 223 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:44.840 got back to my camp later in the day, it 224 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:48.720 had been destroyed. The food I had hanged up in 225 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:51.320 the trees was gone, and they had gotten into my 226 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.879 ice chest and all its contents were gone or spread 227 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.120 out over my campsite, and the rest of my items 228 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.440 were knocked over and scattered every and when I saw 229 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:04.480 my tent had been wrecked and shredded, I got pretty 230 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:07.039 hiked off and I yelled at them, and I told 231 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.120 them it wasn't the right thing to do, since I 232 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.919 didn't mean them any harm. Looking back, their destruction of 233 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:17.879 my camp was probably a warning to get out. Of course, 234 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:21.159 I didn't take the hint, and I stayed the night anyway. 235 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:27.679 The third night progressed and the situation escalated. The wooddocks 236 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:31.799 were my first warning. They were loud and hard and aggressive, 237 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.279 and they were constant, like every ten minutes, and they 238 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.200 got closer and closer, and when that didn't scare me off, 239 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.519 they started throwing rocks, and they came from all directions 240 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:45.240 at me, and they were mixed in with the occasional 241 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:50.519 small logs and large branches. I yelled at them again 242 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:53.360 and told them to stop, and I reminded them that 243 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.519 they had destroyed all my gear besides my sleeping bag, 244 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.120 and when morning came that I would be gone. I 245 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.639 had to sound as confident as I could, but I 246 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:07.600 won't lie. I was pretty scared. With me yelling at 247 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.519 them and telling them to back off. They got silent 248 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.080 for a little while, just long enough for me to 249 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:16.440 fall into a good sleep, and then a couple hours 250 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.080 later they started throwing rocks again. They were even closer 251 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.360 than before, and I knew I was surrounded, and I 252 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.000 fired a warning shot with my pistol, and I told 253 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:29.360 them to back off, and after that I heard growls 254 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:32.559 and chatter that vibrated through my whole body, and I 255 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:34.960 told them to back off again and thought I would 256 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.240 be heading out at first light. They went silent again, 257 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.600 just long enough for me to fall back asleep one 258 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.000 more time, and then my blaring alarm clock woke me 259 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.080 up just as the sun was shining its first rays 260 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:51.360 into the dark sky, and as I fumbled to turn 261 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.919 it off, I heard the thudding of huge, pounding footsteps 262 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.360 coming right at me, and I silenced the alarm, and 263 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.000 when I looked in the direction of the steps, I 264 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:04.080 saw the largest bigfoot I had ever seen coming straight 265 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:07.759 at me. Now I might be exaggerating because of how 266 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.039 scared I was, but this one was ten feet tall 267 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:14.799 or taller, and his shoulders were five or six feet wide, 268 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.679 and he was easily over eight hundred pounds. He was 269 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.919 a big one. I felt the whole forests vibrate as 270 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:25.799 he came at me, and I fired two warning shots 271 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:28.960 to get him to stop, but he didn't. I grabbed 272 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.279 my rifle and I started heading down the hill to 273 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.120 my car, and it was parked on the main road 274 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:36.320 and at least a mile away, and I waddled as 275 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.600 fast as I could go, because, to be honest, I'm 276 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:44.159 a fat woman, and my ass doesn't run. You go, girl, 277 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.480 She's a fat woman and she ain't running. The tree 278 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.039 branches were cracking and snapping as this guy mowed down 279 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.759 through the forest behind me, pushing and scaring me out. 280 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.600 I knew he was going slow, because he could have 281 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.840 caught up with me in just a few strides if 282 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.440 he wanted to. When I was halfway to my car, 283 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:08.080 I had had enough and I stopped and I turned around, 284 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.799 and amazingly enough, he stopped too. I pulled my rifle 285 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:15.000 out and had him in the crosshairs of my scope, 286 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:18.639 right dead on his forehead in the center. I had 287 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:21.360 a clear shot, and I looked into his eyes and 288 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:25.080 I saw nothing but rage and anger that I was there, 289 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:27.919 even though I wasn't a threat to him and his 290 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:31.840 family by any means. I was just about to pull 291 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:35.480 the trigger when I heard another boom coming from my side, 292 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.720 and I stole a horrified look to my right and 293 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.720 I saw another one, just as angry and pissed off 294 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.399 as the other guy, and he was coming right at me. 295 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.840 I thought I was a goner for sure. I did 296 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.360 the only thing I could do. I strapped my rifle 297 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:54.240 back on my shoulder and I started running as fast 298 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.879 as I could go. And all I could hear was 299 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.440 the stomps of their thunderous steps and the shape of 300 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:05.079 the damn earth under my feet. It felt like an eternity. 301 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:08.160 But I finally reached my car. I couldn't open the 302 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.680 door fast enough, and as I got inside, I saw 303 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:13.680 both of them at the edge of the tree line. 304 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.240 And that's when the loudest, must fearsome growl and howl 305 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:21.240 i've ever heard reverberated through the entire forest, and I 306 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:24.200 swear it made my heart skip a beat and I 307 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:28.519 felt like I was having a minor heart attack. They 308 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.839 let me live that day, even though they could have 309 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:35.039 easily taken me out in nothing flat. I've been going 310 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.279 to this hunting spot every year my entire life, and 311 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.000 I never saw signs of Bigfoot being in that area. 312 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.839 My friends and family didn't report anything strange either, And 313 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.960 over the last decade or more, the wildlife has changed. 314 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.240 And what I mean by that is the last successful 315 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.319 hunting trip any of us had was over ten years ago. 316 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.319 I've not seen any type of game animal in this 317 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:02.440 spot for you years, I haven't even seen a bear 318 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.519 or a cougar, and the only signs of wildlife for 319 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.920 the birds and the small rodents and in by nearly 320 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:11.680 thirty years of going here, this was the first time 321 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:15.039 I had ever noticed signs of bigfoot, and it makes 322 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:17.240 me think that they must have put a claim on 323 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:21.839 this area as their territory. Recently, I haven't been back 324 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:25.160 to that spot, nor will I ever go back. This 325 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.880 encounter is scared to live in daylights out of me, 326 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:31.960 and I'm not sharing my encounter to scare people. I'm 327 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.680 sharing it because my story should add some first hand 328 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.640 insight that bigfoot are not little puppies and kittens. They 329 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:42.359 can be aggressive and territorial, and if they feel the need, 330 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:45.960 they can take a human out with no problem. I 331 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.400 know I'm not the only person on Earth who has 332 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:52.359 had terrifying encounters like this, but I'm still afraid to 333 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.920 reveal what happened to me to anyone. I want to 334 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:58.839 warn people about spending time out here, but knowing they 335 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:03.279 won't believe me, I won't bother and now here is 336 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.920 her fourth and last story. As if this hasn't been 337 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.400 exciting enough so far. She's got another story, so let's 338 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:14.319 do it. Let's do this. I lived in central Ohio 339 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:17.480 for several years and I frequented a cemetery in the 340 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:21.240 local area, Teresa's Cemetery. You had to hide down a 341 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:25.279 driveway about a mile. The cemetery closes at dusk, and 342 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:28.119 the cops patrol it because of its reputation and the 343 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:32.359 rituals that have taken place here. I've had several types 344 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:35.799 of encounters in this cemetery, but those are stories for 345 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:38.960 another time, So for now, I want to tell you 346 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:43.319 about the bigfoot ghost. The first time I saw this 347 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.839 ghost was on my first visit to the cemetery. It 348 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.680 was nighttime and I was there with three friends who 349 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.200 had each grown up visiting and frequenting the cemetery on 350 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:57.519 a regular basis. I was walking around and shining my 351 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:01.480 flashlight and reading the headstones, and I could hear footsteps 352 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:05.000 of a large creature nearby in the woods. I shined 353 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:08.480 my flashlight into the trees, but I didn't see anything. 354 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:12.279 My friends and I were spread apart throughout the cemetery 355 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:15.000 and not really close to each other, and none of 356 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.960 them were big enough to make that much noise. I 357 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.000 continued to walk around and read the headstones, and I 358 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:26.039 could hear this bigfoot tromping through the trees. I could 359 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:29.319 hear it breathing heavy and staying in the shadows, and 360 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:33.559 it followed me. I kept shining my flashlight through the 361 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:35.920 trees to see if I could catch a glimpse of him, 362 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:41.279 and I finally did. I saw a ghostly apparition with black, 363 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.839 hollowed out eyes resembling a bigfoot. One of the ladies 364 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.519 that I was with she saw it too and took off, 365 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.200 screaming and running toward the car, and her reaction made 366 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:54.079 the rest of us decide to call it a night 367 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:58.160 and get out of there. The second time I encountered 368 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:01.960 this bigfoot ghost, I went to the cemetery on Halloween 369 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:05.759 night to do a Wiji board reading with three sisters 370 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.440 who were witches. And as we were doing the reading, 371 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.640 I had a recorder going as well as my digital camera, 372 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:17.559 taking continuous pictures and set up to motion record, and 373 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:20.559 I could hear the bigfoot ghosts walking around in the 374 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:23.279 tree line, and I could hear his heavy breathing again, 375 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:27.720 but I didn't see him. I was leaving and walking 376 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.319 down the highway, and I could hear him walking off 377 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.119 to the side of me. And when I got home 378 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:36.319 that night, I reviewed the audio recordings and the images 379 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:41.240 that my camera got. The audio recorded some grunts, bigfoot 380 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:45.240 like chatter, and a couple of howls. My camera caught 381 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:50.119 the ghost apparition in three different shots. Unfortunately, though, when 382 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.200 I left Ohio, I had to leave a lot of 383 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.480 personal items at my ex's house. That was seven years ago, 384 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.839 and I'm sure my things, including my ghostly images, had 385 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:04.079 been thrown away by now. The third time I encountered 386 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:07.359 the Bigfoot ghost was right before I left the state. 387 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:10.480 I was there doing my standard thing of reading the 388 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:14.079 headstones and seeing if I could catch anything on audio, 389 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:17.759 pictures or video. But I could tell there was something 390 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:21.119 different in the air. It was an ominous and dark 391 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:25.279 feeling that I had never experienced there before. And after 392 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:27.759 I had been there for about an hour, I saw 393 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:32.119 a disturbing shadow figure that came right at me. It 394 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:35.759 chased me out of the cemetery, but just as strange, 395 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:38.680 after I crossed a certain point, it was like the 396 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:41.759 shadow had hit a brick wall and couldn't go any further. 397 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:46.319 It let out a horrible scream, like a ghostly bansheet, 398 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:48.319 and when I turned to see it, I saw the 399 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:51.920 Bigfoot ghost right behind me, and I froze and I 400 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:56.319 couldn't believe what I was seeing. The Bigfoot ghost growled 401 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:01.240