WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:11.560 When a colleague of mine retired, he began sharing the 2 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:15.279 research we had been involved in, including work with two 3 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:21.280 bigfoot research groups and some controversial researchers. By coincidence, he 4 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:23.839 went on a hunting trip and he lost his life. 5 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.440 His passing never sat right with me. Since then, I've 6 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:33.439 retired to and I've taken precautions to keep my identity uncompromised, 7 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:38.799 using public computers and going by another name in honor 8 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:41.799 of my colleague who left us too early. Here are 9 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:45.600 the highlights of our research. In nineteen eighty seven, a 10 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:48.719 small group of scientists were brought to an Air Force 11 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.600 base where they were briefed on research they'd been conducting 12 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.200 involving a deceased sisquatch that had been hit by a train. 13 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:02.280 Over the next thirty seven years, the program grew. Today, 14 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:07.159 over one hundred individuals are involved in research. The facility 15 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.159 is located in a mountain and it is guarded like 16 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.640 Fort Knox. Employees pass through three checkpoints before reaching the 17 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:21.040 entrance in the mountain wall inside. An elevator takes employees 18 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:24.400 more than one hundred feet underground to the research facility. 19 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:29.879 There are one hundred sasquatch cadavers of multiple ages and 20 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:35.920 subspecies in freezers. There are thirteen that are living, captured 21 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.719 at great human costs to the military members supporting the program. 22 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.239 Over the last three decades, there have been several helicopter 23 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:48.879 crashes in the area of the facility. Entire squadrons and 24 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.840 teams have been lost. Cover Ups told the media the 25 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:58.040 tragedies happen during training missions. The real explanations are far 26 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:02.079 more feral, relating to fail attempts at bringing more creatures in. 27 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:06.840 The project began with an autopsy aimed at determining how 28 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:10.639 the creature could survive even in the harshest climates. With 29 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.400 each new discovery, the government found ways to apply it 30 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:19.159 to Our military. Secrecy is a top priority. If the 31 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:24.199 research leaked, it could cause problems homeland security, brain drain, 32 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:29.840 and stolen tech. Our research showed the specimen had two 33 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:34.000 more ribs than humans and was considerably larger and denser 34 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.120 by comparison, dense enough to withstand the impact of a 35 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:43.400 thirty caliber bullet fired at close range space So closely 36 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:47.639 together they act like plated armor under the chest, and 37 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:50.840 we theorized that their bone density involved due to the 38 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.639 amount of calcium they consume. Gained by eating the bones 39 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.680 of animals they hunt. The skulls are curved like a 40 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.800 bear's and more denser than a human's, able to deflect 41 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:06.400 most rounds of ammunition. The only way to penetrate the 42 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.840 brain is a direct shot into the orbital socket or 43 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:14.120 directly under the base of the skull. The digestive system 44 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:18.400 is impressive. A nine hundred pound creature can consume one 45 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:22.000 hundred and eighty pound deer in one sinning, including the 46 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.919 bones and the organs. This allows them to hunt and 47 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.680 consume every three to four days, supplementing their diet with 48 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:35.080 fruits and nuts and other opportunistic hunting. This creature has 49 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:39.439 forty eight chromosomes, the same as apes, but two more 50 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:44.319 than humans. This implies the creature is not a human subspecies. 51 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.840 The first life specimen was obtained in nineteen ninety nine, 52 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.919 and research grew exponentially after that, focusing especially on its 53 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:58.479 camouflage abilities. Perhaps our greatest finding to date is that 54 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:03.039 the creatures are capable of generating an electric current. The 55 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.479 energy is channeled to their hair and used to reflect 56 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:12.080 their surroundings its electric camouflage. We also believe the current 57 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:16.439 powers their ability to see at night, similar to thermal scope. 58 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.199 When witness, the subject's eyes and skins will warm, making 59 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:25.199 the eyes appear to glow. When the animal is dead, 60 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:29.680 this camouflage ability ceases to function, and you can imagine 61 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.680 what the commercial hunting industry would do for this information. 62 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.000 The creature has three sets of vocal cores which it 63 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:41.879 uses to create infrasound. Our next leg of research examined 64 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.800 how the males use infrasound to affect emotions fear, anxiety, 65 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:52.560 and confusion. Some are capable of inflicting memory loss, lasting 66 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:57.439 for several minutes to in some instances, several days. The 67 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:02.079 female's infrasound is different, having a calming, soothing effect, though 68 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:06.319 it was also noted to create confusion. When live deer 69 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.480 or livestock are dropped into the containment area, the animals 70 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.000 do not panic or try to flee. They appear confused, 71 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.639 unaware of the creature feet away, even as it charges 72 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:23.639 and attacks. The creatures appear to communicate not only with infrasound, 73 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.959 but also with an oral language of clicks and grunts 74 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.279 and hand signals. They have a community and a hierarchy 75 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.680 within their groups. There's typically one alpha male and a 76 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:40.519 group of females and juveniles. If another large male is introduced, 77 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:44.639 there will be a fight to the death. Similarly, when 78 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.439 a juvenile male becomes a threat, he will be attacked 79 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.920 by by alpha and he will be driven off. Now 80 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.839 this has resulted in the facility having multiple containments for 81 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:59.839 different males. However, research suggests that if there are no females, 82 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:04.240 resent males can coexist without aggression, even to the point 83 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:09.600 of sharing meals. Females are not receptive to breeding until 84 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.600 the last offspring matures to the age of three to 85 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:16.120 four years old. They rarely give birth to more than 86 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.639 one offspring at a time. The offspring cling to the 87 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.399 mother for the first year and then become more independent 88 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:26.959 after that time. There were several documented events of female 89 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:33.759 staff experiencing vivid images described as waking dreams of places 90 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:40.399 and events experienced by the female creatures. Examples include capture, childbirth, 91 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:46.360 confrontation with rival clans. Other examples include the creature projecting 92 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:50.120 to the female's staff their favorite foods. There are no 93 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:55.839 records of male staff members experiencing these visions. We have 94 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:59.360 also documented their behavior in the presence of staff members. 95 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.759 The females are present, the specimens are calm, observant, and 96 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.519 open to accepting offerings. When there are males present, the 97 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.920 creatures become cautious, observing from a distance and refused to 98 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:17.079 accept any type of offering. When the uniformed or arm 99 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.279 staff are present, the creatures retreat to the furthest corners 100 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.199 of the containment area and will sometimes project aggressive infrasound. 101 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.439 To this day, the facility has released four specimens back 102 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:33.560 into the wild, all of which are non aggressive and 103 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:38.240 showed no hostility toward our research staff. All four were 104 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:43.560 implanted with GPS tracking devices. The first two were released 105 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:46.879 where they were captured and then tracked along a malgration 106 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:50.759 route for the next four years, traveling as far south 107 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.319 as East Texas and as far north as northern Ontario, Canada. 108 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:58.959 The other two traveled an average of forty to fifty 109 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.800 miles a night, spending several weeks in one location at 110 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:06.879 a time before moving to a new location. Their movements 111 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.759 suggest these creatures have learned routes that they teach to 112 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:15.360 their offspring, and on several occasions the signals have vanished, 113 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.279 only to appear again several days later fifty miles away, 114 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:25.439 suggesting the creatures use cave systems to move underground. As 115 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.920 for the foul smell the creatures emitt, we have discovered 116 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:33.840 there are different musks for different situations, for example, when 117 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:39.240 females are receptive to breeding and when one feels threatened again, 118 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.679 those are just the highlights. I'm sharing the information with 119 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:46.639 you because of your viewer's base and your non judgmental approach. 120 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.919 I appreciate everything you have done sharing information with the public. 121 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:54.519 I'm doing this for my late colleague. He would have 122 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:59.960 wanted me to do this. Okay. I didn't say any 123 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.519 thing before I read this story, but I got this 124 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.679 email quite a while ago, and I've actually read it 125 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:08.960 two or three times, and I've to be candid, I've 126 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.720 used it for some research in my Steve Lilly stories. 127 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:15.639 I finally sent it off to Rebecca and she kind 128 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.039 of cleaned it up a little bit, and it's the 129 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.320 man who wrote the email did a great job on 130 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.840 the front end, but she kind of organized it for 131 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:26.360 me so that I can because I'm not real smart, 132 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:30.759 and so she uses smaller words and stuff for me 133 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:34.080 that I can pronounce. I thought this was interesting if 134 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:38.879 you're interested in secret government operations where they actually capture 135 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:42.879 sosquatch and keep them captive and examine the bodies. I 136 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.879 thought this might be an interesting It was very interesting 137 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.080 to me. I thought you might enjoy it, so I 138 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.679 appreciate the writer for sending it. Sorry you lost your buddy, 139 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:59.559 and we really enjoyed this email. Thank you, sir. This 140 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.320 event happened almost fifty years ago when I was a 141 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:06.759 young teenage boy growing up in rural Blunt County, Alabama, 142 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:11.720 thirty miles north of Birmingham. This area of north central 143 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.679 Alabama is considered the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and 144 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:19.159 in nineteen seventy eight, it was far more country than 145 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:23.240 it is now. Back then, we had two gas stations, 146 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.840 a general store, and a caution light, but today the 147 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.519 community has several fast food places, a Mexican restaurant, a pharmacy, 148 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.440 and a bank. At the time of my encounter, I 149 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:38.200 was in my early teens. I had not gotten my 150 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:42.200 driver's permit yet, so my main mode of transportation was 151 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.720 my bicycle. My friends and I used woods as our playground. 152 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:50.320 We hunted squirrels, and we fished, and we swam in 153 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.679 the river and camped out on the weekends. I was 154 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.840 comfortable outdoors as any other twelve or thirteen year old 155 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.480 boy who had spent years exploring the woods. Strange noises 156 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:05.960 and critters or bugs did not easily spook me. Even today, 157 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:09.559 working as alignman for the local power company, my job 158 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.200 requires me to spend a great deal of time alone 159 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.240 in the woods at all hours of the day and night, 160 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:19.240 so I'm not one who worries about things going bump 161 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:23.600 in the night. In nineteen seventy eight, a friend taught 162 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:26.840 me into putting out trotlines down on the Locust Fork 163 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:30.919 River behind my house. I don't remember what possessed us 164 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.919 to undertake such an adventure, but I agreed to help him. 165 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.759 We chose a remote spot where the river made a 166 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.799 U shape ben and all the water ran slower. To 167 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:43.480 get to the river, you had to walk down a 168 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:47.600 steep terrain that was heavily wooded, and going down wasn't 169 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:49.919 too bad, but coming back up the road could be 170 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:54.200 a little taxing, even for a couple of kids. We 171 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.840 set out our lines, and for the next few days 172 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.799 we went after school and we checked them. It didn't 173 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.720 take long to realize this wasn't at all that great 174 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:06.279 of an idea. We caught two or three fish a day, 175 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.279 but usually by the time we got to them, turtles 176 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.120 had eaten everything but the head. As a teenage boy, 177 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.320 I started thinking of other ways I'd rather spend my time, 178 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.919 and I was seriously debating on quitting after a few 179 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:23.759 more days if the lack of success continued. But little 180 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.240 did I know that decision would be made for me. 181 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.639 One day, after we'd been doing this for a few days, 182 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:33.159 my friend told me at school that he had something 183 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.399 he had to do that afternoon, and he asked me 184 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.000 if I would check them by myself. I wasn't thrilled 185 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:42.320 about it, but I said, yeah, I'll do it that evening. 186 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.960 I hooked it down the steep hill alone to the 187 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:47.519 river for what I expected to be a total waste 188 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.759 of time. I began to check the lines and I 189 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.399 heard something grunt across the river on the opposite bank. 190 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:58.279 At this spot, the river was about forty feet across. 191 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.639 The opposite bank was also heavily wooded, and thick underbrush 192 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:06.039 lined the bank. It was so thick that there were 193 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.600 very few spots where you could even see through it, 194 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:12.120 and even then it was only in small gaps that 195 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:16.559 were few and far between. Whatever was across the water 196 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:21.039 was now grunting and growling, and it was shaking small trees, 197 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:25.080 all the while making sure it stayed completely concealed behind 198 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:28.879 the brush. I told myself it was probably a hog 199 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:32.720 rooting around, but I knew immediately that was not the case. 200 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.240 It wasn't a pig with its nose stuck in the dirt. 201 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:41.320 It was grunting and growling, not snorting and squealing. I 202 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.480 could tell by where the sounds came from that whatever 203 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:46.639 it was, it was at least as tall as me, 204 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.399 and wild pigs don't grab and shake twenty foot tall 205 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:55.200 hardwood trees like their twigs. Well, I try to ignore it, 206 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.240 hoping whatever it was would tire of messing with me 207 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.000 and just go away, But it continued to parallel me. 208 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.200 As I moved down the bank from line to line. 209 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.720 It became obvious to me that it had no intention 210 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.799 of going away, and I eventually lost my nerve. I 211 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.159 began to be afraid that something would burst through that 212 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.919 thick brush and into the river and get me. So 213 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.639 I said, to hell with the fishheads, and I scurried 214 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:24.200 up that steep bank. I think I completed it in 215 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:27.840 about half the time it normally took us. Even as 216 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.679 I did, I could still hear this thing causing a commotion, 217 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:33.679 no doubt, making sure that I would not change my 218 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.799 mind and come back it didn't have to worry about 219 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:40.720 that happening. The next day, I told my friend that 220 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.240 I was out of the trotline business and would not 221 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:46.240 be going back to that section of the river. When 222 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.240 I told him why, he scoffed at me, But I 223 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.159 didn't care. I don't know if he went back down 224 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.080 there or not, nor did I give a damn. Over 225 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.679 the years, I had thought about this event and tried 226 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.759 to rationalize what hap As my dad was a Bigfoot enthusiast, 227 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:05.879 I had known about the legend of it since I 228 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.000 was a young kid. We watched every one of those 229 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:14.279 cheesy seventy documentaries and of course the Patterson film. But 230 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:18.159 Bigfoot was something that lived out west. At the time 231 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:21.399 of this event, sightings of this creature in Alabama were 232 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:25.840 unheard of. Years later I learned that other sightings in 233 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:30.000 North Alabama were actually quite common. I can't say for 234 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:33.879 certain what it was. I never saw it. It wasn't 235 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.320 until I listened to your podcast and heard others discussing 236 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.200 episodes of tree shaking, that I allowed myself to consider 237 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.080 this possibility. Like I said in the beginning, this story 238 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.399 doesn't contain any of the more exciting aspects of many 239 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:52.759 of your other submissions. But this did happen. My brother 240 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.000 told me it was probably some moonshiner running me off 241 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.000 of it. Still, as most of the counties in North 242 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:03.120 Alabama around this time, we're all dry. Moonshining had once 243 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:06.519 been widespread in those hills and haulers, but by the 244 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.159 late seventies the illicit liquor trade had pretty much dried up. 245 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.600 There were still bootleggers around, but they wouldn't have any 246 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.960 reason to be that deep in the woods. Others have 247 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.679 also said somebody was messing with me, maybe even some 248 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.799 of my friends, trying to scare me. But if that 249 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:27.000 had been the case, and knowing my friends, they would 250 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.879 have spilled the beans and told me about it. They 251 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.080 were the kind of kids who if they ever got 252 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.519 anything on you, they weren't going to let you live 253 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.919 it down. But until this day, no one has ever 254 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.600 admitted to such shenanigans. And I doubt a teenage boy 255 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.559 could shake a tree like that. I don't think a 256 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.519 full grown man could either. When I shared it, even 257 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.919 with family members, I get ridiculed as such. Over the years, 258 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.039 I've quit talking about it. It's only after hearing your 259 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:00.000 podcast that I now feel comfortable relaying it to you. 260 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:02.320 Thanks for your podcast. I love listening to it and 261 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.119 hearing all the accounts that you read, and I've turned 262 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:08.200 my dad onto your show. Thank you for that. After 263 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.039 hearing some of the more terrifying ones, I'm glad mine 264 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:16.000 was as unspectacular as it was. Sometimes in life, the 265 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.319 less exciting it is the better. Oh that's the damn truth. 266 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.119 He signs it. I'm not gonna tell you his name, 267 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.680 but North Alabama. I spent some time in North Alabama 268 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.400 up around Fort Payne and five, Alabama and gunners Full. 269 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.359 I got to do some fishing at Gunnersville and Lakewise, 270 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.599 and I really like that area. Very nice people, good people. 271 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:41.480 I thought this was a real exciting story. I mean, 272 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.319 imagine you're a kid and you're running trot lines, and 273 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:47.920 you got to run them if you really to me, 274 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.599 if you're going to run trot lines, some people put 275 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:53.799 them out, they'll run them once a day, but you know, 276 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.880 to really run trot lines and do it right, you 277 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.400 probably need to run them about every three or four hours. 278 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.240 So he found that out. The turtles and the guard 279 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.880 and everything else that eat what's on your hook. It's 280 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.039 a fun thing to do, or it used to be 281 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:07.839 for me when I was younger. I used to run 282 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.000 trot lines with I'm sorry, I just keep talking about me. 283 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.359 That's not what I mean to do. I guess I'm 284 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.440 just running at the mouth. I'm just rambling. Anyway, Let's 285 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:18.440 just put it this way. This was a good story. 286 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.039 I identified with it, and knowing people in North Alabama, 287 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.200 I could almost hear them telling me this story. So 288 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:27.440 I'm sorry I got choked up, but it was really good. 289 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.119 I wanted to say thanks to the writer. I appreciate it. 290 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.440 This morning, as I was slowly waking up for the day, 291 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:41.240 I felt a finger touching my foot under the covers 292 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.759 of my bed. This in itself is not unusual, except 293 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:50.200 that I live alone. Somehow, the experience finally prompted me 294 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.480 to write to you. My father was born in a 295 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:56.880 small town in Germany. When the grave digger in the 296 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:01.759 town retired, he informed his successor when someone passes, there 297 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:03.880 would be a knock on his door. Letting him know 298 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.759 it was time to get up and start digging. When 299 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.240 my grandmother in Germany died, doors knocked at two homes 300 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:15.480 that day, one in Germany and one in Canada, within 301 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.319 two hours of each other. My father opened the door 302 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.279 to see who was there, but our entrance was empty, 303 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:24.880 and there was in a single footprint in the fresh 304 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:29.839 coating of snow outside our door. At around thirteen years old, 305 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:33.079 I was shoveling grain into the auger that was supplying 306 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.599 a feed meal. The grain bend sat in a plywood 307 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.440 barn with a ladder nailed to the wall for getting 308 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:42.920 in and out there. I was hauling the grain when 309 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:46.000 I looked up and saw my uncle wearing a black tuxedo. 310 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:50.119 I stopped and stared at him curiously, and I told 311 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:53.599 him hello. Then I got back to my work. It 312 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.720 wasn't until later that night, after my chores were done 313 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:00.960 that I found out that he had died. Moved into 314 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:06.319 a farmhouse, and immediately started seeing apparitions once. I even 315 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.559 watched a glass move across the kitchen counter in front 316 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:13.039 of me. Last fall, my father came to visit for 317 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.759 a night. He insisted on sleeping on the couch that night, 318 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:19.519 and the next morning he asked which talk show I 319 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:22.079 was listening to on the radio at three in the morning. 320 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:24.799 I didn't know what he was talking about, so I 321 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.839 told him I had been asleep all night. He looked 322 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:31.000 at me like he regretted even asking, and we didn't 323 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:35.119 talk about it anymore. My old neighbor is the son 324 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:37.440 of a man who was born in this house over 325 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.599 one hundred years ago. Next time I see him, I 326 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.519 tell him to take his relatives home with him. They 327 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:47.640 aren't paying rent. Two winters ago, I woke up on 328 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.680 my back with my arms crossed onto my chest. I 329 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:54.519 felt a light pressure holding them down, and when I 330 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.559 tried to lift them, something pushed them back with such 331 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:02.000 force that it pushed me into the Matre. Immediately said 332 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:07.240 a prayer and felt the pressure disappear instantly. Many occurrences 333 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.000 have happened, but became so frequent in my everyday life 334 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:13.759 that I've been able to find normalcy in it. All. 335 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.880 Normal sea. It's a normal normal sea. Is that even 336 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:23.119 a word? Normalcy? Anyway? Normal sea, and at all I've 337 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:25.839 never felt afraid, nor have I ever found reason to 338 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:30.480 be alarmed by it. Looking at it objectively, it's just energy, 339 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:35.440 different between human and animal. Each of us has a soul, 340 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:38.000 and when we leave our bodies, we pass into the 341 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:43.000 spiritual realm. Depending on our development and experiences, some of 342 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:46.640 us move on toward the light, while others stay earth bound. 343 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.640 Sometime those who have moved on will come back for 344 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.279 a visit to see how we're progressing here on Earth. 345 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.200 I'm convinced that if we could see the wider spectrum 346 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:01.599 of light, we would see the spiritual realm. But since 347 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.039 we can't, the spirits have to do the hard work 348 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:08.079 gathering enough energy by siphoning it from the living or 349 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:11.880 drawing it from energy of the environment. If there's enough 350 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.880 energy around, they can make themselves known to us by 351 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:18.559 knocking on a door, or moving a glass, or turning 352 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:23.359 a light on or off. As a believer in reincarnation, 353 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:29.200 I often question the role of ghosts and why they exist. Fortunately, 354 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.079 I found a book written by a Catholic minister in 355 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:36.839 Germany after World War One. His name was Johannes Greber. 356 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:41.839 Maybe it's Johanness Grieber Johannas Godeba if you'd like to 357 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.839 look it up. The information he shared is monumental. It 358 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.039 will make you see the world and your life from 359 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.599 a completely different perspective. Thank you for what you do. 360 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:54.000 I hope my story is of help to people seeking 361 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:56.519 the truth, and thank you to those who have the 362 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:01.880 courage to write about their experiences and off. And this 363 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:07.240 was a story about multiple experiences with ghosts and other apparitions, 364 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:14.680 family members, neighbors, neighbors, parents, and I've never experienced anything 365 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:17.160 like this, but we get a few emails like this, 366 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:20.319 and people believe different things, and that's fine. You can 367 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:24.160 believe whatever you want. But sometimes I wonder when my 368 00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:26.680 light goes out, what am I going to see? What? 369 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:31.319 You know, I'm a believer in Jesus, But other than that, 370 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:34.160 I wonder what the experience is going to be like. 371 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:36.359 Is it going to be a bright light? Is it 372 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:40.599 going to be a woosh through space? Am I just 373 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:42.880 going to go to sleep? There are a lot of 374 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:47.119 different theories about it, and as many theories from the 375 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:51.920 secular community as there are from the religious community. And 376 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:54.720 the truth is, we don't know. It's funny because billions 377 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:57.680 of people have lived and died on this earth and 378 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:01.759 nobody has any idea what happens moment of death. But 379 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:04.400 it will definitely be a new experience that I've never 380 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:07.200 experienced before. So I'm kind kind of in a way 381 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.039 looking at it as sort of an adventure, you know, 382 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:14.880 A wonder meeting my creator. I think that's going to 383 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:18.799 be pretty cool, and I hope it happens instantly. I 384 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:21.680 hope we don't just go to sleep and sleep for 385 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:24.920 a million years, because not that we would even know 386 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:27.440 if we were asleep. How would you even know it 387 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:29.440 had been a million years. I want to be cool 388 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:31.559 to wake up and say, hey, how long has it 389 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:34.279 been since I died? And somebody there tell you, oh, 390 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:37.839 it's been a million one point two million years since 391 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:41.480 you died? What? Man? I missed all that? Anyway, just 392 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:44.039 stuff I think about. You know something else I think about. 393 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:47.359 I get up in the morning and I drink some 394 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:50.400 coffee and I'll try to just clear my mind for 395 00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:52.920 about fifteen or twenty minutes, and then I'll pull up 396 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:56.039 my phone and I've gotten I'll be honest with you, 397 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:59.039 I've gotten on this TikTok rabbit hole kind of thing, 398 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:01.920 and I've come They're ass some of these do you 399 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:05.319 guys know who these First Amendment auditors are? These guys 400 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.440 who just sit on a sidewalk and film stuff and 401 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:11.720