WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:10.400 Okay, y'all, is a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and I'm about 2 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:13.599 to read this story, and my dog just shitting the 3 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:18.120 floor in my office here. She's got runny poops, so 4 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:23.440 if you hear me, just ignore it. It smells horrible 5 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:29.559 in here. Plus A, I've got about fifteen hens on 6 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:32.200 my porch. I have my door open, so you may 7 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:35.799 hear some noise from them. I don't know. None of 8 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.280 this means anything, but I'm just letting you know what 9 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:42.079 I go through to get these stories out. Plus, it's 10 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:44.399 a beautiful day and I need to be outside working 11 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.479 in my yard so my wife won't be mad at me. 12 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:50.280 But I'm in here doing this because I really want 13 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.799 to get a podcast out this afternoon. Somebody pat me 14 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:56.039 on the back and say, it'll be okay, Cam, It'll 15 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:59.159 be okay. Just read the story. The writer on this 16 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.719 story again wants to be anonymous, and here's what he writes. 17 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:06.519 This happened in late julye just after they cut the 18 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.359 hay and the round bells had been taken, and there 19 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:13.680 was a short grass. It's an excellent opportunity to shoot coyotes. 20 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.599 My dog was lying a few yards away from me, 21 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.159 in a mowed down path to the creek. She was 22 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:25.159 lying in my overgrown food plot. The Johnson grass had 23 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.799 since taken over and it was a good six feet tall. 24 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.439 While she slept, I was watching the hayfield from my 25 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:34.439 side beside. Now, I had my ten twenty two with 26 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.000 me with a full magazine. I've had that twenty two 27 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.439 since I was fourteen. Most folks don't think of twenty 28 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.400 two is a good weapon for taking coyotes, but it 29 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.400 shot straight and I've taken codies with it in the past. 30 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:50.319 It was late in the evening and the sun had 31 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:53.680 gone down, but I could still see My dog woke 32 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.760 up and started turning circles and barking and looking straight 33 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:00.799 up into the trees. Her head was twisted and turning 34 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.040 as she looked up, and then I heard growls and 35 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:08.599 foot stomping and the trees moving ten feet up. I 36 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:10.479 stood up to yell at my dog to quit, and 37 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.800 hit the horn in the process, which added to the confusion. 38 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.599 Knock it off, I yelled at her, and in response, 39 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.439 she took off for the house. Well. I yelled at 40 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:22.680 her again as she passed me to cross the creek. 41 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.439 And I think if dogs could talk. I'm guessing by 42 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.080 the look on her face, she would have said, screw you, buddy, 43 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.400 I'm out of here. So I sat back down and 44 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:34.719 I tried to regain my composure. I was there for 45 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:37.240 a long time, watching the trees and trying to see 46 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:40.759 what she saw, and whatever it was never made another 47 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:44.960 sound or appearance. It was getting even darker out, so 48 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.639 I started up my side by side and headed across 49 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.319 the creek. Patience is a virtue. I yelled back over 50 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.120 my shoulder to the thing in the trees, and then 51 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:56.240 I gave my side by side all the gas it 52 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:59.479 would take, and I headed for home. My bird dog 53 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.159 was sitting on the porch, shivering and waiting for me 54 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.960 when I got there. And for the next couple of weeks, 55 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.120 me and the dog would go back down to the 56 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.120 other side of the creek to watch the hayfield for coyotes. 57 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.360 She wouldn't lie down at the other end of the 58 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:18.280 trail anymore. Instead, she'd lie behind me at the crossing point, 59 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:22.520 where she'd slept until the sun started getting low. Every 60 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.360 time we had an encounter, she would wake up, raise 61 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:27.680 her head and sniff the air, and run like hell 62 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:31.280 for the house. After she would leave and it was dark, 63 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.960 branches would start breaking on the creek behind me. I 64 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.919 took my brother in law down there once to experience it, 65 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:42.159 and we heard what sounded like rocks clacking, her teeth 66 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.520 clashing together, and it sounded like it was forty or 67 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:49.960 fifty yards away. The last time it happened, I put 68 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.080 my dog in the side by side with me and 69 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.280 I headed down there, and I parked where I always did, 70 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:58.719 away from the creek facing the hayfield. I wouldn't let 71 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.680 her get out, and as it got dark, she raised 72 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:03.520 her nose and then tried to bust out of the 73 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.360 side by side, and I grabbed a patch of hair 74 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:08.800 and held on to her for as long as I could. 75 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.159 You're not leaving me alone out here again, I said, 76 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:16.120 as I struggled to keep her in place. She kept 77 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.879 fighting me until I had to let go, and I 78 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.680 was afraid if I didn't, she'd get out anyway, and 79 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.600 I'd be left with just a patch of hair and 80 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.920 skin in my hands. She was fighting that hard, and 81 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.519 she ran like the devil across the creek and headed 82 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.199 straight back to the house. I stayed down there as 83 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:37.360 long as I could. Branches were breaking up and down 84 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.480 the creek behind me, and the rock clashing didn't happen 85 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:44.439 this time, but I was done anyway. I got the 86 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:48.240 buggy across the creek and I raced home. My dog 87 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.959 was waiting on the porch for me, as usual, shivering. 88 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:54.680 Another two weeks of this, and the grass was getting 89 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.639 tall again and the encounters stopped. I got on the 90 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:02.639 internet and I started listening to stories. Things in the 91 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.839 past started to make sense to me, and I remembered 92 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.920 years ago walking down there, and movement caught my own 93 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.279 the creek bank. I thought I saw a small monkey 94 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.680 climbing the bank with its arms and legs, heading for 95 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.120 the Johnson grass to find cover, and I went across 96 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:21.519 to where it came out, but I didn't find anything, 97 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.480 so I wrote it off as my eyes playing tricks 98 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:28.199 on me. That's just one of the many strange occurrences 99 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.240 I've had along that creek. I don't think they're mean 100 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.240 or want to hurt me. They've had too many opportunities 101 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.480 to do me in if they wanted to. Okay, that 102 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:41.000 was pretty good. That was a good story. I don't again. 103 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.279 The last podcast I did had two stories in it 104 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:49.959 about people who had feelings they sensed something around them, 105 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:54.360 And I guess that's a few of people who commented 106 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:57.240 in the comment section where you know those feelings are valid. 107 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.240 When you feel those feelings, you need to get out 108 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:03.120 of there. Maybe so, maybe not. I don't really trust 109 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.759 my feelings. That's just me. I kind of trust what 110 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.399 I can see and what I don't see. But back 111 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:12.000 to this story, I mean, this man never saw anything 112 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.120 when he was younger. He did see a monkey, something 113 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:18.319 that looked like a monkey going over the bank. But 114 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:20.519 you know what could that have been? Could it have 115 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:23.879 been a dog. I'm just playing Devil's advocate here because 116 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.040 I think this makes him real nervous when he goes out. 117 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.879 And if you ever hear me talk about these things, 118 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:34.879 I really want to encourage people not to be afraid 119 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.279 to go in the woods. There's really nothing to be 120 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:40.959 afraid of. And the reason I say that is of 121 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.040 all the hundreds of bigfoot encounters that I've gotten, nobody 122 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.399 ever gets hurt. Nobody gets hurt. We had one story 123 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.319 where a guy rode in and he claims a bigfoot 124 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:54.240 killed his grandfather. I think it's like the fifth or 125 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.920 sixth video I ever did. But other than that nobody. 126 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:01.279 They don't. Not only do they not get killed or taken, 127 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.480 they don't get hurt. So and I know there's people 128 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:06.560 out there who will go well, if you get taken, 129 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:09.360 there's no one there to write the story. And you've 130 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.879 got a point there. But I just don't think people 131 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.560 should be afraid to go in the woods. I know 132 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.360 that's going to make a lot of people mad, but 133 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:20.319 it's my position and I respect your position if you 134 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:23.160 think they shouldn't, and I want you to respect mine 135 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.319 when I think they should go in the woods, because 136 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.160 it's a wonderful place to be to go out in 137 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.920 the wilderness, especially alone, and you don't have to go 138 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.839 into these wildernesses that are fifty miles away from everything. 139 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.920 Just walk out in the woods, find some place of 140 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.639 state park or something, walk around trails, walk in the woods. 141 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.560 It really is a good experience. So uh huh, okay, 142 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.480 Well that's my pits for going in the woods. But 143 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:53.120 be careful and be alert when you're there. There's snakes 144 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.040 and depending on where you are, there are predators in 145 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:59.120 the North American woods, not where I live, but they 146 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:06.199 are there. Enjoy the woods. That's all I'm saying. So 147 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.199 I'm in my sixties and I'm battling with the MS, 148 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.920 and I've decided to share my experiences before it's too late. 149 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:18.360 Perhaps my encounters will benefit someone, and if so, then 150 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.920 my time writing this has not been wasted. I was 151 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.360 raised on a farm and cattle operation in Utah in 152 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.240 the sixties and seventies. Our land was adjacent to foothills 153 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:34.279 that led up into a range of the Rocky Mountains, 154 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:38.080 where I spent every possible hour on horseback or hiking 155 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:43.039 or backpacking. I log several hundred nights camping out during 156 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.559 my teens, in twenties and thirties, and even into my forties. 157 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:52.480 It came with the territory of my outdoor life. Being 158 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.559 out of doors every day from my childhood onward gave 159 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:59.480 me a tremendous education about the natural world, and I 160 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:03.960 was into familiar with every species of tree, all plants 161 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:08.080 and wildflowers, and every type of bird that inhabited our region, 162 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:12.120 and of course every mammal that lived in these valleys 163 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:16.840 and mountains. I grew up fly fishing and hunting waterfowl, 164 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:20.519 upland birds and varmints and big game, which took me 165 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.039 into some of the most beautiful and remote country imaginable. 166 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:28.960 I mentioned these things so you'll understand my familiarity with 167 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.879 every living thing, from the western deserts to Utah Red 168 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.240 Rock country and the alpine peaks of the highest mountains. 169 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:41.440 In all that time that I spent outdoors, I never 170 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.799 had any calls for fear, nor did I see or 171 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:50.159 experience anything unusual. And then one August evening in two 172 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.679 thousand and four, my fly fishing partner and I decided 173 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.440 to stay out and watch the persed meteor shower at 174 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:02.200 Strawberry Reservoir. We were excited to see the spectacle because 175 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:04.919 of the clear skies and there would be no moonlight, 176 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:09.320 no light pollution. We launched our float tubes into the 177 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.799 water shortly before dark to enjoy some fly fishing and stargazing. 178 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:19.159 Perhaps an hour into the meteor shower, we both suddenly 179 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:23.279 noticed something massive walking along the shoreline on all fours. 180 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.480 Its silhouette instantly reminded me of a polar bear, with 181 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:32.360 its huge hindquarters taller than its front shoulders, and its 182 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:36.639 head was small for its body size. That was Garganchewan. 183 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.279 We were way too close to the shore for comfort 184 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.279 and paddled into the safety of deeper water as quickly 185 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:47.240 as possible, and we both experienced a sense of dread 186 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:52.039 and terror. What was this giant thing? It was several 187 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.159 times larger than the biggest black bear we had ever seen, 188 00:10:55.720 --> 00:11:00.519 and Utah doesn't have grizzly bears, which are not that large. Anyway, 189 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.960 we observed the creature for a couple of minutes until 190 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.600 it walked into the darkness and left the salone in 191 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:10.519 the lake. Yeah, we were both terrified, knowing that eventually 192 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.440 we'd have to get out of the water and run 193 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:16.720 up the hill to the suv. We had no explanation 194 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.240 for what we saw, and back then I'd never heard 195 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.840 of bigfoot walking on all fours, and since that time, 196 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.159 I've read numerous accounts of people seeing these things down 197 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:32.120 on all fours. It's the only answer I can come 198 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:34.679 up with to account for the massive size of the 199 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:40.919 animal we witnessed. The experience we had on Strawberry that 200 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:44.080 August night was a precursor for the year of two 201 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:48.279 thousand and five, where everything changed and my life has 202 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:53.679 never been the same since a doorway was open somehow 203 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:58.960 to extraordinary strangeness that I never asked for, didn't seek 204 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:03.679 and I can't seem to escape. As this is the 205 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:08.000 one and only time I will record and recount these experiences, 206 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:10.919 I will do my best to give you a detailed 207 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:14.039 account of what happened in our lives during two thousand 208 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:19.240 and five and subsequent to that time. It all began 209 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.679 innocently enough on a late winter day when my wife 210 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:24.960 and I decided to go for a drive to town 211 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:29.080 to get a taco for lunch. On the return trip, 212 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.559 we were two blocks south of main street in our 213 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.799 small town when suddenly a dog of some kind with short, 214 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.039 dark gray hair walked out into the street in front 215 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:43.039 of us. It was on two legs, and I slammed 216 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.679 on the brakes as we watched this thing cross the 217 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:50.480 road in disbelief. It ran into someone's yard on two 218 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.440 legs and went into the shrubbery out of sight. We 219 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:59.840 were speechless, what the hell was that. We went home 220 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.759 and I got online, and it didn't take long to 221 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:06.440 find numerous images and videos of these same dogs walking 222 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:10.000 upright all over the southwest of the United States and 223 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:14.679 down into Mexico. Some people refer to them as chupacabras. 224 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.480 All I know is that we were both very upset 225 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:23.159 by what we witnessed. A few weeks later, it was 226 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:25.399 time for another friend and I to go on our 227 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.320 first jeep expedition of the season, and we headed south 228 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:33.799 toward Utah's San Rafael Swell. It's some of the most 229 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.360 remote country in the lower forty eighths, and on the 230 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:40.879 way we passed through San Pete Valley, where the second 231 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:46.240 strange encounter took place. At the north end of the valley, 232 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:49.480 there is a small town called Melbourne, and just as 233 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:52.759 we turned off the highway to head toward Melbourne, there 234 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.799 was a huge black figure standing in low sagebrush and 235 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.799 cheek grass at perhaps sixty yards away. I brought the 236 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.399 jeep to a halt. We both stared at this thing 237 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:08.320 with a very broad shoulders and legs like tree trunks. 238 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.240 We weren't close enough to make out any facial features, 239 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.519 but could see the glistening black hair that covered this 240 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.639 being in a conical shaped head, a barrel chest, long 241 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:24.879 arms and narrow waist, and massive legs. Time stopped as 242 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.399 we watched this thing for a few seconds, and then 243 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:30.600 it turned its body to the south, took two and 244 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:34.960 a half steps, and then it vanished. There was nowhere 245 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.919 for it to hide. It didn't dash to a tree 246 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.480 for cover or drop to the ground. It was midway 247 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.720 into its third step, with one leg raised in its 248 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:49.919 foot up off the ground when it completely disappeared. It 249 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:53.000 wasn't as though we watched it step into some unseen 250 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.840 doorway where you'd observe the front part of the creature 251 00:14:55.960 --> 00:15:01.080 disappear followed by its backside. Not at all. It totally 252 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:06.840 vanished in one instant of time in mid stride. You 253 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.840 can imagine the fear that swallowed us, knowing that we 254 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.159 had to drive down the road where this thing was 255 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:16.799 headed when it vanished. At that time, I had never 256 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:21.039 researched anything about bigfoot, though I was certainly familiar with 257 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:25.440 the claims of those who had seen those things. I 258 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.240 didn't know there was a rich collection of encounters with 259 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.720 these things vanishing from sight. But we both saw it 260 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:36.279 in one moment, and the next it was gone. After 261 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.519 the event concluded, we compared notes and both felt like 262 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:42.559 it was nine feet tall, and it weighed perhaps as 263 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:47.600 much as six hundred pounds, maybe more. It didn't make 264 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:51.919 any aggressive movements toward us, However, we both felt a 265 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.759 deep foreboding sense of evil. We couldn't shake that horrible feeling, 266 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.639 and we decided to postpone our jeep adventure for another time. 267 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.000 The next in our series of life changing events occurred 268 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.000 during the spring when we were doing some landscaping work 269 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:13.039 in our yard. We lived a couple of miles outside 270 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:16.000 of town and didn't have any close neighbors at the time. 271 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.879 I hesitate to record this incredibly strange event because no 272 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.960 one will believe me, and still it's the most disturbing 273 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.240 of the events of two thousand and five, and to 274 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.200 leave a full and honest account, I'll tell you this 275 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:35.080 part of my story. It still turns me inside out 276 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:40.000 when I think about it. My oldest son was seventeen 277 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:41.919 at the time, and he was helping me with some 278 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.879 landscaping work. We stopped for lunch, and while I was 279 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.840 eating a sandwich in the house, I was looking into 280 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:52.200 the backyard at our project and deciding what would work 281 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.240 on next, when I saw a male American kestrel hawk 282 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.840 flying toward a river birch tree in the back corner. 283 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.200 But something was wrong with a bird, and I thought 284 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:08.039 it was perhaps injured due to its erratic flight. Rather 285 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:11.599 than landing in the tree. The small and colorful hawk 286 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.279 landed on the ground where we had been planting some 287 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.599 barberry bushes, and it started moving its wings in a 288 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:21.960 strain's unnatural way. And the next thing I knew, this 289 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:25.079 bird pushed its wings up and away from its body 290 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.119 in a manner that would be impossible for any bird 291 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.880 to do, and then I was looking at something other 292 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:37.279 than the hawk. More than sixteen years have passed since 293 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:40.400 this event occurred, and I no longer remember the exact 294 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.319 order of what I witnessed. But over the next several 295 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:48.400 minutes I observed this thing changed shapes into a rabbit 296 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:53.880 with badly deformed ears, a squirrel that was incorrectly formed, 297 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:58.799 then a weasel, a marmot, a badger, each of which 298 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:04.440 was anatomic incorrect. At the same time as I witnessed 299 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.559 this event, I was suddenly sick to my stomach and 300 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.599 filled with nausea and a violent headache. The badger jumped 301 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.160 down from the retaining wall and went over to a 302 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.920 hole in the field. My son came up stairs at 303 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.000 that point, and I asked him to keep watching the 304 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:24.319 hole while I went over there. I went through the 305 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.960 garbage and I picked up a stout club I carried 306 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.799 with me, and when I got to the hole, nothing 307 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.559 was there, and I retreated to the couch, where I 308 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:38.000 rested for a few hours to recover. Later research uncovered 309 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:43.839 a material known as black goo or programmable matter that 310 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:48.000 might account for what I saw. Perhaps it was something 311 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.480 from the military or the deep state. I don't know. 312 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:57.440 Debilitating nausea continued for the next couple of weeks anytime 313 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.359 I went outside near where I had seen that thing. 314 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:06.599 Perhaps it was some kind of radioactivity. The next two 315 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.799 events occurred on the same day. I was fly fishing 316 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:14.000 with my partner at a different still water known as 317 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:18.960 Schofield Reservoir. It was a gorgeous late spring day and 318 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:24.039 the fishing was good. The sky was a stunning azure blue, 319 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:28.599 with white, fluffy clouds hanging low in the sky. At 320 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:31.799 one point I looked almost straight above me and gasped 321 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:35.720 at seeing a very large silver sphere in the sky 322 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:40.640 that appeared to be covered in radio towers. It was 323 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.720 not very high above me, as it was hovering between 324 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.960 two of the low hanging clouds, and as soon as 325 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.279 I saw it, the thing rapidly ascended and was gone 326 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:55.359 from sight in mere moments. And then on my way home, 327 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:58.599 As we left the mountains and reached Highway six, we 328 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:02.359 both saw a glow bowing orange ORB coming toward us 329 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:06.279 in the opposite lane of traffic. My friend commented that 330 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:09.839 it was about the size of a basketball. We watched 331 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:12.799 it pass us and turned to watch it go behind us, 332 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:18.079 but it disappeared. Later that summer, my friend would go 333 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.240 fishing at Indian Creek Bay on Strawberry Reservoir, where he 334 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.480 saw two orbs the same evening. Our lives were becoming 335 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:32.319 very weird. What in the world was happening to us? Well, 336 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:34.799 this story is becoming so long, so I'll skip the 337 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:39.359 next orb story. It's not that critical. We finally reached 338 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:43.720 July fourth, after all the activities of the day, my 339 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:46.319 wife and I were sitting on the back patio watching 340 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.839 fireworks in the town's east of where we lived. We 341 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:54.200 had an unobstructed view for many miles in every direction, 342 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:58.079 and after the fireworks ceased, we sat there enjoying the 343 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:01.599 cool of the evening until almost midnight, when she grabbed 344 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:04.759 my arm and said, what is that pointing up at 345 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:07.640 the sky about halfway between our home and the mountains 346 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.960 to the east. Neither of us spoke for a few 347 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:16.440 minutes as we observed a huge, triangular shaped craft moved 348 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:20.839 silently across the sky. It had running lights along the 349 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:24.240 top and bottom edge of the side we could see, 350 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:26.680 and once it passed, we could see the back end, 351 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:32.359 which also had running lights. It continued moving north until 352 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:35.440 we lost sight of it. We were both two small 353 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:39.799 town kids that couldn't understand why these inexplicable things were 354 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:44.279 happening to us. But that was not the last unidentifiable 355 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:47.519 thing we saw flying in the skies that year, but 356 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:52.559 it was the most remarkable one we saw. Sometime in 357 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:55.720 August of two thousand and five, my fishing partner called 358 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.200 me late one evening and said to go outside and 359 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:02.319 look above the prominent mountain our valley. Well. I did so, 360 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:05.839 and to my surprise, there was a new, very bright 361 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:08.799 star in the sky we had never seen before, and 362 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:13.640 it was flashing colors at an immense rate of change. 363 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:16.720 My friend had the latest and most powerful camera with 364 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:20.599 a fantastic zoom lens, and he filmed the star, which 365 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:24.880 not only flashed colors we couldn't name, but changed shapes 366 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:29.240 each time it flashed. We watched it in slow motion, 367 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:31.920 and we were astonished by the revelation of what his 368 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:36.200 camera brought into focus, and over the years since two 369 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:42.559 thousand and five, we've witnessed many such anomalies. By late 370 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:45.039 September of that year, the heat of the summer was 371 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.559 behind us and it was time to attempt the jeep 372 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:52.279 expedition once again. We made plans to explore a section 373 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:55.920 of the San Rafael Swell that we had never visited. 374 00:22:57.359 --> 00:22:59.839 On our drive to the Swell, we once again passed 375 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:02.799 through through San Pete Valley, and of course discussed the 376 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:07.160 bigfoot siding from the spring. That was not my friend's 377 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:12.319 first cryptid encounter, as I learned. After we passed the 378 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:15.039 location of the siding, we both gave an audible sigh 379 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:19.440 of relief and proceeded on our way. Part Way through 380 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.559 the valley, we decided to explore a range of hills 381 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:26.119 we'd never visited before, and we pulled onto a gravel 382 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.480 road that led up into the hills. I stopped the 383 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.039 jeep on a bridge over a small irrigation canal as 384 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.319 we looked ahead, trying to decide which way we wanted 385 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.359 to go. It was eleven am and that's when I 386 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:44.880 noticed movement below me to the left. In my peripheral. 387 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:49.640 When I looked directly at whatever had moved, I was 388 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:54.599 instantly paralyzed with fear and incapable of movement or of speaking. 389 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:01.079 Time absolutely stopped, and I couldn't even breathe. There below me, 390 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:05.200 kneeling in the canal, was a monster covered in grizzled hair, 391 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:09.240 a mixture of gray and light brown, with golden yellow 392 00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:12.799 colored eyes that were far apart, and a wide mouth 393 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:17.400 and narrow lips that were closed tightly together. I could 394 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:21.119 not look away, and I couldn't move, as time stood 395 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:23.599 still and I had a long look at this thing. 396 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:28.200 The hair on its forehead began at the brow ridge 397 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:30.960 and grew upward on its forehead until it reached the 398 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.720 top of the head that was cone shaped. The hair 399 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:37.480 was a uniform one inch in length, and the hair 400 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:39.920 on its face gave it a perfect, full beard that 401 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:43.400