1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: I found a job working the afternoon shift, and I 2 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,400 started listening to Bigfoot podcast when I went to bed. 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,960 The house I shared with my family had farmland five 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,399 minutes down the road. There was also a large parcel 5 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:25,679 of wilderness land that had not been developed because of 6 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:30,000 the swampy areas. That area has many ponds with Canada 7 00:00:30,079 --> 00:00:33,960 geese and it is connected to the surrounding subdivisions by 8 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:38,280 nature trails. One night, after work, I was listening to 9 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:44,799 the Bigfoot Outlaws. This podcast features bigfoot calls and interesting lee. 10 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,359 They come with a warning not to play them out 11 00:00:47,359 --> 00:00:51,960 loud and accidentally summon a bigfoot. My dog and I 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,359 went to bed and I listened to the podcast with 13 00:00:54,479 --> 00:00:58,280 my YouTube on AutoPlay. I woke up at one am 14 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:02,079 with the Bigfoot Call podcast still playing, and I cursed 15 00:01:02,119 --> 00:01:05,480 at myself. I turned off my phone and I went 16 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:10,280 back to sleep. At three am, awoke again to the 17 00:01:10,359 --> 00:01:14,280 loud sound of rock clacking. I cursed at myself again 18 00:01:14,359 --> 00:01:17,000 and I reached to turn my phone off, thinking what 19 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,519 a moron I was. I tried to turn the phone 20 00:01:20,519 --> 00:01:23,480 off and I realized it wasn't even on it at all. 21 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,599 A loud rock clacking was coming from the backyard through 22 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:31,120 my window. Now I didn't look. My dog and I 23 00:01:31,239 --> 00:01:34,799 stared wide eyed at each other, terrified, and we didn't 24 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,879 move for an hour. It all finally stopped and we 25 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,920 went to sleep. But I was left wondering who could 26 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,799 clack rocks together at three am out in my backyard. 27 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:49,400 I think Bigfoot may go around the neighborhood at night, 28 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:56,519 searching through the garbage for food. I grew up on 29 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,560 a small farm in southern Johnson County, thirty miles south 30 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,439 of Indianapolis. Until the nineteen seventies, the area was nothing 31 00:02:05,439 --> 00:02:10,599 but farms and sparsely populated spots of homes. Nowadays, it 32 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,199 seems there's a house on every hill that includes the 33 00:02:14,199 --> 00:02:17,879 family farm I grew up on. The sixty acres at 34 00:02:17,879 --> 00:02:21,759 once encompass now has five homes dividing up the land. 35 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,960 I guess that's the price of progress. The first strange 36 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,520 experience there took place in nineteen sixty. My grandfather came 37 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:33,719 over and he and my dad went to the back 38 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,599 pasture to try to figure out what had killed one 39 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,400 of our calves. Of course, being a curious six year 40 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,400 old boy, I tagged along. I remember that poor calf 41 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,560 was pretty gruesome looking. My father and my grandfather both 42 00:02:48,599 --> 00:02:52,000 thought it was killed by a big cat. I remember 43 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,439 my brother coming to the house and telling Dad that 44 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:57,719 something was in the woods out beyond our pond. He 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,319 never said what he thought it was, only that he 46 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,439 must have startled it and it ran off through the thicket. 47 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,080 In the fall of that year, we were having a 48 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,960 family gathering at the pond when something came up to 49 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:13,599 the dam and it screamed. Our dogs stood on the 50 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,639 bank and they were going nuts barking, but they weren't 51 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,120 brave enough to go and chase whatever this thing was. 52 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:22,280 Dad and a couple of my uncles went to the 53 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:25,360 house and came back with guns, and by the time 54 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,039 they made their way to the dam, whatever it was 55 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:32,120 had left. But through all this that never stopped me 56 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:36,639 from wandering through our fields and woods. I was thirteen 57 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:39,560 years old when the Patterson Gimlin film came to light. 58 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,919 I remember reading about it in Argasy magazine, and I 59 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,840 found the subject of Bigfoot fascinating and terrifying. I don't 60 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,840 think I slept without the drapes closed in my bedroom 61 00:03:51,879 --> 00:03:56,000 window until I was in my twenties. In the early 62 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,199 nineteen seventies, I had graduated from high school and I 63 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,479 took a job work looking nights at a factory in Greenwood. 64 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:05,680 I got off work and was usually home by two 65 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:09,120 in the morning. My parents had taken a vacation and 66 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:12,599 I was at home alone. I'd just gotten home from work, 67 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,840 took a shower, and had fallen asleep in bed when 68 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:21,360 something outside let loose with a god awful growl. Whatever 69 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,160 or whoever it was continued this growl and chatter for 70 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,480 a good while. I rolled over and dropped to the 71 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:30,920 side of my bed, and I low crawled through the 72 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,959 house and I retrieved one of our shotguns from the 73 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,639 hall closet, and I sat there the rest of the night, awake, 74 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,920 alert and scared. Whatever it was it stopped and eventually 75 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,519 wandered off. My brother usually got home about four in 76 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,000 the morning, and when I saw that he was up, 77 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,800 I asked him if he had heard anything or seen 78 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,439 anything when he got home, but he said that they hadn't, 79 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,800 and we just left it at that. Next summer, my 80 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,160 dad woke me up at one in the morning and 81 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,079 handed me a shotgun. Our dogs were throwing a fit. 82 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:10,920 My dad was a World War II veteran, and he 83 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,399 did not spook easy. We went outside and he told 84 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:18,319 me to wait by the garage. Some of the dogs 85 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:21,399 were barking, and some were whimpering, and some were just 86 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,040 flat out crying. Dad went out as far as the 87 00:05:25,079 --> 00:05:28,199 old corn crib twenty five yards away, and then came 88 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,519 back not long after that, and he was unnerved. We 89 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,079 best get in the house, son, he said. The next morning, 90 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,720 he and I both called in and didn't go to work. 91 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,360 We found two of our dogs cowering in the barn. 92 00:05:43,759 --> 00:05:46,560 The third one we found back by the lake, beating 93 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:50,720 up and in shock. Though he did recover. One of 94 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,240 the neighbors had two big german shepherds. He found one 95 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,000 of them in the same shape. The other one he 96 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:02,199 never saw again. Said what fear drove him back to 97 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,079 the house that night, but he did utter the word 98 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:10,160 bigfoot in a joking matter the next day. I doubt 99 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,439 this is very interesting, but I'm glad to get it 100 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,759 off my chest. After fifty years. My parents and my brother, 101 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,600 as well as the old farm are all gone now. 102 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,000 I still drive by there now and then. Though the 103 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,399 old place may be gone, I still have those memories. 104 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:29,879 Oh man, this, what do you mean this wasn't interesting. 105 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,519 It's very interesting, especially the part about your dad coming 106 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,759 back and saying joking about it being a bigfoot, and 107 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,839 you could tell he was unnerved. To me, that made 108 00:06:39,879 --> 00:06:43,360 the whole story perfect. It was just awesome. But I 109 00:06:43,399 --> 00:06:46,000 bet you do have memories, and I really appreciate you 110 00:06:46,079 --> 00:06:53,240 sending this story. Thanks a lot. The ghost stories I'm 111 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,759 about to tell come from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I 112 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,720 moved to Morehead in August of nineteen ninety five. My 113 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,360 little sister had been attending Moorhead State University for two 114 00:07:05,439 --> 00:07:09,199 semesters and had been pastoring our mom the entire time 115 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,560 to pay for her an apartment. Mom finally told her 116 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,240 that if I agreed to move there and go to college, 117 00:07:16,279 --> 00:07:19,680 she would get us an apartment. At that time, there 118 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,720 were limited opportunities back in Pike County, and Mom wanted 119 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:27,560 me to move away to perhaps have a better life. 120 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:31,160 Confident in the outcome, my sister had already located a 121 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:34,480 place to live and had made arrangements to get it 122 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:39,319 when the ladies who occupied it moved out. The apartment 123 00:07:39,399 --> 00:07:42,720 was located on Christy Creek Road and it faced the 124 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:46,680 Blue Zoo Trailer Park. We had been living in the 125 00:07:46,759 --> 00:07:49,920 apartment for very long when I noticed that my sister 126 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:53,759 was sleeping on the couch. She had the bigger bedroom 127 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,680 because she had more stuff. She told me that she 128 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,360 didn't feel comfortable being in the apartment alone. Well, I 129 00:08:00,399 --> 00:08:03,879 thought that was odd. All the neighbors were her buddies 130 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:09,680 and swarty sisters or guys from friendly fraternities. Trying to 131 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,319 be a big brother, I bought a chain lock and 132 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,160 put it on the door, hoping that extra thing would 133 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,639 ease her mind. But even with the new lock, she 134 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:23,079 started staying over at her boyfriend's house. I decided that 135 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,560 her own ease had to be an excuse for sleeping 136 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,759 over at his place, but it wasn't any of my business. 137 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:33,120 The first time I experienced something odd was on a 138 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:36,720 Friday night. I was alone and my sister was away. 139 00:08:37,639 --> 00:08:40,360 The door was locked and the new chain was in place, 140 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,679 and I had no sooner turned off my bedroom light 141 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:47,240 to go to sleep when the front door slam. I 142 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,399 don't mean it closed hard, I mean it was a 143 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,519 grown man, two handed swing the door slam. I jumped 144 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,360 up and ran to the confront. Whatever was going on. 145 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:01,799 The front door was closed and the chain was in place. 146 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,440 I proceeded to clear the apartment, checking all the rooms, 147 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,360 in closets in any corner someone might hide, but no 148 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,879 one was there. I went back to my room, climbed 149 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:18,200 into bed. I turned the lights off. Slam. It happened again, 150 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:21,600 and I ran back out and everything was just like before. 151 00:09:22,519 --> 00:09:25,960 I checked everything again and went back to bed. I 152 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:29,639 kept the lamp on, but I had no further strangeness 153 00:09:29,799 --> 00:09:34,159 that night. In the nineteen eighties, I had developed a 154 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,879 weight problem that happened to coincide with my acquisition of 155 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:42,200 an Nintendo. In nineteen ninety two, I started lifting weights 156 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,639 and riding a stationary bike like it was my religion. 157 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:50,960 Now I managed to lose seventy pounds in the Moorhead apartment. 158 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,320 If I wanted to ride my bike and watch TV, 159 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,279 I would have to sit with my back to the hallway. 160 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,320 I couldn't do it. I had to sit so my 161 00:09:59,399 --> 00:10:02,519 back wasn't exposed to the hall or else. It felt 162 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:07,000 like somebody was staring a hole through my back. A 163 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:10,240 few years later, my little sister had dropped out of school, 164 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:14,120 met another guy, and she had moved out. I was 165 00:10:14,159 --> 00:10:17,679 still at that apartment, living alone. I was coming home 166 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,080 from the gym and I saw all of our neighbors 167 00:10:20,159 --> 00:10:24,200 had gathered at the apartment number twenty seven, two apartments 168 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,000 over from mine, to watch the UK Wildcats play in 169 00:10:28,039 --> 00:10:32,399 the tournament. Someone invited me in as I was passing, 170 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,399 and I sat down on the couch for a bit. 171 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:38,120 While I was watching the game, the others were talking 172 00:10:38,159 --> 00:10:41,720 about the ghost. My ears perked up and I asked 173 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:44,960 what they were talking about. Someone told me to listen 174 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,200 toward the steps. Well I did, and sure enough, it 175 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,120 sounded like someone was walking up and down the stairs. 176 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,240 Then they told me to look up to the steps 177 00:10:54,279 --> 00:10:57,759 to the second floor, but to use my peripheral vision. 178 00:10:59,039 --> 00:11:02,039 Sure enough, there was a dart shape moving back and 179 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,279 forth between the rooms up there. If you look directly, 180 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,480 you couldn't see it, but if you look peripherally, there 181 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:13,440 it was. I was floored and couldn't believe it, but 182 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:18,320 it did explain so much. The upstairs of number twenty 183 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:23,200 seven extends over to number twenty eight. The nursing students 184 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:26,320 told me that on weekends, when the guys in number 185 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:29,600 twenty seven were out of town, they could still hear 186 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,600 people walking around upstairs, and sometimes the TV or the 187 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,120 radio would come on in the empty apartment. When my 188 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,559 little sister made her exodus, she left most of her 189 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,639 stuff in Moorhead. I had eventually decided that she wasn't 190 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:47,799 coming to get her crap, so I moved all my 191 00:11:47,919 --> 00:11:51,200 stuff into the big bedroom and all her stuff into 192 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,399 the little one. The big bedroom had to walk in 193 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:59,080 closet that connected to the bathroom. It was really strange. 194 00:11:59,519 --> 00:12:02,080 I didn't like the room either. I had to sleep 195 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,879 with both doors closed and locked. One night, I was 196 00:12:05,919 --> 00:12:08,919 in the room in the dark and both doors locked. 197 00:12:08,919 --> 00:12:12,519 When something sat on the bed right beside me. That 198 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,679 was not cool. I turned on the light and ended 199 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,799 up sleeping with the lamp on. Oddly enough, I too 200 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,759 ended up sleeping on the couch. Imagine that. In the 201 00:12:24,879 --> 00:12:27,720 year two thousand, I was working at a local movie theater. 202 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,039 My buddy worked there too, and she was into the 203 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,080 coult She and her husband came over several times and 204 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:38,879 they hung out watching movies with me. Every time she 205 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,720 was over, she was very withdrawn and would sit with 206 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:44,799 her knees pulled up to her chin, and that wasn't 207 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:48,279 like her at all. One night, I was asleep on 208 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,720 the couch and had a dream that a dark shape 209 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,039 with no face was strangling me. I fought myself awake 210 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,519 and made sure that my blanket or shirt hadn't been 211 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,399 strangling me. But everything was as it should be. I 212 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,679 told my buddy it worked the next day, and she said, 213 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,159 your ghost just tried to kill you. What could I say? 214 00:13:08,919 --> 00:13:12,000 I knew it was real, and I actually believed her. 215 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,519 In two thousand and one, I moved to a new 216 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:19,399 place with my girlfriend who's now my wife. I told 217 00:13:19,399 --> 00:13:22,360 my buddy that I was moving and why she was 218 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:25,840 happy for me. I was kind of shocked. I told 219 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,759 her that it was a great apartment and she said, yeah, 220 00:13:28,799 --> 00:13:32,879 but your bathroom is a pit of hell. She explained 221 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:35,399 that something really dark was there and in the bathroom 222 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:39,759 walking area. Again, how could I argue with that? I 223 00:13:39,799 --> 00:13:44,120 had experienced what I had experienced. I was working at 224 00:13:44,159 --> 00:13:47,919 the movie theater in two thousand. I never experienced anything there, 225 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,080 but my buddy did, so did my future wife. On 226 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,679 Thursday nights, the new movie would be put together in previewed. 227 00:13:56,279 --> 00:13:58,200 If you were one of the cool kids, you got 228 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:02,000 to watch the preview. My buddy said that sometimes there 229 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,320 would be more people in the room watching the movie 230 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:07,960 than there were supposed to be. She said that sometimes 231 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,080 there would be an extra person down near the front, 232 00:14:10,159 --> 00:14:13,120 near the corner, watching the movie, and they were always 233 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:16,720 gone by the time the movie was over. Her mother 234 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,559 told me a story about another theater that had been 235 00:14:19,799 --> 00:14:23,320 across from the police department. It was called the Trail 236 00:14:23,559 --> 00:14:27,000 Theater and it had been closed for a few years. 237 00:14:27,519 --> 00:14:30,039 She said that one night, while she was cleaning, she 238 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,879 was all alone in the building and mopping the lobby, 239 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,879 and that she heard a voice from the stairs to 240 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:39,679 the balcony. It called her name and it said come here, 241 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,320 she said. She laughed and wagged her finger at it, 242 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,360 saying I will not be doing that. She left her 243 00:14:47,399 --> 00:14:49,720 mop and buckets sitting there and never went there at 244 00:14:49,799 --> 00:14:55,440 night without her revolver. In the University theater, my wife 245 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,000 said that one night she saw a ghost in action. 246 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:01,039 There was a fellow working there, and all the ladies 247 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,120 could not stand him. He was a know it all 248 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,279 and he was very disrespectful. One busy night, my wife 249 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:12,720 was working concessions. She was handling the register and the popcorn. 250 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,399 The guy was working the door, and since it was 251 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:20,559 so busy, he was helping her filling drink orders. She 252 00:15:20,759 --> 00:15:23,480 said that she watched several large sodas fly off the 253 00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:26,879 drink machine and pour all over him. She thought it 254 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:30,519 was awesome. She normally came home mad after having to 255 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:34,960 work with him, but that night she was happy. In 256 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,279 two thousand and four, I joined the local police department. 257 00:15:38,879 --> 00:15:42,200 I just completed my twenty first year on the forest, 258 00:15:42,279 --> 00:15:46,639 and during that time I've had some experiences. The old 259 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:51,440 police department building was formerly a United States Post office. 260 00:15:51,519 --> 00:15:54,879 Late at night, something would move about the place. The 261 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,799 dispatchers could be in the building by themselves in here, 262 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:03,279 filing cabinet drawers opening in the squad room. I first 263 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,080 became aware of it one night when a dispatcher told 264 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,720 me about the ghost and asked me to listen for it. 265 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,200 It sounded like someone was walking down the hall jangling keys. 266 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,519 Then in the sergeant's office, it sounded like someone was 267 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:22,759 using a whole punch. She and I started exchanging ghost stories, 268 00:16:23,039 --> 00:16:25,039 and it turns out she was one of the girls 269 00:16:25,039 --> 00:16:28,240 who had lived in my old apartment, number twenty nine, 270 00:16:28,679 --> 00:16:31,840 right before my sister and I moved in, and she'd 271 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:36,639 had her share of freaky occurrences as well. One night, 272 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,799 the police department. Ghost was being extra loud, so I 273 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:44,600 yelled at it and I said, be quiet, George. Immediately after, 274 00:16:44,879 --> 00:16:49,480 there was a crash in the sergeant's office. The dispatcher 275 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,399 and I ran down the hall and we saw that 276 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,159 a big fan had been pushed over. From then on, 277 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,600 the ghost name was George, and people still refer to 278 00:16:58,639 --> 00:17:04,880 him by that name. In twenty nineteen, the downstairs flooded 279 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,200 and everything was moved to the second floor. George didn't 280 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:12,240 like that, and he began to act out. He had 281 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,200 done things in the past. It had scared the dispatchers, 282 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,640 but he was apt to do it more often. You 283 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,519 could see the papers fluttering when there was no breeze. 284 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,000 And one night a deputy was bringing the dispatcher her 285 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,519 lunch and he walked through a cold spot. He said 286 00:17:28,559 --> 00:17:31,119 he looked to his left and saw a dark shape 287 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,839 in the kitchen, and when he investigated, there was no 288 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,039 one there. And then in twenty twenty two we moved 289 00:17:39,039 --> 00:17:42,839 to our new building, and thankfully George did not move 290 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:48,079 with us. On June sixteen, twenty twenty five, I had 291 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:52,119 my first bigfoot experience. I stepped out of my house 292 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,559 carrying my cat and a pet carrier when she let 293 00:17:55,599 --> 00:18:00,000 out an unhappy yell from her crate. At the same time, 294 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,880 one of the semi feral outside cats broke cover and 295 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,839 darted down the street away from the woods. The Daniel 296 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,720 Boue National Forest has just passed my house, and right 297 00:18:11,759 --> 00:18:15,039 after the cats made their commotion, the wood knocking began. 298 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,799 I couldn't believe it. I've lived in this house for 299 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,279 nearly eight years and I've never heard anything like this before. 300 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,319 Right after the first knocking started, a second set started 301 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,440 up further into the woods. You know the scene in 302 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:33,400 Jaws too, when the chief is banging on the electrical 303 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,119 line with the boat oor. That's exactly what it sounded like. 304 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:40,519 I was so mad at myself for not recording it. 305 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:43,480 There's a dead tree right behind the house. That is 306 00:18:43,519 --> 00:18:46,720 all the bark stripped off, all except a couple of 307 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,759 feet at the top. There had been one in front 308 00:18:49,799 --> 00:18:52,599 of the house on a game trail, too, and the 309 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:55,279 bark was stripped off up to about fifteen feet off 310 00:18:55,279 --> 00:18:58,920 the ground. I had always thought those trees were odd 311 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:03,720 deer that high, I don't think so. On a few 312 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:07,480 occasions I had been huffed at from the dark. I 313 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,599 thought it was a buck I had sometimes seen on 314 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,680 the property on at least two occasions. I was growled 315 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,000 at one occasion, I was walking toward the house from 316 00:19:17,079 --> 00:19:20,160 my car when something growled at me, low and guttural. 317 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,079 It scared me. As I've said, I'm a police officer, 318 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,680 I'm no sissy. I worked nearly eighteen years on the 319 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,359 midnight shift. Can't be a sissy and be a successful 320 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,759 police officer. Well, I thought you'd get a kick out 321 00:19:34,759 --> 00:19:37,799 of hearing these tales. Feel free to use them however 322 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:41,160 you wish. Thanks for all you do. Well, Thank you, sir, 323 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:44,559 for that was a long email. Thank you for spending 324 00:19:44,559 --> 00:19:48,359 so much time and remembering all those things in your life. 325 00:19:48,559 --> 00:19:52,279 Ghost stories and the Bigfoot story. I thought they were great. 326 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,880 Thank you much. I hope everything's going good for you 327 00:19:54,920 --> 00:20:02,640 in Kentucky. I appreciate the email. Thanks. Here's a story 328 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,759 about something other than Bigfoot. Thank goodness. I love Bigfoot stories, 329 00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:09,720 but I like doing different stuff just to break up 330 00:20:09,759 --> 00:20:13,559 the routine. This is short little story about a thunderbird. 331 00:20:15,039 --> 00:20:18,200 In nineteen thirty two, my mother was almost a year old. 332 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,640 It was a sunny spring day and my grandmother wanted 333 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,400 to put her baby daughter out to get some sunshine. 334 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,720 She selected her favorite baby blanket and later on it 335 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,519 on the grass near the kitchen window, where she could 336 00:20:31,519 --> 00:20:35,599 be washing the dishes. The house faced a mode feel 337 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,720 that stretched out about five acres from the kitchen to 338 00:20:38,799 --> 00:20:43,559 the state Road twenty eight in Short Gap, West Virginia. 339 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,039 Fifty feet up the hill from the main house was 340 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:51,759 a smokehouse. My great grandfather, my mom's grandfather, was there 341 00:20:51,839 --> 00:20:55,119 chopping blocks of wood with a hatchet when he noticed 342 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:59,000 a large shadow fly across the sun. It was a 343 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,799 huge bird with a cold black plumage, dropping from the 344 00:21:02,839 --> 00:21:06,319 sky and flying directly toward my mother, who was lying 345 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,720 on her baby blanket. My great grandfather knew he could 346 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,119 never run fast enough to grab up the baby, so 347 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,079 he aimed his hatchet and he threw it at the bird, 348 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,680 and he killed it. When my grandfather came home, they 349 00:21:20,759 --> 00:21:24,960 stretched the huge dead bird across the wall of the smokehouse. 350 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,880 It was sixteen feet four inches from wingtip to wingtip. 351 00:21:30,759 --> 00:21:34,119 Many neighbors stopped by to see the thunderbird, though nobody 352 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,160 knew what it was. At the time, no one had 353 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,000 seen anything quite like this. A picture of the bird 354 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,640 was taken, but now ninety years later, it has been misplaced. 355 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,240 I saw it when I was a boy. My mother 356 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,200 is ninety one now, and it will always be a 357 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,839 great family story. Oh my gosh, that is a great 358 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,000 family story. Wish that picture had survived. If that picture 359 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:03,880 sure had survived and someone had scanned it. You you 360 00:22:04,079 --> 00:22:07,359 had scanned it and put it on the internet, it 361 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,319 would be all over the internet. You may have could 362 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,799 even made some change with that picture. Anyway, I thought 363 00:22:14,799 --> 00:22:17,279 this was a great story. I really appreciate the writer 364 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,400 sending in. I love these different stories. We do get 365 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,640 mostly Bigfoot stories because that's how I started the channel 366 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,880 several years ago, and we just did Bigfoot for a 367 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,599 couple of three years, and so everybody kind of thought 368 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,680 we were just doing Bigfoot. But I got a little 369 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,960 burnout on Bigfoot. I still get burnt out on Bigfoot. 370 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 But some of the stories, the stories are great. It's 371 00:22:39,079 --> 00:22:43,119 just a great change up to do something different. Like 372 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,079 this thunderbird story. What a crazy story. Killed it with 373 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:51,240 a hatchet? What that's awesome. It dude, was like Daniel 374 00:22:51,279 --> 00:22:55,319 Boone or something. Very good story. I really appreciate it. 375 00:22:55,519 --> 00:22:56,519 Thank you to the writer.