WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.679 All right, here's a Bigfoot story by Love's Bigfoot Stories. 2 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:17.480 This is a really good one. My parents were antique 3 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:20.800 dealers when I was growing up. My mother was raised 4 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.679 in an outdoorsy family and my father was raised on 5 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.480 the streets of Los Angeles. My father had a rough 6 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:31.000 upbringing and wasn't raised to be timid or nice. He 7 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:34.399 was a golden gloves boxer. If he was ever afraid 8 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:38.520 of anything, he didn't let it show. It was Saturday, 9 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.039 sometime in the summer of nineteen seventy three, around four 10 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:44.399 in the morning, and Dad and I had packed the 11 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:48.640 Dodge Tradesman one hundred with banana boxes of collectibles and 12 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.200 antiques to take the Medford Organ to a flea market. 13 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.240 We did flea markets quite frequently back then, as there 14 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.280 was no such thing as the Internet, eBay or Etsy. 15 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.200 The dark early morning was clear and cool, and the 16 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.079 interstate was deserted. My dad drove and it was my 17 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.359 job to pour the burning hot liquid while jostling around 18 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.799 in the van at fifty five miles an hour. And 19 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.680 there we were drinking our black coffee straight up and 20 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.319 enjoying the silence, when in the distance we spotted a 21 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:23.640 large figure standing on the northbound side of the road. 22 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.280 What is that, Dad, I asked, pointing ahead at the 23 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:32.200 dimly illuminated, dark, hulking figure ahead of us. But Dad 24 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.760 leaned forward and against the steering wheel and he hit 25 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.719 the foot pedal to turn the headlights on to bright. Yes, kids, 26 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.400 that used to be a thing. Bright's on the floor, 27 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:46.079 not the signal stem. What we saw on that dark, 28 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:50.640 lonely stretch of mountainous interstate changed me and my father forever. 29 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.040 We watched in amazement and in stupid awe is this 30 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.959 nine foot tall creature with a black head to toe 31 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:02.599 fur still over the damn guard rail on two legs, 32 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:05.560 right in front of us, And it turned its massive 33 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.680 torso and it looked at us. Let me say that, 34 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.759 until you actually see one, it is difficult to explain 35 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.800 the feeling that it gives you. It's like everything you 36 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.800 ever thought you knew was a lie. All told, the 37 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.319 event was only about ten or fifteen seconds of life 38 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:27.960 changing revelation, But that was long enough. Dad, What was that? 39 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:32.439 I asked? He hesitated, and he chose his words carefully. 40 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.199 I don't know, but I can tell you it wasn't 41 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:37.919 a bear. Well turn around and go back, Let's get 42 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.639 another look at that thing. I said, no way, Dad 43 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.240 blurted out. For the first time in my life, I 44 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.280 heard fear in his voice. Well, we kept on driving 45 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.560 to our destination and talking about what we saw, and 46 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.360 eventually coming to the conclusion that it must have been 47 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:59.439 a bigfoot. It was that or the biggest man we'd 48 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.400 ever seen, and a hairy sue early in the morning, 49 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:06.759 alongside a deserted mountain highway with legs long enough that 50 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:11.599 he could easily step over a guardrail. When you see one, 51 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.680 your gut just knows. All of you folks out there 52 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.680 who have seen one know exactly what I'm talking about. 53 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:23.240 You just know it doesn't take much evidence to change 54 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:26.520 your perspective of the world. What my dad and I 55 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:30.240 saw that early morning in nineteen seventy three turned us 56 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.199 into knowers. We continue to fish and camp until my 57 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.960 father passed away in two thousand and one. We weren't 58 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.360 afraid to go out in the woods, but we often 59 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:44.560 talked about that day that we saw Bigfoot, and even today, 60 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.199 I still get goosebumps when I remember the way that 61 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.560 thing looked at us. Thank you for listening to my story. 62 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.680 I enjoyed writing it. Oh, that's the best line of 63 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:58.120 the whole story. She enjoyed writing it. I think that 64 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:02.639 is awesome. That's a great it's a and that's exactly 65 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.479 how I've said it a thousand times. This is exactly 66 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.919 how I want to see a bigfoot, even if it 67 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.280 just stops me, if I have to stop in the 68 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.560 middle of the road to look at it, and then 69 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.680 I will be a knower. I won't be a skeptic 70 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:20.079 or a believer, or I'll be a knower as so 71 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:24.480 many people say, which you know, that's that's one of 72 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:28.240 the big platitudes that people use in the bigfoot community. 73 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.040 Oh I ain't no believer. I'm a knower. In other words, 74 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:35.000 i've seen one. I sink it. I've seen one. I 75 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.759 get it. I totally get it. It's a if you 76 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:40.160 see something like that standing in the road in front 77 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.879 of you. She remembers the way it turned, the way 78 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:46.399 it looked at her and her dad. It's probably like 79 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:49.360 a video real that just replays in her head over 80 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.720 and over and over. I thought this was a great story. 81 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:57.800 Thank you to the writer. It was wonderful. Thanks, hey, hey, 82 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.560 thanks for clicking on the video. My name's Cam butner. 83 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.639 This is the Dixie Cryptid or what if It's True? Podcast? 84 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:08.839 If you like good stories, just good stories that just 85 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.160 take you away to another world. You found your people, 86 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.319 you found your place, and I'm glad you're here. If 87 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.600 you haven't listened to my latest, not this one, but 88 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:22.600 the one before this, I'll end screen it on this. 89 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.240 It's a podcast I put up called The hat Man 90 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:30.360 the Author. It's a fictional story written by a woman 91 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.800 named Rebecca Lee Wesson, and she is a really good writer, 92 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:39.079 and I think the production of that podcast is pretty good. 93 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.920 I think you'd enjoy it. I'm going to end screen it. 94 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:43.360 I want you to go back and listen to it 95 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.399 if you're interested in that kind of thing. And that's 96 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:48.600 all I wanted to say. We've got three more stories 97 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:50.839 left to go in this podcast, and I hope you 98 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:59.360 guys enjoy them all. Right here we go. After listening 99 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:04.360 to your where you mentioned strange encounters in the United Kingdom, 100 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:07.319 I thought I would share the story with you. It 101 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.399 concerns my daughter, who was fifteen at the time, and 102 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:15.240 her stepfather, who was a police officer. This encounter took 103 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:19.800 place in rural Northern Ireland in the autumn of twenty 104 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:24.279 and seventeen, my daughter and her stepfather were returning home 105 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.360 with a takeaway pizza when about a mile from home, 106 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.920 they saw a strange creature on the road ahead of them. 107 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:33.639 They said it was the size of a sheep, but 108 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.759 with smooth black skin. It crossed the road and moved 109 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:40.480 into the field on the other side, and then vanished 110 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:44.920 into the darkness. Neither of them recognized the creature, and 111 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.920 since we all lived in the country, they were familiar 112 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:52.000 with the local animals. My daughter was upset by the 113 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:56.759 experienced and told her grandfather about it. Her grandfather was 114 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:02.600 a keen spotter of wildlife and consulted books to reassure her. 115 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.759 He told her it was an otter, even though the 116 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.720 nearest river was four miles away and otters did not 117 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:13.240 grow in the size of a sheep, Perhaps fearing ridicule. 118 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:17.480 Her stepfather admitted seeing it, but would give no more details. 119 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.519 I believe my daughter if only because of how upset 120 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.439 and worried she was after the experience. I did some 121 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.720 research myself and discovered the old Gaelic legend of the 122 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:36.120 dough Bart the king otter. I'm certain I mispronounced that, 123 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:42.120 but it's dB h r hyphen Cchu, the dough bart 124 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:46.000 the king Otter. It's described as a half otter and 125 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.680 half dog. There's a legend dating back to the seventeenth 126 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.199 century where a woman was supposedly killed by one in 127 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.920 County lytram at Glendale low Or so is recorded on 128 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:04.279 a headstone Cornwall Cemetery. Strange creatures may indeed be out there, 129 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.879 and perhaps some legends are true. Yeah, I have trouble 130 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.439 pronouncing words. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, y'all, especially to the 131 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:16.720 people in Europe who listen to this. I'm just I'm 132 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.160 from Mississippi in the United States, and it's just hard 133 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.240 to say stuff. We don't even understand each other down here, 134 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.199 So don't take offense to me not being able to 135 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.480 say some of these words correctly. I'm trying to I'm 136 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.960 looking at that county again, Lytrim l E, I t 137 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:39.679 R I M. I think it's lytram leatrim Leatrim maybe 138 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:44.759 and it's in Glendale Lowe. But it's recorded on her headstone. 139 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:49.399 This woman was It was recorded on her headstone in 140 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:53.600 the seventeenth century where a woman was killed by a 141 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:58.279 doe Bartu, the king Otter in Ireland. Now that is 142 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:02.159 interesting as all it out. It's a very short story, 143 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.759 but it's really cool. I'm looking up here where our 144 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:12.480 editors gave it the category King Otter an Irish legend. Oh, 145 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:17.639 if anyone in Ireland listens to this podcast, if you 146 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:22.600 guys have any stories from your island, I want them. 147 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.519 I really want those. I know the banshee is an 148 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:32.159 Irish legend or mythical creature. I'm trying to think leprechauns. 149 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.200 I'm trying to think of other things that I've heard 150 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.480 of from Ireland. Anyway, it's really interesting stuff. Thank you 151 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:45.919 to the writer for sending this. This was really good. Okay. 152 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:49.120 I did a story maybe two years ago. I think 153 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:52.360 it was about that long from a listener. It was 154 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:55.919 about a hogman. So I'm kind of setting the stage 155 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:57.840 for what's going on here. So I'm just going to 156 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.960 start reading his email and you'll and then you'll catch up. 157 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:04.960 He writes, I submitted a story to you once about 158 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:09.120 my encounter with a hogman. When my uncle Jerome heard 159 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.879 about it, he called me with his own story to tell. 160 00:10:12.519 --> 00:10:17.960 It seems he encountered the same creature. Here is his story. 161 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.279 A long time ago, my father was making some upgrades 162 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.159 to their house in the backwoods of Leesburg, Florida. It 163 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.000 was getting late in the summer, and he had promised 164 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.480 my mother that he'd be near the edge of the 165 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:34.840 woods so she and the children wouldn't have to venture 166 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.159 into the trees every time someone had to go to 167 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.720 the body, especially at night. Must have been close to 168 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.960 the outhouse. Anyway, you need to get working on all 169 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.600 that outhouse while the ground is soft and warm, she'd 170 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:51.360 remind him in her sweet little church lady voice, maybe 171 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.279 a little too often for my father's taste. Okay, he 172 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:57.960 was working on the outhouse. I know I've screwed this 173 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.320 story up. I'm sorry. I'm just going to keep her eating. 174 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.320 Maybe I'll get it right from here on out. It 175 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.960 made him pick up the paste, though, and soon he 176 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.360 had dug a deep black hole in the ground. He 177 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.440 mitered a wooden box that covered the hole and provided 178 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:15.919 us with a place to sit down when we did 179 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.679 our toos and don'ts, as we call them. When the 180 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:23.879 exterior walls were put up, my father was finished, and 181 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:27.159 we all gathered around and looked at the glory of 182 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.759 our very first pre toilet and then I spoke up 183 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.840 that sure is an awful big hole for my little butt, 184 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:38.919 I told my father. He chuckled and said he'd buy 185 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.360 a toilet seat in the morning for the little butts, 186 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.279 but for now it was ready to go. After supper, 187 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.600 we all peeled away from the dinner table. I don't 188 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.720 know what I was busy doing, but I was distracted, 189 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.000 and I missed our usual mother supervised evening potty break. 190 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:59.000 She would walk us all out, and she would wait 191 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.480 patiently to make sure that we were safe as we 192 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.720 did our business, and when we were done, we'd all 193 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.639 race back to the house as the sky turned purple. 194 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.720 Oh well, I told myself, knowing I was big enough 195 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:16.399 to hold it until the morning. Bedtime at our house 196 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.200 meant lights out. Since there were no TVs or lamps, 197 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:23.799 that meant all lanterns were snuffed out. It got so 198 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.240 dark in the house that the only light that we 199 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:29.159 got was the whites of our eyes when we opened them. 200 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:32.919 Sometime in the night. My eyes opened to a sharp 201 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.559 twinge in my gut, and my stomach rumbled, sending me 202 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:39.200 a message that it was time to pay for all 203 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.240 that extra gravy. I sopped up with the biscuits. Another 204 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.159 gurgle barked and gave me a good two minute warning, 205 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.639 forcing me to sit up in bed. I'm sorry, y'all. 206 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.919 Thank goodness, the stars were out that night. They shone 207 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:01.000 in through the kitchen window and helped light way as 208 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.759 I kept my hands out to bump into the doorknob. 209 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.879 I quietly went onto the porch so as not to 210 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.639 wake anybody up, and then I grabbed the rope my 211 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.720 father had tethered from the porch to the outhouse to 212 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:15.559 help us find our way when it rained or got 213 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:19.120 too foggy to see. So I scooted my hand across 214 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:22.759 that rope at full speed until I nearly smashed into 215 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:28.399 the new outhouse. I hurried myself inside bottom first, and 216 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.399 I sat on the big hole that was far too 217 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:33.600 big for me, and I did my best to keep 218 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.039 from falling into the abyss below. There wasn't yet a 219 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.519 roof on the outhouse, so starlight shone in around me 220 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.600 and provided me with a comfortable little environment to do 221 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:47.360 my business. And just as I was getting settled, I 222 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.919 hurt something. At first, it was just a small twig snap. 223 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:55.919 I didn't pay any mine until I heard another twig snap, 224 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.399 this time much closer to the outhouse, and I sat 225 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.080 there trying be as quiet as possible. But then a 226 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.279 terrible smell began to grow, and it wasn't for me. 227 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:10.720 It was coming from outside. I heard another tweak snap, 228 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:15.000 and then the distinct sound of heavy feet shuffling forward. 229 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.919 They were snapping and crushing the branches and leaves underfoot. 230 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.879 I did my best to stay frozen. I wanted to 231 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:25.440 cover my mouth, but I needed both hands to keep 232 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.080 me from falling into the toilet box. I tried to 233 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:32.480 quiet my breathing, but the quieter my breathing, the louder 234 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:36.200 my heartbeat climbed into my ears, and I sat there 235 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:41.039 in my awkward predicament. Silence slowly crept over me like 236 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:45.039 a thick blanket, and my heartbeat faded into the background. 237 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.320 This was no ordinary silence. I could just about feel 238 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:55.159 it being pulled over me. First the grasshoppers and crickets 239 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:58.720 clammed up, and then the hootiles and nightbirds shut down, 240 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.879 and finally the odes clammed up. I could tell there 241 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.960 was someone around me. It was the same feeling I 242 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.399 got right before one of my siblings was about to 243 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:12.159 cover my eyes and yell boot. I hoped it was 244 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.159 just one of my sisters trying to be funny, following 245 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.360 me out the back door and unbeknownst to me, setting 246 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.440 me up for a big scare. But I figured i'd 247 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:24.759 let her know the jig was up. Who's out there, 248 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.960 I said, softly, but not too loud for fear of 249 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.840 attracting a Cody or some other night critter. I assumed 250 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:35.600 i'd hear one of my sisters began to giggle and 251 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.720 to let the air out of his creepy bubble that 252 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:42.159 had inflated around our outhouse. But there was no giggle, 253 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:48.080 just complete blanketing silence. I started to panic, and I 254 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:50.639 finished up and started to pull my pants up, and 255 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.200 as I leaned toward the door, thinking it might still 256 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:55.759 have been one of my sisters. But I couldn't have 257 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.840 been more wrong. And as I picked out the door, 258 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.360 I heard a short, uteral grunt from above me. All 259 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:07.039 the starlight shining into the outhouse was smothered by a shadow, 260 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.559 showering the little space and darkness. My eyes widened like 261 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.159 two full moons, and I looked up to my horror, 262 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:19.720 there was an enormous figure looking down at me. The 263 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.559 planks my father used for the walls of the outhouse 264 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:25.480 were sticking nearly eight feet off the ground, yet this 265 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.960 thing was staring down at me over the edge. It 266 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.360 took me a few seconds to realize what I was 267 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.080 looking at, and when I saw it clearly, I was horrified. 268 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:40.159 This creature had the head of a hog. And then 269 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:43.399 it spoke to me, not with words, but right into 270 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:46.320 my head in a booming, deep voice. What are you 271 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:51.240 doing out here, brave little fella? The voice asked. My 272 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:53.559 eyes must have been about to pop out of my head, 273 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.320 and I felt my eyelids stretch as I stared motionless 274 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:00.799 at this beast towering over me. And if I hadn't 275 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.079 just done my business, I would have surely sold myself. 276 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:07.640 The hog had retreated back over the wall, but it 277 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.839 wasn't gone, and I felt its pounding feet making their 278 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.359 way toward the door of the outhouse, each step telling 279 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.640 me that this thing was huge. The door started to 280 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.319 creep open, and what looked at me from outside was 281 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:25.279 a be so tall and wide that there was no 282 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.119 chance I would be able to dash around her under it. 283 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:32.240 It clogged up the entire opening, and in the starlight 284 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:36.839 I could see its whole hideous figure. Its giant body 285 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:41.400 matched its giant head. It looked like a pig standing upright, 286 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.960 with swollen limbs and torso, and at the end of 287 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.640 its swollen ankles were human light feet with no shoes on. 288 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:52.200 There was no other way to describe it. It was 289 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:57.640 a hog man. I remember thinking to myself, I'm a 290 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.200 dead duck. I'm going to be carried out in the 291 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.559 woods like all the bad little boys are. I thought 292 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.960 of my poor mother searching and calling for me in 293 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.559 the woods, knowing she would never be able to find me, 294 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:12.960 and tears burned their way into the corners of my eyes. 295 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:17.759 And the hogman did something remarkable. It opened the door 296 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.720 all the way and stepped to the side. I'm not 297 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.720 here to carry you off, little boy, he said, right 298 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.599 into my head. But there are some things in these 299 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:31.759 woods that will. I stared at him, motionless, forgetting how 300 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:35.160 to use my voice and my legs. Now get The 301 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:39.799 hogman snarled. He stopped his swollen foot on the ground, 302 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:42.400 and I felt the earth shake around me, and I 303 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.240 tore out of that outhouse, pulling my breeches up with 304 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:48.720 both hands. As I went, stepping and hopping my way 305 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:51.519 to the safety of the house. As soon as I 306 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.200 hit the porch, all the sounds of the night flicked 307 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:56.720 back on at once, and I hurried in, and I 308 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.440 closed the door behind me, thinking my hasty entrance would 309 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.839 wake everybody up, and thinking I'd have to explain why 310 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:08.000 I was breathing so hard. I peeked out the back window, 311 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:11.039 expecting the Hogman to be looking right back at me. 312 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.839 But he was gone. I don't know where he could 313 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.359 have gone so quickly with his enormous body, but he 314 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:23.759 was just gone. Forever, I hoped. I have never mentioned 315 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:26.720 a peep of this to anyone. I didn't want to 316 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.440 look into anyone's doubting eyes. And here I am, all 317 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.960 these years later, a grandfather. Now I watched my grandson 318 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:37.759 play wild and free in the woods behind my house 319 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:42.200 where a lifetime ago, I'm at the Hogman. My grandson 320 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.000 is about the same age that I was when it happened, 321 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.640 And now the onus is upon me to ruin the 322 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:53.519 rose colored outlook. This kid still has about life because 323 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:57.079 someone has to teach him that the Hogman is out there. 324 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:02.119 Oh my gosh, what an o awesome story. I remember 325 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:05.640 this Hogman story. I've actually put pieces of it in 326 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:08.480 the in some of the little shorts that I do. 327 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:13.279 And I've gotten my AI account my AI website to 328 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:16.200 do some strange pictures. I might try to do that 329 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:20.519 for the thumbnail on this story, because I don't know. 330 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:23.440 It seems like the first Hogman's story. Oh I got 331 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.319 to scratch my back. I got a itch. Oh it's 332 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:30.480 itching me. Y'all ever get a itch? Wonder if you 333 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:33.279 got a tick buried in your back? That's what happens 334 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.079 to me, a big, old, green, full tick. I'll pull 335 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:39.839 my shirt up and let my wife look at my gross, 336 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:41.640 hairy back, and I'll say, do I have a tick 337 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.440 on my back? Yes, She'll go get a pair of 338 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:46.640 tweezers and pull them off. I don't know why I 339 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:49.200 thought of that. I have no idea why I'm telling 340 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:52.640 you that. But if anybody's ever had a big, green, 341 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.079 swellen tick on them that's been on them two or 342 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:58.119 three days, tell me about it in the comment section. 343 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:00.720 That happens to me about twice a year. And I 344 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.559 don't have any diseases lime disease or Rocky Mountain fever 345 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:07.440 or anything. I guess I'm lucky. But anyway, back to 346 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:12.200 the story. It seems like the hogman was mean in 347 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:14.359 the other story, like it was trying to get to 348 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.240 this guy he was in a deer stand, and I 349 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:20.519 think it pulled the deer stand down. I don't know, 350 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:22.759 I have to look it up. But this was a 351 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.559 good story. It was really well written. And man, I 352 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:28.400 was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole 353 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:31.119 time I was reading this. But I appreciate the man 354 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.519 sending it the second story I've done for him. I 355 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.519 think I've had this about a year. It was so 356 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:39.680 good I wanted to get it up, So thanks to 357 00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:47.640 the writer. This is a ghost story, really good, really 358 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:51.640 a good ghost story, So hang on. Some people call 359 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:56.359 me a ghost doctor. Others call people like me intermediaries 360 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:00.880 or middlemen. Some have called me insane, and I can't 361 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.240 argue with that. I suppose, after all, you'd have to 362 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:06.960 be a little crazy to want to delve into my 363 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.240 line of work. I helped ghosts find their way home 364 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:14.279 with the help of folks on the other side. It's 365 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.039 a rewarding profession, though, and I admit it can be 366 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:24.000 downright terrifying at times. Two decades ago, I was in Florence, Italy, 367 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:34.519 visiting what used to be an herbal apoth apothecary apothecary 368 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:40.240 Apo t h e c a r y apothecary run 369 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:44.440 by monks who acted as early versions of physicians, and 370 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:49.079 in the dim ornately wood panel waiting area were two ghosts. 371 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:53.799 Both wore what in modern times we would consider old 372 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:57.680 style clothing, yet neither was aware of the other. They 373 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:00.880 both passed away in the waiting area, a hundreds of 374 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.920 years before and many years between each other. Now I 375 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:07.519 should have known better, but I couldn't resist, and I 376 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:11.200 said to them, the doctor will see you now. Well, 377 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:13.480 this alone is proof of how bad my sense of 378 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:18.759 humor is. Then I helped them cross over. The most 379 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.759 number of ghosts I have encountered at one time was 380 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.200 in a large hospital. Perhaps sixty five or so of 381 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.960 them were clustered near the drive up entrance, waiting for 382 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.680 their rides back home. None of them knew they had died, 383 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:35.920 and each waiting for their family, for their loved ones 384 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:39.400 and the people dear to them in their life. If 385 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:41.720 I had helped but one of them cross over, the 386 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:44.599 rest would have seen the light it produced and swarmed 387 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.559 to me. So instead I called in help from the 388 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:52.279 other side, which seemed to help get them crossed over. Mentally, 389 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:54.799 I scanned the rest of the building for more and 390 00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:57.839 I found perhaps ten or twenty walking down the hallways 391 00:23:58.359 --> 00:24:01.359 or just stalled in an odd corner here or there, 392 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:05.119 holding their rack with an IV drip on it. We 393 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:08.119 helped them crossover one at a time, and we called 394 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:12.200 it a day. Two months ago, a train running through 395 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:16.559 my small town hit and kill someone. That someone must 396 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:19.319 have known what they were doing, because it is hard 397 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:22.680 to get to the tracks and very obvious when a 398 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:27.079 train is coming. I don't like dealing with suicide ghosts, 399 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:30.680 but I find satisfaction in doing so. They are in 400 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.759 a place that looks and feels like a hurricane at night. 401 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:38.000