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Speaker 1: And these people that claim or carry themselves without actually

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claiming to be an expert, a bigfoot expert. I mean,

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come on, what the hell is a bigfoot expert? There

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is no such thing as an expert when it comes

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Speaker 2: They know in an instant that you were in the woods.

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Speaker 1: Sneaking up on them.

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Speaker 3: As soon as you walk in the woods, you walk.

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Speaker 2: In their front door, thinking that you are going to

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surprise them. You're only kidding yourself.

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Speaker 1: We have got to get it out of our heads

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that anecdotal evidence is not evidence. The best way, in

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my opinion, that we have to learn about these creatures

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right now is by listening to and talking to those

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that have experiperience them, those who have witnessed them and

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experienced them in their own environment.

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Speaker 4: We do what we do to try to bring away

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in as thin as topic, to be an open door

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for somebody to walk through, to be able to share

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their story, a listening ear, a support hold for those

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who have held their own encounters with that which is

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not supposed to exist.

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Speaker 1: We've got to open our eyes, people, there is something

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out there. All of these thousands of people that have

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seen something. They're not all aligned, they're not all crazy.

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There are some very reputable, good people out there that

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have seen something. All right, ma'am, how have you been.

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You've been doing all right?

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Speaker 3: I've been fine. Medical issues as always, but things are

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getting better for me. I'm a little more mobile than

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I used to be because I've been doing a lot

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of aqua therapy. But uh, you know, anybody out there

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who prays, please keep me in your prayers because I

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have some liver issues that need to be but let's

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not talk about that. That's boring.

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Speaker 1: You got a pretty good tand going from the swimming.

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to do the therapy outside and because they closed the

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indoor pool for repairs. And one of the medicines that

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I take is called lie Centerpril, which is for the heart,

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and anybody who takes like Centerparl for the heart can

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tell you that it makes you super sensitive to the sunlight.

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And so two hours an hour a day outside and

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I look like I don't know how to put on

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mascare or not mascare blush because I have this straight

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across my face. I can't admit that because my face hurts.

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who figure figure.

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Speaker 1: You know what now on the E Factor, worst thing

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that happens to you this year, you're you're probably gonna

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do all right, you know?

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Speaker 5: I agree?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Well, we're gonna talk about the Missouri Blue Man,

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which when when you and I were talking earlier, you

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had asked me if I had ever heard of that,

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and I said no, but I want to. So that's

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what we're going to talk about tonight. And if you

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have any other stories, well we'll definitely get to those,

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but I want to talk about the squatch out for

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a minute. You will be leading us off on Friday night,

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the first night of the event, with our were stories

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campire stories. Do you have anything in mind? I mean,

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don't give it away if you don't want to, But

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have you been given any thought to what you want

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to talk about? What kind of stories you might share?

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Speaker 3: Well, of course, because everybody always wants to hear them

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when I tell them, and because we're actually so close

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to Montgomery, Bell and Dixon, I thought I would start

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off by just sharing the Werewolf of Werewolf Spring story

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because everybody likes to hear that, but I as long

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as people don't mind that it's slightly fictionalized. I have

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my own version of the story of the massacre, and

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I know that isn't Elijah going to be there. Yes,

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I think that he'll probably be much better at sharing

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the reality of it. But I thought on Friday night,

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frightening version of the story. And of course, because we're

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in Kentucky, there are a lot of weird animal things

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that go on, and there are a lot of stories

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in the LBL that people may not be aware of.

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The couple under the bridge, there's the man, there's the

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torn up tents. Of course, you know we I'm sure

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that I would love it. In fact, if I don't

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think he will though, because I think he's been very ill.

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But Martin Groves, Elijah's good friends with him, and so

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I would love it if Martin came and told his story.

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Speaker 1: Now, I asked him to be a speaker, and due

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to all of his he wanted to, but all of

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the health issues that you spoke of, but he just

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couldn't make it. But I've never met him, and i'd

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Speaker 3: The well, I can certainly share his stories with you.

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a second one, and I haven't had a chance to

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pick it up yet, but I thought that I would

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share his encounters, probably to me, the one of the

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most harrowing encounters I've ever ever heard anybody tell. And

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I'll tell you how effective it is when he tells it.

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never going to have that that gut wrenching, you know, feeling,

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But we had gone to Paris, Tennessee, to a conference

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two or three years ago, I guess now maybe four

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years ago, maybe my husband and I now, my husband

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is a complete and unbeliever. He you know, he tolerates

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the fact that his wife fills the bedroom with oh

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did you see this? I got this from you? And

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then also my flag? Where's my one?

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Speaker 3: It's too dark in here for me to see it,

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but my flag is up there too, And you know,

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he tolerates the fact that his wife fills the bedroom

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and the rest of the house with bigfoot paraphernalia, and

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and that I drag him two conferences halfway across the country.

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And he accepts the fact that he's mister Neoma fan.

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is when I see one, I will believe. And I'm

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fine with that. He's he's not a naysayer. He's just

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a non believer. And there's a big difference, and I'm

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glad of that. But we had gone to Paris, and

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we had sat through four or five different speakers, and

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this kind of grizzled looking man with a beard and

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you know, a big belly, and he gets up and

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he's and he starts telling a story. And I watched

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my husband go from uh, I'm not going to fall asleep,

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I'm not going to fall asleep to Holy Cow. And

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he's listened to Martin's entire presentation. And we stayed a

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little longer, and we lived so close to that particular

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conference that we didn't stay the night, so we left

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early and drove home, and all the way home, Brad's

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telling me, you know that man saw something. You can

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tell that man saw something and that's as close as

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he has ever come to being a believer because he

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knows that man saw something and it affected that man's life.

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husband has had to sit through a lot of speeches

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where a lot of people gave their encounter stories and

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they did not face him. Martin Groves made him think.

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road from me go to buy my groceries and stuff,

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and they had done presentation there was we had our

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own here in Kentucky. We had our own Roswell incident

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there and the fighter pilot, oh gosh, of course I

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can't remember his name when I need it. Basically, he

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chased he got into a dogfight in the air over Franklin,

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Kentucky with UFO, and he crash landed between Franklin and

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where I live. It's the crash sites probably maybe four

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miles from my house. And that year was the anniversary

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of that particular incident, and they had the Historical Society

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had done a whole presentation, they had this guy's grandson

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come down and receive a plaque and to talk about

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his grandfather's encounter, and and yeah, I saw that. That's

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kind of why I stumbled, because it's like, yeah, I

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get that, rest it's exactly true. And we were sitting

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there and after it was over, of course, because my husband,

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I thank you, Mantel or Martel? Is it Martell or

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Mantel anyway, but we're sitting there and the presentations over him.

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we're basically have the now the ability to wander aimlessly

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through the Historical Society, which has a really nice little museum.

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husband comes over to me. He says, hey, hey, He says,

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that guy over there he's talking about Bigfoot and he

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looks familiar. Who is that? And I went, oh, Martin Groves.

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Turns out Martin oho lives about ten miles from me.

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really effective. And if he says he's not going to

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be there, and I do know his stories or the

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big the most frightening one, I would love to share

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that with you. On that Friday night so those are

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of them are. I mean, every one

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of them that you mentioned, I'm not familiar with. So

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you know, before you came on, before we came just

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the ability to tell stories. I don't feel like I'm

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a great storyteller. I don't feel like many people are,

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but you are certainly one of those that can tell

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a good story. And you were talking about Martin being

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able to tell his that way, and it just makes

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me think about, you know, being younger and sitting with

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your grandpa, your grandma and just listening to them tell

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the stories from when they were a kid, and you're

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right there. You know, they take you right there, and

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when you tell stories, That's what I feel like, and

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Speaker 3: I had three amazing storytellers in my childhood. One was

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my great grandmother, one was my great uncle who was

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her youngest child, and one was my and that was

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on my mom's side, and then the third one was

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my dad's brother. All of them were great storytellers. And

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a great storyteller. They were animated, they weren't afraid to

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when when there's a scream, they would scream. They'd send

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me running out of my chair every single time. And

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I hope neither of my sons is really big on

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telling stories. Although my oldest used to be really good.

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He had a head injury in the military in Afghanistan

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and has a He's not as sharp as he used

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to be. But I'm hoping that someday I'll have a

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grandchild or a great grandchild who will pick up the

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mantle and carry it on, because I can remember sitting

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for hours out of hours and hours out in the

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front yard with my great grandmother, snap and beans and

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listening to her stories my great uncle, her youngest son.

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This is not I promise you we will get to

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the blue Man. I promise I'll tell you that story.

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But I want to tell you this story because to me,

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this is I this is such a profound story. I

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will never forget hearing him tell me this. It was

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a little girl. And we have all of these legends

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in my family of people coming from the dead to

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warn of death, and this is one of those stories.

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He my, My whole family's from Arkansas. I'm the only

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my sister, my one brother, and I all born in Illinois.

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all my aunts and uncles. Because it's all from Arkansas.

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the East Bottoms and it's hot and swampy, and it

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just a miserable, miserable place to be in the summertime.

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were pour down there so poor that when the depression hit,

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people are like, what depression, It's normal here, It's that bad.

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and other families have hey, we have, other families have

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photo albums. And my great grandmother literally had an album

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of all the times that my great grandfather had been

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arrested in tone and jail for getting up moved. That

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was our family album. Anyway. So they lived way down

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mule to the wagon and went to town and my

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great grandma hitched the wagon up and she told my

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great uncle, we got to go to town and get supplies.

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So he jumps on the way and with her and

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they start heading to town. They're probably five miles outside

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of town. They get to the point this split in

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the road and it goes around this big like swampy

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area and there's a trail that ran through that, and

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right in the middle of that is where my great

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grandfather still was. And so my great uncle jumped off

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the wagon. He said, I'm going to go through there,

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and I'm going to stop and talk to Paw and

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I'll meet you on the other side. And Mos says okay,

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and she takes off in their wagon and he heads

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up the trail and about halfway up the trail to

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halfway between there and the still here comes my great

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grandfather down the path and my uncle Nolan said, O, Pa,

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I was coming to see you. And he says, well,

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he says that I'm I'm glad you were, because I

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want you to know you need to take good care

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of your mom. And my great uncle was weird, Okay,

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I'll do that, and he heads on up the because

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he's I got to go. I got to catch up

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with mom in the wagon. So Paul heads on back

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towards the house, and my uncle Nolan heads on up

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to the and he gets to the still and there's

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my great grandfather sitting under a tree dead and he'd

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been for hours. My great uncle did not meet his

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living father on that trail. And I love that story.

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And I can see my great uncle telling that story

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to this day. And they're all gone now. Of course,

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you know, my Ma died in eighty five and my

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uncle Nolan died in the nineties. But I'll never forget that.

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And I can remember the shock. I felled my chest

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when he said that to me, and I thought, I

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want to be able to do that to people. I

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want to shock their hearts.

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Speaker 1: That gave me goose bumps.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of stories like that in my family,

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but people.

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Speaker 1: That didn't come here to why started with that one? Though?

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That that was good. I like that.

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Speaker 3: Maybe when maybe next weekend, not this coming week and

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the weekend after right, Yeah, maybe I'll tell a couple

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more of those stories.

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Speaker 1: I think there's tell us about this blue Man in Missouri.

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Speaker 3: The blue Man is such an interesting story. I'm guessing

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this blue Man must be a Bigfoot story. It's a

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Southeast Missouri legend. You can look up the places. There's

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the I wrote this down because I never came North Fork.

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There's Indian Ridge, and there's Spring Creek. All of these

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our hills, and Spring Creek is an actual creek that runs.

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But there's a Spring Creek Hill, and there's a Spring

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Creek Creek, and there's the North Ridge. And I believe

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that this is one of those amazing wild man stories

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that were it to originate today, would probably just be

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considered a big Foot encounter. It starts in eighteen sixty five.

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Now you got this old mountain man. His name's Old

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Blue Saw Collins. I don't know why they called him

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Blue Saw, but that's what Maybe that was his name,

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Maybe his mom named him blue I don't know, but

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his name was Blue Saw Collins. And he was the

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kind of loner who lived up in a cabin off

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on the hill by himself. He made his way through

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life hunting and trapping. He maybe had little garden, you

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never know, but he was a loner type of a

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guy and well known in the town at all. And

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you know, not rude or anything, but definitely the kind

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of guy that lived up on the hill. By himself,

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and he did.

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Speaker 5: It was late winter, early spring.

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Speaker 3: It was early enough in the spring that he wakes

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up this morning on this particular day and a nice

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light powder of snow had fallen on the ground. Now,

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it's really too late in the year for him to

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count on anything that may have been in, you know,

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leftover from last year's crop, for whatever gardening he may

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have done. He doesn't have any meat, you know, hanging

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in the smokehouse, and he needs to go out and

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he needs to do some hunting, and he figures this

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is the perfect day for it, because with this light

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powder of snow, he's going to have clear footprints. And

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boy was he right. He had an abundance of them.

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He sees rabbit prints, and he sees keep.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more, but the big footb board. We'll

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be right.

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Speaker 5: Back, Prince.

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Speaker 3: And he sees raccoons and deer and all kinds of animals,

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and he's I'm just surrounded by Prince. And he's standing

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there literally trying to make up his mind when he

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wants for supper. You know, maybe I'll catch a rabbit

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and have rabbit stew or something. And he happens to

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look over and he sees the most bizarre set of

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princes he's ever seen in his life. It looks like

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a giant, barefooted man had just walked through the middle

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of all these prints. But it was kind of such

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an odd shaped It wasn't really quite human, but it

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definitely wasn't animal, and it was massive, and he thought,

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I don't know what the heck that is, but I'm

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going to follow it and I'm going to find out.

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So off he goes, following these tracks, and I mean

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he spends the whole day following these tracks. He's up

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one hill and down the other, crossing creeks and back

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and forth, and he'd spent just about every once daylight

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when he finally catches up with the creature that made

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these tracks. And when he looks up, he sees this

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thing that he says is nine feet tall if it's

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an inch, and it is covered in a thick mat

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of black, curly hair, and he doesn't quite know what

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to do. It looks human. He's thinking it's a man,

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but it's the biggest man he's ever seen. And this

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man is running around barefooted, except he's just got the

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curiest body he's ever seen. But he's wearing a loincloth,

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and he just can't quite make out what he's looking at.

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Should he shoot it or should he not? Well about

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that time, this thing sees him and eyes up on

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the ridge and he's down at the bottom of the

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hill and there's these big old rocks, and it just

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takes one right down the hill, running rolling right towards him,

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and he has to jump to get out of the way.

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And before he can even get back on his feet

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from jumping out of the way of that one, here

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comes another one. And he finally gets his gun up

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and he tries to aim it and shoot at the thing,

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and it picks up a boulder, a big boulder, like

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the size of a beach ball. We're not talking. It

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didn't pick up a little rock, you know, and like that,

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we're talking something the size of a beach ball, raises

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it up over his head and throws it at blue salt.

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He turns around and he starts running, and he did

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not stop running till he got all the way into town.

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And I mean he's out of breath. It's after dark,

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he's sweating, he's had you know. It's the most harrowing

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experience of his life, and he goes running into the

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locals wherever everybody hangs out, and he is just huffing

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and puffing, and he says, you're not gonna believe what

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just happened to me, and he relates the story. He

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talks about seeing these bizarre footprints, and he follows this

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thing and he gets to this thing and it's huge

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and it looks like a man, but it's covered in hair,

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and it's got a loincloth on, and it's throwing bold.

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It's strong enough he can throw a boulder the size

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of a beach wall, and he wouldn't call it a

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beach ball, but you know, bigger twice the size of

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a cannon ball at him. And of course this gets

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all of the town folk riled up, and so the

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men they decide they're gonna go out. They're gonna get

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a posse together, and they're gonna go out and they're

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gonna hunt this thing down. So they all go to

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bed that night, they all get up before daylight the

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very next morning, and they go out and they, you know,

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they do the same thing up the hills and down

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the hills, and then you know, across the hollows and

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the creeks, a couple of times they thought they got

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a glimpse at him, but they never got close to him.

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They certainly never got close enough to pull a shot off,

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but they did think that they happen to get a

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glimpse at him. So disappointed, they I'll go back to town.

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But from that point forward, it seemed like every few

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days someone had come running into town. Farmer had come

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in and say, man, I heard something screaming in my

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back pasture, and I don't know what it was, but

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it certainly wasn't anything I've ever heard before. Kids had

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come home running home from school and they'd say, you know,

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something chased us all the way from the schoolhouse to

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the house, and you know, it was scary, and moms

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were keeping their kids home from school, and dads were

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not leaving the house without their guns, and life was

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really scary. And that went on for a while until

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it just stopped and there was nothing for nine years,

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not a thing, No one heard, a single had a

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single story until one day in eighteen seventy four, there

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was a farmer and he had to be out looking

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and his pasture he'd lost to heifer, and it was

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his prize heifer and he'd been out looking. He'd searched

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high and low because he just was sick over losing

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this effert and he was hoping he'd find or wandered

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off somewhere, but of course he didn't. However, what he

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did find, and it was the craziest thing. He found

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a cave. And so he came back to town and

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he said, look, I've found this cave that i've never

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seen before, and I think something's been living in there.

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So a group of men grather their guns and they

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head out to this cave and there's nothing in the cave,

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nothing living at that moment, but they see over in

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the corner there's a bed of sticks and leaves where

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something has been sleeping, and scattered all over the floor

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of that cave are animal bones where something's been eaten on.

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And so they figured this must be where the blue

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Man lives. So again, there were the occasional between then

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and nineteen eleven was the next real serious incident. But

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between then there was the occasional farmer who would come

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and say something was screaming in my back collar. There was,

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you know, the farmer's wife who said something has been

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robbing my garden, or there was once a little girl

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who said, well, you know, something stood on the edge

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of the road and it watched me while I played

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in the backyard. And school kids complained about being chased

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home by the thing until nineteen eleven when this farmer

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was out there looking and he was trying to find

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that heifer, and instead of finding the heifer, he came

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across he was crossing a creek and there was the

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Blue Man standing in the middle of the creek, fish

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and fish with its bare hands. Now, of course he

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went back and he grabbed everybody and he said, y'all,

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you got to come up here, and you got to

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see what this thing is, because you know it's And

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so again they formed another posse, and they went out

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looking for the thing, and they did everything they could

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find it, but they they couldn't find it. They no

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matter how hard they looked, they could not find this

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this thing that everybody kept saying. Now, I want to

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I want to stop right here, and I want to

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say this. There are a lot of reasons why they

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think they called it blue the Blue Man. A lot

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of people say they called it the blue Man because

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of the possibility that this thing happened to be uh.

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It was the first person who saw it was Blue Collins.

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A lot of people say, well, they named it the

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blue Man after Blue Saw. You know, it's an association thing,

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blue Man, Blue Saw, and a lot of people say.

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Other people say, and I believe this more than the other.

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This thing's covered in a thick mat of curly black hair.

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Now in the direct sunlight. Some people say that when

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the sun shone on that black hair, it was so

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black that it shone blue. And my dad was one

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of the few people I ever knew whose hair was

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that black. He had black hair so black that if

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he stood in the sunlight, it looked like it had

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a blue cast to it. And I think that might

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have been why they called the Blue Man the blue Man.

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Now there is I don't know if anybody's ever heard

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of the Blue Fugate family. Are you familiar with them? No,

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So they're a family in Kentucky, and I believe in

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eastern Kentucky. And if you look them up on the

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internet you'll find pictures of and they are smurf blue.

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Not so much today because today they've kind of come

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down out of the mountains and they've married. But what

476
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happened was this family was so isolated up in the hills.

477
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: What were their names again, real quick, Yama.

478
00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:26,559
Speaker 3: The Fewgate family, Fugate, the Fewgate family. They call them

479
00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:30,359
the Blue few Gates of Kentucky. And they were so

480
00:29:30,599 --> 00:29:34,160
isolated up in the hills of Kentucky that they started inbreeding,

481
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:40,000
and the inbreeding caused the recessive gene to become prominent,

482
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,240
and that recessive gene turned and made their skin all

483
00:29:44,279 --> 00:29:49,839
their skin blue. And it wasn't until probably the nineteen

484
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,079
maybe the nineteen fifties, I don't know, I can't get

485
00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:56,720
the year exactly right that they started not being so

486
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,359
isolated and meeting people and intermarrying. That that gene has

487
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,559
finally kind of shut down and there aren't so many

488
00:30:04,839 --> 00:30:07,279
Blue few Gates. There might not be any Blue few

489
00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:10,039
Gates left living. I think the oldest one may have

490
00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:13,640
died about twenty or thirty years ago. But you can

491
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,079
look them up on the internet there.

492
00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: I'm doing that right now, and they are blue.

493
00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, smurf blue. So I wonder. And the only thing

494
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,119
that makes me think that this may not be true

495
00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:34,079
is the fact that even Blue Saw Collins said that

496
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,880
this guy was nine feet tall. But I wondered it

497
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,559
couldn't help, but wonder if maybe this was a few

498
00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:46,200
gate that had just migrated west. But no, he was

499
00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:50,039
covered in hair, and none of the few gates look

500
00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:51,519
particularly Harry.

501
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:53,319
Speaker 1: Well.

502
00:30:53,359 --> 00:30:53,559
Speaker 3: You know.

503
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: Also, now, Moe, what while you're saying that, I was thinking,

504
00:30:59,599 --> 00:31:01,400
are you familiar with guns at all?

505
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:02,359
Speaker 2: You know?

506
00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:07,279
Speaker 1: Because you call the gun you call you either got

507
00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:11,680
stainlus or blue, and blue is black. It's the color

508
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,480
of black, but it's a blue gun. They call it blued.

509
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,599
Speaker 3: Yeah. My dad had a twenty two browning, Belgian browning,

510
00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:22,440
and my brother borrowed it from him and kind of

511
00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:25,599
let it. He didn't take good care of it. And

512
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,359
I went and got the gun, a Belgian browning.

513
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,519
Speaker 1: They're expensive and a beautiful.

514
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,079
Speaker 3: Kind of walnut stock on it. And my brother cracked

515
00:31:34,079 --> 00:31:38,000
the stock, but he let the barrel rust and I

516
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:40,839
took that whole thing apart, cleaned it, did everything I could.

517
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,039
I had to take it and get the whole barrel reblued,

518
00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:47,759
and I brought it as close to as I could

519
00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:52,400
back to my dad had to take the stock and

520
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,400
have he had a guy that he knew rebuild the stock.

521
00:31:56,759 --> 00:32:00,440
The part that my brother cracked off and you couldn't tell,

522
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,240
But my dad knew that part of that was the

523
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:07,079
original Belgian walnut stock, and part of it was the

524
00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:10,599
remake that the guy made for him. But yeah, I

525
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,880
know what bluing is on a cut.

526
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I thought about when you called

527
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,119
him the blue Man. I mean, blue is.

528
00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:23,759
Speaker 3: Black, that's and that was like, that was my dad's hair.

529
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,240
My dad had gun metal blue hair when he got

530
00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:30,720
older and it started to turn gray anyway, but yeah,

531
00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:34,559
it was black, it was, And that's that's what I mean.

532
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,119
And I think that that's where a lot of people

533
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,079
get the blue Man too, is I think that's a

534
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:46,160
more logical explanation, is that that blue machine that truly

535
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,480
black hair has. Yeah, and.

536
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,839
Speaker 1: Something else I took real quick from that story was

537
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,440
him saying that he was wearing a loin cloth. And

538
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,279
that's the only thing that you they really differs from

539
00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:05,680
today's reports. But you got to think this was eighteen

540
00:33:05,759 --> 00:33:08,759
sixty five and they probably didn't want to sound, you know,

541
00:33:09,079 --> 00:33:13,839
batshit crazy, so he just embellished and said, yeah, he

542
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,240
was wearing a loincloth instead of saying this thing was

543
00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:16,839
butt naked.

544
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,319
Speaker 3: I will also say, however, that in the eighteen seventy

545
00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,759
four reports always reported with the loincloth, and then I've

546
00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:27,519
got I'm going to skip forward to nineteen thirty eight

547
00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:30,279
because this is my favorite story about the Blue Man,

548
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,000
and it involves two brothers, the Bump Brothers. Now, I

549
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,400
don't know if the Bump brothers are I don't know

550
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,319
their first names, but I can imagine they must have

551
00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:45,039
been a lot like my family. The backwoods people bottom landers,

552
00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:47,680
as my great uncle would have called us. Swappers is

553
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,079
what a lot of other people would have said. But

554
00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:52,720
they're backwoods people living off by themselves. They live off

555
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,200
the land. They hunt, they fish, they you know what

556
00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:58,720
they what's in their freezer is probably what they killed

557
00:33:58,799 --> 00:34:03,559
last winter. And they were real big on coon hunting.

558
00:34:03,599 --> 00:34:05,799
They had real nice you know, people went to these

559
00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:08,719
guys to get by the coon dogs because these these

560
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,800
guys were really good at training their dogs. And just December,

561
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,320
so they could have been hunting there, but they didn't

562
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,519
have guns with them for whatever reason. So I'm going

563
00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:21,599
to assume that they were just out training their coon

564
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,719
dogs and they're raccoon dogs, because if you get in

565
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,079
trouble saying that second half of that word without the

566
00:34:28,079 --> 00:34:31,519
first half these days. But you know what I mean. Anyway,

567
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:38,760
so they're out and they happened. They've got the dogs going,

568
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,719
and you know anybody knows anything about coon dogs. They've

569
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,000
got their bark that they do as they're running through

570
00:34:44,039 --> 00:34:46,000
the woods. And then when they treat something, they've got

571
00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:48,599
a bay and it's very different. You can tell the

572
00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:52,599
minute they've treat something and they hear the dogs and

573
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:55,719
right away they think, well that they're band but it

574
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,239
doesn't quite sound you know, it's different. It's like they

575
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,000
don't know what they got up that tree. So they

576
00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:03,920
run through the woods and they get to the dogs

577
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,840
and they look up the tree and what they saw

578
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,079
sitting up in that tree was the sorriest sight of

579
00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:11,079
a man they'd ever laid eyes on in their life.

580
00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:14,440
He wasn't wearing nothing but a loincloth. He's covered in

581
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:18,000
blue fur, didn't have nothing on his feet or hands.

582
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,880
In its middle of winter. He should have been frozed

583
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,760
half to death, but he's just sitting there. Well, the

584
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,679
one brother, he decides he's going to run back to

585
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,679
house and he's gonna get a gun because he just

586
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,679
doesn't know about the sky and the other brother. He

587
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,639
stands under the tree and he's like, why don't you

588
00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:35,960
come down out of that tree? And the thing won't answer.

589
00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:38,559
He said, you know, come on down. I got some

590
00:35:38,599 --> 00:35:40,320
food here. Why don't you come down here and eat?

591
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,920
And he said, all the guy did was growl at me.

592
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,119
And he says, I'm not kidding you. I mean, We're

593
00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:48,119
not gonna hurt you. I'm gonna put the dogs away.

594
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,000
Come down out of that tree, get warm, We'll take

595
00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:52,880
you back to the house, will make you a nice supper,

596
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,320
we'll put you in a nice warm bed. But you

597
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,880
have to come down out of that green and all

598
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,159
the tree, and all that guy did was growl and

599
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:04,039
show his teeth. Now, the one brother, he is a

600
00:36:04,039 --> 00:36:08,000
little taken back by that rudeness. So the other brother

601
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:10,360
comes and you know, he tries to get him down

602
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,480
out of the tree, and he won't come down. So

603
00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:17,239
they give up and they finally went back to the house. Now,

604
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,760
a lot of people around town asked, you know, you

605
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:25,119
had the blue man treat, why didn't you shoot him?

606
00:36:25,559 --> 00:36:27,719
Why didn't you come into town and get one of us?

607
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,840
And we had to come back out and we'd have

608
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,239
captured and we'd have had it done. And the two

609
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,639
brothers said, will Town's a long way from our house,

610
00:36:37,119 --> 00:36:39,639
and we ain't got no car to drive into town

611
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,719
or truck or anything. And the mules were put up

612
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,840
for the night. We didn't want to walk. We figured,

613
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,800
if he's there in the morning, we'd let you know.

614
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,280
But he wasn't, so we never thought gave it another thought,

615
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,239
which is why their story never got told for two

616
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,719
or three months after they treated. But that was as

617
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,360
close as anybody ever came to catch in the Blue Man.

618
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,760
Now there is one more story, and it takes place

619
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,440
in Arkansas. Now where this happens in Missouri is down

620
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,639
not too far from Poplar Bluff. If anybody knows where

621
00:37:13,639 --> 00:37:16,440
Poplar Bluff is, that's the not too far from the

622
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,559
boot heel in the southeast corner. The story I'm going

623
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:23,880
to tell you actually took place in northwest Arkansas and

624
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,239
War Eagle, and War Eagle's one of my favorite places

625
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,280
to go in Arkansas. If anybody's ever been to Arkansas,

626
00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:33,599
they need to go to War Eagle if they're ever

627
00:37:33,679 --> 00:37:36,440
in that part, because there's a War Eagle mill there

628
00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:40,800
and go get some beans at War Eagle Mill because

629
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,199
they're good, and you can the mill still it's a gristmill,

630
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,760
and you can get you know, brown corn and flour

631
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,639
and stuff there too. But and it's beautiful. It's a

632
00:37:51,639 --> 00:37:54,280
beautiful They've they've got the restaurant, they've got the mill.

633
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,960
It's it's and they've got the bridge that you that

634
00:37:59,119 --> 00:38:06,000
leads across war Eagle Creek. It's just absolutely beautiful. And

635
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:10,639
but there's a story there that happened in nineteen sixty six.

636
00:38:12,079 --> 00:38:16,360
The field was called, I believe I wrote it down

637
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,239
Peter Bottoms is what it was called. And there were

638
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,880
these two brothers and they decided that they were out

639
00:38:25,079 --> 00:38:34,159
riding their horses and they were headed down. They were

640
00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:40,400
headed down the a road towards Peter Bottom, which is

641
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,000
there by war Eagle and not too far from the mill.

642
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,599
And there was farmer and he was coming up the

643
00:38:47,639 --> 00:38:53,719
road from him, and he said, don't you boys go

644
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,119
down there in that field. There's there's a monster down

645
00:38:57,159 --> 00:38:59,039
there in that field. You need to stay away from there.

646
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,599
Can you tell two teenage boys there's monster in a field?

647
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:07,079
To see what they do? And that's exactly it. They

648
00:39:07,119 --> 00:39:09,559
headed straight down that field, but they got about halfway

649
00:39:09,599 --> 00:39:11,679
down the hill, and their horses started acting up so

650
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,360
bad they had to get off and walk them otherwise

651
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,360
they're going to get thrown by them. And both horses

652
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,440
were really having a fit, so they get they kind

653
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,599
of get the horses down the field, but they get

654
00:39:22,639 --> 00:39:24,760
to the edge of the field and they finally gave

655
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,519
up and just tied them off because they you know,

656
00:39:26,559 --> 00:39:28,639
and left them there. And they start walking across the

657
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:32,239
field and they happen to notice a big pile of fur.

658
00:39:32,599 --> 00:39:35,519
It looks like a dead animal out there, and they're

659
00:39:35,519 --> 00:39:38,440
getting closer and they're, you know, discussing what they think

660
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,960
that they're about to come up on. And this thing

661
00:39:41,039 --> 00:39:46,199
stands up and it is nine feet tall and it

662
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,679
raises its hands and it growls at them. And the

663
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,800
boys turned around and they they ran back and they

664
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,559
grabbed their horses, and the horses, of course, are already

665
00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:57,519
throwing fits. And they barely get on the horses, and

666
00:39:57,559 --> 00:40:00,159
they can't even control the horses. They just take off

667
00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:01,800
running and all they can do is hang on.

668
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,599
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more, but the big foot report, We'll

669
00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:07,320
be right back.

670
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 3: This scared the boys so bad that one wet his

671
00:40:11,079 --> 00:40:14,519
pants and both of the boys had to be taken

672
00:40:14,559 --> 00:40:18,000
to the hospital and treated for shock. Now a lot

673
00:40:18,079 --> 00:40:20,599
of people say that that was the Blue Man. I

674
00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:22,400
think that's a little too far away for it to

675
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,639
ben the Blue Man. But the thing that's interesting and

676
00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:28,840
what ties that together is the fact that there is

677
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:35,079
a legend of back way back when Spain or maybe

678
00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:40,519
France still owned that hole before the Louisiana purchase. And

679
00:40:40,599 --> 00:40:42,920
I don't know how far back this goes, so I

680
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,880
couldn't tell you which one owned it at the time,

681
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,480
but at one time or another both have owned that area.

682
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,280
And there was a trapper who was married to a

683
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:57,639
Spanish wife, and she was as beautiful woman as you

684
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:03,840
ever saw, with glossy black hair and flashing blue eyes.

685
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:09,880
But she had the worst temper any person has ever seen.

686
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,199
And after about two or three weeks of hiking on

687
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,760
up into that territory and running traps in that territory

688
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,199
with his wife, who never ever shut her mouth, he

689
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,199
got fed up and traded her for an Indian woman,

690
00:41:28,559 --> 00:41:32,199
and that made her go crazy. And they say that

691
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,880
she married the Native American man and she had a

692
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,679
kid buy him, but she took that kid off and

693
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,360
she went into the wilderness and she raised her children

694
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,719
alone in the wilderness, and they say some of her

695
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,639
children aren't all human, and they say that that's where

696
00:41:48,679 --> 00:41:52,599
the blue men in some of those north Northern Arkansaw

697
00:41:52,719 --> 00:42:02,159
bigfoot encounters originate with that Spanish woman with the bad temper. Yeah,

698
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,000
I'd just like to throw that in at the end,

699
00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:08,760
because I can see my husband trading me off.

700
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: You know what, every every story like that, there's at

701
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,119
least a little grain of truth, you know. And let

702
00:42:18,159 --> 00:42:20,599
me just pull this up here. I found while you

703
00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:22,639
were telling the story.

704
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 3: Blue fugate family right there.

705
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:33,079
Speaker 1: Weird it's that.

706
00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:38,119
Speaker 3: That's a recessive gene caused by inbreeding.

707
00:42:40,519 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. So wow, I've never heard that before.

708
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds like, yeah.

709
00:42:52,159 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: I got the big feet and bading.

710
00:42:59,599 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 3: So that that's the story of the Blue Man. And

711
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,880
I think it's really an interesting one, and I think

712
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,440
it's a shame that it doesn't get told more often.

713
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I had never ever heard of it before.

714
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,280
We've got some time, if you know, if you got

715
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:23,159
another shorter one that you want to share, well.

716
00:43:23,119 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 5: Let me think kind of like to that whole area.

717
00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:39,559
Speaker 3: You know, I spent a great deal in my childhood

718
00:43:39,679 --> 00:43:44,800
and most of the Arkansas that I know is everything

719
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,159
north of Little Rock. My mom's side of the family

720
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,119
was the northeast, and my dad's side of the family

721
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:54,159
was the northwest. Northwest part of Arkansas is far more beautiful,

722
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:57,159
I think, But I'm a lot more familiar with the

723
00:43:57,199 --> 00:44:00,760
northeast because my when I was a teenager, my I'd

724
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,679
go down with my grandma and I'd stay at my

725
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,559
uncle's house all summer with my cousin who's my age,

726
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,239
and so I got to spend a lot more time

727
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,599
in that part of Arkansas and that whole I mean,

728
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:18,199
they have such really cool I can remember my great uncle,

729
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:19,960
the one that told all the great stories.

730
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 5: He used to.

731
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,280
Speaker 3: He'd go out and and he'd cut a cypress knee.

732
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,199
Have you ever seen a cypress knee?

733
00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 5: So it's it's a.

734
00:44:32,639 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 3: Part of the cypress route that comes up out of

735
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,519
the water, and it comes up and it just looks

736
00:44:37,559 --> 00:44:42,320
like a little almost like a stalagmite. And he'd cut

737
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,840
him off and he'd bring it back to the house.

738
00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:50,639
That's so stupid, he tell me, Now, you stripped that

739
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,800
down and boil it and sand and and we'll dry

740
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,719
it out and and uh, and we'll stand it and

741
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,679
stain it, and then we'll sell it, and I give

742
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:04,800
you the for it. Well, i'd boil it and strip

743
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,400
it down, and but you got to let that darn

744
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,639
thing sit in the sun for months and dry out.

745
00:45:12,039 --> 00:45:15,199
And so by the time that was done, all he

746
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,199
had to do was a little light standing and staining,

747
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,199
and then he'd sell it and make all the money.

748
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:24,480
And I did all the hard work. But I can

749
00:45:24,519 --> 00:45:28,360
remember him taking me down in that in those backwaters

750
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,199
on the Black River and the Strawberry River, and and

751
00:45:31,559 --> 00:45:35,760
and we'd be going on the boat and we'd hear

752
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:41,199
something scream and he'd, you know, he'd stop and he'd

753
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:45,039
sit for a minute and he'd listen. And then if

754
00:45:45,039 --> 00:45:48,360
he didn't hear something, he didn't, you know, if he

755
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,920
heard something that made him uncomfortable, he would never tell

756
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,840
me why, But he'd say the same the day to

757
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:57,480
go looking for cyprusnies. And I've seen him. He ran

758
00:45:57,519 --> 00:46:01,760
troutlines as far as I knew of my whole life.

759
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,360
But I've seen him turn around and not run his

760
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,800
trout lines because something in the woods didn't feel right

761
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,519
to him. And I're on that river, or he'd hear

762
00:46:10,639 --> 00:46:15,119
something or you know, or smell something and he'd turn

763
00:46:15,199 --> 00:46:20,159
around and he'd go back, and I always wondered. So

764
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,480
we all know my story, and I don't want to

765
00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:26,400
tell it cause I'm tired of telling it. But one

766
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,199
of the things that I can remember as a kid

767
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:36,920
up in Illinois was my grandmother used to tell me

768
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,559
all the time to stay away from that end of

769
00:46:39,559 --> 00:46:45,239
the island where I eventually had my Yeah, I bet

770
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:50,599
they do, a bet every gift shop in Arkansas does too.

771
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:58,519
But when when I was growing up, my grandma always

772
00:46:58,519 --> 00:47:00,480
told me to stay away from that end of the island.

773
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,960
There's a wild man that lived over there. And I

774
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,880
can remember my uncle telling me that there was wildman

775
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,280
down in those swamps. You know, you had to be

776
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,800
careful of the wild man. And it wasn't until I

777
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,920
was in my forties that somebody pointed out to me

778
00:47:17,039 --> 00:47:21,119
that wild man was Arkansas for Bigfoot. I didn't know

779
00:47:21,199 --> 00:47:26,320
any better. I literally was like, Oh, They've been telling

780
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,519
me all those years that there was bigfoot down there,

781
00:47:28,519 --> 00:47:30,599
but I didn't know because I'd never I was a

782
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:33,880
Yank Yes, born raised in ottais not with I was lucky.

783
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,000
I knew what those people were saying anything about anything,

784
00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:41,599
because their accents were so thick, and they never never

785
00:47:41,639 --> 00:47:42,480
finished a word.

786
00:47:44,639 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 2: You know.

787
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 6: My uncle said, way, I'm I'm gonna go, and it

788
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:56,079
could go on, what what what, I'm gonna go up Yon?

789
00:47:57,119 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what yonder? He just kind of dribble off

790
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,239
with his words, and so, yeah, I didn't know that

791
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:09,039
that was. But I can remember my uncle he'd stopped

792
00:48:09,079 --> 00:48:12,239
the boat the Saint Today for it, and he turned

793
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:13,400
around and we go back home.

794
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:21,639
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, Well, so when did you move from Arkansas?

795
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 3: I never lived in Arkansas. I lived in Illinois. My

796
00:48:25,559 --> 00:48:30,320
mom and dad left Arkansas nineteen fifty one, gotcha, But

797
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,199
because they had all of my grandma, Well that's not true.

798
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:40,320
My mom's parents moved to Illinois nineteen fifty. What it

799
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,880
was is, back then all of the jobs were in

800
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,320
the factories up in Illinois, and so everybody moved up

801
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,039
there to get a job working for John Deere or

802
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:59,199
Caterpillar or Harvester International Harvester, and my grandparents moved up there.

803
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,119
My grandfather got a job working at the Rock Island Arsenal,

804
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,880
but he fell off the bridge and broke his back

805
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,320
and so he could never work again. But he was

806
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,320
a mobile still. I mean, he didn't become paralyzed, but

807
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,079
he was so damnaged. He always walked crippled up, and

808
00:49:16,119 --> 00:49:19,519
he was always in a lot of pain. And my

809
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:21,920
dad went up there and he became an iron worker,

810
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,000
and that's because he had all the skills. If you

811
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,159
want to be an iron worker and you happen to

812
00:49:27,199 --> 00:49:29,119
have been in the navy, odds are you're going to

813
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,480
know everything you need to know to become an iron

814
00:49:31,519 --> 00:49:36,360
worker from what you learn in the navy. But oh,

815
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:40,599
all of my uncles and great aunts or great uncles,

816
00:49:40,639 --> 00:49:43,360
and they all went to work in the shops, didn't

817
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,079
And that's what they would actually go down to Arkansas

818
00:49:46,119 --> 00:49:48,719
and they would recruit people, recruit people to go up

819
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,079
there and work. So they didn't have enough people to

820
00:49:51,159 --> 00:49:55,280
fill those jobs. And my dad always said that Arkansas

821
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,039
was the land of opportunity because everybody had the opportunity

822
00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:01,760
to leave, Alma said, and the only ones that left

823
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,800
were the ones that were worth their salt. The rest

824
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,800
stayed in Arkansas. And I don't believe that because I

825
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:09,039
think a lot of my relatives at stayed in Arkansas

826
00:50:09,159 --> 00:50:11,639
worked a lot harder life than my mom and Dad

827
00:50:11,639 --> 00:50:15,800
did because they had to get there living out of

828
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:24,599
the soil and out of the bottoms. But we would

829
00:50:24,679 --> 00:50:27,119
go down. I mean, that's where we would go for

830
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:33,800
Christmas and Thanksgiving and then when not every time, because

831
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,599
by the time I was born, we really didn't go

832
00:50:35,679 --> 00:50:38,119
for the holidays so much. But I would go down

833
00:50:38,159 --> 00:50:42,519
with my grandmother in the summertime, and I would stay

834
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:47,039
all summer with my cousin who was my age, and

835
00:50:48,199 --> 00:50:50,400
we'd get up every morning real early. I know, this

836
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,800
is nothing to do with Bigfoot, but we get up

837
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:54,480
real early in the morning to get all of our

838
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,679
chores done on the farm so that we could go

839
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,239
swimming in the afternoon. Because this, boy, once it got

840
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,239
to a certain time of day, it turned out to

841
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,519
be one hundred and twenty degrees down there that those

842
00:51:05,559 --> 00:51:09,599
sand roads wuld burn your feet. And there's the there

843
00:51:09,679 --> 00:51:12,519
was a spring that was ice cold water. Boy, we

844
00:51:12,519 --> 00:51:14,679
couldn't wait to get to that spring about two o'clock

845
00:51:14,679 --> 00:51:15,480
in the afternoon.

846
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 1: That sounds a lot like today, you know. I get

847
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,760
everything done as early as you can because it gets

848
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,519
hot as hell in the afternoon.

849
00:51:27,519 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 3: And back then they just I don't here's I'm sixty

850
00:51:32,519 --> 00:51:37,480
years old, and I we got air conditioning in our

851
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:41,599
house in Illinois nineteen seventy three, Central Air, and we

852
00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:43,920
were the only members of my mom and dad's family

853
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,159
that had central Air for probably fifteen years.

854
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: And when I.

855
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 3: Moved out and got married, I never lived in a

856
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:58,239
house with air conditioning again until two thousand and twelve.

857
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: And I can't imagine living in a house without air conditioning.

858
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,400
I don't know how y'all are still alive.

859
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:08,679
Speaker 5: Well.

860
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:14,599
Speaker 3: What we would do and is my I loved going

861
00:52:14,639 --> 00:52:17,079
to Arkansas, but I didn't care to stay with my

862
00:52:17,159 --> 00:52:18,920
uncle as much as I did my great aunt and

863
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:19,880
my great uncle.

864
00:52:19,599 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 5: Because.

865
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 3: What they would do is there was a big, long

866
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,440
back sun porch on the back of their house, and

867
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,400
my aunt had two big fans, one at each end,

868
00:52:35,679 --> 00:52:41,320
and we'd get in the shower right before we went

869
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,880
to bed with our slips on. We always slept in

870
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,480
and we wore dresses most of the time, so we

871
00:52:47,519 --> 00:52:51,199
had white slips and that were under our dress, and

872
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,920
we'd go to we'd get in the shower with those on,

873
00:52:54,119 --> 00:52:57,400
and then we lay on the bed under those fans

874
00:52:57,679 --> 00:52:59,840
in our slips, and that would keep you cool for

875
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:04,840
about an hour. Hopefully you fall asleep before you before

876
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:05,679
you got too hot.

877
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: I expect you to say about half the night.

878
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,119
Speaker 3: No, you know how to try and fall asleep before

879
00:53:14,119 --> 00:53:16,039
you got too hot, because then maybe you can sleep

880
00:53:16,039 --> 00:53:18,559
through some of it. But a lot of times you'd

881
00:53:18,559 --> 00:53:20,440
wake up and you'd still be wet. But it wouldn't

882
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,440
be the wet of the shower, would be the wet

883
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:26,360
of sweat. You know. I always leave a perfect imprint

884
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:32,159
on the bed. I didn't have to worry about menopause.

885
00:53:32,199 --> 00:53:33,679
I was going through that at fifteen.

886
00:53:36,199 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 1: God, oh, no, you're good. I never know what you're

887
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,480
gonna get when you come on. I love it.

888
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't always get big foot stories, but you

889
00:53:49,079 --> 00:53:50,280
don't get something.

890
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,760
Speaker 1: I get a menopause story or two.

891
00:53:54,199 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 3: I knew all about menopause by the time I got

892
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,039
there because I had lived it as a teenager.

893
00:54:01,039 --> 00:54:03,159
Speaker 1: All right, Well, believe it or not, we are at

894
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:08,480
the hour mark. So it's been awesome, always is, and

895
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:11,599
can't I say it all the time. I'll just say

896
00:54:11,639 --> 00:54:15,679
it again. I cannot wait until the squatch out this year.

897
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,039
And when you get up there, the thing that you do,

898
00:54:19,199 --> 00:54:22,559
your little event is one of my favorites, even though

899
00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:24,360
you've only done it once before. You know, you were

900
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:29,239
sick last year. I couldn't make it last year, so

901
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,119
this is the second time. But I just remember that

902
00:54:31,159 --> 00:54:34,079
first time and now awesome it was. And I'm glad

903
00:54:34,119 --> 00:54:35,880
that a lot more people are going to get to

904
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,360
experience it this year because you do a really good job.

905
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 3: I love telling stories as you can tell.

906
00:54:42,039 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, and I will hit you up for

907
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,639
the thing that you offered in the private chat. I'm

908
00:54:49,679 --> 00:54:53,119
sure I will take you up on that, and I

909
00:54:53,119 --> 00:54:55,480
know we'll talk again soon. But thank you again for

910
00:54:55,519 --> 00:54:57,559
coming on man, thank you.

911
00:54:57,519 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 3: For having me, and I will see you again sometimes.

912
00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:02,639
Speaker 1: Ye yes, ma'am. Enjoy the rest of your evening.

913
00:55:03,159 --> 00:55:05,639
Speaker 3: All right, bye everybody, Bye.

914
00:55:07,039 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, thank you so much for checking out this

915
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:14,280
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916
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:18,119
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933
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 7: Through the woods, the pine trees sway, shadows long at

934
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:37,159
end of day, Bigfoots call on the whispering breeze. Secrets

935
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:47,400
kept by an shoot trees, dog man house bring echoes

936
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:56,280
in the silent tracks. We fine, but answers none. A

937
00:56:56,400 --> 00:57:10,320
hunt for truth, that's just the gun. We're searching past

938
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:18,440
the fire light. Four creatures hidden our sight in the

939
00:57:18,679 --> 00:57:25,400
forest heart where shadows lay seeking see Chritsen the twilight,

940
00:57:31,599 --> 00:57:38,760
through the fall a shape did gly skin walker eyes

941
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:46,239
wide legends of Oh we chase to night in the dark,

942
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:57,000
our lanterns bright by the Creek, queer water spill whispers wry,

943
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:05,159
the windsow chill, fullest, deep, and tails on top. In

944
00:58:05,239 --> 00:58:20,079
this land the myths of We're searching past the fire

945
00:58:20,239 --> 00:58:28,719
light full creatures hidden out of sight, in the forest heart,

946
00:58:28,800 --> 00:59:04,159
where shadows lay, seeking seacrets. In the twilight break, h