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Speaker 1: I am eighty nine years old now, and I've never

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told this story to anyone other than my immediate family.

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I'm in my twilight years, and I feel the need

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to pass this on to others who may have had encounters.

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My mother gave birth to me at home, partially because

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that was the way things were done back then. Daddy

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was away at work when I decided that it was

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time to go into my new life journey. Mom was

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all alone at home when the event took place, and

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thankfully things went well. She and I were okay for

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the hour or so until Dad got home and ran

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and got the midwife. During the event, Mom looked out

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the window anxiously waiting for Daddy. There was someone there,

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but it wasn't him. It was a large, hairy man.

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It scared her. Mom said. The face smiled at her

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and then just turned around and walked away. I figured

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that it saw that she was okay, and it went

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on with its day. My mother was deaf, and I

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grew up and I learned two languages, English and American

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Sign Language. When I was five years old, we moved

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to a farm in the Deep South, and I had

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all kinds of animals to play with dogs and cats

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and chickens, you name it, we had it. We had

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a huge garden too. Dad had made a large area

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for me to play in with a swing set and

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a slide and a sandbox. I had a tricycle and

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a radio flyer wagon too, And since I was an

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only child, sometimes I just sat on the swing and

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I swung lazily on my own, facing the woods, wishing

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desperately I had a playmate, And one day that happened.

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I was swinging one afternoon when just inside the woodline

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I saw a small, dark monkeylike thing looking at me. Well,

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I was fascinated with animals, so I wasn't scared. I

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got off the swing and went to the edge of

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the fence and it smiled at me, and I smiled back,

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and I waved, and it waved back, and I stretched

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out my arm and it stepped out further into the opening,

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and I could see that it was a boy like me,

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and I motioned for him to come closer. Over the

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next weeks and months, we visited each other at the

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woodline and got to know each other as best as

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we were able to. I could see that he was

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interested in my play area. Several times, I found tracks

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in the sand and the toys were not as I

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left them, so I suspect that he would come around

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at night when we were sleeping. One day, when we

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were visiting at the woodline, his mother came out. She

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picked him up and took two giant steps to the

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play area and dropped him in. We were both a

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bit prized at first, but what fun we had that day.

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With Dad off at work and Mom being deaf, we

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hooped and hollered and had a grand old time. Mom

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never worried about me because I never left the play

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area unless I went into the house. In those days,

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that was how things were done. My new friend pushed

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me on the wagon and he rode the tricycle. We

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swung on the swings and went down the slide together.

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This went on for months. I started calling him buddy,

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and I would call for him whenever I was in

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the play area alone. I never told anyone about him,

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and I kept our play dates to myself. But one

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day the inevitable happened. The weather was turning cold, and

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I was so excited to go out and play that

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I didn't take a jacket. I'd been out there long

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enough for Buddy to come out and play. When Mom

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stepped out the back door and walked to the play

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area with my jacket, and she stopped in horror and

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disbelief that the sight of Buddy and me having a

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grand time playing while his massive beast of a mother

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watched from just inside the woodline. Mom let out a

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scream like no other in Buddy's Mom stepped out of

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the trees. Well. Buddy was scared out of his wits

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and he jumped into his mother's arms. They were gone.

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Mom grabbed me and took me into the house and

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I wasn't allowed to go to the play area alone again.

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Mom told Dad to build a large wooden fence to

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fence off the woodline, and Dad said, if this thing

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is as big as you say it is, it won't

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make any difference what we do. But Mom was adamant.

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She told him she saw that thing's face twice and

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she would not tolerate seeing it a third time. She

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told him to build a fence so they would be moving.

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But Dad did build the fence and Mom finally calmed down.

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Now I remember seeing her looking out the kitchen window,

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checking to see if anyone was there, but to my disappointment,

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Buddy and I never did have any more visits. A

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couple of decades and I grew up and went off

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to college. I went to get a veterinary degree specializing

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in large animals. I never forgot my farm experience and

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my friend Buddy. When I graduated from vet school, I

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returned to my sleepy little town I grew up in

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to start a vetinary practice. Mom and dad had passed

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on and the old house was in some disrepair. I

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went out to the backyard and looked around. The old

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play area was still there. It's converted now to an

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old duck run with a waiting pool that had a

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few holes in it. That old fence was still there,

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but it had a few sections missing from it due

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to age. The garden area hadn't been used in a

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decade or more. I took note of all the repairs needed,

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and I added them to my to do list. When

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I wasn't getting called out for an animal emergency at

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this farm or that, I spent all week and remodeling

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my homestead. Since I was the only vet for fifty miles,

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I had built quite a client tile, but at the

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rate I was working, it would be years before I

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had the house fixed up. Months later, I had the

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old house livabool again, and I had heard stories from

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some of the older folks around me about the buggers

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in the area and the noises they made at night.

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There are stories of crops being stolen and animals being taken,

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and occasional noises around the area. Hearing these stories made

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me wonder about Buddy and his mom and what happened

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to them. After one especially long work week, I was

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worn smack out and I decided it was time to

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grill a few burghers and have a beer, and I

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forgot about the renovations for the weekend. Just as I

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was starting to light the coals, I heard a grunt

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from the woodline. I didn't see anything, so I let

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off the coals and I popped the top, and again

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a loud grunt came from the woodline. Me and my

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beer strolled over to that break in the fence for

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a closer look, and to my surprise, outstepped an eight

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foot tall behemoth of a male sasquatch. When he spoke,

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I dropped my beer. He said, Buddy, it was Buddy,

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all grown up. I smiled at him, and he smiled

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back at me, and the next thing I knew, he

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threw me over his shoulder and he ran with me

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through the woods. He hauled my butt for miles and

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at no leisurely pace. We finally came to some deep

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mountain woods in a ravine and I saw an entire

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colony of sasquatch. Buddy brought me to some kind of

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structure and he set me down, and I looked around,

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and I saw an enormous alpha male pacing and eyeing

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me like I was about to be his lunch. This

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thing was not happy that I was there, but Buddy

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motioned for me to go inside the structure with him.

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Inside were several females. One of them was pregnant and

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in obvious distress. I moved closer to her, but the

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other females moved in my way to protect her. To

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my amazement, she signed to them that I was there

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to help. The signs she used was old, and most

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of it I didn't understand, but I was able to

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understand that she needed water. One of the females left

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and came back with water in a basket made of leaves.

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They let me move closer to the pregnant female and

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I began my assessment. Her baby was breached, and I

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tried to communicate with her that I needed to turn

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the baby around, and after some back and forth, she understood.

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With buddy standing guard outside, I put pressure on her

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abdomen to try to turn the baby. Before a newborn,

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I could tell this was going to be a whopper.

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I was not able to fully turn the baby on

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my own, though I had to sign with one of

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the other females that I needed her help. It took

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one human veterinarian and one female Bigfoot attendant, but after

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a tough few minutes, we got the baby turned around.

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While this was going on in the hut, I noticed

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a commotion outside. It sounded guttural and serious, but the

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baby was almost there and I didn't have time to

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check it out. It was yelling and gibberish and crashing

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and howling, and it sounded like all hell was breaking loose.

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I was just about to get this little guy out

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when the hut shook violently and I heard a grunt

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and a groan and something hit the ground hard. The

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baby's head had just crowned and I was working on

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getting a shoulder out when what I can only describe

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as a chimpanzee frenzy broke out like they were all

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being chased by a silver back. Out came the other shoulder,

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and I welcomed the newborn baby boy Sasquatch into the world.

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At this point, my job was done. They had been

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doing this for centuries, I presume. So I set the

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baby on the mama's belly and I washed him off

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a bit, and I stroked mom's face and I smiled

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and she smiled back, and I went out to see

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what the commotion was all about. I walked outside to

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one of the most vicious heavyweight fights I could imagine.

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There they were Buddy and the Alpha posturing each other.

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The first move was about the Alpha and he tried

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to jump onto Buddy, but Buddy was too fast. He

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moved on to his back and grabbed the Alpha, and

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he kicked him into a big tree. The tree he

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shook like it was going to topple over. The Alpha

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was really pissed off now, and he charged Buddy and

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they came to blows. If you've ever seen Too Grizzly's fight,

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it was like that mixed with the power of two

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silver bagged guerrillas. It was fast and vicious, and by

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round two they were both torn up and bloody. But

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he had some deep lacerations on his chest and the

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Alpha had one clawed open. Well. I watched them and

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I wished I still had my beer. As they charged

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each other, Buddy stepped to the Alpha's blindside and clocked

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him with a hard, straight left to the nose. There

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was a sickening sound of bone and blood, and the

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Alpha found himself on his butt. He let out a

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howl of anger, and when the two came back together,

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there was so much power you could feel it in

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the ground. Somehow, the Alpha, with obviously years of fighting experience,

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managed to put Buddy on the ground with an MMA

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style move that would have made Royce Gracie proud, and

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then he started to pound on Buddy relentlessly. At that point,

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I began to worry for my safety. If the Alpha

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one would I be able to leave? Would I survived

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the next minutes In post fight, Just then Buddy saw

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an opening and he pounded the Alpha's nose again. The

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pain gave Buddy the break he needed. The office screamed

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in pained and rolled in the dirt. Buddy jumped up,

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went over to the alpha, and pounded him into oblivion.

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Such was the way of things in this group. I

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suppose the rest of the group quieted down after that,

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and I no longer feared for my safety. All the

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tribe came over and touched Buddy, acknowledging him as the

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new alpha. Just then, the female who had just given

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birth stepped out of the hut holding the baby. Buddy

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went over to her and both of them touched foreheads,

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and I realized then that she must have been his mate.

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I wonder there was a fight. Buddy had been protecting

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his family. As alpha, he had a new large family

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and breeding rites. And Buddy walked up to me and

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signed something similar to friend, and I reached up, put

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my hand on his shoulder and signed it back to him.

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Out of the group came an old female with gray hair,

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and she walked up to me looked at me over.

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I saw an image in my mind of a young

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Sosquatch female watching her child playing with a human child.

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I felt the hope and joy in her that the

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two species could bridge that gap. I reached out to

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her with both hands, and I pulled her forehead to

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mine and thought only love, and in return, she smiled

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and she stroked my cheek. I saw tears forming her eyes,

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and she returned to the group, and I spent a

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few days with the colony, helping tend to Buddy's wounds

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and getting to know several of them. A group of

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young males and Buddy took me back home. After my

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time with them, I enlarged and rebuilt the play area.

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Every now and again I would see some young ones

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playing out there, and I would visit with their watchers.

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I even came to find out they kind of liked

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a beer. And to this day I still have company

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now and again, though less frequently than before. I'm married

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a farmer's daughter or a beautiful fiery redhead who kept

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the family in line, and we lived in the old

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homestead and we raised our family there. I told my

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wife this story one night and took her out to

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the woodline. There I introduced her to my other family.

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Once she was over the shock, she loved on those

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little sasquatch babies like they were her own while they

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were in the play area, and eventually our own children

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played together with theirs. My children have grown and gone,

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but they keep the secret of the homestead. The love

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of my life has passed, and I will soon go

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to meet her too. The last time I saw Buddy,

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he was older like me, and probably a bit slower.

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I'm sure that he's not the Alpha any longer, but

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I hope that he is living a slow and good

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life now somewhere with his mate. The last time I

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saw the Sasquatch group, I told him that soon they

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would not see me anymore, and that it was best

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that they didn't come back here. That might not be safe.

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They seem to understand, and we all parted with love

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and understanding. I only hope that when I get to

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my final destination, I will also see my Buddy with

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my wife and my mother and my father, and I

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hope they have beer where we're going. Okay, I just

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opened this story up. It was one of the longer

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stories I had, and since I'm just doing one story

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in this podcast, I picked the largest file in a

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list of about thirty stories I have ready to go.

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So this is obviously a fictional story. I don't know.

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I guess it could be true, but the writer didn't

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say it was fiction. But it doesn't take a rocket

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scientist to figure that out. You never know, You never

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there are weirder things. Well, I don't know if there's

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any weirder things that have happened, but probably I'm going

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to write this off as fiction. I just didn't know

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what it was. But it was a great story. Didn't

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y'all think that was a great story? Let me know

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in the comments section? Uh, you know. I put out

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I Am quitting the I'm Quitting video back about a

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week ago, and I am almost there. I've got about

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three days of work left and I have just been

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bearing down, going twelve hours a day, seven days a week,

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trying to get to the end. And as soon as

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I'm done and I send that last slug of drawings off,

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you're gonna see podcast after podcast after podcasts for me,

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starting probably toward the end of this week, I'm going

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to get a few recorded, schedule them out. Heck, I

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may do one podcast a day for thirty days. Wouldn't

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that be cool. I've never done that before, but I've

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thought about it. I thought about it for years, and

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I didn't want to commit to it because sometimes I

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commit to things, or I tell y'all I'm going to

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get is Steve Lilly out, and then six months later,

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I still haven't got it out. So I didn't want

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to over commit, which I'm notorious for, because I think

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I can do it. I think I can do it.

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I would like to do a podcast today for thirty days.

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I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks and

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I'm gonna be gone for about seven days. I'm not

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sure if I can do one for thirty days for

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thirty days, but anyway, I'll figure something out. Anyway, the

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podcasts are gonna start coming one after another, so just

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hang in there. More Steve Lilly, more podcast to Steve

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Lilly novel. And I'm working on an idea for a

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fictional podcast that I Thank you guys. Might be a

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year or so far and get that done and I

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may never get to it. Plus I have an audiobook

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I need to finish. It's a great Western by a

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great writer that I'm really looking forward to finishing. If

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he still wants me to finish it, I got to

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call him this week and make sure he still wants

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me to finish it. But anyway, things are looking up.

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That's what's going on with the podcast at the moment.

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So I'm going to get back to work. I hope

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you guys enjoyed this and we'll see you on the

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next week. Thanks to