WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.519 Back in the late nineteen nineties, I was commuting to 2 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:13.320 work from Yakima to Kennewick in Washington State. One morning, 3 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.920 on my drive, I spotted a road killed by Sunnyside, 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.039 and it was big. It was covered in brown and 5 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:23.280 orange hair, and as I drove by, what struck me 6 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:25.839 there was a hand sticking out of the mound of 7 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:29.199 the hair. It looked like a human hand, and I 8 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.640 didn't see a face. I thought it was an orangutang 9 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.159 by the color of the hair, and I told the 10 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.159 folks at work, which was met with some disbelief. It 11 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:43.200 wasn't until recently that I learned that some bigfoot can 12 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:48.399 have orange brown hair, especially when growing up. I'm sorry 13 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:52.960 I didn't stop, but the city of Sunnyside, Washington or 14 00:00:52.960 --> 00:01:00.079 the Washington State Patrol had the body picked up. The 15 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:02.320 whole life I've grown up in the hills and hollows 16 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.719 of Mississippi, Hunting and fishing and other outdoor activities were 17 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.680 just a way of life. Thanksgiving Day of twenty twenty 18 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:13.840 will stay in my memory until the day I die. 19 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.400 I woke up that morning and I headed out to 20 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:20.079 the woods just before dawn. I had a portable hunting 21 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.000 blind that I had gotten for Christmas the previous year, 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.079 and set on top of a small hill looking down 23 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:30.280 over a clearing into an old roadbed. I was sitting 24 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.120 there listening to some music in my earbuds when I 25 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.200 thought I heard a branch snap, and in my head 26 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.040 it was most likely a deer, since we don't have 27 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.760 many large animals in this area. I paused my music 28 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:46.359 and I waited and listened. It sounded like it was 29 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:48.959 coming from behind me, but I couldn't see anything because 30 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.599 the back window of my deer blind was put up still, 31 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.040 and all I could do was hope it walked past 32 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.400 me and i'd get a good shot. I noticed the 33 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:01.079 noise this thing was making wasn't normal, and it sounded 34 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:03.719 almost like someone took a big rock and was hitting 35 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:07.159 a tree. And after every time at knock there would 36 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.280 be an airy whistle. And this went on for thirty 37 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:14.000 minutes until I heard it walk away. By this time, 38 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.280 it was so cold, I couldn't feel my gun in 39 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:20.599 my hands, and I couldn't take this anymore. I slowly 40 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.719 peeked out from behind the blind wall and the coast 41 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.759 was clear, so I packed up my stand and I 42 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.639 shouldered my rifle and I tailed it out of there. 43 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.759 I told my parents what happened. They didn't believe me. 44 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.120 A year later, my mother came home after riding through 45 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:41.199 that same area, and she told me, I think I 46 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:44.280 might be starting to believe you on that bigfoot thing. 47 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:48.439 She explained that she had seen something tall and dark 48 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:51.960 walking into the woods, and when she passed that spot, 49 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.000 it was gone. Sometime seeing is believing. I hope you 50 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.759 enjoyed my story, and I hope y'all have a great summer. 51 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:03.360 I love listening to your podcast, and I'm especially fond 52 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.599 of the Steve Lilly journal entries. They're a great way 53 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:12.919 to pass the time at work. This happened in nineteen 54 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.919 seventy four in an area of the fort that, for 55 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.400 many miles was open range for local ranchers who could 56 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:24.280 let their cattle run free. Unfortunately, it was also an 57 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.039 area where people would abandon their unwanted dogs. The dogs 58 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.319 had gone ferrell and had packed up in several large groups, 59 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.560 which then attacked the herd of animals of the ranchers, 60 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.400 which really made the ranchers mad. So they had looked 61 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.159 around until they found some military men who would hunt 62 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.280 the dogs down and get rid of them. I was 63 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.159 well acquainted with the leader of the group since he 64 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:51.400 knew I was a very good shot, and he came 65 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.639 to get me to join them. It took some talking 66 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.120 on his part, but he did get me to go 67 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:00.400 with them. We found that the best time to go 68 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:02.879 after them was in the evening, just as the sun 69 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.879 was starting to go down, and afterward. We had access 70 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.120 to a deuce and a half that's a two and 71 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.560 a half ton army transport truck. There were seven of us. 72 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.600 There was one driver and six shooters, which worked out 73 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.959 really well for us. We had a beef quarter hung 74 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:22.720 up in a tree for bait, and the six men 75 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.319 in the back loaded up and were ready to hunt. 76 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.720 If you could call what we did hunting, it was 77 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.279 more like an ambush than actually hunting. We could hear 78 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.279 the dogs coming and the pack sounded to be very large, 79 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.480 so we knew the ranchers would be paying a good 80 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.279 bounty on this one. And when they got to about 81 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.879 two hundred yards away, they went totally silent. At the 82 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:47.519 same time, there was a high pitched, loud, long howl. 83 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:52.079 I remember saying that if this is a dog, it 84 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.680 has to be the size of a mack truck, and 85 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.600 about that time a second howl came from the woods. 86 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:02.560 The driver said something like, holy crap, everybody, hang on, 87 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:05.319 and he started the truck and didn't wait for the 88 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:08.399 engine to warm up before taking off, like he was 89 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:12.120 in a big money race. Some of us were almost 90 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:16.399 thrown out the back. We were all yelling, and it 91 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.360 got very colorful, very quickly. I hadn't heard that much 92 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.680 loud cussing since the last time I was in the 93 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:27.040 military bar on pay Day night. The driver yelled back, 94 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.759 but almost no one could hear what he said, and 95 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:32.480 the two guys closest to the driver looked out toward 96 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:35.759 the front left side of the truck. What startled us 97 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.879 was that they opened fire as quickly as they could 98 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:43.399 chamber around. They fired their weapons empty and reloaded and 99 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.040 kept firing. Others of us moved over to that side 100 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.120 of the truck to see what in the heck was 101 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:53.279 going on. One of them pointed forward to the truck 102 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.600 and into the woods and said that in a very 103 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.360 loud and somewhat frightening voice, And with that I could 104 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.839 just make out a very large, very dark black brown 105 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:07.560 figure that was obviously not a bear. When it looked 106 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.439 at me with those large glowing red eyes, I dropped 107 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.360 to my knee and I opened fire, and I reloaded, 108 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.439 and I fired some more rounds at it until I 109 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:20.040 emptied the magazine again. We never slowed down until we 110 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.959 got back to the main fort proper, and then we 111 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:27.839 broke up and went our separate ways. Early the next morning, 112 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.560 four of us ended up eating breakfast together at the 113 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:33.879 mess hall, and while talking about what had happened the 114 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.519 night before, it was decided that when we were done eating, 115 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:39.680 we would go out and see what we could find. 116 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:43.279 It didn't take us long to finish eating and get 117 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.279 our weapons and move out. And the weapons we were 118 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.600 carrying were not military weapons. They were all our private 119 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:52.480 weapons that we went shooting with quite often in order 120 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:55.920 to hone our shooting skills. We were all much better 121 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:58.920 shots than most of the people we knew. I was 122 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:02.120 carrying my fully loaded at Springfield Armory M one A, 123 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:06.639 along with twenty extra twenty round magazines I carried in 124 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.759 a ruck pack, making my load out four hundred and 125 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:14.199 sixty rounds of seven sixty two NATO rounds. I was 126 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.240 locked and loaded as soon as I got out of 127 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.920 the car. I wanted to be ready if that big 128 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:22.399 black critter came back. It was easy to find the 129 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.120 place where we ran into it the night before, because 130 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.920 all the spent rounds in the area. These in the 131 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.439 tree where we had hung up the bait on a chain, 132 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:34.240 and the bait was gone with no sign of it 133 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.319 left behind. The limb was broken off right at the 134 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:41.600 marks left by the chain and tossed to site. And 135 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.519 we checked the area where we had heard the dog sparking, 136 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:47.920 and we found four of them dead and badly mutilated. 137 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:53.240 That's when we noticed the tracks. I was the only 138 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.759 one of us who have ever seen anything like them, 139 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.480 and only because of the books and magazines my mother 140 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:02.120 would buy for me to read. Thanks to her, I 141 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:06.120 was well read on cryptids and the supernatural, so I 142 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:10.160 knew what this most likely was. I knew the Pacific 143 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.800 Northwest was a hotspot for bigfoot and cryptids, and I 144 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.120 was sure that we were hunting a bigfoot or a sosquatch. 145 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:21.720 By the looks of the footprints, we were hunting at 146 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.079 least four of them, and I decided to keep that 147 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.000 little bit of information to myself. I was hoping that 148 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.560 the other guys wouldn't freak out on me when I 149 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.480 would need them to stand tall and keep their faces conglomerated. 150 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.039 As it ended up, I didn't have to worry about 151 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.720 it because we didn't run into them again as a 152 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:44.720 group or alone. A few weeks later, I and the 153 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.039 group went our separate ways. I didn't stop going to 154 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.879 the forest in the evening, and I was no longer 155 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:55.240 hunting the same things they were. This was just one 156 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.519 of the interactions with bigfoot I had at Fort Lewis. 157 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:02.240 This was not the only interaction I had was sasquatch 158 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.879 during my time at Fort Lewis. Later in life, I 159 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.720 would move back to the Pacific Northwest, and it wasn't 160 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:12.879 long before I once again started having interactions with the creature. 161 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:17.080 I will watch the reactions of those reading it here 162 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.480 and then decide if I will send in another one 163 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.759 or not. I really love hearing the stories you read. 164 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.720 They helped me pass some long days and nights here 165 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.679 at home, so I will keep listening and maybe writing 166 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.720 a few more stories of my own to share. Thank 167 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:34.000 you for all you do, and keep up the good work. 168 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:39.720 It was a night of Halloween in the year two 169 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.240 thousand and I had just graduated high school, a few 170 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.480 friends and I were hanging out at the local truck 171 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:49.039 stop having coffee. We were too old for your typical 172 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:53.120 Halloween festivities, and there were no underage parties going on 173 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:56.360 that we knew of, probably because so many of our 174 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.879 friends had just left for college. We were sitting a 175 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:02.720 around talking about what kind of excitement that we could 176 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.759 have with what was left of the night, and my 177 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.200 friend Amanda said that she had visited the Haunted Road 178 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.000 to Okee Panocch and had some weird things happen, and 179 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.039 if we really wanted a scare, we should all go there. 180 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.759 There was no end to the stories about Oki Pinocch. 181 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.879 People said it was a haunted and a Satanist killed 182 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.840 people out there, and even that there were small hobbit 183 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:30.960 like people that had been seen in the area. It 184 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.559 all sounded absolutely ridiculous to me, but it seemed to 185 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.919 shake the other's nerves, so I pushed for us to 186 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:41.879 all go out there to see something for ourselves. Amanda 187 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.919 and Lisa and I and Ryan and another guy piled 188 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.000 into Amanda's little white Chevy Cavalier and headed to the 189 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:53.799 Haunted Road. You can google ok Pinocch and see the 190 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.240 road on Google Maps. It is a short dead end 191 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:02.600 road by the miss miss Cisswana Reservoir. I probably didn't 192 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:06.000 pronounce that right. There are no houses or anything on 193 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.759 the road and it just dead ends at the turnaround 194 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:11.879 in the woods. On the way out there, we were 195 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:15.399 talking about being out in the country at night, and 196 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.240 I argued that it was not scary at all, and 197 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:21.039 as long as there was a little moonlight and starlight, 198 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:24.919 it would be fine. We argued back and forth for 199 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.799 a minute, and then I said that to prove my 200 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.879 point that it wasn't a big deal, that I would 201 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.559 walk out into the woods along the road and when 202 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.279 we got to the turnaround they could pick me up. 203 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:40.759 On the way out, it started to snow, and when 204 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:43.039 we stopped the car in the woods, I headed off 205 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.759 back up the road. A guy that I can't remember 206 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:49.360 his name ran up and said that he wanted to 207 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.720 go too, and it completely defeated the point that I 208 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.200 was trying to prove. But I didn't really know him 209 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:59.159 and I didn't want to be rude. As we walked out, 210 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.399 we discussed how scared the others were, and I decided 211 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.080 that we should try to scare them, and we thought 212 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.440 about going into the woods and jumping out at them 213 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:10.519 as they drove by, but the danger of them just 214 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:13.480 speeding off and leaving us out there was too high 215 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.799 for risk, and besides, the fresh snow would show us 216 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.519 leaving the road and they would know something was up. 217 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.799 We then started to discuss laying in the middle of 218 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.360 the road like we were hurt or dead to scare them. 219 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:30.679 But as we discussed this, the headlights of Amanda's car 220 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:34.240 came around the corner. It was too late for anything 221 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.600 like that, so we decided to just tell them that 222 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.440 we had seen something in the woods. And as the 223 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.639 car pulled up and opened the door, me and the 224 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:44.159 other guy jumped in and started crying, did you see 225 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:48.200 that it was in the woods? What was that? Much 226 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:51.480 to our shock and surprise, they said, yeah, you saw 227 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:55.279 it too. Ryan agreed and reminded the girls that they 228 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:58.200 had been watching where our footprints went before they picked 229 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.720 us up, and they were deep shaken, and I asked 230 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.000 them what exactly they had seen, and they said that 231 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.799 someone in a coat like mine was in the woods 232 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.159 and it was watching them. I had on an old 233 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.600 dress coat from goodwill, not so common thing to be 234 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:18.360 wearing out in the woods. At that point, I told 235 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.120 them that we didn't see anything, which led to a 236 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.320 lot of confusion and another round of them thinking that 237 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.600 it was us in the woods. But after reassuring them 238 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.559 that it wasn't us, I convinced them to go back 239 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:34.720 to the turnaround so I could see it. They were terrified, 240 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.720 but I was insistent and mocked them, and I prodded 241 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:42.480 them until Amanda turned around. When we reached the end 242 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:45.120 of the road, they pointed out the spot and they 243 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:48.559 huddled shaking in the car. All right, I said, I'll 244 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.320 go check it out. They were gobs smacked and screamed 245 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.799 at me to stay in the car, and I blew 246 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.799 them off and I walked out into the woods. Tell 247 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.960 me when I'm at the spot, you saw them, I said. 248 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:03.519 I tromped into the woods, and at that point the 249 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:06.840 windows were all down and Amanda, Lisa, and Ryan were 250 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:10.759 directing me to the spot. It wasn't far from the 251 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.000 road at all, maybe ten feet from the tree line, 252 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:17.360 and at that distance there was no way they mistook 253 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:20.879 what they saw. The other guy that had gone down 254 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:22.879 the road with me then got out of the car 255 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.279 and looked around with me. The moon was bright. There 256 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:29.120 was fresh snow everywhere, but still on the floor of 257 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.759 the woods, I couldn't make out much. We returned to 258 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:35.519 the car and began to drive out, speculating on what 259 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.679 they had seen. Amanda was driving, Lisa was in the 260 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.960 front seat, and I was in the middle back with 261 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.399 the two other guys. As we drove out, Ryan was 262 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:49.120 telling us a story and I was looking at him. 263 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.360 As he spoke, I saw in the field that we 264 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.799 were now entering a large, dark shadow, and moved very 265 00:14:55.799 --> 00:15:00.399 fast along the woods and moved toward the car. Ryan, 266 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:04.000 in mid sentence, noticed something had caught my eye behind him, 267 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.679 and he slowly turned his head as he continued his story. 268 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:12.080 As Ryan turned his head, I saw the shadow nearly 269 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:14.360 reach the car and run into the ditch next to 270 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.360 the car, and I raised myself in the seat and 271 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.039 I tried to look into the ditch, and just then 272 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.320 it jumped out of the ditch and came right next 273 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:26.360 to the car. Just as Ryan's eyes reached the small 274 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.320 triangle window in the rear back seat, a giant maw 275 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:34.360 of white teeth barked out inches away from Ryan's head 276 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:39.600 as the biggest black Great Dane ferociously barked at the car. 277 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:44.559 Ryan screamed so loud and with such a girly shrill 278 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.440 that I started laughing hysterically before he even stopped screaming. 279 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.480 It was the funniest thing I think I have ever seen, 280 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:54.600 and we laughed the rest of the night about it. 281 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:58.320 For many years, I thought that that was the end 282 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.440 of it, just a funny story about teens out scaring 283 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:05.559 themselves in the woods on Halloween night. Years went by 284 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:08.399 and I became a bit of an amateur local historian. 285 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:11.600 I've read many books and looked at a lot of 286 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:16.080 local maps, and the origin of Okee Panochi is a 287 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.399 little vague, but from what I can tell by the 288 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.559 old maps, one of the last Miami Indian chiefs here 289 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.440 had a trading post in a cabin at the end 290 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.120 of the road, and it was kept open for some 291 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:33.559 historical purposes. There were a few Miami Indian villages in 292 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.720 that area, and many of them were sites of massacres. 293 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:42.080 When Mad Anthony Wayne marched his troops down the Wabash River, 294 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:47.080 killing all the Miamis, betraying the peaceful tribe. General Wayne 295 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.559 was in a war with other tribes and decided to 296 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.480 wipe out the Miamis in the area because he didn't 297 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.960 trust them, even though they never joined the other tribes 298 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.120 in the attacks on the whites and had good relations 299 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.159 with the local watfe Ees. So with all this history 300 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.799 around the area, I approached a Miami Indian language expert 301 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:12.359 at a conference in twenty sixteen that I attended. I 302 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.400 told her the story and I wanted to get her 303 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:18.319 take on what had happened. She said something that stuck 304 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.000 with me to this day. Have you ever seen a 305 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:23.559 pure black dog that big in your life to this 306 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:27.119 day besides the one you saw that night? Well? No, 307 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.400 I said. It was definitely the biggest pure black great 308 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.640 name I've ever seen. And you're telling me you believe 309 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:35.880 that this dog was out roaming the woods on her 310 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.799 road with no houses for miles, in the middle of 311 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:43.240 a snowing night. I hadn't really thought about that much before, 312 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:45.480 but now that she laid it out like that, it 313 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:49.559 didn't make sense. It was no dog you saw that night, 314 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.559 she said. It gives me chills right now as I 315 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.079 write this, I don't know what we saw that night. 316 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.559 Was it an angry Indian spirit, a dog man, or 317 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.799 just a really freaking big black dog. Like I said, 318 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.640 We were in a Chevy Cavalier and this thing's head 319 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.200 was at the top windows and it ran alongside the 320 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.039 car doing thirty miles per hour. And as a side note, 321 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.200 a young girl went missing out there back in the 322 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:20.279 eighties and they found her murdered. And just recently someone 323 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.200 else was murdered a few years ago back there at 324 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:26.000 the turnaround, and the paper said it was a drug 325 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:29.319 deal gone wrong. But regardless, it just adds to the 326 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:36.799 creepiness out there. Hi, mister cam. The following is a 327 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:40.200 bigfoot story my good friend Mac told me, and I 328 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:44.160 recorded the story on a tape recorder Back in twenty twelve. 329 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:47.720 A group of his friends and he used to go 330 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:51.640 riding their dirt bikes along the railroad tracks in central Florida, 331 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:55.039 out in the middle of nowhere. The year was nineteen 332 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:59.240 seventy six and he was seventeen years old. On a 333 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.880 Saturday after afternoon, they took off to the tracks with 334 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:05.400 a tent and a small cooler. They set up the 335 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.079 tent and they got some firewood and they went off 336 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.240 in the nearby woods riding their dirt bikes and exploring. 337 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.440 They came back to their camp and got a fire going, 338 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.720 and they roasted some hot dogs on palmeadow sticks and 339 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.319 ate chips, and drank a couple of six pikes of bush. 340 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:24.079 They all got in the tent and they went to sleep. 341 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.319 He said he woke in the middle of the night 342 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:30.880 by the sound of rocks on the tracks. Someone was 343 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.480 walking on the rocks, and it was loud. He said. 344 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:36.559 He got up and out of the tent and walked 345 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.519 down the short trail to the grassy lane that ran 346 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:42.519 parallel to the tracks, and he stood there and he 347 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:45.720 took a leak. He could begin to make out a 348 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:48.839 shade coming up the tracks. He said. It was a 349 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.920 swamp monster, and it was big. And he ran back 350 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:53.839 to the tent and he got in and he zipped 351 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.039 the door shut and got under a sleeping bag, and 352 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:00.480 he laid there trying to be still and quiet. He said. 353 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.640 All three of the others were fast asleep, but he 354 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:08.079 could hear it coming. It stopped at the trail. He said, 355 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:10.440 he could hear it snorting, and it was louder than 356 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:14.599 a sweated quarter horse. He said. He eased up and 357 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:17.720 looked out through the screen, and it was standing right there. 358 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.160 He could see it through the oak trees. He said 359 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:25.039 it was smelling his urine where he had peed. Then 360 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:28.240 it turned and started walking on the rocks again, and 361 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:30.039 he said he lay down and he could hear it 362 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.759 walking on the rocks for a while, and he went 363 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:37.759 to sleep in the early hours. The others didn't believe him. 364 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:42.079 When they woke up, they said he was crazy. When 365 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:44.759 they rode out that afternoon, he found where it had 366 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:47.559 left the tracks and cut through a wash out of sand. 367 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:51.079 By the lane. There was five big tracks, but one 368 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:55.240 of the guys accidentally ran over two of them. He said. 369 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.839 They got back on their motorcycles and they hauled as 370 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:01.519 out of there. It's the third time this story has 371 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:05.079 been told of that night in July nineteen seventy six, 372 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:09.559 forty four years ago. And Cam do with it what 373 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.640 you do. Mac would be honored if he knew his 374 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:16.200 story made it to you. Cam Mac passed away eight 375 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:24.119 days ago. Hi. My name is Alyssa and I'm from 376 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:27.839 north central Mississippi. My family and I live in the 377 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:31.920 hills of Carroll County. We live on property belonging to 378 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:35.240 my husband's family and there are three generations of family 379 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:39.440 living here. The land is mainly woods in pasture with 380 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:42.920 cows and two ponds, except for the few homeplace sites. 381 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:46.759 Several summers ago, we began seeing an odd looking creature 382 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:50.480 roaming around our place. All of those who saw it 383 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:53.759 described it in a similar way, like a mangy dog 384 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:56.960 or a code, with a larger head and ear, standing 385 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:02.319 straight up and often running on its high and its 386 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:05.119 fur was a mix of dark brown and black, but 387 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:08.559 it was very sparse, with skin showing in some places, 388 00:22:09.319 --> 00:22:12.039 and it came around, but it didn't show itself. Often 389 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.200 it would swiftly run away if we caught a glimpse 390 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:18.319 of it. Very few of us were able to see it, 391 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.799 and even fewer quick enough to snap a photo. My 392 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.519 daughter and I saw it a few times, especially around sundown. 393 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:28.920 It would dart from the edge of the woods and 394 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:32.680 back in as quickly as it could. The multiple times 395 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:35.200 I saw it gave me the cold chills. Due to 396 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:38.920 its thin frame and oddly shaped body and its thin hair. 397 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:42.640 We often heard it yelping or squealing as it would 398 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:46.119 run past us. In fact, one of the ways we 399 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:49.759 were originally alerted to the creature was from hearing it first. 400 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.160 He would stick close to the wooded areas on our 401 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:55.799