WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.000 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.120 on here, something just cause my dog. Something killed your dog. 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:08.960 My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree. 4 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.640 I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.120 really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.800 the fence and he was dead. And once you hit 7 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:19.679 the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I 8 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:38.320 saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat what 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:42.960 are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling 10 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:51.759 around out here. Did you see what it was or 11 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.159 was it was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through 12 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:55.920 the window now and I don't see anything. I don't 13 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:03.880 want to go outside. Jesus Quice, you bick Hello, hit 14 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.120 the boddy out here? What quin? I'm out there? I 15 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.959 thought of a bit about text nine. I don't know 16 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.480 easy out there. Yeah, I'm walking right head. 17 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.280 The guys from Sasquatch Recon are back, and they didn't 18 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:18.799 come empty handed. In this episode, we're heading back into 19 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:20.840 the field with a team that doesn't just talk about 20 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:25.359 Bigfoot research. They live it. From the swampy lowlands of 21 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.200 South Carolina to the rugged terrain of Rutherford County, North Carolina. 22 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:33.519 These guys are bringing fresh encounters, hard earned experience, and 23 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:37.040 moments that still don't sit right with them. What started 24 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.200 as boots on the ground investigation quickly turned into something 25 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:46.200 far more intense. Strange footprints, unexplained vocalizations, and interactions that 26 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.599 pushed past the boundaries of what you'd expect from known wildlife. 27 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.519 And as the evidence stacked up, so did the questions. 28 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:56.840 They'll walk us through what they found, what they heard, 29 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.799 and what they believe was watching them from just beyond 30 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:03.480 the tree line. They also dive into their personal journeys 31 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.000 into bigfoot research, the strategies they use in the field, 32 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.639 and how some of these encounters begin to cross into 33 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:14.520 the paranormal. This isn't secondhand storytelling. These are first hand 34 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:18.159 experiences from people who keep going back because something out 35 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:21.759 there keeps calling them back. So settle in, turn the 36 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.240 lights down just a bit, and let's welcome back the 37 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:25.800 guys from Sasquatch Recon. 38 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:30.240 Approximately a year ago, we had an expedition that took 39 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:35.120 place down in South Carolina at a hunting reservation. On 40 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.759 that day, we were very fortunate because this area is 41 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:43.400 a lowland area, very swampy, a lot of water, a 42 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:48.159 lot of standing water a year round. However, last summer 43 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:51.039 it was a very dry summer, so we were able. 44 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.719 To access this. 45 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:56.080 One area where normally you can't walk into without chest waiters. 46 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:01.120 So Dwight and I took off and we start walking 47 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:05.000 down through the swamp. He had his dog, Fendy with him, 48 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:07.439 and they were to my left and I was to 49 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.360 the right. As we were making a distance down through 50 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.240 the swamp, Dwight and I separated. 51 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:15.479 He was about fifty yards away from me. 52 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:20.080 He dropped back behind me for a little ways and 53 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:24.560 then i'd moved forward. I was specifically looking for footprints 54 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.800 or any type of structures I could run across. I 55 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.800 happened to run across a print. That print was the 56 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.280 first one that I had found down in South Carolina, 57 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:36.639 and I was extremely. 58 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:37.080 Excited about it. 59 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.199 So what I did was I took some red flagging 60 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:42.240 tape and I flagged. 61 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:43.520 A tree with it. 62 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.199 It was still earlier in the afternoon, and I wanted 63 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.639 to keep moving forward to see if I could find 64 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.120 more prints or more evidence, hopefully a squatch or a 65 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.520 dog man or something along those lines, some type of creature. 66 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:02.280 I kept pressing forward. Then Dwight I could hear him. 67 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.439 Every once in a while, we'd let out a little 68 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.879 whoop to each other, just to let each other know 69 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:11.199 our general location. I had taken my audio recorder and 70 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.400 placed it on a stump about halfway into my walk, 71 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.639 hoping to catch something on the audio recorder. So I 72 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.959 leave my audio recorder on a stump and I keep 73 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.639 pressing forward deeper in the woods. I'm going deeper, and 74 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:26.560 I'm going deeper. 75 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:27.600 I guess. 76 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.079 I was walking for what felt like a good solid 77 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:35.079 thirty forty five minutes. I had basically gotten to the 78 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.319 point of where I was a long. 79 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:42.279 Way from base camp. I knew that at that. 80 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:46.959 Point I hadn't heard Dwight in thirty minutes. There was 81 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:50.839 no interaction with me and him. Come to find out, 82 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.120 he and Findy at that point had turned around and 83 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.040 started going back to base camp. So I get to 84 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.600 the end of my walk and I'm feeling solid about 85 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:00.600 the footprint that I've already captured. 86 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:01.600 I've got it flagged. 87 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.920 All I've got to do is retrack my steps back 88 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:07.319 to it, picked my audio recorder up if I don't 89 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:12.680 get something, and then go check my track. So I'm 90 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.079 at the end of my walk. This was when I 91 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:20.600 first started researching, and I was in an environment by myself. 92 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:25.240 I had seen all these other people, all these other researchers. 93 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.959 They were doing the whoops, they were doing the calls, 94 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:31.600 and I thought I'd give it a try. I figured, 95 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.480 what the hey, I'm by myself, there's nobody around. I 96 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:38.279 can make a complete fool out of myself. So I 97 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:41.360 picked a branch up that was broken on the ground. 98 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:46.040 It was about a good three inches in diameter. It 99 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.399 was completely soaked. It was not a dry stick, and 100 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.639 so I grabbed the stick. I hit the tree with it. 101 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:57.000 It made just a thud, nothing loud. The sound didn't 102 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.000 really carry. I wasn't happy with it, so I was like, 103 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.959 screw that, I'll give it another go. So I took 104 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.759 the tree land this time, and I hauled off and 105 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:08.920 swung it as hard as I could to try to 106 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:11.279 get a noise out of it. And I got a 107 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.959 great noise out of that one. So I'm standing there 108 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.360 and I'm happy with that result. I'm like, okay, waiting 109 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:22.240 on a reply, waiting on possibly another wood knock. I 110 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:27.519 hear absolutely nothing, dead quiet in the swamp. Mind you, 111 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.720 I'm still standing there in this location, and my feet 112 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:38.439 are maybe two inches in the mud. That's what I 113 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.560 was standing in. So walking through the swamp made no noise. 114 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:47.079 It was just silence. It was easy to navigate, very quiet. 115 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:50.360 So as I'm standing there still beside the tree that 116 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.399 I just did the two wood knocks on, what I 117 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.319 did next was I said, I'm gonna let out a yell. 118 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.720 I gave one of the kind of a reserve yell, 119 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:05.160 stood there for a moment, had nothing reply back, and 120 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.240 I was like, oh, come on, I've gone this far. 121 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:10.839 I've done tree knocks, I've done a yell. I'm going 122 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:14.839 to do another yell. So that's when I let out 123 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.759 the best yell, of the loudest, most vocalization that I 124 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:23.639 could throw out. So I do that, nothing happens, and 125 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:27.000 I'm like, okay, that's fine, I'll just turn around and 126 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:27.560 go back. 127 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:28.639 That's the end of this. 128 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.279 Just as I was about to turn around and retrace 129 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:36.680 my footprints out of there, that's when I got screamed at. 130 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.480 The scream came from the left hand side of me, 131 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:44.000 and the tree was directly still to my left, and 132 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:50.319 when it screamed, I completely froze. I just completely tensed up. 133 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.600 My body was just tight. I shut my eyes and 134 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.439 I was just standing there. I'm like, oh my god, 135 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:57.120 what was that. 136 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:01.319 Because I've heard Dwight call, and I've heard Dwight do 137 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:06.720 hollers in the past. This was not anywhere even remotely 138 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:11.480 close to what a human could let out. Matter of fact, 139 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:17.319 Bob or other investigator in Sasquatch recon he probably lets 140 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:23.600 out the loudest yell that I'd heard. This tripled what 141 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:27.519 he could do. So once I heard it and the 142 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:31.199 shock set in, I was just like, oh hell, this 143 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:32.519 is not from the guys. 144 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.399 This is from a creature. 145 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.720 An animal of being, a something. There's something out here. 146 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:43.240 It just completely floored me. So I opened my eyes 147 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.879 up and I'm just looking straight out ahead of me 148 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.919 and this tree is still to my left. I just 149 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:53.480 said to myself, Okay, Chris, now is your time to 150 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.240 prove to these guys that you're not scared, You're not 151 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.759 a freeedy cat. You're not going to be talked about 152 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:02.600 if you don't move forward on this sound. 153 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.480 And that's what I did. I told myself. 154 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:08.759 I said, Okay, I'm going to take two more steps 155 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.000 and look at see if I can see what it 156 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:14.679 is that made that sound that scared me so badly, 157 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:17.440 and I had a firearm on me at the side. 158 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:18.840 I remember doing this. 159 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.320 I put my hand on my firearm and I said, Okay, 160 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.399 I'm going to see what's out there. And I took 161 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.759 two steps forward. And as I took two steps forward, 162 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:33.399 that's when I told myself, there's no way I'm making 163 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:34.919 another step towards this thing. 164 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:35.840 There's no way. 165 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.919 All I wanted to do is get back to base camp. 166 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:42.840 And I turned around and did a three sixty in 167 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.360 the mud right there and started stepping back in my 168 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.559 footprints that I had made because I could vividly see him, 169 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:55.159 and I was looking down because one of our fellow researchers, 170 00:09:55.240 --> 00:10:00.440 Tim Dills, I had asked him in the past. I said, man, 171 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.840 when you saw your first bigfoot, I said, what advice 172 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:09.320 would you give someone? Tim told me to drop your head, 173 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.960 don't make eye contact, look at the direction you're wanting 174 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.639 to travel into, and don't take your eyes off of it, 175 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.080 and just walk slowly out of the woods. And that's 176 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:23.879 exactly what I did. What I feel like happened was 177 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.480 I was so deep in the woods by myself alone 178 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:32.240 that when I did the two tree knocks that got 179 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:35.720 its attention, and then when I did the yell with 180 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.639 no reply back that after I did that second yell, 181 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:46.159 apparently I upset it. It screamed at me with such 182 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:51.879 a vibrating scream that it vibrated my chest, the hairs 183 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.240 on my arms, and my neck stood up, and I 184 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.919 was just goosebumped from head to toe. I've told this 185 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.440 story a couple of times in a couple people that 186 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:04.120 I told it to said you possibly were zapped. 187 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:09.759 I didn't know what zapp was. I knew I was shocked. 188 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.600 I knew that I was scared, and I knew that 189 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.360 I was being honest with myself by wanting to get 190 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:21.120 the hell out of there in one piece, because whatever 191 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:25.879 creature this vocalization came out of it had to have volume, 192 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.159 it had to be big, and it had to have 193 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:31.360 one heck of a set of lungs on it to 194 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.720 get that type of velocity to come through the woods 195 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:36.279 or the swamp. 196 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:37.039 Yeah. 197 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.200 I was basically scared shitless. So from that point I 198 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.320 just started walking back. And as I was walking back, 199 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:47.039 I walked back over and I found my audio recorder 200 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:47.960 where I'd left it. 201 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:49.240 I grabbed it. 202 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.720 Then I kept walking, and I walked to the spot 203 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.159 where I found the footprint because my flagging tape, so 204 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.200 I knew exactly where it was at. And I'm like, okay, 205 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.519 I'm I'm going back to base camp now. I'm gonna 206 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:05.360 get the guys. We're gonna come back out here and 207 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.240 we're gonna cast this. And as I was walking, it 208 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.759 probably was another forty five minute walk because I was 209 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.960 moving slow. I was completely exhausted. When I came out 210 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.279 on the long road back to our base camp. I 211 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:27.480 came out maybe six seven hundred yards up the road 212 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:31.679 from where I had entered, because I knew basically my direction, 213 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:34.000 so I wasn't staring at my footprints. 214 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.919 I was more concerned with just getting back. 215 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:38.960 That's all I really wanted to do at that point 216 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:42.159 was just get back. In the meantime, I had composed 217 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.840 myself to where I wasn't gonna just come walking up 218 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.480 to the guys and waving my arms and going, guys, 219 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:50.919 you're not gonna believe what happened. You have no idea 220 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.480 what happened to me or anything like that. I just said, 221 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.840 I'm gonna tell them what happened, and I'm just gonna 222 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.399 try to take it nice and cool. As soon as 223 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.519 I walked back up to base camp, Bob and Dwight 224 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:03.559 asked me. They said, to how did your walk go? 225 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:06.799 And I said, I think it went really good. I said, 226 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:10.879 I think I found a legitimate footprint. That's when Bob said, 227 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.200 did you hear that scream or that yell? 228 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:16.879 And I said, oh, yeah, I heard it. 229 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:21.000 I said it was like thirty forty yards from me 230 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:25.279 when I heard it. We caught the audio pretty good 231 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:29.240 on my audio recorder, even though my audio recorder was 232 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:33.240 probably a quarter mile I will guess a quarter mile 233 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.399 from where I ended up at and it got screamed at. 234 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:43.279 But from where base camp was to where it screamed 235 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.879 at me was comfortably three quarters of a mile, I 236 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:54.080 would say comfortably. And that's when Bob said, yeah, he said, 237 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:57.200 I heard it all the way back here. So if 238 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.600 that tells you anything, this was a very very loud, 239 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:05.039 very dominating sound that came out of the forest. I 240 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.200 never got to see it. Bob and I came back 241 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:12.960 down a few months ago to the exact same location 242 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.720 and we tried to recreate our steps to go back 243 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:21.080 out there, and unfortunately we couldn't do so because the 244 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:25.639 water level was so high, it was knee high in places, 245 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.519 and we didn't bring chest waiters with us. We weren't 246 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.799 anticipating that much water level to be there. We had 247 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.000 muck boots on and that type of thing, but we 248 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:38.000 were specifically going out there, or at least I was 249 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:43.279 specifically going to retrace my tracks and then hopefully see 250 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.159 some more activity or see if there's anything else going 251 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.720 on out there. But the swamp had turned back into 252 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.879 the swamp. But that was the scariest that I've ever 253 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.360 been in my entire life. And I've had some scary instances, 254 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.519 but this time was It was beyond scary for me. 255 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:00.480 That's my story on that. 256 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.360 Stay tuned for more Sasquatch out to see. We'll be 257 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.200 right back after these messages. 258 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:10.759 One of my. 259 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:16.679 Most interesting experiences took place in a spot we called 260 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:17.200 a field. 261 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:19.240 I don't know if you want me the name. 262 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.320 Exactly where that is. It's in Rutherford County in North Carolina. 263 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.240 We had a whole lot of stuff go on at 264 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.559 that field. Remember what we did the day before, We 265 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:31.919 may have pulled an overnight or somewhere, I don't know 266 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:32.720 where that was. 267 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.639 But the next day. 268 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.440 I'd got up in the afternoon and I had my 269 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.200 dog's fending got it. And so back then, this was 270 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:46.399 twenty seventeen, if me and you Bob pulled an overnight 271 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:48.639 or usually on Saturday. 272 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:51.000 Afternoons, I'd take them too. Well, a lot of times I'd. 273 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:52.840 Come out of woods when it was getting dark and 274 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:55.039 all that. And so I went up to the field. 275 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.320 And previously, like I said, a lot of stuff that 276 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:59.559 went on at that field. 277 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.720 There was one time when we found a footprint where 278 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.399 you found it. 279 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:06.720 We were always hearing wooden knocks. I feel it is 280 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.159 like wood knock Central. When we found that footprint that time, 281 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.399 there were a couple of wood knocks. I started going 282 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.600 in the woods. You like, going back here and sit down, listen. 283 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.159 We heard a lot of wood knocks. So I went 284 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.200 up to that field and it's the first time that 285 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:21.080 I took Finn and. 286 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:22.000 Got it up to that field. 287 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:25.840 This was twenty seventeen, and we walked around the field 288 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:27.039 looking for prints. 289 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:28.399 It was late in the evening. 290 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.120 Sam was still shining pretty good, but it was slowly 291 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:36.840 going down, and all of a sudden, through the brush, 292 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:38.759 I thought I saw something looking. 293 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:40.320 At me, and I zoomed in on and I had 294 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.559 a zoom camera. I was doing was taking pictures. 295 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.200 I probably should have been taking video, and I took 296 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.399 a picture through with. 297 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:50.720 Them and I was zoomed. Then I say, damn, that's 298 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:51.519 a face right there. 299 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.919 I took a picture of it and it turns out good, 300 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.639 and to this day that's one of the best daytime 301 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.600 pictures that I ever got. So I heard a bunch 302 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:02.559 of rustling around, moving around. 303 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:04.359 I looked back to there. 304 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.480 Then all I saw was darkness. I didn't see a 305 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.799 face or anything. So I started panning around with my camera. 306 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.640 I didn't have a tripod, so when you zoom in 307 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:16.799 you don't have a trumpot, it gets kind of shaky. 308 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.640 That's a pretty good camera overn So I started zooming 309 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:23.759 in where I started hearing the noise taking pictures. So 310 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.279 here and there I zoom in to see a face 311 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.519 really good picked the picture, and that really got the 312 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:35.079 idea from me that instead of using binoculars, because I 313 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:38.559 always carve binoculars with me, as zoom camera was actually 314 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.759 better than any binocular than I can use. So from 315 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.680 that point forward to this day, I always have a 316 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.559 zoom camera so I can zoom in and use that. 317 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.759 It's kind of like binoculars. But the movement kept going around. 318 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:55.880 It was on the perimeter of the field. This was 319 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.720 before we had an experience where the cameras shut down 320 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.160 and we saw some figures walking in the tree line. 321 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.160 This is that same tree lawn. Well, later on that 322 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:07.880 would happen. 323 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:14.480 So overall, I ended up getting maybe six decent picks 324 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.720 on a face out in the woods. 325 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.319 And to this day, that's something that every once in. 326 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.079 A while I think about again, I think back on, 327 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:29.599 and probably at least four to five times a year 328 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:31.680 I go up there and take the dog. I just 329 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.880 got one dog now, and just do try to reenact 330 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.799 that and see if that day happens again, because if 331 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.119 it happens again, I think I handled the whole situation 332 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:44.359 a whole lot better than when I handled it that day. Now, 333 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:46.920 as it turns out, this may have been Yeah, this 334 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:50.799 was before we had taken some people up there, some 335 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.720 other folks that are squatchers, and they got I don't 336 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:55.720 know if it's a thermal head. I think that may 337 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.200 have been using your thermal and we got a hit 338 00:18:58.240 --> 00:18:58.480 in a. 339 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.559 Corner in the side of over there. 340 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.039 Later on we took another gap there that we known 341 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:04.799 for years. 342 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:06.599 You got to hit. 343 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.039 He heard something over in that same area and you shined 344 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:13.440 at your thermoll over there. I pointed your thermoll over 345 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.559 there and got a hit. That's pretty decent. And so 346 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:19.839 that area has had so much happen, and in that 347 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:22.519 one little corner there's always something. 348 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:24.720 There was a hurricane blowing through it one time. 349 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:26.799 I can't remember the name of the hurricane, but it 350 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.880 blew a canopy up in the air and blew it 351 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.519 right on the corner, and we went over there and 352 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:35.720 got it. While we were picking it up, something was 353 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:38.240 just moving around. Yeah, the wind and everything was blowing, 354 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.880 but you heard it stopping around, moving around in that 355 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:47.799 same corner. Then right after that, we went back to 356 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:51.279 the treeline area and we smelled that pissy smell, one 357 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.160 of the few times I've actually gotten a whiff of 358 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:56.880 that pissy riding the. 359 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.400 Egg so foraric type smell. 360 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:04.359 And so that whole field area has got stuff going 361 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:06.200 on there. So every once in a while, take the 362 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:09.839 dog and just go back go around that tree line, 363 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:13.279 hoping that day come out again where I. 364 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:16.480 Can get some more pictures. Yeah, but that's that one 365 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:18.079 story I always think about and I. 366 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:20.880 Don't think I've told it too often. I'm not a 367 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.400 good storyteller. And you talk a lot about stuff that 368 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:25.839 happens and stuff. 369 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:26.200 We went through. 370 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:29.440 That's one thing with men my dogs that happened and 371 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:33.359 the dogs they didn't really act peculiar and they would 372 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:35.480 sniffed the air a little bit and get a little 373 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:36.240 bit excited. 374 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:38.799 They didn't really act. They didn't go off of that 375 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:39.960 crazy that day. 376 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:43.720 But I was going crazy trying to take pictures of 377 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:45.759 everything that was right around that field. 378 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:49.920 So that is going to really active area. Yeah, but 379 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:51.039 we spent a lot of time. 380 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:57.039 I think that we went there maybe fifteen to twenty 381 00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:57.839 straight times. 382 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:01.440 We heard at least three would we heard at least. 383 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.720 Three good wood knucks every dog one time and one 384 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:05.519 time we went. 385 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:07.799 Up there, and we went up there late. 386 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.160 We sat up and there was some going that we 387 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:13.720 didn't know exactly where he was, but turns out he 388 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:16.680 was up in the corner. We heard some wood knucks 389 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:19.640 or some things going on. This guy walked out. We 390 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:21.440 saw him when he walked down. We were like, okay, 391 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:24.279 that's the guy. The vehicles down there by the road 392 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.640 close to where we park, So this guy walked out 393 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:29.359 and we thought he. 394 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:29.880 Was gonna lead. 395 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:32.400 They say, he walks back up maybe I don't know. 396 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:35.279 Fifteen twenty minutes later he put all this stuff up. 397 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:38.720 So he talks to us, and while he's talking to us, 398 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.119 there's a loud wood knight like a babe roof would 399 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.000 not go out, and he looks back in that area. 400 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:44.480 He said, what's that? 401 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:46.960