1 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: I write to you today after giving a great deal 2 00:00:10,679 --> 00:00:14,199 of thought about a very intense encounter that happened in 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,600 the winter of nineteen ninety one. My older brother by 4 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,839 two years and I attended college together at the same 5 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,160 time and in the same class, since we served two 6 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,320 years active duty in the US Army before we both 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,880 enrolled as freshmen in nineteen eighty nine. We lived in 8 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,600 Daytona Beach, Florida at the time, and we were both 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:40,159 attending college in Ohio from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,240 ninety three. I was a pre med business student and 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,719 a collegiate athlete. My brother is a US Army reservist 12 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,520 and a musician. We weren't partiers or troublemakers. We were 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:58,719 your normal, average college students. We were returning from our 14 00:00:58,799 --> 00:01:03,079 Christmas break in Florida, making the fourteen hour drive back 15 00:01:03,119 --> 00:01:06,400 to Ohio in time to have a Sunday off to 16 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,239 unwind and prep for classes at eight the next Monday morning. 17 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:13,799 I actually don't even know if I truly believed in 18 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,840 Bigfoot then, but I certainly do now. I had never 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,560 heard of dog Man until just very recently, as a 20 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:25,200 result of your channel. My brother told me about your 21 00:01:25,239 --> 00:01:29,400 YouTube channel. About eight weeks ago, he and I were 22 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:32,840 discussing an episode of your show, and the memory came 23 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,120 to both of us as if it happened a few 24 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:40,359 hours ago. It was very vivid and so real. What 25 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,840 I'm about to share with you happened to him as 26 00:01:42,879 --> 00:01:45,760 the driver of the car and us because I was 27 00:01:45,799 --> 00:01:49,480 in the passenger seat. Recounting the story to you over 28 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:54,120 the keyboard brings me goosebumps as I type. It was 29 00:01:54,159 --> 00:01:56,920 a cold night. There was snow on the sides of 30 00:01:56,959 --> 00:02:00,319 the road, some ice patches from time to time, but 31 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,840 for the most part the roads were clear. My brother 32 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,959 was moving along at about seventy miles an hour. The 33 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,759 window cracked open just a bit to balance out the 34 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,280 heat from the defrost and the heater. We had not 35 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,280 seen a car for some time going in either direction. 36 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,759 Both he and I were drawn to look over to 37 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,759 the left lanes because a very large wolf like animal 38 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,599 bounded once from the median towards our lane. This was 39 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,919 a four lane highway, and the animal needed just one 40 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:34,960 jump to cover the twenty plus feet to enter our 41 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,719 side of the highway. Its jaws were wide open as 42 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:42,960 it leapt towards our car. Now keep in mind this 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,599 is happening in the time it takes for us to 44 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,080 close the distance of five hundred or so yards at 45 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,319 seventy miles per hour, even with him slowing down out 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,680 of sheer shock at the size of this creature. Just 47 00:02:56,719 --> 00:03:00,520 a few seconds was all it took, and then creature 48 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,240 stopped and stood on the medium. It crouched a bit 49 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,680 and jumped over the two lanes on each side of 50 00:03:06,759 --> 00:03:10,280 the highway, literally right into the oncoming lane that we 51 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,039 were on. It was within a foot or two of 52 00:03:13,159 --> 00:03:17,639 hitting us. Eyes as wide as silver dollars, we looked 53 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,599 at each other and said, if we were in one voice, 54 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,439 did you see that our adrenaline was kicked in the 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,240 hair on our arms, standing straight up, and our senses 56 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,599 were on alert as we realized what had just happened. 57 00:03:32,759 --> 00:03:35,120 I turned around to look out the back window, and 58 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:37,919 in the red glow of the break lights, I saw 59 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,439 the creature. It was easily four feet tall at its 60 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,840 back and eight to ten feet in length from nose 61 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:48,479 to tail. Its head was massive, and it stood another 62 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:53,360 two plus feet above the backbone. It was three quarter broadside, 63 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,319 so I was able to see just how massive this 64 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:02,039 thing was. We immediately thought of coyote, only because that 65 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:04,800 is the only animal that we could think it resembled. 66 00:04:05,639 --> 00:04:08,800 This was no wolf for coyote. Though it was massive. 67 00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:11,520 My brother and I went back and forth for the 68 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,879 rest of the trip trying to identify it. It looked 69 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:17,759 much more like a werewolf that you would read about 70 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,279 in the comic books or see in a movie. After 71 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,839 listening to the dog Man's stories on your channel, I 72 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:27,720 could not help but think that this massive beast we 73 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,879 saw that cold December night was a dog man. We 74 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,839 now discussed Bigfoot regularly, and we both believe that these 75 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,199 creatures exist. I'm going to give credit to you and 76 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:44,439 your subscribers for sharing their encounters. It is not always easy. 77 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:47,639 My brother and I never told anyone in our family 78 00:04:47,759 --> 00:04:51,680 about that creature because nobody would believe us. Even now, 79 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:54,720 when we're together and the topic of Bigfoot comes up, 80 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,920 our family members are split evenly between the believers and 81 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,959 the doubters. We have an older brother who is one 82 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,480 hundred percent convinced that Bigfoot is indeed very real. He 83 00:05:07,519 --> 00:05:10,439 moved to the mountains in Utah about six years ago, 84 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:17,920 and he says the reality is palpable. This is a 85 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,560 story from Maria. This is really good. She writes. In 86 00:05:22,639 --> 00:05:26,360 February of twenty twelve, I travel from my home in 87 00:05:26,399 --> 00:05:29,600 Texas to visit my sister who lived with my nephew 88 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:33,319 at the time in Seattle, Washington. After they took me 89 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:36,680 around Seattle to the fine dining establishments and for a 90 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,720 boat ride at Puget Sound, I told my nephew I 91 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:44,319 wanted to buy some bigfoot stuff. Bigfoot, why, he asked, 92 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,399 because Washington State is the Bigfoot capital of the world 93 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,759 with the most sightings. I told him. I explained that 94 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,240 I had been interested in bigfoot for years and that 95 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:59,199 I watched countless YouTube videos and TV documentaries on the topic. I, 96 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,959 joking Lisa, said that I'd like to go bigfoot hunting. Well, 97 00:06:02,959 --> 00:06:06,600 he was not amused. Seeing his reaction, I asked him 98 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,439 if he believed in Bigfoot. Well, I don't know, he said, 99 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,120 And then, after thinking for a minute, he told me 100 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,199 what happened to him and his wife when they first 101 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:19,240 got married. In two thousand and one. My nephew's wedding 102 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,399 was held at the Navajo Nation Reservation in New Mexico. 103 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:29,199 His wife, a Navajo, grew up near the Nahoa Ugh 104 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,399 I kind of hate to pronounce this word. Natchitty now 105 00:06:33,519 --> 00:06:39,600 chitty mountains, nasc hi t ti the not shitty mountains. 106 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,879 How about that? Our entire family from Texas, so we 107 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,519 all around thirty of us, drove up the day before 108 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,680 the wedding to the reservation where the wedding ceremony and 109 00:06:49,759 --> 00:06:53,079 festivities were to be held. It was a large open 110 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,959 field of one hundred square yards surrounded by trees. His 111 00:06:57,079 --> 00:07:00,959 wife's Navajo grandmother lived in a log cabin the same area, 112 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,519 just outside the trees. There were no hotels in that area, 113 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:09,199 so we took tents and camping gear. The following evening, 114 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:11,879 when the wedding festivities had ended, we sat around the 115 00:07:11,879 --> 00:07:16,079 campfire and enjoyed the stars. Afterward we all turned in. 116 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,160 The Next morning, our family drove back home to Texas, 117 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,680 and my nephew and his wife planned to camp out 118 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,680 one more night so they could spend a little more 119 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:29,360 time with their family before leaving on their honeymoon. That evening, 120 00:07:29,439 --> 00:07:32,079 my nephew and his wife were sitting around the campfire 121 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,800 when far away they heard the strange, loud, deep growls. 122 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:39,560 They said nothing to each other and they continued talking. 123 00:07:40,639 --> 00:07:43,639 They heard the growls two more times, each time a 124 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,000 little closer and louder than before. It grew quiet for 125 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,199 a while, and they got easier, and they finally decided 126 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,120 to turn in for the night, and my nephew got 127 00:07:53,199 --> 00:07:56,120 up to put away some of their gear. As he 128 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,240 was putting out the fire, they heard another growl. This 129 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,160 time it was and it was really loud. He asked 130 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,240 his wife what animal was growling, and she said she 131 00:08:06,279 --> 00:08:10,480 didn't know, she'd never heard anything like it before. Well, 132 00:08:10,519 --> 00:08:12,439 they both looked around to see what it was, but 133 00:08:12,519 --> 00:08:17,000 it was pitch dark beyond a few yards. They continued 134 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,920 to put things away. As they were doing so, the 135 00:08:19,959 --> 00:08:24,879 growling came closer still and even louder. Now my nephew, 136 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,959 who was normally a calm and level headed person, was 137 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,680 beginning to panic. Let's get the heck out of here, 138 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,559 he said to his wife. They began throwing things into 139 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,919 the bed of his truck with no regard for damaging 140 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,000 any of it, and the growling was now within thirty 141 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,720 yards and beginning to sound angrier. When it got to 142 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:45,799 within a few feet of them, he yelled at his 143 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:49,200 wife get in the truck. They jumped in and sped 144 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,919 out of the mountains as fast as they could. They 145 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 drove over an hour away to Gallop, New Mexico, where 146 00:08:55,039 --> 00:08:58,919 they got a hotel for the night. The next morning, 147 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,200 they drove back to their camp to get their tent 148 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,240 and whatever gear they'd left behind. Then they said goodbye 149 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,679 to her family and they left. When he finished his story, 150 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,879 I asked his wife what she thought it was, and 151 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:16,679 reluctantly she said she didn't know. But months later I 152 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,759 had the opportunity to speak with my nephew about it again. 153 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,600 I asked him if he thought what they heard was 154 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:25,840 a bigfoot. He said he didn't know, but he never 155 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:34,000 wanted to hear that sound again. Okay, here's a short 156 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,879 little story that anyway, you guys make your judgment on it, it's 157 00:09:38,759 --> 00:09:42,600 a good one. Several weeks ago, I found myself hiking 158 00:09:42,639 --> 00:09:46,440 in the rocky mountains of Utah with my girlfriend. We 159 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,159 were on a rocky slope with lots of fallen timber 160 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,759 and snow making the track difficult. Suddenly, rocks were being 161 00:09:53,799 --> 00:09:56,159 thrown into us, and I turned to see down below 162 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,440 a small hairy person or creature throwing rocks. I called 163 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,679 out for it to stop, but one of the rocks 164 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,840 struck me on the hip and I went down. I 165 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:08,600 grabbed my girlfriend's hand and we limped up to what 166 00:10:08,759 --> 00:10:11,960 looked like an opening to a cave, hoping to find protection, 167 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,440 and once inside, I realized that I could not walk 168 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,919 any further. It was at this time that I felt 169 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:21,919 that we were not alone, and in the darkness of 170 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,440 this cave, I could see the large shadow of a 171 00:10:24,519 --> 00:10:29,440 figure with glowing eyes approaching us. I tried to call out, 172 00:10:29,519 --> 00:10:32,799 but for some reason it was almost impossible to speak, 173 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,559 and with all my strength, I struggled to say, don't 174 00:10:36,639 --> 00:10:41,120 hurt us, Please just help us. I'm hurt, I can't walk, 175 00:10:41,919 --> 00:10:44,480 and I was holding my girlfriend's hand during all this, 176 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,799 hoping to protect her. The last thing I recall was 177 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,480 a huge hairy hand grabbing her away from me while 178 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:55,759 I forced out the words please don't hurt us. And 179 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,639 it was at this time I woke up. Yes, I 180 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,240 was only dreaming and had actually been calling out in 181 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,320 my sleep, at least trying to, and I believe that's 182 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,360 what finally woke me up. This really happened. What a 183 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:12,759 crazy nightmare. I can only say that I must be 184 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,600 listening to too many cryptied stories. Cam you don't have 185 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,639 to read this to your faithful followers, but I did 186 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,600 want to share it with you because it was so 187 00:11:21,799 --> 00:11:24,600 dang odd And by the way, I sure hope there's 188 00:11:24,639 --> 00:11:28,919 not a sequel to this one. And he signs off anyway, 189 00:11:29,039 --> 00:11:32,039 that was worth reading. I just pull that up. I 190 00:11:32,039 --> 00:11:33,720 didn't know how that was going to end, and it 191 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,919 kind of surprised me at the end. So I just 192 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:37,879 he had written it so well I didn't have to 193 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:39,840 do anything to it, so I just started reading it. 194 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,879 That's a cool email. And it kind of relates to bigfoot, 195 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,799 I guess, and listening to too many cryptied stories because 196 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,360 it'll get to you if you go too deep with it. 197 00:11:51,039 --> 00:11:53,120 Listen to a couple of them, Listen to a couple 198 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,440 of podcasts, watch some you know, the real bigfoot of 199 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,399 people on YouTube, and then give it a break. Go 200 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,679 out and like god, do and go out, get outside 201 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:07,399 and do something. Man, this bigfoot stuff it actually it 202 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:12,000 is so pervasive in the bigfoot culture that some people 203 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,919 really obsess on it. I'm not saying this guy does, 204 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,559 but he did have a bad dream about it. Anyway, 205 00:12:17,919 --> 00:12:20,639 nothing of that appreciate the story. It was really good 206 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,399 right in the middle of the Shawnee National Forest in 207 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,840 Illinois is an old churchyard complete with a cemetery containing 208 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:36,120 grave markers of people who were killed by Indians. They 209 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,279 used to put that information right on the headstones back then, 210 00:12:40,399 --> 00:12:43,480 nearly sixteen years ago, when we first started deer hunting 211 00:12:43,519 --> 00:12:46,600 that area, I'd bring our camper there in camp next 212 00:12:46,639 --> 00:12:49,840 to the dead. You'd think that would mean a peaceful night. 213 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,120 I've heard a lot of people who lived next to 214 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,000 cemetery say that they are the quietest and best neighborhoods 215 00:12:57,039 --> 00:13:00,360 to live in. Well, that wasn't the case for us. 216 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,120 Every time we camped there, we'd all hear things running 217 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,600 around in the middle of the night. Well it must 218 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,480 be ghosts from the cemetery, we always joke. And then 219 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,240 one night, while we were all sitting around a campfire, 220 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:16,559 we started hearing those noises a little earlier than normal. 221 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,399 It sounded like they were coming from over by a 222 00:13:19,519 --> 00:13:24,159 pond that was close by. All conversation around the fire 223 00:13:24,279 --> 00:13:27,200 stopped as we all listened and tried to understand what 224 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,240 we were hearing. When the sounds started getting closer, one 225 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,759 of my buddies leaned over to me and he said, well, 226 00:13:33,759 --> 00:13:36,039 it sounds like a bunch of kids are laughing over there. 227 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:39,759 It was late enough in the evening that we considered 228 00:13:39,759 --> 00:13:41,879 it odd for kids to be in the woods playing 229 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:45,840 in the dark. And then as the sounds changed a little, 230 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:50,120 he said, now I think maybe that's adults yelping and 231 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:53,679 whooping and messing around. Well, it must be someone from 232 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:57,279 the other deer camps, I said, after all, we weren't 233 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,799 the only ones out there. I don't think we said 234 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:04,120 much after that. We were too interested in trying to 235 00:14:04,159 --> 00:14:08,639 identify the sounds, And when they got closer still, someone 236 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,720 pointed out that it didn't sound quite human when we 237 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:18,240 heard the whistles. We all acknowledged that they sounded strange anyway. 238 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:21,279 Around ten PM, with an early morning ahead of us, 239 00:14:21,679 --> 00:14:23,919 we decided to call it a night and turned in. 240 00:14:24,879 --> 00:14:28,600 And after that things got quiet for a while, and 241 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:31,360 then we heard a loud whack that we were all 242 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:35,840 startled out of our sleep from. No three men ever 243 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:38,720 jumped out of their beds so quickly. What is that, 244 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,360 one of my buddies hist There was nothing now, no 245 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,720 more big bangs, no laughing children, no strange whistles, just 246 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:49,679 a earie silence that left us all with an uneasy 247 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,960 feeling in our guts. Finally, I said, ah, it's probably 248 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:56,200 guys from one of the other camps playing a joke 249 00:14:56,279 --> 00:15:00,120 on us. Let's go back to sleep. I can't say 250 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:02,480 that I believed my own words, but it was enough 251 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:04,759 to get us all back into our beds that night, 252 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,080 though it wasn't enough to give any of us a 253 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,559 good night sleep. At five o'clock the next morning, we 254 00:15:12,759 --> 00:15:15,759 ate our breakfast, We got ourselves ready, and we each 255 00:15:15,799 --> 00:15:20,039 headed out to our own stands. Mine was twenty feet 256 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,639 up an old oak tree by a pond, and as usual, 257 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:26,519 I was in it way too early, so I took 258 00:15:26,519 --> 00:15:30,639 a nap. I didn't know it, but turkeys were roosting 259 00:15:30,679 --> 00:15:33,639 in the tree not ten feet from me. I found 260 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,240 that out when something woke them up and flushed them 261 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,759 out of the tree, and it startled me so bad 262 00:15:38,799 --> 00:15:42,240 that I nearly fell out of my stand. I was 263 00:15:42,279 --> 00:15:45,519 still trying to reposition myself and regain my balance when 264 00:15:45,559 --> 00:15:48,720 I began to smell something putrid. It was like a 265 00:15:48,759 --> 00:15:54,759 dead dog soaked in a septic tank. Ugh seconds later, 266 00:15:54,919 --> 00:15:57,559 the smell hit me and I heard the same strange 267 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,720 whooping sound from the night before this time, it sounded 268 00:16:01,759 --> 00:16:04,159 like it was calling people in to eat, and it 269 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,159 wasn't that far away. Well. I sat frozen in place, 270 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,519 trying to pinpoint the exact location, when footsteps rustled through 271 00:16:12,559 --> 00:16:16,799 the leaf matter behind me. The steps were definitely by pedal, 272 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,799 so it couldn't be a wool for a coyote, and 273 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:22,559 at the same time, the smell and the weird whooping 274 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:26,639 sound told me it wasn't a human either. I broke 275 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,600 into a cold sweat when it walked right up behind 276 00:16:29,639 --> 00:16:33,120 my tree and it stopped. I wanted to turn around 277 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:36,320 to see what was there, but I was afraid. I 278 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,120 needed to know what I was up against. But panic 279 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:43,039 shook my hands and rattled my brain. I couldn't make 280 00:16:43,159 --> 00:16:45,960 up my mind what I should do, what I had 281 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,399 to do, and what I would do if I was attacked. 282 00:16:49,559 --> 00:16:52,360 Before I could make a decision, it stepped right out 283 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:55,360 in front of me. Now this thing was every bit 284 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:58,360 of nine feet tall, and it was covered in black hair. 285 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,200 I sat there, staring down at it as it stared 286 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,680 down at the ground, apparently looking for a place to 287 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:10,640 sit while fight or flight or battling out In my chest, 288 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,640 that ungodly thing planted itself under a tree directly in 289 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,160 front of me, and then, with a dull thud, my 290 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,920 cigarette lighter slipped out of my pocket and fell to 291 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,920 the bottom of my dear stand well. The monster jumped 292 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,640 straight up and began looking up into the trees around 293 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,119 it in search of the source of the sound. It 294 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,680 turned around and looked straight up into the tree that 295 00:17:33,759 --> 00:17:37,920 it had been sitting under, which put its back to me. Please, 296 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,640 I whispered, don't turn around and look at me. I 297 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,240 knew what I was looking at. I'd heard about these 298 00:17:46,279 --> 00:17:48,480 things and how they could tear a man to pieces 299 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,240 if they wanted to, and I knew if it saw me, 300 00:17:51,599 --> 00:17:55,519 I would have no escape. As these thoughts raced through 301 00:17:55,559 --> 00:17:58,599 my mind and pushed my blood pressure to stroke levels, 302 00:17:59,079 --> 00:18:03,279 the sasquatch slowly and deliberately turned and looked directly at me, 303 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,759 and just for a second, I think I may have died. 304 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,720 My heart quit beating and I quit breathing, and all 305 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:14,200 fault left my mind except for one. Don't look at 306 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:19,599 square in the eye. Every possible scenario ran through my mind, 307 00:18:20,039 --> 00:18:24,279 all of them ending in my agonizing death. But do 308 00:18:24,319 --> 00:18:27,519 you know what this thing did? It smiled at me 309 00:18:28,319 --> 00:18:32,000 at least that's how I interpreted it. Then it let 310 00:18:32,079 --> 00:18:35,359 out a howl that sounded different from the earlier whoops. 311 00:18:35,799 --> 00:18:38,279 I got the idea that it was telling the others 312 00:18:38,319 --> 00:18:41,559 that it had found someone here and to not come by. 313 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,920 And with a little growl and what looked ridiculously like 314 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,599 a wave of its hand, it walked away.