WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Here's a story that I've had quite a while, and 2 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.320 I'm just getting to it. The man is in his sixties, 3 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:17.719 says he's battling MS, multiple sclerosis. I assume that's what 4 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:21.440 MS means now to say, he writes, I've decided to 5 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:25.719 share my experiences before it's too late. Perhaps my encounters 6 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:29.160 will benefit someone, and if so, then my time writing 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.560 this has not been wasted. I was raised on a 8 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:36.240 farm in cattle operation in Utah in the nineteen sixties 9 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:40.920 and seventies. Our land was adjacent to foothills that led 10 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:43.520 up into a range of the Rocky Mountains, where I 11 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:48.119 spent every possible hour on horseback or hiking or backpacking. 12 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:52.640 I log several hundred nights camping out during my teens 13 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:56.039 and in twenties and my thirties and into my early forties. 14 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.719 It came with the territory of my outdoor life. Being 15 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.880 out of doors every day from my childhood onward gave 16 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.599 me a tremendous education about the natural world, and I 17 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:12.719 was intimately familiar with every species of tree, plant, wildflower, 18 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.519 every type of bird that inhabited our region, and of 19 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.000 course every mammal that lived in these valleys and mountains. 20 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:24.480 I grew up fly fishing and hunting waterfowl, upland birds 21 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.519 and big game, which took me into some of the 22 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:31.560 most beautiful and remote country imaginable. I mentioned these things 23 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:36.000 so you'll understand my familiar rity. That's a hard word 24 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.640 for me to say. I mentioned these things so you'll 25 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.959 understand my familiarity with every living thing, from the western 26 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:47.200 deserts to Utah's Red Rock Country and the alpine peaks 27 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.480 of the highest mountains. And all that time spent out doors, 28 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:54.439 I never had any calls for fear, nor did I 29 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:58.959 see or experience anything unusual. And then one August evening 30 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.519 in two thousand and four, my fly fishing partner and 31 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.560 I decided to stay out late to watch the I 32 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:10.400 can't pronounce this word. I think it's per Sade meteor 33 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.800 shower at Strawberry Reservoir, pe r seid per side or 34 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:21.599 per se meteor shower at Strawberry Reservoir. We were excited 35 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.199 to see the spectacle because of clear skies, there was 36 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.080 no moonlight and no light pollution. We launched our float 37 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.199 tubes into the water shortly before dark to enjoy some 38 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:38.680 fishing and stargazing. Perhaps an hour into the meteor shower, 39 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:42.560 we both suddenly noticed something massive walking along the shoreline 40 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.879 on all fours. Its silhouette instantly reminded me of a 41 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.319 polar bear with a huge hindquarters taller than its front shoulders, 42 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:54.719 and its head was small for its body size, and 43 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:58.960 that body was gargantuan. We were way too close to 44 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.319 the shore for comfort, and we paddled into the safety 45 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:07.000 of deeper water as quickly as possible. We both experienced 46 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:11.280 a sense of dread and terror. What was that giant thing? 47 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.280 It was several times larger than the black bears that 48 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.319 we have in Utah, and we don't have grizzly bears 49 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.319 in Utah, but they're not that big either. We observed 50 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.840 the creature for a couple of minutes until it walked 51 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.680 into the darkness and left us alone on the lake. Yes, 52 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.879 we were both terrified, knowing that eventually we'd have to 53 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.759 get out of the water and run up the hill 54 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.800 to the car. We had no explanation for what we saw. 55 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.919 Back then, I'd never heard of bigfoot walking on all fours. 56 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:44.639 Since that time, I've read numerous accounts of people seeing 57 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.199 these things down on all fours. It's the only answer 58 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:50.560 I can come up with to account for the massive 59 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:55.000 size of the animal we saw. The experience we had 60 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:58.439 on Strawberry that August night was the precursor for the 61 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:02.919 year two thousand and five, where everything changed and life 62 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.960 has never been the same since a door was opened 63 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:11.879 somehow to extraordinary strangeness that I never asked for, I 64 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:17.079 didn't seek, and I can't seem to escape. This is 65 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:20.319 the one and only time that I will record and 66 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:24.160 recount these experiences. Now I will do my best to 67 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:26.680 give you a detailed account of what happened in our 68 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.439 lives during two thousand and five and is subsequent to 69 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:35.279 that time. It all began innocently enough on a late 70 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.800 winter day when my wife and I decided to go 71 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.480 for a drive to town to get a taco for lunch. 72 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.639 On the return trip, we were two blocks south of 73 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.680 main street in our small town when suddenly a dog 74 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:52.360 of some kind with short, dark gray hair walked out 75 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.120 into the street in front of us on two legs, 76 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:58.199 and I slammed on the brakes as we watched this 77 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:03.199 thing cross the road in displa It ran into someone's yard, 78 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:08.120 still on two legs, and went into the shrubbery and disappeared. Well, 79 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.360 we were speechless. What the hell was that, we both 80 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.680 said to each other. We went home and I got online, 81 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.519 and it didn't take long to find the numerous images 82 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:22.319 and videos of these same dogs walking upright all over 83 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:25.920 the southwest of the United States and down into Mexico. 84 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:30.720 Some people refer to them as chupacabras, and all I 85 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.839 know is we were both very upset by what we saw. 86 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.720 A few weeks later, it was time for another friend 87 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:40.240 and I to go on our first jeep expedition of 88 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:45.920 the season, and we headed south toward Utah's San Rafael Swells, 89 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.279 some of the most remote country in the lower forty 90 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:53.000 eight States. On the way, we passed through San Pete Valley, 91 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.639 where the second strange encounter took place. At the north 92 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:00.639 end of the valley, there's a small town called Melbourne, 93 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:02.959 and just as we turned off the highway to head 94 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.600 towards Melbourne, there was a huge black figure standing in 95 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:11.519 sagebrush at perhaps sixty yards away. I brought the jeep 96 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:13.879 to a halt and we both stared at this thing 97 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.360 with very broad shoulders and legs like tree trunks. We 98 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.759 weren't close enough to make out any facial features, but 99 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:25.160 we could see the glistening black hair that covered this being. 100 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.120 It had a conical shaped head and a barrel chest, 101 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:34.199 and long arms and massive legs. Time stopped as we 102 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:36.920 watched this thing for a few minutes, and then it 103 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.720 turned its body to the south, took two and a 104 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:44.560 half steps, and it vanished. There was nowhere for it 105 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.399 to hide. It didn't dash to a tree for cover 106 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:50.879 or drop to the ground. It was midway into its 107 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:54.480 third step, with one leg raised and its foot up 108 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:59.199 off the ground when it completely disappeared. It wasn't as 109 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.560 though we watched did step into some unseen doorway where 110 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.800 you'd observe the front part of the creature disappear, followed 111 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:10.639 by its backside. No, it totally vanished in one instant 112 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.439 of time in mid stride. You can imagine the fear 113 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.360 that swallowed us, knowing we had to drive down the 114 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:22.439 road where this thing was headed when it vanished. At 115 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:26.439 that time, I had never researched anything about bigfoot. Though 116 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.079 I was certainly familiar with the claims of those who 117 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:33.240 had seen these things, I did not know there was 118 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:37.240 a rich collection of encounters with these things vanishing from sight, 119 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.160 but we both saw it one moment and the next 120 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:45.600 it was gone. After the event concluded, we compared notes 121 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.120 and both felt like it was nine feet tall and 122 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:50.879 weighed perhaps as much as six hundred pounds or more. 123 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:56.240 It didn't make any aggressive movements towards us, However, we 124 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:00.319 both felt a deep, foreboding sense of evil. I didn't 125 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.360 shake that horrible feeling, and we decided to postpone our 126 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.480 jeep adventure for another time. The next in our series 127 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.040 of life changing events occurred during the spring when we 128 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:14.759 were doing some landscaping work in our yard. We lived 129 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.240 a couple of miles outside of town and didn't have 130 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:21.079 any close neighbors at the time. I hesitate to record 131 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.439 this incredibly strange event because no one will believe me, 132 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:28.480 but still, it was the most disturbing of events of 133 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.399 two thousand and five, and to leave a full and 134 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:34.440 honest account, I'll tell you this part of my story. 135 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.159 It still turns me inside out when I think about it. 136 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:42.480 I'm shaking right now as I right. My oldest son 137 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.159 was seventeen at the time, and he was helping me 138 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:49.159 with some landscaping work. We stopped for lunch, and while 139 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:51.639 I was eating a sandwich in the house. I was 140 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:54.639 looking into the backyard at our project and decided what 141 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:58.399 we'd work on next when I saw a male American 142 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.159 kestrel hawk fly toward a river birch tree in the 143 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:06.000 back corner. Well, something was wrong with this bird, and 144 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:09.080 I thought it was perhaps injured due to its erratic flight. 145 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:13.639 But rather than landing in the tree, the small and 146 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.759 colorful hawk landed on the ground where we had been 147 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.600 planting some barberry bushes, and it started moving its wings 148 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.600 in a strange, unnatural way. And the next thing I knew, 149 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.879 this bird pushed its wings up and away from its 150 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.559 body in a manner that would be impossible for any 151 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.720 bird to do, and then I was looking at something 152 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:39.519 other than the hawk. More than sixteen years have passed 153 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.039 since this event occurred, and I no longer remember the 154 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:47.080 exact order of what I've witnessed. But over the next 155 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:51.440 several minutes, I observed this thing chained shapes into a 156 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:57.320 rabbit with badly deformed ears, a squirrel that was incorrectly formed, 157 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:02.120 a weasel, a marmot, and a each of which was 158 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:07.519 anatomically incorrect. At the same time as I witnessed this event, 159 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:10.240 I was suddenly sick to my stomach and filled with 160 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:14.840 nausea and a violent headache. The badger jumped down from 161 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.200 the retaining wall and went over to a hole in 162 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:21.519 the field. My son came upstairs at that point, and 163 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.879 I asked him to keep watch on the hole while 164 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:27.240 I went over there. I went over through the garage 165 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.960 and I picked up a stout club. When I got 166 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.080 to the hole, nothing was there, and I retreated to 167 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:36.240 the couch, where I needed to rest for a few 168 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:41.960 hours to recover. Later research uncovered a material known as 169 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:46.360 black goo or programmable matter, that might account for what 170 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.039 I saw. Perhaps it was something from the military or 171 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:55.559 the deep state. I don't know. Debilitating nausea continued for 172 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.159 the next couple of weeks anytime I went outside and 173 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.200 near where I'd seen that thing. Perhaps it was some 174 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:05.759 kind of radioactivity. The next two events occurred on the 175 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.759 same day. I was fly fishing with my partner at 176 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:13.759 a still water known as Schofield Reservoir. It was a 177 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.360 gorgeous late spring day and the fishing was good. The 178 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:21.200 sky was a stunning azure blue, with white, fluffy clouds 179 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:24.919 hanging low in the sky. At one point I looked 180 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:27.720 almost straight above me and gasped at seeing a very 181 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.279 large silver sphere in the sky that appeared to be 182 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:35.080 covered in radio towers. It was not very high above me, 183 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.200 as it was hovering between two of the low hanging clouds, 184 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.200 and as soon as I saw it, the thing rapidly 185 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.440 ascended and was gone from sight in mere moments. Then, 186 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.200 on the way home, as we left the mountains and 187 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:52.759 reached Highway six, we both saw a glowing orange orb 188 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.879 coming toward us in the opposite lane of traffic. My 189 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:00.200 friend commented that it was about the size of a basketball. 190 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.600 We watched it pass us and turned to watch it 191 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:08.000 go behind us, but it disappeared. Later that summer, my 192 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:12.399 friend would fish at Indian Creek Bay on Strawberry Reservoir, 193 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:16.600 where we saw two orbs the same evening. Our lives 194 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.200 were becoming very weird. What in the world was happening 195 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.159 to us? Well, this story is becoming so long, so 196 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.639 I'll skip to the next orb story. It's not that critical. 197 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:32.720 We finally reached July fourth, and after all the activities 198 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.879 of the day, my wife and I were sitting on 199 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:38.200 the back patio and watching fireworks in towns east of 200 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:42.519 where we lived. We had an unobstructed view for many 201 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:47.360 miles in every direction. After the fireworks ceased, we sat there, 202 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:50.399 enjoying the cool of the evening until almost midnight, when 203 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:53.360 she grabbed my arm and said, what is that pointing 204 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:55.799 up the sky about halfway between our home and the 205 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:00.039 mountains to the east. Neither of us spoke for a 206 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:03.919 few minutes as we observed a huge, triangular shaped craft 207 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.240 moved silently across the sky. It had running lights along 208 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.320 the top and bottom edge of the side, and once 209 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.039 it passed we could see the back end, which also 210 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:18.440 had running lights. It continued moving north until we lost 211 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:21.759 sight of it. We were both two small town kids 212 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:25.960 that couldn't understand why these inexplicable things were happening to us. 213 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.320 That was not the last unidentifiable thing we saw flying 214 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:32.399 in the skies that year, but it was the most 215 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:37.480 remarkable one of all. Sometime in August of two thousand 216 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.399 and five, my fishing partner called me late one evening 217 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.759 and said to go outside and look above the prominent 218 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:47.000 mountain in our valley. I did so, and to my surprise, 219 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:50.000 there was a new bright star in the sky we'd 220 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:53.480 never seen before, and it was flashing colors at an 221 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:57.799 immense rate of change. My friend had the latest and 222 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:01.279 most powerful camera with a fantastic zoom lens, and he 223 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.759 filmed the star, which not only flashed colors that we 224 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:10.000 couldn't name, but changed shapes each time it flashed. We 225 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:13.120 watched it in slow motion, and we were astonished by 226 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:18.039 the revelation of what his camera brought into focus. Over 227 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:21.840 the years since two thousand and five, we've witnessed many 228 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.879 such anomalies. By late September, the heat of the summer 229 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.159 was behind us and it was time to attempt the 230 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:33.600 jeep expedition once again. We made plans to explore a 231 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.200 section of the San Rafael Swell we had never visited. 232 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.159 On the drive to the swell, we once again passed 233 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:44.200 through the Sand Pete Valley, and of course discussed the 234 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:48.039 bigfoot sighting from the spring. That was not my friend's 235 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:53.320 first cryptid encounter, as I learned. After we passed the 236 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.240 location of the sighting, we both gave an audible sigh 237 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.639 of relief and proceeded on our way. And part way 238 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:02.279 through the valley, we decided to explore a range of 239 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:05.759 hills we'd never visited before, and we pulled onto a 240 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.679 gravel road that led up into the hills. I stopped 241 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.879 the jeep on a bridge over a small irrigation canal 242 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:15.519 as we looked ahead, trying to decide which way we 243 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:19.480 wanted to go. It was eleven am, and that's when 244 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.399 I noticed a movement below me and to the left 245 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:27.039 in my peripheral vision. When I looked directly at whatever 246 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:31.240 had moved, I was instantly paralyzed with fear and incapable 247 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:37.799 of movement or speaking. Time stopped and I couldn't even breathe. 248 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.120 There below me, kneeling in the canal, was a monster 249 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.519 covered in grizzled hair and a mixture of gray and 250 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:48.639 light brown, with golden yellow colored eyes that were far apart, 251 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.000 and a wide mouth with narrow lips that were closed 252 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.840 tightly together. I could not look away, and I couldn't move, 253 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:00.200 and as time stood still, I had a long look 254 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:04.360 at this thing. The hair on its forehead began at 255 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.360 the brow ridge and grew upward on its forehead until 256 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:10.159 it reached the top of its head that was cone shape. 257 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.879 The hair was a uniform one inch in length. The 258 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.600 hair on its face gave it a perfect, full beard 259 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:20.120 that grew up close to its eyes, leaving only a 260 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:24.360 small patch of charcoal gray skin around the eyes. It 261 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:28.159 never blinked. The nose was wider and flatter than a 262 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:31.159 human nose, and hair grew across part of its nose. 263 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:34.919 The space between the bottom of its nose and its 264 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.639 upper lip was much wider than that of a human, 265 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:42.960 at least twice as wide and maybe more. The shoulders 266 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.799 on this beast were four feet wide and massive with muscle. 267 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:51.399 The hair was longer on its shoulders, perhaps four inches long. 268 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.559 There wasn't much neck to speak of, and it looked 269 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.919 like its head rested on its shoulders. The head was 270 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.200 too small to match the shoulders. Its chest was full 271 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.039 and rounded and covered in hair and a couple of 272 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:08.039 inches long. The shoulder muscles and biceps were incredibly huge. 273 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.359 Because of its position in the canal, I couldn't see 274 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.799 its elbows, lower arms, or hands. I also couldn't see 275 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.920 below its chest, and I never saw its legs at all. 276 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.359 I have assumed all these years that as I was 277 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:25.000 parked on the bridge and the motor was running, it 278 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.920 must have disturbed the creature that may have been sleeping 279 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.599 or resting under the bridge, and it came out to 280 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.839 investigate the source of the noise, but I'm just guessing. 281 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:37.799 After taking a long look at this thing, I finally 282 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.119 gained my composure enough to put the jeep in reverse, 283 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.039 take my foot off the clutch, and speed back down 284 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:47.880 out of there. My friend said later he thought I 285 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:50.440 was going to roll the jeep, but he didn't know 286 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:53.119 what I had seen, but he did see me staring 287 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.759 out the window. I let out a scream as we 288 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:59.640 backed down the steep road until we reached the pavement 289 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.480 and drove away as fast as she would carry us. 290 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.359 A couple of miles down the road, I pulled over 291 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.559 and change places with my friend, as I was too 292 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:13.680 impacted by the encounter to drive safely. This time, we 293 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:16.279 did go to the Swell, but the trip was a 294 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.519 bus for me due to what I had seen. What 295 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.559 else did two thousand and five have in store for me? 296 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:26.400 As it turned out, that was not the final strange 297 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:28.799 experience of the year. But I won't recite the other 298 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:33.720 UFO experiences. My poor wife was seeing them often in 299 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.400 the mountains by our home, and it shook her to 300 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:41.559 the core. I'd like to share some observations prior to 301 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.440 these experiences. I had never seen anything unusual or out 302 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:49.039 of place in my outdoor life. Suddenly I knew the 303 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:53.240 truth about things that most people will never know. Regarding 304 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:57.720 the two clearly identifiable bigfoot creatures, I've already said that 305 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:01.720 the first black creature felt intensely evil, but I did 306 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:05.400 not have the same feeling with the second, grizzled one. 307 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:08.240 Its face was eight to nine feet from my face, 308 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.039 but it never grimaced at me or displayed any threatening behavior. 309 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:15.079 It could have easily opened its mouth to growl at 310 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.559 us and show its teeth, but its mouth remained close. 311 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:24.119 I was terrified and petrified with fear from simply seeing 312 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:27.680 this monstrup close. But I didn't feel any fear being 313 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:32.680 projected from this creature as many people report. If anything, 314 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:37.960 it seemed to purposefully not do anything to terrorize us whatsoever. 315 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:41.640 That being said, I've never been able to bring myself 316 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.759 to visit that bridge again or camp out since two 317 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:48.720 thousand and five. Now I still go fly fishing as 318 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:51.559 often as health permits, but I never go unarmed if 319 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:56.119 we're off the beaten path. And that's that's the end 320 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:58.440 of his email. But there's a PostScript, and here's what 321 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:03.359 he writes, in October of twenty nineteen, fourteen years after 322 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:06.759 the bridge siding, I had another bigfoot encounter at a 323 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:10.480 small lake in northern Utah called Mill Hollow, where I 324 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:13.960 was fishing by myself. No one else was at the 325 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:17.319 lake that day. I didn't have a visual this time, 326 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.319 but a mature white fur was pushed over nearby. In 327 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:23.640 the creatures made a sound I can only describe as 328 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:26.759 a symphony orchestra, with all the string and wind and 329 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:31.759 brass instruments striking a note together, accompanied by multiple car horns. 330 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.279 The loud noise lasted for a single quarter note. They 331 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.400 had my attention. I assumed that rather than scream at me, 332 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.000 they made this less threatening sound so not to alarm 333 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.079 the numerous bull elk that are bugling in the mountains 334 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:50.880 around me. And I suspect it was a hunting party 335 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:55.039 and they wanted me gone. I gathered my fly rides 336 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.880 in another gear, and I left the area. I've read 337 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.400 other people's accounts of these beings making all kinds of sounds, 338 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.640 but I've never heard anyone report them sounding like a 339 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:10.599 symphony orchestra. Last in February of this year, twenty twenty 340 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:15.119 one one night, at twelve thirty am, something slapped the 341 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:17.319 side of our home so hard that it felt like 342 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:21.119 the house would come off its foundation. The slap was 343 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.400 on the second floor, on the other side of the 344 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.400 wall from my head. It reverberated through the house, and 345 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.000 my youngest son in the basement called me wondering what 346 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:35.240 had just happened. I instantly knew what had happened. One 347 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:38.559 of the bigfoot creatures that I had encountered found where 348 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.640 I was living and must have climbed up the rock 349 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:43.880 chimney and let me know they knew where I was. 350 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.519 So many people have reported such events of being harassed 351 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:52.000 by these creatures that I wasn't surprised, but I took 352 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:55.960 measures to hopefully keep it from happening again. I hate 353 00:21:55.960 --> 00:22:00.279 the feeling of being a marked man. Oh man, that's 354 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.599 the end. That's the end of the PostScript. That's that 355 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:07.759 last paragraph gives me the creeps. Whoo. What an amazing 356 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:11.160 set of events in this man's life. And this is 357 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.240 the one and only time he's going to record or 358 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:19.160 recount this and all. I can't add anything to this story, 359 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:21.359 but I can tell the man thank you for thinking 360 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:24.359 of me and sending the email to me to share 361 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:28.599 with this audience because we love these great stories. I 362 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.359 know they're unsettling to the people that they happen to, 363 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.839 but we love hearing them, and so I appreciate the gentleman. 364 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.119 He never said whether to use his name or not, 365 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:41.000 so I'm not going to. But it's just a wonderful story. 366 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.279 And I got this back in twenty twenty one and 367 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:46.640 I'm just now getting to it. So I hope the 368 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.079 man is still listening. I hope he's not dealing too 369 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.400 terribly bad with MS and was able to hear this story. 370 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:56.680 And I'm sure, I'm sure it's helping some other people. Okay, 371 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:02.440 thanks sir for the story. Here is a story written 372 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:05.720 up rather roughly. I tried to tell it as it 373 00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:07.759 was told to me, though I had to add a 374 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:11.000 few points of context for it to make sense to 375 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:16.440 someone outside the family. My fiance's family has been in 376 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:21.160 North Carolina since the early seventeen hundreds, and since then 377 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:25.519 a few family legends have cropped up. The most interesting 378 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:28.519 of these is of the brother of the man she 379 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:32.880 is descending from. He fought in the French Indian War 380 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:39.000 against the Cherokees, then against the British under Nathaniel Greene. 381 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:43.000 After the British withdrawal from the Carolinas, he took his 382 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:47.119 family further west into the Appalachians in search of a 383 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:51.000 life away from war. The story of what he and 384 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:57.039 his family found in those mountains starts here. To preserve privacy, 385 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:02.240 I have changed the family name to Smith. Upon receiving 386 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:06.160 his discharge from the North Carolina Rifle Corps, the militia 387 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:10.079 unit he served in during the War of Independence, Jacob 388 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:14.799 Smith returned home to his wife and two sons. His 389 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:19.160 third son, Arthur, who served with him, accompanied him to 390 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:23.319 their home in the New Hope Valley. Their homestead was. 391 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.759 Humble, but the earth was fertile from the frequent floods 392 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:31.880 that often occurred in the area. Jacob, however, returned home 393 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:36.119 a changed man. He avoided his neighbors and would often 394 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:38.799 leave for days at a time with just his rifle, 395 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:44.720 coming back empty handed more often than not. Arthur eventually 396 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:47.519 took his place as the man of the house, and 397 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:50.839 with his brothers and mother, kept the farm in good order. 398 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:56.079 In seventeen eighty four, however, a terrible flood swept down 399 00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:59.559 through the New Hope Valley, killing most of their livestock 400 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:04.960 and destroying their crops. Faced with debt accumulated during the war, 401 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:10.240