WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.119 Many years ago, we moved into what was technically called 2 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:11.400 the last house on the left, at the end of 3 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.880 a long road. Although this has nothing to do with 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:18.920 the story. When we moved in, previous tenants warned us 5 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.559 that odd things would happen there. Well we didn't believe 6 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.359 him at first, but our disbelief was short lived. It 7 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:30.480 began with my four year old daughter screaming at something 8 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.960 she had seen in the living room. She said it 9 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.399 was a black cloud that had crossed the room and 10 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:40.960 disappeared into a corner. At the time, we dismissed it, 11 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.840 but a few days later, when my wife's sister came 12 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.359 for a visit, she watched in horror as that same 13 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:51.399 black cloud reappeared from the same corner and enveloped her 14 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:56.000 two little girls. Later that same day, my wife saw 15 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.759 that same cloud come from the corner and wrap itself 16 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:03.159 around her. She described it as suffocating. It was hot 17 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.799 and smelling of sulfur and burning meat. The clouds seemed 18 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:13.359 to manifest itself around only women and girls. Fortunately for 19 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.359 my sons, that did not mean that males were spared 20 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:20.719 from the haunting. The house was built into the side 21 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.200 of a hill, with the front door on the west 22 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.599 and it opened onto the second floor, where the living 23 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.719 room and dining room, and kitchen and bathroom were The 24 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.000 door on the east side of the house opened onto 25 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.519 the first floor, where the bedrooms and laundry room were located. 26 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:41.040 The front door always squeaked loudly, and no amount of 27 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.920 w D forty graphite or silicone jail would make it quiet. 28 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.480 One night, the boys aged eight and six, heard the 29 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.879 front door open, so they went to investigate, and in 30 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:55.920 the open front door they saw an odd green mist 31 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:58.519 and when they approached the door to see from where 32 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:03.439 the glow was originating, it vanished. My younger son was 33 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.879 the one who discovered the specter's aversion to pleasant smells. 34 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.840 My wife would set out store bought air fresheners, but 35 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:16.240 this was useless. Once the room was vacated, the fresheners 36 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:20.639 would be closed. My younger son pointed this out, as 37 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.319 well as the fact that the scented candles we used 38 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:28.280 would extinguish themselves when the room was empty. My older 39 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:33.039 boy was beset with his own terror. Frequently he would 40 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.800 awaken in his bottom bunk to find a horrific contorted 41 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:41.000 face shrieking at him. It was an aged and wrinkled 42 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.840 face of uncertain gender. He would also learn to put 43 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:48.599 away his toys. One night, he was roused from asleep 44 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.280 by the sound of his toys moving around on the floor. 45 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.479 He opened his eyes to see a small black being 46 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.599 moving his trucks, warships, and cars against the door, as 47 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:03.879 if to barricaded from entry. As soon as they realized 48 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.120 he was watching them, they turned and began climbing the covers, 49 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.479 trying to get at him. He screamed, and I came 50 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.080 running to find him clinging to the bottom boards of 51 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:17.319 his brother's approl bunk. Until now I had seen nothing, 52 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.400 so I was still somewhat skeptical of all these stories. 53 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:25.439 But that was about to change. We were asleep downstairs 54 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:28.680 and I was dreaming. In my dream, I walked into 55 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:32.599 our bedroom, but there was no bedroom furniture there. It 56 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.039 was furnished as the living room, and on the sofa 57 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.560 sat the most beautiful, redheaded woman I had ever seen. 58 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.080 My wife, beautiful in her own right, was a brunette. 59 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:47.400 But in this dream I knew the redhead was my wife. 60 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:50.199 She was crying. She turned and looked at me through 61 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.759 black and tear filled, frightened eyes. And I should have 62 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:57.879 felt pity for this woman, but I felt only rage. 63 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.560 She cowered into an arm of the sofa, and I 64 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:04.319 started toward her to continue the beating. I knew she deserved. 65 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:07.840 I heard a voice and realize that the dream had 66 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:11.439 been silent up to that point. Somehow I knew this 67 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.439 was because my wife was deaf. The voice had come 68 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:18.680 from my six year old. I turned and saw my 69 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.759 real life son standing in the doorway, wearing clothes I 70 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:25.120 had never seen before. He was wearing black pants and 71 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:28.920 a long sleeved red pullover. He was soaking wet from 72 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.959 head to toe, and his skin was ashen and lifeless. 73 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:36.000 And again I felt no love for my family, only 74 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:40.240 a burning rage. The boy looked up at me and 75 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:44.279 said Dad. He too had a look of abject fear 76 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:48.279 in his eyes, but he continued. Dad helped me. I 77 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.360 turned to him, and with an uncontrolled fury, I raised 78 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:54.360 my fist and struck the child square in the face. 79 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.079 I sat up in bed, suddenly awakened. My wife was 80 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.600 awake beside me, screaming, what the heck, Oh, what's that? 81 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:04.480 I realized that there was a fight going on in 82 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:08.360 the living room above my head. Two men were yelling 83 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:12.399 at each other, throwing around furniture and breaking glass. I 84 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.319 jumped from my bed and ran upstairs, and as my 85 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.680 foot fell on the carpeted hallway of the second story, 86 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.839 it went silent. No one was there. The windows were intact, 87 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:28.279 the furniture was upright, nothing was out of place. But 88 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:32.079 the door stood open, shrouded in an iridescent green glow. 89 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.519 I walked over and looked out onto the darkened street. 90 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:42.439 There was nothing. Everything was quiet. Fallen autumn leaves swirled 91 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.439 in the cool night's breeze. And I returned to my 92 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.000 wife and climbed into bed and waited with her in 93 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:52.639 silence for the dawn. And dawn did come, and as 94 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:57.120 it happened, it was October the thirty first. I stood 95 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:59.600 on my front porch, drinking my coffee and trying to 96 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:04.439 rash my dream. And then I heard it. A chill 97 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:07.240 locked my spine as I heard my six year old 98 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:12.319 son say, Dad, afraid. I turned and looked down the 99 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.319 hill to where my son was crouched down doing something. 100 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.000 Dad help me, he said. I approached to see that 101 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:22.439 he was using a stick to try to dig something 102 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:26.240 out of the ground. It was a strip of black corduroy. 103 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:29.759 I've been down to help him, but pulled him away 104 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.800 when I saw a flash of yellow bone and I 105 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:37.079 grabbed him and ran into the house. The police came 106 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:41.000 and dug up the remains of a little boy. He 107 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.160 was six when he died, and he was wearing black 108 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:49.480 corduroy pants and a long sleeved red pullover shirt. My 109 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.000 brother is now a detective with the local police department, 110 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.399 and although they have a lengthy file on the boy's father, 111 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:00.399 they remain unable to locate him or his beautiful, deaf, 112 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:08.120 redheaded wife. In November and December of twenty eighteen, my 113 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:10.720 husband and I were moving into our new home in 114 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:15.120 a small town in Ohio. Our new neighborhood was comprised 115 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.040 of mostly small homes with a lot of wooded lots 116 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:22.360 mixed in beyond. Our neighborhood was all countryside and woods. 117 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.399 There's a steel mill not far from us, and there 118 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:29.720 were power lines and a railroad track fairly close. We 119 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.600 were excited to move into our new, smaller house in 120 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.199 a different city. We were retired and looking forward to 121 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.839 the fun times ahead. My husband would stay at the 122 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:43.720 old house packing things up, sometimes overnight while I was 123 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:47.199 at the new one unpacking. Our house sits on a 124 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:52.439 corner lot with a motion activated security light over the garage. 125 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:56.040 With our neighbor's garage running alongside our driveway, we have 126 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.639 the feeling of extra privacy. We were happy to get that. 127 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.439 We have neighbors all around us, but everyone minds their business. 128 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:06.319 We watch out for each other, but not to the 129 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:10.279 point of being annoying. Right away, I began to hear 130 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:12.879 taps on the windows in the side of the house, 131 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:17.600 and sometimes I'd smell something awful. But I attributed all 132 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:20.120 of this to nerves from being in the new house 133 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:24.439 alone at night. Sometimes the security light would flash on 134 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:27.680 and off as well, But again I told myself I 135 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.079 just needed to get used to living in the new place. 136 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:34.360 One night, my husband had brought home another load from 137 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:37.399 the old house. He'd loaded some of it up, but 138 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:40.039 we were exhausted, so we decided to go to bed 139 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:43.519 and finish up the next morning. We drifted off to 140 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:47.840 sleep pretty quick. Suddenly we were woken up by what 141 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.279 felt like a car being driven into the side of 142 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:54.600 the house. The whole place seemed to shake. It was 143 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.200 so loud, and we could smell a terrible odor. We 144 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.399 shot up in bed, wondering what the world had just happened. 145 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.200 My husband ran outside to look around, but we didn't 146 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:09.360 see anything. There wasn't even any damage to the house. 147 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.720 The odor grew fainter after a few minutes, but nothing 148 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.919 else happened. He decided to stay an extra day after 149 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:21.399 that to make sure everything was okay. Except for the odor. 150 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:26.159 Nothing else happened. Our tiny dog would not go outside 151 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:30.240 at night. Instead, he would bark and stare, and then 152 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:34.639 there was that smell. Every night, that awful odor would 153 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:39.120 come back. I still shake thinking about it. I was 154 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.000 glad when my husband finally brought the last load and 155 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:46.080 was home for good. For a while, the only thing 156 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:49.080 that was strange was the odor, and I refused to 157 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.279 go in the kitchen at night because the odor seemed 158 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:55.360 to follow wherever I went. It was like nothing I 159 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:59.799 had ever smelled before. It was indescribable. There was one 160 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:03.080 night when I thought I heard a tornado siren going off, 161 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.600 but there were no weather reports or any storms at 162 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.480 all that night. Things began to quiet down after that, 163 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.279 except for the occasional slap on the side of the 164 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.360 house or the roof. If I was in the shower. 165 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:20.600 Then came the night of the first ground covering snow. 166 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:24.759 Our curtains were open as my husband and I sat 167 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.759 on the couch watching a DVD. I noticed the security 168 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.799 light was flipping on and off. My husband was sure 169 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:35.120 it was being caused by the snow. I joked with 170 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.519 him that maybe someone was playing peekaboo around the neighbor's garage. 171 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:42.320 And then I saw a big shadow darting back and forth, 172 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:47.120 but I put it off to my imagination. After a while, 173 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:51.399 it stopped and we went back to watching our movie. 174 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:54.159 A little after eleven, I nearly jumped out of my 175 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.240 skin when I heard a loud knock on our side 176 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.559 of the door that faced the neighbor's garage. It caught 177 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:04.240 me off guard. It was two policemen asking if I 178 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:08.919 had seen anything. A neighbor had reported that something big, 179 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:15.480 not someone, something was watching our house from beside the garage. 180 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:19.840 My husband was unloading some things. I told them, well, no, ma'am, 181 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:22.879 it wasn't him. They said, well, he's the only one 182 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.080 who's been out there. I explained, no, it wasn't him. 183 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:31.200 The officers repeated, but you've never even met him, I pointed, out. 184 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:36.240 They laughed and said that he would not match the description. Well, 185 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:40.559 what is the description, I asked. They laughed and said 186 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.639 they'd followed tracks around the neighbor's garage that went through 187 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:47.399 our backyard and we needed to look. And then they 188 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:51.000 asked if I was sure I had not seen anything. Well, 189 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.559 I told him about the security light going on and off, 190 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.639 but I left off the rest. Again, they said we 191 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.000 needed to look at the tracks in our back lot, 192 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:01.679 and then they said that we should be sure that 193 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:06.039 our trash is secure because of bears, and then they left. 194 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:09.279 I asked my husband to go out into the backyard 195 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.120 and look at those tracks, and when he came in, 196 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.120 he was white as a sheet and he said he'd 197 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.120 never seen anything like it. He said it was like 198 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.840 barefoot footprints in the snow, except they were really large. 199 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.919 It wasn't until we heard your show and we looked 200 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.159 up Prince that he said that that's what they looked like. 201 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:34.120 They were eighteen inches long and they were barefooted. Everything 202 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:40.679 fit the tracks, the horrible odor, everything. Did we see anything, Well, 203 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.000 I did see a shadow, but it was a very 204 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.960 large shadow. And I wonder still if my eyes were 205 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.240 playing tricks on me. It was snowing hard that night, 206 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.799 But what about the slaps on the side of the 207 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:55.600 house and the roof. What about the car that hit 208 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.559 the house but left no damage, And how about those 209 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:04.320 tracks and that? And why did my dog act so strange? 210 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.639 We still don't know which neighbor called the cops that night, 211 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.919 only two houses or positioned so that they could have 212 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.679 seen anything. We only had a few slaps this year, 213 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:19.279 but still a shake. Just writing this, I just wanted 214 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:22.519 to tell someone who wouldn't think I'm crazy. And by 215 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.919 the way, we google bear sidings in our area and 216 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:32.360 there are no bears here. Back in the early nineties, 217 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.480 when I was a twenty something young buck, two buddies 218 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.919 and I ran a huge plant nursery and after work 219 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.960 we did some landscaping with the plants that we sold 220 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.279 all day. I had a brand new truck and apartment 221 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.960 and life was good. The nursery was owned by an 222 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:53.200 old man named k C. K C's brother was a 223 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:57.679 distinguished attorney and had been elected mayor. K C, on 224 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.679 the other hand, was a foul mouthed school bus driver 225 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:04.120 who happened to own his own nursery. These two brothers 226 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:09.320 were polar opposites. That's small town Georgia for you. Kse 227 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:11.879 raked in the cash and we ran the place from 228 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.399 top to bottom. The nursery was located behind his house 229 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.440 on a steep grade heading down to the woods. We 230 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.720 grew and sold every plant that would grow in Georgia. 231 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:27.600 We actually built the whole growing area for him. We 232 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.000 cut steps in the side of that hill, and we 233 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:33.799 built growing beds with old railroad ties. And for all 234 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.679 our hard work, Kse paid us well and he gave 235 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.919 us full run of the place. It was a big 236 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.039 plot of land, and not all of it was used 237 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.919 for the nursery. We were also allowed to hunt on 238 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.679 his property. A half mile into the woods. I built 239 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.679 a camo treehouse to hunt from. It was located on 240 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:56.159 a great spot where two trails converged, and I had 241 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:00.039 a large killing field when the deer showed up. It 242 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.039 was four feet by eight feet with a roof on it. 243 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.679 It was a comfortable place to spend a day honting. 244 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:09.360 I was in the stand before daylight on a cold 245 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.559 Sunday morning. A twelve point buck had come through a 246 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.639 time or two, but I never had a good shot 247 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:18.279 at him. Shortly after daylight I heard movement in the 248 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.240 distance of an animal of some weight. It was my buck, 249 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.639 or that is what I thought it was, coming towards me, 250 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:30.639 so I settled in to stay completely still. It was strange, though, 251 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:33.799 because the woods had gone completely silent, other than this 252 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.639 animal coming towards me with each step. That should have 253 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.240 been a clue to me, but I was young and dumb. 254 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.320 I knew a bigfoot, but to me it was something 255 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:47.759 in the Pacific Northwest, if it existed at all. Two 256 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:50.799 hundred yards away, I began to see the trees parting. 257 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.559 They were getting knocked down pretty good, and the racket. 258 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.320 I thought this had to be one of three things. 259 00:15:57.399 --> 00:16:00.639 It was either a man, a big hog, or a bear. 260 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:05.080 We have bears here, but no one ever sees them. However, 261 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:08.200 one bear made front page news in the local paper 262 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:11.159 after it was found digging in a dumpster behind a 263 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.480 Captain D's. But that was a while back. I kept 264 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.320 waiting and wondering what in the world could make so 265 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.559 much racket and push trees around like that. My treehouse 266 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.879 stand was well camouflaged. It was enclosed, and it was 267 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.879 spray painted camo. Camo net was all over it, and 268 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.799 plenty of limbs and piled up brush stuck to it. 269 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:39.200 It had shooting slides on all four sides. By this time, 270 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.799 I figured that whatever was heading my way was not 271 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.759 a deer. If it was a man, he was about 272 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:48.279 to catch an earfull from me. On three sides. It 273 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:50.759 was a pretty steep hill that opens up into a 274 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:54.360 pretty good sized bear area. It was a perfect kill 275 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.559 zone with two game trails that ran right through it. 276 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.320 The thing or the guy I kept coming, and by 277 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:03.919 this time the sun was out good and I could 278 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:07.279 see better. It was finally at the bottom of the 279 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.599 hill where I sat, and from my vantage point I 280 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:13.920 could see the top of its head. I thought he 281 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.480 was wearing a brown sock cap. His dark face was 282 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:19.759 now visible, and I figured it was one of the 283 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.839 neighbors who lived close by. I looked closer, and with 284 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.119 the light now different on his face, I realized it 285 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.400 was not one of our black neighbors. He wasn't black 286 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.559 at all. It was the tan color of an old 287 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:37.519 baseball glove. None of this made sense, and I began 288 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.920 to get worried. I should have raised my rifle to 289 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:43.359 look through the scope, but I never thought about that. 290 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:46.160 I would have been able to see what this thing 291 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.160 was a few minutes earlier, but now I could see 292 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:53.119 it clearly, and it was close. It was covered with long, 293 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:57.960 shaggy hair, except on its knees and its face. There 294 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.039 were areas on its hide where the hair was missing. 295 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.880 It made me think it had a disease like a 296 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:08.160 dog gets mange. It was maybe seven feet tall and 297 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:11.640 three feet wide at the shoulders. This was a monster. 298 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:16.200 I have never seen anything move with so little effort 299 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:20.000 through the woods and brush. It was like he was gliding, 300 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:23.640 and he was making good time. Now he was only 301 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:25.759 twenty yards in front of me, and I could see 302 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:30.960 everything now, and I was terrified. He was almost beneath me. 303 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:33.519 I thought he would hear my heart pounding. But in 304 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.880 the middle of all this, somehow my fear turned to 305 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.640 amazement and curiosity, and I thought that I might be 306 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:44.759 experiencing the best sighting anyone has ever had of a 307 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:48.599 big foot. And I was getting away with it. I 308 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.759 was recording all of the things about his appearance in 309 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.400 my mind, and I would soon take notes when I 310 00:18:54.440 --> 00:19:00.119 got back to my truck. But then things changed. He 311 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.279 stopped right under me. He tilted his head back, and 312 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.920 he began sniffing the air. He moved around a bit 313 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.480 below me, and I heard something hit the bottom of 314 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.720 the tree stand. I think he knocked his head on it, 315 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:16.279 and it annoyed him. I actually almost laughed, but I 316 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:19.759 knew better. I was still well hidden and ten feet 317 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:23.480 above him. He started getting froggy on me, and he 318 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:26.279 came out from under the stand. He went down on 319 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:29.839 all fours and he scanned the area slowly and methodically. 320 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.920 It was like he was taking in every branch and shrub. 321 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:37.960 He was swaying back and forth, kicking dirt and leaves, 322 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:42.720 and seemingly getting more angry by the minute. I was 323 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:45.319 praying that he wasn't looking for me, and I was 324 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.240 praying that it wasn't me that was making him angry. 325 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:51.440 I backed away from the shooting hole, and I could 326 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:55.200 only hear him now. The tree stand has a rope 327 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.519 ladder that I had already pulled up long ago. He 328 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:01.759 wasn't going to climb up, but I still didn't feel secure. 329 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.039 The roar of this thing let out was something I 330 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:09.960 can't begin to describe. It shook the entire hill. Trees 331 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:13.680 seemed to sway and vibrate. It sounded like his lungs 332 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:16.759 were the size of a Volkswagen, and it paralyzed me. 333 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:20.519 I felt like both ear drums were gonna blow out. 334 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:22.680 And I'm embarrassed to say it, but I peed in 335 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:25.799 my pants. Make fun of me if you want, but 336 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:28.440 I dare you to hear this from fifteen feet away. 337 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:32.240 You might do the same thing. And I could hear 338 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:36.039 him moving around below. One minute, he was in front, 339 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:39.079 and then he was behind me. I think he was 340 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:42.440 looking for me. I know he was. I raised up 341 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:45.440 to the shooting slot and I could see him circling 342 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.799 the stand. Half the time he was on two legs, 343 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:50.960 and then he would drop down to all fours. It 344 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:55.680 was just so strange. Finally, his head snapped around and 345 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:58.599 he looked right at me. He had found what he 346 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:02.119 was looking for. He was at the base of the tree. 347 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.599 Now what I thought was a unique vantage point to 348 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:09.119 observe an unknown creature was now a life or death situation. 349 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:12.960 I eased back away from the slat and I flipped 350 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.680 the safety off my thirty six, and then the thing 351 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:20.839 started to climb. I quickly moved back to the slat 352 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:23.160 and I looked out and I saw its hand gripping 353 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.640 one of the trees my stand was framed to It 354 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:29.039 was only a foot or so below me, and I 355 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.200 was panicking. I'll be honest, but in the middle of 356 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:35.920 the terror, I remembered the forty five ACP I carried 357 00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:38.680 on my hip. I pulled it from the hoster and 358 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:41.440 was about to start shooting through the floor to stop 359 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.039 this thing. I really had no choice. It was going 360 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:46.920 to jerk me out of that stand and it was 361 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:50.359 going to kill me. Both hands on the forty five. 362 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.880 I started to pull the trigger and I hesitated because 363 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.400 I felt like it had stopped climbing. I could still 364 00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.960 hear the noises on the other side of that plywood, 365 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:04.480 but the thing had stopped. I released the pressure on 366 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:09.119 the trigger and I waited. Clicking noises came from the 367 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:12.640 woods out in front of me. The noises were loud. 368 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:16.799 Nothing in the woods sounds like that. Then a loud whistle, 369 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:20.920 and then more clicking. There was another one close by, 370 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:24.519 and my fear doubled. There was no way out of this, 371 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:27.480 but the creature hanging under me let go and he 372 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:30.559 dropped to the ground. I heard it. I raised my 373 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:32.720 head to look out, and I could see it running 374 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:37.319 towards the clicking sounds, and then it was gone. I 375 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.240 never saw the other one, and after that I never 376 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:43.720 saw my guy again, and then the woods went quiet. 377 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.559 I often wonder what happened that day. Did the second 378 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:51.839 one have pity on me? Was its mate or parents 379 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:56.000 scolding the big male that had me located? I eventually 380 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:58.440 stopped guessing, and I went on with my life, and 381 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:01.359 I was thankful that it worked in my favor. I 382 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.759 didn't tell a soul for ten years, and finally confiding 383 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.279 in my wife and my best friend when the Bigfoot 384 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:11.240 shows became popular on TV. I don't know if they 385 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:15.480 believe me. Still, these bigfoot are real, and some of 386 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:18.319 these bigfoot hunters are in for a big surprise if 387 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:22.200 they ever find one. They aren't cuddly koala bears. These 388 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.799 things are intelligent. They're fast enough to catch you, and 389 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:28.720 they're strong enough to kill you in a split second. 390 00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:33.160 We're dealing with some form of human, whether it's a relic, 391 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:36.799 a hybrid, or something never discovered. It's a part of 392 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.799 the human family tree. I think one day DNA will 393 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:45.240 prove this. These creatures are not apes. I believe hundreds 394 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:48.720 of years ago there were probably more of them here 395 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.480 is a description of the bigfoot that I saw. It 396 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:55.640 was at least ten feet tall. It hit its head 397 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:58.839 on the bottom of my shooting platform. From the ground 398 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:02.960 to the floor is nine foot eight inches. The skin 399 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:06.240 on its face was a tan color and it was leathery. 400 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:10.319 Its hair was mainly deep red and brown, with patches 401 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:14.759