WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:14.439 This is a story about a bigfoot in England. How 2 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:18.600 many stories have you heard about bigfoot in England. Some 3 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:22.079 people would say, well, they don't have enough forested land, 4 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:26.320 or they don't have enough wilderness to host a bigfoot 5 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:30.199 or a family of bigfoots, or a whole population of bigfoots. 6 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.799 But if they're here, they might be there, so let's 7 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:38.840 listen to this story. My encounter had a massive impact 8 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:42.560 on how I view the world and it's wonder In 9 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.880 the early fall of twenty and thirteen, I was out 10 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:49.039 on my property with my little jack Russell named Scoot. 11 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.920 I live on thirteen acres of pines, of cedars and 12 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.880 locust trees. It was around seven am, and I noticed 13 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:02.479 that it was quiet, oddly quiet. Normally, Scoot acted like 14 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.040 a Doberman in a small dog's body, wasn't afraid of anything. 15 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.799 But as we were walking, he stopped dead in front 16 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.920 of me. His ears were back and his tail was tucked, 17 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.959 and he began to shake violently. He had heard what 18 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:21.840 I heard. It was a long, deep, menacing growl. Just 19 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:24.200 off the trail to our right, I saw a large 20 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.519 figure standing behind a tree. Now I began to feel 21 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:31.879 sweat gathered down my back and Scoot started quietly backing 22 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.280 up to my boots. It was not a large man, 23 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.319 but I could tell he wasn't human, so my eyes 24 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:41.439 focused more and I knew instantly what I was looking at. 25 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:44.040 I couldn't tell if it was facing me or not 26 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.400 at first, but I decided to act as though I 27 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.799 hadn't seen him, in the hopes of it moving on. 28 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.680 I've been down slowly to Scoot, and I held him 29 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.879 on his sides to comfort him. He was shaking so 30 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:00.079 bad it felt like holding onto a washing machine. His 31 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.920 eyes were down for all of five seconds. I could 32 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.000 hear a slight leaf rustle, and I looked up quickly again. 33 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.520 This creature had moved halfway between me and the tree 34 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.400 that stood behind. He was slightly bent over and rocking 35 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.400 side to side. He was so close I could hear 36 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:22.719 his deep, heavy breaths, almost like snoring. He had a huge, penetrating, 37 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.280 dark brown eyes that were moving up and down from 38 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.800 me to Scoot, who was shaking even worse than before. 39 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:33.039 He had enormous arms and dinner plate hands, and his 40 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.439 fingers were kind of wiggling. His thighs were as white 41 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:40.000 as my waist. He had black hair all over apart 42 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.120 from some places on his face and his mouth, which 43 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.520 was tightly shut as though he was upset. He had 44 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.159 scars on his face and lines all over his chest, arms, 45 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:54.879 and shoulders which were like basketballs. Though his hair looked 46 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.479 matted and filthy. The smell wasn't what I heard. It 47 00:02:58.599 --> 00:03:03.439 was bad, like righting, but not overpowering. He raised his 48 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.960 enormous right arm and grunted and motioned with his hand 49 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.599 as if to say go not of nowhere. From the 50 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.199 left came a gunshot that scared the hell out of 51 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.759 me in Scoot. It didn't seem to be in our direction, 52 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:20.520 but it was close. The big guy looked in that 53 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:26.199 direction with massive, bared yellow teeth and clenched hands like boulders. 54 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:31.719 He motioned again, telling us to leave. I slowly picked 55 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.719 up Scoot under my arms, and I stood up, and 56 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:39.120 I turned around and gently walked away. I didn't look back, 57 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:41.680 but I knew he was getting out of there too. 58 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:46.759 He sounded like a tank crashing through the woods. Moments later, 59 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:50.039 there was six or seven more shots, but I knew 60 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.240 that this creature was gone, which was a massive relief. 61 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:57.080 I don't remember getting back to my truck, nor the 62 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.080 feeling of being peed on by Scoot. I was sitting 63 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:03.960 in my seat, staring out of the window, thinking about 64 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:07.280 what just happened, and this was not real. It couldn't 65 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.800 have been. It had to be a hoax. It had 66 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.800 to be a big lie, a trick someone was playing 67 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:18.240 on me. It was a weirdly confusing emotional experience. I 68 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.040 drove back to my home without any thoughts of anything. 69 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.079 The next morning, there were reports of poachers in the area. 70 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.959 They had been shooting at people, and one person had 71 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:33.199 been shot in the leg by these poachers. A sudden 72 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:37.360 wave of shock and realization came over me. The Big 73 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.879 Guy was protecting me and my dog. I couldn't hold 74 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.519 back my silent tears, and I lost the ability to speak. 75 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:48.639 I had never felt so much emotion in my life. 76 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:52.920 These poachers were eventually caught. It seemed my acres hadn't 77 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.040 been walked by anyone in years, so maybe they thought 78 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:00.279 it was safe. Now I know differently. Since the day 79 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.399 I met the Big Guy, I have left pink Lady apples, 80 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:07.079 an interesting shaped rock, and I place two sticks on 81 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.160 a cross in the place that we met. I know 82 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.519 he appreciates the gifts because I have been gifted in 83 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.920 returned with dead birds, squirrels and other interesting rocks and 84 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.920 more sticks in different patterns. This encounter, which I cannot 85 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:26.839 completely wrap my head around, has changed me. Now I 86 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:31.920 question everything, I recycle everything I can. If I'm out 87 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.360 in the wooded areas, I take a bag and I 88 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.079 pick up any garbage. I become more rational and I 89 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:42.079 try to do my best for conservation. I encourage anyone 90 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.680 to go out and enjoy the outdoors, and I have 91 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:48.639 a whole new respect for the gift of life. Honestly, 92 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.279 I thank God or evolution for putting me in scar, 93 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:56.199 a fitting name for my woodland friend on this planet. 94 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.279 But I do hope they are never scientifically discovered, because 95 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.480 they will be put through hell in the name of research. 96 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:05.959 He and the rest of his kind need to be 97 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:09.879 left at peace to enjoy what's left of this crumbling world. 98 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.319 He does not need humans taking over his way of 99 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:20.399 life and destroying his species. Amazing, incredible, and devastatingly beautiful. 100 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.439 That's the only way I can describe him. Let's keep 101 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.519 him mysterious and leave him alone to be who he 102 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.360 is now. I've never told this to anyone and I 103 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:35.360 do not intend to after this. This was my en counter, 104 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.600 and it was mine alone. He came to me, and 105 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.279 I to him, and it is for us to remember 106 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:45.360 and treasure. Keep up with the good stories. Friend. And 107 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.519 he signs off, and he wants to be anonymous, and 108 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.040 I could almost hear him telling it in his British accent. 109 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:57.120 This guy really made a pack with Bigfoot, a bigfoot 110 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:01.319 in the UK, and apparently he owns some lie. I've 111 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.040 never heard a poacher shooting at people, but I guess 112 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:07.600 you know, sometimes the things you read about in fiction 113 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:11.920 are something someone's done. Not saying this is fiction, I'm 114 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.560 just saying some of the weird things that you read 115 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.560 about in fictional novels and short stories are things that 116 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.720 the writers have heard people do. And so this kind 117 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.160 of gave me an idea for a Steve Lily story. 118 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.279 Poacher shooting at people. I don't know how could I 119 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.600 twist that into a really good Steve Lily story. Anyway, 120 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:37.600 I'm just rambling. Thank you for the story, sir, I 121 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:40.199 certainly do appreciate it. I can tell you it's a man. 122 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:43.319 It's not a woman. It's a man. All right, Let's 123 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:48.879 go to another story. Thank you sir for the story. 124 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:52.680 Hey y'all, thanks for clicking on the video. I appreciate it. 125 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:56.120 Happy Fourth of July. I hope you're having a good day, 126 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.319 eating some good food, some good ribs, hamburgers, barbecue, whatever 127 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:02.319 y'all like to eat on the fourth. I hope you 128 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:06.720 get plenty of liquids, beer, water. Beer doesn't hydrate you, 129 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.480 but water does. Gatorade kind of does. Those are my 130 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.240 health tips for the day. You're welcome, But I hope 131 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.319 you're getting plenty of liquids because it is kind of hot. 132 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:19.360 But we've got beautiful weather, looks like across the whole country. 133 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.759 I just hope you guys are having a great day. 134 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.839 Here is a podcast for the fourth of July. Nothing 135 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.199 in it relates to the fourth of July. Just happens 136 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:34.080 to be when I'm posting this video. All right, here 137 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:46.080 we go. This is a story of a woman's granddad. 138 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:49.519 It's titled The Ghost of Granddad, and I'm reading it cold. 139 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:52.759 Let's see what goes on with the ghost of Grandad. 140 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.759 It looks good. Our granddad died the day the Space 141 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.360 Shuttle Challenger blew up January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty six. 142 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.919 I remember, I remember that day. He died at home 143 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.559 on his way out to feed his hogs, just a 144 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.440 few minutes after the spaceship exploded, and I've always thought 145 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.960 of him leading the astronauts home. Over one hundred people 146 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:19.399 showed up to my grandma's house the evening of the viewing, 147 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.000 which was held in town, and over three hundred showed 148 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.840 up to his funeral two hours before the funeral home 149 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.000 closed for the evening. Our parents left to stand in 150 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.600 the family line and listen to stories from people who 151 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:38.039 had known Granddad for years. Before they left, they asked 152 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.000 my brother and me to stay at Grandma's to answer 153 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.440 the phone and give directions if anyone needed them. Grandma 154 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:49.320 had a gunshot house. We call him shotgun houses. A 155 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:53.240 gunshot house, I know exactly what she's talking about, meaning 156 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:55.600 you could stand at the back door and she'd a 157 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:58.360 gone down the hall and the lead would pass through 158 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.759 the front door. The bedrooms are on the side in 159 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.279 the bathroom, which was only added in nineteen sixty three, 160 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:07.919 was added onto what was the laundry room at the 161 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:11.039 back of the house. Well, my brother and I had 162 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:15.080 never stayed in that house by ourselves. It had dark walls, 163 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:18.600 and a dark ceiling and a dark floor. Even the 164 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:22.720 kitchen was dark. The ceiling lights were dim too. We 165 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.639 started wandering from room to room and talking about Granddad 166 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.840 and Grandma, and then we settled into the living room 167 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.240 and we turned on the TV with the volume on 168 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:36.679 low because the house was so dark. We had every 169 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:39.679 light on inside from the back porch all the way 170 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.320 up to the front porch. And as we were sitting there, 171 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:47.200 a light flickered and went out. Well, I got up 172 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:50.559 and replaced it, and when another light flickered and went out, 173 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.919 I replaced it too. A strong breeze swept through the 174 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:57.639 house all the way from the back to the front, 175 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.639 and then one after the other, every light started to 176 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:06.480 go out. My brother was terrified of the dark, even 177 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.720 at twenty one years old. Now we're fifty nine and 178 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:12.759 sixty now, and he still got a night light on 179 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:14.840 the side of his bed and a lamp in the 180 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:18.159 living room where he goes to sleep at night. My 181 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.200 brother Baba yelled, and I fumbled my way through the 182 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:24.000 dark to find him until he grabbed onto my arm 183 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:27.039 and we stumbled out the back door and jumped into 184 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.440 Dad's truck. There was no moon that night, and it 185 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.879 was blacker than black, and I wanted to cry, but 186 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.159 I couldn't. I was the big sister, and big girls 187 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:40.600 don't cry. I drove us to the funeral home, and 188 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.399 as soon as we got there, my brother bolted into 189 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.879 the building and I found him stuck to my mother's side, 190 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:50.919 still shaking. Meanwhile, I went to look at Grandad one 191 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:55.039 last time. Cam you aren't supposed to swear, but right 192 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:57.919 in front of me, with my own eyes, plain as day, 193 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.279 I saw my Granddaddy it rise up out of his 194 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.080 body in that casket, and that old man was laughing 195 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:08.000 like he had just played the biggest prank on me. 196 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.200 And I told him that I loved him, and I 197 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:14.600 ran outside and I spent the remaining time on the 198 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:19.320 side porch of the funeral home. Old men and their pranks. 199 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.080 What can you do? Oh, that was a good story. 200 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.360 It's kind of scary, you know. Grandpa probably his if 201 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.000 his spirit did that, he probably shouldn't have done that. 202 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:32.559 I don't know what else to say about this, but 203 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.320 oh my gosh, i'd rather you know him, come talk 204 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:38.960 to me and tell me he loved me and thought 205 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.960 I was a good kid. But instead he's scared. He 206 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.840 scared his grandkids. Wow, that was a good story. It 207 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.519 was kind of heartwarming in a way, kind of scary 208 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.320 in a way, but I enjoyed it. Thank you Denise 209 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:55.600 for the email. That was such a good story. Thanks 210 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:01.279 all right, here's a Bigfoot story. Bigfoot story from Butch. 211 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.279 Although I have not knowingly seen a Bigfoot, I have 212 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.639 been near them. I'm in my mid sixties and I've 213 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:13.759 always lived in Washington State. This is like Bigfoot Central Station. 214 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:17.360 And I've always been more curious about the unknown than 215 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:21.519 fearful of it. In the mid nineteen sixties, I overheard 216 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:25.480 my dad talking to his brother about Bigfoot. After he 217 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.600 hung up the phone, I asked about the subject. He 218 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:33.000 picked up the latest or Argasy magazine and he told 219 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:35.799 me to read it, and there was an article reprinted 220 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:40.360 in it about some gold miners. In the nineteen thirties, 221 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:44.759 some prospectors found gold in a canyon against the southern 222 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:48.240 side of Mount Saint Helen's. They found it up on 223 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.480 a shelf of a very steep canyon with more shelves 224 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:55.200 above them. They hit the mother load up there. They 225 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:58.320 built a sturdy cabin over the mine entrance and they 226 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.799 stayed for a few months. The miners noticed the apes 227 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:06.360 soon after arriving, but they were more concerned with their 228 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:10.039 gold fever, so the apes were left alone, and over 229 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:14.399 time the creatures came closer and closer as the weather 230 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:16.879 was cooling for the coming winter. One of the men 231 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.519 went to relieve himself one morning, and as he stepped out, 232 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.000 he saw a bigfoot standing a few feet away. Well. 233 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:26.720 The apes stared at him curiously, and the man reached 234 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.759 into the cabin door for a rifle they kept for bears. 235 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.559 When he swung back around, the ape was already walking 236 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.200 away toward the cliff. The man shot it in the 237 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.679 back and saw the dust fly off of it in 238 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:44.279 the impact. Later they all went out and found blood, 239 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:47.399 but they didn't find the body. They looked over the 240 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.639 cliff and they saw nothing. The other men were not 241 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:53.600 happy with the shooter. They told him that the bigfoot 242 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:57.759 were harmless unless they were harmed. That night was a 243 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.919 sleepless one. The apes threw large boulders from above all 244 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.919 night long. The men hid in the mind for fear 245 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:10.159 of their cabin collapsing on them. Come son up. The 246 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:14.240 bride stopped when they went outside and found large boulders 247 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:18.639 and footprints everywhere. The cabin had withstood the attack, but 248 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.639 just barely. They packed up the gold and got out 249 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.000 of Dodds and the canyon was now named Ape Canyon. 250 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.559 Now two of these guys were father and son, who 251 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:33.080 later moved to a small town called Cougar near Mount 252 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:37.320 Saint Helen's. Needless to say, after reading this article, I 253 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.720 was gong ho about these creatures. Dad was happy too. 254 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.639 Now he had a young, eager assistant. Dad wanted to 255 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:49.720 shoot one. He was told that the government denies their existence, 256 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.559 though it's against the law to kill one. Thankfully, he 257 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.559 never did bag one. I doubt he could have packed 258 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.559 it out anyway. Dad bought a camping tree and the 259 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:04.000 family started camping around the area south of Mount Saint 260 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:08.320 Helen's On most warm weekends. We often heard the sounds 261 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.960 of tree knocking. We heard whoops and chest thumping, which 262 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:16.679 we later associated with bigfoot. At night, I often got 263 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:19.919 the sense that we were surrounded and being watched. The 264 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.120 family never talked about it. I believe Dad did not 265 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:27.519 want to scare my mom and my younger siblings. On 266 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.960 weekends when the family was not open to camping, Dad 267 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:32.960 and I would drive near the mountain for the day, 268 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:35.480 and on one of those trips we went to the 269 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:39.759 town of Cougar. At the store, he asked about any 270 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:43.399 old time gold prospectors in the area, and we were 271 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:47.000 directed to an elderly gentleman who lived nearby in a 272 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:51.039 cabin he built years before. The store clerk told us 273 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.200 that the old man had been in the area since 274 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.480 the turn of the century and he had been hunting 275 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:59.240 for gold. The cabin was built well and had obviously 276 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.080 been there for daydes When he answered the door and 277 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.160 came out, I felt like we had stepped back about 278 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:09.480 a century. The old boy looked like a character out 279 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:12.960 of an old Western but this guy was the real deal, 280 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.279 and he was friendly and curious about us, and he 281 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.799 seemed glad for our company. And when Dad asked the 282 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.680 man about his opinion of Bigfoot, the man lit up 283 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.960 like a Christmas tree. He told us that he'd seen 284 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.920 them often and not felt threatened by them at all. 285 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.440 The natives in the area had told him that before 286 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:35.920 the white man had arrived in great numbers, the natives 287 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.079 had traded with the creatures. He said they were very smart, 288 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:44.119 but they just wanted to be left alone. He asked 289 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.400 us if we had ever heard the tree knocking. Well, 290 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.359 we sure had, We told him, and he said that 291 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.799 the apes used that as a form of communication, that 292 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.319 if they were around and we knocked a branch against 293 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.519 a tree, they'd answer with the same knock pattern, which 294 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:03.240 later proved to be true. He asked us if we 295 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.680 knew about Ape Canyon and that incident, and we told 296 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.599 him that we did. He told us that two of 297 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.559 the men of that group were alive and they lived nearby, 298 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:17.559 and they were father and son. We got directions from him, 299 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:20.440 and we thanked him and we took our leave. He 300 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.759 encouraged us to stop by again. When we came back 301 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:27.319 some months later, we found that he had passed away. 302 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:30.480 I hope he's walking those streets of gold in heaven. 303 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.200 The father and son prospectors were also friendly, and we're 304 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.480 glad to retell their stories. They showed us some of 305 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:42.039 the gold nuggets they took out of Ape Canyon. They 306 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.759 had not gone back to their claim, but they still 307 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:47.920 lived on their portion of the gold. We were there 308 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:51.240 for a couple of hours and fascinated by the adventures 309 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:54.440 that they told us about that they had lived, and 310 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:58.799 I felt privileged to meet history well. Dad became an 311 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.119 avid bigfoot hunter life long before it was cool. Around 312 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.400 two thousand and five, one of Dad's bigfoot buddies drove 313 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:08.079 him to an area north of the Columbia River in 314 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:12.119 the Cascades where he knew a family of bigfoot lived. 315 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:16.279 The men sat on a hill above the clearing, hidden 316 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:19.119 in the shadows of the trees, and they used field 317 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:23.519 glasses to view the area below. They saw some movement 318 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.319 in a grassy clearing, but what they saw was something 319 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:29.799 harder to believe than a bigfoot. Now. Dad had not 320 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:33.240 told me the story until recently, and I happened to 321 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:36.200 mention that the natives of North America talk of a 322 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:38.920 breed of dog that lives in the mountains of our continent. 323 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.200 It is mute, and it looks just like the Hyaenas 324 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:46.200 of Africa. Dad then told me that he saw some 325 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:51.200 and related the story of that adventure. He also told 326 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:53.960 me of an earlier solo trip he made in the 327 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:58.319 nearby area where power lines go through steep and wide canyons. 328 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:02.680 The ground under the line was cleared of undergrowth. He 329 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:05.319 was under some trees about a half mile opposite the 330 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.680 lines when he saw a man in a brownish tan 331 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.920 coat climbing the hill under the power lines. It only 332 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:14.319 took this man ten minutes to climb to the top 333 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.039 from the bottom. As Dad watched, he realized that it 334 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:20.279 would take him more than thirty minutes to do the 335 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:23.440 same thing. He looked again at the man and he 336 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:25.599 saw that it was no jacket at all that he 337 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:29.000 had on. It was fur and by the time he 338 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:32.440 realized what he was looking at, the creature had disappeared 339 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:35.759 over the hill. My dad when he was a kid 340 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:40.559 his neighbors were firewatchers after World War II in Oregon State. 341 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:44.039 They were stationed at a lookout fire tower near the 342 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:47.920 Three Sisters. There was another mountain about three quarters of 343 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.680 a mile away. At the top of this mountain was 344 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:54.480 a bare rock. One day they observed movement on and 345 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:58.680 around the rocky top. It looked like bears playing grab ass, 346 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:01.920 but through them byers that became obvious they were not 347 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:07.359 bears at all. They were monkeys, large cub monkeys. Well, 348 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.240 they called the ranger station to report this. Later they 349 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:13.599 were called back and were told not to put this 350 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:16.440 incident in writing, nor speak of it again if they 351 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:20.960 wanted to keep their jobs and their credibility. Apparently they 352 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:24.079 let it slip because my dad overheard them talking about 353 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:28.119 it and it got him fascinated by the subject. Now, 354 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:30.799 over the many years of camping in different areas of 355 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.319 this state, I've often heard the strange but familiar sounds 356 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.640 of these creatures calling to one another, and the stillness 357 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.160 of the other animals that go along with that. On 358 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:44.480 multiple occasions we had pebbles thrown at our tents at 359 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.960 night by playful apes, but most of the time I 360 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:52.039 kept it to myself. Thirteen years ago, my brother and 361 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:55.000 I went up to the Northern Cascades near Canada to 362 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:59.119 camp near the Cascade Crest Trail. We hiked up the 363 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:01.920 trail by day and we returned to camp at night. 364 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.000 The campground is near the loudest waterfall I've ever been to. 365 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:10.400 We brought our gear and our goods and large plastic bins, 366 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.480 two of which we pushed against the inside back of 367 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:17.440 the tent. Now, during all three nights that we camped there, 368 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.160 in the middle of the night, a large hen pushed 369 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:24.640 those bins over onto us in the tent. Each time 370 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:27.519 this happened, I woke up quickly enough to see the 371 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:31.720 five large fingertips through the nih line tent that hen 372 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:35.599 was twice the size of my own. But what I 373 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:39.880 pictured were teenage apes out playing pranks trying to hold 374 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:43.680 back his laughter. I did not since any danger during 375 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:47.200 those episodes, but I would yell stop it each time 376 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:49.680 so it would be satisfied that it had given us 377 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:53.160 a scare. And my brother believed a raccoon was to blame, 378 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.839 and I just left it at that. I believe there 379 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:59.599 are many varieties of these creatures around the world and 380 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.720 North America in Washington State. I've not felt threatened yet. 381 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:08.160 And he goes on to say, he says, you're a 382 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:12.039 good narrator. Obviously you are not naives since you haven't 383 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:15.799 open mind and heart, So keep confusing the doubters with 384 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:19.279 the truth. We dig, We dig listening to what you 385 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:21.680 were born to do. Oh, thank you for that much. 386 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:25.440 I appreciate it, and thanks for inspiring me to write 387 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:28.519 this down. You're welcome, and I'm glad I finally got 388 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:30.920 to it. I've had this story for a long time, 389 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:33.759 maybe a couple of years, and I'm just now getting 390 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:36.839 to it. Guys, I still have I still have probably 391 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.240 a thousand or twelve hundred stories that I haven't even 392 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.039 edited opened up. I just hadn't had time to do 393 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:45.680 them all. But now that I'm doing this for a 394 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:48.440 full time, I'm going to be getting getting to them faster. 395 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.000 And I thought this was a great series of stories. 396 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:55.559 The man and his father had similar interests. They've both 397 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:59.720 had have had experiences, and that story about the Mount 398 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:03.480 Saint Helen's pack of Bigfoots that live there. There's all 399 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:06.799 kinds of stories around Mount Saint Helen's, but I think 400 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:09.920 this eight Canyon story. I've never read it or heard it, 401 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:12.319