Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy six, when I was ten years old,
Speaker 1: I went camping with my family almost every weekend near McCall, Idaho,
Speaker 1: a couple of hours from our home. We had access
Speaker 1: to a precious gem claim in that area and we
Speaker 1: would dig for sapphires. We had a nineteen fifty five
Speaker 1: gmc truck and a pool camper that was about the
Speaker 1: same size, and both of them were heavyweights. We liked
Speaker 1: camp in a particular area each time we went, and
Speaker 1: it was a big meadow that you could only get
Speaker 1: to by crossing a small creek and driving up on it.
Speaker 1: There were several water sources close to the area, which
Speaker 1: meant we could fish and take a dip and walk
Speaker 1: along the stream, and we could hear the creek at night.
Speaker 1: It was very peaceful. The night of the incident, we
Speaker 1: pulled into the camp site later than usual, and because
Speaker 1: it was late, my dad didn't unhook the camper trailer
Speaker 1: like he would under normal circumstances. During the night. Just
Speaker 1: as we were about to fall asleep, something stepped between
Speaker 1: our pickup and the camper on the towbar that was
Speaker 1: still hooked up. And whatever this thing was, it was
Speaker 1: so heavy that it forced the hitch to the ground,
Speaker 1: and it tilted the back end of the camper clear
Speaker 1: up into the air, and it tossed my dad right
Speaker 1: out of the bed. Now we have no idea to
Speaker 1: this day what could have possibly done this or how
Speaker 1: heavy it must have been to do that. There's only
Speaker 1: enough room between the jack and the truck for something
Speaker 1: with two legs, and that meant a bear could not
Speaker 1: fit its body through there. We only have black bears
Speaker 1: in that area, and they don't weigh enough to move
Speaker 1: a trailer that much. But since we didn't get a
Speaker 1: look at it, we cannot say that it was a
Speaker 1: bigfoot or why it didn't just walk around the vehicle.
Speaker 1: But in the years since, I have heard many people
Speaker 1: tell of bigfoot messing with their campers, and over the
Speaker 1: years in the same area, we have smelled rank smells
Speaker 1: that came and went with no explanation, and we've heard
Speaker 1: vocals and sounds that we could not identify. On another occasion,
Speaker 1: we believe we heard big screams in Montana on one
Speaker 1: of our outings. It was so disturbing that I still
Speaker 1: remember it like it was yesterday. We were with my grandparents,
Speaker 1: as we often were, in the backwoods of Montana and
Speaker 1: down one of the roads where the grass had grown
Speaker 1: all the way up. We always camped there where there
Speaker 1: were never any other people. We were sitting around the
Speaker 1: campfire one night when we started to hear screaming and
Speaker 1: moaning howls that made the hair on our bodies stand
Speaker 1: on in and my grandpa, having been in the woods
Speaker 1: his whole life, said that he had never heard anything
Speaker 1: like this before, and he was so that we had
Speaker 1: to turn in for the night. We listened to him
Speaker 1: and we went to bed, and it was very unlike
Speaker 1: us because we would normally stay up until all hours
Speaker 1: of the morning, making some'mores and singing and telling stories.
Speaker 1: But that night of those screams as we children were
Speaker 1: busy having fun, and it all came to a dead stop,
Speaker 1: leaving my poor grandfather to put out the fire by himself.
Speaker 1: Hey y'all, welcome to the podcast. I appreciate you clicking
Speaker 1: on the video. My name's Cameron Buckner and this is
Speaker 1: the Dixie Cryptid What If It's True Podcast. This is
Speaker 1: a short podcast. I got three really good stories, but
Speaker 1: at the end, after the third story, I want to
Speaker 1: tell you something that I'm doing with this channel. It's
Speaker 1: not a big deal. It's not a big deal, but
Speaker 1: I want to let you know. So hang with me
Speaker 1: till the end if you're interested in this channel, in
Speaker 1: this podcast, and I'll tell you what's coming up. Other
Speaker 1: than that, let's get on with the stories, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. When I was twenty three, I was
Speaker 1: working on a ranch in West Texas. My job was
Speaker 1: to get on a skids steer and grub up mesquite
Speaker 1: trees and clearings to have small plots of crops planting
Speaker 1: for the cattle to eat. The rancher and I were
Speaker 1: good friends, so he allowed me to carry a rifle
Speaker 1: to shoot codies and hogs and bobcats that I came across.
Speaker 1: The only catch was that if I shot anything, I
Speaker 1: had to bring the bodies back and show them. Depending
Speaker 1: on the way to the animal, I would get a
Speaker 1: small amount of money. That was okay with me. The
Speaker 1: day was just getting kicked off, and as the sun
Speaker 1: came up, I drove to a clearing where I left
Speaker 1: the skids steer. The night before, I was finished with
Speaker 1: this particular clearing and I was about to move to
Speaker 1: another area. When I was loading the skids steer onto
Speaker 1: the trailer. My hand slipped from the chain that I
Speaker 1: was trying to pull through a hole to secure it
Speaker 1: in place, and I punched myself in the mouth well.
Speaker 1: I went to the rear view mirror on my truck
Speaker 1: to assess the damage, thankfully to see that the blow
Speaker 1: to my face only caused a busted lip and I
Speaker 1: didn't knock any teeth out. When I got in my truck,
Speaker 1: I saw a sounder of hogs trotting across the road
Speaker 1: toward me. The first thing that came to my mind
Speaker 1: was some extra cash, So I got my rifle to
Speaker 1: my shoulder and I jacked a thirty thirty into my
Speaker 1: Henry lever action and I took aim and took a shot,
Speaker 1: and the round cut through the morning air, throwing a
Speaker 1: decent sized saw to the ground. So I loaded another
Speaker 1: round into the chamber and dropped another hog, and then
Speaker 1: wrenched and repeated, and when I had four good sized
Speaker 1: hogs on the ground, the rest of the group turned
Speaker 1: and headed back from where they came. I turned my
Speaker 1: head to look in the direction that they were running,
Speaker 1: only to see a hulking black mass that had appeared
Speaker 1: out of no where, and it grabbed one of the
Speaker 1: huge boar hogs by its hind legs and slammed it
Speaker 1: onto the ground with a thud, killing it. The creature
Speaker 1: had a distinct canine muzzle, looked like a black wolf
Speaker 1: on steroids, and it leaped from one hog to the necks,
Speaker 1: picking them up and slamming them into the ground until
Speaker 1: they were all dead, and they laid in the middle
Speaker 1: of the road. Well. I sat and watched in pure
Speaker 1: amazement until it looked at me, and then, with its
Speaker 1: eyes locked on me, it stood upright on its hind legs,
Speaker 1: picked up the five hogs that it had killed, and
Speaker 1: held them up to me as if to say, I'm
Speaker 1: a hunter too, and I can whip you any day.
Speaker 1: For some reason, he didn't touch the four hogs that
Speaker 1: I had killed. Maybe it was a sign of respect,
Speaker 1: or maybe he didn't want to deal with me pulling
Speaker 1: my gun on him too. I work on another ranch now,
Speaker 1: tending to the cattle and other critters. I haven't I've
Speaker 1: seen this dog man thing since and probably never will again.
Speaker 1: And that's all right with me. Here is a story
Speaker 1: that I have. It's an email that I have in
Speaker 1: my ready to go file folder, and I'm looking through this,
Speaker 1: and it looks so familiar, And I can't remember if
Speaker 1: I put this on the podcast or not, and just
Speaker 1: didn't move it over to the done folder. Normally I
Speaker 1: don't do that. If I have done one, I move
Speaker 1: it to the other folder. That way I know i've
Speaker 1: done it. But and it may be that this looks
Speaker 1: familiar because I've just read it before I remember reading it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it again, just out of caution, because
Speaker 1: this lady spent some time writing this and I want
Speaker 1: to make sure that her story gets on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to read it. If I've already read it,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. If you remember it, I'm sorry. But here
Speaker 1: we go. I have been blessed with five children. Each
Speaker 1: of them has had strange experiences, and this is one
Speaker 1: of them. And this is a story from my middle son, Matthew,
Speaker 1: and it happened when we lived in a rural area
Speaker 1: in southern Maryland when he was six years old and
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies. Kids ran around outside from early morning
Speaker 1: until they got hungry, or until mom blew the whistle
Speaker 1: or yelled at them to come home. Matthew was no different.
Speaker 1: On one Sunday, afternoon in early spring, Matthew went into
Speaker 1: the woods to pick some wild huckleberries instead of coming
Speaker 1: in for lunch. While he was out there, he said
Speaker 1: he felt like somebody was watching him, and he got
Speaker 1: so nervous that he came in to tell me. Well,
Speaker 1: I told him that he probably got scared because the
Speaker 1: area of the woods where he had been were darker
Speaker 1: than the woods closer to the field where he usually played.
Speaker 1: I didn't dismiss him, though, because Matthew was not prone
Speaker 1: to make things up or exaggerate anything, even at his
Speaker 1: young age. He was a level headed kid. Two days later,
Speaker 1: he decided that he was going to go get some
Speaker 1: more berries, and he wanted to find out who was
Speaker 1: out there and see if they had moved on. He
Speaker 1: left the house at three in the afternoon, when the
Speaker 1: deeper woods were already pretty dark, and I asked him
Speaker 1: if he would rather go earlier the next morning when
Speaker 1: it was lighter, but he was determined, so I sat
Speaker 1: on the balcony drinking coffee to keep an ear out
Speaker 1: for him. He had been gone for close to forty
Speaker 1: minutes when he came back with a pail of berries
Speaker 1: and a funny look on his face, and I asked
Speaker 1: him if he was all right. Yeah, Mom, somebody's out
Speaker 1: there and they need a bath really bad. He said, Oh,
Speaker 1: good lord, there's a bum in the woods. I thought,
Speaker 1: fearful that there was someone out there who could hurt him.
Speaker 1: I told him to stay away from the woods for
Speaker 1: a while, and I thought whoever it was would move
Speaker 1: on soon enough. A week later, Matthew asked if he
Speaker 1: could go pick some more berries. This time I went
Speaker 1: with him to make sure the stea inky guy was gone.
Speaker 1: We had been there ten minutes and there was no
Speaker 1: sign of anyone, and Matthew kept picking berries, and I
Speaker 1: went back to the house to wait for him. I
Speaker 1: had hardly reached the porch when Matthew came running and
Speaker 1: crying out of the woods. So I ran to him
Speaker 1: and I hugged him, and I scrunched my nose up
Speaker 1: in disgust because he smelled as if he had rolled
Speaker 1: in garbage. What in the world happened? I asked him.
Speaker 1: He said, the hairy man came from behind the tree
Speaker 1: and it grunted at him, and it reached out to
Speaker 1: take his bucket away. He said the man didn't even
Speaker 1: have a real face, and that he was covered in
Speaker 1: brown hair all over his body. He said the man
Speaker 1: was big, and he smelled so bad that it made
Speaker 1: him gag. Well, I was horrified and I started to
Speaker 1: go see for myself, but Matthew begged me not to.
Speaker 1: Mommy growls an he hoots just like an animal. He's
Speaker 1: not human, He's a monster man. Matthew pleaded for me
Speaker 1: to stay with him. Well, seeing my poor level headed
Speaker 1: child to react like that was heartbreaking and terrifying, But
Speaker 1: I did listen to him, and when I told my
Speaker 1: husband now about it, he and a neighbor went to
Speaker 1: check out who the bomb was that was frightening the kids. Well,
Speaker 1: they didn't find any sign of a man, but they
Speaker 1: did find bare foot prints that were eighteen inches long
Speaker 1: and eight inches wide. They followed the footprints for fifty
Speaker 1: feet and then they just disappeared. At the base of
Speaker 1: a large tree. They found a few freshly broken branches
Speaker 1: and they could smell something like rotten meat, and thirty
Speaker 1: feet from where Matthew was picking the berries, they found
Speaker 1: the remains of what looked like a dog with its
Speaker 1: entire midsection and two front legs missing. No one went
Speaker 1: into the woods again as long as we lived there,
Speaker 1: but several other children backed up the description Matthew had given.
Speaker 1: The parents in our small neighborhood stood watch and none
Speaker 1: of the children were allowed outside without a parent on guard.
Speaker 1: We had never heard of Bigfoot at this time, but
Speaker 1: a year later, my uncle and my cousin had a
Speaker 1: visit from one for three nights in a row. Even
Speaker 1: banged on the back door as he walked around their
Speaker 1: wrap around porch. But that's a story for another time. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what I wanted to tell you. There are two
Speaker 1: ways to listen to this podcast. One is like you're
Speaker 1: listening right now on YouTube. Another is where I take
Speaker 1: this audio and I upload it to the podcast. I
Speaker 1: call it the podcast network. I go through a podcast
Speaker 1: host and it blasts out to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, you know,
Speaker 1: any podcast app you want to listen to the what
Speaker 1: If It's True podcast on, It's on your podcast app.
Speaker 1: You just have to do a search. But sometimes I
Speaker 1: do different things on the podcast app than I do
Speaker 1: on YouTube. And what I've been doing the last well,
Speaker 1: since the end of May, I've been uploading a podcast
Speaker 1: every day for the last one hundred days of older
Speaker 1: stories that I've brought up, taken all of my commentary
Speaker 1: out of it, taking all the music out of it,
Speaker 1: and re uploading them as archives, and they're just the stories.
Speaker 1: So when you click on the podcast, I just start
Speaker 1: telling stories. And I think there may be three or
Speaker 1: four where I left my commentary on the end of it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't mean to do that. It's just when
Speaker 1: I was going through editing those, they got left in.
Speaker 1: For the most part, out of one hundred, there's probably
Speaker 1: ninety eight or ninety seven that have nothing but the story,
Speaker 1: no music, no commentary for me. Nothing. People have asked
Speaker 1: for that before. I don't know. Some people like to
Speaker 1: hear me talk. I don't know why, but other people
Speaker 1: don't want to hear me talk, and they just want
Speaker 1: to hear the story. So this is your chance to
Speaker 1: listen to the stories without me running my mouth. I
Speaker 1: have done this is because two or three reasons. Number One,
Speaker 1: those older stories that I recorded three, four or five
Speaker 1: years ago, the audio is poor on them because I
Speaker 1: didn't know what I was doing. I could barely read.
Speaker 1: I can barely read now, but I really couldn't read
Speaker 1: very well back then. Number Three, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: new people who are following the YouTube side of this,
Speaker 1: who have never heard those stories, and they're not going
Speaker 1: to go back in my library and just start listening
Speaker 1: to older podcasts. It's just the nature of YouTube. Once
Speaker 1: a video is released, it kind of loses its stam
Speaker 1: after about a week, week and a half, and then
Speaker 1: it's kind of lost to the age is it's in
Speaker 1: the library and you can always click on it, but
Speaker 1: people just lose interest. They want to listen to something new.
Speaker 1: And so the third reason I'm doing this was because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of new people following along the podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't want them to miss these stories. I think
Speaker 1: they'll enjoy them. Here's what I'm doing. You're going to
Speaker 1: see over the next two three videos pop up, and
Speaker 1: in big letters on the thumbnail there will be archive one,
Speaker 1: Archive two, Archive three, and in the title is going
Speaker 1: to be the same Arcive one two all the way
Speaker 1: up to one hundred. If you think or if you've
Speaker 1: listened to every single story I've ever done, you can
Speaker 1: skip those videos. But if you haven't heard all the
Speaker 1: stories and you're new to the channeler have come along
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years and you haven't gone
Speaker 1: back in my library and listened to some really cool,
Speaker 1: really good stories. I'm re uploading those for you. That's it.
Speaker 1: I'm just laying this out so I don't get any
Speaker 1: blowback in the comments section. But it's coming. I know
Speaker 1: it's coming. And then my newer podcast will just have
Speaker 1: my regular thumbnails. There'll be something unique. It'll be if
Speaker 1: you just scan through my video list now, you'll see
Speaker 1: what my thumbnails look like. I have a theme. I
Speaker 1: have kind of a I have the same thing going
Speaker 1: on every time. But if it's an archived podcast, it
Speaker 1: will say archive sixty eight, archive eighty two. If you've
Speaker 1: already heard them, you don't have to listen to them.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be redundant, but sometimes I try
Speaker 1: to be really clear when I talk about something new
Speaker 1: i'm doing, because inevitably someone misunderstands. Almost every time, and
Speaker 1: I get these comments, Oh, you're quitting the podcast. Nope,
Speaker 1: didn't say that. Oh you hate cats, No, never said
Speaker 1: I hate cats. Oh you change every story that you've
Speaker 1: ever done. No, we don't change any stories at all.
Speaker 1: It's like all this stuff kind of floats around and
Speaker 1: I get these comments, and I never understand where this
Speaker 1: stuff comes from. So I'm trying to be really clear,
Speaker 1: really thorough in what I'm telling you. The videos that
Speaker 1: you see that are archive videos will say archive number whatever.
Speaker 1: The title will say archive number what. Ever, if you've
Speaker 1: already heard them, you can skip them. You don't have
Speaker 1: to comment and say I quit upload and old stuff
Speaker 1: and why are you regurgitating your old stuff? Don't make
Speaker 1: that comment. There's no reason to do that because I've
Speaker 1: already warned you they're gonna say archive. If you've already
Speaker 1: heard them, you just go ahead and skip to the
Speaker 1: next video. You don't have to waste your time making
Speaker 1: a comment. There's no need to do that. Just don't
Speaker 1: watch the video, all right. I wanted to be really clear.
Speaker 1: I think I have been. I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: or see some of the comments I get on this.
Speaker 1: All that said, I love you guys. I think these
Speaker 1: older stories are just as good as anything new I'm doing.
Speaker 1: And the audio is remastered. They sound really good. There's
Speaker 1: no music, there's no talking, there's just the stories. And
Speaker 1: for people who like that, I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna shut up. Appreciate you listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast, and we'll see on the next one. Thanks