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welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Vick, Well, thanks.
Speaker 2: For being here. We appreciate your time. Sean, please give
us a brief bio on yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm forty eight.
Speaker 3: Ex military work for the government right now, mainly with
the military reserves, helping them be medically ready for deployments
and things like that. Just came off. I've been doing
this for about two years. Worked as a in fire
and EMS for thirteen years, mainly EMS as an EMT,
so I've had my fair share of trauma events over
the last decade and a half or so, and spent
about eight years in the Army Infantry. Came down, grew
up in West Virginia and moved to Texas after I
got stationed here from Fort Benning, Georgia, and fell in
love with Texas and decided to stay.
Speaker 1: Ended up going through some little college.
Speaker 3: Didn't really know what I wanted to do and ended
up getting into fire and ems thanks to a buddy
who went in and enjoyed it so and then I
got into it, enjoyed it for as long as I
could until it, you know, physically, emotionally tore me down.
So decided to get out and try something different and
take more of a desk job.
Speaker 2: Now I understand. Yeah, you're in for a long time,
and of course, thank you so much for your service.
I really appreciate it. Not a problem, I definitely do. Sean,
you created lone star cryptid Research. What can you tell
us about Elsie r.
Speaker 3: Well just started it pretty much in the spring to
try to document things I find and stuff out in
the field. I got hooked up with a buddy. His
name is Nick Lasoya.
Speaker 1: It was kind of.
Speaker 3: A accidental in a sense. We were on a big
foot page on Facebook and had posted something and he
started talking to me and he direct contacted me and
we just started talking and he it asked me if
I had seen the Small Town Monsters documentary of the
dog Man Triangle of Texas, and I was like, yeah,
I think I just watched that just recently. Pretty interesting
stuff because I just started getting into dog Man earlier, well,
pretty much late mid last year, I had really not.
Speaker 1: Heard much about dog Man.
Speaker 3: I grew up as a Bigfoot fan and having a
fascination with Bigfoot thanks to the PG film, but just
over the last couple of years, especially listening to Bigfoot
Society and Jeremiah talking about people seeing these creatures out
in the woods that have the head of a dog
and a.
Speaker 1: Body of a man. So that captivated me.
Speaker 3: And then when I met Nick, he was in Aarondese's
documentary of the dog Man Triangle talking about some of
the Native American lord his dad passed down from him
to him from their tribe and stuff like that, and
we just got the talking and he was like, I
need a research partner. He's like, would you be willing
to go out with me? And I was like, yeah, sure.
So we delved as deep into it as a possible
because it was out in the area where he lives,
well about northwest about our northwest.
Speaker 1: Of San Antonio, which is Lake Medina, Texas. There is
a hotbed of activity out there.
Speaker 3: Especially for dog Man, and there has been a few
big Foot sightings, so they're a little bit rare compared
to the dog Man stuff.
Speaker 1: But we've been.
Speaker 3: Going and spend a lot of time out in the
areas out there trying to find and clues and evidence
and you know, things like that, and try to figure out,
you know, what these things really are, or at least
educate ourselves. But just both of us have a huge
fascination with them, and you know, we just get out
there pretty much every weekend and do as much research
as we can, floor as much as we can.
Speaker 2: It's funny most guys, well I'm not going to say
most guys, but a lot of guys on the weekend,
they want to head out and go fishing or hunting
or whatever, watch some football, you name it. But you
and Nick, you guys head out and looked for dog men.
That's a different kind of pastime.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I grew up around guns and stuff. So my
dad owns a gun business back home in West Virginia.
So I grew up around guns and stuff. So I
like to get out and shoot, and I'd like to
be out in nature. I love hiking. I used to
pretty much go hiking every weekend I was off, and
you know, kind of like unknowingly going out in some
of these hiking areas and not even knowing what's exactly
out there, and now that I'm more cued into things
that people see and things that I've seen already, It's
changed my aspect of thinking about what's out there, and
it has grown into an obsession now because I just
want to know.
Speaker 1: History of these things.
Speaker 3: What they are, why they are, you know, as much
as I possibly can. I know that's probably an answer
I'll never really get the full answer to. But they're
intriguing creatures, and you know, the ones that we have
come across so far in that area out there have
its seemed to be aggressive, but that doesn't mean they
won't be if they're provoked. So we try not to
go out and provoke them, but we try to, you know,
make our presence known, but we let them kind of
come to us and get to know us in a
way where we're not aggressive towards them or anything like that,
because Nick always says that the more we're out there,
the more they get the our scent, know what we're,
what we're like, and whether or not we're a threat
to them or not. So the less we're a threat
to them, he thinks, the more you know, they'll make
their their presence known, to us and let us see
them more often. And since January, since I started going
out with him in January, we've had around four or
five visual encounters and about three or four non visual encounters,
and it's it's it's been pretty amazing so far. I'm
still hoping for that perfect encounter, but which would be
similar to our first encounter, but only time will tell.
With that, if I get another encounter like that, I'm
pretty sure we will because we stay consistently going out
as much as possible, and I guess that's why we
get to have some of the activity we have, because
other people will go out and they're scared and they
have fear, and rightfully so. I mean, these creatures are
no joke. But as with anything, I think if you
don't provoke them and you're not aggressive, I think they'll
be fine. I think a lot of the things is.
Speaker 1: That they.
Speaker 3: They live on fear, and I think the more you
fear them, the more it gets them off in a sense,
or they enjoy it, or they sense it.
Speaker 1: And love it and try.
Speaker 3: To extort more fear out of you to see how
far they can push you. But they're definitely intelligent. There's
no way around how intelligent they really are. I think
people need to know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really important element when it comes to
these guys that so many people really underestimate. It's good
that you mentioned that after having this mania encounters with.
Speaker 1: These guys as you've had.
Speaker 2: Does the anxiety we're off now whenever you have a
new experience, or are you more anxious with new experience
as I should say as you were when you had
your first two encounters.
Speaker 1: I would have.
Speaker 3: To say more anxious. It's definitely. There's two aspects to it.
Speaker 1: For me.
Speaker 3: There is the great deal of fear of what the
creature could do to me as a human being, as
far as being like an apex predator.
Speaker 1: The size, you know, the speed, the speed is that right?
Speaker 3: There is what I've finally got to see that aspect
of it two weekends ago when we had another visual
and non visual encounter in the same night that that
created a whole different level of fear now as opposed
to the first encounter and some of the other encounters
where they've been steel or watching or you know, just
studying you. But I do get anxious, I get even
more obsessed with it with every encounter.
Speaker 1: I have like I you know, like you know, Rick
would say.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, be careful what you wish for, and
I've had I've heard that from a lot of people,
and I hope that one day I don't have an
experience where, you know, I happen to be injured or
killed by one of these things or anything like that.
But you know, before we go out, we typically, you know,
pray amongst ourselves for protection.
Speaker 1: And things like that.
Speaker 3: I I try to always wear my cross necklace and
I ask God for his protection. And you know, going
back to like Martin Groves's uh, you know, his encounter
in LBL where he said that they were coming up
on him before he could even move, like to jump
in his friend's truck. He was talking about how he
just started praying the Lord's prayer right there and saying
Jesus' name and it kind of stopped them, at least
in his mind, that's what he said.
Speaker 1: That felt like he was given enough time to escape.
Speaker 3: So I do think that there's a little bit of
a spiritual aspect of these things.
Speaker 1: But I do believe that they're more flesh and blood
than what we think.
Speaker 3: But it's you know, there is a great deal of
fear when I go out there, but a great deal
of respect because I know with what I'm dealing with,
you know, is a very powerful and possibly unhinged creature,
and you don't know what provokes them to violence, and
so you really have to be careful with your way
of thinking, because I think that they can sense a
lot of different things when you're out there.
Speaker 1: It's not just you know, your physical.
Speaker 3: Being, but I think that they have a greater sense
of what's going on in your mind and your emotions.
So once they sense a certain aspect, they, in my opinion,
try to use that against you and maybe try to
provoke you because they know there's nothing you can really
do to hurt them. That's just how intelligent I think
they are. Even from some of the encounters I've heard
on your show to other shows, you know, people who
have shot at them, you know, and hit them, and
they've basically just shook the shots off or something like that.
It just makes you think that there's really not much
you could have on you to protect yourself against them,
that if they truly want to hurt you, they're going
to do it.
Speaker 1: But I'm one of those typical people.
Speaker 3: That go out with guns. I like having the protection.
It's not just for you know them, but there's other
animals out there can hurt you. There's mountain lions, while boars,
bears things like that. Not so much as bears there
at Texas, but we have mountain lions that are coming
into the area now more than ever.
Speaker 1: People are seeing them on the hiking trails, you know,
and there's sneaky.
Speaker 3: I've ran into a pack of wild hogs out at
one hiking park that you know. It was a pretty
intense experience. But you know, I like to have something
of safety. You know, I go out, I carry two firearms.
Speaker 1: I carry a.
Speaker 3: Small hatchet and a machete and a boot knife and
a regular knife in my pocket. So I'm always armed
to the teeth when I go out. So if I
lose it with one thing, then I've got another thing
as a back up. So I'd rather be safe and
prepared than not prepared and unsafe, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I do know what you mean, And you are well
harmed out there. You don't play around. You're ready to
let the wind out of something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I carry it at least, you know, five magazines for
my side arm. And then I have a Celtech KSG
shotgun twelve gauge and it's with three inch shells. I
can if they put about fourteen to fifteen rounds in it,
so and I carry some extra rounds on me from that.
So I just make sure that I'm well armed and
safe as possible. And I carry a medic kit too,
so in case, you know, one of us gets injuriedes
I injured, I can treat myself or I can treat
whoever's with me. Since of you know, thirteen years in EMS,
so I like to be safe on that level too.
I always care mary lyndsatic compass because you can't always
rely on other ways of you know, navigation. So I
learned a lot of land navigation day and night when
I was in the military.
Speaker 1: That was a must.
Speaker 3: So learn to navigate with compass and using my terrain
so that way, when I'm out there, you know, I
don't have to rely on so much technology other than
like taking pictures or video.
Speaker 2: Holy cal Sean, when you go out you are really prepared.
You're ready for anything. Almost if you've had a dog
mean encounter, I would like to speak with me about it.
Whether I'm private or on the show. Please go to
Dogmanencounters dot com and submit a report. All right, Sean,
please tell us about your encounters. Now, give us a
real last detail that comes to mind.
Speaker 3: Well, the first one was around January fifth, third or fifth,
somewhere in that area. I can't never remember the exact date,
but it was right after New Year's because right before
New Year's I went out hiking on a small trail
north of Six Flags, about a couple of miles north
of six Flags, Fiesta, Texas. And I was actually surprised
of what I found that day on that trail because
it happened across a set of prints, and they were
these huge five toe prints. And the first one I
found on the left side of the trail, and from
the left side of the trail to the right side
of the trail is about six feet. And I found
another print, so it had a stride length of almost
six feet, and it was the first time I ever
found any prints, and I got so super excited. I
took pictures, and even though the pictures didn't really do
the Prince justice has seeing them in person, but that
trail kind of it's a mile and a half long trail.
It loops around like a U shape. So when I
I started falling it around. After looking through the area
a little bit, I followed it around in about round
the same about the same kind of crossing line, I
would say, from the other side of the trail. From
the loop, I found another spot where it looked like
there was something that was struggling.
Speaker 1: That was like a couple of animals. You could see.
Speaker 3: Where the grass and stuff was pressed down. And then
I saw hog prints, and I saw those big footprints again.
And they I didn't have anything to measure them with
other than a water bottle, but they were about double
the length of a sixteen point nine ounce water bottle,
so they were huge, and they were about half the
water bottle size and with i'd say probably close to
six seven inches in width. I took some pictures of
that put my eye wear size eleven boots, so I
put my size eleven up against them, and it was,
you know, almost triple the size of my foot. It
was just insane. But it looked like maybe a hog
had been uh you know, uh, had a little bit
of a scuffle with whatever that was, which I think
was a bigfoot, and I didn't find any blood or
anything like that. I looked, but it looked like, you know,
there was a struggle, something was drug round flattened out
a lot of the grass, and then you can see
where it was drug up through the tall grass, uh,
further up into the woodline and gone. So I got
super excited about that. And I'd already met Nick one
line at that point, and I told him about that,
and he was like, well, let's go out this weekend.
He's like, uh, you know, it's going to be decently cold,
he said. There it was like, you know, they're more active,
more active in the cold, it seems like around here.
And most of the sightings and reports he had gotten
were you know, throughout the spring and wintertime. So I
was like, yeah, sure, let me, you know, get some
stuff together. I wasn't fully prepared for what was about
to happen that night. I didn't have a thermal yet.
I didn't have a really good flashlight. I just had
my firearms from AMMO. I took the best flashlight that
I had on me, and you know, and that's basically
all I had really.
Speaker 1: I hadn't spent a lot of money into any equipment
just yet.
Speaker 3: And you know, I didn't know what to expect the
first time out, and how you know, Nick would play
things out how he wanted to do things. We we
went and searched a couple of different areas.
Speaker 1: There was a.
Speaker 3: Picnic area that he was telling me about that the
county blocked off for some unknown reason. But he had
heard that there was an encounter there where a couple
was in their car making out late at night or something,
and one of these dog men came up and shook
their car and was messing with their car, and they
had the encounter and took off out of there, and
then not too long after that, the county shut that
picnic area down, and it's still blocked off this day.
It's been blocked off from what I understand, about three years,
and there's no reason for it to be. There's nothing
wrong with the area. We've gotten up in there many
times and there's nothing wrong with it. We can't find
anything wrong with the area, and we don't understand why
they blocked it off. And it's next to a ranch,
so there's a lot of animal activity too.
Speaker 1: But we went and checked that area out.
Speaker 3: That night, we went and looked at this other creek
bed off of one seventy three going towards Hondo, where
Nick works as a handyman. He has a handyman business
and he deals with a lot of people and he
gets to talking with him and they get comfortable with
him and they start telling him things. So this lady
told him a story about she could have swore she
saw a werewolf in the middle of the road on
one seventy three one night driving the Honda at two
o'clock in the morning, she had drove up and saw
this huge, hairy dog looking thing in the middle of
the road eating a deer, and when she slowed down,
she said, it stood up on two legs and was
almost like ten feet tall, and it just like smiled
at her with blood dripping down off its mouth and
teeth and everything, and it had these really like bright
glowing eyes. And she said she got so scared that
she immediately stopped, turned her car around and went back home.
And so we went down where that sighting was located.
There's a big creek bed there that when you look
at it, it's almost like a super highway that goes
up to Lake Medina and then throughout Hondo, Castroville and
all that it literally, you know, is a nice little
highway to go south. So we checked that creek bid
We did find some weird prints. I found some big
footprints there that was about sixteen and a half inches long.
I found another weird print I still got. I got
pictures of it. I still can't figure out what kind
of print it is. It's kind of squared off, really small.
The toes are really squared It's the weirdest print I've
ever seen. And it's not very deep into the sand either. Still,
to this day, I go back, I look at those pictures,
and I can't figure out what it is. I found
a few dog man tracks that were about the same
size as my foot, maybe just about a half inch smaller.
Speaker 1: That could have been like juvenile tracks.
Speaker 3: We had some rain two nights prior to that, so
one of the tracks is kind of washed out, but
you could still see like three pointed toes up towards
the top that were pretty close together. And it's still
a little inconclusive to me. But I saved the pictures anyway,
because it's best to save as much evidence as you
can and go back and look at it.
Speaker 1: Ideally, I would.
Speaker 3: Love to get a light R scanner, a nice top
end light our scanner to take out so we can
three D scan prints and stuff and get a better
idea other than what my iPhone camera can do. But
so we found all that, and Nick was feeling pretty
good that, you know, maybe we'll have encounters. So I'd
lived in a little bit of fear that night because
I wasn't for sure of what I would see or
you know, how my mind would treat it if we
did have an encounter. But he was like, well, I'm
gonna take up to the Holy Grail area where you
know a lot of people seem to see a lot
of things, and that's the Lake Medina spillway a little
south of the dam.
Speaker 1: There's a little bridge that goes over the spillway there,
and it is by far the most creepiest area to
be in.
Speaker 3: There's something about it. It's got an ominous feeling when
you're there. It's almost like a perfect choke point though
when you look at it on a map because it
backs up to the dam. But that's it's basically like
a you know, it's cliff, got pretty high cliffs on
both sides. The curious part of it that I don't
really understand is why, whoever the county that runs the dam,
I guess they've got that entire spill way fenced off
with seven to seven and a half foot chain link fence,
and not just the chain link fits itself, but there's
razor wire, constantine wire all across the top of that.
Speaker 1: Fence all the way around that area, like.
Speaker 3: It's holding something in or keeping and keeping people out.
But that whole area is one giant choke point and
it's cliffed on both sides, and there's no real way
of getting in there. They do have signs posted that
there's no trespassing, you'll be prosecuted.
Speaker 1: And that's the only dam I've ever come across that's
been blocked off like that.
Speaker 3: And I used to live in Waco before I moved
to San Antonio, and the Waco Dam, I mean, you
can hike all around that and.
Speaker 1: Have no issue with access to it.
Speaker 3: But this one is the first dam I've ever seen
I've been to that has virtually no access to it
unless you're a county employee. But there's never really anybody there.
And they have signs saying you can kayak or canoe,
and that's the only access that you can have, but
there's very little water in that spillway, so you can't
really kayak or canoe. I mean the deepest that water
gets is maybe a foot and a half after a
good rain, maybe two and a half foot, but nothing major.
So we went out Old Medina Dam Road and we're looking,
you know, for as much as we could what we
could see around the truck. And as we were coming
down the hill from the west side of the dam,
I had Nick make sure that he was driving extremely
slow so I can look out both windows. And as
we got on to the damn bridge there, or the
spillway bridge, I happened to be looking out his driver's
side window and I saw what looked like to be
two large, glowing green eyes.
Speaker 1: That were super far apart. Didn't look like any animal
I had ever seen.
Speaker 3: And I immediately is like Nick, Nick, stop, stop, look
look to your left. And he saw it and he's like,
oh my god, and I was like, we put he
put the.
Speaker 1: Truck in part. I immediately got out.
Speaker 3: I walked over the guardrail of the bridge and at
the distance of me, the bridge is about fifteen foot talls,
so at that distance this thing was literally about sixty
feet from us, but from that height, and it looked
super close, but it was so dark down and there.
All I could get was kind of an outline of
the body and the head. But the eyes, the eyes
is what captivated me the most. I could not take
my eyes off its eyes. It was like it was
drawing me in emotionally, and the way it looked at me,
and when it's when you're close up like that, and
I know other people say they're like an amber color,
but this one the color was different.
Speaker 1: They did change color depending on the distance.
Speaker 3: Close up, what I saw reminded me of Slimer from Ghostbusters,
that greenish glow. I'll never forget it. It's like it's
etched in my brain forever, and it's just how they
look at you. It's hard to describe the feeling you get.
There's a feeling of fear. There's a feeling of almost sadness,
but intent, like it's studying you every movement.
Speaker 1: And the way it moved.
Speaker 3: It started to move kind of like at a diagonal angle,
back backing away from me. But it was so smooth,
I mean it was it had no up or down movement.
Speaker 1: It was just smooth, and it.
Speaker 3: Moved ever so slow, and you could tell it was
crouched down quite a bit. And the further you moved back,
the more the eyes glowed more of a yellowish tent.
Speaker 1: It was almost.
Speaker 3: Uh And even the further back he went in the darkness,
the eyes were like two big spotlights and you could
see the shine off the eyes actually shining and refracting
off the water. And that's that was. I know that
no animal can do that. So Nick, he got his
phone out and took some video of it, and we
got about a four minute video of the eye shine
the best we could and how it watched us because
it moved over to the tree line and brushline in
there and then moved towards our right, and there was
probably i'd say about seventy five yards away at that point,
and it sat there and it would move back and
forth side to side, watching us, and never took its
eyes off of us. It was a couple times where
it blinked enough to where you couldn't, you know, see
the eye shine, or either pass by a tree and
maybe block the eye shine, but it kept its eyes
on us the whole time. I had every hair on
my neck standing up I had. It was shaking. I
didn't know what to think. I happened to look to
the right of the bridge down the road a little bit,
and I could have swore I saw another set of
eyes in the tree line there, and I told Nick,
I said, I think there's another one watching us over here.
And Nick was like, well, I just saw a set
of eyes over here on the left side of the
tree line of the spillway, and I was like, great,
So there's three of them, and we have one in
the middle seemingly capturing all of our attention, while it
seems like there's two others flanking both our sides, watching
us and not making their presence know. So I was like, well, great,
they're strategic. I said, So you got one trying to
kind of lure us out in a sense, and then
you got two that's watching us, ready to pounce. And
Nick's like yeah.
Speaker 1: At that point, I got really scared. I pulled my.
Speaker 3: Glock out of my holster and I started to point
it at the one that's in front of us, and
it's like it knew what I had in my hand,
because it started backing off even further and further, and
once I.
Speaker 1: Put it back in the holster.
Speaker 3: I had almost I'll be honest with you, I had
almost every intent on taking a shot right there, but
then something in my mind told me not to do it.
So I put the gun back in my holster, and
it started moving more forward towards us, a little bit more,
watching us. And this encounter lasted for forty five minutes,
close to an hour. It was like we were just
having this standoff watching each other. It was watching us,
studying our movements, and we were doing the same with it.
And there's literally virtually never any traffic in that area,
but for some odd reason, right around that time after
I pulled the gun, within those few minutes after, we
could hear traffic. And the bridge is pretty then, so
it's hard to have two way traffic going through there,
and it's dark, so if you don't have any lights on,
you could get hit really quick because people do travel
through there really fast, and they're not supposed to, but
they do fly down through there. So we hurried up,
got a Knicks truck and decided to go get out
of there and go check out another area where he
had a client of his who had multiple encounters on
his backyard at his deer feeeder. They were sitting around
his deer feeder at night, watching for deer to come
in and then tacking the deer and taking off, and
so we decided to go check that area. I really
wanted to go back to the spillway, but we ended
up not going back. It was about four o'clock in
the morning at that point, and we didn't end up.
We were both kind of tired and exhilarated from our
experience and we just called it a night, but we
kept going back and Nick had bought a drone, so
we got back there one other night, I think the
following month, in February, we caught some eyeshine that was
about thirty foot up in a tree and it was
watching us.
Speaker 1: And that lasted for.
Speaker 3: Another forty five minutes to an hour where whatever that
was was watching us. It was not enough of a distance,
but the eye shine was so bright and so big.
We're like, it's got to be one that's climbed up
in a tree and he is watching us. And Nick
flew the drone over there. And what's weird is the
video capability of the drone malfunctioned for some odd reason
once he got close to it, so he couldn't take video,
but he was able to get steel shots at the
eye shine, and then the drones just started acting funny,
so he brung it home and caught it a night
with that. We got that eye shine that night, and
that was a very weird night too, because we ended
up getting out there again and went and checked out
another area. Then not too long after that, we went
to a different spot in the area that has a
small river and a bridge, and we were starting to
kind of notice a little bit of a similar pattern
of some of these areas.
Speaker 1: Close the water.
Speaker 3: Bridge for cover, it seems like, but always close the
water and very vegetative. The foliage was super thick and
very dark. We found We found some more prints. Nick
found like, uh, there's a cliff side next to this bridge.
It's probably about one hundred foot tall, and uh, there's
a house that sits up on top of the cliff
that's always lit up. But even though that's up, you
can't see anything on the cliff side, and there's so
much foliage that covers the cliff side. We didn't realize
it was an outcropping of the bottom part of the
cliff there that gives good protection from rain and weather.
Nick ended up going in there. He's like, hey, let's,
you know, come and check this out. So we go
in and we found what looked to be like almost
a nesting bed. That something laid down a lot of
limbs in one little spot near the opening of that
area and made it into a bed, and it was
big enough to fit, like, you know, an eight nine
ten foot creature just to lay in. And it was
in a perfect area to be able to watch the
entire dent site because that whole site goes back hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of feet and it's what's weird
about is you can't see into it because of the
foliage in a day or night, but you can see
out of it very well. It's just crazy. So it
seemed like it was like like you know, a sentry
bed or something like they'd have like one of the
pack lay there and watched the opening to the area
as a guard and then if there was more than
they slept further back in there. When we got in there,
we were finding weird claw prints, and then we found
small animal bones littered all over the inside, and it
smelt like dead animal and they're so bad that we're like,
this has got to be a den site that they
sleep in or something or staying at times. But there
was animal bones everywhere. We took pictures of all that video,
you know, the weird claw marks in the ground they
they that's what's weird to me, because I've heard of,
you know, how their front hands are kind of like
similar to raccoon palls in a sense, but looked more
like human hands with long claws. Anyway, you can see
these like clear, like thick claw marks in the sand
in there, like they were walking on all fours, because
they can't really if they're that as tall as they
are standing bipedally, that the height in their is not
going to do him any good walking bipedals. So we're
pretty sure that, at least in our minds, that those
markings were possibly of their front palls or their front
hands with the claws digging into the sand as they
would maneuver through there. We went in there with his dog, Darcy,
and she was acting weird the whole time we were
in there on one of the other occasions, because we
go there to that den site like every time we're
out just to check it out. And see if there's
anything new. We'll move things around too in there to
see if they move items. I did put a trail
camera in there for a week and didn't have much
luck with it. But I'm going to do something different
here this coming weekend. I was going to go to
a butcher and get like a pig's leg, and I'm
gonna I'm going to attach it to a tree about
eight nine feet up as far up as I can
in there, and then place a trail camera about ten
yards away from it aimed at it to see if
we can get any activity of one of these creatures,
you know, grabbing the leg or something like that. We've
also wanted to try to use bait bags, putting like
some organ meats and some ziplock bags and poking holes
in them and strap them to trees high up in
spot to see if you know, they possibly come and
you know, mess with those too, and place a trail
camera on those. But as we were in there that day,
Darcy was acting funny and we got to a certain
point that we heard something and Darcy had she had darted.
Speaker 1: She took off and as Nick was like she's gone,
I was like, well that's not good.
Speaker 3: And right about that time, there's like this six seven
foot tall full of thick grass next to that area
where the water's at, in the backside of that den,
and we heard something graul and shake in that grass,
I mean pretty violently, and we were like, okay, tunder roll.
So we slowly moved out and it didn't follow us
or anything like that, So we don't know exactly what
it was. We didn't see it visually, but that growl
was definitely something very weird I'd never heard before. So
we jetted out there after that. We've had some Eyeshine there.
We've had three sets eyeshine in that area at night
where he's messed with. He started flying the drone over
the one set that was like ten feet off the
ground and he was running video on that, I think,
and that eyeshine was really watching that drone the night
and the other two was trained on us, while the
third one he was trying to mess with and he
I guess he was trying to see if it react
to the drone in a way to kind of make
itself known. But it was definitely watching that drone. It
was kind of that was weird experience too, but the
most recent. Well after that, I went to Colorado, so
I went out by myself, which I normally never do,
but I didn't even really get out of.
Speaker 1: My jeep that night.
Speaker 3: Both nights I went out, I went out two nights
in a row, and I had had to pee really bad,
so I got out of my jeep to pee and
I peed off the bridge at the Spillway, and I
mean not even minutes after that, I got back in
my jeep and it was kind of windy, and all
of a sudden, this really I mean strong urine smell
come floating through with the wind, and I could hear
branches breaking and movement in the woodline around me three
different areas, and I literally at that point I was like,
I don't really like being out by myself.
Speaker 1: I don't have to be.
Speaker 3: I was like, maybe they're urinating and marking their area
because I urinated in their area and they took it
as you know, there's something bad. I left out and
I came back out the next night and the same
thing happened again, but I didn't have any visuals, just
the smells, And so after that, the sighting has kind
of dried up over the summer, and I started talking
to some people around the area of the spillway and
they said, there's a bunch of caves in that area.
So we do feel like they dine up in those caves.
They have to have a decent place of sleep that's protected.
So we have tried everything that we can find around
the area, using maps and everything to figure out how
we could possibly get down that spill way to do
some more research and to push the envelope, I guess
a little bit more to find more evidence. But this
two weekends ago, we had a super crazy experience and
it's probably been the best experience visually.
Speaker 1: Since the first one in my opinion.
Speaker 3: But Nick, Rick and I were on there's a road
next to the spillway that goes up into this you
know housing area, I mean these lake houses, and they're
they're pretty far apart, and it's very wooded, it's very
it's very uh covered and dark.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: No one's out ever at night in that area, which
we find is odd. I don't know anybody in the
right mind.
Speaker 1: Would probably even walk that road at night by themselves.
Speaker 3: So I decided to pull up in there and park,
and I said, I said to Nick and Rick I
was like, let's just walk this road. We've never done
it before, We've never been.
Speaker 1: Up through here.
Speaker 3: I mean, the left side of the road is the
spill way and the right side of the road is houses.
So let's just see what we can see. And we
started walking the road and we got to one specific
spot and Nick was like, do you smell that?
Speaker 1: Is that deer ar?
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, deer arine, isn't that strong?
And we hit this really musky wall of strong urine.
I mean, it was enough to knock you over.
Speaker 1: At that point, we decided to just keep walking the road,
and at different points on our walk, we kept smelling
that urine smell.
Speaker 3: At random spots we weren't hearing anything. And then we
got down to one spot and we stopped and Nick
and Rick were sitting there talking and I kept hearing
something off on the other side of the road and
I was like, do you hear that? And they were
like what, And I said, be quiet for a second.
Listen right over here to our what would be our
you know, seven o'clock, I said, I hear like something
tapping or scratching on a tree. And when we sit
there and listen, you can get You kept hearing it
like scratching and tapping on a tree, and we were
like looking at each other like, well, I don't know
what the heck that is, and it wasn't on the
spillway side. So after a little bit of hearing.
Speaker 1: That, it stopped. It got super super quiet, and we
decided to start walking back to the vehicles. As we're
walking back to the vehicles, Nick said he saw some
my shine. I never saw it, but him and Rick
saw my shine on the spillway side, and we heard
some stuff moving around in the foliage. As we got
back closer to the vehicles, we kept smelling the year again.
So we got back in the vehicles and Nick was like,
where do you want to go? Whatever you do you
want to hit up next?
Speaker 3: I said, well, let's go down to the spillway and
since it's right down the road, just check it out.
And I guess we'll call it a night, because you know,
everybody's getting tired, and you know, we've been out pretty
much all night. So Nick and Rick getting his truck
and I get my jeep and I'm the first one
heading out. So I pulled out and start driving down
the road and I always drive that road super slow.
Speaker 1: Like ten miles an hour.
Speaker 3: I turned my brights on, and normally when I'm leaving Nicks,
because he lives in such a creepy area, has had
so many stings out there, I try to record my
drive home on my phone so that way in just
in case something would run out in front of me,
I'd be able to have a recording of it.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I wished I had put my phone on record driving
down that road that night, but I figured since it
was a short distance, you know, less than a mile
down to the spillway, it was pointless to have my
phone on, so I didn't even turn the record on.
As we're driving down to one of the spots, the
one last spot that we had stopped at. Literally I
got the brights on and I'm driving, and all of
a sudden, I see this tall, lanky creature just run
right across the road, and I immediately stopped. The biggest
thing I noticed was the coloration. The head seemed pointed
because it moved so fast, I couldn't make out the
detail of the head very much, but I made out
the detail of the legs and the arms. The hands
definitely reached down past what I would call the second
set of ease because they were haunched legs and how
it ran was like it's like it float.
Speaker 1: It was so fast. It was like it floated across
the road. But it was so fast that it almost
seemed translucent, but yet you could see the coloration of it.
It was super weird. The speed was insane, Like I mean,
I'm a trained shooter, and one of the hardest things
in the military is and infantry soldiers. They hit a
moving target. So when you're hitting a moving target going
side to side, you have to lead that target in
order to hope to get a hit. And I could
tell you from my experience that thing moved so fast.
There's no way I could lead that target and hope
to hit it. It was too fast.
Speaker 3: Even some of the best shooters I know, I don't
think it hit it. The legs were insane. I mean
they were thick but skinny in the same instance, Like
the top parts of them were really thick, and the
small ones were very past The second set of ease
were very very thin, like it had like a little
bit of a small tail that I could see. The
arms were super lanky and long, and it was running upright,
but you could tell the top of the head was pointed,
so it had to be in the ears. I saw
just a little bit of a muzzle on it, but
it moved so fast I couldn't get a good take.
But the coloration of it was like an auburn reddish
cinnamon type color with the back had like, what is the.
Speaker 1: Name of that one dog that's out there? Rhodesian rise back.
And you notice how.
Speaker 3: When they get super excited or aggressive, they have hair
that stand up on the back of their back, almost
like like spiked hair. It just stands up. That's what
it looked like on the back of this It looked
like its hair was standing up on its back all
the way down its back, and it was a grayish color,
and it just shot across the road. So I immediately
stopped right there in that spot and Nick pulls up
and he's like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Threw my four ways on.
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, one just ran right across the
road in front of me, and I was literally just
I was like, I don't know what to think. I
was like, the speed of it is what really exhilarated
me but scared me. And they pull up in front
of me, and I got my flashlight out. I'm looking
around the area and Rick comes up and he's like,
you've seen prints. I was like, well, it's too rocky,
there's too much rocks here. I can't see no Prince,
I said, look right here, this fin is pushed down,
and all the bushes and all the tree limbs right
here are all crushed down onto that fence, and that
fence is crushed down, and you can tell something big
just went through there. And we looked on the other
side of the road and Nick found a spot where
it looked like something flew through the trees right there too.
So we just sit there and shine the light throughout
the area.
Speaker 1: We're looking around.
Speaker 3: Where it crossed over at where everything's crushed down as
private property, so we didn't really and there's a house
that sets back probably about sixty seventy yards behind the trees,
but the foliage is nice and thick, and there's a
lot of cactus right there that we didn't really want
to get back in in there and shine our lights
and possibly have you know, people in private property shoot
at us, because here in Texas, everybody pretty much has
a gun, and if you're on their property, you will
get shot, So you know, we didn't want to chance it,
but we could definitely see that something big just went
through there and just crushed everything down.
Speaker 1: So what I ended up doing is I took a
chem light.
Speaker 3: I broke it and lit it up, and I tossed
it back in there about you know, seven eight feet,
and I was like, let's just kind of hang out
and see if maybe something you know, reaches forward or
takes it. We stayed there for about twenty minutes. Nothing happened,
so we went down the spillway. So this past weekend,
a couple of nights ago, I decided to go out
with this other guy who reached me on my Facebook
page who's a scientist, and he's very skeptic about dog Man.
He's like, I've never had a dog matter Bigfoot experience.
He's like, I talk about with my coworkers, I do
believe that something like that exists, but since I work
as a scientist, I work in fact and evidence. And
he's like, so I hope to find it evidence, and
he said, that's what I'm searching for. He's like, it's
not that I don't believe that something like that can exist,
because I do, but he originally was bailing out for
the weekend, and Rick had some things to do so
he couldn't go out Saturday night.
Speaker 1: So I told both of them.
Speaker 3: I said, well, I guess I'm gonna go up by
myself because after the previous weekend's experience up there, I
really want, you know, I really want to kind of
hit that area and just take a look. And I
was like, I'm just going to go out by myself.
And then Fernando he contacted me back. He's like, you know,
I'm not going to bail after all. He's like, I'll
go ahead, go out with you. I was like okay.
So he met me out there and we went in
the area and we walked around, looked at some things.
I showed him where the crossing was. He decided he
would cross the fence, and I was like, well, you know,
it's private property. So I was like, be careful just
in case, you know, if anybody drives by and this
is what we're doing, you know, we can.
Speaker 1: You know, get in some troubles. It's so just kind of.
Speaker 3: He he crossed over that area where everything was knocked down.
It's still crushed down there and everything and I asked him.
I said, I threw a kim light back there. I
said it should be right over and there. I said
it won't be lit now, but it would just still
be laying there, and I was like, you know, see
if you can find it. He looked the entire area over.
He never found that kim light.
Speaker 1: It's gone. Something took it.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if that creature came back and
took the kim light and thought it was a gift
or something later that night after we left last weekend
or not. I don't know, but I find that to
be pretty ironic that that kim light is gone, because
I've went to other spots I've left kim lights and
that are been used and not lit up anymore, and
they're there still there after weeks and weeks in a
couple of months, and I I carry a whole bag
of those, and I use them as basically gifts or
something like that to kind of attract their attention if
they're around, to see if they'll, you know, take it
or or something of that nature. But that one where
the crossing was, it's gone. And then thanks to Fernando,
we found a culvert that leads down into the spillway
that's hidden off the road that crosses under the road
and goes into the spillway, and he looked in there
and we thought it would be a great hiding spot,
but there was nothing in there. But due to that
experience of going out Saturday night when everybody you know
couldn't go, and then all of a sudden, he decided
to go. And at the last thing when he decided
to go, I was like, okay, I'll go. And we've
now I found us a pretty decent hidden entrance into
the spillway that we think that we can get down
in there now. So something really good come out of
Saturday night. Kim Light's gone. We found the colvert, So
now it's going to be a game changer as far
as getting down in there and see if we can
get more evidence in their area, because that whole area
is blocked off. That's got to be their home. And
I don't know where it's going to go from there,
but next weekend we're planning on hitting it up. I've
got to talk to Nick and Rick about getting the
drone out there taking a look at some of that terrain,
and then we get out there early early morning time
around first light or so, or a little bit a
couple hours after first light and start getting down in
there and seeing how we can maneuver down in there
and see what we can find. They have to be
hiding in a cave or something down there, sleeping in
a cave somewhere in that area. But we've started talking
to random people. There's a shell station out there. We
started talking to some of them, and these people are
opening up to us. I've had three people work at
that shell station now. One the younger guy, he was like,
I don't go outside at night here. He's like, I've
seen things that are just weird. And the older guy
works there, said he saw some big eye shine around
his woodpile in his backyard at night. He won't go
out at night. We just met a lady a couple
weekns ago that we had that sighting and she and
one of her friends have seen them and she was like,
I don't know what they are. She's like, but I've
seen like these huge glowing eyes in the darkness out
of my backyard. And she's like, so I literally She's like,
at once it's dark, I don't go out. And I
was like, well, it explains, I mean a lot of
people in this area we don't see out at night.
It's very rare that there's traffic, but even rare to
see anybody out on their front porch at night. Even
during the summertime when it's nice, no one's ever out
on their front porches, in their yards anything. Once it's
totally dark, it's and everybody's got their houses and immediately
the area immediately around their houses lit up pretty well
there too.
Speaker 1: So it's like.
Speaker 3: The more and more we meet people and talk to them,
the more and more we're finding that these all these
people are having these encounters with these things in that area,
but they don't know what they are. And we talked
of sheriff's deputy out there too, who said she was
getting a lot of reports of a bear.
Speaker 1: There's there's no bears in this area.
Speaker 3: Whatsoever, but people are seeing a giant black bear out
there and reporting it. So we think it's misidentification. People
are not really knowing what they're seeing, but they're actually
seeing dogmen in the area and reporting them as bears.
So that just and there's an old cemetery that we
investigate out there. Nick saw it eight foot shadow run
across in front of us one night when I wasn't looking,
and Darcy had ran and got in his truck and
was hiding and shaking it down his floorboard. So she
saw something that really freaked her out.
Speaker 1: His little dog.
Speaker 3: You know, we we investigate that because they're known to
be around cemeteries and grave mounds and things like that.
So that's a that's a freaky little graveyard. I'm not
gonna lie. I've never seen anything like it, but that night,
it's super ominous there. But yeah, there's there's definitely a
lot of activity in the area. It's just you know,
gotta be We stay consistent as much as we can
and try to get out every weekend, and that's probably
why we're having a lot of success and seeing some
of the things and experiencing the things that we're seeing
and going through. So hopefully, you know, my ultimate encounter
really at this point, what I'm wanting to have is
I want to have a similar encounter like the first one.
I want to be able to see it up close,
and want to be able to have a good light
and a good thermal and like to get a good
thermal image of it.
Speaker 1: But I want the light on it.
Speaker 3: I want to be able to see detail, the face,
the rest of the body, everything. I want it to
be known that I see it clearly. Again, I have
to be careful what I wish for, but that's my
ultimate detail. And the biggest, biggest issue I've had since
the first encounter is the dreams.
Speaker 1: I've told people about the dreams.
Speaker 3: I started having nightmares after the first encounter where I
was seeing myself on the bridge from the dog man's
point of view that night. I kept having that reoccurring dream.
It was like I was in the dog man's body
staring at myself up on the bridge that night. And
those dreams haven't really ceased.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: I have them less frequently now than I did after
the encounter, but a good two months after that first
encounter it was almost nightly. And then one night, about
a month after the encounter, I was attacked in my
sleep by something that felt like it was choking me
underneath my comforter, and once I said the name Jesus.
I grew up in a Christian household. My mom has
always said, you know, if you feel like you're being
attacked by evil, you know, always bringing out Jesus's name,
it will make them flee. And as soon as I
said that that night, and whatever it was that was
attacking me or choking me, it went away. So now
you know, mostly every night I try to go to
bed and I specifically placed on ninety one as a
prayer of protection, and not much of any of that
kind of stuff is happening. But that's where I started
to tie in a little bit of the paranormal with
these things. Whether or not they're these evil creatures, I
don't know. I do go back to the Bible about
certain things and revelations talking about in the end times that.
Speaker 1: God will release the beasts of the earth.
Speaker 3: And that you know, third of mankind will die of
fear heart attacks of seeing these creatures. And I've heard
so many stories of people talking about the fear and
the anxiety and their regret of even seeing these things.
Like I think you interviewed this guy Casey in New Hampshire.
His encounter was insane to me, and how he what
he experienced was kind of similar to what I would
like to experience but then don't want to experience. And
in a way I kind of envy his experience. But
in a way I don't. I'm kind of half and
half porn on that because I know those kinds of
experiences affect people differently, and I know it affected him
in a very severe way. I don't know how it
would affect me and my mindset because I'm able to
compartmentalize things differently than a lot of people, and I
have a good, healthy fear. But I also am the
type of person with my faith. You know, I believe
in Jesus. All my faith and hope is in him,
and I don't fear much because I know that he
won't allow anything happen to me if he doesn't want
to allow it, that I have his hedge of protection
around me. So I maybe in a sense I have
a little bit of arrogance when I go out about that,
and maybe I should, but that is kind of my mindset.
Speaker 1: When I go out.
Speaker 3: There is fear there, but there is also, you know,
that hope and that feeling of protection, and you know,
so so far it's been good, and so far the
ones that we've come across have not been aggressive in
any sense, and like Nick says, he believes the more
we're out there, the more they want to show the more.
They either trust us or don't feel that we're aggressive,
and they show themselves more to us. Nick really wants
to communicate with them. He wants to actually be able
to talk to him in some way. He thinks that
there's like a telepathic connection, and he thinks I have
talked to a couple of people in this field that
think that maybe after my experience in the dreams and things,
that maybe there's a telepathic connection between me and this one,
this one creature.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it is an interesting theory.
Speaker 3: Maybe once I have another good encounter where I have
the opportunity to talk to it and say something to
it to see if it reacts to me. I don't know,
but maybe one day I'll have that opportunity. And that's
kind of the day I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: Sure, seems to me like you probably will get the
chance to have an opportunity like that. You're definitely on
the radar, there's no disputing that.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Having said that, Sean, we're about out of time. But
before we get out of here, please take this opportunity
to promote lone Star Cryptid Research again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a Facebook page lone Star Cryptid Research
it's easy to find on Facebook.
Speaker 3: It's a red logo with a big Foot holding his
middle finger up around one side of the Texas flag
and a dog man tearing into the other end of
a Texas flag. I kind of use the Bigfoot with
the middle finger idea as a kind of a joke
about how, you know, people talk about not being able
to find Bigfoot, and it's kind of his way of
being like, Hi, you can't catch me or see me.
But I kind of use that as a play. I
thought it would be funny and comedic to add that
into our logo. But yeah, yeah, please. I got the
Instagram too, so you can connect with me on Instagram
and the Facebook. If you're you know, around the San
Antonio or any of the communities around San Antonio, Kerrville, Fredericksburg,
you know, Blanco Hondo, even up towards Austin and and
all that area Marble Falls, you know, please reach out
to us. We're always looking for new areas to go
and explore and check out and see if we can
find evidence and even talk to people about, you know,
their encounters and things like that and if they you know,
need someone that will believe them and sit down and
sympathize with them about their encounters where they won't be
made fun of or anything of that nature. You know,
please reach out to us. You know, all three of
us have had encounters and we know what it's like
to be ridiculed for, you know, see any things and
believing in them, because Lord knows, I've been ridiculed by people,
but I've turned some people on now with my encounters
to believe that there is something out there. So yeah,
please have you know, come on on the Facebook or
Instagram messaged me and I'll be glad to talk to
anybody and check out their areas.
Speaker 2: And for anyone listening who wants to contact Sean to
report an experience, I'm going to post links to both
the Facebook and Instagram page for LCR that'll make it
really easy for you to find them. In the description
for tonight's show. Before we get out of here, Sean,
would you like to also promote Nick's Texas Hill Country
dog Man as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's also on my page under Texas Hill Country
dog Man if you like to check him out. He
posts some videos and stuff like that too, and he
goes out and talks to a lot of people. And
meets a lot of people. He's definitely had some pretty
good experiences and stuff like that. And then also Rick Tolos,
Texas Hill Country Bigfoot. He is linked through us too,
so you know, if you have any Bigfoot experiences or anything.
Speaker 1: Like that, and you can always reach out to him too.
Speaker 3: And the three of us work together on a lot
of the research that we do, so please feel free
to give them some attention and.
Speaker 1: Talk to them too.
Speaker 3: They have different experiences, so it's you know, I find
it good to communicate and work with each other, and
you know, everybody has different experiences and we can always
bounce great ideas off each other and get out there
and do some really good research.
Speaker 1: That's really good.
Speaker 2: Well, having said that, thanks again so much for coming
on to share the details of those experiences with us.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Vick. You do good for this community.
Speaker 3: It's good to hear your show and listen to people
come on and talk about what they've been through. I
know it's kind of hard for some people, but I
love your show. I love listening to it. It's great
to hear other people's encounters, and I thank you for
what you do too.
Speaker 2: Oh, you know you're welcome. I wouldn't have it any
other way, but thanks again so much for your time,
and have a great night.
Speaker 1: Dams or Pistol English