1 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: I was born in Tehran. At age six, my parents 2 00:00:10,279 --> 00:00:13,560 moved back to my father's hometown, where he founded a 3 00:00:13,599 --> 00:00:18,760 textile factory. Business was good and our family became very rich. 4 00:00:19,719 --> 00:00:22,519 We stayed there for eighteen years before moving back to 5 00:00:22,559 --> 00:00:26,839 the capital city of Iran. When I was twenty eight, 6 00:00:26,879 --> 00:00:29,239 I decided to go back to school again to study 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,840 civil engineering. I had already graduated from the university with 8 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,960 a teaching degree. My success there allowed me to move 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,920 to a coastal city located in the northern part of Iran, 10 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,759 where I bought a two bedroom detached house. The elderly 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,600 couple who owned it before me had died in the home, 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,719 and their bodies were discovered in a bedroom. There were 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:58,119 signs of a struggle. The authorities determined the husband had 14 00:00:58,159 --> 00:01:02,759 attacked the wife. She apparently defended herself with such fury 15 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:07,079 that she had broken bones in her hands. As an 16 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:11,879 impetuous first time homeowner, I wasn't concerned about the history 17 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,879 of the property. It was move in ready, and that's 18 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,680 all I cared about. I slept in one room while 19 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,959 the other was my study, and deep into the night 20 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:26,280 I was designing construction plans. In the first year of University. 21 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,400 If you're familiar with this type of work, you know 22 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:34,920 that it's a time consuming task that requires your full attention. Well, 23 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,159 I kept getting distracted by the strange sounds that were 24 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:41,640 growing in frequency. The roofs of the homes in that 25 00:01:41,799 --> 00:01:45,319 area were made of wooden frames, and it's not unusual 26 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:48,280 to hear creaking noises when the temperature drops at night 27 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:53,159 and the wood contracts. But this was different. When I 28 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,560 heard someone knocking on the door to my study, I 29 00:01:55,599 --> 00:02:00,280 wrenched it open, fully, expecting to confront an intruder. The 30 00:02:00,319 --> 00:02:05,159 hallway was empty. Tapping sounds like knuckles on a tabletop 31 00:02:05,239 --> 00:02:07,760 drew me into the living room, but I found no 32 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:11,479 one there. I double checked the lock on my front 33 00:02:11,479 --> 00:02:14,800 door and made a quick sweep of the premises. Each 34 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:18,199 room I entered, the noises would shift to a different 35 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,039 part of the house, until eventually it all became a 36 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,879 deafening cacophony. I turned on every light in the place 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,080 and reached into my closet and pulled out a machete 38 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,680 that I kept on hand for self defense. I turned 39 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,639 to face my invisible opponent, but how do you fight air? 40 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,479 I gave up and ran out the front door. And 41 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,599 threw the front yard and into the street. It was 42 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,639 winter and all I had on were shorts and a 43 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,360 T shirt. Given that I was wielding a machete, I 44 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,680 must have looked like a lunatic. I ran two miles 45 00:02:55,719 --> 00:02:59,039 to my friend's place and frantically beat on his front door. 46 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,680 Once he let me inside, I stammered incoherently about what 47 00:03:04,759 --> 00:03:08,439 had just happened. He was not convinced, but he offered 48 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:11,479 me his couch for the night and promised to investigate 49 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,000 the situation with me in the daylight. We returned to 50 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,240 my house later that morning. I had left my front 51 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,919 door wide open and was relieved that no thieves had 52 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,759 taken advantage of that. We did a thorough search of 53 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,080 each room, and everything appeared to be untouched. My friend 54 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:32,560 offered to stay the night with me for my own 55 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:36,120 peace of mind. I was less afraid in the daylight, 56 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,759 so he left me there so he could go retrieve 57 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,680 his shotgun. Well. The day passed without incident, and we 58 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,199 decided to make a couple of pallets on the floor 59 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,960 and sleep beside each other in the living room. Once 60 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,639 our conversation began to drift, we both dozed off and 61 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,639 a loud crash like a table being upended, jarred us awake. 62 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,360 The barrage of noises felt like we were trapped inside 63 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,560 a batting cage with a demon army of baseball players. 64 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:10,199 Grab the gun, I yelled, But what am I shooting at? 65 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,840 My friend demanded. We surrendered the house and stumbled out 66 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:19,800 the front door. This time I slammed it shut. I 67 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,759 stayed away for a week, and when I went back 68 00:04:22,759 --> 00:04:25,800 to grab a few clothes, my friend reluctantly agreed to 69 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:29,439 accompany me as far as the front porch, shouting through 70 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,399 the doorway, hurry up, or I'm not going to stay here. 71 00:04:34,519 --> 00:04:38,879 In the aftermath, I suffered from nightmares. I dreamt I 72 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,560 was back in my house when I sent something evil 73 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,560 coming down the hall. It had long claws that hung 74 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,000 below its knees and left behind a trail of slime 75 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:52,959 as it slithered toward me. Opened my mouth to screen, 76 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,120 but my vocal cords wouldn't function, and I tried to move, 77 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,439 but my body was paralyzed, and the thing was leaning 78 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:03,000 over me, its claws poised to strike at my neck. 79 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,480 Well Suddenly I woke up. My friend was standing over me. 80 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,439 You're having another nightmare. He said, I can't stay here forever. 81 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:17,120 I told him, I need to reclaim my house. They 82 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:21,879 say spirits will continue to linger if an injustice remains unresolved, 83 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,040 and I suspected the deceased elderly couple who once resided 84 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,639 in the house still had a tale to tell. They 85 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,600 had been married for over fifty years. An accident had 86 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,399 damaged the woman's legs so severely that she had to 87 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:41,360 be helped in and out of bed. Neighbors spoke kindly 88 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:45,040 of the husband, and the couple employed no outside help, 89 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,920 and he remained his wife's sole caregiver. When their bodies 90 00:05:49,959 --> 00:05:53,040 had been discovered, the woman was still in bed, tucked 91 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:56,480 under the blankets, with the man lying prone across her midsection. 92 00:05:57,519 --> 00:05:59,920 And due to their advanced ages, it was a sin 93 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,199 that the stress of their alleged altercation, the evidence being 94 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,959 the woman's broken hands, had proved too much for the 95 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,240 both of them. But something caught my eye while reading 96 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,920 the medical examiner's report. I returned to my friend's home 97 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,759 that day and compiled my notes. That night, I proceeded 98 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,519 to my house alone. I slipped my key into the 99 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,959 lock and carefully opened the door, and I went directly 100 00:06:28,079 --> 00:06:31,600 down the hall to my bedroom. I took a seat 101 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:34,519 and produced my notes, and I began reading them aloud. 102 00:06:35,319 --> 00:06:37,839 And when I finished, I stripped down to my t 103 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,839 shirt and shorts, and I slipped between the covers of 104 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,920 my bed, and I quickly went to sleep. It was 105 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:48,519 the most fitful night of rest I'd ever had, devoid 106 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,120 of nightmares and the unexplained noises. As long as I 107 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:56,519 lived in the house, I never experienced either of those 108 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,720 things again. While trying to help his wife from her bed, 109 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:03,399 the old man had been struck down by something called 110 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:08,519 a cervical artery dissection, a stroke caused by an artery 111 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:12,600 in his neck, leaking blood. You could compare it to 112 00:07:12,639 --> 00:07:16,639 the monster in my dream, whose long claws lingered with me, 113 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,920 powerless to do anything about it. Penned by the weight 114 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:23,519 of her dead husband on top of her, the woman 115 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,079 had slammed her hands repeatedly against the headboard in a 116 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:32,079 vain attempt to summon help that never arrived. Her efforts 117 00:07:32,079 --> 00:07:37,319 had continued from beyond the grave. Their spirits had reached 118 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,240 out to me with a story full of life, too 119 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:48,079 scared to be tainted by a scandalous death. Back in 120 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,240 about seventy seven or seventy eight, now I'm not sure 121 00:07:51,319 --> 00:07:55,040 on the year. I was spending on October weekend at 122 00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:58,079 my dad and uncle's hunting camp near the south shore 123 00:07:58,279 --> 00:08:03,120 of Lake Superior on the north central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 124 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:08,439 The camp was built by my great grandfather. As usual, 125 00:08:08,759 --> 00:08:11,920 there were a bunch of guys at the camp, including Dad, uncle, 126 00:08:11,959 --> 00:08:16,319 and my grandfather and all their hunting partners. Of those 127 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:20,920 men were World War two, Korean War, and Vietnam War vets, 128 00:08:21,759 --> 00:08:27,279 big strong, fearless outdoorsmen. Our camp includes two hundred and 129 00:08:27,319 --> 00:08:32,039 fifty acres of heavily wooded and rugged land. Our neighbors 130 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,360 to the east and north of US owned a couple 131 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,799 of thousand acres, also the same type of terrain and woods. 132 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,879 My dad and my uncle were hosting our annual woodcutting 133 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,600 bee for the upcoming November deer season and winter snowshoe 134 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:52,440 hair season. The Sunday morning of the weekend was spectacular. 135 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,600 As usual, Grandpa had made a hearty breakfast like only 136 00:08:56,639 --> 00:09:00,200 his generation could mate. I needed to walk it off 137 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,399 and asked Dad if I could go grouse or squirrel 138 00:09:02,519 --> 00:09:06,360 hunting before we started on the wood. He gave me 139 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:09,120 two hours before I had to be back, so I 140 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:12,240 loaded up my pump shotgun, put on my orange hat, 141 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,639 and took off down the camp road. Back then, the 142 00:09:15,759 --> 00:09:20,559 area was extremely remote, with only one country road. Our 143 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,600 camp was a mile down the two rut road off 144 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:27,519 the county road. I swung south of the camp road 145 00:09:27,639 --> 00:09:31,559 up into the hills covered with oak, sugar maple, and poplar. 146 00:09:32,399 --> 00:09:35,240 I was hoping to jump a roughed grouse or maybe 147 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:39,000 bag a couple of big gray squirrels. I had traps 148 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:41,840 the land with Dad and Grandpa often, and I knew 149 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:44,559 the lay of the land. I had a compass pin 150 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,200 to my hunting vest in case I got turned around. 151 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,240 There was no such thing as a cell phone to 152 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:53,720 call for help in those days. I was a tall, 153 00:09:53,919 --> 00:09:57,919 skinny kid, probably six foot one, but I could put 154 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,200 miles under my feet and I still can. About halfway 155 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,600 into the hills, I decided to take a break in 156 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,000 my uncle Charlie's seat in an area we called the 157 00:10:08,039 --> 00:10:11,919 big Ravine. As I sat on the side of the ravine, 158 00:10:12,039 --> 00:10:15,480 I could hear something coming behind me. I swung around 159 00:10:15,519 --> 00:10:18,960 in my seat and got my shot gun ready. Over 160 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,120 the hill came a red fox, on a dead run. 161 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,960 He came within twenty feet of me. I had no 162 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,720 desire to shoot the fox, so I just watched him 163 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:33,639 slink through the forest dappled with red, orange and yellow leaves. 164 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,320 I couldn't wait to tell the guys what I had seen. 165 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:39,600 I wondered what had spooped the fox, as there was 166 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:44,559 nobody around for miles or so, I thought. About twenty 167 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,519 minutes went by and I felt rested enough to turn 168 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,279 back north and walk over to a stand where I 169 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,919 had seen a black bear hunting recently. For about two weeks, 170 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,879 I'd been baiting bear with fish scraps and such, and 171 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,679 I obtained from a local fish mark it in town. 172 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,200 I figured it would be a great bear bait and 173 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,519 bring them in well. It worked. My intent was to 174 00:11:08,519 --> 00:11:12,000 see if I needed to replenish my bait bucket hung 175 00:11:12,039 --> 00:11:15,919 about six feet off the ground with more fish and snacks. 176 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:20,240 So off I went. I used another two rut road 177 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,159 on the property my grandpa maintained for walking. It was 178 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:26,879 quiet walking as the frost had melted off and the 179 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,320 leaves on the ground were damp on the road. I 180 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,000 walked silently to my bear stand. I knew the route 181 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,639 that I needed to take very well. As I walked 182 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,840 over the hip of a small no there my stand was, 183 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:43,919 I could see the bait bucket had been pulled down. 184 00:11:44,759 --> 00:11:47,159 This was a good sign, as only a bear could 185 00:11:47,159 --> 00:11:49,679 reach up and have the strength to snap the rope 186 00:11:49,759 --> 00:11:54,279 the bucket was hanging from. Furthermore, I could smell something sour, 187 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,840 which I figured was a bear. But black bear are 188 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,360 nearly always nocturnal and only come out just before dark, 189 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,519 and they disappear before the morning dawn. Big bears get 190 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,279 big for this reason. As I climbed up over the 191 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,639 hip of the knoll, I moved silently in the damp leaves. 192 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,840 Then I saw something big, black and hairy over the 193 00:12:17,879 --> 00:12:21,720 bucket laying on the ground. It was on all fours. 194 00:12:22,799 --> 00:12:25,879 My first thought was, wholly smokes, that is a really 195 00:12:25,879 --> 00:12:30,360 big bear. In broad daylight, I could hear it rummaging around, 196 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,440 which is probably why it had not heard me coming. 197 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:38,679 Its hair or fur was kind of shiny. I wasn't 198 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,279 thinking about anything but bear at that point and wished 199 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,279 I had more than my twenty gauge pump shotgun with me. 200 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:48,879 All of a sudden, this thing stopped what it was 201 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,120 doing and kind of lifted its head to look around. 202 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:56,039 I had positioned myself to shoot if I had to, 203 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,919 should the bear charge me. This thing was huge. I 204 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,200 had a good view of the backside of its head, 205 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:06,240 and I was wondering why his or her head was 206 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,440 shaped so pointing. It looked left and right, but was 207 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,080 facing away from me. If I'd had my dear rifle 208 00:13:14,159 --> 00:13:18,120 with me, that would have been one dead bear. Grandpa 209 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,159 would have balled me out. If I had shot that 210 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,840 bear and hauled it back to camp, then this thing 211 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,080 must have sensed me, but I didn't know where I was, 212 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,279 maybe fifty feet away. All of a sudden, it took 213 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,240 off on all fours, directly away from me. What in 214 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:39,440 the world was this thing? Bears don't run like that. 215 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,279 I'd spend enough time in the woods to know anyway. 216 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,159 I was standing there in amazement until I couldn't hear 217 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,399 it running any longer. I wasn't the least bit scared 218 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,679 because I was armed, and I knew Dad and the 219 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,840 guys were at camp, so if I didn't show up 220 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,360 on time, they would come looking for me. There's no 221 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,679 way in anything could face those combat vets down and 222 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,440 live to tell about it. I started my walk back 223 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,799 to the camp. As my time was running out. I 224 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,960 had a good mile to walk and I could make 225 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,279 it back in time. In a quarter mile, I made 226 00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:17,279 it back to the road I wanted to be on 227 00:14:17,639 --> 00:14:20,080 that led back to the camp, but off to my 228 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,279 east in the woods, I could hear something walking parallel 229 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,679 with me. It would walk when I did, and it 230 00:14:26,679 --> 00:14:30,960 would stop when I stopped. This went on for probably 231 00:14:31,039 --> 00:14:35,120 three hundred yards. Whatever it was seemed like it was 232 00:14:35,159 --> 00:14:38,799 about forty yards out from me. At one point I 233 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:42,240 stopped and squatted down to peer under the brush. I 234 00:14:42,279 --> 00:14:45,679 couldn't see it. When I was about three hundred feet 235 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,279 from camp, I could no longer hear it. In fact, 236 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,360 I heard a chainsaw start up, which would have been 237 00:14:52,399 --> 00:14:56,159 the guys getting ready to start cutting wood. I told 238 00:14:56,159 --> 00:14:59,519 the guys what I had experienced, the fox, the funny 239 00:14:59,559 --> 00:15:03,679 looking running bear, and my walk back. They listened to 240 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,679 me intently, but we had work to do, so the 241 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,960 weekend went on. I had forgotten about my experience for 242 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,639 years until the subject of bigfoot slash sasquatch came up 243 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,960 on the news more and more. I hope you share 244 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,320 my story. It happened just as I wrote it. I 245 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:25,399 know what I saw and I know what I experienced, 246 00:15:25,799 --> 00:15:32,279 Signed Brett. All right, let's see if we can piss 247 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,559 a few people off in this segment of the podcast. 248 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,480 I have mentioned before to the greater audience of this 249 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:46,440 podcast that I get crazy emails from people you can imagine, 250 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:50,120 and I've never really gone into detail about what they say, 251 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:53,159 but I brought a couple up here just to give 252 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,120 you a little flavor of the kind of emails that 253 00:15:56,279 --> 00:15:59,480 I get. And they make me laugh. And I'm going 254 00:15:59,559 --> 00:16:03,039 to read this and kind of respond point by point 255 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:07,759 because they're so absurd it's unreal. I have another one 256 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:10,440 on my phone. It's the best one I've ever gotten, 257 00:16:10,559 --> 00:16:13,440 and I can't seem to transfer it to my computer. 258 00:16:13,519 --> 00:16:16,000 But I will, I will. I'll figure it out, and 259 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:19,600 I'll get it in a podcast coming up pretty soon. 260 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,799 But here's the first one. And this is one of 261 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,559 probably three hundred emails I've gotten over the years. The 262 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,440 writer says, I have a question for you. You seem 263 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,759 pretty balanced and level headed in all that I've heard 264 00:16:35,799 --> 00:16:39,240 over the years. I've been a subscriber to your YouTube 265 00:16:39,279 --> 00:16:42,320 and podcast for a couple of years. Thank you very much. 266 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,960 I appreciate you subscribing and listening, But why the fascination 267 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:51,000 with Steve Lilly? From what I gather, he's a paid 268 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,440 Sasquatch hit man. That is correct. I have no love 269 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:58,960 for this type of person. He's a cold blooded killer. 270 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,320 Or am I mistaken? The fact that you made a 271 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,599 channel just for him is beyond me. Are you so 272 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,319 desperate for ratings you promote the senseless killing of an 273 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:16,680 obviously intelligent and feeling being. Okay, you have no idea 274 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:20,480 if this creature, if it even exists, or if it's 275 00:17:20,519 --> 00:17:24,000 if it does, if it's intelligent, or if it has feelings. 276 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,920 I'm just I'm sorry to pop your bubble there. He 277 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,240 goes on to write, if I'm wrong, please educate me. 278 00:17:29,319 --> 00:17:32,559 I'm just curious as to your reasoning for the support 279 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,160 for Steve. No disrespect meant to you. I love your 280 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,440 podcast in videos, but do not get your fascination and 281 00:17:39,799 --> 00:17:43,559 I do not get your fascination in support of Steve Lilly. 282 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:48,079 Be well, Eric h. The only thing I can tell you, Eric, 283 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,000 is I write those stories because I want to. How's that? Okay, 284 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,599 here's the next one. I have two more. Here's one, y'all. 285 00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:59,000 I have a chicken. I'll stop here for just a second. 286 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,680 I have chickens in my office. Now, I know y'all 287 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,920 think that's funny, but we have been covered up with 288 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:09,440 snakes this year. The last seven days, I bet I 289 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:14,680 have pulled ten or twelve snakes out of the laying boxes. 290 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:18,359 They're not venomous snakes. They're not dangerous. They will bite you. 291 00:18:18,519 --> 00:18:21,400 I've been bitting a couple of times. If I had 292 00:18:21,759 --> 00:18:24,559 the camera on, i'd show you this scab on my 293 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,200 hand from where a snake bit me. And I need 294 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,200 to look up what kind of snake is. But it's 295 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,440 the most common snake in this little local area, at 296 00:18:32,519 --> 00:18:36,279 least on my place. But they're these big snakes, and 297 00:18:36,319 --> 00:18:39,119 they can fit an egg in their mouth. They can 298 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:43,960 eat chicks up to, you know, maybe a couple of 299 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,920 months old. And we do have some chicks, but they 300 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,480 haven't messed with our chicks. But they're eating the eggs. 301 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,240 And so now these chickens are shy of the nesting 302 00:18:54,279 --> 00:18:56,119 boxes and they want to come in my office and 303 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,160 lay eggs. We're finding eggs everywhere in my lawnmower seed 304 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,920 and my tractors. See. So, if I don't know if 305 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,240 y'all can hear that scratching. But she's over there on 306 00:19:04,279 --> 00:19:06,960 the plywood floor trying to make a nesk, and I'm 307 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,079 just gonna let her lay her egg there because then 308 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,400 that's food for me. So I'm gonna I'm gonna oblige her. 309 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,799 And I've got another one standing right outside the door, 310 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,839 kind of scoping things out so that it may get 311 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,519 even louder. Okay, let's go to the next email. I've 312 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:25,000 got two more emails. This woman. I think the woman's 313 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,279 I think it's a woman. She says, you've been honest 314 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,119 that you've never had any contact with these beings, and 315 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,480 it shows I think that's a I think that's a 316 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,319 cut to me. But I'm not gonna lie to you. 317 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,440 I've never seen any sign, never seen a bigfoot, never 318 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,319 seen any evidence of bigfoot. And I am a skeptic. 319 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,720 I've said that ever since I started this channel. But 320 00:19:45,759 --> 00:19:48,680 I do love the stories on with the email. I've 321 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,640 listened to your readings from people and that's fine, but 322 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,599 I made the mistake of tuning into your Steve Lilly 323 00:19:54,799 --> 00:19:58,839 series and I find it horrific and disgusting. These beings 324 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,000 are just like people. Some are good and some are bad. 325 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:06,160 My experience has been good, nothing like what you portrayed. 326 00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:10,559 I'm a fifty seven year old Native Mississippian who never 327 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,880 ever thought I would experience a relationship other than with 328 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,920 my own family. Please stop vilifying what you know nothing about. 329 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,960 It only encourages people to hate and fear what they 330 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,519 don't know. I'm speaking from my heart, and I wish 331 00:20:25,599 --> 00:20:28,759 you no ill. Well, ma'am, I wish you no ill either, 332 00:20:28,839 --> 00:20:31,720 But you have no idea what these things are. We 333 00:20:32,279 --> 00:20:37,000 don't even have a verified picture photograph of a bigfoot. 334 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,680 Now everybody will say we do, but it's not. We 335 00:20:39,759 --> 00:20:44,000 don't have us. They've not been studied, they're not recognized 336 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:50,319 by any university, any wildlife agency, and you have no idea. 337 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,000 These things could be vicious and they could be eating 338 00:20:53,039 --> 00:20:56,039 people if they exist, or they could be Harry and 339 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:59,039 the Hendersons. You don't know. But thank you for the email. 340 00:20:59,519 --> 00:21:02,279 You don't have to listen to my Steve Lilly stories. 341 00:21:02,319 --> 00:21:06,160 And the reason I write them is because I want to. Okay, 342 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:12,359 here's the last email, And this is part of why 343 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,640 I love writing. This is totally This is on the 344 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,279 other end of the spectrum, and this is why. Yep, 345 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,359 these chickens are getting real lively in here. They're ready 346 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,279 to lay some eggs on my floor. They're distracting me, 347 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,200 so I'm sorry. But here's here's a great email, and 348 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,079 this is just to show you. On the other end, 349 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,839 I get way more of these than I get the 350 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,400 negative emails. I just think the negative emails are so ludicrous. 351 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,039 But here's what the man writes, my father, staff sergeant. 352 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,680 He gives his name. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna 353 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,400 say his name. But they're from Detroit and he served 354 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,160 in the Marine Corps during Vietnam. He was in six 355 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,160 years of combat and he passed away on April eighteen, 356 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,680 twenty twenty two. I wanted you to know how much 357 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,519 you're show meant to us. His PTSD could get the 358 00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:06,319 best of him most days, but your shows with Steve 359 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,519 Lily always brought a smile to his face and gave 360 00:22:09,599 --> 00:22:13,319 us hours of conversations during his final months on Earth. 361 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,119 Sometimes the conversations were hard to come by on my 362 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,319 weekly visits with him, but when a Steve Lily episode 363 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,839 was published, our weekend conversations were long and winded. And 364 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,119 I can't thank you enough for the good times you 365 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,400 gave me with my father towards the end, and I'm 366 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,519 forever grateful to you and your podcast. And he says, 367 00:22:34,559 --> 00:22:39,799 I'm a fan for life, Kevin. Kevin, this is you know, 368 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,480 to get to get an email like this, to actually 369 00:22:43,759 --> 00:22:49,519 impress with my crazy, weird imagination with Steve Lily, to 370 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,880 impress a staff sergeant who served in the Marine Corps 371 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,000 in combat for six years in Vietnam, one of the 372 00:22:57,039 --> 00:23:00,640 hardest wards I think our men ever had to fight. 373 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,519 That means more to me than anything. This man has credit, 374 00:23:06,599 --> 00:23:11,319 he has life experience, He knows what life is about. 375 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,680 He knows, he knows so much more, has so much 376 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,839 more wisdom than any of us. And he got a 377 00:23:19,039 --> 00:23:22,519 kick out of the Steve Lilly stories. And that's all. Therefore, 378 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,920 they're just for you to laugh at, for you to 379 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:29,319 enjoy the action. I know they get violent, but that's 380 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,880 part of life. This marine knows that. So that's why 381 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,440 I write these and so and I'm going to keep 382 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,960 writing them. And the reason I write them is I 383 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,039 can add one more reason I write these other than 384 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:47,359 because I want to, is that people like this enjoy them. 385 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:49,880 There's a lot of people who enjoy them, and so 386 00:23:50,079 --> 00:23:52,640 I'm just going to keep writing them. You don't have 387 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,240 to listen to them. So all that to say, I 388 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,039 just wanted to give you a little taste to some 389 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,319 of the emails. And if I can find that really, 390 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,359 really you're a crazy one and get it up on 391 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,799 my screen on my computer, I'll read it to you. 392 00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:08,440 But just to give you a little taste of some 393 00:24:08,519 --> 00:24:10,839 of the people out there and the things that bother them. 394 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,160 I mainly just want to say, just listen to the 395 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,119 story or not move on with your life. If you 396 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,480 don't have to spend that much time thinking about this. 397 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:24,119 Steve Lily is not worth that much depth of thought, 398 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,039 it really is it. It's just a silly set of 399 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,119 stories about a crazy guy in his crew from Memphis. 400 00:24:31,599 --> 00:24:34,880 It's all fiction. None of it is real. It's not 401 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,160 modeled after anybody. The stories are not made to cut 402 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,240 into anybody else's yard. It's all just for fun. So 403 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:44,680 I hope you enjoy it.