WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:10.240 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