1 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,439 Speaker 1: I'm thirteen years old and I live about thirty miles 2 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,679 from Kansas City, Kansas. My family is always hunted, but 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,719 we love to fish more than anything. My dad has 4 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:26,160 fished the who can't pronounce this marry us Desk Conguess 5 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:30,359 River all his life. I'm just not even gonna try 6 00:00:30,399 --> 00:00:33,359 that one. He started taking me with him when I 7 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,039 was about five. Dad and I had been on a 8 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:42,000 roll slamming monster channel cats all summer. Our goal was 9 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:45,600 to catch big flatheads. Since I've never caught one before, 10 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:48,600 I was really determined to do that. When we got 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,039 to the river two days ago, it was seven pm 12 00:00:53,079 --> 00:00:56,000 and about thirty minutes unto dusk. When we got there, 13 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,320 we checked out a few other places before we settled 14 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,320 on my grand's favorite spot. It didn't take long to 15 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:06,040 unload the truck and get set up, and then ten 16 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,159 minutes later we were already getting big bites, so we 17 00:01:09,239 --> 00:01:12,480 knew it was going to be a good night. Everything 18 00:01:12,599 --> 00:01:14,920 was going great. We were having a lot of fun. 19 00:01:15,359 --> 00:01:18,439 Dad brought everything we needed to roast hot dogs on 20 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,560 the fire, so I was busy cooking myself a couple 21 00:01:21,719 --> 00:01:23,799 while I kept an eye on the poles. And I 22 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,400 love the feeling of being out there. About the time 23 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:30,560 we caught the first nice channel cat and the fish 24 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:35,200 were starting to make a run, that feeling changed. Everything 25 00:01:35,239 --> 00:01:37,959 got eerie. All of a sudden, it was still and 26 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:43,000 quiet behind us. We started hearing brush popping. No sooner 27 00:01:43,079 --> 00:01:46,680 did we zero in on that, than something was thrown 28 00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:49,239 at us out of the darkness and landed right next 29 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:52,519 to us. And then something else was thrown and landed 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,400 in the water well. I kept hearing something stopping right 31 00:01:56,439 --> 00:01:59,840 behind me. I turned the spotlight on it several times, 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,799 and I never saw anything. I was already feeling pretty 33 00:02:03,959 --> 00:02:07,319 unnerved when I looked over at my dad. Now I 34 00:02:07,319 --> 00:02:10,759 could tell right away that he wasn't feeling right about 35 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,000 any of this either. That made it all worse for me. 36 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,080 If he didn't feel right, this sure couldn't be my imagination. 37 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,520 About that time, I started to get the sensation that 38 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,919 I was being watched. It was a really creepy feeling 39 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,439 in my gut. More branches were popping. That same stomping 40 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,840 sound kept getting worse, and by now I was almost 41 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,919 insanely afraid. Now I had never experienced anything like this before. 42 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,520 The sounds and sensing a presence watching me, things being 43 00:02:43,599 --> 00:02:46,759 thrown in us. It was worse than anything I could 44 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,000 have imagined, so I tried to stay calm and not 45 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,919 say anything. I didn't want my dad to think I 46 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 was a woos even though I knew it wasn't in 47 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,560 my mind. Finally, Dad said, if we aren't getting any 48 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,960 bites in the next thirty minutes, I think it's time 49 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,680 to leave. I felt a bit of relief, but just 50 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,000 then he cussed and pointed to the sky down river. 51 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,280 Instantly I saw what he was pointing at. It was 52 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,759 the most absurd thing I have ever seen. There was 53 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,159 a bright red dot flickering like a star, but it 54 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:27,080 was going nuts. The whole sky and that direction seemed red. 55 00:03:27,439 --> 00:03:30,039 The thing moved up and down, left and right, and 56 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,840 then up again. Eventually it flew out of sight so 57 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:37,400 quickly that it was like it was moving faster than light. 58 00:03:39,159 --> 00:03:43,199 We sat there. Whatever was behind us was still watching us. 59 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:47,919 It was still popping the trees and stomping around. After 60 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,680 about twenty minutes, the dad said, son, went need to go, 61 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,800 and I agreed. It was two thirty when we started 62 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,879 carrying stuff up to the truck. As we were standing 63 00:03:57,919 --> 00:04:01,759 there loading our stuff. Something started popping branches in the 64 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,719 trees across the road from us, so I shined a spotlight, 65 00:04:05,879 --> 00:04:09,680 but again I didn't see anything. We made two more 66 00:04:09,719 --> 00:04:12,479 trips down to get our stuff. We moved as fast 67 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,879 as we could, but it still felt like forever. And 68 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,879 then we got out of there. We were heading down 69 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,639 the narrow gravel road that we'd come in on, and 70 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,480 we were talking about all the things we had just seen, 71 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,920 and then we came up on three big logs with 72 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,680 brush piled on top of them, blocking our path. They 73 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,920 were just laying there like they were meant to be 74 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:39,600 a wall, and they weren't there earlier. Dad thought about 75 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,240 driving through it, and I'd have been okay with that, 76 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,600 but he knew the truck wouldn't make it. He had 77 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:47,959 no choice but to get out and manually move it 78 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,120 all aside. My father moved every piece of brush out 79 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,920 of the way. I never saw him move so fast 80 00:04:54,959 --> 00:04:57,759 in my life. Then he got back in the truck 81 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:01,399 and he floored it, slow down or speak a word 82 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,120 until we got to the highway. And once we were 83 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,160 on the main road. I asked him what he thought 84 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:09,120 it was that was messing with us. He said he 85 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,240 didn't know, but he admitted to having that same super 86 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,120 uneasy feeling that I experienced. I really have no idea 87 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,680 what it was either, but I believe it was bigfoot. 88 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,639 It could have been paranormal. But what paranormal beings stacked 89 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:28,439 sixty pound logs across the road. We may never know 90 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,879 for sure what it was. But when things went from 91 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,360 great to terrifying, I was just glad that we trusted 92 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,120 our gut instinct and got out of there. Well, Parker, 93 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,439 I think that was a smart move too. Brother. I'm 94 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:43,560 glad your dad had enough sense about him to get 95 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,279 you all out of there. And I know he does. 96 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:49,439 He's looking after you, man, But you know, you don't 97 00:05:49,439 --> 00:05:51,680 want to ruin a good fishing trip if you kind 98 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,000 of not sure what it is. I mean, a lot 99 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,319 of weird things could happen before I'd leave a good 100 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:58,560 night catching a bunch of catfish on a bank of 101 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,319 a river, and then these lights in the distance. That's 102 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:05,120 real interesting. Someone told me a story about that this weekend. 103 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,600 I actually recorded it. I'm going to put it in 104 00:06:07,639 --> 00:06:11,920 a podcast in an upcoming podcast about lights moving through 105 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:15,680 the woods and lights above the woods. That these lights 106 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,360 are moving in and it is a fascinating story. It'll 107 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,319 probably be about four podcasts down the road, but I'm 108 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,720 putting that in there. But it's the same thing, Parker, 109 00:06:25,879 --> 00:06:28,720 same thing y'all saw, and the noises and stuff. I 110 00:06:28,759 --> 00:06:31,040 don't know, Buddy, thirteen years old and you've got to 111 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:35,000 experience something really weird. I'm sure you will never forget. Buddy. 112 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,839 Thanks for sending the story, and tell your dad thanks 113 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,279 for letting you write it for me. I really appreciate it. 114 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,399 Hope you're doing well, Parker. I hope you're doing well 115 00:06:43,399 --> 00:06:50,199 in school this year. It's in the beginning, some years ago. 116 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,000 From my youth to current times, I've had strange encounters. 117 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,560 I've been documenting beings that many consider myths. The world 118 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:03,240 laugh at what they feared to understand. This I've learned 119 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,680 over the fifty five years of my life. We must 120 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:10,560 learn to face our fears and embrace the truths learned 121 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,040 one at a time, Like eating a mammoth, one bite 122 00:07:14,079 --> 00:07:17,160 at a time is easier than trying to devour the 123 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:21,319 whole thing in one dinner. So let's begin my story 124 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:25,639 somewhere in the lands of the American Rocky Mountains, where 125 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,600 I now reside. I came to the understanding not too 126 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,959 many years ago that the Sasquatch slash wild people were 127 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,040 to be found here as well. Previously, I thought they 128 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,639 only lived in the coastal and northern lands of North America, 129 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,519 where I was born. But I was wrong. After some 130 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,120 strong encounters and minor ones in my area, I learned 131 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,639 that they reside not far from my home. Having taken 132 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,800 my children on day hikes to many areas, I discovered 133 00:07:55,839 --> 00:07:59,839 evidence in tracks and structures. One day, well, my daughter 134 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:03,079 goffed at the idea and she rolled her eyes even 135 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,000 and then I asked her to come and look at 136 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,720 the print in the icy snow by the log. She said, well, 137 00:08:09,759 --> 00:08:13,360 it's obviously a footprint, Dad, And then I placed my 138 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,240 foot next to it. It's a size thirteen, and I said, 139 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:19,959 what do you think about that? And I clearly saw 140 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:23,680 the realization in her eyes that this track was made 141 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,600 by something much larger than me. From that day forward, 142 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:31,160 I had visited these canyon lands and mountains. It's not 143 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:35,320 hard to locate the wild people, even get distant photos 144 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,159 of them and their families. What I share here is 145 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,440 not about the reality of these wild beings. I call sasquatch, 146 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:47,720 but of other things, unexpected things that I have discovered 147 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:51,960 that live among them. For years, I have sat on 148 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,759 the knowledge of what I've seen, trying to wrap my 149 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:58,639 mind around the possible consequences, good or bad, of speaking 150 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,639 about it publicly. But now I wonder if others throughout 151 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,200 the world have seen what I have seen. I go 152 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:09,480 out and I take long range photos of the areas 153 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,559 I know these family groups live in as. I've done 154 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:17,360 this and tested ideas to bring them down closer to me. 155 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,039 Some were very successful, and this is unnerving being within 156 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,200 twenty or thirty feet of these giants. But they are curious, 157 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,159 and so far none have been aggressive with me. I 158 00:09:30,159 --> 00:09:34,200 think they are curious about what I'm doing. I used 159 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,879 my spotting scope with a cell phoned camera attached, as 160 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:41,080 they hang out on average at eight hundred to twelve 161 00:09:41,159 --> 00:09:44,600 hundred yards from where I see them. It would be 162 00:09:44,639 --> 00:09:47,559 hard to climb up there to their hangouts. It would 163 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,639 take hours, and by the time I arrived, they would 164 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:53,399 have moved. So I don't waste my energy and time 165 00:09:53,639 --> 00:09:58,720 attempting to get close. In reviewing photos that I've taken, 166 00:09:58,759 --> 00:10:03,000 one day, I noticed a massive auburn Sysquatch walking along 167 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:07,440 the canyon side just below others of the clan off 168 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,120 to the side in the open little ones played in 169 00:10:10,159 --> 00:10:13,960 the dirt and through the sage brush and the pinion pines. There. 170 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,440 What was unusual was the light colored ones I saw. 171 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,000 After enlarging the images, I could make out something disturbing. 172 00:10:23,759 --> 00:10:28,360 I saw hairless creatures, pink skinned beings that looked like 173 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,960 human in shape. These beings walk freely among the hairy 174 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:37,759 creatures I see on a irregular basis. A dark haired 175 00:10:37,799 --> 00:10:41,879 female stood down slope of a large auburn creature. She 176 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,679 was smaller and appeared to have a head full of hair, 177 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:49,240 resembling dreadlocks. Now, she was smaller, but don't assume she 178 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,639 was small. The auburn being was easily ten feet tall, 179 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,200 and behind her was a bare skinned being with dark 180 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,639 hair on its head and beard, but its skin was 181 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,480 bear and pink. Over many years of returning to the areas, 182 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:10,480 I've taken similar photos with humans in various sizes and ages. 183 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,559 With this clan of Sasquatch. I have images of adolescent females, 184 00:11:15,639 --> 00:11:19,159 one with dark hair and one with red hair. There 185 00:11:19,159 --> 00:11:22,320 are a few toddlers. I also have images of an 186 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,480 older couple, both with gray hair. The older mayor has 187 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:31,039 a long gray beard. I have questions, of course, who 188 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,879 are why would humans be among the wild sisquatch clans? 189 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,519 And are they even human? I thought of the can 190 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,840 M Missing four one one project and the many people 191 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:45,840 who have disappeared for forty years. I've heard stories of 192 00:11:45,879 --> 00:11:50,279 many folks taken by sisquatchs from mates or maybe even pets. 193 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:54,919 Who knows for sure, but tales of successful inner breeding 194 00:11:55,159 --> 00:11:59,960 are known. I learned of the Sasquatch genome project by 195 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:05,799 doctor Ketchem. This brought for some other ideas. Could the DNA, 196 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,720 which is scientifically proven to be fifty percent human, have 197 00:12:09,879 --> 00:12:14,279 happened over time with interbreeding with other species or from 198 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:16,960 long past? Could there be a mix of sisquatch and 199 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,039 human DNA passed on through the centuries to produce these 200 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,799 mixed DNA wild humanoids. If this were the case, would 201 00:12:25,799 --> 00:12:28,519 they tend to be attracted to more human like beings 202 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,960 for mates? This may have produced what I am seeing 203 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,360 at this time, living humans amongst the clan of Sasquatch 204 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,879 we have here in the Western Mountains. I continue to 205 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,120 visit and try to document these things. The world may 206 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,480 or may not accept my findings, but that's not my concern. 207 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,759 I don't care what the world thinks. From the comfort 208 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,559 of their safe homes, I continue towards more self education 209 00:12:55,799 --> 00:12:59,519 on this issue. It is strange that they seem to 210 00:12:59,519 --> 00:13:02,399 live peace flee together in this place, while in the 211 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,879 East they tend not to get along. Meanwhile, there are 212 00:13:05,919 --> 00:13:08,879 other things I've seen in this region that I won't reveal. 213 00:13:09,759 --> 00:13:12,480 The truth is stranger than myths, and yet the myths 214 00:13:12,519 --> 00:13:16,399 are what is becoming truth in our days. Many of 215 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,639 the ancients of the world spoke of things modern society 216 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:24,080 labels as a myth and not reality. But who labels 217 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,519 what people see as a myth? So called educated people, governments, 218 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,519 those with agendas, or people who fear truth they dare 219 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,600 not desire to comprehend. In the last one hundred years, 220 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:41,320 many species have been labeled wrong and are now proven real. Now. 221 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,759 Science was designed for the open minded person to explore, 222 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,399 to learn, to speculate, and to test theories, and to 223 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:53,279 seek truth or disprove theory. Science today seems more like 224 00:13:53,399 --> 00:13:58,679 fundraising and a glory seeking endeavor. My new study is 225 00:13:58,799 --> 00:14:02,799 just beginning, will move slow and carefully. I have no funding. 226 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:08,000 Maybe more education closes the mind more than it creates curiosity. 227 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,519 Those who fear the truth will mock it. Those who 228 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,519 fear new paradigms seek to ridicule those who have the 229 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:19,159 ability and experiences to open new paradigms and new boxes 230 00:14:19,279 --> 00:14:23,440 of reality. I'm not doing this for fame. I want 231 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,720 to share my findings with the world, no matter the blowback. 232 00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:30,759 I think the more we share with the world, the 233 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,679 betters other will be able to deal with the trauma 234 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:38,879 and PTSD of encountering these creatures. But I recommend that 235 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,159 you don't seek these things out. That can be dangerous. 236 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,879 It is not a game for the foolish people vanish 237 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,559 looking for these things. And as with all the wild 238 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,720 tribes of the earth, these things may not desire to 239 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:56,080 interact with you. They may just seek you out to 240 00:14:56,159 --> 00:14:59,600 kill you. Their ways are not your ways, and it 241 00:14:59,639 --> 00:15:03,000 is a game aim of life and death. May God 242 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:05,759 bless you and all out there and give you the 243 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:10,639 wisdom to decipher your paths in life. Keep open minds, 244 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,559 seek answers for yourself. The Creator will guide you if 245 00:15:14,559 --> 00:15:17,840 you will allow him to do so. I'm going to 246 00:15:17,919 --> 00:15:21,200 leave out my native name and location in the mountains 247 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:26,600 because the ongoing investigation needs peace. I'm not interested in 248 00:15:26,639 --> 00:15:31,320 people swarming my area, yelling and banging on trees. This 249 00:15:31,399 --> 00:15:38,320 offends the creatures the most. The Loves are a family 250 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:42,559 that have worked the highlands of Victoria near Melbourne, mustering 251 00:15:42,679 --> 00:15:47,679 livestock and even some brumbies for generations. When Peter Lovick 252 00:15:47,799 --> 00:15:50,960 was eighteen, he was with his father, who was guiding 253 00:15:51,039 --> 00:15:54,840 four city folk on a fishing trip, exploring pristine rivers 254 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,759 and streams of the Victorian Highlands for trout. They were 255 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:01,399 staying in an old, small a shack the Luveocks had 256 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,080 built years earlier. It was a simple setup with a 257 00:16:05,159 --> 00:16:07,840 roof overhead and a couple of bunks in a small 258 00:16:07,919 --> 00:16:12,360 stove top fireplace. No one had stayed in the shack 259 00:16:12,399 --> 00:16:15,480 all winter, and this was the first trip of the spring. 260 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,639 Like always, they brought their mustering dogs with them. They 261 00:16:19,639 --> 00:16:24,440 were sleeping out on the deck. Peter's father always left 262 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,679 the door open through the night. Nothing in the Australian 263 00:16:27,799 --> 00:16:30,679 brush is big enough to invite itself into the shack 264 00:16:30,759 --> 00:16:34,639 and cause any harm. Snakes and spiders are a concern, 265 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,879 but that would be considered unlucky. They settled in for 266 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,159 the night, with Peter, the youngest in the group, sleeping 267 00:16:42,279 --> 00:16:45,759 in one of the top bunks. At some point in 268 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:48,840 the night, Peter began to feel an uneasy grip around 269 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:52,600 his neck. As the feeling of hands on his throat 270 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:55,840 began to tighten, he was wrenched from his sleep to 271 00:16:55,879 --> 00:17:00,000 the realization that this was not a dream. He immediately 272 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,120 he sat bolt upright and reached out for whatever was 273 00:17:03,159 --> 00:17:08,000 strangling him, to grasp only hair. At this point, both 274 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,000 Peter and whatever the hairy creature was fell off the 275 00:17:11,039 --> 00:17:15,400 top bunk onto the floor. Instantly, everyone was awake and 276 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,920 looking around in the dark, and in the blink of 277 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,119 an eye, this thing was out the door. Out on 278 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,160 the deck, the dogs were barking frantically, and Peter said, 279 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:29,039 something had me, Dad, something had me. His father, half asleep, 280 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,400 a little befuddled, quickly grabbed a flashlight and ran outside. 281 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:36,359 The dogs were still going crazy, and their hackles were up, 282 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,519 and they were barking at something in the bush. But 283 00:17:39,599 --> 00:17:43,400 these dogs wouldn't leave their masters side. These were tough, fearless, 284 00:17:43,519 --> 00:17:48,599 mustering hunting dogs, but they were scared stiff. When Peter's 285 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,039 father came back inside, he said, you must have had 286 00:17:51,039 --> 00:17:54,079 a bad dream, son, But two of the men sleeping 287 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,440 on the floor quickly interrupted him and said they definitely 288 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,119 saw the thing go out the door in the moonlight. Well, 289 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,000 whatever it was, it filled the entire width of the doorway, 290 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:06,559 but it was only half the height of the door, 291 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,680 and it walked on two legs. Peter's father shine the 292 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,079 flashlight on his son's neck, finger, and claw. Like Weltz 293 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,039 confirmed that it was no dream. That night, Peter saw 294 00:18:20,039 --> 00:18:22,480 his father do something he'd never done in all the 295 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:26,680 years they'd used the shack. He closed the door. It 296 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:29,559 took Peter many years to get over that incident and 297 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:34,759 find the love of the bush again. Perhaps it's connected, 298 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:39,240 perhaps not. But some fifteen years after Peter's encounter, the 299 00:18:39,279 --> 00:18:42,720 police discovered the remains of two humans at the bottom 300 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:46,880 of a nearby gorge. What was peculiar was the bones 301 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:51,480 of both victims had been neatly stacked. Many tribes of 302 00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:55,440 our Native Aboriginal people acknowledge a big Harry being and 303 00:18:55,519 --> 00:18:59,559 a little Harry being. The names of these creatures differ 304 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,680 with the community, much like with the Native North American people. 305 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,880 One tribe calls the little ones the jungudee and the 306 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:13,920 big onesal douligal you guys help me, you guys help 307 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,160 me with that? Do lagal doo l i g a 308 00:19:17,799 --> 00:19:21,680 h l. There are varying opinions on which ones are 309 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,519 the good and which ones are the bad. Either way, 310 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:29,359 there are certain modern reports of encounters with both. It 311 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,839 can also be hard to determine if the little ones 312 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:37,400 are not just juvenile yaweys or indeed something different. The 313 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,880 many encounters that occur in Australia are often near civilization 314 00:19:42,279 --> 00:19:46,240 parklands and rural and coastal areas close to the mountain ranges, 315 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,119 not so much the dry flats of the middle of Australia, 316 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,200 but that's most likely due to the number of people 317 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,720 frequenting those areas. While we have our fair share of 318 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:02,200 witnesses describing dark, brown and black haired beings in Australia, 319 00:20:02,759 --> 00:20:05,599 I personally think we have a higher average of sightings 320 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:10,440 of orange and red and blond haired beings. Obviously it's 321 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,920 hard to prove this, but it would make sense when 322 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,319 it comes to camouflaging into the surrounding bushland or forest. 323 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,759 They've also been seen in larger groups like families with 324 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:24,799 one farmer reporting eight or nine of them at once 325 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,880 moving through his farm. Around the same time of year, 326 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,000 a small group of teenagers, while camping with their parents, 327 00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:35,000 witnessed several of them standing on a beach at dusk. 328 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:40,240 We discover very similar tree structures and rock piles here 329 00:20:40,319 --> 00:20:43,160 to what you find in North America, but we also 330 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,920 find small twigs and sticks stuck in the ground. They're 331 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,480 obviously too small to fall from a tree and stick 332 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:54,000 in the ground naturally. There have been encounters where they've 333 00:20:54,039 --> 00:20:57,480 completely disappeared in front of a rifle, and still others 334 00:20:57,519 --> 00:20:59,920 when they kept up with moving cars or dirt by 335 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:04,799 going over eighty kilometers per hour. I will leave it 336 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:08,400 at that for now. Perhaps someday our indigenous people will 337 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,599 share more of their knowledge. Theirs may well be the 338 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,480 oldest civilization on Earth, and they have lived in harmony 339 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:19,160 with their environment, so they must know something. If you're 340 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,880 ever in Australia, there's a cold beer and a warm 341 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:28,359 fire waiting for you. Back in nineteen eighty two, I 342 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,880 had an experience in Bullet County, Kentucky that has kept 343 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,279 me out of the woods until this day. I had 344 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,240 just gotten my driver's license, so I barred my dad's 345 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,119 seventy seven custom van to go on a double date. 346 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,359 I swung by and picked up my friend Chuck and 347 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,160 the two girls, and we headed out into the country 348 00:21:47,279 --> 00:21:50,720 to go parking. Back then, the thing to do was 349 00:21:50,799 --> 00:21:54,400 go parking, indulge a little underage drinking, and explore the 350 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,640 mysteries of the opposite sex. So that was our plan. 351 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,759 We drove down to the Salt River Bottoms along a 352 00:22:01,759 --> 00:22:05,400 one lane gravel road. It was a pretty desolate spot, 353 00:22:05,559 --> 00:22:09,359 with the occasional house or farm every few miles, but 354 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,400 there were a few spots where we could pull off 355 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,960 the road and be alone with our dates. The sun 356 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,079 had already set and we were looking for one of 357 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,160 those spots to pull over, so we were already traveling 358 00:22:20,319 --> 00:22:24,640 slow when Chuck suddenly asked, what was that one hundred 359 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,240 feet in front of us? Something large and black was 360 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,839 lying on the road. I slowed the van to a crawl. 361 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,720 As we got closer, I started thinking it looked like 362 00:22:33,759 --> 00:22:37,319 a cow laying there with its back to us. Once 363 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,880 we got to within ten feet of it, I decided 364 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,839 to get a better look, so I put the van 365 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,880 in park and opened the door to get out. As 366 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,119 I did so, it made a loud, metal clanking sound. 367 00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:51,240 Those van doors were famous for. That thing on the 368 00:22:51,319 --> 00:22:53,759 road popped its head up and looked right at us. 369 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,160 This thing was covered in black hair. It had the 370 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,400 head of a dog with a snout and ears that 371 00:23:01,559 --> 00:23:05,359 stood up right. It felt like all the blood rushed 372 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,680 out of my body and my hair stood on end 373 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,720 as I sat there looking at it, and Chuck kept 374 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:14,039 asking what is that thing? But I couldn't register a 375 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:18,440 logical explanation or give him a reasonable answer. This thing 376 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:21,720 was huge. It must have weighed seven hundred pounds or more. 377 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,160 Dogs don't get that big. It locked eyes on us 378 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,759 for maybe ten seconds, and all we could do was 379 00:23:28,799 --> 00:23:33,720 stare back at it. Then the impossible happened. This monster 380 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,880 of an animal stood up on two feet. It took 381 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,200 a step towards us and put what looked like a 382 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,880 hand on the hood of the van with enough pressure 383 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,279 to rock it backward. My god, it had to be 384 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:49,599 at least nine feet tall. It had to bend down 385 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,400 to look at us through the windshield, and it glared 386 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,640 down at us like a predator savoring its next meal 387 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:59,519 right before it strikes. And that's when we saw its 388 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,400 teeth had a mouthful of sharp canines, like a wolf 389 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:06,799 or a were wolf. The girls were in the back 390 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,759 screaming and crying, and I was frozen in place, and 391 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,559 Chuck finally shouted, get us out of here, and that 392 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,519 brought me back to reality. I grabbed the shifter and 393 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:21,079 dropped it into gear and pushed the accelerator to the floorboard. 394 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,759 We spun out, leaving a rooster tail of gravel and 395 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,240 dusk in our wake. The monster, that's how I think 396 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:32,559 of it, rolled off to the passenger side. It was 397 00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:35,440 a good thing he went that way. The driver's door 398 00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:38,640 was still open. At least he could have torn the 399 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,559 door off. At worst, well, I don't want to think 400 00:24:41,599 --> 00:24:45,559 about the worst. I didn't slow down until we were 401 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:49,119 back on the pavement, and the girls were inconsolable, so 402 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,720 we took them home. There's nothing like a werewolf to 403 00:24:52,720 --> 00:25:00,799 put a damper on teenage hormones. And Chuck and I, oh, man, 404 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:04,039 that thing ruined your date. Chuck and eyed down a 405 00:25:04,079 --> 00:25:06,519 few beers before I dropped him off, just to calm 406 00:25:06,559 --> 00:25:09,640 our nerves. Of course, of course you did. We must 407 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,759 have been in shock or something. I don't remember either 408 00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:15,720 one of us speaking a word about what had just happened. 409 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,880 Once I dropped him off, I drove home and I 410 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,559 went straight to bed. The next morning, I was abruptly 411 00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:24,839 awakened by my dad, who made me go out to 412 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,960 the driveway and look at the van. I expected to 413 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,839 be yelled at for driving gravel roads and covering his 414 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,720 black van with dust, but that wasn't what he wanted 415 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:37,960 me to see. Pointing at the hood, he demanded, what 416 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,519 the hell did you do to the van last night? Boy? 417 00:25:41,799 --> 00:25:43,920 I walked over to where he was standing, and I 418 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,119 saw five large, deep claw marks running across the hood. 419 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,160 What could I say? Sorry about that? Dad must have 420 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,119 been that giant werewolf that did it. He would have 421 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,559 thought I was nut, So I just said I don't know, 422 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,279 and I had to pay for a new paint job. Anyway. 423 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:04,759 A few days later, Chuck finally asked me what the 424 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:08,079 hell we saw that night. I still didn't have an answer. 425 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:11,799 The girls were pretty much done with us. Bringing a 426 00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:14,359 werewolf to a date has a way of doing that. 427 00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:17,839 This was all back in nineteen eighty two, so we 428 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,759 didn't have the Internet to look these things up. Heck, 429 00:26:20,839 --> 00:26:24,920 we didn't even have cable until the following year. To 430 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,160 this day. The only thing that I have seen that 431 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,720 even closely resembles what we saw that night is the 432 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,680 werewolf in the movie Van Helsing. Watching that movie made 433 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,039 the hair stand up on the back of my neck. 434 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,759 From what I've seen on the internet, I'm guessing it 435 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:45,759 was a dog man that we saw. And here's something more. 436 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,839 I have an uncle and three cousins who were all 437 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,960 police officers. A few months after this happened, I was 438 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,200 playing Nicholin dime poker with the family when I overheard 439 00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:59,920 my cousin, a Jefferson County canine officer, saying that a 440 00:27:00,079 --> 00:27:02,960 woman's body was found up in a tree and torn 441 00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:07,440 to shreds at tom Wallace Park. I took him outside 442 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,359 and told him the story of what happened to my 443 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,000 friends and me just a few months earlier. Although he 444 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,599 did listen intently at the time, albeit with a look 445 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,720 of bewilderment on his face, we never spoke of it again. 446 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:24,960 Years later, he was shot and killed in the line 447 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,839 of duty. I don't know exactly what I saw out 448 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,640 there on that gravel road that night, but I do 449 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,839 know that it was bad, nasty, evil and deadly. God 450 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,920 only knows what would have happened if we'd already been 451 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:43,400 parked there and it crept up on us. I'm not 452 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,640 afraid of the woods, but I'm terrified of what I 453 00:27:46,759 --> 00:27:50,119 know is out there lurking around in them. Just look 454 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,319 at all the people who go missing, never to be 455 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,359 seen or heard from again