WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:10.439 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