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Welcome to the Bigfoot Project. 
As always, thank you for joining

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Get comfortable, settle in, and 

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let's get started with tonight's
terrifying Bigfoot encounters. 

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This report comes from a former 
wildland firefighter who 

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experienced unusual Sasquatch 
related activity during a 

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wildfire assignment in the 
Olympic Peninsula in Washington 

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in late August and early 
September. 

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I was a wildland firefighter at 
the time, but I'm not anymore. 

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I was 22 then. 
I got assigned to a fire 

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deployment in late summer of 
2021. 

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My operation dates were August 
25th through September 7th. 

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There are three of us on a Type 
6 engine that's a three person 

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engine and it's just the three 
of you handling that unit and 

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its job. 
I was the engineer and LEED 

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Sawyer, which meant I handled 
comms, briefings and debriefings

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and a lot of face to face stuff.
The other two were the engine 

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boss and another firefighter. 
We got dispatched late and 

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didn't roll in until around 10 
at night. 

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We didn't see the terrain in 
daylight at all. 

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We set up our tents, heard other
engines, and then early the next

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morning we packed up. 
The engine boss sent the other 

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firefighter to grab lunches, 
waters, sports drinks, whatever 

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we needed. 
I got sent to the morning 

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briefing so I could take notes 
and bring everything back to the

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engine. 
The briefing started normal. 

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I'm standing there with my 
notebook like always. 

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Then they brought in a Hell 
Attack crew. 

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With urgency, they said they 
collected a casting of a print. 

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A huge print. 
It looked like a foot with toes.

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I remember some people chuckling
at first like it was a joke, but

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that stopped pretty quickly 
because the safety officer was 

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dead serious about it. 
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everyone to see and said they 
didn't know what it was or what 

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it intended to do. 
They said if anyone came across 

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it, keep distance and call it in
to the incident commander 

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immediately. 
That was not something I 

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expected to hear on a federal 
incident, and it threw me off. 

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I tried to shrug it off. 
I always thought the idea of 

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something like that would be 
incredible, but I never expected

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it to come up like that in a 
formal safety briefing. 

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After check insurance and 
logistics, I got assigned to a 

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division that covered a long 
trail that ran from a visitor 

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center down toward the coast. 
The trail was already acting as 

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a field break and we were 
widening it, running saws, 

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clearing branches, making them 
more open because we knew the 

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fire would likely come down over
the Ridge within a day or two. 

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It was around lunch, about noon,
and I'm on the saw. 

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The other firefighter is 
swamping behind me, pulling away

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what I cut and tossing it to the
pile area. 

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The engine boss taps my left 
shoulder. 

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I stop, kill the saw, and he 
doesn't even look down at me. 

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He's staring uphill and says 
there's something huge up there,

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black moving above us. 
He said he saw a flash of this 

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massive black thing. 
We shut down what we were doing 

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and all three of us just stared.
We were spaced out from other 

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crews. 
Each crew had its own section 

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and we weren't right up next to 
anyone. 

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The engine boss started guessing
and said maybe it was a moose. 

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I'm not a hunter, never have 
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where animals are and aren't. 
I told him there's no way a 

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moose is down there like that, 
that close to the coast. 

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I said maybe I could be wrong, 
but it didn't make sense. 

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The other firefighter actually 
walked closer, maybe within 20 

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feet of where the engine boss 
said he had seen it. 

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He hunts, he was trying to 
figure out what it was. 

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We never saw anything else after
that. 

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Not long after, our task force 
leader came over and told us to 

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head back to base and try to 
sleep because we were getting 

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moved to night shift. 
As soon as I heard that, I got a

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heavy feeling that something was
off. 

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I don't know if dread is the 
right word, but it felt wrong. 

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A few months before that, in 
early May, I'd lost my best 

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friend in a rock climbing 
accident. 

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It was bad. 
My nerves were already messed up

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from that and it was still 
sitting on my mind, but the 

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feeling I had when we got 
switched to night shift felt 

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different than normal stress. 
We went back to base camp and 

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didn't really sleep. 
Night shift started at 7:00. 

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There was still a little grey 
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night. 
It was just our engine and one 

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contractor engine on that trail.
They took the far side closer to

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the coast and we held the line 
from the visitor centre to a 

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midway point. 
We were spread out about 1/4 

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mile apart, each of us walking 
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packs, watching for rolling 
material, crossing the road that

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could start fire behind us. 
At one point I took a break. 

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I like writing, so I pulled out 
my notebook. 

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I got a strong feeling of being 
watched, but I tried to tell 

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myself it was in my head, that I
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At night my back was to the fire
glow. 

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Using it to light my notepad, I 
wrote a sentence. 

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You are not in control, let go. 
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period, 2 trees fell behind me 
like dominoes. 

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My first reaction was to run and
look up, trying to catch the top

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of the trees and the moonlight 
so I could tell which way they 

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were coming down. 
I didn't think they were going 

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to hit me, but it sounded like 
it was right on me. 

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There was a ditch on the far 
side of the road, a Creek drop. 

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It was maybe a 7 foot slope down
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other side. 
As I ran and looked, I went down

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hard into that ditch. 
My hard hat and headlamp, my 

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only light, flew off. 
I tore my rotator cuff. 

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I pulled muscles along the right
side of my abdomen and pelvis. 

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My elbow and knee got torn up. 
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I couldn't lift a water bottle 
higher than my hip. 

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After that. 
There was dust from the trees 

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falling and dust from me 
crashing. 

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My headlamp was pointing at the 
ground in the mess. 

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I grabbed my hard hat and light,
stood up, brushed myself off, 

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and that's when I heard two 
whoops. 

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I didn't have time to sit there 
and analyze it because I was 

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hurt and trying to get my 
bearings, but I knew what it 

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sounded like later when I looked
it up. 

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It was that classic whoop sound 
people describe. 

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The engine boss came walking 
over because he heard the crash.

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He checked on me. 
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I was basically sidelined for 
the rest of that fire. 

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I never ran a saw again. 
I did comms and whatever I could

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from the engine that night. 
Stayed quiet after that, but I 

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kept thinking about those two 
whoops. 

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We got out of the trees around 
6:00 in the morning and waited 

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for day shift to relieve us at 
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While we were staged and 
waiting, it was dead quiet. 

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The other firefighter was in the
back seat trying to rest with 

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the window open. 
The engine boss and I were up 

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front. 
I was smoking. 

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Out of nowhere we heard whoops. 
10 to 15 of them overlapping 

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each other. 
It sounded like multiple voices 

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stacking, not just one. 
I looked at the engine boss and 

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he looked at me like he didn't 
know what to call it, and he'd 

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been in wildland fire for over 
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Toward the end of those calls, 
there was a large donkey corral 

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off to the side of the area we 
had just come out of multiple 

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donkeys. 
They started going absolutely 

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wild. 
Not the normal noise. 

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It sounded like panic, like they
were scared. 

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The engine boss stared at the 
tree line and said it sounded 

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like a zoo. 
That freaked me out because he 

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wasn't the type to get rattled. 
I recognized the sound. 

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I heard it the first night right
after I got injured. 

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I just didn't connect it fully 
until later on the next shift. 

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We started a little earlier so 
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before it got fully dark. 
Day shift told us a spot fire 

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had gotten over our line and we 
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Because I was injured they 
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terrain. 
The engine boss and the other 

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firefighter got out and started 
hiking up a very steep slope 

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through a thick coastal forest. 
Huge ferns, big trees, heavy 

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brush. 
They were trying to reach a 

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watershed that might work as a 
water source. 

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I drove the engine back toward 
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around to meet them at the top. 
On the way, I passed the donkey 

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Corel again. 
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donkeys in daylight, not just 
heard them. 

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I parked where I thought I was 
supposed to be. 

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I was in a clearing that felt 
like a perfect circle of woods 

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around me, except for the road 
in and out. 

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It was dusk, grey light. 
I got out to wait and smoke and 

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the dread hit hard. 
It felt like eyes were 

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everywhere, like the whole 
circle was watching. 

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I kept checking behind me. 
I put my back against the engine

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because it felt wrong. 
I hike all the time. 

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I'm comfortable in the woods. 
I don't normally act like that. 

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Later we realized I parked in 
the wrong spot, maybe 100 yards 

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off from where they expected me 
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They hiked back down instead, 
and I picked them up on the 

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trail. 
We staged, ate and waited to 

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patrol again. 
While we were eating, the other 

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firefighter said somebody had 
been whistling at them while 

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they hiked up. 
He said it sounded like a human 

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whistle, not a bird. 
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It was odd, but at the same 
time, it still wasn't the main 

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thing on our minds. 
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The division started getting 
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Engines came in, trees were 
dropping constantly. 

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One would fall in front of you, 
the crew would get out to cut 

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it, then another would drop 
behind you, cutting you off from

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other engines. 
There were beehives in some of 

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the trees they had to buck in 
the road. 

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Trees kept falling over and 
over. 

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Like clockwork. 
A couple days after the 

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whistling, we got moved briefly 
to another division for 

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structure protection. 
We pulled into an area with 

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multiple teepees. 
We hadn't known there was an 

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active history of Native 
presence and ongoing practices 

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on that land. 
The whole area was protected 

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land. 
I'm not making any claims about 

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what that meant, but later it 
felt like another piece of the 

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whole strange puzzle. 
We kept fighting fire until my 

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final operational day. 
On that last day we drove all 

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the way down to the far end of 
the trail to a turn around area.

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There was a clearing and a 
bridge you could cross on foot 

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over the same Creek area I had 
fallen into earlier. 

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The other engine was down there 
too. 

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The other firefighter went off, 
leading that crew to check. 

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A hose lay about a mile out. 
It was me and the engine boss 

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standing outside our engine. 
Pitch black, quiet, barely any 

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animal noise. 
I saw one small fox that whole 

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shift. 
I was excited because it was my 

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last night on that rough 
assignment. 

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I joked with the engine boss and
asked if I should do a whoop 

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just to see if anything 
answered. 

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He told me to go for it, so I 
did. 1 whoop aimed away from 

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where the other firefighter had 
taken the crew. 

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Almost immediately something 
whooped back in the distance. 

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The engine boss and I stared at 
each other with wide eyes. 

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We both got chills. 
We got in the engine and waited 

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for the crew to come back. 
The next morning we had to sign 

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a non disclosure agreement to be
released from the incident. 

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In five years of wildland fire, 
that was the only time I've ever

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had to sign anything like that 
at the end of a fire and it was 

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required. 
Later someone asked me about the

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two trees falling the first 
night. 

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The weird part is there was no 
fire in that area yet. 

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No wind event, no burned roots, 
nothing obvious. 

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That's what I can't explain. 
I never saw the trees hit, I 

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only heard them. 
Based on how it sounded, I 

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guessed it was about 100 feet 
away. 

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It sounded like it was right on 
me, like it was in my ears. 

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After that fire, I did go on 
more assignments, including a 

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major California fire in 2022. 
I couldn't just stop 

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immediately, but after the 
experience, it never felt the 

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same. 
I didn't love the job anymore. 

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My fiance was pregnant at the 
time, and that fire was the most

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frightening one I'd worked. 
Eventually I stepped away. 

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The engine boss told me about 
something he said happened to 

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him in the 90s when he was on a 
hotshot crew. 

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He said they were spiked out, 
meaning they were living out 

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there with what they carried, 
food, water and whatever a 

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helicopter could drop. 
Later he said they'd been out 

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for about 20-4 days cutting hand
line where the fire was moving. 

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He said the crew was hiking in a
single file line. 

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He was near the front and about 
200 yards out he noticed 

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something standing on a branch. 
He described it as standing with

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one arm in the tree and the 
other arm hanging down. 

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He said he could feel it staring
right at him. 

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He said he watched it for about 
10 seconds because he thought it

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was a bear at first. 
Then he said it backed off, the 

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branch dropped down and while it
was falling it reached out, 

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grabbed the tree and swung 
around behind the trunk and was 

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gone. 
He told me he didn't see how a 

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bear could do that the way he 
described it, especially the way

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it grabbed and moved. 
He said he brought it up on that

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fire because he could tell I was
questioning what was going on 

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and he was trying to steady me. 
This account is from a woman 

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describing repeated Sasquatch 
sightings and ongoing activity 

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at her family property in South 
Jersey beginning around 2018 and

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continuing for several years. 
I live in South Jersey, I was 

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born and raised here. 
I grew up on a farm as the 

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farmer's daughter. 
I spent my whole childhood 

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playing in the woods and in the 
stream. 

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Now I'm married and I have 6 
kids combined, three boys and 

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three girls. 
I work for a petroleum transport

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company. 
We spent a lot of time outdoors,

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camping, kayaking and hiking. 
Our house has been in my family 

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for over 50 years, so I know the
land very well. 

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I recognised when something 
isn't right. 

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About four or five years ago, we
started noticing strange things 

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happening. 
The first thing I noticed was a 

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bone pile. 
This happened two years in a row

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in the exact same spot. 
There was a deer leg, a gutted 

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Turkey, Turkey bones, and other 
bones I couldn't identify. 

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It made me nervous. 
I thought maybe someone was 

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sneaking on our property and 
doing things they shouldn't be 

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doing. 
I told my husband I was 

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concerned. 
Not long after that, I was 

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walking our dogs on trails we 
had made through the woods and I

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saw something take off. 
It was tall, black, and 

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extremely fast. 
At the time, I thought it was a 

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person. 
It happened a few more times and

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I stopped walking the dogs back 
there. 

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My husband put up trail cameras,
but they never caught anything 

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clear. 
Sometimes the cameras would be 

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turned off, turned around, or 
taken down. 

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The only unusual image we ever 
got was a close up of thick, 

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coarse hair. 
We assumed it was a raccoon 

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brushing up against the camera. 
Then we started noticing tree 

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structures. 
They were shaped like teepees, 

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made from sticks and big enough 
to stand inside. 

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At first I thought kids were 
building forts, but the branches

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used in the structures were 
snapped off at heights between 

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7:00 and 9:00 feet. 
That didn't make any sense. 1 

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summer we started hearing noises
at night. 

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The best way I can describe it 
is like being in a jungle. 

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There were whoops, chirps and 
noises that sounded like 

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gibberish. 
It reminded me of monkeys at a 

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zoo. 
When it happened, the 

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neighborhood dogs would start 
barking. 

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There were also strange howls 
and fake barking sounds like 

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something imitating a dog. 
When we walked the dogs, small 

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rocks, sticks and pine cones 
would hit us. 

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They weren't thrown hard enough 
to hurt, just enough to get our 

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attention. 
At first I thought my husband 

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was throwing them, but he 
wasn't. 

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One night while walking the 
dogs, something let out a deep. 

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Guttural Howl. 
It sounded like it was about 20 

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feet away. 
Right after that we heard a tree

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snap and fall. 
The next morning we found a 

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healthy tree broken about 5 or 6
feet off the ground. 

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We also started noticing wide 
game trails through the woods. 

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They were about four feet wide, 
like something heavy had walked 

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through and flattened 
everything. 

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Branches along these trails were
snapped high up. 

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We didn't think about Sasquatch 
at the time. 

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One night while we were watching
TV and came across a Bigfoot 

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show, they were talking about 
whoops and tree structures and 

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everything they described 
matched what we were 

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experiencing. 
After that I had my first clear 

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sighting. 
I was walking the dogs when I 

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heard movement. 
I looked over and saw something 

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swinging from tree to tree using
its arms. 

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It moved hand over hand like a 
chimpanzee. 

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Then it dropped to the ground 
and ran. 

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It was dark in colour, with long
arms and hands like ours. 

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It stopped, looked at me, and 
then ran off. 

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When my husband got home, I told
him I'd just seen a monkey in 

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the woods. 
Later, after researching, I 

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realized it was a juvenile 
Sasquatch. 

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My husband has seen them too. 
One time he saw a black one 

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about 9 feet tall. 
It looked at him and ran. 

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Another time he saw a reddish 
brown one around 8 feet tall 

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standing upright before running 
away. 

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I've also seen tall black 
figures moving through the 

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trees, but they disappear so 
quickly I couldn't fully process

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what I saw. 
One night while standing near 

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the bar my husband built 
outside, we heard clinking 

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sounds, tree knocks and 
movement. 

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Then stones started hitting the 
tin roof. 

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We found the stones, but there 
were no rocks naturally in that 

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area. 
Another night we heard trees 

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snapping. 
The next morning we found large 

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trees broken and laid out in 
formations. 

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Some were arranged in squares, 
others in circles. 

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There were also arch shaped 
trees bent. 

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The structures were too large 
and complex for people to build.

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We also found another bone pile 
above it. 

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A large bird had been tied 
between two small trees using 

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vine. 
One night we heard something 

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moving in the brush. 
When we shined a flashlight, we 

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saw something massive and dark 
on the ground. 

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It let out a deep growl and we 
left. 

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Later I found what I believe was
a gift on my doorstep. 

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There was a circle of river 
rocks with feathers inside. 

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After learning about gifting 
behaviour, I started leaving 

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food and toys outside every 
night. 

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I would clap twice and call out.
One night after clapping 

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something clapped back. 
Another time I heard whoops 

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after leaving food. 
I've also found a large hawk 

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feather in the gifting area. 
One of the toys I left, a blue 

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fish, was moved about 10 feet 
away. 

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Later a blue ball was moved to 
the same location. 

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My son also had an encounter. 
He saw something in a pine tree 

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that jumped down and ran. 
He said it looked like a 

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chimpanzee but moved partly on 2
legs. 

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We hear tree knocks, chirping 
sounds and branches breaking 

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regularly. 
At first I was afraid because I 

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thought people were on my 
property, but now that I know 

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it's Sasquatch, I'm actually 
less afraid. 

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I've never been attacked or 
threatened. 

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I believe there is a family 
living here. 

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I've seen the juvenile clearly 
and I've seen the adults 

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running. 
We continue to document 

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everything, but that's 
everything we've experienced so 

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far. 
This report describes a close 

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range Sasquatch encounter 
involving a teenage witness who 

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came face to face with a large 
Bigfoot in Eastern Kentucky in 

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June of 1996. 
I was around 13 or 14 years old 

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at the time. 
It was early summer, June of 96,

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and school was out. 
I grew up in a very small town 

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and there wasn't much to do. 
No stores, no mall, nothing like

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that. 
When school let out, we spent 

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our time outside. 
We went into the woods, explored

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the creeks, messed around, shot 
BB guns, that kind of thing. 

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Our family property backed up 
against a large protected forest

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area. 
From our land, you could walk 

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straight into it without seeing 
any houses for miles. 

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About two miles back into the 
woods, there was a section that 

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had been logged and strip mined 
years earlier. 

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It was closed off because the 
ground had become unstable. 

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Sinkholes had formed everywhere 
and we were warned not to go 

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back there. 
I had already explored about 

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half mile into those woods 
before, but that day I decided 

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to go further. 
I crossed several old fences and

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followed an abandoned logging 
Rd. that hadn't been used since 

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the 50s or 60's. 
The trail was overgrown, but 

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still visible. 
Eventually I reached an open 

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area with almost no trees. 
It was filled with sinkholes of 

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different sizes. 
Wood surrounded it on one side, 

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maybe 300 feet away, but the 
sinkhole area itself was bare. 

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The sun was starting to drop, 
but there was still plenty of 

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light. 1 sinkhole in particular 
stood out. 

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It was the largest one there, 
roughly 20 feet across and about

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10 feet deep. 
I noticed small holes dug into 

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the side of it, and I stayed 
back because the ground looked 

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unstable. 
When I started heading back 

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toward home, I noticed a dark 
shape inside that sinkhole from 

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about 15 yards away. 
At first I thought it was part 

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of a fallen tree or something I 
hadn't noticed earlier. 

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As I got closer I realized I was
looking at shoulders. 

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Massive shoulders. 
The head was large and rounded, 

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like the lid of a trash can, but
bigger. 

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My first thought was bare, but 
it didn't look right. 

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There were no ears on the top of
the head. 

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I've never seen a bear in 
person, but I know what they 

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look like from pictures. 
This wasn't a bear. 

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The shape was bent forward with 
both arms down inside one of the

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holes, like it was reaching for 
something underground. 

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I remember thinking it might be 
digging for food, maybe a 

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rabbit. 
What bothered me was that I 

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hadn't seen or heard it 
approach. 

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There was nothing in that open 
area that could hide something 

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that large. 
I should have seen it before. 

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I kept walking forward without 
really thinking about it. 

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Curiosity got the better of me. 
It didn't react to me at all 

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until I got within maybe 30 
feet. 

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Then it turned its head and 
looked directly at me. 

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It took me a second to process 
what I was seeing. 

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It wasn't human. 
It wasn't an animal I 

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recognized. 
The face was flat, wide and 

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grey. 
The skin was dark grey, almost 

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like coloured. 
The nose was flat but slightly 

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rounded at the tips, with very 
wide nostrils. 

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The mouth was wide and I could 
see the top. 

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Front teeth. 
Large square human shaped teeth.

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No fangs. 
The eyes were the most striking 

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thing. 
The outer part of the eye was 

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completely dark, not white like 
ours. 

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The irises were a bright pale 
green, not neon, but very vivid.

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There were darker lines and 
faint reddish lines running 

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vertically through them. 
The eyes themselves were huge, 

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probably the size of half 
dollars. 

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There were scars on the left 
side of its face, too, deep 

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marks like it had been clawed or
torn at some point. 

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At first, the expression was 
neutral, almost surprised. 

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We just stared at each other for
several seconds. 

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I started slowly backing away. 
As I did, it stood up. 

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The sinkhole was about 10 feet 
deep, and when it straightened, 

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its head came to within a foot 
of the rim. 

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It reached up with one arm and 
pulled itself out in a single 

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motion. 
That's when I turned and ran. 

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I expected to hear a charging 
behind me, but it didn't. 

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I stopped and looked back. 
It wasn't running. 

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It was walking, quickly 
following me. 

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That's when it raised its arms 
and let out a vocalization I've 

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never heard before or since. 
It sounded like a donkey mixed 

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with a dog howl, deep and loud, 
lasting 3 or 4 seconds. 

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When it raised its arms, I saw 
the full body. 

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It had a clear waist, wide 
shoulders, large lats, thick 

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biceps. 
The hair was blackish grey, long

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but thin and wispy. 
You could see muscle and skin 

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through it. 
The hair was about four or five 

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inches long. 
It had visible genitalia. 

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The shoulders were enormous, 
easily twice the size of mine. 

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I had been lifting weights since
I was a kid and knew what 

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muscular bodies look like. 
This thing was built like a 

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bodybuilder, but much larger. 
I ran again and reached a fence 

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line. 
I climbed over it using a board 

458
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:17,320
and pulled myself into a small 
tree about 14 feet off the 

459
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,640
ground. 
It stood about 20 feet away and 

460
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,880
looked up at me. 
To my right, there was a young 

461
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,800
cow standing near the fence. 
The Bigfoot walked over, shoved 

462
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,560
the cow over with ease, then 
looked back at me. 

463
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,120
Then it turned and ran. 
When it ran, it was incredibly 

464
00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,440
fast. 
It crossed the same ground it 

465
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,280
had followed me through in 
seconds and disappeared into the

466
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,440
trees. 
I stayed in the tree for another

467
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,040
15 or 20 minutes until the sun 
got low. 

468
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,120
Then I ran home. 
I went straight to my room, 

469
00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,080
grabbed a shotgun and watched 
the woods from the window until 

470
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,760
late that night. 
Later, family members told me 

471
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,320
they had heard strange 
vocalizations over the years. 

472
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,560
There'd been barn damage, fence 
posts pulled out, a tree stand 

473
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,680
twisted apart, coyotes found 
torn apart. 

474
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,680
I never went back to that area 
again. 

475
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,840
This is a first hand account 
from a woman describing her 

476
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,920
childhood Sasquatch sighting in 
a small town in Alberta, Canada 

477
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,560
around 1981. 
My name is Leslie. 

478
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,160
The biggest experience I ever 
had was my Sasquatch sighting 

479
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,120
when I was about 8 years old. 
My cousin, my brother and I 

480
00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,680
lived in a small town at our 
grandmother's place. 

481
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,960
We used to ride our bikes 
everywhere. 

482
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,040
There were lots of trails, 
fields and open areas. 

483
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,920
One day we were out riding 
around town and later decided to

484
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,680
go visit our aunt. 
She lived on a road where there 

485
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,200
was a school, a big field, and 
farther down another farmer's 

486
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,200
field. 
That day when we left our aunt's

487
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,480
house, we were told to go home. 
My grandmother's house was just 

488
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,000
around the corner, the 2nd house
in and you could see one house 

489
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,960
from the other. 
We got on our bikes and rode up 

490
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:07,000
to the road. 
When we reached the corner, all 

491
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,680
three of us stopped suddenly 
because we saw something in the 

492
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,680
road and couldn't figure out 
what it was. 

493
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,000
It looked like a big boulder 
sitting in the middle of the 

494
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,240
road. 
There was light shining from a 

495
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,880
small building nearby and it lit
up this shape. 

496
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,760
We stood there confused because 
we had ridden that road all day 

497
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,960
and there was no way a rock that
big could suddenly be there. 

498
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,880
We looked at each other and said
what is that? 

499
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,160
As soon as we said that, the 
creature lifted its head up from

500
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,400
a crouched position. 
It looked at us, then it stood 

501
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,240
straight up. 
It just stood there staring at 

502
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,040
us. 
It was tall, covered in hair, 

503
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,360
and when I looked into its eyes,
it didn't feel real. 

504
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,080
We didn't understand what we 
were looking at. 

505
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,240
We got terrified and ran. 
We ran with our bikes straight 

506
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,200
to my grandmother's house. 
We flew up the stairs and into 

507
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,400
the house. 
I remember slamming the door, 

508
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,080
crying and screaming. 
My dad and aunt were in the 

509
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,080
living room asking what was 
wrong, but we couldn't even talk

510
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,720
at first. 
It took a few minutes before we 

511
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,520
could calm down enough to 
explain. 

512
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,840
We told him that we had just 
seen a Sasquatch in the road. 

513
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,120
At first my dad didn't believe 
us, but we were so terrified 

514
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,960
that he decided to go look. 
We begged him not to go because 

515
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,760
we didn't know what would 
happen, but he went anyway. 

516
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,040
While he was gone, my aunt kept 
asking if we had seen a bear. 

517
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,320
We told her no. 
We told her it wasn't a bear. 

518
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,320
We saw its eyes, its hair, and 
when it stood up, it stood like 

519
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,920
a man. 
It was slightly hunched, but it 

520
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,440
was upright, just like a person.
When my dad came back, he said 

521
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,680
he walked down the road toward a
farmer's field. 

522
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,800
He couldn't go into the field 
because it was private property,

523
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,640
but he said the dogs were 
barking and going crazy. 

524
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,760
He said he also smelled a very 
strong odor, but he couldn't see

525
00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,280
anything because it was dark. 
Later, my cousin reminded me of 

526
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,120
something I didn't remember 
clearly. 

527
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,520
She said when the Sasquatch was 
crouched down, it was doing 

528
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,440
something with its hands, like 
it was holding or handling 

529
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,600
something. 
I didn't know what it was. 

530
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,680
As soon as it stood up and 
looked at us, that's all I 

531
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,480
remember and we ran. 
She also said that when we ran 

532
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,000
up the stairs to my 
grandmother's house, that's when

533
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,440
all the dogs in the neighborhood
started barking. 

534
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,280
I remember it being completely 
quiet when we first saw it, and 

535
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,640
then the barking started after 
we got inside. 

536
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,440
We also smelled it. 
It was a very strong, pungent 

537
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,640
smell. 
I had never smelled anything 

538
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,320
like it before. 
That's one reason my aunt 

539
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,160
thought it might have been a 
bear, but we knew it wasn't. 

540
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,960
The way it stood up was not like
a bear. 

541
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,040
It stood up like a person rising
from a Crouch, and it had to be 

542
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,680
over 6 1/2 feet tall. 
That night, my cousin and I were

543
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,240
so scared that we slept in my 
grandmother's room. 

544
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,920
We were afraid it would look 
through the window at us. 

545
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,160
We slept there for about a month
because we thought it might come

546
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,560
back. 
My cousin even made my 

547
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,000
grandmother cover the bedroom 
window with tin foil blankets 

548
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,720
and curtains so nothing could 
see inside. 

549
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,320
My brother was only 7 at the 
time and even now he still gets 

550
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,600
chills when we talk about it. 
He told me he doesn't want to 

551
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,560
tell the story. 
He said he knows what he saw and

552
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,440
doesn't want to talk about it. 
When I think back on it, the 

553
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,920
Sasquatch was great with some 
brown mixed in that made me 

554
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,280
think it was older. 
It stood there watching us. 

555
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,440
It didn't act aggressive. 
It was crouched down doing 

556
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,480
something and when it hurt us it
looked up and stood. 

557
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,200
We all locked eyes with it. 
It didn't move toward us. 

558
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,600
It just stood there, like it was
showing itself. 

559
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,680
It was far enough away that we 
weren't right beside it, but 

560
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,920
close enough that we could 
clearly see its shape. 

561
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,640
And it was shaped like a man, 
but much taller. 

562
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,760
Its head was more conical than 
round. 

563
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,880
It wasn't shaped like a bear's 
head. 

564
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,040
It looked exactly like what 
people draw when they draw 

565
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,040
Bigfoot, except it was grey. 
My grandmother later told us 

566
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,560
that she had seen one too, years
earlier in northern Alberta. 

567
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,200
She said she was driving home at
night and saw one step out of 

568
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,960
the trees, cross the highway in 
just a few steps and disappear 

569
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,520
into the forest. 
After my sighting, I would go 

570
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,320
back to that road and look 
toward the area where we saw it.

571
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,040
I always felt calm there and 
wondered if I would ever see it 

572
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,880
again. 
All three of us saw the same 

573
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,960
thing, and none of us ever 
forgot it. 

574
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,120
It was terrifying at the time, 
but now I'm glad I saw it. 

575
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,280
This is a first hand account 
from a former marine and 

576
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,960
railroad worker describing his 
Bigfoot sighting and ongoing 

577
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,520
interactions in Florida 
beginning February 12th, 2020, 

578
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,080
along with later activity in 
Virginia. 

579
00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:00,080
I worked 31 years at General 
Electric in Erie, PA. 

580
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,880
For the last seven years, I was 
a locomotive test person. 

581
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,000
Before that, I spent 24 years 
building them during slow times 

582
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,440
at work. 
I started using the Internet and

583
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,320
came across Bigfoot research. 
I started studying it heavily 

584
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:20,480
and became very interested. 
Since November 2019, I've spent 

585
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,960
time around wooded areas looking
for signs. 

586
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,600
I don't walk deep into the woods
much because I have a spinal 

587
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,960
condition that makes walking 
painful, but I drive along the 

588
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,760
edges and look. 
I've seen tree structures in 

589
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,840
Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, 
Florida, and Virginia. 

590
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,360
They're everywhere if you pay 
attention. 

591
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,440
My sighting happened on Monday, 
February 12th, 2020 in 

592
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,800
Withlacoochee State Forest in 
Florida. 

593
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,360
I was driving along Prine Rd. 
looking for structures. 

594
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,880
I saw a large leaner. 
It's a main section of a tree 

595
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,040
trunk about 8 to 10 inches thick
stuck deep in the sandy ground. 

596
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,880
I walked up to it and looked for
claw marks or footprints. 

597
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,000
I didn't see anything. 
I tried to push it over with my 

598
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,880
shoulder and couldn't move it at
all. 

599
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,920
I'm 6 feet tall and about 290 
lbs and I could not budget even 

600
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,720
a fraction. 
That's when I realised something

601
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,920
extremely strong had forced it 
into the ground. 

602
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,440
Further down the road was a huge
tree pushed over onto another 

603
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,200
tree. 
I had passed it many times but 

604
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,840
finally stopped to examine it. 
I looked around the base and 

605
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,640
root ball for evidence but 
didn't find anything. 

606
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,120
I was standing there facing the 
tree and then turned around and 

607
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:39,160
began scanning the woods. 
When I got to my left, I saw two

608
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,440
bigfoots standing there watching
me. 

609
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,640
One of them I could only see the
shoulder outline. 

610
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,440
The other one I could see 
clearly from about the waist to 

611
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,320
the head. 
She was a female. 

612
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,960
I could see her breasts. 
She was less than 30 yards away.

613
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:58,200
I focused on her. 
It was full daylight, around 

614
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,920
4:00 in the afternoon. 
She was standing there 

615
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,800
completely still, watching me. 
I tried to look for movement. 

616
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,960
I wanted to see her blink or 
move her arm, but she didn't 

617
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,520
move at all. 
I pulled up my phone to take a 

618
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,080
picture. 
As soon as I raised the camera, 

619
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,440
she disappeared. 
I lowered the camera and she was

620
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,000
there again. 
I raised it and she disappeared.

621
00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:24,400
This happened over and over. 
Every time I looked through the 

622
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,480
camera, she was gone. 
Every time I looked with my 

623
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,960
eyes, she was standing there. 
I shut the phone off, restarted 

624
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,520
it and tried it again. 
Same thing. 

625
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,800
I went to my truck to get 
another camera and came back. 

626
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,000
She was gone, but the other one 
was still there. 

627
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,120
But it blended into brush so 
well that it just looked like 

628
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:48,159
part of the vegetation. 
The female had massive arms. 

629
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,639
Her biceps were huge. 
I couldn't see her hands because

630
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:55,400
of the hail she was standing on,
but her upper body was enormous.

631
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,440
Her eyes were very large and 
dark brown, almost black. 

632
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,880
The pupils looked extremely 
small compared to the size of 

633
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,560
her eyes. 
She never blinked, she never 

634
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,920
moved, she just stood there 
watching me. 

635
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,120
After I left I drove down the 
road and realised she had been 

636
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,560
standing on top of a hill which 
is why I couldn't see her lower 

637
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,280
body. 
From what I could see, it was 

638
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,240
about 5 feet from her waist to 
the top of her head. 

639
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,760
She was extremely large. 
There was also a pond behind 

640
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,680
that hill. 
I believe she was watching 

641
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,600
animals that came to drink and 
had heard me approaching. 

642
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,760
She stepped out into the open 
and showed herself. 

643
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:39,800
A few days later I went to the 
Ranger station. 

644
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,080
The clerk told me that another 
man had come in and reported 

645
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,760
seeing a huge hairy creature 
cross the road in three steps in

646
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,560
his headlights. 
He refused to give his name and 

647
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,600
left immediately. 
Later, when I moved to Virginia 

648
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,840
near Roanoke, I started finding 
structures there too. 

649
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,560
I found a star structure about 
30 feet off the road. 

650
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,360
I began leaving gifts like fish,
apples, and other food. 

651
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,800
One night, after whistling from 
my truck, I got tree knocks in 

652
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,320
response. 
Later that night, around 2:15 

653
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,880
AM, something slapped the door 
of my camper. 

654
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,680
It wasn't a knock, it was a 
slap. 35 minutes later it 

655
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,880
happened again. 
I went outside and looked around

656
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,840
but didn't find anything. 
Another night, while sitting in 

657
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,440
my truck, I heard a large tree 
limb snap loudly nearby. 

658
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:33,120
It sounded like something had 
broken it on purpose. 

659
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,040
On another occasion, I stepped 
out of my truck and found four 

660
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,520
large cedar pieces stacked next 
to it. 

661
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,400
They hadn't fallen. 
They were placed there when I 

662
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,880
left a salmon as a gift. 
It was taken. 

663
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,880
The bags and food were 
completely gone with no trash 

664
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,280
left behind. 
In one photo I took after 

665
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,560
enlarging it, I could see what 
appeared to be a baby Bigfoot 

666
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,520
and a larger 1 standing behind 
it. 

667
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,640
They were watching me. 
I believe they have been there 

668
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,160
the entire time. 
From everything I've 

669
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,480
experienced, I know they are 
real. 

670
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,440
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Thank you. 
Hi. 

676
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,920
My name is Troy. 
I live in the northern mountains

677
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,000
of New Mexico. 
I'm 49 years old, and I've been 

678
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,560
living here for about 13 or 14 
years now. 

679
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,520
But previous to that, I lived in
Texas, where I was born and 

680
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,920
raised. 
My dad was a sheriff's deputy 

681
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,160
for many, many years, and we 
lived in a big city for a while.

682
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,200
Then he wanted to move us to the
country to get away from all the

683
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,200
crime and whatnot in the big 
city. 

684
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,880
So we moved to a little town 
called Golden, Texas. 

685
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,000
It has a population of about 3 
or 400. 

686
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,440
There's a spot called the Salmon
River. 

687
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,680
It's next to a spot called Cedar
Lake. 

688
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,200
Cedar Lake used to be a little 
tributary that runs off the 

689
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,840
Sabine River, and it eventually 
got closed up and just turned 

690
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,760
into this really, really long 
lake. 

691
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,840
I did a lot of hunting and 
fishing as a kid growing up on 

692
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,680
Cedar Lake and all kinds of 
stuff. 

693
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,360
All the old timers around the 
area would talk about different 

694
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,840
weird things that would happen. 
A lot of it was bear related or 

695
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,360
whatnot, but I never, never 
witnessed the bear growing up. 

696
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,600
Where we lived was kind of off 
the beaten path. 

697
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,760
You had to have a full drive 
vehicle to get to our property 

698
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,720
and when we first moved there it
was just a really muddy road and

699
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:41,640
hard to get to. 
We had a few neighbors that were

700
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,840
here and there and one of the 
neighbors, they were 

701
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,000
missionaries. 
They would travel all over the 

702
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,000
world doing missionary stuff. 
They had a grandson that was 

703
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,520
close to my age and he lived in 
his city and he would 

704
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,640
occasionally come down and visit
and me and him would hang out 

705
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,520
and do stuff and I'd kind of 
show him the Country Life. 

706
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,080
We would do a lot of fishing. 
He didn't have a lot of places 

707
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,920
to fish, you know, living in the
city. 

708
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,520
So I would take him to this one 
particular place that was maybe 

709
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,240
3/4 of a mile or so from Cedar 
Lake. 

710
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,280
It was a nice little fishing 
area that some other neighbors 

711
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,680
owned and they allowed us to go 
fishing, but it was really way 

712
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,960
off the beaten path. 
We had to walk a good distance 

713
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,280
to get there. 
So he came down for the weekend 

714
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,040
and we decided that we would go 
fishing and just mess around. 

715
00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,320
And so we took the four Wheeler 
that I had and drove as far as 

716
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,320
we could and parked it. 
We would have to get off and 

717
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,160
walk a good distance down the 
trail to actually get to the 

718
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:42,520
pond that we were fishing at. 
So we get there and we're 

719
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,360
fishing. 
It's a really, really nice, 

720
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,480
clear day, and we've been 
fishing for maybe 45 minutes or 

721
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,040
so. 
There's this fence that runs 

722
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,240
through the middle of the pond. 
It was put there before the pond

723
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,720
was there, and it stuck out of 
the water about 6 or 7 inches. 

724
00:39:57,240 --> 00:40:00,360
This pond was in the middle of 
two small hills, and the fence 

725
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,480
ran up the hill behind us, 
downhill through the pond and 

726
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,080
back up the hill to the other 
side. 

727
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,360
And it's heavily wooded all 
around. 

728
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,000
So we're sitting there fishing, 
had our lines in the water and 

729
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,200
all of a sudden the fence moved.
My first thought when it 

730
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,880
happened was that one of the 
neighbors cows had run through 

731
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,280
the fence because that's what it
seemed like. 

732
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,640
Like something really heavy and 
substantial hit the fence and it

733
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,120
shook the whole fence and of 
course rippled the water really 

734
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,840
good. 
It kind of freaked me out and my

735
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,720
friend Mark was like, what in 
the world is going on? 

736
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,640
And I said, well, you know, 
probably a cow went through the 

737
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,080
fence and we should probably go 
up the hill and see. 

738
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:42,440
So we walked up and it was a 
little hike up there to where I 

739
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:48,000
felt the cow had gone into the 
fence maybe 75 yards or so for a

740
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,720
second. 
I didn't see anything wrong with

741
00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:52,960
the fence at all, but as we 
walked up a bit, we got to a 

742
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,120
spot where the fence had been 
just crumpled, like something 

743
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,720
pretty heavy either went through
or stepped on it and pushed one 

744
00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:03,200
of the T posts to the ground and
the whole fence was just in 

745
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,880
shambles. 
So we looked around. 

746
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,000
I didn't see anything that you'd
see if a cow went through. 

747
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:13,360
No tracks or anything like that.
So we kind of look around and 

748
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,080
I'm trying to figure out what's 
going on. 

749
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,040
I think we actually walked on 
the other side of the fence to 

750
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,120
see if there's any cows. 
Nothing. 

751
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,560
So we walk back over the fence 
to the pond, just kind of 

752
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,400
investigating walking around. 
Then we hear a sound, kind of 

753
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,240
like a tree being ripped down or
something being ripped off a 

754
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:34,480
tree. 
So we walk over and still to 

755
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,200
this day I'll never forget. 
It's pretty heavily wooded, lots

756
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,320
of briar patches, a lot of brush
you have to go through to get to

757
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,800
the area. 
And we walk right up into this 

758
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,880
little spot where this big, big 
pine tree, like a ponderosa pine

759
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,800
is at, and there sits this 
thing. 

760
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,160
It was kind of crouched, sitting
on the ground. 

761
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,280
It was probably between 5 foot 
six and five foot nine, guessing

762
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,960
from my height compared to it. 
And we were literally within 20 

763
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:08,080
feet of it. 
And the first sensation, other 

764
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,760
than seeing it, I remember that 
it smelled exactly like rotted 

765
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,560
fish, like rotted catfish 
actually, because I've smelled 

766
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,760
that smell before on Cedar Lake 
before when there were dead fish

767
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,320
on the Bank of the lake. 
And it was just like 

768
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,920
overwhelming. 
It just instantly hit me. 

769
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,440
And of course, then I'm looking 
at this thing and my first 

770
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,160
thought was this is a huge ape 
of some sort, because that's 

771
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,200
pretty much what it looked like 
to me at the time. 

772
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:39,200
It was just this huge ape. 
It was standing by this tree and

773
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,200
it had been ripping the bark off
this tree. 

774
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,400
And at the time, of course, I 
had no idea why it was doing 

775
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,360
that or even what it was. 
But the whole incident lasted 

776
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,440
maybe 10 seconds or so. 
Then it looked at us. 

777
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,120
It was very sparsely haired. 
It wasn't really hairy or 

778
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,120
anything. 
I could actually see skin 

779
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,120
through it and you could tell 
the skin. 

780
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,800
It was very, very rough and kind
of darkish looking, but not 

781
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,440
completely black. 
And it had a really huge brow 

782
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,640
with really, really big 
nostrils. 

783
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,160
It looked exactly like an ape 
face to me. 

784
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,880
It looked at us and we looked at
it and it was completely 

785
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,760
surprised to see us. 
As I was to see it, Mark was 

786
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,680
standing to my right, right 
behind me and I remember kind of

787
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,600
looking towards him and as I 
looked, he takes off behind me 

788
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:30,040
and goes towards my left. 
I look back at the creature and 

789
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,920
it stands up. 
It's in full standing mode at 

790
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,400
this time. 
It's probably 5 foot six or five

791
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,560
foot 9 or so. 
And as soon as I turn, because 

792
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,560
Mark had just ran behind me and 
I knew that he was freaked out, 

793
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,840
and as soon as I turned, it took
off. 

794
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,400
It just shot through the forest 
and, you know, took off into the

795
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:54,080
forest. 
So I chase after Mark and he's 

796
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,040
just running like he's in a 
marathon race, just sprinting 

797
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,480
through the woods. 
He runs straight to where the 

798
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,720
four wheeler's AT and he's 
trying to get on the four 

799
00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:04,240
Wheeler. 
Of course, I had the key and he 

800
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,920
didn't know nothing about how to
get that four Wheeler going. 

801
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,360
Thank goodness, or he would have
left me. 

802
00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:13,000
The whole time I'm running, I 
feel like the hair on my back is

803
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,920
standing up. 
I can't believe what I just saw,

804
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,040
and I'm fearing that it's going 
to grab me from behind. 

805
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,840
And Mark, he's trying to get on 
the four Wheeler and get it 

806
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,320
going. 
And I'm like, dude. 

807
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,880
Move over, move over. 
We got to get out of here and 

808
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,160
call my dad. 
We got on the four Wheeler and 

809
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,560
we just take off and my dad, 
he's still a police officer at 

810
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,360
the time and he had taken on a 
more detective role. 

811
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,680
He worked in CID at the time, 
Criminal Investigations Division

812
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,520
of Wood County, which is the 
county we lived in. 

813
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,160
So we get to the house and I run
in the house and I call my dad 

814
00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,960
and I tell him what happened. 
My dad's like, Are you sure 

815
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,920
that's what you saw? 
He asked 3 or 4 times. 

816
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,400
I'm like, yes, absolutely. 
We were just right there. 

817
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,960
I could smell it. 
I saw every inch of it. 

818
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:05,080
Yeah, that's what I saw. 
So he took off work and he 

819
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,440
brought my uncle and they 
brought their friend Dwight with

820
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,440
them. 
They came out and we took them 

821
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,080
back to the spot. 
You could tell where the thing 

822
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,400
had been sitting and ripping the
bark off the tree. 

823
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,640
And what we determined was that 
it was ripping the bark off the 

824
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,800
tree to get to the bark beetles 
or the pine beetles that were 

825
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,880
inside the bark. 
The fence just happened to be in

826
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,600
the way of it getting to the 
tree, and he either stepped on 

827
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,920
it or pushed it down to cross. 
We showed him where the 

828
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,640
destroyed fence was. 
And I do believe that my dad 

829
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,880
found footprints, but of course,
we weren't able to cast or 

830
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,200
anything like that. 
But he saw evidence and he 

831
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,280
absolutely believed me, and he 
absolutely believed Mark. 

832
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,240
Mark was completely petrified of
this. 

833
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:51,240
In fact, that was the very last 
time Mark ever came to visit his

834
00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:58,320
grandparents. 
My dad put the story out there 

835
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,200
to people, and I think a couple 
more people that my dad knew 

836
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:05,000
that haunted around the area 
said, yeah, we've seen the exact

837
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,000
same thing walking through our 
pasture or this or that. 

838
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,040
Well, when I went to school, I 
told a few of my friends, and it

839
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,960
was this one guy, Stacy, he also
fished around the Cedar Lake 

840
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,440
area. 
He told me that he had actually 

841
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,720
found hair samples or something 
like that, a wad of hair on a 

842
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,960
tree one time, and it wasn't 
like anything he had ever seen 

843
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,920
before. 
He told me that he had sent the 

844
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,440
hair off or his dad had sent it 
off or something. 

845
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,680
But of course there was nothing 
that came back on that. 

846
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,760
But a lot of people said they 
had seen the same thing and that

847
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,680
they totally believe me. 
They knew I was telling the 

848
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,080
truth. 
So that was my experience. 

849
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,320
In. 
January of 1992 or 93, an 

850
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,680
anonymous witness was hunting 
hogs with a three O 8 lever 

851
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,560
action savage when he turned and
saw an animal that he had never 

852
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,840
seen before at a range of 
probably 50 yards rise up from a

853
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,160
squatting position. 
The animal was covered from head

854
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:14,160
to toe, except for the face with
hair or fur of a chestnut 

855
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,960
colour, was bipedal and appeared
to be 6 1/2 or 7 feet tall. 

856
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,320
As the creature rose from the 
squatting position, the witness 

857
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,080
became acutely aware that what 
he was seeing was unlike any 

858
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,960
animal he had seen before. 
Instantly, he raised his weapon 

859
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:35,760
in an almost instinctive manner.
Then it occurred to him not to 

860
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,680
shoot the animal. 
The witness had earlier shot a 

861
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,120
coyote at several 100 yards, so 
he knew that his gun was 

862
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,360
properly sighted. 
Then he thought, there's got to 

863
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,720
be more than one, meaning there 
were probably others out of the 

864
00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:54,040
witnesses field of vision, and 
had he shot this one he possibly

865
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,240
would have been forced to 
contend with the others. 

866
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,480
Man and beast stood still and 
studied each other, the witness 

867
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:05,520
focusing on the creature's eyes,
the creature seemingly studying 

868
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,920
the witnesses clothes. 
The witness continued to peer 

869
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,480
through his four power scope for
what seemed like 30 seconds 

870
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,080
before the beast simply turned 
away and hurriedly walked off. 

871
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,080
The witness was shaken and 
thought to himself, so this is 

872
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,400
what a Bigfoot looks like. 
The witness was particularly 

873
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,760
struck by the eyes of the animal
which he described as soft, non 

874
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,560
threatening, not aggressive. 
The creature's facial skin 

875
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,560
appeared to be black. 
He was asked if he had viewed 

876
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,880
the Patterson Gimlin footage, to
which he answered yes. 

877
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,480
He was then asked for a 
comparison of the two figures. 

878
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,320
The witness said that the 
creatures were similar, but the 

879
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:50,600
one he saw was thinner, wasn't 
as stooped and walked off easily

880
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,240
in an easy stride. 
The witness went on to add that 

881
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:58,240
it stood and walked very quickly
and naturally with no trouble at

882
00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:01,720
all. 
The witness stated that he only 

883
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:05,040
told one other individual who 
has since passed on about his 

884
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,800
encounter. 
It was an old man who told the 

885
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,440
witness that what he saw was 
that damned old monkey that 

886
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:18,160
lives down there. 
My husband works on a huge ranch

887
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:22,880
about 750 acres outside of 
Quitman, TX and Wood County. 

888
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:27,160
The area is heavily wooded. 
He often has to trap wild hogs 

889
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,080
on the property because they 
tear up and root up everything. 

890
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,800
Anyway, he was at the very back 
of the property checking traps, 

891
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,960
and he saw something run behind 
a tree. 

892
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:41,400
It was very big. 
Hairy and running on 2 legs, He 

893
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,440
said the colour was charcoal 
grey and it was about 6 feet 

894
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,000
tall. 
He did not see it again after it

895
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,960
hid behind the tree because he 
left. 

896
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,960
The area, immediately, it really
scared him and he says that it 

897
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,520
reminded him. 
Of a huge monkey or ape. 

898
00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:00,080
The area that this took place in
is very secluded with nothing 

899
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,520
but thick woods all around. 
This might or might not be 

900
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,400
anything, but it is strange. 
Last summer he found a large 

901
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,520
watermelon broken in half back 
there in the same area. 

902
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:15,080
The strange thing is that there 
are no watermelons growing on 

903
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,080
the property and he's the only 
one who works there or has 

904
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:22,080
access to that area. 
I've also heard lots of people 

905
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,920
say that they've heard a cry or 
roar like a woman screams around

906
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,560
this area. 
Everyone says that there are 

907
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:32,440
Panthers around East Texas area 
and they sound like that, but 

908
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,920
after reading more stories it 
says that Sasquatch makes that 

909
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:43,360
sound as well so who knows. 
It was early evening and our 

910
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,440
golden retriever was barking 
loudly. 

911
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:49,360
This was not unusual as there 
are many deer behind our house. 

912
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,640
Our backyard consists of a large
20 acre field leading into a 

913
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,600
wooded area. 
When I went outside to call the 

914
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,440
dog in, I saw 6 or 7 deer 
running like heck like they were

915
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,360
being chased. 
I looked behind them and in the 

916
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,920
tall grass a large hairy animal 
was chasing after them running 

917
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:11,840
on 2 legs towering above the 
grass which was around 4 feet 

918
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,920
tall at the time. 
We see occasional black bears, 

919
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,680
but this was like no bear I had 
seen before. 

920
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,880
I am convinced it was a squatch.
Then later in the season I was 

921
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,920
outside at around 9:00 with a 
friend. 

922
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,680
We had a small fire going, the 
coyotes were yipping in the far 

923
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,080
corner and in the opposite back 
corner there was a large screech

924
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,320
like sound and the coyotes went 
dead silent. 

925
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,640
About a month after my sighting,
as me and my friend were hitting

926
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,520
golf balls into my field, we saw
suspicious activity lower in the

927
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,120
field. 
After about two minutes we 

928
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,840
realized it was a squatch. 
It stood up and towered over the

929
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,200
grass, which was about 5 feet 
tall at the time. 

930
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,760
We stood there watching it for 
about 5 minutes until it 

931
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:01,280
retreated to the woods. 
The hairy creature was clearly 

932
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,400
walking on 2 feet. 
I have no doubt in my mind we 

933
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,120
saw a squatch after talking to 
my dad who has lived on our 

934
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,240
property for years. 
He too had seen a squatch years 

935
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:15,480
ago as a boy. 
Similar sightings were reported 

936
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,600
by some farmers in the area and 
some other residents in our 

937
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:25,320
small town. 
Daytime sighting on a farm in 

938
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,760
the area of Newton in Litchfield
County, Connecticut. 

939
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,480
This sighting happened when I 
was a young boy of about 7 or 8 

940
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,600
years old. 
It was a cloudy fall day and I 

941
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,760
was playing near a window in the
second story farmhouse when 

942
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:44,640
something caught my eye. 
I watched as a hairy 9 foot 

943
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,440
creature walked uphill across 
the front yard. 

944
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,600
It had a huge stride as if it 
were in a hurry. 

945
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,800
It kept looking back as it 
walked with its long swinging 

946
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,440
arms. 
When it turned its head, it had 

947
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:00,040
to also turn its shoulders to be
able to look at a 90° angle. 

948
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,080
I stood watching it walk along 
when it appeared to look up and 

949
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,560
make eye contact with me for 
only a second. 

950
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:11,000
It never broke its stride. 
Its eyes glowed like a raccoon 

951
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,600
or a cat at night when light is 
shine in their eyes. 

952
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,640
What frightened me was that it 
was still daylight. 

953
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,240
I didn't get really freaked 
until it disappeared around the 

954
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,760
side of the house. 
That's when I ran into the 

955
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:25,120
kitchen where my parents were 
playing cards with another 

956
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,680
couple. 
I tried to get their attention, 

957
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,000
but they didn't have time for a 
whiny kid who wanted a cookie or

958
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,720
candy. 
It wasn't until they escorted me

959
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,800
out the front door and slammed 
it in my face that they figured 

960
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,960
out something was wrong. 
There was no way I was going to 

961
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,360
hang around outside with a 
monster in the area. 

962
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,120
I. 
Flipped out, screaming, beating,

963
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,960
kicking the door and crying for 
them to let me in. 

964
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,080
It was only a couple or three 
seconds and they knew something 

965
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,360
was terribly wrong. 
They let me in and I explained 

966
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,080
what I had just seen through 
tears. 

967
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,880
My father and his friend went 
outside to look around, probably

968
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,640
thinking they would find a loose
cow. 

969
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,040
I'll never forget the look on 
their faces when they saw the 

970
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,040
footprints that dwarfed their 
own. 

971
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,040
My dad's friend was a tall man 
of around 6 foot two or three. 

972
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,320
When he stretched his legs to 
step from one footprint to 

973
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,800
another, it was next to 
impossible. 

974
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,520
Their disbelief had turned to 
fear. 

975
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,480
They did, however, want to 
follow the tracks that went 

976
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,840
across a field that have been 
plowed recently. 

977
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:31,040
I freaked out again. 
They seem to understand. 

978
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:34,520
This time they decided that 
going in the car would be 

979
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,400
better. 
We drove down a road a short 

980
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,040
distance, found where it crossed
and went up a hill. 

981
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,560
The tracks disappeared and that 
seemed fine with everyone. 

982
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,320
Comparing the height of the 
animal to nearby trees, I 

983
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,600
estimate that it was 8 to 9 feet
tall. 

984
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,680
It was lanky but muscular and 
covered with black hair that was

985
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:57,000
thin and sparse as if it was 
shedding. 

986
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:01,600
Its face was hairy with skin of 
a tannish yellow color and a 

987
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:05,640
flat, mushed out nose. 
A Dome shaped head sat atop a 

988
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,960
thick short neck. 
The Bigfoot looked more human 

989
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:16,640
like than monkey like. 
Multiple incidents near Bethel 

990
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,560
in Fairfield County, 
Connecticut. 

991
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:24,080
These incidents took place in 
May of 2013 if I recall 

992
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,040
correctly. 
I lived set back in the woods of

993
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,440
a long driveway, not completely 
surrounded by forest, but 

994
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:32,920
mostly. 
There were a couple of houses 

995
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,800
100 or more feet away, but I was
pretty isolated. 

996
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,440
I pulled up to my house in front
of my garage. 

997
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,440
I was facing a small chunk of 
woods behind an old Stonewall 

998
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:47,360
that was very brushy and bushy 
and had a lot of big rocks and 

999
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,240
uneven ground, and it all went 
slightly uphill. 

1000
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,600
I got out of the car with my 4 
1/2 month old German Shepherd 

1001
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,920
and she uncharacteristically ran
away from me toward the 

1002
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,680
Stonewall, barking very 
aggressively like a full grown 

1003
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:06,040
shepherd in protection mode. 
I was very curious what sort of 

1004
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,920
creature could get her to react 
like that, so I took my 

1005
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,440
flashlight out of the car and 
shined it in the brush. 

1006
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,320
But it was so heavy all I could 
see was a dark shadow moving 

1007
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,280
about 20 feet or so ahead of me 
very slowly, sounding almost 

1008
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,720
bipedal, like it wasn't very 
afraid but was keeping its 

1009
00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:25,480
distance. 
Finally it got to somewhat of 

1010
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,240
her clearing, but it was 
crouching and hiding behind a 

1011
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:31,360
tree, poking its head out from 
behind repeatedly. 

1012
00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:36,440
I wondered what dark bulky 
figure could have bright reddish

1013
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,880
orange eyes and move from 
crouching to standing relatively

1014
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:43,720
tall, so I initially figured it 
must have been a black bear and 

1015
00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:46,360
I called my dog inside and went 
about my business. 

1016
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,200
The very next night I pulled 
into the same spot and had a 

1017
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,960
friend with me and we got out of
the car and we both heard a 

1018
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,880
large bellowing roar a couple of
times and it sounded like it was

1019
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,600
in the area I saw the bear the 
night before. 

1020
00:57:02,240 --> 00:57:06,280
He asked me what the F is that 
and I said it must have been 

1021
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,280
what I assumed was the bear I 
encountered the night before. 

1022
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,640
It wasn't until a few months 
later when I was watching some 

1023
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,840
videos on Sasquatch encounters 
did I realize what I really saw.

1024
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,600
Not only that, but black bears 
don't roar. 

1025
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:25,880
The roar I heard sounded like 
vocalization recordings of angry

1026
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:29,640
Sasquatch, and the movements of 
the head and colour of the eyes 

1027
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,280
were exactly as anyone who 
encountered them had reported. 

1028
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:40,560
Tall creature seen looking into 
kitchen window near Woodstock in

1029
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:45,960
Windham County, Connecticut. 
Witness statement At about two 

1030
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:49,360
AMI woke up and went downstairs 
to get a drink of milk because I

1031
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:52,080
had leg cramps. 
While standing at the kitchen 

1032
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,200
island counter, I noticed 
movement at the kitchen window 

1033
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,760
directly in front of me. 
I saw what looked like a face 

1034
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,960
look around the side of the 
window with two large red 

1035
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,600
glowing eyes. 
I was so startled I dropped 

1036
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:09,080
behind the counter with my cat 
and when I peeked over the eyes 

1037
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,880
were gone. 
I walked over to the spotlight 

1038
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,840
switch for the backyard, flipped
it on, but I didn't see 

1039
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,000
anything. 
It may have moved back to the 

1040
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,880
side of the window where I 
couldn't see it. 

1041
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,680
Investigator DA Brake 
interviewed the witness and the 

1042
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,200
following additional information
was collected. 

1043
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,640
The witness lives in a two-story
house with the kitchen in the 

1044
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,600
rear of the house. 
The kitchen has two sets of rear

1045
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:38,520
windows that overlook woods 
approximately 20 yards from the 

1046
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:41,400
back of the house. 
As the witness initially 

1047
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,840
approached the kitchen down a 
hallway from the front of the 

1048
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,240
house, she thought she saw 
initial movement in the front of

1049
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:51,080
the kitchen window but was not 
certain at this point. 

1050
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,760
The only light source was from a
kitchen stove light. 

1051
00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,840
When the witness entered the 
kitchen, she turned on the 

1052
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,720
overhead kitchen light and 
turned her back to the window to

1053
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,640
remove the milk from the 
refrigerator. 

1054
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,920
When she turned back around, she
observed 2 golf balls sized red 

1055
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,080
eyes peering in her rear kitchen
window. 

1056
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,960
She described the eyes as being 
set farther apart than human 

1057
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:17,320
eyes with possible light grey 
skin under each eye. 

1058
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,720
She maintained eye contact with 
the animal that she estimated to

1059
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:26,360
be 7 feet tall for approximately
5 to 6 seconds before ducking 

1060
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:29,560
down behind an island counter 
between her and the kitchen 

1061
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,720
window. 
After turning on her backyard 

1062
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:36,000
spotlight and not seeing 
anything, she quickly went back 

1063
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,880
upstairs and turned on an 
additional set of exterior 

1064
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,840
floodlights that cover the front
and one side of the house. 

1065
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,480
She looked out the front and 
side windows for approximately 

1066
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:49,320
30 seconds and not seeing any 
movement, went back to bed. 

1067
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,240
The next morning the witness 
inspected the area in front of 

1068
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,520
the rear kitchen window where 
the animal had been standing and

1069
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:03,520
noticed 2 foot like impressions 
in ground cover ferns located 

1070
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:07,800
immediately beneath the window. 
The height from the ground cover

1071
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,840
ferns located below the kitchen 
window to the point on the 

1072
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:13,760
window where the witness 
reported seeing the animals two 

1073
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,640
eyes was measured at six feet 10
inches. 

1074
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,880
The witness is an artist and 
provided a pencil drawing of the

1075
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:24,560
two eyes she observed. 
The eyes depicted in the sketch 

1076
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:33,570
have a primate like appearance. 
The house sits on a four acre 

1077
01:00:33,570 --> 01:00:37,850
lot surrounded by woods on two 
sides with a small pond stocked 

1078
01:00:37,850 --> 01:00:40,050
with fish. 
Approximately 40 yards from the 

1079
01:00:40,050 --> 01:00:43,170
side of the house. 
A family room window overlooks 

1080
01:00:43,170 --> 01:00:46,170
the pond and a few times in the 
evening over the past few 

1081
01:00:46,170 --> 01:00:49,690
months, the witness mentioned 
having a sensation of being 

1082
01:00:49,690 --> 01:00:52,650
observed from the wood line 
which lies on the other side of 

1083
01:00:52,650 --> 01:00:56,320
the pond. 
The property has numerous bird 

1084
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,920
feeders, including a set of 
three that sit approximately 50 

1085
01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:03,400
yards away from the house. 
The witness mentioned that she 

1086
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,440
had found one of the bird 
feeders turned over on several 

1087
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,640
occasions. 
The property is replete with 

1088
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,480
numerous blueberries, 
blackberries, and Raspberry 

1089
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:16,600
bushes, along with grape vines, 
apple, pear and Peach trees. 

1090
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,440
The witness frequently observes 
deer on her property and has 

1091
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,800
seen Fisher Cats and a bobcat in
the woods near her house. 

1092
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:27,800
Scouting of the woods 
immediately adjacent to the 

1093
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,360
house did not reveal anything 
unusual. 

1094
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,400
The witness also provided 
additional information of 

1095
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,040
interest. 
Several months earlier, she 

1096
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,560
mentioned hearing an unusual 
vocalization while retrieving 

1097
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:44,920
the morning paper around 6:30 
AM. 

1098
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:49,280
She described hearing a distant 
howl from across the road South 

1099
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:53,360
of her property that started as 
a low pitch moan and rose to a 

1100
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,960
higher pitch whale of 
approximately 10 to 15 second 

1101
01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,120
duration. 
She mentioned that her husband 

1102
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,760
has heard similar howls in the 
late evening hours. 

1103
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:08,080
A second incident occurred a few
weeks prior to the early morning

1104
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,520
encounter in which the witness 
had prepared a chicken Stew in a

1105
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:15,400
large pot and placed it on a 
table on the rear deck overnight

1106
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:16,680
to cool. 
She. 

1107
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,680
Stated that she had covered the 
pot with a lid and placed a 

1108
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:24,360
large brick on top of the lid. 
The next morning she discovered 

1109
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:27,680
the brick and lid lying on her 
deck with large amounts of 

1110
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:30,920
chicken Stew splattered all over
the side of the pot and onto the

1111
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,640
table. 
She described the scene as if 

1112
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:36,760
something had reached into the 
pot and lifted out some of the 

1113
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:45,160
liquid contents. close range 
multi witness sighting of a 

1114
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:51,600
Bigfoot Griswold Connecticut off
2 O1 Trail 2 to Mount Misery. 

1115
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:55,840
Bigfoot crossed in front of us. 
Two people on the road thought 

1116
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:59,400
it was a deer coming through the
woods, but no, it was an upright

1117
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,560
creature running passed over 
Gravel Rd. trail. 

1118
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:04,840
We were in a full size Kia 
Sorento. 

1119
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,080
It was at least 4 feet higher 
than the SUV. 

1120
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:13,280
This was in 2019 early October 
around 4:30 PM. 

1121
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:20,120
This thing was huge and quick. 
It was dark brown, tall and very

1122
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:24,200
wide from the side. 2 legs. 
Definitely made a very big 

1123
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:28,040
ruckus coming through the woods.
I could not see it anymore after

1124
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:29,960
it was about 40 yards into the 
woods. 

1125
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,760
Five other stories of people 
camping in the same area. 

1126
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:37,320
It's a campground and swimming 
and trail walking area. 

1127
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:43,520
More bullet notes from witness. 
Witnesses heading eastbound on 

1128
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:46,280
Trail 2 and Patchogue State 
Forest. 

1129
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:51,200
Sunny, mild autumn afternoon 
Leaves mostly of the trees. 

1130
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:53,400
Fresh, crisp leaves on the 
ground. 

1131
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,680
The Bigfoot disappeared in a few
seconds after 40 yards movement.

1132
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,840
There was a Stonewall. 
It could have jumped behind it. 

1133
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:03,800
It crossed the road from the 
South. 

1134
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:05,800
I heard it coming before I saw 
it. 

1135
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,200
I stopped the car. 
It was only 10 feet in front of 

1136
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:12,000
the car. 
It did not look at the car as it

1137
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:14,720
crossed. 
Took two steps to cross the 

1138
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:16,720
road. 
Only one foot touched the middle

1139
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:20,280
of the road. 
Trail 2 is A1 lane Dirt Rd. 

1140
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,040
above 15 feet wide. 
Whole event took about 20 

1141
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:28,160
seconds. 
Very long quick strides, about 8

1142
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:29,520
to 9 feet. 
Long stride. 

1143
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:32,840
Noise was loud enough for me to 
stop the car. 

1144
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:37,280
Saplings and trees were moving. 
The hair color dark brown, 

1145
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:40,480
Darker on head and shoulders. 
Little lighter on legs and 

1146
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,840
chest. 
Thicker hair on head and 

1147
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:45,800
shoulders. 
Head was not proportional to 

1148
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:50,400
body. 
Flat face, Dark skin on face, 

1149
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,160
short hair on head, rounded 
scalp. 

1150
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:58,480
No visible ears. 
Face from side mostly flat eyes 

1151
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:03,280
looked bigger human eyes saw 
some whites of the eyes with 

1152
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,960
dark irises. 
No noticeable cheeks or chin. 

1153
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:11,160
No noticeable forehead or brows 
because covered by some hair. 

1154
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,840
No flowing hair on head as he 
ran. 

1155
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,480
Hair looked neat and well kept 
neck. 

1156
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,800
No visible neck because hair 
from head covered neck. 

1157
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:25,920
No beard. 
Shoulders massive, 36 to 40 

1158
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:29,880
inches, extremely muscular. 
Shoulders very rounded. 

1159
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:34,960
Deltoids and shoulders looked 
like a male, built like a male. 

1160
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:39,560
No genitals visible. 
Chest broad, covered with hair. 

1161
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:43,240
Waist V tapered to a small sized
waist. 

1162
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:49,040
Did not notice rib cage. 
Back Extremely muscular, well 

1163
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,360
built. 
Trapezius very healthy. 

1164
01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:56,320
Arms long top arm gentle swing, 
thick arms. 

1165
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:00,360
Arms reached past the waist. 
Elbow was always bent. 

1166
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:05,640
Thigh longer, thick hair there 
did not see musculature. 

1167
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:10,040
Buttocks well built, rounded 
legs. 

1168
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:12,640
Movement appeared different than
a human stride. 

1169
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:17,240
Feet it did not lift its feet 
very high, could not see the 

1170
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:21,360
bottom soles. 
No footprints noticed, but dust 

1171
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:25,600
was stirred up as he stepped 
onto the gravel road at 

1172
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:28,160
Hopeville Pond State Park in the
1990s. 

1173
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:35,720
Another witness saw a Bigfoot 
family dumpster diving. close 

1174
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:42,440
encounter behind a home, August 
2016, Old Mystic, Connecticut. 

1175
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:47,040
I had a Sasquatch hiding in the 
bushes in a swamp behind my home

1176
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:50,360
stalking 2 deer. 
It was less than 20 feet from 

1177
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,400
me. 
It had an arm 4 feet long with 

1178
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:56,360
jet black hair hanging down 3 or
4 inches. 

1179
01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:59,280
I turned to make sure my back 
door was closed. 

1180
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:03,200
I turned back and it was gone. 
I've been hearing whoops and 

1181
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:05,240
wood knock type sounds all 
summer. 

1182
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:10,880
Located on private property and 
abutting A headwaters and swamp.

1183
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:14,600
Literally in the backyard that 
leads to a local river is where 

1184
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,560
this happened. 
The landscape is broken up with 

1185
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,320
scattered houses, swamps, 
creeks, and woods. 

1186
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:23,280
There are a few large roads in 
the area too. 

1187
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:28,440
Around 5:00 PM, the witness's 
dog started barking and wouldn't

1188
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:30,720
stop. 
He got up and went to take out 

1189
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,920
the trash and see what the dogs 
were barking at. 

1190
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:36,800
He got the dogs, put them inside
and came back out to check the 

1191
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,960
yard. 
There were two deer that had 

1192
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:41,800
just ran past where he was 
standing. 

1193
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,520
That's when he saw it about 20 
feet away. 

1194
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:49,160
He said it was a large arm 
covered in jet black hair, 3 to 

1195
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:52,560
4 inches long, pulling on small 
cattail type plants. 

1196
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:57,280
It was mostly hidden by a large 
clump of beach grass type plants

1197
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:00,800
in the swamp. 
All he saw was a long 4 foot 

1198
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,640
skinny arm from the shoulder 
down to the fingers. 

1199
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:07,240
He said the hand was about 12 or
14 inches long. 

1200
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:12,120
Palm to the end of the fingers. 
He didn't count the fingers, but

1201
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,960
other than being extremely long 
it looked normal. 

1202
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:18,880
He could see the crease lines in
the long dark black palm and 

1203
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:23,080
fingers looked long and skinny. 
At that moment it made a loud 

1204
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:25,720
whoop sound and there was a 
response from just down the 

1205
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:29,200
swamp a little further. 
Realizing there might be two of 

1206
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:30,720
them. 
It freaked him out. 

1207
01:08:32,279 --> 01:08:35,000
He turned away to check his 
house and he made sure his door 

1208
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,920
was shut and locked and turned 
back to watch it and it was 

1209
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,439
gone. 
There was a history of loud 

1210
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,720
noise from the swamps as well as
wood knocks and whoops that have

1211
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:47,240
been heard all summer. 
He also said that there has been

1212
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:52,560
activity like this since 2014. 
He has since bought a trail Cam 

1213
01:08:52,600 --> 01:09:00,680
and will try to get some images.
Prescott, Yavapai County, 

1214
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:08,200
Arizona, November 2007 Hello, 
I'm writing to you because of 

1215
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,760
some strange goings on around 
the place I own. 

1216
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:14,560
Out here in Prescott we have the
remnants of what used to be a 

1217
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,880
working ranch from years ago, 
some livestock left from those 

1218
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:21,600
days, a few horses, a few 
Brahma, a couple of goats out 

1219
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:24,880
there, and a Longhorn I won in a
bar fight down in Limestone 

1220
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:28,200
County, Texas. 
And recently we think we have a 

1221
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:32,080
Bigfoot around. 
We used to winter horses for 

1222
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:35,240
people around these parts who 
were snowbirds, but no more 

1223
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:37,800
because of the mysterious 
disappearances that happened 

1224
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:40,439
here. 
In fact, lots of mysterious 

1225
01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:43,760
things like that happen around 
the place, especially as fall 

1226
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:47,680
nears and the weather cools like
September, October, November. 

1227
01:09:48,399 --> 01:09:53,399
Nothing happens in summer out 
here. 1 notable incident was the

1228
01:09:53,399 --> 01:09:57,200
disappearance of one of my best 
dogs, part pit bull shepherd 

1229
01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:59,840
mix. 
He wasn't afraid of anything and

1230
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:02,160
was a great watchdog for the 
lower pasture. 

1231
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:06,040
He guarded the grazing stalk and
two sheep we used to have and 

1232
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:08,720
the goats from local mountain 
lions and Bobcats. 

1233
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:14,080
Now you may say the dog wandered
off, but he was 10 years old and

1234
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:15,760
never left sight of the main 
house. 

1235
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:20,000
He was a devoted dog. 
Some said a bear came in from 

1236
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,400
the forest at night and took 
him, but my middle son found him

1237
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:27,920
exactly 14 feet up in the crotch
of a pinion pine tree with his 

1238
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:31,320
neck snapped. 
No teeth marks found, no bear 

1239
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:35,680
claw marks, no Mountain Lion 
tears, just a broken neck and 

1240
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:39,640
tossed up into that tree. 
Or if not tossed, someone must 

1241
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,920
have put the dog's body up that 
pinion, which my son had trouble

1242
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:45,600
reaching. 
We all tried to explain that 

1243
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:51,000
one. 
Now on to the sheep. 

1244
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:54,600
I bartered with a fellow for a 
ram and you and had them down in

1245
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:57,800
the grazing pasture along with 
the stalk, horses, goats and 

1246
01:10:57,800 --> 01:11:00,400
such. 
We only had them a short while 

1247
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,720
and they disappeared for a 
while. 

1248
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:05,480
We thought the previous owner 
snuck back here loading up the 

1249
01:11:05,480 --> 01:11:08,600
two and carrying them off, but 
my wife ran into the fellow in 

1250
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:11,080
the hardware store in town and 
talked to him about the 

1251
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:14,800
disappearance. 
He came home that day with my 

1252
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:17,200
wife and together we went out 
looking for sign. 

1253
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,880
We found nothing that day and I 
don't believe he had anything to

1254
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:25,200
do with the sheep disappearance.
He told me a far out story that 

1255
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:28,760
got me thinking though, which is
why I looked up Bigfoot on the 

1256
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:33,000
Internet. 
He told me of a place up in the 

1257
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:37,000
Sierra Pre at a Ponderosa forest
where this native woman ran her 

1258
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,480
small flock of sheep along with 
a young cousin, a blue mural 

1259
01:11:40,480 --> 01:11:43,480
coolie and a border collie that 
kept her flock together at 

1260
01:11:43,480 --> 01:11:47,160
night, fending off attacks by 
mountain lions, Bobcats, and 

1261
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:50,800
sometimes Wolverines. 
This one season, the woman and 

1262
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,360
her cousin were bringing the 
flock down off of mountain 

1263
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:56,040
grazing. 
It was late October and snows 

1264
01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:59,360
were expected. 
She said she was not feeling 

1265
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:03,400
well and laid down in a grassy 
Meadow to rest, but woke up when

1266
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:06,600
she heard the sheep bleeding, 
her cousin yelling and the dogs 

1267
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:10,880
barking loudly onto something. 
The woman sheep herder said she 

1268
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:14,680
got to her feet in time to see 
her two dogs biting at the heels

1269
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:19,200
of a big hairy man as he ambled 
off, escaping with a big ewe 

1270
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:22,240
under his arm. 
The hairy man tried to fend off 

1271
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:25,080
the biting dogs. 
Kick the one Cooley dog all the 

1272
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,640
hell. 
This might be what befell my 

1273
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:31,400
dog. 
She called off the dogs and 

1274
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,240
watched the hairy man disappear 
into the pine trees with his 

1275
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:37,040
prize. 
He explained the hairy man to 

1276
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,840
her was what we call Bigfoot or 
Sasquatch. 

1277
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:44,080
She only told the story once to 
an elder and she won't speak of 

1278
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:47,120
it anymore. 
But he mentioned they come down 

1279
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:54,240
from the North in winter. 
Hearing the sheepherder story, 

1280
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:58,000
putting two and two together, my
sons, the fellow and I pretty 

1281
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:01,400
much decided that we must have a
rogue Bigfoot living somewhere 

1282
01:13:01,440 --> 01:13:04,720
near the property. 
I don't mind that so much, and 

1283
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:07,000
we don't mind sharing some of 
the fruit off our trees with 

1284
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,320
him. 
But stealing a man's stock is 

1285
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:11,960
another thing. 
I don't expect to put up with 

1286
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:15,440
that. 
My boys and I, along with the 

1287
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:18,320
other dogs, packed a rifle in 
the scabbard and rode out 

1288
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:21,600
recently of a morning during 
Thanksgiving week and covered 

1289
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,520
the whole western stretch of the
property line looking for sign. 

1290
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:27,880
You would laugh. 
We look like a posse in AB 

1291
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:30,440
Western. 
We worked the edge of the tree 

1292
01:13:30,440 --> 01:13:32,760
line for about two hours looking
for a trail. 

1293
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:37,320
We found one that led into deep 
forest, a section none of us had

1294
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:41,080
ridden before. 
We work the horses through 

1295
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:43,080
there, into and around thick 
brush. 

1296
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:46,560
Soon we came to a stream and 
stopped to gather our bearings 

1297
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:50,000
and water the horses. 
Dismounting, I thought I heard 

1298
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:53,040
someone cough. 
I asked, and nobody heard it but

1299
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:56,120
me. 
My horse jerked up, snorted and 

1300
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:59,320
became uneasy, sensing something
none of us could see. 

1301
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,200
The other mounts followed. 
All of us were focusing on 

1302
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:06,720
keeping the horses under control
as they danced about, bucking, 

1303
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:10,080
kicking and snorting. 
My sons thought Mountain Lion. 

1304
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:15,120
I wasn't sure. 
We stood together there by the 

1305
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:18,320
stream, listening, calming the 
horses, when the dog started 

1306
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:20,560
looking towards this thicket of 
tangled brush. 

1307
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,600
Then the barking started and 
they took off. 

1308
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:27,800
Still we couldn't see anything, 
but by now we all expected the 

1309
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:31,480
dogs to tree a Mountain Lion. 
We couldn't follow, the brush 

1310
01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:33,880
was too thick. 
But the dog noise seemed to end 

1311
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,520
about 20 yards into this thick 
brush and brambles. 

1312
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:41,280
We kept calling and calling. 
Finally the dogs were turned and

1313
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:45,680
then they took off again. 
Pretty soon the dogs were turned

1314
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,800
with tongues hanging out, 
breathing heavy. 

1315
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,240
We leashed the dogs up and took 
them and LED the horses back 

1316
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:54,520
down to the stream. 
The dog settled down some, but 

1317
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:57,720
the horses didn't, and as we 
were making an effort to saddle 

1318
01:14:57,720 --> 01:14:59,840
up again, that's when it 
happened. 

1319
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:07,600
There came this howl that 
lengthened into a scream that at

1320
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:11,360
first sounded like a brahmafart,
low, guttural and drug out, 

1321
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:14,400
ending up in a high pitched 
drone like a woman screaming 

1322
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:17,840
bloody murder. 
My body reacted with a chill and

1323
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,760
goosebumps, mainly because the 
scream was coming from very 

1324
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:24,240
close, somewhere in that thicket
of brambles where the dogs had 

1325
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:27,640
been. 
The scream was long and kind of 

1326
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:30,840
dragged out, the kind of noise 
that gets your attention real 

1327
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:34,880
fast. 
The fellow yelled Soyuko Bigfoot

1328
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:37,080
as he pulled the rifle out of 
his scabbard. 

1329
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:40,720
By now the horses were almost 
impossible to control. 

1330
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:45,240
Then it got quiet. 
Not a sound, no birds, no 

1331
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:49,160
crickets, no nothing. 
Everything was very still, 

1332
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:52,520
except for the horses. 
The dogs were by now cowering 

1333
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:55,800
between my legs, their ears 
pricked toward the thicket. 

1334
01:15:57,240 --> 01:16:00,080
Then, in the distance, we heard 
another scream. 

1335
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,600
It must have come from across 
the next valley. 

1336
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:05,720
Now we're figuring there is 
fixing to be two of these. 

1337
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:08,360
Bigfoot and I felt fear for the 
first time. 

1338
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:13,240
The dogs started whining. 
My grown boys hurriedly saddled 

1339
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:15,080
up. 
We followed and took off down 

1340
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:18,640
the trail, heading at a full 
gallop all the way home a good 

1341
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:22,480
hour later. 
I've never heard nothing like 

1342
01:16:22,480 --> 01:16:25,560
that vocalization before. 
And I've heard plenty coyote, 

1343
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:29,360
plenty wolves and Elk's Bugle, 
but never nothing like that 

1344
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:31,840
before. 
And it weren't no Mountain Lion 

1345
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:34,280
scream. 
It was 4 times as powerful. 

1346
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:38,360
If that was a warning from 
Bigfoot, we got the message. 

1347
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:41,960
Thanks. 
We'll contact you the next time 

1348
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,840
they come calling. 
Eldridge R. 

1349
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:54,360
Mountain country, Arizona. 
All of her life, Francis T had 

1350
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:56,840
seen things, heard things and 
felt them. 

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01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,400
Born into a family of 
sensitives, this was rather 

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01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,960
normal in my family. 
You were considered odd if you 

1353
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,760
didn't experience abnormal 
things, Francis says. 

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01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,400
We never talked much about our 
experiences or our feelings 

1355
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,240
about them. 
We just accepted them as normal,

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01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:19,320
which in fact, to us, they are. 
But nothing could have prepared 

1357
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,280
her family for what they 
encountered on a dark, desolate 

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01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,160
Rd. in Arizona. 
It's a mysterious and 

1359
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:27,920
traumatizing event that haunts 
them to this day. 

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01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:33,680
Francis's family had moved from 
Wyoming to Flagstaff, AZ in 

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01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:37,400
1978, shortly after her high 
school graduation. 

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01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:43,320
Sometime between 1982 and 1983, 
twenty year old Francis, her 

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01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:47,240
father, mother and her younger 
brother took a road trip back to

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01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,920
Wyoming in the family pickup. 
Truck the trip. 

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01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:54,120
Was a vacation to visit with 
friends in and around their old 

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01:17:54,120 --> 01:17:56,840
hometown. 
The only member of the family 

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01:17:56,840 --> 01:18:00,200
not present was her older 
brother who was in the Army and 

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01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:06,080
stationed at Fort Bragg, NC. 
The course along Route 163 took 

1369
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:09,360
them through the Navajo Indian 
Reservation and through the town

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01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:13,720
of Cayenta just South of the 
Utah border and the magnificent 

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01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:16,040
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal 
Park. 

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01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:20,280
Anyone who has lived in Arizona 
for any length of time knows 

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01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:24,000
that the Indian Reservation can 
be a beautiful, if harsh, place 

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01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,280
for non Natives. 
Many strange things happen out 

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01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:31,560
there, Francis says. 
Even my friend and Navajo warned

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01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:34,480
us of travelling through the 
reservation, especially at 

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01:18:34,480 --> 01:18:37,800
night. 
Along with the warning, however,

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01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,280
Francis's Native American friend
blessed the family and they were

1379
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:47,560
on their way. 
The trip to Wyoming was 

1380
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:51,280
uneventful, but the trip back to
Arizona along the same route 

1381
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:54,440
more than justified the warning 
from Francis's friend. 

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01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:57,280
It still gives me goosebumps, 
she says. 

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01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,680
To this day. 
I have major anxiety attacks 

1384
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:03,160
when I have to travel through 
the North Country at night. 

1385
01:19:03,680 --> 01:19:08,520
I avoid it at all costs. 
It was a warm summer night, 

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01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,200
about 10:00 PM, when the 
family's pickup was heading 

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01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:15,920
South on 163, about 20 to 30 
miles from the town of Kayenta. 

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01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:20,400
It was a moonless night on this 
lonely stretch of Rd., so pitch 

1389
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:23,000
black that they could only see 
just a few feet beyond the 

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01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,240
headlights. 
So dark that closing their eyes 

1391
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:28,880
actually brought relief from the
fathomless black. 

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01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,400
They had been driving for hours,
with Francis's father at the 

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01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:36,480
wheel and the vehicles 
passengers had long ago settled 

1394
01:19:36,480 --> 01:19:39,400
into quiet. 
Francis and her father 

1395
01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:42,880
sandwiched her mother in the 
truck's cab while her brother 

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01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:45,000
enjoyed the night air in the 
back of the pickup. 

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01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:48,640
Suddenly, Francis's father broke
the silence. 

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01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:53,680
We have company, he said. 
Frances and her mother turned 

1399
01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:55,880
around and looked out the 
backslider window. 

1400
01:19:56,480 --> 01:19:58,760
Sure enough, a pair of 
headlights appeared over the 

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01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:01,640
Crest of a hill, then 
disappeared as the car went 

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01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:05,840
down, then reappeared. 
Frances commented to her father 

1403
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:08,320
that it was nice to have company
on this stretch of Rd. 

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01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:12,240
If something went wrong, neither
vehicle and its passengers would

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01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:18,120
be alone. 
Thunder began to rumble from the

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01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:21,200
vast clouded sky. 
The parents decided that their 

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01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:24,440
son should come into the cab 
before he got soaking wet from 

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01:20:24,440 --> 01:20:28,160
any rain that might fall. 
Francis opened the slider window

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01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:31,360
and her little brother crawled 
in, squeezing between her and 

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01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:34,760
her mother. 
Francis turned to close the 

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01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:37,440
window and again noticed the 
headlights from the following 

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01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:39,720
car. 
They're still behind us, her 

1413
01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:42,040
father said. 
They must be going to either 

1414
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:44,880
Flagstaff or Phoenix. 
We'll probably meet them in 

1415
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:49,440
Cayenta when we stop to fuel up.
Francis watched as the car's 

1416
01:20:49,440 --> 01:20:53,080
headlights crested another hill 
and began its descent until it 

1417
01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:55,440
disappeared. 
She watched for them to 

1418
01:20:55,440 --> 01:20:58,640
reappear, and watched they 
didn't reappear. 

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01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:02,760
She told her father that the car
should have crested the other 

1420
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:05,960
hill again, but hadn't. 
Maybe they slowed down, he 

1421
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:10,080
suggested, or pulled over. 
That was possible, but it just 

1422
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:13,400
didn't make sense to Francis. 
Why on the hell would a driver 

1423
01:21:13,400 --> 01:21:16,840
slow down, or worse yet, stop at
the bottom of a hill in the 

1424
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,240
middle of the night with nothing
around for miles and miles? 

1425
01:21:20,480 --> 01:21:23,800
Frances asked her father. 
You'd think they'd want to keep 

1426
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:26,520
sight of the car in front of 
them in case anything happened. 

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01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:30,240
People do weird stuff when 
they're driving, her father 

1428
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:32,880
replied. 
So Frances kept watching, 

1429
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:35,760
turning around every few minutes
to check for those headlights, 

1430
01:21:36,160 --> 01:21:39,880
but they never did reappear. 
When she turned to look one last

1431
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,640
time, she noticed that the 
pickup was slowing down. 

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01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,680
Turning back to look out the 
windshield, she saw that they 

1433
01:21:46,680 --> 01:21:49,400
were rounding a sharp band in 
the road, and her father had 

1434
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:51,960
slowed the truck to about 55 
mph. 

1435
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:55,840
And from that moment, time 
itself seemed to slow down for 

1436
01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:58,680
Francis. 
The atmosphere changed, somehow 

1437
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:01,040
taking on an otherworldly 
quality. 

1438
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:05,080
Francis turned her head to look 
out the passenger window when 

1439
01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:07,480
her mother screamed and her 
father cried out. 

1440
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,160
Jesus Christ, what the hell is 
that? 

1441
01:22:11,200 --> 01:22:13,880
Francis didn't know what was 
happening, but one hand 

1442
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:16,560
instinctively reached over and 
held down the button for the 

1443
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,560
door lock, and the other tightly
grabbed the door handle. 

1444
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:23,400
She braced her back against her 
small brother and held firmly 

1445
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:28,160
onto the door, still not knowing
quite why her brother was now 

1446
01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:29,480
yelling. 
What is it? 

1447
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:32,840
What is it? 
Her father immediately flipped 

1448
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:36,000
on the interior cab light, and 
Francis could see that he was 

1449
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:39,400
petrified. 
I have never ever seen my father

1450
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:42,080
that scared in my whole life, 
Francis says. 

1451
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:46,000
Not when he came home from his 
tours in Vietnam, not when he 

1452
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:49,000
came home from special 
assignments, not even when 

1453
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:50,920
someone tried to firebomb our 
house. 

1454
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,840
Francis's father was as white as
a ghost. 

1455
01:22:57,160 --> 01:22:59,640
She could see the hair on the 
back of his neck standing 

1456
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:02,800
straight out like a cat's, and 
so was the hair on his arms. 

1457
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,600
She could even see the 
goosebumps on his skin. 

1458
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:09,920
Panic was filling the small cab.
Francis's mother was so 

1459
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:12,760
frightened that she began 
shouting in her native Japanese 

1460
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:16,080
in a high, squeaky voice. 
As she frantically wrung her 

1461
01:23:16,080 --> 01:23:19,880
hands, the little boy just kept 
saying Oh my God. 

1462
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:24,000
As the pickup speed around the 
bend in the road, Francis could 

1463
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:26,720
see that the shoulder dropped 
off deeply into a ditch. 

1464
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:30,240
Her father slammed on the brakes
to prevent the truck from 

1465
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:33,800
swerving into the ditch. 
As the pickup was slowing to a 

1466
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:37,320
stop, something leapt out of the
ditch at the side of the truck, 

1467
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:41,400
and now Francis could clearly 
see what had started the panic. 

1468
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:46,240
It was black and hairy and was 
eye level with the passengers in

1469
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:49,200
the cab. 
If this was a man, it was like 

1470
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:53,720
no man Francis had ever seen. 
Yet despite its monstrous 

1471
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:57,960
appearance, whatever this thing 
was, it wore a man's clothes. 

1472
01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:01,920
It had on a white and blue 
checked shirt and long pants, I 

1473
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:06,120
think jeans, Francis testifies. 
Its arms were raised over its 

1474
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:08,200
head, almost touching the top of
the cab. 

1475
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:12,800
This creature remained there for
a few seconds, looking into the 

1476
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:15,320
pickup, and then the pickup was 
past it. 

1477
01:24:16,120 --> 01:24:18,120
Francis could not believe what 
she had seen. 

1478
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:22,360
It looked like a hairy man or a 
hairy animal in man's clothing, 

1479
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,880
she said. 
But it didn't look like an ape 

1480
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:27,920
or anything like that. 
Its eyes were yellow and its 

1481
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:32,160
mouth was open. 
Although time seemed frozen and 

1482
01:24:32,160 --> 01:24:35,560
distorted in this moment of 
fantastic horror, it was all 

1483
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:38,560
over within a few minutes. 
The headlights, her little 

1484
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:40,760
brother coming into the cab, and
the thing. 

1485
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:45,000
By the time the family reached 
Canta for gas, they had finally 

1486
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:47,800
calmed down. 
Frances and her father climbed 

1487
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,520
out of the pickup and checked 
the side of the truck to see if 

1488
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:52,160
the creature had done any 
damage. 

1489
01:24:53,480 --> 01:24:55,960
They were surprised to see that 
the dust on the side of the 

1490
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:59,720
truck was undisturbed and so was
the dust on the hood and roof of

1491
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:02,640
the truck. 
In fact, they found nothing out 

1492
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:05,800
of the ordinary. 
No blood, no hair, nothing. 

1493
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:09,960
The family stretched their legs 
and rested at Canta for about 20

1494
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:12,360
minutes. 
The car that had been following 

1495
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:16,000
them never did show up. 
It was as if the car simply 

1496
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:19,080
vanished. 
They drove home to Flagstaff 

1497
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,200
with the cab light on and the 
doors securely locked. 

1498
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:26,600
I wish I could say this was the 
end of the story, Francis says. 

1499
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:33,800
But it's not. 
A few nights later, around 11:00

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01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:37,160
PM, Francis and her brother were
awakened by the sounds of 

1501
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,520
drumming. 
They looked out his bedroom 

1502
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:42,560
window into the backyard, which 
was surrounded by a fence. 

1503
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:46,160
At first, they saw nothing but 
the force beyond the fence. 

1504
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:50,520
Then the drumming grew louder 
and three or four men appeared 

1505
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,600
behind the wooden fence. 
It looked like they were trying 

1506
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:56,680
to climb the fence, but couldn't
quite manage to bring their legs

1507
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:59,320
up high enough and swing over, 
Francis says. 

1508
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:03,560
Unable to get into the yard, the
men began to chant. 

1509
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:07,440
Francis was so scared she slept 
with her little brother that 

1510
01:26:07,440 --> 01:26:11,200
night. 
Sometime later, Francis sought 

1511
01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:14,720
out her Navajo friend, hoping 
she could offer some explanation

1512
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,520
for these strange incidents. 
She told Francis that it was a 

1513
01:26:18,520 --> 01:26:20,880
skin Walker that had tried to 
attack her family. 

1514
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:26,280
Skinwalkers or creatures of 
Navajo legend witches that can 

1515
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:30,480
shape shift into animals. 
That a skinwalker attacked them 

1516
01:26:30,480 --> 01:26:34,000
was quite unusual, Francis's 
friend told her as it had been a

1517
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:37,640
long time since she heard of any
activity about skinwalkers and 

1518
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:39,880
that they normally don't bother 
non natives. 

1519
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:43,720
Francis took her friend back by 
the fence where she had seen the

1520
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:48,200
strange men trying to climb in. 
The Navajo woman considered the 

1521
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:52,440
scene for a moment, then 
revealed that 3 or 4 skinwalkers

1522
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:55,760
had visited the house. 
She said that they wanted the 

1523
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:59,160
family but could not gain access
because something was protecting

1524
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:02,280
the family. 
Francis was astonished. 

1525
01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:06,320
Why, she asked, why would the 
skinwalkers want her family? 

1526
01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:11,240
Your family has a lot of power, 
the Navajo woman said, and they 

1527
01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:14,400
wanted it again. 
She said that skinwalkers 

1528
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:17,240
usually don't bother non 
natives, but she believed that 

1529
01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:20,360
they wanted the family enough 
that they exposed themselves. 

1530
01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:23,360
Later that day. 
She blessed the perimeter of the

1531
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:26,520
property, the house, the 
vehicles and the family. 

1532
01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:30,320
We haven't been bothered by 
skinwalkers since then, Francis 

1533
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:32,880
says. 
Then again, I haven't been back 

1534
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,800
to Caenta. 
I've gone through other towns on

1535
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:38,600
the reservation. 
Yes, at night, but I'm not 

1536
01:27:38,600 --> 01:27:41,360
alone. 
I carry a weapon and I carry 

1537
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:46,560
protective amulets. 
Thanks for listening everyone. 

1538
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:50,200
Don't forget my books are all 
for sale, audio and written. 

1539
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:52,240
The links are in the descripcion
below. 

1540
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:54,400
Thanks again. 
Take care.