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I'm Lynn Smith, and welcome to 
the Bigfoot Project. 

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Grab your favorite drink, settle
into your chair, and prepare 

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yourself for another night of 
scary Bigfoot encounters. 

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This encounter occurred October 
15th, 1994 in Greenbrier County,

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West Virginia. 
Many years ago while camping in 

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Monongahela National Forest in 
the fall with my family, my son 

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and I decided to walk around 
part of the lake at night time. 

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It was a beautiful bright night.
The temperature was in the 50s. 

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We came upon a marshy area just 
off the trail. 

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There was a Meadow at the edge 
of the lake. 

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We heard a loud commotion and 
sticks breaking. 

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We stopped to look, thinking 
that it may have been campers 

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looking for firewood. 
I saw two very large black 

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upright creatures ripping 
branches and bark from the 

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trees. 
It appeared that they were 

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eating the bark. 
My son and I were about 125 feet

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away at the most. 
I was so scared and in 

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disbelief. 
I quietly told my son, he was 

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10, to move slowly down to the 
ground. 

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We crouched behind a rock and 
watched over 15 minutes. 

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I have never sweat like this my 
entire life. 

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I was so frightened. 
The smallest of the two had an 

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arm reach about 10 to 12 feet. 
The larger of the two was. 

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Several feet higher. 
All of a sudden the two stepped 

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back into the darkness of the 
woods and a third one stepped 

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out. 
This one was unbelievably tall. 

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We only watched a few more 
seconds and I told my son we 

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have to run. 
We ran non-stop back to my 

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family's camper. 
My dad did not believe us. 

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He thought it was a bear. 
I told him that there was no way

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it was a bear. 
Even a grizzly was not as tall 

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as the smallest one's arm reach.
I grew up in the area and I 

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spent a lot of time in the woods
and it takes a lot to frighten. 

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Me. 
The next day I went to the same 

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spot and found several feet of 
tree branches and smaller limbs 

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at the base of several trees. 
The trees had been stripped of 

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branches and bark through the 
years. 

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I stopped talking about it 
because I felt like no one 

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believed me or my son. 
After this, I have been very 

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curious as to what this could 
be. 

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I have spent a lot of time 
camping in all seasons, 

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including winter here. 
While free diving, I found 

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numerous large tracks crossing 
shallow areas of the lake in 

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water up to 8 feet deep. 
Most recently, in the winter of 

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2005, my wife and I camped for a
month in this area looking for 

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clues. 
In late December we went back 

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for a few days in the snow when 
there was no one else around. 

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This time, however, I think it 
found us all. 

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That night we heard loud 
knocking in several locations, 1

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not far from our tent. 
It was almost as if they were 

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signalling each other from 
across the lake. 

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This was so loud I believe you 
could. 

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Hear it for. 
Miles, my three dogs were 

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extremely frightened and very 
quiet. 

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Normally they would be barking. 
We have talked to many locals in

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the area. 
Most people keep to themselves 

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in these parts. 
I can understand this. 

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One lady we met did not know our
story and we asked her if she 

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had ever seen anything strange 
in the area. 

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She said that she would walk her
dogs around the same lake in the

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mornings after her husband went 
to work. 

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Both dogs are large and not 
afraid of anyone. 

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As they walk near the picnic 
area, she noticed a figure at 

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the edge of the woods. 
It was summertime and the figure

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was covered from head to toe in 
dark fur. 

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She knew then that it was not 
human. 

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Both of her dogs were terrified 
and would not bark, and they 

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tried to hide behind her. 
She backed away and it 

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disappeared into the woods. 
Since then, she will not go 

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back. 
Another incident was told to me 

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by my parents who were skeptical
about my stories. 

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They were camping last fall and 
there was only another man 

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camping there. 
They jokingly asked him if he 

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had seen any bigfoots lately. 
He got quiet for a moment and 

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told them that a few nights 
before he had been camping 

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outside the campground in A 
roadside spot. 

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He had a small dog with him. 
Just before midnight he turned 

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off his Lantern and was going to
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His dog had a certain bark for 
people he knew and one for 

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strangers. 
The man told my dad that the dog

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almost ripped the blinds off the
camper and was barking 

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frantically at something outside
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He knew something was wrong so 
he grabbed his pistol. 

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When he went to the door he saw 
a very large black shadow walk 

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between the fire and the camper.
This made his hair stand on end.

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He left the next day. 
I would love to go and spend 

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more time in the area and show 
someone what I believe are 

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hotspots. 
After the first sightings, I 

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have been convinced they do 
exist. 

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Stephen Willis, an investigator 
with the BFRO, interviewed the 

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witness and found his story to 
be very compelling. 

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He did not waver from the 
written report and added even 

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more details. 
The witness and his family spend

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a significant amount of time 
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They tend camp at least once 
each month, all year long. 

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He had visited Sherwood Lake on 
several occasions in all 

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seasons. 
He observed a Mountain Lion and 

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cub on a spring camping trip to 
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Once during a winter camping 
weekend, he discovered eight 

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holes through the ice which 
resembled A trackway. 

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They led across a short section 
of the lake, beginning where it 

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looked as if something had slid 
down the embankment to the ice. 

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The holes were spaced and an 
interval he could not match 

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while walking on the frozen 
surface. 

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The witnesses dogs mentioned in 
this report were Rottweiler and 

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Pitbull. 
Neither breed is recognized as 

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timid and they have not repeated
the abnormal behaviour. 

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Truck driver vows to never drive
on Hwy. 78 in Imperial County, 

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California again after a Bigfoot
approached his trailer. 

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Investigation report by BFRO 
investigator Richard H. 

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The witness is a 31 year old 
semi truck driver and he was 

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returning home to Holtville when
he pulled over to spend a few 

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hours sleeping on a dirt pull 
out that truckers use along that

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lonely stretch of desert 
highway. 

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The witness's encounter included
a visual of the creature, a very

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strong smell, and a loud grunt. 
The first thing the witness 

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noticed when he pulled off the 
road was the strong, dead 

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decaying skunk smell. 
So when he stopped the truck he 

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turned off the engine. 
He left the headlights on just 

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in case he might step on 
something as he stepped out of 

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his truck to take care of 
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As he was standing alongside of 
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he began hearing rocks falling 
like an animal was walking down 

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a mountainside. 
At about this time the dead 

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skunk smell which was bad got 
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of smell. 
At that instant he observed this

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long haired large framed 
creature walking in front of his

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truck and through his headlights
and then across the road making 

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a loud grunting noise. 
Now this last series of events 

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put the witness in a very 
frightened mode and he had the 

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strong feeling that he had to 
get out of there. 

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Now, I asked the witness a few 
specific questions about just 

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what he saw that evening in late
November 1999. 

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Describe the area in which the 
incident occurred. 

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It was a dirt pullout that 
truckers use for sleeping a few 

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hours. 
The area is a total desert 

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setting that is located on Hwy. 
78 as it crossed the Chocolate 

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Mountains in Imperial County of 
California. 

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Whereabout in Imperial County 
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It is located about 20 or so 
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about 30 miles South of Blythe 
CA on Hwy. 78. 

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What was the distance you would 
estimate that you were from it? 

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About 20 to 25 feet away. 
What was your first reaction? 

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At first I was startled and 
caught off guard and that turned

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into amazement and then quickly 
turned to that scared feeling. 

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What was it doing? 
It was walking away from me in 

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front of my truck and across the
road like it is bow legged and I

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could only see its left rear 
side in the headlights. 

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Did it stand on 2 legs and did 
it ever go down on all fours? 

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Only saw it use its two legs as 
it walked across the road and it

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never went down on all fours. 
Was it covered with hair and 

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what colour was it? 
It was covered with hair on the 

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half that I saw and the colour 
was a dark brown but the back 

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looked greyish. 
The upper hair looked to be 

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longer and seemed to flow as it 
moved. 

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What would you estimate its 
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I thought it might weigh about 
650 lbs and its height was about

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7 to 7 1/2 feet tall. 
Did you ever see any facial 

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features and could you describe 
them? 

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No to both, but I did notice 
that there wasn't much of A neck

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and it seemed as if the head was
mounted on its well muscled 

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shoulders. 
Could you describe the arms? 

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They seemed long and very 
muscular and the fingers looked 

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like they went below the knees. 
Could you tell if it was a male 

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or a female? 
No, but it looked like it could 

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pick up 1000 LB pallet with no 
problem. 

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About how long did you see it? 
About 5 to 8 seconds. 

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Did it ever make any noise? 
Yes, it made a grunting sound as

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it crossed the road in front of 
my truck, like somebody clearing

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their throat, but much louder. 
This is when I sensed the fear 

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and I knew that I had to get out
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Did it ever see you? 
I don't know. 

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It had to know that I was there.
I only saw one side of it as it 

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crossed the road. 
Did you ever smell anything? 

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Yes, as I said, well in the 
truck it smelled like a dead 

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decaying skunk. 
But as the creature passed in 

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front of the truck, that smell 
turned into a gagging smell that

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made me sick and I felt that 
fear that I had to leave now. 

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There was a slight breeze coming
from the creature towards me. 

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Have you ever discussed this 
sighting with anyone else or an 

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agency? 
No, I've never told anyone, not 

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even my wife. 
I just didn't want anybody to 

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think that I was crazy. 
In summary, the witness was 

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adamant and credible in his 
retelling of his sighting. 

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I know we might find it 
difficult to think of this 

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creature in a desert setting 
like this, but there is plenty 

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of game such as deer, snakes, 
rabbits and other small 

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creatures that live out there. 
Water and foliage are provided 

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by the Colorado River and there 
are several canals that traverse

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that area for the agriculture 
plantations that permeate 

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Imperial County. 
I believe the sound, smell and 

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the visual of this creature that
occurred at about the same 

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instant caused the witness's 
fear and made him feel he had to

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leave immediately. 
The witness is half Native 

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American and he has heard 
stories from his elders about 

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the Hairy Man of the Desert who 
will get you if you are not 

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good, but he never believed 
them. 

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The witness's people also say 
that if the Hairy One touches 

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you then you are blessed. 
He now has a different outlook 

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about the out of doors. 
This sighting took place near 

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Nordegg, Alberta in September 
1993 at about 9:00 PM. 

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There was 14 to 20 other people 
in the hiking group. 

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Hello. 
My sighting took place at a 

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little camping site called Camp 
Alexo West of Rocky Mountain 

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House, east of Nordegg around 10
years ago. 

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You're probably wondering why 
I'm just reporting this. 

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It's because I never knew about 
this reporting site till today. 

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The sighting took place when we 
all decided to take a walk one 

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night. 
We all headed down a hill past 

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the boys cabin. 
We came to a set of railroad 

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tracks, turned left and started 
heading to an old cemetery we 

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were all told about. 
We found the cemetery and we all

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explored. 
Some of the graves were from 

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1800s to the 1900s. 
After about an hour it started 

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to get dark so we all decided to
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As we were going back up the 
tracks we all of a sudden heard 

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one of the girls scream. 
When we all turned around we saw

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her flashlight shining up on 
this old tower. 

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I wasn't ready to see what I saw
and to this day my hair stands 

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on end when I tell this. 
But on top of this tower which 

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itself was about 40 to 50 feet 
high stood this creature. 

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When we all shined our lights on
it, it proceeded to jump off the

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tower. 
When it raised its arms to jump 

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off you could clear as day see 
the hair hanging from its arms. 

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But what gets me is how it could
jump off this tower like I was 

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jumping off a 1 foot high curb. 
After it landed on the ground, 

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it took off into the bushes. 
We could clearly hear the trees 

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breaking as it ran away. 
All of a sudden there was 

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silence. 
Then about a minute later there 

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was this loud eerily high 
pitched scream that just went 

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right through you. 
I know it was 10 years ago, but 

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I know what I saw and to the day
I die I will say it was him. 

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A follow up investigation report
was done by BFRO investigator 

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Adrian Ericsson. 
I talked to RC and IB who were 

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both 16 at the time and I feel 
both are credible. 

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I've talked as well to the 
manager of the camp, Alexo, who 

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says that there have been 
several sightings in the area 

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over the years and in fact in 
1988 Renee Dehindon came out in 

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the spring and investigated 
reports in the area. 

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As I am quite familiar and have 
worked extensively in this area,

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I investigated and discovered 
that the tower was in fact 

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wooden cribbing along the 
railroad that was originally 

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used to load coal and that 
depending on where the Sasquatch

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was positioned that it likely 
jumped between 20 to 25 feet to 

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the ground. 
RC was impressed by the size, 

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but the first thing he noticed 
was the hair on the arms and 

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added that it didn't appear to 
have a neck. 

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The following sighting occurred 
at the same area of Camp Alexo 

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in June of 1998. 
It was mid to late afternoon on 

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a warm sunny day. 
I have been going out to this 

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summer camp out by Nordegg since
I was nine years old. 

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It happened my first time at the
camp and it was the second day 

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there we were all separated and 
playing a wide game. 

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A game in which the camp's 
attendant are stretched out 

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across the camp's entire 
boundaries, and I got lost from 

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the group of people I was going 
around with. 

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I was searching for them, 
running through the woods 

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between the Pioneer cabin and 
the Webster cabin when I tripped

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and fell over a log. 
I noticed it as I was getting 

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up. 
It was very tall with this dark 

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matted brown fur. 
The face looked almost human but

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with a very wide bone structure,
slightly extended pinched nose 

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and a wide mouth. 
He, I think it was a he, was 

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standing upright with his very 
large hand holding on to the 

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tree next to him. 
After a glance that lasted but a

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moment I screamed and he walked 
away. 

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I kept screaming and stared into
the place he had just vacated 

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for a bit longer before running 
till I found a path and came to 

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find my group at Pioneer Cabin, 
the southernmost cabin. 

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A very disturbing encounter at 
Camp Alexo occurred in late 

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19856. 
Hunters were set up deep in the 

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woods not far from the 
graveyard. 

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It was their first night out and
they were sitting around the 

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campfire chatting. 
They heard something screaming 

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in the forest, but they brushed 
it off. 

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Whatever it was, continued 
hollering for a good portion of 

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the night. 
The men had their rifles and 

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were prepared for any problems 
that would arise. 

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Anyway, the next morning the men
investigated the general area of

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which they thought the screams 
are coming from. 

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They found nothing. 
They spent the remainder of the 

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day hunting and when they 
returned to the camp they had a 

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number of kills. 
By the time they finished 

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hanging and skinning the 
animals, they were exhausted and

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decided to go to bed. 
Within 10 minutes of laying 

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down, they began to hear the 
screams again. 

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There was four of us in the big 
fifth wheel and two of them in 

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the camper, which was maybe 15 
feet away. 

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Anyways, the guy who owned the 
fifth wheel was sleeping closest

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to the door and we could hear 
this thing getting louder and 

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louder. 
It was getting closer. 

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Whatever the animal was, it was 
making a noise that sounded to 

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the witness like it was walking 
right inside the camp. 

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It finally sounded like it was 
right outside the window looking

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in at us when the guy who owned 
the fifth wheel jumped out with 

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his rifle loaded. 
I was half asleep but I remember

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him yelling and then hearing 3 
gunshots, then hearing some 

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really loud screams twice as 
loud as we heard before. 

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When the man re entered, the 
witness recalls he was shaking 

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from fright. 
He told them that he had seen a 

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Sasquatch. 
He described it as 7 1/2 feet 

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tall and hairy. 
After he shot at it, it ran on 2

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legs back into the Bush. 
The next day, even though it had

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rained that night, the men did 
manage to find tracks in the 

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mud. 
They did look too big for bear 

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tracks and they were long and 
narrow like a person's, but you 

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just couldn't tell. 
And of course I had no camera. 

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This was in 1985. 
Anyways, that morning the guy 

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packed up everything and went 
home and to this day he will 

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never go back in there again. 
The witness continues to hunt in

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there even to day, but admits 
the place creeps him out. 

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I've haunted in thereafter for 
deer, elk and chickens. 

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Whenever I'm walking in there, 
I'm always looking over my 

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shoulder. 
You just get the feeling like 

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something is following you. 
You know, I've haunted in a lot 

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of places but never feel 
anything like I do there. 

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Cambridge Sighting Guernsey 
County, Ohio Brookville, IN 

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Resident Sean Meckley used to 
live in Cambridge, OH until 

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1993. 
His home was located on the 

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extreme West End of Cambridge on
Westview Road at the junction of

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it and McPherson Rd. 
Bigfoot was a part of Sean's 

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life as well as his parents and 
siblings too. 

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They didn't discuss it with 
others outside of their own 

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family for fear of being made 
fun of or called crazy, but they

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feel certain that some of their 
neighbors had had to have heard 

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the screams, howls and wood 
knocks at night. 

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Those living nearby might even 
have witnessed the creatures, 

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like the members of the Meckley 
family did on more than one 

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occasion. 
One night, as Sean and his two 

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brothers lay in their beds, they
heard stomping outside their 

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bedroom window at the end of 
their mobile home on Westview 

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Rd. 
Shuffling noises were heard, 

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followed by a loud The whole end
of the trailer fell as something

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knocked it off its concrete 
block foundation. 

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On another occasion one night 
around 10:30 PM, Sean and his 

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family were inside their home 
playing cards. 

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Sean was sitting with his back 
to the window and for some 

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reason he turned around and 
looked outside. 

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He got the shock. 
Of his life when he saw a huge, 

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dark, hairy creature crouched 
down staring back at him. 

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The very next night they heard 
noises outside and opened the 

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trailer door to see a Sasquatch 
standing next to their mobile 

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home, its head matching the 
height of the roof. 6 people 

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witnessed this, but again they 
were reluctant to discuss it 

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outside of their own family. 
One night, the sounds of rocks 

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were heard as they bounced off 
the sides and top of their home.

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They opened the door and shone a
flashlight into the darkness. 

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They discovered on a tree stump 
in their yard a large Bigfoot 

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just sitting there watching 
their trailer. 

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Its eyes glowed an eerie 
yellowish white reflection as 

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the beam of light made contact 
with the beast. 

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Another time, 3 of the boys were
walking down Westview Rd. around

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6:30 in the late afternoon. 
It was still daylight outside. 

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They heard a noise from the 
woods beside the road and 

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stopped and stared in that 
direction. 

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A moment later they saw a 
Bigfoot bolt from the area where

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they had heard the sound, only 
to be followed by another and 

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then another three. 
All together. 

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They ran back home in fright. 
John says that they used to go 

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back into the wooded area around
his home and near the junkyard 

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that was owned by the Rayburn 
family. 

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They found twisted broken trees 
and structures that he called 

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nests. 
They also found caves. 

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Sometimes they would see large 
barefooted tracks along the 

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Creek, some bigger than human 
size. 

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And then there were the screams 
and howls at night. 

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Did other families beside the 
Meclis hear them, too? 

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In 1992, a year before Sean 
moved away to Indiana. 

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He said. 
There was a traffic accident on 

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US Route 40 between the Ohio 
State Patrol barracks and Tunnel

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Hill. 
That would put. 

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It right about even with the 
back end of Rayburn's junkyard. 

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A car had turned over onto its 
top and a female was trapped 

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inside the vehicle. 
Sean says that he and his family

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members all had police scanners 
and CB radios in those days and 

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they listened to the chatter on 
them all the time. 

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There were reports of a hairy 
creature coming out of the woods

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and getting to the car. 
I can only assume that if this 

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is true, someone had to have 
witnessed it. 

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It must have heard the driver 
moaning or screaming, or maybe 

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it saw the accident. 
But anyway, it pulled the door 

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off the upside down car and 
threw it down, then Lombard back

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into the swampy area from where 
it came. 

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Sean says that the CB radio and 
police scanner were overwhelmed 

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with talk of a Bigfoot being 
seen at the area of the wreck. 

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Several different transmissions 
were heard that night in 

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reference to what had taken 
place. 

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A short while later, after 
things had quieted down, they 

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started hearing reports from the
scanner on the sheriff's 

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frequency and then the Ohio 
State Patrols channel that the 

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whole Bigfoot thing was not 
true. 

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Yes, there had really been an 
accident at that location, but 

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no Bigfoot was seen that night. 
Really. 

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I wonder Coon hunting horror. 
Adams and Skioto Counties, Ohio 

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16 year old Steve Ernst was very
excited to finally get an 

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invitation to go Coon hunting 
with his friend and the friend's

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stepfather. 
Along with one other man. 

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They left after sundown from 
their home in Brown County and 

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headed E toward the Shawnee 
State Forest on the eastern edge

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of Adams and Schiotto counties. 
When the hunters arrived, the 

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dogs were released from their 
boxes in the back of the truck 

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and they vanished into the night
in search of coons to tree for 

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their masters. 
After going two or three miles 

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deep into the rugged terrain of 
southern Ohio's hills and 

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hollows, it began to snow, 
making the late October night a 

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little bit colder. 
Steve was the first one to see 

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them, bare human like footprints
that were adjacent to the Creek 

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bank. 
He was following some 10 to 15 

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of them. 
They looked very genuine in the 

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fresh dusting of new snow that 
had just begun to cover the 

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ground. 
How the older guys were able to 

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pull this off was a mystery to 
him. 

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With it being so cold and 
everything, how could they have 

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taken off their shoes and socks 
and left barefoot tracks for him

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to find? 
Plus they looked huge, 16 inches

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long and six or seven inches 
wide. 

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At least the tracks had gone up 
high on the bank and out of 

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sight of the small light affixed
to his head. 

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Steve circled back and 
approached the 2 elder hunters 

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and said something like nice try
guys trying to scare us with 

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those big footprints. 
These men had not seen the 

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tracks yet and had no clue as to
what Steve was talking about so 

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they continued on the way they 
had been headed. 

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When the group arrived at the 
trackway again, Steve accused 

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the two older men of having made
the prints to scare the boys. 

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He was very soon to dismiss that
thought when the actions of the 

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two adults convinced them that 
they weren't responsible for 

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this deed. 
Nope. 

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The two men grew very concerned 
when they examined the tracks. 

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They told the two boys to 
quicken their pace and not get 

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out of sight of each other. 
They continued following the far

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off barking of the dogs and not 
long after finding the large 

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footprints, something else 
happened that gave them all 

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quite a scare. 
Off in the. 

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Distance but still visible 
appeared what looked like a blue

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ball of flame, not an orb, but 
an actual flame, as if from a 

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fire or a propane. 
Stove it was even. 

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Flickering around the edges as 
the foursome continued, now at a

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hastened pace, the blue flame 
kept up with them, some distance

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away, but still visible. 
This continued for over an hour,

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and whenever the men would stop,
the blue flame would also stop, 

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as if it was watching them, 
waiting for them. 

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The two adults tried to act 
brave and protective of the two 

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boys, but Steve could tell that 
the men were afraid of this 

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flame too. 
Finally, the glow disappeared 

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and the group felt great relief.
That soon changed when a 

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mournful moaning sound came from
the darkness and frightened them

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all again. 
It sounded like a woman in pain 

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or grieving, then crying. 
Steve felt the hair on the back 

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of his neck stand up as one of 
the men cried. 

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What in the bleep is that? 
Which was followed by the 

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command. 
Let's go. 

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In their haste to get out of the
woods and back to the truck, 

454
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,960
there was a time when they lost 
their way and they weren't even 

455
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,120
sure which direction to head. 
All the while, the moaning, 

456
00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:23,560
crying sounds from the dark 
woods followed them and 

457
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,240
continued scaring and tormenting
the group next. 

458
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,680
As if that weren't enough, these
noises were replaced with what 

459
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,680
sounded exactly like a baby 
crying, just like an infant that

460
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,280
needs fed or changing. 
This went on for about 10 

461
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,280
minutes as the group scrambled 
along, now headed in the right 

462
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:47,080
direction of the truck. 
Finally, the crying stopped, and

463
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,600
the only sound the hunters heard
besides their own hearts 

464
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,320
pounding in their chests and 
their own feet running towards 

465
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,720
the safety of the truck was the 
cracking and breaking of sticks 

466
00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,000
and brush as something unseen, 
something very big, trailed 

467
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,240
along behind them as if 
escorting them out of the woods.

468
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,520
As they neared the truck parked 
by the edge of the woods, the 

469
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,960
noises behind them stopped. 
It seemed like their guide had 

470
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,200
done his job in seeing them back
to their ride. 

471
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,640
They piled into the vehicle and 
while placing some of their gear

472
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,520
in the bed of the truck, they 
were surprised to see all of the

473
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,520
coonhounds already huddled in 
their boxes, as if they too had 

474
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,440
a terrifying ordeal in the 
Shawnee State Forest that night,

475
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,760
one of which none of them will 
ever forget. 

476
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,320
This report was recorded by Tall
H Branco, field researcher and 

477
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,320
investigator of the RFP Research
project. 

478
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,560
The encounter occurred in 
Johnson County, Arkansas, 

479
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,480
October 2002. 
S of Low Gap and northeast of 

480
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,400
Harmony, which is a mountainous 
part of the Ozark National 

481
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,520
Forest. 
The witness is a mature man who 

482
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,920
has lived in the area for many 
years and lived for a few years 

483
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,840
in a northeastern state where he
haunted bear using a nuisance 

484
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,440
animal permit from the state. 
He is an avid hunter and his 

485
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,080
haunted bear, deer, wild hog, 
small animals and predators in 

486
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,520
Arkansas. 
He is very familiar with all the

487
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,960
classified animals in the Ozarks
and familiar with odors and 

488
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,520
sounds produced by these 
animals. 

489
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,920
The day of the encounter the 
witness had driven alone in a 

490
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,880
Nissan pickup truck about 3/4 of
a mile into the hollow where he 

491
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,600
parked without turning the truck
around. 

492
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,680
It was alone and did not lock 
it. 

493
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,560
He had board an old Remington 
semi automatic 22 caliber rifle 

494
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,400
which was equipped with A3 by 
9/1 inch scope with which he was

495
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,200
going to use to hunt squirrels. 
He walked up the old road 100 

496
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,400
yards or so from the truck when 
he noticed a live cedar tree to 

497
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,320
the left of the road which had 
been broken and twisted, and the

498
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,200
top bend to the centre of the 
road and pointing to the North 

499
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,360
East. 
He saw that the brake was about 

500
00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:53,240
8 feet off the ground and the 
trunk was slightly larger than 

501
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,040
his upper arm at the point of 
the break. 

502
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,600
The witness had been in the area
recently and had not seen the 

503
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,280
broken tree and he knew there 
had been no winds in the area 

504
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,560
since that time which it would 
have broken it. 

505
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,760
He studied the tree for a minute
or two and after he was unable 

506
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,520
to determine how it had been 
broken, he continued up the 

507
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,760
road. 
After walking about 25 yards, he

508
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,240
saw there was another cedar tree
on the right side of the road 

509
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,640
which is also alive, about the 
same size and broken in the same

510
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,960
fashion, with the top pointed in
the same direction as the first.

511
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,880
At that time he became very 
interested in determining what 

512
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,360
had broken the trees and why. 
He stated he could see they were

513
00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:32,360
not simply broken by the weight 
of a bear, as the tops were 

514
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,360
twisted after being broken so 
that they pointed in the same 

515
00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:38,040
direction. 
He was baffled by the way the 

516
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,640
trees had been broken and 
although he soon continued 

517
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,480
walking up the old road, he 
could not help but think about 

518
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,240
how odd the conditions appeared 
at the time. 

519
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,400
The Creek bottom was heavily 
timbered with large oak, Hickory

520
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,520
and pine trees and he soon 
became preoccupied with stalking

521
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,120
and shooting a few fox 
squirrels. 

522
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,920
About 30 minutes before dusk he 
began to notice that the normal 

523
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,000
sounds of the birds, especially 
those of the large woodpeckers 

524
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,760
that call that time of day 
around their nest trees and 

525
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,200
insects, were missing. 
Just about that time, he heard 

526
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,520
the loud sound of a hollow tree 
being struck 3 or 4 times by 

527
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,600
what sounded like a rock or 
green stick. 

528
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,200
The sounds somewhat alarmed him 
because they were coming from 

529
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,160
behind him and he placed the 
sounds not far from his truck. 

530
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,720
He immediately thought that 
someone was messing with his 

531
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,920
truck and since it was left 
unlocked, he turned quickly and 

532
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,120
started back down the road. 
The witness was walking at a 

533
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,240
fast pace and was soon within 
150 yards of the truck. 

534
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,200
At that point, he heard a soft 
grunt from the woods to his 

535
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,360
left. 
He looked in the direction of 

536
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,080
the sound and noticed a movement
in the woods at an angle of. 

537
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,600
About 45°. 
He froze immediately and saw a 

538
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,720
large figure in a squatting 
position behind a very thin veil

539
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,240
of brush about 35 to 40 yards 
away. 

540
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,320
He immediately thought he was 
seeing a cinnamon phase bear 

541
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,000
because of its colour, but he 
quickly realized what he was 

542
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,600
seeing was not a bear. 
The creature was squatting on 

543
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,000
its haunches with its knees 
spread slightly and with its two

544
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,520
long arms extended between its 
knees and with balled up fists 

545
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,040
resting on the ground in front 
of its. 

546
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,640
Feet. 
The animal was staring directly 

547
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,040
at him and slowly rocking its 
body side to side and making 

548
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,880
short grunting and clicking 
chirping sounds with its mouth, 

549
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,080
the witness stated. 
He was frozen in shock for two 

550
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,280
or three seconds and suddenly he
had an overpowering fear that 

551
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,960
the animal was going to charge 
him, he said. 

552
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,240
By reflex, he raised the rifle 
in a split second and tried to 

553
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,960
shoot the animal just below its 
chin. 

554
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,160
He said the animal appeared to 
have no neck and hit the spine 

555
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,840
to disable it. 
When the bullet hit the animal, 

556
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,200
it stood upright with its arms 
hanging to its side. 

557
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,920
The animal turned its whole body
and began running up the slope 

558
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,240
of the Ridge. 
The witness stated the animal 

559
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,040
had actually been squatted only 
a few yards from the base of the

560
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,040
Ridge at that point. 
As soon as the animal wheeled 

561
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,520
and started crashing through the
smaller timber on the slope of 

562
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,720
the Ridge, the witness stated he
emptied the rifle at the running

563
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,880
animal's back. 
He stated he thought the rifle 

564
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,040
held 15 long rifle cartridges 
and he was sure that at least 

565
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,880
seven of those bullets struck 
the animal. 

566
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,120
About the time the rifle clicked
to indicate it was empty, he 

567
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,680
heard the animal stop running. 
He then realized the animal was 

568
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,560
at a point directly up the Ridge
from his truck and that he was 

569
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,360
standing with an empty rifle. 
He then bolted to the truck as 

570
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,040
fast as he could run. 
He threw the gun into the bed of

571
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:20,680
the truck and jumped inside the 
cab. 

572
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,800
Just before he did so, he heard 
the animal crashing through the 

573
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,760
timber again and it sounded to 
him as if the animal was running

574
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,600
towards the truck. 
He started the truck and threw 

575
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,200
it into reverse to turn it 
around. 

576
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,960
He. 
Backed it into a tree, quickly 

577
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,280
put the truck in forward gear 
and tried to turn around in a 

578
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,480
very narrow road and in his 
haste struck another tree with 

579
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,080
the front of the truck. 
After banging the truck through 

580
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,120
the timber and over large rocks,
he finally got it back on the 

581
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,720
road and drove at breakneck 
speed out of the hollow. 

582
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,600
He never saw the animal during 
that process, and he has not 

583
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,720
haunted in that hollow again. 
When the witness first seen the 

584
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,880
creature, it was facing him and 
squatted in the position of a 

585
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,640
man taking a dump in the woods. 
The man said the animal's legs 

586
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,440
were spread and its arms were 
between its knees, with its 

587
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,080
hands made into fists resting on
the ground. 

588
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,480
He stated the animal was covered
in reddish brown hair that in 

589
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,840
most places appeared to be about
3 inches long. 

590
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,280
On the forearms, he saw the hair
appear to be shorter and not as 

591
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,920
thick as that on the rest of its
body. 

592
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,000
He stated the head possessed A 
conical shape similar to that of

593
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,680
a mature male gorilla. 
The animal had no visible neck 

594
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,800
or ears, and although he stared 
at the face, he was unable to 

595
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,520
discern any facial features 
because of the Halo of hair 

596
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,800
around his face. 
After he fired the first shot 

597
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,600
and the animal leapt to the 
upright position, he noticed the

598
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,480
hair on its head and shoulders 
were noticeably lighter in color

599
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,080
than the hair elsewhere. 
He also noticed the hair on its 

600
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,040
knees was discolored and he 
thought those areas were covered

601
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,760
with a light coating of mud and 
water. 

602
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,320
He said when standing erect and 
later when running, the legs 

603
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,880
appeared to be thick and 
powerful but slightly bowed. 

604
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,480
He particularly noted when it 
was standing upright, the 

605
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,400
animal's arms were large and 
long and hung alongside the body

606
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,040
like a human's, rather than 
protruding forward like the 

607
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,760
front legs of a bear. 
Standing erect on its back legs,

608
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,200
he said the animal appeared to 
be about 7 feet tall with a 

609
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,000
muscular build. 
He said for its height the upper

610
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,080
body did not look proportionally
large. 

611
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,720
The witness said he could not 
see breasts or genitalia to 

612
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,040
determine the sex of the animal,
although he was sure it had no 

613
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,080
pronounced breasts like those of
a mature woman. 

614
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,000
He stated he believed the animal
would weigh somewhat more than 

615
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,680
400 lbs. 
When the animal ran away, its 

616
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,080
legs were noticeably bent and 
its long strides were fluid like

617
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,360
while running. 
Its long arms were said to be 

618
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,800
swinging in what appeared to be 
an exaggerated but fluid motion.

619
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,000
While the animal was squatted, 
the witness said it was making 

620
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,240
short, low volume, grunting and 
chirping, clicking sounds with 

621
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,920
its mouth. 
He stated the sounds were 

622
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,600
somewhat similar to, but 
different from those made by 

623
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,240
hogs and bears. 
He stated that when the first 

624
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,680
shot hit the animal, it made a 
loud, short grunt, but he did 

625
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,880
not believe it made any sounds 
as it ran off. 

626
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,000
The only sounds he remembered 
hearing during that time were 

627
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,200
the sounds of breaking limbs and
brush and the thuds made by the 

628
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,040
animal's feet as they struck the
ground. 

629
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,320
The witness also stated that 
shortly before he saw the 

630
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,520
animal, he smelled A foul odour 
which he described as being a 

631
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,840
mix of smells of rotten meat and
a sewer treatment plant. 

632
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,360
After the witness encountered 
the animal, he said that he made

633
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,560
the mistake of telling some of 
his Co workers about the 

634
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,800
incident. 
He said that he had had caught a

635
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,040
lot of Flack in ribbing about 
the incident and after a while 

636
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:31,800
he refused to talk to anyone 
about it. 

637
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,800
It is significant to note that 
the witness had, prior to his 

638
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,280
encounter, haunted this part of 
the Ozarks for many years, both 

639
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,360
day and night, and had never 
seen evidence of these animals 

640
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,800
and never knew they existed in 
this part of the country. 

641
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,320
Many of the area residents who 
hunt in the hollows off the 

642
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,239
southern front of the Ozark 
Mountains in Johnson and 

643
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,320
adjoining counties have for 
years reported encounters with 

644
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,720
large human like creatures. 
Others have found collections of

645
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:01,360
animal bones and skulls and 
large piles of feces in certain 

646
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,560
distinct areas in the upper and 
most inaccessible parts of the 

647
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,520
hollows. 
These areas are bounded by steep

648
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,720
sandstone Bluffs, some of which 
are undercut by erosion. 

649
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,680
The ledges below many of the 
large overhangs contained 

650
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,960
abundant physical evidence and 
artefacts to show the locations 

651
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,160
have been used as shelters for 
both animals and Indians. 

652
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,320
Very few hunters enter the upper
reaches of the hollows because 

653
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,360
of the harsh terrain. 
Unfortunately, there was no 

654
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,440
follow up report on what 
happened to the creature. 

655
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,960
The witness indicated he would 
not hunt that area again, so it 

656
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,400
is assumed he did not go back 
looking for a body. 

657
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,240
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662
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,480
Back in 2011, I was staying with
my grandparents at their place 

663
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,160
just outside of Perry, FL. 
Their home sat on a stretch of 

664
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,800
land with tall trees and woods 
thick enough to get lost in if 

665
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,000
you weren't careful. 
That part of Taylor County was 

666
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,840
quiet, and most of the neighbors
have lived there forever. 

667
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,800
It was the kind of place where 
stories spread fast, but folks 

668
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,920
didn't waste time on things they
didn't believe in. 

669
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,520
I used to. 
Stay there a lot as a kid, 

670
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,880
especially on weekends, we'd sit
outside after dark, and 

671
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,840
sometimes I'd walk around the 
edge of the yard with a 

672
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,880
flashlight, checking for any 
wildlife. 

673
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,920
My grandmother was a straight 
talker, not the kind to 

674
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,160
exaggerate. 
One night, just after 9, she was

675
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,240
the one who first saw it. 
She had stepped out onto the 

676
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:41,240
porch. 
The light above the steps lit 

677
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,720
part of the yard, but not far. 
The rest faded into shadows 

678
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,720
under the big water oak near the
driveway. 

679
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:49,640
She stood there quietly, just 
watching. 

680
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:53,640
That's when she saw a tall 
upright creature leaning against

681
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,960
the tree like it was resting or 
waiting. 

682
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,200
Its whole body was covered in 
white hair, not short, not too 

683
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:04,080
long, but kind of curly. 
She didn't move or call out, she

684
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,760
just watched. 
It stayed there for a bit, then 

685
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,920
pushed off the tree, stood up 
taller and walked away into the 

686
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,200
trees beyond the yard. 
It didn't make a noise and it 

687
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,600
walked on 2 feet, just like a 
person. 

688
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,720
She told me the next morning she
said she knew what she saw, that

689
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,720
it wasn't a person. 
It wasn't a bear. 

690
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,440
She said it was a Bigfoot. 
I didn't question her. 

691
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,600
A few nights later I saw it too.
It was right around the same 

692
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,360
time, just past nine. 
I was looking out from the 

693
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,960
living room window when I 
noticed something by that same 

694
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,480
tree. 
It was crouched a little like it

695
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,640
was resting on one knee. 
I watched it from behind the 

696
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,120
curtain. 
Its body looked massive, with 

697
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,440
shoulders like a linebacker and 
arms that reach lower than they 

698
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,240
should. 
Same white hair, curled a bit. 

699
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,040
It stayed still for about a 
minute, then stood up. 

700
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:56,800
I could see how tall it really 
was at 7 1/2 feet, maybe more. 

701
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,320
It didn't rush. 
It turned and walked off into 

702
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,920
the dark, past the edge of the 
yard and into the woods. 

703
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,840
It wasn't just us. 
Their neighbor down the road saw

704
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,640
something, too. 
One afternoon he was out feeding

705
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,240
his chickens when he noticed 
something standing across the 

706
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:14,960
road, leaning on his fence. 
It was taller than the post and 

707
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,120
covered in brown hair. 
He stood there staring, trying 

708
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,960
to figure out what it was. 
Then his two dogs took off 

709
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,680
barking. 
That creature turned, leapt over

710
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,440
the fence and walked down into 
the hollow behind his yard. 

711
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,880
He told my grandparents what he 
saw, and they believed him, and 

712
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,120
so did I. 
He wasn't the kind of man to 

713
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,800
make up things like that. 
There were other strange things 

714
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:40,320
too, sounds we couldn't explain.
One night, a loud scream woke us

715
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,120
up. 
It came from the woods Outback, 

716
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,120
and it sounded like a woman 
screaming. 

717
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,200
We stood by the windows, 
listening. 

718
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,760
The sound came again, and it 
wasn't from any animal we knew. 

719
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,400
It kept going for a few minutes,
then stopped. 

720
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,160
My grandparents didn't seem 
surprised. 

721
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,240
They just said it's that thing 
again. 

722
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,680
I didn't ask what they meant. 
I already knew they had an old 

723
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,760
Labrador named Buck. 
He was almost blind and could 

724
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,200
barely walk. 
That dog never left the back 

725
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,960
porch. 
He just lay there in the sun 

726
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,920
during the day and curl up near 
the door at night. 1 morning he 

727
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,520
was gone. 
Just gone. 

728
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:18,480
We searched the whole area, 
looked under sheds, walked the 

729
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,080
trails behind the property, 
called out nothing. 

730
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,080
We spent three days looking. 
He never showed up. 

731
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,680
My grandparents were quiet about
it. 

732
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,840
They didn't say much, but I 
could tell they believed 

733
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,880
something had taken him. 
My grandmother said that 

734
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,240
creature had been coming closer 
to the house for a while, 

735
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,160
watching and listening, maybe 
more curious than anything else,

736
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,040
but she didn't think it meant 
harm. 

737
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:44,560
But she didn't trust it either. 
A few days later, I went out by 

738
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,040
the oak tree during the day and 
noticed something in the dirt 

739
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,680
near the base of the trunk. 
A footprint. 

740
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,360
It was bigger than my own by 
several inches, wide and deep, 

741
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,480
with five clear toe marks. 
It had been pressed into the 

742
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,200
soft ground near a patch of 
Moss. 

743
00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:01,880
I called my grandfather over. 
He looked at it for a while and 

744
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,200
nodded. 
That's from what she saw, he 

745
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,080
said. 
After that we didn't see the 

746
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:10,440
creature again, but we heard 
noises at night every so often. 

747
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,920
Stick snapping in the woods, 
heavy steps moving past the edge

748
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,120
of the yard. 
More screaming now and then. 

749
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,480
Never close, but never too far 
either. 

750
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,720
They lived there for several 
more years before moving. 

751
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,000
They never told many people 
about what they saw, only those 

752
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,200
they trusted, and those who 
heard usually nodded like they'd

753
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,920
heard something similar. 
That part of Florida is full of 

754
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,520
woods and water, thick with 
Cypress and pine. 

755
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,440
You could walk 100 feet and feel
like you're a mile from 

756
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,240
anywhere. 
I didn't see anything again 

757
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,520
after that, but I never doubted 
it was real. 

758
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,160
There's no joke, no story. 
For fun, that creature walked 

759
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,480
into their yard twice, stood 
under a tree and left without a 

760
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,240
sound. 
It was a Bigfoot, plain and 

761
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:59,360
simple. 
I've been hunting in Florida for

762
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,280
more than 25 years. 
My parents have a big piece of 

763
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,280
land near the Apalachicola River
in Liberty County. 

764
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,600
It's about 300 acres and they've
lived there a long time. 

765
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,960
The land is thick with trees and
brush. 

766
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,120
My dad and I hunt deer there 
with a few friends during the 

767
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,920
season. 
Back in November, I had an 

768
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,080
experience I will never forget. 
It happened late in the 

769
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,720
afternoon, close to 5:00. 
I was in my deer stand down by 

770
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,520
the Creek. 
It was a rocky Creek, maybe 20 

771
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,720
feet across, with water that 
runs shallow in spots and deeper

772
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,560
in others. 
Across from it is a Ridge and 

773
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,160
past that is the neighbour's 
land. 

774
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,600
I had driven out to the spot on 
my ATV, parked up on a hill and 

775
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,440
walked the last bit down to the 
stand. 

776
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,640
The ground was covered with dry 
leaves. 

777
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,080
Everything was quiet. 
I climbed into my stand, which 

778
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,920
sits about 20 feet off the 
ground, and settled in like I 

779
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,560
usually do. 
After sitting there for a while,

780
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,960
I noticed a strong smell. 
It was musky, kind of like 

781
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,480
sewage, and I'd smelled it on 
the property before. 

782
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,680
It wasn't something you could 
ignore. 

783
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,000
Then there were leaves rustling 
behind me. 

784
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,520
I turned to my stand to look and
saw something on the other side 

785
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,600
of the Creek. 
It was a large, hairy creature. 

786
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,040
It was around 60 yards away, 
moving along the opposite side 

787
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,000
of the bank, parallel to where I
was. 

788
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,600
It was walking fast, but not 
running. 

789
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,360
Its arm swung as it moved and 
its head turned in my direction 

790
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,680
like it saw me too. 
It didn't stop, it just kept 

791
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,680
walking. 
I watched it for 10 to 15 

792
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,840
seconds. 
It was covered in dark brown 

793
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,160
hair, long and hanging off its 
body. 

794
00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:38,160
It looked to be about 7 1/2 to 8
feet tall and was wide, twice my

795
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,640
width. 
Easy, I couldn't make out its 

796
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,320
face because the sun was low 
behind it and there were some 

797
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,520
trees in the way as it moved. 
Still, I could see it well 

798
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,040
enough to know what I was 
looking at. 

799
00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:51,320
I've spent a lot of time in the 
woods. 

800
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,520
I've seen every kind of wildlife
out there. 

801
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,640
I know what animals look and 
sound like. 

802
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:00,080
This wasn't any of those. 
I had seen something like this 

803
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,200
before 2 years earlier, from 
that same deer stand around the 

804
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,160
same time of day. 
That time I only saw it for a 

805
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,800
second and thought maybe it was 
someone in a Gilly suit. 

806
00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,480
After this second time, I know 
it wasn't. 

807
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,360
I didn't tell many people about 
it at first, but I'll say this. 

808
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,600
I haven't used that stand again 
since. 

809
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,520
I hadn't gone back to it until I
brought someone out there 

810
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,320
recently to show them where it 
happened. 

811
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,880
The place felt different. 
I didn't like being back there. 

812
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,680
The smell, I noticed I've 
smelled it before on the land. 

813
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,200
Every time I did, the dogs would
act strange. 

814
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,480
They'd bark, get tense, stay 
close to the house like they 

815
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,680
were guarding something. 
I never saw anything at those 

816
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,160
times, but now I think it was 
close then, too. 

817
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,080
There's no doubt in my mind 
about what I saw. 

818
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:48,040
It was a Bigfoot or skunk ape. 
I've seen it with my own eyes, 

819
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,880
and I don't need anyone to 
believe me to know that it's 

820
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:58,200
true. 
I've always been curious about 

821
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,400
Bigfoot. 
It's something that's interested

822
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,200
me since I was young, but I 
wouldn't have said I was a full 

823
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,080
believer. 
I didn't want to believe in 

824
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,240
something just because I wanted 
it to be true. 

825
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,200
So I stayed open minded but also
skeptical. 

826
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,800
Then something happened that 
changed that. 

827
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,640
Back in 2006, we were living in 
Holmes County, Florida on a farm

828
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,160
that's been in the family for a 
while. 

829
00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:22,480
It sets out in the country and 
the land behind us has been 

830
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,920
empty many years. 
There's a stretch of woods 

831
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,920
between our back fields and the 
old abandoned property behind 

832
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,720
them. 
One day my wife was driving down

833
00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:33,240
the driveway with our daughter, 
who was four at the time. 

834
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,320
When they got back to the house,
my daughter told me she saw 

835
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,120
monkeys in the field. 
I asked her what she meant. 

836
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,520
She said there was a big one and
a smaller 1 standing at the edge

837
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,120
of the woods. 
She told me they had red eyes. 

838
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,480
I asked her how big the large 
one was and she said it was way 

839
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,760
bigger than me. 
I'm 6 foot four and about 200 

840
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,320
lbs. 
She said they were really hairy.

841
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:56,840
I didn't think much of it at the
time. 

842
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:58,680
I figured it was her 
imagination. 

843
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,280
Over the years, I asked my 
daughter to retell the story a 

844
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,080
few times to family and friends.
Her story never really changed. 

845
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,520
She didn't add anything or leave
anything out. 

846
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,360
It stayed the same, just simple 
and strange. 

847
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:16,120
Still, I kind of brushed it off.
I never saw anything myself and 

848
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:20,560
part of me didn't expect to. 
Then in November 2011, during 

849
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,400
rifle season, I was deer hunting
on our land, just like I always.

850
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,680
Do. 
The abandoned land behind us was

851
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,720
still empty. 
It was late in the afternoon, 

852
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:31,320
close to dusk. 
I was sitting in my deer stand, 

853
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,200
thinking I'd probably head out 
soon. 

854
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,280
That's when I saw something move
out of the corner of my eye. 

855
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,760
I turned to look, and that's 
when I saw them. 

856
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,560
Two large creatures ran across 
the field in front of me, maybe 

857
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,080
25 yards away. 
They were upright, running on 2 

858
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,840
legs, covered in long hair. 
There's no doubt in my mind what

859
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,360
I was looking at. 
These were not people, and they 

860
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,240
weren't animals I'd ever seen 
before. 

861
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,760
They were Bigfoot. 
The bigger one was almost black,

862
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,560
very dark brown. 
The smaller one was a little 

863
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,320
lighter, more like a coyote 
colour, kind of blonde. 

864
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,040
They moved fast, but didn't look
like they were in a full Sprint.

865
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,040
Their arms were relaxed, 
swinging as they jogged. 

866
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,440
They both kept looking behind 
them as they ran, like something

867
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,240
might have been chasing them, 
but I didn't see anything else. 

868
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,640
I didn't get a good look at 
their faces. 

869
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,480
Between the shock, the movement 
and the way they kept looking 

870
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,680
back, I couldn't focus on 
details. 

871
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:27,240
I watched them cross the open 
area and disappear into a clump 

872
00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:31,000
of trees just beyond my pond. 
They were gone in less than 10 

873
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,000
seconds. 
I pulled up my scope, hoping to 

874
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,680
track them better, but once they
passed into the woods, I 

875
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,360
couldn't see much, just movement
between the trees. 

876
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,800
After a few minutes, I climbed 
down and looked around. 

877
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,040
I didn't find hair or 
footprints, but it was cold and 

878
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,400
almost dark. 
I was shaking, both from the 

879
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,280
cold and from what I had just 
seen. 

880
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,760
I came back the next morning and
searched again, but still didn't

881
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,120
find any signs. 
But I know what I saw. 

882
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,520
They weren't very real. 
These were two creatures on 2 

883
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,640
legs, taller and wider than a 
person, and fast. 

884
00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:06,240
It wasn't a mistake, it wasn't a
joke. 

885
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:10,200
I saw them plain as day. 
After that I went online and 

886
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,240
looked through some reports. 
I was shocked to find so many 

887
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:15,680
sightings in Florida, more than 
I expected. 

888
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,960
What really surprised me was 
finding an old report from the 

889
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:23,120
1990s that came from the very 
same area behind my property on 

890
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,360
that abandoned land. 
My daughter saw something years 

891
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,800
earlier right there. 
Then I saw two of them in the 

892
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,280
same place five years later. 
I used to be curious, Now I'm 

893
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,520
sure no more scepticism. 
They are real. 

894
00:47:42,540 --> 00:47:45,780
My son and I were deer hunting 1
morning on a local farm here in 

895
00:47:45,780 --> 00:47:48,560
Jackson County. 
We'd split up for a bit like we 

896
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,080
usually do, and plan to meet 
back up later. 

897
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:54,280
Around midday we walked back 
together and started heading to 

898
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,000
my truck. 
We were about 50 yards down the 

899
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,480
trail when we heard something 
moving in the cedar thicket 

900
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,360
beside us. 
It wasn't a squirrel or a deer. 

901
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,200
The sound was heavier, like 
something pushing through the 

902
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,600
trees. 
Then we saw it. 

903
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,800
A tall creature stepped out just
far enough for us to see it 

904
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,240
clearly. 
It stood upright, covered in 

905
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:15,920
long brown hair. 
It had to be at least 8 feet 

906
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,120
tall, and it looked like the 
ones I've seen on TV shows or in

907
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,440
stories people tell. 
Big, solid, and shaped like a 

908
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,720
person, but much larger. 
We froze. 

909
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,400
It froze. 
For a moment we just stared at 

910
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,040
each other. 
None of us moved. 

911
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,560
Then, just as quickly as it 
appeared, it stepped back into 

912
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,840
the cedar thicket. 
But it didn't leave. 

913
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,680
As we started walking again, we 
heard it moving through the 

914
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,960
brush beside us. 
It followed us, keeping pace but

915
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,680
staying just out of sight. 
It began making a low growling 

916
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,160
sound, not loud, but deep and 
rough. 

917
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,560
Then we heard sticks breaking 
and a few small branches started

918
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,800
landing on the trail beside us. 
We picked up our pace. 

919
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,760
Every few steps we heard it 
again. 

920
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,440
The growling didn't stop. 
It wasn't charging or screaming,

921
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,560
but it made sure we knew it was 
still there. 

922
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:06,320
It kept to the trees, moving 
with us, keeping close all the 

923
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,640
way to the edge of the woods. 
When we reached the truck, the 

924
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,280
sound stopped. 
No more footsteps, no more 

925
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,600
growls. 
Just quiet again, like nothing 

926
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,600
had happened. 
We got in and drove off without 

927
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,680
saying much. 
Neither of us had to explain 

928
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,800
what we saw. 
We both knew what it was. 

929
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:25,760
I haven't told many people, most
laugh when you say anything 

930
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,120
about Bigfoot, but my son and I 
saw it. 

931
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,320
We heard it, we knew it was 
following us. 

932
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,200
That thing was real and it was 
huge. 

933
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,800
My sister and I were driving 
home late one night through the 

934
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,360
bottoms near Saint Mark's in 
Wakulla County. 

935
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,880
It was around 2:30 in the 
morning, just thick trees and 

936
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,080
swamp on both sides. 
We were talking quietly when I 

937
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,240
noticed something up ahead on 
the side of the road. 

938
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,320
At first it looked like just a 
dark shape, but as we got closer

939
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,720
and the headlights hit it, both 
of us went completely silent. 

940
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,000
My sister was driving and I was 
in the passenger seat. 

941
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,600
The creature was on my side of 
the car, standing right where 

942
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,120
the road met the ditch as we 
passed it. 

943
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,440
I couldn't have been more than 
two or three feet from it. 

944
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,480
What we saw was a large man like
creature covered in long dark 

945
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,800
hair. 
The hair was shiny in the light,

946
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,080
like it had just come out of the
water or something. 

947
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,280
It was tall, at least 8 feet. 
It was standing half in the 

948
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,800
ditch and half on the edge of 
the road, like it had come out 

949
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,480
of the woods and was about to 
cross. 

950
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,680
Its arms and legs had strong 
muscle definition. 

951
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,560
You could see the shape through 
the hair. 

952
00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:36,080
It looked built and powerful. 
It didn't look like an animal 

953
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,640
face, it looked human covered in
hair. 

954
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,480
But the eyes were what really 
hit me. 

955
00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:44,400
They weren't glowing or strange,
just focused and very human. 

956
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,760
They watched us as we passed. 
It turned its head slowly and 

957
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,600
kept its eyes on us the whole 
time. 

958
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,520
We kept driving in silence for 
about 3 or 4 minutes. 

959
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,680
Neither of us said a word. 
We both just stared ahead like 

960
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,520
we couldn't believe what we had 
just seen. 

961
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,920
Then we looked at each other at 
the same time and both said what

962
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:05,840
the hell was that? 
For the next 15 or 20 miles we 

963
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,840
talked about it over and over. 
We tried to make sense of it. 

964
00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:12,440
At one point we said maybe it 
was a wolfman, but that wasn't 

965
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,640
right either. 
It didn't have a snout. 

966
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,920
The face wasn't long. 
It had the face of a man just 

967
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,960
covered in hair. 
The eyes were too clear and too 

968
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,680
human. 
That night, something was out 

969
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,360
there on the road. 
Something big, walking on 2 

970
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,640
feet, covered in dark hair and 
watching us go by. 

971
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,520
It was scary, but it wasn't just
fear. 

972
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,640
It felt like I saw something we 
weren't supposed to, something 

973
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,440
that's not supposed to exist, 
but somehow it does. 

974
00:51:43,750 --> 00:51:48,110
It was in the fall of 2014 in 
Okeechobee County, Florida, when

975
00:51:48,110 --> 00:51:50,630
things started happening that 
got everyone in our part of the 

976
00:51:50,630 --> 00:51:54,910
county talking strange things. 
It wasn't just one story or one 

977
00:51:54,910 --> 00:51:57,470
night. 
It built up over a few weeks and

978
00:51:57,470 --> 00:52:00,670
I remember it clearly because it
affected more than one family 

979
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,200
and folks around here don't 
spook easy. 

980
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,440
The first thing was the root 
cellar at the old Jenkins 

981
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,320
property. 
That place had been there for 

982
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,120
generations, and even though no 
one lived there full time 

983
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,440
anymore, the cellar was still 
used for storing gear and feed. 

984
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,360
One morning the door was found 
ripped off. 

985
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,040
Not just broken, it was torn 
off. 

986
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,000
The hinges were bent and the 
thick wooden door was in two 

987
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,680
places, lying outside like it 
had been tossed. 

988
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,360
There were deep scratches across
the frame. 

989
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,440
The floor inside was torn up, 
and whatever had been inside 

990
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,800
jars, buckets, even some old 
tools had been thrown around or 

991
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,320
taken. 
There were no signs of a person,

992
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,560
no tire tracks or boot prints. 
Just broken boards, busted jars,

993
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,680
and a musky smell that clung to 
the air around the building for 

994
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:48,720
days. 
A week later, not far from 

995
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,280
there, two men from town went 
out for a Coon hunt. 

996
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:53,600
They had a pack of hounds, good 
dogs. 

997
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,080
These dogs had once brought down
a big wild hog and even stood 

998
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,480
off with a bear. 
They weren't afraid of much. 

999
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:03,200
The two men headed out at dusk 
like usual, walking toward the 

1000
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:06,440
Ridge above the Creek line. 
They said they barely made it a 

1001
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:08,720
mile out before the dogs went 
dead silent. 

1002
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,320
Then something screamed. 
They said it was long and deep. 

1003
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,760
They both haunted their whole 
lives and said it wasn't 

1004
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,880
anything they'd heard before. 
Then it came crashing through 

1005
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:21,240
the trees, breaking limbs, 
running through palm meadows and

1006
00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:23,080
chasing the dogs back down the 
hill. 

1007
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:25,560
Whatever. 
It was hit so fast the men 

1008
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,480
couldn't keep up. 
The dog scattered, yelping and 

1009
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,120
howling, some diving through 
brush, trying to get away. 

1010
00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:33,560
The men barely had time to 
react. 

1011
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,920
One of them raised his gun but 
dropped it. 

1012
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,160
He didn't even fire. 
They were missing for half the 

1013
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,880
night before someone found them 
walking back down the road, 

1014
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,400
bruised, cut up and completely 
shaken. 

1015
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:46,320
One of them wouldn't even talk 
about it. 

1016
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:48,840
It took almost two weeks to find
the dogs. 

1017
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,840
Some were found dead in the 
woods, torn up and scattered. 

1018
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,360
A few turned up later, barely 
moving and covered in scratches,

1019
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,720
ribs showing. 
One of the hounds wouldn't go 

1020
00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:00,280
near the woods again. 
It just sat and stared toward 

1021
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,960
the trees, whining. 
Then a few nights after that, 

1022
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,240
just outside Fanning Springs, my
cousin's neighbor called my 

1023
00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:10,400
uncle to come look at something.
My cousin lived near the edge of

1024
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,640
the woods and the neighbors 
chickens had been making a 

1025
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,120
racket for two nights straight. 
This time they found the chicken

1026
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,160
coop had been crushed in on one 
side. 

1027
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,960
It was flattened like something 
had stepped right on it. 

1028
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,760
Feathers were everywhere. 
A few dead birds lay inside, but

1029
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,840
most were missing. 
Tracks were found just past the 

1030
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,800
fence line. 
These prints were long and wide,

1031
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:34,960
sunk deep into soft mud. 5 toes 
and a flat heel. 

1032
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,880
Huge. 
My uncle measured one against 

1033
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,360
his boot and said it was almost 
twice the size. 

1034
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:42,600
The stride between them was long
too. 

1035
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,280
It walked upright. 
Nobody said it out loud at 

1036
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,080
first, but everyone was thinking
it. 

1037
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,880
Then one night, my cousin 
himself saw it. 

1038
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,920
He was walking to the barn 
around midnight, flashlight in 

1039
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,600
hand, when he heard movement in 
the brush to his right. 

1040
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,840
Something stood up from behind a
Palmetto clump and stepped onto 

1041
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,440
the trail. 
He froze. 

1042
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,560
He said it was taller than the 
door of the barn and wider than 

1043
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:09,280
a feed barrel, covered in thick,
dark hair, long and rough. 

1044
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,000
Its shoulders looked like they 
could carry a tree. 

1045
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,920
It stood upright, arms to its 
sides, and its head tilted like 

1046
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,040
it was trying to figure him out.
Then it stepped off the trail 

1047
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,760
and disappeared into the woods. 
The trees shook as it went. 

1048
00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:27,280
He came back shaking, not from 
fear, exactly, but from shock. 

1049
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,120
He said it looked like a 
Bigfoot, just like the ones 

1050
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:34,080
people talk about. 
That same musky smell showed up 

1051
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,600
in the barn the next morning, 
and the goats wouldn't go near 

1052
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,240
the east fence for three days 
after that. 

1053
00:55:40,240 --> 00:55:42,440
People started sharing stories 
more openly. 

1054
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,720
A trucker passing through the 
edge of Ocala National Forest 

1055
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,920
saw something cross the road 
late at night. 

1056
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,280
Tall, hairy, walking fast across
2 lanes in three steps. 

1057
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,160
A group of campers near the 
river heard deep howls and saw 

1058
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:59,720
trees swaying with no wind. 
A woman found her horse fence 

1059
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:01,920
broken. 
Not like it was kicked or leaned

1060
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,280
on, more like something had 
stepped right on it. 

1061
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:07,960
All the stories had small 
differences, but they all 

1062
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,400
sounded the same. 
Too tall creature walking on 2 

1063
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,640
legs covered in hair. 
Not human, not animal. 

1064
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:19,360
Fast, strong, sometimes quiet, 
sometimes loud, and most of the 

1065
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:23,760
time just out of sight. 
I never saw it with my own eyes,

1066
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,360
but I've heard enough and seen 
enough signs to know something's

1067
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,120
out there. 
Too many hunters I trust, too 

1068
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,160
many family members, too many 
neighbors telling the same kinds

1069
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,880
of stories. 
People around here might not 

1070
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,720
always agree on much, but they 
know the woods and they know 

1071
00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:42,200
when something doesn't belong. 
We all called it a Bigfoot, or 

1072
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,000
some call it Skunk Ape. 
Though no one really argued over

1073
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,240
the name, everyone knew what we 
meant. 

1074
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:50,680
Something big, something smart 
enough to avoid traps and 

1075
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:54,240
cameras, and something strong 
enough to tear through trees and

1076
00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:58,720
send trained dogs running. 
We haven't had trouble lately, 

1077
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,480
but some people have stopped 
going into the woods for hikes 

1078
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,400
and walks. 
Some stopped hunting altogether.

1079
00:57:04,720 --> 00:57:07,720
A few put up motion lights and 
trail cams, but nothing ever 

1080
00:57:07,720 --> 00:57:10,720
showed up on them. 
Some say they hear howls late at

1081
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:13,800
night from deep in the swamp. 
Others say they've smelled the 

1082
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,120
same musky scent during certain 
seasons. 

1083
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,480
It's still out there, keeping 
just enough distance to stay 

1084
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,760
hidden, watching when it wants 
to, moving when it needs to. 

1085
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,840
And even though not many have 
seen it, clearly, no one's 

1086
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,720
doubting it anymore. 
That part of Florida has deep 

1087
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,280
woods, swamps and rivers that 
stretch for miles. 

1088
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,240
There are places out there no 
one goes, not even the game 

1089
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,160
wardens. 
If something wanted to live 

1090
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,280
without being seen, it could do 
it here. 

1091
00:57:45,890 --> 00:57:48,570
I grew up in Carrieville, 
Florida, just outside the town 

1092
00:57:48,570 --> 00:57:52,850
limits in Washington County. 
Back in the 70s there were still

1093
00:57:52,850 --> 00:57:56,250
some old mine entrances around, 
nothing like the big coal mines 

1094
00:57:56,250 --> 00:57:59,690
up north, but these were small 
forgotten spots used years 

1095
00:57:59,690 --> 00:58:02,650
earlier to pull out low grade 
sand or limestone from the 

1096
00:58:02,650 --> 00:58:04,970
hills. 
A few of them had old timber 

1097
00:58:04,970 --> 00:58:07,810
supports and were dug back into 
shady parts of the Ridge. 

1098
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,240
We used to call them the caves 
but we all knew they were man 

1099
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,920
made. 
One afternoon I was out there 

1100
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,920
with a neighbor boy I ran around
with most days after school. 

1101
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,200
I don't remember the exact date 
anymore but I remember 

1102
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:21,880
everything else like it just 
happened. 

1103
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,360
We were both about 13. 
We were poking around near an 

1104
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:27,760
old slate pile that sat up 
against a low hill. 

1105
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,280
That pile had been there for a 
long time and weeds were growing

1106
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,800
all over it. 
It was a quiet day, not much 

1107
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,760
wind and you could hear 
everything around you. 

1108
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:40,080
Bugs, birds, tree frogs. 
We weren't doing anything 

1109
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,960
special, just tossing rocks and 
walking along the slope. 

1110
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,280
I don't know why, but something 
made us walk up the hill toward 

1111
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,000
the old mine entrance near the 
top. 

1112
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:52,040
It wasn't far, maybe 40 or 50 
yards, but it was steep enough 

1113
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,400
to be tiring in the heat. 
I remember the sky being bright 

1114
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:58,200
and cloudless, and the mine 
mouth sat in shadows from the 

1115
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,840
trees above. 
We were talking one minute, then

1116
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,520
dead quiet the next. 
Both of us stopped at the same 

1117
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,440
time. 
There was something standing 

1118
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,400
right at the mouth of the mine. 
It stood tall, upright, and it 

1119
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,400
had its left arm draped over the
old wooden beam that held up the

1120
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:17,120
top of the mine opening. 
That beam was high, I'd say 8 or

1121
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:20,440
9 feet off the ground. 
That thing's hand hung past it, 

1122
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,960
swinging slightly as it was 
shifting its weight. 

1123
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:27,400
The hair on it was a dusty grey,
almost white in spots, kind of 

1124
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,760
patchy but not thin. 
You could see. 

1125
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,720
Skin in some areas, especially 
around the elbow and neck. 

1126
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:36,400
It was thick, built wide through
the chest and arms, and I 

1127
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,040
remember its head seemed to be 
low between its shoulders. 

1128
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,080
Its other arm was down by its 
side, moving just a little. 

1129
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,000
We didn't move. 
It didn't either, just stood 

1130
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,320
there looking back at us. 
I couldn't say how long it 

1131
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,880
lasted, maybe 30 seconds, maybe 
more. 

1132
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,760
The only sound I remember was 
the crunch of gravel under our 

1133
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:57,920
feet when one of us took a step 
back. 

1134
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:01,120
We turned and ran. 
We sprinted down the slope, 

1135
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,080
sliding and almost falling on 
the loose slate, heading for the

1136
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:05,680
road that led back to the 
houses. 

1137
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,080
I remember the neighbor boy 
yelling for his dad as we ran up

1138
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:11,480
to his porch. 
We were both out of breath and 

1139
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,840
trying to explain what we saw. 
I remember the looks on the 

1140
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:18,560
adults faces, half concern, half
trying not to laugh, but 

1141
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,840
something about how worked up we
were must have hit them because 

1142
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:25,720
they actually followed us back. 
By the time we got back up to 

1143
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,640
the hill, the thing was gone. 
There was nothing at the mine 

1144
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:31,960
entrance, no smell, no 
footprints though the ground was

1145
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:36,120
mostly stone and hard dirt, so 
we didn't expect any, but we 

1146
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,120
could tell it hadn't been our 
imagination. 

1147
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,840
We both saw the same thing. 
We both remember how high that 

1148
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:45,320
hand was hanging. 
No person we knew was that tall 

1149
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:48,720
and could stand like that. 
I've thought about it a lot 

1150
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,640
since I've haunted and fished 
and hiked all over this part of 

1151
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:55,200
Florida my whole life. 
I've seen bears, wild hogs, even

1152
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,640
a Panther once. 
None of those looked like what 

1153
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,520
we saw that day. 
That thing was on 2 legs. 

1154
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,400
It was standing still, not 
crouched, not running. 

1155
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:05,200
It didn't have fur like an 
animal. 

1156
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,000
The hair was long and hung down 
in places. 

1157
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,080
Its skin was dark underneath the
eyes. 

1158
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:13,960
I don't remember as clearly, but
I do remember they were forward 

1159
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:15,960
facing and it looked right at 
us. 

1160
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:19,640
As I got older, I stopped 
talking about it much. 

1161
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,920
People don't usually take 
stories like this seriously, but

1162
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,200
the boy who was with me, he 
remembered it too. 

1163
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,400
Every time I've brought it up, 
he told the same story. 

1164
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,440
Never changed a word. 
We may have been young, but we 

1165
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,960
weren't making it up. 
You don't forget seeing 

1166
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,160
something that size, standing 
there quiet and still and just 

1167
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:40,040
watching. 
I believe it was a Bigfoot. 

1168
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:41,800
That's the only word I've got 
for it. 

1169
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,200
I've heard other stories from 
people in the Panhandle, folks 

1170
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,360
who have seen something move 
through the Pines at night, 

1171
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:50,760
people who heard heavy steps 
outside their camps but never 

1172
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,640
saw what made them. 
The more I hear, the more it 

1173
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,440
lines up. 
We saw it. 

1174
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:58,760
I know we did and I still don't 
have a better explanation. 

1175
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,440
This happened a long time ago, 
back in 1995 I believe. 

1176
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,680
At the time, I lived in a new 
neighborhood in Santa Rosa 

1177
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:14,160
County called Pine Hollow. 
It was one of those places where

1178
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,640
the houses were still being 
built, so there was a lot of 

1179
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:19,400
empty lots and areas where the 
woods hadn't been cleared yet. 

1180
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,720
Our house backed right up to a 
dense stretch of pine and oak 

1181
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,400
trees. 
Behind the backyard fence was 

1182
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,000
just miles of woods. 
That part hadn't been developed 

1183
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,440
yet. 
It was around midday. 

1184
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,360
I remember the sun being high 
and bright, no clouds. 

1185
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,840
I had taken our dog Charlie out 
into the backyard on a leash. 

1186
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,240
She was a golden retriever, 
gentle and alert, always 

1187
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:43,080
sniffing and always ready to 
chase something if I let her off

1188
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,600
the leash. 
We were just walking near the 

1189
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,600
edge of the yard and everything 
seemed normal until Charlie 

1190
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,480
suddenly froze. 
She didn't bark, just growled, 

1191
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:54,520
low and steady. 
She was staring hard, not moving

1192
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:56,760
a muscle. 
I looked up to see what caught 

1193
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,880
her attention. 
That's when I saw it. 

1194
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:02,720
There was a creature standing 
just past the fence, about 50 

1195
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:05,720
feet in front of me. 
Not hidden, not moving. 

1196
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,480
It was just standing upright, 
tall, at least 7 feet. 

1197
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:12,800
It was off, white in colour, but
not clean or smooth. 

1198
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,960
The hair on it was long in 
places, 3 to 5 inches maybe, and

1199
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,800
hung in uneven patches along its
arms and torso. 

1200
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,600
It wasn't thick like a bears 
coat, more like strands. 

1201
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,760
Parts of the skin underneath 
showed in spots around the neck 

1202
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:30,520
and shoulders. 
Its body was large and solid, 

1203
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,640
with broad shoulders and thick 
limbs. 

1204
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,880
The arms hung low to its knees, 
and I could see the hands 

1205
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:39,840
clearly, big and dark. 
It didn't move at first, just 

1206
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,960
stood there. 
I could see its chest rise and 

1207
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:43,600
fall. 
I could hear it breathing. 

1208
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:48,160
Its face wasn't a human face, 
but it wasn't an animal's 

1209
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,040
either. 
The eyes were wide. 

1210
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,120
It had a flat nose and a heavy 
brow. 

1211
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,640
The mouth was tight. 
It stared at me and I stared 

1212
01:03:55,640 --> 01:03:57,520
back. 
I was frozen. 

1213
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,160
Charlie had stopped growling and
was tense at the end of the 

1214
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,480
leash. 
My grip hurt from how tightly I 

1215
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,360
was holding her. 
Then the creature shifted. 

1216
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:10,280
It took a step forward, not 
fast, but not slow either. 

1217
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,040
Its upper lip lifted just a 
little, and that's when I heard 

1218
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,120
it. 
A deep, rumbling growl. 

1219
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,320
It wasn't loud, but it was 
strong, like we were being 

1220
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:22,240
warned. 
I took a step back and the growl

1221
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:24,280
got louder. 
Its whole body seemed to 

1222
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,640
stiffen. 
It took another step toward the 

1223
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:30,200
fence, breathing heavier now. 
I could see its eyes narrow and 

1224
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:33,480
its arms lifted slightly. 
It looked tense, like it didn't 

1225
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,480
want us there. 
I felt the shock run through me.

1226
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:39,040
I wasn't just looking at 
something strange anymore. 

1227
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:42,600
I was in danger. 
Charlie backed up on her own, 

1228
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,760
ears down, tail tucked. 
Then something moved in the 

1229
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,120
trees behind it. 
At first I thought it was a 

1230
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:51,680
shadow, but then I saw a smaller
shape peek from behind a thick 

1231
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:54,040
pine trunk just a few feet 
behind the big one. 

1232
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:58,480
It was standing upright too, but
much smaller, maybe 4 feet tall.

1233
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:00,640
Same off white hair, but 
thinner. 

1234
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,160
It had hands pressed to the tree
and was only showing part of its

1235
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:07,440
face. 
Wide eyes, small nose, It looked

1236
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:10,080
young. 
The big one must have noticed me

1237
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:13,040
looking past it because it 
turned slightly, putting itself 

1238
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,480
between me and the smaller one. 
Then it let out a loud harsh 

1239
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:18,840
sound, something between a bark 
and a yell. 

1240
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:21,640
Short but deep. 
It made my stomach twist. 

1241
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:25,080
I took a slow step backward. 
Charlie was trembling. 

1242
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,920
I felt like I was caught in 
something I shouldn't be seeing.

1243
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:30,960
It wasn't just an animal 
defending its space, it was 

1244
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:32,720
something protecting the smaller
one. 

1245
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:35,920
It was guarding it. 
The creature stepped forward 

1246
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:39,040
again, now closer than ever, 
only yards from the fence. 

1247
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,440
Its breathing was heavy and 
strong, chest rising and falling

1248
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:44,760
fast. 
The smaller one stayed behind 

1249
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,720
the tree, peeking out just once 
more. 

1250
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:51,040
I didn't turn my back. 
I stepped backwards, 1 foot at a

1251
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,520
time, dragging Charlie with me. 
She was ready to bolt. 

1252
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,800
My heart was pounding so loud I 
couldn't hear anything else. 

1253
01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:02,840
When I was nearly at the back 
door, I glanced one last time. 

1254
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:05,920
The big one hadn't moved. 
It was still standing there, 

1255
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:08,480
just past the fence, but no 
longer advancing. 

1256
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,280
It just stood still, breathing 
hard, eyes still locked on us. 

1257
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:14,560
The smaller one was no longer 
visible. 

1258
01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:18,600
I opened the door and got inside
fast, locking it behind us. 

1259
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,680
By the time I looked back 
through the window, they were 

1260
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:23,880
gone. 
The woods were still, just the 

1261
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:25,640
sound of wind moving through the
leaves. 

1262
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,960
I did not go near that fence 
line again, not for a long time.

1263
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,640
That night, something else 
happened. 

1264
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:35,840
My dad had come home late from a
job and was talking with my mum 

1265
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,040
in the other room. 
I wasn't supposed to be 

1266
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:41,240
listening, but I heard enough to
know he had seen something too. 

1267
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,840
He'd been near a Creek off Shady
Lane in Crestview, about 20 

1268
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,880
minutes from our house, and he 
had seen something tall, pale 

1269
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:49,640
and moving upright near the 
water. 

1270
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:53,200
He didn't say much, just that it
wasn't a person and it wasn't an

1271
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:55,840
animal he recognized. 
He saw what I saw. 

1272
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:59,320
I've never seen them again, but 
I've heard strange knocks in the

1273
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:01,960
woods behind that neighborhood. 
I've heard something large 

1274
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:04,200
moving through the brush when no
one else was out there. 

1275
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:07,680
I found prints that were too 
long and too wide to be from a 

1276
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:09,320
person. 
They were huge. 

1277
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:12,520
I know what I saw and I know it 
saw me. 

1278
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:15,920
I'm pretty sure it was a Bigfoot
and a young one the mother was 

1279
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:19,800
protecting. 
Thanks for listening everyone. 

1280
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:23,440
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1281
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:25,480
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1282
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:27,640
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