1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,680 Some people go into the woods looking for peace and quiet. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Others come back convinced they were being watched the entire 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,080 time. Tonight's stories come from 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,880 those people. Welcome back to the Bigfoot 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:35,400 Project. This occurred in February of 6 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,120 2020 in central North Carolina. I left home on my way to work 7 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,480 about 30 minutes to an hour before sunrise. 8 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,640 On this morning. I actually left on time, but 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,400 normally I didn't. I was in a hurry to shave off 5 10 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,120 minutes of my transit time by being heavy footed on the 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,200 accelerator. I live in a rural area, but I 12 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,240 wouldn't call it deep country. There's still houses around and 13 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,680 towns. Just a 10 to 15 minute ride in 14 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,200 either direction, but nonetheless still rural with 15 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,519 large open fields and thick patches of woods. 16 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,040 Some of those patches are quite dense. 17 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,400 There's one long straight Rd. with almost no traffic and it's 18 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,600 actually the road I used to make up my time. 19 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,480 Yes, I tend to fly down that road even when I'm not running 20 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,440 late. I will drive pretty fast. 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,640 On this morning I actually left on time and I shouldn't have 22 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,480 been in a hurry, but I ended up being behind a school bus. 23 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,760 At the end of this long road is a highway and as you get onto 24 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,400 the highway you don't always have the opportunity to make a 25 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,680 quick pass. So I took a side road to 26 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,520 basically cut the corner and hopefully fly to make it to the 27 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,160 highway before that school bus did. 28 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,760 Again, I shouldn't have cared I wasn't late that day, but my 29 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,760 established pattern always drove me to drive hard in this area. 30 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,640 I took two turns and was running parallel to the bus, but on the 31 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,440 other road now in a race to get to the highway before the bus 32 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,240 did. A deer stepped into the road and 33 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,920 boom, I hit it. My airbag flew up into my face 34 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,240 too. If you've ever had an airbag 35 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,800 blow up on you, it takes a moment to realize what just 36 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,919 happened for your mind to process things. 37 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,720 I stopped and pulled over. The deer had come running top 38 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,840 speed across the field and ran right in front of me and I had 39 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,600 no opportunity to react. I checked out my vehicle to 40 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,800 examine the damage. The direction he was headed 41 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,880 seemed to be the very small continuation of a field, but 42 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,920 nearby was one of those thick, dense patches of woods that 43 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:31,560 likely extend a couple of miles in any direction. 44 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,040 The deer was lying in the field about 20 feet from the woods. 45 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,360 I wanted to make sure it wasn't suffering in case I needed to 46 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,480 put it down, but it was obvious that the deer was dead. 47 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,680 I suppose my vehicle plus its momentum knocked it several feet 48 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,960 off the road. I returned to my vehicle knowing 49 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:52,800 that I had an insurance claim to start. 50 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,400 I sat on the side of the road with a car passing only every 10 51 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,760 or 15 minutes or so and waiting a little over an hour for a 52 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,560 state trooper to arrive. This was not an emergency and my 53 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,520 call was not a top priority. While sitting there, the sky 54 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,280 brightened and the sun rose and the deer still lay dead 30 feet 55 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,840 off the road and only a few feet from the woods that it was 56 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,200 running towards. Eventually the state trooper 57 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,320 arrived and spent 5 minutes printing up a report for me to 58 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,960 give to my insurance company in case they needed it. 59 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,760 Despite my airbag being deployed, I decided to drop my 60 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,120 vehicle back home. The state trooper left and I 61 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,360 continued on in my original direction looking for a place to 62 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,120 turn around. It was probably a mile and a 63 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,160 half to find a suitable place to turn around without feeling like 64 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,040 I was infringing on someone's property. 65 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,560 I got turned around and headed back towards the accident site 66 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,360 and home the deer I hit. The deer that had laid in the 67 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,200 field for the last two hours was gone. 68 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,680 During the time it took me to drive a mile and a half, turn 69 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,080 around and pass by again on my way home, the deer had vanished. 70 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,880 Unless there was a bear around, there's nothing else other than 71 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,760 a person that could have dragged this deer away so quickly. 72 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,560 I pulled over and shut the engine down. 73 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,480 Couldn't believe it right away. My mind went straight to 74 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,040 Bigfoot. I thought this could be a great 75 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,760 opportunity to look for evidence and then it occurred to me if 76 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,360 this is true, it might not be far away or appreciate me being 77 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,400 so close to it. Instinct kicked in and then told 78 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:30,000 me to move along and go home. Even though I think it would 79 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,520 have been a great encounter with a Bigfoot, I don't actually want 80 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:35,440 to do it unless it's from a moving vehicle. 81 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,000 At 60 miles an hour, I'm damn sure I don't want to be face to 82 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,800 face with one that might be feeling protective of its family 83 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,320 or its food. Who knows how they think or 84 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,960 react. My guess is that they are as 85 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,320 unpredictable as any human is, so there's literally no way of 86 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,600 ever gauging what sort of encounter you might have. 87 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,680 So I opted not to risk being close to 1. 88 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:58,680 My honest guess is that if a Bigfoot did come out of the 89 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,640 woods as soon as I was out of sight, then he probably wouldn't 90 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,280 have lingered just behind a tree line. 91 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,280 It would have taken its food as far away from the road as 92 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:09,800 possible, but again, who can predict their behaviour? 93 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,400 So sadly, I went on home after stopping only a few seconds to 94 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,080 let my brain process everything that had happened that morning. 95 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,800 I told other people about it without hinting at anything 96 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,480 about Bigfoot and people jumped straight to the idea he wasn't 97 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,520 really dead or coyotes could have done it. 98 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,280 I can't speak for coyotes, but my guess is dragging deer 99 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:33,720 carcasses into the woods isn't really their thing, and I don't 100 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,840 think deer play dead and wait for you to leave. 101 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,760 And I do know that that deer was dead. 102 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,680 It bothers me that I killed an animal that was just going on 103 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:45,240 about its business because I was in a needless hurry. 104 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,600 My mother once told me that haste makes waste. 105 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,440 You get in a hurry and you'll make terrible mistakes. 106 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,840 In this case, I killed an animal. 107 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,960 I think it's not outside the realm of possibility that it was 108 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,840 being hunted and herded by a group of Bigfoot and 109 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,480 intentionally flushed out in front of a moving vehicle. 110 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,120 I don't really believe that part, but wouldn't it be neat to 111 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:08,760 find out that they think like that? 112 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,000 I think it's more likely there was a Bigfoot nearby. 113 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,240 When I hit the deer, it waited patiently on me to leave the 114 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,640 scene. It would have needed only two or 115 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,200 three steps out of the wood line to collect the prize and 116 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,560 disappear. I feel bad for the deer, but I 117 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,480 like telling myself that perhaps I helped feed a family of 118 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,960 bigfoots who are probably wishing I'd get the heck out of 119 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,840 there before their breakfast got cold. 120 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,280 So that's my story. I didn't see one, I didn't hear 121 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:39,160 one, but something happened and whatever took that full size 122 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,720 deer purposely waited until I was gone. 123 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:51,480 Thanks DS Bowser, My name is Dale and I had an encounter with 124 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,800 two Bigfoot in Alberta in October 2022 while out scouting 125 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,840 for a good hunting spot for elk. I was walking along a fence line 126 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:02,040 of a grazing lease in heavy Bush and Musk egg. 127 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,760 The Bush had been cleared away from the fence about 6 feet so I 128 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,240 had a good sight line should an elk step out. 129 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,520 I was looking for a crossing point where animals would knock 130 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,000 down the top line and crossover it from there. 131 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,880 As I was walking the line I would come to places where trees 132 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,320 were across the fence between two posts about every 100 yards 133 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,480 or so. I didn't think much of it at the 134 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,040 time because in muskeg area trees often fall down, but today 135 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,280 I think they were bridges for the Bigfoot to travel across. 136 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,640 So if you're looking to catch Bigfoot on camera in cattle 137 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,880 country, these bridges would be the places it's set up on. 138 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,440 Anyways, back to the story. I'm walking through Musk egg 139 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,920 that has standing water as well as lots of Moss, but every 100 140 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,920 feet or so there's a bit of a high Ridge rising above the Musk 141 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,280 egg with heavily used game trails on them. 142 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,560 These ridges are only about 10 feet high and only about 30 feet 143 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,080 wide before dropping into the Musk egg again. 144 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,640 So I'm going up and over them and get a good 200 yard look as 145 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,520 I reach the top of them before descending into the Musk egg 146 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,480 again with vision only to the next high Ridge. 147 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,920 Tough walking for a 66 year old, but I love the Bush and I'm in 148 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,160 my happy place while in it. As I start ascending a high 149 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,600 Ridge again, my head pokes over the top of the Ridge and there 150 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,160 beside the fence 50 yards away I see a black object close to the 151 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,000 ground in the Musk. Egg bear or wolf? 152 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,080 I instantly thought no big deal. I see these animals all the time 153 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,240 while hunting and I've never shot a bear or a wolf yet in my 154 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,360 life. If you ain't going to eat them, 155 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:44,200 then don't shoot them has always been my hunting motto, so I'm 156 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,080 trying to figure out what it is. I focus intently on it. 157 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:51,200 Long straight black hair on a cone shaped head transitioning 158 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,040 into straight blonde hair on its back. 159 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:57,080 Cinnamon Bear was my next thought, but something is odd 160 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,600 here. It looks like a head on some 161 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,160 shoulders. I stared, focusing on it. 162 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,760 I'm really trying to make this look like some kind of bear, 163 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,280 because it's not a wolf or a moose calf either. 164 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,760 Then a movement to my left catches my eye, and there, 165 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,400 peeking out from behind a tree, is a chimpanzee face looking at 166 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,000 me. What? 167 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 The FI stared at it, shocked but still trying to make it out to 168 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,000 be a bear or something. But it has a roundhead, not cone 169 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,360 shaped, straight black hair on its head transitioning to blonde 170 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,640 on its shoulders. It is standing behind a tamarack 171 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,200 tree that is between yellow and green fall colours. 172 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,880 It has its hands on the branches on each side of the tree trunk 173 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,320 and it has black fingers gripping the branches. 174 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,680 What the F is this? A bear? 175 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,080 I see it looking at me trying to figure out what I am since I'm 176 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,520 in full camo head to toe, it knows I'm there, but it can't 177 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,560 really see me. It moves its head from one side 178 00:09:57,560 --> 00:09:59,880 of the tree to the other looking in my direction. 179 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,760 It squats down and peers under a branch at me, then stands up and 180 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,200 over the small tree looking at me, then one side to the other 181 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,520 side again. This goes on for over 5 minutes. 182 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,960 My mind is in turmoil as I'm furiously trying to make out 183 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,560 these to be bears in my head. Then she looks towards her child 184 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,080 and steps out from behind the tree towards it. 185 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:25,600 She gives me this side view of her face as she steps out. 186 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,720 There's no bear snout or chimpanzee jaw. 187 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,800 It has a flat nose and ears like a human. 188 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,600 It has no hair on its black shiny face reflecting the sun's 189 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,000 rays off its skin. It turns and looks at me again 190 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,240 and then reaches out its arms towards the black object beside 191 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:48,280 the fence. It's hand is in 1/2 open motion, 192 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,520 hairless to the wrist, then from the wrist to the shoulder. 193 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,240 It has long straight blonde hair hanging down, maybe 10 inches 194 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,960 long. It reminded me of tassels from a 195 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,440 leather jacket. It was clean and well groomed. 196 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,920 No branches or twigs in its hair, nor was it matted or 197 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,080 unkempt. I had a clearview as it took one 198 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,040 step out from the tree. The straight blonde hair went 199 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,880 down to her knees, then transitioned to black again. 200 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,320 When she bent down to her child, I could clearly see her breasts 201 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,920 hanging down. It had short blonde hair on her 202 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,320 breasts, but was hairless around the nipple black skin. 203 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,720 On this she moved her arm and hand over to the head of the 204 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,800 black object by the fence and wrapped its head with the back 205 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,880 of her knuckles, hand half open. Then she looked at it, then back 206 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,000 at me, then stepped back behind the tree. 207 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,320 She peered at me again from the side of the tree, then the other 208 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,880 side, and then disappeared into the thick brush on the left. 209 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,520 Not a sound did I hear from her as she disappeared into the 210 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,120 trees. I looked back at the black 211 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,160 object by the fence. It was rocking back and forth. 212 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,480 It's back to me. Then I started to get scared. 213 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:58,760 Was it going to flank me or trap me? 214 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,000 Was there a daddy close by? Are they as protective of their 215 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,960 kids as bears are? I didn't even realize that I had 216 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,160 my gun on my back. I slowly backed down off the 217 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,440 Ridge until I could not see the child anymore. 218 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,840 Then I turned and ran like hell. I ran through the Bush following 219 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,360 game trails in the direction I was going 3 kilometres from my 220 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,040 truck. When I got across the cut block 221 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,480 I hid behind a tree to see if it was following. 222 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,600 It was not, so I high tailed it back to my truck and got the 223 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:35,640 heck out of there. Hi, my name is Dan. 224 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:40,280 My encounter happened in 2014 in Mendocino County, California. 225 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,800 I was there to stay a week by myself. 226 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,800 The trail was going up a big rock formation and I had to get 227 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,880 around it. That's when the smell stopped me 228 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,600 in my tracks. It smelt like a zoo where 229 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,400 they're big animals are kept. I looked across the Creek and 230 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,520 dust was in the air as if something jumped 10 feet across 231 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:03,400 the Creek and now look behind me and on the other side 75 feet 232 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,960 away was a massive creature standing next to the trees. 233 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,120 I stood there and we both just stared at each other for about 5 234 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,960 seconds. It blinked and stepped behind 235 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,280 the tree out of sight. I panicked and started walking 236 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,840 further upstream until the Canyon got narrow. 237 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,680 I told myself I had to stop walking or I'm going to become 238 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,680 lost. So I climbed on a big boulder in 239 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:28,320 the middle of the Creek thinking it was the best place to hide 240 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:33,320 behind till I felt safe. For two hours I stayed on that 241 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,160 rock fishing and looking for movement. 242 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,040 I was afraid but knew I had to head back from my dogs back at 243 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,240 camp. So I started walking back real 244 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,560 slow and when I got close to where it happened I started to 245 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:48,800 whistle a tune trying to let the big guy know I was just passing 246 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,560 through. I started talking in a calm 247 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:55,040 voice saying I'm not here to harm you and I was just leaving. 248 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,080 I made it back to camp, loaded up my truck and got out of 249 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,520 there. The Bigfoot was at least 8 to 9 250 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:06,560 feet tall with an upper chest as big as a barrel and the arms the 251 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:10,360 size of my legs. Its hair was reddish brown and 252 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,640 its face colour was like tan buckskin. 253 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,160 It had very dark eyes, but its look wasn't angry towards me. 254 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,480 It was calm looking. It had no hair on its face, not 255 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,160 like a wild man with a beard. Thanks, Dan. 256 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,160 No one will ever believe this and I know it. 257 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,480 That's why I've never told anyone, not even my wife or my 258 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,400 children. I have two grown sons who hunt 259 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,720 with me on occasion and I won't even tell them. 260 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,440 There's two reasons for this. One we've already covered. 261 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,720 No one's going to believe me. It's so unbelievable that if I 262 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,840 tell anyone, I will become the village idiot #2 if I tell 263 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,320 others that I hunt with primarily my two sons. 264 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,680 And if they do believe the story, it might ruin their love 265 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,520 for the outdoors in the sport of hunting. 266 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,440 I don't want to do that to them. But All in all, I'm fairly sure 267 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,560 they will think their father is an idiot anyway. 268 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,640 So I've kept my mouth shut about this for years. 269 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,000 There's really no need to give you an exact location on the 270 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,200 event because if I did, you wouldn't find the place anyways. 271 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,680 But let it be enough to say that this occurred in the Mississippi 272 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,400 River basin or Delta South of Memphis and north of Greenville, 273 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:27,640 Ms. Let's get to the story. I'm a solitary hunter. 274 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,840 Even when the boys were growing up, I took them with me for one 275 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,120 season. After that, I would set them on 276 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,440 their way in the woods to scout and find their own places to 277 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,360 hunt. Hunting in packs as humans has 278 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,640 never been much fun for me. I like to be alone and I wanted 279 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,600 my sons to know what it's like to be there. 280 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,520 Being there when it all happens alone is 90% of the thrill. 281 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,280 You will get to see things that very few humans get to see. 282 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,680 My sons have formed their own habits and they would say that 283 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,680 they're just like me. We may all go together, but when 284 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,760 the sun rises on us, we are as far from other humans as 285 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:06,120 possible. I walked into the heavy timber 286 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,280 long before sun up and I was making my way to the tree that I 287 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,200 had marked to climb on this morning of fall deer season. 288 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,600 I had to wade through knee deep water in some places just to get 289 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,360 there. The area I was hunting in was 290 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,200 underwater in places most of the year. 291 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,000 This is where the big deer go and This is why they get so big 292 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,000 and they live so long. They know to stay away from 293 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,720 populated areas and they know where the food is. 294 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,400 I could see the reflective tack that I had applied to the oak 295 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,360 tree that I would climb in the distance. 296 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,760 I picked up my pace. I pulled the climber off my back 297 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,000 and attached it to the tree and made my way up. 298 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,720 Once I was settled in, that good cup of coffee hit the spot. 299 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,080 I waited for the sun to rise. It was peaceful. 300 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,200 Wildlife moved under me, the usual sounds, raccoons returning 301 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,000 from their nightly excursions, squirrels beginning to move 302 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,040 around to gather food for the winter, and I remember hearing 303 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,840 ducks lifting off the flooded areas in the distance. 304 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,119 Again, very few humans get to see and hear these things as it 305 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,280 happens in the places where no one goes. 306 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,800 There was enough light that I could see the ground now. 307 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,000 I heard something running to my left. 308 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,520 I knew it was a deer, but there was no need to get my bow ready. 309 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,119 It was too early to see well enough to make out what I was 310 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,880 shooting at, so I sat there expecting the animal to run by 311 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,000 at any moment. It was a deer that I had been 312 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,960 expecting, and she was running full speed into the graininess 313 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,920 of the misty morning darkness. I could clearly see enough that 314 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,040 it was definitely a doe. She stopped in front of my stand 315 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,040 a short distance out. If it had been a big buck, it 316 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,160 would have been the perfect broadside shot, but I wasn't 317 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,480 there for doze. I saw her heaving and trying to 318 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,640 catch her breath. Now deer don't usually do that 319 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,040 so it's rare that you'll see a winded deer in any condition and 320 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,760 it made me really focus on her. Her lips are curled and her 321 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,280 tongue was dangling from her mouth. 322 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,640 Now this is typical with the deer being run by dogs, but you 323 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,960 never see them short of breath. Something has been running this 324 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,840 doe for a while and she could not shake whatever was chasing 325 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,240 her. I knew that it had to be dogs. 326 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,240 They are the only animal that will absolutely run a deer to 327 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,080 exhaustion and to the point that the deer just quits. 328 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,840 Once that happens, the deer has no energy left to fight. 329 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,560 She began to run again in the direction she'd been heading. 330 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,720 I heard her splashed through some water and twigs breaking as 331 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,080 she made her escape. I fully expected to see coyotes 332 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,440 or dogs to follow her trail. I suppose I should have gotten 333 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,120 ready to kill one or two had they been coyotes, but dropping 334 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,120 a coyote in the area meant that it's scent would keep any deer 335 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:45,880 away for the next few days. I sat tight and I waited. 336 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,160 A dark figure began to appear to my left, right on the deer's 337 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,600 tracks. But it was bigger than a dog, 338 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,760 and there was only one. It was making huge bounds. 339 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:58,640 This had to be an enormous pig chasing that deer. 340 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,120 It happens. It's rare, but it really 341 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:04,600 happens. It was a pig, a big pig that I 342 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,480 expected to run across my kill zone, but when it got broadside 343 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,680 of me, it wasn't a pig. I have never seen an animal like 344 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,160 this in my life, not even at the zoo. 345 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,320 It was altogether something weird and something else, like a 346 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,000 giant wolf, but it wasn't a wolf either. 347 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,000 It was snorting and grunting as it passed my area and then in a 348 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,880 second it was gone, splashing through the same water the deer 349 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,640 had a few minutes earlier. I wasn't scared or worried about 350 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,560 this thing, more like shaking your head and wiping your eyes 351 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:36,920 to make sure you're not dreaming. 352 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,520 I'm telling you now, if a hippopotamus had run by me 353 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,160 wearing a pair of spandex dancing pants, well, at least I 354 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:45,560 would have known what I was seeing. 355 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:49,240 But this thing was off the charts and my mind began to 356 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,480 rationalize things to look for plausible explanations. 357 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,600 You know how your mind does that, right? 358 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,200 I soon wrote in my mind sketchbook a strange looking dog 359 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,000 that was twice the size of a deer. 360 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,760 That's what I settled on. Really. 361 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,760 No, I could not accept that one. This had to be a new creature to 362 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,040 these woods and to the world for that matter. 363 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,080 Hey everyone, I just want to remind you that my written books 364 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,560 and audio books are available and the links are all in the 365 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,520 description below. If you enjoyed these stories and 366 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,080 want to help support the show, picking up a copy really helps 367 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,000 and is greatly appreciated. Thank you. 368 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:32,080 I could finally see through the woods clearly, and I looked and 369 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,280 scanned with my best detective skills to try and see anything 370 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,280 that would make any sense. But the woods were quiet now. 371 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,240 I relaxed and poured another cup of coffee, and I settled back 372 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,080 into my seat. A commotion started in the 373 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,400 distance. Something was fighting way out 374 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,080 there, snarling and growling, and then the telltale bleats of 375 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:53,760 a deer. Whatever this thing was had 376 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,520 caught its prey. I could hear the fight and it 377 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,320 sounded as if the little doe did not go down quietly. 378 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:02,200 But soon silence overtook the woods again. 379 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,240 There was no way I was sitting in that stand all day. 380 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,600 After all that, I tried to be disciplined and I tried to sit 381 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,280 tight. I was there for a big buck, but 382 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,440 I could not get the images out of my mind. 383 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,680 I could not stop thinking about what I just run right in front 384 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,200 of me. A few minutes later I was 385 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,320 climbing down. The woods were ruined for the 386 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,400 morning anyway and I was there for four days so there was 387 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,880 plenty of time to hunt and I had several spots located to hunt 388 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,080 while I was there. I started following the trail of 389 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,160 the prey and the predator. I doubted I would end up seeing 390 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,680 anything, but I had to take a peek of what had happened. 391 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,000 It took me an hour of moving through some thick brush and 392 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,800 deep water to get a blood trail, and honestly I don't know how I 393 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,280 found it. Once the animals were out of 394 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,000 sight they could have gone anywhere. 395 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:51,720 But I knew the direction the sounds of the battle had come 396 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,880 from and I was working in that direction. 397 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,120 Hair and blood became visible on the ground and through the 398 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:00,720 water. I raised my head, knowing I 399 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,840 would see a kill in the distance any minute. 400 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,800 I knew it would still be there. Nothing in these woods carries 401 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,320 its kill away. It eats whatever it kills where 402 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,120 it falls. And I saw it. 403 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,960 The colour of the deer had contrasted with the green 404 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,760 vegetation. The little doe had not even put 405 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:22,560 on her grey winter coat. At this point in the year it was 406 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,080 obvious to me I was just a few yards from the kill. 407 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,080 I had no idea what to expect. I had no experience with this, 408 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,840 but what the heck, at this point I would have kicked myself if I 409 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,200 had not walked the next 50 feet to figure it out. 410 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,840 I knocked an arrow. That's all I had, and in no way 411 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,800 would this protect me from a large animal. 412 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,120 But I brought the bow up to a draw position anyway, and I 413 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,680 stepped forward. Within a few feet now and the 414 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,480 predator was still there. I could see it. 415 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,560 A large humpback rose and fell over the deer. 416 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,280 It was feeding. Bones crunched. 417 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,520 Whatever this thing was, it was crunching bones. 418 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,760 That meant it had powerful jaws. I messed up. 419 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,960 My face began to tingle. It felt like someone throwing 420 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,880 darts at my face. How it had not made me on my 421 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,680 approach is beyond me, but after all these years I still think it 422 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,720 was used to its solitary existence. 423 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,240 No one comes this far back into the jungle of the river delta. 424 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,480 I started to back away, low and quiet. 425 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,120 I had to get out of there. The beast stopped feeding and 426 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:28,480 all movement that I could see the second before through the 427 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,920 honeysuckle vines got real still. 428 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,600 I took two or five more steps back and it raised up and looked 429 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:40,040 right at me, it's head now above the tangled vines, and I saw 430 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,160 it's true size. Before it was running in a low 431 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:48,040 position, now it was on 2 legs. I should have drawn my bow. 432 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,520 I should have run. I should have done something. 433 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,800 But what does a man do when he faces certain death? 434 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,480 That's the instinct that took over. 435 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,560 I was about to die. I was about to be eaten and 436 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,880 crapped out on the Mississippi mud with the dough in a day or 437 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,360 two. I don't know what I did for the 438 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:10,200 next 5 seconds, but that's all the time that I had. 439 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,800 Later when it was all over, I stood there with my shoulder on 440 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,120 fire from holding my bow at a drawn position. 441 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,800 Apparently I had raised the bow and drawn it. 442 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,720 It was a pointless gesture though, because the creature 443 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,680 cocked its head, sniffed the air with its huge blood covered 444 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,040 nostrils, showed his blood stained teeth and quickly 445 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,080 lowered back down, picked up what was left of the deer in its 446 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,720 huge mouth and slowly on 4 limbs slinked away. 447 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,240 Then suddenly sprinted into the woods and I never saw it again. 448 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,480 I would like to give you a good description of this thing, but 449 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,520 the only part of it I saw clearly was from just below its 450 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,800 neck to the top of its head. From my position it was tall, a 451 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,280 good foot taller than me and I'm average height. 452 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,800 Its coat was so dark that it looked black, but it was 453 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,080 probably dark brown. It's ears were like that of a 454 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,600 German Shepherd, fully erect and clear of hair on the inside. 455 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,920 The muzzle was short, not long like a shepherd. 456 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,320 Very nasty set of teeth that had to include three inch canines. 457 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,680 At last, from my perspective, the chest area was not flat 458 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,200 horizontally like a human. The chest protruded with a 459 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,840 breastbone, much like a dog. But I don't think this thing was 460 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,360 a dog, or a dog man, as some folks call them. 461 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,640 This thing, in my opinion, was some type of mutant animal. 462 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,600 An experiment gone wrong, if you will. 463 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,600 Maybe not an experiment, but a botched genetic manipulation 464 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,600 attempt between two or more animals. 465 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,920 I stood in that shallow puddle for several minutes with my bow 466 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,280 drawn before my shoulder began to hurt and snapped me out of my 467 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,120 stare. The expression on my face must 468 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,280 have been that of amazement at what I had just seen and that I 469 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,000 had not been attacked. I walked backward for a long 470 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,160 time, scanning for any movement, but I never saw anything. 471 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:03,240 Eventually I started shaking and had to sit down on the ground. 472 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,520 Once I found a dry spot to let my system get somewhere close to 473 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,880 normal. I was so shaken and weak that 474 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:15,040 walking was becoming difficult. I finally made it back to the 475 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,520 place that I had set up my camp. Immediately I began breaking 476 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,680 camp. Getting out of that place was 477 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,880 now a high priority. A night alone there was not 478 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,160 going to happen. I quickly cranked down my pop 479 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,240 up. I secured everything as best I 480 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,640 could and as I hooked my trailer to my truck, I was about to 481 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,520 start the engine when a green truck pulled up blocking my 482 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,880 exit. It was the game warden who 483 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,120 patrolled the area. I got out and we began to talk 484 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,880 the usual routine. I showed him my license, my 485 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,560 permit, etcetera, etcetera. I was actually relieved to be 486 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,680 standing next to another human at this point. 487 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,800 After a talk about how I got back that far in there with my 488 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,360 truck and had I killed anything that day, Had I seen any other 489 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:00,880 hunters? I asked him if he had seen or 490 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,280 had any reports of new species of predator in the area. 491 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,240 He got real quiet and just stared at me. 492 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,840 The corner of his mouth began to raise as if he was going to 493 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,480 smile, but it wasn't a smile. He was searching for something 494 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,600 to say and instead of answering my question, he asked me if I 495 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,400 had seen anything. I shut my mouth. 496 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,520 I wasn't going to say a word. He knew what was out there. 497 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,520 He knew in a minute. I said no and that I had not 498 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,560 seen any wildlife at all that day. 499 00:27:32,120 --> 00:27:35,080 And then the inquisitive Are you sure about that popped out of 500 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,000 his mouth. I don't know why, but the way he 501 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,840 asked me made me nervous. My response was that if I had 502 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,600 seen anything that I would have told him. 503 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,000 I then told him I had to get home and was he done with me. 504 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,720 He said yes. He got in his truck and he 505 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,920 pulled away, but he was on his radio the minute he slammed that 506 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,560 door shut. I was never so happy to hit Hwy. 507 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,320 61 and head north in all my life. 508 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,360 Within a week I had all these details written down and I kept 509 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:09,280 them in a safe spot in my desk. I knew as the years went by that 510 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,840 I would forget these details. I took what I had written over 511 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,680 20 years ago and I rewrote it. I doubt anyone will believe me 512 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,200 anyway. Why would they? 513 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,560 The story you just read is straight out of a nightmare. 514 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,440 Remember when your mother used to tell you that there are no 515 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,480 monsters? Your mother was wrong, believe 516 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,600 me. And the dark swamps of the 517 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,960 flooded areas in the Mississippi basin. 518 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,400 There is a monster that roams the woods and it kills deer. 519 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,360 Maybe it's still there, maybe it had a mate and there are more of 520 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,960 them now, but I'm not going back to find out. 521 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,600 I don't have any problem with this event in my life. 522 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,200 I still hunt, just not in that area. 523 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,320 And it's a shame, too. That was a great place to hunt. 524 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,480 I think about it, but I don't dwell on it. 525 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,400 It was just a thing that happened. 526 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,800 A man has to move on and live, and that's what I did. 527 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,840 I didn't spend a minute trying to get other people to believe 528 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:10,120 me because I knew they wouldn't. My name is Justin and I had an 529 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,520 encounter on a property in South Carolina. 530 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,960 We lived outside a small town in the northern central Savannah 531 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,720 River area. The house where we lived was an 532 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,480 old farmhouse on about 80 acres. It hadn't been farmed in a long 533 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,040 time, but you could still make out where the fields were. 534 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,080 It was surrounded by hunting club land and paper companies. 535 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,280 The woods there never really sat well with me at night. 536 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,440 I almost always felt like something was watching me, more 537 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,480 so during the fall and winter. I'd grown up camping and started 538 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,520 hunting when we moved out there. I never really had issues with 539 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:47,160 feeling unsafe in the woods except there even if I was 540 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,760 carrying a shotgun or rifle I was uneasy. 541 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,320 I would tell myself that it was all in my head and try and shake 542 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,840 it off. Well one year I was around 16 I 543 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,800 think, my dad and I were out walking the property checking on 544 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,960 some food plots he'd planted. We were walking back from the 545 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,240 back 40 along an old fence line talking when we heard this 546 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,720 guttural roaring sound that lasted what seemed like forever. 547 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,280 We both instantly stopped and froze. 548 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,320 We were down in the bottom surrounded by hills and the 549 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,080 sound appeared like it was coming from behind and above us. 550 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,360 The hairs on the back of my neck and head stood up even though we 551 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,560 were both carrying 12 gauges with buckshot. 552 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,120 I did not feel safe. We turned to each other and 553 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,840 asked if we heard that. We both nodded and continued 554 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,600 back to the house. We asked my mother if she heard 555 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,480 anything and she said no, but the dog started barking 20 to 30 556 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,800 minutes before we got back. It was about 20 to 30 minutes 557 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,240 for us to get back to the house. I had never heard anything like 558 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,120 that before until later that year. 559 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,680 My brother and I were watching a show on a skunk ape. 560 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,920 They played a scream and it sounded just like what I had 561 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,080 heard. I never heard anything after 562 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,640 that, but the uneasy feeling never left. 563 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,600 A few months later my dad was reading out in the garage. 564 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,240 He said he was reading and had the feeling of something 565 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,120 watching him. He looked up and in a shadow of 566 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,640 a tree in the old fence line he saw a silhouette leaning out and 567 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,440 staring at him. It was about 15 feet away. 568 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,720 He said it looked like it was hairy and around 4 to 5 feet 569 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,440 tall. He stared at it and it stared 570 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,600 back not making any noise. He didn't move, he just looked. 571 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,880 It would lean out and look for a little while then go back behind 572 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,040 the tree, then lean out and look some more. 573 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,680 He said this went on for about 30 minutes and then stopped a 574 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,480 few months after that. My aunt was visiting late one 575 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,440 night around 12 or one. She told us she went out back to 576 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,400 have a smoke. While she was out there a small 577 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,360 around 2 to 3 foot bipedal furry animal walked out from behind 578 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,880 the pump house and stared at her. 579 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,760 She said it kind of looked like a little monkey, dark hair and 580 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,520 skin. It just stared, didn't make any 581 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,960 noise. She stood there kind of stunned 582 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,920 and after a couple of minutes it walked back into the woods. 583 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,240 Over the years I've had a couple of scares when I was home alone. 584 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,800 I'd be watching TV or working on something and banging would 585 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,640 happen, like banging on the exterior walls. 586 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,960 It would startle me a bit and I would go check to see if the 587 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,400 dogs had knocked something over. I'd find them barking with 588 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,000 nothing out of place. These things happened over two 589 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,760 to three years and then it stopped once the paper company 590 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,320 cleared their trees out. I was never a believer of a 591 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,560 Sasquatch, but after I connected that sound with the howl I heard 592 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,080 on that show and the reports I have heard from other people, I 593 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,560 know that it's real. When I hear those howls, it 594 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:45,560 still gives me goosebumps. This encounter happened in the 595 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,240 Sam Houston National Forest in Texas in the early 1990s and it 596 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,560 is a multi use land with privately owned timberlands and 597 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,640 farms located within it. Hunters describe the forest as 598 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,120 mixed pine and oak with many water sources and they report 599 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,520 that wildlife is diverse and plentiful, especially white 600 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,480 tailed deer. Originally, Danny and his friend 601 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,000 were supposed to go together to inspect the property they were 602 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,880 planning to purchase in the Sam Houston National Forest. 603 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,280 They wanted to open a shooting range, but needed to see what 604 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,360 kind of work would be needed to prepare the land for business. 605 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,080 Unfortunately for Danny, his friend was called into work, 606 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,880 leaving him to do the inspection on his own, armed with AVHS 607 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,840 camera and a box carrying an unloaded shotgun that he planned 608 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,880 to test while out in the forest. Walking through the forest near 609 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,440 the San Jacinto River, Danny saw something that made him turn 610 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,360 around and take a second look. That's when he saw the creature. 611 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,880 It was lying on the ground, propped up on its left elbow. 612 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,560 It's right hand was laying relaxed across its leg in front 613 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,240 of the knee area and it was running its thumb across the end 614 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,240 of its fingertips in a motion going back and forth. 615 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,200 He locked eyes with this creature and stared at it. 616 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,200 At this point, Danny took stock of his situation and determined 617 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,080 that since he was armed with an unloaded gun in a box and Avhs 618 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:14,120 camera, his death was imminent. Excepting his fate, he decided 619 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,080 to at least film his future killer. 620 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,320 As he raised the camera, the creature stood up to its full 7 621 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,760 1/2 foot height and came towards him. 622 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,800 When it got close to Danny, the creature raised its arm over its 623 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,639 head and with the left arm came up with its forearm and elbow, 624 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,719 striking Danny across the chest. The blow made him fall to the 625 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,960 ground, knocking 2 teeth loose. The creature quickly retreated 626 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,320 into the forest after striking Danny, luckily leaving him 627 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,920 alive. As the creature was leaving, 628 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,800 Danny was able to obtain some video footage of the creature. 629 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:54,320 The camera was missing the rubber eyepiece, so Danny looked 630 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,360 down the side of the camera to capture the footage rather than 631 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,760 using the eyepiece. He also wasn't experienced with 632 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,720 the camcorder, so he didn't use the zoom feature. 633 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,280 A link to Danny's video is in the video description. 634 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,840 Later, describing his encounter, Danny stated that the creature 635 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,040 briskly walked in a bouncing fashion. 636 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,520 It was hunched over in a stance that was not much taller than 637 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,400 himself at 6 foot 1. He described the creature as 638 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,040 having a Crest at the back of the head that angled to a 639 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,720 sloping forehead and said it appeared as if the face had been 640 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:31,560 lowered down. It had two ridges of hair 641 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,160 running toward the back of the head from around the eyes. 642 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,440 The shape of the face was hard like with a blunt chin. 643 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,640 The eyes were grey and had a human shape but sat wider apart 644 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,880 than human eyes do. The nose was not flat like a 645 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,520 gorilla, but a mix between a Caucasian nose and an African 646 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,960 American nose. The mouth was shaped with a 647 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,640 little fuller lips but not human looking lips. 648 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,480 The lips were a little wider and a little different. 649 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,480 He was able to see the front teeth which were big, squared 650 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,600 off and yellowish and black in colour. 651 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,600 Hair covered the creature's face except the eyes, nose and mouth. 652 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,600 The skin colour on its face was a whitish greyish colour. 653 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,600 The palms of its hands and the bottom of its feet were a more 654 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,800 flesh tone, coloured like pigskin. 655 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,800 Danny stated that the ears were human shaped and it seemed that 656 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,200 they were possibly pointed to some extent. 657 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,920 Danny said the hands were skinny and very long, probably about 14 658 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,840 inches from the wrist to the end of the fingertips. 659 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,560 Its arms appear to be a little longer proportionately than 660 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,120 humans. The buttocks were small with 661 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:44,200 matted and dirty hair. The feet of the creature were 662 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,360 human shaped and approximately 15 to 17 inches long with a flat 663 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,280 appearance. If there was an arch, it was 664 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,320 small. The creature's body was large 665 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:58,080 and bulky with AV shaped torso and a protruding gut area. 666 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,960 Even on the gut you could see the stomach muscles as well as 667 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,800 other muscles on the body of the creature. 668 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,920 The hair was brown black, the body was brownish colour and the 669 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,080 tops of its hands were black as well as the inside of the legs 670 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,640 from the crotch down to the inside of the knees. 671 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,960 The hair appeared to be very coarse stiff hair like a wild 672 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,400 hogs hair. There was no appearance of a 673 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,400 neck. The creature was about 3 1/2 674 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,960 feet wide at the shoulders. Danny stated that the creature 675 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,320 was definitely a male with an average size penis for a 676 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:35,000 creature 7 1/2 feet tall. The creature had a wild animal 677 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,320 odor and made deep breathing and grunting sounds like it was 678 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:43,400 upset he was disturbed by him. Following his encounter and 679 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,800 obtaining the footage, Danny said he started being stalked by 680 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,400 someone. He ended up giving the footage 681 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,160 to the paranormal show Strange Universe to get the stalker to 682 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,400 leave him alone. Thanks for listening everyone. 683 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,040 Don't forget my books are all for sale, audio and written. 684 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:03,080 The links are in the description below. 685 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,240 Thanks again. Take care.