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Welcome. 
The stories I'm about to tell 

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you are of real Bigfoot 
encounters and sightings. 

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They are true and happened to 
people like me and you. 

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They come from my collection of 
stories I call The Bigfoot 

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Project. 
This very scary incident 

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occurred in Northeast Ohio in 
the summer of 1991. 

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I grew up camping in Northeast 
Ohio, close to where my parents 

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lived. 
I spent a lot of time in the 

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woods with friends, so being 
outdoors never felt strange or 

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threatening to me. 
At the time, Bigfoot was not 

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something I thought about at 
all. 

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I didn't follow the subject and 
I didn't go into the woods 

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expecting anything unusual. 
In 1991 I was dealing with some 

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personal issues and asked two 
close friends, Randy and Tony, 

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to go camping with me. 
They couldn't stay the night 

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because they had to work the 
next morning, but they agreed to

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drive me out and help me get set
up before dark. 

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The spot we used was about a 
mile from my parents house. 

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It was a small clearing 
surrounded by pine trees with a 

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thick layer of pine needles 
covering the ground. 

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It made a soft place to sleep, 
so I didn't even bring a tent. 

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I only had a blanket, a 
flashlight, a machete, and a 

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small pack. 
Beneath the area were old coal 

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mines with a small cave entrance
nearby. 

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After my friends left, I built a
fire and settled in. 

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The night was quiet and I 
eventually fell asleep. 

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I woke suddenly feeling uneasy. 
The fire had burned down and I 

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was cold. 
As I leaned forward to blow on 

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the coals, I heard a scream. 
It was unlike anything I had 

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ever heard. 
People talk about strange 

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screams, but unless you hear one
in person you do not understand 

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how intense it is. 
It sounded like a scream and a 

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roar combined and instead of 
dropping in pitch, it rose. 

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It was powerful and carried 
through the woods. 

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At first I didn't know what to 
think. 

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Bigfoot never crossed my mind. 
I was still focused on cars, 

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girls, and everyday life. 
Then I heard the scream again, 

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this time from the opposite side
of my camp. 

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The sounds began coming from two
different directions, going back

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and forth, and they felt 
directed at me. 

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I put my glasses on and looked 
around, trying to calm myself. 

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I was in shock and trying to 
decide whether to stay or leave.

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Then something ran along the 
edge of my camp. 

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It moved fast and looked 
completely wrong. 

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The way it ran wasn't human, it 
was upright but fluid and 

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flexible, almost cat like. 
My body reacted instantly, the 

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hair on the back of my neck 
stood up and my entire scalp 

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tangled. 
I knew what I was seeing wasn't 

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normal. 
The screams continued as the 

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figure passed through. 
I decided I had to leave. 

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I stood up and walked away 
slowly staying on the path. 

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Once I stepped off the path the 
screaming stopped. 

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That gave me enough confidence 
to keep moving. 

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As soon as I reached the road I 
ran all the way back to my 

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parents place. 
It was between 3:30 and 4:00 in 

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the morning when I started 
pounding on the door. 

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My mum answered and she could 
tell I was scared. 

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I told her what happened and my 
father came in shortly after, 

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having just returned from work. 
He spent a lot of time in the 

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woods in his life and had never 
seen or heard anything like what

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I described. 
Later that morning I felt the 

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need to go back and get my gear.
I told Randy and Tony what 

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happened. 
I don't think they believed me, 

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but they agreed to go back with 
me. 

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Tony even suggested we stay 
another night to see what would 

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happen. 
We returned during the day. 

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Nothing looked disturbed. 
Tony brought more supplies, 

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including a cot and a cooler 
full of food. 

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That evening felt normal. 
We ate, talked and went to 

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sleep. 
Around 3:00 in the morning, I 

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woke up again with that same 
uneasy feeling. 

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Randy was awake too. 
Then the scream happened again. 

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This time Randy had a tape 
recorder and started recording. 

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The screams were louder and more
intense than the night before. 

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We knew we had to leave. 
Tony was frozen in fear and 

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couldn't move. 
We had to help him put his boots

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on so we could get out of there.
Once we reached the truck we 

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left immediately and went back 
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The next morning we listened to 
the recording. 

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Unfortunately the volume had 
been set too high so most of 

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what we captured was recorder 
noise, but the screams were 

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still there. 
We went back later to retrieve 

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the rest of the gear. 
The camp was untouched except 

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the cooler. 
The lid was open, buns had been 

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removed from their packaging 
with the twist tie still on the 

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bag. 
The hot dogs were untouched. 

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There were no claw Marks and it 
looked like the bag had been 

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opened by hands. 
We searched for footprints but 

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found none. 
The pine needles were thick and 

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dry, making it hard for anything
to leave tracks or make noise. 

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The creature I saw running 
through camp was covered in hair

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and lean in build. 
It had a pointed head and moved 

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extremely fast. 
It ran on 2 legs and passed 

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within about 15 to 20 feet of 
me. 

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I didn't see its face clearly 
because it was dark, but I knew 

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it wasn't human. 
I got the sense it wanted me to 

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know it was there. 
After those nights, the 

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experience stayed with me for 
years. 

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The sound of that scream never 
left my mind. 

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It came back in nightmares for a
long time. 

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What made the biggest difference
was knowing that my friends 

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heard it too. 
Without that I might have 

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convinced myself it never 
happened. 

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Most of this witnesses 
experiences happened in Ohio and

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began in June of 2012. 
My Bigfoot experiences changed 

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my life and sent me down a path 
I never expected. 

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It started years ago when four 
friends and I decided to travel 

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to Hocking Hills, Ohio. 
They had been there before, but 

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I hadn't. 
They wanted a break and 

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suggested hiking. 
Hawking Hills has caves, 

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waterfalls and trails for every 
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Some were easy and short and 
others could keep you out there 

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for a week or two. 
I was tired of old stale places 

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and wanted to be outside, so I 
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We got there on a Friday. 
We unloaded the car and started 

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carrying our stuff into the 
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It was a two-story house with a 
finished basement and even a hot

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tub. 
We joked about how we were 

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really roughing it. 
After we got everything inside, 

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we cooked dinner and got a 
bonfire going. 

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That's when a stray Beagle 
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It had a collar but no tags. 
It looked like it had been out 

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for a while. 
It was friendly but rough 

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looking, like it had been 
neglected. 

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We fed it and it stayed close. 
It was hanging around us like it

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belonged with us. 
That first night was quiet. 

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Nothing strange happened. 
We went to bed early and got up.

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Saturday morning we drove into 
Hawking Hills and spent the 

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whole day hiking. 
We climbed up and down cliffs, 

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went through caves, and stopped 
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At one point there was a 
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people were everywhere. 
One of my friends decided to do 

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a loud Bigfoot whoop like the 
ones from TV. 

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The second he did it, kids and 
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doing it too. 
The whole place turned into one 

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big echo of whoops. 
It was so ridiculous I couldn't 

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stop laughing. 
When we finally got back to the 

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cabin, we were worn out. 
We started another bonfire, ate 

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something and cracked our first 
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That's when one of my friends 
said we should hike up into the 

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hills right behind the cabin and
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I was tired, I wasn't in great 
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I was around 45 or 46. 
I didn't want another hike. 

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A couple of the others felt the 
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saying we would never get 
another chance. 

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We finally gave in, mostly 
because they would stop talking 

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about it and we could come back 
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We were completely unprepared. 
We had one flashlight, a voice 

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recorder, and an old iPod. 
I had a knife and an old flip 

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phone, but we all knew the phone
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The Beagle came with us and we 
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To get up there we had to hike 
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We pushed through that and 
climbed up the side of the 

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mountain. 
When we reached the top, we 

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found an old roadway from where 
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That's where we saw something I 
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The whole forest looked like it 
was lit up for a holiday 

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display. 
There were lightning bugs 

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everywhere, millions of them. 
Every direction you looked. 

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Lights were blinking and 
floating like the woods were 

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full of tiny stars. 
None of our gear could capture 

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it, so we just stood there with 
their mouths hanging open, 

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taking it all in. 
After that, my friend wanted to 

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do some tree knocks. 
He knocked on a tree. 

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Nothing. 
He tried again. 

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Still nothing. 
So we decided to follow the road

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a little further into the hills.
We stopped at a spot where there

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was a swamp in front of us. 
Behind us was the road off to 

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the side of the road. 
There was a short drop and then 

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it went down hard, like a steep 
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We were ready to try one more 
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He did a knock. 
This time we heard a knock back.

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My first thought was that it 
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Wind, a branch hitting a branch,
an animal brushing against 

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something. 
I wasn't ready to call it 

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Bigfoot, so we told him to knock
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He knocked twice. 
Almost immediately we got 2 

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knocks back. 
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I started focusing hard on the 
swamp, trying to see movement. 

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We could hear shuffling down in 
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Then I saw something that made 
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Back in the swamp, about 100 
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A large shape kept peeking out 
from the right side of it, 

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looking at us, then sliding 
back. 

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It did it again and again, like 
it was checking us out. 

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Someone said to do a whoop. 
My friend did. 

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We got a whoop back. 
At that point, I didn't know 

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what to think. 
I'd been in the woods for 

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decades. 
I've haunted, spent time 

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outdoors. 
I've never heard noises like 

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that come back in response to 
what we were doing. 

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Everybody started knocking and 
whooping. 

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The sounds started coming back 
louder. 

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The shuffling in the swamp got 
louder, too, like whatever was 

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in there was getting closer. 
Then we looked around for the 

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Beagle. 
It was gone. 

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It had disappeared without any 
of us noticing it. 

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Leave. 
That's when things felt wrong. 

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I kept seeing that shape low to 
the ground, moving from tree to 

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tree. 
Sometimes it looked like it 

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dropped down and travelled on 
all fours through the brush. 

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Then we heard a knock from 
behind us. 

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People started saying it must 
have moved around us and gotten 

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behind us, but I didn't buy it. 
There was no way something went 

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through the swamp, up onto the 
road, crossed it, dropped down 

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that steep fall and got behind 
us without us hearing it. 

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While we argued about it, we 
heard knocking again from the 

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swamp. 
That's when we realized 

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something worse. 
There were at least two of them,

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one in the swamp and one behind 
us, and they were communicating 

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back and forth. 
The whoops started going from 

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One Direction, then the other, 
like it was bouncing between 

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them. 
We were standing in the middle, 

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turning our heads back and forth
like we were watching something 

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being thrown across a room. 
Then it went quiet for a few 

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seconds. 
One of the women with us had a 

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strong voice. 
She decided to make a loud angry

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growl sound. 
The moment she did, everything 

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stopped. 
Then we heard a heavy cracking 

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sound, like thick wood breaking.
I looked into the swamp just in 

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time to see a tree coming 
through the air. 

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It wasn't standing anymore. 
It was airborne, flying toward 

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us. 
It slammed into the ground so 

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close that I felt the impact in 
my chest. 

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The hit was loud, heavy and 
violent and for a split second I

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thought, this is it. 
It's going to charge and run 

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right past me and I'm finally 
going to see it clearly. 

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Instead, I heard the tough guy 
beside me say I'm out. 

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Everyone bolted up the side of 
the mountain. 

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They left me behind for a second
and my confidence evaporated. 

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I took off after them. 
While we were scrambling up the 

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hill, the woman with the air 
horn set it off without warning.

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The blast scared us worse than 
the knocks. 

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We actually stopped and grabbed 
our chests like we've been hit. 

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We finally got ourselves moving 
again and heading back toward 

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the cabin in a single file line.
Someone held the flashlight up 

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front. 
I stayed at the back with my 

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knife, which didn't make me feel
any safer. 

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The hike back was long, over a 
mile, and we kept hearing 

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snapping branches behind us off 
to the side, like something was 

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tracking us. 
Every noise felt like it was 

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right there. 
When we finally reached the 

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campfire, the Beagle was already
there, acting normal, jumping 

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all over us. 
We tried to calm down, but we 

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couldn't. 
We poured drinks and barely 

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touched them. 
Every sound in the woods made us

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tense up again, thinking that 
things were still out there. 

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Eventually we went inside, 
locked the doors and tried to 

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sleep. 
The next morning, we went back 

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to the area in daylight. 
In the swampy mud we found 

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partial prints. 
One measured about 19 inches 

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long and around 8 1/2 inches 
wide. 

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We also found the tree that had 
been thrown. 

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Three of us tried to move it. 
We couldn't even budget. 

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That was the moment it became 
real for me. 

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After that, I stopped calling it
a story, and I started calling 

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it an encounter. 
About three years after the 

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Hawking Hills incident, I got a 
call from someone saying there 

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was a sighting in an area close 
to home. 

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It was late winter, around the 
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March. 
There were still snow in spots 

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with patches of ground showing 
through. 

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I drove out to meet up, taking 
my time. 

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The speed limit was high, but I 
was going slower because the 

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area was quiet and I was 
watching the fields for any 

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tracks in the snow. 
As I approached a place where a 

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Creek ran through a wooded 
stretch, I looked over and saw 

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what I thought was a strange 
shaped tree. 

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Then my brain caught up and I 
realised it wasn't a tree. 

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It was upright and moving around
7 1/2 feet tall. 

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The head shape looked pointed 
down the back and neck. 

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There was a lighter stripe, 
almost like a white Mohawk. 

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The shoulders looked huge and 
there were pale streaks down the

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upper back near the shoulders. 
It was walking in the Creek. 

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At the time, I thought it was 
doing that so it wouldn't leave 

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footprints. 
I decided I needed a picture. 

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I pulled over and grabbed my 
phone. 

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A car behind me honked. 
The second the horn sounded, 

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that thing took off along the 
Creek and disappeared into the 

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woods. 
It moved fast and didn't 

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stumble. 
Once I knew the roads out there,

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I knew if I drove ahead far 
enough I could take a left onto 

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an old dirt Rd. take another 
left, and loop back around to 

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where the Creek was. 
In my head I thought maybe I 

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could cut it off and see it 
again. 

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I drove hard, trying to get 
around quickly, making the turns

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and pushing the speed as much as
I could without losing control. 

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When I got near the spot again, 
6 deer exploded out of the woods

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at full speed. 
They jumped across the road and 

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ran like that creature was right
behind them. 

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I hit the brakes, jumped out and
stood there listening. 

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Nothing came out after them. 
To me it felt like whatever I 

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had seen knew I was coming and 
chose not to step out like it 

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had stopped and waited somewhere
I couldn't see. 

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I met up with my friends and we 
checked the area, but because it

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had stayed in the Creek we 
didn't find any clear tracks or 

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sign. 
My next experience happened in 

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Vinton County, Ohio in early 
March of 2019. 

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This last one happened after the
final big snow and ice storm of 

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that winter. 
The weather had been strange 

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that year, ice mixed with snow, 
then warm spells, then cold 

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again. 
I needed to get out of the house

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so I went hiking to a spot. 
I had luck finding tracks 

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before. 
It was cold, around 30°. 

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At one point I had to cross a 
stream. 

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I almost made it, but my foot 
slipped in and I got soaked up 

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to the knee. 
I kept going anyway. 

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Later I came to a frozen pond 
area. 

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I was heavy, wearing a big 
backpack, and wasn't breaking 

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the ice under me. 
But then I saw a footprint in 

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the ice coming toward me that 
had punched straight through. 

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That made no sense. 
I got on my hands and knees to 

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look closer. 
I focused on the print when I 

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heard a tree knock to my left. 
I stopped and listened, telling 

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myself I had to have imagined 
it. 

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Then I heard another knock from 
the same direction. 

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I stayed low behind brush, 
thinking that whatever was 

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making the sound might not see 
me. 

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I stood up and turned around 
from where the knocks were 

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coming from and almost 
immediately I heard another 

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knock from the other side. 
I slowly scanned from right to 

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left. 
That's when I spotted 2 goose 

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hunters in blaze orange with 
shotguns moving through the area

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they were heading from left to 
right. 

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I stayed quiet and watched. 
I didn't want them to know I was

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there. 
As the hunters moved to where 

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they would circle back toward 
their cars, the knocks started 

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again. 
First from one side, then the 

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other. 
In my mind it felt like a 

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warning system, like the Bigfoot
were signalling that people were

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moving through. 
I decided to head out. 

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To get back I had to cross the 
stream. 

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I almost made it again, but my 
foot went in again and soaked my

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other leg up to the knee. 
Now both legs were freezing and 

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I was shivering hard. 
I climbed onto railroad tracks 

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and decided I'd follow them as a
shortcut back. 

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I needed to get warm. 
As I walked along the tracks, I 

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looked down and froze in the 
snow. 

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Between the rails were bare 
footprints, not shoe prints, 

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footprints. 
I dropped down and looked 

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closer. 
There were three different sizes

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walking side by side. 
One set was about 19 inches long

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and a little over 9 inches wide.
Another was around 16 inches 

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long and about 8 and a quarter 
wide. 

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The third was 12 inches long and
roughly 6 inches wide. 

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They were so close together they
sometimes stepped on each 

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other's tracks. 
I followed them until they 

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reached the area where the 
hunters had come out earlier. 

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From there, the tracks left the 
rails and dropped into a swampy 

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wooded area where I couldn't 
keep following. 

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What stayed with me wasn't just 
the size, it was the way it 

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looked like a group moving 
together and how the knocks 

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seemed timed with the hunters 
moving through. 

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Those are all my experiences. 
These bone chilling encounters 

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occurred in the Red River Basin 
in southeastern Oklahoma. 

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They began in late August 2009, 
with additional encounters 

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occurring between 2011 and 2018.
I've had multiple encounters on 

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my property over the years. 
The area where I live has 

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everything needed for something 
like this to stay hidden. 

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There are water sources, 
livestock, wildlife, thick 

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woods, and long stretches where 
nothing can be seen or heard 

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unless something comes up very 
close to the houses. 

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One year in late summer, I 
started noticing something wrong

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with our cattle. 
We lost several cows over time, 

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always in the same stretch of 
Creek. 

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At first I thought it was 
poisoning from acorns or wild 

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cherry trees, but the pattern 
didn't make sense. 

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One cow would turn up dead every
couple of months in the same 

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area. 
When I examined one of the cows 

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more closely, I realized her 
neck had been broken cleanly. 

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There were no claw Marks and no 
signs of a struggle. 

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It was a precise break, like a 
hangman's fracture. 

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Whatever did, it had to be 
extremely strong and knew 

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exactly what it was doing. 
The next day, after we buried 

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the cow, the grave was dug back 
up. 

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The rib cage had been torn out 
and there were large footprints 

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around the disturbed ground. 
That's when I knew something was

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in that area. 
That night, I decided to go back

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alone. 
I brought spotlights, emergency 

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gear, a shotgun, a camera, and 
drove around for about an hour, 

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stopping to listen. 
The woods were completely 

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silent. 
No deers, no small animals, 

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nothing. 
I stopped near a large oak tree 

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and began knocking on it with an
axe handle. 

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After several minutes, I heard 
something crashing out of the 

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trees. 
Nearby branches snapped as it 

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hit the ground and ran down the 
hollow. 

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I could hear it clearly moving 
away through the leaves. 

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Later, I parked on a Ridge and 
shut off all the lights and 

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electronics. 
It was pitch dark under the 

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canopy. 
Around midnight, I heard 

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something moving through the 
woods. 

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Then, without warning, something
slammed into my side by side, 

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hard enough to knock me out of 
the seat. 

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When I turned on my headlamp, I 
saw a massive creature running 

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up the trail. 
It was extremely tall, broad 

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shouldered, covered in greyish 
white hair, and moving faster 

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than anything that size should 
be able to. 

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The shoulders alone were as wide
as the dashboard of a pickup 

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truck I ran. 
I didn't stay to investigate, 

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and when I got back to the house
I told my grandfather what 

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happened. 
He didn't believe me and brushed

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it off, but I know what I saw. 
Since then, I've heard it roar 

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multiple times. 
The sound is overwhelming. 

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It shakes your chest and 
vibrates through your whole 

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body. 
When it roars, everything in the

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woods go silent. 
Years later I had another 

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sighting after hitting a deer 
with my vehicle. 

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While inspecting the damage, I 
noticed movement in the tree 

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line. 
Using a powerful flashlight. 

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I saw a large, ugly looking 
creature standing there bearing 

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its teeth at me. 
Its face was deeply lined with 

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large canines and a heavy brow. 
It didn't look like the others I

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had seen. 
Another encounter happened on a 

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back Rd. at night. 
I slowed down for what I thought

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was a deer, but a large, upright
creature stepped out of the 

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wetland onto the road. 
It was about 7 to 8 feet tall, 

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reddish brown in colour, soaking
wet and breathing heavily. 

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I could smell it through the 
windows. 

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The odor was overwhelming. 
It stood in front of my truck 

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briefly and then crossed the 
road in a single stride, 

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clearing a wide ditch 
effortlessly. 

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I returned the next day to 
measure the stride length. 

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No human could move like that. 
I've also had activity during 

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camping trips on my property. 
On one occasion, we found large 

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footprints and hair caught on 
broken trees. 

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During the night. 
Our dog was hit and came back 

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limping and terrified. 
Later, something approached our 

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camp and glowing eyes were seen 
high off the ground. 

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On the final night, my tent was 
violently shaken. 

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Something pulled at the rain 
tarp and pressed against the 

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side of the tent. 
When I kicked out, it backed 

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away and walked off. 
We packed up immediately and 

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left at first light. 
There have been additional 

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encounters near Reed fields and 
creeks, including one where 

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something growled and followed 
us through the tall grass, 

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splashing through water as it 
chased us back toward the road. 

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Activity slowed after parts of 
the land were cleared, but it 

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never stopped completely. 
I still hear strange howls and 

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roars. 
Whatever is here has been here a

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long time and it controls the 
area. 

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These encounters occurred along 
the Appalachian Trail in New 

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York in May. 
A friend of mine, Heidi, came 

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over from England. 
She's a paranormal Blogger and 

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was visiting New York for the 
Pine Bush UFO Fair. 

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She wanted to see Nuclear Lake 
and the area where we had 

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previously been bluff charged, 
as well as a den we had found 

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that weren't sure belonged to a 
Sasquatch or something else. 

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On the way to the location off 
the Appalachian Trail, I noticed

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an area that had been burned out
over the winter. 

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The previous summer it had been 
too thick to enter, but for some

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reason I felt drawn to it. 
As I worked my way inside, I 

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noticed what looked like a stone
Cairn sitting on top of a hill. 

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Nuclear Lake has many Cairns as 
some people believe Sasquatch 

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build them, so I had my 
cameraman zoom in to get 

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footage. 
When he zoomed in we realised it

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wasn't a normal Cairn. 
It was a large megalithic stone 

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with hundreds of smaller stones 
placed on top. 

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I decided to hike up to it. 
When I reached the top I 

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realised the area was a high 
plateau. 

461
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,240
There were many large stones 
arranged in a wide circle, each 

462
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,280
topped with piles of smaller 
rocks. 

463
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,480
We also found archways pinned 
down by massive trees, X shaped 

464
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,160
breaks, twisted trees bent from 
the roots into arches while 

465
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,920
still alive, and numerous other 
structures. 

466
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,840
The amount of activity was 
overwhelming. 

467
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,800
Heidi was completely stunned by 
what we found. 

468
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,960
The next time we returned, we 
planned a night investigation at

469
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,720
this plateau, which I now refer 
to as the Sacred Area. 

470
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,600
In June, I went back with my 
friend Dan. 

471
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,000
We arrived during daylight, set 
up camp and brought night 

472
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,240
vision, thermal equipment and 
audio recording gear. 

473
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,880
I placed a digital voice 
recorder on one of the 

474
00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:01,440
megalithic stones behind us. 
After dark, we did a few tree 

475
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,880
knocks and received responses 
using a parabolic microphone. 

476
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,720
We could hear something moving 
along the ridgeline to our WI 

477
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,560
told Dan that if anything 
approached us, it would likely 

478
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,880
come from that direction. 
Later we used a TomTom and flute

479
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,080
to try to draw activity. 
Dan was facing north watching my

480
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,640
back and I was facing S watching
his. 

481
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,240
He had night vision goggles 
around his neck and was amazed 

482
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,560
at how well they worked. 
At one point I could hear 

483
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,720
something approaching but 
couldn't pinpoint its location. 

484
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,600
Dan began to feel uneasy, so I 
placed glow sticks in a 

485
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,640
perimeter around us to provide 
some ambient light. 

486
00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:45,320
After that, Dan lifted the night
vision goggles and told me he 

487
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,040
could see a Sasquatch above 50 
feet away, standing next to a 

488
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,400
tree and watching us. 
I told him not to panic and 

489
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,360
explained that it was likely a 
scout checking us out. 

490
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,200
I tried to film it using night 
vision, but every time I aimed 

491
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,520
the camera, it disappeared 
behind the tree. 

492
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,120
I believe it could see the 
infrared light. 

493
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,040
About 15 minutes later, Dan 
looked again. 

494
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,120
This time the creature was about
25 feet away, positioned on the 

495
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:17,520
opposite side of the tree. 
Soon after, small rocks began 

496
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,160
landing around us. 
They weren't hitting US 

497
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,760
directly, but they were close. 
I explained that this usually 

498
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,600
means they want you to leave. 
When Dan checked again, the 

499
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,360
Sasquatch was around 15 feet 
away, crouched low beside a 

500
00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:34,480
Bush. 
He estimated it was at least 7 

501
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,480
feet tall and possibly over 
£500. 

502
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,320
Despite using night vision and 
thermal imaging, I couldn't 

503
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,760
capture it. 
A team member called and warned 

504
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,200
me that he was sensing multiple 
Sasquatches around us and 

505
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,640
mentioned seeing flashes of blue
and white light. 

506
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,640
Not long after, the scout 
disappeared. 

507
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,960
Dan was scared, so he decided to
pack up and leave. 

508
00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:01,120
On our way out, Dan asked to 
walk through another section of 

509
00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,760
the Appalachian Trail where we 
had experienced activity before.

510
00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:08,720
Along that route, we found 
numerous structures and received

511
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,160
more tree knocks. 
Suddenly, Dan jolted backward 

512
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,000
violently like he had been 
struck. 

513
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,240
He said energy had surged 
through his body, accompanied by

514
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,480
a blue and white flash. 
After that incident, I became 

515
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,120
disoriented and kept leading us 
in the wrong direction despite 

516
00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:30,320
knowing the area well. 
Dan's headlamp failed and we had

517
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:31,960
to stop to replace the 
batteries. 

518
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,200
Eventually, we made it out 
without further issues. 

519
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,400
Later, I returned with two women
who wanted to experience the 

520
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,880
area. 
We hiked several miles to the 

521
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,680
plateau. 
They were amazed by the amount 

522
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,320
of evidence present. 
That night, multiple Sasquatches

523
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,960
approached us from the 
ridgeline. 

524
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,480
We could hear them clearly 
circling us. 

525
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,440
Tree knocks came from different 
directions. 

526
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,400
Rocks began landing around us. 
One of the creatures snapped a 

527
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,560
tree with such force it sounded 
like a rifle shot. 

528
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,960
The women became frightened and 
we decided to leave. 

529
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,240
As we packed up, rocks rained 
down all around us in a tight 

530
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,280
perimeter without hitting us. 
We retreated to a lower Meadow 

531
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,840
and listened to our recordings. 
The recorder picked up whistles,

532
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,240
owl calls and other sounds. 
We hadn't hurt ourselves. 

533
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,400
While hiking out, we heard 
whistles on both sides of us and

534
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,000
owl sounds closing in rapidly. 3
juvenile creatures charged up 

535
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,160
the road, barking loudly and 
slapping the ground hard enough 

536
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,400
to cause vibrations. 
One of the women ran. 

537
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,560
I confronted the creatures by 
shouting and advancing toward 

538
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,040
them. 
After that, everything went 

539
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,000
silent. 
We made it back safely. 

540
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,280
The women said it was the most 
terrifying experiences of their 

541
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,720
lives and said they would never 
return. 

542
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,040
Later, I had another sighting 
near a power line I had passed 

543
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,560
for over 20 years. 
In the afternoon I saw a dark 

544
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,040
creature sitting on a stone. 
Sunlight reflected off Auburn 

545
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,000
hair and a conical head. 
I believed it was a Sasquatch. 

546
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,000
When I returned the next day, 
the creature was gone, but the 

547
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,800
stone was enormous. 
We found flattened grass, wide 

548
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,880
trails, structures, glyphs made 
of stones and bedding areas. 

549
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,360
The evidence was extensive. 
Based on measurements, the 

550
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,560
creature I saw was likely 8 to 
10 feet tall and possibly close 

551
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,560
to 1000 lbs. 
Its Auburn colouring was 

552
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,160
striking, with darker shading on
the front. 

553
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,280
I know these creatures are in 
the area. 

554
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,400
I've seen the evidence 
repeatedly, and I've experienced

555
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:46,080
too much to doubt it. 
These encounters occurred in 

556
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:53,480
West Virginia starting in 2011. 
I wasn't always into Bigfoot or 

557
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,840
Sasquatch. 
At first, it was just something 

558
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,400
my son was interested in. 
He watched all the shows about 

559
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,560
it and wanted to try going out 
and seeing if anything was real.

560
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,200
I didn't believe in it at the 
time, but I agreed to take him 

561
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,600
out anyway. 
This happened during the winter.

562
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,880
Sometime around January or 
February, we drove up into the 

563
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,880
mountains near the West Virginia
border. 

564
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,600
We parked the van at the top of 
the mountain and sat there 

565
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,720
listening. 
It was dark, cold and there was 

566
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,440
no moon that night. 
My son got out and did a quick 

567
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,080
wood knock on a tree, then 
jumped back into the van. 

568
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,000
We sat there for 20 or 30 
minutes and didn't hear anything

569
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,240
at first. 
Then I heard something moving 

570
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,600
through the woods beside us. 
It was big and heavy. 

571
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,400
Whatever it was. 
Walked up behind the van, 

572
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,960
crossed the road and continued 
on the other side. 

573
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,600
My son heard it too and we 
decided to move further down the

574
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,720
road, closer to the way we came 
in and park again. 

575
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,600
After a while, my son decided to
try a vocalization. 

576
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,760
His voice was high back then and
he let out a loud scream that 

577
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,120
went up and down in pitch. 
He jumped back into the van and 

578
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,120
we waited. 
A few minutes later, we heard 

579
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,560
heavy footsteps crossing the 
road behind us. 

580
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,080
Then everything went quiet 
again. 

581
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,200
He did another tree knock. 
For about 35 minutes we could 

582
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,920
hear something moving through 
the woods, but we couldn't see 

583
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,280
anything. 
Then my son let out another loud

584
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,280
scream. 
Almost immediately something 

585
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,360
crashed through the trees behind
us and landed in the road. 

586
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,000
I had my foot on the brake ready
to leave. 

587
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,680
When I hit the brake, the brake 
lights came on and I saw a 

588
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,080
massive rock rolling across the 
road behind us in the side 

589
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,160
mirror, kicking up dust as it 
moved. 

590
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,760
I started the van and took off. 
After a moment I stopped and 

591
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,680
decided I needed to see that 
rock. 

592
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,440
I turned around, pulled up next 
to it, jumped out, grabbed it, 

593
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,440
threw it in the van and drove 
away. 

594
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,200
When I got home and weighed the 
rock later, it came in at just 

595
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,480
over £9. 
That rock had been thrown from 

596
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,800
at least 35 or 40 yards away 
uphill and landed behind our 

597
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,800
van. 
I still have it. 

598
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,400
That was the moment everything 
changed for me. 

599
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,920
No person could throw a rock 
like that. 

600
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,120
Years later, I attended my first
group expedition with several 

601
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,320
other researchers. 
We set up camp in the Shenandoah

602
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,480
Valley. 
The first night was calm. 

603
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,840
The next day we explored the 
woods and found multiple tree 

604
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,600
structures. 
That night we walked to a lake 

605
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,880
about a mile from camp. 
We spread out along the lake 

606
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,520
with radios. 
One of the women let out a high 

607
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,640
pitched vocalization that echoed
across the water. 

608
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,720
Less than a minute later, the 
exact sound came back from the 

609
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,480
opposite mountain. 
It matched perfectly. 

610
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,720
After that, we waited quietly. 
Later, two members on the far 

611
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,800
side of the lake radioed that 
something was moving toward us. 

612
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,320
I used our night vision and 
eventually saw two red eyes 

613
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,120
watching us from the hillside 
behind our position. 

614
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,320
When I tried to focus on the 
eyes through the night vision 

615
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,200
binoculars, the image washed out
completely. 

616
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,640
When I lowered the binoculars, 
the eyes were still there. 

617
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,560
The eyes moved off toward 
another part of the lake. 

618
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,480
As we walked back toward camp, 
we saw two more sets of glowing 

619
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,679
eyes near a Creek. 
One was larger and swayed back 

620
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:17,840
and forth while keeping its head
level. 

621
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,760
Another smaller set appeared 
beneath it. 

622
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,159
They watched us for several 
minutes before disappearing. 

623
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,360
In August I had my first 
daylight sighting. 

624
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,719
I wasn't looking for anything. 
I was scouting an area after 

625
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,679
dropping someone off for work 
and stopped near a trail with a 

626
00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:37,480
waterfall. 
It was hot, humid, and thick 

627
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,880
with vegetation. 
As I walked the trail I heard a 

628
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,280
snap to my right and assumed it 
was a deer. 

629
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:48,080
A few minutes later I froze mid 
step and felt a sudden cold rush

630
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,960
through my body. 
I knew I wasn't alone. 

631
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,480
When I turned my head, I saw a 
large creature standing in the 

632
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,360
brush. 
I could see it from the chest 

633
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,040
up. 
It had a roundhead, wide set 

634
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,320
eyes, a flat nose, and heavy 
facial features. 

635
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,040
The face looked shockingly 
human. 

636
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,560
The skin tone was lighter than 
the hair. 

637
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,520
The hair was shorter on the head
and longer on the arms and 

638
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,160
chest. 
It had no visible ears. 

639
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,360
Its mouth was open just like 
mine. 

640
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,200
We were both frozen, staring at 
each other. 

641
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,160
I realized it could reach me in 
2 steps. 

642
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,640
My instinct told me to back 
away. 

643
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,480
Slowly I backed up until I 
couldn't see it anymore. 

644
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,440
Then I turned and left. 
After that I stayed out of the 

645
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,200
woods for months. 
Eventually a close friend 

646
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,560
convinced me to go back, but I 
do not ever go alone now. 

647
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,360
In March of 2016, while driving 
early one morning on a rural 

648
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,320
mountain Rd., I saw black, hairy
legs cross the road in front of 

649
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,800
my vehicle in four long strides.
Whatever it was cleared a fence 

650
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,240
and vanished instantly. 
I couldn't say for sure what it 

651
00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:58,360
was, but it moved faster than 
any bear I've ever seen. 

652
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,400
Not long after that, my wife's 
uncle, who was dying from ALS, 

653
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,520
shared his encounters with me. 
He had seen Sasquatch twice as a

654
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,240
young boy while hiking and 
camping in the mountains. 

655
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,520
He waited until his final days 
to tell anyone. 

656
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,360
Within a week of giving his 
accounts, he passed away. 

657
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,440
Since then, I've taken many 
reports and investigated 

658
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,000
countless areas. 
Some reports are false, but many

659
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,240
aren't. 
These experiences changed my 

660
00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:30,840
life. 
I know now these creatures are 

661
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:38,360
real and they are out there. 
This encounter occurred in 

662
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,160
Oklahoma when the Witness was 
just a boy. 

663
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,360
I grew up spending most of my 
time in the woods. 

664
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,320
Ever since I was a kid, I was 
always outside. 

665
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,680
I wasn't afraid of anything back
then. 

666
00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:54,640
I'd come face to face with 
bears, rattlesnakes and other 

667
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,080
dangerous animals and it never 
stopped me. 

668
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,280
I loved watching wildlife and 
learning how everything fit 

669
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,120
together. 
Wherever we lived, whether it 

670
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,440
was Arkansas or Oklahoma, I was 
always in the woods. 

671
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,880
As I got older I became more 
cautious, but I never lost that 

672
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,920
fascination. 
Even after what happened to me, 

673
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,960
I still wanted to go back out 
there. 

674
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,960
What I saw scared me, but it 
also made me curious. 

675
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,720
To this day, I want to see one 
again. 

676
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,960
The encounter happened when I 
was a boy living in a farming 

677
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:31,560
area outside 8th of Oklahoma. 
Our house was built on stilts 

678
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,440
near A2 Lane Rd. 
Behind it was a stream 

679
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,640
surrounded by trees and brush, 
and beyond that was open 

680
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,120
pasture. 
The neighboring farmer kept 

681
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,680
cattle, hogs, chickens and other
animals. 

682
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:47,720
Wildlife was everywhere, Deer, 
mountain lions, bears, snakes. 

683
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,760
It was a beautiful place, but it
could be dangerous if you 

684
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,400
weren't careful. 
One day I slipped away from the 

685
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,120
yard and headed down to the 
Creek like I always did. 

686
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,800
I took off my shoes and socks, 
rolled up my jeans and waded 

687
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,680
through the water looking for 
tracks and signs of animals. 

688
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,480
At some point, everything went 
quiet. 

689
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,960
I remember being told that when 
the woods go silent, there's a 

690
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,960
predator nearby. 
That's when I smelled it. 

691
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,680
The odor was overwhelming, far 
worse than a skunk. 

692
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,280
It burned my eyes and stuck in 
my throat. 

693
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,360
I noticed ripples in the water 
and saw a large leg partly 

694
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,880
submerged near a tree. 
The leg was thick and heavy, 

695
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,640
covered in long hair. 
I followed it upward and saw a 

696
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,040
massive hand gripping a tree 
branch that extended over the 

697
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,440
Creek. 
When I followed that branch 

698
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,320
toward the tree, I came face to 
face with it. 

699
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,480
It was enormous, larger than 
anything I had ever seen. 

700
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,520
The hair was long and a cinnamon
brown colour mixed with darker 

701
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,360
shades. 
Its eyes were set slightly wide 

702
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,200
apart and had an Auburn tone. 
The nose stuck out but wasn't 

703
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,600
flat like an apes. 
The lips were thin and long, and

704
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,320
I didn't see teeth. 
The skin on its face looked 

705
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,360
leathery and tan, and there was 
exposed skin on the throat. 

706
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,600
The hair on the head was shorter
than the rest of the body. 

707
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,640
Its hands matched the colour of 
its face. 

708
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,800
The fingernails were broad and 
broken, like they had been worn 

709
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:15,680
down. 
Digging. 

710
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,040
It just stood there, looking at 
me. 

711
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,720
I could see it blink, and every 
now and then it tilted its head 

712
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:24,240
slightly. 
I was terrified. 

713
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,600
After what felt like forever, I 
ran. 

714
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:30,520
I bolted up the hill and 
sprinted back to the house as 

715
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,400
fast as I could. 
I slammed the screen door and 

716
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,280
locked it even though I knew it 
really wouldn't stop. 

717
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,160
Something like that. 
My mother laughed and said it 

718
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,360
was the first time she didn't 
have to call me home. 

719
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,480
I couldn't tell her what I had 
seen. 

720
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,440
When my father asked later, I 
said it was just a big hog. 

721
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,680
That night the farmer came to 
our door asking if we had heard 

722
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,720
anything strange. 
He was missing 2 hogs. 

723
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:58,360
We went with him to the pen and 
saw huge footprints in the mud, 

724
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,840
shaped like a man's foot. 
There were drag marks leading 

725
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,920
away. 
The hogs had been killed. 

726
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,800
Their necks were broken, but 
there were no bite marks or claw

727
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,280
marks. 
A large portion of their bodies 

728
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,160
were missing. 
Later that night, while I was 

729
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,160
sleeping on the couch, I heard 
heavy footsteps outside the 

730
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,360
house. 
I could hear deep breathing and 

731
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,640
a low growl. 
I was so scared I crawled to my 

732
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,080
parents room and fell asleep 
near my brother's crib next to 

733
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,680
my father's shotgun. 
The next morning my father 

734
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,600
noticed the lingering odor 
outside. 

735
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,960
Years later, when I saw the 
Patterson Gimlin film on 

736
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,680
television, I recognized it 
immediately. 

737
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,520
I told my dad that was what I 
had seen, except the one I 

738
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,160
encountered was male. 
From that moment on, I knew what

739
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,160
it was. 
As I got older, I read 

740
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,000
everything I could about 
Sasquatch. 

741
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,160
I studied reports, Native 
American accounts, and 

742
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,200
historical records. 
I learned that these creatures 

743
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,920
had been known about long before
modern times. 

744
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,760
Native Americans had stories, 
names, and warnings about them. 

745
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,040
Some encounters were peaceful, 
others were violent. 

746
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,320
I believe they are real. 
I know what I saw. 

747
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,040
I can still picture it, and I 
can still smell it. 

748
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,200
That moment has stayed with me 
my entire life. 

749
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,720
If people see one, they 
shouldn't be ashamed to talk 

750
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,120
about it. 
They should be cautious, but not

751
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,200
afraid to speak up. 
These things exist whether 

752
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,960
people believe it or not. 
Seeing one changes you forever. 

753
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,240
In this report, you're going to 
hear six of the 11 encounters 

754
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:38,440
this witnesses had. 
I was on a BFRO expedition in 

755
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,400
Arizona. 
The group split into two teams 

756
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,000
on opposite sides of a Ridge. 
The expedition leader made a 

757
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,680
call from the top. 
The team on the east side didn't

758
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,720
hear anything except the leaders
call. 

759
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000
But the team on the West side 
where my son and I were standing

760
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,280
heard an answer come back within
about 7 seconds. 

761
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,720
The first call came from the 
north. 

762
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,800
About 3 seconds later, another 
call came from the northwest. 

763
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,760
Then 5 or 6 seconds after that, 
a third one came from the 

764
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,480
Southwest. 
They were all a little 

765
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,320
different, but every one of them
was much deeper than the 

766
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,720
organisers call. 
That changed everything for me. 

767
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,120
I've always been analytical and 
curious, and after that night I 

768
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,440
needed to know what it was. 
After that night, I spent a lot 

769
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,960
more time camping and hiking in 
Arizona. 

770
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,200
At first, I took my kids with 
me. 

771
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,880
We had a lot of nights where 
something would come in close to

772
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,560
camp and whistle around two or 
three in the morning. 

773
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,760
The whistling would go back and 
forth from one side of the 

774
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,520
campsite to the other. 
It wasn't a bird, It was steady 

775
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,040
and patterned. 
And in between the whistles we 

776
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,920
could hear footfalls too, like 
something moving around the 

777
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,400
camp. 
As I learned more, I started 

778
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,560
going out with the goal of 
getting evidence so other people

779
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,760
would understand what I had 
experienced. 

780
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:00,400
I set up game cameras and camera
traps, and I set up audio traps.

781
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,000
I did capture a lot of strong 
audio knocks, whoops and howls, 

782
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,480
but nothing that fully felt 
decisive to anyone who hadn't 

783
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,080
been there. 
Some of the sounds were beyond 

784
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,240
what a person could normally do,
but people still explained it 

785
00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:17,400
away. 
That also made me look back on 

786
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,960
earlier trips, going all the way
back to the late 70s through 

787
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,160
2008. 
I started remembering strange 

788
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,640
things I've seen while walking 
off trail, far from any normal 

789
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,800
route. 
Things I had brushed off at the 

790
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,840
time, like finding a wooden nest
deep in the Backcountry after 

791
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,520
hiking miles into the mountains.
Back then I just thought it was 

792
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,680
odd, but I didn't know what to 
do with it. 

793
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,560
I also remembered a night in the
early 1980s with two friends. 

794
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,200
We had taken a small boat across
the lake and camped on the far 

795
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,760
side. 
Around 2:30 or three in the 

796
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,280
morning, we heard a howl that 
was so loud it shook us. 

797
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,240
You could feel it in your chest.
We sat there arguing about 

798
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,720
whether we should leave all our 
gear and get back in the boat 

799
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:03,360
and get out of there. 
We eventually convinced 

800
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,200
ourselves it had to be something
like a large coyote. 

801
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,840
But looking back now, that 
explanation doesn't hold up. 

802
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,720
In 2009, I took my kids out 
again. 

803
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,920
Earlier that day, we had set up 
audio traps. 

804
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,560
While we were out, we found a 
trackway. 

805
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,240
The prints were about 15 inches 
long. 

806
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,760
A lot of people think Arizona is
all sand and cactus, but more 

807
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,440
than half the state is pine 
trees and mountains. 

808
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,000
This was in the mountain area 
and the soil there is usually 

809
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,520
hard unless it's monsoon season 
or right after snow melt. 

810
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,200
These prints were in forest 
litter and pine needles but they

811
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,760
were consistent. 
Left foot, right foot, left 

812
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,200
foot, right foot. 
We followed that track for more 

813
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,520
than 1/4 mile. 
At first I took photos of every 

814
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,200
print and once we realized it 
just kept going. 

815
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,960
I stopped taking pictures of 
every single one. 

816
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,240
The trackway LED up to an 
overlook above a lake. 

817
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,560
We stopped there to rest because
the hike was rough up on a large

818
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,960
rock ledge and a shaded secluded
spot. 

819
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,400
The first thing I noticed was a 
huge imprint where something had

820
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,720
been sitting. 
It wasn't old. 

821
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,400
The grass that had been 
flattened was just starting to 

822
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,600
lift back up like it had 
happened not long before we 

823
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,040
arrived. 
Both my kids work in medical 

824
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,280
fields and my daughter looked 
down and said dad, is that 

825
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,960
blood? 
We looked down and saw drops of 

826
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,160
blood below the spot where the 
imprint was. 

827
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,920
The blood was fresh and started 
to thicken. 

828
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,880
We collected it and bagged it. 
I still have it in my freezer 

829
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,760
because I don't know who I'd 
trust to test it properly. 

830
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,040
When I went back later and 
looked through the photos I had 

831
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,920
taken of the footprints, I 
noticed something I hadn't 

832
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,960
caught at the time. 
In some of the left footprints 

833
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,680
you could see small drops of 
blood that told me whatever made

834
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,960
those tracks likely had a cut on
its foot, made it to that ledge,

835
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,360
sat down like a person would, 
and then took off when it heard 

836
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,880
us coming. 
That evening we went back to the

837
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,280
campsite. 
We cooked and had a good night. 

838
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,240
Later, around 10, my nephew went
out with me and my kids. 

839
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,160
The plan was to do a few knocks 
and see if we got responses. 

840
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,440
My original thought was that we 
would just hear replies in the 

841
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,800
distance like we had before. 
My kids got tired and stayed 

842
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,280
back at the vehicle That left me
and my nephew out there in the 

843
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,640
dark. 
I knocked on a tree in the 

844
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,520
Canyon and within seconds we got
a whoop back from the West, 

845
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:36,200
maybe a quarter mile away. 
We waited about 10 to 15 minutes

846
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,280
and knocked again. 
This time the whoop came back 

847
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,240
from right across the Canyon, 
very close on the opposite side.

848
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,360
My nephew asked if I was going 
to knock back or call again. 

849
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,200
I told him no, it already knew 
we were there. 

850
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,960
All we had with us was a night 
vision monocular that didn't 

851
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,320
record. 
It had about two times 

852
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,560
magnification and an infrared 
light. 

853
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,520
We passed it back and forth so 
we could both look. 

854
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,680
A couple of minutes later we 
heard rocks sliding down into 

855
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,360
the Canyon. 
Then we heard brush moving on 

856
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,160
our side of the Canyon wall 
coming up the slope. 

857
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,280
Then it stopped. 
As we watched the thick brush we

858
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,240
could see something peek out 
quick and duck back in. 

859
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,920
It did that 5 or 6 times and 
both of us saw it. 

860
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,520
Then it stopped and we could 
barely make out soft footfalls 

861
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,600
coming up the hill. 
The steps were so quiet it 

862
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,760
didn't make sense. 
Even on forest litter it was 

863
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,840
moving in a way that was hard to
believe. 

864
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,720
Then it went quiet. 
I knew it was close enough to be

865
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:40,400
watching us, but it wasn't 
making any noise. 

866
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,640
I told my nephew we were going 
to walk back toward the vehicle.

867
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,600
I said I wanted him to stop when
I told him so I could listen and

868
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,640
see if it followed. 
We angled back up toward the 

869
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,040
vehicle, which was parked on a 
logging Rd. 

870
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,040
When we got about 15 or 20 feet 
from where we had started, I 

871
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,080
told him to stop. 
We stopped and there was one 

872
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:04,800
more footstep from the slope 
behind us that confirmed it was 

873
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,120
trailing us. 
I whispered to him and reminded 

874
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,240
him about an open area we had 
walked through earlier where you

875
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:13,520
could see down into the Creek 
bed in the Canyon. 

876
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,160
I told him if I heard anything 
there I wanted him to spin 

877
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,160
around and look through the 
night vision. 

878
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,360
Not long after that, I heard a 
twig snap in that opening. 

879
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,360
I told him to look. 
He spun around with the night 

880
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,160
vision and immediately said 
yeah, there it is. 

881
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,600
I asked what it was doing. 
He said it was looking at him. 

882
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,960
I asked for the monocular. 
By the time he handed it to me, 

883
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,200
the creature was already moving 
from the centre of that opening 

884
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:43,080
toward the side to get behind a 
tree. 

885
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:47,000
The glimpse I caught about a 
step and 1/2 was enough for me 

886
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,920
to tell it was a female. 
I saw the left breast as it ran 

887
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,440
from my right to my left. 
It got behind the tree and one 

888
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,560
of the strangest parts was that 
it left a hand visible on the 

889
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,840
side of the trunk. 
Later when we tried to recreate 

890
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,280
it, I figured out why. 
The slope there was steep and 

891
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:06,960
there was a game trail just 
below. 

892
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,240
If you didn't hang on to the 
tree, you'd lose your balance 

893
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:14,240
and fall backward down the hill.
So the hand wasn't some display.

894
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,560
It looked like it was holding 
itself steady. 

895
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,640
The tree was about 30 feet from 
us. 

896
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,560
With the two times magnification
it felt extremely close. 

897
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,800
That hand stayed there for about
3 minutes and in the infrared 

898
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,440
light we could see fingernails 
reflecting back. 

899
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,920
The nails looked rough at the 
edges. 

900
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,640
The fingers were huge compared 
to mine and I wear a size 12 

901
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,040
ring. 
The hair on the forearm was 

902
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,920
long, maybe 4 to 4 1/2 inches 
and it moved slightly in the 

903
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,480
breeze. 
The back of the hand had some 

904
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,040
hair but not as thick as the arm
and the skin looked darker. 

905
00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:52,600
After about 3 minutes the hand 
pulled back. 

906
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:54,600
We didn't hear anything after 
that. 

907
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,840
We waited and making a few small
sounds but nothing responded. 

908
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,200
I believed it was still in the 
brush, just quiet. 

909
00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:06,440
After about 10 minutes I heard 
something coming down the 

910
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,960
hillside from the east and at 
that point I started thinking 

911
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,040
about how bad it would be if 
anything happened to my nephew. 

912
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,560
That was enough for me and I 
decided we were done and we 

913
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:20,200
headed back. 
My nephew was excited at first, 

914
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,880
talking non-stop once we got 
into the vehicle, but once we 

915
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,960
got back to camp, the reality 
hit him that night in the tent. 

916
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:32,680
He panicked and he was scared it
would come into camp later. 

917
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,040
When I measured the height where
the hand had been placed on the 

918
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,160
tree, it was about 6 feet 8 
inches from the ground. 

919
00:50:38,720 --> 00:50:41,960
Using that as a reference, I 
estimated the creatures height 

920
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,600
at around 7 foot 2 or 7 foot 
three. 

921
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:50,320
That sealed it for me. 
A year later, in 2010, I had 

922
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,960
another sighting in the same 
Canyon in Arizona. 

923
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,880
I had hiked up into a Meadow 
area near the South end of the 

924
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,640
Canyon and I was trying to get 
back to my vehicle. 

925
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,480
I got slightly turned around and
stopped to check my GPS. 

926
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,880
It was about 1:30 in the 
afternoon. 

927
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,120
The sun was sitting just over a 
peak behind the trees. 

928
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,600
I heard a sound on the Ridge to 
my right, West of me. 

929
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,280
I looked up and caught a quick 
glimpse of something running the

930
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,400
last 10 feet before it 
disappeared into thick brush. 

931
00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:23,560
I couldn't tell exactly what it 
was, but it was large. 

932
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,480
I thought if it was an animal 
like a deer or elk, it would 

933
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,040
have kept running. 
If it had stopped in that brush,

934
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:34,280
it might be watching me. 
I took my backpack off and got 

935
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,960
my camera ready. 
I started walking up toward the 

936
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,560
spot I was alone. 
When I got near the bottom of 

937
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,680
the hill, it burst out of that 
brush. 

938
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,440
I've never seen anything that 
big move that fast and that 

939
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,960
smoothly. 
It looked like it was gliding. 

940
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,200
I estimated it was moving around
25 to 30 miles an hour. 

941
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,120
The sun back lit it and lit up 
the hair along its outline as it

942
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,560
ran. 
The hair was reddish brown. 

943
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,120
It crossed the opening in about 
two seconds and disappeared into

944
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,080
thicker brush. 
By the time I raised my camera 

945
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,200
enough to take a photo, it was 
gone. 

946
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:13,120
I walked up and looked for 
prints and all I found was 

947
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,040
scattered forest litter where it
had launched itself out of the 

948
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,400
brush. 
But I couldn't find clear tracks

949
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,400
along the Ridge. 
In 2011, I helped scout a 

950
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,720
location for the BFRO Arizona 
expedition. 

951
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,520
The Canyon was remote, with 
logging roads that gave access, 

952
00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:34,040
but it wasn't heavily travelled.
The first day we found an oak 

953
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,120
tree where a large limb about 10
feet off the ground showed 

954
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,080
signs. 
Something had climbed up and 

955
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,800
stood on it. 
Branches above it had been 

956
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,440
twisted and snapped off. 
Over 100 small branch ends were 

957
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:48,200
on the ground. 
The acorns had been stripped. 

958
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:50,760
It looked like something was 
picking them and dropping them 

959
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,040
down. 
That night I took a group to the

960
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,880
far side of the Canyon. 
We could hear something big 

961
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,760
moving closer, but we couldn't 
see anything on the thermal. 

962
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,280
Then the large movement stopped 
and everything went quiet. 

963
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,680
When we finished up, I had one 
of the expedition members roll 

964
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,920
down a window and use the 
thermal while driving slowly out

965
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,600
on the logging Rd. 
As we drove, she said she saw a 

966
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,520
huge heat signature standing 
between 2 trees about 30 feet 

967
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,680
off the road looking toward us. 
I stopped and backed up, but by 

968
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,160
the time we returned to the spot
it was gone. 

969
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,880
Back at camp, people were making
calls and knocks from the fire, 

970
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,160
which I normally avoid because 
it tends to stir things up. 

971
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,400
While we were standing there, 
something threw a stick out of 

972
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,280
the woods and hit one of the 
vehicles. 

973
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,280
I started walking toward my 
vehicle to grab my thermal and 

974
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,520
the next thing I remember I was 
standing in front of brush about

975
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,480
40 feet away and I wasn't sure 
how I got there. 

976
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,560
The expedition leader later said
she had the same thing happen, 

977
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,160
walking toward her van and 
suddenly realizing she was going

978
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,440
the wrong direction and didn't 
know why. 

979
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,800
Another stick came in and struck
a truck near a guy who had gone 

980
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,000
to grab his gun, and he turned 
around and came back to the fire

981
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,000
without it. 
Later, through thermal, I caught

982
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:15,000
a heat signature that we later 
estimated at about 7 feet 7 

983
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,840
inches. 
It peeked around a tree briefly,

984
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,440
then pulled back. 
Another member had an infrared 

985
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:25,120
security camera set up running, 
and at about the same time it 

986
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:29,440
captured 2 figures walking away.
You couldn't make out any detail

987
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:33,040
from the distance, but you could
see one taller and one shorter. 

988
00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:36,960
When they turned, their eyes 
reflected back brightly from the

989
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,040
infrared light. 
After that, the trip stayed 

990
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,880
mostly quiet. 
One later sighting happened 

991
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:47,600
during a drive back from Iowa. 
I had been at a car show and it 

992
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:52,400
was extremely hot and humid just
north of Bethany, MO and around 

993
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:57,000
5 PMI passed a farm pond. 
In the middle I saw something I 

994
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,440
first thought was a stump. 
Then I noticed rings spreading 

995
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,760
out from it while the rest of 
the pond was still. 

996
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,080
As I drove alongside, I could 
see gaps where legs would be and

997
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,400
gaps under the arms. 
It turned slightly and I saw 

998
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,480
water dripping from its hands 
and fur. 

999
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,360
The fur looked thick. 
I told my daughter I had just 

1000
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:18,840
seen one. 
She looked back and only caught 

1001
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,040
a glimpse before it looked like 
a stump again. 

1002
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,560
I had driven that robe before 
and there'd never been a stump 

1003
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:28,440
in the middle of that pond. 
Another sighting was in Georgia 

1004
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:32,000
near Red Top Mountain. 
I had scoped the area before and

1005
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,400
returned later with a Co worker 
and his son. 

1006
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,360
We went in quiet and watched 
through thermal. 

1007
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,920
After about 40 minutes I noticed
a heat shape moving behind tall 

1008
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:46,680
brush about 150 feet away. 
My Co worker did 2 knocks with 

1009
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,440
pieces of wood. 
The heat signature stopped 

1010
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,200
moving then shifted to a tree 
with a split trunk. 

1011
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:54,920
On the thermal. 
You could see gaps between 

1012
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,280
fingers as it reached into that 
split and pulled itself up. 

1013
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,840
It lifted itself up with one arm
and looked around. 

1014
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,640
I recorded it, but when we 
reviewed it later, the 

1015
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,640
resolution dropped to save the 
file, and it looked more like a 

1016
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,480
heat blur than clear evidence. 
The next day in daylight, we 

1017
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,720
measured the tree. 
The split was about 12 feet up. 

1018
00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:22,120
In 2014, I returned to the same 
Arizona Meadow from my research 

1019
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,160
Canyon. 
It was cold with daytime highs 

1020
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,360
around the low fifties and 
nights dropping into the 20s. 

1021
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,920
I approached from a different 
direction and found a game trail

1022
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,520
into the Canyon. 
The wind was blowing West to 

1023
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,240
east so my scent and sound were 
carried away. 

1024
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:41,080
I stepped out of the trees onto 
the Meadow while recording with 

1025
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:44,880
a handheld video camera. 
It was filming to the South when

1026
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:48,040
out of my peripheral vision to 
my right, I saw movement. 

1027
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:52,840
I turned my head and I saw a 
Sasquatch about 120 feet away, 

1028
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,560
across the Meadow at the edge of
the tree line. 

1029
00:56:56,520 --> 00:57:00,080
It was crouched low near a 
fallen log, feet planted, knees 

1030
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,920
up, digging or picking at 
something at the base of the 

1031
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,680
tree. 
I stared for a second or two, 

1032
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,880
then it stopped and looked up at
me. 

1033
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:12,120
I wasn't making noise, but it 
knew I was there, and we locked 

1034
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,800
eyes for just a moment. 
Then it exploded upward. 

1035
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:19,480
Later, I measured the first step
it took from that crouched 

1036
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,160
position. 
The first stride was about 6 

1037
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:26,160
feet, the next was 7 feet, and 
it bounded into the brush in two

1038
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:30,120
steps and vanished as it ran. 
It crashed through trees so 

1039
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,320
loudly it sounded like something
heavy coming down the Ridge. 

1040
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:37,200
On the video, you can see brush 
moving and hear the crashing, 

1041
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,760
but I didn't capture a clearview
of the body because my camera 

1042
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,040
was still aimed the other way 
when it took off. 

1043
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:47,880
That was six of the sightings. 
I've had 11 total, and I've 

1044
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,640
written about most of them 
online, but those are the ones 

1045
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:55,520
that stand out the most. 
Thanks for listening, everyone. 

1046
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:59,640
Before I go tonight, I just want
to remind you my new book is out

1047
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,440
on Amazon. 
I would be deeply grateful if 

1048
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,640
you could grab a copy to show 
your support. 

1049
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,760
Thank you so much and until next
time, take care.