Braced for the Unknown: A Father's Vigil in Oklahoma's Bigfoot Territory

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Welcome to the big for Society.
In this episode, I talked to Rocky,

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who shares the Bigfoot activity he's experienced
in remote areas of the Washita National

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Forest of Oklahoma in Arkansas. If
you've experienced something similar to what Rocky has,

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or have more information regarding Bigfoot or
other cryptids in the same area,

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please reach out immediately to me after
this episode. Remember, your encounter could

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be the key to unlocking this mystery
once and for all, so please don't

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hesitate to contact me at Bigfoot Society
at gmail dot com. All right,

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bigfot Society, You've got the privilege
of talking to a gentleman. His name

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is Rocky. He's a listener from
Oklahoma, and he reached out to me

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wanting to share some really interesting things
that have happened over the years. Rocky,

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how are you doing tonight? All
doing pretty good? Looking forward to

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this for a while. Absolutely,
I'll let you take the reins my good

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sir. Okay. I started out, I really never thought a whole lot

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about Bigfoot. Grew up in the
eighties with Harry and the Henderson It's about

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as far as my thought process of
it really ever went. And then I

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was working nights and had a lot
of downtime and would tend to get into

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these YouTube holes suggested videos, and
I was listening to one and it was

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some sounds from southeast Oklahoma, and
there's a small town that's growing quite a

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bit down there called Broken Bow,
and I'd been down there for my son's

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birthday. And there's a nice little
quote unquote Oklahoma mountain town. And this

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was down in McCurtain County, which
is where this town is. And I

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thought, man, that's weird.
I never thought about Bigfoot being in Oklahoma,

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never thought about Bigfoot being real.
So I started listening to these videos.

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And I enjoy camping, being outside. I've grown up outside and never

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really crossed my mind. And I'm
listening to this audio and I had to

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put my headphones in, and the
description was it was a girl that had

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lived out there in the woods and
heard this thing screening offer back patio.

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And I'd probably listened to this thing
ten times. And of course the algorithms,

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once you get into something, it
keeps playing. So I've got into

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a few months of listening to podcasts
and shows and hearing things, and my

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curiosity starts going because Traditionally you think
of people that believe in Bigfoot as being

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nutjobs. And I'm listening to these
stories and they're judges, their cops,

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they're firefighters, there's military guys,
and these are people that are held in

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fairly high esteem in our society.
A cop can put you in jail for

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the rest of his life or the
rest of your life if he says that

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you did something. And now you
have a police officer that's saying that they've

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seen these things. It's something that
was going to back in my mind.

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And a group of us went to
the Ozark National Forest out in Arkansas,

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and we're camping out there. And
the first night we get there and we're

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settling down, we're starting to cook
some burgers and I'm sitting there and I'm

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talking to my friend Buck, and
I hear in the distance this screen that

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is just like the one on this
YouTube video that I watched, and I'm

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listening to this thing, and one
just the amount of force that it would

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take to make this noise for this
long perked my ears up. And I

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looked at him and he's looking at
me. And we've been going to that

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heard it and so, and that
was all that really happened on that trip.

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But after the fact, I went
to Google Earth and I look up

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the area, and from where we
were, it was a downslope about a

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mile and a half two miles and
there's this canyon. And so in my

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head, I'm piecing together what I
heard and how this was echoing through,

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and I'm trying to dissect what I
heard and what it could possibly be.

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And the only way that I can
describe it would be if somebody had a

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massive sound system, and it would
have had to have been an audio recording,

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and I just don't see where we
were, as remote as we were,

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that that is plausible. So that
gets me even more into it,

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because now I've heard something like in
person, not just something that could be

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made up online. It's something that
I've heard. And so October of twenty

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eighteen, one of the guys that's
on the trip with me hits me up

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and he's, hey, man,
do you want to go on an off

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road trip for the weekend. There's
a trail that is called the K Trail

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in southeast Oklahoma, and a good
portion of it has been shut off and

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made private land. So what our
goal, our point of the trip was

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to go from a place called Three
Sticks Monument where it turns public and hit

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that trail into Arkansas and then come
around the backside of Broken Bow Lake.

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And I found a camp spot that
was fairly remote, and so we're getting

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ready for this trip, and this
storm moves in and I for people that

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are familiar with Oklahoma, twenty eighteen
eight, a little town southeast of Oklahoma

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City flooded real bad, and we're
watching this on the news, and Matt

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and I were talking and we're like, do we want to go on this

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trip? It's going to be pouring
down rain. But we were already packed,

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we were already ready to go.
I've got my son with me at

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the time. He was I think
five or six years old. He was

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super stoked to go. So I
was like, Matt, let's just go.

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We'll get out there, we'll camp. If it's just a muddy mess,

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we'll go down and hit Broken Bow. There's a bunch of little restaurants

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and stuff, and then come home. So we pack up and we head

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out and it's as we're getting closer, it's getting foggier and it's rain and

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pretty hard. In retrospect, I
think they had gotten an Ada where it

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had flooded, had gotten ten inches
of rain reported that weekend, so it

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was raining pretty good. So where
we were hitting the trail, it's right

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by a road called Talmina Drive.
Now Talmena Drive is very scenic and it

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goes on the ridge of an Oklahoma
mountain and goes from Tallina I think is

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Oklahoma into Mina, Arkansas. So
it's right off of this road is where

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the K trail intersects. So we
pull off and we're both in four runners,

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and the trail is a little bit
wider than our trucks. It's foggy,

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it's raining, and so I really
don't know the layout of it at

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the time. But we go maybe
two three miles on this trail, and

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keep in mind Broken Bow is about
a forty five minute drive south. There's

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a couple of real small rural towns
that are five six miles north of us.

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But where we are, and if
you Google map this, there's nothing

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around. So we go a few
miles and it's pretty foggy and there's a

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little clearing. So Matt pulls his
full runner in and I pull up to

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his driver's side. So the back
of our trucks are towards the trail.

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Looking forward, all I can see
at this point is a little bit of

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trees. I have no idea what
the topography of this place is. So

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I've got a rooftop tent on my
fore erunner, so it folds over on

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itself. So I open my tent
up. My son gets up in there.

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It's raining. We didn't even bother
doing anything. We just wanted to

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go to sleep and look for the
next day again. Truck is off the

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front and a little bit or a
little bit front and off to the passenger

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side of my truck. He crawls
in his passenger seat. He's sleeping in

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his four hunner. I jump up
in my tent. The ladder to my

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tent is between my truck and his, and if the paint of picture,

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my feet are by the ladder.
My head is on the other side of

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my truck. So me and my
son crawl up there and we crash out.

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It's raining. I sleep great like
that, but I wake up and

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I can feel something wet on my
neck, and I'm exhausted. I'm like,

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what is this? And my tent
has a sunroof, and where the

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zipper is for that sunroof, and
it was raining so hard it was seeping

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through the rainfly and puddling up on
my tent and then dripping through this zipper.

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So it wakes me up, and
I'm like, man, come on,

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So I reach up and I push
my tent and all this water comes

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off of it, and I start
to go back to sleep, And right

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about the time I go to sleep, I feel something wet on my neck

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again. So I push up,
get all this water off, and I'm

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just about asleep and I hear something
that will never leave my mind. I

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hear something that sounds fairly large and
is quick and to me, is on

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two legs, and it runs from
behind my truck, down the side of

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my truck, and out towards the
front of my truck. So this catches

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my attention. Obviously. I've got
my son with me. We're out in

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the middle of nowhere. I haven't
grown up here. I grew up in

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southern California. When I moved here, I've always been told that part of

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the state be very cautious when you
get off of main trails because there are

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some questionable people. So I've always
had that in the back of my mind.

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And now I'm in the middle of
the woods, middle of the night.

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It's pouring down rain. Nobody in
their right mind is out and I

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just hear somebody run past my tent. So I'm trying to wake up and

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get my whips about me, and
I'm like, did I really just hear

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this? And about that time,
I hear it come back, and I

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hear this by my truck the way
it came. So now I'm like,

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I know I heard this. So
I roll over on my back and being

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the background that I have prior military
do not leave to go on stuff like

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this, especially with my son without
being armed. So I'm laying on my

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back looking towards the ladder of my
tent, waiting for somebody to come up.

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I've got a forty five sitting on
my chest and I've got a small

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practical shotgun laying beside me. In
my mind, I'm thinking about one of

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the stories that I've heard. A
guy by the name of Randy Harrington,

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who's a bigfoot guy, lives up
in Kansas, and he and I talk

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quite a bit. Now. He
shared some pretty cool stuff with me,

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but he's got a story where he
had that he had one that was running

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back and forth by his tent,
so that's you know, I'm triggering in

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on that. I'm trying to pay
attention. This thing made six passes back

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and forth by my truck, and
my adrenaline's going. My kids passed out.

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I'm sitting there thinking, I'm in
a tent on top of a truck

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in the middle of nowhere. What
is my course of action we going with

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this? And what's weird to me? And I'm sure it was just an

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adrenaline dump because I'm sitting there and
I'm trying to calm my breath. My

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mindset is if half of what I've
heard about these things is real, I

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don't want him her it whatever hearing
my heart rate going. So I'm trying

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to calm myself down and process through
my mind escape routes what my whole situation

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is going to be, and I
don't understand it. I've been in other

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situations with high adrenaline before, but
to this day, I do not know

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how I fell back asleep the way
that I did, Like I went from

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wired wide awake, listening for every
single sound that I could. In retrospect,

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I wish I would have grabbed my
phone and hit my recorder and had

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it all recorded. But I ended
up waking up in the morning and I'm

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looking around and my buddy notices me's
what are you doing? And I was

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like, man, were you screwing
with me last night? He's what you're

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talking about? Like, qut mess
around? Were you playing games last night?

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Because he knows how I am,
and he messes with me every now

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and again. Everybody does. But
I don't know what you're talking about.

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And I was like, you weren't
out running around last night? And he

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goes, dude, he goes,
I got up. He goes, you

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saw me when I got in my
truck. I was wearing nothing but mine

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to where he goes. I got
up to pee and I was soaked like

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it was pouring. I'm not going
to go mess with you. He's what

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are you talking about? So I
tell him what's going on, and so

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we go over to that side of
the truck and we're looking for anything.

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Branches are broke off, footprints in
the mud. It was. It's a

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real rocky area. And looking back
at it now, like I said,

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we're right on the ridge of a
hill, mountain, whatever you call it.

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And right after the trail it drops
off and it's just all wilderness.

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It's bushes and brambles and trees,
and then there's a little clearing and it

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drops off the other side. So
we talked about it, looked around,

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couldn't find anything. Thought it was
weird and still raining. But we're like,

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you know what, let's just go, let's do this. So we

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pack up and we're driving and I'm
paying a time what's around And we drove

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literally all day, and I think
we saw one other person on the trail

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coming towards us. Never saw another
house that I can recall until we crossed

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over into the Arkansas side, which
was it's a long ways away, so

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it's not like somebody saw some headlights
and came out to see what was going

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on. So we get to the
next spot and saw some really weird shrines,

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hoodies and pants that had like stuffing
in them. And this isn't on

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somebody's land, like, this is
middle of nowhere, off in the woods,

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nails of trees. We saw this
real weird shrine that had a bunch

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of kids toys, and it gives
you a real creepy feeling. But we

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get to the next state stop that
we stayed at, and it's a beautiful

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spot. It's on the east side
of the lake. It's all hunting ground

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over there in national forest. There's
no houses, no nothing, and we

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found this little spot had a clearing
you can tell people at camp there before.

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And it was raining, but not
really that bad. And I was

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getting ready to start setting my tent
up. And I still don't know because

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my kid, he's twelve now,
and he still will not sleep in my

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tent after that night. He'll sleep
in the back of my truck. But

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he was like, he's got I
don't want to sleep in the tent tonight.

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Can we just sleep in the fore
Runner? And I was like,

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man, yeah, if that's what
you want to do, we don't have

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to open the tent up. We
hang out, cook have a little bit

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of a fire. We're like,
let's go ahead and call it a night.

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My son gets in the back seat
and my full Runner and I'm in

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the front seat and I've got five
percent window tent on my full Runners.

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At night, you're not going to
see outside. And I still do not

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know what this is. I got
woke up. It was probably an hour

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or two before the sun came up, and the best way that I can

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describe it coming from a dead sleep
is it felt and sounded like an explosion,

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like dynamite outside of my truck,
and it physically shook my truck.

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So now my mind is going back
to what happened the night before after we

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did our big I would say we
were probably twenty thirty miles as the crow

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flies from where we stayed the first
night, and I'm sitting in this truck

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that just was moving and I can't
see outside. I don't want to open

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my door because I don't know who's
outside. I don't know what's outside.

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I opened my door. Every light
my truck inside and outside is going to

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come on. I don't want that
tactical disadvantage if something is going on,

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whether it's a bigfoot or some crazy
guy in the woods. So again I'm

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laying there and I'm trying to stay
awake. I can't see anything, just

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pitch black through my windows. Eventually
I dozed off and went to sleep,

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and in the morning we got up
and I asked Matt again. I was

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like, hey, man, did
you feel that he goes, Yeah,

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he goes. What was that?
I was like, I have no idea

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like it shook my whole truck.
But when I got out, I have

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an awning that mounts on the roof
racked side of my truck, and it's

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got two aluminum bars that come out
and then it's got two that come down,

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and I had it to where if
it training, the water's gonna run

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off of it. When I get
up and I try and get out of

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my truck, I can't open my
door right because it's hitting something. Roll

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my window down and I see it's
my haunting, and I figured it just

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the wind caught it or something.
But when I got out, these aluminum

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bars were twisted up. The two
sidebars were twisted up like pretzels, and

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then it was just laying there beside
my truck. Never saw anything, hurt

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a lot, but definitely left an
impression and it feeds more into the I

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don't know if it's mysticism, but
my curiosity of what it all is.

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And so it was. That was
October. The following October, I was

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at a large off road community greet
thing. It's a weekend deal that we

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go to every year, and I
had a friend of mine came down from

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Missouri and we were at the very
far end. And this is northwest Arkansas

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now, but the very far end
of this camp were backed up to this

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river, and there was a fire
pit. There was about thirty feet forty

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feet away from the back of our
trucks. And the last night that we're

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there, it was her daughter's birthday. She had her daughter and I had

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my son with me and we're having
a bonfire. It's just the two of

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us and the four of us.
The kids end up going to sleep.

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We're making made some smores and they
go to sleep, and so I've got

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some extra small stuff and we're sitting
there and talking and we're both interested in

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strange things aliens, ghosts, bigfoot. So we're telling stories back and forth

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the things that have happened to us. And I was telling her about what

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had happened in Oklahoma. And so
just past where we're parked, there's a

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river. The other side of the
river is nothing like hundreds of acres miles

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of just wilderness. There's nothing over
there. And we're sitting there and we're

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talking and I can hear something across
the river in the woods. So we're

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talking and I've got a pretty strong
flashlight and I click it on across the

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woods, and as soon as I
put my light over there, it stops.

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So I click it off and we're
talking and it starts up again,

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so I click it on and it
stops, and she's picking up on what

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I'm doing, and she's what are
you doing. I was like, you

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not hear that? She as I
do, and I was like, I

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figure it's a deer or something.
I'm just looking for some eyeshine. I

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don't know what it is. So
we're sitting there and I've gotten my back

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to my truck and when I'm looking
at the fire, she's on the other

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side of the fire. And then
there's maybe fifteen twenty feet away. The

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little sandy beach that we're on turns
into woods, and we're sitting there and

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I hear something fall by us,
and I'm thinking maybe a corner or something,

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and so we're talking and I start
hearing stuff across the river again,

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and I flick my light on,
and as soon as I flick my light

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on, I hear something come out
of those woods on our side of the

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river. I hear it hit some
leaves and branches and it fires right next

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to me, and I click my
light off, and I look down and

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I'm looking around and there's no acorns. There's some small rocks. This is

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getting interesting. We're sitting there talking
to some more and I hear something across

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the river, and I flip my
light on, and when I flip my

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light on again, something gets thrown
from the other tree line. So I

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flipped my light on to that other
tree line, and then across the river,

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I start hearing noise. Now my
friend picks up on what I'm doing

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because she's hearing it all, and
she goes. She goes, is this

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really happening right now? And I
said, I've been paying attention to what's

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across the river, and I started
noticing when I flip my light on over

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there, it gets quiet. But
I get something thrown at me from over

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here, and she's that. She
goes, I've been hearing that. And

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then when I flip my light on
and look at this tree line across the

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river starts making noise. And it
wasn't in like a threatening way. It

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was more of it had this very
place full banter to it, and I

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was enjoying it. We were like, you know what, I need to

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go to the bathroom. The closest
bathrooms. We had to walk. It

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was like a five mile walk to
where these bathrooms are. So we get

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up and we go there, and
we come back and we start talking,

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and the same stuff starts going on. The people camping next to us.

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He was a Air Force pilot in
training and his wife was a veterinarian,

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and they were up at the main
part of the camp across the place.

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They've been drinking, and they come
over and sit down next to us and

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they're talking, and the whole time, the back and forth across the river

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and behind us is going on.
And she got hit. The veterinarian girl

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got hit by a little rock and
she looked at me and she was like,

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what was that? And I was
like, oh, we've been playing

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back and forth. I said,
there's something across the river, and there's

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something in the tree line. And
when I turned my light on across the

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river, something in the tree line
gets our attention and we'll throw things at

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us. And this girl gives me
this look hale as it goes she's Nope,

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I'm out, I'm not doing this. I'm leaving off, she goes.

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So anyway, I know I'm rambling
a little bit, but this was

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one of the cooler things that I
just I can't explain anything other than linking

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it back to other stories. We've
got to get up and leave in the

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morning. We're going to make some
breakfast, and so the fire's dying down,

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and I had a couple of extra
Hershey's bars. There was some gram

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crackers, some marshmallows, and me
just being me. We get up and

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I left all the food there,
and I was like, all right,

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man, like, we've had fun
with y'all, but I'm going to leave

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you some snacks enjoy. We're going
to bed. So we go up crash

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out. The next morning, we
get up and I'm making pancakes and bacon

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and all this. We get done, and I go to start cleaning dishes

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and pots and pans, and I've
got this big six gallon jug of water

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that I use. And there was
a tree that had been cut down that

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was laid down right behind my truck, and then there's another tree that's directly

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behind my truck and it's still there. So I'm using the one that had

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been cut down to prop my water
jug on, and I'm washing stuff,

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and I completely forgot about the food. That I had left out, and

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I glanced over and the tree behind
my truck. Now keep in mind,

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this is thirty five forty feet away
from where our fire was, and at

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the time, the wind was blowing
from my where my truck was to where

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the fire was. I look over
and there is a full Hershey wrapper placed

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right at the base of the tree, looking right at my truck. And

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I look at that, and I
looked over at my friend and I was

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like hey. I was like,
come here, and she's like, well,

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I said, just come here for
a second. I said, did

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you do that? And she was
like no, She goes where'd that come

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from? I said, I left
him on the chairs over there, and

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she that's strange. And so I'm
thinking it's one of just the wrappers,

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and I'm like, what are the
chances of this wrapper out of the bag

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that it was in against the wind
and even all of that laying perfectly on

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the ground pointed at my truck.
So we go over there and where I

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pick it up, and it's one
of the full bars and there's about three

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quarters of it is gone. And
so I look at the wrapper. I'm

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thinking, if it's a raccoon or
something, the way they're going to tear

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into it, and it wasn't.
It was torn into it like somebody with

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a finger and a thumb grabbed it
and ripped it. And there was one

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bite that was out of it,
very large comparative wise to a hershey bar.

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If I would have bitten into it
like that, the teeth and the

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way that it was bit into would
not have looked like that. So we

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start looking around and I've got some
pictures. I think I still have them

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on my phone. It's sandy going
down to where the lake was or the

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river was, and we start looking
around and we notice what looks like a

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footprint. There's I think there was
four maybe five so impressions, and there

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was like the front of your foot. I don't even know if that's the

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heel of the ball. I guess
it's the ball pressed in. And then

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you can see a little bit of
the heel. And so my friend that

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was with me is she's about six
foot six y one, and so she

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pulls her foot her shoe off and
puts her foot next to it, and

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it's quite a bit bigger than hers. And so I'm six three, about

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two forty five two fifty and so
I get down in the sand and I

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get my thumb and I try and
push my thumb down in the sand,

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and I'm pushing as hard as I
can, and I couldn't even leave any

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bit of a divot in there.
We took some pictures of it, cleaned

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up our stuff, and went home. But that was that was definitely a

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fun night, and like I said, it was very playful. But then

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the next day to have that left
the way that it was, and we

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were in the fam camp side,
so everybody was asleep on our side,

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and we went to bed like there
wasn't anybody up. We were one of

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the first ones up in the morning. So like the likelihood of somebody coming

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and placing that and doing that is
just very slim. I guess it's there,

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but in my mind it didn't happen
like that. You said that you

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could see where something I'd taken a
bite of the bar, right, yeah?

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Could you tell what shape of teeth
were used with when there was a

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bite taken of that bar at all? So if you could picture a Hershey's

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bar, and if you took a
bite diagonally on one of the corners,

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and like I said, it was
about I don't know. A corner of

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the bar was gone, the rest
of it was there, and it looked

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like they're definitely rounded teeth like.
It wasn't a squared off, straight edge.

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It didn't look like a cat you
ever see a cat when it chews

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on something, how it's real jagged. It was very smooth, very rounded,

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and there was about maybe two two
and a half curves in there where

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something had bitten into this bar and
looking at it and her and I were

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going into detective mode on this because
we thought it was pretty cool, but

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it was way bigger than I would
have my teeth marks would have made in

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it. Anyway, it makes for
just this strange story, definitely having those

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that candy bar messed with and then
the thing on the other side the river.

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But what I also think is very
strange is in another one of your

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accounts, the aluminum bars that were
twisted up like pretzels. Do you think

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there's any chance that a human the
type of bars that you had there any

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chance that a human could have done
that or were they pretty steady bars that

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you had there? No, they're
very lightweight aluminum bars. I mean I

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could twist them up pretty easy.
The more of the reason that I think

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that it wasn't a person is just
the amount of not the amount of the

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area that we were in was so
remote, and like I said, we

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went all the way into Arkansas all
the way back. It's all dirt roads

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and trails. There's no houses out
there. There's no houses that I'm aware

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of from Broken Bow Lake until you
hit the Arkansas state line, and the

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only thing that I saw there was
there was a church camp right on the

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state line, but there's nothing there. It's all public land and hunting land

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and national forest. Just the amount
of people that we saw that day,

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and then even when we left,
we didn't see anybody until we got back

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on the main highway. So the
weather that we had, the rain that

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we had, and the fact that
we literally did not see anybody around,

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I just and honestly, if it
was a vehicle that pulled up from where

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we were parked where the trail came
in, they would have lit my truck

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up when they were coming in.
I would have my windows are dark,

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but I'll see tail lights or something. So they would have had to have

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been on foot, and I just
I don't it's possible, but I don't

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think that it's plausible that anybody else
was out there. And I even thought

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about the wind and the rain being
on it, but that might crease them

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in half and make them fall.
But these were like twisted around. Twist

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it up. It'd be extremely weird. It'd be unsettling for sure. And

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you were sitting there and ready for
anything. You ever, have you ever

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thought about what if something had actually
poked its head up or you actually got

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a visual of something. Have you
ever thought about how that would have played

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out. I don't. I have, but I don't know how it would

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have played out. So my standard
load when I go now, I've got

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two handguns that I keep on me. One of them has got twenty four

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shots in it. The other one
has got fourteen plus one in the chamber.

407
00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:59.119
The shotgun, I typically keep two
two loads of buckshot and then three

408
00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:04.119
loads of a slug and then I've
also got a small three hundred blackout ar

409
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:07.440
pistol that I take with me with
thirty rounds, and then I bring quite

410
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.799
a bit of extra with me.
I honestly don't know how that would have

411
00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.200
worked, the military side of me, the training side of me. If

412
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:21.039
I would have seen something that wasn't
human poke its head in my tent.

413
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:26.119
I'm probably going to in my mind
of the size of these things, because

414
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:29.480
I've heard multiple people say I didn't. I don't think I had enough firepower

415
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.839
for it. I'm probably going for
eyes, possibly a throat if I can

416
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:37.240
see it, but I really don't
know. And I've got that feeling to

417
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:41.200
where I don't want to be aggressive
with something that I don't think that I

418
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:47.119
can win against. That said,
having my son with me, if something's

419
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.079
going to be aggressive, it might
kill me, but I'm going to do

420
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:52.519
everything I can to hurt it and
make it second guess what it's doing.

421
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.039
Like I said, I just I
had that forty on my chest with one

422
00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.279
hand on it, and then I
had the other one with the shot gun

423
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.640
beside me, and I don't know
how that plays out, and it's still

424
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:08.000
it messes with my head when I
think about taking my son out, because

425
00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.640
if I go out somewhere and something
happens to me, it happens to me.

426
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:17.400
But the fact that he was there
with me took it to such a

427
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:22.400
different level that I don't know how
that would have played out. It's definitely

428
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.599
very interesting to put myself in that
situation too, being a father as well.

429
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.960
And yeah, it really puts a
whole different spin on it. The

430
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:37.720
area that you were traveling through in
southeast Oklaholma. Have you heard of other

431
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.559
people experiencing bigfoot in that same area
that you were. It is a very

432
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:47.279
hot spot and I've listened to a
few of your podcasts and like I linked

433
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:51.039
up with you on TikTok. There
is when you get down into the broken

434
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:53.599
baw hoachtown area. It's a lot
of the touristy things. Everything is bigfoot

435
00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:57.319
down there. They've got the big
big Foot meat that I found out this

436
00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.160
year. I guess they're canceling that
or trying to find someplace else to have

437
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.599
it, but they've got the big
phnobia. I live here. I still

438
00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:07.240
don't know how to pronounce some of
these towns around here. But they do

439
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.880
the big big Foot festival down there. There's that famous one that you were

440
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.839
talking about a couple of days ago, the Siage on Panoviia. That is

441
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.359
all right in that area. I
actually had a friend of mine that moved,

442
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.880
he sold his house. He lived
in a town called Antlers that's been

443
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.240
the same area and he was having
some that were all over his yard and

444
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.200
he had security footage of it.
I can send you the link. I

445
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.319
think he still has his videos up
on YouTube where you can see shadows coming

446
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.119
and going. They were messing with
his horses, messing with his kids,

447
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:38.799
and he packed up. I think
he's in South Texas now. They ran

448
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:44.359
him out of his house. So
there's definitely a lot of activity down there,

449
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:48.680
a lot of just wild, untouched
land. And that's everybody says,

450
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:49.839
I don't think that those things exist. We would have seen him the night

451
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:55.400
Man getting airplane fly over. See
how many miles and miles of just nothing.

452
00:31:55.880 --> 00:32:00.720
I get like the whole hokey image
Bigfoot. But if you think about

453
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:06.319
it in a different way, is
it possible in these thousands of square miles

454
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.839
that something exists that we don't know
about, That something that is highly intelligent,

455
00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.680
that is very good at hide and
seek, if you want to call

456
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:22.799
it that. Is it plausible that
there's something there in thousands of miles that

457
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.240
we just we can say we've discovered
them, we've flown over them. But

458
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.960
I guarantee you there's plenty of places
just in the state that's never had a

459
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:34.079
human foot touch. That is wild
to think about. I haven't gotten the

460
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:38.119
chance to go down to Oklahoma yet, but from what I've researched and seen,

461
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:45.160
the Wachita National Forest alone is just
such a massive area. I'm sure

462
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:52.000
you've thought of this a few times
as you've done different forms of looking into

463
00:32:52.359 --> 00:33:00.799
Bigfoot, the creatures that are reported
around that area of southeast Oklahoma. Do

464
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:07.480
you think we're dealing with an undiscovered
grade ape or what do you think we

465
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:12.039
might be looking at with this particular
creature in the area. I don't know.

466
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:17.039
I've heard a lot of really compelling
arguments of them being some sort of

467
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.359
a supernatural thing. You get out
in the snow and you're following footprints and

468
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.319
then they just disappear. I've heard
a lot of links to these orbs of

469
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:30.160
white and then these things show up. I don't know. I guess I

470
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:36.640
look at it more of an actual
creature, an animal, more along those

471
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:40.920
lines than I do maybe a spiritual
thing. Speaking of all of that,

472
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:46.799
it just it's on topic. But
Oklahoma's got a lot of Native American and

473
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:55.599
it's funny that literally every single tribe
has got some sort of lower of a

474
00:33:55.640 --> 00:34:00.200
Bigfoot or a hairy man or whatever. It's just I don't know. I

475
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:07.519
see it more of being just a
creature that is really smart. That's it's

476
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.639
good at what it does. It's
good at hiding itself, it's good at

477
00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:14.480
covering its tracks. Everybody says,
if they were real, we'd have one

478
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:19.639
in zoo. Cool. I've never
seen a bear when I'm out at places.

479
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.440
I know there's places I can go
and probably see one, but in

480
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.360
my day to day I never have. There's a lot of animals that you're

481
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:28.119
just never going to see. They're
good at camouflage, they're good at hiding.

482
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:31.760
So if you get something that's highly
intelligent, I just I don't see

483
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:36.800
where it's outside the realm of possibilities
that it's just good at what it does.

484
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.440
It's good at hiding. Yeah,
I don't know. Just Southeast Oklahoma

485
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:46.920
feels it's one of those places that
you've got people like the guys from Area

486
00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:52.800
X and Nawac, and it just
it feels if we actually get to the

487
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:59.119
point eventually years down the road,
where we get a type specimen or we

488
00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:06.400
get a solid this generation's video or
photo that's not blurry, it feels like

489
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:09.280
it's going to happen in that area, but I don't know. We will

490
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:16.639
have to wait and see. You
mentioned that some maybe supernatural aspects or non

491
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:23.239
flesh and blood. Have you heard
accounts in that area where there's been things

492
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:29.000
like orbs or things that might not
be attributed to flesh and blood creatures?

493
00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:31.719
Yeah, yeah, you hear stuff
about the orb thing. That buddy of

494
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:37.079
mine that had to play some antlers
has got a very weird video that I

495
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:43.000
don't understand at all. But he
right before he moved, and this video

496
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.679
is one of the reasons that he
moved. He had a above ground swimming

497
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:52.800
pool and from the camera angle from
his house, he's looking out his backyard

498
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:58.719
and there is the swimming pool and
his horses aren't a pasture back there,

499
00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.960
and he's got lights are on,
motion sensors and everything. But he's got

500
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:10.400
this video where if you look at
the pool and it's just on one side

501
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:15.639
of the pool. Because I'm thinking
about it from scientifically different whether anomalies or

502
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.840
high pressure low pressure around where the
water is and it's warm and it's humid,

503
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:25.280
but the horses start acting weird.
Lights come on. He's filming it

504
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:32.920
and there's like this fog that creeps
around from the back of the pool and

505
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.880
it gets a few feet in the
camera shot and it's sitting there and all

506
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.840
of a sudden, it's like somebody
turns on a vacuum cleaner, like this

507
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.480
sucks back around the back of the
pool real fast, and then it's gone.

508
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:50.400
And then I think that same night, shortly after he had caught some

509
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.199
shadows, but the horses start freaking
out and all that, and I don't

510
00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:58.199
know what would cause that. I
don't know if it's one and the same,

511
00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:00.400
but it was just it was very
odd. And after he had a

512
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:04.760
few videos of stuff like that,
he's I'm out, like I can deal

513
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:07.360
with animals, I can deal with
something like that, but I don't have

514
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:13.039
any idea what causes that. I
don't know. It's one of those things.

515
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:14.639
And I was going to say,
too, when you were talking about

516
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.760
cameras and pictures and everything, that's
something that that I think about a lot,

517
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:21.519
because everybody's everybody's got a camera,
everybody's got their phone, everybody's got

518
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:23.119
a camera. Why don't you take
a picture? Telling me right now?

519
00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.280
That night, when I was laying
in my tent, my phone was right

520
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.239
next to me. The absolute last
thing that I thought about until the next

521
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:35.480
morning is that phone I should have
I wish I would have I wish I

522
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.679
would have kicked it on and had
audio, I had any kind of proof

523
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:42.599
or could get a second opinion about
Hey man, what does this sound like

524
00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:46.199
to you? But like in that
situation, when that's going on, that

525
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:51.599
was literally the last thing on my
mind was, Hey, I should grab

526
00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:54.719
my phone and try and get something. Oh yeah, you're in a situation

527
00:37:54.840 --> 00:38:00.039
like that. You're in, especially
one where there's your son with you,

528
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:06.079
more focused on protecting, being ready
to do whatever needs to be done,

529
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:15.239
and unfortunately, getting audio is definitely
pretty low priority unless here gung ho researcher

530
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:20.960
that's off by yourself or with your
buddies or something. But I totally get

531
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:22.719
how that happened in that situation.
It would have been the same for me.

532
00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:28.119
So yeah, I think there's a
big difference between going out and looking

533
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:30.360
for it. Randy, I've talked
to him where he'll go out and he's

534
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:35.119
got parabolic mics that are taped up
around his truck, and he'll set up

535
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.840
a tent to make it look like
somebody's in there, and he stays up

536
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.880
all night like looking for it with
audio and video and everything else, and

537
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:46.360
then it's a totally different ballgame when
you're not expecting it, you're not thinking

538
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:49.760
about it. That was the night
that we went out. That was the

539
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.800
last thing on my mind. In
all honesty, I bring the guns with

540
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:58.440
me more for Mount Lyons people that
I don't trust any kind of self protection

541
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:00.119
that we're going to have. The
last thing that I thought was I was

542
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:05.079
going to have something running by my
tent at three o'clock in the morning,

543
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:08.119
in the middle of a torrential downpour, you know, five, ten,

544
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:12.400
fifteen miles away from anything. That's
the last thing that was on my mind

545
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:16.639
that night. It's fascinating and just
very interesting stories, the ones that make

546
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:23.960
you really think, and people that
hear it, I'm sure have also experienced

547
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:29.199
things similar to it. I'm sure
there'll be a few people that will reach

548
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:34.400
out after this episode, But Rocky, it has been a fun time chatting

549
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:38.679
with you tonight. If you are
lucky enough to go out again, and

550
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:44.519
if you experience any other of the
ordinary things, please feel free to reach

551
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:49.239
out. Definitely. Oh absolutely.
Actually, I've got a friend right now

552
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.280
that I was talking to the other
day that's going through some stuff and had

553
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.719
mentioned want to go camping, and
I had told her that I was going

554
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.119
to be talking to you about this, and she's like, this weekend,

555
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.599
we're gonna have to talk about it
because I want to know and I want

556
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:02.119
to go. And I'm like,
I'm telling you, I'll take you.

557
00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:07.320
I'm not scared, but I've got
a pretty good track record of weird things

558
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:12.480
happening that I can't explain when I
go camping. I'd love to I'd love

559
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.760
to get back out, go back
down in the same area. Really,

560
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:20.639
all over or southeast Oklahoma is it's
very remote, even the towns that are

561
00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:22.480
there. That's one of those that
you might have a stop sign in the

562
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.119
middle of it. So you just
you've got a lot of wilderness, a

563
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:28.920
lot of area. There's a lot
of stories, there's a lot of folklore,

564
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:31.960
and if half of it's true,
hopefully it'll come and find me while

565
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.760
I'm there. Good luck going out
in the future, stay safe, and

566
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:38.800
I hope to hear from you soon
in the future. Oh absolutely, I

567
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:42.880
appreciate it. Just wanted to take
a few minutes to say thank you to

568
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.800
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574
00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:15.800
bigfoot encounter related to the following or
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575
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Here's the list. Bush pilots in
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577
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.519
Retired law enforcement officers who department had
a large file for bigfoot encounters.

578
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:36.800
Individuals that have had bigfoot encounters on
their family property through multiple years and generations.

579
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.480
Individuals who've had a face to face
encounter in the state of Tennessee,

580
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:45.480
North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, or Mississippi. Individuals who've

581
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:47.679
had a face to face encounter in
the state of Oklahoma or Arkansas in the

582
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:52.239
Washita National Forest. Individuals who've had
a face to face encounter on Prince of

583
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:58.639
Wales Island or surrounding area in southeast
Alaska. Any encounter in Franklin County,

584
00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:01.719
Texas. Hunter that have never shared
what they saw in the woods due to

585
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:06.559
fear of ridicule. Individuals that have
had a Bigfoot tried to enter your house

586
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:09.960
in the ho Nabi, Oklahoma area. Any encounters that happen within a twenty

587
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:15.119
mile radius of Northfield, Massachusetts and
twenty five mile radius of Great Barrington,

588
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:21.159
Massachusetts. Encounters in the Enchanted Circle, encounters in the Yosemite National Park area

589
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:24.679
or any national park for that matter. Individuals that have lived a long life

590
00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:30.000
don't care what people think about them
now and want to share what happened to

591
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.519
them fifty to sixty years ago.
I'm your guy to share your story.

592
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:38.639
Individuals that live in remote wooded property
and feel like they're under attack by Bigfoot

593
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:44.239
after clearing their land. And lastly, any bigfoot encounters where the individuals saw

594
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:47.079
what seemed to be an orangutan,
please reach out to me a Big for

595
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.519
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any of those fit what you've experienced,

596
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