Chased by the Monster! | Kentucky

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0:40 You've got the privilege of talking to Tommy today. Tommy's an individual that I saw a comment from on the YouTube channel and try my best to read through all those and he had mentioned that he had an interesting thing happened down there in Webster County, Kentucky. So thankfully we were able to have back and forth going on and was able to invite him onto the show to share what he experienced. So welcome to the show, Tommy. How's it going? I was pretty good. I'm glad to be. Here absolutely well, you know, Tommy, I'm excited to have you here. And I would say, you know, feel free.

1:24 I'm gonna hand things over to you, and feel free to take us back to you know, when you started experience, or when you had this experience down in Webster County, Kentucky, and we'll take it from there. Okay, then, well, as you said in the beginning there, I commented on a YouTube comment from another episode. I believe the episode was six twenty seven. It dealt with Kyle, who is also from Webster County. He was in the Clay area, which I am familiar with the Clay area, and he mentioned an old mine coal mine that had been there. I'm not really familiar where that area is, although I've got a pretty good idea where it is.

2:21 And he mentioned white Oak area, which I do know where it is. But later on in his a kilt he spoke of squirrel hunting, and if I'm not mistaken, he said Pool Pool is in Webster County, and that got my attention as I have experienced something in the Pool area. This was many years ago. It was about nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen seventy nine. There is an area you know, this is a rule area, and there they're thickets and so forth. Here a lot of woods, there's a lot of farm ground there, there's some logging roads.

3:10 There's a lot of oilfield roads here that are abandoned. And there was this thicket I guess you could call it. That was only the old abandoned orfield road that a lot of young people used to go back when I was young, and uh, four wheel drive was a big thing then. People were you know, trying to mud, trying to get see if they can go through mud and stuff. And uh, there was this area was like I said, it was an oil field road, but it made kind of a cult de sac there and we used to go back there and just hang out and we'd take girls riding back there, try scare of the stuff like that. Well, this happened in excuse me, uh, probably late September or early October, like I said, nineteen seventy eight and seventy nine.

4:08 There was some friends of mine, they were six of us. We had went back in this area just to goof of off. It was late at night and for one was the very few times that we ever got out of a vehicle and walked up into the woods. One of these individuals that was there, he had an older brother and a brother in law who had rabbit honted on this property before, and they always talked about the footsteps.

4:49 They talked about that basically they got paced out of the woods or ran out of the woods, and they never did put no way exactly what happened. And a lot of times, as those stories go, we didn't know really where to believe it or not. It's when those says you can't take with a grain of salt. But anyway, we went up in these woods that night and we kind of paired up, you know, a left flank right flank point. We had some flashlights and we were just walking up through there, kind of exploring the room, and we came to an area of the woods I guess the where we were first going uh into the woods, I guess it was it was pretty easy going, but we came to an area that was really grown up, which I suppose the area that was easy going probably been uh logged out maybe at one time or another.

5:56 But we came to this area that was really thick. It was it was like a wall, and the fellow that I was partnered with, I was on the left flank. We stopped for a minute right there at that heavy growth, and I don't remember if he said this first or if I said this first, because it was a really quiet night, and we said, do you hear that? Do you hear And we got to listening into the night, and this place is. You know, we're out in the country. We're not near any kind of home, we're not near any kind of town or anything. And we both could hear this. It sounded just like little kids playing on a school ground, and it was really faint, and we could hear it, and we were looking at one another.

7:02 We're thinking, you know, it's one o'clock in the morning out here, there's no way that this could be going on. There's nothing kids around here. And we thought that was really, really odd. And we proceeded to work our way up to the thick brush, which the right flank guys and the point guys they had already gotten somewhat ahead of us, and at some point there the guy that was in the point, two guys that were in the point, I recognized his voice. He yelled out kind of a loud voice, and he said, catch up some of the buck or something similar to that, and then there was a lot of confusion. People were sweeping, jaggling around with their lights and I could hear other talking and people as the people that it was in our company, you could tell that people were moving fast, and so my partner, now, we tried to move up as best we could, but we probably weren't moving quite as fast as the others. Well, matter of fact, I know we weren't because they had a pretty good jump on us. And as we were moving up through there, we hear a big splash. Well,

8:36 then a few minutes seconds, I don't know. You lose track of time when you're in that situation, we hear another splash. Well, when we finally make our way so far up, there's a creek back there that we didn't know. We had no idea that creek was back there. And one of the guys in the point he was climbing out of that creek, he said he ran off and ran away from the flashlight, giving chase to whatever it was he was giving chase to. Then he ran off on the street. And then one of the guys from the right point he was also climbing out of the street and we ran up there and we said, what what is happening? What's what are you doing? And he kept saying, it's a man, it's a man. And we asked him what he saw and he said, we were making our way up to there, just like the rest of you, and there was something that was laying on the ground. He said. He jumped up and he said all I could make out was that it was a black shape. And I'm saying, well, was he tall, was he shore? Was it thin, fat? Whatever? And he says, well, it's uh, it's about the same size as we are.

10:08 And uh so at that point, you know where there's like six of us, when we get to accusing each other pranking out there, you know, you guys did this, you guys did and everybody saying no, no, we did not, and uh so we kind of grouped together. We mark our way back down to where we have parked our trucks and uh oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you say that when he said it was a man and man, he also said at one point he said he was wearing a backpack. He said, a backpack like a soldier, which that kind of didn't make any sense to us.

10:51 But he said this, but he didn't say it was no bigger than we were, you know, we we're your average teams were like five, ten hundred and thirty pounds. Like. Oh, anyway, we're back a way back down to the truck, and we are standing around the truck and everybody is telling what they experienced in the woods there. Well, my partner and I we bring up those voices and nobody else heard those. We were saying, did anybody else hear that? And they were saying no, no, and uh. As we were standing there the truck, there were three pickups and we were kind of parked in the line with a pickup that was in the middle that we no one was standing around at that point. There's thereabouts something. Uh there's a here the beating on the on the like the bed of that truck and uh, it's like three times.

11:53 He's pretty loud, and we're we're looking at one another second, what is that? And so some of us we went down that way to check it out. Not a thing. We couldn't find a thing. And so we make our way back up to the other truck and we're almost we're worthin three feet of the other truck, and there's beating on that truck on the side, like the side bed. We are all standing right there, We're looking at one another. We're saying, there's no way that none of us did it, because we're all standing right here. And it was really hard on that truck. I mean, we could see the truck shake move, and we really did become frightened. I know I became frightened, and we pretty much scattered and everybody grabbed whatever pickup they could get in, and we got out of there because he just went He really freaked us out. And every now and then, my friend that I was with that night, we're still friends. We're going on fifty years friends, and we'll get together sometimes.

13:14 I still have a lot of contact with him, and. I well, sometimes we'll bring this up and I say, you remember, back when we were down there, that beating on the truck happened, And he'd say, yeah, I remember that. And I'd say, what do you think that was? And he say, I don't know. He said, I have no idea what that was. And I really don't have any idea either. Was it subsquash? I don't know, but I know there's been. There are several things that have taken place here. Was it paranormal? I don't know, Kentucky, this area, there's there's there's a lot of weird things that happened here.

14:05 There really are. But I start I listened to some of these podcasts like this one, a couple others that I've heard, and I've heard as I went along and listened to different people's accounts, I have. Noticed similarities in these accounts, and it makes me think, now, nearly fifty years later, and maybe we did come across, uh something, Maybe we did travel across the Sasquatch. Maybe it was a juvenile, maybe not. I don't know, but it's it's very interesting. You know, up until that time, we had it never entered our mind back then about a Sasquatch or a bigfoot, whatever you don't call it, because we didn't. You know, media wasn't back then. It wasn't like it is today, so we had limited knowledge.

15:12 I though I had seen probably the Patterson Field maybe I was about probably, I don't know, ten years old maybe, and when I saw it, I didn't I didn't quite believe it. Even as you know, a kid like that, I thought well, that's some guy to see. So I didn't quite didn't quite buy into it. And then I was another thing that I mentioned in my comments. We also had knowledge of what is known in this area as the spontual monster. The sponsual monster is well documented cold you can go online and find it. We live about twenty five miles northeast of Spotsville, Kentucky. Spotsville, Kentucky, is on the Green River. It's in the Green River bottoms.

16:20 With this area it's kind of called the Ohio Valley. We are, it's sort of a triangle between the Green River the Ohio River. We're not too far from Illinois, We're not too far from the Shawnee National Forest and so the proximity. But Spotsville Monster went on for probably this farm family that had really this farmhouse down in the bottoms. They were plagued by a creature probably for a year. And it made news here. It made the local news, it made newspapers, and uh there is a family, uh that just one family that lived there, and uh it's uh it's well documented. Uh you could you could look it up yourself online. And uh there's just a lot of odd happens here, like I say, I never did know what exactly took place with us. We never did.

17:37 I never did go back to that area myself. You know, I've heard that Sasquatch's territorial. Ah, so I just stayed away from there. Now, that's about the extent of my story. I have heard that speculation that people think that the spots Field Monster perhaps his dog Man. But that's the speculation, and that's about the extending my story. I've related this story well, I didn't relate it to until probably about the last year because I started noting similarities on these podcasts.

18:31 But I never told himboy Local here that I know some of these podcasts. You know, you're able to people are able to comment on them. I don't know why people monitor these podcasts if they are going to make I don't know how to worry about the comments that are try to discredit someone or try to belittle someone and what they saw they're killed. I will say that I don't know. Like I said, I don't know what happened with Man, but I don't care what anybody says.

19:11 I know what happened, and and I'll say that to the day I die. It's such a such a fascinating account, and you know, thank you for thank you for sharing it. Tommy. Did you guys ever go back to that area after that? I did not. I've never went back to that area. I have driven past it, like on on a black top road, but to get off and go back in that area. No, growing up in that area and going to school and and all that good stuff. Did you ever hear other similar stories or you know, people talking about you know, weird things in the woods or is it just a thing that people didn't really talk about it back then?

20:11 Excuse me, well people didn't. People aren't too open and back there. You have to know someone pretty way up before they will tell you, ah, those kind of stories. Here, you have to kind of gain their trust before before they tell you those kind of things. And then, as as with anybody, you have to separate what is uh, somebody is for real and somebody who's just making up the story? Right the go ahead, ghead, I was gonna ask.

20:54 It's it's really interesting the part when you hear what sounds like kids in the woods playing on like a playground. Now, did you say playground because just of it sounded like they were having a good time or was it because you were also hearing things that maybe sounded metallic or kind of like playground equipment. No, it didn't sound like it didn't sound like playground equipment. It's just the noise of was the noise of children that you would hear if you were passion at school ground that where you would hear children maybe yell out or laugh or giggle or whatever. That is the vocal part.

21:51 Was it possible to hear what they were saying or was it also a thing where it just was very high hard to make out actual words. It was one of those things where you could almost hear it but not quite Yeah, I mean you could almost make it out, but not quiet. It's it's such a weird thing. I've experienced that too in Iowa, and really. Not not that it was. Sound like little kids, but it's that thing that people say where they're like you almost hear mumbling in the woods, and it's like you can almost hear what they're saying, but you can't figure it out, and it's just it's the weirdest thing. It does kind of mess with you because you're like, I wish you knew what they were saying, but it's just it's very, very, very strange stuff. The other interesting thing you brought up was that it was said that it was wearing a backpack like a soldier. Yes, do you have any thoughts about what that could have possibly meant?

23:14 I really don't. I mean, I can make some guesses at it. If this was indeed something Sasquatch related, it could be the I've heard that they have great muscle mass around their shoulder area. It could have been that. It could have been the bulk of the shoulder area. If it's something paranormal, well, this particular area, we have another county about probably about fifteen miles to the west of US that, uh many years ago, well the forties, late forties, mid forties, there was there was an army base here, uh an army camp, and in this army camp during World War Two kept German prisoners. This army base is probably of course it's long gone, the base is long gone or the camp is long gone. But it was about a thirty six thousand acres installation. Ah, that's just speculation.

24:46 Wow, that is a really interesting piece of information. That makes you wonder though. Mm hmm. Was it something. That that that would come up quite a bit in like, uh lore of the area, like there's a you know, you'd see the ghosts of the the prisoners or or anything like that. Not to my knowledge, I've never heard of anything like that. Interesting you had mentioned in maybe it was I might have taken it heard it differently. But the area that this took place in, was it known for any other weird stuff as well?

25:45 Well? Just like everything, you know, Also when you have a bunch of young kids together, young boys together, Yeah, they're people had stated that they we were back there and this happened, and that happened. But like you know, you can pretty well tell when somebody's you know, bowl and smoke and most of this, most of them you could laugh them off. Uh really ah ah. There were you know, reports of like I said, the footsteps. Although the first people I talked about that talked about footsteps, they were credible. Other people talked about it that were just probably copycats. There was a group of people, a group of guys I knew, that claimed to have seen a pink cloud back there, But they were the kind of guys that probably if there was a pink cloud, they probably made it theirselves actually, right, So so you kind of don't take that one serious.

27:11 Yeah, yeah, it's it is interesting when you see these well, I'll say it like this, It is interesting when you have an area that has like bigfoot activity to also look at the reports that have come in from the other side, which would be like the paranormal community or the ghost hunters, and sometimes those reports you can read those through like the viewpoint of someone who's in a big foot and you can be like, oh, I mean this is totally not this is not a ghost thing.

27:53 I mean that that those are those are some some bigfoot activity. They're just looking at it through a different a different lens. So it can be interesting to kind of do that when you're looking into an area. But did this uh, did this experience that you had, did it affect you in any way as you continued to grow up with the rest of your life? Not now? Uh, And it was. It was something that was always in the back of my mind, but it never deterred me from going to the woods or anything. You know. Uh, this is a hont culture. Here we we deer hut, we we coon hunt, we uh, squirrel hunt whatever. I mean. We're we're in the woods quite a bit here. Uh. It never deterred me from going out, but it was always something that was in the back of my mind, and especially in these later years, as I've heard more and more and more accounts, I'm thinking, Hey, maybe there's there's something to the.

29:06 Absolutely. I mean, it's h. Is. It's it's wild the amount of people that are coming out across the build. And I'm not just talking about mine or you know, any of the other podcasts. When you like look at the whole picture and you look at all the podcasts that are out there and the YouTube channels, i mean, there's a massive, massive amount of people that are in this time period, like just all of a sudden depending or deciding let's let's get everything out there. It's just really interesting to watch. It's it's even more interesting when you're just trying to keep up with your email because it's like every day.

29:59 It would blow your mind. It's pretty cool, though, to be able to talk to two people. I'm sure that you've thought, You've probably thought about that night more. Than a few times. If you could go back and experience that night over again, would there be anything that you would do differently that night? Probably not? Probably not it even though I go out in the woods and stuff. I won't go out by myself here. I have to have somebody with me because it doesn't I can spook pretty easy there. There are noises and things in the woods at night time. That's you know, that'll spook you. And oh, I should mention also, I forgot that talking about spots. That happened was in nineteen seventy five, which means I was in hospital at the time.

31:06 Okay, so that. And we didn't take me have been a hospital student. We didn't really take it seriously. But I'll take it seriously more seriously now than I did. I forgot about that. I should have included that earlier. It's such a weird thing in I mean, you can look at any state and the amount of bigfoot activity that is out there in especially like the mid to late seventies, it's a lot. I mean, I'm from Iowa and just the amount that we have up here in Iowa from that time frame is absolutely bonkers. And I'm sure there's probably some I don't know, maybe there's not a logical explanation for it, really, I mean, which would be fine. Not everything has to have logical explanation, but just it's some some wild wild stuff. You know, thinking about bigfoot in general, do you have any theories or ideas about what it is that could be out there when we're talking about bigfoot in general?

32:28 Well, you mean, what do I what do I think bigfoot? Yeah? Sure, yeah, Well bigfoot shows, if there is such a thing, it's what I've heard. It shows a lot of physical science. Uh, they're they're male and female, they raise young, they eat, they leave scat, that kind of thing. They leave physical footprints, they leave tree structures or tree whatever they call those, so and so and that. Yes, it's physical, but there are also things that people report that seem unnatural. I think Bigfoot is a master of camouflage. I think that people say, we were tracking this and it disappeared, and they are credit some of the abilities to unnatural or supernatural or something like that. I'm not so sure about that.

33:55 Although they probably do have some abilities that that man can, that's not it. I believe Bigfoot to be a flesh and blood creature. Uh is Bigfoot a or something of that, something of that source. I don't believe. So is big Foot of man? I don't believe so. I believe they're kind of their own thing, kind of their own specie.

34:37 Yeah, I agree with you that it is. I think it's it's one of the last great mysteries that we have, although there's probably some people out there where it's not a not a mystery too. We just don't have all the info recording that yet. But it is, uh, you know, I kind of have a similar thinking, which it is something leaving physical tracks, but it's also able to do some really really weird stuff that is about it's outside the realm of our current scientifics understanding, at least the stuff that the common public is aware of.

35:21 Now. There might be some scientists out there where they're just starting to kind of get it but they haven't connected all the dots yet, and who knows what dots will be connected in the future. But you know, each each conversation kind of helps connect dots, I think, and that's what that's what half. The fun is. But Tommy, it has been a just a fun conversation with you. I mean, this is another part of history of the county down here in Kentucky. And thank you for providing this information. Another anecdotal story. And you know, who knows what someone might be able to provide after hearing this and you know, connect some more dots. But I just want to say thank you so much for coming on the show.

36:16 I greatly appreciate it. Thank you for having me, thank you for letting me tell my experience. I appreciate it. Yes, sir, just want to take a few minutes to say thank you to you all my listeners for listening to the podcast. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much. Make sure that you're subscribed, share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a big foot in count are related to the following, or know someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email. Here's a list the Subtle Lake area of Oregon, Rainbow, Oregon, McKinsey Bridge area, Sweet Home, pretty much that entire area, the north part If you get what I mean. I'll see you back next time. Listeners.

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