May 25, 2025

Eastern Shore Bigfoot: A Lifetime of Sightings

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Season 1

What happens when a young boy riding ponies in the Pocomoke State Forest hears an unexplainable growl — and decades later finds himself face to face with something that should not exist?

In this chilling episode of Bigfoot Society, host Jeremiah Byron sits down with Alan, a lifelong outdoorsman originally from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. From mysterious claw marks in sandy forest roads to an entire town’s obsession with “The Egg People,” Alan takes us through a lifetime of eerie experiences — including a roadside encounter near Fruitland, MD, where a Sasquatch stood just feet from his car and reached toward his open window.

You’ll hear stories from Pocomoke State Forest, Apes Hole Creek, Meadow Bridge Road, and Beaver Creek, Kansas — including terrifying moans in the woods, trees shaking violently with no wind, and a creature so large it darkened the fog.

More than just encounters, this episode uncovers a forgotten hotspot of Sasquatch activity in Eastern Maryland and reminds us that sometimes the strangest places are right in our backyard.

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You're listening to Big for Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron

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Tonight's story is from a man who spent decades living

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on the edge of eastern Maryland's Forgotten Forest, long before

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the Internet ever whispered the word Bigfoot. But in the

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pine thickets of Pokemoke, the dump sites of chicken farms,

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and the foggy curves of meadow Bridge Road, something was

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already watching and it growled and screened and reached for him.

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So lifetime of first hand encounters from a man who

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never went looking for Bigfoot, but found him anyways. And

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this is the story of Alan in the Road. He'll

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never forget. So stay with us, all right, Big for Society.

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You've got the privilege of talking to Alan today. Alan

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is an individual who's an outdoorsman and a hunter, and

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he's experienced some really interesting things over the years in Maryland,

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in Kansas. So we've got a lot of interesting ground

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to cover today. But welcome to the show.

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Alan.

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How's it going.

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It's going well, Jeremiah, thank you for having.

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Me absolutely, you know, I'm excited to talk to you today.

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This is an area, it's eastern Maryland, which has come

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up a few times on the show already, but this

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is a part of Eastern Maryland that has not come up.

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So this is a brand new territory for us on

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the show. But Alan, I want to make sure that

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you have the time to share what you've experienced. So

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feel free to take us back as far back as

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needs to go to when you started experiencing some of

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these situations.

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Okay, thank you. It started back mid sixties, like sixty

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six sixty seven, when I was ten years old, And

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before I really get into it, I want to kind

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of give your listeners a background from the lower Eastern Shore.

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On the Eastern Shore, Maryland, they call it the del

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Marve Peninsula, a lot, especially back then, a lot of

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forested areas, last stomping grounds. I was lived in a

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place called West Post Office and we had a huge

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track September that butted up to what they call the

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Pocomo Pokemoke State Forest, which is about eighteen thousand acres

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of trees, hardwoods and pine trees. Es Adkins had some

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stuff j I Wells. They were all timber companies that

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also had huge tracks of timber that abutted the Pokemoke

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State Forest and the fire Rose through there. That's where

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my cousins and I that was our stomping grounds. We

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had ponies. We'd ride through there, did a lot of

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that stuff, and then once we got rid of that,

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I had a dirt bike and another neighbor friend of mine,

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we would go riding back through there with dirt bike.

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So not too much of that whole area that we

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did not explore as kids. And in that area it

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was not unusual for us to pack lunch, leave in

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the morning and not come back home until nightfall, because

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that's just how it was back then. So getting into

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the first encounter, if you like I say it was

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in sixty six or sixty seven, I was ten or

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eleven years old something where in there, and my cousin

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and I, my younger cousin, Tim, and I were riding

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ponies back in a forest of ji Wells. We were

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about a quarter a mile back in the forest and

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riding on one of the forest roads, the fire roads,

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and it was a sandy type road, and it was

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the type of sand that it was white on top,

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but if you scratched it you would see the darker

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layer underneath. And we'd gone back there and we came

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upon scratches in that root, and they were scratches about

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maybe four feet long, about four and a half to

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five inches apart, like three of them, and you could

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see scratch marks and say an overlap, like something had

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come down there and done it, and no other foot

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prints around nothing. And at first we were thinking maybe

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it was a hawk that came down, but the way

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the scratches were far apart, that didn't make any sense

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to us. So we were actually just sitting on the

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ponies just kind of discussing what these things were looking at.

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I'm trying to figure it out, as you know kids,

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and the ponies were nervous. I mean normally they would

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be fine, they just sit there, you know, because like

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erode these things all the time, but this day they

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were just kind of antsy. And after about five minutes

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or so looking at these things, there was this growl.

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It came from about like thirty thirty five feet in

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the brush away from us, and you know, we're like

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perked up, and then the bushes just started, you know,

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shaking violently. And we didn't have I mean, we don't

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have bear on the Eastern Shore at the time, didn't

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have coyotes. There was nothing really there and we could

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attribute that. But that's the ponies were like, we've had enough.

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They took off. We didn't try and stop them because

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it scared the crap out of us too, so it

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went on home. So that was kind of the first

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oddity that we encountered. And then if we flashed forward

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to like nineteen sixty nine, I would have been about

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thirteen years old by that time we sold the ponies.

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I had a dirt bait. And back then there was

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it's a big chicken integrator on the eastern shore of

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Maryland for new farms, and they had in the Pokemont

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Forest there was like a I do only egg production.

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It was an experimental poultry farm that they wanted to

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get back out away from many other chicken houses, I

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mean to maintain cleanliness and all that kind of thing

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in what they were doing for the research. And there

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was a local hatchery in the town of Princess Anne,

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which was the nearest town where I lived, called witt

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and Googe Hatchery. Well back in this forest and back

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in the time there, if people had dead chickens that

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they picked up out of the poultry house, they would

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just have open pits and they would just throw the

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birds out in these open pits at the time, and

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turkey buzzards would come in and eat them, and you

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know anything that raccoons would sometimes go in there, So

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that was not unusual. And there was a dump like

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that back in the forest were Wit and Goods used

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to dump the old eggs there. And then Purdue Farms

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they had this open dump back there and there were

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creatures seen. As a matter of fact, it made quite

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a stir in town at the time, and they called

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them to aid people. And like I said, going on

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at sixty nine, well I was thirteen and heard all this. Well,

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me and Buddy Mine we got our dirt bakes and

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rode through there because we knew exactly what the place

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was back in that forest. We rode back. We didn't

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see any of the eight people, but around the perimeter,

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like coming out of the swampy woods, you know, the

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woods itself, we did find footprints and the footprint it

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was like sixteen seventeen inches long, I mean it looked

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like a human footprint, just larger. And then we found

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a couple of smaller ones at maybe thirteen inches something

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like that in the area. And at the time being

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that old. We didn't know what bigfoot was, I mean,

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nothing like that. It was just weird and we kind

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of thought, well, okay, maybe it's just weird people out here.

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Who knows. But I do know that there was a

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flap going on in town at that time and a

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number of people went out and supposedly saw these things.

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We'll go out there at night and see them in

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the light of their cars they pull up and all that.

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I was there during the day. Uh, and so I

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didn't get to see anything there.

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Alan real quick, do you s do you remember anything

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about how people were describing the egg people.

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It was there is two different Some of the ad

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people they described them as, you know, beings coming up

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with like wladies fucking egg shaped heads, which I'm assuming

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is with account for the sagigal crest you know, on

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these things. But then a lot of them also described

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Bigfoot looking like creatures, you know, tall, hairy, humanoid like individuals.

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But the local term just when they said aid people

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because of the egg dump, that's what kind of stuck.

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That's the moniker that everybody used in the area was

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the aig people.

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Okay, that makes that makes sense. And then when you

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had these pits of dead chickens. Approximately how many dead

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chickens were being thrown out there? Are we talking like

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hundreds or just a few?

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Oh yeah, it could be one hundreds some of these

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poultry houses. And I don't know if you or your

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listeners were familiar with how they grow chickens poultry houses,

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but some of these poultry houses would contain anywhere from

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twenty to twenty five thousand, you know, twenty thousand to

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twenty five thousand chickens. So it was not unusual to

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come up with anywhere from maybe ten to fifteen dead

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chickens a day during an eight week period that they

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would dumping these pits. And some of these pet you know, farms,

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had multiple poultry houses like this. So yeah, I mean

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it was it could be dead chickens in the hundreds. Okay,

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we got down into one of these things on to

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July and August day, you definitely knew that, you know,

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something was there going on. But yeah, that's anymore. I

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think they use incinerators and they just burn them down.

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They don't have the open pits anymore as far as

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they understand.

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Now, Okay, thank you, feel free to continue.

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Okay, next back up into like the next year in

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the nineteen seventies, And this is just anecdotal, but I

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was like fourteen years old, and there is a place

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down in Somerset County, the lower part of Somerset County

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called Crisfield. It's a little town on you know the river,

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I want to say, it's they had of Essex River

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down there, and there is a place that a bigfoot

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was supposedly seen. And the area which I find interesting

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was the area was Apes Whole Creek right off of

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Apes Whole Road down in Crisfield. And it's just that's

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just like you know eight Mountain that you see and

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all that. I just wonder where the eights whole name

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came from. But there have been bigfoot sightings down on

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aps Whole Creek in Somerset County down there. Just you know,

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that's another thing that just kind of went forward that

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I heard about. Growing up, I lived in an area

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called West post Office and the reason it was four

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miles outside of Prince's Inn and there was a man

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named West that had a post office out there, hence

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the name. So it was West post Office Road, which

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was the road that I lived on when I grew up,

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and when I first got married in nineteen seventy four,

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which was also the year I graduated from high school,

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there was supposedly a big foot sighting on West Post

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Office Road that was like a road crossing back in

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that area, which I found interesting because again that was

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my stomping ground, that's where we went all the time.

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And then again in nineteen seventy six there was another

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sighting out there in West Post Office similar type thing. Now,

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in nineteen seventy six, my parents had a convenience store

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on Route thirteen right outside the town of Princess Anne

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on the Highway, and I had gone in there one

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Saturday morning. I worked for my parents at the time

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in that store, and I had gone in and opened

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the store. I'd gone in early opened the store. My

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mom and dad came to relieve me, just you know,

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like nine forty five something like that. I went home

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and got home shortly just a little bit after ten

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am at my parents' place where I was living, got

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out of the car, and at the time this would

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have been like late August last week, I was first

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week of September. I remember, because the Maryland State Fair

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was going on up Intomonium, and all our neighbors had

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kids with dairy cattle and pigs and that kind of stuff.

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They were all showing them. There was no one home

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in that in our neighborhood at the time. When I

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got out there, in that little community we had, I

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was alone. There were nobody else was around because most

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all of them were up at the state fair up

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in Timonium. Well, I got out of my car in

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the driveway and I heard this moaning coming from the

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woods about a half mile would have been to the

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west of us. And I had never heard anything like

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that before. And like I say, we didn't have kyutes there.

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We had owls. I mean, I've heard a screech, owl, whodels,

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you know. It was nothing like that. And it was,

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I mean dogs howling sometimes, but it didn't even sound

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like a dog's howl. And it was undulating. It would

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go up and down, and I'm like it just not

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I'm not doing it justice. One of the closest things

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I've heard is if you've ever heard the Ohio how

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that's online, it was very similar to that. There was

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another and I cannot remember for where it was, but

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I heard on another Bigfoot program like almost a year

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ago some recordings, and one of those recordings sounded identical,

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and I cannot, for the life of me find that.

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But it was like I told my wife that my

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first wife has passed away and I got remarried a

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year ago. I told her that that's exactly that's what

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I heard, that moaning, you know, roar light thing. So

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that I sat out on our front steps, on our

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front porch, and I listened. And what got me was

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you would think something, would you know, Oh, you would

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hear the breath intake, and then it would start again.

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This was continuous. I never it never stopped. It was

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just to the point, Okay, maybe it's a recording or something,

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you know, but it was coming from the woods a

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half mile to the west of me. So after about

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an hour listening to it, I've got to see what

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this is. So I started walking down the road. I

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walked down to my our next door neighbor's house, which

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was a half mile away. They had two huge rick

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pillars on either side of their driveway, so I walked down.

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There was kind of standing on the road in between

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where there's two pillars were for their driveway, looking to

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the south to the woodsline, and the woods was about

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maybe eighty yards from the road is where that little

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piece of woods jutted out, and it was coming from

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that direction. So I'm looking trying to see what's there.

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And almost as soon as I stopped and looked at

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the woods and trying to figure out what was what,

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the moaning stopped. So I'm like, okay, that's just I

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keep looking and about I don't know, maybe forty five

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fifty yards back in the woods there was a couple

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of maple trees that were I'm going to say, I

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mean forty feet tall, something like that, you know, slim

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maples that come up. All of a sudden just started

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violently shaky, I mean back and forth shaking. There was

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no wind that day, but shaking so hard back there,

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I could hear the leaves going roush roush rush as

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they were going through the air. You're just crazy, shake you.

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I mean, something had to be incredibly strong to just

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you know, shaking it. And I there was enough underbrush

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I could not see what was doing it. And as

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then the shaking it went and it stopped, and all

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of a sudden, I hear this roaring scream. I mean

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the intensity was crazy. And I know it's a cliche like,

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oh I felt it in my chest, but I felt

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it him. I mean, it's like that thing just went

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through you and just vibrated this I have never heard

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anything the volume and just like oh it up and

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then ended up, you know, roar, and ended up in

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this high pitched scream when it stopped, and then the

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trees started going crazy again. Well, I'm a half mile

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from home, stand there nobody around. You know. It freaked

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me out, so I took off. I started running home.

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I ran about twenty yards and there realized, okay, I

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want to turn my back, so I kind of went

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there and then I kind of crab walked his vesse

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as I could keep in my eye to make sure

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nothing was following me. Got back home, and I mean

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I was shaking. Sat on the front porch again, and

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it and then as soon as I got maybe fifty

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yards away, the tree stopped shaking, and then that moaning

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started again. And it continued until just you know, about

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two o'clock or so. When my mom came home from

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the store that afternoon, she got out of the car.

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I'm sitting on the front steps. She gets out of

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the car standing there before she shut the car door.

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She stopped and she turned and looked down towards wood

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was down there, looked back at me, she said, what

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in the world is that noise? I don't know, but

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it's been going on ever since I got home at ten.

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I don't know if when it started before that, so

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I outlined everything for She stayed out there and listened

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to it for another five minutes and then shrugged and

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went inside, and then about fifteen minutes later it stopped.

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Never heard it again in my life. I had never

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heard it before that, never heard it after that. Just bizarre.

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But whatever it was, I mean, if that was spooky

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for not seeing anything again, what can shape trees like that?

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And I'm figuring, okay, it can't be a recording because

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it quit, did other things and then started again, So

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I don't know, you know, it's that was just bizarre

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to me.

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Allan, That's that's really intense. Would any of your neighbors share,

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you know, things like that that they experienced as well,

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or do you think it was a one off situation

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for the area.

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I know because I lived there until ninety six when

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I moved out here to Kansas and again, there was

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nobody there and my wife, my mom, and dad unfortunately

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have passed away, so my mom can't attribute it to it.

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But I mean, it's never happened since I know of

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I don't know. I know that some of the neighbors

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that were there, well, I mean that's been some time ago,

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uh are gone. Now I know that I'm going to

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talk about my neighbors lived across the road. I think

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he has since passed away. So I don't know of

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anybody that you know, could corroborate that right now, because

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like I say, when I got home, I was the

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only one there until my mom showed up, and then

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once it stopped, I never did hear that again, that

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kind of thing. So I don't know. I mean, it's

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something you could check. If I get back to Maryland,

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I may just kind of go back there and talk

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to them. I don't know. I don't know what to

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tell you on that one, Jeremiah, But back again in

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that same neighborhood, because that was in like I say,

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seventy six, and nothing really happened, you know, until again,

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like nineteen eighty one. It's like five years later, I

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had gotten married, built a house right next door to

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my i'm a dad's place just to the west of them,

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and they dated me some land on there and my

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wife and I was a summer evening, I want to

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say it was in July, was hot, and my wife

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and I were just a beautiful night though went out.

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We're sitting on the front steps of our house. There

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was about eleven PM, I want to say, like a

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Friday night, and we hear across from us in the

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woods directly to the south, and John had a poultry house.

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There was a big field poultry house, and then kind

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of woods beyond that, and we heard from the woods,

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which the woods from us would have been not a

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half mile away, I guess, something like that, back to

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the south come and it sounded like a woman being murdered.

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I mean, just chilling screams. And you would hear it

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in one area, and then you would hear you know,

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off to the woods, off to like the east, and

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another way. We ended up kind of piecing together whatever

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was doing it. It was coming from three different areas.

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Back in there, something with you know, was screaming, something

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else's scream and so forth, and I mean, the only

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way I can describe it, it sounded like a woman

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scream that was being murdered. I'm just very loud. Again,

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it was a half mile away, but it sounded like

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it was like ten feet in front of it. It

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was just again the volume was incredible on what that was.

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And it went on. That screaming went off for like

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a couple hours, meaning we sat outside and listened to it.

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It went off for a couple of hours and then

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it finally stopped. And my wife at the time, she

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was from princes Anne. She asked me, she goes, what

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in the world was that. I don't know. I've lived

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here my entire life. I've never heard anything like that before,

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you know, screaming like that. So about a couple of

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weeks later it started again about the same time. At night,

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we got out there and started hearing that thing again

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going off. It didn't last as long this time. And

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I want to say, this is like a Saturday night

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or something when we heard it again, but the same

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thing sounded like, well, I'm being murdered, you know. Back

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in there. Well, I went over that the people that

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used to live there had retired the farm, sold it

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and sold it to this other guy that was from

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city and I went over and was talking to us,

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do you have any idea with that? What? The next

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morning and asked him do you have any idea what

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in the world that was? And he's like, oh, I

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think it's birds meeting. Like, okay, I've never heard men

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meeting birds at night before. Number one and number two,

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I've lived here all my life, I've never heard that before.

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If it was birds or something, I'm sure I would

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have heard that, but I didn't. That's just it sounds bizarre.

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And then he was telling me that, he goes, yeah,

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well it's weird. And I said, well, have you noticed

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anything else weird going on? And he goes, well, yeah,

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there's some stuff. So I walked back. He had in

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the back part of his farm, back by a backfield

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by woods, there was like a livestock pond that was

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in the south west corner the property that was only

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about twenty feet or so from the woodland. And we

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walked back and he goes, yeah, I found this the

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other day and it was like a button buck deer corpse,

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you know, laying out there, and you know, like the

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front left forequarter was ripped off of the things, so

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it only had three legs something off and the neck

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was broken, and he's like, yeah, I think this must

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have been hit by a car. Okay, you're a half

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mile from the road back here. I can't imagine a

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buck getting this far on three legs with a broken neck.

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That doesn't make sense. And it was laying right down

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there by this pond. The other thing that was unusual

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about it was no buzzards had hit it. And where

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we are again this they would put the dead chicken.

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I mean buzz We had buzzards everywhere feeding on the

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carrying of these chickens and so forth. He had a pit,

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you know, he had that stuff too, and that thing.

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He said, yeah, I found this like a week ago,

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and no, but nothing else had gone there to scavenge

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on it, which I found odd. And then he was

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telling me that we had this Minokan watershed. It was

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tax ditches in the area which it would drain the

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farmland run out and run to the Minochan River because

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it is so low and kind of swampy areas on

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the eastern shore of Maryland there that they put this

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thing in when I was just a kid, put all

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these tax ditches in to help drain the farmland. To

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make it, you know, more productive. Well doing that. I

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mean we have seen river odders would swim up, come

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down these ditches and all and muskrat would be there

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well at the time, muskrat pelts and the meat, I

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mean the meat was a delicacy back there, and people

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would trap muskrats going ditch. You do that well. He

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was advertired. He was a disabled vet and he trapped

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muskrats in the ditches there, and he used to go

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out about ten o'clock at night was the last time

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he would go check his muskrat traps. And he used

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to carry just a little twenty two pistol with him

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that if he had to dispatch a muskrat, that knew

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he could do that well. He said he was out

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one night and this was during that same kind of

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time frame, and said he was the furthest ditch down

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from his house to the east, right before a woods

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line that j I Willson big timber company in that

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woods there. He was down in the ditch or it

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was going over there, got down in the ditch and

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the ditches are deep. I mean they are some pretty

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good sized ditches that drained the thing out to the

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point where you kind of the bank is so high

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on this ditch you kind of had to get on

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your butt and scoot down because I mean the bottom

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where the ditch bottom was could maybe be like six

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feet down for the bank. So we're talking some serious ditches. Well,

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he had got down there. The water was down in

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this ditch, so there was a slight bank before you

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hit the water. So he got down, was going to

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attend to his last trap, so he got slid down

461
00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.519
the ditch, was bending over the trap to fix it.

462
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:40.160
I don't remember. I think he said there was sprung,

463
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:43.200
that there was nothing in it. Said about that time

464
00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:49.240
he noticed something, heard a noise to his right, and

465
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.960
by the time I looked over there, he saw something

466
00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:58.319
about thirty feet away down like a dark blob come

467
00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:02.920
up and turn because he was standing between whatever this

468
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:06.400
was in the woodline, and said, came charging down that

469
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:11.680
ditch bank you know, right past you know, came by

470
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.759
and knocked him over and kept on going up and

471
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:20.799
into the woods. And he said he had no idea

472
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:25.799
what it was. And he I said, well was that happened?

473
00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:28.400
You know? He said, But what I did do is

474
00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:32.079
I stopped checking these traps after dark and now when

475
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:34.240
I go check them, I carry a forty four with

476
00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:38.640
me along with my twenty two. So he said that

477
00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:43.079
apparently it just you know, freaked him out back there.

478
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:47.920
So that happened, and that was right across the street

479
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:53.000
from where I lived. And after that nothing, I mean again,

480
00:30:53.119 --> 00:30:58.799
we didn't hear that screaming sound anymore. And I don't

481
00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:00.799
know if he didn't say anything or if it was

482
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:04.160
stuff that have to night, But nothing else in our

483
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:08.400
area that I hear was attributed to that part of

484
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:12.839
it right there. But I said earlier, I would go

485
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:16.880
to the Pokemoke State Forest. I used to turkey hunt

486
00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:22.279
and squirrel hunt back in the state forest from oh

487
00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:25.400
my gosh, as a kid right on up until I

488
00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:28.759
moved out here to Kansas in nineteen ninety six. And

489
00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:32.599
going out in that Pokemoke State Forest, it's on a

490
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:36.559
thing called Old Furnace Road back in through there, and

491
00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:40.319
sometimes i'd go back your squirrel hunting, and you see

492
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:44.440
that you weren't supposed to drive a vehicle on those

493
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:48.880
fire roads, So hunters would park right on Old furnitre

494
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:53.240
uit and walk back in if they weren't hunting. And

495
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:57.000
many many times, as I would go back there to hunt.

496
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:00.799
I was the only car that I mean, I was basically,

497
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.319
by myself, the only person there within miles of anything

498
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.759
going back in this state forest ground. And I would

499
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:14.519
walk back in and there was I mean, I had

500
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:18.279
certain places that I really liked to go, and sometimes

501
00:32:18.279 --> 00:32:20.839
i'd be back in their score hunting and I would

502
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:27.480
hear knocks and not unusual the farmers if you ever

503
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:30.119
had if they had a disc, sometimes a disc because

504
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:33.920
of the ground, the very moist ground that we have,

505
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:38.880
would clog up and the spaces between the disc gangs

506
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:42.240
would fill up with dirt and farmers would get there

507
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:43.640
and they'd have to beat them. And you hear this,

508
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:47.079
don't you know, knocking sound as they're clearing these disc

509
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:51.039
gangs out. I would be back humming in the woods

510
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:54.359
and I heard that, and I just a trail. Oh okay,

511
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:56.880
that's a farmer clearing out the disc game. And it

512
00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:00.519
was only after about a half dozen different times hearing

513
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.400
that that it finally occurred to me, Well, wait a minute.

514
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.279
They do this generally in the spring, when they're is

515
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:10.440
tilling season going on, is when they do this. Right

516
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:16.160
now we're talking, you know, October November they're not doing that.

517
00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.880
They're not banging, they're not using these things. And I'm

518
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.680
in the middle of the state forest. There's not a

519
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:28.720
feel for miles away from me. So and at the

520
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:32.240
time I was not aware of you know, bigfoot, tree, this,

521
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:36.440
that or the other. But you would just hear these

522
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:41.319
knocks and I didn't think too much of it. You

523
00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:45.319
would hear like one knock here and then another knock,

524
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.880
and you know, just naive that. I was, Okay, it's

525
00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:53.680
not bothering. I didn't pay much attention to it. And

526
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:57.640
you would sometimes be going back there and I would

527
00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:01.680
hear whistles. And a bird can whistle, they do that

528
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:05.119
kind of thing, but where a bird is like or

529
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:10.079
you know, making some kind of a melodic whistle, this

530
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:13.679
was more. It was like a monotone whistle, like a

531
00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:21.039
type thing, which just seemed odd. But again, out well,

532
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:23.559
maybe it's who knows, you know, maybe it's a bird

533
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:29.360
not an ornithologist. I don't know, So I didn't put

534
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.360
too much stock in that either. But I would hear whistles,

535
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:36.079
and then if I finally pieced together, ok, okay, when

536
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:38.960
I went down a certain fire road in this state forest,

537
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:44.719
I might hear whistles. If I went another one, I didn't.

538
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:47.800
I don't know, you know, if that was a territory

539
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:51.639
thing or what. There was another area that if I

540
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.079
walked back in I would get There was a little

541
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:59.320
ditch that I would cross going back, and I mean

542
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:03.719
we're talking. I'd sometimes be half mile three quarters a

543
00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:06.480
mile back, you know, in the woods, and I would

544
00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:10.159
steal hunt. I would walk down these fire roots, squirrel hunting.

545
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:14.639
And there was one particular area that I would get

546
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:19.280
to and I would say probably forty percent of the

547
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:24.760
time when I would cross this ditch, the sound in

548
00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:28.559
the fort would stop. You would hear squirrels, you would

549
00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:32.480
hear birds chirping. I mean even you didn't even hear

550
00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:36.519
the sound of insects buzzing. But I would get back

551
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:42.159
in there and this feeling of creepiness would just come

552
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.400
over me. And I've always felt like, Okay, something's watching me.

553
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:50.320
And invariably I don't have some senses left over from

554
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:53.719
back in the day as humans, but I would always

555
00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:57.239
be drawn to a certain area and I'm like, whatever

556
00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:03.199
it is is over there, there's something over there watching me. Well,

557
00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:05.880
a lot of I just okay, I'll just sit here,

558
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.360
be quiet for a half hour. Maybe I smooked something,

559
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:12.960
so I'll just stand there and try to let the

560
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:17.239
woods come back to normal. And nothing, I mean, it

561
00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:20.920
just stayed silent, and it got to the point where

562
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:26.159
I finally felt so uncomfortable that I'm like, well, I'd

563
00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:30.159
start walking back, and as soon as I crossed that

564
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.360
little ditch again and got back, the birds was starting.

565
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:38.679
You know, everything would be normal, and I'm like, and

566
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:42.119
that didn't happen every time. Like I said, sixty percent

567
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.360
of the time, I could still hunt back there and

568
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:49.760
be fine, I've killed squirrels out, You're not an issue.

569
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:55.239
But again, forty percent this would happen. And since it

570
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:58.559
didn't happen every time, I would keep going back there

571
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.239
and just you know, kind of test waters and if

572
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:04.320
it felt off, I'm like, okay, fine, I'm not going

573
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.360
back there. If everything seemed normal, I would go on

574
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.559
and do my thing. So, you know, found that and

575
00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:16.480
then you know, I went down a different way one

576
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:21.199
I normally didn't go down. One day and in the

577
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:25.920
v of a tree there was it had started to rock,

578
00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:31.760
but there was half of a deer carcass in the

579
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:37.599
v of this tree. Now it was probably six feet

580
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:39.679
up in the airs where the cross of this tree

581
00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:42.519
went up and this thing was drooped. There was a

582
00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:46.000
dough drooped out here to the front. And I went

583
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:49.000
around the bay and the back half from the like

584
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.679
the shoulders was gone. It was just the front half

585
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:56.519
kind of set in this tree, front legs, and then

586
00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:01.320
the head and neck kind of folded over the front

587
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:06.280
lege in this tree. Like, what in the world does that?

588
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.760
You know? I didn't know if well, maybe the tree,

589
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.360
you know, the deer jumped up in the tree and

590
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.599
got hung up and rotted, you know something. So I

591
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:18.559
looked at the base of the tree to see, okay,

592
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.519
did the back half fall in her bones? Dug around? Nothing.

593
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.400
It was just the front half of that deer in

594
00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:29.679
a cross of that tree. What does that? You know?

595
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:36.239
What could have caused that? I don't know. So that's

596
00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:39.320
kind of some of the things that happened there. And

597
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:46.199
then in nineteen eighty nine, I had by that time,

598
00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:49.960
I had three little boys, get married and had three kids,

599
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:54.800
and sometimes we would take the kids up to the

600
00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:58.960
movies up in Salisbury, Maryland, and come home and my

601
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.199
wife would shot them movie theater. Who went to was

602
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:03.400
at a strip mall or not strip mall, but a

603
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:08.079
a large mall, and we I would take the kids

604
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.760
to the movies while she would shot, and then we

605
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:14.920
grabbed a bike to eat light and then head home. Well,

606
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:18.400
this one particular night, I want to say it was

607
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:22.639
in the fall. We'd been to the movies, saw eight shows.

608
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:28.159
She had been shopping and it was like ten thirty

609
00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.960
quarter to eleven something like that at night where I'm

610
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:37.320
coming home and through that forest coming back out of Fruitland,

611
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:41.280
Maryland bikers. A thing is called meadow Bridge Road. At

612
00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:46.480
the time from well, there was a large stretch of

613
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:50.079
woods that was uninhaby. I mean it was there was

614
00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:54.320
nothing there. We used to own a farm right on

615
00:39:54.519 --> 00:40:00.159
the would have been the south edge, I guess of

616
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:03.760
that were meadow Bridge Roots started from Friendship Church back

617
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:06.760
up there. We had one hundred acre farm right there,

618
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:11.440
and then from that point all through for I want

619
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.639
to say five or six miles or more, there's nohow

620
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:18.760
it was just woods. Road went through the woods. Well,

621
00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:22.880
this particular evening, as we were coming home, it was

622
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:28.599
like a full moon, but there's clouds over it getting

623
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:32.360
starting to get a little bit chillier. So we had

624
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:35.000
some fog coming in. So I was coming home. I

625
00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:37.559
had three little boys in the back, my wife with me.

626
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:41.440
We're coming home. I come around down Meadowridge Road and

627
00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:47.320
I hit this stretch of woods and there was a

628
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:50.719
curve on it. And as I'm coming up, you know,

629
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.559
because I've got low beings on because of the fog,

630
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.840
I need to make sure and I'm not going real

631
00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:58.519
quick again because of the fog, and I got my

632
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:04.039
kids with me. Well, I see like reflectors in my headlights.

633
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:08.320
Well that's odd. I mean, I've driven this route hundreds

634
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.639
not thousands of times. I don't remember them. And as

635
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:16.880
I get up closer, I realized, okay, wait a minute,

636
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.920
I'm there. As the moon would peek out of clouds

637
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:24.079
periodically and it would kind of illuminated a little bit

638
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:27.199
more help out. And as I thought I'm creeping up,

639
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:30.519
then I realized, wait a minute, what is that. There's

640
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:33.239
something on the side of the road. And at first

641
00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:34.880
I didn't know if it was deer or what. But

642
00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:39.119
the closer I got, I realized, well, that looks like,

643
00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:43.400
you know, humanoid something right there. And I thought I

644
00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:47.039
see something down like on the ground, and I thought

645
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:51.159
maybe it was a car accident, so started slowing down.

646
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.800
And as I get up and I'm realizing that the

647
00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:59.480
shine I thought was reflectors. I'm thinking, oh, that must

648
00:41:59.480 --> 00:42:03.519
be somebody there, and it's reflecting off their glasses. They

649
00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:07.079
must be wearing glasses. So I rolled the window down

650
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.840
and I'm kind of coming up to see him, and

651
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:14.639
I stopped and I probably was not six feet away

652
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.960
from them, and there is a ditch a swale that

653
00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:21.679
goes down between the woods right there and the side

654
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:26.519
of the road, and I kind of hangled over towards

655
00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:30.000
that side of the road, which in rest respect was

656
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:32.119
not the smartest thing because there was a curve right there.

657
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:34.960
But I thought something, you know, so I pulled over

658
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:40.079
all the window down and I'm asking, hey, is everything okay?

659
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:46.159
You guys need help? And as I'm looking, the moon

660
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:50.360
peeked out again up and I'm like, what am I

661
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.800
You know, I realized, okay, this is not people I'm

662
00:42:54.880 --> 00:43:01.400
talking to. So the one was laid down on the

663
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:03.719
bank would have been the far bank of the swale

664
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:08.440
away from me, and was on like right hip, kind

665
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:12.239
of laying on the ground supporting their body with their

666
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:16.519
like their right arm up, you know, kind of reclining

667
00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:19.000
like you would see in something like clear Patch would

668
00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:21.920
doing some of the movies. You see that reclining position

669
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:28.079
she would do. So that was like that. The other

670
00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:32.960
one had been stooped over and was at the time

671
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:34.480
I thought it was only like six foot tall. I

672
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:40.960
thought it was a person. Well, when I stopped the reclining,

673
00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:44.639
was looking at me, looked over at the other one

674
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:48.079
and made this like mewing sound like it almost like

675
00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:53.559
a cat, just this little like rimpering mewing sound. As

676
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:57.679
I'm assuming it was a female, I don't know, looked

677
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:03.079
for me, looked up at one standing. The one stink

678
00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:06.519
came up, stood all the way and was eight eight

679
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:09.599
and a half feet tall, and I realized I was standing

680
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:12.880
in the swale and it was up. I had to

681
00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:18.320
look up from the car at him. I'm assuming to him.

682
00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:22.280
I couldn't tell because it was dark, I mean their

683
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:26.199
faces it was, but I could see like one solid

684
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:30.840
color just huge. I mean, it realized, oh my god,

685
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:37.280
these things are immense, and it looked it never took

686
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.199
it and when I saw it was looking at me,

687
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.320
it never stopped looking at me. From the whole time

688
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:45.079
it stood up full of heart. You know, and when

689
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:50.440
that one knew at it, this one just kind of

690
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:55.920
just grunted and reached out left arm towards the car.

691
00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:00.559
And I mean it was all because I my window

692
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:03.360
down if it had leaned, and it could have snatched

693
00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:05.760
me right out when it was that close. But it

694
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:09.199
came in and I'm just seeing this huge hand and

695
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.480
I mean the hand looked like it was the size

696
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:16.079
of a baseball man. I mean it was huge coming over,

697
00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:19.360
but five finger, I mean a hand coming over. And

698
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:23.239
then I could see hang down off the arm hair

699
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:26.360
that was like four or five inches long, just kind

700
00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:32.880
of hang as it reached over, and I was shocked

701
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.719
and I'm realized, Okay, I didn't really feel fear at

702
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:41.920
the time, but I was just all struck. And then

703
00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:45.519
it hit me, wait a minute, you got your wife

704
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:48.920
and three kids in the back of you know, you

705
00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:53.440
need to get out of here. So I just without

706
00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:57.559
taking me I just kind of pulled off and went

707
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:02.519
on drove on home and got there. And we did

708
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:04.159
say that by way when we this week until we

709
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:09.960
got home and then we're like, what was that? And

710
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.679
she's like, I don't know. And then we were trying

711
00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:17.000
to you know, was it somebody too. We were trying

712
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:19.920
to just figure out what in the world we had

713
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:25.760
just seen. But I know, I don't know. I mean,

714
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:29.519
was it somebody in the suit? I doubt it. I mean,

715
00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:31.679
who would be there and think somebody's going to come

716
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:35.320
along that, especially you know, time and night in the fog.

717
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:41.679
I don't know. But my wife was talking to some

718
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.159
friend of hers about it, maybe a month or two

719
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:49.440
months after that, and the friends like, where does this happen?

720
00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:55.480
So she told her and her friend was like, well,

721
00:46:55.639 --> 00:46:59.320
my son, they went out in that area because there's

722
00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:01.280
a little clearing in the woods. They went out there

723
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:05.800
and they were partying, would go out and like have

724
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.519
a beer, bust and that kind of thing, take pickoffs

725
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:12.119
back there. Talking, she said, they were out there, I

726
00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:15.559
wanted to say, like a month or just prior to that,

727
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:20.039
in the summertime, because weird came out there in the fall,

728
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:23.960
and they'd been back there and something had stayed in

729
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:26.320
the woods and was circain. They could hear's something big

730
00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:31.320
walking through crunching around them the clearing they were in,

731
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:35.519
and then finally they got headlights up and looked and

732
00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:38.679
saw this huge humanoid looking thing. They said was like

733
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:41.599
eight feet tall, go around a dark scared the crap

734
00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:46.239
out of these kids. They take off and she's like, yeah,

735
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:48.599
they saw. They don't know what it was they saw,

736
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:54.440
but it freaked them out when that happened. So you know,

737
00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:57.599
they're that kind of a thing there, because that was

738
00:47:57.840 --> 00:47:59.920
pretty much the same. That was within like a mile

739
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:03.639
of where I had seen these things on the side

740
00:48:03.679 --> 00:48:04.119
of the road.

741
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:08.079
Have you ever seen anything else that that looks like

742
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:11.440
what you saw that day? I mean, that's really weird.

743
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:17.559
Yeah. Uh well, like I said, I had another sighting

744
00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:24.039
out here in Kansas, but and I wish that it.

745
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:25.920
It was so dark. All I could see was like

746
00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:29.519
a dark face. I couldn't see a lot of features

747
00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:32.000
because it was that night the moon was going in

748
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:34.800
our cloudset. The one time I did get to see

749
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:38.320
it with the fog, I can't get spacific. It was

750
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:42.639
just dark colored, you know. And maybe it was two

751
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:46.440
huge people in dark coverall I don't think so, because

752
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:49.239
I saw hair coming up, I mean, and the way

753
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:53.119
they moved it just and I guess I was six

754
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.599
feet away from them, That's what I could. Yeah, I mean,

755
00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:00.679
it was it was bizarre, and why the one I

756
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:03.320
didn't know if when I have the same I keep

757
00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:09.719
saying she because the mewing sound, if maybe something had happened,

758
00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:13.400
if she maybe got hit by a car. It was

759
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:16.159
laying there. I don't know why one would be reclining

760
00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:19.719
right there and the other one had been bent down,

761
00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:23.719
like maybe it was lying there too. Maybe they were resting,

762
00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:26.360
and then it was getting up when it heard me coming.

763
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:30.840
Maybe I don't know, but it just when I pulled up,

764
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:33.840
they were both kind of looking at me, and, like

765
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:38.199
I say, the one that was reclined turned and looked

766
00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:40.400
at the other one and made that little mewing sound,

767
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:45.800
and it didn't look at it. It kept focused on

768
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:49.920
me and just did that grunt and reached out towards

769
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:54.239
the car. And I looked at that. That's what I'm like, Okay,

770
00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:57.559
I gotta get so. Yeah, I've never seen anything like

771
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:01.719
that back there before. That was new, but I guess

772
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:05.480
it was. I didn't really fear feel or feel fear

773
00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:11.679
at the time. Just I'm amazement. I mean, I'm trying

774
00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:15.159
to piece together what I see. You know, what I'm

775
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:19.840
seeing here, and it doesn't make any sense. I mean,

776
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:24.239
you see these things. I don't think anybody's ever really

777
00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:28.039
prepared when you come and when you see one of

778
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:32.360
these things, because there's nothing really that you can do

779
00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:36.840
to prepare yourself for that, because it is just the

780
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:43.480
size is so amazing. And I mean, you know, you

781
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:47.320
hear grow, Oh, these things aren't supposed to exist, but

782
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:50.719
yet there's standing right in front of you, you know

783
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:57.119
kind of a thing. So I thought, well, maybe you

784
00:50:57.199 --> 00:50:59.559
know that that was a one off kind of a deal.

785
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:03.639
Well as he moved out to Kansas in ninety six,

786
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:10.119
so I'm out here, and I mean, you only hear about, okay,

787
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:14.559
you know, the deal out in Northwest America, out that way,

788
00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:20.000
the Pacific Northwest. Nobody really expects Bigfoot to be on

789
00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:23.280
East coast anywhere. I certainly did not expect him to

790
00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:26.119
be in Kansas, you know, moved out here because we

791
00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:29.880
don't have the woods here that we had back in Maryland.

792
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:35.920
But I was I'm retired. I was a service manager HVC.

793
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:40.920
I've been the HVAC refrigeration trade and controls HVC controls,

794
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.119
and I worked for a contractor up in Wichita. And

795
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:47.559
as I was coming home, I would come home through

796
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:52.679
you know, the countryside, and there was one spot I

797
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:55.360
would come down and it's right. It's near a little

798
00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:58.239
area called Beaver Creek that comes down through a county

799
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:03.559
road and big fields there. And I would come that

800
00:52:03.639 --> 00:52:07.840
way every day from work and always look there because

801
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:10.280
I would always see like turkey in the field or

802
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:16.159
deer something like that. The whole time. I never ever

803
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:19.559
saw a human in there. I never saw the farmer

804
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:23.679
because they would have crops there sometimes. I never saw

805
00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:29.440
them Harvard. I never saw a human being in that area.

806
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:34.599
But and this road comes down Cali three to California,

807
00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:37.000
mean it dead ends into this thing. But there's a

808
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:40.760
gravel road that goes from that Tea intersection and goes

809
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.760
on back to well, they call it the ark Kansas

810
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:47.480
River here. Anywhere else in the free world it would

811
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:51.679
be the Arkansas River, so you know, but that goes

812
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.840
back to the river, so there's nothing back there. It

813
00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:57.920
just goes back into overgrown and then the river right

814
00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:02.719
back there. I came home that was near I want

815
00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:06.480
to say it like January second, twenty fourteen, something like that.

816
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.079
Came home, was coming home early to boss let us

817
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:12.559
go early because after the first of the year, and

818
00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:16.159
it was I want to say two thirty three o'clock

819
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:20.039
in the Arikan something like that. Still daylate, pretty day,

820
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:22.800
kind of chilly, but pretty day, a little bit of

821
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:28.119
breeze blowing. And as I got down there, I always

822
00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:30.800
looked towards it to see if there was deer or

823
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:34.119
turkey anything there. This time, I come up to the

824
00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:38.079
stop sign and I look and I see something. There's

825
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:41.320
a woods on either side, little stand of trees on

826
00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:45.159
each side of this gravel road that comes up to

827
00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:51.039
this field by where Beaver Creek countsruit. And I saw

828
00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:56.119
a final aft saw something in that road, and I'm like,

829
00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:58.280
what in the world. I mean, it was taking up

830
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:03.199
half the width of the road and was huge, and

831
00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:05.159
at first I thought, oh my god, this is the

832
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:08.440
first person. You know, it's somebody on a horse. Then

833
00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:11.639
I'm looking at and I'm sitting there, and because it

834
00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:15.719
was kind of in the shadows with the trees of

835
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:18.199
all the leaves, well the leaves were got there, some

836
00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:20.480
old one dead was hanging there, but a little bit

837
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:24.880
of shadows from the trees and some cedar trees, that

838
00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:27.840
kind of stuff. So I'm looking at it, and the

839
00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:30.519
more I looked at it, I thought, this is odd

840
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:34.000
because it's all one color that I'm seeing right there,

841
00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:39.920
all kind of dark, and I mean now is because

842
00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:44.679
it's coming towards me, Like, okay, it doesn't really look

843
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:49.119
like somebody on a horse. And the width of it

844
00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:53.719
and the height of it, it was huge and layer

845
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:56.360
I mean it was from where it was from me

846
00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:01.239
was probably four hundred yards away, so that'll give you

847
00:55:01.239 --> 00:55:04.719
an idea of the distance. And this thing was huge

848
00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:11.039
from that far away. So I'm sitting there watching it

849
00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:13.119
and it's coming towards me, and I am trying to

850
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:16.559
puzzle out what in the world I am looking at.

851
00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:19.280
And then somebody came up behind me and tapped the horn,

852
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:22.000
and I really, hell crap them, you know. So I

853
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:26.519
went to the left and turned and went maybe a

854
00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:29.360
half mile and unscrew this, I turn around. I got

855
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:32.079
to see what that is. So I go back again,

856
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:34.880
and this time I should have just pulled a cross

857
00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:36.920
from there into that gravel road. I wasn't even thinking

858
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.239
about that at the time, but I go back this

859
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:41.519
time and I do. I turned into that gravel road

860
00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.519
and I stopped, and whatever it was had come out

861
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:49.320
of the road by this time. Around the corner of

862
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:52.840
that little woods was in the field and was walking

863
00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:56.679
back in the field, back towards the river where it

864
00:55:56.760 --> 00:55:58.559
kind of it had come from, but in the field

865
00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:04.159
this time, and now I'm seeing it and I'm like, okay, whatever,

866
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:11.159
it's on two legs. It is freaking immense. And what

867
00:56:11.239 --> 00:56:15.840
was really odd was I'm seeing this thing it was

868
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:19.679
back in now. When it was there in the sunshine

869
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:21.960
that I'm seeing it, it was kind of like a

870
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:26.039
cinnamon color, right, it was dark in the shade back there,

871
00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:28.880
but it was like a cinema color. But as I'm

872
00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:33.119
looking at it, the color it's underlaying. It's like variegated,

873
00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:37.000
and I'm like, what in the world, Almost like you

874
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:40.159
know neon size where they fly. This thing was flying

875
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:45.440
up and down the body of this thing, and it

876
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:49.719
finally hit me. It reminds you if you see wind

877
00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:52.320
as it's blown through a wheat field, you see the

878
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:55.320
lighter color and then the darker stalk you know, out

879
00:56:55.440 --> 00:56:58.719
You get that color variation as the wind blows through.

880
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:02.400
And it hit me, Okay, it's the hair. The wind

881
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:06.320
is blowing that hair, and I'm seeing the color and

882
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:09.800
then the undercolor is the hair's being blown, and that's

883
00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:12.239
why it's up and down as the wind things are blowing,

884
00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:15.519
you know, t wind tendrils, this thing up and down.

885
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:21.199
That's why it's changing color. And I don't you know

886
00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:25.199
what is this because it's again just one big blob

887
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:27.719
with that, you know. And I mean you can see

888
00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:31.199
the thing. It looked like it was like five feet wide.

889
00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:36.079
It had to be ten to twelve feet tall. I

890
00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:41.800
mean was huge. And I'd sat there and watched it,

891
00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:45.400
and it was making ground quick, I mean huge stride.

892
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:48.400
Wasn't running just walk, you know, but the strides it

893
00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:54.480
was taking. It was covering ground fast. And within probably

894
00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:57.840
ten minutes while I don't even know this, maybe eight minutes,

895
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.000
hit it golf. From there, I lost it in the

896
00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:03.880
trees again. It went angled back into trees and went

897
00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:08.639
off to wherever it was going. But I looked at

898
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:13.719
that and still I what the heck. I go home

899
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:16.159
and I'm telling him, I said, I think I just

900
00:58:16.199 --> 00:58:19.440
saw a bigfoot, And he's telling my wife and she's like,

901
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.039
why didn't you take a picture of it? You got

902
00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:26.320
a camera right on your phone. It's one of those things.

903
00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:30.199
I was so all struck. It never even occurred to

904
00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:33.519
me to pull that out to try and take a

905
00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:37.320
picture of it, and I'm like, crap, you know, should

906
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:41.960
have but didn't because I just once you finally realize that,

907
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:46.079
the shock is like, holy Michael, you know saw one

908
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:48.800
of these things again? You know, to me, it was

909
00:58:48.840 --> 00:58:52.320
all again, because I'm pretty sure I saw one or

910
00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:57.199
two of them, you know, in Maryland. And so I

911
00:58:57.239 --> 00:58:59.840
talked to one of the local guys here they've got

912
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:04.079
a cryptis thing, and was let him out there, told

913
00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:07.199
him about the encounter and he was telling me, he says, yeah,

914
00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:12.519
twenty fourteen, in November of that year, so it would

915
00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:16.360
have been after you know, my saying because I didn't

916
00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:21.199
tell him till like a year or so ago. And

917
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:24.800
he said he had seen one cross the road only

918
00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:28.400
a half mile from where I saw that there in

919
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:33.119
November of twenty fourteen. So apparently whatever is hanging in

920
00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:38.679
that area running the river up and down in there,

921
00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:43.760
and that's you know, that's that's been it so far.

922
00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:49.400
You know, I haven't seen anything since. But that's kind

923
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:52.719
of my story, Jeremiah, from as a as a kid

924
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:55.480
to a senior. Now, that's kind of some of the

925
00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:56.760
weird stuff that's happened to me.

926
00:59:57.679 --> 01:00:02.159
Wow, Alan, those are some some wild wild accounts, and

927
01:00:02.239 --> 01:00:09.159
I mean, man, that area in eastern Maryland, that Pokemoke area,

928
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:11.800
that needs to be looked more into, or maybe I

929
01:00:11.960 --> 01:00:14.960
just haven't heard of it, because it sounds like there

930
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:18.000
were other weird things happening in that area too, right.

931
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:23.119
Yes, yeah, I mean there's all I mean, there are

932
01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:27.360
all kinds of folklore, ghost stories that you can get

933
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on there. There's a cemetery back in there that I mean,

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it's a cemetery, so there are people still in the

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do there and they get weird things happened in the cemetery,

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so there's paranormal stuff. There are bigfoot sightings there. There

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are supposedly dog man sightings, and between you and me,

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I'm just as glad I did not run into one

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of them. But in that area there's supposed to be

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somewhat problem from what I understand, in some dam man

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stuff back there. But yes, definitely the Pokemokee State Forest,

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I gotta say it's it's an area of high strangeness

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all back and through there. So yeah, it definitely needs

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to be looked into some more.

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I hope some uh maybe some people listening to this

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will come forward with other things that they've experienced in

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the area. But Alan, thank you so much for coming

948
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on the show. I mean, you're sharing an entire lifetime

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01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:36.800
of just really weird stuff from eastern Maryland and also

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more recently Kansas. And thank you for coming on the show.

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01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:47.039
You're always welcome to reach out if anything else weird

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01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:50.880
comes across your plate. But I appreciate you chatting today, sir.

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01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:54.480
Well, thank you for having me. And definitely, yeah, I

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01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:57.880
keep looking around now because of what I have seen.

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01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:01.199
I'm always on the lookout. If I do see anything else,

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I will definitely let you know.

957
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Just want to take a minute to say thank you

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for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast.

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Alan's story is one of the rare ones that spans generations,

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from ponies and fire roads in the Pokemoke Forest to

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the chilling moment when a hand reached toward him through

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the fog. A huge thanks to Alan for sharing decades

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of encounters from the Eastern Shore to Kansas, and for

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reminding us that sometimes what out there finds us. If

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01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:50.679
Kansas or anywhere in between, I'd love to hear about it,

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01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:14.480
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keep your eyes open, trust your instincts, and remember it

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might not be just the wind out there. So see

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you in the woods.