I Grew Up with Bigfoot (Member's Only)

0:00 Welcome to Bigfoot Society and this special member's only episode, I talked to Stephanie about her childhood growing up with a bigfoot in her backyard. It's a very emotional and intense episode. And you're in the Patreon or YouTube channel subscriber as a member, please enjoy this episode. If you are on the public feed, enjoy this teaser and if you'd like to hear the whole thing, you can become a Patreon member over at patreon dot com slash the Bigfoot Society or hit the join button on the YouTube page. Again, thank you for listening and enjoy our Bigfoot Society. We got the privilege of talking to Stephanie today.

0:47 Stephanie is a member of the Patreon and whenever anyone joins the Patreon now I always reach out to him and say, hey, thank you for joining, and do you have a story at all? And she gave me a bit of information that she's had some really interesting things happen. So I am looking forward to chatting with you, Stephanie. I know you're down there and out Alabama, but how's it going. It's going good. It's a beautiful Saturday, hot Saturday. Already you're in Alabama. So I'm very glad to be on the show. Like I was explaining before we started recording, I've oftentimes tried to share my story with people, and due to the mixed reactions I would get, I kind of withdrew from that. So it's a big leap for me to come on the show and share a bit. There's a part of me that wants to share, so this is a good thing.

1:40 Well, it all started well, I was a little girl. I was about six years old and I was raised my mother, unfortunately was an alcoholic and she had me at a young age and she could not take care of me. So my great aunt and great uncle that would are like if they were alive today, Well, they were born in nineteen ten, in nineteen twelve, my aunt and uncle were so they were older people, and my uncle died when I was ten, so it left me and my aunt alone for quite some number of years. But I used to play out in the yard every day. I was not the kind of little girl to sit inside the house. I was always outside and I always had a little spot where I would sit and play barbies or make forts, make little forts out of twigs and leaves and things like that, and I was very quiet. I was very subdued. I wouldn't go to nursery school or preschool or anything like that. It was just me and the old folks. But I adored them, you know. I had this huge love for them, and I get emotional when I talk about them. I'm sorry. So I was just outside playing and I had seen the show In Search of the One that talked about sasquam. I remember that, and it didn't scare me. And then I also remember there was an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man where Steve Austin had to fight a sasquatch or a bigfoot, and I liked that a lot.

3:15 So it was never a concept that made me afraid. I never thought monster for some reason. I just thought that's I don't know what I thought, really, but I know I definitely didn't think of the creature as a monster. So I was playing outside one day and a walk a little pebble fell on me. And we lived on This is important too. I'm sorry I'm going to ramble, but we've lived on three acres and it had originally the peace of land that my uncle bought originally was one hundred acres but they sold off part of the property and there's a subdivision there now, and he kept three acres for him and his family. So when I was living there growing up, we were on three acres, very big yard for a little one. And like I said, the little pebble came and it hit me, and I looked up because I thought, maybe this is a squirrel playing with me. And I couldn't see a squirrel, and I didn't hear any cheering or anything. Everything was very quiet, and I just started scanning the yard and I got up and I walked. I don't know why, but something kind of pulled me towards the back because out of our three acres, there was about an acre of it that was fixed, so I could go to the back, the very back of the yard where the fence was located, and there was kind of like a little playhouse that I had back there,

4:46 and I would go there sometimes but not usually. So something pulled me to that area. I was just a little girl. I can remember all this so vividly. And I kept walking and I started thinking, someone's watching me. I feel it. I feel someone looking at me. And the closer I got, the more the shadows kind of separated from each other, and I realized that I was looking at something. And it really didn't take me long to realize Bigfoot, because of my introduction to him from the television shows. And I was like, whoa, And I just stopped and I stared and it stared back, and I was like hi, and nothing, there was no answer, no movement. And I was like, do you want to play? And still nothing, no answer, no movement. And I was like, well, I'm going to bring my toys back here and I'm going to sit with you. So I guess it's just an innocent little child, you know. And I didn't have any fear of him. So I went back there with my toy and I just kind of sat a distance away, and by then the bigfoot had crouched down. I'm still not sure to this day if it was a male or a female. I don't know if it was like a subadult male who had not developed enough for his manhood

6:16 to show through the fur, or if it was just a small breasted female. But there weren't any really identifying factors as far as so I was quite a distance away, and I would just sit there and play and talk and sing like I always did. And he crouched down, he or she crouched down and just started listening to me. I was singing. I used to sing. I still sing a lot, but I sung a lot when I was a little girl. Happy little songs that I learned at nursery school. I did go to nursery school. At Sunday school, we had a little kind of program for kids that wasn't on Sundays. It was on Tuesday afternoons. It was called Tuesday Thursday School. And I did go to Tuesday Thursday School. So I learned a lot of little songs and I would sing all the time. And he started swaying like he was crouched down on his haunches.

7:12 That he started like kind of swaying back and forth listening to me. At least that's what it seemed like. And I thought, Wow, this is really really neat, and I'm seeing a bigfoot and I'm going to tell everybody. And you know, it got late and I heard my aunt calling me to come inside, and I said, well, I have to go now bye, and I ran. I gathered up all my toys and I ran inside the house. I had dinner. I didn't you know, I really didn't tell anybody that night because my grown ups were talking grown up things and I was raised by again, these people were quite a bit older than me, and they had some interesting rules about kids. Children are to be seen and not heard, was one of them. So I just sat there quietly and had my dinner while they were talking about their grown up issues, and then I had my bath, watched a little TV, and went today what The next morning, when I woke up, I did go to my aunt and I was like, there was one of those creatures from the TV outside in our yard. And she said, what creatures from the TV?

8:18 And I said, don't you remember on Steve Auston he had to fight that big creature And she was like, no, baby, I don't remember. And I was like, well, okay, I'll tell I'll tell my mom. Mom, because even she was an alcoholic, she would still come around sometimes and spend some time with me and we would go out in the woods. I think that, looking back, I think that my mother and I playing around in the woods might have been the first time the bigfoot saw me, and maybe that's why it came to the yard and kind of wanted to check me out or whatever. But yeah, my mom and I would often take walks out into the larger property and we would I remember, the woods would go really silent sometimes and I didn't know why, and I would whisper and say, Mommy, it's so quiet, and she would say, well, it surely is. It's very quiet. Maybe we should maybe we should go back, and I would say okay, and we'd go back to the house or whatever. But that's the only theory I have as far as where the big foot came from. That we were pattering around out in the woods and he caught a glimpse of me and just was curious about me. That's the only thing I can think. So I went back outside to play, and I just just to be curious, went back up to the spot at the back of the yard and I could see where he had crouched, and

9:48 you know, there were footprints and the leaves were kind of messed up, and I started thinking, I hope he comes back. That was really neat and I'd like to see him again. Because I didn't have any playmates. I was an only child up until I was ten years old. I was the only child, and I lived on this large property with a couple of old folks, and you know the kids I met at my little preschool type thing. We were too young to like to spend the night overs or anything like that. We were just little preschool kids, so I was very lonely. I didn't have any playmates. It was just me. And I hate to get into the wu aspect of it, because I know a lot of people are very distinctly torn over over whether or not that's real. But I didn't see the Bigfoot for several days. But I would sit there and play or run over and get on the swing set or whatever, and I would really kind of be concentrating. Please let the Bigfoot come back. I want to see him again. Please let the big Foot come back. I want to see him again. And I don't know if my thoughts were projected as prayers are what happens, but eventually he did come back. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube

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14:52 can get out here, We can tell our stories. Maybe there's somebody else out there listening it's too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out. And now it feels so bad about it. Who cares what anybody's thinks. I know what I saw, I know what's out there. That's all I can. Please let people know, Please let them know. If you ever see one of these things, you need you tell, because if you don't, then shame on you, you know, shame on you.