Nov. 10, 2024

It wasn't just Bigfoot I had to deal with: A Conversation with Darrell Denton (Archives)

This episode features a fascinating conversation with Darrell Denton, who recounts several intense encounters with Bigfoot and Dogman in Tennessee and Virginia. Daryl details his harrowing first encounter with a Bigfoot in Cannon County, Tennessee,...

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Season 1

This episode features a fascinating conversation with Darrell Denton, who recounts several intense encounters with Bigfoot and Dogman in Tennessee and Virginia. Daryl details his harrowing first encounter with a Bigfoot in Cannon County, Tennessee, describing a frightening face-to-face experience in the dense woods. He also shares his sightings of Dogman, including a particularly eerie encounter in Caswell County, Virginia. Darrell's vivid descriptions and stories provide a deep dive into mysterious and often terrifying cryptid encounters. Tune in to hear firsthand reports from a seasoned investigator who has spent decades exploring these captivating phenomena.

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Slash the Big for Society and now let's get on

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with the show, all right, Big for Society. We got

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the privilege of socking to mister Darryl Denton tonight. He is,

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as he professes, an old country boy from the state

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of Tennessee. So great to meet you, Daryl. I've been

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waiting for a long time to chat with you, and

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I've heard so many cool things about you. How are

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you doing tonight, sir, Hi, I'm.

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Doing here and I started a pretty side you're having

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me on.

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So we have a mutual friend, mister Martin Groves, which

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is just a great guy. One of my favorite episodes

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is when we talked about his adventures in the LBL

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at his encounters and he's got those great books, and

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I know you're in one of the books as well, correct.

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The second one. He was kind enough to put me

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in there in the whole second chapter. The last half

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of the book is about our encounter at the LBL

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in October. So it was actually the October nineteenth of

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twenty two, and the reason we were there was due

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to the fact that was the thirtieth year the twenty

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ninth anniversary of his actual encounter at LBA. We were

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there again a week about a week ago yesterday, the

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same spot, and that was his actual thirtieth anniversary, and

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we were also there at night, and that was pretty intense.

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We've been there a couple of times, but I've been

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real honored to be the only person that ever went

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there that I'm aware of. Martin stays that he and

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I have been close friends and best friends for forty

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two years.

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We go backer was did you have any interesting things

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happened the last time you were there at the LBL

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just recently.

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There was four of us there and all my close

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closest friends, which courses Martin Dees and mister Ron moorehead

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his first time there with us. We wanted to have

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him and of course Martin and he's normally always anywhere

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Martin ds us three or together, and we didn't have

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anything happened at that particular spot we were hoping to.

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Now we had some very strange things happened not very

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far from there, but it was the cabin we stadium

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that we haven't ever studied him before. It was actually

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in the back part of the campground, and we had

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we had big feed around us the whole every night

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we were there and just being mischievous, do crazy things,

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breaking sticks and making noises and clocking rocks and just

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a lot of things that Bigfoot's known to do. Matter

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of fact, Barton and I were out there two o'clock

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in the morning trying to figure out where they were

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coming from the second night we were there, because they

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were walking by our window in the cab and you

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just see the big shadow of them, and I believe

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Barton actually got a picture of two of them. I

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did not get a picture of them, but we had

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a lot of They were just being mischief. They weren't

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trying to harm us, but they would definitely watching us.

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We had a campfire going and about ten o'clock every

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night they'd start up. It go on to about four

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in the morning. And of course we go out a

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lot at night and research. We'll go out into the

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area I was mentioned in a minute ago, and we

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did research there and then come back and usually we

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would get a cabin because it's a lot easier than

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bringing tents and that type of equipment. It's already set up.

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We'll go to our location and stay high alone. We

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want sometimes half a night, got a good place to

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go back and sleep for a while, take a rest,

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but didn't have any accent like we had in twenty

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twenty one. That was probably the no by father, the

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strangest thing I've ever seen. It was so strange that

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I don't think I'll ever quite figure out that. And

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of course Martin is the same way that it was

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just he and I there that particular time, and we

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had pulled back in there, if I remember right, it

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was twelve forty eight at night and we had pulled

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up and it's a dart road, dart gravel road that

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goes back in there. And if you've never been to

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the lb AL and I know some people watching may

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not know what the lbl E is. The stands for

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Land between the Lakes, about one hundred and seventy thousand

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acres in Tennessee and Kentucky. And it's real. It's very remote.

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There's a north end in the south end. There's roads

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back in there. When you go if you don't know

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where you're going and know the location, you can easily

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get lost back in there. There's roads to the left

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and right. They're just about as far as you can

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drive back in there. When I say roads, there's a

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paved road leading in there, but when you get back

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into that remote area, it's mainly just dirt or gravel

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roads off in different locations, and it's a strange place anyway.

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We've had a lot of stuff happened there over the years,

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some of it strange, really strange, and had some real

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strange sightings there. But last year, October of twenty I'm sorry,

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October of twenty two was when we've seen the strangest

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thing I've ever seen. And I've had a lot of

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encounters in my life, but nothing like that. It was

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it looked like a met It was all to the right.

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We were driving very slowly on this start road headed

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back to the area after that. Martin had actually had

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his original encounter in nineteen ninety and I looked over

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to the right. I had a winded down and he

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had his winding down, and you can't We're maybe going

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three mile an hour, just barely moving, and you really

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can't go very fast back on his roads, or you're

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end up off off a hollow or in a ditch.

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So I looked to the right and there was like

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a mist and the closer I got I looked down

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and there was just this huge creature laying right on

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the side of the road in a lot of brush

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and weeds on the edge of the road, and it

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was laying down in like a ditch, which after we

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went back it was actually a creek bed next to

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our They went under the road there, and it was

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looking right at me, like just fixed on me. And

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I'm only probably I bleeze six seven feet from this

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with my arm out the window. I just shot me

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when I looked and turned that way to look at it.

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And when I looked at it, I thought, what in

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the world is that? And I looked soon as I

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looked over at Martin, I said, tell me you're singing

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this and he goes, oh, yeah, I see it, And

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I said, what in the world is that? And it

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was so strange. It had a head about half the

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size of our truck windshield, huge head. It had maine

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around its neck like a lion. It had it looked

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like tiny flashlight for eyes. They were real clear and

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real deep, and it was a blue silver color grayssh blue.

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And then it had the very TIMPs of the hair

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on it. You could the very TIMPs of all the

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hair on it had like the light on the edges

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of them. And the strange thing about it, it was

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in a stance like a cat with pants on something.

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And the same time, as strange as it sounds, it

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was transparent. You could see through it. It was like

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something out of a cartoon or something. I've never seen

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anything like that. And I looked back at Martin and

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I said stop because I won't get out, and he

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said he didn't say anything. He just kept going because

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frightened him a little bit too, because this thing't like

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he was going to jump on us. But I wanted

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to get out and see what it was about that

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time I caught it. I don't think it's infrasound. I

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caught it zapped. I've been zapped a couple of times

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by the forest people or big fit, but never by

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a dog man. And all of a sudden, it filled

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the whole truck with this unbelievable smell. I can't smell good.

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I lost my smelling senses when I got COVID back

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in twenty twenty. But Martin was so sick and my

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legs were a little tainly, my arms, my upper chest

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felt pressure on it and I had a massive headache

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all of a sudden, and I looked over at Martin

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and he said, man, I can't breathe, and the fact

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it had on him, he said, my chim in my

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throat and swell together. I can't breathe, but I can't breathe,

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and I said, stop, pull over, let me drive. And

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about that time, this thing crosses behind us, and it didn't.

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Martin is looking in the mirror and I'm looking back

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toward it, and then it crosses behind us, behind the truck,

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and it just like glides across behind us, not like

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it ran. And it went up this went into this field.

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Then it went up this heel side and you can

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hear it. You can hear this thing breaking branches and

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stuff as it was going up the heelside. It sounded

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like it was real, heavid. And then we didn't. I

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don't know where it went after that, We kept going.

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I was more worried about his health than anything. He

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was pretty much almost paralyzed, couldn't breathe, and I was

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thinking he was going to pass out. And we're way

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back in in the middle of nowhere, and quite frankly,

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I don't know the roads nowhere near he does. And

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I said, let me drive, and he says, now, let

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me get us out of this office road. And we

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drove on out, and he fortunately was gasping for air,

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and I was feeling sick myself. And we got on

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out finally and turned to the left and drove a

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good ways and we finally hit the main paved road

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that goes back in there and turned to the right

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and finally made it through a rest spot back there

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that has street lights under it. And I immediately went

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over to help him get out of the truck, and

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he said he could barely move at that time, and

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I said, are you going to be able to breathe?

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And he was actually gasping for air, And we find

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he finally got a little better at least where he

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could breathe, and we drove on to the main trace

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area and got got under a ranger sheet station and

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got him out where he could move around a little

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bit and walk a little bit, but he wouldn't. He

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was better, he could breathe, but I believe he was

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sick about seven days after that. He didn't get over

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it like I did. It was the strangest thing I've

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ever encountered. Just this sounds like something crazy. But if

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I hadn't seen it myself, I would probably wouldn't believe it.

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But something like that doesn't seem to even be possible.

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But Martin seems to think it must have come out

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of a portal or something. I don't know where it

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came from, but it was in the ditch, but it

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had a missed around it. At first. It was very strange.

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All I did to call it was some kind of translutional.

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Huge dog creature is what I would call it. But

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like I said, the strangest thing I've ever seen. And

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he would tell you the same thing today if he's

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right here. And that account is in his book, which

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is based between the Rivers, the second book. He has

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two of them, and.

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They're both fantastic. Looking back at the creature when you

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saw it across the road, how tall would you say

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that it was when you were looking back at it.

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It's dark out there. When I say dark, you can't

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see your hand in front of your face if you're

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you know, if you're out of the vehicle. By just

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what I could see of it, I don't know the

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height of it, but it was visible over the bit

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of the truck. I really I've never been asked that question.

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I've never thought about it. But there wasn't any any

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crazy high like ken foot or anything. Probably six to

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eight foot off the ground probably, but it was visible

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to see it. He could see it better than I could.

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Number was gasping for air and lived riding in this

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rearview miror and I could hear it. It was the

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footsteps that was making. It went into a grass field

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of real high grass, and then there's a bank that

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goes up real steep right there, and it went up

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that bank, and that's when you could really hear it,

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when it was breaking limbs and sticks. It was going

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up the side of that bank. It sounded like something

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very heavy. It sounds like it sounds like it was

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a long time to view it, but it really was

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a long time. I don't know what the timeframe was

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of actually seeing it and everything. I'd say maybe five

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or ten seconds at the most. I wouldn't think that long.

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It definitely seen me, and it looked at me in

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the most evil way. It's just hard to explain, but

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I think the thing that I've seen a dog man before,

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but it was nothing like that the one I you

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look more flesh and blood. This thing was like something

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that was It's almost like cartoonists. Like I said, it's

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so strange looking, so.

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It's very the description is very sci fi, very alien.

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It's very weird.

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I've never seen anything close to that, and then neither

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has Martin, and he and I've talked about it so

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many times, and like I said, it's crazy as saying.

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We've been back there numerous times hoping to see it again,

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and we've never seen it again or anything close to it.

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Had a matter of fact, I've never seen any other

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creature there. But just read your game. But dinner and other.

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Besides that moment in October, I believe it was October

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nineteen twenty two is when we've seen that.

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But there's so many weird things that happen in the LBL.

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There's dog Man, there's big Foot, there's whatever you guys

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just saw right there. Do you have any have you

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ever thought, why is it in this one place? There's

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so many weird things happening Martin and.

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Ley, Martin and I, Joe and Jesse have hel being holler.

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They're good friends of mine and theirs two and they

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go there and just the best boots on the ground

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team ever and just fearless. They go out and just

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walk those hills in the middle of the night. And

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we do that too, but not as far, not as

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much as they do. And we've talked about that. I

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think it goes back to maybe even before the that

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area was well known. I think I'm correcting the late

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seventeen hundreds, early eighteen hundreds, the Indians, the American Indian

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in that area. I had talked about a creature that

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was they called it a dog type creature. The settlers

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there in that time had animals attacked and even people

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attacked by some type of dog type creature. And I

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think it was in the sixties when they formed the

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actual waters of the Cumberland River in Tennessee that turns

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in Lake Barkley after you get past Cheatham Down and

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Barkley and the Tennessee River make I think those are

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the two rivers that makes they turns into Kentucky Lakes.

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What it turns into, and a large portion of it

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is in Tennessee and Kentucky. But there's when they flooded

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that area. There were homes people that refused to leave

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that area. The TVA came in there, and these these

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people had lived there for their families that had lived

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there for some of them for hundreds of years, and

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a lot of those people refused to leave, and I

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just flooded. There's so many graveyards in there, think I'm correct.

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There's over two hundred graveyards in they'll be Yale and

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we found stones in the late seventeen hundreds. Some you

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can't tell what they are. It's just a stone. And

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there's a lot of those grave yards that were covered

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by water too, because this is a large light. It's

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just a massive body of water. And I think there's

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just some type of phenomena that's always been there. I

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don't know what makes it that type place. But when

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you drive in, they'll be there. You get a strange

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feeling just driving in. So it's just an area that

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I can't explain. You hear people that go up there

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and spend a weekend and never having occurrence or staying

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a camping area and they fish and camp with their family,

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And then you hear other people that go up there

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and leave and whenever come back, they see something or

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they're getting scared off by something. And we've been there

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so many times, and most of the time it's just

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me our team, Me and Barningley and Martin Groves and

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Martin and I have been up there just those two

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plenty of times, and but mostly it's just us three.

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And Ron came with us his time, and he had

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a good time. He wished he could have stayed longer.

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And we're going back again. He's gonna he's already said

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he would love to go back again and stay with us.

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And I wish he could have seen more because our

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main goal was hopefully for him to see some type

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of creature, because he's never seen a dog man and

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a lot of people haven't. We go back thirty years

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ago roughly when Martin and I used to conversate about

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our experiences. Back in that day, I was I was

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a commissioner, alderman and then a mayor for quite a

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few years in the same area that Martin that Martin

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grows was a deputy sheriff and he had a he

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was a chief deputy, was up there next to the

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sheriff and well respected, and he and I might experience,

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my first one in ninety of a bigfoot. It just

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scared me to death. I didn't even know they existed

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if they did not in Tennessee. And then he had

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his experience a year later. And you couldn't tell anybody

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back in the nineties if you told people I've seen

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a big foot or I've seen a dog man. Of

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course that I thought we'd lost our mind. And now

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it's a lot easier to speak of it. And Martin

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held that, and is he held that, and I pretty

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much did too for nearly twenty five years before I

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started speaking of it. I told members of my family

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and very few people. But being elected official, you don't

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run around the county in town telling people you've seen

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a bigfoot and scared you to death. And he was

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afraid he would have gotten fired. So for telling me

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say it almost got killed or eaten by a dog man.

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Goodness for podcasters like yourself who have good quality shows

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that you can talk about this type stuff. But that

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wasn't available when this happened to us, and there weren't

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any There weren't any Facebook groups, you know. I think

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Mike Patterson, Michael Patterson, I think he started the first group,

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and I believe it was twenty fifteen, and I was

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helping him and with him for a long time there,

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and that was Blue Rids, Blue Red Essquats and Crypto

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and Michael not Mike Patterson, but Michael Patterson. He still

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has that group. He's still a close friend of mine.

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I left that and started my own in February, late

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February of two thousand and twenty two. But that was

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there was maybe three groups on Facebook when we started that.

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That's wild.

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There weren't any big conter dog man groups. And I've cried,

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frankly ever even heard of a dog man until Martin

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Groves told me about one, and then I didn't hear

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anything much about it until the last four or five years.

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You hear a lot about it.

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It seems to be added definitely the last few years,

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a lot of people have gotten interested into that creature.

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I would say, you take me back to the first

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time that you had an encounter with a bigfoot, What

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that was, What that situation was like for you.

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That was my grandfather had a large farm in Cannon County, Tennessee, Woodburry, Tennessee,

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and it was very remote out there. My grandfather lived

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in that area all his life, and I pretty much

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grew up on that farm. My grandparents stayed with those

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grandparents quite often and did everything kids do. My grandfather

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was a farmer, and it was pretty strict on me

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being in the field helping him when I was even

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when I was five years old, we were either in

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a garden or a tobacco field, or I was helping

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him with hay and the field because he had animals

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and livestocks. I knew that area very well. I don't

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know how many acres my grandfather had, but he had

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a pretty good sized farm and certain areas were fenced

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off for the cows he had. And I'd hunted there

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for as long as I can remember, and captain the

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woods by myself when I was eleven twelve years old,

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Me and my dog, and we'd count the woods and

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we'd hunt just rug their game and wasn't scared of anything,

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and never see anything that I didn't know what it was.

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And this was I believe it was November the sticks

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of ninety two, Me and three of my friends, Scott, Jason,

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and Cody go up to my grandfather's farm on the

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opening day of black powder season, which is muzzle over

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that we called it in Tennessee. It's a rifle that

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you can only power one shot. It's like the old ramrod.

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You packed your bullet in it with a wide and

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a firing cap. And opening the season is before gun season,

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and your chances for a bigger deal a lot of

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times or that week. And we've been going up there

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five or six years, me and those three guys and

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I had a big out of camper, a nice camper

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back then I pulled my truck and I would pull

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the camper up and open the gate and pull it

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next to my grandfather's barn and we would set the

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camper up there, and they followed me with a truck

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and a trailer, and we had we all had ATVs

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or four eaters back then, all four of us, and

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we would go up there and we would get there

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to a day or two before the season opened, and

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we had some stands built out in those woods. And

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then we had also a cane stand which you carry

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on your back and put around a tree, and climbing

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climbing stand. And we had got there that Sunday, which

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would have I could be off a day or two

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on the date I'm pretty sure it was November fifth

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of ninety two when we got there. And my granddad,

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of course, at that time, he was I believe ninety

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years old. M'd have been ninety two, but he was

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in tremendous shape. You would never think he was that old.

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He's still farmed and did everything farmers do. He even

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had cows and milk every morning. And he came out

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and greeted this and we hung out with him a

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little bit, and we set camp up, and I went

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in and talked to him, and I was staying on

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his back porch. He had an old wood farmhouse on

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a heel, and I said, grand Dad, I'm going to

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this year. I'm going after a trophy deer. I'm not

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really looking for one for the meat, and I probably

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won't kill one unless I see a trophy. And I said,

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what do you think the best place would go to

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get a trophy deer would be? And I was standing

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on his back porch. He pointed out He said, you

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see that third hollow over there and the heel, and

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I said yeah, he said that's probably where i'd go.

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And this was a good walt from his house. You're

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looking over the heels, and this place his heels and

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hollows just one after another, and it's pretty hard to

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even explain how much steep heels there are there, some

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of their forty five degree angle, So it's a climb.

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He said I would go over there. Of course I did.

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I hit it off his back porch and I went

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back behind his porch and I had my climbing stand

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on my back, went back to the camp to get it,

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and I hited where he showed me to go, and

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I went over that way and you go through his yard,

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through it down to a gate and you open the

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gate up. It's just a standard sized gate and it

457
00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:49.440
goes into the field whereas that was fenced where his

458
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:53.559
cattle were. And I went down there and went through

459
00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:56.680
that gate and crossed about a two hundred it's probably

460
00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.440
two hundred yard wide. At that time of the year.

461
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:03.119
It was like a sa sage grass field. And I

462
00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:06.440
walked down through that until I got to a fence line.

463
00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:09.440
It was a bob wire fence, and I climbed that

464
00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:13.680
bab wir fence and got over and started climbing this

465
00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:15.880
heel and it was, like I said, it was a

466
00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.440
steep hill and I walked up to the top of

467
00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:22.400
that hill, went over another hill, and by the time

468
00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.240
I got to the third heel it was going down.

469
00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:28.559
It was real steep, and I came. He said, when

470
00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:30.920
you get over there, you know you're in the right spot.

471
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.480
There's an old part of an old grist mill there

472
00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:38.839
to the left, and the old house that I was

473
00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:41.720
born in is still there, but it's falling in. You'll

474
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.119
see the remnants of tin roof and part of the

475
00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:48.440
chimney standing. And he said, you've been there, but it

476
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:50.920
had been years since I'd been there. We had went

477
00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:53.720
by road gravel roads back in there to get there.

478
00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:57.240
But anyway, I got over there to that spot and

479
00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:00.599
had my stand on my back and walked around the

480
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:02.799
side of this bank to the side of this hill,

481
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.640
and I just said, it was real steep, like a

482
00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:08.440
forty five degree angle. And I seen a tree that

483
00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:12.119
was straight up all kind of overlooking the creek in front.

484
00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.480
And when you and I went and put my stand

485
00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.240
around that tree and got it ready for the next day,

486
00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:21.279
climbed up in it and set back and cut a

487
00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:24.440
few limbs off of a little potable soil I had,

488
00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:26.559
so I i'd been able to set my stuff up

489
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:29.640
in the morning, and then I come down and walked

490
00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:32.519
across that creek and there was a large cane thicket

491
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:35.799
to my left. Cane is like it looks like cane.

492
00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:39.000
It is cane. It grows can or fifteen foot tall

493
00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:42.279
all down creek and river banks in Tennessee. And it

494
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:44.000
went all the way down the left side of that

495
00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:47.680
creek bank and crossed over, walked down through the creek,

496
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:50.839
and this creek's only probably ten twelve foot wide right there,

497
00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:53.519
but it's about two foot of water that runs all

498
00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:55.839
year around, and it gets a lot wider on down

499
00:28:55.880 --> 00:29:01.640
from there, some probably fifty or sixty yards wide. And

500
00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:03.920
I went up there was a little clearing there, and

501
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.039
I just was mainly looking for deer signs, and I

502
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:10.279
found some scrape is what a butt deer does. The

503
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:13.960
male deer with antors the rub on trees and leave

504
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.640
a mark when they're in the area. Found a couple

505
00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:19.039
of those, and I can see the deer down. There's

506
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:22.359
a little game trail on top of that, right into

507
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.200
the creek bank on both sides, and we're deer and

508
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:28.799
stuff travel on and I see a lot of tracks,

509
00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:31.160
and I walked over a little bit to the right

510
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.599
on the edge of that bank, right nexto the game trail,

511
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.400
and there was a big tree lamp sticking out an

512
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:40.119
oak tree, and there's a lamb up pretty good and

513
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.960
I'm six five, so I jumped up and grabbed the limb,

514
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:45.400
and I had put it what's called a drag rag

515
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:49.000
on your boot when you go in, and this elastic

516
00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:52.880
thing that goes on your boot and you put scent

517
00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:55.400
on it and covers the human sand as you go

518
00:29:55.480 --> 00:30:00.119
in and pull that off. I grabbed that branch and

519
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:02.640
tied it around the end and let it go, and

520
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:05.720
it was up off the ground, probably about eight foot,

521
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:09.720
and that kind of lets a scand go down that hollow,

522
00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:12.519
and sometimes it'll bring deer end because they're trying to

523
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:17.119
it smells like a female deer an aestra, so that

524
00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:20.720
time of year when they go into that, which causes

525
00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:24.640
the bucks to chase them. And I'm hunting that tree

526
00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:27.559
and let it go and come back across the creek

527
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:30.480
and went through a little ravine to my left and

528
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:34.839
climbed those heels again and came back and went down

529
00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:38.000
to the camper and hung out all my friends that night,

530
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:40.599
and we grilled out and had a good time, and

531
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:44.119
I went up until my granddad. I said, how going

532
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:45.920
to get up in the morning, which you come to

533
00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:46.960
and write me up.

534
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:50.720
We'll be back with more big Foot society after these

535
00:30:50.759 --> 00:31:01.240
words from our sponsors.

536
00:30:56.599 --> 00:30:59.079
And because pretty good walk over there. I think it

537
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:01.680
took me about forty five minutes to an hour that

538
00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:04.680
day just to get there. And he said sure, so

539
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:07.000
I'll do that for you. My granddad never called me

540
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:10.119
by my name. He's called me boy all my life.

541
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.680
And he said, I'll be down there, boy. He said,

542
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:16.279
I get up about four point thirty. I said, that's fine.

543
00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.599
We all went all got in the camper that night

544
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:22.960
and went to sleep, and about four thirty or a

545
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:26.200
quarter to five, he banged on the side of the

546
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:28.880
camper and he said, boy, time to get up. And

547
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:31.200
I got up and went out and spoke to him.

548
00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:33.480
And he was going to the barn there in front

549
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.079
of just a milk a cow, and I hit it

550
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:40.319
that way when I went down behind his house there,

551
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:43.720
went through the gate and went through that field and

552
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:48.480
had a fly flot with me. I had my I

553
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:51.039
had what was called a fanny pack that I carried

554
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:57.240
my extra powder load and extra firing caps and a

555
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:00.920
powder horn in it, and a few other things I

556
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:03.160
had with in and that also, And I went on

557
00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:05.480
down and I got to the bob wire fence there

558
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:09.799
after going about two hundred yards through that field there,

559
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:13.680
climbed over the fence and started climbing the heel and

560
00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:16.279
I got just a little ways up on the hill.

561
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:19.440
I don't remember. I don't think I was halfway up,

562
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:21.799
but I was a pretty good ways up, and it's dark,

563
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:23.720
and I didn't know that I knew I didn't know

564
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:27.599
that area that well because I didn't normally go into

565
00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:32.160
that area. But I got about probably close to halfway up,

566
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:34.799
and I heard something walk into the left of me,

567
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:38.720
and I stopped, and I thought, that's strange, Why would

568
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:41.440
somebody be in here. I knew my three friends. I

569
00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:44.160
knew where they were hunting. They were hunting in pretty

570
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.480
close to the same area that they hunt every year,

571
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:49.519
and they were a good ways for me, way off

572
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:53.119
in a different direction, and different hollows. They would hunt

573
00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:55.160
a different hollow, one would hunt one and one would

574
00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:59.039
hunt another. And so I didn't I knew it wasn't them.

575
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:02.400
I started shining the light and I didn't see anything,

576
00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:05.599
and but I heard it walking. It sounded like a

577
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:09.480
person walking. Startled me a little bit. I thought, who,

578
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:13.559
somebody's in here honeing, And then I started thinking, maybe

579
00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:16.039
it's a cow or a horse that's got in here.

580
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.279
So I just climbed over the hill. And when I

581
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:23.000
got over to the second heel, I was hurried because

582
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:26.000
I was startled, still in my mind about what that

583
00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:30.000
was walking. And by the time I got to the

584
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.359
there's a little bob war fence in the bottom hollow

585
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:36.880
of the second heel that was old and it was

586
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.400
rusty you could step over. Most of it had been

587
00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:43.119
used in years. But by the time I got to

588
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.880
the top of the third heel, the last heel, I

589
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:49.680
started climbing down that heel and I heard it again,

590
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.720
but this time it was up on top of the heel.

591
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:56.319
I just came down to my left and it was walking.

592
00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:59.000
I would stop and it would stop, and then I

593
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.519
would walk a little down and you could hear anything

594
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:04.839
walk in these dead leaves. There was real crunch sound,

595
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:10.800
and I thought, somebody's in here hunting. And I couldn't

596
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:14.239
imagine anybody hunting on my grandfather's farm. First of all.

597
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:17.559
He wouldn't allow him as we were there, and I

598
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.840
went on down and I found the creek with my flashlight,

599
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.320
and I walked around the edge of the bank until

600
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:27.280
I found the tree that i'd put my stand around

601
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.519
the day before, and I pretty hardly got into it.

602
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.880
I put my feet in the straps and I leaned

603
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:37.119
back and started climbing the tree. And I climbed going up,

604
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:40.039
and that takes probably fifteen minutes to get up there

605
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:42.360
with a climbing stand. I was up about twenty five

606
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:44.320
feet off the ground. That's about what I know. ME

607
00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:47.079
like to hunt. And I've got a real good view.

608
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.400
But it's still dark. And I got up and I

609
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.559
leaned back. When he leaned back, makes the frame of

610
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:55.320
that stick into the tree real good word, it won't sleep.

611
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:58.679
And I had a safety strap I put on and

612
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:00.840
put on the lamb behind me around it in case

613
00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:03.960
of the stand fell, I wouldn't fall with it. And

614
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.840
got my stuff hung up on those branches up there.

615
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.119
I'm a pack on the right and my lunch, and

616
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:12.880
I hung a pair of binoculars to the left, and

617
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.400
I leaned back and got set up. They had this

618
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:20.159
stand had a little cameo cover that you pull this

619
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:23.079
bar down in front of it that goes around you

620
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:26.519
in It covers you from right below your neck all

621
00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:29.599
the way down to your feet. It covers you real well.

622
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.119
It looks like you can't see a person in it.

623
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:35.320
It always wore a black out onto my eyes when

624
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:39.079
I hunt, because the sun glare if its sunshines, and

625
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:42.079
a measure face sparkle, a lot of times a deer

626
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.599
will spot that. And I'm set up, it's still dark.

627
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:48.880
I'm thinking, is what was that? I heard? And I

628
00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:51.760
didn't hear it anymore. I heard it go down to

629
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:53.920
the left of me, on top of the heel down

630
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.440
toward that cane, fidget and stopped. I didn't hear it anymore.

631
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.559
I sat there a good while. I don't know quite

632
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.440
how long. It was over an hour, and then it

633
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.719
started getting a little light. I didn't hear any sounds

634
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:11.400
in the woods. It was unusually quiet. There was no

635
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:15.400
sounds at all. And then about daylight, when I could

636
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:18.719
really start to see across the creek and that clearing,

637
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.159
there was a real foggy morning, and the creek had

638
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:25.519
fog on it, and I couldn't see across to the clearing,

639
00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:29.519
and I started hearing riggar animals then that you're hear

640
00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:32.559
in the woods, squirrels and birds and everything else. And

641
00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:37.079
as daylight were starting to come up and the sun

642
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:43.039
was setting, and it is somewhere around seven forty five

643
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:46.480
or so, the fog get cleared a little across the

644
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:48.920
creek and I could see the clearing on that side.

645
00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:52.320
Then and to the left of me, I seen a

646
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:55.840
deer come out somewhere around that cane area, and it

647
00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:59.840
was a female deer, a dough. It came out over there,

648
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.000
cross through the creek, went up the other side of

649
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.800
the bank and went on that game trail and walked

650
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.559
down the side of that creek bank and I'm up

651
00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:14.440
high enough I'm almost looking over on it in the

652
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:18.320
creek by the angle I was. And then two more

653
00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.599
came out, and they were smaller ones following this one.

654
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.960
And I watched these deer play over there. They were

655
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.039
just walking around. There was two younger ones, probably yearlings,

656
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:32.039
from that large dough and they were just walking around.

657
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:34.280
It was a real good year for acrens, and they

658
00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:38.119
were eating acrens and miling around, kicking the leaves like

659
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:40.599
deer do, trying to find food in the morning, and

660
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:43.679
I watched them walk around over there for a good

661
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:47.320
bet they've never seen me, and I was real steal

662
00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:50.920
and quiet, and I had my gun propped right against

663
00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:54.719
that bar in front of me, and I was feeling

664
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:57.639
pretty excited. I have seen three deer. Normally, when you

665
00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:00.280
see dough that time of year, there was to be

666
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:03.159
a buck somewhere close by, which is the male deer.

667
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:06.239
And I watched them for a good while, and it

668
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:11.119
was a little after eight I don't remember the only

669
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:13.440
reason I remember this time because back in the day,

670
00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:15.800
I wore one of these old iron Man watches, if

671
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:18.840
you remember those things, and I had what was called

672
00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:20.880
in to glow on them. You could push a button

673
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:23.480
and it a lot to glow up on it and

674
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.000
use that to go in the woods before that light,

675
00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:28.920
and it lit up pretty good. But they also had

676
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:32.360
a little stopwatch on it. I would always push that

677
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.320
little stopwatch button when I sing a deer come out

678
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:38.280
that way. I would have a relative of time of

679
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:40.519
what time to be there the next time, because they

680
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:44.840
normally follow a pattern. And i'd push that button that morning,

681
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:48.599
and I believe it was eight fifteen or right at

682
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:51.480
that when I pushed it, and then when I didn't

683
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:54.159
see another deer, i'd push it. And I have a

684
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:56.960
time frame, but I watched these deer play and they

685
00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.639
walk down and they never noticed me. They were just

686
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.199
the two little ones were to the right and left

687
00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:06.480
of the bigger deer, and they were all eating, and

688
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.960
they were facing to my left, looking straight ahead, and

689
00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:13.599
all of a sudden, they turned to the left a

690
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:17.719
little bit and the lead deer, the larger female, just

691
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:20.599
all of a sudden just thros. All three of them

692
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:24.679
were looking towards this cane thicket and I'm thinking, here's

693
00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:27.119
a buck deer about to come out. That's what they're

694
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.719
looking at. The lead deer was just frozen, her ears

695
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:33.920
sticking straight up, looking right toward that cane area. And

696
00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:35.920
I looked at the other two deer. They were doing

697
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:39.880
the same thing. They were not even moving. And then

698
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:43.199
the lead deer took a right front foot and raised

699
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:45.519
it about three times like she was trying to get

700
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:48.360
something to move, and she would hit the ground with

701
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:52.679
her front hoof, and I thought, you know, there comes

702
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.159
a buck. You better get ready here because the one's

703
00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:58.519
about to come out. And then all of a sudden,

704
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.960
she raised her knows like she was smelling, and she

705
00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:06.400
makes this real loud blowing those and it almost sounds

706
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:10.400
like somebody's sneezing real loud, but it's a lot louder

707
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.280
than a sneeze. She makes that real loud sound, and

708
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.679
then she goes right back to that frozen moment, just

709
00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:22.119
staying right in that area. And my anticipation is, here

710
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.039
comes a big buck out of this somewhere over and

711
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:28.400
it's this cane thicket. And then all of a sudden,

712
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:33.039
she turns to the right and takes off, just running

713
00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:35.840
as fast as she can. She runs right by the

714
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.400
front of me on this game trail, running as fast

715
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:42.119
as she can. The other two deer followed her, and

716
00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:44.599
I watched them till they run out of sight, and

717
00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:47.920
I thought, that's strange. I normally a deer doesn't do

718
00:40:48.039 --> 00:40:51.519
that with a buck coming there something that that's normally

719
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:54.440
like when you spook them or somebody scared them or

720
00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:57.199
shot at them. And a deer hunted all my life,

721
00:40:57.320 --> 00:40:59.679
I was real familiar with what deer would do. And

722
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.119
I watched them go out of side and it got

723
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:05.199
real quiet, and I'm anticipating the big butt coming out

724
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:09.480
over there somewhere, and I remember reaching down to my rifle,

725
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:13.559
my muzzleoder, and I pull the hammer back on it.

726
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:17.039
It makes a click. I did it real quietly work

727
00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:20.719
I'd be ready if it stepped out, and I waited

728
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:24.079
a few minutes nothing happened, and a few more minutes

729
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:27.079
nothing happened, and then all of a sudden, I see

730
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:31.679
the cane. It's moving. And this cane is so thick

731
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:35.519
that I couldn't walk through it. It's just right next

732
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:39.119
to each other, large thick cane, and somewhere over in

733
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:42.679
the middle of it, the cane was moving. It's twelve

734
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.119
or fifteen foot tall, and you can see it swaying

735
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:48.719
from the back edge to the front. And I'm thinking, man,

736
00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:51.559
this must be a massive deer, because to move that

737
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:55.679
cane like that, And I watched it move all the

738
00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:58.639
way to the front, somewhere down through the front of it,

739
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.760
so it stopped. And then it's stopped moving, and I'm

740
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:06.519
ready thinking this is a record white tail, because I

741
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:10.360
couldn't imagine anything pushing that cane around like that. And

742
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:14.599
then outsteps this creature and I steal right now. Every

743
00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.559
time I tell the story, it was definitely a life

744
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:21.639
change and experience. It was when I seen this thing

745
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.679
step out. I kept looking. I thought, am I really

746
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:28.920
seeing this? And it was just a tall, big black

747
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:34.119
creature and it stepped out. It took one step and

748
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:38.400
just leaked completely across to the other side of the

749
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:41.599
creek and landed on that game trail on the other side.

750
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:45.400
And I mean, just what is this? It was just

751
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.920
a terrifying moment. I was literally scared of death. I

752
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.320
didn't never seen anything like this and didn't know this.

753
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:56.079
I didn't know there was anything like that in these woods.

754
00:42:56.079 --> 00:43:00.360
I never seen anything. And it walks out on the

755
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:03.840
game trail right across almost did in front of me.

756
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.639
I'm looking down on it in this tree at an angle,

757
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:12.800
and it's walks right down the game trail. It stops

758
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:16.400
and turns and looks right at me. This thing knew

759
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:19.039
exactly where I was at. They knew I was in

760
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:23.039
the tree. I'm thinking, oh my gosh, what is this.

761
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:28.880
I was just I could barely breathe. I don't scare easy.

762
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:34.480
I've never gotten scared since like that. And this thing

763
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:38.280
just looks at me. It shows me its teeth, it

764
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:42.199
just like Gritsey's teeth shows me its teeth looking like

765
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.800
it's really mad, and it was the ugliest menius looking

766
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:50.199
thing I've ever seen. And it just stared at me

767
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:55.079
for a minute, and then it walks over to that

768
00:43:55.679 --> 00:43:58.280
limb that wasn't very far from where it was standing

769
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:01.599
where I had that drag rag get in there. It

770
00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:04.960
reaches up, it pulls it down, and its head was

771
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.599
about the same heights as that, so I'm thinking it's

772
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:10.360
real close to eight foot or a little more. And

773
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:13.559
it reaches down, smells that rag, and then it just

774
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:17.159
pulls that limb, rips the whole limb off the tree.

775
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:20.880
And this tree lamb was not a massive limb. It

776
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:23.519
was probably three or four inches at the very base

777
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:26.280
where it went into the treel when thinking what has

778
00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:28.800
that kind of power rip that limb out of the tree?

779
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:32.079
And by this time I could barely breathe. I'm serious,

780
00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:34.159
I was thinking, what do I do? Do I shoot

781
00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:37.119
this thing? Is it going to come across the creek

782
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:40.360
and just pull me out of the tree. It was

783
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:43.400
just a I had so many thoughts running through my mind.

784
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:46.320
I remember just sitting there, just sweating, thinking what do

785
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:49.760
I do here? And then it walks right back to

786
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:52.400
the same spot it was that it looks at me

787
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:55.639
again like it's really mad. It did not like me

788
00:44:55.760 --> 00:44:59.639
being there, and it lets out a growl, a real

789
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:03.239
long growl, and I've still never heard a growl like that,

790
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:07.440
and I thought, this is it. This thing's coming across

791
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:09.679
the creek. It's going to pull me out of this tree,

792
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:13.400
and it's going to just kill me. So I just

793
00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:17.239
was just didn't know what to do. And I've got

794
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:19.599
my hand on my gun. I thought, do I fire

795
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.679
and shoot this time? And I said, now, I don't

796
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.360
think one bullet will kill this time, and I don't

797
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:30.559
have time to reload. And I just sat there, just frozen,

798
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:34.559
trying to was just scared to death, trying to get

799
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:38.320
my breath. And then it looks at me and then

800
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.880
it let's out this yale that I've never heard before,

801
00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:46.280
and I just unbelievable scream, like the.

802
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:50.400
Yale we'll be back with more Bigfoot Society after these

803
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:53.639
words from our sponsors.

804
00:45:56.199 --> 00:45:59.480
That echoed all down through that hollow, and it's just

805
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:03.760
a terrifying yale. I've never heard anything like that saying.

806
00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:06.719
So I've heard Bigfoot yale and I like that this

807
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.840
thing was really mad. I was there, I thought, well,

808
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:14.000
and I was ready to just pick my gun up.

809
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:16.920
I was thinking, should I just jump and run or

810
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.440
should I fire? And it stares at me for a

811
00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.519
few more seconds, and then it turns and it walks

812
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:28.440
straight behind where it's standing, and it continues to walk,

813
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:31.199
and it turns and looks at me one more time

814
00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:36.280
with a just a really mad evil look. And then

815
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:38.760
I watched it walk on through the hardwoods to it

816
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:42.159
was out of sight. And I was in such a panic.

817
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.320
I thought, I don't have fifteen minutes to get out

818
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:48.639
of this tree climbing back down, or I just lowered

819
00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:51.000
the bar in front of it. I jumped out of

820
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:54.039
the top of the tree stand and I landed it

821
00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:56.400
with such a steep embankment. I landed it. When I

822
00:46:56.480 --> 00:46:58.559
landed on the levees, I had my gun above my

823
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:01.320
head and I slid off the way down this bank

824
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.639
into the creek. And I jumped up out of the

825
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:07.000
creek and I looked back to see if it was there,

826
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:08.920
and I didn't see it. And I run up out

827
00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:13.239
of the creek and I run up and up that heel.

828
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:16.440
There was a little ravine to my right there that

829
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:18.840
was a little narrow spot that I went up, and

830
00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:21.079
it went quite as steep, and I'm running as fast

831
00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:24.760
as I could run. I left everything, just ram with

832
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.199
my gun and I climbed over that first hill and

833
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:30.400
I kept looking back and I didn't see it. I

834
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:32.719
got over the first heel and I was running as

835
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:35.960
fast as I could down the second one, and got

836
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.880
down the second one, jumped that little small bob wire

837
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:41.039
fence and went up. I was going up to the

838
00:47:41.079 --> 00:47:43.480
other side of the second heel, and I looked back

839
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.760
and there it was on top of the heel set,

840
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:49.159
standing up there next to our tree, just watching me. Now.

841
00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:51.000
I don't know if it was the same one or

842
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.920
another one, but it was one of them standing up

843
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:56.760
there looking at me. And that just gave me more

844
00:47:56.800 --> 00:48:00.000
adrenaline when I seen that thing, so I just kept

845
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:02.760
running as fast as I could. I remember thinking, what

846
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:04.639
it's going to get me before I get to the

847
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:07.519
top of the heel, and I kept running. I got

848
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.920
over the top of that heel and I was on

849
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:13.199
the headed down the bottom of the last heel, and

850
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:16.320
the bob wir fence that I climbed over that morning

851
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:18.880
is probably about seven foot tall, and I said I'm

852
00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:22.280
not climbing, I'm jumping it. And I jumped it. I

853
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:24.960
cleared it, but the bottom of my left pants led

854
00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:27.079
caught the bob wire and ripched it all the way

855
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.639
up past my knee and cut a huge gash on

856
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:31.280
the side of my leg. I didn't even know what

857
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:35.000
was cut at that time. But and I've cleared that.

858
00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:38.519
I'm running through this sage field between the fence line

859
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:43.400
and my grandfather's back gate. It's about two hundred yards wide,

860
00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:46.440
and I'm looking back the whole time, thanking this sign's coming.

861
00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.199
And I get to the gate, opened the gate real quick,

862
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:51.519
shut it real quick. Looked and didn't see it. And

863
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:54.119
I ran into his backyard and I went up on

864
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:57.480
his porch, his old wood back porch had an overhang

865
00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:02.480
on it, and went to the back door and shut

866
00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:04.920
the back door, lock it and looked out the glass.

867
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.639
I didn't see it. And I went into the right

868
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:11.440
which went into through his kitchen into his sitting area.

869
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.960
And he had this big, huge pot belly stove that

870
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:18.440
was between the corner of his living room and the

871
00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:21.559
floor and his sitting area. I went over to just

872
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:24.119
sat down in the corner and on the floor and

873
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:28.679
I was just completely out of breath. And my grandfather

874
00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:31.360
was saying, boy, what's wrong with you? And I couldn't

875
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:35.039
even speak. I was so out of breath. And I

876
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.159
got up real quick and went looked out the wind

877
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:39.280
in the back door again and I didn't see it,

878
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:42.360
and came back and sat back down. He said, boy,

879
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.760
what's wrong with you? And I said, I finally got

880
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:48.320
my breath and I said, I seg a monster in

881
00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:52.159
the woods. He said a monster and I said, yeah,

882
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.679
I've never seen anything like that. He said what do

883
00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:58.480
he look like? And I said, was this huge creature black?

884
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:01.440
And it was amani slicking thing I've ever seen. And

885
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:06.679
he said, oh, you've seen a wood burger. And I

886
00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:10.639
was in shock. I said, I've lived on this farm

887
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:13.119
and my granddad a lot or I stayed there with

888
00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:17.039
my grandparents. My mom and dad worked in Nashville, which

889
00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:20.320
was about ninety two miles away, and I stayed there.

890
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:24.840
So we moved to our home and out side of Nashville,

891
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:27.840
and I stayed there every summer with him and helped

892
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.840
them in the field. I wasn't in school. I was

893
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:33.719
in shock. I said, what is a woodburger? He goes

894
00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:37.400
all they live around here. And I said, I've been

895
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:40.360
with you all these years, Granddad, You've never mentioned anything

896
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:43.360
about a woodburger. He said, oh yeah. He said I've

897
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:46.920
seen four in the lifetime. He said, they don't bother you.

898
00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:51.320
They real territorial. He said I should have thought being

899
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:53.039
over in that area, there was probably going to be

900
00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:55.599
one of them too, because nobody goes back in there.

901
00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:58.440
And I said, you never told me about one of them.

902
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:00.400
If you had it, I would have never went in there.

903
00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:03.199
And he said that's why I didn't tell you. He said,

904
00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:06.119
you've hunted in these woods all your life. And Gus

905
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:08.400
had swept in the barn loft and he said I

906
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.440
didn't want to scare you about him, because they don't

907
00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:13.480
harm you. And I said this thing wanted to kill

908
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:17.519
me and he said I didn't and he said I ain't.

909
00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:20.519
Doesn't worry about boy to be okay. And I said,

910
00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:23.280
oh yeah, I'm not going back there again. And he

911
00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:26.360
said I've been in the field and I'll be working.

912
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:28.280
I look up and when I'm standing there next to

913
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:31.280
the sanser watching me work, I said, you had these

914
00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:34.159
things that close? He said, oh, they, I've seen four

915
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:36.199
of them. And I've heard a lot hear them yelling.

916
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:38.679
And I said, how did I miss out on this?

917
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:41.800
Because I've been here so often, I've never heard one

918
00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:45.159
that I know of. And he was real, he wasn't

919
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:49.360
real nervous about him. And I was still just scared

920
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.519
to death. And he said, boy, you look like you

921
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:55.159
sing a ghost. And I said, I feel like I

922
00:51:55.199 --> 00:52:00.639
did see a ghost. And I it was just terrified me.

923
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:03.159
And I got up several of the times and looked

924
00:52:03.199 --> 00:52:04.880
out their window to see if it was coming. I

925
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:08.119
never seen it again. And I sat there for a

926
00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:12.920
couple hours and just scared to death, and my granddad

927
00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:15.920
was trying to calm me down. He said, then things.

928
00:52:16.079 --> 00:52:18.880
My granddad had a big chicken house out to the

929
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:21.400
left of his back porchs and it was made out

930
00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:25.039
of loud Him and his family had made it years

931
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:28.119
before then, and they had a door on it, and

932
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:30.360
he had a lot of chickens. He goes in the wintertime.

933
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.480
They'll come up here and they'll take a couple of them.

934
00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:36.239
They get hungry, can't find any food, and they'll take

935
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.880
a couple of chickens and they'll leave a little pile

936
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:42.320
of rocks and sticks like they're paying for it, and

937
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:45.760
I'm just sitting there amazed. I me my granddad were

938
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:49.360
very close and I never heard of one or seen one.

939
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.400
And he said, you remember your grandma used to tell you,

940
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:55.360
don't y'all stay out after dog here, I'll get in

941
00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:58.639
the house because the boogerman will get you in. I

942
00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:01.679
said that was the boogerman. He said yep. And I'm

943
00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:06.599
still just flipped out, nervous wreck And a couple of

944
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:09.159
hours later, my friends come back and one of them

945
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:11.159
had killed a big deer and they were down at

946
00:53:11.159 --> 00:53:13.400
the camper and I walked down to see them and

947
00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:16.199
I said, hey, guys, we've been coming up here a

948
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:19.320
long time. Have you ever seen anything in the woods?

949
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:22.920
And they looked at me, like, what are you talking about?

950
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.159
Big d I said, they were skinning the deer out

951
00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:28.599
there hanging in a three only one I may kill one,

952
00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:32.000
and I said something maybe like a bigfoot or something,

953
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:34.639
and they started laughing. They looked at me and said,

954
00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:36.599
you had too much to drink last night, and I

955
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:40.800
said I didn't drink anything, and I didn't say anything

956
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:43.519
else about it. I could tell they didn't. They thought

957
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:47.320
I was crazy, so went on back to my grandfather's house,

958
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:52.360
and I actually I didn't stand another night in the camper.

959
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.519
I stayed in the house and my granddad slept in

960
00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:59.039
the bed room in there, and they stayed in the camper.

961
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:03.079
They were concerned about me. They kept pass me. I'd

962
00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:04.800
go out there and stay with them till they went

963
00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:07.440
to bed, and they couldn't understand why were staying in

964
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:11.920
the camper. But I was staying there with him and

965
00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:13.679
I study, you know, the rest of the We stayed

966
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:15.320
there a week, and I was in there the rest

967
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:18.719
of the week with him at night and couldn't sleep,

968
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:21.519
just thinking this thing was kind of looking in the

969
00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:24.840
window or something. It was like some type of fear

970
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:28.719
I've never had, and it really messed me up for

971
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:33.239
a while. I never thought if these things existed. I

972
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:36.639
thought they were out in California or Oregon, or Washington

973
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:39.440
or British Columbia. I think they were in Tennessee. But

974
00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:42.840
they were. And we went up there a couple of

975
00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:46.320
years after that, and I didn't hunt. I told my buddies,

976
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:47.960
we'll go up there. I didn't tell him I wasn't

977
00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:49.679
going to hunt till we got there. Y'all go ahead

978
00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:51.599
and hunt. I'm gonna hang out with my granddad. He's

979
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:54.159
getting older and and he was. I didn't want to

980
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:56.920
spend time with him, but I didn't care to hunt.

981
00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:59.840
I didn't hunt for I didn't go in the woods

982
00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:03.119
for for about seven years. What deer Hut and I

983
00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:06.760
did day was with friends on a farm, at my

984
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:09.719
farm or somebody else's. I'd pull up in my truck

985
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:12.679
and set there out towards the woods and didn't get

986
00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:15.039
out of the truck. I didn't watch the woodline, but

987
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:18.840
it missed it. It can really gives definitely life changing

988
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:22.599
I've never had that kind of fear before since I

989
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:25.840
think now looking back on it, if it wanted to

990
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:28.599
kill me, it could have. And I realized that over

991
00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:30.519
time it didn't want to kill me. It just wanted

992
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:32.519
to run me out of his area. I probably messed

993
00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:35.320
up as deer Hugh. That was my first encounter.

994
00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:40.400
Darryl, that's incredible. What do you mind sharing what county

995
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:42.639
in Tennessee that was in.

996
00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:45.199
It's Cannon County, Tennessee.

997
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:49.840
Cannon County, Okay. Interesting. Well, have you ever seen anything

998
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:53.400
in like a drawing of it or an illustration that

999
00:55:53.480 --> 00:55:56.159
looked similar to what you saw that day.

1000
00:55:56.880 --> 00:55:59.519
I actually, you know, after I got home, I started

1001
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:03.400
going to the library because there wasn't a cell phone.

1002
00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:06.440
I didn't have a cell phone then or internet or anything.

1003
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:09.800
And I'm still not very good with technology. But I

1004
00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:13.480
actually went to several libraries back home trying to find

1005
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:17.559
pictures a big foot, and I actually did find one

1006
00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:21.119
that looked like it, And strangely there was there was

1007
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:24.440
a book with ten pictures of bigfoot in it. It

1008
00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:28.000
said the ten different type, and the number two one

1009
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:31.320
on the book was called the Woodburger, and it looked

1010
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:34.960
identical to this time, except it didn't have red eyes.

1011
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.360
The one in the picture had red eyes. The one

1012
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:40.360
I say didn't have red eyes. It just had dark eyes,

1013
00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:44.280
and like a it was dark eyes. In the middle

1014
00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:48.719
was some yellowish white around. I'm just wasn't read, but

1015
00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:52.599
everything else looked like the picture there was pretty terrifying.

1016
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:54.519
When I sang it, I thought, oh gosh, there it

1017
00:56:54.639 --> 00:56:55.320
is right there.

1018
00:56:55.760 --> 00:56:59.079
Wow, that's incredible, man. And the great thing about like

1019
00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:02.000
the listen is that I have is someone will comment

1020
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:05.480
within an hour after this is posted and say, oh,

1021
00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:07.719
it's this book and it's on this page.

1022
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.559
Yeah, they probably know it and I've actually looked it up.

1023
00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:13.079
I've actually got a picture of it. I say, over

1024
00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.360
the years, I don't have the fear I had of

1025
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:19.440
it then, but it's definitely a life changing my moment

1026
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:22.000
when you see one of those things. And this wasn't

1027
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.000
a friendly look. And if it had been a friendly

1028
00:57:24.079 --> 00:57:27.960
looking one or didn't act irritated or mad, I m

1029
00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:30.000
out of taken it a little better. But this thing,

1030
00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:32.800
we had an intention of really being mad at me.

1031
00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:35.360
I could tell by this expression the way it looked

1032
00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:39.280
at this mouth was to the right kind of contortion,

1033
00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:42.440
like it was just ready to kill me. It was

1034
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:46.800
really mad that I was there. And like I said,

1035
00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:48.719
I didn't hunt for years, didn't go in the woods.

1036
00:57:48.760 --> 00:57:53.199
I had not Marris for weeks, I didn't sleep. This

1037
00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:56.679
went on for a long time, and I still had

1038
00:57:56.800 --> 00:57:59.880
not Marris about it. For the only thing that's say

1039
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:04.400
me from that was I've been very fortunate. I don't

1040
00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:07.320
understand how it works because I've got friends that's been

1041
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.920
in the woods for years and years hunting, even older

1042
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:13.639
friends that's been in there fifty years, deer hunting and

1043
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:17.760
all type of game hunting, and I'm coon hunting that

1044
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:20.400
area not that far in but not far from it.

1045
00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:23.960
When I was a kid with my uncles and never

1046
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:26.760
heard of a wood Burger, and I never heard one

1047
00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:29.559
of them mention it. They grew up there. But I

1048
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:35.239
think that some people, for some reason, find these things

1049
00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:39.000
find you. You don't ever find them. But I have

1050
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:43.119
something in me that they find me, and I don't know.

1051
00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:46.880
I didn't know that untill after that occurrence, but I

1052
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:49.679
would have never gotten over that. Martin Grows and I

1053
00:58:49.719 --> 00:58:52.719
talked about this back then, back in the nineties. We'd

1054
00:58:52.719 --> 00:58:54.760
go to lunch. I'd meet him for lunch and he

1055
00:58:54.840 --> 00:58:57.440
was in a sheriff's apartment and I was going to

1056
00:58:57.480 --> 00:59:00.199
a meeting or somewhere up in the county, and we

1057
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:04.519
would just talking about our experience. We had nobody else

1058
00:59:04.559 --> 00:59:09.320
to talk to. And it's pretty crazy, and it's still today.

1059
00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:12.440
It's still a fear in me from that, and I

1060
00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:15.119
don't know why I still have it. But if I

1061
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:18.000
hadn't run into my if I hadn't had my second encounter,

1062
00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:20.000
I don't think I would have ever gotten over it.

1063
00:59:20.280 --> 00:59:22.760
I'm good with it now. I don't have nightmares about

1064
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:26.360
it anymore. I did for a long time. I think

1065
00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:29.400
The worst thing about it is you're on your own

1066
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:33.800
back in that day. You can't tell anybody. You just

1067
00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:36.920
have to live with it. And I even told my

1068
00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:41.079
wife at that time, and she goes, really, you've seen that?

1069
00:59:41.239 --> 00:59:43.599
And I said, She goes, I believe you. I know

1070
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:47.079
you're honest, but you've seen that? And I said, yes,

1071
00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:49.840
She goes, you've probably seen a bear. I said, now,

1072
00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:53.519
what a bear? And I just left it at that.

1073
00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:56.960
Since I've gotten since something older, she knows all about

1074
00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:01.519
the story. And my granddad was, oh, salt about it,

1075
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:04.440
like it wasn't a big deal. That was probably a

1076
01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:08.239
shocking a thing that happened, because I ain't never told

1077
01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:11.440
me about him. But I understand why he didn't. But

1078
01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:16.119
he's been gone quite a while, right. But my second

1079
01:00:16.199 --> 01:00:18.880
encounter was by accident. I wasn't out looking for bigfoot,

1080
01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:22.320
wouldn't even hunting, And if I hadn't had that encounter,

1081
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:25.760
I probably would have never gotten over it. That was

1082
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:30.360
what changed everything for me. And I've had so many

1083
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.519
encounters since then. Some people said, how do you, Sam,

1084
01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:36.360
and we don't. I don't know how, I say.

1085
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:41.199
Them, yeahs all have all your big foot encounters happened?

1086
01:00:41.239 --> 01:00:42.480
In Tennessee, Darryl.

1087
01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:46.480
Most of them. I had one in Virginia and I

1088
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:49.440
had actually I had two in Virginia. My nine year

1089
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:53.320
old daughter and I and she's really into my nine

1090
01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:57.440
year old way. She's really talks about Bigfit all the

1091
01:00:57.480 --> 01:01:00.480
time because she knows how much me up to it.

1092
01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:03.519
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1093
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1094
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You wouldn't believe all the gifts I get overview this place.

1095
01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:16.320
Room here's covered, we're bigfoot statues and everything else. And

1096
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:19.280
she even got me a big but me and her,

1097
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:23.119
it was incredible. It was about two months ago. We

1098
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:26.039
were coming through a rural area. I was taking her

1099
01:01:26.159 --> 01:01:29.239
home to her mother's house. And it's a real rural

1100
01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:32.559
area outside of Smithfield, Virginia. And we're riding down this

1101
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:36.199
road and I'm taking her home and it's near dark

1102
01:01:36.360 --> 01:01:39.079
and in summertime then it was hot outside. It didn't

1103
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:41.320
get dark to eight thirty or a quarter to nine

1104
01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:45.280
at night. And I'm driving down this rural area road,

1105
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:48.639
a two lane highway and it's actually a four lane

1106
01:01:48.639 --> 01:01:51.719
but they're split up and it's real rural and there's

1107
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:54.559
a car in front of me and I'm watching this

1108
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:58.719
car keeps breaking and my daughter says, Dad, there's a

1109
01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:02.480
man chasing a d And I looked to the right,

1110
01:02:02.800 --> 01:02:08.199
and this bigfoot is chasing a deer over toward the

1111
01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:11.000
woods down the side of the road here. And I

1112
01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:13.360
couldn't blieve my eyes. And it wasn't a big one.

1113
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:16.320
It was a juvenile. It might have been six or

1114
01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:18.760
seven foot tall, but it was real fan it was

1115
01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:21.119
chasing this deer. I said, no, I saw the deer.

1116
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:23.440
That's a big foot. And she looked at me, really,

1117
01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:26.239
and then it turned No, we only seen it for

1118
01:02:26.280 --> 01:02:29.159
a second because when it seemed the lady in front

1119
01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:32.280
of me was with her daughter and they had seen

1120
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:34.800
it too, and they pulled over to the side of

1121
01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:38.119
the road, and I pulled over too and stopped. My

1122
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:41.559
daughter handed her myself out and she started filming, and

1123
01:02:41.599 --> 01:02:45.119
she didn't get the picture of the bigfoot, but she

1124
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:47.719
got the deer. This deer was running as fast as

1125
01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:51.239
it could run, and this thing was chasing it. My

1126
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:53.760
daughter thought it was a man chased the deer, and

1127
01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:57.039
I said, now, that's a big foot. And it quickly

1128
01:02:57.159 --> 01:03:00.639
turned and we got to bat his backside. Real thick

1129
01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:04.639
brush area when he'd seen the cars and realized we'd

1130
01:03:04.679 --> 01:03:07.679
seen it. It ran into the woods where we couldn't

1131
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:10.639
see it, and I stopped, and this lady in front

1132
01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:12.599
of me stopped, and I got out of the car

1133
01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:15.880
and got out of my suv and my daughter's sitting there,

1134
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:18.320
and she goes, where are you going? I said, I'm

1135
01:03:18.320 --> 01:03:21.159
going to talk to this lady a second. And the

1136
01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:24.000
lady gets out of her car and she has a

1137
01:03:24.039 --> 01:03:27.119
little girl with her, and she goes, what was that?

1138
01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:30.840
And I said it looked like a bigfoot and she goes,

1139
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:33.840
what that's the way she acted. She goes, I've seen it.

1140
01:03:33.920 --> 01:03:36.880
She goes, I don't know what it was, but nothing

1141
01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:39.719
like i'd sing, and why I told her as a

1142
01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:41.719
big foot. She jumped back in the car and locked

1143
01:03:41.719 --> 01:03:43.800
her doors and heard her little girl just took off.

1144
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.239
They were getting out of there, but me and her

1145
01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:49.000
pulled up and we pulled into where we'd seen it

1146
01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:51.440
running to the brush, and it was almost dark at

1147
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.880
that time, you could barely see light. And I walked

1148
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:56.760
down into the woods trying to get a picture of it.

1149
01:03:56.800 --> 01:03:58.840
I took my camera. I said, you stay in the car,

1150
01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:01.159
and I locked the door. I said if you see

1151
01:04:01.159 --> 01:04:03.880
it or get scared, you blow the horn. And she goes,

1152
01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:05.880
don't go down in there, and I said, I'll be okay.

1153
01:04:06.039 --> 01:04:08.199
So I walked down. There was like a little trail

1154
01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:10.760
or logging road or something that went down in there,

1155
01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:13.960
and I followed it around, probably about one hundred yards

1156
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:16.800
back in there, and I took a bunch of pictures

1157
01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:19.000
in that area. I heard it walking. I could hear

1158
01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:22.000
it walking in there, but I couldn't see it, and

1159
01:04:22.039 --> 01:04:25.280
I just started taking pictures in the woods and I

1160
01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:28.599
actually got a silhouette of its. Matter of fact, Jennifer

1161
01:04:28.639 --> 01:04:31.559
Appleton in my group, her and a couple other ladies

1162
01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:34.599
found it in the picture, the silhouette of it standing

1163
01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:37.320
next to a tree. And it wasn't like I said,

1164
01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:39.599
it wasn't a full grown when it was a juvenile.

1165
01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:43.639
But that was so exciting for me for my daughter

1166
01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:47.920
to actually see one for just a second. And since

1167
01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:50.119
you've seen that, all she talks about is when can

1168
01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:52.039
I go bigfooting with you? When can I go into

1169
01:04:52.039 --> 01:04:54.960
the woods. And I said, I want to take you

1170
01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:57.400
out there. At nine years old, she goes, to go

1171
01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:00.960
out there, if you will, and she knows crazy eye

1172
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:03.599
and my lots of hope to come back, but I

1173
01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:05.079
wouldn't want to take her out there.

1174
01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:10.239
Darryl, you have seen you've seen a dog man as well, correct.

1175
01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:14.400
I've seen. My first dog man I seen was actually

1176
01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:18.719
in October of twenty one in Caswell County, Virginia, and

1177
01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:22.519
that was just a crazy just so that was that.

1178
01:05:22.679 --> 01:05:25.719
I go to this is where I live at is.

1179
01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:30.440
It's mainly a farming area. There's lots of cotton and

1180
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:34.519
peanut farmers here and I live about an hour and

1181
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:40.320
fifteen minutes from where my children live. And I go

1182
01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:42.400
to this little store in the morning and it's like

1183
01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:44.719
a country stower. And I was going there's a bunch

1184
01:05:44.760 --> 01:05:46.760
of older guys in there. I see you. I'll sit

1185
01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:49.400
and drink some coffee with them in the morning. And

1186
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:52.880
I was sitting there one morning and this guy comes in.

1187
01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:56.679
The guy owns the stower. As an Indian guy, it's

1188
01:05:56.719 --> 01:06:00.000
hard to understand him all the time. And I'm sure

1189
01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:02.679
it's hard for him to understand me with my country accident,

1190
01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:05.360
but he knows me and his real friend. He real

1191
01:06:05.559 --> 01:06:09.000
nice guy. And I'm sitting there at this table, it's

1192
01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:12.119
a long wood table. There's usually five or six old

1193
01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:16.440
farmers sitting there, just talking about whatever, and we drank

1194
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:18.679
coffee in there. And I'm sitting there one morning and

1195
01:06:18.679 --> 01:06:22.480
we're all talking and they know I talk about Bigfoot,

1196
01:06:22.480 --> 01:06:25.440
and some of them I've seen them. They believe in them.

1197
01:06:25.480 --> 01:06:27.320
A couple of a couple of them don't believe in them.

1198
01:06:27.440 --> 01:06:30.079
It's not an argument, just conversation. We don't talk about

1199
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:32.840
it all the time. But this man and his son

1200
01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:35.360
comes in and they walk up to the counter and

1201
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:39.199
they had gotten gas out front, and he asked the

1202
01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:42.320
guy who owns the store of the Indian guy. He goes,

1203
01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:46.159
do you know anybody around here that knows anything about creatures?

1204
01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:49.840
And of course I'm only keen foot from the counter.

1205
01:06:50.320 --> 01:06:53.559
When I heard creatures, I turned around, thinking what is

1206
01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:57.760
he talking about? And this guy don't understand what he's

1207
01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:02.519
asking him. He said, he said, we got a creature

1208
01:07:02.559 --> 01:07:06.199
on our farm. And I looked up again and I

1209
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:08.679
got up and I walked up to him and the

1210
01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:12.400
gentleman who owns the store there, real nice guy. I

1211
01:07:12.480 --> 01:07:14.480
started talking to the guy, I said, what kind of

1212
01:07:14.519 --> 01:07:17.559
creature are you talking about? And he said, we live

1213
01:07:17.639 --> 01:07:22.360
about two hours from here and maybe a little mower

1214
01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:25.719
and we got something on our farm. It's killed our

1215
01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:29.400
goats and we don't know what it is. And we

1216
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:33.639
call the Game and Fish and the sheriff's apartment, and

1217
01:07:33.639 --> 01:07:35.480
they came out here and told us that it was

1218
01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:39.320
probably some coyotes or something that killed them. He said,

1219
01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:42.039
but this ain't no coyote. And I said, have you

1220
01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:44.679
seen the creature and he said no, but I've heard

1221
01:07:44.719 --> 01:07:48.239
it and he told me some sounds that it made.

1222
01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:51.719
And I said, I don't know. I said, I don't

1223
01:07:51.719 --> 01:07:54.599
believe it's a coyote. And he said you know anything

1224
01:07:54.639 --> 01:07:57.159
about these things. I said, I don't know what kind

1225
01:07:57.159 --> 01:07:59.280
of creature you have. I said, I know a little

1226
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:03.119
bit about creatures. I said I would probably know if

1227
01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:06.280
I sent a track what it was. And he said,

1228
01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:10.519
do you mind coming out to our house and looking

1229
01:08:10.760 --> 01:08:13.239
around the barn there he had a little shade they

1230
01:08:13.480 --> 01:08:18.359
kept their goats in. And I said, boy, yeah, where

1231
01:08:18.399 --> 01:08:21.359
do you live and he said for two hours from here?

1232
01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:24.439
And he said, if you want to, you can follow

1233
01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:29.479
me on out there. And I said okay, And I

1234
01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:31.439
got a call on the way out there, so I

1235
01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:33.439
told him. I pulled him over and I said, give

1236
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:36.000
me your address and I'll come out the next day.

1237
01:08:37.199 --> 01:08:39.680
My kids said called and I had to go get them.

1238
01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:42.640
And so the next day I had his phone number,

1239
01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:45.720
his cell number, and his address, and I had no

1240
01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:49.560
idea where Taswell County for Taswell, Virginia was. There was

1241
01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:53.680
actually about three and a half hours away. But so

1242
01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:57.239
I went out there the next day and I couldn't

1243
01:08:57.279 --> 01:08:59.479
find you and lost I lost my reception on my

1244
01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:02.840
GP this and I called the guy up. I went

1245
01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:06.119
back away before I got reception. I said, can you

1246
01:09:06.159 --> 01:09:08.760
meet me somewhere and show me how to get to

1247
01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:10.920
where you're at? And he said, sure, I'll meet you

1248
01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:15.840
at this old store. I think it was Highway sixty eight.

1249
01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:18.800
I believe it was, I don't remember exact. So I

1250
01:09:18.880 --> 01:09:21.199
went what I thought about. I found an old store

1251
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:23.199
that was closed, and I sat there for a few

1252
01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:26.479
minutes and he pulled up and Saint Vicker, who's in

1253
01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:29.079
before and he wrote the windy down, said just following,

1254
01:09:29.119 --> 01:09:31.159
and I followed him the good ways back down the

1255
01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:35.640
road and we went off and they were living really

1256
01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:38.079
in the rural country, and you had to go down

1257
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:41.159
off the main road through a creek. You drove through

1258
01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:43.279
a creek. It wasn't very deep, and then you went

1259
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:45.079
up over the creek and he turned it left and

1260
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:48.640
went back to the farmhouse they lived in, and he said,

1261
01:09:48.680 --> 01:09:52.760
I live here with my excuse me, my great aunt.

1262
01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:55.680
I live here with my great aunt, me and my wife.

1263
01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:58.479
And I believe you had a daughter or two and

1264
01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:00.840
a son, but they were a little they were seven

1265
01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:03.760
or eight years old. And he said, I'll show you

1266
01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:06.520
where the goat house. It is the cart of the

1267
01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:09.680
goat house. It was like a bull shed. And I

1268
01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:13.119
parked my vehicle and went back through the gate there

1269
01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:16.039
with him and walked up next to the goat house

1270
01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:19.039
and I said where the goats? He said, this creature

1271
01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:21.800
has killed them all? And I said where are they?

1272
01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:24.960
And he said, I've already drug them off. And I

1273
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.079
had never seen the ghosts, but he said they were

1274
01:10:27.119 --> 01:10:30.239
torn up pretty good. But I got to looking around

1275
01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:32.439
the goat house and it was real money around one

1276
01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:35.079
side there, and I knew exactly what it was. And

1277
01:10:35.479 --> 01:10:37.199
I seen the track. I knew it wasn't a big

1278
01:10:37.239 --> 01:10:41.279
for it was. There was a dog man track and

1279
01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:44.079
cane ie type track, and it was way too long

1280
01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:47.720
to be a coyotie or a wolf. And I said,

1281
01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:50.840
how long has this been going on? He said, I'll

1282
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:55.720
last year. He said first he started yelling at night

1283
01:10:55.840 --> 01:10:58.479
and the goats would go crazy and the dogs would

1284
01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:01.239
and then one morning we came out and one of

1285
01:11:01.239 --> 01:11:03.720
the goats was dead, and we moved the other two,

1286
01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:07.600
and then it come back and kill those. And I said, well,

1287
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:09.640
where do you think it's coming in at? And he

1288
01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:12.359
pointed up to a field and it was a huge

1289
01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:16.319
field that was fence staying, barb wire, fence stand or

1290
01:11:16.359 --> 01:11:20.479
the goats. Said ron up there, and he said it's

1291
01:11:20.520 --> 01:11:23.880
coming in from up there somewhere. I don't know exactly where,

1292
01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:26.159
he said, but if you go around that feet, there's

1293
01:11:26.199 --> 01:11:28.399
a gate that goes through to the top of a

1294
01:11:28.479 --> 01:11:31.039
heel and you can park upon that heel and overlook

1295
01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:34.920
that field and you can probably see what's coming in there.

1296
01:11:34.960 --> 01:11:37.000
And I said, okay, I said, do you want me

1297
01:11:37.079 --> 01:11:39.840
to come up here and do this? And he said yeah,

1298
01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:42.800
I'd like for you too, because scared for my family.

1299
01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:45.640
I don't know what it is. And I said okay.

1300
01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:48.680
So I spent a lot of time over there. I

1301
01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:52.319
was over there probably two and a half weeks. Early

1302
01:11:52.399 --> 01:11:54.600
in the morning a couple of times, and then I'd

1303
01:11:54.680 --> 01:11:58.439
stay till dark. In the evening, I part my truck

1304
01:11:58.520 --> 01:12:00.560
up on the top of that little heel. I could

1305
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:03.439
see the field. I didn't see anything. I was getting

1306
01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:05.840
to the point where I just about giving up on it,

1307
01:12:05.960 --> 01:12:10.039
thinking whatever it was gone because the goats were and

1308
01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:12.119
what I said, I was not giving up. And I

1309
01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:15.119
was sitting on the heel and I was just looking

1310
01:12:15.159 --> 01:12:20.399
across that field. It was probably three four hundred yards wide,

1311
01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:23.680
and it was a huge field. And he said, and

1312
01:12:23.760 --> 01:12:25.560
he had told me he thought it was coming up

1313
01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:28.399
in the very back part of it, because there was

1314
01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:32.840
woods behind that. And I was sitting there one evening

1315
01:12:32.880 --> 01:12:35.079
and there was loight enough to see, but it was

1316
01:12:35.319 --> 01:12:38.880
getting later in the evening, and this was in the file,

1317
01:12:39.039 --> 01:12:43.560
so it was like close to six o'clock and I

1318
01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:45.880
seen something in the corner of the field that there

1319
01:12:46.039 --> 01:12:48.399
caught my eye. I had a pair of binoculars that

1320
01:12:48.439 --> 01:12:50.840
I had with me, and I looked through the binoculars

1321
01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:54.319
and it was dark, but I could see the figure moving,

1322
01:12:54.399 --> 01:12:56.960
but I couldn't tell what it was. And then I've

1323
01:12:57.000 --> 01:13:00.199
seen it come across the fence and it was and

1324
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:03.279
across it, and it's a long, wide field. I could

1325
01:13:03.319 --> 01:13:06.520
see it running across the field, but there was sage

1326
01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:09.039
grass and the field in spots, and I would lose

1327
01:13:09.079 --> 01:13:10.920
it when it went into the sage grass, and then

1328
01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:12.640
it would come out again and then go into some

1329
01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:17.079
more sage grass. But this thing ran so strange. It

1330
01:13:17.119 --> 01:13:20.000
didn't run like a dog or something that galloped like

1331
01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:23.319
a horse. And it ran all the way across the field,

1332
01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:26.800
and it slowed down and right up above where my

1333
01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:29.880
truck was, that was the fence line. Down below me

1334
01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:32.479
that ran up met the corner of the other fence,

1335
01:13:32.520 --> 01:13:34.800
and there was woods to the riding and I've seen

1336
01:13:34.840 --> 01:13:37.800
it run all the way to that fence. It stopped.

1337
01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:40.920
It stood up on two legs. That's when I really

1338
01:13:40.960 --> 01:13:44.079
went wild. And I've seen it really well. I couldn't

1339
01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:46.800
see the I couldn't see its feet, but I could

1340
01:13:46.880 --> 01:13:50.079
see the band and its legs as it stood up,

1341
01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:54.039
and then it just stepped over the fence. It looked

1342
01:13:54.159 --> 01:13:56.439
right at me, not right at me, the right in

1343
01:13:56.439 --> 01:13:59.359
my direction. It didn't see me, but it looked in

1344
01:13:59.439 --> 01:14:02.199
my direction. And then it stepped over the fence and

1345
01:14:02.239 --> 01:14:05.279
went into the woods. And that was the first dog

1346
01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:08.239
man I've ever seen, and it was it looked like

1347
01:14:08.279 --> 01:14:12.199
a German shepherd in the face. It was solid black,

1348
01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:16.279
looked almost identical to a German shepherd who except it

1349
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:19.880
was a walking big dog. And this wasn't eight foot

1350
01:14:19.920 --> 01:14:23.600
till it was probably six foot till I actually went

1351
01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:25.840
down there. I went back the next day and spent

1352
01:14:25.920 --> 01:14:28.680
the whole day there. I carried my gun and I

1353
01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:32.760
went back in there, tried to track it, and I

1354
01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:37.079
went right across the fence and base, and where it

1355
01:14:37.239 --> 01:14:40.159
was standing next to a white spot on a tree

1356
01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:44.640
was about six foot two inches from the ground to there,

1357
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:46.800
and that could have varied a little bit because it

1358
01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:51.439
was the slope there. But a crossed the fence and

1359
01:14:52.359 --> 01:14:54.560
walked on down in there, and it went around through

1360
01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:57.760
a bluff. There was a bluff back in there, side

1361
01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:03.039
of a small mountain, and there was tracks. I could

1362
01:15:03.199 --> 01:15:06.920
see tracks. The ground was real moist in there, and

1363
01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:08.880
I couldn't see tracks like I could next to the

1364
01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:11.159
goat house, but I could see for something that'd been

1365
01:15:11.159 --> 01:15:14.760
going back in there regularly, and a lot of bones

1366
01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:18.680
back there, look like deer bones and other type bones.

1367
01:15:19.720 --> 01:15:22.119
And then I followed on around the side of this bluff,

1368
01:15:22.159 --> 01:15:25.279
and it was I got a little eerie back there

1369
01:15:25.279 --> 01:15:28.000
by myself, because I don't know how many of these

1370
01:15:28.039 --> 01:15:31.800
things were back there. But I found the bluff and

1371
01:15:32.119 --> 01:15:35.199
it was a little indention up under this bluff or

1372
01:15:35.239 --> 01:15:37.880
something that dug out, and you could see tracks going

1373
01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:40.560
up under it, like there was a cave or something

1374
01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:43.279
up under there. And I didn't go any further than

1375
01:15:43.279 --> 01:15:45.760
that because I didn't want to take a chance of

1376
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:47.000
this thing attacking me.

1377
01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:51.319
We'll be back with more big Foot Society after these

1378
01:15:51.359 --> 01:15:52.720
words from our sponsors.

1379
01:15:57.439 --> 01:16:00.640
So I just mainly looked around there and seeing a

1380
01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:03.439
lot of evidence that's where it was going. So I

1381
01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:06.319
came back out and it was getting close to dark,

1382
01:16:07.039 --> 01:16:11.399
and I went on back home. And then the following weekend,

1383
01:16:11.560 --> 01:16:13.920
I got all my gear and I was going to

1384
01:16:13.960 --> 01:16:16.039
go back in there and stay the whole day and

1385
01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:19.479
try to film it. And I was coming across the

1386
01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:23.079
creek going into his place and coming out of his

1387
01:16:23.239 --> 01:16:30.039
property was a game warden a Virginia Wildlife Resources Agency.

1388
01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:32.439
God he met me at a creek because I'm coming

1389
01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:35.560
in he's coming out, and he rolls his window down

1390
01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:37.640
and sticks his hand out and I wrote my window

1391
01:16:37.720 --> 01:16:40.119
down and he said what are you doing up here?

1392
01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.359
I said, this gentleman over here told me I could

1393
01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:45.840
come up here and scout out and said what are

1394
01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:48.680
you scouting for? And I said, just looking around for

1395
01:16:49.319 --> 01:16:51.479
different game or I didn't want to tell him what

1396
01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:53.399
I was looking for. He probably thought it was I

1397
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:56.359
didn't know what he would have thought, but anyway, he said,

1398
01:16:56.439 --> 01:16:58.840
you got license here and I said yeah, I've got

1399
01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:03.159
Virginia license. And he said, what you got weapons? And

1400
01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:06.039
I told him I did, and he said there was

1401
01:17:06.079 --> 01:17:08.840
not any deer in season. I said, I'm not looking

1402
01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:12.479
to kill anything. I'm just looking around. And he was

1403
01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:16.800
real questionable and he said do you have permission to

1404
01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:18.600
be here? And I said yes, sir, I told you

1405
01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:20.600
I did. And he said you got a note or

1406
01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:24.439
a letter stating that. I said no, I don't. He said,

1407
01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:27.520
let's go up to these people's house then, and I

1408
01:17:27.560 --> 01:17:30.239
followed him up there in his truck and they came out.

1409
01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:33.079
The guy did and he said, yeah, I've gave him

1410
01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:35.920
permission to be here. He's been coming here for a

1411
01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:39.279
little over a month. And I told him he could

1412
01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:41.920
go up on the heel there and just sit and

1413
01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:47.439
watch for he said game, and he was good with that.

1414
01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:49.880
He realized that I told him the truth. So he

1415
01:17:49.960 --> 01:17:53.399
got his truck and I was going to go apart

1416
01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:55.239
and go back in there, and he stopped me, and

1417
01:17:55.319 --> 01:17:56.960
he said, let me tell you something. He said, I

1418
01:17:56.960 --> 01:18:00.279
don't know what you're doing back here, but had a

1419
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:03.640
lot of farmers in the area complaining about their livestock

1420
01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:07.279
being killed by some type of animal. He said, i'd

1421
01:18:07.279 --> 01:18:10.319
suggest you not go back in there. And I said,

1422
01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:13.479
what kind of animal is it? And he wouldn't tell me.

1423
01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:17.359
He wouldn't say, and he said, I just suggest you

1424
01:18:17.439 --> 01:18:21.399
not go back in there, and he's trying to tell

1425
01:18:21.399 --> 01:18:24.199
me I needed to leave, and I went up there.

1426
01:18:24.680 --> 01:18:27.880
I went up there several times after that, probably six

1427
01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:31.159
or seven more times, and I never seen it again.

1428
01:18:31.359 --> 01:18:34.520
So I don't know if they killed it, or it

1429
01:18:34.640 --> 01:18:39.920
moved on, or what happened to it. That actual homeowner,

1430
01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:43.000
and I think his ann has passed away since and

1431
01:18:43.079 --> 01:18:45.199
that they may have moved. I don't know. He was

1432
01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:48.439
talking about moving because he didn't feel safe with his

1433
01:18:48.560 --> 01:18:52.399
children being there, and he hadn't heard of it or

1434
01:18:52.479 --> 01:18:55.439
saying of it since it may have killed out his

1435
01:18:56.079 --> 01:19:00.119
livestock and moved on somewhere else, or maybe the the

1436
01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:03.680
game officials took it out. I don't know, but that

1437
01:19:03.840 --> 01:19:05.840
was the first one I'd ever seen, and it was

1438
01:19:05.880 --> 01:19:07.880
anohing like for the second one that I was saying

1439
01:19:07.880 --> 01:19:10.199
with Martin Groves, there was more of a flesh and

1440
01:19:10.279 --> 01:19:16.079
blood creature. This was. There wasn't anything that was carting

1441
01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:16.720
or anytime.

1442
01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:21.920
So it's it's wild Darrell. Oh, man, you've got the

1443
01:19:22.399 --> 01:19:27.000
wildest and you've you've had the wildest encounters happened to you.

1444
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:30.880
It's just in stuff I didn't know about the Virginia stuff. Man,

1445
01:19:31.399 --> 01:19:32.439
that's crazy.

1446
01:19:33.279 --> 01:19:33.560
Man.

1447
01:19:34.239 --> 01:19:38.399
Oh, it's been going off of or thinking of the

1448
01:19:38.439 --> 01:19:41.359
times you've seen dog men versus the thing, the times

1449
01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:46.039
you've seen bigfoot. Which one do you think is which

1450
01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:49.920
one was more of a terrifying experience to you? Would

1451
01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:51.399
you say, I don't.

1452
01:19:51.239 --> 01:19:55.119
Think anything will ever top my first encounter or big foot.

1453
01:19:55.640 --> 01:19:58.399
What Martin Groves and I was saying was pretty terrifying,

1454
01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:02.760
but not like my first encounter. I think anytime you

1455
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:07.640
realize there's something like that, especially thinking no way possible

1456
01:20:07.680 --> 01:20:10.319
there's a big foot in this area, I wouldn't even

1457
01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:13.520
sure they existed when I had my first encounter, because

1458
01:20:13.520 --> 01:20:16.359
I've never seen one, but I believe they probably did.

1459
01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:21.239
I've always been open minded and heard stories from people

1460
01:20:21.319 --> 01:20:24.600
and took it as a credible story because I don't

1461
01:20:24.600 --> 01:20:28.880
know what they've seen. Maybe they didn't. I'm still that way.

1462
01:20:29.239 --> 01:20:31.079
I'm at the point in my life now I've had

1463
01:20:31.119 --> 01:20:35.039
so many encounters since then. As somebody calling tell me

1464
01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:37.920
there was a terror doctor flying around New York City,

1465
01:20:37.960 --> 01:20:40.960
I would probably say, what street is it on? I

1466
01:20:40.960 --> 01:20:44.239
would probably believe it. I don't know what all's out there.

1467
01:20:44.319 --> 01:20:46.399
I know there's a lot of things I haven't seen

1468
01:20:46.520 --> 01:20:49.800
because I've got close friends and seen stuff I haven't seen.

1469
01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:53.279
I've got a friend that's seen a retin, a terror

1470
01:20:53.319 --> 01:20:57.560
doctor flying over Kentucky. I've heard a lot of stories,

1471
01:20:57.640 --> 01:21:01.439
and I don't think these people or just making this up.

1472
01:21:01.560 --> 01:21:05.960
Why would you make something like that, It's pretty I

1473
01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:09.359
think the thing that bothers me so much is how

1474
01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:14.039
critical some people can be toward other people's terror. These

1475
01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:16.880
people scared to death for what they think, and somebody

1476
01:21:16.920 --> 01:21:19.439
wants to laugh about it and make a joke about it,

1477
01:21:19.479 --> 01:21:22.800
and they really have to live that to understand it.

1478
01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:26.159
I'm a true believer. It's a saying I've been saying

1479
01:21:26.199 --> 01:21:29.279
for thirty years. You don't find any of these creatures,

1480
01:21:29.319 --> 01:21:32.479
they find you. And that's a true story. Just don't

1481
01:21:32.520 --> 01:21:35.600
go out in the woods banging on trees and shining

1482
01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:38.600
lights and doing whoops and yales and have a big

1483
01:21:38.640 --> 01:21:41.800
footcoming visits. You have to live in their environment and

1484
01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:45.279
respect them. And I have Indian and me and my

1485
01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:50.560
grandmother was Indian and American Indian, and she told me

1486
01:21:50.600 --> 01:21:54.520
a lot of tales about things that exist, and I'm

1487
01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:57.119
sure they probably do. I've never seen some of them,

1488
01:21:57.119 --> 01:22:02.680
but encounters. For me, I wonder myself for so many

1489
01:22:02.760 --> 01:22:05.880
years why I see all these things. And I do

1490
01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:08.600
know some other people that have things like I have,

1491
01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:11.279
and they see them. I know other people don't see

1492
01:22:11.319 --> 01:22:13.279
anything and they go into the woods all their life.

1493
01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:18.119
So it's hard to understand how some people do and

1494
01:22:18.199 --> 01:22:22.720
some people don't. So I've learned a lot from friends

1495
01:22:22.800 --> 01:22:28.119
and especially the Native Americans. They believe that these creatures

1496
01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:32.239
feel the person inside their spirit. And I believe that

1497
01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:35.520
because I feel like I have a good heart and

1498
01:22:36.439 --> 01:22:40.800
I'm honest and easy going, and I think the creatures

1499
01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:43.319
I know the big Foot. There's no doubt they can

1500
01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:46.800
read what you're thinking, and they know what your intentions are.

1501
01:22:47.319 --> 01:22:49.239
You go running around in the woods with a gun

1502
01:22:49.359 --> 01:22:52.039
and the camera and your chances of seeing want a

1503
01:22:52.119 --> 01:22:55.159
pretty slam because these creatures know what a gun is.

1504
01:22:55.800 --> 01:23:00.800
And I'm sure that they probably have stories sales or

1505
01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:04.359
their family or members of their family being shot by

1506
01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:09.239
human beings or shot at or keel. Possibly. I think

1507
01:23:09.279 --> 01:23:12.960
they're I don't think. I do think they're a bad Bigfoot.

1508
01:23:13.439 --> 01:23:17.199
I've had bad experiences, and I think they're like people.

1509
01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:20.239
There's good and bad and everything, and I've been very

1510
01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:23.239
fortunate that I've run them more good ones than bad ones.

1511
01:23:23.319 --> 01:23:27.720
But I've been pretty scared a few times with these things.

1512
01:23:27.760 --> 01:23:30.640
But the two guys I go in with all the time,

1513
01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:34.079
and then three guys, including Ron Moore, those guys aren't

1514
01:23:34.079 --> 01:23:37.079
scared of anything. Martin Grows are going in the middle

1515
01:23:37.119 --> 01:23:40.680
of the night, and Martin and Ley do it, and

1516
01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:43.760
Ron is not fearful either. You don't want to go

1517
01:23:43.840 --> 01:23:47.720
into the woods being fearful. If you have fear, I

1518
01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:50.079
know for a fact bigfoot will play off of it

1519
01:23:50.079 --> 01:23:52.920
because they want to scare you. They'll throw sticks, and

1520
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:56.479
rocks at you. They're ground or bluff charge you. They'll

1521
01:23:56.560 --> 01:23:59.039
they'll do things they're not harmed you to get you

1522
01:23:59.079 --> 01:24:01.279
out of their area. I want you in there. It

1523
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:05.119
takes a long time to jane trust from these creatures,

1524
01:24:05.720 --> 01:24:08.279
and a lot of work and a lot of hours

1525
01:24:08.439 --> 01:24:14.960
to gain trust. And I know that from my experiences

1526
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:18.279
with some of them and a family of one of them.

1527
01:24:18.760 --> 01:24:22.039
I've had some terrible encounters. I did some amazing All

1528
01:24:22.039 --> 01:24:24.319
the stuff I've had, I don't even know how it happens,

1529
01:24:24.359 --> 01:24:25.000
but it does.

1530
01:24:26.199 --> 01:24:29.279
It feels like you should, Daryl, you should really have

1531
01:24:29.359 --> 01:24:34.399
your own book. Have you considered just I'm gonna put

1532
01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:36.279
it all down in the book?

1533
01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:40.159
Martin grows And I've talked about that a thousand times, Martin.

1534
01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:43.199
I mean I've talked about it even tough Ryan. Every

1535
01:24:43.199 --> 01:24:45.680
time I start writing a book, I'm one of those

1536
01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:48.880
types of people that is a perfectionist. I feel like

1537
01:24:48.920 --> 01:24:51.520
I've left something out or I feel like I didn't

1538
01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:53.640
put everything in there, and I'll tear it up and

1539
01:24:53.720 --> 01:25:01.640
start over. Oh it takes me. I have started on one,

1540
01:25:01.720 --> 01:25:04.880
but it's a slow process for me. And I could

1541
01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:08.079
never write down all mine. Canters and things I've seen

1542
01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:11.079
in one book, so it would be a thick book.

1543
01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:13.439
So I would probably have to write a couple of books.

1544
01:25:13.520 --> 01:25:17.279
But maintain is finding the time to do it, because

1545
01:25:17.840 --> 01:25:20.600
you know, I take weeks or two or three weeks

1546
01:25:20.600 --> 01:25:23.319
out of the month, and then I go home for

1547
01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:26.000
can or fourteen days to be with my mom and

1548
01:25:26.119 --> 01:25:30.720
dad and my farm and Martin and Barton and hang

1549
01:25:30.760 --> 01:25:33.359
out with him and go with him for some time

1550
01:25:33.479 --> 01:25:37.720
and visit my oldest daughter, my grandson. So at time

1551
01:25:37.800 --> 01:25:41.319
frame and plus trying to work on top of all that,

1552
01:25:41.840 --> 01:25:45.439
oh sure, it seemed like there was not enough hours

1553
01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:47.760
in the day to get that accomplished. But I do

1554
01:25:47.920 --> 01:25:49.720
plan on doing one eventually.

1555
01:25:50.319 --> 01:25:52.680
I would I would jump in there with the other

1556
01:25:52.760 --> 01:25:55.520
guys and say, hey, it might be a good idea

1557
01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:59.159
to try to get that all down for future people

1558
01:25:59.560 --> 01:26:03.239
to learn from. But Darryl, this has been just a

1559
01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:06.600
really fun chat and I feel like I could talk

1560
01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:09.239
with you for hours and hours, but I want to

1561
01:26:09.239 --> 01:26:12.520
be respectful of your time. So I want to say

1562
01:26:12.520 --> 01:26:15.800
thank you so much for coming on this show today.

1563
01:26:16.399 --> 01:26:20.039
And what are do you mind sharing? What are some

1564
01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:23.680
ways if there's any ways that people can keep up

1565
01:26:23.680 --> 01:26:26.399
to date with what you're doing, or contact you or

1566
01:26:26.439 --> 01:26:27.359
anything like that.

1567
01:26:27.960 --> 01:26:31.640
Pretty much just most of the advance that I really

1568
01:26:31.720 --> 01:26:35.199
just besides the podcast that I'm honored to be on,

1569
01:26:35.640 --> 01:26:39.720
I get asked often and besides telling my stories on

1570
01:26:39.880 --> 01:26:43.359
these you got a great show, and I'm a prepprecire

1571
01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:48.760
you've been in my grave. But I also easually post

1572
01:26:48.880 --> 01:26:51.199
what we're saying or something. A lot of times I don't.

1573
01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:53.159
A lot of times I don't get into detail. One

1574
01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:56.680
sometimes we say, but I'll put you in the great regularly.

1575
01:26:56.760 --> 01:27:00.640
May Or Martin and Martin do and Ry was with

1576
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:02.359
us this last three up. I put a bunch of

1577
01:27:02.399 --> 01:27:05.079
stuff in there while we were there. We were there

1578
01:27:05.159 --> 01:27:08.720
last week, we were we stayed Martin, I stayed there

1579
01:27:08.800 --> 01:27:10.760
four days and they were up there with us for

1580
01:27:10.960 --> 01:27:17.720
three four three nights. But I would probably just Bigfoot

1581
01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:20.159
Believers and other Creatures is the name of my group.

1582
01:27:20.279 --> 01:27:23.720
And we have a really good, really good bunch of

1583
01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:26.439
people there. We don't allow any criticism. And I know

1584
01:27:26.439 --> 01:27:28.680
a lot of people say that's not a good group thing,

1585
01:27:28.760 --> 01:27:30.479
but we just don't allow it. If you don't come

1586
01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:32.720
in there and badge somebody, you won't be there very long.

1587
01:27:33.279 --> 01:27:36.359
I would appreciate anybody at one John. We have a

1588
01:27:36.359 --> 01:27:39.279
great ad man carter By Shard, and they got some

1589
01:27:39.399 --> 01:27:41.760
of the ad man's Ron moorehead as an ad man,

1590
01:27:42.000 --> 01:27:47.199
Martin Grows, Martin Anley, Rinda k Pucket, my close friend,

1591
01:27:47.279 --> 01:27:53.640
Jennifer Appleton, Robin Haynes, Rebecca cart Uh, Snuffy Dyer. We

1592
01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:57.199
have a Kenny Busy Busby. Oh my gosh. They have

1593
01:27:57.239 --> 01:28:00.560
a credible story that Bigfoot that their friends for quite

1594
01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:02.399
a few years. I go out and sit with them,

1595
01:28:02.439 --> 01:28:06.199
but I got to talk to them. Wow. Well, you

1596
01:28:06.199 --> 01:28:08.600
have a lot of people, all my ad man have

1597
01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:11.239
had a lot of experience, and most above me on

1598
01:28:11.319 --> 01:28:13.960
a long time. Some of them, like Martin grow is

1599
01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:16.960
not as long as they am, but close. But we

1600
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:19.319
try to treat everybody good and we learn a lot

1601
01:28:19.359 --> 01:28:21.239
in our group. We have a lot of people that

1602
01:28:21.399 --> 01:28:24.520
have joined that don't know anything about it with there

1603
01:28:24.600 --> 01:28:27.560
open minded and I just want to thank you for

1604
01:28:28.159 --> 01:28:30.399
letting me come on. And I'm honored to be here,

1605
01:28:30.479 --> 01:28:33.600
and I appreciate you posted in your group all the

1606
01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:37.319
time and we're a fan of yours. Me and Martin

1607
01:28:37.399 --> 01:28:40.399
both he told me to not He said that guy

1608
01:28:40.479 --> 01:28:43.279
is a good guy. I'll be I didn't tell anybody

1609
01:28:43.319 --> 01:28:44.840
in the group I was going to be on. It

1610
01:28:44.960 --> 01:28:48.520
was a short long time, but I appreciate you having

1611
01:28:48.520 --> 01:28:51.039
me own and come down to alb sometime.

1612
01:28:51.119 --> 01:28:54.039
We'll let you, man, I mean, it's on the list

1613
01:28:54.079 --> 01:28:55.840
to go down there. I would love to take you

1614
01:28:55.920 --> 01:28:59.279
up on that. And listeners, if you want to read

1615
01:28:59.359 --> 01:29:02.960
more about what Darryl has experienced over the years, you

1616
01:29:03.039 --> 01:29:07.159
can get The big Foot Phenomenon by Josh Turner, and

1617
01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:11.199
then it's also in Martin Grove's second book as well,

1618
01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:14.479
and in the future it'll be in Darryl's book too

1619
01:29:14.720 --> 01:29:15.680
when he gets that out.

1620
01:29:16.039 --> 01:29:18.600
Yeah, one of those days, I'll get it. Anyway, there's

1621
01:29:18.640 --> 01:29:20.800
so many good books to read, as I've got them

1622
01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:26.159
behind Martin and Lee's, Martin Groves, Josh Turner's. There's a

1623
01:29:26.199 --> 01:29:29.159
lot of good books out there that people can read,

1624
01:29:29.359 --> 01:29:34.039
but counters are something that I live through, and that's

1625
01:29:34.079 --> 01:29:37.560
why I guess I'm a little more skechical to make

1626
01:29:37.600 --> 01:29:41.479
sure I've got everything right in there. And eventually I'll

1627
01:29:41.520 --> 01:29:44.239
get it. But anyway, I just want to thank you

1628
01:29:44.279 --> 01:29:46.560
for having me on and appreciate you.

1629
01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:48.800
Thank you, Darryl. Thank you so much for coming on

1630
01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:50.840
and well we'll be in.

1631
01:29:50.840 --> 01:29:53.319
Touch all right. Thank you. I appreciate it.

1632
01:29:53.359 --> 01:29:56.039
Please take a minute to help out the show by

1633
01:29:56.199 --> 01:29:59.640
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Here's the list. If you've had any encounters in Oregon,

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