Something CRUSHED My Pet Pig in Rural Missouri… and the Woods Went Silent | Member's Only Episode A15 PREVIEW

0:00 Hey, this is Jeremiah from the Big for Society Podcast. Today. I've got a preview for a special members episode for you, and it is a wild one. It's all about an individual named Curtis and what his Romanian friends experienced way out in the woods outside Aurala, Missouri, and it gets pretty wild. If you want to hear the whole thirty five minute episode, please consider becoming a supporting member of the Big for Society Podcast. You can do that one to two ways. You can either go to Big for Society podcast dot com click on the members login button to join through supercast, or you can go over to YouTube dot com to the Big for Society YouTube channel page and you can click the join button over there, and that's how you'll hear episodes ad free and also these members only episodes that you won't hear anywhere else.

0:50 Either way, you're gonna hear the ten minute preview of this episode, so enjoy and hope to see you in the inside. Hey Curtis, how are you? Hey, how's it going? Can you hear me? Hey? Yeah, you sound great. As you can see. I am in Canada, but this was when I lived in the state of Missouri. Oh nice, perfect. So I lived in Missouri. Mine's a bit of a weird story and it has like some fun things added to it that make it to me seem a lot more factual. Obviously. So I lived in the state of Missouri. I am Canadian, but I went to school in Missouri. I went there in the end of nineteen ninety nine, so I was there for the year two thousand until two thousand and four. And I had a couple of roommates and they were not from America either. They were actually from Romania, so obviously learning English was something for them.

1:46 It turns out that I too grew up Romanian, so for me, I could talk to them and everything like that. It was fine. But we lived out in outside of Ralla, Missouri, and we were up in the hills and we had like a trailer home, I guess you'd call it right, like the long mobile style homes, and then we had two hundred and forty acres of woods behind us. Now there was like there was caves and stuff nearby that we went and did some tours of that belonged to private properties, so we know that the topography there was really unique. So it was really quite a rugged area. But my story is strange that in the fact that I had these two roommates that they didn't have any idea about North American cryptids or anything, because they're coming from a country that has a lot of folklore, you know, like stories to them mostly would be like about vampires and wear wolves and things of that nature, you know, things that to us were like, Okay, that's neat, but it's old folklore. So for me to hear accounts of their stories about what we experienced was that was the most interesting to me because they had no firsthand knowledge of what they were experiencing aside from the fact that they were experiencing something. So it all started. It was around October because we were just getting ready to get into deer season, and I remember the two of them were in the kitchen and they told me that they heard

3:20 what they thought it was hailing outside. So we went outside. And it was I said, guys, there's no rain, there's no nothing. It's nice. Don't worry. Because they were really nervous about tornadoes. They went through their first storm season in the state and it really made them nervous. So when they heard like clanking on our tin roof, they thought, you know, should we seek shelter because we had a little storm shelter on the property. So I went outside and there was nothing, like. The sky was clear. I could see we would get the planes fly over from Jefferson Air Force Base quite a bit, and I could I could clearly hear airplanes flying by, and sometimes when they were doing their training, you could hear when they would break sound barrier would make a big noise, and sometimes it would feel like you could hear the roof rattle on the trailer. So I thought, well, it wasn't that, because I can see aeronautical lights in the sky.

4:09 Nothing special. And I went back in and I stood in the kitchen with them for a little bit. They used to eat at really weird hours of the night because they weren't quite adjusted to our our time zone. So it's like eight thirty nine o'clock at night in October and they're cooking their dinner at that time, and I am standing with them talking and we're going over some stuff we're going to do the next day and I and I hear the clinking again, and I'm like, well, what okay? So I was just out there, So I went out and now I was on a j one like student visa. I didn't have any firearms. I was. I was hunting with some friends there that they allowed me to go out with them and sit in their tree stands and stuff like that for deer.

4:58 That's what I mean when I. Say it was just about deer season for us. And so I went around back and I didn't have any weapons or anything. I wasn't expecting anything. And I went around to the back of our cabin and something fell off the roof and hit me on the shoulder. And I looked down and there was a rock on the ground, like just a you know, something smaller than. A golf ball. And I was like, what the heck, where did that come from? At first I thought something got thrown off me or thrown at me. So I went inside and got my spotlight. When I came out, there was other rocks on the roof. When I turned around and looked so where our part of the trailer was, there was a few just standard Like are you familiar with the trees they call them like hedge apples?

5:41 Oh? Yeah, absolutely got them in eyeway. So we had hedge apples nearby, but there was no hedge apples on the ground. There was no hedge apples on the roof, but I immediately show my light up there because I thought, oh, maybe some hedge apples are falling up there. And there was like a good amount of rocks just sitting on the on the t and you know, a corrugated tin roof, sometimes stuff lands on it doesn't slide right off. And I was like, maybe that's what we were hearing. So I went inside and I told them what I found, and then I saw it to myself, well, why the heck are they up there? I didn't it didn't dawn on me at all that, you know. I just thought, oh, there's rocks on the roof, And then when I went inside, I was like, well, yeah, where the heck did they come from? So I tried not to think too much of it. I was just like, whatever it is, what it is. If it happens again, we'll have an issue. So I went to bed that night and I was confused by the whole thing. But I woke up in the morning and one of my roommates told me she was in like when she was doing the dishes at night, that she saw something go past the window, and I said, well, what did you see go past the window?

6:51 And she says, well, it was like a big person. And the way our trailer sat it was on bricks, and then we had like lattice that went underneath, so that if you needed to access the underside for like the plumbing or anything like that, you could just like open up the gate and go underneath. So I knew that the kitchen window sat up pretty high. So I went out there with Eugenie and I said, hey, let's walk. I want to walk past this window, and you tell me if you can see us when we walk by, because she said that she saw like shoulders and head walk by the window. I'm not a very tall guy man like I'm brtally honest, I'm like five six, so I'm not a good judge of height. But he was probably like five ten. And we both walked by, and neither of us were anywhere close to the actual window where we would look out like or be able to look in. I could see the window ledge and I could see her looking out, which was like, okay, I can definitely see that, but I can't stop and look in the window or if I were to walk past it.

7:57 She wouldn't be able to see it. She said she could see the top of our heads, no problem, Like she looked down and then she could see it. So I was like, okay, well what is this. And we had a lot of leaves and stuff around our around the trailer, so I couldn't see if anybody had walked by. Like there was no footprints or anything. Nothing crazy, nothing out of the ordinary. So again, chalk it up to whatever we go inside, we talk about it. I just tell them not to worry, no big deal. There's a lot of stuff out here animal wise, maybe something walk by. And we. Went about a week without any other incidents, like nothing happened and.

8:37 Everything was good and everything was normal. We had a pot belly pig, like one of those ones that we had thought it was going to be like stay small and be really cute, and it ended up being really. Big, and. We used to let him roam around out in the yard and he had those like the big tusk teeth there at the bottom. And I remember our vet told us that a lot of people when they keep them as pets, they use like a hand wire and they saw those off so that they're you know, they they don't have to worry about the pig catching it with that tooth because it's really sharp. We never did it because we let him be outside a lot, so we thought that's gonna be the only way that he can protect himself, so we'll just let him, you know, keep those not a big deal.

9:21 The vet said it wouldn't harm him. And it was into. Like probably the beginning of November, after these incidents, and I remember we went outside one warning to get right. We were getting the four wheelers warmed up and we were going to go for a ride, and we found him and he was out by one of our outbuildings and where his you know, I don't know if a lot of you guys are familiar, but a pig, they can't look up. Their neck doesn't move that way. We found him. He was on the ground and his neck was caved in from the base of his spine, like where his neck met his back, and it was like a U sh ape. So the only way I could explain it was he was looking up. Does that make sense? Like something hit it so hard that the vertebrate vertebrate fractured and the neck was up. So we're like, okay, well this isn't this isn't good. So we look and one of his hind legs on the other side, when we flipped them over because we saw blood and we didn't know what it was. The hind leg on the one side had been like ripped off, but it wasn't like a clean cut.

10:33 It was like the hide was. Torn in places and the leg was gone, but there was no drag marks on the ground where it had gone away, like where like a coyote or something. We'd seen coyotes out on the property a lot. And I remember hearing stories somebody told me before. There was stories about like a Missouri howler or something like that, like a type of wolfer, or like a cryptid out there or something like that. And I again, I I've been an outdoorsman the majority of my life, and I knew that there would be signed, there'd be drag marks if something dragged off a portion of our pig our pet. And there was nothing. It was just gone.

11:14 So that really stuck with us because it was the way that his neck was arched upwards, like something had just hit down on it was such force that when it fractured the vertebrae, it caused that U shape in the spine, and that was pretty terrifying because immediately I looked around next to him because I thought, well, maybe a tree branch fell and hit him, like a big heavy branch fell hit him, broke his neck and he stumbled a little bit and landed right there, like you know, fell on the ground, and there was nothing around man, Like the ground was disturbed, like the leaves were moved around, there was dirt kicked up, So there was definitely a scuffle of some type out there. And we didn't hear anything that night either, And the night prior to that we had had a rainstorm, so I don't think if we would have tried, we would have hurt anything, because if anybody's ever slept in a trailer with a tin roof during a rainstorm, that's all you hear.

12:10 So we didn't hear anything. And you know, unlike a lot of these encounters that I've heard prior, I've talked to individuals with the BFRO about this. I talked to a guy named I think it was Bender Nagel was his last name or something. He had messaged me