Teen Comes Face-To-Face With Giant Bigfoot South Of Bethany, Missouri | Member's Only Episode A14

0:00 Hey, Big for Society got another member's only episode for you today. Here's a ten minute preview of it. In this episode, you're gonna hear it's from Virginia out there by Madison Heights, and you'll hear some encounters from Bethany, Missouri area and even Steamboat Springs. It's a pretty crazy episode. You're going to like it. So if you're not part of the membership, check out this ten minute clip, and then you can go over to Bigfoot Society podcast dot com click on members, log in, and join the fun over there to hear the whole forty two minute episode. You can also get access to it by becoming a member over on the YouTube page. Just got Big for Society Hit the join button over there. Enjoy this preview and we'll see on the inside afterwards to hear the whole thing. Enjoy. Hi there, How are you good?

0:53 How you doing good? Are you coming up to share a Bigfoot story? Yeah? Actually you were looking for a bigfoot story in Missouri? Oh yeah, feel free to share what you know about uh Missouri bigfoot? Sir. Okay, well, I'm fifty four now. I was sixteen then, so that had been in nineteen eighty seven and it was south of Bethlete, Missouri, and I had it was nighttime when I had the horses out out in the pasture, and I always kept two horses in, so I go out and bring the horses in at night. And uh, so I went out there to go bring them in.

1:48 It was dark, and I don't know if you were the listeners, remember, but you remember those little plastic, real cheap flashlights they used to have back then. Sure, yep, yeah, like you get more light sticking your finger in your eye than you could posting. But well, anyway, so I sat on my horse. Now, my horse is seventeen hands tall, so that makes him roughly this little over five foot at the withers. So I'm got the horse sidled up. I ride out in the pasture. I got this light, and I go to the go across the first pasture, come to the second gate, and he stopped. He didn't want to go through the gate. So you know, you always you always listen to your horse because you know they smell it or hear it before you do. But I went ahead and made him go through the gate.

2:45 And I was hollering for the other horses to come up and they weren't coming. So I'm headed down this hill, and I could hear some of My horse stopped again, and he's looking forward, and I could hear something at the bottom of the hill. Now, at the bottom of the hill, it is what we'd call a dead pit. So if anything that dies on the ranch, it goes down there in that pit. And so the previous owners, they had a horse that had died, had been down there. And so I pushed my horse forward a little bit more and made him go down that way, and I could hear something down in this bottom, and I got the flashlight on, and I can't see a thing, and so I keep going, and I made him go that way.

3:46 He wanted to turn to the left, and I wouldn't let him. I made him go straight south to where the noise is coming from, because I thought it was the horses down there round by that pit. So I'm hollering for him, and I got finally got close enough where I could see something, and I could tell it was harry or had hair on it, so I hollered again. I started naming off horses. I had seventy four of them out there, so I'm naming off horses, and my horse is just he's locked up, he's froze. He's ears forward, head forward and just looking and he starts doing that heavy breathing the horses do. He didn't snorter nothing yet, but he's just like he's on red alert. And so I'm just sitting there and I got that LFE signing there and I can see it moving and then I seen it turn and it stood up. Stood. It stood directly up. Now I'm on an incline, so from where I was at to the bottom of that hill, if you just run a straight line from my chest straight out and then go down to the bottom, that had been roughly around ten to twelve foot and I'm on a sixteen and a half or seventeen hand horse. And it stood up and it was eye level with me

5:21 on the back of that horse, and it was probably about twenty yards from me. And as I'm holding that light, you could see it. It turned and it looked right at me, and the light shining on its eyes was red, which is fairly normal for predators, and it's the space between its eyes was ten to twelve inches wide, and it's just looking at me, and it made this grunt puff I've never heard of before, and it went back down and then it took off. Well, it turned around and it took off, and I heard it running through the brush and go up into the woods, and I turned my horses, let my horse have his head, and let him take off, and we took off with a dead run across that pasture, down over across the pondam and to the other side, and all the horses were down in the corner and scared when I got When I got down there, they was happy to see me, and we all went flying up to the barn. I went out the next day, and I've told part of this story, but this is the part that I didn't tell anybody. I went back down there next day on foot with rifle in hand, and I found human footprints down there, eleven to twelve inches long, and that's pretty

6:54 much it. Never seen or heard anything ever again. And I just kind of catch my mouth shut about it. Sir, that is absolutely incredible man back in nineteen eighty seven. Wow. Yeah, So a few questions for you, I'm going to think through real quick. So you took your flashlight and you you shined it up in its face, saw the red eyes. Were you able to see any details about the face itself besides the eyes. Nope, none at all. Okay, my first initial thought, because I was originally from Michigan, my first initial thought was it was a bear, but they didn't have any bears there.

7:35 But that's initially what I thought. But when it turned its head, I didn't see a snout. That's literally all I can tell you is I remember seeing hair because like my initial thought was because when I first seen the movement, I thought it was a horse. While I hollered songed up a little bit more and my horse locks up and so I could see the hair was longer. That's about all I could tell. And when it stood up and looked, that's all I could see was the red eyes and you know, about ten twelve inches space in between. And when it turned sad, I didn't see no snout, didn't see no teeth. That's I can I remember.

8:15 The hair was It looked to me like it was a kind of brownish black color, but that was hard to tell. That's the best that I can remember. Absolutely. When you're there, the state is Missouri, guys, it's just south of Bethany. When you were there, were you smelling anything else besides the smell of the horse you were on. Oh yeah, I did. I smelled dead, but I you know, kind of kind of a dead smell, but I just figured that was the pit. Oh that's true, because you were right on the dead pit. So yeah, exactly. That's a good point. When before this time or after, did you ever did you guys ever experience anything weird happening to the horses like to or we'll just leave it at that. Did anything weird ever happen to the horses? Uh?

9:09 Nothing ever happened to the horses other than sometimes they would be crowded up by the barn or like that day they were over in the far corner, which there's there's a routine that we followed, and that was that was the first time they didn't follow that routine, and so that kind of alarmed me a little bit. I mean, always kept a couple of horses up at the barn just in case they had to go down and get them. But they always came up. But that night they didn't. I found them down in the far a corner. Wow, that's wild. Did anyone else in the area ever have sightings as well? Or is this the only one you've heard of in this area.

9:53 That's all I heard of. I told some friends of mine I left the leaving the going out the next day and seeing the prince because I told some of my friends about it, two or three of them, and they kind of laughed it off and thought I was half crazy. So I just kind of kept my shut because I was a new kid on the block, so anyone I didn't want anybody I think I was an idiot. Yeah, I got youa. Yeah, it doesn't matter to get it right, Yeah, totally doesn't. How did this affect the rest of your life? Well? I never believed in it really until that point. But I have another story that happened in Colorado that's got to do with Bigfoot, and I got to see that.

10:41 I got to see that Bigfoot. But that's as far as the Missouri goes. That's it. And I've seen one in Kansas too, So I've seen one in Missouri, one in Kansas, and one in Colorado. Wow. I mean, if you're we'd love to hear any other encounters you've had, if you feel up for sharing them. Totally up to you, though, Uh. Yeah, you guys want to hear I'll tell. Him absolutely, absolutely. So the one in Kansas, I'm trying to remember what that was. I think that was like the mid two thousands.

11:26 I don't remember. I don't remember the exact year. I'm trying to think here. I think it had been in nine, nine ten. Anyway, so, uh, me and my wife ex wife, Now, we were staying up at a friend's house in a cabin that he had up by Perry Lake and his son, my buddy's son. I was breaking one of the horses to ride, and so he's out back working it, and wife was out there, Kitto was out there, and so I got done working on the fence,