Jan. 17, 2026

They Became Believers that Night | Members Only Episode A22 PREVIEW

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And all of a sudden, the boys start shaking me

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and they're like, mom, you got to get up. You

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got to get up now, something's outside. And my middle

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child was the fourteen year old. His eyes were so

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big and like he was up against the wall and

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couldn't even speak, like he was so freaked out. And uh, anyway,

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I was trying to be a mother, and I was,

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I mean, this is going to people are going to

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be like, well, why'd you do that? But I was thinking, Okay,

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it's just a bear. You know, there's nothing out there,

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but we do need to get our garbage. We had

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garbage right there on the front porch, and I said,

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just let me grab the garbage real quick, and so

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I opened the door, trying to just show them how

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tough I was. And as I opened the door, there

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was nothing there, but I just it doesn't smell anything.

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There was nothing there. I just grabbed the garbage shut

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the door. So that was pretty much the end of

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the encounter. Josh I wish he would come on here

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and tell you because he had, and tell you exactly

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what they saw. Joshua, you will you come on here

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and I can get off. See if he answers. But

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I think they had it like a sighting. Joshua, Oh

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there is.

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How are you doing.

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Hey, I'm doing all right.

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Thanks for coming up.

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I appreciate that, no problem.

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So yeah, I'm I'm the oldest of the two knucklehead.

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Kids of three of the two knucklehead boys. Okay, go ahead.

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Yeah, So pretty much like you recall how she said that,

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like they like walk down the trail like the road,

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and like you know, they thought that we were following

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them pretty much like you know, like it was like,

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you know, we're all gone there for I mean, me

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and my brother were gone for probably about twenty fifteen

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to twenty minutes, and I'd say that they are gone

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like probably about forty five minutes. Right on a walk. Yeah,

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and me and my brother like we never caught up

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to them, so like we were never like messing with

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them directly like how she's describing it. So that was

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never us. But when we like went to try to

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catch up to them, like we were noticing like just

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you know, like I don't know, like little things were

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just like noticing, like it felt like we're being watched,

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like for lack of a better word, Okay, And then

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we went back to the campsite like or to the cabin,

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you know, like she described, and we're already there, and

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she was like saying like that we were messing with them,

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and we're like, no, we never were, like you know

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what I mean, Like we initially, yes, we're trying to

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catch up to you, but we never even got that far,

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you know. And so then yes, like she said, like

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the night rolled on, and you know, like we're just

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like out around the campfire and like talking about like

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Bigfoot and this and that, like you know, it was

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kind of brought up anyways, because like the whole experience

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that happened before that was just kind of like didn't

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make sense like logistically, you know, So like me and

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my brother yes, we're like being young kids and like

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messing with my mom and like start like picked up

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a log and started smacking like oh, it's bigfoot, and

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start smacking on the tree and yes, it starts smacking back,

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like what are it or whatever, like started smacking back

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and howling back like there was a howl and yes.

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And this is after we went to bed.

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No, this is before that. Oh yeah, we're like being

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provoking at this point right right, so like you know,

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like we're messing with you, like taunting you pretty much,

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like being provoking like like oh and like like you're

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describing me for like it kept getting closer, like because

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we kept being taunting pretty much and smacking the tree

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like because like you know, we did it the first time,

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and it wasn't like a direct answer. Like sometimes it

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would be a direct answer, like as in like it

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would happen within like thirty seconds, and then other times

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it would be like other times it'd be like fifteen

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minutes would pass and it'd be like all of a sudden,

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it closer, but it would like answer back. Yeah, and

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like it was like freaking us out and spooking us

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and again like I'm not trying to sound weird. This

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is just my experience. I'm just saying, right, so it

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would get closer and then like it just time would

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pass and everything and then yeah, they like the parents

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went to bed and me and Cody were still up,

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Like me and my brother were just still up talking

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and we weren't doing any of that anymore. But what

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she's describing like when we went and woke her up

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was we were just sitting around the campfire like again,

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not like we're not like being loud, like provoking anymore

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or nothing like that.

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I think there's also some things that I could I

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could say that from a point the lot of people.

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I've heard people say that bigfoot if it's a demon,

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and it's this and that. As a I don't really

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good bye the word exporsist. I'm not a Catholic priest,

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but I do operate and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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I've never seen a big foot in the spirit realm

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at all, but in or praying or casting anything off

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of someone. But in I think it was nineteen ninety eight,

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ninety nine. It was late in the year I we

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we have a main route and a back road that

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cuts towards my house and I probably lived probably about

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fifteen minutes twenty minutes away from this, and I took

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this little road and it's it's a kind of like

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one of them roads where there would be grass in

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the middle of it, like a back road. And I

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live in Ohio, so I'm going out this road. Back

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then there used to be a lot of partying off

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to this pull off spot on that road. It's not

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not well trained. But I started getting creeped out, and

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we're on that road and I thought, well, my brother,

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it's not from far from my parents' house. My brother

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logged a place there and they made a pull off

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spot on the left side of the road. And as

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I got down this big hill, I pulled into that

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pull off spot because I want to get off that road.

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I mean, I am creeped out. I don't know why,

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but when I pulled in to that spot, my lights

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are shining literally on a big foot. There was two

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miles of dirt on each side of what it would

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have been a road up in there, but they kind

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of blocked off with two milons of dirt a big log.

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The log was probably about i'd say, if you wrap

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the measurement tape around it, probably about two feet. This

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thing was every bit of seven to eight and a

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half feet tall. Its arms were four feet long. It

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was covered in black hair and it wet black. I

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noticed there is nothing stuck in it, like any weeds

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or anything sticks like where laid down. It literally looked

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beautiful and terrifying. Its face looked like a gorilla. It

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didn't now it was offset from my car, a little

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bit more towards the passenger side headlight, but on the

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other side of the man. It is probably about six

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feet seven feet away from car. It didn't turn its

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head to look down at me. Now I could see

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it glare and I was watching it breathe. It looked

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like it literally looked like a gorilla in the face,

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and man it was. It was massive. Literally, its arm

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had to be four feet long. You'd see the muscle

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toned through its arm, through its forearm wrap around. I

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had a buddy that got out of prison years ago,

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and he had the same muscle. I've never seen it

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on a lot of people, but it was the same

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muscle wrapped around it. But this was long. It's a

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it's uh. It's elbow to wrist ratio was as about

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as long as it's shoulder to elbow ratio. It's how

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how how our wrist is comes down narrow and our

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hand gets wider. Not so much with that thing. I'm

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glad I've seen it, but I don't ever want to

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see it again. Uh, I had issues with I couldn't go, honey,

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I didn't want I don't like tree lines. I don't

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like tree lines at all. I don't want to be

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around tree lines. My wife has a hot tub. When we,

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you know, started seeing each other, we got in a

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hot tub, and I don't like that. I mean, we

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probably got one hundred hundred yards away from our few

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from our trailer. Uh, there's a there's a woodline. I

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just feel uncomfortable. Man, I'm just uncomfortable with it still.

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And if I ever do go hunting, which I don't anymore,

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i'd use a high powered rifle. And I literally it's

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odd that I see you because my my friend, he's

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a lawyer, and he never seen one. He brought up

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to me earlier about me telling him that story. Now

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he's never seen one, but he knows. I, you know,

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I'm telling him the truth. But I've seen the guy

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from a house of a thousand corpses in a comic con,

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and this thing was bigger than him. I mean it

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was so that guy was six foot ten.

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Ok.

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Wow, So I'm gonna say probably about maybe seven six

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to eight and a half feet tall. Well, I didn't

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tell nobody for a long time because you know, that's bigfoot.

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Wasn't the saying that's kind of embarrassing and stuff like that.

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It's like seeing a UFO and you know, I've seen

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a lot of weird stuff in my life, but that one,

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that was a rough one.

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