"They're Slapping the House Nightly and I Just Want them to Leave"

0:00 It would stay right outside of the light, and a blue tick hound would go behind my house down in a ravine and bark like you had treat something most every night for about three months. Okay, this happens. I heard something scream one night I'm setting up in year around two o'clock in the morning, I heard something scream like I've never heard in my life, and hit rattled my body and I was fifty yards away from the those insideing houses and it shared my neighbors who live about five hundred yards behind me. It scared them so bad that they jumped in their car and level and I come outside after I heard a scream, and I saw them coming down the road in their vehicle and they didn't come back to them next day. I've never talked to them about it or anything. All right, big faciad, I've got the privilege of talking to a gentleman that reached out to me after the last episode was posted up on the big Foot Society YouTube channel, and he was commenting even before the video had premiered. And this was the episode where I talked to John Burton about North Carolina, Alabama. And this gentleman's name is Mark Paul from Clay County, Tennessee. How's it going tonight, Mark, It's going fine, Jeremiah, thank you for asking. It's a very mild

1:32 night. We had a storm roll through early on. It's cooled down the temperatures and it's very mild tonight. Awesome. Awesome. You are down there in kind of the middle central area of Tennessee. Is that correct? Yes? I am in northeastern Tennessee and bordered four counties. There's four counties within about ten minutes of me and I kind of live in a triangle area. And these happenings went on three years, and we didn't know what it was. We just wrote it off with something else. We just ignored it.

2:14 I moved here and me and my wife we bought this place here in nineteen ninety six, and there was and we were just so naive. We didn't know anything about big foot. And I haven't known anything about big Foot till this winter. I've never done any studying on it, or never pursued it or I always I'm a type of guy. I always try to say it's something else, it's doing these things. I always tried to write it off until it became so obvious, these creatures. They want me to know what they're here. And being my wife, we bought this place and like I said, in ninety six and after that, things started to slap the side of our house and we thought for years it was birds flying into the side of the house, and they occurred quite often, and we ignored it.

3:07 Like I said, this went on for years because we never had a dog or a cat. Then in two thousand and eight, I went outside in the backyard. I had four wheelers. I dear hunted. We raised goats, and I've always worked and I was in the army for quite a few years in the National Guard, and I was out in the backyard all the time doing something. I've always been a high strung personality. And I heard tree knocks and this was around ten thousand and eight, and I just wrote it off with somebody down in the woods knocking on wood. I just wrote it off with somebody doing it. Never thought no more about it. This went on for a while. I hunted till I was fifty five, and I've quit hunting now. But it's lott interesting it now. All my life I've been in the woods. I never saw one, of course, I've never looked for him. Like I said, Jeremiah, I'm pretty naive to these things. I've heard stories years ago. There was some sightings in Tennessee in nineteen seventy four when I was a teenager. I never saw anything unusual in the woods, and I've never been afraid of the dark. My male retired disabled neighbor had a dog and it was all the time dragging deerbones into his backyard. He passed on in two thousand nineteen. Then I started working and staying out of town in two thousand seventeen and the fall of ten thousand,

4:42 twenty two December, this passed flaw. Things started to get crazy. First, my dog would go out to the end of the diveway back and forth. We're up on her hind legs trying to buy something. And every morning it's just like clockwork around one o'clock. And I'd watch it outside of my living room window. And this thing, it wouldn't show itself. It would stay right outside of the light, and a blue tick hound would go behind my house down in a ravine and bark like she'd treat something. Most every night for about three months. Ohkay, this happened I heard something scream one night I was setting up in here around two o'clock in the morning, I heard something scream like I've never heard in my life, and hit rattle in my body, and I was fifty yards away from it. I was inside in the house, and it scared my neighbors, who lived about five hundred yards behind me. It scared them so bad that they jumped in their car and left, and I come outside after I heard it scream, and I saw them coming down the road in their vehicle, and they didn't come back till the next day. I've never talked to them about it or anything.

5:57 I've always been quiet about this. I don't tell my business, and most certainly not this because people don't won't believe you. So my men, girlfriend, we just keep it to ourselves now. I was outside on my front porch after this, after it screened. After there. For years they have been looking into my windows all them times I didn't have a dog when I didn't know and there it are getting bolder and they want me to know they're here. They loved sneaking around after midnight to see what's going on. Three weeks ago, one brought the back leg of a cow and placed it on the edge of my backyard. After being off work. I've had time.

6:44 I think they've done that for a gift of some sort of an other gros after I've been doing a little studying since this winter. I've heard that they do things like that after being off work. I've had time to study and figure out what is actually going on around here. Because I worked out of town, i wasn't home just on the weekends. Now I'm semi retired and I've got time to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. I noticed two days where one had crossed my fence in three different places, or something that crossed it. You didn't leave any horror, but my fence was messed up in three different places. They've been watching me for years, and apparently they liked me. Me and my girlfriend were talking the other day around noon and the rock hit the backside of my house. My neighbors shot at one back in mid January. She had been putting dog feed on her back porch for every dog in the neighborhood, and she said around it nine pm we heard the shot. She said, around nine pm she saw a huge black looking creature come walking down the side of her house. Going to get dog food. She opened the door and shot at it. Scared her half to death. It terrified this lady. She's still terrified of and she said it cleared a pass over the hill, breaking brush when she shot at it.

8:05 Back in early February, I was picking up tree limbs and my cow pasture and found where something had been laid. The bed was nine feet long and four foot across. I think it was a nun bush position because it was on the edge of my yard, and I never thought to take a picture of it because I was just so overwhelmed a by it. Jeremiah, you have to understand, there's a creek behind my house and these deer. My farm is covered up with deer and turkeys, and these creatures obviously come out and they hunt these deer. And there's a fresh stream behind the house.

8:50 There's all kinds of hardwood timbers, cedar, thickets, and I'll get to that later. Though. These, like I said, these creatures have watched me for a long time without me being aware of them. The creature moves from behind my house across the road and hangs out behind my neighbor's house. I told her to stop putting out dog boot. Back in twenty fourteen or fifteen, during Dear season, I walked across the road at four or thirty am to settle down in my hunting spot. I heard something walking about thirty yards from me, going away from me, and it was making quite a bit of a bracket and could he's opened up at this thing that was walking And I heard a coudy someone hid it in the head or just a death lick. It was a death blow. Everything went quiet and I got out of there. These creatures don't even steered me. These creatures don't intend to hurt no one, I believe. But if you if you threaten them or rend her up or honey, you will know about it. Every night now they are it comes out behind my house. I pray they move on and leave me alone. I'm not afraid of them, but I want to be left alone. They are starting to keep me off a little. They're starting to get under my skin because it's every night thing. I understand.

10:16 They don't want to be seen, but they want people to acknowledge them. I never knew anything about a big foot until I watched an episode of one of your episodes. I started putting the pieces of the puzzle together, and what I found out it is quite disturbing. Now. Apparently they loved to deer hunt on my farm, which is covered up with deer, like I said, and turkeys, and like I said, a fresh creek runs behind my house. Jeremiah, they're seater and hard timber back throw. These creatures don't like to be disturbed during the night because they're trying to hunt. Three nights ago, I was on my front porch watching YouTube. At nine pm, I heard a large tree crack and break and fall into the ground.

11:05 And it did just twice, not once, but twice, back to back. And it's happened night before last. It made a large noise and dogs went crazy. And around two am. That's the same night in the morning, at two am, my girlfriend got up to smoke. Well on he leaves the bathroom light on so we can look out, well, look out of her windows of the night, and you can see anything that's on her place out here in the yard. I got a four or four acre front yard. And she said, as soon as she put her phone in the living room window, something slapped the end of the house really loud and hard. Our dog immediately jumped up and jumped on it's fighting it. It ran off. My neighbor got up. It woke her up, and she went outside to hear my dogs fighting. She said she'd never heard a dog fight like that. The next day, my dog went around all morning with her heads straight up in the air, kind to smell this creature. I noticed it right off. She was still kind to see if it was around here, and she'd walk away around the house with a nose straight up in the air, snippy. Then these dogs, they barked a long time for three months, but once they saw this thing, they don't want to have anything else to do with. They used to carry on the fighting, and my dog still does. But my neighbor's blue tick hound and a couple of other dogs they go in the house, they won't carry on. They don't carry

12:37 on the germ id like they used to. I have also saw apples with something's teeth marks in them, but I've never saw before. I've got an orchard over here on my place I put out over twenty years ago. They would take a bite and throw it down and get another one. The food is here, the cover is here, and water. This year I hope and pray that I don't have to move. I would most certainly hope nobody comes and makes them mad, because they would probably take out their anger on me. Big Foot's past time. I think they loved sneaking around houses at night and looking in windows, especially if you don't have a dog. These creatures watched me practically every day and know my routine. One night last December, I was sitting on my front porch watching videos and the creatures slapped on the back of the house while I was sitting on the front porch. The slap was so hard it knocked items off my kitchen table. I jumped up and ran around the back and there was nothing now. So these creatures are very bold, and it's like playing jokes on people. It's like they think it's the game. That's my pinion. It wanted me inside the house so it could deer hunt. I think that's why, Jeremiah, I think that's why they don't like me. I hear but iight on my phones because there's a lot of deer around here, and they deer hunt I here on my place. The large amounts of deer leaves the forest at night to come out

14:13 and grazing my four acre front yard late at night. I was apparently staring the deer off. The more things to tell you too, I want no part of looking for these things, going into the woods trying to see one. They want to be left alone. I think they two are trying to survive and don't like people looking for them in the night. The night is when they hunt. Oh yes. In late January early February, I was standing on my front deck in County seventeen deer running for their life. They were coming from behind my house and running across my four acre front yard.

14:58 They were terrified and you could see it in their faces. One looks like a twelve point. They were running and jumping behind the air twos and threes at a time. These creatures are opportunistic. They will get food anytime they can find it. Also, there is not a lot of coats around my house, and I think I know why because they keep them ten down they eat coadies. I do believe that I have a lot of fruit trees, including pie of apple, plums and mulberries. Last fall I went back to get the upper part of my pear trees. I took a ladder with me and I just gathered something the day before and I went back the next day to get them. They were all gone, every single one, not one pier was left in Margard. And like I said, you'd have to take a ladder Jeremiah to get up there to get them, or stand in the back of a pickup truck. Also, half a mile from my house isn't apple orchards. There's a big apple orchard, apple mill, and behind my house, and these creatures love fruit. I thought that squirrels did it, but for other study. Now, after everything that's been going on throughout the winter, and it's late spring, it's NonStop. It's basically every night that came out last night, and I just I've tried to write these things off so many times today can't no more. And to be honest with you,

16:33 I hope I never see one because from what I've heard from other people on your show, they it changes their life forever. They're never the same. It's scared of I'm not scared to go in the woods. I'm not afraid of than that. But from what I've heard other people there, I say on your show, once you see one of these things, you never want to go back in the woods again, and I hope and pray that never happens. And it's funny I said once that you have groups in which I think every man to each of your own. I don't judge people, I don't talk about people. I'm a longer type guy, Jeremiah. I stayed to myself. I don't get out to socialize. I did back in my younger days, but as I've gotten older, sixty down sixty and a half, I just pretty much stayed to myself. I'm semi retired, and back when I used to drive two hundred and twenty miles a day to working back, I used to drive them where I lived in Murphy's for im back two hundred twenty miles running trip, and I never had time to get involved like I am now to actually figure out what was going on around here because I never was home. I first lived down there, and then I just started driving back and forth after about three years. And like I said, I'm semi retired down and now I'm here and I can put all these puzzles together.

17:57 But for years and years I just rold them off as something else. I didn't know anything about big Foot. But it's got to the point now the world. They're getting boulder and bolder all the time, and I think they want me to know they're here, and I don't bother them. And so far they've not bothered me. But they are here, my neighbor, it should be very scared. She's been scared ever since this past winter, ever since she shot at when she actually saw the outline and the black hair on it walked by her window and she jumped up and got a gun real quick and opened the front doors. She caught out at it, and she said it made a loud Noah's going over the hill breaking brush. I hope I never have to shoot at one. I mean, so far these creatures have left me alone. But it's an ever night thing. It's a never And what kills me is you've got people going out and looking for them, and I'm trying to get rid of them. I hope they move on.

19:00 I hope I never hear another one or never have another slap on the house. And like I said, they're in the fruit. They don't seem to be hurting nothing. But like I said, I found the bed. I was going to my mailbox back in the winter. Fabruaries in Lake February, and I saw a bed outsire from my driveway, and I think this thing was lading there of a night, because large amounts of deer come into my yard every night and these big foot hunt them. And I believe was everything in me jeremized that this thing was lading there in that bush position where he could jump on the deer. And so me and my girlfriend come back in the house and I got a measuring stick commasuing tape, and it was nine foot long by four foot across, and so I was so disturbed by it that I forgot to take a picture of it. A picture was never even entered my mind to take a picture of And I still get out in the woods behind my house and stuff, and I've never seen where they've made any little lean twos or little places to lay in. I've never seen anything like that. In my entire life. I've hunted in the woods, and I just lost interest in hunting. You know, I can I can afford to buy my food. And as long as I can afford to buy my food, I'm not want to kill a deer, but I'll kill many deers and many turkeys over my life, and grouse and stuff like that Quail rabbits,

20:30 but it's a never night occurrence at my house. Mark. I got a few questions for you if you don't mind. As you can imagine, this is an incredible thing that you're going through. And to be honest, it doesn't sound that fun. I wish it ain't. I wished it wouldn't true. I wished I wouldn't talking to you right now about it. But since these other people have come forward. But see people in my very tight circle, which is a few family and a few close lifelong prince, I don't even mention it to them because I don't want them to think I'm cracking up. The market is going to ask you, why why come out in the open with this now if you've been not talking about it all these years?

21:22 Because I want other people to know that they're real, and other people have come forward. And another reason I think there's more now than they was back when I was growing up, Jeremiah is see, they restocked deer in the eastern United States and the sixties, they brought the turkeys in here in the eighties, and they've actually stopped stout. They've restocked elk all through eastern Northeastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee also has a huge elk population now. And I think the reason that people are seeing more big footing now is because of the food supply. There's more food now than they was back then forty years ago.

22:03 There's dear everywhere. You can't want to drive a car where I live without hidden And like I said, I just I just come forward because I think other people need to know about it. I think other people need to know as much as they can about these scriptures. That's why I came forward. Other people need to know the same things are either. But now I don't think them. Ain't nobody any harm unless you caught, you know, a harm them because so far they've just been playing games with me. And they know that I know they're here, and they tried for years to get me, but to realize that they were here, but I ignore them for over twenty years. Exactly how big is the land that you have there? Mark?

22:48 How much land I've got? The fourteen point nine acres? Wow? As will say, fifth rounded off the fifteen acres. And there's wilderness out here, Jeremiah. People don't hunt like they use too. That's another thing too. I need to bring up. Back when I was growing up, everybody carried a gun and the back of the truck visible to everybody to see. People had gun racks in the back of their vehicles, ours, and trucks. A lot of people hunted back when I was growing up, through the sixty seventies, eighties, and then in the nineties people started I noticed a trend that people quit hunting as much as the new generation came home. They got into computers, and their family never taught them about guns and hunting, and they got into computers, and they quit going into the outdoors.

23:34 And with a great food supply, these animals have just exploded because there's people saying these things though, And like I said, I pray I never see one. I don't want to see, and I'm most certainly not going to be out hunting for one. But I pray that the lord against me is that wish that I never have to see one, because I don't want to be changed. I don't want to be terrified to go out in the woods anymore. But I know they're here. I know that my neighbor knows they're here, and she's quite scared. She's quite scared. It sounds like your neighbor was intensely affected. Who can blame them? Oh yeah, in her sites and she took a shot at it. That's incredible, Yes she did.

24:19 And it's not retaliated though, because she was the only neighbor in the neighborhood that I talked to. She lives alone. She's sixty seven years old and she's retired, and a lot of people have moved into Tennessee over the past years. This place. When I moved here Jeremiah twenty six years ago, this place was a wild still quite a bit wilderness. You can't get lost out here, while I of them not even dry you get off in the woods. But when I first moved here, this place was like Mutual of all my Haw's wild kingdom. Yeah nice, you see, Dear twenty five and thirty at a time, herds of wild Turkey with fifty and one hundred years. This place reminded me of Mutual Obamaha's wild Kingdom. When I first moved here, I couldn't believe it, and I loved it here because I was always a deer hunter in my younger years and never did kill a lot of Dear, will I moved here, and well, I came home when I bought this place, and I've been here ever since. And like I said, I we don't associate with many people, and especially about something like this, because they look at you and the dates you're crazy. I'm gonna talk to you anymore. So I feel comfortable about talking to other people who believe in the same thing, but to people and people know, I don't lie. I've never I don't have a criminal record. I've never been in any trouble. I'm religious, very religious, and remon scriptures basically every

25:52 day. But all right, still being a good citizen. Make you I'll give you a good example. I'll give you a good example. You remember when I told you that I heard wood docking back in two thousand and eight behind my house, and I went on for quite a while, went on for ten minutes. In fifteen, there was a logger, a professional lagger I knew, and I saw him up at the General Mercantile, a little story that up here where I lived. And I got him outside by himself, and I told him about it, and he made me a laughing stock. I didn't think he'd ever stopped laughing. And I never opened my mouth again from two thousand and eight to this night to night i'm talking to you, I'll never opened my mouth again about it. I told him that's what I thought it was, and he laughed and laughed, and I think I might have lost a little respect by telling him that. If I had to do again, I wouldn't have done it. But I've never opened my mouth again. Be good. I'm glad you're sharing tonight, Mark, for sure.

26:57 You know. It just baffles me though, that people are out I don't I think people need to be careful what they wish for. You've got people out there kind to find up, trying to get pictures and this, that and the other of these things. These things want to be left alone. And some of these people not buy off more and they can chew. I've got them coming out here every night of the week, and you've got and I wished and prayed that they move home, and I don't want to see one and I don't want to have anything to do with them. And you've got people out here it is looking for. I would never be one of those people. I just I know they exist, and that's as far as I hope it goes. I hope, I said, you're hoping every seam. You're just trying to deal with it day in and day out.

27:42 When it slaps your house, when it slaps your house mark, how high up on the side of the house, did you get an idea when you hear it during eye It wouldn't that high. It wouldn't like eight or nine or ten peace high. I would say, it slaps in my house about maybe by a foot. And the other night, I'm gonna tell you something, it's scared. It terrified, and my girlfriend so bad that she would not wake me up, but sets there and trembled. And when I heard my dog jump on it and was fighting it out here, I got up and come through the house and listened to us. I got up and come through the house, and she was setting in the dark, shaking like a leaf. And this was last night, and why's the ghost? Why is the ghost? And you know she's a big talker, and we went together for a long time. She's a big talker, and she was setting in the dark when I got up. We keep our bathroom light on of the night where we can see out. We don't turn our lights on one night because we're like looking out across our farm here, a little farm, and we can see anything out You're moving around, like deer and stuff. And she was setting in the dark with just the bathroom light on in the living room. And I walked there and I go, what's I seem to shaking?

29:08 I go, see, I didn't know what had happened. And I'll tell something else to you. When I heard those two trees cracked last night, the night before I think last couple of us. When I heard those two trees crack across the road, I sitting down here on my front porch watching the videos, and I heard two trees cracked back to back. Now, this is the first time I've ever heard this in my life. I heard two trees crack across the street back to back like a like about a four inch diameter tree, my cup timber myself, so about a four inch diameter tree during mine. It's like something took it and twisted it. You could hear the fresh green snackling and cracking, and just a grinding noise and a bo a loud boom, and then one right behind the other, two of them. Okay, I didn't tell my girlfriend about that because I didn't want to scare her. Okay, I got up, went in the house, shut the door, locked the door, but I didn't mention it to her. So when I wake up, when I hear my dog, I hear jumping on something, I come through the house and without her even knowing what happened to me just a few hours earlier, she was setting under the dark, checking like a leaf and whiles a ghost treaming when it slapped on the end of the house. That's how loud it was. And that's when she found out what I had experienced setting on the front deck just a few hours earlier. See, I didn't want to stare there's things that happened here.

30:37 I don't want to stare her out and say unless I have to, unless I have to tell her. And then that's when I told her, When when this thing, when she already was scared about it, that's when I let Lucian told her what was happened to me just three four hours earlier. You don't want to stare somebody that's open when you want to put Yeah, you don't want to put it here and from unless you have no one's choice. And that's when I told her what happened to me, and I don't think it's scared her any worse because she was already terrified. And my neighbor lives in there every night. If you want to know the tracks about it from me, she lives in far every night. Mark. Have you seen any tracks around your property at all? Any weird tracks. I've not been out really looking for them, because I don't have to look for tracks because I know they're here. That's true. I'm not really Jeremiah. Yeah, I don't look for the tracks because those are here. I don't.

31:33 I don't have to prove to myself that it may or may not be these creature because I know it's the creature. So that's why I don't look for tracks or something. All right, all right, fair enough. You mentioned the one time you heard screams around two am. Can you describe what those screams sounded like at all. I've never heard anything like it. It was loud, and this is the only time I've ever heard of these creatures. These creatures are pretty mild around here. We live them alone. They leave us alone. They don't act up and carry on a lot unless you agitate them. Now, I can be out here on my phone and if they want a deer hunt that particular now, they'll start cracking trees and stuff.

32:22 The scream was like a loud pitch. It was extremely loud, and it rattled. The echo of it ran through my body and I speak yards from it inside of the house. So it was a scream that would most absolutely get you shaken immediately when you heard it. You would start shaking, Your body would your mind would take over without you even thinking about it, and you break out into it to tremble. It was a loud, screaming pitch and like I said, I've never heard anything like it. I can't really describe it, just just a screech, a loud, extremely loud screech.

33:15 And that's the only time I've ever heard it. And like I said, it scared my neighbors so bad. When I heard it, I coming on the front porch because say, I've got a thirty by twelve front deck that screamed in but with a locked front door, and I'm come out and looked through my scream and it's unprotected from anything coming up on the porch and I run out on I didn't run out, I walked out on the front porch to see if I could hear it again. And I heard my neighbors. I couldn't say them, but I heard them jump in their car about five hundred yards away, and they got in their vehicle and they come down in front of the road, in front of my house. And they never come back, and my knowledge, they never come back that night. They went somewhere. But it scared them that bad. And this thing just screaming.

34:00 And these are different, These are different neighbors than the one that took a shot. Yes, I've got yes, I've got some neighbors that live that moved in up here. They built a house right on my property line. I know you're supposed to you're supposed to leave like a ten way easment. That's another show. But yeah, and so they're about five hundred yards to my southwest, behind me. And you can tell one this thing. Oh yeah, it's another thing. I want to tell you too. My neighbor up the road, not the one across the street, and they lived down the road a piece. They got a blue tick hound that hangs around here.

34:45 And there's a big ravine behind my house that runs ten miles. It runs our way to the Coumbling River. And there's a ravine in front of my house that runs for Knima, So I'm talking straight up and down. You know, you almost have to hold on the trees to pull yourself up. Deep, creepy looking, and this blue tea town would always come down here at the house. It would go around my house for months. It did this basically on a daily basis. And every time the wind blew out of the northwest, this coonhoun would go off into the woods, off downing one of the ravines and it would bark like I had something treat and I didn't want to. One day I did. I got my gun and I told my girlfriend, I'm wanting to see where he's appeared at a cone trade of I got a halfway down there. The coonhoun came back out and followed me back home. But this thing does this. I could not tell you the times every time the wind would blow out of the northwest, this coonhoun could smell this creature in one of these ravines. It would never bark if the womb was blown out of the south or the west, only the northwest.

35:47 So I know that's where these creatures are hanging out at to the northwest of my house, down in a deep ravine and I was shot deer down in the nerve a few times, and it's an all day job to get a deer out of it. It's an all day job to people. And there's a lot of wilderness here for these things, it's stacked on top of wilderness, which wilderness on top of wilderness. I'm let me let me put it to you this way. I'm seventeen, a little over seventeen miles in any direction. I go into a store in any direction seventeen miles, So that can you get an idea of how far I am. Wow, it takes me forty five minutes to go up to any kind of store. And there's a little general mercantile store up here that was open for a long fifty years or so and it's closed down and I think it's open maybe once or quist the beading, and though it's the closest I am to store, and I'm real close to Standishtone Park. There was a guy that texted me Z wanted me to get together with him, and I told him, I said, young, Now, I said, you don't really know what you're asking.

37:01 You don't know what you're asking for. You don't. I told him, I said, you don't need to be out here and these bushes looking to these creatures, they don't want to be found, they don't want to be seen. So I told him, I give you my opinion of my advice. I said, you don't really understand what you're wanting to do. A person can buy off more and makes you if they go after these creatures, you never know how they're going to act. Now, these creatures around my house so far have been pretty cool. They like playing games, eating the fruit, and I've got a fruit orchard over here, apple orchard, red delicious apples. They tire into them. And you know what another thing too, jerem my eyes. For years and years, my apples started disappearing, and I wrote it off with squirrels until I started seeing bite marks on them that I didn't know what made it. It wouldn't it, dear?

37:51 And so, like I said, after I retired, just this winter, just when I started to put the pieces of the puzzle together, I've never had time to fool these days. Before them, I was always working, always driving. Now I was on the road four and a half hours a day. And now that I'm home, the puzzle is coming together pretty quick, and I'm not having any problems putting it together. As to what's actually going on around here, have you heard of any other maybe prior history of big foot encounters in your area, or do you think it's just an a current day thing here at my house, it's a current day thing. And no, I haven't heard of anybody else. Talking about him. As a boy over here close to standish Stone Parking, he said he lived four or five miles from the park, and he said he had had two encounters, and I live only live about three miles away. The crow files to vanished home. But these creatures I do believe have been here a long time, dur a mile because things happened to me twenty years ago here, and I wrote it off with something else. I used to say, Oh, that's ow flew into the house, or that's a bird flew into the house at two o'clock in the morning. I always tried to write it off with something else until I got to where I couldn't anymore. These these creatures here in my house, they've been here a long time. Oh yeah, they were.

39:22 Actually I think they were here when I moved here back in nineteen ninety nineteen ninety six, moved here in the summer of ninety six and things started happening right off with the bat But like I said, we just wrote it off with something else go ahead. Interesting how there were a lot of people that were commenting about issues around Standing Stone State Park and that being close to your area, you guys have got something going on there. There's no doubt. I don't and I know we've got something going on, and you just letting you know what's going on. There's no question in my mind. It wouldn't do if I had some night vision A dear, these cameras people put on these trees, I wouldn't do if I had some of them. I'll show you what one of them looks like. But like I told you before, I don't want to know what they look like. I hope I never see one. I don't. I don't want it to scare me so bad that or change my opinions so bad that I never want to go in the woods again. I don't want that to be taken from me. I don't want my freedom, Jeremiah, to be taken from me, or I'm afraid to ever pick up a gun of you sure, And that's why I don't want to see one. That's why I don't want to see one. I was going to ask ye, actually have you considered putting a game camera on your property? And it sounds like you've already had that internal discussion. I

40:55 don't know how much they are, and I don't have a law popkin to run the data off of the thing and put it on a computer. I've never owned the laptop, and and I don't know how much these cameras are. I've never looked into it. But I just hope that I never you know, that I never have to face one of these things face to face, because from what I hear other people say on your show, it's a life changing experience. And I pray to the Lord that I never have to see one, absolutely, because like I said, I don't want my freedom taken from me. I don't want to fear of every wanting to go back in the woods again. I loved outdoor and I would never want that taken away from me. Your neighbor that had shot at one mark, yeah, do you yeah? You're remembering her account? Do you know if she had if she thought she actually hit the creature or it was maybe a near miss her. I think from what she told me, she saw it walk no doubt saw it walked by a window, and she just opened the door after it walked by her window and shot. She told me she shot up in the air to scar it off. That's what she told me. Yeah, she didn't hit the creature. She shot up in the air to scare it away. Gotcha. And yeah, And every time I have an experience,

42:29 she has the same experience. It comes from my place to her place across it the road are to day before yesterday, I got to notice and I started looking real close at what had been going on, and I saw were something across my fence out here, and my fence is about four and a half foot doll was bob war on top, and I saw one of these creatures across my fence and three to places because it actually broke the plastic it broke what got my attentions. It broke the plastic clips off of my fence post in all three locations, and my fence was wadded together. He had put his hand down on the fence and it pushed down and all three places in the center where had left an indentation in my and I've got some of the best wire you can buy. I forgot the name of it, but just the good stuff. It's tough. It's tough wire. And then I got two strength of barb wire during I on top of that, and like I said, it broke with the plastic clips off of each fence post where it crossed it crosses my I got a big nine hundred square foot barn out here too, and I've never of course, I've never looked really for evidence inside the barn. But like I said, I'm really starting to put me and my girlfriends starting to pay more attention, and we're just hoping tonight we don't have another experience like last night was a scary time for us. He

44:01 really was. When I walked through the middle of the house from the dark, but with a bathroom light on, you see your girlfriend sitting on the dark shaking and trembling like a leaf. And why does a ghost? I just I, you know what, I want them to go away. I want them to go away. I don't I just want my pace back. I just wanted to peace some time back. I want I don't want to have to set in my house hearing things outside, but just slauts and stuff on my house, which has happened many times. I just I don't want to I don't want to have to deal with that no more. And I just pray that the Lord moves the money. I hope they those somewhere else.

44:44 I hear you, I don't appears the creatures because we've never bothered him. And something else too. I mentioned this, but I want to bring it up again, not quick. I've heard other people on your should saves. Sometimes these anim was will leave you a guilt. I found the back leg of a cow. The bone was just fresh. It was shiny white, laying and righting on the edge of my yard. I'm outen my yard a couple of weeks ago and nearly a back leg of a cow bone that was fresh. But the problem is, here's the problem. There's no cows within five miles of me. Okay, I don't think I brought that up before. That's another thing. There's no cows within five miles of me German.

45:34 That's another thing. I just brought the top of my head, which like another recurrence. Are you go? And to be honest with you in all truth, the only guy that I know that has cows from here. Three days ago or four days ago, me and my girlfriend was going to the grocery store and I stopped buying. I talked to you in real nice. Felly is a Jewish heller from New Hampshire or somewhere up in there, and I asked him. I hadn't talked to him in a while, but we know each other. And I asked him, I said, have you had any cows going miss lately? And he said no, Mark. I know everybody down here, Jeremy. I've lived here twenty six years. I'm one of thosest people that's been here. There's only one or two other people that's lived here alone with than me. And I asked him. His name's Abner. I said, Abner, have you had any cows going miss lately?

46:23 He said no. Mark. He says, I've got fresh beef for sale, but I've not had any cows going miss. And I said, do you know anybody else has got any cows around here? And he goes, yeah, I know of one man, but I said he's not missing any cows either, or I didn't know about it. He said, So my question is where did this cow fresh cowbonb come from abound in the edge of we are. Yeah, that's a playble right there. That's a puzzle I can't put together. That's something I ain't been able to figure out. That is wild Mark. Well, it's true, it's true, exactly, that's what it is. You mentioned something about cedar thickets. I want to make sure that that's something to cover because you said you were going to call it. Yeah. Yes, there's heavy cedars tickets here at my house.

47:17 And like I said, a fresh creek behind the house. You can drink water, id it's that fresh. I've got a water well here on my place, but I've never used it, about forty feet deep. But there's all kinds of cover and foods here for any kind of creatures. And yeah, back in the midst February, as I here on my front porch doing something, and all of a sudden, I started catching glances of deer running through my front You already coming from this heavy cedars ticket buying my house where the creek is. And I've never in my life seen deer running jump, I said. These things were running twos and threes at a time. I counted seventeen deers and one of them was about a twelve a monster you drag twelve point. These things were coming through my yard twos and threes at a time, one right behind another, running for their lives. I never saw a deer with that kind of fear in their faces. They run right through my front yard. I was within thirty yards of them. They didn't pay me a bit of attention. They look at they've seen me stand there, and they just kept coming the direction thirty yards of me. And I saw, I actually saw bear in these animal spaces. And I heard that.

48:27 My girlfriend said, come here, man, come here and look at this. And she says, what's them deer running from? And I said, I don't know, but I can tell you what I think they're running from. They ain't many things in the woods that would make seventeen deer clear out of an area that quick, unless it was something wanting to kill them. We're Jeremiah, we're walking on eggshells. Run here. Oh, I'm sure got to be terrible. Were walking on egg shell It is people don't understand people who don't have a clue. These people wouldn't be out there, huh. And for them if they had to go through what I go through every night, and we're walking on next shells, just praying and and still reading our scriptures and just praying these things leave us alone. But what do I think they are? Yeah? I think pretty much playing simple, cut and dry. I think they're none known eight species with the stone form of maybe human characteristics. But I think the government knows all about them. But see, you have to understand. Anything the government can't last and put a microscope under and dissect it and put it back together. They're not going to claim it exist. Anything the government can't control or put a last or around us neck, they're going to deny it exists because they can't control it. The government knows what they are. Yeah, they know exactly what they are,

49:57 and they know what their DNA and they know everything about but they're not They don't want to cause a panic in the public. He was to come out on broad open radio stations and say this stuff, it would create a panic that they don't want it. Neither does the public. I can't really blame them. I can't blame them. I would keep it quiet too. It's don't need to know basis, But I think it's I think it's it's a species that came here thousands of years ago, because these things go back to as far as Man's Venue, or even Indians that talked about them. I've seen on your show. I heard mention of Indians talk about them and stuff.

50:39 I think it's an unknown species to basically your everyday person, but the government knows about them. But it's an unknown maybe a guerrilla species that could have possibly cross linked with a female woman at one time or another possibly, I don't really know. Well, I'm not a scientist. That's just my speculation. I think that they one of them could have had could have crossed over to the human art and they may because some people I've sing on your shows that they look human in the face, and many people say that, yeah, tell me what you think about them. Mark. My personal thought about it and is that it's an undiscovered great ape species in North America.

51:36 If you look at groups that are looking into it for extended periods of times, like the NAWAC with North American Wood Ape Conservancy out of Oklahoma, it's just it's got to be an unknown ape creature. And there's a lot of different listeners to this show that have many different thoughts. There's no right or wrong answers, but personally, that's what I think is what we're dealing with. So it just adds, Yeah, I agree with during my one hundred percent, I agree with one hundred percent. That's what I think they are. I will say this, these creatures love. They get a kick out of sneaking around people's houses at night, especially those that don't have a dog, to let them know what there's something out there. They get a kick out of looking in windows and studying people. That's absolutely yes, they've They've done it here for years without of me even knowing. We just got a dog three years ago, first dog I've had since I've lived here. And that's what that's what I think about this because they let me say to you this way, Jeremy, more about these creatures than I ever will. Because you've talked to hundreds of people, and I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you on the phone. I'd love to shake your hand, but you're pretty much an expert in this field. I consider you to be, and you talk to people all over the entry Canada and you know a lot about these creatures. But they My point is, Jeremia, they get a kick out

53:09 of us as much as we do them. Does that make sense? Absolutely? It makes total sense. How it's genius. How oh yeah, yeah, And thank you for the kind of words. Mark, do you mind talking directly to the listener for a few minutes about why it's important that they share their story for the first time. I think it's very important is for people to share their information because it can give other people in the study of these creatures more information that they need to finally figure out these creatures get.

53:49 The more information that you put out there, the more information researchers can use as their advantage. Mark. It's been amazing talking to you. Your story is incredible. It's actually happening to you right now, could be tonight. Yes, yes, absolutely, And I hope it don't right That's that's my prayer and my wishes. I hope it don't happen in that it's it's a burden, you know what I mean. It's a burden. And I want to ask you this. Have you ever saw one? You know what?

54:36 Mark? I haven't. I hope to one day. I do actually have the hope to have a sighting one day. I know that it will greatly affect me as a interviewer and a researcher. But I do hope to have a sighting one day, but we will see. I hope there's something for you. Yeah, I hope it's the same for you too, Jerema. I just hope you the best, and I know your channel is growing, and I just I hope you the best at whatever you wish to do. You're a good man. I can tell that by your voice. You're a You're an outstanding individual. Thank you, sir. I'm sure this won't be the last time I'll hear from you. Please keep in touch for the future and let me know what happens to you and your property. I hope you guys are safe. But thanks again, Chance. I appreciate that very much, sir. So you want me to continue to stay in touch with you if this stuff continues on, absolutely I will. I hope it don't.

55:43 I hope you don't hear from anybody exactly. Yeah, but if you do, don't, I hope I never have to talk to you about Yeah, but if I do, you know, I want to tell you so everything I've told you not. I have no reason to lie about anything. I just I'm not that kind of person. I've never stole. I've only I just don't tell I was once a great athlete and a soldier and stuff. And I don't have to have a knee go I've already had one from the past, and I'm fine with who I am today. So I've already lived now athleticism and shooting them old tank shells, and I've already been did pretty much everything I want to do. So yeah, so I don't most certainly don't need this recognition. YEA be nice to have some peace and quiet.

56:32 So well, hope, so all right, I hope lot. I hope you learned ain't something from my interview to night you're I hope you've learnt something from Oh? Absolutely yeah, thank you for chatting Mark all right. Become a supporting member of The big Foot Society podcast by going to www dot Petreon dot com forward slash the Bigfoot Society and receive extra episodes and early add free episodes as well. If you've got a personal bigfoot encounter you would like to submit for me to share on the podcast, please head on over to www dot Bigfoot Society podcast dot com. There you'll find the Share your Foot Encounter form a little lower on the page and please take a minute to share as many details as you can. Please state if the encounter is anonymous or what name you would like associated with encounter, and as always, thanks for listening.