Bigfoot Encounters at Caddo Lake Louisiana | Screams in the Bayou (It Attacked His Vehicle)

<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Sasquatch Theory. Today we travel deep into the
<v Speaker 1>mysterious bayous and ancient pine forests surrounding Cattle Lake in Louisiana,
<v Speaker 1>a place teeming with dangerous wildlife and something far more elusive.
<v Speaker 1>Our guest, James, has spent his entire life hunting and
<v Speaker 1>fishing these swamps. He's face gators, snakes, and the harsh wilderness,
<v Speaker 1>but none of that prepared him for the towering beings
<v Speaker 1>that walk. The night he was stalked by a massive,
<v Speaker 1>unknown creature that was slowly walking through the swamp, he
<v Speaker 1>recalls the sound being very bipedal, and he believed at
<v Speaker 1>the time that it possibly could have been the game warden. Tonight,
<v Speaker 1>James shares with us the truth about what stalks to
<v Speaker 1>buy you. This is Louisiana Bigfoot territory, and not everyone
<v Speaker 1>makes it out. Stick around. You're listening to Sasquatch Theory.
<v Speaker 1>If you have a bigfoot encounter you would like to
<v Speaker 1>share with me, feel free to get in touch. With
<v Speaker 1>all that being said, let's dive straight into our next
<v Speaker 1>bigfoot report from the state of Louisiana. All right, James,
<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Sasquatch Theory. How are you doing.
<v Speaker 2>Today, I'm great, mcgrail.
<v Speaker 1>How are you today, I'm doing excellent. Thank you so
<v Speaker 1>much for asking, James, if you would tell me a
<v Speaker 1>little bit about yourself, where you're from, and your bigfoot
<v Speaker 1>encounters and experiences from the very beginning.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'm sixty two years old. I've lived on or
<v Speaker 2>near Cattle Lake all my life. I moved off and
<v Speaker 2>lived on the East Coast for about eight years and
<v Speaker 2>moved back home to this area five years ago, and
<v Speaker 2>I live on the same by you that I had
<v Speaker 2>my experiences at and just given a lot of thought
<v Speaker 2>about how the incidents I had had changed my life.
<v Speaker 2>And talking with other people now and hearing other stories
<v Speaker 2>from other people that had similar experiences, some long ago
<v Speaker 2>and some very recent, it's just kind of really sparked
<v Speaker 2>my interest in it. Started listening to your channel and
<v Speaker 2>listening to all these encounters that all these people had,
<v Speaker 2>and it's kind of really intrigued me. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'll start off. You know, I was a very adventurous kid,
<v Speaker 2>stayed in the woods. I started fishing probably when I
<v Speaker 2>was five, and exploring the woods and camping out on
<v Speaker 2>my own, and started hunting at the age of ten,
<v Speaker 2>and spent all my time as as a child and
<v Speaker 2>a teenager either on the lake to buy you or
<v Speaker 2>in the woods. And you know, by the time I
<v Speaker 2>was a young man, I would say I was a
<v Speaker 2>pretty good woodsman and a very good hunter. And I
<v Speaker 2>had explored the lake and the bayous and camped and
<v Speaker 2>never had any incidents. I've had some scary, you know,
<v Speaker 2>runs ins with some pretty bad animals like alligators and
<v Speaker 2>poisonous snakes and things like that, but you know that's
<v Speaker 2>kind of expected, you know, in this area. And but
<v Speaker 2>you know, I'll just kind of jump into I had
<v Speaker 2>some experiences in the seventies, but I'll talk about what
<v Speaker 2>happened in the year of nineteen eighty seven. Was my
<v Speaker 2>first incident that just didn't make sense. I was a
<v Speaker 2>duck hunting and I had been dunk hunting in this spot.
<v Speaker 2>This was the third season I was duck hunting in
<v Speaker 2>this spot. And it was a pond, about a fifteen
<v Speaker 2>or twenty acre pond that was right off the bayou,
<v Speaker 2>and I think it used to be part of the
<v Speaker 2>Vayu and they built an old road over there and
<v Speaker 2>it blocked it off or something that I mean, there
<v Speaker 2>was no reason for the pond there, but it was.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, the main part of the pond was
<v Speaker 2>all open. The back end of the pond was separated
<v Speaker 2>by a stand of small hardwood trees, and behind that
<v Speaker 2>was all flooded timber. Now in the middle of that
<v Speaker 2>back there, all the timber had died and fallen, so
<v Speaker 2>there was an open spot where you know, the ducks
<v Speaker 2>would come in and land. It was a perfect spot
<v Speaker 2>for him, out of the wind, and it was probably
<v Speaker 2>one of the best stuff hunting spots I ever had.
<v Speaker 2>So I built a small duck blind in those stands
<v Speaker 2>of hard woods, and it was basically just like a
<v Speaker 2>three foot floor to stand on in a three foot bench,
<v Speaker 2>and it was surrounded with chicken wire and I had
<v Speaker 2>it brushed and looking and I was facing towards the
<v Speaker 2>back end of the pond, and the very back end
<v Speaker 2>of the pond was still standing fronty timber. The left
<v Speaker 2>hand side of the pond was old growth pine and
<v Speaker 2>that's where i'd park my truck and keep my piro.
<v Speaker 2>And for people that don't know what a piro is,
<v Speaker 2>it's just basically a Cajun kayak. It's a kayak and
<v Speaker 2>on the right hand side of this pond, there was
<v Speaker 2>standing timber that came out out into the pond, probably
<v Speaker 2>about thirty five feet, and the timber was like the
<v Speaker 2>size of my arm and my leg and they were
<v Speaker 2>really close together, a lot of fallen dead timber in
<v Speaker 2>between them, sunken, very treacherous, and I had shot a
<v Speaker 2>couple of ducks that had fallen off in there, and
<v Speaker 2>you know, I couldn't get my kayak or my pi
<v Speaker 2>ro through there. I'd had to get out with my
<v Speaker 2>chest waiters on and wait in there to get the
<v Speaker 2>ducks out. And it was very treacherous. I mean, you know,
<v Speaker 2>the water stained, it's not clear, and like I said,
<v Speaker 2>there was a lot of fallen sunken timber in there,
<v Speaker 2>and it was very dangerous. And we had there were
<v Speaker 2>some big alligators in that pond too, and so you know,
<v Speaker 2>it was kind of it wasn't fun to jump in
<v Speaker 2>there try to get those ducks. So long story short,
<v Speaker 2>I just decided that if the duck was flying that
<v Speaker 2>way and could fall in there, I wasn't gonna shoot
<v Speaker 2>it anymore. And I didn't. Well. One morning I got
<v Speaker 2>ready to go hunting and we had a big northern
<v Speaker 2>come through and it had gotten down into the twenties,
<v Speaker 2>which is rare for this area, but it's good for
<v Speaker 2>duck hunting. So I left about forty five minutes early
<v Speaker 2>because I thought maybe the pond might be frozen a
<v Speaker 2>little bit and I need to break up the area
<v Speaker 2>where the ducks could land. And I got out there
<v Speaker 2>and it was just a light layer of ice on it,
<v Speaker 2>and it easily broke up when I took my Piro
<v Speaker 2>through there. And so I just went and got in
<v Speaker 2>my duck bind and I was about to pour me
<v Speaker 2>a cup of coffee and I heard some splashing and Miguel,
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you, I instantly had this fear comes on me,
<v Speaker 2>like just dread. And I spent a lot of times
<v Speaker 2>in the woods and I've never had that happen to me,
<v Speaker 2>and it just floored me. I started listening and it
<v Speaker 2>was someone and I'm thinking this at the time, is
<v Speaker 2>someone walking through that ticket on my right hand side
<v Speaker 2>without a light. And I could see the ripples from
<v Speaker 2>the movement from the moonlight on the water, so I
<v Speaker 2>could see where it was at and I could hear
<v Speaker 2>where was at, and it came within like thirty five
<v Speaker 2>feet of me and it was right inside that tree
<v Speaker 2>line and I could hear them stepping over the dead
<v Speaker 2>falls and stuff, and I was thinking, who in their
<v Speaker 2>right mind would be walking through that without a light,
<v Speaker 2>you know, And my first thought was, Oh, it's got
<v Speaker 2>to be a game ward you know, they think I'm
<v Speaker 2>doing something wrong or whatever. But I just had this
<v Speaker 2>sense of fear and you know, and I listened to
<v Speaker 2>it and it walked on down and I heard it
<v Speaker 2>come out the backside of the pond, and I thought, well,
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna get checked by the game wards, so, you know,
<v Speaker 2>make sure you do everything right. I I, you know,
<v Speaker 2>shot my limits of ducks early that morning, and I
<v Speaker 2>got out of there by like eight or eight thirty,
<v Speaker 2>and I completely expected to get checked by the game
<v Speaker 2>warders leaving out of there, and it didn't happen. And
<v Speaker 2>something just didn't feel right. Something was wrong, and it
<v Speaker 2>just bothered me. I'm like, why would anybody be walking
<v Speaker 2>through that crap? And just so happened. The next day,
<v Speaker 2>I was eating lunch at a local cafe and I
<v Speaker 2>ran into the game warden and I told him about it,
<v Speaker 2>and I asked him if it was him, and he
<v Speaker 2>was like, no, I wouldn't do that. I'm not getting
<v Speaker 2>out in the dark and walking through that alligator infested place.
<v Speaker 2>He said, I'm gonna sit in my car in the
<v Speaker 2>truck with my heater. I don't wait for you to
<v Speaker 2>come out. So that I instantly left there and I
<v Speaker 2>drove back out there. I had never walked on the
<v Speaker 2>other side the bank, the right hand side bank, ever before,
<v Speaker 2>and I was shocked when I got over there. It
<v Speaker 2>was completely clear, no underbrush. I mean, somebody could easily
<v Speaker 2>just walked through there out had never seen him. And
<v Speaker 2>my thought was, whoever this was did not want to
<v Speaker 2>be seen by anybody, And it just freaked me out
<v Speaker 2>why someone would do it. Well, I never hunted early
<v Speaker 2>in the morning and there again, I only hunted a
<v Speaker 2>couple of more times, and it was in the afternoon.
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't going to go out there in the dark
<v Speaker 2>because something just wasn't right. And I only hunted there
<v Speaker 2>a couple more times and in the afternoon, and I
<v Speaker 2>felt uncomfortable the whole time, and so I just stopped.
<v Speaker 2>And it was a great spot. I just stopped. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>always questions in my mind, who could that have been? Whoever?
<v Speaker 2>Were they crazy? I mean, what were they thinking. It
<v Speaker 2>just never made sense. So fast forward to nineteen eighty eight,
<v Speaker 2>beginning of the hunting season. It was opening weekend of
<v Speaker 2>squirrel season, and the squirrel season opened on Saturday. Downpoured
<v Speaker 2>rain Saturday and Sunday. I think we got like four
<v Speaker 2>or five inches of rain. And I was off that Monday,
<v Speaker 2>and there's this place where I used to squirrel hunt,
<v Speaker 2>and I actually just wanted to go in there and
<v Speaker 2>see if there was any deer activity. This was a
<v Speaker 2>peninsula down in the swamps, and it was full of big,
<v Speaker 2>old white oak trees, and those white oaks have acorns
<v Speaker 2>the size of quarters, you know, And so I wanted
<v Speaker 2>to get in there and see if there was any
<v Speaker 2>deer activity. And I thought, well, I'll just, you know,
<v Speaker 2>take me a couple of squirrels while I'm down there.
<v Speaker 2>It had rained early that morning, very hard, and it
<v Speaker 2>stopped and it was supposed to rain again, but I
<v Speaker 2>had a few hour windows, so you know, I thought, well,
<v Speaker 2>I'm i going out there because I'll be able to
<v Speaker 2>move quietly through the woods and go check it out.
<v Speaker 2>And I did, and I probably had about a two
<v Speaker 2>mile hike into there, and I got about two three
<v Speaker 2>hundred yards to the mouth of the swamps, and I
<v Speaker 2>had stopped and there was some old oak trees around,
<v Speaker 2>and so I just sat there for a while to
<v Speaker 2>see if we had any activity, and nothing happened, and
<v Speaker 2>I got up, and when I got up, this blue
<v Speaker 2>heron alerted on the bio and I thought, dang, surely
<v Speaker 2>he didn't see me. And I know he didn't hear me.
<v Speaker 2>And for you know, anybody that hunts on on in
<v Speaker 2>the south on the water, they know those blue herons
<v Speaker 2>make a lot of noise and when they alert, they
<v Speaker 2>alert everything in the woods that you know there's danger.
<v Speaker 2>And I thought, well, maybe it was a fisherman out
<v Speaker 2>on the value or a gator, you know, maybe a
<v Speaker 2>coon messing with it. But I didn't think much about it,
<v Speaker 2>and I should have. So I got to this peninsula
<v Speaker 2>and I slowly zigzag, you know, my way, and the
<v Speaker 2>way that I stalk hunted. I would kind of i'm
<v Speaker 2>my path that I was going to take, and I
<v Speaker 2>would try to block my movement as much as possible.
<v Speaker 2>And what I mean by that, I would, you know,
<v Speaker 2>use underbrush or trees, or if there was a dry
<v Speaker 2>creek bed, take that or whatever. It's just kind of
<v Speaker 2>how it was taught to hunt. And so I would
<v Speaker 2>plot my way and I would go about forty yards
<v Speaker 2>and i'd stop and stand there ten fifteen minutes, very still,
<v Speaker 2>and uh, you know, looking for movement and sound some
<v Speaker 2>that kind of thing. Didn't see anything. I didn't hear anything.
<v Speaker 2>The swamps are usually loud and there's a lot of activity,
<v Speaker 2>but you know, when the weather's bad, it's it's usually quiet.
<v Speaker 2>So I didn't think anything about it. I got to
<v Speaker 2>the back end of the peninsula and I sat down
<v Speaker 2>there for about thirty forty minutes, didn't see anything. And
<v Speaker 2>I started my way back, and I plotted my track.
<v Speaker 2>I was going to go, and I saw there was
<v Speaker 2>a big oak tree. But in front of that oak tree,
<v Speaker 2>there was a low spot in the ground. It's basically
<v Speaker 2>just a mud puddle, like a ten by ten mud puddle.
<v Speaker 2>And I was going to go buy that mud puddle
<v Speaker 2>and stop at that oak tree. And I started my
<v Speaker 2>way and I got next to that mud puddle, and
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, this huge splash. I got my
<v Speaker 2>face sweat. I mean, it was a huge splash, and
<v Speaker 2>it scared the hell out of me. My first thought was,
<v Speaker 2>oh shit, alligator, you know. I looked, there was no gator.
<v Speaker 2>Then I thought, god, I must have walked up on
<v Speaker 2>a deer. And I looked and I saw no deer
<v Speaker 2>running off. Or then I thought wood ducks, and there
<v Speaker 2>was no wood ducks running off. And so I happened
<v Speaker 2>to look in the mud puddle and there was this big,
<v Speaker 2>half rotten pine limb about two feet long, a little
<v Speaker 2>bit bigger than my arm, you know, in the mud puddler.
<v Speaker 2>And I thought, oh, well, a squirrel must have been,
<v Speaker 2>you know, running across this dead limb, and it fell
<v Speaker 2>and I looked up and there was no pine tree.
<v Speaker 2>And about that time, another pine limb about the same
<v Speaker 2>size came flying by the left side of my head,
<v Speaker 2>and I mean with force, and it was so close, Miguel,
<v Speaker 2>if I would have been looking to the left, it
<v Speaker 2>would hit me in the face. And that startled the
<v Speaker 2>hell out of me, you know, And so you know,
<v Speaker 2>when you startled, you make that jump. And I went
<v Speaker 2>to turn to my right to look behind me, and
<v Speaker 2>at that instance something screamed and it felt like it
<v Speaker 2>was on top of me, and it was so loud.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I can't even tell you what it sounded
<v Speaker 2>like Miguel, but I can tell you what it felt like.
<v Speaker 2>I had never felt anything like that before in my life.
<v Speaker 2>It was almost as if I was like electrocuted or something.
<v Speaker 2>It went vibrated my entire body, and before I knew it,
<v Speaker 2>Miguel was in like a full run and I was
<v Speaker 2>headed to the value before my mind even could comprehend
<v Speaker 2>what was happening. I caught myself and I was in
<v Speaker 2>a full run, and I was like, oh my god.
<v Speaker 2>My mind started processing what was happening, and I was like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>this is not a flight or fight situation. Like this
<v Speaker 2>is a flight and fight situation. So I got about
<v Speaker 2>forty yards and I got to the value was on
<v Speaker 2>my left, and I got to the water, so I stopped.
<v Speaker 2>I always had a slug or buckshot in my pocket
<v Speaker 2>in case of hogs or gaiters or you know, running
<v Speaker 2>something hairy scary, and so I stopped and just instantly
<v Speaker 2>kicked out my squirrel loads and put those two heavy
<v Speaker 2>loads in and backed it up with the one last squirrel.
<v Speaker 2>And I looked behind me to see if I could
<v Speaker 2>see anything. Nothing, heard nothing. Then I was like, oh crap,
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna flank me. So you know, I looked to
<v Speaker 2>my left, you know, to my right, to make sure
<v Speaker 2>that nothing was flanking me. It wasn't, and so I
<v Speaker 2>took off and I ran all the way back to
<v Speaker 2>my car. Now, Miguel, it takes me a lot longer
<v Speaker 2>to tell you what happened. I mean, this happened in
<v Speaker 2>a matter of seconds. And like I said, I've had
<v Speaker 2>some scary incounters. I've had some really close up encounters
<v Speaker 2>with some pretty big, gnarly alligators, and I have never
<v Speaker 2>I've never been in a position where my mine didn't
<v Speaker 2>have time to process what was happening and to make
<v Speaker 2>a decision on what to do. My mind did not
<v Speaker 2>tell my body to run at all. It did it
<v Speaker 2>on its own, and it freaked me out. That isn't
<v Speaker 2>in my hunting and my camping. I hunted a couple
<v Speaker 2>of times after that with a group of people. Uh
<v Speaker 2>was uncomfortable. Uh. I tried camping one time after that, uncomfortable,
<v Speaker 2>and it completely changed my life. You know, And my
<v Speaker 2>kids weren't born, and my nephews weren't born. They they
<v Speaker 2>didn't know that guy used to be. They didn't know
<v Speaker 2>the woodsman that I used to be Yeah, they know
<v Speaker 2>I love to fish, but you know, and so you know,
<v Speaker 2>when I tell them this story, they're just you know,
<v Speaker 2>like yeah, yeah, you know, and they believe something happened.
<v Speaker 2>They think that something scared me, but they're really not,
<v Speaker 2>you know, believers in whatever. And so, you know, I
<v Speaker 2>got to thinking about some things that had happened in
<v Speaker 2>the seventies too, and I put all this and you know,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, then there's something out there in the seventies.
<v Speaker 2>It's on the same value. And we were fishing at
<v Speaker 2>night in a boat, running lines, and where we're at
<v Speaker 2>on this vayu on the west side of the Bayou,
<v Speaker 2>it's very remote and the road is very bad. And
<v Speaker 2>I was always told, hey, if you hear somebody hollering
<v Speaker 2>over there, whatever, you go help on them, because it's
<v Speaker 2>it's like an hour drive to a hospital or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>And so we were checking our lines and I heard somebody.
<v Speaker 2>It was like three point thirty four thirty in the
<v Speaker 2>morning and darken. I heard somebody screaming and yelling, and
<v Speaker 2>I took my spotlight shined over and there's this guy
<v Speaker 2>on the end of the pier yelling and screaming and
<v Speaker 2>waving his arms. So we motor over there and we
<v Speaker 2>pull up at the pier and he just jumps in
<v Speaker 2>the boat and says go. And so we did, you know,
<v Speaker 2>and we probably got one hundred and two hundred yards
<v Speaker 2>down the value, you know. And the guy was like, man,
<v Speaker 2>I was coming down there to meet my friend's hunting
<v Speaker 2>and he said, I hit something on the road. And
<v Speaker 2>he said, after I hit it, it got up on
<v Speaker 2>two legs and ran off and uh and he said,
<v Speaker 2>And I pulled up to the camp and none of
<v Speaker 2>my buddies are there, and I went to the door
<v Speaker 2>to go check the door, to sit at the doors
<v Speaker 2>unlocked and whatever this thing was followed me and it
<v Speaker 2>is attacking my truck. And you know, this was the seventies,
<v Speaker 2>and so I'm thinking, okay, this guy is tripping on
<v Speaker 2>some LSD or some mushrooms and having a bad trip.
<v Speaker 2>And my buddy was with me and he was like, well, maybe,
<v Speaker 2>you know, maybe it bear. You know, we don't have many,
<v Speaker 2>but there are some out here, and you know. So
<v Speaker 2>we took the guy back to our camp, and I mean,
<v Speaker 2>this guy was shaken up and he would not leave
<v Speaker 2>go back to his camp until well after daylight. And
<v Speaker 2>we carried him back and his buddies were there. Never
<v Speaker 2>heard anything else about it, you know, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>that's that's pretty weird. We didn't think much about it.
<v Speaker 2>We're young teenage kids, and oh, he must have hit
<v Speaker 2>a bear or something, or like I said, he was
<v Speaker 2>tripping out or something. You know. About a year after that,
<v Speaker 2>we were out there fishing again. We had grilled some
<v Speaker 2>hamburgers at the camp, and we had fished till about
<v Speaker 2>three o'clock in the morning. The fish quit biden. So
<v Speaker 2>we were going to lock the camp up and leave,
<v Speaker 2>and we did, and I got down the road. In
<v Speaker 2>this camp, you had to have a key to lock
<v Speaker 2>the door, and so I got down the road and
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't remember if I had locked the door. So
<v Speaker 2>we turned around, went back to the camp, and me
<v Speaker 2>and my buddy walked up to the door, and I
<v Speaker 2>had locked it, and he decided he want to coke.
<v Speaker 2>So I opened it up and went got a coke
<v Speaker 2>outher friderator, And right beside this camp and the steps
<v Speaker 2>where we walked up was this little old portable building,
<v Speaker 2>small portable building that was right next to it. And
<v Speaker 2>as I was locking the door, we heard this noise,
<v Speaker 2>and it was something breathing, but it sounded angry. It's
<v Speaker 2>like it was huffing and puffing, and it was loud,
<v Speaker 2>and it got both of our attention, and I looked
<v Speaker 2>at my buddy and and I looked at him and
<v Speaker 2>I said, don't run. And I mean I had my
<v Speaker 2>car was parked right there and it was running. We
<v Speaker 2>probably didn't have thirty feet to run to the car.
<v Speaker 2>And as soon as I told my buddy not to run,
<v Speaker 2>this thing let out a screen, very short screen, like
<v Speaker 2>a low to a high scream. But it vibrated. You
<v Speaker 2>just kind of like this thing that vibrated the hell
<v Speaker 2>out of me that was screened right behind me. And
<v Speaker 2>I turned and looked at my buddy was already in
<v Speaker 2>the car, and so I took off running and got
<v Speaker 2>in the car and we got the hell out of there,
<v Speaker 2>and you know, we laughed it off. We were like
<v Speaker 2>it was a you know, bear smelled our cooking and
<v Speaker 2>came up and you know, that's what it was. And
<v Speaker 2>we went back the next day looks see if we
<v Speaker 2>could find prints, but it's all pine forests and there's
<v Speaker 2>pine needles. We didn't we didn't see anything, you know,
<v Speaker 2>and we never had any more incidence, and I just
<v Speaker 2>chalked it off as being a bear. The bears don't
<v Speaker 2>make those noises, and it wasn't a bear. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know what it was. Now, fast forward it to the future.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, a couple of years, a couple
<v Speaker 2>of decades, I had a friend of mine that had
<v Speaker 2>a sighting about a mile from where I had my incidents.
<v Speaker 2>He was out fishing and there's a pipeline running through
<v Speaker 2>the woods there, and he happened to look over to
<v Speaker 2>the right and he saw a black sasquatch running across
<v Speaker 2>that pipeline into the woods. And that was about seven
<v Speaker 2>years ago. And then two weeks ago a neighbor of
<v Speaker 2>mine came and told me that he was down there,
<v Speaker 2>about a mile from where I had my incidences, and
<v Speaker 2>he was in a boat checking out an old duck
<v Speaker 2>mine back there. And it's just him and his girlfriend.
<v Speaker 2>They were just basically taking a boat, right and he
<v Speaker 2>got ready to leave, and there was a big splash
<v Speaker 2>and he thought it was a beaver, no big deal,
<v Speaker 2>and he turned around to crank the motor, and he
<v Speaker 2>saw this huge rock flying towards his boat, and he
<v Speaker 2>said it was at least a ten pound rock, and
<v Speaker 2>it landed right next to his boat. Freaked him out.
<v Speaker 2>He cranked the boat and got the hell out of
<v Speaker 2>there and said he couldn't wait to tell me about
<v Speaker 2>it because he knew of my story. So you know, basically,
<v Speaker 2>those are the strange things that I've had happened to
<v Speaker 2>me out here, And do you have any questions for me?
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for sharing all those experiences with me, and
<v Speaker 1>those were certainly spooky. I can't imagine what you felt
<v Speaker 1>like when you were duck hunting out there and you
<v Speaker 1>heard something walking in the swamp. And that's just like
<v Speaker 1>another world there with all the cypress trees, the gators,
<v Speaker 1>and just the entire habitat. It just seems like you've
<v Speaker 1>you're on a different planet.
<v Speaker 2>Almost, well, you know, Miguel, And I'll be honest with you.
<v Speaker 2>I mean I've I've hunted and fished in waiters my
<v Speaker 2>whole life, right, and so I know what someone sounds
<v Speaker 2>like in ankle deep water, in knee deep water, in
<v Speaker 2>thigh deep water, and and in waste deep water. Right.
<v Speaker 2>If it was a deer or a cow, they would
<v Speaker 2>have had to jump over those dead falls, right, This
<v Speaker 2>thing was stepping over them. You know, alligator and beavers
<v Speaker 2>and nutrient and otters. They really don't make any money
<v Speaker 2>noise when they're swimming. I mean, this was some one
<v Speaker 2>or something on two legs. And thinking about it even
<v Speaker 2>more me thinking of the ease that this thing, how
<v Speaker 2>easy he went through there. I could hear him stepping
<v Speaker 2>over the dead falls. But I don't think that was
<v Speaker 2>the first time he had ever taken that route. I
<v Speaker 2>think whoever this was, or whatever this was, knew where
<v Speaker 2>he was going because he went through there easily. And
<v Speaker 2>I mean it was treacherous. I mean, you know, and
<v Speaker 2>it gives me the creeps to this day. He really does.
<v Speaker 2>Uh uh and and and I never got over and
<v Speaker 2>I was just like, I'm not hunting there again. Something's wrong,
<v Speaker 2>you know. But it was definitely something someone or something
<v Speaker 2>in thigh deep water walking through there.
<v Speaker 1>It had been an unusual event because you immediately felt
<v Speaker 1>fear and dread and you knew that something wasn't right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And I felt that before I even I just
<v Speaker 2>heard the splashing. I felt that, honestly felt that before
<v Speaker 2>I realized it was some someone or or something on
<v Speaker 2>two legs walking. I mean, I instantly felt that. And
<v Speaker 2>I've never had that feeling ever before in the woods
<v Speaker 2>of a fear like that, even even when I've had
<v Speaker 2>scary encounters. Uh, I didn't feel like that. It was
<v Speaker 2>weird and and it was. It left a lasting impression
<v Speaker 2>on me, you know, as you can tell, I've never
<v Speaker 2>forgotten it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, And I feel like a person walking through
<v Speaker 1>that swamp would be in immediate danger with all the
<v Speaker 1>cotton mouths of gators and just the swampy water like
<v Speaker 1>you could easily drive.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, I mean the dead falls and this stuff.
<v Speaker 2>It was. It was so full of sunken I mean
<v Speaker 2>you could easily break an ankle, brink a leg, you know,
<v Speaker 2>fall in that cold water, and fill your waiters up.
<v Speaker 2>I mean there's just nothing good is going to come
<v Speaker 2>through waiting through there. I mean, it was very treacherous.
<v Speaker 2>And then you you know you're gonna step on alligator,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and there were some huge alligators in that pond,
<v Speaker 2>you know. So yeah, it just didn't make any sense
<v Speaker 2>at all. I mean it still doesn't.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, yeah, how far away from Cadile
<v Speaker 1>Lake was the pond?
<v Speaker 2>Oh one hundred yards?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, what side of Cadile Lake. Was this on the
<v Speaker 1>Texas side or the Louisiana side.
<v Speaker 2>Where I was stuck hunting was in Louisiana probably about
<v Speaker 2>two miles. And the incident where I had the limbstone
<v Speaker 2>on me, I was probably in Texas twenty yards. Honestly,
<v Speaker 2>I was right on the line. It's very hard to
<v Speaker 2>tell you if I was in Texas or Louisiana, but
<v Speaker 2>it was right there on the Texas and Louisiana line.
<v Speaker 2>So and if you look at BFRO, I actually reached
<v Speaker 2>out to b RO probably twenty years ago, and I
<v Speaker 2>never got a response. And you know, I really wanted
<v Speaker 2>to know if this guy that hit that thing had
<v Speaker 2>reached out because I've always wanted to talk to that guy,
<v Speaker 2>you know, And they never responded back. I never got
<v Speaker 2>anything back from him. But I looked at the BFRO
<v Speaker 2>and if you look in nineteen eighty seven or nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty a in Cattle Parish, Louisiana, there's a sighting and
<v Speaker 2>it's on black value of one coming across the levee
<v Speaker 2>and this gentleman was going to it was hunting the vayu,
<v Speaker 2>but he went to go to this pond because there's
<v Speaker 2>usually a lot of ducks on it. And I know
<v Speaker 2>exactly where this guy was at, and that siding is
<v Speaker 2>probably about eight miles from where my incidents occurred. So
<v Speaker 2>but that's the only thing on BFRO that I've seen
<v Speaker 2>that was in that area.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a spooky place, and I can't imagine what
<v Speaker 1>it's like being there at nighttime with all the wildlife zones.
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, I used to sleep out there as
<v Speaker 2>a kid on my own, and it's it's a it's
<v Speaker 2>a roar, I mean it is. It is not quiet
<v Speaker 2>at all with all the frogs and tree frogs and
<v Speaker 2>bullfrogs and the insects and everything. I mean, when the
<v Speaker 2>sun goes down, it is a roar, and but it's
<v Speaker 2>like a gray noise. It's very soothing. And uh, when
<v Speaker 2>I would camp, the quiet would wake me up, so
<v Speaker 2>like right before daylight, all the frogs and insects would
<v Speaker 2>just I guess they go to sleep and you'd have
<v Speaker 2>a pause and then the birds to start waking up,
<v Speaker 2>you know, And it was really pleasant to wake up to.
<v Speaker 2>But people that aren't from here get really freaked out
<v Speaker 2>when we go out there at night, you know, there
<v Speaker 2>it takes on a whole different world at night. I
<v Speaker 2>mean it's mysterious and and you know it's a very
<v Speaker 2>beautiful place, a very mysterious looking place. It's like stepping
<v Speaker 2>back into Jurassic Park. But at night it comes alive,
<v Speaker 2>it really does.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, oh yeah, I can only imagine. And your friend
<v Speaker 1>said that he hit something with his vehicle that took
<v Speaker 1>off on two feet.
<v Speaker 2>This wasn't a friend, It was just a gentleman that
<v Speaker 2>was on the other side of the value that was that,
<v Speaker 2>you know, was alerting to us that he needed our help.
<v Speaker 2>You know, we drove the boat over there to him,
<v Speaker 2>and he just jumped in the boat and was like,
<v Speaker 2>get out of here. And we gassed the boat and
<v Speaker 2>we went about one hundred yards. You know, we stopped
<v Speaker 2>the boat and like, what's going on guy, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I've never seen this guy before in my life. And
<v Speaker 2>he told us, you know, that he had something big
<v Speaker 2>and black. He ran across the road and he hit
<v Speaker 2>it and it got up and ran off on two legs,
<v Speaker 2>and that he had drove all the way to the
<v Speaker 2>camp and got out of his truck and went to
<v Speaker 2>his friends weren't there yet, and so he went to
<v Speaker 2>go see if the camp was unlocked, and when he
<v Speaker 2>got to the front door, that whatever this thing was
<v Speaker 2>that he hit, started attacking his truck. He happened to
<v Speaker 2>see our light out in the bayou that was not
<v Speaker 2>far from him, so he ran down to the pier
<v Speaker 2>and started hollering at us, and that's when we picked
<v Speaker 2>him up. The guy was shaken up, and I mean
<v Speaker 2>he refused to go back to that camp until well
<v Speaker 2>after daylight, so we had to stay up and we
<v Speaker 2>got him back and his buddies were there, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>we didn't go look at his truck or anything like that.
<v Speaker 2>We just said, man, okay, and the guy thanked this
<v Speaker 2>and we went on our way. But I've always wanted
<v Speaker 2>to talk to that guy. You know, I wished I
<v Speaker 2>would have asked him more, but you know, at the time,
<v Speaker 2>we weren't thinking bigfoot. I mean that just never crossed
<v Speaker 2>our mind. But yeah, I would love to talk to
<v Speaker 2>that guy. I really would. And I hope that if
<v Speaker 2>you hear here's this, that he reaches out to you
<v Speaker 2>and you give me his contact information, because I'd really
<v Speaker 2>love to talk to that guy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely, those are the type of reports that I'm
<v Speaker 1>looking for. And what they what do they call these
<v Speaker 1>creatures in your area. I mean it's pretty close to Falc, Arkansas,
<v Speaker 1>I mean not too far away, and they call it
<v Speaker 1>the Boggy Creek Monster. There is there a name that
<v Speaker 1>you guys use there, like the rugaroo or anything like that.
<v Speaker 2>Most of them call it the Falc Monster. You know,
<v Speaker 2>we're so close to Falc and you know, like I said,
<v Speaker 2>the very north end of the Bayou, it turns into
<v Speaker 2>a really deep swamp for miles and miles and miles
<v Speaker 2>deep deep swamp, and the creeks that go off that
<v Speaker 2>thing go straight into Arkansas and come off the watershed there.
<v Speaker 2>You know, we get a lot of rain up in Arkansas.
<v Speaker 2>It really affects the level of our lake because it
<v Speaker 2>all flows down. So, you know, like I said, twenty
<v Speaker 2>miles as the crow flies, that thing could come from
<v Speaker 2>Falcon be at Kadillac in four hours. You know. So
<v Speaker 2>I think everybody around here calls it the Falk Monster.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely. The experiences that I had here in my property,
<v Speaker 1>the sasquatch were relatively friendly. I mean they would do
<v Speaker 1>like ground stomps or break trees. But the stories I've
<v Speaker 1>heard from your area, they're pretty startling and I hear
<v Speaker 1>that in East Texas, these creatures are up to no good.
<v Speaker 1>What are what is your take on that?
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm going to tell you this thing was not
<v Speaker 2>throwing pebbles at me or pine cones, and this thing
<v Speaker 2>was not trying to chase me out of there. This
<v Speaker 2>thing is trying to knock my damn head off. I'm
<v Speaker 2>telling you. You know, for a long time, Miguel I thought, well,
<v Speaker 2>maybe there was a little one out there and whatever.
<v Speaker 2>And the more I think about it, I'm like, no,
<v Speaker 2>this thing watched me and watched how I was moving
<v Speaker 2>through the woods quietly and stealthy. I think he thought
<v Speaker 2>I was hunting him, and I think that he knew
<v Speaker 2>that I would shoot him, and I would have. I'm
<v Speaker 2>not gonna lie to you now. If he would have
<v Speaker 2>stepped out and walked away from me, no, I wouldn't
<v Speaker 2>have shot him. But if he would have stepped out
<v Speaker 2>from behind a tree or something and faced me off
<v Speaker 2>or came towards me, oh, I shot him, No doubt.
<v Speaker 2>In my mind, I would have shot it. And I
<v Speaker 2>think he knew that, and I think he was trying
<v Speaker 2>to take me out. He knew I had a gun,
<v Speaker 2>he knew I was dangerous, and he tried to take
<v Speaker 2>me out and separate me from that gun. And when
<v Speaker 2>he didn't do that, that's when he just yelled and screamed,
<v Speaker 2>and luckily my body just decided to get up and
<v Speaker 2>get out of there. And you know, if you look
<v Speaker 2>at the Boggy Creek Monster and how violent that thing was,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he put a guy in the hospital. These guys,
<v Speaker 2>these things around where we're at are not nice. They've
<v Speaker 2>got a history of you know, they're not throwing time comes.
<v Speaker 2>Like I said, my neighbor that think through a ten
<v Speaker 2>pound rock and it landed right beside his boat. You know,
<v Speaker 2>that's that's pretty scary. These things are aggressive, very aggressive.
<v Speaker 2>Every accounter that I've heard from here, unless it was
<v Speaker 2>just somebody sitting in the dare stand and happened to
<v Speaker 2>see it, you know, walking down a high line or
<v Speaker 2>something like that, it's not a friendly encounter. It's an aggressive,
<v Speaker 2>aggressive encounter.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely. I think the positive experiences that people have
<v Speaker 1>are with like juveniles, maybe females, but for the most part,
<v Speaker 1>I feel like, I don't know, like a big male
<v Speaker 1>or just males in general. They're just a completely different
<v Speaker 1>animal creature. Beast being whatever you want to call it.
<v Speaker 2>Well, this thing wasn't playing around with me. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>you know, people talk about mind speaking all this and
<v Speaker 2>all that, and I don't know, but I've always thought
<v Speaker 2>and I still feel this way, that that thing said,
<v Speaker 2>I am done with you. Don't you ever let me
<v Speaker 2>catch you out here again. And that's the way I
<v Speaker 2>took it. And I have never set foot on that
<v Speaker 2>land again. I don't go in the woods anymore by myself,
<v Speaker 2>and if I have to, I'm damn sure not going
<v Speaker 2>in the woods without a gun. And I go by
<v Speaker 2>that place fishing all the time where my incidents happen,
<v Speaker 2>and it just gives me the creeps. I mean, I
<v Speaker 2>fly by there, I'm getting the hell past that place.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want anything to do with that place. And
<v Speaker 2>you know, I give you kudos, man, You're brave. You know.
<v Speaker 2>You go to all these different places and look for
<v Speaker 2>evidence and all that stuff. Bro, I'm not doing that.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to see it. I don't want to
<v Speaker 2>be anywhere around it. Uh that's how that's how scared
<v Speaker 2>it I am with this thing. I was lucky to
<v Speaker 2>get out of there. I'm telling you, this thing meant
<v Speaker 2>business and uh, and I take it to heart and
<v Speaker 2>I've just never gone back.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolute, Yeah, I don't blame you. And anything that
<v Speaker 1>can throw a boulder like that is up to no
<v Speaker 1>good and you just have to imagine the strength that
<v Speaker 1>they have. And also like I've had terrifying experiences as well,
<v Speaker 1>and like in those areas, like I'm the same way.
<v Speaker 1>I want nothing to do with it. And yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 1>I guess I go looking for answers because I've had
<v Speaker 1>so many experiences and encounters, and I know a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people just don't believe me, even like bigfoot researchers
<v Speaker 1>or enthusiasts, like they will say, oh, one person cannot
<v Speaker 1>have that many experiences, And that's what gets on my
<v Speaker 1>nerves because like I've had so many that I feel
<v Speaker 1>like I can get evidence. But it seems like when
<v Speaker 1>you go out there looking for them, just not a
<v Speaker 1>whole lot happens.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 1>I do hear like occasional knocks or strange vocalizations or
<v Speaker 1>they're strange finds, but for the most part, like that
<v Speaker 1>hardcore activity just isn't happening anymore. So that kind of
<v Speaker 1>bothers me. So I'm out there looking for answers.
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, I've heard whoops, I've heard strange noises.
<v Speaker 2>Me and my son listened to something walking down a
<v Speaker 2>highlight down from our place, and he was probably nine
<v Speaker 2>or ten years old, and I called him outside. I said,
<v Speaker 2>listen to this. And it sounded like a primate, it did.
<v Speaker 2>And I mean that was twenty years ago, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And I've been out there fishing and been in the swamps.
<v Speaker 2>And one time I was out there and I heard
<v Speaker 2>some whoops and and it made me feel uncomfortable. I'm like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>I'll get out of here. And about that time, I
<v Speaker 2>hooked onto a really nice gutfish and I was fighting,
<v Speaker 2>and all of a sudden, this tree just came down
<v Speaker 2>in the volume on my right hand side, and it
<v Speaker 2>startled me, like oly crap. And I mean it wasn't
<v Speaker 2>fifteen seconds later one from the left came down into
<v Speaker 2>the funt. I got the fish in the boat and
<v Speaker 2>I got the hell out of there. Now, you know,
<v Speaker 2>that could have been the wind wasn't blowing. But we
<v Speaker 2>have what I call lazy beavers up here. They just
<v Speaker 2>don't chew a whole tree down, They eat the bark
<v Speaker 2>off around it and the bugs get into it and
<v Speaker 2>they fall, and then the beavers go get the tender
<v Speaker 2>parts of the tree off. And I have seen a
<v Speaker 2>tree just fall with no wind or anything like that. So,
<v Speaker 2>you know, things, a lot of things like that have happened.
<v Speaker 2>And I've heard me and my friend we're out fishing
<v Speaker 2>one time down in the swamps, and you know, I
<v Speaker 2>thought I heard a guy somebody yell his name and
<v Speaker 2>we were out in the middle of nowhere and from when,
<v Speaker 2>and that freaked us out. You know, there's a lot
<v Speaker 2>of strange things that have happened that I just can't say.
<v Speaker 2>You know, yeah, that was a big budd you know,
<v Speaker 2>it could have been a lot of other things. But
<v Speaker 2>once you have those instances, I think what happened, Miguel
<v Speaker 2>is a light bulb turns on and you start paying
<v Speaker 2>more attention than what somebody who hasn't had any experience does,
<v Speaker 2>And so I think that you probably recognize things that
<v Speaker 2>other people wouldn't. Does that make sense, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, Oh yeah, absolutely. And I'm constantly looking for sign
<v Speaker 1>and I run into strange things that just can't be explained.
<v Speaker 1>I feel like other people would just not even look
<v Speaker 1>at it or walk right past it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I agree, you know, And it's like that blue
<v Speaker 2>heron that alerted everything in the swamp that you know,
<v Speaker 2>there was a danger. And generally I would have reacted
<v Speaker 2>to that and I would have been more cures. For
<v Speaker 2>some reason, I wasn't. I would have been more curious
<v Speaker 2>as to what startled it, you know, and I would
<v Speaker 2>have investigated that a little bit, and I didn't for
<v Speaker 2>some reason. And I don't know. So you know, I
<v Speaker 2>was taught. You know, blue jays and crows and squirrels,
<v Speaker 2>even a little finches. I mean, they will ratch you
<v Speaker 2>out in the woods and they'll let everything know that
<v Speaker 2>you're there, and they'll warn them. And you know, the
<v Speaker 2>normal people that aunt woodsman or hunt, they don't even
<v Speaker 2>recognize that. And you know, going forward, when I'm out
<v Speaker 2>there fishing and I hear a blue heron, you know, alert,
<v Speaker 2>I'm an alert. I'm looking, you know, I'm looking on
<v Speaker 2>the banks, I'm looking and I'm like, oh, what is this?
<v Speaker 2>You know, But you know, normal people just they never
<v Speaker 2>were taught that, and they just don't understand it. You know,
<v Speaker 2>nature will tell you a lot of things if you
<v Speaker 2>just listen to it, and but you have to be
<v Speaker 2>an outdoorseman to know that stuff.
<v Speaker 1>So absolutely, the woods gives us signs and we have
<v Speaker 1>to pay attention to them. And yeah, blue heron flying
<v Speaker 1>off and squawking like that, that's a sign because when
<v Speaker 1>you walk through that swamp, you kick them up, and
<v Speaker 1>that's what they do. So something was moving through the area.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, Well, I mean they don't make that noise
<v Speaker 2>going from fishing spot to fishing spot. That's an alert.
<v Speaker 2>I mean that is their warning, warning, warning everybody there's
<v Speaker 2>danger out here. Right And like I said, blue jays
<v Speaker 2>do it, crows do it, squirrels will do it, and uh,
<v Speaker 2>ducks will do it. I mean, you know, they have
<v Speaker 2>their own call for a distressed call. Uh and uh,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and most people don't understand that and they
<v Speaker 2>don't know what that is. So you know, I think
<v Speaker 2>that you being out in the woods as much as
<v Speaker 2>you do and with the experiences you had, I think
<v Speaker 2>you just you're you're more in tune to listening to
<v Speaker 2>things like that, and uh, you're you're able to understand
<v Speaker 2>it and process it and uh make a decision on
<v Speaker 2>what it's what it's telling you, you know, And so
<v Speaker 2>I can see I'm sure if I was still out
<v Speaker 2>in the woods, I would probably have way more experiences
<v Speaker 2>than what I did because I'm more alert now and
<v Speaker 2>I would be paying more attention.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, absolutely. This activity makes you hyper sensitive, and
<v Speaker 1>it makes you look beyond owls and blue jays and
<v Speaker 1>crows going off. You hear things that other people would
<v Speaker 1>just dismiss and say, maybe that was a dog out
<v Speaker 1>in the distance or somebody yelling.
<v Speaker 2>Exactly, yeah, exactly exactly. And you know, I went on
<v Speaker 2>a hike in South Carolina where my sister, she lives
<v Speaker 2>in South Carolina, and we went on two hikes, and
<v Speaker 2>one hike we were going to a waterfall and there
<v Speaker 2>was just nobody there. We didn't have a gun, and
<v Speaker 2>I felt uncomfortable, like going in in the woods and
<v Speaker 2>they had bear there, you know. And and I heard
<v Speaker 2>a crow alerting as we were going down the trail
<v Speaker 2>and it freaked me out. I was scared to death.
<v Speaker 2>Now I didn't let my sister know I was scared.
<v Speaker 2>Thought I was scared to death. I was like, there's
<v Speaker 2>something out there and it was away from us, and
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, okay, there's a predator out there. He's alerting,
<v Speaker 2>and it scared me. I wanted to get the hell
<v Speaker 2>out of there. I'm not gonna lie to you. We
<v Speaker 2>went on a second hike and there was you know,
<v Speaker 2>hundreds of people on this It was a popular place,
<v Speaker 2>and I felt fine, but I didn't like being out
<v Speaker 2>there hearing that crowd alert. I did not like it
<v Speaker 2>at all. So you know, the skies that are used
<v Speaker 2>to be in the woods just know how to hear
<v Speaker 2>that stuff.
<v Speaker 1>I guess, yeah, absolutely, And then the best way to
<v Speaker 1>combat what you've experienced is to get back out in
<v Speaker 1>the woods. But I definitely understand how you feel like
<v Speaker 1>I've lost my I don't know, my drive to want
<v Speaker 1>to go fishing and hunting. Like I still go, but
<v Speaker 1>I don't get up like super early and get out there,
<v Speaker 1>and I don't stay super late, and like, if I
<v Speaker 1>experience something, it's just like, well, I'm not going back there.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, you just have to use discernment because I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, it'll really mess you up. And I feel
<v Speaker 1>like when I don't know, like I used to see
<v Speaker 1>like a big buck and you know it, like it'd
<v Speaker 1>have like this dopamine rush to it, and I'd want
<v Speaker 1>to go back out there and keep hitting it hard.
<v Speaker 1>But now when I see a big buck, it's just like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that was a huge deer, and that's about the end
<v Speaker 1>of it. And I'm not just like chasing them non
<v Speaker 1>stop to get that big deer. And I feel like
<v Speaker 1>having these sasquatch encounters did that, because it's like a
<v Speaker 1>whole other level. And now all the things that really
<v Speaker 1>used to motivate me, like a huge bass or a
<v Speaker 1>big buck, just don't do it anymore for me. And
<v Speaker 1>it kind of sucks.
<v Speaker 2>No, I agree, No, it really does. And me looking
<v Speaker 2>back at how much that changed my life. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>how much time I spent in the woods and the
<v Speaker 2>Bayous from a child to a young man. I mean
<v Speaker 2>I probably had more wood experience than men half my
<v Speaker 2>age that were outdoorsmen. I mean I spent. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>that was my life and I loved it. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>I was thinking back. I loved camping out in the
<v Speaker 2>swamps and that noise at night it was so you know,
<v Speaker 2>I know it sounds crazy, but it was. It was
<v Speaker 2>just peaceful and the quiet would wake you up, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And I loved getting up and making breakfast on the
<v Speaker 2>fire and all that. And I have there's no way
<v Speaker 2>in hell I'm doing that again. Now. Now, I might
<v Speaker 2>do it if we had ten people out there, but
<v Speaker 2>I'm not doing it with me and somebody else. And
<v Speaker 2>I'm not damn sure not doing it by myself. Uh,
<v Speaker 2>you know. And I have no desire whatsoever to chomp
<v Speaker 2>through the woods and go hunting and like to walk
<v Speaker 2>to a deerstand, you know, an hour or four daylight
<v Speaker 2>in the in the dark. No way in hell I'm
<v Speaker 2>doing that, No way.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, no, for sure. There's a lot of YouTube
<v Speaker 1>channels that I watch, whether it's like people canoeing deep
<v Speaker 1>in the Canadian wilderness or these young gals that are
<v Speaker 1>deep in the Ozarks kayaking and camping all the time.
<v Speaker 1>You know, they got a YouTube channel, so that's all
<v Speaker 1>they do. And it's like they have no idea what's
<v Speaker 1>out there. And I'm sure they've heard about it, but
<v Speaker 1>they just don't believe. I guess if you don't believe,
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't make it real. But I feel bad for
<v Speaker 1>them today that they camp in their tent and they
<v Speaker 1>hear something stomping around their tent and just huffing and puffing,
<v Speaker 1>and you know, I'd hate for things to go wrong
<v Speaker 1>because they are out there and I just don't feel
<v Speaker 1>like everyone's going to experience it even in their lifetime,
<v Speaker 1>but they are out there and it will happen to someone.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And the things the thing is is they've probably
<v Speaker 2>they've probably experience it's something, but didn't realize it. You know,
<v Speaker 2>there was probably noises out there that they didn't know
<v Speaker 2>what it was, and they just passed it off as that, right.
<v Speaker 2>You know. I think I had just tons of weird
<v Speaker 2>noises and things like that in the woods that I
<v Speaker 2>couldn't explain even give a second thought about. And so
<v Speaker 2>these people are out there and they're probably having in
<v Speaker 2>experiences and they don't even know. Is my thought on that.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, for sure. There's a video that I watched
<v Speaker 1>on YouTube the channels called Rachel Slash Solo Traveler, and
<v Speaker 1>she was out there with their dog and she said
<v Speaker 1>she was camping this is deep in the Ozark cause
<v Speaker 1>I think off like the Buffalo River. But her dog
<v Speaker 1>was just going nuts one night and she's like, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know why he was going nuts. It's kind of weird,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm thinking bigfoot, but I mean it could have
<v Speaker 1>been like a coyote or a fox. But that's that's
<v Speaker 1>a red flag for Sasquatch. When your dog just loses it.
<v Speaker 2>You trust your dog. I mean you may not be
<v Speaker 2>able to trust people, but if your dog is on alert,
<v Speaker 2>there there's something wrong and it's sensing danger and and
<v Speaker 2>you're a fool if you do not pay attention to
<v Speaker 2>your dog. Your dog is not gonna lie to you,
<v Speaker 2>you know. So, yeah, she there there was a there
<v Speaker 2>there was something out there that was that dog since
<v Speaker 2>was a danger or he wouldn't act it that way.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, absolutely, especially off the Buffalo River. There's been
<v Speaker 1>a lot of reports there. And yeah, your area has
<v Speaker 1>had a lot of reports in the past too. Like
<v Speaker 1>I said, I talked to a gentleman the other day
<v Speaker 1>and that's pretty much the exact area that he was
<v Speaker 1>talking about where you reported your experience as at So
<v Speaker 1>I'm not I don't think it was Cadillaic, but pretty close.
<v Speaker 1>I mean the Texas or Texas Louisiana line.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well if it, you know, it probably wasn't far
<v Speaker 2>at all. And like I said, I mean fALS only
<v Speaker 2>you know, through the woods. It's only twenty miles from us.
<v Speaker 2>So you know, when people think about oh, you know Louisiana,
<v Speaker 2>Texas Arkansas border. I mean we're just right there altogether.
<v Speaker 2>I mean it's not far at all. So yeah, there's
<v Speaker 2>And like I said, since I've come back home and
<v Speaker 2>talking to other people, and you know, sometimes I'll bring
<v Speaker 2>up the subject or they just may bring up the subject,
<v Speaker 2>which is really weird because back in the day, nobody
<v Speaker 2>talked of that. I'm hearing more and more stories of,
<v Speaker 2>like I said, my dad, this happened to my dad,
<v Speaker 2>This happened to my brother, this happened to me. And
<v Speaker 2>it's a lot. It is a lot. There's a lot
<v Speaker 2>of activity here.
<v Speaker 1>No, yeah, for sure. And when you were being flanked,
<v Speaker 1>what do you think their intentions were? And do you
<v Speaker 1>think there was more than one?
<v Speaker 2>I think there was just one. And I truly felt
<v Speaker 2>that he thought I was hunting him, and I think
<v Speaker 2>he was trying to take me out, I really do.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, if that pine limb would have been another
<v Speaker 2>quarter of an inch, I mean that thing had to
<v Speaker 2>weigh seven pounds and it was thrown with forces that
<v Speaker 2>they would have knocked it could have killed me. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it definitely would have knocked me out. I mean this thing,
<v Speaker 2>he wasn't playing with me. He was aggressive and I
<v Speaker 2>think he was trying to take me out. I think
<v Speaker 2>that he felt like he was in danger and he was.
<v Speaker 2>Because I'm not gonna lie to tell you, I would
<v Speaker 2>have shot it. If I would have seen it and
<v Speaker 2>it stepped out and we had a stare down, I
<v Speaker 2>would have shot it, no question in my mind. Probably
<v Speaker 2>not the smartest thing to do, but I would have.
<v Speaker 2>And I think that it knew that, and I think
<v Speaker 2>he was trying to separate me from that gun. I
<v Speaker 2>really do.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, And your typical bigfoot researcher would say, oh,
<v Speaker 1>they were interacting with you, but I feel like they
<v Speaker 1>were hunting you. That's what they're doing. They are predators.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, these things are a super predator, that's what
<v Speaker 1>I call them. And a lot of the experiences that
<v Speaker 1>I've had, I feel like I was being hunted. I
<v Speaker 1>mean I can't I can't say that they haven't interacted
<v Speaker 1>with me, but I feel like when they do interact,
<v Speaker 1>they're just toying with you, like they want to make
<v Speaker 1>you feel crazy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, this thing, like I said, this thing wasn't
<v Speaker 2>playing around. And like I said, if that if either
<v Speaker 2>one of those limbs would have hitten me, it definitely
<v Speaker 2>would have taken me off my feet. I mean, I
<v Speaker 2>know it hit me in the head. It would have
<v Speaker 2>knocked me out, at least knocked me out. I truly
<v Speaker 2>think he was trying to separate me from the gun,
<v Speaker 2>and I think if he would have hit me and
<v Speaker 2>separated me from the gun, I would have been screwed.
<v Speaker 2>The fact that he missed is when he decided to
<v Speaker 2>take another approach and do that scream and it worked,
<v Speaker 2>you know, And that worked. I got the hell out
<v Speaker 2>of there and never came back. So I, you know, I,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I don't want to scare people from exploring
<v Speaker 2>this beautiful place that we've got here and getting out
<v Speaker 2>in the woods and doing their thing. You know. I
<v Speaker 2>just think that they need to be aware where these
<v Speaker 2>incidents happened so they can be kind of like prepared
<v Speaker 2>for the unexpected, you know, because I surely wasn't. And
<v Speaker 2>you know, I think the more people and the more
<v Speaker 2>people that have stories come out and tell their stories
<v Speaker 2>on where these you know, incidents happened, may you may
<v Speaker 2>be able to stop a missing for one one type thing,
<v Speaker 2>you know, because I truly do not think that these
<v Speaker 2>things are friendly at all.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I would agree with that and a lot of
<v Speaker 1>the experiences that you had. Did you have a firearm
<v Speaker 1>on you?
<v Speaker 2>Yes? Every time? Yes.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Now, when I was duck hunting and that thing came
<v Speaker 2>through that ticket out in that pond, I don't think
<v Speaker 2>he knew I was there. You know, I was sitting down,
<v Speaker 2>I was brushers all around me. I was still quiet.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think the thing you ever knew I was there.
<v Speaker 2>Now the second one, Yeah, this thing knew I was
<v Speaker 2>there and you tried to take me out. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I had a gun with me every time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. A lot of the listeners always say, if you
<v Speaker 1>want to see one, don't take a firearm, But I
<v Speaker 1>feel like I've had a lot of experiences with one,
<v Speaker 1>and I feel like that that triggers them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I truly think that this thing watching. And what
<v Speaker 2>trips me out the most is this was a peninsula
<v Speaker 2>right that I was hunting, and I zigzag going in
<v Speaker 2>one way and then coming back out, I zig zag
<v Speaker 2>the other way. So I covered the entire peninsula, right.
<v Speaker 2>I never saw anything. I never smelt anything, And that's
<v Speaker 2>what really freaks me out. This land's flat, you know,
<v Speaker 2>very little underbrush. The fact that I did not see
<v Speaker 2>This thing is what freaks me out. And I had
<v Speaker 2>to walk past this thing at least twice. I had
<v Speaker 2>to walk past this thing at least twice. And I
<v Speaker 2>think it was watching me, going, oh shit, this guy's
<v Speaker 2>hunting me, you know, because I was probably moving like
<v Speaker 2>he does, you know, I was using things to block
<v Speaker 2>my movement and you know, walking as quietly as I could,
<v Speaker 2>with as little movement as I could. And I think
<v Speaker 2>the thing thought I was hunting it. I really do.
<v Speaker 2>But the fact that I did not see it blows
<v Speaker 2>my mind. I don't know where he was at. I
<v Speaker 2>have no idea. It's not like there was Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 2>not like there's any hills or anything like that for
<v Speaker 2>him to hide behind or anything. His flat, very little underbrush,
<v Speaker 2>you know. And the trees are you know, not monster trees.
<v Speaker 2>But if there was something as wide as me, it
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't fit behind one of those trees. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>and and being the seasoned hunter I was, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I was always looking for anomalies. You know, why is
<v Speaker 2>this piechia underbrush lighter or darker than the other one, Well,
<v Speaker 2>it's probably because there's a deer standing behind it, you know,
<v Speaker 2>or or whatever. So you know, I was my whole
<v Speaker 2>the whole time I was out there, I was looking
<v Speaker 2>for anomalies. I didn't see any. And that really freaks
<v Speaker 2>me out that I had to walk past this thing
<v Speaker 2>twice and I never saw it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's mind blowing how they're so large and they
<v Speaker 1>can hide so well, and it's almost like navy seals.
<v Speaker 1>You don't know they're there until it's already too.
<v Speaker 2>Late, exactly exactly. I mean, yeah, but you know, that's
<v Speaker 2>the biggest thing, you know. And smell No, I smelled nothing.
<v Speaker 2>That smelled like a fresh rain. And I'm always paying
<v Speaker 2>attention to smells because we have a lot of cotton
<v Speaker 2>snakes and you can smell them before you see them,
<v Speaker 2>you know. And this was still warm, and so I
<v Speaker 2>was paying attention to the smells of the forest because
<v Speaker 2>the last thing I want to do is step on
<v Speaker 2>the cotton mouth or copperhead or a rattlesnake. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm sorry, a wet deer smells like a wet deer.
<v Speaker 2>You can smell them. But I smelled nothing, I heard nothing,
<v Speaker 2>I saw nothing, and then this thing attacked out of nowhere, terrifying.
<v Speaker 2>I got goosebumps on me right now. I mean it
<v Speaker 2>was terrifying.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they ambushed you, or it ambushed you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>What do you think these things are?
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, I've been looking into it, and I
<v Speaker 2>don't think they're an ape. I think they're more humanoid.
<v Speaker 2>I think they're older. They've been around forever if you
<v Speaker 2>look at you know all. You know, I believe the Indians,
<v Speaker 2>you know, they lived off the land. They lived you know,
<v Speaker 2>for the land, they respected the land, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>every tribe has these stories of these beings. And I
<v Speaker 2>think they're more humanoid than they are a primate. And
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, who knows, I don't know, but
<v Speaker 2>it's my thought. I think they're too smart just to
<v Speaker 2>be some monkey running around in the woods. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>these things are smart and they're dangerous, and I think
<v Speaker 2>they're way smarter than you're a chimpanzee or an orangutang
<v Speaker 2>or a gorilla. And not that those things are dumb.
<v Speaker 2>They're pretty intelligent animal as far as animals go. But
<v Speaker 2>I think this thing is highly intelligent and more humanoid
<v Speaker 2>than anything else. And you know a lot of people,
<v Speaker 2>you know go with the uh, you know, it can morephout,
<v Speaker 2>you know, from one place to the other and things
<v Speaker 2>like that. You know, I don't believe that, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I believe, you know, people take nature for for granted.
<v Speaker 2>They think they know everything about nature, you know, but
<v Speaker 2>you look at things like like just a chameleon lizard, right,
<v Speaker 2>I was looking at one on more porch this morning,
<v Speaker 2>turns from green to brown. I mean, how amazing is that?
<v Speaker 2>How does he do that? And look at how low
<v Speaker 2>in the food chain that thing is? You know, what
<v Speaker 2>do you think The first person I ever saw a
<v Speaker 2>lizard turned from green to brown thought, you know, oh
<v Speaker 2>my god, the world's coming to an end, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And you know the same thing with like fireflies. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>what in the world. I mean, nature is amazing and
<v Speaker 2>we don't know everything. You know. People think that because
<v Speaker 2>we're humans, that we know everything about nature, and I
<v Speaker 2>don't think we really have scratched the surface of how
<v Speaker 2>powerful nature is. And so I believe it's a true,
<v Speaker 2>actual living animal. And I think it's more humanoid than
<v Speaker 2>the night is my thought.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a good theory. And it seems like the
<v Speaker 1>professionals in this subject know the least amount of information
<v Speaker 1>about them. Because I was watching monster quests, I think
<v Speaker 1>it was a Monster Quest or maybe some other show
<v Speaker 1>like Fighting Bigfoot, but I'm pretty sure it was Monster Quests.
<v Speaker 1>And they had like some scientists on there, and they said,
<v Speaker 1>there's just simply not enough food to support a creature
<v Speaker 1>of this size out there, and there's not enough land
<v Speaker 1>out there for them to hide. And these are like
<v Speaker 1>scientists and professionals. It's like, what, Like I don't believe that, Like,
<v Speaker 1>how does a grizzly bear get to be a grizzly bear?
<v Speaker 1>Or No, I mean, like how do they get that big?
<v Speaker 1>Obviously there's enough food out there and these things?
<v Speaker 2>How did how did some how did man survive out
<v Speaker 2>there back in the day? I mean the Indians survived
<v Speaker 2>out there, the settlers survived out there. I mean you know,
<v Speaker 2>the mountain men survived out there. They had to have
<v Speaker 2>a lot of calories and stuff like this. We were
<v Speaker 2>able to do it, you know, if we were able
<v Speaker 2>to do it, and a bear can do it, you know,
<v Speaker 2>and a mountain lion can do it, and a wolf
<v Speaker 2>and a coyote, he can do it. Why you know
<v Speaker 2>that that's crazy. There's plenty of things to eat out there,
<v Speaker 2>and and for them to call themselves scientists and say
<v Speaker 2>something like that, it makes no sense, no common sense.
<v Speaker 2>I think a lot of times they you should use
<v Speaker 2>more and sensing than what they do, just saying it's
<v Speaker 2>my thought on it.
<v Speaker 1>No, Yeah, I agree, And especially in your area. There's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of food sourses out there, whether it's deer, fish, gators,
<v Speaker 1>and all kinds of critters.
<v Speaker 2>That we got. This lake that I'm on has the
<v Speaker 2>most species of fish of any other lake in America.
<v Speaker 2>It's got the most amount of migratory birds than any
<v Speaker 2>other place in America. And we've got river otters, We've
<v Speaker 2>got beavers, We've got neutral we've got mink. You know,
<v Speaker 2>we got an occasional cougar. We got alligators, we got amibills,
<v Speaker 2>we got raccoons, we got turkeys, we got really bad
<v Speaker 2>problem with the hogs down here. Then you have the deer,
<v Speaker 2>and then you have an occasional bear. I mean there's
<v Speaker 2>in squirrels galore and rabbits galore. I mean I used
<v Speaker 2>to go camping as a kid and go camp all
<v Speaker 2>weekend and I took no food with me. I took
<v Speaker 2>a fishing pole and a twenty two and I great,
<v Speaker 2>you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, And I feel like even if the economy
<v Speaker 1>collapsed then people started shooting all the deer and all
<v Speaker 1>the critters. I feel like these things would just start
<v Speaker 1>eating people and they'd still be able to survive.
<v Speaker 2>Well, if you listen to that stuff that happens up
<v Speaker 2>in Alaska, I think that I think that happened a lot,
<v Speaker 2>you know, with all those people missing in Alaska never found,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and those stories of the Hairyman up there
<v Speaker 2>are terrifying. I mean, that thing is not not friendly
<v Speaker 2>at all. It is a predator.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, And a lot of the stories I've heard
<v Speaker 1>from East Texas kind of mirror what's going on in Alaska.
<v Speaker 1>Do you guys have missing people reports out there where
<v Speaker 1>people aren't just vanished and are never found again.
<v Speaker 2>We do from time to time. And there was a lady, uh,
<v Speaker 2>I guess five or six years ago that probably lived
<v Speaker 2>through the woods three miles from me, just completely vanished, disappeared.
<v Speaker 2>They found her, you know, her purse and her cell
<v Speaker 2>phone and stuff at home. They have never found hide
<v Speaker 2>and no hair of that woman never. Now does that
<v Speaker 2>mean that you know it wasn't some bad guy, you know,
<v Speaker 2>some bad people got her. No, but uh, you know
<v Speaker 2>that's concerned me. That's really close to home, you know.
<v Speaker 2>And and now I'm leaning more towards, you know, a
<v Speaker 2>bad person than I am a big foot. But hey,
<v Speaker 2>you it's the woods and it's right there where you
<v Speaker 2>know a lot of stuff that's happening, So you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's not out of the out of the whelm. It's
<v Speaker 2>a possibility because they obviously haven't come to any conclusion
<v Speaker 2>because there's never been any rest or anything else. I
<v Speaker 2>mean there's still wanted posters, you know, throughout town for
<v Speaker 2>information and things like that. So yeah, I mean it's
<v Speaker 2>rare that we have something like that, but it does happen.
<v Speaker 2>It does happen from time to time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely, Well, you know they're out there. You know
<v Speaker 1>they've stalked you and flanked you. I mean, what else
<v Speaker 1>is next? I Mean, there's a reason why they're stalking you,
<v Speaker 1>and I feel like it's more than just to scare
<v Speaker 1>you out of the area, to get you out of
<v Speaker 1>the territory. I mean, if they're stalking you like a predator,
<v Speaker 1>then that's exactly what they're doing, is hunting this guy.
<v Speaker 2>This thing wasn't trying to scare me. This thing was
<v Speaker 2>trying to take me out. There's no doubt in my
<v Speaker 2>mind about that. I mean, if he had hit me
<v Speaker 2>with one of those logs, I'd have been done. And
<v Speaker 2>he wasn't trying to miss me. Nobody could throw I mean,
<v Speaker 2>the greatest baseball pitcher and in pro sports could not
<v Speaker 2>miss me by that intentionally miss me by that small amount.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know it is, Uh, this thing was,
<v Speaker 2>this thing was trying to hurt me. There's no doubt
<v Speaker 2>in my mind.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely, Okay, do you have anything else that you'd
<v Speaker 1>like to share? Any other experiences that you can think of?
<v Speaker 2>Now that's that's about all I've got, And uh, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate you listening to me. And I hope
<v Speaker 2>the guy or the family of the guy that hit
<v Speaker 2>that thing on the road and and we saved him,
<v Speaker 2>got him off the pier. If you know who that person,
<v Speaker 2>anybody listening to this knows who that person is, please
<v Speaker 2>have them reach out to Miguel, and Miguel you reach
<v Speaker 2>out to me, because I would really love to talk
<v Speaker 2>to this guy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, and hopefully someone does, and hopefully hopefully this
<v Speaker 1>report finds him or somebody who's heard his story. And yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'll definitely put you in touch with him.
<v Speaker 2>Awesome. That is great, and you know, I appreciate your time.
<v Speaker 2>I really do. We go.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, you did an excellent job at describing your encounters
<v Speaker 1>and experiences, and I felt like I was right there
<v Speaker 1>in the swamps with you.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm sorry that it was at length and I
<v Speaker 2>went into as much detail as I did, but I
<v Speaker 2>wanted to try to explain it the best that I could,
<v Speaker 2>and I hope I did.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Yeah, you did excellent. And if you experience anything
<v Speaker 1>else in the future, if you encounter these things later
<v Speaker 1>on in life, definitely feel free to reach out to me.
<v Speaker 2>Definitely, will Miguel, I definitely will.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, Mike, well, you have an excellent day and
<v Speaker 1>I will talk with you later.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Okay, thanks Bud yep, thank you.
<v Speaker 1>By what James experience in the Cattle Lake region isn't
<v Speaker 1>just unusual, It's a pattern across Louisiana. Hunters and fishermen
<v Speaker 1>continue reporting the same chilling behaviors. For James, those nights
<v Speaker 1>in the Bayou changed everything. He no longer sees the
<v Speaker 1>wilderness as empty. He knows that somewhere beyond the tree line,
<v Speaker 1>something massive is watching. And while most people will never
<v Speaker 1>believe him. Those who have stood in the darkness and
<v Speaker 1>heard that scream, they know. If you've had a bigfoot encounter,
<v Speaker 1>especially in Louisiana, reach out and share your story. Every
<v Speaker 1>voice helps reveal the truth behind what's stalking the Deep South.
<v Speaker 1>All right, that's all we have for now, and I
<v Speaker 1>appreciate everyone for listening and your ongoing support. Until the
<v Speaker 1>next one. You guys, be safe out in the forest.