Hunter Face to Face With a 10-Foot Sasquatch in South Carolina | This Thing Was Massive!

<v Speaker 1>Welcome back to Sasquatch Theory, where real people share their
<v Speaker 1>real encounters. Tonight, we're heading deep into South Carolina for
<v Speaker 1>a chilling story from James. While deer hunting from his stand,
<v Speaker 1>James expected white Tail to walk through the woods. Instead,
<v Speaker 1>he locked eyes with a hulking ten foot sasquatch, glowing
<v Speaker 1>red eyes staring back at him. He describes bone snapping,
<v Speaker 1>limb breaks, an awful stench, and the eerie feeling that
<v Speaker 1>this creature was laughing at him. Stay tuned, you don't
<v Speaker 1>want to miss this face to face encounter. I encountered
<v Speaker 1>these creatures years ago and the memory of their presence
<v Speaker 1>still haunts me to this day. I just wonder where
<v Speaker 1>they came from and why they were in the area.
<v Speaker 1>I also wonder if I, buy chance, snuck up on them,
<v Speaker 1>or if they purposely revealed themselves to me. There's so
<v Speaker 1>many questions that will never be answered, and it's just
<v Speaker 1>a breath of fresh air being able to speak to
<v Speaker 1>other like minded people who have encountered these same beings
<v Speaker 1>in the forest. If you guys can like the video,
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<v Speaker 1>dive straight into james terrifying bigfoot encounter from the state
<v Speaker 1>of South Carolina. James, Welcome to Sasquatch Theory. How are
<v Speaker 1>you doing today?
<v Speaker 2>I'm doing good, Miguel, How are you, sir?
<v Speaker 1>I am doing. Thank you so much for asking, James,
<v Speaker 1>if you would tell me a little bit about yourself,
<v Speaker 1>where you're from, and your experiences from the very beginning. Please.
<v Speaker 2>I am from a little small town called Kershaw, South Carolina,
<v Speaker 2>born and raised, grew up on a farm. Me and
<v Speaker 2>my entire family always hunted, stayed in the woods, and
<v Speaker 2>grew our own food. And we still knew society existed
<v Speaker 2>outside of it, but you know, we were just country people.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I bet that's a nice life to live. And yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it sounds like a really cool area. James, what happened
<v Speaker 1>with your first experience, if you would put me in
<v Speaker 1>your shoes and guide me through the entire thing.
<v Speaker 2>I guess a little background is kind of necessary. My
<v Speaker 2>uncle actually owns turkey barns, and he bought a huge
<v Speaker 2>piece of property, probably two hundred acres, and they harvested
<v Speaker 2>turkeys every year. And we used to go up just
<v Speaker 2>for fun, my cousins and I, and we would use
<v Speaker 2>coyotes that were trying to get into the barn and
<v Speaker 2>attack and this and that. And you know, we noticed
<v Speaker 2>some big deer around here. We call them swamp deer.
<v Speaker 2>They're really dark and really big. And like I said,
<v Speaker 2>my entire family we've been hunting our entire life, and
<v Speaker 2>we eat dear meat. You know, it's a part of
<v Speaker 2>a part of our diet down here. It's one of
<v Speaker 2>the staples. So we decided to take the excavator and
<v Speaker 2>cut us out a little hunting spot back there behind
<v Speaker 2>the barns. I graduated high school in ninety five, so
<v Speaker 2>this had to be ninety six, ninety seven, and hunting
<v Speaker 2>season here comes in in September, pold, very very cold.
<v Speaker 2>I would drive to the barns and we all had
<v Speaker 2>a habit of turning your headlights off before you got
<v Speaker 2>to the barn, because I don't know if it's actually
<v Speaker 2>true or not, but they say turkeys will stack up
<v Speaker 2>on the light, so they will actually pack into the
<v Speaker 2>corner and kill themselves. Everybody knew that. You know, when
<v Speaker 2>you drive by the barns, turn your headlights off. So
<v Speaker 2>that was our habit. We all had a tree lounge
<v Speaker 2>tree stand. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that.
<v Speaker 2>It's not like a stand up, but it is a
<v Speaker 2>two piece that you climb the tree in and you
<v Speaker 2>kind of get in and sit back. Kind of reminds
<v Speaker 2>you of a recliner, very very comfortable. So yeah, this
<v Speaker 2>is a really really cold morning in September, right after
<v Speaker 2>right after deer season opened. My birthday's the thirteenth. The
<v Speaker 2>deer season opens on the fifteenth. All of my family
<v Speaker 2>runs dogs, and I've always been a still hunter because
<v Speaker 2>I've always liked the quiet of the woods and watching
<v Speaker 2>the squirrels play and just observing nature for the most part.
<v Speaker 2>Went out that that evening. This was right or that morning, sorry,
<v Speaker 2>this was right before daybreak. You're always really quiet, you know.
<v Speaker 2>We made sure our hunting clothes never were washed, and
<v Speaker 2>you know, the bright smelling flower stuff, and you kind
<v Speaker 2>of leave a little trail of urine behind you with
<v Speaker 2>like deer urin and the drops, and it kind of
<v Speaker 2>mask your smell going into the woods. You know, That's
<v Speaker 2>just the way we were taught as kids. Got in
<v Speaker 2>the stand. I sat there for a while, probably probably
<v Speaker 2>thirty forty five minutes nothing, and then as the sun
<v Speaker 2>starts to come up, this when you start seeing the activity.
<v Speaker 2>I started hearing the coyotes make their little howling noises.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like a crying child. It's really weird. But
<v Speaker 2>at the same time, if you hear it enough, you
<v Speaker 2>get used to it. You know what it is. They
<v Speaker 2>started talking back and forth and you listen to that,
<v Speaker 2>and little squirrels playing on the ground and everything starting
<v Speaker 2>to move. Nature is starting to come to life. I
<v Speaker 2>guess it's the easiest way to say it. And I
<v Speaker 2>heard the loudest tree pop I've ever heard in my life,
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, wow, that was a dead branch
<v Speaker 2>that fell. And then it happened again, and then it
<v Speaker 2>happened again. And I'm looking over in the corner to
<v Speaker 2>see what I can see, and I really can't see anything.
<v Speaker 2>And like I said, I forgot about this until I
<v Speaker 2>think you had what was his name, rich That was
<v Speaker 2>on or Rick, one of the two. I'm not sure,
<v Speaker 2>but until hearing him talking about the eyes is what
<v Speaker 2>made my brain recall this entire thing. Kettle flashlight with me.
<v Speaker 2>I always carried a flashlight for the walk in or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>You kind of keep it down to your chest so
<v Speaker 2>all you can really see is the ground. I started
<v Speaker 2>looking around for the trees that were breaking, and I'm
<v Speaker 2>like that, that's not right. You know something, something seems
<v Speaker 2>off and I shine the light over probably thirty degrees
<v Speaker 2>off to my right where the Turkey Barnes would be,
<v Speaker 2>and that is the first thing I seen something. The
<v Speaker 2>eyes looked like they were on fire, and I was like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>I've seen doll guys. I've seen you know, coyotes, I've
<v Speaker 2>seen the year. I know what that looks like. I've
<v Speaker 2>never seen this. And it took my brain a second.
<v Speaker 2>They're registered and I was like, they're forward facing. Ford
<v Speaker 2>facing is a predator, you know, right and left pray
<v Speaker 2>more vision. I thought about it for a second. I
<v Speaker 2>was like, nah, there's no way I've seen that, and
<v Speaker 2>then I started shining down on the ground under my stand,
<v Speaker 2>didn't think anything about it. I shined back where I
<v Speaker 2>seen the eyes, and they were gone. I was like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>that's just crazy. You know. It might have been a
<v Speaker 2>car's head lights or something coming through the woods from
<v Speaker 2>the road that was two hundred yards off to my right.
<v Speaker 2>I never really registered. I don't know. Probably fifteen twenty
<v Speaker 2>minutes later, I'm sitting in the stand and then a
<v Speaker 2>tree breaks again. And when I flipped the light up,
<v Speaker 2>because this one was really close, like you could feel
<v Speaker 2>the shock wave off of the tree. King, I shined
<v Speaker 2>the flashlight in that direction, and I seen what I
<v Speaker 2>thought I seen. Man I was I was eight ten
<v Speaker 2>feet high in a tree, but me and him face
<v Speaker 2>to face. He was looking at me sixty yards away.
<v Speaker 2>The biggest thing I've ever seen in my life. And
<v Speaker 2>when I tell you, I frozen terror. I frozen terror.
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't move, couldn't pull the light down, nothing. I
<v Speaker 2>had a single shot New England Arms two seventy rifle
<v Speaker 2>in my hands. My brain never registered you know you
<v Speaker 2>have a gun, because it wouldn't have done any good.
<v Speaker 2>I could tell you that he turned to walk off.
<v Speaker 2>There's a creek bottom kind of probably thirty yard from
<v Speaker 2>where we were. He turned to walk off, and then
<v Speaker 2>he stopped and he looked back at me as a yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you've seen what you thought, you say, and I'm like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>I seen what I thought I seen, And it never
<v Speaker 2>crossed my mind to shoot him, and that I've watched
<v Speaker 2>so many encounters that listened to so many stories and
<v Speaker 2>people say the exact same thing. It never crossed my
<v Speaker 2>mind to shoot him. I was too scared. What if
<v Speaker 2>all it did was make him mad? And he comes
<v Speaker 2>running at me. I'm in a tree. He might have
<v Speaker 2>had to jump a little bit to reach me, and
<v Speaker 2>I am one hundred percent sure he could have tore
<v Speaker 2>me and that deer stand out of that tree and
<v Speaker 2>did whatever he wanted to. So I said, turn the
<v Speaker 2>light off. I turned the light off, and I kind
<v Speaker 2>of tuck the light down on my chest. My heart
<v Speaker 2>was doing eight hundred miles an hour, and I was like,
<v Speaker 2>this has got to be your mind starts to try
<v Speaker 2>to rationalize it. This has got to be a joke.
<v Speaker 2>This has got to be one of my cousins in
<v Speaker 2>a suit or something to that effect. Then you sit
<v Speaker 2>there and you think, am I safe to leave? I
<v Speaker 2>think that was the biggest thing. I probably sat there
<v Speaker 2>for an hour and a half, afraid to leave, afraid
<v Speaker 2>to get down because as it, like I said, the
<v Speaker 2>two piece stand. As you start walking down the tree,
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna make noise. You can hear the bark falling
<v Speaker 2>down and all of that other stuff. And that was
<v Speaker 2>my biggest fear. Is am I Am? I safe to leave?
<v Speaker 2>And I finally got up the courage and I got down,
<v Speaker 2>got out of the tree, and started walking back to
<v Speaker 2>my truck, which was probably forty forty five fifty yards away.
<v Speaker 2>The entire time, when I tell you, I walked back
<v Speaker 2>military style with that rifle cocked and aimed in front
<v Speaker 2>of me all the way to my trunk. One percent.
<v Speaker 2>It's really weird because you're not afraid for your life,
<v Speaker 2>but when you're absolutely defenseless, you know that that rifle's
<v Speaker 2>not gonna do anything against something that big. You probably
<v Speaker 2>just aggravate him and then he would pick my truck
<v Speaker 2>up and beat me with it. It's it's and I've
<v Speaker 2>seen big people. I had a guy I played football
<v Speaker 2>with that was seven ft one and you know, probably
<v Speaker 2>three hundred and fifty four hundred pounds. Big guy No,
<v Speaker 2>not compared to this. This is the biggest bipedal thing
<v Speaker 2>I've ever seen in my entire life.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that sounds like a spooky bigfoot encounter. And I
<v Speaker 1>can only imagine what you felt like being trapped up
<v Speaker 1>there in that tree. I always think about that when
<v Speaker 1>I'm deer hunting. I'm like, what if I see one
<v Speaker 1>of these things and I'm up here in the tree,
<v Speaker 1>especially once it gets dark. What do you feel like
<v Speaker 1>this creature was thinking? And what do you think its
<v Speaker 1>intentions were?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? God, the first thought that comes to mind is
<v Speaker 2>he was laughing at me, and I think his second
<v Speaker 2>thought was probably what are you doing in my woods?
<v Speaker 2>A kind of a situation. I never felt that it
<v Speaker 2>was going to hurt me. I just knew that if
<v Speaker 2>it wanted to, it could kind of thing. And I'm
<v Speaker 2>a big guy, you know, I'm six two hundred and
<v Speaker 2>fifty pounds. I've played football and lift of weights my
<v Speaker 2>entire life, and I would have had a chance. It's
<v Speaker 2>just wouldn't have had a chance. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. What do you think attracted the creature to the area.
<v Speaker 1>Do you think it was the deer urine or the
<v Speaker 1>turkey barn?
<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure. And I didn't start thinking about this
<v Speaker 2>until I recalled the story, you know, probably a week ago.
<v Speaker 2>It had to be the turkeys. But the thing about
<v Speaker 2>the turkeys is we used to walk the barns every
<v Speaker 2>day and you pick up the dead turkeys because they
<v Speaker 2>do die. And we had an incinerator that was right
<v Speaker 2>next to the barn to where you burn the dead
<v Speaker 2>turkey bodies so that whatever they have doesn't infest the
<v Speaker 2>rest of the turkeys. You know, it doesn't affect them
<v Speaker 2>whatever it may be a virus or something. But it
<v Speaker 2>had to be the deer because if I could show
<v Speaker 2>you a like a Google map of it, you'd see
<v Speaker 2>there's two hundred I think it's two hundred and thirty
<v Speaker 2>some od acres and the first four acres or turkey barns,
<v Speaker 2>and the rest of it behind it is would it
<v Speaker 2>except for the spots we cleared, And they just had
<v Speaker 2>free roame to do whatever they wanted to because nobody
<v Speaker 2>ever goes back there, especially where I was raised. You know,
<v Speaker 2>you don't go on other people's land without permission. You
<v Speaker 2>know who owns the land. So if you need to
<v Speaker 2>go on there for some reason, like to find your
<v Speaker 2>dogs when you're running dogs for deer. You always make
<v Speaker 2>a phone call, you know, Hey, David, I got my
<v Speaker 2>dogs tracked on your land. Do you mind if i'd
<v Speaker 2>go down your driveway behind your house and see if
<v Speaker 2>I could find it. And everybody's always like, yeah, you're fine,
<v Speaker 2>go ahead. But there was never any reason for anybody
<v Speaker 2>to be back there because there was no access road.
<v Speaker 2>Do you know the one to the barns and then
<v Speaker 2>the little operational road around the barn But that's it.
<v Speaker 2>In those woods. There was no access road. There was
<v Speaker 2>no flour wheelers. People didn't ride back there kind of thing.
<v Speaker 2>It was peaceful and quiet, and I guess he just
<v Speaker 2>come across me that day. That's why it was kind
<v Speaker 2>of confusing to him, and he will, I say him,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure. I definitely did not see any breast
<v Speaker 2>or anything like that, but I guess he was kind
<v Speaker 2>of as confused as I was.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely, And it sounds like a big male from
<v Speaker 1>what you described. Can you describe the features, like how
<v Speaker 1>tall was this thing and what color did it have
<v Speaker 1>around head? Can you describe any of the features.
<v Speaker 2>The only thing I can recall from that is this
<v Speaker 2>forehead didn't have any hair on which I thought was weird.
<v Speaker 2>It looked like like I said, if I had to guess,
<v Speaker 2>I was probably eight to ten feet in the air
<v Speaker 2>and he was. He was eye leveled with me from
<v Speaker 2>and I seen this thing, what sixty yards maybe maybe
<v Speaker 2>not even sixty It was eye level with me. He
<v Speaker 2>was a big boy, super hairy, super dark. But you
<v Speaker 2>could tell like shoulders like bowling balls just when he
<v Speaker 2>turned and made that turn. It wasn't fat, It didn't
<v Speaker 2>have a gut like like an ape or a silver
<v Speaker 2>backed guerrilla or anything like that. This dude looked like
<v Speaker 2>a bodyguarder. He was a monster.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Do you think he was exiting the area or
<v Speaker 1>do you think he was trying to get downwind of you.
<v Speaker 2>I think he came up on me, and like I said,
<v Speaker 2>he was just as surprised that I was there as
<v Speaker 2>I was to see him. And then when he turned,
<v Speaker 2>he was definitely headed back into the thick pines, back
<v Speaker 2>down towards the creek. He was just trying to get
<v Speaker 2>away from me, I guess. And the thought of something
<v Speaker 2>that big being afraid of me is ridiculous.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So he was hitting the waterways trying to get
<v Speaker 1>out of there, and I.
<v Speaker 2>Think that's where he stayed because you know, no, but well,
<v Speaker 2>like I said, once again, nobody goes back there. Nobody's
<v Speaker 2>ever said, ooh, there's a you know, a footprint here.
<v Speaker 2>Oh the smell, I forgot about that. It smelled like
<v Speaker 2>you run over a pack of skunks and I'm talking
<v Speaker 2>fifteen of them horribly. And I did not smell that
<v Speaker 2>until he left. Until he went away. That smell never
<v Speaker 2>hit me. It never, It never came up until he
<v Speaker 2>went away, And it was probably a good ten minutes
<v Speaker 2>after em away, and I smelled that smell.
<v Speaker 1>I was like, Jesus, Yeah, he probably probably released this pheromone.
<v Speaker 1>And I think they do it when they get nervous
<v Speaker 1>and territorial. And from what I've heard from other people,
<v Speaker 1>it really stinks.
<v Speaker 2>I've never heard of them releasing pheromones. I was just
<v Speaker 2>assuming because they don't have the same cleaning regimen that
<v Speaker 2>humans do. I've always assumed that's what that smell would be.
<v Speaker 2>I guess, But yeah, you may be right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>It could be that, or possibly from a kill. We
<v Speaker 1>often hear encounter stories where these things pick up like
<v Speaker 1>a dead deer off the side of the highway, or
<v Speaker 1>they wait for it to rot before they take it.
<v Speaker 1>So it's really hard to say. I mean, when I
<v Speaker 1>let my dog go outside and there's like something foul
<v Speaker 1>or dead animal, he'll roll around in it. So maybe
<v Speaker 1>these things do the same thing.
<v Speaker 2>I would agree with that. I have a pit lab
<v Speaker 2>and he is that guy. If it stinks, if it's dirty,
<v Speaker 2>if it's nasty, he's gonna slam his head in it
<v Speaker 2>and flip in it ten fifteen times. So he's been
<v Speaker 2>sprayed by a skunk before, and it was nothing like that.
<v Speaker 2>It was magnified by a hundred times.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and did you notice that before the limb breaking
<v Speaker 1>or the tree breaks?
<v Speaker 2>No, all of this was after the limb breaking. I'm
<v Speaker 2>not even sure what I thought it was back then.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it was cold, but there was no ice.
<v Speaker 2>It hasn't rained, so they wouldn't have a reason for
<v Speaker 2>that it was. And I've never been back to this
<v Speaker 2>day to even look. And like I said, that was
<v Speaker 2>you know, ninety seven, ninety six, ninety seven, I've never
<v Speaker 2>been back to this day. I'll never go back in
<v Speaker 2>those and never again. My uncle goes to it all
<v Speaker 2>the time. My cousins go to it. You know, they've
<v Speaker 2>worked for him. So they help him, but you'll never
<v Speaker 2>you'll never catch me back there again. I'm good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't blame you, And I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>these creatures actually migrate. I feel like they live in
<v Speaker 1>those areas. Like if you've seen one there, chances are
<v Speaker 1>years later, if you're hunting in the area, you'll have
<v Speaker 1>more experiences.
<v Speaker 2>You can't. The weirdest thing is you want to you
<v Speaker 2>want to shoot them. You know, afterwards, you're like, I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to be the first person to prove that they
<v Speaker 2>actually exist. But there is something about them that it
<v Speaker 2>won't let you. You cannot bring yourself to shoot something
<v Speaker 2>like that. You know, you're in awe and you're frozen.
<v Speaker 2>I froze. I've never been scared like that in my
<v Speaker 2>entire life ever.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the fear will overwhelm you and all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 1>this big deer rifle that you have just feels like
<v Speaker 1>a BB gun. And did it cross through your mind
<v Speaker 1>that maybe you could shoot this thing and possibly like
<v Speaker 1>take it into the Bass pro shop and Concord, North Carolina.
<v Speaker 2>No, not until many, many years later. But then you
<v Speaker 2>come to that piece with your Well, he wasn't trying
<v Speaker 2>to attack me, he wasn't trying to hurt me. He
<v Speaker 2>wasn't trying to kill me, so why would I hurt him?
<v Speaker 2>But at the same time, I was so scared. I
<v Speaker 2>think if he would have came towards me out of
<v Speaker 2>shot him, if I not even one hundred percent on that,
<v Speaker 2>because like I said, I forgot I had the gun.
<v Speaker 2>I forgot the gun was sitting in my lap. It
<v Speaker 2>just you see, it's like seeing an alien or you know,
<v Speaker 2>a UFO lands in front of your house and they
<v Speaker 2>walk out. It's really really hard to believe that this
<v Speaker 2>is actually happening, this is real. Your brain just won't
<v Speaker 2>process it like a normal person. But now it just
<v Speaker 2>it never crossed my mind to shoot him. Then at
<v Speaker 2>that point, yeah, absolutely.
<v Speaker 1>I can't imagine the fear that you felt setting up
<v Speaker 1>in that tree stand and seeing this creature at sixty
<v Speaker 1>yards away. But I can't fathom the fear that would
<v Speaker 1>overwhelm you if this thing started coming at you. If
<v Speaker 1>it did, where would you you shoot it at? Would
<v Speaker 1>you take a head shot? Center mass?
<v Speaker 2>Like?
<v Speaker 1>What would you have done?
<v Speaker 2>I would have closed my eyes and just pulled the
<v Speaker 2>trigger because I only had one shot. I think at
<v Speaker 2>that point between me and him and God, and we
<v Speaker 2>would have had to figure out who who won. That
<v Speaker 2>would I don't It wouldn't have done anything. I'm telling you.
<v Speaker 2>It was a two seventy single shot New England armed.
<v Speaker 2>It would have it would have done nothing. It might
<v Speaker 2>have just you know, pissed him off to the point
<v Speaker 2>to where he wanted to hurt me at that point.
<v Speaker 2>But there, it's really weird. There was no aggression. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it scared me, but I didn't. I never felt like
<v Speaker 2>he was coming after me because he just looked at
<v Speaker 2>me and kind of laughed like, oh, I'm surprised you're here.
<v Speaker 2>Kind of a situation, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, yeah, absolutely, And it makes me think that there
<v Speaker 1>are other hunters who had this same encounter that you had,
<v Speaker 1>but they took the shot. Because there's a lot of reports,
<v Speaker 1>especially like on the Missing four one with David Politis,
<v Speaker 1>where these hunters are found mutilated or you know, they
<v Speaker 1>find their bodies like in strange places and they send
<v Speaker 1>search teams going out there looking for him. There was
<v Speaker 1>one story east of Van Buren and Missouri, and the
<v Speaker 1>hunter was way out there. I mean, this area is huge,
<v Speaker 1>extremely vast, and he was out there hunting and he
<v Speaker 1>was looking for a trophy. But basically he went missing
<v Speaker 1>and the search team went out there and they didn't
<v Speaker 1>find him. They went out the next day and exactly
<v Speaker 1>where the search team parked, they found his body just
<v Speaker 1>laying there. But they said it was because of hypothermia,
<v Speaker 1>and it was like in the teens, like it was
<v Speaker 1>super cold that day. And basically what they said was
<v Speaker 1>he left his rifle, crossed the river looking for his buck,
<v Speaker 1>and took off his clothes basically, And that just doesn't
<v Speaker 1>make sense. If you wound a you're not gonna leave
<v Speaker 1>your rifle behind.
<v Speaker 2>So no, and when you're hunting fast areas of land
<v Speaker 2>like that, you always carry a side on him because
<v Speaker 2>you know me as a hunter, I'm not gonna let
<v Speaker 2>an animal suffer. If I get there and the rifle
<v Speaker 2>didn't do the job, I'll finish the job. But no,
<v Speaker 2>that makes no sense. I'm not leaving my rifle. It's
<v Speaker 2>got a strap on it for a reason. I'll throw
<v Speaker 2>it across my back, over my shoulder. I'm not sitting
<v Speaker 2>my rifle down and leaving that. That's not gonna happen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, So I feel like he probably had the
<v Speaker 1>same situation that you had, and like when it's super
<v Speaker 1>cold outside, I never cross a creek, like I don't
<v Speaker 1>want my boots to get wet, let alone all my
<v Speaker 1>clothes like that. That just doesn't make sense.
<v Speaker 2>Agreed. Yeah, I wouldn't go that far. You know, we've
<v Speaker 2>we've shot deer, you see the trail, which you always
<v Speaker 2>weak for daylight, clear light, And nine times out of ten,
<v Speaker 2>I've always called in help, you know, call my cousins
<v Speaker 2>or something and be like, hey, listen, I hit one.
<v Speaker 2>I know, I shot him good. I've got bubble blood
<v Speaker 2>and I need help finding him. And we'll pack up
<v Speaker 2>the side by side four wheelers whatever and go out
<v Speaker 2>there and look for him. But I'm not gonna set
<v Speaker 2>my rifle down and go walking. That's that's not gonna happen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because what if you run into it and it's
<v Speaker 1>wounded and you need to take another shot exactly?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that I'm not gonna let an animal suffer. I
<v Speaker 2>love them too much. Look, you know, it's really weird.
<v Speaker 2>It's hard to describe. I think I'm I'm losing the
<v Speaker 2>words here, but I was I was afraid. I was scared,
<v Speaker 2>but I wasn't scared for my wife. Because like I said,
<v Speaker 2>there was there was no real aggression. It h it
<v Speaker 2>never came after me. It never even made a move
<v Speaker 2>towards me. It like I said, it was. It was
<v Speaker 2>as surprised as I was to see it. And I
<v Speaker 2>know he's had to see if he if he lives
<v Speaker 2>on that property, he's had to see humans before. He's
<v Speaker 2>had to see you know, my uncles, my cousins and
<v Speaker 2>everybody that walks those barns that you know, feed the
<v Speaker 2>turkeys and you know my uncle does maintenance constantly the barns.
<v Speaker 2>He's had to see a human before. But yeah, he
<v Speaker 2>was absolutely surprised to see me sitting there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's understandable. The bigfoot that I saw in Missouri,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I almost felt like I floated outside
<v Speaker 1>of my body. I was in shock. And it's almost
<v Speaker 1>like in those war movies when I don't know, like
<v Speaker 1>when chaos erupts and like they just freeze and everything's
<v Speaker 1>going on and people are yelling at them to shoot,
<v Speaker 1>and then it takes them a few minutes to snap
<v Speaker 1>back to reality and you know, to take action. And
<v Speaker 1>that's kind of how it was with me. Like I
<v Speaker 1>couldn't think, like I was just locked onto this creature
<v Speaker 1>and I was overwhelmed with fear, shock and like disbelief.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, now something else with you saying that
<v Speaker 2>that brought to mind. I had a cell phone. I
<v Speaker 2>had my cell phone on me. It never crossed my
<v Speaker 2>mind to take a picture or even attempt to. That's
<v Speaker 2>really weird that that just popped into my head. It
<v Speaker 2>never crossed my mind to pull my phone out and
<v Speaker 2>take a picture. That they were potatoes back then anyway,
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, never crossed my mind to take a picture.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's understandable. Did you ever have any prior experiences
<v Speaker 1>out there where you took a shot on a deer?
<v Speaker 1>You know, you hit it good, you found blood, and
<v Speaker 1>then you followed the blood trail and never found the deer.
<v Speaker 2>Uh yeah, more than once. Had a cousin of mine
<v Speaker 2>that loves to bow hunt, and I've always thought that
<v Speaker 2>that was inhumane, but he was a bow hunter, and yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we tracked many many deer for him. I shot a
<v Speaker 2>dough and a shot that I probably shouldn't have taken,
<v Speaker 2>but it was. It was well over three hundred yards
<v Speaker 2>and we never found her. But you know, their tendency
<v Speaker 2>is to run to water. That's that's the first thing
<v Speaker 2>they do when they're hurt. They go to water. And
<v Speaker 2>we walked the creek well for two and a half
<v Speaker 2>three hours until it got too dark and never even
<v Speaker 2>found her. And you know, we kind of left that.
<v Speaker 2>I hated to do that, but couldn't find her.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I've had that happen several times, and I think
<v Speaker 1>many hunters can relate to that, where they watched the
<v Speaker 1>deer drop or they just found a ton of blood
<v Speaker 1>and they just never find the deer.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you never want that belly shot. It's always that
<v Speaker 2>good clean shoulder, vital organs or head. You know, anything
<v Speaker 2>inside of one hundred yards, I'm taking a headshot. And
<v Speaker 2>I always have because that's instant. And like I said,
<v Speaker 2>I love animals. I don't want them to suffer, but
<v Speaker 2>we ate them. I've never shot anything with horns on
<v Speaker 2>it in my entire hunting career. I've never killed a buck.
<v Speaker 2>I've always shot dough because that's what we eat. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>never even tried. And I mean going back even a
<v Speaker 2>little history, Like I said, my dad he hunted with
<v Speaker 2>a hunting club for good god thirty years and you
<v Speaker 2>know I was part of the club. My nickname was
<v Speaker 2>little Britches because my hunting pants never really fit me right.
<v Speaker 2>They were too big and they would fall down, and
<v Speaker 2>everybody called me little Breeches. But I carried a Remenen
<v Speaker 2>eleven hundred shot gun, and you know you're talking seven
<v Speaker 2>eight nine years old. My dad would take me down
<v Speaker 2>a hunting road to where the dogs were going to
<v Speaker 2>cross that, he thought, and drop me off. I've been
<v Speaker 2>in the woods for hours by myself and have never
<v Speaker 2>seen anything like that's in a hog. I's seen a
<v Speaker 2>wild board run across the road one time, but never
<v Speaker 2>seen anything like this. And that day, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I guess the univers aligned to put me in the
<v Speaker 2>place where I was where he was.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it sounds like in South Carolina, you guys have
<v Speaker 1>the same deer season as us, Like both seasons starts
<v Speaker 1>September fifteenth. What day did this encounter take place? Or
<v Speaker 1>what months? Should I ask?
<v Speaker 2>September? Our rifle season starts September fifteenth. Our birth season
<v Speaker 2>starts at the end of November.
<v Speaker 1>So wow, Okay, so it's a little different. And you
<v Speaker 1>mentioned it was morning time and you could see these
<v Speaker 1>eyes and they look like they were on fire. Were
<v Speaker 1>they red eyes.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, no, sir, No, it literally looked like you
<v Speaker 2>were staring into two fireplaces, the orange and the little
<v Speaker 2>blue tips, and it it looked like staring in the fireplace. Wow.
<v Speaker 1>And there wasn't like a light that was shining on
<v Speaker 1>the creature where they like self illuminated.
<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, it was when I hit him with
<v Speaker 2>the flashlight when he looked at me.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I'm not.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not one hundred percent sure he even knew I
<v Speaker 2>was there until I hit him with the flashlight. But
<v Speaker 2>like I said, I wasn't looking for him. It was
<v Speaker 2>that last limb that broke that I realized. Okay, that's,
<v Speaker 2>you know, directly in front of me. And I popped
<v Speaker 2>my flashlight up. And when I say flashlight, you know
<v Speaker 2>is back in the nineties my dad gave me for
<v Speaker 2>a birthday gift. It's like a four D cell flashlight.
<v Speaker 2>And that's as bright as we had. We didn't have
<v Speaker 2>the LED stuff that we have now, and that's what
<v Speaker 2>I was using. And as soon as I hit him
<v Speaker 2>with that flashlight, he turned around and looked at me,
<v Speaker 2>and I seen those eyes. I was like, holy.
<v Speaker 1>Crap, Yeah, that makes complete sense. And I apologize for
<v Speaker 1>the confusion. And yeah, you also mentioned you could feel
<v Speaker 1>the shock wave off of the tree break. That must
<v Speaker 1>have been a big tree break. And I do believe
<v Speaker 1>it was a mail I mean, it sounds like a
<v Speaker 1>territorial male and there had to have been others around.
<v Speaker 2>But that puts me in the mind of wondering what
<v Speaker 2>was he doing. You know, if he didn't know I
<v Speaker 2>was there, what was he doing? But then you think
<v Speaker 2>that a creature like this has been in existence for
<v Speaker 2>this long around humans and used to being around humans,
<v Speaker 2>you would have think he would have smelled me. But
<v Speaker 2>like I said, we were always talled. You know, you
<v Speaker 2>don't wash your hunting clothes with fabric softener. You know,
<v Speaker 2>it was always baking soda and water. It's all we
<v Speaker 2>ever washed them with. That it got the human smell
<v Speaker 2>off of you. And when you take a shower, we
<v Speaker 2>had a special soap you would take a shower with.
<v Speaker 2>And as we walked in the woods, you know, you
<v Speaker 2>had a little drop a dough yurn and you drop
<v Speaker 2>a dough urn every ten fifteen feet as you're walking
<v Speaker 2>in kind of thing. But you would have thought he
<v Speaker 2>would have smelled me like But I honest to God,
<v Speaker 2>I think I surprised him as much as he surprised
<v Speaker 2>me because he didn't expect me to be there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that makes sense. And being a hunter, I'm sure
<v Speaker 1>you tiptoed your way in there, walking real slow and
<v Speaker 1>making sure you didn't step on a stick. And perhaps
<v Speaker 1>he thought you were another deer or possibly another clan member.
<v Speaker 1>What do you think.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I'm big enough to be one of
<v Speaker 2>his clan members. And I'm glad he didn't think I
<v Speaker 2>was a deer. I would have been dinner. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not one hundred percent. There are a thousand things
<v Speaker 2>that you could ask me that I couldn't explain. I
<v Speaker 2>really can't. I don't know. I know what happened. I
<v Speaker 2>couldn't explain any of it. I just thank God that
<v Speaker 2>he decided he wasn't going to come after me because
<v Speaker 2>it would not have been a problem, and that you know,
<v Speaker 2>I used to carry a pistol with me. We carry
<v Speaker 2>snake pistols all the time, and I didn't have one
<v Speaker 2>that day, but it would it mattered. I'm telling you
<v Speaker 2>this thing, this is the biggest thing I've ever seen,
<v Speaker 2>I've met. I don't know if you're a wrestling fan
<v Speaker 2>or not, but I've met the big show in person. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he made him look like a baby.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's amazing. And I'm sure at sixty yards something
<v Speaker 1>that's ten foot tall seems like it's only like twenty
<v Speaker 1>or thirty yards away.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh yeah, he was there and broad, just shouldered
<v Speaker 2>to shoulder. Those trees were because we used to cut
<v Speaker 2>the back of the property and then we would plant
<v Speaker 2>saplings and let them grow and then you know, every
<v Speaker 2>ten to fifteen twenty years, my uncle would pay somebody
<v Speaker 2>to harvest those. But saplings were planted. I don't want
<v Speaker 2>to lie six and a half or eight and a
<v Speaker 2>half feet apart, I can't remember. And he was, you know,
<v Speaker 2>he was broad enough that he closed the gap between
<v Speaker 2>those for the most part. He was probably at least
<v Speaker 2>four and a half five and a half foot across
<v Speaker 2>shoulder to shoulder when he turned. So whatever, whatever limb
<v Speaker 2>he broke, the one that popped that, I could feel
<v Speaker 2>he could have picked that up and thrown it at
<v Speaker 2>me like it was nothing like a dart. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>I don't understand the limb breaking too, So maybe you
<v Speaker 2>can shed a little light on that for me, because
<v Speaker 2>you know, like I said, you're the second person I've
<v Speaker 2>ever told this story, and I've never done any Bigfoot research.
<v Speaker 2>I've never cared to go find out if they were
<v Speaker 2>real and all of that, and I've never really cared
<v Speaker 2>about it. But I don't understand what the limb breaking
<v Speaker 2>or the tree breaking was about.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's hard to say what these things are, but
<v Speaker 1>that definitely sounds like primate behavior. They will break trees
<v Speaker 1>when they're being territorial, possibly letting you know to stay
<v Speaker 1>away or to get out of there, or possibly communicating
<v Speaker 1>with other clan members. But also with predators like this,
<v Speaker 1>they'll purposely break a limb to divert your attention to
<v Speaker 1>that when others are sneaking around you from the other side,
<v Speaker 1>so basically they're flanking you.
<v Speaker 2>Oh god, that makes it worse. I've never even thought
<v Speaker 2>of that. That's even more scarier than the initial encounter.
<v Speaker 2>That's to think that there were more of those.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, oh wow, I'm sure there were. And these things
<v Speaker 1>travel on clans and they work together for the better
<v Speaker 1>of the group.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's I'm a I'm a very rational person. I'm
<v Speaker 2>one of those that you know, if it happened to today,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure that I would hold to what I'm
<v Speaker 2>about to say, but what I would want to do
<v Speaker 2>is be like, hey, let's have a conversation. You know,
<v Speaker 2>where are you from? Are you a fifth dimensional being?
<v Speaker 2>Or are you an alien that was dropped off on
<v Speaker 2>our planet to test our environment? You know what? Are you?
<v Speaker 2>But no that at that day, at that point, I
<v Speaker 2>didn't want to have a conversation. I just wanted to
<v Speaker 2>get out of that tree and get home. I never
<v Speaker 2>told my father, and I kind of wish I would have,
<v Speaker 2>because my dad had spent more time in the woods
<v Speaker 2>than anybody I've never ever known my entire life. He
<v Speaker 2>was an avid fisherman, avid hunter. You know, every season
<v Speaker 2>he would run fox dogs, he would run deer dogs.
<v Speaker 2>That guy's been in the woods more than anything. And
<v Speaker 2>he passed in twenty nineteen. But I kind of kind
<v Speaker 2>of regret not ever talking to him about it. But
<v Speaker 2>at the same time, you feel crazy telling.
<v Speaker 1>Somebody this, you know, yeah, absolutely, and I'm sorry for
<v Speaker 1>your loss. And did the creature like the direction that
<v Speaker 1>you saw him in? Was that the same direction that
<v Speaker 1>you heard the tree breaks or the limb breaks or
<v Speaker 1>was it like behind you walking in to your stand.
<v Speaker 2>So I can't really tell you the actual compass direction,
<v Speaker 2>but I can explain it to you like this. I
<v Speaker 2>never heard a single thing walking to the stand. This was,
<v Speaker 2>you know, forty five minutes an hour after I've been
<v Speaker 2>in the stand. This was this was just at the
<v Speaker 2>break of daylight when you start seeing the orange sun
<v Speaker 2>come up. So if I'm facing due north to my west,
<v Speaker 2>is where I heard the trees start breaking and snapping.
<v Speaker 2>And it wasn't back to back by any means. It was,
<v Speaker 2>you know, a good three six minutes apart. And then
<v Speaker 2>when I actually seen him, he was due north facing
<v Speaker 2>in front of me, so it kind of came from
<v Speaker 2>my left. And then when he turned to leave, when
<v Speaker 2>he finally realized I was there, he went the exact
<v Speaker 2>same direction that he came, like like he had made
<v Speaker 2>a path come to where he was, and he went
<v Speaker 2>back down that path, exact same direction. And it took
<v Speaker 2>the I mean, this happened of what three seconds. Maybe
<v Speaker 2>you know, adrenaline slows your time down, but it seems
<v Speaker 2>like ten minutes. But between the last break that I
<v Speaker 2>could feel in me getting the courage to throw the
<v Speaker 2>light up and him turning and leaving was probably three seconds.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, definitely, adrenaline will slow down time. Did it
<v Speaker 1>ever make eye contact with you?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? He looked directly into my flashlight. Wow, one hundred
<v Speaker 2>percent looked directly into my flashlight. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>It's terrifying being the hunter and then knowing that you're
<v Speaker 1>being hunted by something. I can't say that's exactly what
<v Speaker 1>was happening, but I mean these thanks could easily do that.
<v Speaker 2>I hope not. I'm glad not. But yeah, I've heard
<v Speaker 2>a lot of stories because I didn't start thinking about this.
<v Speaker 2>So a little backstory how I even got the courage
<v Speaker 2>to contact you and tell you this is my girlfriend
<v Speaker 2>has two little kids, and she said the other day
<v Speaker 2>that Bigfoot was her boyfriend and she wanted to watch
<v Speaker 2>nothing but Bigfoot videos on YouTube. So when we feed
<v Speaker 2>them dinner, we you know, will let them watch TV.
<v Speaker 2>And her her name is Poppy, and miss Poppy was
<v Speaker 2>pointing Bigfoot's my bullfriend pointing at the TV. And that video.
<v Speaker 2>I cannot remember his name and I hate to misname it.
<v Speaker 2>It was either Rick or rich and he was from
<v Speaker 2>I think upstate or like the low country South Carolina
<v Speaker 2>that you had. I watched that video, and when he
<v Speaker 2>said the eyes looked like they were on fire, my
<v Speaker 2>brain instantly went right back to the story and I
<v Speaker 2>was like, oh my god, I've seen the same thing.
<v Speaker 2>And then I started watching your videos. I've heard a
<v Speaker 2>lot like people saying, you know, I could see the
<v Speaker 2>teeth and they had huge fangs and this and that.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't see any of that. I just noticed that
<v Speaker 2>his forehead didn't have any hair on it, and he
<v Speaker 2>had a big, beautiful beard. It's what's really weird. He
<v Speaker 2>had had a monster beard on him.
<v Speaker 1>The sasquatch that you saw a beard on it.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah, you could definitely tell the difference in
<v Speaker 2>the facial hair and the body hair. The body hair
<v Speaker 2>was probably two and a half three inches long, and
<v Speaker 2>the beard was good, god, I don't know nipple, it
<v Speaker 2>was just down to his nipples. It was huge because
<v Speaker 2>when he turned his when he turned his head, you
<v Speaker 2>know how a woman to flip their hair, That's that's
<v Speaker 2>what it looked like like. You could see the beard
<v Speaker 2>flow and follow through.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, yeah, that's incredible. And yeah, again it does
<v Speaker 1>sound like a male. He didn't have hair on his forehead,
<v Speaker 1>he had a beard, and this thing was over four
<v Speaker 1>feet wide across the shoulders, and yeah, that thing sounds terrifying.
<v Speaker 2>Man, How did something because you know, you think about
<v Speaker 2>a predator and you think about a primate. How many
<v Speaker 2>deer does this thing have to eat? How many fish
<v Speaker 2>does it have to catch out of the stream to
<v Speaker 2>eat to be that big? Or or is it a
<v Speaker 2>you know, does it have a plan based died if
<v Speaker 2>it has a plant based diet, if we could figure
<v Speaker 2>that out, everybody builder in the world needs to be
<v Speaker 2>eating whatever this thing is because he was a monster. Man.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're definitely omnivores because I've taken stories of them
<v Speaker 1>eating berries and stories of them eating deer or even dogs,
<v Speaker 1>so they'll eat whatever they can get their hands on.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm sure that a lot of things don't have
<v Speaker 2>a chance against these things, because, like I said, it
<v Speaker 2>could have snatched me out of that tree and the
<v Speaker 2>tree stands made out of you know, an inch and
<v Speaker 2>a half aluminum hollow square. He could have snatched me
<v Speaker 2>out of that tree and beat me to death with
<v Speaker 2>my dear stand if he wanted to, or my rifle,
<v Speaker 2>you know, whatever he wanted to do. I couldn't have
<v Speaker 2>stopped it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I heard a bigfoot encounter on Sasquatch Chronicles years ago,
<v Speaker 1>and this hunter was sitting in his stand and the
<v Speaker 1>sasquatch came up and ripped the stand down from the
<v Speaker 1>tree with him in it.
<v Speaker 2>That I have no idea what I would have done
<v Speaker 2>if that would have happened. I don't I like you said,
<v Speaker 2>take the shot. I don't know what I would have
<v Speaker 2>done if he would have gotten any closer than he was.
<v Speaker 2>But at that time, I've I was frozen fear.
<v Speaker 1>I yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And it's really weird to be that way, to be
<v Speaker 2>to be so scared that you can't do anything, but
<v Speaker 2>at the same time know you're not in danger because
<v Speaker 2>he's going the other way. Is is the weirdest thing ever? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. A lot of hunters think, like in areas where
<v Speaker 1>we live at you know, there's no more grizzly bears,
<v Speaker 1>they've been eradicated from the area, but there's something out
<v Speaker 1>there that's far much worse, way bigger, and you don't
<v Speaker 1>know if you're going to run into it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we don't. We don't have those. It's few and
<v Speaker 2>far between. You'll ever hear about a bear in Kershall County.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we may have seen a black bear here
<v Speaker 2>and there, but there are no I know what a
<v Speaker 2>bear looks like this. This was not a bear. This
<v Speaker 2>was four bears put together that walked on two feet.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, for sure.
<v Speaker 2>And then to extend this so like, like I told
<v Speaker 2>you in our initial conversation that I told the story
<v Speaker 2>to my little brother the other day, and my little
<v Speaker 2>brother has his own story, and it's about him chasing him,
<v Speaker 2>Like he ran beside his truck and he was in
<v Speaker 2>like twenty five thirty five miles an hour, and it
<v Speaker 2>was keeping up with him, could easily have passed him.
<v Speaker 2>And he said, the only thing I could see was
<v Speaker 2>knee cap and the thigh and it's how big he was.
<v Speaker 2>And he was in a jacked up Ford Ranger with
<v Speaker 2>probably thirty two inch tires on it. And if I
<v Speaker 2>could ever convince him to actually tell the story to somebody,
<v Speaker 2>and this was six miles from my encounter, you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's it's they're not that far apart. Might be the
<v Speaker 2>same guy, you never know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know which encounter more terrifying.
<v Speaker 2>I think I would have felt safer in a car, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I would have. I definitely felt safe once I got
<v Speaker 2>to my truck because I had a eighty six toy
<v Speaker 2>at a four by four at the time. And whatever
<v Speaker 2>that little twenty two R could do from the Turkey
<v Speaker 2>borns to my house, trust me, I did it. I
<v Speaker 2>wanted to get home, and I sat outside my My
<v Speaker 2>father has three acres fenced in and then our garden
<v Speaker 2>was eighteen acres to the right. I sat outside of
<v Speaker 2>the gate for I don't know, thirty forty five minutes
<v Speaker 2>until I calmed down and then finally walked in the house.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. That, I mean, your brother's encounters not too far away.
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully we can get them on the channel someday to
<v Speaker 1>log down his report. The sasquatch that you encountered, did
<v Speaker 1>it seem aggressive, curious, scared or indifferent? Like what do
<v Speaker 1>you think?
<v Speaker 2>I think indifferent would be the best word. And adds
<v Speaker 2>in there like I said, he was surprised to see
<v Speaker 2>that I was there, like, you know, this is my land,
<v Speaker 2>this is this is where I've been way longer than you,
<v Speaker 2>and what are you doing here kind of situation. I
<v Speaker 2>would not have called him aggressive at all, because he
<v Speaker 2>just turned and walked away. It never come toward me,
<v Speaker 2>He never showed his teeth and never growled. I never heard,
<v Speaker 2>you know, the sounds that people say they hear. It
<v Speaker 2>was just the limb snapping up until I actually seen him.
<v Speaker 2>And when he seen me, like I said, we were
<v Speaker 2>we were both surprised. I don't think he was as
<v Speaker 2>surprised as I was, but he was definitely surprised that
<v Speaker 2>I was there. And I wouldn't have I wouldn't call
<v Speaker 2>it aggression at all, because, like I said, he never
<v Speaker 2>never made a step out of the tree line towards me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I agree.
<v Speaker 1>And you mentioned that I was like the second or
<v Speaker 1>third person that you've ever told in your life. How
<v Speaker 1>did this encounter affect you emotionally or mentally?
<v Speaker 2>Like?
<v Speaker 1>How did you deal with all this?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? I forgot about it. I didn't think a thing
<v Speaker 2>about it until I, like I said, I put the
<v Speaker 2>show on for my girlfriend's daughter, and then when we
<v Speaker 2>were in the middle of eating dinner, and then I
<v Speaker 2>think it was Rick. I don't want to say his
<v Speaker 2>name wrong. It's either rich or Rick.
<v Speaker 1>I think it was Rick by Highway eleven in South Carolina.
<v Speaker 2>It may be when he said something about his eyes
<v Speaker 2>looked like they were on fire. I popped my head
<v Speaker 2>up and looked at the TV and I was like
<v Speaker 2>what And then I backed it up and I was like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>now I get it. Now I know what I seen,
<v Speaker 2>and yeah, that's kind of where it came from. But
<v Speaker 2>I've never done any Bigfoot research. You know, everybody and
<v Speaker 2>their cousin who likes history has heard about the Patterson
<v Speaker 2>Gimblin film, like obviously, but I've never dove into Bigfoot.
<v Speaker 2>I've never tried to prove he was real or anything.
<v Speaker 2>And it just it's not that, uh I pushed the
<v Speaker 2>memory down. It just I forgot about it, you know.
<v Speaker 2>I went on with my life, and uh, as soon
<v Speaker 2>as he said the eyes looked like they were on fire,
<v Speaker 2>it lit my memory back and I said, okay, I
<v Speaker 2>gotta I gotta tell him and emailed you. And my
<v Speaker 2>brother came over and I spoke to him. We had
<v Speaker 2>probably an hour and a half conversation about this, and
<v Speaker 2>then he never said a word, which is really odd
<v Speaker 2>because my brother's not a quiet guy. He's a very boisterous,
<v Speaker 2>you know, talking kind of guy, always making a joke,
<v Speaker 2>always been funny. And he listened to the entire story
<v Speaker 2>and I looked over at him and I said, you
<v Speaker 2>think I'm crazy, don't you? And he goes nope. I said,
<v Speaker 2>what do you mean Nope? He is Nope, you don't
<v Speaker 2>have anything to say. He said, I'll tell you something
<v Speaker 2>if you don't tell anybody, And I said, tell me,
<v Speaker 2>And then he told me his story and I was like, dude,
<v Speaker 2>that's like six miles apart, we might've seen the same Bigfoot.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's incredible, and it makes you wonder if it's
<v Speaker 1>the same Sasquatch. And a lot of people talk about
<v Speaker 1>having these encounters and having other family members that see
<v Speaker 1>one two later on. People speculate like maybe it's like
<v Speaker 1>something with your DNA or certain families are marked by
<v Speaker 1>these creatures. If you could go, yeah, I know, have
<v Speaker 1>you ever had any other experiences other than Bigfoot, like
<v Speaker 1>with the paranormal, any near death experiences, anything unusual that's
<v Speaker 1>like an unexplained mystery.
<v Speaker 2>So it's funny that you mentioned that. But when I
<v Speaker 2>was a baby, my mother had a My dad was
<v Speaker 2>big on hot rods and fast cars and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>He bought my mother a SS money Carlo and my
<v Speaker 2>mother had dropped me off at a babysit one night
<v Speaker 2>for her and my dad to go to her, and
<v Speaker 2>my mom had said that on her way home there
<v Speaker 2>was a light in her riview mirror that would not
<v Speaker 2>go away. And you know, she would make five left
<v Speaker 2>turns and two right turns, you know, couldn't completely out
<v Speaker 2>of her way. But something was following her. And as
<v Speaker 2>that's money carlors, you know, pretty fast back in the day.
<v Speaker 2>And she said she drove as fat as she could,
<v Speaker 2>and it just kept getting brighter and closer and closer
<v Speaker 2>until it filled up the cabin of the car. And
<v Speaker 2>she said she slammed on brakes and then it went
<v Speaker 2>completely past her in front of the car, stopped, and
<v Speaker 2>then went straight up in the air. And that's that's
<v Speaker 2>the only thing I've ever really heard about anything else
<v Speaker 2>in my family. My grandmother, on the other hand, this
<v Speaker 2>is God, I feel crazy for even saying this. This
<v Speaker 2>is it's really rude. My grandmother could talk fire, and
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you've ever heard that term being
<v Speaker 2>an old southern country person. Been perfect example. My friend
<v Speaker 2>was cooking, or my family member was cooking one night
<v Speaker 2>in the kitchen and bowling water to make macaroni, and
<v Speaker 2>her baby somehow got to the to the pot and
<v Speaker 2>spilled the bowling water on the baby and my grandmother.
<v Speaker 2>You know, this baby was screaming. They had called the ambulance. Done,
<v Speaker 2>ambulance was there. My grandmother went over and she talked
<v Speaker 2>fire out of that baby. That baby instantly quit, quit crying.
<v Speaker 2>No scars, no, no sunburn, no, you know, the bubbles
<v Speaker 2>that come up, none of that. So my grandmother could
<v Speaker 2>do that. I had an aunt that could do that
<v Speaker 2>because her uncle had taught her kind of situation. But
<v Speaker 2>that's about as weird as it gets. I guess me
<v Speaker 2>and my brother are only are the only big slip people.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's incredible, and I appreciate you for sharing that
<v Speaker 1>with me. If you could go back, would you want
<v Speaker 1>to encounter this creature again?
<v Speaker 2>The same one?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>No, get me a smaller one maybe, yeah, Well.
<v Speaker 1>They're probably around. What do you think these creatures are?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? God, that's that's a loaded question. I had so
<v Speaker 2>many theories. Uh, I don't know. Maybe maybe an uninvolved
<v Speaker 2>primate that wants to be left alone because the older
<v Speaker 2>you get and the more you interact in society, the
<v Speaker 2>more people you meet and the more people you have
<v Speaker 2>to deal with, the more you want to be left alone.
<v Speaker 2>So I kind of understand them, but I don't know. Man,
<v Speaker 2>I I couldn't even ponder a guess. But they're not stupid.
<v Speaker 2>I can tell you that he's he wasn't stupid. You know,
<v Speaker 2>it's really weird, but you know, if somebody puts you
<v Speaker 2>in a room with somebody, you can almost get an
<v Speaker 2>instinct of them too. You know, I'm gonna like this person,
<v Speaker 2>or I'm not gonna like this person, or I need
<v Speaker 2>to hold on my wallet because this person might steal
<v Speaker 2>my wallet, or you know, this person's gonna rob me
<v Speaker 2>or something like that. It's a feeling you get, and
<v Speaker 2>I never got that. I never got that he was stupid,
<v Speaker 2>because if it was just acting on its primal instincts
<v Speaker 2>and it was hungry, I would have been breakfast.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I agree with you. They seem like they're really
<v Speaker 1>intelligent and there's just something ancient about them, and they
<v Speaker 1>just seem unpredictable. I have.
<v Speaker 2>Done a little research, watched a few videos here and
<v Speaker 2>there in the past week or so, and the fifth
<v Speaker 2>dimension kind of situation, I'm not one hundred percent. I've
<v Speaker 2>heard people talk about the flashing light was one encounter
<v Speaker 2>that someone had on their channel that it was. You know,
<v Speaker 2>it bent down and there was this huge ball of
<v Speaker 2>light around it and then all of a sudden disappeared,
<v Speaker 2>and you know, grass still won't grow in this spot.
<v Speaker 2>What that ball of light was kind of like a
<v Speaker 2>Terminator did when you know Ron Schwarzenecker first showed up
<v Speaker 2>and Terminator. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna dispose that.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to say that's a lie, but that's
<v Speaker 2>a little far fetched for me. I think it's an animal,
<v Speaker 2>and I think the running joke of a Hide and
<v Speaker 2>Seek champion of the World is probably fitting.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, without a doubt. It makes me wonder if
<v Speaker 1>the missing hikers at Table Rock and Pickens County are
<v Speaker 1>maybe going missing because of these creatures. There's people that
<v Speaker 1>have been that went missing out there that have never
<v Speaker 1>been found again. They never even found like their clothes
<v Speaker 1>or anything.
<v Speaker 2>It makes you wonder, you know, all the all the
<v Speaker 2>respect in the world to their families, but they didn't
<v Speaker 2>feel any pain when they died, if that's what killed them,
<v Speaker 2>because I promise you they had a heart attack before
<v Speaker 2>before this thing attacked them. They had a heart attack.
<v Speaker 2>I promise you. I don't think I've ever felt my
<v Speaker 2>heart in my fingertips the way I did that day.
<v Speaker 2>It just it would not slow down. It that that's
<v Speaker 2>the scary thing. Yet. Man, I've wrecked motorcycles. I've been
<v Speaker 2>a motorcycle rider in my entire life. I've been in
<v Speaker 2>the back of ambulances. I've been in a helicopter thinking
<v Speaker 2>I was going to die. The helicopter ride was knowing
<v Speaker 2>I was going to die, Like, yeah, I'm not going
<v Speaker 2>to make the hospital. Guys, you're you're wasting your time,
<v Speaker 2>You're wasting medicine. I wasn't as scared in that helicopter
<v Speaker 2>as I was that morning.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I can only imagine. And it's a terrifying feeling
<v Speaker 1>when you see them, but it's a comforting feeling when
<v Speaker 1>you see them going their own way and leaving the area.
<v Speaker 2>And that's the thing is, like I said, I'm glad
<v Speaker 2>I didn't provoke it because it kind of it gives
<v Speaker 2>you that little bit of peace, like I just want
<v Speaker 2>to be left alone. I don't I don't know why
<v Speaker 2>you're here. I'm surprised you're here. Well, buddy, i'm surprised
<v Speaker 2>you're here too, But I just want to be left alone.
<v Speaker 2>And then you kind of come to that common ground,
<v Speaker 2>like you know, you you leave me alone, I'll leave
<v Speaker 2>you alone, and we're both gonna be okay. But I
<v Speaker 2>was not okay walking out of those woods. I was
<v Speaker 2>having a full breakdown. My hands were shaking. It was
<v Speaker 2>everything I can do to drive, you know, Like I said,
<v Speaker 2>it was just breaking dawn. So I didn't even turn
<v Speaker 2>the headlights on until I was halfway home, and I
<v Speaker 2>was like, oh, crap, a new headlights. You're it will
<v Speaker 2>mess you up. Your your brain does not work when
<v Speaker 2>you're in that stressful of a situation. I fully to this,
<v Speaker 2>do not understand how Navy seals and you know our
<v Speaker 2>American armed forces do that when they're in a gunfight.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how you think, because I couldn't. It
<v Speaker 2>turned my brain off.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely, when we experience a traumatic situation, we try
<v Speaker 1>to bury it deep inside your mind. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>people call that being like an avoidant, but I call
<v Speaker 1>it being responsible with your thoughts. And it's similar to
<v Speaker 1>like state patrol men or people that are in the military.
<v Speaker 1>You know, they see some really ugly things and you
<v Speaker 1>just have to be professional about it and kind of
<v Speaker 1>just forget about it or you know, tuck it in
<v Speaker 1>a place inside your mind where it doesn't affect you, and.
<v Speaker 2>You want to you want to think that way. You
<v Speaker 2>want to think that, Okay, this just happened, and I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to let my logical mind sit down and reason
<v Speaker 2>this out. I'm going to easing this out. That is
<v Speaker 2>definitely not your first reaction. Your first reaction is you're
<v Speaker 2>adrenal gland pumps you full of adrenaline. And then after
<v Speaker 2>that adrenaline dump, when your body starts processing it, you
<v Speaker 2>feel stupid because you can't think. You don't know how
<v Speaker 2>to put shoes on, You don't know how to tie
<v Speaker 2>your shoes, you don't know how to make a phone call,
<v Speaker 2>you don't know how to get dressed. You forget how
<v Speaker 2>to drive a car, those things. And I think that's
<v Speaker 2>exactly what happened to me, is once the adrenal land
<v Speaker 2>wore off with the adrenaline in it, I had that dump.
<v Speaker 2>I just became stupid and I forgot how to do everything.
<v Speaker 2>Breathing is the only thing that was involuntary, and thank
<v Speaker 2>god I kept doing that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, And I feel like you handled it the
<v Speaker 1>right way. The worst thing you could have done was
<v Speaker 1>took a shot on this creature, or followed it in
<v Speaker 1>the direction that it went looking for answers. And that's
<v Speaker 1>what I did when I encountered the bigfoot. And really,
<v Speaker 1>I was walking down my road and I watched it
<v Speaker 1>get up. It was only like thirty or forty yards
<v Speaker 1>to my left in the woodline, and it just stood
<v Speaker 1>up and walked off, similar to the Patterson Gimlin footage.
<v Speaker 1>It looked over at me a few times. This thing
<v Speaker 1>was seven feet tall plus give or take, and it
<v Speaker 1>gave me the I don't know, the cold shoulder when
<v Speaker 1>it looked over at me. This thing looked evil, but
<v Speaker 1>I was in shock, just like you. But whenever it
<v Speaker 1>disappeared into the forest, I took off running and I
<v Speaker 1>pursued it.
<v Speaker 2>And are you serious? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>When I followed it, I couldn't see it anymore, and
<v Speaker 1>I just stood there. Everything was real quiet, and then
<v Speaker 1>I could hear it. I could hear it breathing, like.
<v Speaker 2>Let's let's process this and that that was gonna be
<v Speaker 2>my next question. What would you have done if you
<v Speaker 2>found it? Because I had no desire to go behind
<v Speaker 2>this thing. Zero.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. When I heard it, it made it concrete, like
<v Speaker 1>you would think an iesiding, would you know, be that
<v Speaker 1>breaking point like, oh man, I just saw a bigfoot.
<v Speaker 1>I saw it, but I couldn't believe what I saw.
<v Speaker 1>So when I and I heard it, for some reason,
<v Speaker 1>just like hearing it like made it so much more
<v Speaker 1>real because you could feel the breath just like whoa.
<v Speaker 1>And it was pissed off that I followed it. And
<v Speaker 1>I've seen signs like that in the national forests that
<v Speaker 1>like warn people of bigfoot. There are some national forests
<v Speaker 1>that have signs and they say do not follow them,
<v Speaker 1>like don't pursue a bigfoot if you see one. And
<v Speaker 1>that's what I did, so.
<v Speaker 2>It's validated it's real at this point if the national
<v Speaker 2>forest has signed mm hmm.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, some areas do, like in Missouri or Washington State,
<v Speaker 1>but not every single national forest or conservation area, just
<v Speaker 1>some areas. I think if like a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>are having experiences and it's kind of ongoing, they'll put
<v Speaker 1>up signs. But yeah, it doesn't make sense because some
<v Speaker 1>national forest forest rangers like they acknowledge it, but it's
<v Speaker 1>not acknowledged through like the common people. And even in Florida,
<v Speaker 1>like there's conservation areas where they say you were, like
<v Speaker 1>it's in the rules, Like it's in the writing you
<v Speaker 1>are not allowed to take a skunk or swamp ape
<v Speaker 1>out of the forest, like you're not allowed to shoot one.
<v Speaker 1>I read it on their website, sir.
<v Speaker 2>I will tell you right now, I wanted to go
<v Speaker 2>one hundred and eighty degrees from this thing. There was
<v Speaker 2>no desire to follow it. There was no desire to
<v Speaker 2>pet it, there was no desire to ask it questions.
<v Speaker 2>I wanted to be as far as I could, as
<v Speaker 2>fast as I could from this thing. I know I
<v Speaker 2>do not have the bravado in me to follow one.
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't have done it then and I won't do
<v Speaker 2>it now. That's not gonna happen. He could have hit
<v Speaker 2>me with my truck, like I'm telling you, an eighty
<v Speaker 2>six single cab Toyota four who drive. He could have
<v Speaker 2>picked my truck up and hit me with it if
<v Speaker 2>you wanted to. No, I'm not gonna follow him.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't blame you and Jane.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe maybe with a black Hawk helicopter.
<v Speaker 1>Right what, it might throw a rock up at you
<v Speaker 1>and shoot you down.
<v Speaker 2>Man. Well, that's the weirdest thing that now that I'm
<v Speaker 2>I'm into it because I promise you I'm a bigfoot researcher.
<v Speaker 2>At this point, I've been watching nothing but bigfoot stuff
<v Speaker 2>on YouTube. I never heard him. I never heard a footstep,
<v Speaker 2>I never heard a noise, nothing. Until the limbs started snapping,
<v Speaker 2>I never heard a single thing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's terrifying. And in the future, you'll have to
<v Speaker 1>keep an eye out for the X structures, arches, tps,
<v Speaker 1>and you'll typically see them off the sides of roads
<v Speaker 1>or parking lots or I don't know, nearby national forest
<v Speaker 1>or conservation wilderness areas. If you venture out that way,
<v Speaker 1>just keep an eye out for sign especially in the pines.
<v Speaker 1>You said this thing was hanging out in the pine trees.
<v Speaker 2>It was. It was I almost want to say camouflaged
<v Speaker 2>to a certain part, because like I said, I had
<v Speaker 2>shined the light over there more than once and didn't
<v Speaker 2>see anything. But it was it was that last limb
<v Speaker 2>break that I could fill the vibrations because it had
<v Speaker 2>to be I don't know what four and a half
<v Speaker 2>inches in diameter limb break when it broke that you
<v Speaker 2>could actually feel it is when I knew where it
<v Speaker 2>was at.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I've actually heard those limb breaks and tree breaks,
<v Speaker 1>and it's amazing because later on, if you go to
<v Speaker 1>that spot where you heard the tree breaks, you'll typically
<v Speaker 1>find tree structures. And a lot of people say, how
<v Speaker 1>do you know these structures are made by bigfoot? It's like, well,
<v Speaker 1>because I heard one in there and then I went
<v Speaker 1>and looked and I found these.
<v Speaker 2>No, that's a that's a family issue. I left twenty
<v Speaker 2>years ago, my friend, So I hope they haven't seen him,
<v Speaker 2>or have seen him, or leave him alone. It would
<v Speaker 2>be their best avenue. But no, I haven't been back.
<v Speaker 2>I moved here in rock Hill in two thousand and
<v Speaker 2>five and I haven't been back home since. There's nah,
<v Speaker 2>no I would. You couldn't pay me. There's not enough money.
<v Speaker 2>There's not a gun big enough, and I'm I'm an
<v Speaker 2>avid gun collector. I have four fifty eight socoms, I
<v Speaker 2>have fifty calim ones. I've got four sixteen rigbies. There's
<v Speaker 2>just nothing big enough that I would take back there
<v Speaker 2>and feel comfortable. It wouldn't happen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, even if you did take it down, you have
<v Speaker 1>like seven or nine other ones to worry about coming
<v Speaker 1>after you.
<v Speaker 2>See, I never thought about that. That makes it even worse.
<v Speaker 2>I let you say that, because now that you mentioned that,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, good God. Yet, Yeah, he couldn't have been
<v Speaker 2>by hisself, right, Like they travel in family units that
<v Speaker 2>you saved, and he probably had two or three more,
<v Speaker 2>maybe another male, maybe a female that was three quarters
<v Speaker 2>of his size, and maybe a baby. And I'm assuming
<v Speaker 2>the babies are my size, you know, six and fifty pounds. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not fighting that thing. It's not gonna happen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're usually never alone. And I've noticed a trend
<v Speaker 1>with these reports. A lot of people tell me encounters
<v Speaker 1>similar to yours, and they say, you know, I used
<v Speaker 1>to live on a hog farm. And also there's a
<v Speaker 1>place in Missouria that's been having a lot of bigfoot
<v Speaker 1>encounters throughout the years, and there's four different hog farms
<v Speaker 1>spread throughout the area, and they say they throw like
<v Speaker 1>the bones and you know, all the guts and stuff
<v Speaker 1>out back, and for some reason there's a lot of
<v Speaker 1>reports around those areas.
<v Speaker 2>Well. I mean, it's a food source if you're logical
<v Speaker 2>about it, a primate or whatever it may be that
<v Speaker 2>big has to eat, and the caloric intake along. You
<v Speaker 2>can only imagine it's got to come from somewhere and there.
<v Speaker 2>You know, deer is only so much. It's a very
<v Speaker 2>lean meat. I would imagine, now that I think about it,
<v Speaker 2>a pattern as far as the winner, they would be
<v Speaker 2>stocking up on fat as much as they can to
<v Speaker 2>make it through the winner. And deer's not a It's
<v Speaker 2>a really good source of protein, but not a good
<v Speaker 2>source of fat. So there's got to be other things,
<v Speaker 2>you know, ducks, and now that I think about that,
<v Speaker 2>in the middle of this conversation of why did they
<v Speaker 2>not eat the coyotes because we had a serious coyote
<v Speaker 2>problem out there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, that's a great question. And you know, I've
<v Speaker 1>also taken a lot of reports where people will shoot
<v Speaker 1>a turkey when it's turkey season and they see a
<v Speaker 1>sasquatch running out, grabbing the turkey and taking off, so
<v Speaker 1>they definitely like turkey.
<v Speaker 2>That's just messed up. Mm hmm. That's And why not
<v Speaker 2>alligators pick on something your own size? You want to
<v Speaker 2>you want to fight a dinosaur fighter dinosaur? The mess
<v Speaker 2>with alligators and what you call in the I've heard
<v Speaker 2>the term the skunk man or something like that. That's
<v Speaker 2>in Florida. Mm hmmm, yeah, the sky Yeah, there, he goes, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>why not find an alligator, pick on something your own
<v Speaker 2>size that can fight you back.
<v Speaker 1>I feel like they would.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they probably do. We just never hear of it
<v Speaker 2>because nobody ever reports to their alligator.
<v Speaker 1>Missing, right, Yeah that's true. Who would know?
<v Speaker 2>So I will I will do my best to convince
<v Speaker 2>my brother because he was apprehensive, like like I was,
<v Speaker 2>and like I still am. And I will see if
<v Speaker 2>I can talk to him and get him to contact
<v Speaker 2>you and tell his story. But like I said, he's
<v Speaker 2>a joker. He's he's gonna make a lot of jokes
<v Speaker 2>and it's gonna sound like it's not real, and he's
<v Speaker 2>going to go back and forth, and you know, he'll
<v Speaker 2>tell you like he told me, he said, I I
<v Speaker 2>don't call him Sasquatch, I don't call him bigfoot. I
<v Speaker 2>call him satchet Bow because I know him. And I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>what do you mean you know him? And he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>we were close enough to get to know each other.
<v Speaker 2>Kind of situation. But I would love for him to
<v Speaker 2>tell you his story, just just to have it out there.
<v Speaker 2>And like I said, with the distance only being you know,
<v Speaker 2>six miles apart, he's got to tell it because I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure it's at least in the same family or they
<v Speaker 2>know each other because they seem to run that wooded
<v Speaker 2>area there.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, absolutely, it has to be the same family group,
<v Speaker 1>and that would be absolutely incredible to have your brother on.
<v Speaker 1>And I'll wait a while before I post this in
<v Speaker 1>case he decides to tell his encounter that way. That
<v Speaker 1>way I can post them back to back.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that would be great. Yeah, I'll see what I
<v Speaker 2>can do to convince him. But like I said, he's
<v Speaker 2>he's always felt that he was crazy for telling it
<v Speaker 2>until I told him mine and then he was like.
<v Speaker 2>To find him speechless is amazing. He's a way better
<v Speaker 2>storyteller than I am. I can't believe you've actually walked
<v Speaker 2>me through this long enough. As long as you have,
<v Speaker 2>his would be a two minute story, so you'd have
<v Speaker 2>to kind of walk him through it too. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'd love to hear his full story in a podcast. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, Well, if he tells it soon, I'll just put
<v Speaker 1>it on this same podcast, and I think that would
<v Speaker 1>be really cool.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well, I'll do my best to convince him, sir.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and one last question before we wrap it up.
<v Speaker 1>Was there a like famous waterway nearby other than the creek.
<v Speaker 1>Where does the creek pour into? Is there a certain
<v Speaker 1>river or a big lake nearby around here?
<v Speaker 2>The closest thing you're gonna find is Lake Watery, And
<v Speaker 2>you know, water always runs downhill and it's going to
<v Speaker 2>find its way to a lake. That would be the
<v Speaker 2>biggest body of water that I would say, you'd have
<v Speaker 2>the ability to at least explain to that creek runs
<v Speaker 2>to is Lake Watery somehow? But when I tell you
<v Speaker 2>this is a creek, this thing was only you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'm six eight inches deep at the most, probably three
<v Speaker 2>foot wide. It wasn't anything huge.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but they follow the waterways whenever they spook. And
<v Speaker 1>that's what the sasquatch did that I told you about.
<v Speaker 1>He was heading towards the creek.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. It's probably a good source of food because we
<v Speaker 2>do have even not being in the in the low country,
<v Speaker 2>we do have crawdads, you know, we do have we
<v Speaker 2>do have fish.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I just think they used the waterways as trails,
<v Speaker 1>highways and roads, and it leads them to bigger forests.
<v Speaker 2>I would agree. And this guy had I'll text you
<v Speaker 2>after this and I'll I'll actually go on Google Earth
<v Speaker 2>and look up the address that way, it helps you
<v Speaker 2>a little bit. And I'm I'm sure it's going to
<v Speaker 2>be a more recent picture than it was, you know,
<v Speaker 2>back in ninety six, ninety seven, and you can kind
<v Speaker 2>of there is nothing but forest behind these Turkey grms. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so they had an entire an entire you know, two
<v Speaker 2>hundred acres that my uncle owned, and then god forbid
<v Speaker 2>what was on the other side of it just just
<v Speaker 2>pined to run and roam on their own day. There
<v Speaker 2>was nobody there. There's no houses, no, no nothing, no roads,
<v Speaker 2>no nothing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Absolutely in South Carolina was it had a lot
<v Speaker 1>of forests back in the day. And it wasn't until
<v Speaker 1>here recently that people really started populating the areas in
<v Speaker 1>South Carolina due to people moving away from like New
<v Speaker 1>York and California. But yeah, it's definitely a lot different
<v Speaker 1>in the nineties.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this was this was just a free bomb. I
<v Speaker 2>fully understand why he was back there. I get it.
<v Speaker 2>I would have been there too, if that's the way
<v Speaker 2>I had to live. But that brings up the point again.
<v Speaker 2>He was just surprised to see me as I was
<v Speaker 2>to see him.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, and don't let it ruin the forest. For you,
<v Speaker 1>don't let it ruin hunting. I would get back out
<v Speaker 1>there and slowly put your feet back in the water.
<v Speaker 2>Man. Oh no, not at all. We have a place
<v Speaker 2>here we call the Moonlight Lounge, and it is a
<v Speaker 2>huge flat tabletop that comes off of a railroad track,
<v Speaker 2>and I'll go sit out there some nights and just
<v Speaker 2>watch the stars. Now that doesn't mean I'm not armed,
<v Speaker 2>but I will go sit out there. And like I said,
<v Speaker 2>it's never bothered me. It's never really scared me of
<v Speaker 2>the woods because I forgot about it until, you know,
<v Speaker 2>a week ago, So it's never really crossed my mind.
<v Speaker 2>All the weird sounds that the woods make. I know them.
<v Speaker 2>I've been there. I've heard coyotes cry, I've heard them
<v Speaker 2>talk to each other and all of that. I've just
<v Speaker 2>never seen anything like I seen that morning. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, And James, I appreciate you for making the report
<v Speaker 1>on sasquatch theory. It certainly helps out the channel, and
<v Speaker 1>I know it helps out other people who have had
<v Speaker 1>encounters just like yours. And Yeah, if you ever see
<v Speaker 1>anything else in the future, definitely feel free to reach
<v Speaker 1>out to me and Hopefully I hear from your brother soon.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, fingers crossed. I don't ever see anything like that again, Miguiel,
<v Speaker 2>but I definitely appreciate your time, buddy.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, yep, thank you so much, and you have
<v Speaker 1>an excellent fourth of July. My friend, you do the
<v Speaker 1>same search Stay safe, yep, you too, love it all right.
<v Speaker 1>That was James from South Carolina sharing an unforgettable encounter
<v Speaker 1>that's still handsome to this day. From red eyes in
<v Speaker 1>the dark to the fear of being pulled from his
<v Speaker 1>deer stand, this story reminds us just how close these
<v Speaker 1>creatures may be. If you've had your own bigfoot or
<v Speaker 1>crypted experience, email me. I'd love to hear from you.
<v Speaker 1>Make sure to subscribe a Sasquatch Theory on YouTube, Spotify
<v Speaker 1>and all the other podcast platforms. I've heard a lot
<v Speaker 1>of reports where people mentioning the creature laughing at him,
<v Speaker 1>or it had a smirk on its face. Maybe they
<v Speaker 1>think it's funny scaring the heck out of us. A
<v Speaker 1>lot of people mention that with dog Man as well,
<v Speaker 1>that it had this smirk on its face like ha ha,
<v Speaker 1>what are you gonna do now? Like they know they
<v Speaker 1>have the upper hand, and they obviously do something that's
<v Speaker 1>ten foots tall, hulking huge, can easily snap you in half.
<v Speaker 1>And it's just scary to think that somebody is trapped
<v Speaker 1>in a deer stand with these with the creature like
<v Speaker 1>this around, what would you do? Would you take a
<v Speaker 1>shot on it or would you just let it go?
<v Speaker 1>I feel like it's best just to let it go
<v Speaker 1>unless it charges you and it's trying to get you.
<v Speaker 1>Of course, defend yourself, but it's best to leave these
<v Speaker 1>things alone because you don't know what they're capable of.
<v Speaker 1>And they also travel in a clan, so if you
<v Speaker 1>take one down, you have many others to worry about,
<v Speaker 1>all right, I appreciate everyone for watching and until the
<v Speaker 1>next encounter, you guys, be safe out in the woods.