Oh! That’s a Bigfoot! - My Bigfoot Sighting Episode 201

<v Speaker 1>Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in.
<v Speaker 2>You're ready for another episode of my big Foot Sighting.
<v Speaker 3>All right, then let's do this.
<v Speaker 4>Seen a bunch of run down, no horse towns where
<v Speaker 4>the church at the backbone, laws and the bow and
<v Speaker 4>the fasting melodies cove in with the bomb man rose
<v Speaker 4>with the roofs, run deep beyond the nose of the
<v Speaker 4>busy streets with the songs.
<v Speaker 3>Of the South of Su.
<v Speaker 4>Then when I hear the promp porch picking down home
<v Speaker 4>rhythm bringing out I Don't run from Banjung music.
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<v Speaker 1>Bigfoot sightings began in the seventies. Hi, my nickname is six.
<v Speaker 1>That's because I had five older brothers growing up and
<v Speaker 1>I came along and I was number six. I also
<v Speaker 1>did have three older sisters, but they grew up and
<v Speaker 1>moved out before I came along. And later in life
<v Speaker 1>I had what I called my second family and I
<v Speaker 1>got three more brothers. But six is what stuck for
<v Speaker 1>many many years, and lots of people don't know that
<v Speaker 1>about me. Also, just side note, I'm an enneagram six,
<v Speaker 1>and so later in life people started calling me six.
<v Speaker 1>From that it's a personality test. It just means I'm
<v Speaker 1>a loyalist, I'm prepared, I don't back down. And anyway,
<v Speaker 1>that's that's kind of a story of six. But the
<v Speaker 1>reason it's important is because those five older brothers, they
<v Speaker 1>are what kind of launched me into the woods. I
<v Speaker 1>grew up in a gang family. It was pretty dysfunctional
<v Speaker 1>and it was filled with all kinds of bad things.
<v Speaker 1>And as related to gangs, bad people came around too,
<v Speaker 1>And as a seven year old, I would take off
<v Speaker 1>to the woods. I would hear the motorcycles roll up,
<v Speaker 1>or I would hear the music start in the basement,
<v Speaker 1>and I knew. I knew to take off and go hide,
<v Speaker 1>and that meant the woods. So here's what's interesting about
<v Speaker 1>the woods that I grew up in.
<v Speaker 2>It was a bog.
<v Speaker 1>So I would run out into those woods and I'd
<v Speaker 1>hit that bog and it's like just this floating carpet
<v Speaker 1>of moss, and my brothers and their friends, I guess
<v Speaker 1>you would call them couldn't chase me there.
<v Speaker 2>They fell through.
<v Speaker 1>But I was little, and so I would hit that
<v Speaker 1>bog and I knew I was safe, and often I
<v Speaker 1>had to lay there, sometimes well into the night, until
<v Speaker 1>I knew it was safe enough to go back home,
<v Speaker 1>sneak into the house and find a place to hide there.
<v Speaker 1>And this bog at this time was actually in Michigan,
<v Speaker 1>and it's where I had my very first encounter. I
<v Speaker 1>wasn't sure what I was seeing. I was just laying
<v Speaker 1>I remember it vividly. I was laying on my left side,
<v Speaker 1>curled up on this floating mat of moss, and darkness
<v Speaker 1>was just starting to kind of hit the woods. The
<v Speaker 1>sun was just going down, and I heard before I saw,
<v Speaker 1>I heard this terrible crashing sounds, and I honestly thought
<v Speaker 1>it was my brother's somehow coming through the woods at me.
<v Speaker 1>And I kind of looked over to where the sound
<v Speaker 1>was coming from, and I saw this cedar tree straight
<v Speaker 1>up and down, not bent over, not falling over, none
<v Speaker 1>of that, but this cedar tree just moving through the woods,
<v Speaker 1>like straight up and down through the woods, and I
<v Speaker 1>could kind of see through the brush area. Now, remember
<v Speaker 1>I'm laying on this bug, I'm laying on this floating moss,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm just barely kind of able to look through
<v Speaker 1>the underbrush on the other side of the swamp, and
<v Speaker 1>all I could see was a form, and I was like,
<v Speaker 1>is that a bear?
<v Speaker 2>Can a bear do that?
<v Speaker 1>Like? Can a bear pick up a tree and carry
<v Speaker 1>it upright through the woods?
<v Speaker 2>I was seven.
<v Speaker 1>I had no idea like what was going on, but
<v Speaker 1>I could see the outline. I could see the shadow
<v Speaker 1>of something enormous and dark, and in my seven year
<v Speaker 1>old brain, I assumed it was a bear or it
<v Speaker 1>was a monster. I didn't know about Bigfoot then, but
<v Speaker 1>I knew what I saw. And I saw that tree
<v Speaker 1>moving through the forest straight up and down, and I
<v Speaker 1>was scared. But I had to kind of decide in
<v Speaker 1>that moment what I was most scared of was I'm
<v Speaker 1>most scared of something I couldn't identify moving through the
<v Speaker 1>forest in an incredible way that was like kind of
<v Speaker 1>far away from me. So I didn't really feel like
<v Speaker 1>danger or was I more afraid of going back home
<v Speaker 1>to where trauma would happen.
<v Speaker 2>So I just watched.
<v Speaker 1>I laid there and I just watched that tree and
<v Speaker 1>that very large dark form move it, crash it through
<v Speaker 1>my woods, through the woods, and after it was gone,
<v Speaker 1>I got up and I snuck back into the house.
<v Speaker 1>But that was my very first what I know now
<v Speaker 1>as my encounter.
<v Speaker 2>And when I.
<v Speaker 1>The next day, when I got to talk to my brothers,
<v Speaker 1>one of them said, oh, that's a bigfoot. And I
<v Speaker 1>didn't even really know what a bigfoot was, but he
<v Speaker 1>spoke it as if he really knew what one was
<v Speaker 1>and believed, and so I believed him, and I just
<v Speaker 1>started telling people like in my school, that I had
<v Speaker 1>a big foot in my woods. And then one of
<v Speaker 1>my other encounters shortly after that happened. That happened a lot.
<v Speaker 1>That happened a lot, not the tree itself, but me
<v Speaker 1>running to the woods, laying on this bug to be safe,
<v Speaker 1>and then seeing something walk through the woods, seeing something
<v Speaker 1>or hearing something. And I would later learn like I
<v Speaker 1>was hearing wood knocks or howls or grunts or screams
<v Speaker 1>or whoops as a kid, like I said, I didn't
<v Speaker 1>even really know. I didn't even really know what those were.
<v Speaker 1>And I never at that point actually got to see
<v Speaker 1>this being, this creature face to face or up close.
<v Speaker 1>I only ever saw when I was laying on the bog,
<v Speaker 1>like the motion of it, the form of it, usually
<v Speaker 1>at a distance, I just knew it was huge. But
<v Speaker 1>then the second occurrence started happening, same home. I would
<v Speaker 1>come home from work or not work, I would come
<v Speaker 1>home from.
<v Speaker 2>School and.
<v Speaker 1>I just felt like something was watching me from the woods.
<v Speaker 1>So our home was on a dead end street, and
<v Speaker 1>it had like the metal barrier at the end of
<v Speaker 1>that dead end, so that car just didn't, you know,
<v Speaker 1>run off into the woods. At the edge, there was
<v Speaker 1>a trail, and next to the trail, and that's the
<v Speaker 1>trail I always took when I h tailed it to
<v Speaker 1>the bog. But next to the trail was our shed.
<v Speaker 1>And I started getting off the school bus dropped us
<v Speaker 1>off right there at that corner of our house in
<v Speaker 1>the dead end, and I would get off the school
<v Speaker 1>bus and I was literally a latch key kid, So
<v Speaker 1>I had a string around my neck with the key
<v Speaker 1>on it, and I came in to you know, just
<v Speaker 1>let myself in. Oftentimes, if I saw motorcycles in the
<v Speaker 1>driveway or I heard music coming from the house, I
<v Speaker 1>would go be by that shed. I would just go
<v Speaker 1>hide out by that shed and that trail. But this
<v Speaker 1>this is when, like I said, this kind of started
<v Speaker 1>happening after I had my experiences on the bug I
<v Speaker 1>would feel like something was watching me when I got
<v Speaker 1>off the school bus, and I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I was a kid.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't think too much about it, but it kind
<v Speaker 1>of creaked me out a little bit. But I started
<v Speaker 1>looking as I came around the corner of the house.
<v Speaker 1>I would always look towards the corner of that shed
<v Speaker 1>where I would go hide, and that trail, And one
<v Speaker 1>day I stopped dead in my tracks because standing there
<v Speaker 1>at the edge of the shed, just outside the woods
<v Speaker 1>edge was something I had never seen before, and I
<v Speaker 1>only knew to call it a monster.
<v Speaker 2>It was.
<v Speaker 1>Well, like I said, I was a kid, so it
<v Speaker 1>seemed enormous. It seemed like it was twenty feet tall.
<v Speaker 1>Now with perspective as an adult looking back, I can
<v Speaker 1>say it was probably eight, maybe nine, maybe even ten
<v Speaker 1>feet tall, and it was very dark, not black, but
<v Speaker 1>like a dark charcoal, and hanging from it was hair
<v Speaker 1>that also, as an adult now, reminds me of Spanish moss,
<v Speaker 1>like when you see that hanging from the trees. It
<v Speaker 1>didn't look like moss, but it hung like that from
<v Speaker 1>this creature, from its kind of curved bent legs and
<v Speaker 1>from its arms, and as soon as it would make
<v Speaker 1>eye contact with me, it would turn and take off
<v Speaker 1>into the woods, or as soon as I would see it,
<v Speaker 1>it would turn and take off into the woods. But
<v Speaker 1>it was like it was making a point for me
<v Speaker 1>to see it. And that's when I started being afraid
<v Speaker 1>to go into the woods. And I didn't like that.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't like that at all because the woods was
<v Speaker 1>my safe place. The woods was where I ran to
<v Speaker 1>to be safe. And whatever this new creature was that
<v Speaker 1>I saw, I can remember on three occasions in elementary
<v Speaker 1>school seeing this very vividly. That's when I started getting
<v Speaker 1>in agreement with what some of my brothers said that
<v Speaker 1>there were monsters and monsters were real, So I started
<v Speaker 1>to ident I didn't know what it was, but I
<v Speaker 1>didn't identify it as bigfoot, because bigfoot, to me, I
<v Speaker 1>never felt afraid. Maybe I should have, but I never did.
<v Speaker 1>But this one I began to feel fear. And that
<v Speaker 1>was like my early childhood. Then what I call like
<v Speaker 1>my second kind of timeline of encounters was more in
<v Speaker 1>my teen years. So my mom passed away a week
<v Speaker 1>before my tenth birthday, and when she passed away, my
<v Speaker 1>stepdad brought me home from the funeral threw two black
<v Speaker 1>garbage bags at me and said, go in your room,
<v Speaker 1>pack your things, and go sit on the front porch.
<v Speaker 1>Your dad is coming to get you. You're going to
<v Speaker 1>go live with him. I didn't know what to pack,
<v Speaker 1>so I just threw a few things in these black
<v Speaker 1>garbage bags and I went and sat on the front
<v Speaker 1>porch and I waited.
<v Speaker 2>Now, my dad.
<v Speaker 1>And his new wife, and my three new brothers, they were,
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to say they were afraid of me,
<v Speaker 1>but they knew my upbringing. They knew the family I
<v Speaker 1>lived in, they knew the dysfunction, they knew the trauma
<v Speaker 1>I had lived through. And so when I moved with them,
<v Speaker 1>Dad immediately began making plans to move us away from
<v Speaker 1>the city and more out into the country. And so
<v Speaker 1>we moved to northern Michigan. Lived in the middle of nowhere, really,
<v Speaker 1>And what I found interesting, though, was we owned ten
<v Speaker 1>acres and the woods were mostly bobbed, and it felt
<v Speaker 1>like a new safe place. So my dad also was
<v Speaker 1>an outdoorsman and a hunter, and he had several deer
<v Speaker 1>blinds on the property, and back in the day, those
<v Speaker 1>deer blinds were literally just made from fallen trees, and
<v Speaker 1>limbs that were broken off and things like that. None
<v Speaker 1>that this new, you know, like go buy a cameo blind.
<v Speaker 1>It was just stuff we built and made with fallen limbs.
<v Speaker 1>And often I would run to the edge of the
<v Speaker 1>blog and lay in his deer blind because I didn't
<v Speaker 1>necessarily have people chasing me out onto that bog. Now
<v Speaker 1>I didn't need to be on that bog, But I
<v Speaker 1>went there for years as a teen, just going out
<v Speaker 1>into the woods, into our swamp and laying there in
<v Speaker 1>his deer blinds and feeling a sense of safety because
<v Speaker 1>even though this was a new home, it still came
<v Speaker 1>with its own set of problems and dysfunction, and I
<v Speaker 1>often again had to run to the woods to seek
<v Speaker 1>my safety. And it was here that I started having
<v Speaker 1>other encounters again, this time with again the bigfoot what
<v Speaker 1>I knew.
<v Speaker 2>To call bigfoot.
<v Speaker 1>Nothing in my face, nothing up close, nothing anything that
<v Speaker 1>I could say, Wow, this guy was right next to me,
<v Speaker 1>and I saw him exactly. But they were always the sounds.
<v Speaker 1>They were always the tree knocking, they were always the whoops,
<v Speaker 1>they were always the.
<v Speaker 2>Howls and that kind of thing.
<v Speaker 1>And then the shadows moving through the trees, sometimes not
<v Speaker 1>just shadows. Sometimes it was very evident that this was
<v Speaker 1>a very large creature. And now I'm a teenager, so
<v Speaker 1>I could identify it more as like, wow, this is
<v Speaker 1>probably an eight foot nine foot ten foot thing, and
<v Speaker 1>that is not a bear. Like we lived in northern Michigan,
<v Speaker 1>I knew what black bear were. We had encounters with
<v Speaker 1>black bear, and that was not a black bear. And
<v Speaker 1>so I started seeing them more as a teen, but
<v Speaker 1>again never anything just up close and in my face,
<v Speaker 1>so to speak. And this kind of continued. So that
<v Speaker 1>was my early years. But then in my twenties and
<v Speaker 1>my thirties, I was married my first husband, and I
<v Speaker 1>moved to North Carolina and we were right next to
<v Speaker 1>the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway, and I often spent my
<v Speaker 1>weekends up there.
<v Speaker 2>I would take the kids up there. We would hit
<v Speaker 2>the trails, and.
<v Speaker 1>There was trouble and trauma within that marriage. So the
<v Speaker 1>woods again became my escape. They became my safe place
<v Speaker 1>to go, and that's where I started having other encounters
<v Speaker 1>again just like I did as a teen, just like
<v Speaker 1>I did as a kid. Like I would find places
<v Speaker 1>to sit that I loved down the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, there's a place there called the Orchard Alta Pass,
<v Speaker 1>and there's a train that comes through the mountains and
<v Speaker 1>it sounds like ghosts as the whistles blow coming through
<v Speaker 1>that tunnel. And if you sit there at that orchard
<v Speaker 1>and you hear that sound, it is eerie and haunting.
<v Speaker 1>And they say it's of the ghosts of the men
<v Speaker 1>who built that pass through the mountain. But that was
<v Speaker 1>my first encounter during this time of my life, sitting
<v Speaker 1>there listening to that train, which are I love. But
<v Speaker 1>then I also heard coyotes, and the coyotes were going crazy,
<v Speaker 1>and within the coyotes came another sound and it stopped
<v Speaker 1>me literally in my tracks because I was hiking, and
<v Speaker 1>I went back to my childhood, and I said, these
<v Speaker 1>are the sounds I heard from Bigfoot.
<v Speaker 2>There was something different.
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't a coyote yip, it wasn't a coyote howl,
<v Speaker 1>it wasn't a chorus of coyotes.
<v Speaker 2>It was.
<v Speaker 1>I don't I don't even know how to describe it.
<v Speaker 1>But it was a sound similar and yet unlike. And
<v Speaker 1>I just knew, I just knew that I was among
<v Speaker 1>Bigfoot again, and so I would go back to that
<v Speaker 1>place the Orchard alta pass on the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway,
<v Speaker 1>and I would sit at that overlook, or I would
<v Speaker 1>hike one of those trails and get the glimpses, only
<v Speaker 1>the glimpses again, and I never really understood why I
<v Speaker 1>wasn't getting full on, in your face sightings. I was
<v Speaker 1>kind of grateful because now I'm an adult and I
<v Speaker 1>realized this could also be dangerous. But I often wondered why,
<v Speaker 1>why did and why also were all of my encounters
<v Speaker 1>around trauma, like trauma as a child and trauma as
<v Speaker 1>a young wife, And it just seemed like, I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>I just it just made me wonder why that was
<v Speaker 1>why I or that was when I always had these encounters.
<v Speaker 1>So then kind of fast forward into my later years,
<v Speaker 1>my thirties, my forties, and I'm married for the second time.
<v Speaker 1>My kids are grown, and we live on a homestead
<v Speaker 1>in Missouri, one hundred and thirty acres that's all ours
<v Speaker 1>and my father in law. We homesteaded with my in laws,
<v Speaker 1>so my mother and my father in law also lived
<v Speaker 1>there up on the land as we built our homestead,
<v Speaker 1>and my father in law used to always say, beware
<v Speaker 1>of the shape shifters, Like he didn't ever say Bigfoot,
<v Speaker 1>he didn't say sasquatch. He always said just beware of
<v Speaker 1>the shape shifters. And in fact, he would kind of
<v Speaker 1>make fun with like ups and FedEx and the guys
<v Speaker 1>who would come up to do deliveries and kind of
<v Speaker 1>scare them off and be like, you don't want to
<v Speaker 1>come up here, You don't want to come up here
<v Speaker 1>on this hill and this one hundred and thirty acres
<v Speaker 1>of shape shifters up here. And so one day I
<v Speaker 1>was standing out on the front porch of the main homestead,
<v Speaker 1>which is where my mother and father in law lived,
<v Speaker 1>and I heard crashing through the woods again, crashing, and
<v Speaker 1>I turned around and I opened up the door and
<v Speaker 1>I called to my father in law and I said,
<v Speaker 1>come out here, there's something coming through the woods. And
<v Speaker 1>he went out on the front porch with me, and
<v Speaker 1>he said, oh, that's the shape shifter.
<v Speaker 2>And I looked at.
<v Speaker 1>Him, and then he laughed and he kind of hit
<v Speaker 1>me in the arm, like, oh, I'm just joking, like
<v Speaker 1>he didn't want to scare me. But I felt like
<v Speaker 1>he truly believed, like he didn't want to really come
<v Speaker 1>clean about it because it was so far out there,
<v Speaker 1>but he didn't know what else to call it. He
<v Speaker 1>didn't know how to identify it. But we could see
<v Speaker 1>a shape moving through our trees and just crashing them
<v Speaker 1>down as it was moving through. So I began paying
<v Speaker 1>attention to noises that I heard on one hundred and
<v Speaker 1>thirty acres. My husband at that time, my second husband,
<v Speaker 1>also didn't go down into the woods with me much,
<v Speaker 1>but still the woods were my safe place, and I
<v Speaker 1>was also now in a time of trauma, and I
<v Speaker 1>needed another safe place to be, and so I took
<v Speaker 1>off to the woods. We also had horses, and we
<v Speaker 1>had a horse field, and I would watch the coyotes
<v Speaker 1>come out of the woods and cross that horse field,
<v Speaker 1>making their noises, being crazy like coyotes do, yip in.
<v Speaker 1>And I started paying attention because there was that sound again,
<v Speaker 1>that other sound that was within the coyote pack that
<v Speaker 1>just sounded different. And so when I would hear the coyotes,
<v Speaker 1>I would either run to the edge of the horse
<v Speaker 1>field or I would run out onto the porch and
<v Speaker 1>I would just look and I would scan, and I
<v Speaker 1>began seeing the form of what my father in law
<v Speaker 1>called the shape shifter, but it was bigfoot running the
<v Speaker 1>edge of the woods, not coming across the field like
<v Speaker 1>the coyotes did, but still running in pattern with them
<v Speaker 1>along the edge of the woods. And I called my
<v Speaker 1>second husband out there onto the porch with me one time,
<v Speaker 1>and he was like, that's just shadows. You're seeing something odd.
<v Speaker 1>That's just a shadow. That's just something odd, and he
<v Speaker 1>tried to just kind of play it off, but I
<v Speaker 1>knew in my heart of heart, so that's what I
<v Speaker 1>was seeing.
<v Speaker 2>Again.
<v Speaker 1>So we're building our home at this point and living
<v Speaker 1>in a motor home, and I had a puppy that
<v Speaker 1>was half German Shepherd, half Roddy, a black German Shepherd
<v Speaker 1>German Shepherd and a rought wild mix. And her name
<v Speaker 1>was Molly, and Molly was my job. My husband wanted
<v Speaker 1>nothing to do with the job of Molly, so at night,
<v Speaker 1>before I settled down for the evening, I would take
<v Speaker 1>Molly to the edge of the woods to go do
<v Speaker 1>her business. And it was out there for the first
<v Speaker 1>time that I had it was literally, I literally in
<v Speaker 1>my face encounter. It scared me so bad in that
<v Speaker 1>moment that I didn't really realize it until I was
<v Speaker 1>later thinking about it. If that makes any sense at all.
<v Speaker 1>But I was walking Molly along the edge of the
<v Speaker 1>woods and it was dark, and we, like I said,
<v Speaker 1>we lived in the middle of nowhere, and we didn't
<v Speaker 1>have like these big porch lights, and we didn't have
<v Speaker 1>the lights that came on at night. We had dark.
<v Speaker 1>We had dark, and we had stars. And I knew
<v Speaker 1>every inch of that place. And I didn't go out
<v Speaker 1>there with a flashlight or my cell phone or anything
<v Speaker 1>like that. I just took her to the edge of
<v Speaker 1>the woods. And as I was standing there waiting for
<v Speaker 1>her while she was doing her business, all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 1>I'm standing with my back towards where our motor home
<v Speaker 1>was in a field, and my face is facing the
<v Speaker 1>woods and my toes literally at the edge of the woods,
<v Speaker 1>and Molly's just kind of running around me on her leash,
<v Speaker 1>looking for her place. And standing there, I heard the
<v Speaker 1>most terrifying sound I have ever heard in my life.
<v Speaker 1>And I only know how to describe it as like
<v Speaker 1>multiple sounds all at once, like.
<v Speaker 2>The scream.
<v Speaker 1>Of something killing something that was also screaming, like I
<v Speaker 1>just don't know how else to describe it. It was
<v Speaker 1>so loud and so in my face, and I turned
<v Speaker 1>and I don't even know how Molly got back to
<v Speaker 1>the more home with me.
<v Speaker 2>I really don't.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if that puppy became a kite and
<v Speaker 1>was just flying behind me on the end of her leash,
<v Speaker 1>or if she was running with me.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I tripped, I fell.
<v Speaker 1>I was this muddy, huge mess scrambling to get up
<v Speaker 1>and just get back to the motorhome. And as I fell,
<v Speaker 1>I kind of turned and looked again, and that is
<v Speaker 1>when I saw exactly what was screaming at me. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't I didn't have because it was pitch black. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't have super good clarity. But I now, in my
<v Speaker 1>mind's eye see exactly what screamed at me when my
<v Speaker 1>feet were at the edge of the woods. I can
<v Speaker 1>see the glow of the eyes that I didn't see
<v Speaker 1>when I was standing there being screamed at. I can
<v Speaker 1>see the shape. I can see the long hair, I
<v Speaker 1>can see the height. I can see the width of it.
<v Speaker 1>And I think that's what was most impressive to me,
<v Speaker 1>was the width of it. Not so much the height,
<v Speaker 1>but the width, the broadness of this this being, this
<v Speaker 1>the shoulders, the chest, even the hips. I can see
<v Speaker 1>it as clear as day now, and I saw it
<v Speaker 1>as clear as day when I was falling and trying
<v Speaker 1>to get back up. But again it was dark, so
<v Speaker 1>I don't have the color of its hair. I don't have,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the whites of its eyes or anything like that.
<v Speaker 1>But I clearly clearly see this thing standing in front
<v Speaker 1>of me. And I have been scared a lot in
<v Speaker 1>my life. I have been terrified a lot in my life,
<v Speaker 1>and I don't ever recall ever being as scared as
<v Speaker 1>I was in that moment, realizing how insignificant I was,
<v Speaker 1>how small I was. If that thing had it could
<v Speaker 1>have reached out and touched me, and if it had
<v Speaker 1>chosen to reach out and touch me, it could have
<v Speaker 1>killed me. And that's what I know now. And that
<v Speaker 1>was my very first what I call really my sighting,
<v Speaker 1>my sighting, and that wasn't that many years ago. I
<v Speaker 1>have been off the homestead now for two years. That
<v Speaker 1>second husband is now ex husband in a marriage that
<v Speaker 1>dissolved that I never saw coming. I really didn't, and.
<v Speaker 2>I moved.
<v Speaker 1>I had to start completely over in my mid to
<v Speaker 1>late fifties. And the one thing I asked of God,
<v Speaker 1>because I'm a believer, I asked him, Lord, give me
<v Speaker 1>a view of sunrise and let me be near the woods.
<v Speaker 1>You know, the woods are.
<v Speaker 2>My safe place.
<v Speaker 1>I had to look for an apartment, and where I
<v Speaker 1>live there aren't many, and so the waiting lists are long,
<v Speaker 1>like two hundred people long. And I was just like, wow,
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know where I'm going to go. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know how this is going to happen. But Lord,
<v Speaker 1>that's my request. Just please put me by the woods
<v Speaker 1>and give me a view of sunrise. Well, long story
<v Speaker 1>shortened that I did apply for an apartment, and you
<v Speaker 1>had to apply site unseen. You just put in your
<v Speaker 1>application and hoped you got it. And when you got it,
<v Speaker 1>they went and showed you where it was and what
<v Speaker 1>it looked like, and you just said okay. So that happened,
<v Speaker 1>and I got this apartment two hundred people this long,
<v Speaker 1>and I got it. And you walk out my back
<v Speaker 1>door and I'm six feet off of the woods, and
<v Speaker 1>you walk out my front door and across a field
<v Speaker 1>and a pond is a beautiful eastern sky, And I
<v Speaker 1>was like, okay, God, I know you arranged this place
<v Speaker 1>for me. I'm here and I'm grateful, and I'm just
<v Speaker 1>going to figure the rest of this life out.
<v Speaker 2>And that was.
<v Speaker 1>In the summer, and I didn't get to spend a
<v Speaker 1>lot of time in the woods during summer. But when
<v Speaker 1>fall hit, I started making it a point. Get out there,
<v Speaker 1>get into your woods. K these are your woods again,
<v Speaker 1>This is your safe place again. Trauma tried to take over.
<v Speaker 1>Hard things came into life, and you got the woods again.
<v Speaker 1>Get back into the woods. And so I did, and
<v Speaker 1>I started loving them. And then one day I was
<v Speaker 1>standing on my porch, which is about four feet off
<v Speaker 1>the edge of the woods, and I see a tree
<v Speaker 1>that is twisted and torn apart. The twisted part is
<v Speaker 1>leaned up against another tree, and then the stump of
<v Speaker 1>it is just you know, sticking up, twisted and crazy looking.
<v Speaker 1>And I knew that a bigfoot had marked that place.
<v Speaker 2>I just do it.
<v Speaker 1>So then I started listening and looking for other signs.
<v Speaker 1>There's tree structures back here, there's xes, there's teepees, there's
<v Speaker 1>bent trees. I've heard wood knocks, there's been.
<v Speaker 2>Whoops.
<v Speaker 1>And it felt like they I don't know. Some people
<v Speaker 1>say some people get tagged, and I guess I kind
<v Speaker 1>of feel tagged, like they always have shown up for
<v Speaker 1>me during or after times of trauma, and I kind
<v Speaker 1>of felt like that this time too, so but because
<v Speaker 1>I had been terrified on the homestead, I I didn't
<v Speaker 1>see them through my childhood mind's eye, if you know
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. Now, I have a reality check about them.
<v Speaker 1>So but yet I still love my woods, so I
<v Speaker 1>go out there often. And one time I went out there,
<v Speaker 1>and I always look this tree that got twisted and
<v Speaker 1>broken off has become a gifting spot for me. Put
<v Speaker 1>different things out there, like peanut butter and apples, and
<v Speaker 1>I have these suckers that are made from honey, and
<v Speaker 1>different things out and a tennis ball, different things out there.
<v Speaker 1>And I was standing on my porch looking to see
<v Speaker 1>if any of my gifting spot stuff had been taken.
<v Speaker 1>And well, before I tell you that part, let me
<v Speaker 1>tell you that tennis ball was taken and it showed
<v Speaker 1>back up on my porch, and I threw it as
<v Speaker 1>far as I could back into the woods, and a
<v Speaker 1>couple days later it showed back up on my porch,
<v Speaker 1>almost as if There's been a couple of times I've
<v Speaker 1>taken pictures with my phone and scanned the woods, and
<v Speaker 1>there's been what I feel like is a juvenile in
<v Speaker 1>my pictures, and it was almost as if that juvenile
<v Speaker 1>maybe was playing fetch with me. I don't know, but anyway,
<v Speaker 1>this particular time, I was looking out at that gifting
<v Speaker 1>spot to see if anything was taken, and I was
<v Speaker 1>kind of walking towards it a little bit, and as
<v Speaker 1>I was, something rose from the ground right there at
<v Speaker 1>the base of that tree and darted off into the woods.
<v Speaker 1>And immediately, in my growing up as a hunter, I thought, oh,
<v Speaker 1>wait till deer. That thing just took off lickety split,
<v Speaker 1>just up.
<v Speaker 2>I scared.
<v Speaker 1>I just you know, scared a deer up. And then
<v Speaker 1>I was like, wait a minute. I didn't see a flag.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't see that tail. It wasn't brown like a
<v Speaker 1>deer color. And as I started like this is all
<v Speaker 1>like happening, immediately in my brain, this isn't just me
<v Speaker 1>thinking about it for a while and pondering. This was
<v Speaker 1>like an immediate all of these thoughts going through my
<v Speaker 1>head at once. I realized what I actually saw was
<v Speaker 1>something very charcoal gray come up from the ground on
<v Speaker 1>two legs and bound off on two legs, legs that
<v Speaker 1>I want to call like haunches. And I felt that
<v Speaker 1>feeling of fear again. But I saw it, and I
<v Speaker 1>knew that I saw it, and nobody can tell me
<v Speaker 1>I did not see it. So then I was on
<v Speaker 1>the phone with a friend of mine actually named Dave,
<v Speaker 1>and not this, not at that moment, but later a
<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks, maybe even, and I start hearing this
<v Speaker 1>crazy dog, like this dog is just barking like crazy,
<v Speaker 1>and Dave's on the phone with me, and I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to go see where that dog is. I've
<v Speaker 1>never heard that, never heard that dog. And I went
<v Speaker 1>to my front door, which mind you, is a goes
<v Speaker 1>out into a parking lot. And I go to open
<v Speaker 1>the door, and immediately this giant, very dark, almost black,
<v Speaker 1>if not all black, long haired dog jumps at me,
<v Speaker 1>just ferociously barking his head off, trying to get me
<v Speaker 1>as I am trying to slam my door shut, and
<v Speaker 1>my friend is on the phone hearing all of this
<v Speaker 1>as I'm trying to shut this door. And I shut
<v Speaker 1>the door and realized this may be a dog man,
<v Speaker 1>might be a dog man. It was in my face.
<v Speaker 1>I was shoving it with one hand as I was
<v Speaker 1>trying to hold the phone with my other hand, and
<v Speaker 1>close the door, and terror felt like it hit me again,
<v Speaker 1>and I just started praying, no Lord, mm hm, no
<v Speaker 1>God in Jesus' name, No, I haven't seen that since.
<v Speaker 1>I haven't heard that since. But here's what I know.
<v Speaker 1>As a kid, my brother called all of these things monsters,
<v Speaker 1>and I wanted to keep all of the monsters in
<v Speaker 1>a box.
<v Speaker 2>Just keep them.
<v Speaker 1>All snugged down in there, don't talk about them anymore.
<v Speaker 1>People think you're crazy. Don't bring it up. It sounds
<v Speaker 1>like you're out of your mind. Keep them in a box.
<v Speaker 1>It's just safeer that way. And so that's what I
<v Speaker 1>did for years and years and years. But I felt
<v Speaker 1>like I felt like I had to hide a part
<v Speaker 1>of myself. I felt like I had to be untrue
<v Speaker 1>because people wanted me to feel ashamed or crazy. And
<v Speaker 1>that's actually what my friend Dave did for me, was
<v Speaker 1>he helped me take the lid off that box and say,
<v Speaker 1>these experiences are real, these encounters are real. Call them
<v Speaker 1>monsters if you want to. That's what a brother tried
<v Speaker 1>to tell a kid. They were, But I don't think
<v Speaker 1>they are not. Dog Man. I don't want to see
<v Speaker 1>him anymore. Bigfoot, I don't know that I really want
<v Speaker 1>to have an encounter in my face with a bigfoot again,
<v Speaker 1>because it's scary, but it's real. And if I can
<v Speaker 1>believe for things this big, here's where I want to
<v Speaker 1>flip the script and say, Okay, God allowed these things.
<v Speaker 1>They had to come through him somehow to be here.
<v Speaker 1>And if I can believe that He is big, I
<v Speaker 1>don't have to be afraid of what's in the box.
<v Speaker 1>And if He gives me these experiences, if he allows
<v Speaker 1>them in my life, then how can I not talk
<v Speaker 1>about them. I want to point back to Him in
<v Speaker 1>all the things, not just the things that feel explainable.
<v Speaker 5>Well that's it for tonight show. If you've had a
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<v Speaker 4>Seen a bunch of run down horse towns where the
<v Speaker 4>Church of the back beloves and the bow and the
<v Speaker 4>pastoring melodies Povyan that the bomb man rose with the
<v Speaker 4>rus indeed beyond the nose of the busy streets with
<v Speaker 4>the songs of the South su Then I mean I
<v Speaker 4>hear the prompboat picking down home rhythm bringing Nat had
<v Speaker 4>a run from Banjong music. Yeah. The sound of a
<v Speaker 4>memory brings me back to the bluegrass playing the Madaddy Jack.
<v Speaker 3>It's become many.
<v Speaker 4>Been through it, getting through the day on scrugs and skaggs,
<v Speaker 4>bucking name bales through this Tennessee jams.
<v Speaker 6>There's no the way that I do it.
<v Speaker 4>And I hear the plump poach picking down home rhythm,
<v Speaker 4>bringing Nat had over run from Banjong music.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, so I.
<v Speaker 7>Go backwards backwards and double time talking to the sword.
<v Speaker 7>In the Struggle Kentucky Stars, there's strumming now cuts your
<v Speaker 7>boy Living.
<v Speaker 5>Man.
<v Speaker 7>I hear the bum boats picking devil rhythm bringing us
<v Speaker 7>bad on from from men.
<v Speaker 6>The city laf trows me wild on the tune the
<v Speaker 6>cars rushing by with the bastes on the.
<v Speaker 7>Sterios to man.
<v Speaker 3>When I hear the brown boat.
<v Speaker 2>Picking down on them bringing nuts.
<v Speaker 3>Pad run from Man of music.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, something going backwards backwards and double tim picking in
<v Speaker 6>the Sword and the Strumbling Long Kentucky Stars, there's strumming
<v Speaker 6>cuts your boy.
<v Speaker 7>Living Warm, and I hear a bum boat picking devil
<v Speaker 7>them bringing downs battle from the build. Something glock backwards
<v Speaker 7>backwards and double tip picking and the Soul and the
<v Speaker 7>Truman looking tuck Start because the the end of strumming now,
<v Speaker 7>because you're.
<v Speaker 4>Both living and I hit a Boum batch.
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<v Speaker 7>tea kind of sounds battle around wild bedroom