That’s When I Started Noticing Strange Things In Those Woods - My Bigfoot Sighting Episode 184

<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 1>All right, then let's do this. Seen a bunch of
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<v Speaker 3>Church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the
<v Speaker 3>fasting melodies.
<v Speaker 4>Coove in.
<v Speaker 1>With the bomb man rose with the roofs, run deep
<v Speaker 1>beyond the nose of the busy streets with the sons.
<v Speaker 3>Of the South of su Then when I hear the
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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, My Bigfoot sightings all happen in Switzerland County, Indiana.
<v Speaker 4>When I was a kid, we moved around to several
<v Speaker 4>places in Indiana. We lived in Indianapolis when I was younger,
<v Speaker 4>but about the age of eight in nineteen ninety five,
<v Speaker 4>we moved to Switzerland County, Indiana, and.
<v Speaker 2>It wasn't too many years after that that I started
<v Speaker 2>hunting with my dad. My dad had always been a hunter,
<v Speaker 2>and I had always wanted to be out in the
<v Speaker 2>woods with him, but I obviously had to wait until
<v Speaker 2>I was old enough to be able to do so.
<v Speaker 2>But I've been out in the woods hunting ever since
<v Speaker 2>I was able to the area we hunt in is
<v Speaker 2>not open to the public. It's private property. But there
<v Speaker 2>are plenty of people within that private property that not
<v Speaker 2>that land. And I've never heard any other accounts from
<v Speaker 2>any of the other hunters or any of my dad's friends,
<v Speaker 2>my dad himself, no one else has seemed to have
<v Speaker 2>seen anything out here, and that's it's kind of troubling, honestly. Now.
<v Speaker 2>I've been studying bigfoot sasquatch, whatever you want to call it,
<v Speaker 2>for years. I'm very interested in cryptids and dog man
<v Speaker 2>sightings and other things like that. But you know, in
<v Speaker 2>researching all of this stuff, you hear accounts that seem
<v Speaker 2>very natural, like you know, something was throwing stones at me,
<v Speaker 2>or I heard whooping noises in the woods, whatever. Then
<v Speaker 2>you hear accounts where there are strange lights in the
<v Speaker 2>sky and other things like that, and it kind of
<v Speaker 2>takes the bigfoot phenomena into another realm. When you start
<v Speaker 2>talking about lights in the sky and psychic messages and
<v Speaker 2>different things that you've heard people talking about as far
<v Speaker 2>as bigfoot is concerned. You know, you've got your more
<v Speaker 2>natural encounters, and you've got your more supernatural encounters, and
<v Speaker 2>just being the only person that I know of that's
<v Speaker 2>been out there to this private property, and being the
<v Speaker 2>only person who's seen anything out there, it just blows
<v Speaker 2>my mind. I don't know how else to describe it.
<v Speaker 2>There's not a lot of highs out there, but there's
<v Speaker 2>a good handful of five or six guys that have
<v Speaker 2>been out in those woods since before I was born, probably,
<v Speaker 2>and none of them have ever reported anything. It's just strange.
<v Speaker 2>But I started hunting with my dad when I was
<v Speaker 2>about twelve. I guess whenever you can get your hunting license,
<v Speaker 2>and I had gone out who those woods with my
<v Speaker 2>dad plenty of times before. I mean, just because you
<v Speaker 2>don't have a hunting license doesn't mean you can't go
<v Speaker 2>out in the woods. I used to go out with
<v Speaker 2>him all the time and just sit with him while
<v Speaker 2>he hunted and kind of learned things. And I never
<v Speaker 2>had any encounters when I was with my father. Something
<v Speaker 2>else that I think is important to note in this
<v Speaker 2>is that the place where we hunted at is private property.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to give away the name of the
<v Speaker 2>place where we hunted at. Only certain you know, family
<v Speaker 2>friends and stuff like that were allowed to go out
<v Speaker 2>there and hunt. So there was a small handful of
<v Speaker 2>us that were able to go out there, my dad
<v Speaker 2>and a few of his friends and their kids. You know,
<v Speaker 2>it's kind of a legacy thing. And even before we
<v Speaker 2>had moved to switch, I still went out there with
<v Speaker 2>my dad quite a few times. He would just take
<v Speaker 2>me hunting with him, so I could see what it
<v Speaker 2>was all about and sit out there with them and
<v Speaker 2>just see how it's done basically. But I didn't start
<v Speaker 2>hunting with him until I was probably about twelve or so.
<v Speaker 2>Are however old it is that you've got to be
<v Speaker 2>to get a hunting license. At that age, we would
<v Speaker 2>go out there and spend weekends or sometimes even a
<v Speaker 2>week going on hunting trips. When you came into the compound,
<v Speaker 2>as I called it, you know, you went down this
<v Speaker 2>gravel road. You had to go over this bridge that
<v Speaker 2>stretched over a creek, and this creek was famous for
<v Speaker 2>a man had died during a storm. There's a terrible
<v Speaker 2>storm and his jeep got washed over the side of
<v Speaker 2>the bridge and he drowned there. That creek was known
<v Speaker 2>for that. But you know, you pass over this bridge
<v Speaker 2>down this gravel road and there's several compounds down there.
<v Speaker 2>The property where you know where we hunted at. It
<v Speaker 2>was butted up against a couple of other properties, the
<v Speaker 2>nearest of which was, or I mean still is, a
<v Speaker 2>hunting resort for police officers. And basically, what I'm I'm
<v Speaker 2>getting at is a ton of land out there, thousands
<v Speaker 2>of acres and it's all private property, just one, two,
<v Speaker 2>three stacked up against each other. Just a massive amount
<v Speaker 2>of land for something large to be moving around in.
<v Speaker 2>But you know, I started hunting with my dad, and
<v Speaker 2>then I actually started going out on my own. We
<v Speaker 2>would go on hunting trips, you know where I was
<v Speaker 2>able to hunt when I was finally old enough, and
<v Speaker 2>that's when I started noticing strange things out in those woods.
<v Speaker 2>And as I was getting out before It's kind of
<v Speaker 2>weirded me out the fact that there were so many
<v Speaker 2>people coming out into these woods, but I was the
<v Speaker 2>only person who had encountered anything. Now, granted I hadn't
<v Speaker 2>talked to a lot of people about this. I wasn't
<v Speaker 2>going to talk to my dad about it because I
<v Speaker 2>was too embarrassed. My dad is not the type of
<v Speaker 2>person who believes in supernatural or bigfoot or you know,
<v Speaker 2>anything of that sort. My dad is a one hundred
<v Speaker 2>percent non believer. I think even if a ghost walked
<v Speaker 2>up to that man and shook his hand, he still
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't believe in ghosts, like he doesn't believe in Bigfoot
<v Speaker 2>or any of that stuff. And you know, I didn't
<v Speaker 2>want to say anything to any of the other hunters
<v Speaker 2>because once again I was too embarrassed, and just throughout
<v Speaker 2>the years, thinking back on all of this gets really
<v Speaker 2>it's kind of messed with me in my head. How
<v Speaker 2>I'm the only one who's ever encountered anything out there.
<v Speaker 2>Let's see, I think the first time I encountered anything,
<v Speaker 2>I was nineteen years old. It was two thousand and six,
<v Speaker 2>and we were headed out to our different hunting spots
<v Speaker 2>that morning, me and my dad. It was I think
<v Speaker 2>like four thirty in the morning when we woke up
<v Speaker 2>and started getting ready, started getting all of our gear
<v Speaker 2>together and getting dressed up and spraying stuff all over
<v Speaker 2>ourselves to get the scent off of us. There's different
<v Speaker 2>sprays and stuff to camouflage yourself from deer, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>we're just doing our routine as we were getting ready
<v Speaker 2>to head out into the woods. That was about four
<v Speaker 2>thirty in the morning. And then you know, we parted
<v Speaker 2>ways and my dad went towards his trail and I
<v Speaker 2>went toward my trail. It's a big area out there,
<v Speaker 2>and one of the first spots that you'll hit when
<v Speaker 2>you're walking into the woods is something that we call
<v Speaker 2>the scum pond. It's just a small little pond and
<v Speaker 2>it's it's covered in algae and and you know, the
<v Speaker 2>top of the water's green and stuff. We call it
<v Speaker 2>scum pond. And my trail was just beyond the scum pond,
<v Speaker 2>leading further into the woods, and that was going to
<v Speaker 2>lead me down a path and to several ravines where
<v Speaker 2>my tree standspot was at. So that morning I was
<v Speaker 2>walking into the woods. It was bow season, and I
<v Speaker 2>had my bow and arrow. Even though it was dark out,
<v Speaker 2>I had an arrow knocked, you know, ready to go,
<v Speaker 2>ready to fire, just in case, you know, I spooked
<v Speaker 2>a deer or came up on something. You never know.
<v Speaker 2>Just it's just something I was taught. When you're walking
<v Speaker 2>to your stand, always have an arrow knocked and ready
<v Speaker 2>to go. I can't recall exactly how far I was
<v Speaker 2>into the woods. It had been probably ten minutes on
<v Speaker 2>the trail after leaving the compound, so I had my
<v Speaker 2>bow and arrow in my hands, and to be able
<v Speaker 2>to see in the darkness, I had a headlamp and
<v Speaker 2>I was walking down the trail and then all of
<v Speaker 2>a sudden, all the hairs on the back of my
<v Speaker 2>neck stood up straight. And just as soon as I
<v Speaker 2>got that startled feeling, that's when the smell hit me.
<v Speaker 2>I smelled something. The only way I could really describe
<v Speaker 2>it is it reminded me of like if you took
<v Speaker 2>a wet dog and a laundry basket full of dirty
<v Speaker 2>football uniforms and just threw it all together, like just
<v Speaker 2>wet dog and body over. It was such a pungent
<v Speaker 2>smell and it hit me too, like a wall. It
<v Speaker 2>hit me and I got freaked out instantly because I
<v Speaker 2>thought that I had jumped a skunk. You know, being
<v Speaker 2>out in the woods, especially when it's dark out, you
<v Speaker 2>never know what you're you're gonna, you know, come across,
<v Speaker 2>you know what you're going to stir up. And living
<v Speaker 2>out there in the country, I have plenty of encounters
<v Speaker 2>with skunks. I mean, my dog had gotten sprayed by
<v Speaker 2>skunks so many times at that point I couldn't even remember.
<v Speaker 2>We just called it getting skunked when you got sprayed
<v Speaker 2>by a skunk, But this smell was different, though it
<v Speaker 2>was as pungent, but it didn't smell like a skunk.
<v Speaker 2>It smelled like nothing I've ever smelled before. It didn't
<v Speaker 2>smell like dead, rotting meat or anything. Being a hunter
<v Speaker 2>and being out in the woods, you get familiar with
<v Speaker 2>the smell of death, and that's not what it was.
<v Speaker 2>So it wasn't a rotting carcass, it wasn't a skunk,
<v Speaker 2>but it smelled like something I had never smelled before.
<v Speaker 2>And I kind of paused on the trail, and I
<v Speaker 2>had my bow and arrow in my hand, as I said,
<v Speaker 2>and then I kind of just started scanning the trees
<v Speaker 2>with my headlamp and I looked from left to right,
<v Speaker 2>right to left, you know, up and down, just kind
<v Speaker 2>of scanning the area where I was at. And then
<v Speaker 2>I heard a branch snap, but it was it wasn't
<v Speaker 2>on the ground. It was it was a higher up,
<v Speaker 2>probably about I don't know. It sounded like it was
<v Speaker 2>seven or eight feet up, like it was clearly a
<v Speaker 2>branch snapping off of a tree. It wasn't something that
<v Speaker 2>was being stepped on on the ground. And that was
<v Speaker 2>maybe I don't know, fifty feet away from me if not.
<v Speaker 2>Less like, it was loud and I could hear it,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm smelling the smell, and then I hear this snap.
<v Speaker 2>And the snap happened off to the left of me
<v Speaker 2>in the darkness. And then that's when I panned my
<v Speaker 2>head lamp over that way and I hollered out, is
<v Speaker 2>anybody out there? Hey? You know, hey, is anybody there?
<v Speaker 2>And I didn't hear anything, and then I started really
<v Speaker 2>focusing in on the foliage and through the leaves and
<v Speaker 2>the branches and stuff. It was very dark, but you know,
<v Speaker 2>my headlamp had good wattage on it, and the beam
<v Speaker 2>of light was very bright through the branches about I
<v Speaker 2>don't know, forty to fifty feet in front of me,
<v Speaker 2>and off to the left, I could see fur or
<v Speaker 2>hair or you know one, you know, same thing basically,
<v Speaker 2>but I mean I could see it moving behind these branches.
<v Speaker 2>And then I hollered out again, I said hey, and
<v Speaker 2>it stopped and it was so still and it just
<v Speaker 2>stood there. And I was shaking at this point, like
<v Speaker 2>the smell had hit me. You know, I grew up
<v Speaker 2>with Discovery Channel and cable and all that I had
<v Speaker 2>seen all the bigfoot shows and everything, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>I knew about how they stunk and how big they
<v Speaker 2>were and stuff like that, you know, and it was
<v Speaker 2>running through my head. I was like, there was no
<v Speaker 2>way I'm seeing what I'm seeing. There's no way I'm
<v Speaker 2>smelling what I'm smelling. It's got to be a dead
<v Speaker 2>animal or something, or maybe it's just a really powerful stunk.
<v Speaker 2>Like I just kept telling myself in my head as
<v Speaker 2>it was happening that it wasn't happening. And I kept
<v Speaker 2>focusing my light on this thing, and as I said,
<v Speaker 2>it just it was still like it didn't move an inch,
<v Speaker 2>and I kind of dialed in. I don't know how
<v Speaker 2>to describe it, like everything else around me seemed to
<v Speaker 2>fade away for a second, and I just kind of
<v Speaker 2>dialed in on what I was doing, like tunnel vision.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how to describe it. But my eyes
<v Speaker 2>were still adjusting in the darkness. You know, all I
<v Speaker 2>have is this beam of light coming off of my headlamp,
<v Speaker 2>and it's being broken up by foliage and twigs and stuff.
<v Speaker 2>But I can see this fur. It's dark brown, thick
<v Speaker 2>fur on this thing. And so I'm kind of scanning
<v Speaker 2>the area directly on and around this thing to try
<v Speaker 2>to see how big it is or if there are
<v Speaker 2>more than one of them. I scanned my light further
<v Speaker 2>to the left and then over to the right, and
<v Speaker 2>I didn't see anything, but I was also kind of
<v Speaker 2>in a panic, so there's no telling. But then I
<v Speaker 2>focused my light back in the middle there, off to
<v Speaker 2>the left where I had been looking, and I could
<v Speaker 2>still see the fur through the foliage. And now I
<v Speaker 2>started scanning up and down to see how tall this
<v Speaker 2>thing was. I couldn't see where it began. I couldn't
<v Speaker 2>see any feet or anything down to the ground. These
<v Speaker 2>woods get so thick during hunting season, it's ridiculous. I
<v Speaker 2>started scrolling up, or not scrolling but panting up with
<v Speaker 2>you know, and looking.
<v Speaker 3>And.
<v Speaker 2>I could just see little bits of fur, dark brown fur,
<v Speaker 2>coming out from behind the leaves and stuff, and it
<v Speaker 2>was like it was kind of sandwich between two trees, almost.
<v Speaker 2>But as I scanned up and down with my light,
<v Speaker 2>I started to notice a loud breathing sound. As I said,
<v Speaker 2>I was like really dialed in at this point, and
<v Speaker 2>so I was ignoring all the four sounds around me,
<v Speaker 2>and all I could hear was this deep breathing, but
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't like an in and out in and out.
<v Speaker 2>It was just almost like loud exhales, like almost like snorts,
<v Speaker 2>you know, like a And I don't know if it
<v Speaker 2>was making that noise because it was trying to alert
<v Speaker 2>me that it was there. I don't know how I
<v Speaker 2>was able to walk up on this thing, honestly, because
<v Speaker 2>from what I understand about Bigfoot or Sasquatch or that
<v Speaker 2>they're very elusive and that they will not reveal themselves
<v Speaker 2>to people on purpose, not less there's some sort of
<v Speaker 2>a standing relationship between that Sasquatch and that person. I've
<v Speaker 2>heard of things like that. I know they have their
<v Speaker 2>own language, and I've heard recordings of Sasquatch talking with people.
<v Speaker 2>I believe all that stuff, But that's not what I
<v Speaker 2>was hearing. I was just hearing just deep breathing through
<v Speaker 2>these trees. And I can't tell you how tall this
<v Speaker 2>thing was, but my mind registered, my eyes registered probably
<v Speaker 2>the tallest tuft of fur that I saw sticking out
<v Speaker 2>from behind those leaves. It was probably about six or
<v Speaker 2>seven feet. And yeah, I just I just kind of
<v Speaker 2>stood there and I didn't know what to do. I
<v Speaker 2>was going through all these scenarios in my mind and
<v Speaker 2>thinking about things that I had heard on TV and
<v Speaker 2>this and that, and the smell was just was getting
<v Speaker 2>to me as well. And I hollered out again. I said, hey,
<v Speaker 2>this is private property. And honestly, I turned around and
<v Speaker 2>I went back down the trail. I I couldn't. I
<v Speaker 2>couldn't go any further. I didn't hunt that day. I
<v Speaker 2>went back to UH, I went back to the camp
<v Speaker 2>and I made up some story to my dad. I
<v Speaker 2>told him something about I had gotten lost, I'd walked
<v Speaker 2>onto the wrong trail or something like that and I
<v Speaker 2>couldn't find my tree stand, and so I told him
<v Speaker 2>I missed out on that morning's hunt. And I did
<v Speaker 2>that with the purpose of my dad walking me back
<v Speaker 2>out there to retrieve my true stand, because he knew
<v Speaker 2>where the spot was because he'd been hunting there for
<v Speaker 2>so long. But I was still learning the land. And
<v Speaker 2>when we went back, it was later on that day
<v Speaker 2>during the daytime, you know, during the daylight, and we
<v Speaker 2>went to go retrieve my stand. And yeah, I basically.
<v Speaker 5>I didn't want to tell my dad what was going
<v Speaker 5>on or what I had seen, because I didn't think
<v Speaker 5>he'd believed me, and I definitely didn't want to go
<v Speaker 5>out there by myself, not after seeing what I had seen.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, it wasn't it wasn't. I didn't feel
<v Speaker 2>threatened per se. I mean, I've heard other accounts where
<v Speaker 2>people were absolutely threatened. You know, there was rallying and
<v Speaker 2>tree knocking and stones being thrown and all this, and
<v Speaker 2>that I didn't feel threatened in the moment, But it
<v Speaker 2>was more of just when you come across something that
<v Speaker 2>isn't supposed to exist, or even just something you can't explain.
<v Speaker 2>Just the unknown in general is terrifying. And yeah, needless
<v Speaker 2>to say, I didn't tell anybody, my dad or any
<v Speaker 2>of our hunting friends what I saw that day. It
<v Speaker 2>was already embarrassing enough to admit that I had gotten lost,
<v Speaker 2>even though I didn't. But you know, I just had
<v Speaker 2>to do what I had to do. But that was
<v Speaker 2>the first, the first real encounter. The second time I
<v Speaker 2>had anything happen was it was probably I don't know
<v Speaker 2>a few weeks after that. We were back out there
<v Speaker 2>and I was sitting in my tree stand in the afternoon.
<v Speaker 2>It was probably about twelve thirty one o'clock there had
<v Speaker 2>just been a slight rain that day, and you know,
<v Speaker 2>you could you could hear the water dropping off of
<v Speaker 2>the branches, and you know, nature kind of retreats momentarily
<v Speaker 2>when it rains, but then it comes back out full
<v Speaker 2>force when the sun comes back out. And you could
<v Speaker 2>just kind of, you know, hear all the squirrels and
<v Speaker 2>the birds and stuff started to you know, come back
<v Speaker 2>out and be active and stuff like that. And then
<v Speaker 2>I heard whooping. I'm not the best impressionist, but it
<v Speaker 2>was it was kind of a woo woo kind of noise,
<v Speaker 2>but it was deeper and that that rung out from
<v Speaker 2>behind me. Behind the position where I was sitting in
<v Speaker 2>my tree stands like several yards behind me, if not
<v Speaker 2>more like it was a ways of way. And then
<v Speaker 2>a couple of seconds went by, and I'm just sitting
<v Speaker 2>there listening. I was kind of confused from hearing the
<v Speaker 2>first whoop. But then in front of me and off
<v Speaker 2>to the right, over this ridge, I heard a response.
<v Speaker 2>It was similar to what I'd heard before, but just
<v Speaker 2>a little different. I don't know, It's like just a
<v Speaker 2>different tone in the whoop, you know, but I could
<v Speaker 2>tell it was a response, and you know, I'm a
<v Speaker 2>country boy and a hunter, and having been out in
<v Speaker 2>the woods as much as I have, you don't you
<v Speaker 2>know what the sounds of the woods are. You know
<v Speaker 2>what animals are out there, and you know what sounds
<v Speaker 2>they make. And this was something that I had never
<v Speaker 2>heard before. So I sat there and I listened, and
<v Speaker 2>I didn't hear anything else for I don't know. It
<v Speaker 2>was probably two hours or so, and I was actually
<v Speaker 2>starting to doze off in my tree stand. At that point.
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't having a very good hunting day. There wasn't
<v Speaker 2>much deer activity going on, and I was sitting there
<v Speaker 2>kind of dozing off, and then I heard another whoop.
<v Speaker 2>This one started in front of me like the one
<v Speaker 2>before had. When it replied and it went whoop. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know how to how to do that faithfully, but
<v Speaker 2>it stood me, you know, straight up in my seat
<v Speaker 2>when I heard it. And then just a couple of
<v Speaker 2>seconds later I heard a response. This time it wasn't
<v Speaker 2>behind me. It was more off to the left and
<v Speaker 2>probably a few hundred yards off down another ridge, but
<v Speaker 2>it communicated back. And then the one in front of
<v Speaker 2>me went whoo again, and then the one off to
<v Speaker 2>the left went whoo, and there's different there's differences in
<v Speaker 2>the whooping. I can't do it, but you know, you
<v Speaker 2>could tell that they were saying things to each other.
<v Speaker 2>So that was an interesting day. Also, for got to mention,
<v Speaker 2>there were a few times that I found tracks after
<v Speaker 2>that first encounter that I talked about. When I was
<v Speaker 2>heading to my tree stand and I came across this
<v Speaker 2>thing in the darkness and it stunk and everything.
<v Speaker 6>When we were when I got my dad to go
<v Speaker 6>out there with me to retrieve my tree stand, and
<v Speaker 6>we were coming on our way back, I made up
<v Speaker 6>an excuse to go off the trail for a second,
<v Speaker 6>and I looked.
<v Speaker 2>Around that area where I had encountered that thing, because
<v Speaker 2>it was just right off the trail and just into
<v Speaker 2>the woods, just a little bit like it wasn't far
<v Speaker 2>off the trail, even in the darkness. I knew that,
<v Speaker 2>and I went over to that area and I was
<v Speaker 2>looking for tracks. I don't know what I told my
<v Speaker 2>dad I was looking for, but I didn't find anything.
<v Speaker 2>But being a hunter and tracking deer and looking looking
<v Speaker 2>for a deer, and you know, you look for footprints,
<v Speaker 2>and you spend a lot of your time with your
<v Speaker 2>eyes glued to the ground. And there were some times
<v Speaker 2>when I was out once again by myself, sometimes trailing
<v Speaker 2>a deer, sometimes just you know, I didn't always hunt
<v Speaker 2>in a tree stand. Sometimes I would make a blind
<v Speaker 2>out of some fallen foliage and you know, just kind
<v Speaker 2>of sit up against a tree. Some days I spend
<v Speaker 2>all day in one spot. But some days, if I
<v Speaker 2>get bored and nothing's happening, I'll get up and I'll
<v Speaker 2>move and I'll go see if I can jump something up,
<v Speaker 2>or just find a new spot, or find some tracks
<v Speaker 2>that lead lead somewhere. You never know, there's all kinds
<v Speaker 2>of possibilities out in the woods. So you know, I
<v Speaker 2>was out following a deer trail, and I actually got
<v Speaker 2>myself lost. I followed this deer trail all the way
<v Speaker 2>off the property. I believe I was in one of
<v Speaker 2>the neighboring properties, probably the one that was owned by
<v Speaker 2>the police officers. But as I was tracking these prints,
<v Speaker 2>I started coming across indentions in the mud that were
<v Speaker 2>unlike anything else. I didn't find any full prints, but
<v Speaker 2>I found like some heill marks on certain parts of
<v Speaker 2>some trails, and leading into the woods, I found some well,
<v Speaker 2>I think we're tow impressions in some parts of the mud,
<v Speaker 2>and in other parts there were just deep in prints,
<v Speaker 2>but they were in the shape of feet. But I
<v Speaker 2>can't say that there were any toe marks or anything, So,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, there's no telling those could have been boot marks.
<v Speaker 2>But the way they were so deeply imprinted into the
<v Speaker 2>mud led me to believe that it wasn't anything human
<v Speaker 2>that left those tracks. And unfortunately I didn't cast any
<v Speaker 2>of those prints. I found plenty of them out there
<v Speaker 2>in those woods, and I really should have cast some
<v Speaker 2>of them, but I was out there to hunt, and
<v Speaker 2>I didn't want anybody to know what I was experiencing anyway,
<v Speaker 2>so I just I don't know casting the prints just
<v Speaker 2>didn't It didn't seem like an eye to me at
<v Speaker 2>that time. Now looking back on it, I really, I
<v Speaker 2>really wish I would have. All of these encounters actually
<v Speaker 2>happened in the same year, the same hunting season. The
<v Speaker 2>last time that I encountered anything out there, I was
<v Speaker 2>once again in my tree stand. I was in a
<v Speaker 2>different part of the property. I was actually on the
<v Speaker 2>opposite side of the property from where I had been before,
<v Speaker 2>and I was sitting in my tree stand just kind
<v Speaker 2>of listening to the nature and everything, and then I
<v Speaker 2>heard what I thought sounded like it sounded like twigs snapping,
<v Speaker 2>something moving through the woods. It sounded like it was
<v Speaker 2>on the trail that was directly beneath my stand, and
<v Speaker 2>it definitely sounded bigger than a squirrel or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>You know, there have been plenty of times when I
<v Speaker 2>thought a deer was coming up on me and I heard,
<v Speaker 2>you know, rustling about twig snapping and stuff, and it
<v Speaker 2>just turned out to be a turkey or a squirrel
<v Speaker 2>or you know, something like that. But either way, when
<v Speaker 2>you're hunting and you hear something coming your way, you
<v Speaker 2>sit up in attention and you know that could be
<v Speaker 2>your potential kill for the day. And so I took
<v Speaker 2>out my binoculars and I started kind of scanning the
<v Speaker 2>area around me, and I checked the trail. There was
<v Speaker 2>nothing coming down the trail, animals or people, nothing, And yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I just I thought it must have been
<v Speaker 2>an animal or you know whatever, it's not a deer.
<v Speaker 2>So I had just you know, been kind of woken
<v Speaker 2>up from dozing off, and so I was kind of
<v Speaker 2>sitting there trying to, you know, get my eyes adjusted
<v Speaker 2>and just kind of wake up and you know, get
<v Speaker 2>back into hunting mode. And I sat there for a while,
<v Speaker 2>and I don't know, it must have it must have
<v Speaker 2>been fifteen twenty minutes. And then I heard more twig snappings,
<v Speaker 2>and I got out my binoculars again and I started
<v Speaker 2>scanning the area again, and then, you know, I heard
<v Speaker 2>more and more of the snap, like something was walking
<v Speaker 2>around at this point, and I caught, just out of
<v Speaker 2>the corner of my eye a glimpse of something dark
<v Speaker 2>amongst the foliage. And this was probably God, I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>a couple hundred yards in front of me and off
<v Speaker 2>to the left, a little ways in between these two
<v Speaker 2>ridges where it's the spot where these two ridges met,
<v Speaker 2>and there was a little stream running in between the
<v Speaker 2>two of them. And I saw, and this is broad daylight,
<v Speaker 2>I saw this thing once again, a few hundred yards
<v Speaker 2>ahead of me, a little to the left of my
<v Speaker 2>straightforward view. This thing was in between these two ridges,
<v Speaker 2>crouched behind a tree, and it was looking at something.
<v Speaker 2>It didn't even know that I was there. I don't
<v Speaker 2>think it did. I kind of scanned the area to
<v Speaker 2>see what it was looking at. And then as I
<v Speaker 2>was doing that I heard some more movement up at
<v Speaker 2>the top of the ridge, and I looked up there
<v Speaker 2>and there was this huge dough standing up on top
<v Speaker 2>of this ridge, and she was way out of my
<v Speaker 2>range for me to be able to bagger. But I
<v Speaker 2>kind of, you know, I didn't even think about shooting
<v Speaker 2>her because she was out of range, so I didn't
<v Speaker 2>even bother to get anything ready or any of that.
<v Speaker 2>I just kind of watched, and then I moved my
<v Speaker 2>binoculars back over to this thing that was in between
<v Speaker 2>the ridges, and just from the time that I had
<v Speaker 2>moved away from it and looked at the deer and
<v Speaker 2>came back, it was already halfway up that ridge. And
<v Speaker 2>the only reason I was able to see it the
<v Speaker 2>second time when I panned background is because it was
<v Speaker 2>moving up behind another tree and I caught it with
<v Speaker 2>my peripheral. This thing was going after the deer, and
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I was kinda I didn't want to
<v Speaker 2>take my binoculars off of it, but I also wanted
<v Speaker 2>to see where the deer was at. So I would
<v Speaker 2>keep my binoculars fixed on the bigfoot or you know whatever,
<v Speaker 2>and then I would remove my eyes away from the
<v Speaker 2>binoculars and look up the ridge because I could see
<v Speaker 2>the deer with my naked eyes. But I didn't want
<v Speaker 2>to move the position of my binoculars away from this
<v Speaker 2>thing because I didn't want to lose it. And I
<v Speaker 2>just I kind of watch. Watched it first thing, and
<v Speaker 2>it was creeping up this ridge and it was so quiet.
<v Speaker 2>I know how loud these woods can be with all
<v Speaker 2>the fallen trees and twigs and foliage and everything, and
<v Speaker 2>somehow this thing was managing to be so stealthy, and
<v Speaker 2>it was. It was big. From where I was sitting,
<v Speaker 2>it was crouched down most of the time. It was
<v Speaker 2>at a certain point it was bent down on one
<v Speaker 2>knee with both of its hands on the ground as
<v Speaker 2>well in front of it. But I saw it stand
<v Speaker 2>up a couple of times to gain ground up the
<v Speaker 2>side of this ridge. And it was absolutely massive. This
<v Speaker 2>thing had to have been easily ten feet tall, just
<v Speaker 2>from what I could tell from the trees that were
<v Speaker 2>next to it heading up this ridge. This was this
<v Speaker 2>was a big, big boy. And I followed this with
<v Speaker 2>my binoculars and I just I watched this thing. I
<v Speaker 2>lost it. At a certain point, I couldn't actually see it,
<v Speaker 2>and once again, this thing looked different than the one
<v Speaker 2>that I saw before when I was on the trail
<v Speaker 2>in the dark. Even though I couldn't see really like
<v Speaker 2>get a good view of it, I could just see
<v Speaker 2>it through the foliage and it was dark outside and
<v Speaker 2>all I had was the light of a headlamp. But
<v Speaker 2>the fur that I saw that morning heading into the
<v Speaker 2>woods was very very dark. Now, this creature that I
<v Speaker 2>was looking at in the daylight in the afternoon, it
<v Speaker 2>did have kind of a brownish, a dark brown fur,
<v Speaker 2>but there were like highlights of like red in it
<v Speaker 2>almost reminded me of like an orangutang or King Kong
<v Speaker 2>from Godzilla King Kong versus Godzilla from the sixties. Its
<v Speaker 2>whole body wasn't like vibrantly colored like that, but it
<v Speaker 2>had these hues to it, like I don't know, I
<v Speaker 2>don't know how how else to describe it, but it
<v Speaker 2>was kind of a brownish red hair, and the hair
<v Speaker 2>it was long and stringy and matted in places, and
<v Speaker 2>you know, you could see you could see how big
<v Speaker 2>this thing was underneath the fur, like when it moved,
<v Speaker 2>you could see its muscle definition and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>And at a certain point it was moving up the
<v Speaker 2>ridge and I lost sight of it, and then I
<v Speaker 2>took my binoculars back over to where the deer was,
<v Speaker 2>and the deer was gone as well. But then I
<v Speaker 2>kind of kept watching that ridge and I could see
<v Speaker 2>the the foliage moving, like something was moving through the
<v Speaker 2>brush up that ridge, and I just kind of I
<v Speaker 2>followed it as long as I could. And that's all
<v Speaker 2>that you know that I saw of that particular encounter.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't hear the deer giving out any distress calls.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't see anything go down, So I don't know
<v Speaker 2>if it actually was after that deer, or if it
<v Speaker 2>got the deer, or if it lost the deer. But
<v Speaker 2>to me, and I'm a hunter myself watching this thing,
<v Speaker 2>it definitely seemed to be hunting this deer, and it
<v Speaker 2>was a little further away. I was a lot further
<v Speaker 2>away than the other one that I had encountered. I
<v Speaker 2>didn't smell anything this time, but it was just massive,
<v Speaker 2>the size of this thing. And you know, when we
<v Speaker 2>see things like this, obviously there's a certain part of
<v Speaker 2>the unknown that is frightening to us. So it does
<v Speaker 2>cause a certain fear of response. But I never really
<v Speaker 2>felt terrified or anything like. I mean, there was the
<v Speaker 2>initial fear just of coming across something unknown, But any
<v Speaker 2>of the times I saw these things, I never really
<v Speaker 2>felt scared. I mean, there was that time on the trail.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, but it was dark, I couldn't see what
<v Speaker 2>it was. It was big, you know. I mean, that's
<v Speaker 2>nightmare fuel for anybody. I was scared there, and obviously
<v Speaker 2>I didn't want to go back immediately or even by myself,
<v Speaker 2>but so I lied a little bit. I was scared
<v Speaker 2>by that encounter, but the whooping, the tree stand encounter,
<v Speaker 2>it just it felt like part of nature to me.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, and I believe that these creatures are
<v Speaker 2>out there, and I believe that they need to be protected.
<v Speaker 2>They're doing a really fine job on their own protecting themselves.
<v Speaker 2>But I'm just I'm just curious if one of these days,
<v Speaker 2>there's going to come a day when it does finally,
<v Speaker 2>you know, come to light scientifically that these things are
<v Speaker 2>out there. It's fascinated me for most of my life
<v Speaker 2>learning about these things. And you know, as I said before,
<v Speaker 2>there are you know, even more wild accounts of these
<v Speaker 2>things being connected to UFOs, which I've had encounters with
<v Speaker 2>they some people say they're from other dimensions. There's all
<v Speaker 2>kinds of things, you know, that they have psychic links
<v Speaker 2>that they can connect with us. That would have been
<v Speaker 2>really cool. I would have really loved to have had
<v Speaker 2>an encounter like that where I could have talked with one.
<v Speaker 2>But we move away from Switzerland County in the year
<v Speaker 2>nineteen ninety nine, and we kept going back there to
<v Speaker 2>go hunting throughout the years. But eventually I can't remember
<v Speaker 2>what year it was. Well, I think I had moved out.
<v Speaker 2>At that point, I was grown, and I just I
<v Speaker 2>wasn't going hunting with my dad anymore. So I've not
<v Speaker 2>been out there since I was nineteen. Probably, I'm really
<v Speaker 2>curious as to why I'm the only one who's ever
<v Speaker 2>had any encounters out there. Like I said before, there's
<v Speaker 2>dozens of people in and out of those woods at
<v Speaker 2>any given point in the year, and I just I'm
<v Speaker 2>really curious as to why no one else has seen
<v Speaker 2>or heard anything, or maybe they have, you know, maybe
<v Speaker 2>they were, you know, like me when I was younger,
<v Speaker 2>too embarrassed to talk about it, you know, I didn't
<v Speaker 2>want my dad or any of his friends to know
<v Speaker 2>that I thought bigfoot. They would have laughed me right
<v Speaker 2>out of camp. But looking back on it now, I'm
<v Speaker 2>really curious as to who else has had encounters out there.
<v Speaker 2>My dad doesn't go out there anymore. He lives in
<v Speaker 2>Florida now, And as far as any of his other
<v Speaker 2>friends that hunted out there, the last I knew, out
<v Speaker 2>of a handful of like five or six guys, there
<v Speaker 2>was only one other guy hunting out there, and he
<v Speaker 2>hadn't been out there for years. It's a whole different
<v Speaker 2>situation out there now. And I don't even know if
<v Speaker 2>I would be allowed to hunt out there if I
<v Speaker 2>contacted them nowadays, not without paying due news. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. It's a part of my path. I
<v Speaker 2>spent a lot of great times out there growing up
<v Speaker 2>when I was a kid, a lot of great bonding
<v Speaker 2>memories with my dad and stuff like that. But when
<v Speaker 2>I was by myself, I saw some things out in
<v Speaker 2>those woods that I to this day can't explain, And
<v Speaker 2>if you ask me, there's only one answer, and that's bigfoot.
<v Speaker 2>And that's my story.
<v Speaker 7>Well that's it for tonight's show. If you've had a
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