You Kids Ran Into a Booger, Didn’t You? - My Bigfoot Sighting Episode 170

<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.
<v Speaker 3>Seen a bunch of run down, no horse towns where
<v Speaker 3>the church at the backbone, laws and the bow and
<v Speaker 3>the fasting melodies cove in with the bomb man rose
<v Speaker 3>with the roofs, run deep beyond the nose of the
<v Speaker 3>busy streets, with the songs of the South of su.
<v Speaker 3>Then when I hear the promp porch picking down home
<v Speaker 3>rhythm bringing out I Don't run from Banjung music.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, if you've had a bigfoot sighting and would like
<v Speaker 1>to be a guest, please go to my bigfoot sighting
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<v Speaker 2>My big foot sighting happened in two thousand and two.
<v Speaker 2>My name is Amanda Stowers. I had a big foot
<v Speaker 2>sighting in two thousand and two, but I also had
<v Speaker 2>an experience with my brother and my cousin in two
<v Speaker 2>thousand and one. I will start with the first one
<v Speaker 2>as it's in chronological order, the one that happened in
<v Speaker 2>two thousand and one. We grew up here in the mountains,
<v Speaker 2>and so our only source of heat was firewood. So
<v Speaker 2>my brother, my cousin, myself, my dad, and my uncle
<v Speaker 2>were all on our family property cutting firewood to get
<v Speaker 2>it ready to season for the winter. This would have
<v Speaker 2>been in the late fall, and I tried to paint
<v Speaker 2>the picture as where we were at on the property.
<v Speaker 2>There was plenty of trees around the creek and that
<v Speaker 2>was the ones we were cutting down, but we were
<v Speaker 2>also in the middle of a giant hayfield in the
<v Speaker 2>middle of the woods on the property. The hay was very,
<v Speaker 2>very tall. It probably would have been up to my
<v Speaker 2>waist in the area around where we hadn't flatten it
<v Speaker 2>down from working. My uncle had just remarried recently, so
<v Speaker 2>the cousin that I mentioned prior was just new to
<v Speaker 2>our family. Our family was very tight knit and we
<v Speaker 2>were also kind of large, so we were kind of
<v Speaker 2>excited to have a new cousinhood to join the family.
<v Speaker 2>So my dad and my uncle gave us kids a
<v Speaker 2>break and decided that we've been working pretty hard, so
<v Speaker 2>let's take a break this afternoon and let you kids
<v Speaker 2>go and run free for a little while. Now I
<v Speaker 2>say kids, but we were also teenagers. I was fifteen
<v Speaker 2>at the time, my brother would have been twelve, and
<v Speaker 2>our cousin probably would have been about the same age.
<v Speaker 2>So on this family property, it had been in the
<v Speaker 2>family for a very very long time. And on the
<v Speaker 2>back side of that property at time end of that hayfield,
<v Speaker 2>there was this really really cool tree that we referred
<v Speaker 2>to as the carving tree, and we mentioned that for
<v Speaker 2>that exact reason. Generations of people had carved their name
<v Speaker 2>on this tree and it was just absolutely massive. So
<v Speaker 2>we decided, since our cousin was now a part of
<v Speaker 2>the family, that we would take her over to the
<v Speaker 2>carving tree to have her put her name on there
<v Speaker 2>since she was family now. So we walk across the hayfield,
<v Speaker 2>get to the carbon tree and start doing what kids do.
<v Speaker 2>We got out pocket knives. We were carving our names
<v Speaker 2>on the tree, but there was a nice creek beside it,
<v Speaker 2>so we would skip rocks in the creek, you know,
<v Speaker 2>just trying to goof off time for probably thirty minutes
<v Speaker 2>or so. Now, this tree was probably about one hundred
<v Speaker 2>yards into the tree line. But something really fascinating about
<v Speaker 2>it is that it grew right on the edge of
<v Speaker 2>the mountain side. So the te he grew up beside
<v Speaker 2>a giant rock out crop there that were actually reminded
<v Speaker 2>me as a child of pride rock from the Lion King,
<v Speaker 2>so to paint the picture again. I was standing on
<v Speaker 2>top of this rock harving my name into the tree,
<v Speaker 2>and my brother and my cousin were down on the
<v Speaker 2>ground below me at the base of the tree, so
<v Speaker 2>my back was to the woods behind me and the
<v Speaker 2>mountain side it went up quite sharply up behind me.
<v Speaker 2>About thirty minutes after we had been there, my brother
<v Speaker 2>suddenly got very uneasy and said, hey, Amanda, we should
<v Speaker 2>probably go. I looked at him and I was like, nah,
<v Speaker 2>we've just got here. Let's you know, let's kill a
<v Speaker 2>little bit more time. I'm almost done. And he very
<v Speaker 2>quickly said, no, Amanda, we need to go, like right now,
<v Speaker 2>and he flipped out his pocket knife and took off running. So,
<v Speaker 2>not taking any chances, knowing that we have and mountain
<v Speaker 2>lions and other things in the woods, I took off
<v Speaker 2>run in two. It took me a second to catch
<v Speaker 2>up with them because I had to jump down off
<v Speaker 2>the rock and catch up to them. So they were
<v Speaker 2>probably twenty feet ahead of me at a sprint. Whenever
<v Speaker 2>I got to the tree line, my brother and my
<v Speaker 2>cousin were already into the hay but something hit me.
<v Speaker 2>It was the loudest, most god awful roar powls, scream.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what to call it, but all I
<v Speaker 2>know is that it was the most all encompassing roar
<v Speaker 2>sound hit me from behind and just enveloped me. It
<v Speaker 2>was so loud that it knocked me down to my
<v Speaker 2>knees and caused me to put my hands up over
<v Speaker 2>my ears. And so I constantly have this visual image
<v Speaker 2>burned into my brain of me looking up through the
<v Speaker 2>tree line and seeing my brother and my cousin in
<v Speaker 2>the hayfield. And as they're running, all of these birds
<v Speaker 2>are flying up out at the hayfield. So I catch
<v Speaker 2>my footing and I catch back up to them, and
<v Speaker 2>I get to my brother. I'm like, what is happening?
<v Speaker 2>What is going on? What the heck was that? And
<v Speaker 2>he's like, I think he was freaking bigfoot. I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>are you freaking kidding me right now? Are you crazy?
<v Speaker 2>So we catch back up to my dad and my
<v Speaker 2>uncle and they see us kids that you know, we're
<v Speaker 2>quite flustered and wondering. You know, hey, kids, what's going
<v Speaker 2>on with you? So my brother told him what happened,
<v Speaker 2>what we just he just saw, and they just kind
<v Speaker 2>of had a good laugh. They said, oh, you kids,
<v Speaker 2>don't run into the booger. Didn't you like? It wasn't
<v Speaker 2>just one of the most terrifying experiences that we've ever
<v Speaker 2>had in our lives. And my dad and my uncle
<v Speaker 2>just said, oh, you kids, don't run into the booker.
<v Speaker 2>Didn't you like? It just wasn't one of the most
<v Speaker 2>terrifying experiences we've ever had. So what my brother ended
<v Speaker 2>up describing is that he was looking up at me,
<v Speaker 2>but up in the woods behind me, probably fifty to
<v Speaker 2>one hundred yards behind me, up the side of the
<v Speaker 2>mountain was this very very large, probably seven to eight
<v Speaker 2>foot tall, humanoid figure covered in reddish brown hair, standing there,
<v Speaker 2>and he described it as standing in perfect posture. It
<v Speaker 2>had one arm up on a tree as it was
<v Speaker 2>kind of bracing itself there, and he could very distinctly
<v Speaker 2>see the other arm, shoulder, head, neck, and both legs
<v Speaker 2>as it stood there. And he said it had hair
<v Speaker 2>on its face. The face part was smooth, but that
<v Speaker 2>it slowly moved out into hair on its face. He's,
<v Speaker 2>being twelve years old at the time, described it as
<v Speaker 2>very monkey like, and he said that the moment that
<v Speaker 2>he saw it, he instantly got this really feeling like
<v Speaker 2>we don't need to be here. Something bad is going
<v Speaker 2>to happen if we don't leave right now. So that's
<v Speaker 2>why he instantly said, Hey, we've got to go, and
<v Speaker 2>we've got to go right now, and took off running
<v Speaker 2>like he did. So flash forward a few days, we
<v Speaker 2>go and we visit my grandmother. My grandmother was the
<v Speaker 2>one who grew up on that property, and throughout our
<v Speaker 2>lives we had always heard stories from her of her
<v Speaker 2>ancestors who settled that property having a booger there, and
<v Speaker 2>we had always assumed that it was a ghost that
<v Speaker 2>they were referring to, because where we are at it's
<v Speaker 2>very very heavy Native American land from the Trail of
<v Speaker 2>Tears area, so there's unfortunately a lot of tragic stuff
<v Speaker 2>there with that. So that's what us kids had always
<v Speaker 2>assumed it was. Was they referred to the booger, was
<v Speaker 2>just this ghost that was on the property that would
<v Speaker 2>scare people away. We told my grandmother about it, she said,
<v Speaker 2>nearly word for word, the exact same thing my dad said,
<v Speaker 2>was that, oh, you kids don't have to run in
<v Speaker 2>with the book or didn't you. Yeah, that was the
<v Speaker 2>thing that your uncle kerm ran into that ran him
<v Speaker 2>off back in the forties, and he wouldn't never come
<v Speaker 2>back around there. And she again described nearly the exact
<v Speaker 2>same thing, is that it was a bigfoot like creature,
<v Speaker 2>not a ghost, but a very real, very tangible bigfoot
<v Speaker 2>like creature. So it was just kind of eye opening
<v Speaker 2>that all these stories that we had heard growing up,
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden were very very real. So flash
<v Speaker 2>forward many years and now suddenly I have my amazing
<v Speaker 2>job working at Expedition Bigfoot, the Sasquatch Museum here in
<v Speaker 2>Blue Ridge, Georgia. So now I start sharing this particular
<v Speaker 2>Bigfoot experience with customers and other witnesses as they come
<v Speaker 2>through the museum. So, wanting to make sure that I
<v Speaker 2>have all my ducks in a row and then I'm
<v Speaker 2>remembering all the details clearly, I reach out to my
<v Speaker 2>brother and just say, hey, I know we haven't talked
<v Speaker 2>about this experience in quite a long time. I just
<v Speaker 2>want to make sure that I'm remembering everything correctly, so
<v Speaker 2>that way, whenever I'm sharing it with other people, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'm actually sharing the details as correctly as I can.
<v Speaker 2>So we sit down and I explained to him what
<v Speaker 2>I remember, which for me was the roar that I heard,
<v Speaker 2>it being so loud that it was just all encompassing.
<v Speaker 2>But my brother gave me kind of an odd look.
<v Speaker 2>He said, sis, are you sure, because I didn't hear
<v Speaker 2>a thing, And I'm thinking to myself, how in the
<v Speaker 2>world could you not hear that? It was so loud
<v Speaker 2>that I would imagine that was what was through all
<v Speaker 2>the birds up into the air, was the roar making
<v Speaker 2>that noise. How could you say you can't hear anything.
<v Speaker 2>He's like, no, Amanda, I never heard a thing. But
<v Speaker 2>then he shared with me another detail that he said
<v Speaker 2>he hadn't shared in a while with anybody because he
<v Speaker 2>didn't want people thinking he was crazy. He said it
<v Speaker 2>was already crazy enough that we were kids seeing Bigfoot
<v Speaker 2>in the woods. That again, he's just a thing. He
<v Speaker 2>kept to himself because he didn't want to be ridiculed
<v Speaker 2>about it. And I said, you know, just in conversations,
<v Speaker 2>what are you talking about? He said, Whenever I looked
<v Speaker 2>up at that hill and I saw that thing, what
<v Speaker 2>caught my attention was a flash of red before I
<v Speaker 2>saw the figure, and then I realized that the red
<v Speaker 2>that I was seeing was its eyes. Its eyes were bright,
<v Speaker 2>bright red, and not reflecting light, but shining light, emitting
<v Speaker 2>their own light. And for the listeners, you have to
<v Speaker 2>remember that this was in the middle of the day,
<v Speaker 2>so there was nothing there that would reflect the light
<v Speaker 2>that these eyes would have been admitting. And so I
<v Speaker 2>reach over to my brother and I just hug him
<v Speaker 2>and realized that he'd been holding this in for this long,
<v Speaker 2>something so terrifying, something so scary as seeing something with
<v Speaker 2>red glowing eyes staring back down at us off the
<v Speaker 2>side of the mountain, because this is something that I
<v Speaker 2>hear working at the museum for many other witnesses, and
<v Speaker 2>now knowing that that was something that my brother saw
<v Speaker 2>as well, was just heartbreaking and just awe inspiring. It well,
<v Speaker 2>that you know, he carried that for so long. So
<v Speaker 2>now I want to transition and tell you guys the
<v Speaker 2>story of my actual bigfoot sighting. And I believe now
<v Speaker 2>looking at it as an adult, that maybe it was
<v Speaker 2>the same creature that my brother had seen before. This
<v Speaker 2>would have been around the same time period, so probably
<v Speaker 2>a few months after that, being as the Harving Tree
<v Speaker 2>incident would have happened in the fall of two thousand
<v Speaker 2>and one, so this would have been the next fall,
<v Speaker 2>so this would be in two thousand and two. We
<v Speaker 2>would have been at my parents' house, and this wouldn't
<v Speaker 2>have been but maybe three or four miles as the
<v Speaker 2>crow flies from that other property. And our family had
<v Speaker 2>four kids, so all the neighbor kids and cousins then
<v Speaker 2>everybody came to play at our house. Though we were
<v Speaker 2>in our long driveway riding our bicycles, had a little
<v Speaker 2>fort area in the tree line like country kids do.
<v Speaker 2>And painting the picture for you. Again, this was fall,
<v Speaker 2>so all the leaves had freshly fallen out of the trees,
<v Speaker 2>and so everything was bright brown and orange and red colors,
<v Speaker 2>and the leaves were extra crunchy, and my brother and
<v Speaker 2>all the kids had jumped down out of the tree
<v Speaker 2>line and were getting on their bikes, and I was
<v Speaker 2>about to do the same, when, as we've heard from
<v Speaker 2>other witnesses, times stopped and kind of slowed down. I
<v Speaker 2>hear something crunching very heavily in the leaves behind me,
<v Speaker 2>and I turned real quick, thinking maybe I was about
<v Speaker 2>to see a deer running up at us, Because you
<v Speaker 2>could hear it go ringing up really really close and
<v Speaker 2>really fast towards me. So I turn and as I turned,
<v Speaker 2>the sound stops, and I turned, and I realized I'm
<v Speaker 2>looking at something, and something is looking back at me.
<v Speaker 2>And it definitely wasn't a deer, it wasn't a bear,
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't a human or a monkey. It was like
<v Speaker 2>something that was combined all of those creatures together into
<v Speaker 2>one hideous thing looking back at me. But it was
<v Speaker 2>so bizarre. It was laying down flat on its belly,
<v Speaker 2>looking at me, and it had its arms stretched out,
<v Speaker 2>head resting on its chin, and its mouth wide open.
<v Speaker 2>And so I refer to this thing now as the
<v Speaker 2>bare skin rug creature, because that's what it looked like.
<v Speaker 2>It looked like how you would just perfectly see a
<v Speaker 2>bear skin rug that you see in movies. It was
<v Speaker 2>laying there and I couldn't see its hands because it
<v Speaker 2>was behind two trees on either side. It was perfectly
<v Speaker 2>positioned right in the middle of two trees, and I
<v Speaker 2>could see its face, and I could see its shoulders
<v Speaker 2>and back, but from about its mid back on down,
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't see anything. It blended in perfectly with the
<v Speaker 2>leaves those fresh orange and red leaves that I was
<v Speaker 2>talking about. So whether it blended in perfectly or whether
<v Speaker 2>it was translucent in that section, I don't know. I
<v Speaker 2>know what we hear stories now of the Wu factor
<v Speaker 2>with a lot of Bigfoot stories, so I definitely attribute
<v Speaker 2>this one to being very wu. So as I'm looking
<v Speaker 2>at this thing again, this is all within a split second,
<v Speaker 2>my brain is trying to process what I'm looking at,
<v Speaker 2>and just as before, my brothers call at me and say, hey, Amanda,
<v Speaker 2>come on, I snapped for two seconds, look over at
<v Speaker 2>them and look back at this creature, and just as
<v Speaker 2>suddenly as I looked away, it is gone. So I
<v Speaker 2>attribute this creature to being a sasquatch just because of
<v Speaker 2>the physical attributes that it had now looking back on
<v Speaker 2>it as an adult. The facial structure for the eyebrow
<v Speaker 2>ridges was very Neanderthal, and like it had one solid
<v Speaker 2>eyebrow ridge across the I couldn't necessarily see a discernible
<v Speaker 2>nose because the mouth was just so far open and
<v Speaker 2>a gape that I again don't remember necessarily seeing a nose,
<v Speaker 2>But what I do remember is how wide open that
<v Speaker 2>mouth was, and it was black for anybody who's familiar
<v Speaker 2>with dogs. If you've ever seen a chow dog, they
<v Speaker 2>have very very black inside of their gums, lips and
<v Speaker 2>tongue and everything, So that was how this looked. And
<v Speaker 2>the teeth were flat. There wasn't like sharp canine teeth
<v Speaker 2>or anything that I could see. And the face was
<v Speaker 2>actually completely covered in hair. It wasn't half covered like
<v Speaker 2>a monkey or some other bigfoot descriptions would say. This
<v Speaker 2>one was very very soft hair starting on the cheeks
<v Speaker 2>and at the eyebrow and then went back and got
<v Speaker 2>longer as it went into the hair. The head shape
<v Speaker 2>was kind of square on top. It wasn't conical in
<v Speaker 2>shape like some other bigfoot creatures are described. However, there
<v Speaker 2>are lots of descriptions of bigfoots with different shaped heads,
<v Speaker 2>So I don't know what it was. I am going
<v Speaker 2>to assume it was sasquatch just because that's what fits
<v Speaker 2>the bill of what this thing looked like to me.
<v Speaker 2>And another interesting tidbit that I remember about this creature
<v Speaker 2>was its eyes under those eyebrows, that it had a big,
<v Speaker 2>prominent brow ridge. Was the darkest eyes I'd ever seen.
<v Speaker 2>And I'll always remember from the movie Jaws when they're
<v Speaker 2>talking about the show, and the guy goes it had
<v Speaker 2>dark eyes, like a dull eyes. That's exactly how I
<v Speaker 2>remember this creature's eyes. They were just dark. There was
<v Speaker 2>no whites to the eyes that I could see. It
<v Speaker 2>was just dark, black, reddish, but just almost like marbles.
<v Speaker 2>And that was just one of the most terrifying things
<v Speaker 2>about this thing was its eyes. They didn't glow, nothing
<v Speaker 2>like that, nothing like what my brother ended up telling
<v Speaker 2>me he saw later in life, but just they were
<v Speaker 2>like marbles. It was crazy. I don't know how it's
<v Speaker 2>to describe it other than marbles. So as crazy as
<v Speaker 2>it was, as quick as I saw it, it was
<v Speaker 2>as quickly as it was gone. So you can believe
<v Speaker 2>me or you cannot. But that's my big Foot sighting.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for listening today. Again. My name is Amanda Stowers,
<v Speaker 2>but many of you may know be by my social
<v Speaker 2>media profile as Amanda the Bigfoot Lady. You can find
<v Speaker 2>me on all of social media platforms TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
<v Speaker 2>but now I also am a full time co host
<v Speaker 2>with Roger Williams on Squatch and Holler podcasts. You can
<v Speaker 2>listen to Squatch and Holler on Thursdays on YouTube. Just
<v Speaker 2>look squatch and holler and make sure you spell it
<v Speaker 2>holler like you would in the South, not hollow. That's
<v Speaker 2>how we say it around here.
<v Speaker 4>Well that's it for tonight show. If you've had a
<v Speaker 4>big foot siding and would like to be a guest,
<v Speaker 4>please go to my Bigfoot Siding dot com and let
<v Speaker 4>us know. Thanks for listening, have a great night.
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<v Speaker 3>Needs the cars rushing by.
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<v Speaker 6>Sounds Battle around the bag music