I Call Him The Gorilla Man! - My Bigfoot Sighting Episode 198

When tonight’s first guest was 8 or 9 years old, a Sasquatch she calls “The Gorilla Man” started paying visits to her family’s farm, in Larue County, Kentucky. Their property is in a very remote area that’s a solid 20-minute drive from stores or any moderately populated areas. The first time she saw the Gorilla Man, she was in bed one night when all of a sudden, she saw that something was looking in her window at her. What she was looking at seemed to be about 8-feet tall, with a wide head, and very human-looking eyes. After staring, in awe, at the figure for some time, she jumped up and ran to her mother. A couple of years past, after that experience, before she saw the Gorilla Man again but see him again she did. Her encounters with him have continued to happen until present day.

Craig Ancell has had 3 Bigfoot sightings and they all happened in Southeast Missouri. His first sighting happened between 1993 and 1995, at a place just outside of Scott City, Missouri, called “The Caves.” He was in high school, at the time, and had gone to The Caves with 3 other friends. He and his buddies were planning to hang out there, drink beer, and have a great time. As fate would have it, not long after they had arrived at the Caves, Craig’s friends had left to go get another friend who wanted to join them, when Craig suddenly realized he still wasn’t alone. It wouldn’t be long before Craig realized what kind of company he had now, and it wasn’t the kind of company he wanted.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Seen a bunch of run down, no horse towns where
the church is the backbonels and the bow and the
fasting melodies coove in with the bone man rose with
the roofs, run deep beyond the nose of the busy
streets with the songs of the South of s. Then

(00:34):
and I hear the prompt Poch picking down home rhythm
bringing out I Don't Run from Banjung music. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
My big Foot Sitans involved the sasquatch that I called
the Gorilla Man. This started somewhere when I was around
eight or nine years old, which would have been sometime
around maybe two thousand and four to two thousand and five.
I live in Luriu County. It's a place in Kentucky.

(01:24):
It's a fairly rural area. You kind of have to
drive a good at least twenty minutes from where our
house was at to get to any you know, stores
for shopping or really anything. It was very quiet out
in the country and very peaceful. I had always liked
fairy tales and stuff like that, but it was, you know,

(01:48):
just stories and stuff. So one night, when I had
gone to bed, it was very late and it was
dark out, and we had the porch lights on and everything,
and I was looking out my window and from where
I could see out, the porch light you know, shone
on the window and I could see everything clearly. And
I looked out the window and from there I could

(02:11):
see this being. I I'm sure at that age I
had heard of scosh Watch or Bigfoot or anything like that.
So I don't know why, but in my eight or
nine year old mind, my thought was gorilla man. That's
the gorilla man. First time I'd ever seen him. And

(02:34):
I got a really good look at him with light
shining on him and everything.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
He was very very tall. He was, you know, I
would guess, probably ate or sell foot tall. His hair
was kind of like my own, a like dark auburn
reddish brown color. It covered his entire body except for
what was on his face and his chest, and he

(03:03):
had like a darker complexion, his head was kind of whiter.
I remember, his nose was kind of wide, and he
had very human eyes. So what I thought at the time,
and I thought, it's so unusual that there's this gorilla
man outside of my bedroom. So I stared at him
for a minute, and he stared in at me, and

(03:24):
I thought I should probably go and tell my mom
about this. This is not right. So I ran to
my mom's room and I got her and she didn't,
you know, say anything. She believed me. I was never
a kid that told lies or made things up, so
when I said that there was a gorilla man outside,
she jumped out of bed and came to see what

(03:46):
I was talking about, and by that point he was gone.
She looked out the windows and she was completely convinced
that I had seen what I had said, and she
stayed up for a while and asked me every thing
that I could figure out, and just yeah, didn't have

(04:08):
anything else to say about that, it was just an
unusual encounter. She asked if I had been asleep or anything,
and I said no, I was very much wait, and
that was kind of what kicked the whole thing off.
There had never been anything strange before that, but it
certainly continued on after that. So a couple of years

(04:28):
pass between you know, seeing the gorilla man for the
first time, and there were a few odd things that
happened in between that, and what I'm about to say
was just seeing something, you know, out of the corner
of my eye out in the woods. But I never
saw anything directly. It was just you know, here and
you know, sounds at a distance, you know, something that

(04:50):
definitely wasn't any of the local animals that you know,
howls and you know, just sounds that just weren't any
of the you know, dogs in the area, or if
someone was out hunting, or you know, any of the
coyotes or owls or any wildlife. It was none of those.
But there were definitely unusual sounds that were out in an area.

(05:14):
My parents both noticed that things were unusual with all
the weird sounds coming out of the woods. And at
that time, if I remember correctly, people started complaining about
their animals going miss and you know, dogs and cats,
you know, disappearing and people not finding them or you know,
like if anybody had chickens or anything like that them

(05:38):
turn up missing. But sometime around. It was probably two
thousand and eight to two thousand and nine roughly, is
when what we call the gifting started. The rilla man
would come back to my bedroom windows and would set

(05:59):
things out there. It just started off with you know,
maybe you know, once a month, something would be placed
on the window, and it was enough that it was noticeable,
but it wasn't anything that you know, we didn't think, Ah, well,
maybe one of the neighbors, you know, they walked on
over and they left something that would be weird. I

(06:19):
don't know why they'd do that, but maybe they did.
But then it started turning into really unusual stuff. You know,
just the gifts that were left were things like unique rocks,
things like quartz crystals and you know, just unusually shaped rocks,
and then strange sticks that were you know, long or twisted,

(06:41):
or you know, vines that were growing in unusual patterns.
And started receiving things outside my window, like it almost
looked like Christmas race for lack of any better comparison.
You know, finally braided and woven vines and flowers and

(07:02):
stuff like that left on my window. It reached a
point where it was happening, you know, just about every
day that we'd find these outside my window. And then
it got really weird when started receiving dead animals.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
You know.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
It started off with just you know, like a squirrel
outside that we thought, well, maybe it just was sick
and died, and then it turned into mainly receiving owls,
just ever type owl that we have in Kentucky. I
had at least a dozen album left outside my windows.

(07:40):
And then things got really weird when our basement that
we kept unlocked but there was no way in other
than through the basement door, which was only accessible from
the outside, we started finding owls that were alive that
had been placed in the basement, which you know, we
tried to roll things out, like maybe there was a

(08:00):
gap in the foundation, maybe something had happened, but you know,
it was what we believed was the gorilla man leaving
gifts for me to find. This continued on even to now.
I recently received some interesting looking sticks. At first, I
had thought that somebody had left like a hunting arrow,

(08:23):
like somebody had been out hunting and left some arrows
or something outside my window had shot at it or something.
But looking at everything, realized that it was just some
very strange sticks which had been somewhat almost crafted into

(08:44):
just arrows. I still don't really know why this has
been going on. I've talked about this with both my parents,
and they thought that maybe he was trying to make friends,
or maybe it was sort of he was trying to
arrange some sort of trade or something so that I

(09:04):
would leave something out for the gorilla man. But I
guess we won't really ever know. It was sometime within
the same year as the gifting started that the roof
walking started. We started here and every night after it
would get dark, dark enough that you couldn't see outside

(09:28):
that we'd hear something loud hit the roof, just a sudden,
just bump on the metal roof. We don't have a
very large house, but you know, you'd have to have,
you know, some sort of ladder or something to make
your way up onto the roof. I don't know anybody

(09:50):
who can get up there without needing assistance, and there's
no trees or anything that a person could use to
climb up and get up there, so you know, it
would have to be near impossible for anybody to get
up there. But after the large thump hits the roof,

(10:11):
you could hear that something that sounded like a very
large person, clearly with two legs, start walking back and
forth across the roof. Just this would last all through
the night. Sometimes sometimes it would only be for you know,
maybe an hour, and other times it would be from

(10:33):
sunset to just after dark to the sun starting to
come up. My parents were always too afraid to go out,
and they definitely didn't want me going out to see
what was going on. We were all very concerned at
that point because you know, if the gorilla man was

(10:55):
on the roof, was he trying to get in, was
he going to damage something? Was he you know, after us,
We didn't really know at that point. It did certainly
make everyone nervous that Another thing that happened or along
with the roof walking, was the night that he went

(11:20):
around and he knocked on every window and door on
the house. He started at our back door and started
going from room to room, every single window, knock, knock, knock,
all the way around the house. In the first pass,
he probably got around the house in about twenty minutes,

(11:42):
knocking on each door, each window. My mom and I
were kind of hiding in the hallway because we didn't
know if he was going to try and break in,
or if the gorilla man was trying to just get
our attention or what. And after he made that first
pass and started his second lap around the house, and

(12:07):
it took probably a couple of hours for him to complete,
it was a good at least three laps around the house.
And that was when we were really concerned, and we
started with what we called our shared nights and are

(12:27):
not shared nights. If it was a shared night, we
knew that it was safe to go out, and a
not shared night was our code, where the gorilla man
is out there and we need to stay in the
house and only go out if it was an emergency,
because we didn't know if he was friendly and this
was just him being slightly mischievous, or if this was

(12:51):
something dangerous. Fast forward in a couple of years past that,
with the roof walking continuing. It was sometime twenty eleven,
twenty twelve, somewhere in that time period. It was you know,
dark at again, and I was getting ready for bed.

(13:13):
Mom was still up. I was looking around and I
couldn't find my dogs anywhere. We had two dogs at
that time, and I knew they had to be in
the house somewhere, but usually they were busy following me
around or you know, just doing something, and I couldn't
find where they were. So I collared mom and you know,

(13:34):
ask her, you know, like, where are the dogs at?
And she looked, and well, Charlie's under the table and
Edward's out in the bedroom. So that's unusual for Edward
to be out there alone. It's unusual, you know, for
Charlie to not be in there with them, because they're
always together. So I went to the bedroom. It was

(13:58):
facing our backyard out towards the cornfield behind the house
and the bar and everything. Edward was just setting out
in the floor room, just looking out the door, and
I thought it was kind of strange that he's just
sitting there staring out the door, like that big glass
panel on the door and it was low enough he
could easily look out, and he was just focused on something.

(14:19):
And thought, well, he's got to be seeing something. But
if he was seeing something, he'd be barking, because he
barks at anything that's unusual or different. So kneel down
beside him and setting floor with him, trying to figure
out what he's looking at, and that's when I see what,
you know, at the time, I thought was a man,
you know, a very large man, you know, behind the car,

(14:42):
and I thought, oh, my gosh, there's somebody out there.
They're trying to either break into the car or they
were trying to check out like the house and break
in or something. Get to watching them, and you know,
they're just kind of moving back and forth, peeking out
from behind the car. And the way that they were
moving reminded me of like a child who was you know,

(15:04):
playing like hide and seek or something, and they were
peeking out behind their hide and thought seeing if the
person who was the seeker was going to find them
or not. And you know, they just kept on going
back and forth. But that's not right. So I hollered mom,
and she came out and she got down beside me
and we were looking. Charlie came in behind her, and

(15:25):
you know, we were all looking at the back door
and everything. We watched this person going back and forth,
and you know, we were kind of talking on like
what are they doing out there? What are what's going on?
This makes no sense. And you know, after a few minutes,
I realized, you know, like the car has an alarm
on it and everything, and asked mom if she could

(15:47):
go get the keys and hit the panic button on
it and set off the car alarm. And so she's
like a good idea, So she got her keys, and
the car was I'd say with where it was part
it was maybe fifty feet from the door, so you know,
easily within view and distance we could see everything. And

(16:08):
the car was pointed towards cornfield that was you know,
well on behind the house, and the corn was pretty
tall at that point. So I'd say it was probably
late summer when this happened. And you know, Mom hits
the panic button on the key, and you know, the
lights come on with the car and everything, the alarm's

(16:30):
going off, and that's when he stands up and we
realize it's the Gorilla man. He's out there messing around
with the car. So he stands up to his full height,
and you know he's only there for you know, a
few seconds, but definitely enough that we could get a
good look at him. You know, his appearance hasn't really changed,

(16:51):
you know, you know, dark auburn red brown hair, the
you know, dark face and everything. You know, just stands up.
He looks in our direction and he turns around towards
the corn field and there's a fence. It's probably not
at this current point in time, being that it's broken,
but at the time that fence was a good, you know,

(17:14):
barb war fence, good five feet tall, and I mean,
with the grace of a ballerina, he just casually walks
to the fence, hops over it, and goes through the
corn field. And we watched the corn just whipping back
and forth as he took off through the field, and

(17:36):
Mom and I just kind of stood there staring at
each other after that, like, oh my gosh, did we
just see that? Is he really out there messing with
the car? And the next day, you know, we were
too afraid to go out that night, but the next
day we went out after some was up and decided
to check everything out car nothing over by the car,

(17:58):
went over to the fence and the corn was just
all tore up. It looked like a small vehicle had
gone through the field where he'd gone, you know, through
the corn there. I mean, it was just beaten bent
and we've just kind of were like, Wow, that's unreal.

(18:20):
And that was one of the stranger things that happened,
but it was still kind of amazing to see so
shortly after the incident with the car, you know, the
gorilla man was still stopping by. And one night my

(18:44):
dad was, you know, just setting in the mudroom, just
looking out the door. He had a rocking chair that
he sat in and you know sometimes you know, he
when it was you know, too hot or too cold,
or he just didn't feel like being outside because the
mosquitoes or anything, and you know, just sat in mudroom
and look out the door. And one night, you know,

(19:09):
the thrilla man showed up. I thought I had seen
him like out in the woods, and I was right,
and Dad saw him out in our yard. So he
you know, jumped up and you know, he ran and
he grabbed his revolver, and you know, he was heading

(19:30):
out the back door with the flashlight because it was
sometime late at night, it was probably after ten, and
he hollered at me, do not come outside. You stay inside.
You stay away from the door, you stay away from
the windows. And he took off out the door. He
went around search and you know, the fence row, He

(19:53):
went all around the yard. He spent probably thirty minutes
walking around, checking out the woods, checking out the orchard,
checking out the fence, checking out I believe that was
when we still had the corn behind the house, you know,
just patrolling the area, looking everywhere. And sometime later, at
least thirty minutes later, he came back in and said, Daddy,

(20:16):
all right, what happened? You know, didn't did something happen?
Are you okay? And he said, you know, just don't
don't worry about it. Just go to bed, don't don't
worry about it. And I had I knew what he
had seen. I knew immediately what he had seen. And

(20:36):
then that was never interested in anything sasquatch or UFO
or ghost or anything like that up until then, which
is kind of like, ah, whatever. But after that night,
you know, he suddenly started getting interested in, you know,
anything Bigfoot related, you know, television shows, podcast books, anything

(20:57):
that he could get his hands on. He asked me
to because he couldn't use the internet and I'm just
too complicated for him, he said. He asked me to
look up stuff online and find you know, stuff for him,
and he started doing all sorts of you know research,
and you know, that week after he had had his
you know, first real sight, and you know, he had

(21:19):
set in the mind room. He had his door like
the door you know, like cracked open, and he had
his chair positions that way he can look out and
sat there with the gun, you know, and breaching distance
from him. And yeah, I never could get him to
say exactly what he saw, even though I knew. And

(21:40):
unfortunately he passed away this year, and I would have
liked to have been able to talk to more about it.
But you know, it's strange that it shook him up
like it did, because my dad was always the type
of person where nothing ever bothered him. He was always,
you know, a big tough guy, you know, you know,

(22:01):
Barman truck drive and you know, all that stuff. Nothing
bothered him, and this this scared him, I feel. But
it did spark something where he became very interested in
research and bigfoot. And you know, anytime anybody wanted to
talk saft squashed, Dad was on it, which was quite fun.
But but yeah, I'm just sorry that I couldn't get

(22:25):
him to ever admit to it. I tried so many times, Dad,
what'd you see? But nothing to worry about? It's fine?
And how you know I saw anything day? You know?
It was sometime after Dad had his sight and that
we started putting up trail cams like the jig Us
for you know, either security or hunting or anything like that.

(22:48):
And Mom suggested that we install some motion sense or
lights that for the most part, unless the batteries died
or you know, the solar ones, if the sun didn't
reach him, it pretty well kept the gorilla man off
the roof and out of the yard, which is I
think what my parents wanted. I think by this point
they were very concerned with having him in the yard

(23:12):
that frequently. And because he stopped showing up in the yard,
the Gift and slowed down. The Sitan slowed down. We
really only ever see him out in the woods and
you know, well off in the distance, but he quick
come into the yard. Sometime around then, the Sitans kind

(23:32):
of stayed at a distance. You know, there wasn't anything unusual.
The Gift and really slowed down, you know, just really
not much happened. The neighbors said that they had seen
some stuff, you know, they if you asked him about it,
they said, oh, it was just it was just a
bear that just happened to be walking on its back legs.

(23:56):
I never talked to them about the gorilla man because
I just kind of felt like they wouldn't believe me
if I said anything. I really haven't told really anybody
about any of this, but yeah, I just kind of
thought something was off when the neighbors were talking about
seeing that that strange bear, you know, walking on its

(24:20):
back legs and shining legs out you know, crossing the
road or you know, out in the field or something
like that, and they, you know, they kind of brought
it up, but they always had some sort of excuse
for it, and you know, there for a long time,
you know, just you know, he was always out in

(24:40):
the field or out in the woods, and you know,
just didn't really you know, come back to the yard
very frequently. Just you know, went on like that for
a long time until this year, you know, earlier this
year my dad passed away, and then suddenly the gifting increased,

(25:02):
you know, started receiving you know, more things, more rocks
at the window, more you know, dead owls, you know
around my bedroom windows and at the basement, and they, uh,
you know which really concerned my mom and I finally

(25:24):
had the first daytime sight and all these other sightings
had been, you know, after it had been dark out.
And finally this year, I had my first real daytime sighting.
You know, It's probably sometime you know, early afternoon, and
I was out at the barn. Something had been going
to the barn, and I know the neighbors were saying

(25:44):
it was a bear, but you know it's up for debate,
you know. I found footprints out there with something had
been you know, walking around out there with no shoes
on quite large tracks which I don't believe were there.
And I was making sure everything was in order and

(26:05):
that you know, somebody hadn't actually broken in and stolen
anything at the barn. And while I was out there
getting the barn door closed up, I looked over to
our fence with where they had the soybeans and filled
behind the house and you know, just checking everything out
because I you know, moving out of the corner of
my eye. So I get to look and I realized

(26:27):
the real man's over there, just casually going down the
fence road, just walking like just out of casual stroll.
Stood there and just watched him walk off until the
trees blocked my view. Sometime after that, there was probably

(26:48):
a couple of nights after that, I realized that I
had left our raised like bed planners. They had a cover,
four of them, and i've them and zipped and we
needed to cover them up because it was going to
be rain in that night or something and we needed
to protect what was the one inside. So last Mom,

(27:08):
she would come out, one of us hold the flashlight,
the other one, could you know, zip up the cover.
Someone said, sure, the problem. So we go out and
you know, I'm holding the flashlight, Mom's getting the cover
zipped up, and you know, I just I just kept
feeling like I was being watched or something. So I
turned the flashlight. It's probably passed me night. So it's

(27:30):
pitch black outside, and I looked over into the field
that was in front of the house, big empty filled
out that way that led onto the woods. And when
I turned the flashlight, I saw eyeshine but not just
one gorilla man, but there was four of them. I

(27:51):
think this was some sort of potentially a family unit
of them. There was a very tall one, a one
which was good, put shorter one that was put shorter
than the second one, and then one down on the ground.
And so I said, Mom, look, and so she stops
what she's doing. She turns and she looks, and we

(28:14):
stare for a couple of seconds, and she said, Mandy,
get back in the house. So we abandoned our raised
beds and we head back into the house. And yeah,
she was quite surprised that we saw that, and she said,
is that what I think that was? And said, yeah,
I believe. So so next day we decide, you know,

(28:35):
we shouldn't go out and kind of investigate the area.
So walk across and say, mom, why don't you stand
where we were last night and all head out into
the field and try and get this figured out. So
went out to the field and you know, I'm out there,
momsa just stop right there and figure out where they were.

(28:56):
I was trying to stretch as tall as I could
try and figure out, you know, how tall they were.
Roughly found the location because we did get a really
good look at where they were standing. So it just
a matter of try and figureut how tall they were.
This is what we were trying to do. I'm sure
I looked crazy standing out there in the middle of

(29:17):
the empty field, up on my tiptoes, stretched up over
my head, but I was out there and we roughly
estimated that the tallest one was probably, you know, about
eight foot tall, and then the one that was shorter
than that second tallest was probably somewhere about foot shorter,

(29:39):
so maybe seven foot tall. And then the one that
was shorter than the second one was probably about six
foot tall or so. And then the one that was
laying down on the ground. You know, we don't really
know about that one, but you know, they kind of
figured out that they had kind of stretched out on
the ground there to watch us. I got to looking around,

(30:02):
almost still at a distance, and I looked on the ground,
and I saw that there was this pile of ash,
like somebody had cleaned up from like a campfire or something.
But this isn't an area where somebody's going to go
out and camp, you know, this is just it's not
a spot where somebody would do that. And so it
could be somebody dumping something or anything that was about

(30:27):
foot long pile of ash just dumped on the ground
where they had been standing that night. I don't know
if that's related. I've never really heard anybody talk about
finding anything like that that. I do find that very unusual.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
My bigfoot sightings all happened in southeast Missouri. I'm Craig Ansel.
I am currently a graduate student as a mental health counselor.
My first sighting happened somewhere between nineteen ninety three and

(31:09):
nineteen ninety five. It was right outside of Scott City, Missouri.
There used to be a little area that were referred
to as the Caves, which is completely self explanatory. There
was two different separate sets of caves out there and

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it was at the time a secluded road that didn't
have any major interstates running through it or anything. And
that road led into what was paid fishing lakes called
the Cement Lakes. When I was younger, a lot of
us high school kids would always go out there and

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that was kind of it was just right outside of town,
so you know, we had the freedom to, you know,
be mischievous teenage kids. Well, one day, me and three
other friends decided to go out there and we were
going to hang out and just climb in the caves

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and explore kind of like we always did. There was
two sets of caves that were easily accessed that we
would climb up in and kind of climb back in,
But there was a another cave that was off to
the right of them two caves. There was a crevice

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in between them, and then there was a cave that
the entrance was probably ten foot off the ground, and
there was probably a fifteen foot or twenty foot parameter
that you would have to kind of scale along the
wall to be able to go over there. Well, us gies,

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you know, we were out, you know, just being guys
and throwing rocks and climbing around the caves and trying
to crawl over and get into that cave that we
were not able to explore. Ever, well, of course none
of us could do it, so we kind of gave
up on that, and we were sitting there and we
decided that we were going to send because I need

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to explain about my friend's car was a little geo
and if you had more than four passengers in the
vehicle at a time then it would not go. So
what we decided is they were going to go and
pick up our buddy who was old enough to buy beer,

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and go pick him up and go get beer and
come back out there. And we were going to, you know,
just hang out and build a fire and do what
we did on a regular basis. Well, since there was
already two other people and they had to go pick
up another guy, I volunteered to be the one to

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stay behind and wait on them to get back. So
the guys they all loaded up in the car and
they headed down the road back towards town. Well, I
decided that I was just going to kick back because
there was this huge rock that set outside, like right

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out front of the two caves that were easily accessed
that we climbed in all the time. So what I
did is I had my sunglasses on, you know, and
I just kind of kicked back on that rock and
laid back because I knew it was going to take
these guys at least a good thirty minutes or so
to go and get him and get back to where

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we were at. Well, it seemed like it was no
time after like I heard the call or speed off
that I heard it sounded like something falling, Like I
don't know if it was inside of the cave or

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what the dell was, but it sounded like something had fell. Well,
and so at that time I started to set up,
and the sun was in my eyes, well, I was
shielding my eyes from the sun, and at that time
something came out of that cave that we were not

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able to access and jumped out of that cave. And
when I say jumped out of that cave, it was
a ten foot drop. So this thing had to be
very large to be able to do this as effortless
as it did, and it was super fast. We had

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talked about earlier a skies that we had smelt like
We thought it smelled like something dead, but whenever I
seen the glimpse of whatever this was, I could really
smell like it really did smell like decomposition. And by

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the time I was able to get my eyes adjusted
and follow where this thing was headed, it was off
in the distance and I could only see the backside
of it, but looking at the tree line and everything, accordingly,
this had to be almost at least ten foot tall,

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and it was covered in a brownish not really auburn,
but it was definitely more of an earth tony brown,
and it traveled at like a speed that I like

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had never seen any other animal like travel that fast before.
It covered a good hundred yard distance, and I mean
a fractions of a second, So of course, you know,
I'm like freaking out because I'm like, what did I
just see, Like, I like, it was hard for me

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to kind of put it together, you know, because I
you know, you just don't expect something like that, and
it was just so random that that happened to me
at that time that like, it was kind of like
it took me back a little bit. Well, so I'm

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sitting there freaking out, and here the guys come, you know,
Blair and the music and jumping out, and they're all
cheering and laughing, and I'm like, did you guys, I
swear I think I just saw bigfoot. And of course
I started getting some ridicule from this, and you know,

(38:19):
so there they started calling me the bigfoot guy, you know,
for a little bit there. And so after that, you know,
I started getting an interest in like cryptozoology and you know,
like undiscovered species on the planet and like species that

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we thought had become a stinked years prior, and how
like there are several occurrences where these animals are popping
up in modern day. So that was my first bigfoot
experience and that was really the one that sparked my

(39:07):
interest the most in Sasquatch. The second experience I had
happened several years later, I was a singer in a
metal band and me and my drummer were very close friends.

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We were hanging out at his house after a band
practice one day, and you know, there was a couple
of girls over there. And there's a little town called Commerce,
Missouri that's i want to say, maybe five six miles
away from Scott City, Missouri. That there was folklore about

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a witch that used to live in this small town
that the town had apparently hung this accused witch's children
while she was gone going to get supplies, and when
they came back, they supposedly also hung her after she

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came back. But what the lore is is that before
they hung her, that she put a curse on the
town of Commerce, that the waters of the Mighty Mississippi
would swallow the town of Commerce anytime it would try
to prosper. So we were talking about all that stuff,

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and the girls were like, well, let's go check out
like Audie May's old cabin, because there used to be
a little rundown house that was supposedly Audie May's house
in the center of town there. Well, so we drive
out and we go to of course drive by Audie

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May's little house and stuff like that, and we're leaving
the town of Commerce, but we're going the back way
and this little town is sitting on the I mean
just right there on the edge of the river. So
as we're going out of town, I believe it was

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the driver, Ronnie my drummer. I believe he's like, man,
I got to pull off. I got to use the bathroom.
So what we did is we kind of pulled off
onto this It was like an old abandoned dirt road,
and we pull off in there, and as we're pulling
in there, we noticed there's a dog in the middle
of this abandoned road that's spray painted, like it's got

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spray paint on it, and you know, he gets out
and you know, does his business, and we noticed there's
a few other dogs that also have spray paint on it,
which we thought was really weird. So we kind of
walk down the little dirt road kind of checking out
what the situation was. And alls we had was like
the headlights and the little flashlight with us. We were

(42:09):
not prepared at all for any kind of anything. So
as we started walking down this little dirt abandoned road,
we noticed that there's a deer skull hanging from a

(42:29):
tree on one side of the road, and so we're like, wow,
that's weird, and so we start walking and then we
noticed there's more bones hanging in the trees like that
are lining both sides of this little road we have here.
So we get farther down the road and we hear something. Well,

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we thought at first that it was just more the
these weird spray painted like stray dogs that we were
like hearing, but then we noticed that it was probably
ten fifteen foot away from us in the tree line.
There was something that towered us, and we had no

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idea what it was, but it seemed to be tracking
our movements. Well, at that time, the girls had made
a comment about they thought something was out there. So
these girls that we're with started freaking out and they're
wanting to go back to the car and they want
to get out here. So we, you know, being gentlemen,

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decide that okay, well the girls aren't comfortable, so we're
going to walk back down the road and go back
to the car so though at least feel safe. Well,
so as we're walking through, it was like this thing
was stalking us, tracking our every movement like it was
it did not seem to be aggressive towards us, nothing

(44:09):
like that, but it was definitely staying far enough away
from us that it could observe us, but we couldn't
pose any kind of thread or anything to that. Well,
so that kind of ended that encounter there, and so

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we went back and of course we were talking about
it with everybody and you know, and some people, of
course were receptive to it, wanted to hear all about it,
and then some people like, We're like, yeah, you guys
are dumb or whatever. You know. Uh So I guess
it was probably two to three weeks later. It was

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after another brand band practice. No, actually I believe it.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
It was h.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
The night before we had to go and do a show.
Well that night, you know, we're all hanging out and
getting our final set lists like laid out and all that,
and you know, hanging out because you know, we played
in the band, so we liked when you know, we
had girls come over and hang out or buddies come

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over and hang out while we played, you know, so
we're all sitting around there and one of our buddies
I believe it was Jerry, our guitarist at the time,
he said, man, tell them about what you guys think
you saw down around Commerce. So, like we went into
the story, We're like there was you know, talk about

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the stray dogs, talk about the bones. And one of
the people there, which was a girl, said she was
gonna call Shenanigans on us, kind of saying that we're
full of bloy or whatever. So we all pack up
in this big hooped ee old brown Cadillac that Ronnie

(46:09):
drove and we headed back out down to the site
that we were at that we had the previous experience. Well,
we pull up there and just like the same these dogs.
It was like these dogs greeted us as we came
up there. We pulled in and you know, there was
the spray painted dogs there, and there was the like

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bones hanging in the trees. Still everything like looked exactly identical.
It was a really dark late at night. You know,
we were you know, trying to get the scare factor
out of the whole thing. But at this point I'm
a little nervous about the whole experience because I have

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no idea what we had witnessed the last time we
were there, so I am being cautious, you know, and
this time I had brought my baton with me just
in case I thought I was going to have to
protect myself or whatever, and a better flashlight, and we

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headed down the road like walking down the road, and
we actually made it farther than we did the first
time before. We started noticing like that eerie feeling like
something is watching us, like there's definitely we're not alone here. Well,

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as we get down farther in, we noticed there's like
a because there's a lot of junk out in the
woods there and stuff, and we noticed this big it
was some kind of older car hood sitting out kind
of off to the side of the road right along
the tree line there. So we're sitting there and you know,

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we get down to as far as we decide we
want to walk, and we you know, when you start
having that like eerie feeling like something's watching you, we
kind of wanted to kind of start going back towards
the vehicle, which we thought would be our safe haven. Well,

(48:25):
as we're going back, we start hearing the same kind
of like it was something like stalking us as we're
walking back. So then me and my drummer Ronnie decide,
like the other people are gonna go ahead and walk
back towards the car, and we're going to try to

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kind of like sneak off into the woods to be
able to get a glimpse of whatever this is that
we're witnessing here, because at this point, you know, we're
seeing that this thing is like definitely what like way
taller than we are, so we're trying to be cautious

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and you know, not put ourselves in too much harm
or danger. Well, I mentioned the first the or you know,
the first time we were there, it really didn't feel
like aggressive or anything, but this time it had a
weird different feel to it. We started walking out into

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the woods here to try to get a glimpse of it.
And this thing, I mean, we're hearing branches breaking stuff
like it notices that we're coming out that way, so
it takes off away from us. It seemed to keep
a safe distance at all times. But like as that happened,

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Ronnie started running towards where the sound was. Well, at
that point, that car hood that we had seen before
flew across the road. Like I'm talking, we're talking about
this big, heavy, old car hood is flying in the air,

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like twenty or thirty yards in the air and just
makes a loud crash, and at that point, like my
heart is like, I'm like I'm done. At this point,
I'm like, no, I'm out. So of course we take
off down the road, you know, our back towards the car,

(50:41):
and we jump in the car and we I tell
it out of there. The entire time on the way
back home, nobody says anything. It's complete silence the entire
car ride back to the Scott City. We get back
to Ronnie's house and start talking about everything that we did,

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and there's some of the people that didn't go with
us were like, come on, man, let's go back out there, like,
let's go check it out. And at this point, like, obviously,
whatever this is does not want us around. And I'm
not like a Freddie Cat or anything, but something the

(51:30):
size of this that doesn't want me around, I'm not
gonna go messing with it anymore. So that was the
last time I ever went out to that area out
between Commerce and Scott City.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
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Speaker 1 (52:00):
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church is the backbone loves and the bow and the
fastring melodies.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
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Speaker 1 (52:11):
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beyond the nose of the busy streets with the songs
of the South of Su. Then when I hear the
promp porch picking down home rhythm bringing out I don
run from Banjung Music. Yeah, the sound of a memory

(52:36):
brings me back to the bluegrass playing the Madadi jack.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
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on scrubs and skags, bucking name bears through this Tennessee jams.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
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Speaker 7 (53:05):
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the sword in the strumming look and tucky start. There's
nothing in the strumming out count your both living and
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that all from.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
From men music.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
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cars rushing by with the beasts on the studios to
man and I hear the brown boat picking.

Speaker 7 (53:50):
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Speaker 1 (53:53):
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Speaker 6 (53:57):
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getting in the sword and the strumming look and tucky stars.

Speaker 7 (54:06):
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I hit a bum boards picking dr Bather bringing Das
Battle from the Past, summing gallop, back words back woods

(54:42):
a double tub, getting in the sword and the drummer
looking tuk a star. There's nothing the strumming down cuts
your born living. When I hear the bum boats picking
Dia b the Brad Chicken Botswan, Mona's Very Sweet Tea
kind of.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
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