August 1, 2025 • 54 mins
Tonight’s guest has loved being in the woods for about as long as he can remember. He has fond memories of going out with his dad, when he was a kid, to learn all he could from him, including how to hunt. Some of his memories, from spending time in the woods, aren’t positive, however. You see, there’s a tract of land in Switzerland County, Indiana, that he’s hunted on more times than he can remember. He kept going back to it because it has a lot to offer that he likes. There is something about that tract that’s left him shaken, on more than one occasion, though. It’s the dark secret of that property. It’s a secret that, apparently, no one else knows about.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're ready for another episode of My big Foot sighting?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right, then let's do this. Seen a bunch of
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
Church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the
fasting melodies.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Coove in.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
With the bomb man rose with the roofs, run deep
beyond the nose of the busy streets with the sons.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Of the South of su Then when I hear the
prompt poorch picking down home rhythm bringing out I Don't
run from Banjum music.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, My Bigfoot sightings all happen in Switzerland County, Indiana.
When I was a kid, we moved around to several
places in Indiana. We lived in Indianapolis when I was younger,
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but about the age of eight in nineteen ninety five,
we moved to Switzerland County, Indiana, and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It wasn't too many years after that that I started
hunting with my dad. My dad had always been a hunter,
and I had always wanted to be out in the
woods with him, but I obviously had to wait until
I was old enough to be able to do so.
But I've been out in the woods hunting ever since
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I was able to the area we hunt in is
not open to the public. It's private property. But there
are plenty of people within that private property that not
that land. And I've never heard any other accounts from
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any of the other hunters or any of my dad's friends,
my dad himself, no one else has seemed to have
seen anything out here, and that's it's kind of troubling, honestly. Now.
I've been studying bigfoot sasquatch, whatever you want to call it,
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for years. I'm very interested in cryptids and dog man
sightings and other things like that. But you know, in
researching all of this stuff, you hear accounts that seem
very natural, like you know, something was throwing stones at me,
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or I heard whooping noises in the woods, whatever. Then
you hear accounts where there are strange lights in the
sky and other things like that, and it kind of
takes the bigfoot phenomena into another realm. When you start
talking about lights in the sky and psychic messages and
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different things that you've heard people talking about as far
as bigfoot is concerned. You know, you've got your more
natural encounters, and you've got your more supernatural encounters, and
just being the only person that I know of that's
been out there to this private property, and being the
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only person who's seen anything out there, it just blows
my mind. I don't know how else to describe it.
There's not a lot of highs out there, but there's
a good handful of five or six guys that have
been out in those woods since before I was born, probably,
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and none of them have ever reported anything. It's just strange.
But I started hunting with my dad when I was
about twelve. I guess whenever you can get your hunting license,
and I had gone out who those woods with my
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dad plenty of times before. I mean, just because you
don't have a hunting license doesn't mean you can't go
out in the woods. I used to go out with
him all the time and just sit with him while
he hunted and kind of learned things. And I never
had any encounters when I was with my father. Something
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else that I think is important to note in this
is that the place where we hunted at is private property.
I don't want to give away the name of the
place where we hunted at. Only certain you know, family
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friends and stuff like that were allowed to go out
there and hunt. So there was a small handful of
us that were able to go out there, my dad
and a few of his friends and their kids. You know,
it's kind of a legacy thing. And even before we
had moved to switch, I still went out there with
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my dad quite a few times. He would just take
me hunting with him, so I could see what it
was all about and sit out there with them and
just see how it's done basically. But I didn't start
hunting with him until I was probably about twelve or so.
Are however old it is that you've got to be
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to get a hunting license. At that age, we would
go out there and spend weekends or sometimes even a
week going on hunting trips. When you came into the compound,
as I called it, you know, you went down this
gravel road. You had to go over this bridge that
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stretched over a creek, and this creek was famous for
a man had died during a storm. There's a terrible
storm and his jeep got washed over the side of
the bridge and he drowned there. That creek was known
for that. But you know, you pass over this bridge
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down this gravel road and there's several compounds down there.
The property where you know where we hunted at. It
was butted up against a couple of other properties, the
nearest of which was, or I mean still is, a
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hunting resort for police officers. And basically, what I'm I'm
getting at is a ton of land out there, thousands
of acres and it's all private property, just one, two,
three stacked up against each other. Just a massive amount
of land for something large to be moving around in.
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But you know, I started hunting with my dad, and
then I actually started going out on my own. We
would go on hunting trips, you know where I was
able to hunt when I was finally old enough, and
that's when I started noticing strange things out in those woods.
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And as I was getting out before It's kind of
weirded me out the fact that there were so many
people coming out into these woods, but I was the
only person who had encountered anything. Now, granted I hadn't
talked to a lot of people about this. I wasn't
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going to talk to my dad about it because I
was too embarrassed. My dad is not the type of
person who believes in supernatural or bigfoot or you know,
anything of that sort. My dad is a one hundred
percent non believer. I think even if a ghost walked
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up to that man and shook his hand, he still
wouldn't believe in ghosts, like he doesn't believe in Bigfoot
or any of that stuff. And you know, I didn't
want to say anything to any of the other hunters
because once again I was too embarrassed, and just throughout
the years, thinking back on all of this gets really
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it's kind of messed with me in my head. How
I'm the only one who's ever encountered anything out there.
Let's see, I think the first time I encountered anything,
I was nineteen years old. It was two thousand and six,
and we were headed out to our different hunting spots
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that morning, me and my dad. It was I think
like four thirty in the morning when we woke up
and started getting ready, started getting all of our gear
together and getting dressed up and spraying stuff all over
ourselves to get the scent off of us. There's different
sprays and stuff to camouflage yourself from deer, and you know,
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we're just doing our routine as we were getting ready
to head out into the woods. That was about four
thirty in the morning. And then you know, we parted
ways and my dad went towards his trail and I
went toward my trail. It's a big area out there,
and one of the first spots that you'll hit when
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you're walking into the woods is something that we call
the scum pond. It's just a small little pond and
it's it's covered in algae and and you know, the
top of the water's green and stuff. We call it
scum pond. And my trail was just beyond the scum pond,
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leading further into the woods, and that was going to
lead me down a path and to several ravines where
my tree standspot was at. So that morning I was
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walking into the woods. It was bow season, and I
had my bow and arrow. Even though it was dark out,
I had an arrow knocked, you know, ready to go,
ready to fire, just in case, you know, I spooked
a deer or came up on something. You never know.
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Just it's just something I was taught. When you're walking
to your stand, always have an arrow knocked and ready
to go. I can't recall exactly how far I was
into the woods. It had been probably ten minutes on
the trail after leaving the compound, so I had my
bow and arrow in my hands, and to be able
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to see in the darkness, I had a headlamp and
I was walking down the trail and then all of
a sudden, all the hairs on the back of my
neck stood up straight. And just as soon as I
got that startled feeling, that's when the smell hit me.
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I smelled something. The only way I could really describe
it is it reminded me of like if you took
a wet dog and a laundry basket full of dirty
football uniforms and just threw it all together, like just
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wet dog and body over. It was such a pungent
smell and it hit me too, like a wall. It
hit me and I got freaked out instantly because I
thought that I had jumped a skunk. You know, being
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out in the woods, especially when it's dark out, you
never know what you're you're gonna, you know, come across,
you know what you're going to stir up. And living
out there in the country, I have plenty of encounters
with skunks. I mean, my dog had gotten sprayed by
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skunks so many times at that point I couldn't even remember.
We just called it getting skunked when you got sprayed
by a skunk, But this smell was different, though it
was as pungent, but it didn't smell like a skunk.
It smelled like nothing I've ever smelled before. It didn't
smell like dead, rotting meat or anything. Being a hunter
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and being out in the woods, you get familiar with
the smell of death, and that's not what it was.
So it wasn't a rotting carcass, it wasn't a skunk,
but it smelled like something I had never smelled before.
And I kind of paused on the trail, and I
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had my bow and arrow in my hand, as I said,
and then I kind of just started scanning the trees
with my headlamp and I looked from left to right,
right to left, you know, up and down, just kind
of scanning the area where I was at. And then
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I heard a branch snap, but it was it wasn't
on the ground. It was it was a higher up,
probably about I don't know. It sounded like it was
seven or eight feet up, like it was clearly a
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branch snapping off of a tree. It wasn't something that
was being stepped on on the ground. And that was
maybe I don't know, fifty feet away from me if not.
Less like, it was loud and I could hear it,
and I'm smelling the smell, and then I hear this snap.
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And the snap happened off to the left of me
in the darkness. And then that's when I panned my
head lamp over that way and I hollered out, is
anybody out there? Hey? You know, hey, is anybody there?
And I didn't hear anything, and then I started really
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focusing in on the foliage and through the leaves and
the branches and stuff. It was very dark, but you know,
my headlamp had good wattage on it, and the beam
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of light was very bright through the branches about I
don't know, forty to fifty feet in front of me,
and off to the left, I could see fur or
hair or you know one, you know, same thing basically,
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but I mean I could see it moving behind these branches.
And then I hollered out again, I said hey, and
it stopped and it was so still and it just
stood there. And I was shaking at this point, like
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the smell had hit me. You know, I grew up
with Discovery Channel and cable and all that I had
seen all the bigfoot shows and everything, and you know,
I knew about how they stunk and how big they
were and stuff like that, you know, and it was
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running through my head. I was like, there was no
way I'm seeing what I'm seeing. There's no way I'm
smelling what I'm smelling. It's got to be a dead
animal or something, or maybe it's just a really powerful stunk.
Like I just kept telling myself in my head as
it was happening that it wasn't happening. And I kept
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focusing my light on this thing, and as I said,
it just it was still like it didn't move an inch,
and I kind of dialed in. I don't know how
to describe it, like everything else around me seemed to
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fade away for a second, and I just kind of
dialed in on what I was doing, like tunnel vision.
I don't know how to describe it. But my eyes
were still adjusting in the darkness. You know, all I
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have is this beam of light coming off of my headlamp,
and it's being broken up by foliage and twigs and stuff.
But I can see this fur. It's dark brown, thick
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fur on this thing. And so I'm kind of scanning
the area directly on and around this thing to try
to see how big it is or if there are
more than one of them. I scanned my light further
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to the left and then over to the right, and
I didn't see anything, but I was also kind of
in a panic, so there's no telling. But then I
focused my light back in the middle there, off to
the left where I had been looking, and I could
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still see the fur through the foliage. And now I
started scanning up and down to see how tall this
thing was. I couldn't see where it began. I couldn't
see any feet or anything down to the ground. These
woods get so thick during hunting season, it's ridiculous. I
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started scrolling up, or not scrolling but panting up with
you know, and looking.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I could just see little bits of fur, dark brown fur,
coming out from behind the leaves and stuff, and it
was like it was kind of sandwich between two trees, almost.
But as I scanned up and down with my light,
I started to notice a loud breathing sound. As I said,
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I was like really dialed in at this point, and
so I was ignoring all the four sounds around me,
and all I could hear was this deep breathing, but
it wasn't like an in and out in and out.
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It was just almost like loud exhales, like almost like snorts,
you know, like a And I don't know if it
was making that noise because it was trying to alert
me that it was there. I don't know how I
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was able to walk up on this thing, honestly, because
from what I understand about Bigfoot or Sasquatch or that
they're very elusive and that they will not reveal themselves
to people on purpose, not less there's some sort of
a standing relationship between that Sasquatch and that person. I've
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heard of things like that. I know they have their
own language, and I've heard recordings of Sasquatch talking with people.
I believe all that stuff, But that's not what I
was hearing. I was just hearing just deep breathing through
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these trees. And I can't tell you how tall this
thing was, but my mind registered, my eyes registered probably
the tallest tuft of fur that I saw sticking out
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from behind those leaves. It was probably about six or
seven feet. And yeah, I just I just kind of
stood there and I didn't know what to do. I
was going through all these scenarios in my mind and
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thinking about things that I had heard on TV and
this and that, and the smell was just was getting
to me as well. And I hollered out again. I said, hey,
this is private property. And honestly, I turned around and
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I went back down the trail. I I couldn't. I
couldn't go any further. I didn't hunt that day. I
went back to UH, I went back to the camp
and I made up some story to my dad. I
told him something about I had gotten lost, I'd walked
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onto the wrong trail or something like that and I
couldn't find my tree stand, and so I told him
I missed out on that morning's hunt. And I did
that with the purpose of my dad walking me back
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out there to retrieve my true stand, because he knew
where the spot was because he'd been hunting there for
so long. But I was still learning the land. And
when we went back, it was later on that day
during the daytime, you know, during the daylight, and we
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went to go retrieve my stand. And yeah, I basically.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I didn't want to tell my dad what was going
on or what I had seen, because I didn't think
he'd believed me, and I definitely didn't want to go
out there by myself, not after seeing what I had seen.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And you know, it wasn't it wasn't. I didn't feel
threatened per se. I mean, I've heard other accounts where
people were absolutely threatened. You know, there was rallying and
tree knocking and stones being thrown and all this, and
that I didn't feel threatened in the moment, But it
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was more of just when you come across something that
isn't supposed to exist, or even just something you can't explain.
Just the unknown in general is terrifying. And yeah, needless
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to say, I didn't tell anybody, my dad or any
of our hunting friends what I saw that day. It
was already embarrassing enough to admit that I had gotten lost,
even though I didn't. But you know, I just had
to do what I had to do. But that was
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the first, the first real encounter. The second time I
had anything happen was it was probably I don't know
a few weeks after that. We were back out there
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and I was sitting in my tree stand in the afternoon.
It was probably about twelve thirty one o'clock there had
just been a slight rain that day, and you know,
you could you could hear the water dropping off of
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the branches, and you know, nature kind of retreats momentarily
when it rains, but then it comes back out full
force when the sun comes back out. And you could
just kind of, you know, hear all the squirrels and
the birds and stuff started to you know, come back
out and be active and stuff like that. And then
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I heard whooping. I'm not the best impressionist, but it
was it was kind of a woo woo kind of noise,
but it was deeper and that that rung out from
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behind me. Behind the position where I was sitting in
my tree stands like several yards behind me, if not
more like it was a ways of way. And then
a couple of seconds went by, and I'm just sitting
there listening. I was kind of confused from hearing the
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first whoop. But then in front of me and off
to the right, over this ridge, I heard a response.
It was similar to what I'd heard before, but just
a little different. I don't know, It's like just a
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different tone in the whoop, you know, but I could
tell it was a response, and you know, I'm a
country boy and a hunter, and having been out in
the woods as much as I have, you don't you
know what the sounds of the woods are. You know
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what animals are out there, and you know what sounds
they make. And this was something that I had never
heard before. So I sat there and I listened, and
I didn't hear anything else for I don't know. It
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was probably two hours or so, and I was actually
starting to doze off in my tree stand. At that point.
I wasn't having a very good hunting day. There wasn't
much deer activity going on, and I was sitting there
kind of dozing off, and then I heard another whoop.
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This one started in front of me like the one
before had. When it replied and it went whoop. I
don't know how to how to do that faithfully, but
it stood me, you know, straight up in my seat
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when I heard it. And then just a couple of
seconds later I heard a response. This time it wasn't
behind me. It was more off to the left and
probably a few hundred yards off down another ridge, but
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it communicated back. And then the one in front of
me went whoo again, and then the one off to
the left went whoo, and there's different there's differences in
the whooping. I can't do it, but you know, you
could tell that they were saying things to each other.
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So that was an interesting day. Also, for got to mention,
there were a few times that I found tracks after
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that first encounter that I talked about. When I was
heading to my tree stand and I came across this
thing in the darkness and it stunk and everything.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
When we were when I got my dad to go
out there with me to retrieve my tree stand, and
we were coming on our way back, I made up
an excuse to go off the trail for a second,
and I looked.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Around that area where I had encountered that thing, because
it was just right off the trail and just into
the woods, just a little bit like it wasn't far
off the trail, even in the darkness. I knew that,
and I went over to that area and I was
looking for tracks. I don't know what I told my
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dad I was looking for, but I didn't find anything.
But being a hunter and tracking deer and looking looking
for a deer, and you know, you look for footprints,
and you spend a lot of your time with your
eyes glued to the ground. And there were some times
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when I was out once again by myself, sometimes trailing
a deer, sometimes just you know, I didn't always hunt
in a tree stand. Sometimes I would make a blind
out of some fallen foliage and you know, just kind
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of sit up against a tree. Some days I spend
all day in one spot. But some days, if I
get bored and nothing's happening, I'll get up and I'll
move and I'll go see if I can jump something up,
or just find a new spot, or find some tracks
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that lead lead somewhere. You never know, there's all kinds
of possibilities out in the woods. So you know, I
was out following a deer trail, and I actually got
myself lost. I followed this deer trail all the way
off the property. I believe I was in one of
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the neighboring properties, probably the one that was owned by
the police officers. But as I was tracking these prints,
I started coming across indentions in the mud that were
unlike anything else. I didn't find any full prints, but
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I found like some heill marks on certain parts of
some trails, and leading into the woods, I found some well,
I think we're tow impressions in some parts of the mud,
and in other parts there were just deep in prints,
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but they were in the shape of feet. But I
can't say that there were any toe marks or anything, So,
I mean, there's no telling those could have been boot marks.
But the way they were so deeply imprinted into the
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mud led me to believe that it wasn't anything human
that left those tracks. And unfortunately I didn't cast any
of those prints. I found plenty of them out there
in those woods, and I really should have cast some
of them, but I was out there to hunt, and
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I didn't want anybody to know what I was experiencing anyway,
so I just I don't know casting the prints just
didn't It didn't seem like an eye to me at
that time. Now looking back on it, I really, I
really wish I would have. All of these encounters actually
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happened in the same year, the same hunting season. The
last time that I encountered anything out there, I was
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once again in my tree stand. I was in a
different part of the property. I was actually on the
opposite side of the property from where I had been before,
and I was sitting in my tree stand just kind
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of listening to the nature and everything, and then I
heard what I thought sounded like it sounded like twigs snapping,
something moving through the woods. It sounded like it was
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on the trail that was directly beneath my stand, and
it definitely sounded bigger than a squirrel or something like that.
You know, there have been plenty of times when I
thought a deer was coming up on me and I heard,
you know, rustling about twig snapping and stuff, and it
just turned out to be a turkey or a squirrel
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or you know, something like that. But either way, when
you're hunting and you hear something coming your way, you
sit up in attention and you know that could be
your potential kill for the day. And so I took
out my binoculars and I started kind of scanning the
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area around me, and I checked the trail. There was
nothing coming down the trail, animals or people, nothing, And yeah,
you know, I just I thought it must have been
an animal or you know whatever, it's not a deer.
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So I had just you know, been kind of woken
up from dozing off, and so I was kind of
sitting there trying to, you know, get my eyes adjusted
and just kind of wake up and you know, get
back into hunting mode. And I sat there for a while,
and I don't know, it must have it must have
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been fifteen twenty minutes. And then I heard more twig snappings,
and I got out my binoculars again and I started
scanning the area again, and then, you know, I heard
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more and more of the snap, like something was walking
around at this point, and I caught, just out of
the corner of my eye a glimpse of something dark
amongst the foliage. And this was probably God, I don't know,
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a couple hundred yards in front of me and off
to the left, a little ways in between these two
ridges where it's the spot where these two ridges met,
and there was a little stream running in between the
two of them. And I saw, and this is broad daylight,
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I saw this thing once again, a few hundred yards
ahead of me, a little to the left of my
straightforward view. This thing was in between these two ridges,
crouched behind a tree, and it was looking at something.
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It didn't even know that I was there. I don't
think it did. I kind of scanned the area to
see what it was looking at. And then as I
was doing that I heard some more movement up at
the top of the ridge, and I looked up there
and there was this huge dough standing up on top
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of this ridge, and she was way out of my
range for me to be able to bagger. But I
kind of, you know, I didn't even think about shooting
her because she was out of range, so I didn't
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even bother to get anything ready or any of that.
I just kind of watched, and then I moved my
binoculars back over to this thing that was in between
the ridges, and just from the time that I had
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moved away from it and looked at the deer and
came back, it was already halfway up that ridge. And
the only reason I was able to see it the
second time when I panned background is because it was
moving up behind another tree and I caught it with
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my peripheral. This thing was going after the deer, and
I don't know, I was kinda I didn't want to
take my binoculars off of it, but I also wanted
to see where the deer was at. So I would
keep my binoculars fixed on the bigfoot or you know whatever,
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and then I would remove my eyes away from the
binoculars and look up the ridge because I could see
the deer with my naked eyes. But I didn't want
to move the position of my binoculars away from this
thing because I didn't want to lose it. And I
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just I kind of watch. Watched it first thing, and
it was creeping up this ridge and it was so quiet.
I know how loud these woods can be with all
the fallen trees and twigs and foliage and everything, and
somehow this thing was managing to be so stealthy, and
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it was. It was big. From where I was sitting,
it was crouched down most of the time. It was
at a certain point it was bent down on one
knee with both of its hands on the ground as
well in front of it. But I saw it stand
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up a couple of times to gain ground up the
side of this ridge. And it was absolutely massive. This
thing had to have been easily ten feet tall, just
from what I could tell from the trees that were
next to it heading up this ridge. This was this
was a big, big boy. And I followed this with
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my binoculars and I just I watched this thing. I
lost it. At a certain point, I couldn't actually see it,
and once again, this thing looked different than the one
that I saw before when I was on the trail
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in the dark. Even though I couldn't see really like
get a good view of it, I could just see
it through the foliage and it was dark outside and
all I had was the light of a headlamp. But
the fur that I saw that morning heading into the
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woods was very very dark. Now, this creature that I
was looking at in the daylight in the afternoon, it
did have kind of a brownish, a dark brown fur,
but there were like highlights of like red in it
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almost reminded me of like an orangutang or King Kong
from Godzilla King Kong versus Godzilla from the sixties. Its
whole body wasn't like vibrantly colored like that, but it
had these hues to it, like I don't know, I
don't know how how else to describe it, but it
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was kind of a brownish red hair, and the hair
it was long and stringy and matted in places, and
you know, you could see you could see how big
this thing was underneath the fur, like when it moved,
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you could see its muscle definition and stuff like that.
And at a certain point it was moving up the
ridge and I lost sight of it, and then I
took my binoculars back over to where the deer was,
and the deer was gone as well. But then I
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kind of kept watching that ridge and I could see
the the foliage moving, like something was moving through the
brush up that ridge, and I just kind of I
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followed it as long as I could. And that's all
that you know that I saw of that particular encounter.
I didn't hear the deer giving out any distress calls.
I didn't see anything go down, So I don't know
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if it actually was after that deer, or if it
got the deer, or if it lost the deer. But
to me, and I'm a hunter myself watching this thing,
it definitely seemed to be hunting this deer, and it
was a little further away. I was a lot further
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away than the other one that I had encountered. I
didn't smell anything this time, but it was just massive,
the size of this thing. And you know, when we
see things like this, obviously there's a certain part of
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the unknown that is frightening to us. So it does
cause a certain fear of response. But I never really
felt terrified or anything like. I mean, there was the
initial fear just of coming across something unknown, But any
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of the times I saw these things, I never really
felt scared. I mean, there was that time on the trail.
I mean, but it was dark, I couldn't see what
it was. It was big, you know. I mean, that's
nightmare fuel for anybody. I was scared there, and obviously
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I didn't want to go back immediately or even by myself,
but so I lied a little bit. I was scared
by that encounter, but the whooping, the tree stand encounter,
it just it felt like part of nature to me.
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I don't know, and I believe that these creatures are
out there, and I believe that they need to be protected.
They're doing a really fine job on their own protecting themselves.
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But I'm just I'm just curious if one of these days,
there's going to come a day when it does finally,
you know, come to light scientifically that these things are
out there. It's fascinated me for most of my life
learning about these things. And you know, as I said before,
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there are you know, even more wild accounts of these
things being connected to UFOs, which I've had encounters with
they some people say they're from other dimensions. There's all
kinds of things, you know, that they have psychic links
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that they can connect with us. That would have been
really cool. I would have really loved to have had
an encounter like that where I could have talked with one.
But we move away from Switzerland County in the year
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nineteen ninety nine, and we kept going back there to
go hunting throughout the years. But eventually I can't remember
what year it was. Well, I think I had moved out.
At that point, I was grown, and I just I
wasn't going hunting with my dad anymore. So I've not
been out there since I was nineteen. Probably, I'm really
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curious as to why I'm the only one who's ever
had any encounters out there. Like I said before, there's
dozens of people in and out of those woods at
any given point in the year, and I just I'm
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really curious as to why no one else has seen
or heard anything, or maybe they have, you know, maybe
they were, you know, like me when I was younger,
too embarrassed to talk about it, you know, I didn't
want my dad or any of his friends to know
that I thought bigfoot. They would have laughed me right
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out of camp. But looking back on it now, I'm
really curious as to who else has had encounters out there.
My dad doesn't go out there anymore. He lives in
Florida now, And as far as any of his other
friends that hunted out there, the last I knew, out
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of a handful of like five or six guys, there
was only one other guy hunting out there, and he
hadn't been out there for years. It's a whole different
situation out there now. And I don't even know if
I would be allowed to hunt out there if I
contacted them nowadays, not without paying due news. But you know,
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I don't know. It's a part of my path. I
spent a lot of great times out there growing up
when I was a kid, a lot of great bonding
memories with my dad and stuff like that. But when
I was by myself, I saw some things out in
those woods that I to this day can't explain, And
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if you ask me, there's only one answer, and that's bigfoot.
And that's my story.
Speaker 7 (51:33):
Well that's it for tonight's show. If you've had a
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please go to my Bigfoot sighting dot com and let
us know thanks for listening, have a great night.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Seen a bunch of run down new host towns where
the Church of the Backbone loves and the bow and
the pastoring melodies coov.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
In the bomb Man rose with the roos, run deep
beyond the nose of the busy streets with the songs of.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
The South of su. Then I mean, I hear the
prompt porch picking down home rhythm bringing out I don't
run from Banjong music. Yeah, the sound of a memory
brings me back to the bluegrass playing the Madaddy Jack.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
It's become many been through.
Speaker 3 (52:27):
It, getting through the day on scrubs and skaggs, bucking
name bales through this Tennessee jams. There's no the way
that I do it. And I hear the plump porch
picking down home rhythm bringing nut idn't run from ben
Jong music.
Speaker 8 (52:50):
Yeah, someon dollar backwards backwards and double tip faking to
the thword in the strum, looking to stuffs of the
end and strumming now cout you born living.
Speaker 9 (53:03):
Man.
Speaker 8 (53:04):
I hear a bum boat picking devil rhythm bringing us
how from from man music.
Speaker 9 (53:22):
The city that draws me on the two miss cars
rushing by with the beasts on the stios to man,
and I hear the brown bush.
Speaker 8 (53:33):
Picking down home m bringing nuts.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
How don't run.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
From banging music?
Speaker 9 (53:41):
Yeah, something going backwards backwards.
Speaker 8 (53:46):
And double tim picking in the sword and the strumming
looking TUCKI starcause of the ad strumming ouse cut your
born living.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Man.
Speaker 8 (53:55):
I hear a bum boat picking down room rhythm bringing.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Us I don't from the bus.
Speaker 8 (54:24):
Sing goo backwards backwards and double town picking and the
soul and the drumming looking took a start for the end,
those trumming down because you.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Won't leave in Then I hear the bom patch picking
Speaker 3 (54:37):
Double from the batchick and botch me Mama's been sweet
tea kind of sads from bedroom music
Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You're ready for another episode of My big Foot sighting?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right, then let's do this. Seen a bunch of
run down, no horse towns with the.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the
fasting melodies.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Coove in.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
With the bomb man rose with the roofs, run deep
beyond the nose of the busy streets with the sons.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Of the South of su Then when I hear the
prompt poorch picking down home rhythm bringing out I Don't
run from Banjum music.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, My Bigfoot sightings all happen in Switzerland County, Indiana.
When I was a kid, we moved around to several
places in Indiana. We lived in Indianapolis when I was younger,
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but about the age of eight in nineteen ninety five,
we moved to Switzerland County, Indiana, and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It wasn't too many years after that that I started
hunting with my dad. My dad had always been a hunter,
and I had always wanted to be out in the
woods with him, but I obviously had to wait until
I was old enough to be able to do so.
But I've been out in the woods hunting ever since
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I was able to the area we hunt in is
not open to the public. It's private property. But there
are plenty of people within that private property that not
that land. And I've never heard any other accounts from
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any of the other hunters or any of my dad's friends,
my dad himself, no one else has seemed to have
seen anything out here, and that's it's kind of troubling, honestly. Now.
I've been studying bigfoot sasquatch, whatever you want to call it,
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for years. I'm very interested in cryptids and dog man
sightings and other things like that. But you know, in
researching all of this stuff, you hear accounts that seem
very natural, like you know, something was throwing stones at me,
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or I heard whooping noises in the woods, whatever. Then
you hear accounts where there are strange lights in the
sky and other things like that, and it kind of
takes the bigfoot phenomena into another realm. When you start
talking about lights in the sky and psychic messages and
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different things that you've heard people talking about as far
as bigfoot is concerned. You know, you've got your more
natural encounters, and you've got your more supernatural encounters, and
just being the only person that I know of that's
been out there to this private property, and being the
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only person who's seen anything out there, it just blows
my mind. I don't know how else to describe it.
There's not a lot of highs out there, but there's
a good handful of five or six guys that have
been out in those woods since before I was born, probably,
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and none of them have ever reported anything. It's just strange.
But I started hunting with my dad when I was
about twelve. I guess whenever you can get your hunting license,
and I had gone out who those woods with my
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dad plenty of times before. I mean, just because you
don't have a hunting license doesn't mean you can't go
out in the woods. I used to go out with
him all the time and just sit with him while
he hunted and kind of learned things. And I never
had any encounters when I was with my father. Something
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else that I think is important to note in this
is that the place where we hunted at is private property.
I don't want to give away the name of the
place where we hunted at. Only certain you know, family
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friends and stuff like that were allowed to go out
there and hunt. So there was a small handful of
us that were able to go out there, my dad
and a few of his friends and their kids. You know,
it's kind of a legacy thing. And even before we
had moved to switch, I still went out there with
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my dad quite a few times. He would just take
me hunting with him, so I could see what it
was all about and sit out there with them and
just see how it's done basically. But I didn't start
hunting with him until I was probably about twelve or so.
Are however old it is that you've got to be
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to get a hunting license. At that age, we would
go out there and spend weekends or sometimes even a
week going on hunting trips. When you came into the compound,
as I called it, you know, you went down this
gravel road. You had to go over this bridge that
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stretched over a creek, and this creek was famous for
a man had died during a storm. There's a terrible
storm and his jeep got washed over the side of
the bridge and he drowned there. That creek was known
for that. But you know, you pass over this bridge
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down this gravel road and there's several compounds down there.
The property where you know where we hunted at. It
was butted up against a couple of other properties, the
nearest of which was, or I mean still is, a
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hunting resort for police officers. And basically, what I'm I'm
getting at is a ton of land out there, thousands
of acres and it's all private property, just one, two,
three stacked up against each other. Just a massive amount
of land for something large to be moving around in.
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But you know, I started hunting with my dad, and
then I actually started going out on my own. We
would go on hunting trips, you know where I was
able to hunt when I was finally old enough, and
that's when I started noticing strange things out in those woods.
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And as I was getting out before It's kind of
weirded me out the fact that there were so many
people coming out into these woods, but I was the
only person who had encountered anything. Now, granted I hadn't
talked to a lot of people about this. I wasn't
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going to talk to my dad about it because I
was too embarrassed. My dad is not the type of
person who believes in supernatural or bigfoot or you know,
anything of that sort. My dad is a one hundred
percent non believer. I think even if a ghost walked
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up to that man and shook his hand, he still
wouldn't believe in ghosts, like he doesn't believe in Bigfoot
or any of that stuff. And you know, I didn't
want to say anything to any of the other hunters
because once again I was too embarrassed, and just throughout
the years, thinking back on all of this gets really
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it's kind of messed with me in my head. How
I'm the only one who's ever encountered anything out there.
Let's see, I think the first time I encountered anything,
I was nineteen years old. It was two thousand and six,
and we were headed out to our different hunting spots
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that morning, me and my dad. It was I think
like four thirty in the morning when we woke up
and started getting ready, started getting all of our gear
together and getting dressed up and spraying stuff all over
ourselves to get the scent off of us. There's different
sprays and stuff to camouflage yourself from deer, and you know,
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we're just doing our routine as we were getting ready
to head out into the woods. That was about four
thirty in the morning. And then you know, we parted
ways and my dad went towards his trail and I
went toward my trail. It's a big area out there,
and one of the first spots that you'll hit when
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you're walking into the woods is something that we call
the scum pond. It's just a small little pond and
it's it's covered in algae and and you know, the
top of the water's green and stuff. We call it
scum pond. And my trail was just beyond the scum pond,
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leading further into the woods, and that was going to
lead me down a path and to several ravines where
my tree standspot was at. So that morning I was
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walking into the woods. It was bow season, and I
had my bow and arrow. Even though it was dark out,
I had an arrow knocked, you know, ready to go,
ready to fire, just in case, you know, I spooked
a deer or came up on something. You never know.
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Just it's just something I was taught. When you're walking
to your stand, always have an arrow knocked and ready
to go. I can't recall exactly how far I was
into the woods. It had been probably ten minutes on
the trail after leaving the compound, so I had my
bow and arrow in my hands, and to be able
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to see in the darkness, I had a headlamp and
I was walking down the trail and then all of
a sudden, all the hairs on the back of my
neck stood up straight. And just as soon as I
got that startled feeling, that's when the smell hit me.
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I smelled something. The only way I could really describe
it is it reminded me of like if you took
a wet dog and a laundry basket full of dirty
football uniforms and just threw it all together, like just
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wet dog and body over. It was such a pungent
smell and it hit me too, like a wall. It
hit me and I got freaked out instantly because I
thought that I had jumped a skunk. You know, being
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out in the woods, especially when it's dark out, you
never know what you're you're gonna, you know, come across,
you know what you're going to stir up. And living
out there in the country, I have plenty of encounters
with skunks. I mean, my dog had gotten sprayed by
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skunks so many times at that point I couldn't even remember.
We just called it getting skunked when you got sprayed
by a skunk, But this smell was different, though it
was as pungent, but it didn't smell like a skunk.
It smelled like nothing I've ever smelled before. It didn't
smell like dead, rotting meat or anything. Being a hunter
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and being out in the woods, you get familiar with
the smell of death, and that's not what it was.
So it wasn't a rotting carcass, it wasn't a skunk,
but it smelled like something I had never smelled before.
And I kind of paused on the trail, and I
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had my bow and arrow in my hand, as I said,
and then I kind of just started scanning the trees
with my headlamp and I looked from left to right,
right to left, you know, up and down, just kind
of scanning the area where I was at. And then
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I heard a branch snap, but it was it wasn't
on the ground. It was it was a higher up,
probably about I don't know. It sounded like it was
seven or eight feet up, like it was clearly a
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branch snapping off of a tree. It wasn't something that
was being stepped on on the ground. And that was
maybe I don't know, fifty feet away from me if not.
Less like, it was loud and I could hear it,
and I'm smelling the smell, and then I hear this snap.
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And the snap happened off to the left of me
in the darkness. And then that's when I panned my
head lamp over that way and I hollered out, is
anybody out there? Hey? You know, hey, is anybody there?
And I didn't hear anything, and then I started really
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focusing in on the foliage and through the leaves and
the branches and stuff. It was very dark, but you know,
my headlamp had good wattage on it, and the beam
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of light was very bright through the branches about I
don't know, forty to fifty feet in front of me,
and off to the left, I could see fur or
hair or you know one, you know, same thing basically,
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but I mean I could see it moving behind these branches.
And then I hollered out again, I said hey, and
it stopped and it was so still and it just
stood there. And I was shaking at this point, like
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the smell had hit me. You know, I grew up
with Discovery Channel and cable and all that I had
seen all the bigfoot shows and everything, and you know,
I knew about how they stunk and how big they
were and stuff like that, you know, and it was
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running through my head. I was like, there was no
way I'm seeing what I'm seeing. There's no way I'm
smelling what I'm smelling. It's got to be a dead
animal or something, or maybe it's just a really powerful stunk.
Like I just kept telling myself in my head as
it was happening that it wasn't happening. And I kept
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focusing my light on this thing, and as I said,
it just it was still like it didn't move an inch,
and I kind of dialed in. I don't know how
to describe it, like everything else around me seemed to
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fade away for a second, and I just kind of
dialed in on what I was doing, like tunnel vision.
I don't know how to describe it. But my eyes
were still adjusting in the darkness. You know, all I
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have is this beam of light coming off of my headlamp,
and it's being broken up by foliage and twigs and stuff.
But I can see this fur. It's dark brown, thick
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fur on this thing. And so I'm kind of scanning
the area directly on and around this thing to try
to see how big it is or if there are
more than one of them. I scanned my light further
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to the left and then over to the right, and
I didn't see anything, but I was also kind of
in a panic, so there's no telling. But then I
focused my light back in the middle there, off to
the left where I had been looking, and I could
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still see the fur through the foliage. And now I
started scanning up and down to see how tall this
thing was. I couldn't see where it began. I couldn't
see any feet or anything down to the ground. These
woods get so thick during hunting season, it's ridiculous. I
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started scrolling up, or not scrolling but panting up with
you know, and looking.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I could just see little bits of fur, dark brown fur,
coming out from behind the leaves and stuff, and it
was like it was kind of sandwich between two trees, almost.
But as I scanned up and down with my light,
I started to notice a loud breathing sound. As I said,
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I was like really dialed in at this point, and
so I was ignoring all the four sounds around me,
and all I could hear was this deep breathing, but
it wasn't like an in and out in and out.
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It was just almost like loud exhales, like almost like snorts,
you know, like a And I don't know if it
was making that noise because it was trying to alert
me that it was there. I don't know how I
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was able to walk up on this thing, honestly, because
from what I understand about Bigfoot or Sasquatch or that
they're very elusive and that they will not reveal themselves
to people on purpose, not less there's some sort of
a standing relationship between that Sasquatch and that person. I've
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heard of things like that. I know they have their
own language, and I've heard recordings of Sasquatch talking with people.
I believe all that stuff, But that's not what I
was hearing. I was just hearing just deep breathing through
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these trees. And I can't tell you how tall this
thing was, but my mind registered, my eyes registered probably
the tallest tuft of fur that I saw sticking out
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from behind those leaves. It was probably about six or
seven feet. And yeah, I just I just kind of
stood there and I didn't know what to do. I
was going through all these scenarios in my mind and
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thinking about things that I had heard on TV and
this and that, and the smell was just was getting
to me as well. And I hollered out again. I said, hey,
this is private property. And honestly, I turned around and
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I went back down the trail. I I couldn't. I
couldn't go any further. I didn't hunt that day. I
went back to UH, I went back to the camp
and I made up some story to my dad. I
told him something about I had gotten lost, I'd walked
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onto the wrong trail or something like that and I
couldn't find my tree stand, and so I told him
I missed out on that morning's hunt. And I did
that with the purpose of my dad walking me back
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out there to retrieve my true stand, because he knew
where the spot was because he'd been hunting there for
so long. But I was still learning the land. And
when we went back, it was later on that day
during the daytime, you know, during the daylight, and we
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went to go retrieve my stand. And yeah, I basically.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I didn't want to tell my dad what was going
on or what I had seen, because I didn't think
he'd believed me, and I definitely didn't want to go
out there by myself, not after seeing what I had seen.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And you know, it wasn't it wasn't. I didn't feel
threatened per se. I mean, I've heard other accounts where
people were absolutely threatened. You know, there was rallying and
tree knocking and stones being thrown and all this, and
that I didn't feel threatened in the moment, But it
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was more of just when you come across something that
isn't supposed to exist, or even just something you can't explain.
Just the unknown in general is terrifying. And yeah, needless
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to say, I didn't tell anybody, my dad or any
of our hunting friends what I saw that day. It
was already embarrassing enough to admit that I had gotten lost,
even though I didn't. But you know, I just had
to do what I had to do. But that was
(25:57):
the first, the first real encounter. The second time I
had anything happen was it was probably I don't know
a few weeks after that. We were back out there
(26:19):
and I was sitting in my tree stand in the afternoon.
It was probably about twelve thirty one o'clock there had
just been a slight rain that day, and you know,
you could you could hear the water dropping off of
(26:44):
the branches, and you know, nature kind of retreats momentarily
when it rains, but then it comes back out full
force when the sun comes back out. And you could
just kind of, you know, hear all the squirrels and
the birds and stuff started to you know, come back
out and be active and stuff like that. And then
(27:10):
I heard whooping. I'm not the best impressionist, but it
was it was kind of a woo woo kind of noise,
but it was deeper and that that rung out from
(27:34):
behind me. Behind the position where I was sitting in
my tree stands like several yards behind me, if not
more like it was a ways of way. And then
a couple of seconds went by, and I'm just sitting
there listening. I was kind of confused from hearing the
(27:57):
first whoop. But then in front of me and off
to the right, over this ridge, I heard a response.
It was similar to what I'd heard before, but just
a little different. I don't know, It's like just a
(28:19):
different tone in the whoop, you know, but I could
tell it was a response, and you know, I'm a
country boy and a hunter, and having been out in
the woods as much as I have, you don't you
know what the sounds of the woods are. You know
(28:40):
what animals are out there, and you know what sounds
they make. And this was something that I had never
heard before. So I sat there and I listened, and
I didn't hear anything else for I don't know. It
(29:00):
was probably two hours or so, and I was actually
starting to doze off in my tree stand. At that point.
I wasn't having a very good hunting day. There wasn't
much deer activity going on, and I was sitting there
kind of dozing off, and then I heard another whoop.
(29:25):
This one started in front of me like the one
before had. When it replied and it went whoop. I
don't know how to how to do that faithfully, but
it stood me, you know, straight up in my seat
(29:47):
when I heard it. And then just a couple of
seconds later I heard a response. This time it wasn't
behind me. It was more off to the left and
probably a few hundred yards off down another ridge, but
(30:08):
it communicated back. And then the one in front of
me went whoo again, and then the one off to
the left went whoo, and there's different there's differences in
the whooping. I can't do it, but you know, you
could tell that they were saying things to each other.
(30:32):
So that was an interesting day. Also, for got to mention,
there were a few times that I found tracks after
(30:56):
that first encounter that I talked about. When I was
heading to my tree stand and I came across this
thing in the darkness and it stunk and everything.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
When we were when I got my dad to go
out there with me to retrieve my tree stand, and
we were coming on our way back, I made up
an excuse to go off the trail for a second,
and I looked.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Around that area where I had encountered that thing, because
it was just right off the trail and just into
the woods, just a little bit like it wasn't far
off the trail, even in the darkness. I knew that,
and I went over to that area and I was
looking for tracks. I don't know what I told my
(31:49):
dad I was looking for, but I didn't find anything.
But being a hunter and tracking deer and looking looking
for a deer, and you know, you look for footprints,
and you spend a lot of your time with your
eyes glued to the ground. And there were some times
(32:13):
when I was out once again by myself, sometimes trailing
a deer, sometimes just you know, I didn't always hunt
in a tree stand. Sometimes I would make a blind
out of some fallen foliage and you know, just kind
(32:34):
of sit up against a tree. Some days I spend
all day in one spot. But some days, if I
get bored and nothing's happening, I'll get up and I'll
move and I'll go see if I can jump something up,
or just find a new spot, or find some tracks
(32:55):
that lead lead somewhere. You never know, there's all kinds
of possibilities out in the woods. So you know, I
was out following a deer trail, and I actually got
myself lost. I followed this deer trail all the way
off the property. I believe I was in one of
(33:17):
the neighboring properties, probably the one that was owned by
the police officers. But as I was tracking these prints,
I started coming across indentions in the mud that were
unlike anything else. I didn't find any full prints, but
(33:43):
I found like some heill marks on certain parts of
some trails, and leading into the woods, I found some well,
I think we're tow impressions in some parts of the mud,
and in other parts there were just deep in prints,
(34:05):
but they were in the shape of feet. But I
can't say that there were any toe marks or anything, So,
I mean, there's no telling those could have been boot marks.
But the way they were so deeply imprinted into the
(34:26):
mud led me to believe that it wasn't anything human
that left those tracks. And unfortunately I didn't cast any
of those prints. I found plenty of them out there
in those woods, and I really should have cast some
of them, but I was out there to hunt, and
(34:47):
I didn't want anybody to know what I was experiencing anyway,
so I just I don't know casting the prints just
didn't It didn't seem like an eye to me at
that time. Now looking back on it, I really, I
really wish I would have. All of these encounters actually
(35:10):
happened in the same year, the same hunting season. The
last time that I encountered anything out there, I was
(35:32):
once again in my tree stand. I was in a
different part of the property. I was actually on the
opposite side of the property from where I had been before,
and I was sitting in my tree stand just kind
(35:54):
of listening to the nature and everything, and then I
heard what I thought sounded like it sounded like twigs snapping,
something moving through the woods. It sounded like it was
(36:15):
on the trail that was directly beneath my stand, and
it definitely sounded bigger than a squirrel or something like that.
You know, there have been plenty of times when I
thought a deer was coming up on me and I heard,
you know, rustling about twig snapping and stuff, and it
just turned out to be a turkey or a squirrel
(36:37):
or you know, something like that. But either way, when
you're hunting and you hear something coming your way, you
sit up in attention and you know that could be
your potential kill for the day. And so I took
out my binoculars and I started kind of scanning the
(37:00):
area around me, and I checked the trail. There was
nothing coming down the trail, animals or people, nothing, And yeah,
you know, I just I thought it must have been
an animal or you know whatever, it's not a deer.
(37:21):
So I had just you know, been kind of woken
up from dozing off, and so I was kind of
sitting there trying to, you know, get my eyes adjusted
and just kind of wake up and you know, get
back into hunting mode. And I sat there for a while,
and I don't know, it must have it must have
(37:45):
been fifteen twenty minutes. And then I heard more twig snappings,
and I got out my binoculars again and I started
scanning the area again, and then, you know, I heard
(38:06):
more and more of the snap, like something was walking
around at this point, and I caught, just out of
the corner of my eye a glimpse of something dark
amongst the foliage. And this was probably God, I don't know,
(38:38):
a couple hundred yards in front of me and off
to the left, a little ways in between these two
ridges where it's the spot where these two ridges met,
and there was a little stream running in between the
two of them. And I saw, and this is broad daylight,
(39:04):
I saw this thing once again, a few hundred yards
ahead of me, a little to the left of my
straightforward view. This thing was in between these two ridges,
crouched behind a tree, and it was looking at something.
(39:27):
It didn't even know that I was there. I don't
think it did. I kind of scanned the area to
see what it was looking at. And then as I
was doing that I heard some more movement up at
the top of the ridge, and I looked up there
and there was this huge dough standing up on top
(39:49):
of this ridge, and she was way out of my
range for me to be able to bagger. But I
kind of, you know, I didn't even think about shooting
her because she was out of range, so I didn't
(40:09):
even bother to get anything ready or any of that.
I just kind of watched, and then I moved my
binoculars back over to this thing that was in between
the ridges, and just from the time that I had
(40:31):
moved away from it and looked at the deer and
came back, it was already halfway up that ridge. And
the only reason I was able to see it the
second time when I panned background is because it was
moving up behind another tree and I caught it with
(40:54):
my peripheral. This thing was going after the deer, and
I don't know, I was kinda I didn't want to
take my binoculars off of it, but I also wanted
to see where the deer was at. So I would
keep my binoculars fixed on the bigfoot or you know whatever,
(41:18):
and then I would remove my eyes away from the
binoculars and look up the ridge because I could see
the deer with my naked eyes. But I didn't want
to move the position of my binoculars away from this
thing because I didn't want to lose it. And I
(41:40):
just I kind of watch. Watched it first thing, and
it was creeping up this ridge and it was so quiet.
I know how loud these woods can be with all
the fallen trees and twigs and foliage and everything, and
somehow this thing was managing to be so stealthy, and
(42:05):
it was. It was big. From where I was sitting,
it was crouched down most of the time. It was
at a certain point it was bent down on one
knee with both of its hands on the ground as
well in front of it. But I saw it stand
(42:26):
up a couple of times to gain ground up the
side of this ridge. And it was absolutely massive. This
thing had to have been easily ten feet tall, just
from what I could tell from the trees that were
next to it heading up this ridge. This was this
was a big, big boy. And I followed this with
(42:51):
my binoculars and I just I watched this thing. I
lost it. At a certain point, I couldn't actually see it,
and once again, this thing looked different than the one
that I saw before when I was on the trail
(43:13):
in the dark. Even though I couldn't see really like
get a good view of it, I could just see
it through the foliage and it was dark outside and
all I had was the light of a headlamp. But
the fur that I saw that morning heading into the
(43:37):
woods was very very dark. Now, this creature that I
was looking at in the daylight in the afternoon, it
did have kind of a brownish, a dark brown fur,
but there were like highlights of like red in it
(44:04):
almost reminded me of like an orangutang or King Kong
from Godzilla King Kong versus Godzilla from the sixties. Its
whole body wasn't like vibrantly colored like that, but it
had these hues to it, like I don't know, I
don't know how how else to describe it, but it
(44:25):
was kind of a brownish red hair, and the hair
it was long and stringy and matted in places, and
you know, you could see you could see how big
this thing was underneath the fur, like when it moved,
(44:46):
you could see its muscle definition and stuff like that.
And at a certain point it was moving up the
ridge and I lost sight of it, and then I
took my binoculars back over to where the deer was,
and the deer was gone as well. But then I
(45:12):
kind of kept watching that ridge and I could see
the the foliage moving, like something was moving through the
brush up that ridge, and I just kind of I
(45:33):
followed it as long as I could. And that's all
that you know that I saw of that particular encounter.
I didn't hear the deer giving out any distress calls.
I didn't see anything go down, So I don't know
(45:53):
if it actually was after that deer, or if it
got the deer, or if it lost the deer. But
to me, and I'm a hunter myself watching this thing,
it definitely seemed to be hunting this deer, and it
was a little further away. I was a lot further
(46:15):
away than the other one that I had encountered. I
didn't smell anything this time, but it was just massive,
the size of this thing. And you know, when we
see things like this, obviously there's a certain part of
(46:38):
the unknown that is frightening to us. So it does
cause a certain fear of response. But I never really
felt terrified or anything like. I mean, there was the
initial fear just of coming across something unknown, But any
(46:59):
of the times I saw these things, I never really
felt scared. I mean, there was that time on the trail.
I mean, but it was dark, I couldn't see what
it was. It was big, you know. I mean, that's
nightmare fuel for anybody. I was scared there, and obviously
(47:19):
I didn't want to go back immediately or even by myself,
but so I lied a little bit. I was scared
by that encounter, but the whooping, the tree stand encounter,
it just it felt like part of nature to me.
(47:40):
I don't know, and I believe that these creatures are
out there, and I believe that they need to be protected.
They're doing a really fine job on their own protecting themselves.
(48:01):
But I'm just I'm just curious if one of these days,
there's going to come a day when it does finally,
you know, come to light scientifically that these things are
out there. It's fascinated me for most of my life
learning about these things. And you know, as I said before,
(48:23):
there are you know, even more wild accounts of these
things being connected to UFOs, which I've had encounters with
they some people say they're from other dimensions. There's all
kinds of things, you know, that they have psychic links
(48:44):
that they can connect with us. That would have been
really cool. I would have really loved to have had
an encounter like that where I could have talked with one.
But we move away from Switzerland County in the year
(49:09):
nineteen ninety nine, and we kept going back there to
go hunting throughout the years. But eventually I can't remember
what year it was. Well, I think I had moved out.
At that point, I was grown, and I just I
wasn't going hunting with my dad anymore. So I've not
been out there since I was nineteen. Probably, I'm really
(49:35):
curious as to why I'm the only one who's ever
had any encounters out there. Like I said before, there's
dozens of people in and out of those woods at
any given point in the year, and I just I'm
(49:56):
really curious as to why no one else has seen
or heard anything, or maybe they have, you know, maybe
they were, you know, like me when I was younger,
too embarrassed to talk about it, you know, I didn't
want my dad or any of his friends to know
that I thought bigfoot. They would have laughed me right
(50:18):
out of camp. But looking back on it now, I'm
really curious as to who else has had encounters out there.
My dad doesn't go out there anymore. He lives in
Florida now, And as far as any of his other
friends that hunted out there, the last I knew, out
(50:39):
of a handful of like five or six guys, there
was only one other guy hunting out there, and he
hadn't been out there for years. It's a whole different
situation out there now. And I don't even know if
I would be allowed to hunt out there if I
contacted them nowadays, not without paying due news. But you know,
(51:03):
I don't know. It's a part of my path. I
spent a lot of great times out there growing up
when I was a kid, a lot of great bonding
memories with my dad and stuff like that. But when
I was by myself, I saw some things out in
those woods that I to this day can't explain, And
(51:25):
if you ask me, there's only one answer, and that's bigfoot.
And that's my story.
Speaker 7 (51:33):
Well that's it for tonight's show. If you've had a
big Foot sighting and would like to be a guest,
please go to my Bigfoot sighting dot com and let
us know thanks for listening, have a great night.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Seen a bunch of run down new host towns where
the Church of the Backbone loves and the bow and
the pastoring melodies coov.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
In the bomb Man rose with the roos, run deep
beyond the nose of the busy streets with the songs of.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
The South of su. Then I mean, I hear the
prompt porch picking down home rhythm bringing out I don't
run from Banjong music. Yeah, the sound of a memory
brings me back to the bluegrass playing the Madaddy Jack.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
It's become many been through.
Speaker 3 (52:27):
It, getting through the day on scrubs and skaggs, bucking
name bales through this Tennessee jams. There's no the way
that I do it. And I hear the plump porch
picking down home rhythm bringing nut idn't run from ben
Jong music.
Speaker 8 (52:50):
Yeah, someon dollar backwards backwards and double tip faking to
the thword in the strum, looking to stuffs of the
end and strumming now cout you born living.
Speaker 9 (53:03):
Man.
Speaker 8 (53:04):
I hear a bum boat picking devil rhythm bringing us
how from from man music.
Speaker 9 (53:22):
The city that draws me on the two miss cars
rushing by with the beasts on the stios to man,
and I hear the brown bush.
Speaker 8 (53:33):
Picking down home m bringing nuts.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
How don't run.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
From banging music?
Speaker 9 (53:41):
Yeah, something going backwards backwards.
Speaker 8 (53:46):
And double tim picking in the sword and the strumming
looking TUCKI starcause of the ad strumming ouse cut your
born living.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Man.
Speaker 8 (53:55):
I hear a bum boat picking down room rhythm bringing.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Us I don't from the bus.
Speaker 8 (54:24):
Sing goo backwards backwards and double town picking and the
soul and the drumming looking took a start for the end,
those trumming down because you.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Won't leave in Then I hear the bom patch picking
Speaker 3 (54:37):
Double from the batchick and botch me Mama's been sweet
tea kind of sads from bedroom music
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