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A coon hunter in the flatwoods east of the Okefenokee follows his dogs to a big cypress at the head of a slough in October of nineteen seventy-nine and finds them looking at the water instead of the tree.
A section hiker on Vermont's Long Trail wakes in a moonlit shelter to the sound of her bear hang being pulled, and watches something work the rope like a toy before it walks past the front of the lean-to and into the brook.
A timber cutter in the sandstone hollows of Winston County, Alabama, is left alone on a rained-out landing and watches something with a bad left knee come up the skid trail out of the fog to put its hand on the fresh-cut logs.
A mother camping with her family above Pagosa Springs walks back from the aspens at two in the morning and finds something old and silver-haired leaning on the tailgate of her truck with a piece of firewood in its hand.
And a young gas well tender in the Allegheny National Forest comes over a rise at daybreak to find something on its knees at the base of a brine tank, licking salt, with ice frozen into its hair. Every one of them saw it clearly enough to describe it.
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Somewhere in this country tonight, there's a woman lying on her back in a three-sided shelter with her eyes open, listening to a rope creak. There's a man sitting in the cab of a log loader with the engine off and a half-eaten honey bun on the dash. Watching fog come up out of a hollow. There's a headlamp moving through a teethe thicket on the edge of a swamp in South Georgia, and two hounds a half mile ahead of it that have quit barking. None of those people know each other. They're spread across 40 years, and most of the map, and what they've gotten common, is that each of them, on an ordinary day, in a place they'd been 100 times before, looked up and saw something looking back. And then each of them, months or years or decades later, sat down at a keyboard and typed it out and sent it to me. We've put a lot of miles on the backwood's cryptid road trip, sand hills and pine barons. A lake in Nebraska that changed its name. A turtle in Indiana with its own parade. Tonight, there's an exit coming up and I'm taking it. I'm going to find a wide spot on the shoulder
and shut the engine off and open the mail bag, because it's been filling up for a while now. And the people who wrote these have waited long enough. Five emails. Five people. A coon hunter. A hiker. A timber cutter. A mother on a camping trip. And a young man whose job is to drive the back roads before the sun's up. Windl's email starts with the dogs. He had two in 1979. A walker hound named Judy, that he'd raised from a pup and hunted for six seasons. And a red bone named Buck, that he'd bought off a man in homerville that spring and hadn't made up his mind about. Judy was the one he trusted. He was 28 and lived outside waycross in Ware County. And he hunted the flatwoods on the east side of the Okifinoki, on land his cousin leased for hogs. The way he hunted was the way most everybody hunted coons down there then. You drove out to the edge of the woods after supper, turned the dogs loose and stood by the truck and listened. When they struck a track, they'd open up, a long balling that carried a mile on a
still night. And you followed the sound. When the ball turned to a chop, short and fast and staying in one place, that meant the coon was up a tree. And you walked in with a light and a 22 rifle. That country is flat. Long leaf and slash pine on the high ground. And the high ground is only a foot or two higher than everything else. Where it drops, you're in a bay. Which is what they called the wet thickets of TD and Galberry and Bay trees that run down toward the swamp. A bay is thick enough that you can't walk through it upright. You go in bent over, pushing with your shoulders and you come out wet to the waist and picked at. The night he wrote about was in the third week of October. He said he thinks it was a Thursday. He turned the dogs out around 10 at a spot where the two track ended and they struck inside 15 minutes. Both dogs together, running east toward the swamp. He listened to them go and figured the coon would tree in the big cypress about half a mile off because that's where the coons on that
side always went. Sure enough, in about 10 minutes, the balling stopped and the chop started. And it was coming from right where he'd guest. He got his light in his rifle and started in. The light was a six-volt headlamp with the battery and a box on his belt. The kind coon hunters have used forever. A headlamp puts the light wherever your eyes are pointed, which is why it's a good light for tree and coons. It also means you see whatever you happen to turn your head toward, whether you meant to or not. It took him the better part of half an hour to cover the half mile because the last third of it was Bay. He carried the rifle in one hand with the muzzle up and pushed the TT out of his face with the other and he kept the dogs in his ear the whole way because in a bay at night the dogs are the only thing telling you which direction is which. About a hundred yards before he got to the cypress, the dogs changed. He'd listen to Judy tree for six years and knew every noise she made. This was a chop but it kept breaking off.
She'd bark four or five times hard and quit. Buck would pick it up and quit. Then both of them at once and then nothing for a few seconds and then Judy by herself and she sounded farther from the tree than she had a minute before. It sounded to him like she was treeing while she backed up. He came out of the TT into a little patch of open ground under the cypress. The trunk flared out so wide at the bottom that nothing else grew for twenty feet around it. He put his light straight up the tree and looked for eyes. There weren't any. He brought the light down the trunk and swung it around the base and found the dogs about thirty feet back from the tree on the side away from the water. Both of them standing stiff legged with their heads down low. They weren't looking up. They were looking past the tree. He turned his head and the headlamp went where his eyes went and it landed on the water. Something was standing in it. It was about forty feet from him out past the cypress where the water came up to its knees and it was turned toward the dogs. His first thought was a man.
He wrote that he actually said something out loud like hey or something like it, thinking it was one of his cousins. But the thing turned its head toward him when he spoke and he saw that it wasn't a man at all. The cypress had a low limb, the first one up the trunk and he'd looked at that limb a hundred times because coons like to sit on it. The top of the thing's head was about even with it and the thing was standing in water. He went back the next week with a cane pole marked off in feet and measured and that limb was a hair over eight feet off the ground at the base of the tree and the channel where the thing had stood was another foot and a half deep on top of that. The hair on it was long on the shoulders and the upper arms and it hung down in wet strings and there was Spanish moss caught in it. There was a gray wad of it stuck on the left shoulder and hanging down the front. The face in the headlamp was the color of a wet cypress stump, a gray brown and it didn't shine. He'd put a light in a lot of animals faces in his life
and every one of them had given him something back, a green or a red or a white flash off the eyes. This gave him nothing. The eyes were two dark places under a brow that stuck out so far the light couldn't get in under it. The nose was flat with two big openings he could see straight into. The mouth was wide and shut. He couldn't see any ears. The head sat right down on the shoulders and when it turned to look at him the shoulders turned with it. One hand was resting on top of a cypress knee with the fingers curled over the top of it and some of the weight leaning on it, like a man leaning on a fence post. They looked at each other. He couldn't say how long but the dogs had gone quiet by then and the rifle stayed in his hand pointed at the ground. Then it took its hand off the knee, raised the arm up level with its shoulder and brought the flat of the hand down on the water. It was one slab and he said it sounded like a car door. Both dogs broke and ran. They went past him on either side and back into the bay and he could hear
them crashing through it for a long time. The thing looked at him once more and then it turned and started up the channel away from him, waiting. He kept the light on it. The hair down the middle of its back was parted like a ridge and darker in the part. It didn't lift its feet out of the water when it walked. It pushed through and the water rolled off the front of its legs and slapped up against the cypress knees on both sides of the channel. The hair on the back of its head lay flat and wet down the neck. It never looked back. He watched it until the headlamp quit reaching, which he guessed was 70 or 80 feet and after that he could hear it for a while longer, first in the water and then in the brush. He stood there for a bit, then he put the light back up in the cypress and there was the cune sitting on the low limb and looking down at him. He looked at it for a while and then he turned around and walked out. He went around the bay this time instead of through it and that took him over an hour. Both dogs were at the truck when he got there.
Judy was lying flat in the bed, which he never did. Buck was underneath the truck and wouldn't come out, so Wendell had to get down on his belly in the sand and drag him out by the collar and the dog fought him the whole way. He drove home and told his wife he had trouble with the dogs. The next morning at breakfast he told her what had actually happened. She asked him if he'd been drinking and he said he'd had one beer at the truck before he turned the dogs out. She told him not to tell his cousin because his cousin would have it all over way cross by supper despite her warning. He told his cousin about it later that afternoon. The two of them went back in daylight on Saturday. The cypress knee was broken. It was a knee about as big around as Wendell's forearm and it had been snapped off about chest high on him and the top of it was hanging by a strip of bark with the broken wood showing white inside. Along the edge of the channel where the thing had stepped up out of the channel on its way into the swamp, there were places where the mud had been pushed down,
but water had run in and filled them and by then they were just pans of black water bigger across than his hat with no shape to them. His cousin said it had to be hogs. Wendell asked him what kind of hog stands in water and breaks a cypress knee off at a man's chest and his cousin didn't have an answer for that so they didn't argue about it. Judy never hunted that block again. He'd drive out there and open the truck door and she'd jump down and walk to the edge of the woods and stand there a minute and then she'd come back and jump in the bed. He tried it four or five times that winter and she'd hunt anywhere else so he ran her five more seasons on the west side of the swamp and she'd treat coons until she was too old to hunt anymore. He sold buck in December to a man in black shear and didn't say why. His cousin asked around that winter. He asked the hog hunters who used the lease whether any of them had been down at the creek that Thursday night and none of them had but one of them an older man who'd hunted that corner for years told the cousin he'd quit running
his dogs in there the season before because they wouldn't go past the cypress and he'd figured there was a gator in the creek and left it at that. Wendell hadn't known that. He wrote that he wished the man had said something sooner and then he wrote that it wouldn't have changed anything because he'd have gone in anyway. He kept hunting the east side. He wasn't going to give it up over one night but he parked at the far end of the lease after that and didn't run dogs anywhere near that creek. The morning after it happened he'd written the date on the inside of the lid of his shellbox with the carpenter's pencil. It says October 18th 1979. The box sits on a shelf in his shop and the dates still there and he says he doesn't know why he wrote it except that he figured somebody ought to. Kim's email starts with how she hangs her food and she took her time explaining it. She was section hiking the long trail in Vermont in September of 2014, walking north by herself and she was four days into an eight day stretch that had started at Lincoln Gap.
She's from Connecticut. She was 44 that year and she'd been walking pieces of that trail every fall for six years so she knew how to hang a bear bag. You find a limb 15 or 20 feet up that sticks out far enough from the trunk that nothing can climb out to it. You throw a line over the limb with a rock tied in a sock. You clip the bag on, you pull it up until it's hanging 10 or 12 feet off the ground and five or six feet out from the trunk and then you tie the line off to the trunk down low at about your knee. She'd done that a few hundred times. That night she did it at the edge of a clearing beside a three-sided shelter. One of the log lean twos the trail has had for decades. She didn't name the shelter in her email but she did say that it was about a day north of Lincoln Gap. That the trail crossed a brook a few hundred feet past it and that the clearing in front of it was maybe 80 feet across and mostly grass. She got there around four in the afternoon after 19 miles over two summits which was the longest day of her trip. She went to the brook first and filtered
three liters of water and then she sat on a rock with her boots off and her feet in the water for a while. A chipmunk came up on the rock and left. That was the whole afternoon. She had the shelter to herself which is unusual on the long trail in September and she remembers being glad about it because the night before she'd shared one with a college outing group and hadn't slept much. She ate, hung the bag, later pat out on the shelter floor with her feet toward the open side, set her headlamp on the floor beside her head and was asleep before it was fully dark. The moon was a day off full that night. She looked that up afterward. She woke up because the rope creaked. She was lying there with her eyes closed, coming up out of sleep and trying to place the sound and then it came again, a creek and then a soft bump and she opened her eyes. She was looking straight out the open side of the shelter into the clearing and the clearing was lit up bright enough to read a map. The tree she'd hung from was at the far edge of it, maybe 60 feet away
and she could see the bag hanging out from the trunk and she could see something standing under it. Her first thought was a bear on its hind legs. Then it moved its arm and the arm went straight up from the shoulder like a person's arm would and she stopped thinking, bear. The bag was hanging about 12 feet off the ground and the top of the thing's head was about 2 feet under it. It had hold of the line where the rope ran down at an angle from the limb to the tie off on the trunk. It had the rope pinched between two fingers and it pulled on it just a little. Stay tuned for more Backwood's Bigfoot Stories. We'll be back after these messages.
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back down and swung and the limb creaked. Then it let the rope go slack and after a second it pulled again and the bag went up and down again. Every time the bag came down there was a small click from the zipper pull tapping against the fabric. It did that four times. She counted. She wrote that it looked like a child playing with a pull toy. The moon was behind it and off to one side so most of what she saw was outline and the outline was wide. The shoulders sloped down from the head without any neck she could make out and the arms hung long. When it stood with its hand on the rope its elbow was about where a man's wrist would be. It stood the whole time with the left knee bent and its weight on the right leg. Then it let go of the rope and turn toward the shelter and the moon caught the side of its face. She described the brow first. It was a heavy ridge above the eyes and under it the eyes were in shadow so she never saw them. The nose was short and flat and the nostrils flared out to the sides. The mouth hung a little open and the lower lip was wet
with a line of shine on it in the moonlight. The hair on top of the head came up to a peak and the peak leaned forward. Along the jaw the hair was short like a few days of beard. She couldn't see any white on it anywhere. She didn't move. She was lying on her back with her head up on her pack and she stopped breathing through her nose because it was loud in the shelter and breathed through her mouth instead. The headlamp was 6 inches from her hand and she never touched it. She wrote that if she put a light on it it would know exactly where she was and as long as she was back in the dark of the shelter and it was out in the moon she had that much going for her. It looked at the shelter for what she guessed was 10 seconds. Then it turned back to the tree and did something she still doesn't understand. It put its face down close to the trunk right at the spot where she tied the rope off and held it there and she thought it was smelling the knot. It stayed bent over like that for a while. Then it straightened up, reached up over its head and put the flat of its hand
against the bottom of the bag and pushed. The bag swung out and came back and it let it come back and didn't touch it again. Then it turned and walked out of the clearing toward the brook and to get there it walked right past the front of the shelter. Closer than it had been, maybe 40 feet. She could hear its feet in the grass and she could hear it breathing. A slow, heavy breath out through the nose every few steps and then it was past her. She heard it in the brook after that. The rocks in that brook are the size of bowling balls and she heard them roll and knock together under it one after another going downstream. Then she heard the brook by itself. She lay there until it got light. She didn't sleep. She kept her eyes on the bag because as long as she could see it hanging in the moon she knew nothing was standing under it. She thought about packing up and walking out in the dark but the trail went past the brook and the brook was where it had gone so she stayed put. Sometime around four the moon went behind the ridge and the clearing went dark
and that was the worst hour because she couldn't see the bag anymore so she listened instead and she heard the brook and once a long way off an owl. At first light she got up and went to the tree. The bag was where she'd left it. The knot was where she'd left it. Across the bottom of the bag there was a smear about the width of her hand on the nylon and it was still damp and she didn't touch it. By the time she'd repacked the bag it was gone and she couldn't say whether it had dried or wiped off on the inside of her pack. On the trunk above the knot at about the height of her own head the bark was smudged with something dark that she rubbed with her thumb and decided it was dirt. There were no marks on the ground that she could make anything of because the ground under that tree was roots and packed earth and leaves and it hadn't rained in a week. She took the bag down and ate standing up and packed. Every long trail shelter has a register which is a notebook and a plastic bag that hikers sign and leave notes in. Before she left she
wrote in it and she sent me a photograph of the page. It's dated it has her trail name on it and it says that something came into the clearing at about one in the morning and handled her bear hang. That it walked on two legs and was not a bear and that she was fine. She underlined the words not a bear. She read back through the register before she put it away. Two weeks before her somebody had written that they'd heard wood knocks across the brook in the night and had seen nothing. Three entries after that somebody else had written a joke about Bigfoot with a little drawing next to it. Nothing else in the book mentioned anything. She walked out past the brook. She stopped at the crossing and looked at the rocks and one of them, a flat one about the size of a serving platter, was lying with its wet side up and a dry dent in the gravel beside it where it had been. She looked at that for a minute and then crossed. That evening she got to the next shelter and there were six people in it. She set up her tent anyway on the far side of the clearing
from the food hang and she read that shelters registered front to back before dark. There was nothing in it. One of the six was a retired school teacher from Ohio who'd been on the trail for a month and Kim asked her as offhand as she could manage whether she'd ever had anything bother her food. The woman said a mouse had chewed through her bag once at a shelter in Massachusetts and Kim said she'd had the same thing happen and let it drop. She finished the section. That was four more days and the hiking was fine and she saw nobody but through hikers and a trail crew clearing blowdown. She talked to the trail crew about the weather for five minutes and went on. She's been back on the long trail every September since but she doesn't sleep in shelters anymore. She'll pass one up in the rain to pitch a tent. She carries a bear canister now. The hard plastic kind you set on the ground a hundred feet from your tent and she doesn't hang food and she doesn't camp in clearings. She told one person about it a friend she'd hiked with for years in the fall of 2017
on a drive up to Vermont. The friend asked why she'd waited three years. Kim said she'd wanted to see whether she still had it the same way in her head after that long. The friend didn't say much. They hiked together that week and neither of them said anything about it. She still has the rope. It's in the top of her closet and a stuff sack. She's never used it again and hasn't been able to throw it out and she takes it down about once a year and looks at it and puts it back. Terrell had been cutting timber in North Alabama for 22 years when he saw it. It was March of 2008. The crew was thinning pine on a private track in Winston County that ran up against the bankhead national forest in the sandstone country where the ridges are flat on top and the hollows drop off the side so steep that you can't get a skitter down into them without rolling it. The pine was on the ridge top. The hollows below were hardwood and mountain laurel and sandstone bluffs and the track line ran along the lip of one of those hollows. The crew was four men in a
set of equipment. There was a feller buncher to cut, a skitter to drag, and a loader at the landing to sort and stack and Terrell ran the loader. The landing was a cleared flat at the end of the hall road where the log trucks backed in. In that morning there were three log decks on it, a diesel tank up on a stand, a slash pile at the back edge where the ground dropped into the hollow, and the skid trail, which came up out of the hollow past the slash pile and onto the flat. It had rained all night. When they got there at daylight the hall road was soup and the skid trails were worse and the foreman walked the first trail down to where it dropped off and came back with red mud to his knees. He made the call by 9 o'clock. They'd tear the ground up if they ran and the mill didn't want mud on the logs so he sent everybody home. Terrell stayed because the loader had a hydraulic leak on the grapple and a parts man was coming out from double springs sometime that morning and somebody had to be there to meet him. The other three drove out in the crew truck
and he watched it go up the hall road and around the band and after that it was just him and the equipment and the rain dripping off the log decks. He said the landing was as quiet as he'd ever heard it. There was no saw running, no winch and nobody yelling. There was water running off the slash pile and a crow somewhere down in the hollow and that was about it. So at 930 he was sitting in the cab of the loader with the engine off, eating a honey bun and drinking coffee out of the thermos lid and the fog started coming up out of the hollow. It came up over the lip in a wall and rolled across the landing about waist high and kept going up the hall road. Above the fog the air was clear so we could see the tops of the log decks and the diesel tank and the cab of his own truck but everything under about four feet was gone. Then something came up the skid trail out of the hollow. What he saw first was a head and shoulders rising up out of the fog on the trail and he thought it was a bear because bears had been moving into the bank head by then
and he'd seen sign that winner. But then it came all the way up onto the flat and the fog was only to its waist and it was walking on two feet and it walked with a limp. The left leg didn't straight with every step the right leg would come through and plant and then the left leg would come through and stop short so the whole thing dipped to the left with each stride. He wrote that it walked like a man with a bad knee and that he knew what that looked like because his father had it had its head down and it walked straight to the nearest log deck and stopped. He was about 60 feet from it up in the cab. A loader cab sits about 10 feet off the ground on the trailer so he was looking down at it some. He set the honey bun and the thermos lid on the dash. It put its hand on the butt end of a log. The decks were stacked with the cut ends facing the hall road and the top log on that deck was a pine about 16 inches through with a fresh cut and sap was coming out of it and beads. It put its hand flat on that cut and held it there. Then it took the hand away and put
it to its face and after that it rubbed the hand on its chest. It did the same thing with the next log down. Hand on the cut, hand to the face, hand on the chest. He watched it do that four times and he didn't move. The color of it was the color of wet oak bark, a dark brown that went almost black where the hair was thickest along the shoulders and down the outsides of the arms. On the insides of the four arms the hair went rusty close to orange and it was shorter there. The chest was mostly bare, just gray skin that looked to him like a wet inner tube and there was a line across the left side of it, lighter than the rest that he took for a scar. When it lifted its head and looked at the loader he saw the face straight on. The cheeks were wide, wider than the forehead and the forehead sloped back. The nose was flat and turned up so that he could see into it. The eyes were brown and when they moved he could see white at the corners of them. He'd never seen white at the corners of an
animal's eyes except on a horse that was about to bolt and these weren't doing that. They moved, the white showed and then they settled on the cab. He couldn't tell whether it saw him inside. The cab has glass on all sides but the glass was fogged on the inside from his coffee and he was sitting still and he wrote that he'd never been so glad of a dirty windshield in his life. It lifted its upper lip. The teeth were flat across the front and yellow and big like a horses. It held the lip up for a second and then put it back down. Then it turned around with that same hitch in its step and went back down the skid trail into the fog and he lost it at the waist and then at the shoulders and then at the head. After that he could hear it for a long time going down the hollow green lural, splitting every few seconds and farther off each time until it quit. He didn't get out of the cab. The parts man showed up at about 1030 and Tyrell climbed down and they fixed the grapple line and talked about the rain and then the parts man
left. Tyrell didn't say a word about it to him. After the truck was gone he walked over to the log deck. He took the pv with him which is the long hooked pole they used for rolling logs. The sap on the butt end of the top log was smeared. It had been running out in beads and now it was pushed flat across the cut and there were four lines dragged through it side by side. He put his own hand on the cut next to the marks with his fingers spread as wide as they'd go and the lines were farther apart than his fingers were. There were four of them and his thumb wasn't in the picture at all. The sap stuck to his palm when he took his hand away and he smelled it and it smelled like sap. He stood there with his hand held out in front of him and thought about the thing rubbing that on its chest and then he wiped his hand on his jeans. The next log down was the same. Then he went to the head of the skid trail. A skid trail in wet weather is a mess of mud and bark and ruts from the skitter tires and there was nothing in the trail itself that he could read.
But at the top where the trail came over the lip of the landing the thing had stepped off the trail once into the leaves along the edge and that print was in leaf litter over red clay and it held. It was longer than his boot by half. The front was wide wider than the back and the whole thing had pressed and flat without any arch he could see. The left edge of it was deeper than the right, pushed in. The way his own foot would print if he were dipping onto that side with every step. The fog burned off by noon. When it did he walked to the lip of the landing with the pevy and looked down the hollow and he could see the line it had taken. The skid trail goes down at an angle for about 50 yards and then turns. And where it turned the thing hadn't. It had gone straight on down through the lural and he could see the lural broken in a line with the leaves turned up pale on the underside where the branches had been bent and split going down the slope toward the creek at the bottom. Then the hardwoods closed over it and he couldn't see anymore. Stay tuned
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first thing he ever said about it. That wasn't true and he wrote that he said a few more since to a few more people and that it hasn't gotten easier. The crew finished the track in three weeks. He didn't tell any of them and he wrote that a logging crew talks all day and he's not a quiet man. So that took some doing. He told his wife that night and she listened to the whole thing and asked him one question which was whether it had seen him and he said he didn't know. He told his brother in law about a year later at a fish fry and his brother in law laughed and then he stopped laughing when Tarell didn't. About two years after that at the mill in Haleyville a man off another crew was telling a story in the scale house. A fellow on their job had walked off in the middle of the day and quit. He'd been flagging a boundary in a hollow on the far side of the same ridge over toward the sipsi and he said he'd come face to face with a big gorilla looking thing that walked funny and the crew had laughed him off the job. The man at the mill was telling it to be
funny. Tarell asked him which leg it had favored and the man said he didn't know and Tarell let it go. He still runs a loader and he still gets left on the landing sometimes when the crew shut down for weather. He backs his truck up to the loader now so the door is on the same side as the ladder and he keeps the keys in it. That's the only thing he's changed. Denise's email has the makin' model of the truck in the first line because that's how she remembers the year. It was a 1991 Ford, red, with a camper shell on the back. They'd bought it that spring and it was July of 1996. She and her husband Rob had two kids then, a boy who was nine and a girl who was six. In every summer they drove up from Albuquerque to the San Juan Mountains in Southern Colorado and camped for a week. They didn't use campgrounds. Rob liked to drive up the forest roads above Pagosa Springs until the road got bad and then he'd find a flat spot by a creek and that's what they'd done that year. The spot was in Aspen's at about 9,000 feet on a bench above a creek with
a meadow below it and this was the third night. Rob had rules for those trips and she listed them. There was no food in the tent, ever. The dishes got washed and put in the truck before dark. The trash went in a bag in the cab. He'd grown up in Durango and had been camping in that country since he was a boy and he'd seen what a bear does to a cooler and those rules were the reason she agreed to camp off the road in the first place. The first two nights had been fine. The kids had caught brook trout out of the creek with a spinning rod and Rob had fried them. A thunderstorm had blown through the second afternoon and about an hour and left everything dripping and the kids had built a dam in the creek and gotten soaked and gone to bed early. She said it was the best trip they'd had. They had one big tent for the four of them. The truck was parked about 40 feet from it with the tailgate toward the tent and the firewood was in the bed. A bundle of split pine they'd bought at a gas station in Pagosa on the way up. The cooler was in the cab. She woke up a little after two
in the morning needing to pee. She knew the time because she looked at her watch while she was pulling her boots on. The moon was up and it was bright in the aspirant so she didn't turn the flashlight on because she didn't want to wake the kids. The flashlight was a big two-cell steel one that Rob kept by the tent door and she carried it by the barrel with her thumb on the switch. She walked out of the tent and up the slope behind it about 50 feet to the spot she'd been using all week. Coming back down toward the tent she heard the truck. It was the springs. It was the creek the rear springs make when somebody steps up on the bumper or leans on the tailgate and she thought Rob had gotten up for something. But when she came around a clump of aspens with the tent on her left and the truck straight ahead, the tent was zipped shut and Rob wasn't at the truck. Something else was. It was standing at the tailgate with its back to her, bent over with both of its hands down in the bed. She turned the flashlight on. She wrote that she didn't decide to.
It straightened up and turned around with a piece of firewood in one hand. The hair was silver. It was gray to white across the shoulders and along the tops of the arms. The hair was lighter than she'd have thought possible and it went darker down the sides and the legs to a dark gray that was close to the color of the aspens trunks behind it. The hair on top of the head was thin. She could see skin through it in the light, a pale scalp and she thought right then that it was old. The face was dark like it had been rubbed with charcoal and it had lines in it. There were deep ones running from the sides of the nose down past the corners of the mouth and more across the forehead under the brow. The eyes didn't throw the light back at her. They were dark and open and they were looking at her. It was taller than the cab of the truck. The Ford had a full size cab and the head was a good foot above the roof line and it was standing on the same ground the truck was. It stood with its arms down and a little out from its sides and the hands hung below the knees. The hands had fingers and the fingers were
long and the one holding the wood had the thumb wrapped around it. The shoulders were rounded and hunched forward some so that the head sat out in front of the chest instead of on top of it and the belly was big and rounded out under the silver hair. It stood there in the flashlight and breathed and she could see the belly move. It didn't make a sound the entire time. There was the creek down in the meadow and the aspens leaves and nothing else. It lifted the wood to about chest height and turned it in its hand and looked at it. Then it reached out and set the piece down flat on the tailgate. Then it looked at her again and it walked away. It went uphill into the aspens, passed the front of the truck and she kept the light on it. The saplings are what she remembers about the walk. The aspens there grows up thick in the open places. In whips as tall as a man and as big around as a broomstick and it walked through them without putting its hands out and every one of them bent over as it passed and snapped back up behind it. She could hear them, a whip and a slap one after another going up the hill.
The light lost it after about a hundred feet and she stood there and listened to the saplings until she couldn't hear them anymore. Then she went to the tent, unzipped it, shook Rob awake and told him to get up and come outside. She told him in a whisper because of the kids. He came out in his socks and when she told him what she'd seen, the first thing he said was where. He took the flashlight and went to the truck. The piece of firewood was on the tailgate standing on the end. He picked it up and looked at it and put it back down. On the red paint of the tailgate there was a smear about the size of a dinner plate, still wet and he touched it with his finger and smelled it and said he didn't know what it was. He walked up the hill into the aspens a little way with the light and came back and said he couldn't tell anything from the ground because it was all grass and rock and that some of the saplings were bent but they'd all bent back. He checked the cab too. The cooler was where it had been. The doors were still locked and there
wasn't a mark on the truck anywhere but the tailgate. Rob wanted to go back to bed. He said it was gone, that it was a bear, that the kids were asleep and it was 2.30 in the morning and Denise said no. She said she wasn't getting back in that tent with the kids in it and nothing between them and the aspens but nylon and Rob asked her what she wanted to do instead and she said the truck. So he went and stood in the tent door with the flashlight and looked at the kids for a minute and then he got the keys. Before they went to the cab he wiped the smear off the tailgate with a shop rag. She wrote that she's thought about that rag more than she'd like. It went in the trash bag with the rest of the trash and the trash bag went in a dumpster in Pagosa and she didn't think to keep it until they were an hour down the highway. By morning there was nothing on the tailgate but a dull spot in the paint. They sat in the cab with the cooler between them and the doors locked until it got light and Rob kept the keys in his hand the whole time. When the sun came up he got
the kids out of the tent and told them they were leaving early to beat the weather. It was clear. The kids didn't ask. They took the tent down with the kids still half asleep in the back seat. Denise kept looking up the hill and they got the tent rolled up wrong and stuffed it in the bed on top of the firewood. The road down was rough and slow and took an hour and about halfway down they passed a man in a pickup coming up with a horse trailer. He lifted two fingers off the wheel and Rob lifted two fingers back and Denise wanted to roll the window down and tell him to turn around and didn't. They drove into Pagosa and got breakfast. Rob went into the gas station where they'd bought the firewood and asked the man if there were bears up the road they'd been on. And the man said there were bears everywhere up there and Rob said thanks and came back out. Denise watched the whole thing from the truck with the kids in the back arguing about the radio. She said Rob was in there a long time for one question and when she asked him later what else he'd said to the man he said nothing else and she left it. Denise kept the piece of firewood. She
went to throw it out of the bed when they got home and couldn't and it's been on a shelf in her garage in Albuquerque for 30 years. She's taken it down and looked at it more times than she'd like to say. She never camped off a forest road again. After that she'd go to camp grounds with a host and a gate and other people around and Rob would go up the forest roads by himself or with the kids and that's how they did it for the rest of the years the kids were home. Their son is 39 now. She asked him last year what he remembered about that trip and he said he remembered leaving early and eating pancakes and that was all he had. Her daughter remembered the trout and the dam and nothing about the last morning at all. Denise told her daughter the whole thing about 10 years ago when the daughter was pregnant and planning a camping trip of her own up the same road. The daughter listened. She went on the trip but she stayed at the camp ground at the bottom of the road. The one with the host and Denise never asked her whether that was on account of the story
or the baby. She told her sister that winner on the phone and her sister laughed and Denise laughed with her because it was easier and she never brought it up with her sister again. Rob died in 2019. She wrote that he never once doubted her and he never once told anybody either and the peace of fire would sat in the garage the whole time and he never asked her why. Marcus Tens Gas Wells and the Allegheny National Forest in northwest Pennsylvania and in February of 2019 he'd had the job about a year and a half. He was 24. Tending Wells means driving. There are thousands of shallow gas wells in that forest. Most of them old strung out along dirt roads the gas companies cut decades ago and a well tenders job is to get to everyone on his route on a schedule. Check the pressure, check the meter, look at the tank, ride it all down and move on to the next one. In winter that means being on the road by five in the morning and a company pickup with a plow on the front because
nobody else is going to plow those roads. His route ran north of Marionville. He had about 90 wells on it and he could hit them all in a long day if the roads were clear which in February they never were. Some of those wells have a brine tank on the pad. Gas comes up out of the ground with salt water in it and the water gets separated out and stored in a tank until a truck comes to haul it off. The tanks leak sometimes at the valve and when they do the ground under the valve gets a stain white and crusted and nothing grows there. Deer come to those spots and lick them. He'd seen it a dozen times a deer standing on a pad at first light with its head down at the base of a tank. He'd started that particular morning at 430 because of the snow. He plowed his way up the first road in the dark with the radio on and his coffee going cold in the cup holder and by the time he done 40 wells the sky was going gray over the ridges. It was the kind of morning he liked with the roads to himself and the deer out. He'd counted 11 deer and one fisher and he'd written the
fisher down in the margin of his route sheet because he'd never seen one before. The pad he wrote about was one of the last on his route. Up a long grade off a road that dead ended at a gate. It was about seven in the morning. The sun was coming up behind the ridge but hadn't cleared it yet and there was eight inches of snow on the ground with a crust on it from a thaw and a freeze. He came up over the last rise with the plow up and his lights on and the pad opened out in front of him and there was something at the tank. It was on its knees. It was a dark shape kneeling at the base of the brine tank with its hands on the ground and its head down and he thought it was a man. He thought he'd caught somebody stealing because people do steal off those pads. Copper and batteries and whatever else isn't bolted down. So we hit the high beams and rolled up onto the pad to get a look at the face and the head came up. The face was the color of a bruise, a purple gray and it was bear with short hair around the edges of it and it was wide and it was looking at the truck.
The light hit the eyes and the eyes didn't do anything. Below the face where a man's chest would be, the hair was long and there was ice in it. There were chunks of it frozen into the hair in clumps and he worked out later that it had been kneeling in the wet at the base of the tank and the brine had frozen on it. Then it came up. It went from its knees to its feet in one motion without putting a hand down and then it was standing and the tank behind it was a 10 foot tank and the head was about two feet below the top of it. Steam was coming off it. The sun wasn't on the pad yet and the air was about 10 degrees and the whole back and shoulders of it were steaming in his headlights. Stay tuned for more Backwood's Big Foot Stories. We'll be back after these messages. If you like YouTube you'll love YouTube Premium. It's destroying, athlete, creator and YouTube Maxor. YouTube Premium enhances how I use YouTube with awesome features like offline downloads so I can download my favorite training videos before I hit the gym.
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to learn more. California resident loans made a range pursuant to a California finance law license. NMLS number 1353190. Clarna balance account required to be eligible for cashback points, limitations, terms, and conditions apply. He was about 100 feet away in the truck, with the engine running and the heater on high. He put the truck in park and his hand was shaking when he did it. He wrote that he wasn't sure whether he was more scared of it or of what he'd do if it came at the truck because all he had in the cab was a tire iron and a clipboard. It didn't come at the truck. It turned sideways to him and walked. It walked the whole length of the pad, which he put at about 150 feet with his lights on it the whole way. And it didn't hurry and it didn't look at him again after that first look. The arm swung. The hair on the back was long and matted flat with ice in it in places. And he could see the muscles in the backs of the legs bunch and let go with every step. The feet came up flat behind it and he could see the bottoms and the bottoms were lighter than
the rest of it. A dirty gray and they were about as wide as they were long. The windows were up and the heater fan was going and he could still hear the crust break under every step. He counted the steps and lost count somewhere in the 20s. That was the only sound it made. At the back of the pad there was a bank where the dozer had cut into the hillside when the pad was built. About six feet of frozen clay straight up and above that were the woods, hemlock and beach. It went up that bank in two steps. It put one hand on the bank about halfway up and he got a look at the hand against the clay. The fingers were spread and they were long and the hand was wider than the blade of his snow shovel. The clay was frozen hard enough that he'd have needed a pick to market and the hand went in. Then the foot came up beside the hand and then it was on top and then it was in the hemlocks and he lost it. The hemlock branches swung once and came back and that was the last of it. He sat there. He sat with the truck in park and the heater going
until the sun came over the ridge and hit the pad which he guessed was 15 minutes and then he took out his phone and took a picture through the windshield of the tank and the bank and the woods. He sent me the picture. It's a well pad in the snow with the sun coming over the trees and there's a dark patch at the base of the tank and a line of marks across the snow. Then he got out. He left the truck running and the door open. The snow at the base of the tank was gone. It had melted down to the ground in a patch about four feet across and the ground under it was the white crusted salt and the salt had been dug at. There were grooves in the frozen crust four in a row like somebody had raked their fingers through it and there was a dark wet spot in the middle where the melt had run. The patch smelled. He'd smelled brine every day for a year and a half and this was something under the brine and the closest he could get to it was a wet dog that had been rolling and something dead. The valve on the tank was dripping the way it had been for a
month and the drip had frozen into a column of ice that ran from the valve to the ground. That column was broken off about a foot up and the broken piece was lying in the melt patch. He reached up and turned the valve tighter with his bare hand which he'd done a hundred times on a hundred tanks and his hand slipped off it twice before it caught. The tracks across the pad were brakes in the crust. The crust was hard enough to hold them up in places but the thing had gone through it with every step so what was left was a line of holes with the crust standing up and jagged edges around each one and he couldn't get a shape out of any of them. He measured the distance between two of them with his boots, heel to toe and it came to five boots. At the bank the frozen clay had a hole in it about halfway up where the hand had gone in. A wide dish pressed into the clay with the frost broken out around the edges and above that the clay was scuffed in a long streak where the foot had come up. On top there was nothing but hemlock needles and snow that had come down off the branches. He did the well before he left.
He thought about explaining to the office why one well on the sheet had no numbers next to it so he walked to the well head with the tire iron in his hand and read the gauge and wrote it down. He set his hand writing on that line is different from the rest of the page. He finished his route. He had eleven more wells and he did every one of them and he was laid on all of them and nobody called about it. That night he looked it up. He sat at his kitchen table with his laptop and typed in things like bear salt, lick winner and bear awake February, Pennsylvania. And he read for an hour and he found out that bears do come out of the den sometimes in a warm spill and that they'll go to salt. That was where he wanted to land and he tried. Then he thought about the way it had come up off its knees and the hand going into the clay and he closed the laptop. He told a supervisor the next afternoon that something had been at the brine tank on that pad. His supervisor asked if the tank was damaged and Marcus said no. The supervisor asked what got at it and Marcus said he thought it was a bear. The supervisor said bears are asleep in February
and Marcus said yeah. The supervisor wrote animal activity on the daily sheet next to that well number and moved on to the next thing and Marcus said that was fine with him. He was back on that pad two days later because it was on his route and the route doesn't care. It had snowed again. The melt patch at the tank had re-frozen and been covered over. The tracks across the pad were gone and the hole in the bank had snow in it and looked like nothing at all. He did the well and left and he kept the tire iron on the seat beside him that day and every day after until spring. He asked for a different route in the spring and got one and gave the reason as drive time. The new route runs south of town and doesn't have a brine tank on it anywhere and he said that wasn't an accident. That pad is on somebody else's route now and he's never asked the man who has it, whether he's seen anything up there. The picture's still on his phone. He's had two phones since then and he moved it to each one. He wrote that it's not worth anything to anybody that he knows what
it looks like and that he's kept it because it's the only thing that proves to him. He was on that pad that morning at seven o'clock and not somewhere else, dreaming it. So that's five. Five people and five emails and every one of them ends the same way with somebody going home and getting up the next morning and going back to what they did. Windle hunted that swamp for 20 more years. Kim's still walking the long trail. Tyrell's still on the loader. Marcus is still driving roads before it's light out. Denise went camping again the next summer at a campground with a gate. Most of them said the same thing at the end of their email which was that they'd never told this to anybody outside their own house. So here's the thing folks. There are more of these in the mailbag than I'll ever get to and every one of them came from somebody who sat there a good while before they hit sand. If that's you tonight, go ahead and hit sand. The address is Brian, B-R-I-A-N. at ParanormalWorldProductions.com. Tell me what you saw and where you were and however it ends.
That's how it ends. And do me a favor. If you got something out of tonight, pass it along. Tell your family. Tell a buddy at work. Tell the one guy who's always bringing this stuff up on the tailgate. That's how this show gets around. One person handing it to the next and it's the only way it ever has. Next time we get back on the highway and the backwoods crypted road trip rolls into its next stop. Until then, always keep your eyes on the tree line. Hey what's up guys, it's Hayley Bailey. Okay, I need to tell you about something. I just got YouTube Premium. It's got tons of awesome features like offline downloads so I can download my favorite videos before I travel and watch them whenever I don't have Wi-Fi. Because we all know airplane Wi-Fi is the worst. I get out free, I get backroom play and there's like a ton more in there. You should try it. If you like YouTube, you'll love YouTube Premium. Try it now for two months free at youtube.com slash premium.
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It's a bridge to the people and places that matter most. It's how you show up for your family, your community, and everyone else that depends on you. That's why for 125 years, Firestone has been building tires with one thing in mind to deliver products that are as reliable as you are. Firestone, always dependable since 1900. Ben, I've been reflecting a lot lately on how many big life moments our listeners have experienced with us. Yeah, it's pretty wild. They've watched us go from dating shows to engagements, weddings, babies, buying homes. Every stage comes with new decisions. The milestones are the fun part, but the planning is where things get real. That's why Clarna stands out. Clarna gives people smarter tools to help manage everyday money with flexible ways to pay cashback that builds automatically everything in one place and support that makes everyday decisions that feel less
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fast, the right tools can help you feel more confident. Download the Clarna app today or visit clarna.com to learn more. California resident loans made a range pursuant to a California finance law license. NMLS number 1353190 Clarna balance account required to be eligible for cashback points. Limitations terms and conditions apply. If you like YouTube, you'll love YouTube Premium. It's destroying, athlete, creator, and YouTube Maxor. YouTube Premium enhances how I use YouTube with awesome features like offline downloads so I can download my favorite training videos before I hit the gym. So no Wi-Fi doesn't turn leg day into loading day. Plus, I get ad-free videos, background play, and so much more. YouTube Premium is like YouTube got some extra gains. Try YouTube Premium for two months free at youtube.com slash premium. Hey, what's up guys? It's Hayley Bailey.
Okay, I need to tell you about something. I just got YouTube Premium. It's got tons of awesome features like offline downloads so I can download my favorite videos before I travel and watch them whenever I don't have Wi-Fi because we all know airplane Wi-Fi is the worst. I get ad-free, I get background play, and there's like a ton more in there. You should try it. If you like YouTube, you'll love YouTube Premium. So try YouTube Premium for two months free at youtube.com slash premium. Try eligibility varies. Terms apply, cancel anytime. That's a mouthful. Your vehicle doesn't just get you from here to there. It's a bridge to the people and places that matter most. It's how you show up for your family, your community, and everyone else that depends on you. That's why for 125 years, Firestone has been building tires with one thing in mind to deliver products that are as reliable as you are. Firestone, always dependable since 1900. This is Ashley Akinetti from the Ben and Ashley I almost have his podcasts. Ben,
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