Bigfoot Society - 9-Foot Monster in the Holler | Missouri

Episode Date: August 30, 2025

What happens when a Missouri man buys land in the foothills — only to discover he isn’t alone out there? In this chilling episode, we sit down with David, who shares a lifetime of encounters stretching from Delaware to Florida to the backwoods of St. Francois County, Missouri.From barefoot tracks in the snow outside his childhood home… to 18-inch prints at 12 Mile Creek… to a terrifying night in 2017 when a massive Sasquatch pressed against his shed, stole eggs, and left him frozen with fear — David recounts the moments that changed his life forever. You’ll hear about tree knocks, chest-shaking howls, infrasound growls, and the night he locked eyes with a towering 9-foot creature standing in the fork of an oak tree.More than just a sighting, this is a raw and violent firsthand account of what happens when the shadows of Missouri’s forests come alive.🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Patreon – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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Selection varies by location. See Lowe's.com for details. Visit your nearby Lowe's on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. You're listening in Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's story doesn't begin on a mountain trail or quiet campsite. It begins in the foothills of Missouri, where a man thought he'd finally found peace on a patch of wooded land. But when the cricket stopped, the forest fell silent and something massive began to move closer. David realized he wasn't alone.

David's journey with the unknown has spanned decades. But one night, he faced the reality that the legends were really. real to find out more about David's story. Stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society, you've got the privilege of talking to David today. David is an individual from down in Missouri. He's had some really interesting things happen over the last few years. So I've invited him on to the show to share what he's been experiencing. Welcome to the show. David, how are you? Hey, I'm doing great. How about yourself? Hey, we're doing good. We were just talking about how the weather's starting to get a little bit nicer here in the Midwest.

that corn sweat is cleared out, hopefully, and things are getting a little bit cooler. So it's a good day. Yeah, this weekend, they're calling for that corn sweat to be coming back this weekend. Uh-oh, it's back. All right. Well, we'll see.

At least for a few days as far as what I heard. Oh, man. Yeah, people not in the Midwest have no idea what we're talking about, but you guys can look it up. It gets pretty wild. So, David, let's make the best of our, our time today. And, you know, feel free to take us back to when this whole interest in Bigfoot started

for you. How about we start there? Okay, okay. So that would be back when I was about seven years old in Dover, Delaware. It was a snowy day, so there was snow out on the ground. me and my brother, who was older than I am, was outside playing in the snow. And we came around to the front yard, and there were footprints in the snow. And they were barefoot footprints.

And at that time, seven years old, you know, I didn't know what a big foot was, didn't know what Sasquatch was. We didn't know anything. And so we freaked out and started screaming. And then my dad came outside and asked what the commotion was about. And we said, well, there's these tracks right here. And they were, as far as I can remember, they were only 20 feet from the front porch. And they were going parallel with the porch. So if there's a sidewalk up under the sidewalk up under the sidewalk.

snow that goes towards the road directly from the porch screen door. So it was going to cross that walkway, but you couldn't see the walkway because of the snow, but the tracks were going. And my father came

over there and looked and he followed the tracks to a fence that we had, which was an electric fence because we had goats. We were living on a small farm, so the track

I don't remember if it was left or right it was too long ago but I remember seeing one track on one side of the fence and then the next track was on the other side of the fence and the trackway continued through the woods

and it was at that point right there that my father told us to get in the house and so that's what we did we got in the house. I don't know what he did. I don't remember what he did. And so that, like, as I got older, that triggered,

that experience triggered my interest in crypto stuff. What year in Delaware was that? Oh, let's see. I was born in 71. So 70, let's see, I was seven years. old. 78. Yeah, somewhere in there.

And another thing, growing up, our parents used to tell us be hung before dark or the dusk man will get you. And at the time, I didn't know what the heck that was, you know. But that refers to Bigfoot

or a Sasquatch. And I didn't live in the city of Delaware. I lived out in the country away. I think it was Camden County. Might have been in. I really don't remember this county. It was somewhere over there, but it was out in the country. It wasn't real far from Dover, but it was out in the country. Gotcha. And it was all wooded land like, heck man.

Behind our house, we had like a huge garden, probably five-acre garden. Behind that was a canal that went up from the back of our property, went up and made a T, went left and right. And it was just all woods back up in there. Yeah. How big were the tracks approximately, do you think? gosh they were way bigger than my father's footprints um i would this would only be a guess

but they look if i had to i don't even i don't even know how to answer that because you know it's been so long ago i remember i see the picture in my head of the tracks in the snow and how long they were I don't know, 16 inches if I had to guess. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, they were big tracks. And like I said, they were barefoot. And they were deep in the snow. And you could see the toe. I remember seeing the toe, all the toes. The snow was all compact. So, you know,

it wasn't like a fluffy snow where if you try to, you'll sink, it wasn't that much. snow on the ground to begin with, probably two or three inches at that time. Absolutely. And I don't remember if it was November, December, January, or February. I just remember it was cold outside.

We were playing in the snow. And we found them tracks in the front yard called our father. He immediately told us once he made it to the fence line and seen the tracks one stepped over the fence. The fence was, gosh, five foot tall, perhaps. maybe four foot tall. And, yeah, it was just, that just started it at all. Wow.

One last question about that part of your story there. Did you guys ever have any situations with the goats on the farm or other animals where, you know, they would come up, you know, dead or killed in weird ways? Yeah, there was, I remember there was. I don't know the circumstances now, but I know our chickens used to come up missing. Quite a few goats came up missing. Yeah. And we also had a pony on our farm, but he was always kept inside at nighttime. He was never outside during nighttime.

Okay. Gotcha. Yeah, any, for the smaller ones, were the heads ever ripped off or legs broken or anything like that? Oh, I don't know anything about that. Okay, got you. I just recall my father saying that something killed the chickens again or something killed another goat, but he never said what it was, never told us what kind of condition was in or anything. And I never seen it.

I just recall him mentioning it. So, yeah, that's very interesting. You definitely did have quite the start at a young age. But, you know, feel free to continue where this took you in your life having this experience. Yeah, so my father, he was in the military. He was a civilian employee for the military. and he worked on classified stuff. And in 1979, he got transferred to Homestead, Florida.

He put in a bid for Anchorage, Alaska or Homestead, Florida. Well, he ended up went in the bid for the Homestead, Florida job. And that put us right at the very end, close. to where the Everglades are and all that. And we lived there. I never had any experiences down there. But when we moved up to Northern Florida, due to the violence down in that area of South Florida in 1986,

so from 79 to 1986, we lived in South Florida. And then we moved to Northern Florida in 1986. All the area in this little town I lived in, which was in Clay County, Florida. I won't get the name of the town, but I'll tell you the county. It was all wooded. There was several lakes around the area. All wooded, though. It was out in the country again.

And there were several occasions when I used to ride, I had a dirt bike. I used to ride the trails with my friends. And to avoid taking the road so we didn't get in trouble with the police, we used to take the trails through the woods to get at the store, which was, I don't know, a couple miles away. But there were several occasions. I never seen anything, but the hair on the beach. back of my neck would stand up on several occasions riding through these trails.

And the trails weren't around any houses. They were just, you know, through the woods. And so I remember that. And then it wasn't until I moved to Missouri that I had my encounters. I moved to Missouri in 2008. with a job transfer from Florida. And I lived out close to Springfield, Missouri. But it wasn't until I got over to St. Francis County

that I started having these experiences. And so that was back in 2008. So I lived on the west side of Missouri until, let's see, was 2012. And then I moved into Madison County, which is by Frederictown. There is Cherokee Pass, which is close to 12-mile Creek,

where I had another experience. 12-mile Creek is borderlines, Mark Twain Forest. And it's in Cherokee Pass, and so me and my girlfriend at the time were just exploring the creek. There was like a sandbar in the middle of the creek that didn't have water, and the water ran on both sides of the sandbar, and there was a little watering hole where he could go swimming and whatnot.

And there wasn't nobody else out there. It was out in the middle of nowhere Her family own acreage Farther down the river But we weren't anywhere close to that But it's out in the middle of nowhere And We found footprints

Going across the sandbar And I remember those Those were 18 inches long And you can clearly see the toe On print everything and it looked like it was dragging something along beside it because there was like a gouge mark and uh sandy gravel like pebbles man that was uh that made the hair on my back of my next stand up too and that was out at 12 mile creek and Cherokee pass right below uh i don't know if it's

if that's part of Madison County or not. Are you familiar with that area? You know, I've talked to a few people from down in Southern Missouri. I haven't visited it yet myself, though. Okay, okay, yeah. Yeah, so I lived there until, let's see. Well, I bought property while I was still living in Madison County. and up here in St. Francis County, where I'm currently living now.

And at the time, when I bought the property where I'm at, it was all wooded, except for the front area where the road is. It was kind of just like mossy grass. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation. Plan B is the number one OBGYN recommended brand and the only one that you can find at all major retailers in all 50 U.S. States. There's no minimum age requirement and you don't need an ID to buy it. You can order it through DoorDash and other major delivery platforms too.

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patrocinated for GSC. Didn't get a lot of sun type soil. But when I bought the property, I used to camp in my neighbor's lot behind me in his driveway. And I had a van. And the van was set up like a camper van. So I used to camp there on the weekends why I cleaned my luck. And I used to find bare footprints coming from the road.

up through my property. And at the time, it didn't even dawn on me, you know, Bigfoot Sasquatch or nothing. I was just like, well, who in the heck would be out here walking through my yard, barefoot, you know? And one evening when I was, you know, inside that van camping or getting ready to get asleep. There was,

I heard something in the bushes and it sounded like a grunt or something and I immediately got up and went outside I thought maybe it was like a dog or something

but I never did see anything. And then so I cleared out my property. I moved a camper onto my property and by 2017 I was living in that camper on my property.

It was a little Shasna, I think it was 16 foot long, and at the time, as I was working in the same general area where I was living, so it was pretty convenient for me. And I lived off grid, I had a generator, I had solar panels, I was roughen it.

I never lived like that, like that in my life. And so anyway, I moved out there in 2017. It was, I moved out in January, so I was partially through winter. And then when spring came along,

I had my generator going. It was April the 12th. And it's kind of hard to talk about, really, because I was really freaked out. But, so I was in my camper, you know, it was nighttime. It was a calm night.

I had my head leaned against the window of the camper, just listening to everything. And I shut my generator off. I had a fog that would shut my generator off or started. And I shut it off, getting ready for bed. And I was just listening to the crickets and everything, you know, all the four stuff I could finally hear with a generator off.

And then I don't know, it was probably 10 or 15 minutes went past, just listening, and all that stuff just stopped all at once, and I couldn't hear nothing. It was like somebody turned a light switch. And I was like, what the heck's going on, you know?

So I walked out to my front. I had it like a wood deck out there that I built in front of my camper. and I walked out and I stood around. I couldn't hear no crickets. I couldn't hear no frogs. I couldn't hear nothing. And I freaked out and I went inside, locked the door,

and I laid in bed and getting ready for bed. And then I heard some wrestling through the woods because there's woods right next to my property here. On both sides of my property, there's woods. And behind me there's woods. And I heard some wrestling. And then I heard this wild crap on a tree.

Just like somebody took a baseball bat or something really hard and smacked a tree because it was like, you know, made it real solid sound like that. And I was like, in my head, I was like, what the F, you know? And it was like, like it was like a light switch in my head came on and it was like, dude, you just heard a tree knock.

And then that's when the panic set in. Because, you know, at the time, I've never really experienced it personally. And so then after the tree knock, I could hear metal crinkling. And this was a couple. It was probably about 45 yards away. I had a metal shed over there. Eventually, I figured out that it was something pressing against, it sounded like somebody pressed against the metal shed

because you could hear the metal crinkle in. And then I heard some more rustling around. And I felt this, it was like a vibration in my chest. I can feel the vibration in my chest. My cat was freaking out. She was hissing. She was up in the window hissing.

And it was a real bad smell. I couldn't even describe the smell. It just smelled really bad. and I felt petrified, man. I've never been, I've never in my life been that scared and terrified. I was frozen with fear in my bed. I couldn't move. And at the time, I had a cold, and I had to cough.

And I ended up putting a pillow over my face and coughing into the pit of pillow as lightly as I could. because I felt in my mind that this thing was coming closer to me. And my cat kept hissing and whatnot. And then nothing really came over and disturbed me, but it felt like it. You know, I could feel the fear. I was terrified, petrified. And eventually, just give me a second, dude.

It's like it happened yesterday. about it. So eventually I could hear this thing walking away through the gravel and it sounded like it was dragging something behind it or dragging something and then it let out this it sounded like a whoop but it was more like a screaming whoop. It was loud. I could feel it in my chest and so, I don't know, 30 seconds or so went by after that. It was like somebody flipped the light switch, and the crickets came back, the frogs came back, and the forest was back to normal. And I didn't go right to sleep.

I was trying to rationalize in my mind what was going on, you know, because, you know, I've seen TV shows. about Bigfoot and I never thought for a moment that that would ever happened to me

you know I never thought that I would experience anything like that and the very next day before work I get up

and I walk over next door and I took pictures of stuff and there was damage to the shed It looked like Somebody put their hand

On the shed And their weight pushed it in There was a A crate of eggs That wasn't bad that I had sitting over there It looked like somebody stuck their hand Straight into the Crate of eggs

And, you know, was eating the eggs That was in there I didn't see any tracks in the gravel Because the gravel was like three-quarter-inch type gravel. But in the road, in the road, man, there was a huge footprint. I took a picture of it. I put down a tape measure, put my foot beside it.

And this footprint was probably, no, 40, between 40 and 60 yards from my camper. In the middle of the gravel road, which was a compressed gravel. gravel road. You know what I'm saying? Like I couldn't even if I tried to stomp up and down away about 275 if I try to stomp up and down in the road

which I was trying to do a little bit away from this print and I couldn't even put an indentation in the road and I only found one track in the road the other track which was

the right leg or right foot was on the other side of the road close to the ditch. So that really freaked me out because, you know, that showed me there was something heavy, you know, that stepped there. And it looked like a human footprint. It didn't look like a bear. It didn't look like a double step from a bear because I've seen double-step footprints from bears and from hunting and stuff.

But, yeah, I immediately freaked back out and started recalling the night before, and I went on BFRO's website, and I ended up filing a report about my incident. And I had somebody by the name of Carter called me. and I explained to him what happened. I emailed him all the pictures, the footprints that I found and whatnot and told him about my story. And he assured me that I didn't have nothing to fear, but man, he wasn't there, you know?

So that was my initial experience, my first hardcore experience out here. in northeast St. Francis County, which borderlines St. Genevue County. And years following that, there was other experiences where I'd be out here. Not in my camper, but I have a cabin now, and it sits on my property. that camper anymore. But there was times where

I would hear screams at nighttime. You know, like 10 o'clock, between 10 o'clock and 1 a.m. Not all the time, but you would hear it off in the distance and it sounded like

a like a banshee or something. It was just loud. And you could hear it, you know, you could tell it was far off, but you could tell it wasn't like a it wasn't a coyote the pitch was too high and

it was too drawn out to be a coyote and then a few moments later you would hear another scream but from a different direction like something answered it you know and that

always happened in the springtime and then the fall around here and all this area around here is wooded. It's all foothills and small mountains and there's farms surrounding this area.

A lot of livestock in this area. A lot of deer. You know, a lot of turkeys, deer, foxes, squirrels, raccoons, you know, all the normal wildlife stuff. There's mountain lions out here. There's bears out here.

Yeah, so that was, I started noticing a pattern, you know, every spring and fall that I would hear tree knocks off in the distance, screams off in the distance. And then in 2018, I think it might have been 2019, there's a dollar general. outside of where I live and down the road from where I live. And I used to drive up there before work, you know, get a snack or something for breakfast. And I did all that and I was up at the counter. And this woman that I knew who was working there told me that some old man had come in there previous to my visit and said that he's seen a big foot

on this certain road and this certain road is two and a half blocks away from where I live and I was like, what? And she was like, yeah, he was on his way to work and seen across the road onto this other road, which is

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all right cool thanks for that info and then I went on about my day went to

work get off work thinking about it all throughout the day you know this thing if it

At the time, I was thinking, you know, if this is what this man seen, and it was also in April at this time. It was, I want to say it was April 4th, I think. But anyway, my day went on and I got home, and I had this bright idea that I would do a couple tree knocks to see if, if I could get any response. And it was probably about four or five in the afternoon. And I did a couple tree knocks and nothing happened.

And then I said, well, let's wait until it gets darker. Like dusk, just about sunset where you can't see the sun over the foothills anymore. and then I chickened myself out. I didn't do it. And then I said, well, it's almost dark. You better do it. And so I got up and I had a steak that you would hammer in the ground.

You were going to stake out, you know, to build a house or whatever. Left ever before when I built my cabin. And I picked that up. It was just about dark, and I smacked a tree twice. It was pretty loud. And I didn't hear nothing. And I didn't hear no response. And so I sat back down on the steps.

And it was damn near dark. And so I'll give it one more try. And I got up. And I smacked on this tree twice, man. solid hits and no more than I could turn around and face the direction I could hear something running towards me and it was big and it was moving the limbs out of its way because there wasn't no like leaves or anything on the trees yet so it was just a bare limbs but you could hear the limbs of the trees you know the small bushes and whatnot whipping off of

this thing. You could hear, you know, and you could, you could hear the footsteps coming at you. Now, just for context, I live on one ridge and there's a holler. I don't know if you're familiar what a holler is. I am, but do you mind describing it? There's some listeners that we get it. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I live on one bridge and then the property and, front of me is kind of level, but then it dips down real sharp in the back, and it goes down into this, like, a valley, and then it comes up real sharp on the other side, and there's another ridge. So that valley in between that, we call that the holler, basically. And so this thing was on the next ridge running towards me. So it had to run down that holler, which is really

steep and rocky. And then there's some bluffs over there. And if you're not familiar what bluffs are, they're just rock croppings that are jagged and part of the landscape and whatnot.

And anyhow, this thing ran up stopped just inside the tree line before I could even turn around and drop that steak I had my hand. And I was freaking out in my head, man.

I had a flashlight with me, too. And I was panning this flashlight, and I couldn't see it. I couldn't see it, I couldn't see it, and I couldn't hear nothing. And then I heard this, oh, it was awful, dude. It was like, it was kind of like a growl, but it was like, it felt like it had vibration to it. and if I had to it almost sounded like

you know how like a tiger gives that a growl you ever heard that yeah kind of it's like really deep and rumbly yeah really deep and rumbling but I could feel it in my body and I still couldn't see this thing whatever it was and then

when it made that noise I wasn't even showing them my light where I heard the noise. So I panned to the left where I heard the noise. And I seen the eye shine. I seen this thing was so freaking huge, dude. Okay, there's this tree that's across the street from my house.

And it's on the slope part, not right before the drop off where it drops off into the holler, but it's like right before that. But this tree goes up and two branches fork out forming like a and this thing's head was in between that Y. But this tree was big. It was probably, I don't know, three foot, you know, in diameter.

Pretty good size oak tree. But anyway, this thing was so huge that this tree couldn't even hide it. Like I've seen the left leg, the left hip, massive left shoulder area. massive arms. I could see the I could see the some of the face, but not all of it. Like I said, the eyes were in the

middle of this Y. And I could see the top of the skull and it was in this dome shape. But this thing was massive, dude. And I said out loud, I said, oh, there you are. And then within seconds, man, it just

the eye shine went away and I could hear just moving off away from me. But I thought for sure that, because at one point when I was, you know, it's like time stands still when you see stuff like this, you know. And I was probably only 10 foot away from my front door, man. And this thing was probably 70 yards away. but in my mind I'm trying to rationalize how quick it got from the other ridge to my ridge it had to go down this hop you know down into the holler up to my side and get to where it was at you know was further away from if it just went straight you know if it had to come you know

it would have been way closer but it didn't it like it went it had to come you know straight at me it would have been way closer But it didn't. It had to have gone, like, at an angle. You know what I'm saying? Down the holler, up to the side where my ridge is, and then behind this tree, because the tree was way far to the left. Where I wasn't even looking over there.

Because I was thinking it was going to come. I thought it was coming straight at me, is what I thought. But anyway, I thought in my head, while I was looking at this thing, man, and how quick that thing made it over here, I wouldn't be able to make it to my front door. And it was only 10 feet. It's only 10 feet away from where I smacked on this tree. And I just stood there staring at it.

But yeah, I could see its left calf muscle. I can see it was all hairy. It was black. It was just massive. And this tree was big. You know, I can take a picture and send it to you. man. It just couldn't hide behind this tree. I didn't see the right part because of the angle I was standing, but I sure did see the whole left side of it and the eyes. I couldn't see the lips, but I seen the cone head. It was just massive, man. And I freaked out, and I ended up calling that guy Carter. And I was telling him about it from the BFRO. He said, oh, man, you can go. nothing to worry about it.

If I wanted to get you, would have got you. How did that make you feel? I'll tell you, man. Yeah. You know, if you never experience it for yourself, if you never, it was kind of like a relief, but it wasn't, you know. Because you hear stories about sightings out west, how they're aggressive or

out in the Everglades, how the skunk apes are aggressive and whatnot, but you just never know, you know. It could be, they might be having a bad day and take it out on you. You know what I'm saying? So you really don't know.

And so, yeah, I just, I'm still cautious, you know. Like, I still hear, and it's always in the springtime between like the last week of February till June, the first week of June, I still hear screams like this year, man. I heard one of my cats was fighting with something down in that holler across the street

from him. And this was back in May. And it was dark. you know, and I didn't think of it. I'm just out there with a flashlight looking for my cat. And so I'm hollering back there, you know, for my cat. I can see the cat across the holler

going up, you know, where it starts going uphill. You know, it's a steep uphill thing. And I can see my cat over there at the very bottom of it. He's, I don't know what he's got. He's got something. and he's killing something over there, you know. And then off to my left, I hear a tree knock. And that immediately got my attention.

And then no sooner than I heard the first one, a little bit up from where I heard that first one on the left, I heard another one. And I was like in my head, I was like, F this, I'm going home. And I walk back to the, I walk back to my yard. And from where I heard it, you know, it sounded close. And, you know, I live at a dead-end road, so it's like a cul-de-sac down here.

And the road, heck, it's probably only 500 yards long into the main road. And then across the street from that is St. Genevieve County, and it's all wooded. but it's all wooded around me here too. But it's really wooded back in there. And then it turns into farmland the farther back you did in there. But yeah, it sounded like they was right on the other side of that street because I've seen signs over there, you know, like, I don't know if you want to call them tree markers. Oh, sure.

I don't know what you'd call them. They're just, they're oddly placed tree limbs. I'll just say that. And they're big tree limbs. And they're not really tree limbs. They're like whole trees, you know what I'm saying? They're just huge, but I don't know. Until I see a Bigfoot making something like that,

I can't really say a Bigfoot made something like that. I can only theorize, you know. But yeah, that's. Yeah, I agree with you. It's like it would be nice if we could actually see one do that because I've been in areas like you're talking about. And yeah, you see the stuff. But man, it would be cool to actually see them make like a big X out of two whole trees or, you know, all that jazz. But yeah, it's weird stuff there.

Yeah. And that's close to my house. Hell, that's only a block away, you know, where I. I found those. And then on the other side of this lake where I'm at, I found ones over there in the woods, but they're different. They're not the same as the ones over here.

They're different. They're smaller. They're not nearly as large, but like I said, until I see one, make one, I can't really say that's what made it, you know, because man could have did it somehow. Yeah. Yeah, this whole area around here, I got to look and research and this whole area is just like report after report of Bigfoot sightings. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation.

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It was shortly after I had my 20th 17 experience. There was a farmer found a trackway of 22-inch footprints. And that was I don't remember

how far it went on his farm. But I remember hearing about it on the news. And that's only like an hour from here south, Cape Girardo. And

yeah, so there's been reports all throughout this area. And another thing I've noticed too is since that 2017 encounter, I installed security cameras. They got the infrared and whatnot.

And I sense upgraded to 4K, but I noticed they don't come around the house with those cameras up.

at least I haven't like heard them approach my house like I used to hear them approach when I was before I had cameras and whatnot so I don't know if they're able to see infrared or not I've heard rumors that they can but it's just kind of odd that since I put them cameras up they just I don't hear the the

I don't feel they're present I'll just put it that way you can tell when something's around you you know your gut instincts

or you know just has spidey sense or whatever you want a six sense I don't know what it would be called right

you know what I'm saying he can just tell something ain't right you know that's around you but I haven't felt that since I had put the cameras in

Okay. Are you using those cameras more as a deterrent then? No, I put them up trying to catch evidence of them because, you know, I would tell my neighbors and they looked at me like I was stupid and crazy and then I felt stupid and crazy for telling them, you know. But it happened to me, you know. I can't deny what happened.

to me. You know, it happened, you know, it petrified me. Oh, absolutely. And then Carter, he tries to convince me, it's okay. There's no reason to be scared. But like I told him, I was like,

man, he wasn't there. You know what I'm saying? You weren't there to feel what I felt, you know? Yeah, absolutely. I'm getting better. I'm getting a little better. I got a side by side and I won't, I'll put it this way. I don't drive it at night through the trails like I used to since that experience in 2017 and in 2018, 2019.

I don't drive it through the wood. That's all I can say at nighttime, unless I got somebody with me. and I even got a, I got a thermal camera too that I can mount to my side by side and I can put it up on a little tablet

on a bigger screen so I can see what's in front of me. I still don't do it by myself and I'm 54 years old, man. That's kind of embarrassing in a way but I just know what

I've been through, you know what I'm saying? And yeah, it has me on edge. Yeah. There's a part of me where it's got me on edge because you really don't know the intentions of these animals or half humans. This thing kind of looked human, just looked hairy, you know, and big, you know.

So you got to. that the Bible talks about giants. I see a lot of these TV shows. They want to classify it as a primate. I don't think it's a primate. I think it's more human than a primate. It's just hairy. And, yeah, so.

Wow. So you really don't know what their intentions are. You know what I'm saying? A few things to comment on. So Carter's a good guy. I've talked to him before. interviewed him. He is a good guy. I think, you know, I know why he said that. He was trying to, you know, make you feel better, which is great. Yeah, he's... You know, but you know what happened,

right? I mean, you lived it, so... Yeah, I felt it, man. I felt the fear. And it's, it's almost like like they're growling with ultrasound or what is it called? The infrasound, yeah. Infrasound, yeah, like a tiger does, because, you know, I could feel. feel that in my rib gauge, man. You know what I'm saying? Even on 2017, it was just like, it wasn't even a growl. It was just like this, I could barely hear it, but I felt it more than I could hear it. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, absolutely. And, man, it just, you know, because I was moving in the bed. And then when I felt this, dude, I was just like, I didn't. I was, I was like a toothpick, frozen. in my bed. And my stupid cat, man, she kept going up to the corner of the window and hissing. And I'm thinking in my head,

come on, cat, don't do that. That thing is going to come over here. You know, that's what I was thinking in my head. And at one point, it did start approaching my camper,

but for some reason, it stopped and went the other way. Thank God it did that. Yeah, I was petrified. man that night. That was my first encounter, you know, personal encounter. Yeah, it's just, it's crazy to start at that point. I mean, that's wild. Yeah, because I, I didn't have nobody to call. There ain't nobody around me. You know, my closest, my closest neighbor that was probably at their property was a mile away. You know, they're not going to hear me scream. You know what I'm saying? Oh, sure, sure. So, yeah. It was just me, my cat, and it.

Man. What, you know. Yeah, and then that footprint. Absolutely. That footprint I found out of the same. Have you ever talked to your neighbors to see if they've experienced weird stuff, too? Oh, yeah. Yeah, they say they haven't seen nothing.

As a matter of fact, they call me crazy that I even believe in something like that. That's terrible. That's what they call me. It is terrible. because, you know, they, I don't know why people are like that. People are just like that. But they can think whatever they want, you know. I know what I experienced.

I know the fear I felt. I know what I've seen across the street from my house in between that tree. I know what I heard before I seen that. It sounded big, you know. And then when I seen it, you know, it was huge. this tree couldn't even hide it man I don't know what this thing was thinking trying to hide behind this tree

but it could you know it's funny because to me it's comical when I think about it now because obviously this thing was trying to hide behind the tree you know but I guess

it thought I couldn't see it but this tree was it was like a telecombe hole. It'd be like a big foot trying to hide behind the telephone pole. But the tree is huge, you know, it's big around, but it still couldn't, it wasn't wide enough to hide this big foot.

That's how big it was. And it was just masculine, dude. It looked like if I, if I try to pinpoint anything that would come close, it would be like putting hair on the Incredible Hulk and making them really tall, but that muscular, and then putting hair on them. That's how big it was.

It was just huge. And it didn't look like a gorilla. It wasn't built like a gorilla. It looked like a hairy, oversized, muscular human. The way the body, the body and the hands looked human. I didn't see any

I couldn't see any reflection of claws, you know. You know how like bears sometimes at the angle. They're claws a certain way or something. You could see like a little hint of purple or something because of the, what do they call the, you know how like if you trim your dog's nails of the quick or whatever. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I just know what I experienced.

and it was just terrifying. Even though Carter says I have nothing to worry about, I know he's just trying to reinsure me, so I don't try to move. I'm not going to move or nothing, but. Right, right. In a way, if I look at it as an open mind thing, I'm privileged to have the experienced

what I have, but I'm damned at the same time, you know, because I can't erase what happened to me. You know, I can't erase those memories. Oh, that's true. It's with you forever, and it's forever affected you. Even though it sounds like you are starting to get a handle on it, it definitely has always affected you. I have a few questions about what you said. saw if that's all right.

Yeah, that's fine. So you mentioned it was the left side of it, and you saw the eyes. Do you remember, did you happen to see if it had any whites around the pupils or if it was all just dark? No, no. The only thing that I can see was the eye shine, and the eye shine was white. It looked like it looked like diamonds, man, the way it just right. reflected back at me. It was white. It wasn't red.

Now, I have seen red eye shine in the woods before, but they weren't yellow. They were white. It was just white, I shine reflecting back at me. And it was bright white. It wasn't like a dull white. If I had to guess and try to compare something as close to what I it would be the driveway reflectors that are white or the white reflectors on a police car. You know how it's got that diamond-type reflection to it?

That's what it was. And then when I panned the flashlight up a little higher, I could see the outline of the domed head that was all furry, the left shoulder. which protruded out from behind this tree a good two foot. I can see its left. There was no hair below its neck. There was no hair there.

And the hair didn't start on its breastplate area until about midway down. So I can see the muscular part of its left chest. muscle. The arms were huge, man. They were, I couldn't even guess how big around they were. They were just huge. This thing was huge, man.

And anyway, I went out the next day and I measured this tree to where I've seen approximately where I've seen this eyes shine in between this, you know, the two branches broke out left and right, so it made like a

Y at the top of this tree. and that measured nine feet. So to the, you know, where the two limbs split apart, it was nine feet to that part. So the eye shine was a little bit above that. And then the head above that. So I'm guessing nine and a half feet tall. And plus the ground sloping right there from my advantage point, you know, because I'm up higher.

I'm on just about on top of this ridge right here. So it's probably a good five, six foot drop in elevation to where this tree is from my property. And then it drops off directly behind that, it drops all down into the holler. And this thing was tall and it was big. It was muscular and it was hairy. Plan B made over-success. the counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation.

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Like I said, up under its neck. And part of his chest was not hairy. It was like a, not like a purplish color, but like a, it was almost purple, but kind of like a dark grayish purple. In his hands weren't hairy either. They were the same color as that part of his chest. the back of his hands wasn't hairy and they just looked like large human hands

so but they were real long his fingers were really long okay I remember that and I didn't really get a good glimpse at his thumb because I was just like panning all over the place you know

trying to keep my flashlight on this thing and and whatnot but uh yeah it was huge man I just made a connection in my head. So you said, were you saying the skin or the hair was purplish? The skin.

Really? Yeah, it was like a dark purplish gray color. And the fur was black. It was jet black. But the skin, the skin looked like a dull, deep, dark purplish gray color. And it was the same way for the back of his hands. And I couldn't see the front, you know, the palm, I couldn't see the palm of his hand. So I don't know what color that was.

Sure. But the left arm went below his knee on the left side. And I couldn't see his right arm. I couldn't see any part of his right side of his body. Because the angle that I was standing at, the tree was covering that portion. You know what I'm saying? And, yeah, it was just huge. And this whole time that I'm looking at this thing, you know,

I'm thinking, you know, the front doors right there just tend to be the way. But then I was actually having an argument in my head because as quick as this, you know, the ridge across where this holler is, it's not close. It's by God no means close. It's probably two blocks away. to the next ridge. You know, it's a big span that it goes down into this holler.

And it made it from over there to this tree within seconds, man. Within seconds. And if I had to if I had to guess what seconds, I'm talking 12 seconds, maybe. Oh, wow.

Yeah, it was quick, dude. You could hear the limbs because there wasn't no leaves on the trees yet. all those limbs were bare and you could you know how like if you put like a vinyl jacket on and you run through the woods you can hear that whipping sound coming off the limbs that's what it sounded like and it was coming I thought it was coming right I thought it was coming directly at me so I had my flashlight directly ahead it was all woods I couldn't really see in there but for security you know in your head you got a flashlight yeah

Exactly. You know what I'm saying. You might find this interesting. So I was in Oregon a month ago at a festival, and a woman told me her account about how just outside of Oakridge in Oregon, her RV camper had been attacked. But the weird thing is that applies to this account is that her son had reported seeing what he called. called a purple bigfoot. And after hearing what you've said, now it makes me wonder if what he saw was the hair was purple, or maybe he saw one with skin that looked purplish gray like you did.

So I need to do some follow-up on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the fur was black on what I've seen. And the skin was, it was like a, you could tell it was purple, but it. look great too at the same thing it was like purple and gray mixed together it's i don't know how to explain it other than that absolutely another thing that i wanted to bring up and i've just found this in my my looking into your area is there's also there's an interesting other legend of a

local creature in your county called the catman of do run and uh have have you ever heard of this No, I sure have. So it's interesting because it's described as humanoid and it will attack cars at night. It's blamed for livestock being killed. And this goes back all the way to the 1930s and the 40s. So they usually would be seen near a bridge and Do Run. But just, you know, kind of an interesting thing. It's called Catman.

Yeah, it's called the Catman. kind of of how it looks like, but in the face area. But the things it's doing kind of, I don't know, that kind of sounds like it could be Bigfoot behavior in a little bit. But I don't know, just another interesting thing about your area. Yeah, I've never heard about that. Okay. I know like the Mo Mo Mo, and they're referring to Bigfoot with the Mo Mo Mo. Right.

Yeah, I've never heard that. Interesting. Have you ever talked to Miguel about this? No, I did, I do watch his videos, and I did send him an email. Okay. And I told him about my BFR report. Sure. And I told him that there wasn't no need for him to come out here. You know, I just wanted to share my, I just wanted to share my story with him.

Yeah, absolutely. But, okay. Cool. Wow. David, what, man, absolutely wild, the things that you've gone through. And it sounds like it is at least controllable with the cameras up. But it'd be interesting if you had an area that is not your place you're living in, but on the same property, you could put the cameras over there and, like, put them towards, I don't know. Oh, like where I know they're traveling. Because like I've come up with a hypothesis is that these things are migratory beings, okay? And because I rarely hear them between mid-June and August. The only time I and then throughout the, winter, I never hear them throughout the winter, you know, screaming and I never hear tree knocks

during the wintertime. So, you know, like I said, I only have these, had, have had these experience is between the end of February and the first week of June or September, when it starts cooling down and maybe the first week of November. And then it's all quiet. So that led me to believe that there are migratory being, you know. Oh, yeah, especially in our area of the U.S., you know, that Midwest, I'm pretty sure they're migratory in Iowa for sure, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

Well, man, David, it has been a real thing. fun time talking to you and thank you for sharing your accounts. I mean, if things do continue to happen, please, you know, keep me in mind and you can always reach out if things continue to happen down there, but hopefully, you know, you've got things under control now. Thanks.

Yeah, I, um, as much as I like the subject to Bigfoot, like, you know, I'm addicted to Bigfoot or Expedition, Bigfoot. Bigfoot, which is that newer show. Sure. You know, as much as I'm curious and, you know, I try to convince myself to go out and do what they do. But when reality strikes, you know, I'm like, man, I just, I can't do it, you know. But, yeah.

Well, I appreciate you. Let me come on your show and share my experiences because it's good that people know that they're in this area. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I agree 100%. And thank you so much for coming on. I do have one other question, but I'm going to ask you off air. But thank you again, David. Yeah, that's funny.

Oh, you're welcome. Thank you, Jeremiah. Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot. Society podcast, David's story is an unforgettable encounter, not just because of the footprints, the growls, or the damage left behind, but because of how close it came to being something much, much more. Huge thanks to David for his courage in sharing these terrifying moments from Missouri's backwoods. If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to the channel on YouTube, hit the bell icon

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