Bigfoot Society - When the Night Howled Back: My Experience with the Unknown in East Texas

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

In this gripping episode, I sit down with Darren, a listener from central Texas, who shares his hair-raising experiences during a hunting trip in East Texas. When an eerie howl echoed through the night, Darren and his brother-in-law found themselves face-to-face with something unfathomable. Was it Bigfoot or a Dogman? Darren relives the spine-chilling events and discusses how that night forever changed his perspective and daily routines. From childhood dreams of werewolves to unsettling photos captured on his property, Darren's story is bound to send shivers down your spine. Tune in and immerse yourself in this unforgettable tale of the unknown.Resources: Photos from Darren can be seen here: https://www.bigfootsocietypodcast.com/blog/photos-from-episode-455-when-the-night-howled-back-my-experience-with-the-unknown-in-east-texas/Share your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail]🔴 Subscribe to hear more Bigfoot encounters: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Darren today. Darren is a listener who reached out to me from Central Texas via email about some really interesting things that he has experienced over the years. But Darren, I'm glad that you were able to come on this show. And I'm going to go ahead and give it right over to you, my friend. Okay. I appreciate it. Appreciate being on the show.

Again, I don't know really where to start. I guess, you know, the first experience are really... you know, can confirm. I went down to visit my brother-in-law down in East Texas. He was a paramedic, not the small fire department, everything, and he had some off time. So went down there, going to visit with him a while. I hadn't seen him, and we was going to do a little hunting that day.

We always love going coyote hunting, you know, calling up coyotes with a electronic recorder. You know, using a wounded rabbit noise or a cow locator that's even takes a pack of cow howling to get a response out of other ones. I probably got down there the evening, probably around, I don't know, maybe 7 o'clock. It was during the wintertime. I think it was, I think it was already January. And it was pretty cold. We had a little ice on the ground. Well, we sat around there at the house, debating.

Where we went to yoke-all, he talked about he had a new place that's never been hunted on. He drove down there and looked at it during a day, walked around. He said it was pretty nice. He had a real nice open clearing. It was kind of down in the low spot, those hills around, a lot of trees on one part. It had a lot of swampy area. But he was talking about how nice it was. The grass wasn't very tall there.

The freeze had wiped everything out, so everything was laying down. We could see good. We got her step together. We usually call out the back of the pickup, something like that that we're not familiar with. We'll go down in park. Kind of minimal clearing. That way, you got a good 360 degree view around you. It's kind of evenly spaced out to the tree line.

We were driving down there, and we noticed, you know, he was talking. I mentioned the moon. The moon was pretty bright that night. I mean, well, actually real bright. That was kind of concerning to me. I mentioned it to him. I really don't like going to calling.

When it's full moon, you really don't have the luck, you know, much. In far as getting a predator, like coyotes or bobcats to come into you because they can spot you and see you, really. And we use spotlights that way, you know, gives us a little bit of bandages a lot with the red lens. It kind of hides our profile, blinding the animal a little bit.

That way he can't really see maybe what's going on. Anyway, we get down there. We parked in the middle. We slowly got out of the truck. He got in the back. I handed him his gun. Then, you know, I handed in mind. I put the electronic collar up on top the cab of the truck.

I went around back, climbed on in the back of the pickup. We were just sitting there whispering, trying to each other, about how bright that moon was, and how far you could actually see once we got down there. And our eyes got adjusted. I mean, you probably see a good 50 yards, easily and make out everything, make out details

you know, for anything around. And bigger stuff, you'd probably see out further, you know, pretty easily. Anyway, the side has started out, but we got her stuff situation on top of the cab there, other guns in a safe spot, parolites up there.

We shine a line minute just to get a better idea everything that's around because I hadn't really seen the place during the daytime. and to make sure there's nothing out there, you know. And there wasn't any kind of any kind of foreign equipment or cows or anything like that. We always, real safe what we're doing. And we needed it wasn't no houses around for miles. And I was one of a good thing about it that hadn't been hunted on, supposedly.

Anyway, I get this electronic collar set up. I decided I was on play a coyote pack. cowling. They do this little running howl and you know this little vocals sounds just like a cow pack in that distance. Anyway, I hit that play button there and it goes through the sequence. It probably runs maybe eight to 12 seconds long towards the vocalization. then it goes into a pause mode. It gives you time to hear any response from another pack of cows way off in the distance, howling back at you,

or a long tailo or anything like that. So I played it. It was over. It was in a pause sequence. And I just kind of remember just looked, you know, kind of looking at brother-in-law whispering. I was like, you know, I just kind of got a weird feeling. and she's like what you know what kind of weird feeling and I just oh no I just got a weird feeling

and I said that's probably nothing so probably about I don't know 30 and 40 seconds go by and then the recorder starts playing the noise again the bolstylizations and then just as soon as it went into pause mode on that second one I'm gonna say probably about

300 yards away on top of the hill and a how started out I mean it started out it sounded like a wolf

like a wolfhouse you know like a lone wolf I mean it was loud it was deep and it just kind of kept getting you know like

there's a lot more strength behind it you know it held like a long walk probably about four or five seconds then the howl started turning into like a almost like a roaring noise like if you

ever heard an African line how they roar on TV or whatever went into that and with that And without, you know, skipping a beat, there was no pause in between these different vocalization noises. It went from that roaring to like a snarling, growling, like, humping noise. It's all into one. And we just kind of looked at each other like, you know, what was that?

And it's like, it's like, it sounded like, what the hell was all that other, you know? And I sitting there thinking, I was like, man, I ain't never heard nothing like that. And it was like, you feel that strong that was? He's like, yeah, it vibrated my chest. I was like, he had mine too. And it was pretty good ways off, you know, 300 yards or so by our estimate. And we sat there listening. Didn't hear anything else.

We hadn't turned on any spotlights on at the time because we could, you know, like I say see pretty good. And the recorder, you know, he was still playing. It wouldn't be coming out of that pause session and went directly back into the the cardio vocalizations. And as soon as it got through playing that, now from what the it moved

either moved or there was two I don't know when this and it's kind of you know confused this a while but it moved from her left over to her right about a hundred yards away and just

inside the tree line but how it started off just like that just like before like a deep, blown wolf how into like a lion

war and that growling snorling stuff at the end of it. I mean, it's, I mean, it's really hard to describe that noise. It just sounded unreal.

And it's like, you know, my brother-in-law, he said a few choice words. You know, we wasn't really talking loud. He's whispering. But,

And I looked at it and I was like, I mean, my comment was, it sounds like we're off in a were off in a werewolf movie. I mean, that's what it sounds like. And he's like, yeah. He said, I was thinking that too, you know, a warwolf movie, you know, we were sitting there trying to make sense of that. And, you know, it scared us. I ain't a whole lot. Brother Long started backing up a little bit. You know, he had the gun ready.

And I went ahead, I grabbed the spotlight, and I started shining it, looking around, the direction, and all around this, really. So I thought, well, you know, if it's doing this, it was over here, then, you know, this time maybe two or three minutes later, it's over here in a total different spot. probably would have had to travel probably five or six hundred yards to get going around us to be in that position. And so, you know, I was looking all around, you know, behind us, side of us, everything. And didn't see nothing, didn't see no eye shine.

We kind of sat there a little bit, you know, debating on what we were on. too. And, well, like you say, it was frightening. I mean, it's strapped a nerve. I already kind of had a bad feeling. And I was like, we both agreed. We took her. I jumped out of the pickup.

He handed my gun. I opened a cab up. And she handed me his gun. He jumped out. And I stuck both the guns in the cab. We got in the truck. and cranked it up kind of sit there a second

you know still debating you know you know what is that I mean just we're scared but we still like you know trying to figure it out well he's like I don't know we can talk about it as we go

so we went ahead and we didn't see no eyes shower we didn't see nothing we went ahead and we got up out of there And he didn't really live that far from the area.

It was pretty close to it. And these churches kind of right at the top lakes down in that area. I ain't going to say the landowner's name. You know, we barely had permission and we wasn't on telling anybody else, you know, about it. You know, just got a respect to the landowners. And when we was going to his house, I said, well, we might keep driving a little ways when we're on the highway.

You know, I just kept thinking, you know, as big as that sounded and the strength behind it, you know, what is the same, whatever it was followed us out of there. And, you know, we had to go out some gravel roads and stuff before, you know, we ever got out of there, good, and got on the highway. You know, after got on the highway, wasn't that far to his house, so we just kept on driving for a little while,

trying to roll the back road discussing, you know, trying to figure out what that was, and it just, you know, no matter what you wanted to, you know, I was like, maybe it's Bigfoot. Maybe that was a Bigfoot house. At the time, I didn't know anything about,

you know, dog men or supposedly, you know, these different programs and stuff and different things we're looking up. You know, we didn't know, hadn't heard anything about all that. Just all we ever heard was, you know, about Bigfoot, you know, when the show finding Bigfoot first come on the air and everything else, you know. We'd watch that, entertain it, you know. Always kept open mind, you know. And yeah, we were during this whole time we was discussing it to each other. We both, you know, it was like, man, that was a big foot. I mean, that was a weird, freaky sound and everything else.

But I kept on going back in my head. It didn't sound like, you know, with any kind of vocalizations or anything that's people's got recorded or 40-hearing or anything like. anything like that. It sounded like a werewolf. I mean, chain-eye and you. In time we get together, we talk about that,

discuss it, you know, still trying to make sense of it today. And, yeah, that's pretty much, you know, what went on that bad.

And it pretty, that changed the way I see the dark. it changed the way I look at things more than I realized at the time I used to be big on you know going hunting at night cowl hunting like that I still today

might have only went cowl hunting at night one time since then I don't let myself get off in the woods after dark and if I'm in the woods I got a gun on me. Carried flashlight also, just in case, you know, got caught up after dark or whatever.

But deer hunting, it took me a while to do that. And I still will not get up and go to the stand, deer stand before daylight anymore. I've stopped bow hunting, forage like that. It only got them a land that's around here is core engineers laying around here in our area. And he's supposed to carry no firearms in there unless it's, you know, certain permit for a certain area during shotgun season or something like that. So I will not go bo-hunting on any board because I can't carry legally, I can't carry another gun with me, a gun with me.

you know if you come up on a game warden or anybody else you know i'd be in trouble having you know but during that time and it's pretty much changed the way i even do things around the house at night after dark i mean it's if i'm doing something outside i keep my pistol on me You know, especially this, you know, a lot of time during the summer and everything. I'm over the yard at night because the heat is real bad here in Texas. And, you know, good at night because it's a lot cooler. And even though I want to loud lawn more, I keep my pistol on me. I live about the country.

And there ain't many houses around me. And there's some wooded acres down. below me, creek land, but most of it's farmland, open land. But, yeah, it is, it really affected me on the way I do things. And just the way I think, whatever that was, you know, I didn't want to, I don't want to see it. That's for sure. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down your business, you need the Intuit ERP. If one entity is here and one here and one here and one here, you need the Intuit ERP.

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would take that myself. Do you mind if I ask you some questions about what you've shared so far? Yeah, go ahead. So you mentioned really quick that both of you said that it vibrated your chest. Is that the main way that you were affected by hearing that vocal, or did it affect you in any other ways physically or mentally during that time that you remember? Not really. I can't remember any other

different feelings or anything I've heard people talk about get strange feelings or might get sick or feel something but it wasn't nothing like that. Both of us, you know, just kind of

the howl and everything. You just pull loud and powerful. Excuse me, that's powerful. and it just as it went on and the deeper it got with the like roaring growling snoring I mean it you know you could I mean you could feel it just it was almost like having a you know speaker up next to you or something or you know you hear these cars driving by you in town and stuff they you know they got their they got their base going in their car and you just You know, you might not hear the bass that good, but you can feel it.

Right. And that's kind of how you could feel it along with the noise. And to be that far away, you know, still do that. I mean, whatever could do that has got to be huge. It wasn't no small puppy out there just howling at the moon or anything like that. was it was it had to be huge to make that kind of noise you know that's the only time i've heard that type of noise or how i've helped with a guiding outfit new mexico up in that area colorado take people you know out in the mountains and stuff and kind of there in a desert new mexico around

the maces and travel camp overnight different areas you know i'm I've done a lot of things over, you know, I guess my lifetime. I'm about to be 53 here in about 23rd of this month. And, you know, this is just something I have no explanation for. Absolutely. You mentioned that there was kind of like a huff noise at the end of the vocalization that you heard. Can you describe that particular part of the howl or the roar in any other ways? Well, I mean, I could try to imitate it.

You know, I might sound a little stupid here, but I don't know. The howl, when it first started off, you know, that Long Wolf Howl, like, And it kept going and it turned into like a from a war, I mean a how like and like that. That's the best way I can describe it. Like it, start and growling and just on the end of it. Gotcha. Okay. Very interesting. Yeah, you know, just doing that.

a hair to stand up on my arm like one that goosebumps I mean you know it's a sound you ain't supposed to hear

it's it's really interesting because it's like you're not sure if it's a big for or dog man like I'm I'm honestly not sure

I'm you know like me and him discussed you know it sounded K9 you know what I mean sure you know you know

You know, I talked to my first time I actually kind of reach out somebody trying to figure out different things. I reached out to, I guess it's hard to say, Miguel. Yep. On Sasquash Theory, reached out to him. We was talking on the phone, even did a little, you know, he had me on his show telling about it. And, you know, when we was talking, he was talking about he had the same kind of experience, the vocalization, vocalization, that sound, that howling. And he could, you know, contribute to that with his dogman experience. And at that time, you know, this was last year probably, it's probably been a year, year and a couple months, somewhere in there that one of the, one of the time.

when I talked to him, you know, that's the first time I ever heard about dog man. And that got me, you know, thinking everything else. It's like, then that's when I really started actually looking up stuff for his dogman or maybe any kind of vocalizations. Anybody had recorded or the way they talk about the way that's, way it sounded and I've heard you know several different interviews on different shows that they talk about howling roaring noise like a like a lion and you know they never mentioned any kind of like the growl and the snorl noise and all that and but

everything else sounds that the same and they contribute, you know, that one of their dog man sightings or like that. And so that just, I don't know, it left me, you know, left me with a lot more questions. When Miguel first brought that up, I think I said, I hate, you know, I hate to think something like that's out there. Absolutely. I'm not a big fan of ever running into that myself either. You know, Bigfoot, I don't know.

we've heard about that for years. You know, that's kind of a thing word, you know, kind of burn your mind a little bit from, you know, all the different shows about it over the years, you know, trying to accept, you know, okay, might be a big foot out there, you know, no big deal. I ain't heard of them. I actually hurt nobody, but, you know,

still don't want to see one, but then you hear something like that. And they refer to it as a dog, dog man and you start going down that rabbit hole looking at things and listening to different stuff. And it's like, especially what they look like. You're supposed to look like. And it's like dog man, that's a werewolf to me. They're looking at something like that.

I mean, that's Hollywood stuff. It's supposed to be nothing like. Have you, so this area of Hilltop. lakes where you had this happen. Did you ever look to see if there are any other similar events online in that area related to Dog Manor Bigfoot? I looked there for a little while. I've heard maybe some different Bigfoot sightings.

Maybe around that area, I think, you know, that's just a general area. I don't want to give out these people at the means, you know, the land we was on. and I've heard BFO or O going in different places down there. I also know I know there's I forget how far away from this area it is but there's an old military base down there that's been closed down for years. I forget what they do but I don't know there's supposed to be underground facilities there. there's a lot of old concrete buildings left, different kind of silos, different stuff. It was a pretty big place, and I don't know.

I've heard some people talk about the military, you know, used to experiment on things there. Of course, you hear that about any kind of military base or, you know, area operation where, you know there's always underground tunnels and and experiment on things so i forget how far away that is and where it's at and there's been a lot of sightings contribute it's around that area nobody's supposed to go there or trespass it was mostly all growed up but i can't remember the name of that place to save my life right now and did you say bigfoot sightings or dogman

sightings in that area? I heard about Bigfoot sightings. I really hadn't heard no dog band siding. You know, I, you know, I reached out this. Some of them that was, you know, you know, trying to, ones that had like BFRO, you know, Matt Moneymaker and some of them been down there. There's like a lot of stuff from East Texas.

and I kind of followed them a little while. You know, I kind of reached out to them, you know, wondering what I might have heard and what it could have been in any reports or possibilities. You know, nobody ever got back with me. Sure. You mentioned that when you do stuff around your house, that you have a weapon on you,

just for peace of mind, is that because of what happened that night or are there things happening around your house and property as well? Yeah, like there's not really anything happening around a property, I guess. Sometimes I get a weird feeling kind of like that night

be out doing something or maybe working on the pickup or doing something in the garage or something. And, you know, I just get a weird feeling you know and I just kind of shine the light around or look around me and you know and I just started carrying my you know I started carrying my firearm and I really ain't never been a big carrier or he's a handgun or anything like that you know I have them in my safe but that spring I guess

Yeah, that coming spring after that happened, it kind of pushed me over the edge to, I went ahead and got my license to carry. And went through the course and got my certification and license here in Texas for, carry their final work. And that experience kind of pushed me in that direction. It's like, you know, out at night on these, you know, we like riding the back roads and everything. thing around here, maybe on a four-wheeler or in the truck or, you know, just get out and look at the wildlife, me and my, me and my fiancee.

And it's like, you know, I won't even do that now without, you know, even though I'm in a pick up, just riding around, you know, yeah, I carry it. Well, I got it on me. You know, I think about different scenarios. It's just a lot of things I used to do that, you know, I don't really take for granted now. After hearing that, you know, you know there's something out there. Well, me, I know there's something out there that I have no fathom of what it is. If it's demonic, some kind of, you know, people talk about these genetic.

mutations or experiments or whatever, the thaweling, the watchers, the netherlands and all that stuff, you know. We are kind of living in crazy times, and they do talk about, you know, towards some times, you know, the evil will get worse or whatever, but I don't, I don't know that this is something that some kind of, way things are, man manifested or if it's some kind of demonic. I don't know. I just know I could hear it.

I could feel it, go through my chest. I didn't see nothing. After you had that experience that night, did it affect your dreams at all? That's kind of a weird thing there. Because I used to have dreams. I mean, I've had dreams all my life. as a kid, I'd have dreams. You know, as a young kid, I mean, I was, I don't know.

I know I had to be around three, four, five years old, somewhere in that area. But I still definitely remember dreams and didn't know what no werewolf was or anything like that. You know, that young kid, you know, mom and dad didn't watch any kind of movies. like that or anything. And I used to have dreams growing up all the time, like a werewolf looking at my window, bedroom there as a kid, or be outside playing, and when you looked up and there would be one. You know, it would wake me up the middle of night.

You know, I'd lay there in bed here to death, you know. chuggers on my head, you know, sitting there thinking, is it, you know, is there something out there like that or something, you know. But, yeah, I've had dreams prior and, you know, to that and after, you know, about stuff like that. Did you grow up in the same area or in Texas? Yeah, actually, where I grew up. It's probably the house I was raised in, it's probably four miles from here. The house I live in now, it's blown to my mother's side of the family,

got inherited down through the earth through my mother. And by that side, the house we were raised as a kid, I'd say maybe three or four miles from us. And there during that time, growing up, especially in the Chabnees in that era out there. The nearest neighbor might have been three or four miles away, three miles, something like that, pretty much, you know, kind of in middle of nowhere. Out there on a farm, my dad was a farmer.

I kind of grew up secluded from anybody, any place, any houses around, you know, away from town. But, yeah, you know, as a kid, I remember being scared of the door. whatever worried about what's going to be out there because of the dreams i had growing up but i don't know my brother might have played apart in that always trying to scare me with something right yeah i got you yeah you mentioned that you continued to have those after what you heard at hilltop were they similar or were they different types of dreams after that they they bought always been pretty much the same. It like I don't know,

you know, as far as beginning something outside and look up and there'll be something. You know, as far as that or, or like be out playing or working on it. You know, just I don't know. However dreams go is just always be outside and it'd be around either the house or,

and I wake up trying to make sense of it. You know, well, I'm a dream about them werewolves or anything like that, you know. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down your business, you need the Intuit ERP. If one entity is here and one here and one here and one here, you need the Intuit ERP.

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but it feels like there could be more to the story at a later time, but I mean, it'd be nice if you didn't have to deal with anything else. But it's just, it's a very, very interesting story. Have you ever returned to the same area? No, I have not. It wasn't long after that. I still call him my brother-in-law, even though I'm not married his sister no more, but we was just that tight.

He took another job somewhere else, and so never did go back down there to that area or anything like that. You know, I grew up doing a lot of things. and I was in the last 25, 30 years, you know, I pretty much drove a truck local here in Texas. And in the oil field, when all that was moving around big, here in Texas, and them fracking jobs and hauling water off these gas wells and stuff, where they were fine there. You've sent me off in some pretty weird places.

you know, I'd go to places out in East Texas back long before this happened. You know, you'd be off in some scary-looking country, and, you know, it just gives you the creeps a bad feeling. But, you know, I never really seen nothing driving on the back roads or anything like that. I do remember times when I was up in New Mexico. And the area, it was northern New Mexico. up above Clayton, that way towards Colorado border, that a friend's dad had a hunting outfit,

took hunters on guides and stuff like we got it to hunts and stuff. And we go scout areas. I'd go up there, help them, you know, scout out different areas. Well, you know, from miles and canyons and different stuff. There was one that being my, Buddy, we was leaving the main little, I guess, where the client stayed, a little house there for him. We decided we was on go up into, on top of one of the Masons, not too far from there, to check out, to check on the old cabin and stuff. Stayed the night up there, or maybe a couple nights.

and we decided we was on a walk went on them roads can be one of the masas there's been full where there's a slide off the side or pickups you know you can't see that good you know you don't need to be driving up there

and has stooped some of laces are down in our meetings but we decided we was going to walk up there one night and we need to turn turn loose problem bears in that area around parks and stuff they would turn them loose

in this area you know because it was there wasn't no one around for miles I mean except for occasion maybe ranch house or something that you know somebody still had lived in

but most land below the one person and there wasn't like sir the ranches can go off the miles and so they would turn some problem park bears out you know they're instead of putting them down to give them a chance we was walking up that cabin one night we got about halfway up to so new mexico they call them flat top mountains or whatever nice is and they'd be pretty tall and steep when we was walking up the road going to the cabin and we kept hearing something

you know, walking with us, walking up that road on the right side of us, it was a steep drop off, probably, I don't know, maybe 100 foot, 200 foot, just steep drop off to this ledge, and then it continued on down, and into the lot of us there, the trees and everything. and it would stay in the trees and it would never heard any kind of noise, any kind of growling, huffing noise or anything like that. But you could hear it walking with us and we stopped, and it would stop. And, you know, we were both aware of it. And, you know, talk about it as going up.

I don't really like, you hear that. It's over there making this noise or that noise. He was like, yep, I hear it. We had her guns with us, you know. We wasn't going to walk around where this problem bears without any guns. I carried her that time a big old 44 Magnum in a shoulder holster. So I wasn't too worried about it. Whatever it was, it followed this all the way up to that cabin that night.

And we got in there. It just, as closer we got the, The cabin, it felt like more urgent we need to get in the cabin. It just started to turn, no big deal. You know, it was kind of scary at following this all the way up there. And it was probably two miles up, you know, to get to it from where we was and started hearing it. And we got the cabin, locked everything, got in there and locked everything back up, got a fire and a little light going in there. but it's like all night you could hear something around the cabin though and we really you know we considered you know thinking you know a bear but there was one time you hear the doorknob whatever on the outside of this one door you can hear a jiggling when we just kind of i don't know i kind of just

Well, maybe it was pushing its nose around on it or whatever. And, you know, if it was a bear, well, maybe it was rattling and smelling where her hands are being or whatever. You know, never really thought anything else other than that to, you know, until we heard what, you know, the thing howling down in these checks is I started thinking about things that might have happened and different noises might have heard that really didn't. think nothing about you know way back then you never heard anything about either or another but it was always either something happened or something went wrong it was a bear you know that was it there wasn't nothing else so there were no talk about anything else and you're talking about you asked me while you know experienced anything around here at the house I got trail cameras out

I got a couple that sends me pictures and I'm always checking them and I'm saying what's running around out here and I've been trying to get deer to come up here forever out of feeder but the camera took a picture the other day that I had one out there

I finally got some chickens and chicken coop out here and I had one of those five point cameras there that sends you pictures whenever you know something triggers it and about 30 I guess it was dark enough where the sun was down it was dark enough where the infrared to show up but

it looked from the from looking at it it, whatever this was, it was something by the carport, by the back door on all fours, and from the back, it looks like from the back. It looks bear like, and we ain't got no bears here, you know, never heard any bear sightings or never seen any rare sightings here, you know, in Hill County. And all that's supposed to be out east.

But in the picture, it's just something big furry on the ground. It stands pretty tall, but it looks like it's got his head down. It looks like from the back. And he can make it out, but you go to zoom in on it or whatever. You know, it blurs out. don't really, you don't get great detail of it. And I went out there, you know, looking around, looking where, you know, the picture and everything. I was just trying to, you know, I was trying to see if there's anything out there in your yard that would, you know,

if the camera might have took a picture, you know, like a mouse or an owl or something, flew by the camera or something, if it just happened to take a picture and you, you'd just happen to take a picture. didn't catch it or whatever you know it shows the yard in that area but this time there was something there and I went out there looking there wasn't nothing laying in the yard or next to the carport or anything that would get any impression you know like you trick the eye like an animal being but I don't know it you know you know I could be looking in that picture looking at the rear end or something. Maybe I might have heard howling one night.

I don't know. That is very interesting. Is that a photo you would mind sharing it all, or is it? Yeah, I'd share the photo. See, I got a, before that was taken, I was, you know, I kind of got a before and after, like, perception of, But see, it was around 3.30. I was out there by the chicken pen.

I went out there and check on and make sure they still heard plenty of food and water. And so we took a picture, basically, in my legs. You see the carport in that distance. You see the car, the lawnmower, little barbecue grills, if you zoom in the young. And it was exactly. That was at 3 o'clock. And another picture, this other picture went off. I had to sit there on something rather.

I don't know if it was around 10.15, some military time I had to think about there a minute. Or not 8.15, right before it was getting dark and didn't see, you know, I was like looking around, didn't see anything. I was like, well, what's there? And I'm looking in the background at the carport, and there it is something. All four is staying in there. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. If data management is slowing down your business, you need the Intuit ERP.

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Need to hire? This is a job for Indeed's sponsored jobs. They say everything happens for a reason, but I suspect everything happens for a recess. Like this commercial break. Did you need 15 seconds away from music? Or 15 seconds to eat or Reese's? Perhaps it's true.

Everything happens for a recess. You all may send them pictures to you. an hour team. Yeah, I mean, that would be interesting to take a look at later for sure. Were you able to see any tracks out where it was? See, that night it rains. Well, when this picture come in, it didn't come in. If it did, I wouldn't pinch it.

It meant the electricity been off that day and me and the wife, for a monthi answer, that time of color of my wife. But we was in the house at that time. It started cooling off. We've been outside most all day. And the storms knocked out of electricity here. And we started kind of cooling off. We went back inside.

And, you know, doors and windows opened. And we just tumbling up. Well, she works nights. And so she was taking a little nap anyway. And I dozed off. And later, I guess I didn't hear it come in on my phone. but Graham 11 o'clock at night

I noticed I had a picture on my phone I hadn't seen open it up and look at it and I guess at the time we were supposed to take it around now my nose dog really it came right up to pretty much the back door there where we had been sitting

most of the day kind of under the carport and shaded area because it was you know it was pretty warm that day. By the time it did there, well, anyway, by time I got the pictures,

it had already been raining for probably about 30 or 40 minutes and it was pretty heavy again. And so that's when I went out there looking at everything out. I looked for tracks there. Look for tracks. Went on the wet ground on the carport

where the rain been blowing, but just too hard to ground, too much. travel and I didn't see no tracks whatsoever the next day even you know I went back out there looking around hoping maybe you know see some tracks at the edge of the field right now just corn planting all around us and my little area here's about two acres that's you know this man and was corn planting it all around us. And so you really can't see nothing right now, but I look, I walked around the edges of

the field and everything, looking around the edge of the corn, we'll see if any tracks or anything like that could be seen in the mud there. I didn't see nothing, but, you know, maybe a coyote track or two. Every now and then, we get cowards running through here. They keep on going. Yeah, that's the strangest photo. Did you tell me you send it to your email? Yeah, you can send it to my email, just a Bigfoot Society at gmail.com.

Wouldn't you know it? Our internet is down right now, so I'm going to have to look at it at a later time. We're having some weird weather affecting stuff right now. I understand that. I'll go to storm again. It's been nothing but waving here. Darren, it's been a pleasure chatting with you about the things you've experienced. You've really have experienced some interesting things.

Be interested to see the photo when you're able to send it over. And if you do ever experience anything else weird, please feel free to reach out about that as well. All right. That's your wheel. And I try to reach out, you know, some other people, you know, and it's like, I don't know. I've been listening to your show for a while. And it's, you know, some of these other ones that want to talk to me or something, I just, I just don't, they seem like they, they stress too much in the beginning,

how much they depend on everybody's money to be sending in for it. make it yeah it's it's not about that yeah that's always the first thing said and had it's stressed

and I'm like well I'm not getting back with you yeah I mean the reason I do it is that like a lot of people I talk to they just don't have

anyone where they can just share what they experienced and not have to worry about being laughed at or anything. So that's that's what I tried to to help with people that I get connected to. And I mean I've I've experienced like a kind of traumatic situation myself and now I really get how important that is for people to be able to talk just talk to someone and not you know just to unload. So I totally get it.

And a lot of, you know, I got friends that laughed at me, you know, it's like, what was you doing? What was you smoking? When you drank in? What was this? You know. Right. It's like, you know, I like cutting up having a good time, but when I'm serious about telling something, I'm like, it just makes me mad. Like, damn it, you ain't listening to me.

Yeah, it's, you know, something. Yeah. If a person wants you to listen and be serious, you need to do that. I totally get it. Totally get it. Darren, thank you so much for chatting tonight. I appreciate you taking your time and being willing to share. And hopefully people listen to this.

And maybe they've heard of stuff in the same area they can share. And maybe they've been holding off on sharing something that happened to them. And this will give them the courage to share. what they experienced. Yeah, because, I mean, you know, I was one of them that never, you know, was skeptical, always kind of skeptical of stuff, but there's something out there,

and people need to know there's something out there and just not take a lot of things for granted. You know, a lot of things might not be as it seems. And I always keep the eye open, I guess. absolutely yeah be prepared for sure it sounds like you're you're definitely doing that but pleasure talking to you tonight darren all right it was great talking you please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on youtube making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications and share the episode on youtube with a friend also if you're listening to us on a podcast

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Maybe there's somebody else out there listening. It's too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out. And now it feels so bad about it. Who cares what anybody thinks? I know what I saw. I know what's out there. That's all I care about.

Please let people know. Please let them know if you ever see one of these things. You need to tell because if you don't, then shame on you. You know, shame on you. There's more. Monster Fest 2 is coming up soon and beautiful Canton, Ohio, and I will be there doing a live podcast. If you've ever wanted to meet Bigfoot Society in person, this is the year to do it. My special guest in the live podcast.

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