The Confessionals - RELOADED | 127: The Rake | LIVE In Houston, TX

Episode Date: May 15, 2023

Episode 127: The Rake - LIVE in Houston, TX. The Confessionals went to Houston for our first live show, and the full audio is now released as a downloadable episode! During our live interview, guest Guy joined us to share his sighting of two creepy Rake creatures in the Dallas, Texas area! Become a member for AD FREE listening and EXTRA shows: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinCome Meet Tony:1. Smoky Mountain Bigfoot ConferenceTickets: https://bit.ly/3l1wZHR2. LIVE SHOW in Gatlinburg, TN!Tickets: https://bit.ly/3IC4IkxWatch Expedition Dogman: https://bit.ly/3CE6Kg0Tony's Studio Equipment: linktr.ee/mystudiogearSPONSORSGET EMP Shield: empshield.com Coupon Code: "tony" for $50 off every item you purchase! Listen to this episode for more information! Link: bit.ly/3YaMD1NGET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGET Hello Fresh: hellofresh.com/confessionals60 Promo Code: "confessionals60" for 60% off plus free shipping!!!Get Emergency Food Supplies: www.preparewiththeconfessionals.comCONNECT WITH USWebsite: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: [e-mail] to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletterSOCIAL MEDIASubscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaIDiscord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7hShow Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficialFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcasTwitter: @TConfessionalsTony's Twitter: @tony_merkelAre you a military veteran struggling with thoughts of suicide?Contact Watchman Readiness Corps for REAL help. A veteran-run organization that is designed to help through hands-on survival training.Website: wrc.vetEmail: [e-mail]: [phone]Instagram: wrc_survivalFacebook: colbywrcvet

Merkel? I guess it's time to go back in time. Are you telling me you built a time machine? Kind of a Dolion? Time is but a stubborn illusion. I have a lot of memories of the past. People are time traveling within themselves. Time travel is possible.

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I get to the hotel and I reached for my wallet to check in. Cousal me, he's like, hey, and he kind of... West came, we went to the airport and it actually turns out that they had my wallet there, but some of the cards were moved around. And so I think he was looking for cash, but I don't carry cash to the poor, so, you know, all worked out. But an interesting story with that is that leaving from Portland, Wes got his wallet stolen too. And what are the chances of...

of two of us having our wallet stolen coming down here to do the show. Both of us found our wallets and you guys know the rest of the story because we do a conspiracy podcast around here sometimes. It makes you wonder sometimes who's watching us. But it's kind of crazy how all that works out and stuff. But I wanted to tell you guys, Tom Ball, Texas is actually a near and dear place to my heart. And it's because many of you guys listen to the podcast, I'm a huge basketball fan, Phil Dobs and 76ers all day. And one of the players in that team is from Tom Ball, Texas. Does anybody know who that is?

Anybody. My man. You know what that means? You just want a T-shirt. I'm in here. I was like, why does it sound familiar? I'm a weirder like that. I know these things.

But, yeah, so just thank you very much for having this out here and all that stuff. But before we get into today's topic and stuff, and I want to let you guys know that I, he doesn't know I'm about to do this, it's not your door but there's a guy in the house, how many of you guys remember me doing the, my wife Lindsay wrote the blog about the Nephilim giants in Afghanistan, they're supposedly living in the mountains and stuff. Did you guys hear that narration on the YouTube channel, we have the video and everything? Who liked that?

Who's, look at this. All right, so the guy who's feeding me, some of that information is here and I just want to say thank you Seth I appreciate everything that you be careful with what he said and things like that but him reaching out and doing that really was awesome I just want to say thank you for that when he came up to say who he was it's like wow that's awesome so who wants to talk about Bigfoot today I watch chronicles so I got something else for you guys today that is actually more rare to be honest with you I think then even Bigfoot encounters who's heard

the rake. Yeah, yeah, I mean we all we all seen the rake at Home Depot and we're not talking out of that. We're actually talking about the cryptid or whatever you want to call it. So does anybody not know what the rake is because I'll inform you right now. I got to turn this down because I don't want to be breathing on it all day. But so a rake is, some people can say it's like a cryptid. Some people think it's a demonic entity. Some say it's a little bit of both. But reality is that people are saying that they've been seeing this creature called the rake and it's not very common I have a witness today that actually saw two of these in Texas and so he's going to be shared his story today but these things are known to be inside our home outside your home broad daylight sightings night time sightings

and one of the things when I was looking into this that I started noticing is that when you watch these videos of these supposed creatures You see who's publishing these videos. There's different people all over in place. But there's a very common thing is when these things are supposedly either chasing after you or you know they're there by the vocalizations, they all sound like a wild boar, like a wild hog. It's like a high-pitched wheel. And a lot of the videos and stuff online, you start seeing that commonality.

And that's one of the things that with me and Wes, what we do with the shows, we talk a lot. And there's a lot of times him and I are talking, and we're sharing notes from people that he's talked to, off air, on air, same thing with me. And he starts seeing similarities and stuff. And that's one of the things that I started seeing with this creature called the rake. There's a lot of vocalizations that sound similar. It makes you wonder what's going on with that. But the rake is, but it is.

But we're going to discuss it today with our guest, Guy. There he is. Everybody give Guy around the fault. Now, I don't know what the rake is, but maybe by a time we're done talking, we can figure it out together, right? That's bottom line is none of us are experts that we just come together and we hear people's encounter stories. We take notes, start comparing things, and see where it takes us. Now, Guy is from the Dallas area, right? Yes, sir.

And Guy saw these things. Well, I'll let you tell your story. We'll get into it. Before we start, I did give Tony a merchandise. idea because of the lost wallet, confessionals, fanny packs. What do y'all think? Anybody listen to Joe Rogan? Joe Rogan's a big fanny pack guy?

Yeah. Maybe I'll do it too. I mean, he's pretty badly. You should. Yeah. So this was in 2007, getting close to the end of summer, before daylight, say, when this time kicks in. We all love that when that happens, right?

So my best friend and I have known him since I was about five years old. We played in a band together out in Fort Worth quite a bit. And so one day we were getting ready to go and we loaded up the truck and we started heading out to Dallas on one of the major roads. Actually, I-45. And we were going through this area called Hutchins, Texas. And some of you all probably may have heard of Hutchins. I think it's where FedEx operates out of. There's a lot of wooded areas out there, really thick wooded areas.

And the highway runs through this area where there's like two really steep hills on each side. They both just go down and meet the highway, basically. I mean, it's just so out of place, you know, from the flatness of the rest of the area. And at the very top of both of them, there's a lot of wooded area. I think I saw a sign in front of there that said it was like 80 acres a while back. It was up for sale. And so you can see this hill probably even a half a mile back, that far back. It's so steep.

So we were driving along, and I was sitting there next to him. My friend was driving, and I was sitting in the passenger seat. And I was playing on my flip phone. So that dates me. And all of a sudden, I just kind of out of the corner of my eye, I caught something at the very bottom of where this hill started. And I was watching it and we're driving, probably going about 60 miles an hour. And I'm looking at it and I see it starting to crawl up this hill. And we kind of are getting closer and closer to it and I can't take it.

my eyes off of it and it doesn't register as anything that I had ever seen before. It looked like the it looked like a humanoid type of creature on all fours and at first I was thinking oh maybe it's a maybe it's a big cat or maybe it's a one of those maybe it's a deer or and as I got closer I realized it wasn't any of that because its head was round like a humans. I caught the profile view of it and it was just kind of a flat, you know, non-distinguished face. It was about an ash gray color. I could see it because it was still light out. I could see it was kind of ash gray color and the head was white. And we were getting closer to it and I saw its hands kind of coming up, digging into the dirt, climbing, and its hands

would come out. I could even as far back as I was. I could see these extensions coming out of it. I mean, probably about twice the size of what my finger is. I don't know if they were fingers or claws. But as we got even closer, I looked next to it, and there was another one right next to it, going at the same pace. It's almost like they were, you know how, like when you speedwalk,

that's about the pace that were going up this hill, and they crawled in a way that was much like a cat, maybe crossed with a spider. It just had this really strange way of moving up such a steep, you know, and I even, I remember one time I tried to replicate it, you know, and I'm in, I'm in fairly good shape, but I just, I couldn't do it just at the rate they were going. And so anyways, I kept watching them, and they were making their way up the hill, and we got to where there's a building right there across the street because I'm really bad with

like, I flunked mass really bad so I'm real bad with the measures. But we passed it. We're probably about where that building is right across the street and I could see the back of them and I just, my head just kept following it and I noticed as I was doing that my friend was watching it too, but

he was trying to drive so you know and they made their way up to the top of the hill and it's almost like they just disappeared into the wooded area. And my friend was like, did you see that? And I said, yeah, I saw that. And then we hit our exit. And for the longest time, that's all we talked about is just what were these things. You know, years went by. There wasn't, you could, you know, back then you could Google something,

but what would you Google? I didn't know what a rake was when I contacted Tony. And my friend and drew exactly what we saw. And I sent that to him, and I got a response from Tony's wife, Lindsay. And they sent us some videos. They were like of rake footage that they found. And my friend and I watched them, and we just about jumped out of our seat, because that was the closest thing we'd ever seen compared to these. They stood, so if I were going to guess their size,

they were probably about, like if they stood up, they were probably about six feet tall. And there were probably about three feet off the ground. Their legs, their legs and their arms, you know how like when we crawl, like our butt will probably be up in the air. Their backs were like parallel to the ground. and just the way they moved was unlike anything I'd ever seen. So. Yeah. Now, I mean, when they moved, it was basically just saying that when they moved, they were unnatural in the movement as far as like if it was a human kind of thing.

Right. But it was a humanoid shape. Humanoid shape. But if it was a human, it would completely naked for two of them. Right. I didn't see any tails on them because I caught the back view. Oh, you have your hand up. Yes.

Question. Did they ever look? back we all watching them? No. Actually, they just kept going straight up the hill, so we actually didn't look at, look them in the eye.

My friend, though, however, because this will probably be the next point, Tony will bring up, my friend, I didn't see this, but he saw a vehicle on the side of the road over there. It looked like somebody he said it looked like somebody changing a tire, and they were

like on the other side of their car. staring at these things. So there was a third person that saw this and I don't know if they're out there if they even know what they saw. I mean I would be I'd be probably in the car. But this area though is really strange because I see cars there all the time and people are outside of them just looking into the woods. Like the other day I drove by there from time to time just to see if maybe I'm going to see anything else and I never do. It's just so random, you know. These things happen when you're not expecting it, I guess. But, you know, I see people out there with their binoculars looking into the woods, and I don't know what it is with this area, but I'm just kind of... That makes you wonder, doesn't it? It does.

I guess you wonder if, like, locals are aware of something weird going on there. Many people are seeing these things. Right. Frequently. Yeah, who knows. I mean, and who knows where they live, if there's... You know, because every time we... I drive by there, I always look, and it's just miles and miles of woods.

And I'm like, anything could live back there, you would never know it. Yeah. It's great. So when you saw this thing, or both of them, what your friend drew and what I've seen in pictures and video, now, if I had a projector or something like that, I'd be able to show you. I'll put his picture online on the website and the video. I'll put up on YouTube at some point within the following weeks. So you guys can see the video that I put together of different.

right sightings. When you guys saw this, this was something that was like unnaturally skinny, right? Ported your picture that you used to ask. Yeah, it was kind of like, so because of the distance, I can't really elaborate too much.

It's not like they had fur coming out. It looked like just gray skin, probably like you'd see like on a hairless cat or something. and they sorry what was the other part of the body type the body type yeah that's where I was going they were more like like a lean muscular type it wasn't real

bulky it was very it was skinny but yet you could tell the way they moved you'd have to have a lot of strength to be able to move like that up a really steep hill and that's the thing with these things and what you're describing what you sent me the fact that what he said

is true. He didn't know what a rape was until we informed him. He's like, I saw something weird, I don't know who to talk to, just found your podcast kind of thing. And we sent him, and he's like, that's what we saw. And when you see these things and what I put together, you see the video, you see these pictures, and you can picture what he just described. Like, what you just described is everything that I've seen online. And it just makes you wonder, like, and even the flat face you were talking about. I've seen different pictures, videos, descriptions of these things with the flat face. Now, when you saw this, in the moment were you thinking this is some kind of weird creature, or did you ever feel like there was something more to it other than a physical

creature that you were looking at? Like some people might say, was it a ghost? Was it some kind of weird ghost cat or whatever? Suddenly, you're saying the cat thing. Yeah, we kind of, my friend and I kind of, we didn't know what to call them, we just called them the cat, the cat men. you know but like they kind of appeared to me it's like they weren't there and then they were because i didn't see i mean i wasn't even i wasn't watching the road he was but i don't think he saw anything cross the road i didn't see anything cross the road it's like they kind of just appeared out of nowhere and then they went up into this uh into the wooded area and they just kind of disappeared into the woods you know um so to me it did

It seemed very physical, but who knows maybe they have abilities, kind of like what we've talked about with Bigfoot, you know? Yeah, you never know. I bring that up because there's a lot of people that, when they're reporting these things, you read different reports online, and people are saying that they see them in their house, outside their house, and for whatever reason, something that sticks out in my mind of this one woman's encounter, she's in her bed. And this is something that's kind of common with these things, as people say that they wake up

with them sitting on the end of their bed. And this woman woke up, her husband's next to her, this thing is sitting at the end of the bed and just kind of looks back at her. They freak out, it runs out of the room. It also runs down the room into the daughter's room. And they run down after it. It's in the daughter's room. I don't know the logistics of the home, but it's hovering over the daughter.

And then they're bust in the room. It actually takes off out of the house, down the stairs. It's gone. Of all these reports that I've seen, I've never seen sign of entry reported, The door was broken in, windows were broken in. It's like they appear in the house, and then they're gone. And so it's like what he saw looked very physical. But other people were reporting things that, how do you explain it?

How did they get in? How did they get out? And so it just kind of brings the whole idea of what's this world, what is this world about? You know, like there's a lot of things going on around us, and we can't quite explain it. But that's one of the biggest reasons why we do these shows. And so that people can come forward, share these experiences, and together,

maybe we can get a clue by the time we die. Right. And like my friend, you know, that I saw them with, he doesn't believe in any of this stuff. Like he, and he saw that, and he says, that was not a human, and that was not an animal. I don't know what that was, you know. Right. His closest guest was a human hybrid or something.

But, yeah, like, he doesn't believe in any of the same. He doesn't even really talk about it. But I'm the loud mouth that I'll talk about it. Clearly. So I want to open up for question and answer. But before we go there, I want to just get you on to one more thing because we did last show. I just find it interesting.

There's a little tidbit that he shared with me, because I've interviewed him for the show. I just haven't released it because I knew we were doing this. There's a little tidbit that he shared with me I find interesting. So guy, you work in the medical. field and you told me you guys sometimes get interesting phone calls. What is that?

Yes. So once in a while we'll get, and I was talking to one of the physicians assistants about this and I don't know how it came up, but he said that we get phone calls from people saying that they've been abducted by aliens and that they've had something put in them and they want to know where it is and they want to have a scan done to find where it is. and I'm not sure how those what the process is for following up on that I know that you know they act very professional about it you know obviously but as far as what they do with that I'm not sure but it happens periodically and I think I've mentioned it to a friend of mine who's a

nurse there and she said that there was a hospital She worked in the Dallas area as well where they've had similar phone calls. So it's something that happens. And it makes you wonder, is it a regional thing or is this a national thing or a global thing? How many other hospitals throughout the country alone are getting calls like that? And what do you do with it? Right. And I believe, and you know, I realize I didn't share this with you.

I believe the hospital she was talking about one of the ones she talked about was further west, almost like towards. where it seems like a lot of that activity takes place. So, yeah, and so it's like if he, if his place of employment has had, just to say three, throughout the entire country, how many is that happening and has what point do you start saying, is there something going on here, you know? And it also like, what are we doing with it? You know, like, at what point are people that running these organizations say,

do we do something about this? How do we approach this? Do we bring them in to see if there's something in their body? I don't know, but it's showing that there are things going on in this world we can't explain And until I think until society in general is willing to At least consider these things It leaves a lot of people kind of stranded as to what they do with things I mean that's kind of like with you you contacted me because you had no clue what to do right

So very interesting stuff does anybody have any questions for guy? Let's start with you I tell you raised your hand earlier Okay, so being an inclusive if I were you and if I were you and it was safe to do so the next time you're going through that area since you live up there anyway I don't know how often you pass by there if I have any time to do it pull over and approach them and ask you I've thought about doing that I think I'm I thought about it validation when you get personal validation It does something for you that I can't describe.

I've had that happen to me regarding the ultra-guides. And 30 years later, when I got solid professional validation, whatever it was, was in this apartment building where I used to live, it's static to get validation like that. And you will too, like here's two, because they're obviously all really aware of something. Imagine if they're looking at the same thing you saw. All of a sudden you got a Facebook group popping up about the rain behind Texas.

My face will be on that. You said this near Hutchins? Yes, sir. Was it near that enormous landfill that's between Hutchins and for Hutchins? So it's right, no, it's actually, it's right before you hit I-20. Yeah. Like you would, if you were going to go, you know, either to Fort Worth or to Shreveport, and there's these two huge, huge hills that go down either side of the highway.

Okay. They're huge, like a few hundred feet. Very steep. I'm thinking that landfill must be further more than in the port. I know which one you're talking about, though, but it was right there before you hit I-20. But, yeah, I mean, who knows? There may be something out there, too, because... Man, that thing's been there for like 50 years.

Right. Telling what kind of cost of... Oh, I know. Good Lord. I know. What's been done in that thing. It's been in the same area for... Since I was a kid.

Wow. Yeah. Let's see. I saw it, I forget your name, man, but... Mark. Mark. I'm very familiar with the middle of a patch and very, and you got out there go steak and anyone back in the woods.

But are there any recorded sound with their calls or anything like that? You can hear what I just call a... You know, I... You know, it's a strange. When I put up the video I put together on YouTube, check it out. You'll hear the squeals in there. I don't know if I can replicate it, but it's... but the best thing I can say is it sounds like a wild boar it just it's like I can't do it

but um it like you know what a wild hog sounds like and uh and that's what it reminded me of big time and uh almost every time um I saw somebody in the back here also you were for I remember you seen you what's up man I know you said you saw a profile did you get to any perspective of the size of the eyes was there any type of Nose feature or mouth. So I didn't see too clearly what the eyes and the mouth looked like. I just saw that it looked like it was flat and I didn't see a nose protruding out of it. But I didn't get a real good look at the eyes or the mouth. It just was kind of like almost descriptionless looking in a way.

That's a really good... With what you're describing stuff, that's a common thing with the thing. things, the flat face profile and stuff, it's unnaturally weird. It's very weird. In the back there, and then, man, we'll hit you then. I see. Go ahead. There was a video actually sent to Wes about two girls in a great girl, seeing something kind of dig up the grave. I don't know if first, I guess the first question, have you seen that? And if you have, how does it appear on the... Are you talking about the thing that's walking on two legs coming out of the grave room?

I don't know if they see it walking as much, they see it digging an outfit. of dating and out of your age? It's kind of popped up on YouTube on other channels. I'm not sure if I've seen that one. I haven't seen that. The one I'm thinking of it, they say it's a rake, but everything that I've seen, it doesn't look anything like what everybody else is saying. It looks like, it's like a guy with two canes walking out of a graveyard.

It looked like, to be honest, it looked like a guy in suit to me with two canes. But some of these things that I've seen, it just looks exactly what he was describing. man I saw you. Has anyone seen lights or people talk about seeing lights in that area in the woods? I don't know. I don't know. And that may be one thing like she was suggesting if I see people looking out there. You know, I haven't, I don't go by there a lot at night.

So it would be kind of interesting. I know. I'll take my wife on a romantic drive. Oh, hey, we're going to go out of this place. Like a rake. One second. Go ahead. Okay, so in terms of the reduction and the hospital thing, is there any, do people have, you know, I have family members who throughout their lives and it's kind of generational.

I'm just curious, like, is it in the same spot? You know, that's something I can ask. I don't really know, actually, but I could find out, you know, if there's a common a lot of people, the particular area I work in, people call about stuff going on with their head. So it could be there's a common thing there maybe. That's why they're calling. But that's a good question, though. I just think that with that scenario, everything, it's really interesting that people are actually calling the hospital for that kind of help because they don't know where else it turned.

They've got to know that to the person on the line, they're going to sound like a crazy person. You know, but they're like where else do you turn for medical attention? Right. So I saw, go ahead. Yeah, guy, I had a couple questions. One is, how close is that to Joe Fulake? That's kind of high 20 there by Cedar Hill. Oh, okay.

Is it further away than that? I have about 25 months. Yeah, it's, yeah. Where I was is it close to where we're, where I go through is it close to Joe Poole. Okay, and then the other thing I was going to ask is, did you ever see that video on West's the show where the guy comes right off his back porch in his backyard? I haven't seen that either, no.

That was pretty freaky. That's a show. I thought West had it on his blog. I'm not sure if I've seen that one or not. There's a guy filming it, and he's a little bit coming up to his back porch. Uh-huh. It's a real skinny looking white thing. It looks like skin stretched over bone.

Are you talking about the thing? The whole body looks like its legs? There's two of them? It's a one thing. No, it's a one thing. He's filming it out of the backsliding glass door. And he called his preacher over. Oh, yeah, that.

I posted that around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, one of the interesting thing about that story is I contact the guy who created that. And after I got them talking to him, I had a lot less big. that video because one of the biggest signs for me is, you know, it doesn't happen a lot, but I reached out to him, I said, hey man, you filmed this thing, I'd be very interested in just picking your brain and talking about, I didn't even bring up the show. And in order for me to talk to him, he wanted to be you pay.

Oh, and so for me, I was like, you know, okay, I told him, I said, I don't pay people. And he said, well, you know, I don't do things for free. I'm like, alright, didn't get lost. But yeah, so I know what you're talking about now. All right, thank you. Good. I have a question. When you were seeing these things, other than awe and disbelief,

did you have any other feelings that going on? Like fear or anything like that? Really, it just kind of made me my heart jump for a second. And the longer, it was one of those things that the longer I stared at it, just the weirder it got. And I didn't know, like Tony mentioned, I didn't know anything about any of this stuff. And so it was one of those things that after it happened, you kind of file it away.

And my friend followed it away too. And then every now and then we go past that area and we talk about it again. But it's like it happened back in 2007. So like I think I probably feel more talking about it again than I did in the moment. Right. Reliving it. Because it's like, you know, at the time I didn't know what I was looking at. because where I grew up, I grew up a little further east in a town called Wills Point,

and there's certain times of year there's deer out there, so there's nothing just to see a deer all over the road. You know, big cats, every now that you see one of those, feral wild hogs, you know, and this, like, I know what all that looks like. I grew up with horses and cows, and none of that registered. and a lot of disbelief maybe was what I was looking at. Guys, I think we're going to wrap it up here, so I don't know this other guy, and tried to do it.

Thanks so much for having us, and personally for me, thank you very much. And until the next time, friends, stay safe, take care, remember, guys, the outro. All right, thank you too.