Ivish. That next morning, something came into camp, but this had a totally different feel, and we could actually see the shadows on the tent. It was huge, and we could make out the shoulders and head. And another one came up to the left side of it, and it was coming up from the front of our tent where the fire was out there, and I pushed on Sandy's colot with my foot when she looked over, and I went and she looked up and she could see the shadows.
She pushed on Barber's tent did the same thing, so they all saw that. You could hear the footfall. And I had my recorder going out in the back left corner of my tent, and Barbara had hers out in the front. So anyway they walk around, you could hear them moving. They weren't running around throwing crap at us like the look we think juveniles, you know. But anyway, it was just a totally different feel. And I've never ever been scared or felt any kind of fear until then,
you know. And so anyway about well, it was six twenty nine, because I keep my phone under my palace so I can see what time it is, six twenty nine, from the back left corner from my audio recorder. Kids, it was this high pitched female sounding scream and it was real shrill, and then it ended in like a whoop. And then ten seconds later another one from it was the same being that did it, I'm sure because it was the exact same scream, exact same area, same thing,
and we were like, that's the Medusa scream. That guy was legit. He we understood now what he was talking about. But it was bigfoot, I'm sure. So the next night, same exact stuff. Those juveniles they're back, you know, a little less activity, you know, But and then that next morning, same about the same time, they coming to camp again. It did it three nights in a row. The fourth night it was raining and it was a lot less activity,
but we still had them coming into camp. But on that second night, if you went on past where that guy had been camping, you go another several miles down and the road ends and there's a campground and there were some bear hunters down there, and we had talked to them every day we'd go down there because we wanted to keep up with who was where, you know, And so the second night, way off in that direction,
where the bear hunters were. We heard four gun shots and I said, well, they're either drinking and getting rowdy. Are theyre having something going on in camp? And then just a few not even a minute or so later, we heard two more gun shots, and then within a minute or so we heard that Medusa screen from that area over there, and I'm like, oh, yeah, they're having activity and that's what they're shooting at. And so we
were excited. And then the third night, somewhere between them and us, we heard the Medusa scream again, and so we're like, that poor young guy must have been scared out of his mind. And but anyway, that was that was really cool because we thought he was on drugs or something talking about sounded like a killer carry sword around with it. Yeah, yeah, that's funny. When you say Medusa's scream, you call my sister that really, I know,
That's what I was like. We even talked about it after he left, you know, before we went down there. I'm like, what was he talking about Medusa's scream? It just didn't make sense. But then we were like, okay, because it did. It was so high pitched, you know how you hear on movies pterodactyls and stuff. That's exactly what it was reminiscent of. But I got excited because my recorder was right in that corner where that screen
was coming from. And Barbara went ahead that next morning and got hers and played it back, and it picked it up good on hers and hers was in front, so when Shelley listens to it, she ought to hear something good on that. Well, it was really high pitched, and all three of us we all said it sounded female, but we just had a feeling that it was like a like an alpha female. I think she was finally like saying, this is it? Leave this? Yeah, So it was.
It was pretty interesting, saying let's go out. That's fascinating. I'd never heard that scream like that before. And if it hadn't had the whoop on the end, I would have said, don't know what the heck that was, But it had a whoop on the end. Well, I've heard other stuff, but not sound like that.
Tell them about your daddy and y'all's experience down there.
Well, where I grew up, I was. I lived in Malta, Texas. We only had just a few hundred people in the little community. The school went to eighth grade, and I was valedictorian in my eighth grade class. And I normally don't tell people, but there was only three of us. We had like two grades in each classroom, you know, So fifth and six were together, seventh and eighth were together.
And once you got out eighth grade, you had to go to high school in either New Boston, which was seven miles in one direction, or in DCAB, which was seven miles in the opposite direction. And I ended up I ended up going to both, you know, And so because Decap was just more down to earth, I think.
And anyway, so where this place was located though, was only probably about thirty forty miles from Falk, Arkansas, which is legendary in the Bigfoot community, you know, because of the legend of Boggy Creek, and a lot of my cousins lived up in Texa, Cana in that area, and some of my cousins lived in falc and uh like I, you know, my Mama and Daddy had adopted me when they were forty one, and so I already had two brothers that were twenty some odd years older than me.
So all my first cousins were in their you know, twenties, and so I grew up with my second cousins, and I grew up playing with my second cousins in those woods in Foulk, Arkansas. But back then, when I was a kid, we didn't know that Bigfoot even existed. We didn't know what a bigfoot was, you know, and I didn't even really know about it until I was in my early twenties or so. But what we called that
creature in fout, Arkansas was the fount monster. That's that's all we ever heard, was a fount monster, you know. My mama and daddy and everybody would say, oh, honey, it's not real, you know. But then the Legend of Boggy Creek movie came out and we went to see it, and she really had to tell me that because it said, you know, based on true events. And I went with my cousins and we were all looking at our parents like what, and they were saying, no, honey, that's just
a movie. They just do that to make it more exciting, and so we were like, okay. You know. Anyway, when I was about fourteen years old, it was Christmas time
and my mama was sick. She had cancer and so she was in the bed in the front room of our house, and my daddy and I were on the front porch hanging Christmas lights and they were blue Christmas lights, and so it didn't light up very much, you know, and we had the front porch light off because we could see better where we were putting them in space and the Christmas lights out. We had a long house, it was almost like, you know, a long shotgun type house.
On the left hand side of the porch was the car port, then on the right it was just you know, we had woods all the way around and a pond back behind us and a dirt road in front of us. It was so dark out there, and we were on the right hand side of the house, opposite from the car port. And when we were hanging the Christmas lights, coming from the left hand further on down, you know, away from us, sounded like it was coming from on the other side of where my Mamma's house used to be.
Next door, we heard just this. It was gosh, it was so scary. It was like a moan, a roar, and a growl altogether. And I had never heard anything like that before. And it was so loud, you know, it's just and it scared to crap out of me. And I looked at my daddy and I was like, what was that, Daddy, and he was He just paused for a second and he said, I don't know what
that was, but let's just hurry up and finish this. Well, my daddy, like I said, he was forty one when he adopted me, and that was back in sixty six when I was born. So my daddy had been in three wars, Vietnam, World War two, and Korea, and he never was scared of anything. But I could just tell that, you know, he stopped and looked in that direction, but he's like, let's go ahead and finish this. And so I was like, well, let's let's go in because I've
never heard anything like that before. And he was like, no, let's just go ahead and finish this. And so we're trying to get it up, and thank goodness, it was not a very long porch. But as we're working our way to the left, you know, we get to about the center and we hear it again, but this time it's closer up and he says, go in the house and get my gun, and I said, I'm not leaving you out here, and I said, please, come on, let's go in the house. He goes, no, just hurry up,
go in the house and get my gun. I said, no, Daddy. I was about starting to cry, you know, I said, let's go in the house please. And about that time, from the carport area, we heard it again, and this time I've just busted out in tears, and he's pushing me in the house and he just pushes right on by me. Well, my mama was, you know, right there and that first room in the bed, and she sees me, you know, crying, and he's running through the house going to go find his gun, and he's coming back out
and she's like, what's going on. And I'm like, there's a monster outside of his war, you know what I'm trying to make the sound for. And I'm worried because Daddy now is just going out there. And so I go into my room, which was on the opposite side from where my mama was and on the side that the carport was on, and I'm looking out the windows, following him around the house to make sure nothing got him.
And he comes back in there and he's like, there's there's nothing out there, I don't see anything at all, and he had a flashflight, you know, and had his gun and all that, and I'm still just shaking, you know, and Mama's scared now. So he tells me, he said, go in there and call your ain't Overly. Now. My Ain't Overly was my Mama's sister, and they had all grown up in that area, and Ain't Overly was already in her probably sixties at this time, so she had
lived there forever and ever. And so I'm in there or what we've just heard roaring and growling and moaning on the phone by trying to make this sound, and she said, oh, honey, that's probably just Miss clay Shilti's bulls across the street from us, you know. And Miss clay Shiltie was an older, elderly woman lived there by herself, and she did she had, you know, her husband, whod passed away, but she still had the bulls and the
cows and the chickens and all that. There was a water tower over in the right side of her pasture and everything. And I'm telling you, we were in the country anyway. So that made me feel better, made my mama and daddy feel better, and so we slept okay. Well, the next day, Miss clay Shilty was at our house because she would come and give Mama her shots for pain relief, and so she was up there in the front room. My daddy was in there and he calls
me and to ask me come up. You know, I was in the back of the house where the liver room was at, and he said, did we come up here and make that sound? But we heard last night from Miss clay Shilty and she's just sitting there, you know, rocking the rocket chair. And so he had already told her the story. And so I'm up there roaring and moaning and growling, and she's like, oh, mister Bob, I wish she hadn't told me that. And he said, no, he it's okay, because overly told me that it was
probably alls bulls or something. And she said, oh, no, no, mister Bob, I don't have any of my cows. Are my bulls over there right now? They're all up in decab and I don't remember what was having done. I can't remember exactly. It's like they were being bred or something. But anyway, she said, there's none of my bulls or cows are over there right now, and she says, as a matter of fact, something's been stealing my chickens. Of course, we didn't know anything about anything at that time. We
didn't know anything about Bigfoot. Looking back, I remember I was Daddy's girl, you know, and anywhere Daddy went, I went. I helped him with everything. He had killed apolsum one time that was up around the house and we didn't it was late in the evening, so we didn't have time to bury it, and so he said, well, let's just go around back. We'll put it in the trash can. We had, you know, a metal trash can, and so he said, we'll put it in the trash can. We'll
come back out in the morning, we'll bury it. And so he put the lid on it, and he put a big old rock on top of the lid so nothing would get into it and get it. And so the next day he called me and he said, come on, let's go out and bury the possum. And we go out the back door, and you know, the trash can is still sitting there with the lid and the rock and everything. So he takes the rock off, takes the lid off, he said, looked at me, what'd you do?
I said, we told about He said, the possum's gone and I said, day, I didn't get that possum. I didn't do anything with that possum. He said, you serious, and I said no. And you know, we had no clue what had happened, but that lid was still on it, and that rock was still on that lid, but that possum was gone, so something had to have taken that heavy. I mean it was a big rock, it was, yeah, it was at least the rock was at least like a foot all the way around foot with you know,
foot wide, foot high. It was a heavy rock. That was interesting. So now looking back, I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. And we would hear all sorts of stuff. We'd hear high pitched screams. When we first moved there, I was a lot younger, but there was a railroad track on the other side of that water tower, and we used to hear screams and it sounded like a woman's screaming.
And so, of course Ain't Over we lived there, and we'd always call ain't ovally anytime we didn't know what was going on, and she said, no, we thought it was a little lady that lived in that little pothouse by the water tower getting beat up or something. And she's like, oh no, no, that's that black panther that walks up and down the railroad tracks. And so that's just what I always thought, you know, that was. And it may have been a panther for all I know.
But yeah, there was lots of strange things wow going on around there, and.
That wasn't really the catalyst that got you interested. You just reflect back on math and you you put those.
Things together, right right, Yeah, I mean because.
I just love that. I don't it's not the craziest story in the world. That's not the most action pack. But she told me that story, like what three years ago? Would you ever retail that on camera? And she goes, and I haven't really seen her much or I had an opportunity.
To do it since it's just so cool, you know, looking back. And I remember too, I dated a guy from Forem in Arkansas and I was but I've always been interested in like the Fount Monster. I just didn't know what it was. You know. We knew that there was supposed to be a monster, and some people called him the Boogeyman. My mama would always you know, when she said, will you be careful going out there? You know, the boogieman will get you. We just thought that was
the saying back then. But the Fount Monster. Once we started hearing about the Fount Monster and stuff, and then the movie was made about Boggy Creek, we thought, okay, even though Mama and Daddy is telling us, it's not real. When you start having people in the area talking about it, you know, you listen to that stuff. A guy I dated was from Foreman, Arkansas, and he had said that him and his daddy would go hunting and Foreman and
that's not too far from foulc either, you know. He said that he remembers one time that they were they were coming out of the woods. They had parked alongside of the road and there was a big pasture out there, and then the pasture was lined with trees and stuff. And he said that we're sitting in the front yard
of my house in the car talking about this. And because I had told him about what I had heard, you know, you know, a couple of years earlier, because I was dating him when I was sixteen and he was seventeen, and so we're talking about stuff, and I was telling him about what I had heard when I was fourteen everything, and so he starts telling me this, and he said, well, you know, we were loading up the truck, putting our guns and stuff in there, and
my daddy was kept staring across the pasture and he goes and I looked over there, and I said, he said, what are you looking at? And he goes, do you see that that creature? And he said there was an upright creature walking along the tree line on the backside of the pasture and it just went into the woods. And I remember but while he was telling me that, I was like, do you think you could have been a fout monster? And he slung his car door up and a way like he was being pulled out of
the car, and I screamed, bloody Murdier. And my daddy came out on the front porch to see what was going on. But what's funny is we're Facebook friends on
you know now on Facebook. And he had been living in North Carolina and him and his family were going to move back to Arkansas, but they found a cattle farm in Oklahoma, so they're living in Oklahoma now, and I'll post stuff on my Facebook sometimes my personal Facebook about Bigfoot and then I share the show and stuff, and then I'll delete it after I've shared it and stuff.
But anyway, so he was seeing Bigfoot stuff and so he messaged me after he moved to uh, Oklahoma and where he's living now is not far from where we recorded the gibberish what we call tribulation Babe. So he started asking me questions, well, does bigfood do this? And do they do that? And do they do this? And so I'm finally I said, why are you asking me all this stuff? And he said, well, my daughter's dating a guy. And he said that he's been hearing some
weird stuff and he's describing all this stuff. And I'm like, that sounds really interested Todd. And he goes, well, do you think it could be Bigfoot? And I said, I think it could. I don't know if it is, but I think it could. And I said, I said where does where does he live? And he was telling me and so I'm pulling up Google maps. He said he lives just like three miles from me, and so he's telling me where he lives. I said, can you just send me a pen. You know, on Google Maps, it
was like five miles from Tribulation Bay, who recorded. And I told him, I said, I said, you don't want to hear what I'm fising to tell you. And he's like what, And I said, your house is real close to this. He's like yeah, And I said, let me send you a link, and so I sent him the link that carry Arnold did on Sisters of the Moon where we're talking about all that. I said, I said, you're going to hear a story where we recorded gibberish
and had a lot of activity. I said, that's about five miles from your sparre and he was like yeah. So now he's all the time sending me stuff. But it's pretty cool.