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Juan, what are you reporting? I got

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1:49

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2:02

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2:08

going to get some water. We're

2:14

crawling around out here.

2:21

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don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Hi,

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2:34

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about 6'9". I don't know. Do you see him now, sir?

2:41

Yes, I broke it right in.

2:43

Among the various supposed witnesses of the

2:45

giant hairy man of the Northwest, or

2:47

Bigfoot, we have accounts from people

2:49

from all walks of life. There truly

2:51

is a vast spectrum of sightings that

2:53

range from locales and witnesses, some

2:56

which are intriguing and some which are bordering

2:58

on the absurd. Yet one

3:00

type of report that always catches the attention are

3:02

those made by the men and women of law

3:04

enforcement. After all, they're

3:07

trained professionals, usually not out looking

3:09

for some strange, hairy ape man.

3:12

So when they come forward with their own accounts, people

3:14

tend to listen. So here's a

3:16

selection of odd encounters with police officers

3:18

in which they came across something that

3:20

their training and experience didn't prepare them

3:22

for. A very well-known

3:24

Bigfoot report made by a police officer

3:26

that made waves in its time occurred

3:29

in August of 1976 in the rural

3:31

area of Whitehall, New York. On

3:34

this day, Officer Brian Gosselin was driving on

3:36

the outskirts of town along

3:38

a lonely stretch called A Bear Road when

3:41

he saw a massive, hairy man-like creature with

3:43

red eyes lumber out of the woods about

3:45

30 feet in front of him. Gosselin

3:48

would describe it as standing 7 to 8 feet tall

3:50

and weighing at least 400 pounds. He

3:53

was so alarmed at what he was seeing,

3:55

he reportedly got out of his car and

3:57

trained his spotlight and his firearm on it.

4:00

Yet, he was unable to shoot it. The

4:03

strange beast caught in the beam of

4:06

the spotlight, issued an unearthly shriek before

4:08

barreling off into the trees, leaving behind

4:10

giant footprints in a nearby field. Over

4:13

the next few days, other officers would apparently

4:15

see the creature. Even Gosselin's father

4:17

and brother would see it. Gosselin

4:20

would eventually write his surreal experience in his 2018 book,

4:22

A Bear Road, The

4:25

True Story. But this

4:27

wouldn't end the strangeness in Whitehall because in

4:29

February of 1982, another police

4:32

officer in the area named Dan Gordon

4:34

and his partner had their own experience.

4:37

The two had been on duty patrolling along Route

4:39

22, half a mile from East

4:42

Bay at the base of Lake Champlain, when

4:44

an 8-foot, 8-blight creature ran across the

4:47

road and climbed right up

4:49

a steep embankment to disappear into the brush.

4:52

The creature was described as being a little different

4:54

from a typical Bigfoot. It

4:56

was long and lanky and had

4:58

narrow shoulders rather than bulging with

5:00

muscles. They also reported that it

5:03

slouched heavily and had extremely long,

5:05

thin, gangly arms, and it

5:07

was remarkably fast and agile, far

5:09

beyond any human's capabilities. Gordon

5:12

allegedly got out of the car and tried

5:14

to pursue the creature as the other officer

5:16

set frozen and terrified. But the

5:18

beast was already long gone. The two

5:20

would keep their experiences to themselves for years,

5:22

only going public with it in 2003. After

5:26

which Gordon was interviewed extensively for

5:28

news stories and TV programs including

5:31

Monster Quest and Mysterious Encounters. The

5:34

report also appeared in the book Bigfoot Encounters

5:36

in New York and New England. Gordon

5:39

was described as an incredibly honest and trustworthy

5:41

man and insisted on the veracity of what

5:43

he saw, right up to his death, in

5:45

2014. Although

5:48

these are the reports that have perhaps

5:50

been most covered in the news and

5:52

discussed by cryptozoologists, there are actually many

5:54

other such accounts given under oath by

5:56

trained police personnel. Researchers

6:00

Organizations Archives comes a report

6:02

from 1970 in Jefferson

6:05

Parish, Louisiana. In

6:07

the spring of that year, two police officers were

6:09

called out to a home in the town of

6:12

Marrero at approximately 9 PM on a

6:14

report of a prowler by the terrified homeowner. The

6:17

officers arrived at the scene and questioned the

6:19

female homeowner, after which they did a

6:21

perimeter sweep of the area even calling in a K-9

6:23

unit. As soon as

6:25

the dog arrived, it apparently went absolutely

6:27

nuts. The dog became

6:29

very agitated, it was cowering and was

6:31

clearly scared of something. The

6:34

officers circled around the darkened house with

6:36

guns drawn, now convinced that there was

6:38

a trespass lurking about the property. But

6:41

what they saw was beyond anything either of

6:43

them had ever expected. As

6:46

they rounded the edge of the house, they

6:48

came upon a large dark figure huddled against

6:50

the side of the building. They

6:52

could tell immediately that it wasn't a human because

6:54

of its massive size. They reported

6:56

that the creature was at least 8 feet

6:58

tall and it was very wide. As

7:01

the creature fled, it took extremely large strides

7:03

towards the street where it passed under a

7:05

street light and both could see that it

7:08

was covered in dark brown hair. They

7:11

got a very good look at it while it

7:13

was under the light and then it bolted off

7:15

towards a wooded marsh area near a canal and

7:17

vanished. When interviewed by

7:19

the BFRO investigator, the witness would

7:21

say, the incident with

7:23

this entity was officially reported in the

7:25

record system of that jurisdiction. I

7:28

remembered that we did not emphasize the subject

7:30

beyond describing it as very tall and dark

7:32

in color, with no specific

7:34

description of any clothing because

7:36

it wasn't wearing any clothes. In

7:39

those days, I had no idea what I was looking

7:41

at. We told our superiors

7:43

verbally what we had seen and then it

7:45

was dropped. We handled

7:48

many unexplained incidents as other police

7:50

agencies do. The public just

7:52

never knows about them. This

7:54

is what I mentioned to you about going back 7

7:56

years later and not being able to find the reports.

8:00

My partner died when he was just 37 years

8:02

old, so we never had a chance to speak

8:04

about anything again before he checked out. He

8:06

was a quiet, no-nonsense guy who wasn't comfortable

8:08

talking about a lot of the incidents that

8:11

we handled, including the unexplainable

8:13

ones. Another rather

8:15

intriguing account from more modern years

8:17

was reported on the North American

8:19

Wood Ape Conservancy from an off-duty

8:21

police officer who had a rather strange

8:23

sighting in the area of Liberty County,

8:25

Texas. He was

8:27

traveling along at night on the Farm to

8:30

Market Highway 1008, north of Kenniflick, and

8:33

he was directly behind a big rig truck when

8:35

a fleeting movement from the side of the road

8:37

caught his attention. He says

8:40

in his report, I

8:42

am a police officer. I was

8:44

traveling northbound on FM 1008, and

8:46

there was an 18-wheeler truck in front of me

8:48

at the time, and we were traveling approximately 55

8:50

miles an hour. I

8:53

observed a large creature in an upright position run

8:55

out of the tree line on the east side

8:58

of the highway. It ran in

9:00

front of the big truck in front of me. The

9:02

truck braked and swerved to the east side of the

9:04

road, and the creature was unharmed and cleared the road

9:06

and ran into the tree line on the west side

9:08

of the FM 1008. From

9:11

what I could see, this creature appeared to be as tall as

9:13

the cab of the 18-wheeler, maybe 8

9:16

feet, and it was very bulky and covered

9:18

in air. I estimated

9:20

the speed at which it was running to

9:22

be about 35 miles an hour, with extremely

9:24

long strides. There are other

9:27

police and fire service members in the Kenniflick

9:29

area that have seen this creature, and I

9:31

have personally heard numerous stories of other sightings.

9:34

If I had not seen it first-hand, I would

9:36

not have believed it myself. Investigator

9:39

Darrell Collier would do an in-depth follow-up

9:41

interview in this case with the witness

9:43

and uncover some further details of which

9:46

he says. It was

9:48

the witness's perception that this figure was very

9:50

tall and covered with grayish hair. The

9:52

witness was certain that the figure was a biped

9:55

and moved extremely fast, perhaps 30 to 35 miles

9:57

per hour. The

10:00

witness could not recall much in the way

10:02

of detail. The event was estimated to have

10:04

lasted only a few short seconds. The

10:06

witness was impressed by the height of the figure. Using

10:09

the cab of the 18-wheeler as a gauge,

10:11

the witness estimated the subject's height to be

10:14

possibly around 8 feet tall. Because

10:16

of the figure's speed and overall size

10:18

and height, and the fact that it

10:21

nearly collided with an 18-wheeler, the witness

10:23

categorically ruled out the possibility of a

10:25

hoax. In retrospect, the

10:27

witness wishes that he had slowed down or

10:29

even stopped to get a second or better

10:31

look. He also wishes that

10:33

he had flagged down the big rig and

10:35

somehow got the truck driver's perspective. However,

10:38

the witness told me that what he saw

10:40

greatly intimidated him at the time. He

10:42

had absolutely no plans for stopping. He

10:45

carried a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun

10:47

with him, but the sidearm

10:49

gave him little to no security after witnessing

10:51

such an incident. From

10:54

the following year we have a report from the BFRO

10:56

in the fall of 2003 from a Toronto police

10:59

officer who had a very strange

11:02

encounter while off-duty moose hunting near

11:04

the small town of Searchmount, Ontario,

11:06

Canada. In October of

11:08

2003, the witness was with his brother-in-law and

11:10

they had just finished putting out a moose

11:12

bait and issuing moose calls to draw in

11:15

their prey at around 8 AM. One

11:18

of the animals did make an appearance,

11:20

but displayed atypical behavior as if it

11:22

were spooked by something. Indeed,

11:24

the large bull moose ran off in

11:27

apparent fear. He called

11:29

his brother and they went about seeing if they could track the

11:31

animal and draw it back in. The

11:33

witness sprayed some moose and heat urine around

11:35

to lure the animal back and sat down

11:38

waiting for something to happen. At

11:40

around 1.30 that afternoon, something certainly

11:42

did happen, but this time it was

11:44

no moose. The witness says,

11:48

At about 1.30 PM, I started hearing heavy

11:50

thumps behind me every now and then. Every

11:53

time I heard one, I would turn around, but there was

11:55

nothing there. I should mention that all

11:57

this was happening while it was raining. The

12:00

sound of the rain hitting the ground or

12:02

the leaves was quite loud, but these thumps

12:04

were much louder. They sounded like

12:06

a stone or something heavy hitting the ground,

12:09

but every time I turned around I saw nothing.

12:12

At about 5.25 pm I got off

12:14

the ATV to stretch my legs and have a smoke.

12:17

I put my gun on the front bag of the

12:19

ATV to make sure that it was in arms reach

12:21

and I stood in front of the ATV facing the

12:23

gully which prior to this had been in the rear

12:25

of me. While I was

12:27

having my smoke I started hearing the

12:30

distinctive sounds of footsteps coming from the

12:32

gully, snapping branches and crunching leaves. I

12:35

kept my eyes on the gully while I reached for my

12:37

rifle. I thought the bull was coming

12:39

back, but when I looked into the

12:41

gully about 40 yards straight in front of me I

12:43

saw what I thought was a man walking towards me.

12:46

He was stooped over and looked like he was

12:48

having trouble walking in the bush. He

12:51

grabbed a tree and swung himself around or

12:53

ducked or dove under some thick brush. The

12:56

total time this took was 3 to 5 seconds

12:58

and he disappeared. He looked

13:00

to me as though he were dressed all in

13:02

black with a black bellicava or tuk on his

13:04

head. The reason I thought he

13:06

was wearing a tuk was that his head seemed to be

13:09

long and black. It looked like it

13:11

was wearing a jacket and then the front of the

13:13

jacket was open half way and I could see a

13:15

different color of the lining showing around the neck. It

13:18

looked like it was light gray or almost blue on

13:20

the chest area and it was in the shape of

13:22

a V. I really

13:24

couldn't say how tall it was because its legs

13:26

were behind the thick brush and I could only

13:28

see to about the mid thigh. But

13:30

I would guess at the time that it was somewhere around 5 foot 8

13:32

to 6 feet tall. But

13:35

he was about 40 yards away and it's hard

13:37

to judge height and size in the brush when

13:39

you're not sure of the distance. His

13:41

arms seemed to be too long for a

13:44

man but he was extremely muscular, like a

13:46

bodybuilder with a typical V-shaped build. There

13:49

was definitely no fat on him at all. I

13:51

could see all the different muscle groups on his

13:53

upper body and his arms were bulging out and

13:55

I could see that he had a washboard stomach.

13:58

When he grabbed that tree I saw that he had a hands,

14:00

not paws. He

14:02

swung around that tree and dove for cover as if he

14:04

were trying to hide from me. As

14:06

I said, it was a dull day and it was raining

14:08

and he looked wet. He was covered

14:11

with black or dark brown hair, and

14:13

it looked like the hair was stuck to him fairly

14:15

closely because he was wet. What

14:17

also gave me the impression of a bodybuilder was

14:20

that he seemed to have no neck, or he

14:22

had so much muscle on his shoulders that it

14:24

gave that appearance. On top

14:26

of all that, his shoulders were extremely broad.

14:29

The witness watched this strange figure for a

14:31

time and he also noticed that whatever it

14:34

was was making a raspy coughing sound as

14:36

it moved, and that it began

14:38

issuing a long, hoarse, sad

14:40

sounding howl before disappearing into the

14:43

wilderness. It was this howl

14:45

that really got him thinking that he was

14:47

witnessing something very bizarre. And he

14:49

says, When I first saw

14:51

it, I thought it was a man lost in the bush. But

14:54

my first thought was, why is he wearing any

14:56

orange? And if he's lost, why didn't he just

14:58

ask for help? But that

15:01

howl made me realize quickly that it was no man.

15:04

The next thing going through my head was, what

15:06

the hell was that? That was no moose. It

15:09

definitely wasn't a wolf or a bear. It

15:11

was like nothing I had ever seen in my

15:13

35 years of hunting. What

15:15

it looked like to me was a gorilla or

15:18

very close to one, but it walked upright, not

15:20

on all fours. I stood there

15:22

motionless for almost an hour and a half waiting to

15:24

see if it would show itself again. After

15:27

a while it started to dawn on me that what

15:29

I had seen might be a Bigfoot and I started

15:31

to get a little scared. I

15:33

normally leave the bush after dark when hunting. But

15:36

this night I left about an hour and a half prior

15:38

to when I would normally leave to make sure that I

15:40

had lots of time. I

15:42

was going to go back to that area the next day

15:44

looking for that bull, but I couldn't

15:46

bring myself to go anywhere near that spot. That

15:49

was the first time in 35 years that I'd

15:51

been afraid in the bush. Since

15:54

then I've wondered if this thing I saw was

15:56

what scared that bull away. Like

15:58

I said earlier, I've seen many moose in the bush. bush

16:00

and I've never seen one run for me like that. Interestingly

16:03

though, from where that bull ran off and to

16:05

where I saw this creature was only about 50

16:07

yards. Another

16:09

thing, and I don't know if this means

16:11

anything or not, where I was sitting, I

16:13

saw what was probably a moose bone laying

16:15

on the ground about five feet from my

16:17

ATV. It wasn't cut

16:19

or sawed, it had been broken or snapped.

16:22

It looked to me that it was at least a year old.

16:25

I was supposed to sit there for the next three days

16:27

and finish the hunt and wait for that big bull, but

16:30

I didn't want to be there. I've never been

16:32

that scared in the bush in my life. I

16:35

never did bag that moose. Brian,

16:38

I've got a story to share that happened back

16:40

in the early 80s when I was still an

16:42

active duty sheriff deputy. It was something

16:44

I'll never forget and I think it's high time I

16:47

shared it with others so that they might

16:49

hear it and know that they're not alone. I've

16:51

been listening to your shows since the very beginning and

16:53

I appreciate your approach to the subject and the way

16:56

that you treat the witnesses that come on to tell

16:58

their stories. You being a former

17:00

police officer is an added bonus for me. I

17:02

know that you had to see some real shit as an

17:05

Atlanta police officer and I can tell that makes

17:07

you a better interviewer. I'm telling

17:09

my story to you now only because you've

17:11

earned my respect. So one

17:13

day I get this call from this elderly couple who

17:15

lived way out in the boonies. They were all riled

17:17

up because some chickens had gone missing from their coop

17:20

and they had been hearing some strange

17:22

noises at night. Now

17:24

chickens go missing all the time and there's always strange

17:26

noises in the woods but I figured I'd go check

17:28

it out just to be on the safe side. So

17:31

I drive over to their place and what do

17:33

I see? The coop was wide open and it

17:35

looked like someone or something with hands had broken

17:37

the latch and opened it up. Now

17:40

that was just the start of something really

17:42

weird because over the next few years I

17:44

found myself responding to calls at the same

17:47

house time and time again. Now

17:49

as if the chicken heist wasn't enough,

17:51

this couple starts discovering these massive footprints

17:53

in their field. Now

17:56

I saw these things a couple of times

17:58

myself. We're talking about human looking footprints. they

18:00

were over 18 inches long. Shortly

18:03

after they saw the first set of footprints,

18:05

they started losing cows left and right.

18:07

It was just like the cows were vanishing

18:09

into thin air or something. I

18:11

joked with my fellow deputies one time that I thought

18:14

the cows were being taken by aliens. But

18:16

it really was strange. They

18:18

would just up and disappear, like a fart in the

18:20

wind. I honestly didn't pay much

18:22

attention at first. I just thought the old couple might

18:24

be seeing things or hearing things and just having to

18:27

run a bad luck with the cows and the chickens,

18:29

you know? But then one night,

18:31

I got a call with them saying that something

18:33

was lurking around outside their house. They

18:36

sounded terrified, so I hopped in my patrol car and

18:38

I raced over there as fast as I could. When

18:40

I pulled down into their driveway, I couldn't

18:42

believe my eyes. Right there,

18:45

in the headlights of my car, stood a creature

18:47

that I never thought I'd see in my lifetime.

18:50

It was a Sasquatch. A

18:52

real life Sasquatch. This

18:55

thing was humongous. It was at least eight

18:57

feet tall and it was covered with hair from head to

18:59

toe. This thing was standing between

19:01

their house and this small outbuilding that covered up

19:03

the head of the couple's well. This

19:06

thing froze when my headlights hit it and it

19:08

looked directly into my eyes. Those

19:10

huge dark eyes, man. They

19:13

pierced right through me. This thing

19:15

looked at me for a couple of seconds and then

19:17

it turned around and bolted and it moved faster than

19:19

anything I'd ever seen move before. Before

19:21

I could even get my car and park, it was

19:23

gone. Now let me tell you, seeing

19:26

that Sasquatch changed everything for me. I

19:29

couldn't deny what I saw. I went

19:31

from being a skeptic to a true believer in

19:33

just a matter of a few seconds. And

19:36

now I feel like it's my duty to share my story

19:38

with as many folks as possible. People

19:40

need to know these things are out there wandering around

19:42

in the shadows. So I'm here

19:44

writing you now, hoping that my words will reach

19:46

far and wide. I have no

19:49

intentions of coming on the show. That's not what this

19:51

is all about. This is simply

19:53

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they hadn't lost any more animals. They

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what I saw that night, I couldn't let it go. I

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the internet became more accessible, I started

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investigating every Sasquatch sighting and every encounter

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I could find. And boy let me

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to other law enforcement officers, park rangers, and

21:15

even civilian folks that had claimed to see

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these creatures. It turns out that

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my Sasquatch encounter was the tip of the iceberg. These

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the dense forest in the Pacific Northwest to

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there was a spat of Bigfoot sightings

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in the vicinity of Pine Ridge Native

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American reservation

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in South Dakota. People

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began to call in with numerous reports of seeing a

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10 to 15 foot tall brood

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of a beast stalking about the

26:18

wilds with a hunchback and in

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some cases even bizarrely reported wearing

26:23

a stovepipe hat. The

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sightings flooded the reservation's law enforcement

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agency, the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department

26:30

of Public Safety. But

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among these, perhaps the most compelling is a

26:34

report made by officers at the scene of

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such an account. The

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26:40

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my name is James Twiss. I

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am a police officer on the Pine Ridge

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Reservation. I am passing on

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information regarding the rash of sightings of

26:54

a tall man or Bigfoot on the

26:56

Pine Ridge Reservation. During

26:58

one of these sightings, I had our department's

27:00

thermal imaging camera and along with six officers,

27:02

I did in fact pick up a large

27:04

heat signature on the camera. Unfortunately,

27:07

we did not have a recorder yet for the

27:09

camera so we weren't able to record it. We

27:12

did watch it as it moved away from us down

27:14

a gully but it was missed by the

27:16

other officers as they tried to find it with

27:18

their flashlights. It is hard to explain as it

27:20

must have already been past the officers before they

27:22

arrived on scene. We watched

27:25

it go into a creek area which runs through

27:27

town. We heard a flurry of

27:29

dogs barking but wasn't able to locate it. Also,

27:32

to set the record straight, the first two sightings was

27:34

called in as a 10 to 15 foot

27:37

tall man who appeared to be

27:39

wearing a stove top hat and a long

27:41

coat. It was reported

27:43

to have been peeking into apartment complex

27:45

common rooms where there were several witnesses.

27:49

In 2015, there was a curious report

27:51

making its rounds from police officers in

27:53

the state of Pennsylvania. According

27:56

to a report on the site Cryptocidings,

27:58

a police officer in McDay Park

28:00

in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, said

28:03

that he was out on patrol when he

28:05

noticed a looming dark shape leaning over the

28:07

roadway with a large hairy section, including

28:10

a big hairy wrist and

28:12

extremely muscular leg. The

28:14

officer who claims that he is an 18 year veteran

28:16

of the force said of his

28:19

outlandish encounter, I was

28:21

driving on patrol to McDade Park in Scranton,

28:23

PA. It was late at night and

28:25

I was checking the park making sure that it was okay and

28:28

I just noticed a very dark object leaning

28:30

over the edge of the road near the

28:32

pool as I drove past. I

28:34

passed extremely close to the object, close enough

28:37

for me to feel shocked to see a

28:39

hairy section as well as a

28:41

muscled leg and a big hairy wrist and

28:43

hand. As the creature turned

28:46

I screamed and grabbed from my cell phone

28:48

to snap a picture while also grabbing from

28:50

my gun. I flammed

28:52

on my brakes and I was ready to shoot. I'm

28:55

combat trained and I have a weapon, I just

28:57

had to see what the hell this was. I

29:00

wanted to see the entire thing for myself. But

29:03

what can I say? Whatever it was

29:05

for me was either a huge monkey or

29:07

a bigfoot. I'm not going to

29:09

go public with this because it would cost me my job.

29:12

There's something in that park I've heard

29:15

stories about, something roaming around the park

29:17

late at night. Interestingly

29:19

there is another police officer report from

29:21

Pennsylvania in August of 2017 who

29:25

on this evening was driving along a

29:27

road in a wooded location in southwestern

29:29

section of Westmoreland County, PA and

29:32

he had a rather bonkers close encounter.

29:35

As he made his way through the gloom

29:37

of this remote place he says that he

29:39

noticed the odd detail of a slivvery sheen of

29:41

light ahead low to the ground. As

29:44

the officer approached he then became startled

29:46

realizing that the light was emanating from

29:48

a ball of light that seemed to

29:50

be going just ahead of a decidedly

29:52

bigfoot like creature. Mr.

29:55

Stan Gordon would investigate this and he

29:57

says of this off the wall account.

30:00

The ball of light was actually ahead of

30:02

a very strange being that looked to be

30:04

about six feet tall or larger. It

30:06

was tall and almost skeleton thin. The

30:09

officer was of the opinion that the creature when

30:12

he first observed it had been lying on its

30:14

belly on the ground with its head facing towards

30:16

the road. It then stood up

30:18

facing the road. In that

30:20

dark location he saw the dull light glowing

30:22

from the head, illuminating the upper section of

30:25

the body of the creature. While

30:27

the officer watched, the creature turned towards the

30:30

right. The dull illumination from

30:32

the head lit up the shoulder area. The

30:35

creature then turned and faced him, and

30:37

then turned to the left and took off

30:39

at an incredible rate of speed towards a

30:41

location away from the road. As

30:43

it moved off, the witness could see its arms

30:46

swinging. The officer indicated

30:48

that it took off at a speed that

30:50

he could only call abnormal. It

30:52

was faster than anything I'd ever seen. It

30:55

was there, and then it was gone. The

30:58

officer assumed that the creature moved on two legs.

31:00

However, he couldn't see the lower sections of the

31:02

body in the dark. The officer

31:04

described what he saw as standing around six

31:06

feet tall or taller. He said

31:09

the head was about eight to ten inches in

31:11

diameter and shaped like a ball. He

31:13

said that the head was just a ball of light, possibly

31:16

egg shaped, but still pretty round.

31:19

The light that was being emitted was a dull

31:21

white. The light illuminated to the shoulders,

31:23

to the top of the chest, and a section

31:25

of the arms, but he wasn't able

31:27

to see the hands. The

31:29

chest looked like it was about 18 inches across.

31:32

The waist appeared to be small, but

31:34

the arms were abnormally long. The

31:37

long limbs also looked skeletal, with no

31:39

muscle mass. The skin tone

31:41

of the body appeared to be a dull,

31:43

grayish blue. The officer said

31:46

that he was unable to see any facial detail.

31:49

The entire experience only lasted about

31:51

ten seconds. The officer was

31:53

confused about what he had saw and

31:55

how it could move so fast. He

31:57

pulled his patrol vehicle to the location where the

32:00

creature had been seen standing and turned on the

32:02

vehicle spotlight. He looked around the

32:04

area but saw no evidence on the ground.

32:07

After the experience, the officer continued to try to

32:09

make sense of what he had seen, but he

32:11

couldn't figure it out. I

32:13

was contacted soon after the incident and we

32:16

later discussed the incident in detail. What

32:19

in the world is going on here? Finally

32:21

we have a report from the BFRO that allegedly

32:24

happened as recently as July of 2019 in

32:26

the state of Wisconsin. The

32:30

witness is apparently a respected, retired law

32:32

enforcement veteran who was out driving with

32:34

his sister and his brother near Tripoli,

32:36

Wisconsin when they had a brush with

32:38

the truly bizarre. The witness

32:41

says, The day was clear and

32:43

cool. We were traveling approximately 10

32:45

to 15 miles an hour in my Chevy

32:47

Suburban. I was looking

32:49

out across the clearing when I saw

32:51

a large reddish brown upright figure moving

32:53

along the tree line in the distance.

32:56

It was too large to be a deer and it didn't

32:58

have the proper height or gait to be a bear. It

33:01

had no muzzle or neck and the smaller

33:04

trees moved aside like it was pushing its

33:06

way out into the woods. Reports

33:09

like these are truly intriguing in the

33:11

way that they come from actual law

33:13

enforcement personnel whom we wouldn't expect

33:15

to be making up things or telling tall

33:17

tales. In addition, police officers

33:20

are typically thought to have better than

33:22

average perception skills and eyes for detail.

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something like this, it is

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enough to make one pause and think. It's

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impossible to know if any of these have any

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more merit than any of the other reports of

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the same kind. And in

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the end, we're all left to speculate

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