Kevin

Explorer

A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves

Rick, I believe they live underground. Sometimes caves, but I mean for real, underground, with hidden intrances. In the south east they have been reported coming up out of water, in a swamp, etc., as if they have an underground lair that you have to go into the water and then up into an underwater hole or something to come up into their lair. And yes, I too believe they are very intellegent and are wel aware of us.

A guy told me once he was in a tree stand along the Tennessee River in N. Alabama. He said about five of them showed up at the water's edge, two adults, a half grown one, and two small ones. He said that they "bathed" in the river! One adult sood on beach and one in water near the little ones, both keeping watch, while the "teenager" bathed and helped the little ones. Then the grown ups took turns. Then they all moved off and the guy said they hardly made a sound in the woods. He was scared too.

I remember hearing or reading about someone seeing two of them kill a deer. Somehow they herded the deer in a certain directing and quick as lightning one big one that was hiding jumped out and grabbed that deer and broke its back or neck like we would a stick. I hope they don't eat humans!

I have always thought it would be neat to make friends with one. And like you said, if I knew where one lived, I might not even tell anyone, authorities or somewhere to report it to. I am not sure I would want to disturb its life and habitat.
Later,
Pistolero

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die dogs--I was a man before I was a king!
---From The Road of Kings

peter

Anyway, he said that they lived on a small farm and were harried by them a few times. When they would come around their normally tough dogs would all hide and cower and whimper up under the house and would not come out for no reason. They could smell them. And at times come out on the porch and watch it draw water from their well believe it or not. Once or twice they would just walk off with a 300 lb hog under their arm.

Another time his sister was taking a bath and one reached in the window and tried to grab her. She came running through the house screaming and hysterical, but necked and out of her head!

His parents were in their wagon with some of the kids (some poor country folks still used wagons around here then). As they crossed a certain small creek, about to go over the bridge, a huge one suddenly ran out from somewhere and grabbed the bridals and bits of the two mules pulling it. He said his parents told them that the mules liked to had heart attacks and were frantic, but the creature just held them still just staring at the occupants of the wagon and all the while you could hear what sounded like a baby crying under the bridge. The man got to whipping the mules and the bigfoot and it finally let go and it was miles before the man could calm and stop the mules. I wonder if there was a sick or hurt bigfoot under that bridge that it was asking for help for? Or perhaps a captured human baby? We will never know.

A bizarre thing happened one day when one of the boys was coming home from school. He always climbed over a fence and came across a field to the house, a short cut I suppose. As he climbed it a young Bigfoot just jumped across the fence and faced him and stared at him. The older boy started walking real fast, the young bigfoot followed right next to him a few yards away, keep up but parallell to him. The boy started running and the little bigfoot ran. He sho'nuff hauled ass and the litte Bigfoot easily kept up, always keep abreast of him, like a race, like it wanted to play. The boy made it home and the little big foot curved off and dissappeared. Now that is weird. I asked did they report it and he said no, did not want to be laughed at and disbelieved.

He said one time there was a commotion down by the barn of a neighbor. The wife was scared to go saying a creature was living in their barn. Her husband went to investigate and the commotion took place and he never came back. She called the Sherriff's Dept and they could see tracks in the mud where were the mans' tracks and the huge tracks of whatever it was, man like tracks but many times bigger. They could tell by the tracks there had been a fight where the man tried to fend it off. He ws never seen nor heard from again. So perhaps some of them do prey on humans. Whose to say that many missing hiker, campers, hitchhikers, etc, around the country over the years weren't actually prey to a Bigfoot.

Speaking of that, I saw a documentary about Bigfoot. In the deep south many call them "Swamp Apes" because some live in swamps and swampy area. One of the earliest reports was I think in S.C. in the 1700s or early 1800s where one had been seen and an armed party went in hunt of it. It attacked their camp that night, killing three or four guys right fast like but the other poured their shots into it and killed it. They all fled, scared out of their wits. They went back later and could not find or could not find the spot.
Pistolero

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die dogs--I was a man before I was a king!
---From The Road of Kings

peter

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die dogs--I was a man before I was a king!
---From The Road of Kings

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Medved bills himself as your Cultural Crusader, interesting guy. He is a smart guy. I think he started Harvard when he was 16. He use to be a very liberal political activist and then he claims he switched philosophies and bills himself as a conservative, but he decidedly moderate.

He is rather well known for his movie reviews. I would highly recommend listening to his show before any major holiday as he runs historical shows on the origin of major footprints in history such as the origin of Christmas, the reason for the mid east conflict, why the civil war was fought, the reason for the revolution etc. IMO, he is strongest in the form of a historian.

He also has one other interesting trait, he loves intellectual debate and to further that in the 3rd hour on Fridays he has a one hour segment called disagreement day when you can call in and basically argue with him over any position he has taken (like Bigfoot .

Be warned, it is a highly political show, but his Friday movie reviews are usually very good (you can download them to listen to from his website).

http://www.michaelmedved.com/moviereviews.aspx

Anyway, he is an interesting chap. I do some 5th tier radio shows myself, so I have an odd perspective on the man, but I certainly appreciate his eclectic skills set.

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