A listener writes “I grew up in Northern MS in pretty much a 5 mile wide town in the sticks called Walnut Ms where I grew up and lived for 23 years. I now reside about 19 miles away outside of a slightly bigger city called Corinth.
I live on outskirts of there in very dense country and bottoms known as the Hatchie. Although I grew up fishing and hunting in the woods throughout my childhood, and teens my encounter actually happened on new years of this year. My girlfriend was also a witness at the same time but from a different perspective. I had never given much though to Bigfoot or anything of the sort, and I’m also not claiming that’s what this was. But after finding your channel literally maybe 4 or 5 days ago it’s starting to really startle me and has me wondering. Me and my gf have experienced very odd things together and we keep things to ourselves because our families, while nothing wrong with it, are very traditional with strong Christian beliefs who aren’t very open to things that aren’t on your baseline of everyday normalcy.
So to keep the peace we usually keep things to ourselves, and this experience was no different. We are very open minded individuals and we’ve always been interested in the extraterrestrial and the unknown. But to not waste anymore of your time, since it’s very short and nothing near as wild as I’ve heard on your show I’m not expecting to be on your show I just would like to share my story with someone who will at least know I’m telling the truth and not write it off as craziness. But anyways, we recently moved to a new place in a much more secluded area surrounded by woods with lots of deer and wildlife and we have neighbors but its all broken up with woods and behind us is nothing but fields and woods.
New years eve night of 2024, we expected people to be shooting fireworks and blowing up tannerite as it was normal for July 4th and New Years in the south where we live. However this was our first new years and our 2nd or 3rd month in this new place and we wasn’t sure how much to expect as far as neighbors celebrating. Around 11pm a huge explosion went off of what I can only guess was tannerite and it was so close and so much was used at once that it shook our entire house. Me being prior military, I was alittle unhappy and it put me into a slight rage that someone would blow so much up so close to our house so I got up and ran outside to see if I could hear another one go off or people hollering and maybe see who blew it up and ask them to please be more careful, and so I went outside through the back door which is the main door we use and it faces our backyard with lots of woods and I stepped off the porch and rounded the end of the house outside the reach of the porch light so I could see across the road and the neighbors houses. I
stood in the shadow of the end of the house and was just listening hoping to hear as I said a direction of the explosion or people setting said explosion and no longer than I could fully plant my feet and stand completely still, (also the explosion and me running outside to the end of the house all happened within maybe 10 seconds) but no longer than I planted my feet I heard behind me about 200 yards or so down in the woods what sounded like a pissed off bull hauling ass towards me and breaking tree limbs and trees and it’s not coming slowly, it’s hauling absolute ass. It’s moving with a purpose. Well with all the farmers, fields, cattle etc I really did think it was probably a horse or bull etc that had gotten spooked by the huge tannerite explosion and all the other distant explosions going off and was trying to get away. Well the closer thus thing got and the longer I listened I quickly realized that’s not what it was because I could hear it breathing heavily. I was locked in fear if I’m being honest and at first I wanted to run but I couldn’t, I stood there as this thing ran through the woods breaking limbs and crash through and just waited to see whatever it was and mentally was preparing to defend myself if I even could.
About that time this thing busts out of the woods and into darkness and it’s striding in huge strides and I can barely see the silhouette and it ran about 15 yards past me and the porch light faded off about 20 feet from the porch and it stayed about 2 feet outside of that never entering the light, it ran to the edge and I couldn’t only see a shiny glistening of what I think was black hair, but what caught me off caught was the breathing and I could feel the heaviness of it’s feet in my chest as it ran and it seemed to be running on all 4s but the way it sounded, it didn’t seem like it should have been. It continues and never stops and rounds around the corner of the house and I can still hear it running and breathing but I can’t see it, about this time I can hear my gf run on the front porch out of the front door and she’s hollering my name and about the time she goes to say my name a second time she stops and the door slings open and she runs back in and runs back out on the back porch and she’s still calling my name and I tell her I’m over here I’m okay because she sounded obviously shaken.
Well I walked towards her and we walked back in the house and I had absolutely no intention of telling her what I had seen whatsoever. But when I got into the house she was on the verge of tears and was visibly shaken and upset and she wouldn’t tell me. “She kept saying you’re gonna say I’m crazy and that it was just my imagination.” And I finally told her if I tell you what I seen, will you tell me what you saw? She ended up telling me and I will even let her tell what she seen in her own words if she’d be willing.
But when the explosion went off and I ran outside she instantly got on our ring camera on our back door. She watched me run outside and was trying to keep and eye on me, when I ran around the corner she waited for a second and said she could hear something on the camera and she heard a crash and she couldn’t see me in the back so she ran out on the front porch to try and find me, and about that time she seen something hunkered over on all 4s hauling ass along side the tree line around the corner of the house and it ran up the side of the tree line towards the road and rand off into the tree line at the top. And after she told me that it all lined up and when I was outside and it ran around the corner away from me she had come out front right at the time to catch it coming around the other side.
So we both seen it at different sides of the house. Once she told me that I stood there stunned, we both walked over sat on the couch and didnt speak or talk or turn anything on the tv for at least an hour, we just sat together in fear and silence. When we did speak it wasn’t of that the rest of the night, we didn’t mention it until the next day and I didn’t sleep that night. I stayed up on the couch with my shotgun in the corner next to me watching my ring camera. As a marine, I’m kind of ashamed to admit that, but it’s the truth. I was truly scared and still think of it almost 2 months later daily.
If you read all of that I truly appreciate you taken the time to do so and hear me out. Whether Im ever on your show or not I feel better getting this off my chest because we cant even tell people closest to us. So thank you Wes, and thank you for the work and effort you continue to put into your show for people like me. If we were to ever speak, or anything, I can share video or pictures or FaceTime, I can show you our property and the layout of the front yard and backyard and how the house faces and, the camera and porchlight etc. walk through the story that way and it’ll make more sense. It’s small compared to others I’ve heard on your show, and I know I didn’t see completely, but the sounds and the speed, the breathing, the way it came through these thick woods and breaking and snapping trees and limbs I truly do not know what the hell this thing was.
I’ve had other experiences, such as being yelled at across the river when I was 13 by something fishing with my uncle and he wrote it off as a deer, and while I know deer can huff and growl this was what sounded to me like a mixture of multiple animals and it gave me a feeling of not being welcome there. I grew up outdoors, Ive been trained in outdoors and lived outside for months seen alot of wild things in the sky but that night this thing running by me, the breathing, the sounds and my gf seeing it too has topped it and we have yet to speak to each other about it very much until tonight after I got her to watch your videos. Anyways, I won’t take anymore of your time. Thank you Wes!”
Delia D
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