While driving home after a casual night out with a friend, Kate encounters a terrifyingly large humanoid figure on the road leading to her rural Texas home. Convinced she may have seen Bigfoot, Kate, with her friends and family, enlists the help of experts to uncover the truth behind this sighting. Check out our Merch Follow us on: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter For business inquiries contact: [email protected] If you have experienced something paranormal or unexplained, email us your story at [email protected] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What terrifying encounter did Kate experience on her way home?
And on this particular night, my friend and I had decided to go and film something. Do like a little photo shoot and a little emo style photo shoot because it was 2007 in this old cemetery that we had found one day. And it's beautiful. It has all these wonderful like weeping angel sculptures and things like that. It's one of my favorite places in the world. It's so beautiful.
And not very many people know about it. So we had decided to have a photo shoot. dressed in our finest emo gear, which we would not normally wear. We were not emo kids. We were just kind of like, we were theater kids who wanted to like dress up for the day, take some really good MySpace pictures. So we were out there. We draped ourselves across all the different headstones and sculptures.
And some of the pictures were actually pretty good. Well, I remember them being pretty good. I'm sure if I went back and actually looked at them, I'd be very embarrassed. So we, I remember us going to Applebee's.
I remember us like gathering our thoughts around like one of those skillet cookies and just kind of hanging out until it was time to go home, which was super late at night, like one or two in the morning. And so my friend had to drive kind of out of the way to drop me off. Because as I mentioned before, I live in a very rural area. You have to go about 15 miles outside of Carthage, Texas.
And you go into a community called Deadwood. The further you get outside of Carthage, the dimmer it becomes. The darker it becomes. The closer the trees are to the road. At any moment, you have to be watching for movement as you drive because there's always the threat that a deer or a pack of wild boar or a coyote or something could go out in front of you and ruin your car and your day.
And to get to my house, you have to cross the Sabine River and go through an area called the river bottom. So that's basically the area where the river, where the flood water goes when the river floods. So we cross this bridge, we're in the river bottom area and there's no illumination. It's completely dark on each side except for the glow of our high beams.
And we are getting closer to the place where you take the left turn to get to my family's house. And then Ramsey says something strange. She says, did you see that big naked guy step out of the woods? And I say, no, what are you talking about? And I'm very concerned because this is very close to where my family's land ends. It's also, there's nothing. There's absolutely nothing. There's no houses.
It's just forest. So if somebody's out there, he's probably in a lot of trouble or doing something he shouldn't be doing. And for some reason... I said, turn around. So we turn around, pull a U-turn, and we go back the way we came. And at this point, I kind of thought, you know, it's really late at night. I know there is one tree that is closer to the road than the rest. It's this pine tree.
It's dead. It's like... 12 feet tall or so and I was like it's a it's an odd color it's a it's like an orangey color because it's dead so maybe she just saw it in her high beams and thought that's a person because it's late so we're coming up on where the tree is and I'm ready to say like see it's just this tree that's all it was But then on the other side of the tree, we see this thing and it's,
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Chapter 2: How did Kate and her friends prepare for their Bigfoot sighting investigation?
So they were very, very interested in what I had seen and wanted to know if they could come and do an expedition, which is what they call it, the following week. And my mother, who is always down for an adventure, said, of course, come on, we'd be happy to have you. The week goes by. We're sitting there waiting, and these two trucks arrive.
In one of them, there is this guy who's a little shorter. He's got mirrored sunglasses. He's got a little mustache going on. And in the other truck, there is... big guy and his daughter, who's this 14-year-old girl who's just kind of there for some reason. And so they come up and they introduce themselves.
I do not remember the big guy's name because at this point it's been like 16 years, but I remember Troy very vividly. The one that ended up doing most of the talking, his name was Troy. And my mother just happily invites them in. We sit them down at the kitchen table. My mother, of course, has prepared dinner, which was in this case, baked spaghetti.
So it's like spaghetti, but you put more sauce and then cheese on the top of it and then you bake it again for some reason.
Like spaghetti lasagna?
Yeah, but they were excited to have it. They were like, oh yeah. And so they question us, me and Ramsey, about our experience. So we retell the story. And then my mother starts asking them all the different questions about Bigfoot. So Troy happily launches into an explanation of everything we've ever wanted to know.
So he starts talking about his experiences in BFRO, which is at this time, this was a while back, so I don't know if it's still the same. But at this point, he described it as like a volunteer organization.
where you would go and get together, you would do expeditions, which is what they call it, where you go to different places where there's been a sighting, you document it, and you try to get footage, you try to get some kind of evidence to prove the existence of Bigfoot. I also asked him, what if there's more than one? Do you call them Bigfoots, Bigfeet? And he said, Squatches.
My mother asked them, well, do you have any evidence after all this? And he said, yeah, we have hair, we have scat. But whenever you test it, like it shows up as like either unknown carnivore or like unknown primate. He told us that they thought that they buried their dead, and that's why they haven't found a dead one.
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Chapter 3: What signs and evidence did the investigators find on Kate's property?
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Chapter 4: What were the Bigfoot experts' insights on sightings and behaviors?
And this is concerning. Since this is our property, I was like, oh, I got to tell my mom about this. We have to fix this fence. But it's very clear that something has been using this path to go in these weird back paths through different properties that different families own in that area, like through the woods, which is very, very disconcerting because it's so far out.
There's no lights out there. There's no reason for anybody to be back there. We see that. And then they're like, oh yeah, we got a lot of good information. Pretty excited about this. So they start writing it down, making their notes. They're very excited about all of it. And then they say, do you think your mom would let us come out here at midnight to do a night expedition?
I was like, I don't know. I mean, you can ask her, I guess. So We go back to the house and he asks my mother if they can go on a night expedition at the very, very back of the property. And she says, yeah, absolutely, go for it. Then he asks me and Ramsey if we want to go. And we're like, yeah. Because, I mean, it's scary, but it's also the coolest thing we've ever done.
We're like, yeah, absolutely, we want to go. But we decide to bring some of our male friends for, I don't know, protection, I guess. So I get my boyfriend at the time, Jonathan, and our friend Larkin. And they decide to meet us there at my place at night. In the meantime, we go into town. It's crawfish season at this time.
And they are, the BFRO guys are very excited about picking up some crawfish and beer. And they had set up a campsite in the back pasture. And so when midnight rolled around, we went out there and met them in the back pasture. And you know, in retrospect, I kind of wonder, what was my mom thinking? Like, we have just met these grown men from somewhere far away. And she's like, yeah, absolutely.
Take my daughter and her friend out in the middle of the back pasture at midnight. Totally fine. I trust you completely. Fortunately, they were trustworthy. But what a strange thing, you know? I still give her a little bit of grief about that. But immediately she trusted them completely. So we're out there. And... I think we're going to have, you know, flashlights, some kind of equipment.
I think people might be armed with some kind of self-defense type things. Absolutely not. It is going to be completely, completely dark. Troy does not have a gun or any other sort of self-defense weapon, but they do have walkie talkies so they can communicate with each other. So We get to the very, very back pasture, and the plan is to walk the perimeter of it.
It's a big rectangle surrounded on three sides with forest, very, very thick pine forest, and a barbed wire fence separating the pasture from the forest. So we get out there to the corner of the pasture. And then we split off into two groups. So Ramsey and I go with Troy and Jonathan and Larkin and the 14-year-old girl whose name I don't remember go with her dad. And we've got the walkie-talkies.
And the plan is to make whoops and scream howls and other sounds into the woods and record what we get. And just see if there are any squashes out there. So we start walking along the tree line. And it is pitch black. It is super dark outside. I don't remember if there was a moon. There must not have been much of one. And it's dark. and there are mosquitoes and just insects all around.
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Chapter 5: What happened during the night expedition for Bigfoot?
And honestly, it's kind of a highlight. Looking back, it's something that I really enjoy. Do we...
No Troy's name. What are the chances we could track these guys down?
I used to have his number, but my phone was like stolen or something like in college.
Are you on your computer?
I am, yeah.
Google search. I was kind of looking for him. Look up Troy Hudson Bigfoot and like Google Images and see if you.
Oh my gosh.
He's one of them. No way.
I'm pretty sure. I remember the little mustache. He looks older, but I think this is the same person. That's what he looked like.
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Chapter 6: How did Kate and her friends react to the investigation findings?
What were the first things you noticed when you started looking around this property? Like what are the types of things you look for and what did this place have?
Well, you know, a lot of the properties, as long as there's tree cover, there's an area, you know, before we go to the location, we're going to look at, you know, aerial maps. You know, we look at satellite imagery and we look at the map topography and everything. And as long as they have a route to go and they can stay under cover and concealment and they have an avenue to escape. water.
What's interesting in Texas and Oklahoma is we have a lot of properties where there is now, not in this particular case, because I think if I remember right, this was a roadside, the girls, the girl was in a car with some of the kids and they saw one cross in front of them.
But typically ranches and remote, I say remote, rural homes, farms and stuff have a lot of activity and right there on the property. And that property was no different than some of the others. What
people refer to as a habituation site where they, either the homeowner or there's someone on the property that sees them on a continuous basis, either it can be weekly, it could be monthly, it could be biannually. I mean, it's, it's, the property was pretty typical and peri-stereotype, I guess, that we didn't really need to know much more other than we're going to spend the night and see what's
I mean, Jerry and I knew what was going on, you know, kids, teenagers, sometimes the way they explain things a little different than adults when they have, you know, eyewitness accounts, but we were just, you know, we just were excited to spend the night and we had no idea what was going to happen, but it turned out to be a great trip.
The, the sighting was taken, it was taken on the road, but it was taken like off the corner of their property. So, we knew being on their property would be in close proximity to there. And, uh, like Troy was talking about, uh, the things we look for, you know, they got to have a water supply. They got to have a food supply.
They got to have concealment and cover and their property there was ideal for that. Plus lots of open space. And they didn't have a lot of livestock on a property. So, so it was a large area that we knew we'd have a lot of room to move around and, uh, if there was going to be anything to experience.
She mentioned there were a couple things about her situation that seemed to stand out to you guys. One was that she reported this thing had a beard. And you said that most people don't mention that, but it's apparently a thing. And then she also talked about these arched trees that you guys were seeing. Can you talk to me about those things and what are some other...
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