(A) Skinwalkers, Sasquatch, Missing Time & Parallel Dimensions | Archive Ep186

[00:00:02] On today's edition of From the Forest, we take a deep dive into more bizarre anomalies in nature as we discuss Bigfoot sightings, a possible skinwalker, missing time, and an opening to a parallel dimension. Thank you for joining me and welcome! I am your host, Nic Ryan.

[00:00:36] I hope you all have been having a wonderful week, and before we start today's episode, I'd like to thank Leah, Holly, and Tamara for their support and generosity. And if you haven't already, please consider following, sharing, and reviewing the podcast.

[00:00:51] This supports us by helping new listeners to find the show. You can also support us at patreon.com slash paranormal mysteries or at buymeacoffee.com slash paranormal. And if you'd like to share your paranormal encounter on the podcast, you can submit your

[00:01:06] story through email at paranormalmysteriespodcast at gmail.com, through voice message at speakpipe.com slash paranormal mysteries, or on our website at paranormalmysteriespodcast.com. And all these links can be found in the show notes. And with that in mind, tonight's first experience comes to us from Cass.

[00:01:30] Cass' story is called, Camping Gone Wild. Cass' story is a follow-up to a previous submission, and she had this to say. Hi Nic. So I told you last week I was going back to the location where I had had the encounter

[00:01:45] with the Bigfoot that peed on my tent, and I only just got back last night. My car crapped out on me and I had to wait for a friend to come and get us back on the road.

[00:01:55] It was a great time, even if it was a little cold. We ended up renting one of the smaller cabins up there, and it was absolutely stunning. The mornings were crisp, the days bright, and the nights full of ghost stories.

[00:02:09] Our cabin had a little wood-burning stove for both heat and cooking, and a very primitive bathroom that sat right by the door. It was a tiny two-room wooden structure that was still covered with snow, but it was nice and cozy inside.

[00:02:23] Fishing on the lake wasn't really possible due to the accumulation of ice, but it was super pretty all the same. While we were there, we didn't see any tracks, but we heard a lot of wood knocking and a few howls.

[00:02:35] At one point when I was getting ready for bed, I looked out the tiny frost-covered window at the shimmering stars and could swear that I saw something looking back at me. The area has a lot of large predators such as bears and cougars, but the eyes staring

[00:02:49] back at me through the window were too big to be either of those. That and the fact that the bears are still in their dens up there, as it's not quite warm enough for them to come out of hibernation.

[00:03:00] Now before I continue Cass' story, I will say that she wrote this response to me a couple of months ago, so if the bear hibernation timeline seems a bit off from today's actual date, that's why. Cass continues on and says,

[00:03:13] I heard a lot of grunting and huffing and rocks were being thrown at the cabin from out of nowhere, but I didn't see anything definitive. It's apparently not uncommon for behaviors such as those in that area, according to

[00:03:25] one of the old guys that stays all year in his RV. We shared a fire one night as he told us tale after tale of his encounters with the small family group that lives up there.

[00:03:36] He said the male is almost 9 feet tall, but the female is a good deal smaller, being just under 7 feet. They have two offspring, but the guy hasn't gotten a close look to determine their genders.

[00:03:47] He did mention that he's been there for 20 years or so, and that over that time he's had several encounters. They don't bother him anymore like they do the people they're unfamiliar with, and he says he feels comfortable knowing they're around.

[00:04:00] He said it keeps the bears away, as they see his home as part of their territory. Anyway, that's all there is to say. It was a great week, and one I look forward to doing again when it's warmer. Cass.

[00:04:17] Our next story of the night comes to us from Joe, and Joe's story is called, When the Walls are Thin. And Joe says, Hi Nick. I've been a long time fan and have finally decided to contribute. The paranormal has always been normal to me and my family.

[00:04:34] We were known in parts of Mississippi as two-headed folk, simply meaning we lived both words, and I am sharing this particular story because it is outside of the realm for me. In 2006, I accepted a position that required 40 straight hours of work.

[00:04:50] The hour started at 6am on Saturday morning and ended at 10pm on Sunday night. For me, the routine was very normal, and it allowed me to work in the state of Georgia and then drive to where I lived in Mississippi.

[00:05:03] I would normally hit the road directly after work because I would be wide awake, having been able to sleep on the job as a part of my accepted routine. The drive from Atlanta, Georgia to Jackson, Mississippi usually took approximately 6 hours, including stops.

[00:05:17] This was a great opportunity to work and still be home with my family for 5 days. This particular Sunday I was driving through a desolate section, leading from Alabama into Mississippi. As usual, I had the radio cranked, looking for stations to listen to.

[00:05:33] Hearing this story, you would wonder why the title of my story is called, When the Veil is Thinnest. I have often heard that during certain times, realities can merge, sometimes for brief seconds or even longer.

[00:05:45] Again, I am no stranger to the paranormal and I have witnessed my share, but this encounter was still unusual for me. After finding a station, I all of a sudden heard what could only be described as dead

[00:05:58] silence, absolutely void of sound, including what should have been on the radio. The section of the highway was straight and like most interstates in the south, was lined with trees on both sides of the highway, going east and west, with a clear grassy median.

[00:06:14] In the silence, there was a bright purple flash of light with no explanation, and appearing to the flash was a giant foot, ankle and leg, stepping over the trees. The left foot and its stride was so huge I never did see the second leg.

[00:06:30] The foot was able to step over four lanes and the trees into the median and then over to the other side of a four-lane highway. The details were so vivid and clear that I remember seeing jagged toenails and yellow nail beds.

[00:06:44] This giant foot had a shackled ankle cuff and chain. I'm not sure what I was more disturbed about, the fact that there was a giant running through the path of my station wagon, or what could possibly be chasing something that gigantic.

[00:06:59] I was extremely grateful to put that stretch of highway behind me, and I continued working for another year, and never did experience anything like that again in my travels. Thanks for reading, Joe. Our next story of the night comes to us from Annabelle, and Annabelle's story is called

[00:07:21] Skinwalker. Annabelle says, Hi Nick! My cousin and I wanted to share our story from when we were in second grade. We were playing in my backyard. Keep in mind I lived in the desert of Arizona, and we were looking around for little critters.

[00:07:37] My backyard wasn't really a backyard, it was more of straight desert. So we were looking around when we thought we heard a coyote. We headed to where we thought we heard the rustling of bushes, and saw this thing crouch down in front of some brush.

[00:07:52] It was tan in color, skinny to the point that you could see its ribs. It didn't really have any facial features, and it was on all fours like a human acting like a dog. It was super freaky at the time, and still is.

[00:08:06] We ran to tell my dad and he came to look, but it was gone by the time we got back. I thought about this a lot over the years, and just recently started listening to your podcast and I chatted with my cousin about this.

[00:08:18] I had done some research by myself at one point, and came to a partial conclusion of it being a skinwalker. My cousin and I both vividly remember this, and they even helped me write this email.

[00:08:29] I showed my cousin your podcast, and they were the one who convinced me to share our story. Thanks Nick. We love the podcast. Our next stories of the night come to us from William, and William calls his stories, My Experiences.

[00:08:48] Now not all of William's stories have to do with the forest, and the others were so interesting that I just had to add them. William says, Hello Nick. I recently ran across your podcast, and since then I have been binge listening to catch up.

[00:09:03] And I am loving every minute of it. I have decided to share a few of my experiences with you and let you choose what to use. I am grateful there is finally a place where people can share their experiences openly with others who have had similar experiences.

[00:09:18] So with that being said, here are my experiences I have had. William calls his first experience, Missing Time. It was October of 1996, when some friends and myself decided to go on a night drive out in the countryside.

[00:09:33] This was a common thing we would do, so I thought nothing of it. I grabbed my car keys and picked up my best friend and our girlfriends, and we headed out.

[00:09:41] It was a crisp, cold autumn night, and we were lost, and really enjoying it for the time being. And while driving down this one road, we came to a stop sign, and the only ways were left or right, both which happened to be dirt roads.

[00:09:55] Nothing but dense woods in every direction. So I asked which way I should go. Everyone chimed in and almost in unison to turn left. So left it was. After turning left and traveling for what seemed like only 5-10 minutes, we came to a

[00:10:10] clearing, and the moon was bright and illuminated the field ever so slightly, and just ahead was a cornfield in which the dirt road went into. So needless to say, everyone got a little excited about this fact, and so we ventured

[00:10:22] forth into the cornfield, letting the road take us to wherever it may go. Now take in mind that right before we entered this cornfield, I glanced at my watch and

[00:10:31] it was 9.43pm, so we had plenty of time, and still had 3 fourths of a tank of gas, so everything was good. As we were driving through, and had been in the cornfield for probably about 10 minutes or so, my friend Chris leaned over and said,

[00:10:46] This cornfield is pretty big. To which I laughed and sarcastically replied back, I hadn't noticed. After about what seemed like around 20 or so minutes of driving, we all started wondering where we were at, as it was just this dirt road in the middle of a cornfield that didn't

[00:11:02] seem to end, and now we're all a little freaked out, not knowing what exactly is happening. So my friend Chris asked me to stop the car, and he would pop out of the T-tops and get

[00:11:12] on the roof of the car, and see if he could find out where we were, or at least where we were heading. I came to a stop, and I can remember as Chris popped open the T-top, and we all felt this

[00:11:23] ice cold rush of cold air as it filled the car, and everyone kind of made the brr or shivering comment. Chris slid the T-top out of the way and climbed up onto the top of the car, and looked around, and he then just stood there.

[00:11:36] I asked him, Hey what do you see? To which he took a moment to reply and said, Corn. Nothing but corn. I asked again, Don't you even see any trees? To which he replied back as he slid the top back on and sat back in the passenger seat,

[00:11:51] No. Just corn. After that things just went silent from everyone in the car, and I just kept driving. The whole time no one said a word as I drove. And then after about another what seemed like 15 minutes of driving, we suddenly came to this dead end of sorts.

[00:12:07] We could go left or right, so once again I asked everyone in the car which way they wanted to go. To which they all hollered out, Right. So right we went. And just a few moments later we were back on pavement, and you could hear everyone in

[00:12:21] the car let out this huge sigh of relief, until Trina, Chris's girlfriend in the back seat, asked if the sun was coming up. I stopped the car and we got out, and sure enough, it was the sunrise.

[00:12:34] I looked at my watch and it was now 6.18am, and I said, Something's wrong. To which my friend Chris asked me what time it was. When I told him the time, Chris, Trina, and Wendy all freaked out, saying that that's

[00:12:46] impossible, and that we were not even gone for that long. Wendy even spoke up and said that she had looked at her watch just before we turned left onto that dirt road, and it was only a little after 9pm. She said, What did we do for 8 hours?

[00:13:01] We were not even driving around for that long. We were only in the cornfield for probably 30 minutes, right? To which we all agreed that we were probably only in there for maybe 30 minutes or so.

[00:13:12] We then decided to wait until the sun came up completely, and we would turn around and drive back to the entrance to the cornfield, since it was only maybe 2 miles back behind us.

[00:13:21] At around 8am we piled back in and made a U-turn and drove back, and after a few minutes we all noticed that we should have seen this cornfield by now, and so we said, Let's go further. But still there was nothing.

[00:13:34] So we turned around again and went back, and again we found nothing. Not a cornfield in sight. Nowhere. No one said a word the whole way back, and as I dropped each of them off there was this eerie silence that had fallen over all of us.

[00:13:50] Nobody knew what had happened, or where our missing time had gone. This happened in Cross Keys, South Carolina. William's next story is called Premonition. The year was December 3rd, 1998. My friend Chris and I, along with his girlfriend's mother, went to see a friend of theirs for

[00:14:13] the weekend and have a little party of sorts. Now this is a really small town just outside of Bullocks Creek, South Carolina that sits up on a hill right beside the Broad River.

[00:14:23] There was a little community of about 15 houses up there, and this is where this woman lived, whom we were going to see. Upon arriving we all got out of the car and walked up to the door to which her friend greeted us and invited us in.

[00:14:37] She introduced herself to me as Renata. Now Renata was tall with a nice figure. She had dirty blonde hair with a big smile that just makes you smile back. She was just someone that makes you feel like you have known them forever, and makes you

[00:14:49] feel right at home. So after introductions and dinner we all settled into the living room just to talk, laugh, and have some drinks to which there were quite a few. Hours passed by and the conversation was good, but for my friend Chris and his girlfriend

[00:15:04] it was time for them to crash for the night. They were exhausted. So myself and Renata kept talking for another hour or so, when all of a sudden she became quiet and had this look of pure terror on her face.

[00:15:17] Suddenly she threw a notepad at me and told me to start writing whatever she started saying. Now what I'm about to tell you that she said still haunts me to this day. She spoke and told me of September 11th, 2001, and she gave me the names and flight numbers

[00:15:32] of the planes, how many would hit the towers, and she said that both towers would fall. She spoke of the Pentagon being hit as well, and the flight that went down in Pennsylvania, and gave specific times of this.

[00:15:45] Now when she said all this my first thought was, this woman's crazier than a loon. She said we had to call and warn someone, so I said, well call the FBI I guess, I really don't know who you would call, and I left it at that.

[00:15:59] After that I said I was going to go to sleep, and I would see her in the morning. The next morning we all kind of woke up early except for Renata, so we kind of decided to

[00:16:08] go ahead and leave since we had a long drive back, so we all loaded up and headed home. Once I got home I wrote down the day's events in my daily journal and thought no more about it until September 11th, 2001.

[00:16:22] I was opening up shop and getting everything to open up the local cell phone store I worked at when my boss called me and told me to turn on the news. I asked him which one, and he said, any. It's on all of them.

[00:16:34] So I did like he asked, and for a moment I was confused and in total disbelief of what I was seeing, thinking we were under attack, but when the news anchorman said what flight

[00:16:43] number it was, I was really freaked out, because I remembered that was one of the flight numbers Renata had spoken of that night a few years ago. I then immediately called my friend Chris since he only lived one road over, and I asked him

[00:16:56] to go to my house and look for my journal from 1998, and get it and bring it up here. When Chris arrived with my journal in his hand, I immediately grabbed it and went to December and started reviewing entries until I found it.

[00:17:09] I told Chris about that night a few times before, mocking it really, not thinking this was serious. So when this all started happening he was asking, what's it say, what's it say, since

[00:17:19] he knew I kept a journal and had meticulous notes from every event in my life since I was 12. Sure enough she had gotten everything correct, flight numbers, times, planes, etc. 100% correct, and we all just stood there in silence.

[00:17:35] And to this day I take to heart what any person says when they claim to have psychic abilities. William's next story is called A Moment of Enlightenment. William says, This one stands out most in my mind.

[00:17:52] To tell you this one, please allow me to give a little bit of background right quick. At the time I was working at a very popular coffee shop called Java Jive in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

[00:18:02] This was a popular hangout for a lot of people from every walk of life, with a very laid back lifestyle with a kind of sort of bohemian decor about it. Everyone knew of it and most people had been there, so I got to become friends with a

[00:18:14] lot of the patrons that were regular customers there. So much so that sometimes we would all attend parties or road trips together. It was just a very warm and loving atmosphere, which was something I had never experienced until starting work there.

[00:18:29] So the day was Saturday, April 4th, 2001, if I remember correctly, and I had opened up and went back home to rest for a few hours before going back in and working the rest of the day and night.

[00:18:39] I decided that since it was such a beautiful day out, I would open up my windows and take a nap on the couch right below. The temperature was perfect and it had been drizzling off and on with a nice breeze and

[00:18:50] it was overcast, so no bright sunlight blaring in. Just a perfect kind of day. And I remember laying there and thinking how peaceful everything around me was. And I drifted off to sleep.

[00:19:01] About three hours later I awoke, ready to go back to work, and headed out on my way. But along the way, driving down the road with the windows down, I became acutely aware of how wonderful the air smelled and the grass was so fragrant.

[00:19:14] And then all of a sudden, it was as if time stood still. And at that moment, everything in this whole world made sense. Like I was in the mind of the creator of the universe. I knew why the grass grew. I knew why the flowers were fragrant.

[00:19:28] I knew everything. I was at one with everything. Every thought and question I had ever wondered, I had answered, and I was at pure and complete peace. But more importantly, there was a feeling of love, like I had never felt.

[00:19:42] Words could not explain the love I felt for everything. All living beings. It was unfathomable. Then after what seemed and felt like an eternity, it all went away and everything returned back to normal.

[00:19:54] I was in such shock that I pulled off the road and had to gather my thoughts. I looked around and I was still in the same spot, which was odd because I felt like an eternity had passed. But yet, time stood still.

[00:20:07] I sat there and tried to figure out how I could go back to what I experienced. But I could not. I then proceeded to go on to work, but it was still ever-present in my mind.

[00:20:17] I got to work and saw my boss Greg, who is a very free spirit and open-minded to anything possible, and he noticed that I was acting different, and he asked me if something had happened.

[00:20:27] And straight away I told him, since I knew that he would never tell another soul. Greg heard my story and told me that it sounded like I had a divine spiritual awakening.

[00:20:36] Well, I personally don't know what happened for sure that day, but I do know that it changed my life forever. I am more caring and understanding of others now. I care for all life, and I have learned to love more.

[00:20:50] I would love to know more if any of your other listeners have had a similar experience and would like to connect and share their stories. So please feel free to give them my contact info, which I will leave at the bottom of this email.

[00:21:05] William's next story is called, Encounter with Bigfoot. William says, This happened in June of 2016. I live in a little town in North Carolina called Lawndale. I have been playing this game called Ingress for the past four years or so, and decided

[00:21:21] that one afternoon I would drive up to a town called Marion and visit the opposing team and play for a few hours. Well, a few hours turned into a lot more, and I found it being very late or rather very

[00:21:33] early in the morning, so I decided to head back home. This drive was about an hour's drive down this one back road, 226, which was just basically a road to the mountains and hollers of the Appalachians.

[00:21:45] And it was real foggy that night, so I was not driving too fast. Around 30 minutes or so into my drive, I am passing into this little community called Sunshine, which is basically a little hollow surrounded by Sunshine Mountain and Cherry Mountain and not too many houses at all.

[00:22:01] Anyway, I am coming to the bottom of this hill, and it is so foggy that I literally cannot see 20 yards ahead of me, so I am literally just rolling through the bottom of this little

[00:22:10] hollow when all of a sudden on my left hand side, this creature stepped up on the road and looked directly at me. I immediately hit the brakes and just froze in sheer terror as it stared me down.

[00:22:23] After a few seconds, it began to move on across the road and step directly in front of my car headlights, and it stopped again and looked towards me once again, and I could clearly make out its features.

[00:22:34] It was about 10 feet tall, maybe a little more, reddish brown hair all over its body, maybe 3 to 4 inches in length and matted in some places. His face was the same as his body with long hair as well, large thick legs and arms, and its eyes were red.

[00:22:51] One thing that was indistinguishable was the smell. It smelled awful like a mixture of body odor, fecal matter and a skunk all rolled in together, and this is what it reminded me of.

[00:23:03] After it looked back towards me, it continued to walk onto the other side and began to go up the mountain and out of sight. After a few moments of disbelief and shock, I gathered my composure and drove on back

[00:23:14] to the house, all while keeping a watchful eye on the sides of the road. Thank you for allowing me to share with you a few of my experiences with you and the audience if you so choose, and please keep up the good work.

[00:23:31] As tonight's edition of From the Forest comes to a close, I appreciate all of you for tuning in and a special thank you goes out to Cass, Joe, Annabelle, and William for sharing their experiences.

[00:23:43] And if you've had a paranormal experience that occurred in or near the forest, you can contact me through email, voice message, or on our website, and all of these links can be found in the show notes.

[00:23:56] Until next time, I hope you all have a safe and healthy rest of the week as we uncover even more bizarre experiences involving paranormal mysteries.