A Creature Named Ole Red

What if it's True Podcast

Cameron Buckner

Drama, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A Creature Named Ole Red
In 1997, a ten-year-old spending the summer with their grandmother in Florida had a startling encounter on the way to their grandfather’s house in Geneva. While driving, they spotted a seven-foot-tall, bipedal creature with orange-reddish hair resembling an orangutan crossing the road. The creature paused to stare at them before continuing on. Upon arriving at their grandfather’s, they learned he called it “Ole Red,” a creature he claimed as a pet alongside his deer, squirrels, and raccoons. Though initially skeptical, the sighting left the child questioning whether Ole Red was a released pet or a wild, orangutan-like animal native to Florida’s swamps, a mystery lingering long after their grandparents’ passing.

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0:00.0	In 1997, when I was 10 years old, I was spending the summer with my grandmother.
0:19.7	One day she told me that we were going to
0:21.3	Grandpa's house for lunch in Geneva, a small town in Seminole County, Florida, about a 15-minute
0:27.8	car ride away. During the car ride, my grandmother and I were listening to the radio.
0:33.1	It was a bright, hot, humid, sunny Florida day, about close to 11 a.m. and I was looking
0:39.7	out my window, when all of a sudden my grandmother slammed on her brakes and her giant
0:45.3	Osmobile screeching the tires. Thankfully, no one was behind us. My head shot forward to see why she
0:53.9	was breaking so fast and driving like a mad woman.
0:57.8	There it was. There was this thing, this creature on two legs. It looked like an orangutan
1:04.5	with long orange hair. We were 15 feet away from it. It was about seven feet tall, walking upright, and it stopped in the middle of the road
1:14.6	and stared at us for a few seconds.
1:16.6	Well, I turned to my grandmother, and she turned and looked right at me, and we were both
1:22.6	in total disbelief.
1:23.6	Our mouths were wide open and shocked.
1:26.6	We turned back to the creature and it showed us its
1:29.5	teeth, sort of like how a chimp shows its teeth. And then it continued on its way. My grandpa's
1:37.4	house was only maybe a thousand feet away. My grandmother told my grandpa and aunt what we had
1:43.4	seen.
1:45.0	Grandpa said it was old red started laughing.
1:48.0	He was an outdoorsman.
1:50.0	He used to live in old campers.
1:52.0	Sometimes he'd even sleep outside.
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