Bigfoot and Mountain Men
What if it's True Podcast
Cameron Buckner
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
While listening to a Bigfoot podcast on the porch, the narrator’s 94-year-old great-granddad Elijah shared a secret from his youth. As a teen in early-1900s Tennessee, Elijah and his two best friends were close to a hermit called Crazy Joe, who taught them wilderness skills. When Joe vanished, his shack was wrecked; weeks later he returned wealthy, clean-shaven, and driving fine horses. He revealed he had once struck gold in a hidden Idaho valley guarded by giant, hairy “Ancient Ones.” Joe invited the boys west. They reached the remote Valley of the Ancients, lived with a Shoshone friend called Long Tooth, and learned the creatures’ rules: leave food on a sacred rock and never chase them. In return, the gentle but towering Ancient Ones left gold nuggets almost daily. During three winters the boys glimpsed the hairy beings, hunted alongside them, and filled a wagon with wealth before returning to Tennessee as wealthy young men. Elijah used his share to buy the family farm that still stands today. When the narrator doubted the tale, Elijah produced a worn journal and a bag of gold nuggets matching every detail. The family has kept the secret for six generations.
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| 0:00.0 | I lived in a ranch house about 10 miles south of El Dorado, Texas. |
| 0:14.0 | Or is that El Dorado, Texas? |
| 0:17.0 | El Dorado, El Dorado, who knows? |
| 0:20.0 | My wife and I liked sitting on a screened-in porch at night. |
| 0:24.0 | One night, we were out there when my wife said she saw something move across the driveway |
| 0:29.0 | in a bank of trees. |
| 0:31.3 | There were two shadows, both eight feet tall, and they were moving around. |
| 0:36.6 | A mountain line had been spotted near us, so I always carried |
| 0:39.8 | a 40 caliber pistol with me. I turned on my tactical light and pointed my gun toward the figures, |
| 0:46.9 | but it still couldn't make out what it was. I thought about shooting into the trees to spook |
| 0:52.1 | them into the open, but something told me not |
| 0:54.9 | to. |
| 0:55.8 | We went to bed not long after that, and I wondered what it had been. |
| 1:00.7 | A week or two later, I woke up one morning and happened to look out my bedroom window |
| 1:05.7 | toward a chicken coop. |
| 1:07.7 | There, standing in the broad daylight, was a creature. |
| 1:13.8 | He had the outline of Chewbacca, |
| 1:20.0 | and he stood eight feet tall with long hair from head to toe. He was staring right at me, |
| 1:25.4 | like he'd been waiting for me to wake up and see him, wanting me to know that he was there. |
| 1:31.1 | My friends and family think I'm crazy, but there was no mistaking what I saw. |
| 1:37.1 | We moved from that house, not because of Bigfoot, and I left there a believer. |
| 1:41.1 | Okay, a little short story to kick this podcast off. |
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