My name is Mark West, born and raised in Texas, I'm 65 years old, I spent a good eight years

in the Navy, I spent three of that eight years in Vietnam, and when I came back from Vietnam,

kind of messed up in the head a little bit, needed to get my thoughts together, and I spent

a lot of time working cattle ranches, spending time by myself, spent a lot of time in the

woods, the fact that coming back from someplace like Vietnam, you had to get your head together

and wrap around some of the things that you did, so I did spend a lot of time in the woods,

I was born and raised in woods, I was taught how to fish, how to hunt, how to track and

trail, when I go camping, it's what I would call primitive camping, I sleep in a hammock

I got a tarp to cover myself with if it rains, other than that I got a backpack and I carry

what I'm going to take with me, there's no frills and frills, it's straight up getting into woods

and being with nature, you know, that's the best way you can get your head together to get back in

God's country, now the first sighting I had was when I was about three years old, there was

something that would watch me through my bedroom window, I didn't have a clue what it was,

I called it the boogie man, and my grandparents would tell me,

Marcus, time to go to bed, I'll tell them new boogie man's going to get me,

well my grandfather being who he is, he took me to the front window, had me stand inside the house

looking out the front window, he took his 12 gauge and he went out and he fired all six,

seven eight rounds, rolled on the ground, dropped to his knees, shoot his gun and he come back in

and told me he said I killed all the boogie man, satisfied me, I watched you do it, well I never saw

this face in the window again, now that was old back in probably 59, old back in 1978 I was

camped out in the big thicket here in Texas, up around Lake Conno, which is just north of Houston,

and that's called the same Houston National Forest, it's several big national forests,

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