The stories you will hear are from real people with real experiences with the unknown.

Welcome to the Dixie scripted What If It's True Podcast.

All right, here we go. My name is Bernard. I'm a 65 year old retired oil-filled worker from South Mississippi. I've lived my entire life in a small town

about an hour south of Jackson, Mississippi called Bogachita. Bogachita is Choctaw for Big Creek.

Many Native American tribes settled here in the late 1800s,

and many property owners discover burial mounds on their properties here.

My family farmed all the land we owned,

and as children we would spend the summer searching for airheads

after the fields were plowed.

We probably found hundreds of them all together and we still occasionally

find them today. Once I graduated high school I set out to make a living in the Gulf of Mexico

oil patch.

Looking back, I wish I had continued to farm and kept up with my family's dairy farm business.

The hard manual labor of drilling rigs took a toll on my body, but it allowed me to provide for my family and live, for the most part, an upper-middle-class life.

Years ago, when my son was 17 years old,

I called home to check on him as I did daily,

and while I was away at work, my mother and my sister

looked after him.

On this day, he asked if he and a friend could take a Bigfoot researcher

onto my property. Apparently his buddy had seen a creature cross the road and enter an area of my property the week prior.

His friend reported the sighting to the BFRO and a man wanted to take a look around.

Well I laughed and I told him that he could go and do whatever they needed to do.

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