Another day, another podcast. Appreciate y'all clicking on the video. My name is Cameron

Butler and this is the Dixie Cryptored Podcast. Let's jump right into these stories.

I think you're going to enjoy this. All right, here we go.

Here is an encounter story from Steve. I think you're going to like this. Back in 1979, when I was nine

years old, we lived in Angelina County in East Texas. It was about 20 miles south of Lovekin

near the Sam Rayburn Lake area. Both of my grandparents lived there. They were divorced, but lived

about two miles from each other. They each lived on a typical modest farm of 25 to 30 acres with

lots of chickens, ducks, horses, and cows. One smoldering summer night at my grandmother's farm,

the adults were engaged in their usual routine of cooking dinner before settling in for a night of

card playing. Meanwhile, I was slipping outside with my brother, who was 11, my cousin, who was eight,

and my dad's 10-year-old brother, our uncle, to hang out at the edge of one of the pastures

where the yard light on a pole made a bright circle in the night. Beyond that halo, the world was

inky black. Within the light was the pasture gate where we like to sit and use our slingshots to

play sort of a gigantic game of marbles by shooting rocks out of the circle and into the night.

We were all sitting up on the gate and grossed in our game and cutting up and laughing as little

boys will do when our attention was suddenly drawn in the direction of the barn located 100 yards

to our left. We silently stared and listened as something massive and heavy came running through

the pasture from that direction. We shot looks at each other as we realized the speed at which this

thing was running. We knew it was on two legs and that brought another round of glances to one

another. Every thump thump thump of those pounding steps burned itself into my mind as we sat waiting

to see what this thing could be. It was at the edge of the light when it came to a complete stop

as if it had just then noticed us sitting there. The brightness ended so abruptly at the

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