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Wild Thing

Letters From Listeners—S1 Bonus

Wild Thing

Foxtopus Ink

Society & Culture, Science

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Wild Thing is rereleasing its bonus episodes! In Ep. 2 of Wild Thing, I mentioned that people went crazy about the gorilla. They even wrote songs about it. But I couldn’t find the music, so I couldn’t play the tune… until now. In a special bonus letters segment, a musical performance from a Wild Thing fan, as well as some of your stories and letters.

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.9

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you

0:13.8

to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather.

0:28.7

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:36.4

Hi, wild things. I couldn't stay away. Over the past few months, I've gotten a ton of emails,

0:40.3

messages, photos, and artwork from people who enjoyed the podcast. To all of you who wrote, thank you.

0:43.3

Thanks for taking the time to listen and to share your memories and thoughts.

0:47.3

I got a few of you to record your stories and letters, which I wanted to share.

0:51.3

Many, many people wrote to me about their own possible Bigfoot

0:55.7

experience, which was kind of cool because my cousin Grover also got those kinds of letters.

1:01.2

One such story comes from Tammy. I'm not giving last names because people didn't always want

1:06.0

to share that information publicly. My name is Tammy, and I'm 51 years old.

1:11.6

I have a brother who is 48 and we grew up in southern Indiana in the middle of farm country.

1:18.6

One afternoon, we decided to take a walk down a gravel road that ran by our house.

1:23.6

However, we both froze in our tracks when we saw something very strange, a very tall, heavy, and hairy man.

1:31.4

Unless it was a man wearing a costume, then it must have been an animal that we had never seen before or since.

1:38.0

It was covered head to toe in long, dark hair, was standing on two legs and bending over slightly,

1:45.8

and it had an object in its hands like a branch or a large stick. I just turned and ran as fast as I could back to our house.

1:51.9

I was so terrified. My brother, however, stood there for a few more seconds, and then he also

1:57.5

got scared and ran home. Now, this event took place over 40 years ago,

2:02.5

and neither of our memories of it have changed at all. But we both agree that we wished we had

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