Before the human race harnessed the power of fire there was only darkness, an inky

black foreboding a best that concealed danger, mystery, and fear.

Into that darkness, brave men would not venture.

For as the map says, here there be monsters. housing. Oh, Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

a lot.

Oh, Good evening and welcome to hear there be monsters podcast. I am your captain Derek Hayes. Given that the

show is fresh off its first episode I'm still a little short on listener

submitted calls so tonight I'm going to do something a little different.

With a little luck I'll be back to my normal format next week, but for tonight I want to touch

on a few mysterious calls to

the report something strange in the woods. Ever since the 911

emergency telephone service was created in the 1960s.

Bizarre calls have come through.

Some calls are simply pranks.

Others mere misidentifications.

But still others report odd lights in the sky or otherworldly beings that are simply too weird to ignore.

Tonight I'm focusing on those 911 calls.

More specifically, calls reporting an upright hairy beast, some would claim is Sasquatch.

Our first call of the evening comes to us from the San Antonio, Texas area. The call was reportedly made on November 30th of 2009.

I will now play the call in its entirety. I just watched the biggest ceter, but it's small girl back. I'm a homeless female. I live right in the middle of the woods around 151 to north of Claiborne on

Crayboro on 624 where the light is.

This big thing was 75 feet away from me, smells awful, devoured a old deer carcass, and then

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