I'm not sure what I believe about cryptids but some of my friends and I have had some weird experiences over the years that I can't explain.

There definitely seems to be something more than what officially is out there.

When I was in the fourth or fifth grade, my dad and I went backpacking on the North Country

Trail near Muskegan, Michigan.

And as we crossed one of the roads, we saw something big and hairy walking on two legs down the road.

We weren't able to tell for sure what it was, but have jokes since then that it was Bigfoot.

After I started listening to this podcast last summer, I called him to see if he remembered

the encounter and he said he still wasn't sure what it was but the only

thing he could think of that it could have been was a person walking down the street

and a heavy fur coat on a hot summer afternoon.

Since that time I had become a pilot and a few months ago I was on a night flight home

after dropping some passengers off on the other side of the country.

We were flying at 16,000 feet nearing the Mississippi-Louisiana border roughly 30 miles northwest

of Baton Rouge.

When we started hearing other pilots asking,

does anyone else see this?

What is that?

The first reports were that it was west of Little Rock, Arkansas,

and sure enough we saw a light right where they said it was,

and it was hauling butt to the south.

It was low enough and intense enough that it was lighting up a large section of the cloud layer a couple of thousand feet above us,

so it was probably in the low flight levels, 20,000 feet if I had to guess.

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