85: Lost In The Smoky Mountains | The Confessionals
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- Dan comes on to share about the night he had to spend lost in the Smoky Mountains! He describes the environment he found himself in and then the things he saw has changed his life forever!
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I love all these stories I do believe my friends and family think I'm as crazy as going to bed because I believe in Bigfoot and cryptic animals oh well no one ever believed in the giraffe or the Lions but lo and behold they are here enjoy the show a lot
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the more accounts I hear where the Sasquatch are encountered around Boulder fields in the Mountains and around Alien or alien like encounters, the more I think maybe they’re either experimenting on them too (highly likely) and the aliens could definitely disguise as BF but.. maybe the Bigfoot really are extraterrestrial interterrestrial in nature which is wild but think about Chewbacca.. we all already know about Predictive Programming on tv and movies 🤔
I’m so glad I decided to listen to this before bedtime. This guy cured my insomnia. Legend has it, he still hasn’t gotten to the point yet
Haha
Haven't listened to any of it yet but while scrolling comments, yours made me laugh 😂 thanks for that!
@@ginabink1422Same here 😂
😂😂
No joke no joke I woke back up at 46:00 and listed to him talk about making some spear to defend them. And 5minutes later he’s talkin about havin a Glock 40 in one hand and a light in the other. 🙄 oh brother. Next cryptid video search
Big thanks to ALL the mom's out there,that pray for us to make it home safe. 🙂 my mom's passed,and so now I take up the reigns 😏 I pray everyday that my kid makes it back safe. ❤
I heard a very interesting thing recently. So I pray for mine..my son,my fam,my friends. I forget what I was listening to,some channel like this on the Utubes lol but they were praying for their whole town 🙂 never really thought of sucha big prayer,a big blanket prayer..covering the entire city in love like that! I believe our Higher Power does answer prayers
As their parent you have an all the more powerful covenant to pray over your children and bless them, it's so awesome that you do ! But if ever you could get your husband to intercede as well, they will receive, but raised to the Godly Power of 2, (as fathers have been granted spiritual headship over their family).
I live about 1/2 block away from a trail system. Three month ago I walked to drop some stuff items to a neighbor late in the evening, and I picked up a trash smell that covered the whole neighborhood. I know we have owls around, but I heard a owl hoot that it was way too big to be an owl. I started walking backwards facing where the sound was coming from. I have been suspecting there is something living by the trail system because I kept finding trees that were pushed down, broken or twisted tree branches, and small structures.
You know what's there !
Talk to it. Thank it for allowing yall to live in its area. This guy thanked it and it watched over him that night. Might save your life
Can you hear these people saying talk to it and thank it for "letting YOU live in IT'S area", fucking cowards, or idiots, was bigfoot in the deed to the house when you bought it? Does it pay property taxes or rent for your land? It's Sas-Squatting lol, it should thank you ! For not capturing its bastard offspring and selling it to science and killing it's no rent-paying abomination ass! God gave mankind the planet NOT Bigfoot sorry, it has no claim to anywhere on this planet and the talk its the first human stuff is a big lie incorrect guess or more government disinfo, the DNA they tested all came back modern humans they are no older than us. That means something else happened and given the increase in sightings over the past few decades, I'd say it wasn't natural at all. But look all the sympathizers and jackoffs trying to worship it like it has some better claim to the planet than we do, savior of the forest my ass, all they do is bust down trees, and vandalize shit, anyone ever see a bigfoot plant a tree or picking up litter? nope, "thank it" , you'll make an excellent slave to an invasion of hybrid abominations that throughout history have kidnapped women and children and caused great distress to native americans before the colonists got here to finish the job. Who in their right mind wants one of those things watching over them ? watching their kids through the window while they sleep, they do that a lot i hear, no thanks.
@@coniac420 😳 ...i'm dead 🤣 I've never seen anyone be so salty about the idea of showing respect towards bigfoot as a suggestion just in case it could help. ... the fact that they don't pick up trash that isn't theirs, like what? Personally offends you?? pfff stop 😭 I'm gonna pee my pants. Maybe we are the assholes for thinking we have to pay property taxes to live on land we were born to live on. Maybe we are the sheep for buying into this capitalistic bull shit but no- its Bigfoot bc they break trees? 🤣 I cant
@@courtneylovesmaccompact9047 Well your view of land ownership changes a bit when you grow up and you are an adult who has to work for a living and actually owns the property. Like it or not, paying rent and property tax is a fact of life and is never going to change in America or any country in the world unless you can get out to some untouched rainforest and squat on that countries land, but you will most likely have bigger troubles then paying taxes dodging spears and arrows from the cannibal tribes that do not welcome outsiders squatting on their lands. That or you'll be competing with whichever apex predator that thinks nothing of land ownership taxes but is territorial and thinks of you as food.
So yes, the thought of working hard all week to pay my way in life and own land and have some sub-human demand I share the land I worked hard to purchase and maintain is completely offensive to me. Suppose I hike out to Mount Shasta and find a cave where Bigfoot lives in and just stroll on in demanding it shares the cave with me. How well do you think that's going to go over?
Furthermore, there are countless accounts of Bigfoot kidnapping women and children, eating the kids, and raping the women. I would rather drink gasoline and piss on a brush fire than share my land with a murdering rapist P.O.S., That's almost as bad as voting for Joe Biden with his manslaughter mandates and his protection of his adulterous pedophile, junkie, son Hunter. Other than my vote, I do not have much power over that, but I sure as hell have all the say in whether I have to share my land with a retarded monkey apes that most likely got their human DNA through raping human women they kidnapped throughout history. Either that or they are the Nephilim or product of them, in which case would even piss God off just like it did last time he flooded the earth to wipe them out.
And all the pets those things have killed on people, I was being lenient when I complained about the forest they pointlessly destroy, if I were one of those people who had their dogs ripped in half and found the half it didn't throw on my porch up in a tree for not feeding the bigfoot while I was on vacation I'd gladly hunt down every last one of those abominations and finish the lords work with gladness.
Let's settle the debate right here, God gave mankind the planet, and all its seed barring plants and animals for us to use as we see fit, for better or worse, not bigfoot, says nothing in that passage about sharing any part of the Earth with abominations.
Unlike other commenters, I really appreciated that this guest included so many details in his story. So many other guests leave me with a million questions but he really seemed to cover all the bases. I was on the edge of my seat most the time.
It's obviously fake what are you talking about?
Somebody needs to get this dude a personal locator beacon, a map, and a book on hiking. Scientific mind??? I think he learned a lot though. It was obviously difficult for him to tell his story..... As we say in the south, "Bless his heart!" Brother, there are some STRANGE things in the woods! Glad you lived to tell your story!
Wow this comment sounds so passive aggressive 😅
@@Dr_Agon3 this guy is an absolute moron, continues going dead ahead after being warned of a female bear and her cubs, that should tell you about how much common sense he has.
Pure City, That's what he was. All us hill billies ain't scientific
...but we aren't lost, either. LoL
@@Dr_Agon3 no, just the facts as he sees them 🤷🏻♂️
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Loved the fact that you didn't interrupt, Tony! Well done.
I kinda wish he had. This guy was painful to listen to.
He didn’t interrupt because he fell asleep 😴
Thats because he fell asleep like i did with such BS
He didn’t interrupt because he knew that he was full of it. He wasn’t going to give this guy the satisfaction of elaborating on his “encounters” by asking anything.
Listen to the evil entity portal encounter in Joshua Tree. That poor man was without a doubt telling the truth. How the host interacts and asks questions, he believes him as well.
THIS guy is just a straight up LIAR and a bad one at that! UFO’s, Sasquatch, phantom telephones, come on. Pick one and stick with ONE if you’re going to spew such nonsense.
And casually lying there while you’re seeing some huge unknown creature peering at you? No big deal, he’s smiling so it’s okay. Gf sees it and she’s not scared at all?
I think that he was scared and couldn’t sleep. His mind played tricks on him because he was paranoid and exhausted. I don’t think his gf saw anything. I think she was trying to rest and just said yeah, yeah I see it, so she could go back to sleep. She 100% broke up with this loser in the parking lot once they got back.
Sorry, this dude was an idiot. Left to go hiking in the evening, no supplies, who left his common sense back home, who got lost on a TRAIL and proceeds to have numerous unrealistic and laughably funny wild encounters.
There were so many times he contradicted himself. A few that stood out was the ranger asking where his gf called from, the friends back at the cabin, etc.
Lord have mercy. This level of deceit is honestly scary and concerning. This guy needs professional help. So embarrassing. If he didn’t come across as such a jerk, I’d feel bad for him.
Clearly we are all idiots that will believe anything, incredibly insulting. I’m glad you decided to upload it given it’s clearly fake, or you’re just giving him the benefit of the doubt. I got a good laugh of it and enjoyed picking out all the lies and inconsistencies.
Phew, im glad u are a man of faith, seems to me those neph in the saucer were closing in on you, then they lost you and switched on the beam for a visual search. And good job on mum getting up in the night and sensing the call. God is good.
This was a great show, I loved his reciting of his encounters! It's amazing that people think that these people who have encounters could be lying. The details and epression in their voice and storytelling should prove that they are telling the truth. Period. Some people will always be sheeple I suppose. Hey I once was a skeptic until I was made a KNOWER and I couldnt deny my own encounter that would turn into MANY more.
PERIOT!!!!
I love it when he say's "This is when it starts to get a little weird". What thee hell was it before then? Somehow I believe him.
Yeah, that made me laugh. I believe him too.
It gets weird when he jumps from 6pm to 11pm and he doesn't mention the huge waterfall that's a hour and a half into the hike. Total bs.
People when telling stories they speak 2 languages.. one when they’re telling the truth and the other is when their words they wrote for a book. Do you recognize the difference? I ask because I’ve personally had some of the most incredible experiences anyone could possibly have alive and when I tell them ,there is a sense of directness.. not explaining moods and how the atmosphere was etc.. that’s when you’re spinning yarn and testing the waters for a book OR reciting something you’ve already written. 🤷🏻♂️ I’m just throwing that out there. Your decision wether to buy or sell.
@@UnBlinded1 No, I just just think there are good narrators, and poor narrators. And a particular type of atmosphere or mood is 100 % part of any human experience, we're not all left brained only.
Every word may be true but I find it excrutating to listen to this man's slow unfolding of his tales. Pick up the pace, both in word and in speech/delivery.
He's tells it pretty good, for a man making it all up as he went.
@@1980bwc exactly! I have hiked that very well marked and easy trail many times. It's a great place to trout fish. Plus the park closes at dusk and the parking area is checked. If his vehicle was there a search would have been stated if for nothing else to insure there was no one injured in need of immediate help
@@1980bwcyeah I usually try to give people the benefit of the doubt but something’s off about this one.
You can speed up the playback speed on the videos
I didn’t bother me so much up front, but it got to me about half way through. I think he’s insecure about telling the tale, so rather than explain what happened as he saw it, he inserts a lot of exposition to back up every peculiar thing - perhaps to deflect from criticism from naysayers.
Been on that trail. We also thought it was a loop and didn't bring any water during the summer day. We ended up turning around after the falls and came out hours later all exhausted. The park ranger was at the trail entrance on this perticular busy afternoon and was giving us a hard time thinking we threw away our water bottles out in the woods but we never actually took any water or food. I can see how this guy could get confused on this trail, it wasn't real clear at the trailhead. I remember going in thinking it was going to be a really easy 30-40min walk. haha. Great episode.
Always take snacks and water. Be prepared
That UFO that he is describing. I have seen that with my own eyes with an eye witness that was with me. The way he describes it is EXACTLY what I saw. When he paused while describing the way it was shaped, in my mind I said, “like kinda a diamond long diamond .” And he says, “like a football,” I about lost it. I’m SO glad I’m not the only one and my friend that night that saw what I saw!! And I had the SAME feeling like it just KNEW we saw it.
His story checks out compared to my research
Great account and channel. When wes advised you to just let them tell their story you sure listened!
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Try _Colorado Bigfoot_ & _Strange Familiars_ channel's. If you think [this is] "Great" they'll blow your mind.
This video could of started at the 30mnt marker. Everything prior is unnecessary fodder &/or gathered from the title..
It's so hard not to interrupt because one has so many questions.
@@madelynHernandez5577 I know. My advice is take notes as they go. Let them stay in the flow, and ask questions after. Depends on the person though, some like a more conversational interview.
Hey Tony I don't expect you to see this but couldn't find anywhere to right this but on podcast you spoke indirectly to me before episode 146 . But I felt your message for ppl who are hurting . I really needed that message it doesn't really change life . But appreciate your efforts .
Mark, I know things are even tougher now. I will keep you in thoughts, envisioning friendships and circumstances in your life to improve. I wish you peace and ease in life. Be well Mark. 🥀❤️🥀
Aw..I'm sure appreciation goes a long way. Very kind of you 🙂
I know EXACTLY what this man is talking about when he describes the dancing light/star in the sky, because I have seen the very same thing on several occasions. They bob and weave and move in a way that isn't normal. Usually at first glance it looks like a normal star, only much brighter, till you see them start to subtley move.
yup, i seen a group of them twice
I was out in catoosa wma at night and saw something similar but it was flashing green and red.to far away from humans to be a drone and it hovered in one spot slowly up and down.and i did feel like it was watching us.we were four wheeling in jeeps
Seen a light similar to what you’re describing when I was on tower guard in Iraq with my NVGs back in 2004. I was on Balad Air Base. I thought it was a satellite unit it started moving in an S shape pattern.
See them all the time!
@@frankshort7798 Same here, even when I randomly go outside to take out the trash at night. I'll glance up at the night sky and notice an unnaturally bright light. Once I notice it, that's when it starts bobbing and weaving. It's like they wait for someone to notice them before they move. It's really bizarre.
"Im bald but every hair follicle in my head was screaming." LOL
That one gave me a chuckle as well.
I always listen to Sasquatch Chronicles and just subbed here thanks to Wes. This Smoky Mountains encounter is excellent. I think they were lucky to survive. I think they were going to be abducted and we would never have known if it wasn’t for his Holy Guardian Angel. Thank you
I've hiked this trail ( I live near park) dozens of times , thus guy has never been on Abrams Falls trail. The huge waterfall, which the trail goes straight to with no other trails before to take a wrong turn , is impossible to miss and he never mentions it at all. He says " after hiking for awhile, we sit at a big rock outcroppings around 6pm" . The falls are only 2 and a half miles in , about an hour and half walk. And a little further in his story he says , " it's around 11pm " , and he never mentions the falls at all. This story is , a tale , a tall one.
@1stofer is ABSOLUTELY correct. No way to get sidetracked walking to the falls from the trailhead in Cades Cove. Especially if it’s still daylight! Getting 12 miles into the woods after wrenching a knee partway through your hike?! In the dark of night?! C’mon! Give me a break. Good campfire spook tale for the kids, but that’s all it is, a tale. Not saying the Smokies don’t have plenty of Bigfoot and other cryptids for that matter. This fellow just has a great imagination for making up a yarn.
It’s okay, they got a nice one. After all, it was smiling at them. 🙄
So, lucky to survive? He laid there and looked at “it” while his gf took a peek and went right back to sleep.
They survived because it never happened, he probably has never even hiked this particular trail from the way he described it.
It might be believable if he’d picked one encounter rather than multiple encounters, that even ONE would be like a 0.001% chance of happening to someone.
People disappear in the smokies. I live in east TN. I've had sasquatch on my property
Donna Fancher YUP Yup Yup Stop by my channel if you lov TRUTH.
Thats crazy did u see it forsure
really, holy crap
Me too. I live in Cosby near Gatlinburg
My kids think I'm just crazy. But I know what I've seen. I'm not crazy. I won't let my grandkids play outside by theirselves no longer when there here. I believe they are just using this area to pass through in spring. I live near creek, river, right of way power lines and railroad tracks.
Great encounter! I'm sure most people have no idea about the many thing's that exist in this universe. We need to start thinking beyond our logical mind! Keep safe out there everyone!
I've listened to this story like 10x & I keep coming back to listen again
Its my favorite
That was AGONY listening to Dan try to tell the story.
Thank you 😑 I mean, I get he’s not a professional story teller, but jeeeeeez.
Ah he wasn't that bad
Hopefully you do better telling your story when you go on there
Pretty sure tony fell asleep at some point and didnt wake up until he thought his alarm, which was coincidently enough set to the twilight theme music, was going off 😂
Put the playback speed up its way. Better
Girlfriend: wakes up for the tenth time. Sees a monster....
Then goes back to sleep🤣🤣
Girlfriend, the mindless zombie who has hardly any part in this story. She apparently says nothing the whole time! Can you imagine any woman being stuck out in the wilderness at night with nothing to say?? I know I would not have fallen asleep out there! Then she wakes up, sees a monster and.....nothing! Thank God she got her phone to work the next morning and saved the day....but that is not how it went on Sasquatch Chronicles when he told the story. Bogus.
Ellie L you make no sense so don’t try 😂
@@ellietobe what if she loves the wilderness and eats granola all the time. The smokies are full of her kind.
Yeah, that was my response too. Hear that a lot with abduction incidents, too.
Ya I think he made a lot up in the story . Can't believe she falls back to sleep
I haven't watched one of your videos in a while. Not for any reason other than I just haven't seen you in my feed. But today you were so I clicked cause I enjoy your videos and I'm really glad I did! I appreciate your insight and thought provoking words! It's refreshing to me because you're real! You keep it real and you care about things. Don't change, keep up the good work! And I'll keep clicking every time I see your videos!! ❤💯
I LOVE the "Yup!" at the beginning! Thanks Tony so cool. I can tell you are such a nice down to earth man. Thank you for this podcast posting to UA-cam, I have been having trouble with iTunes. I can't get your show to download, DAMN! Can't get help with it either, so frustrating. If your numbers on iTunes go down that may be the reason.
Tony is a good dude, easy to talk with over a burger...
The fact that hikers warned him that a female bear and her cubs were around and he continued straight in that direction completely unfazed tells you how haphazard and really how dumb this guy actually is...
How he dumb…learn more about hiking and learn more about predators and their offspring before you go around calling someone dumb…this shows how ignorant and how much u have to learn…so does that make you ďůħ-ůmb
Right?! And deciding to head out on a hike at 5PM with NO supplies and completely unprepared. Come on.
You can't help but think there's something within the smoky mountains. You can feel it .
Thanks!
I live just down the road from Cades Cove (which is a main access area to the GSMNP and most of its main trails). Been on the abram falls trail several times which is considered one of the easier hikes by snobby hikers like me. My problem with this story is that the GSMNP staff generally making it very difficult for you to be there after dark
I live east TN and Cades Cove is one of my absolute favorite places and as you said Abrams Falls is an ext easy well marked trail The park rangers patrol after dusk to make sure no one is there. If their car was in the parking area they would have started a search. If for nothing else to make sure no one was injured and in need of immediate help.
@@jeanninejones8350 👍
How long ago did he say this was? Maybe it used to be different back then?
Not one word of this story makes sense.
@@331susan 👍
Another weird thing is the fact that his girlfriend was able to fall asleep at the drop of a hat. I find that strange.
I wondered about that too! how could anyone sleep after seeing that thing!
Yeah he sounds like someone who's never been in the woods , ever. I live here near the park and have hiked that hike literally dozens of times, and never , ever have been confused about it being a " loop" . It's 2 and half miles to the falls , turn around, and sane way back. If you don't stop it's about a 3 hour round trip. At no point he mentions the 30 ft waterfall. He mentions " a little way in , we stop and sit at an rock outcropping around 6pm " then a few minutes later he says " it's about 11pm " . Huh ? They should have been at the Falls around 7 ish , still daylight. Never mentions the falls at all. And no way he could have walked past them in the dark , the trail goes right to the pool of the falls and its roaring. And says " we kept going and you could tell we were on a trail that hadn't been hiked by many people " more bull , that trail is 4 ft wide in the most visited park in the country , even past the falls.
Exactly. 5 mile loop max
Every trail I've personally hiked that was a loop did actually loop. That being said I usually check maps and whatnot if it's somewhere I've never been. I could see how that could happen. I don't see how someone could fall asleep like that though unless you're exhausted beyond belief.
Ya. That's a good catch. Theres precedence with this with several types of paranormal activity including so called 'abduction' scenarios.
Anyone else wonder why he was constructing a spear out of a throwing knife when he has a 40cal. ?
Back up, last resort, extra weapon
@@tacituskilgore2851 Your user name is amazing! That was an interesting read. The irony, when pondering time. Then, and now.
No ,the more weapons the better I always say ,first thing I taught my kids about bushcraft is make your weapons first. You obviously dont get out in the real world much.
maybe fishing
maybe bored
Back up plan with a little reach?
Tony, I remember this "don't interrupt" concept possibly inspired by Wes. But I definitely feel good, quick questions injected in the right spots are a good thing!!! Wow do I love your channel!!!! Thank you!!!
That is an incredible experience! WOW JUST WOW! thank you for sharing and your description made me feel like I was there along side you!
They are like ninjas... they know when someone is in their territory. And they can either be curious and quietly watch you, or make noises to intentionally scare you off. The sound of footsteps behind that person sounds to me like low key intimidation. You don't hear them approach if they don't want you to hear it.
My wife and I visit the Smoky Mountain just about every year. There are some places you'd swear the world is a thousand miles away.
Abrams Falls is not one of them though , it's only a 5 mile round trip . 2 and a half there , right to the base of the 25 ft falls which he never mentions. 3 hr hike. Don't get me wrong , it's beautiful wilderness but this guy has never been on this trail . 12 hours and never mentions the falls and says they were on a part of the trail that " hadn't been traveled in awhile " . The Smokies trails are very well maintained and usually 4ft wide at most places and very worn down from being the most visited park in the country.
There are some places you'd swear the world is a thousand miles away. *Can you give me directions because Im sick of THIS place.*
Yeah, you should definitely do hypnotic regression and go back and see what happened.
Good to hear from you Darren! Esp. On this place,! Thiz is hot stuff, can't get enough ,!
The odd thing to me is the girlfriend who just keeps going to sleep with all that stuff going on. Who does that? "Oh, a UFO! Well, I'm going to sleep now." Or "What is that standing there?! Huh, well I'm tired so I'm going back to sleep." WHO DOES THAT?
Unless she actually didn't see a thing but she was humouring him lol "sure dear I see it" 😂
How many time has he told this story? It was torture to listened to
The Smoky Mountains sure have some very weird stories reported.
There are several creatures that live in the Smoky Mountains, and there are tunnels in their area, too. The Feral people live along those trails. Always look up to see what is up above you. Much love and prayers for all in ear shot of this podcast. 🙏
@@sandywilliams5180 , feral people? Do you mean hippies?
Legends say he is still not get to the point, what kind of a chill girlfriend is this sleeping while Aliens and Bigfoot are with them
OMGosh!!! Tell the story already!!!🤷♀️
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Gotta be one of the best stories I've ever heard.... glad they made it out safely. Thank the good Lord for all of the dear Mom's & dad's out there praying over there sons and daughters keeping us safe !!!
Amen.
Felt to me he was making it up as he went along with the story...sorry but it's the feeling I get listening to this guy...
Naw. If he making it up he's went through this a few times. Trying the story naturally
I'm about 20 minutes into the story and I'm seriously rooting for Bigfoot so no one else has to listen to this guy drag out a story ever again
@Dan Sheehan I preoccupied myself so I could make it to THE STORY!! I knew it had to be there, somewhere!! Made it half way thru, reading comments!! But like you, I'm out!!
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1st must learn patience
Ya, I'm gonna dox him using mindspeak...
He's gonna be getting a visit from a few Bigfoot i just happen to know, who dont like bullshit tall tales, especially coming from a moron who can't string a few words together..
I just mindspoke with them,
Bigfoot said dont worry,
" I gonna do alot more than just slap the side of his house!!! "
Bigfoot also said....
"You just KNOW this freak never really had a girlfriend in his life!!"
Jeeze, if Bigfoot kills him or something, can they cant charge me as an accomplice to murder??
I should have thought this out a little better....
If i go up-state, someone PLZ put some money on my books!!! PLZ!!
I put on 1.5 playback speed... it helped a lot!
I’ve had an encounter where it’s literally hard to find words to explain to someone so they believe you and to explain what happened is hard… so this is just fascinating..
Just heard your oak ridge Dogman episode and now this in the smokies, wow! I live in Kingston but raised in this entire area, this encounter sounds like the fae. Thank god his mom prayed. I’m not deeply religious but east TN is scary there’s a reason it’s became part of the Bible Belt.
Edit: I actually am renting a cabin in the smokies this weekend so I’m officially freaked out btw so thanks for that😂
Re-listening to this for the 2nd time. Sweetie, you had a dogman on your trail. They are known to grin too, all the time. lights are associated with them all the time, as well as coyotes who yip, and dogs have even been said to accompany them. People get a sense of primal fear, dread, when they are near, even without seeing them. They are ALWAYS described as having no neck. They are exactly like you described. It could have had its ears down if you didn't see them. I think you ran into a dogman, it may have been bigfoot protecting you, or dogman found you and you are protected by something, too nice to kill. UFO's are very often seen with them too. Go under hypnosis!!! OH, and check out Dogman Encounters here on UA-cam with Vic Cundiff. So glad you arent part of the missing 411. Also, I think that that missing 411, and posibly what happened with you is that they make a trail into another dimension.
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You could be right Steph ? Really strange things happen in these forests.
Fantastic episode, completely on edge of my seat!!
Thank you just an awsome show brother keep going cheers 👍👣
Honestly, your friend thinks this story is true because the guy had so many familiar experiences??!! You don't think that maybe this guy is delusional and has heard too many other encounters?? What kind of experienced outdoors man walks up an unfamiliar woodland trail late in the day?? Then he just keeps going because he figures that Search and Rescue is going to come get them?? That is TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE!! No one trained even in simple hunting techniques would do that! Search and Rescue is for real emergencies NOT for people who do irresponsible things!
Unfortunately, some people do make stupid mistakes and the S&R does have to go rescue them. This guy told Wes of Sasquatch Chronicles that he was experienced in the woods and had all kinds of training. Ha! This guy is delusional. I don't care if he thinks that Sasquatch is his big brother. That does not matter to me. There is just too much bogus info in this story. Did you wonder about that girl friend that was able to fall asleep in the middle of the wilderness and thought nothing about seeing a freaking monster?? Come on! Was she some mindless zombie?? Then you hear almost NOTHING else about her! Women are just not that silent, especially under those circumstances!!
Are people so naive that they will believe anything anymore?? I know they want to believe in the paranormal but you do not have to believe every contrived story you hear! This guy is out there but I do not believe he was out in the forest with a girlfriend. He was out there in his imagination and what he wants to have happened.
I live smack dab in the heart of the smokies here in Newport TN. I live in the woods with 1 neighbor on 1 side of me and then nothing but woods for miles and not another neighbor for miles. I have old trails behind my house that I used to take my dog walking on, and multiple times I h had some very scary experiences. Seen multiple Bigfoot and what I think was either a skinwalker or Wendigo. These woods are so dense in some areas and have been untouched for years. I’ve also seen a few ufos out here or what I believe were ufos.
The one thing I can say for sure is that I could absolutely hear the total fear in his voice when talking about the lights. That was completely real.
That wasnt fear. That was just him making up this fake story on the fly.
@@1980bwclol yeah what a liar 😂
@@1980bwc2 years later and he’s still lying! 😂
I'm finding the part about the being disappearing when he turned on the light. I had the same experience with the beings that my friend and I were fending off for two nights in southern Oregon. this is the first time I've heard someone else say that the creature disappeared when exposed to light. Nice to hear some corroborative information.
Where in Southern Oregon?
@@WydeAWake-yc3tp Grants Pass, or just outside of it. On the outskirts of the town, up on a mountain ridge at the end of an abandoned logging road.
Yes they will. I've been able to flash the light off and on a few times though and caught them with the light. Sounds weird but it happens
@@Dee-1969 It's good to hear someone else having had this experience. It was very strange.
I'm sorry to feel this way and hope I'm wrong but I just felt this is not true. I believe 100 percent they exist. Had a hard time listening with all the stuttering.
Honestly, I feel like those lights found them and those owls were "screen memories" given to him to cover the trauma that they actually went thru.
A guy named Mike Cleland wrote a book called like "Owls,Synchronicity,and UFOs"..I guess it's common for abductees to have this kinna strangeness with owls 😏
@@katmack4215 Bohemian Grove. 🤔
Interesting thought...
@@katmack4215 yep... owls are a huge red flag. How often do u actually see them? Almost never lol. I love owls, and look for them constantly. I can count on 1 hand how many times I've actually seen one and I live around this area that this took place. Well, a little north but still close. And those lights- ppl have been known to disappear around them. This guy is lucky he made it back. But I still believe he was abducted and given screen memories. It would be interesting to speak to him again now and see if he still remembers things the same or if anything else has come to memory over the years
@@rita1259-y5c terrifying thought too lol. I don't trust those lights one bit. Ppl have been seeing them and uploading them to tiktok. It's scary bc ppl are so drawn to them and think they're something kind/loving/safe. I believe them to be the opposite. They're beautiful, but dangerous imo
I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains (where the Smokies are)... I do a lot of hiking and backpacking in the area and very little of what he's saying is "abnormal". You can easily go many many hours without seeing anything but birds and bugs; animals can hear you coming before you're there. The woods can get quiet sometimes, especially if there is a cougar around. Also, don't go on night hikes unless you are an experienced hiker and have a headlamp and a map.
"Also, don't go on night hikes unless ...." - No, better don't go on night hikes at all! Nighttime is not human's time.
I don’t know about you but I’m in my sixties and I’ve never been so fragile minded that I hallucinate when I’m stressed and tired. And I’ve been stressed and tired PLENTY of times over the years.
wow after watching this I'm no longer a sceptic. This stuff is real. OMG!
this episode is so official!!
I've witnessed multiple lights do the same thing. Flying across the sky and than in another direction on a dime. Crazy. Nothing flies like that from this planet.
I have to .I look at the stars over the mountains from where I live in vonore and have seen them a lot over the mountains
for you people that dont understand, your imagination is real, you imagine things and create them through manifestation.
Thought forms.
This poor guy is one heck of a city slicker, isn't he.
Right? Lol
This was totaly trippy... but...oh man... just good stuff. This kinda stuff happens to all sorts of folks. Long show.... but didn't want it to end. Wicked good stuff Tony!!
Awesome, I've been listening to The Confessionals a lot on Amazon Music, so cool to see you on UA-cam.
Just listened to this for the first time. Wow...what an amazing EERIE Experience these two had. It would be really good if someone remote viewed this event. Just to find out what all the other stuff was. Farsight remote viewers would do this event justice.
Hi. I don’t understand what “ remote viewing “ is. Like, I don’t know what you are talking about. Can you explain to me? Thank you so much.
@@Bwoxz astral projection. Not good.
Those lights that were described are the same exact way my daughter described a light she saw one night in the woods that came out of nowhere and it really freaked her out, she said it was so bright it was like it was on fire and was moving around like it was searching for something. She said both her and her husband got a really bad feeling about it and just sat really still and watched it until it dissipated.
Wow what a fantastic story and story teller❤️👏❤️
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lol, not a great storyteller! too much boring detail .get to the point and quickly.
@@pythonesk99 He was did pretty good, considering he was making it all up as he went.
Truth rings a certain way and definitely he was telling the truth
So very captivating and most interesting.... 🙊
Some strange things happen in the mountains for sure.
It was tough listening to this guy tell this story , I had to stop the guy was just too slow talking
Im going to have to dissect this one. There's some details that arent ringing quite right for me. I live here, and have been to Cades Cove many times, have hiked Abrams Falls Trail with my kids. And I am a Fortean Researcher.
Eeks...looking at my All Trails app, if you're following a loop on that trail, it's a solid day hike. I've done the mileage before, but not in mountains. Not to mention, if you take the wrong turn. 🤪
I don't understand why they considered themselves to be lost, when all they had to do was turn around and start walking back. You don't need to be rescued when you can just walk out. It may be a long way, but at some point the penny has to drop that you're going to have to go back.
How do you get lost on a trail when all you have to do is turn back around
I love it! Almost every episode we get, and this is when it gets weird! ! Lmao!
There's no "thinking " they were watching, they definitely were. Before he said that he thought they were watching, I know that they were.
If I was in his position that night, I wouldn't have wanted to believe it either. Too scary to comprehend.
Amazing story!
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There was a dogman sighting from TN that had white rings around the eyes. Thought that was interesting.
@James Diamond I think it was an episode of Sasquatch Chronicles
@James Diamond I have a hard time believing they are natural. IF they are, then they are feeding off fear and to me, that's some type of evil?!
@James Diamond I do hope you are right, that would make people feel alot better 😊
Theres a big story of dogman killing a family in an rv maybe there was a police report i forget. Thats the only cryptid I heared actually kill people but ive heard them harrass people a lot on the cryptoptsd podcast
Just because you haven't heard of any cryptid killing anyone doesn't mean it don't happen 411 things happen where people don't know what or how people died or if they even did die but they disappear.. Point being you never know just how many people run into these things.
Hey Tony just wondering if anyone else heard this weird high pitch scream sound right after 40:15 ? I replayed it a few times and couldn't make out what it is but maybe you picked up on it. His dog makes a noise later but it's not even close to the same sound. Your podcast and everything are great, awesome listening to you!!
I heard the exact same thing and it wasn't his German Shepherd
Someone stepped on it's tail
I heard it too.
This was hard for me to listen to as I’ve been on this trail. This gentleman is a good story teller but that’s where it stops. This trail is clearly marked off the motor trail that opens and closes with the sun. Lots of signs posted when you enter at the trail head and it states it’s not a loop. The rangers deff would have known someone was there after dark as they close the motor road at dark and you have to have a special permit to camp. Good story but anyone that has been to this trail knows this is not accurate. Trail is very well worn and marked even for a novice. This gentleman has a backpack, food, light source, cord, knives he didn’t sound like a novice.
This is the most visited national park in the United States, seeking over 10 million visitors a year. I live close enough to make a day trip every couple of months. this well marked easy path. And find it hard to believe he had trouble finding his way out or had difficulty finding rangers station at the entrance to the camp ground he supposedly found. You have stop at the station to sign in for your reserved typically a year in advance, camping spot, and pay your fees before you pitch a tent or set up a camper. This is absolute fiction.
Amazing this guys explaination of the big foot giant body builder. This is what people that think theyre guys in costumes dont understand
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This story had more BS than an entire 4 yrs of hearing Steve Isdahls emailed accounts. Meaning, you can tell when it’s manufactured.
You remember that scene in the movie Airplane where all the passengers, pilot's and staff all lined up to ... assist that one passenger that... needed assistance... Lord forgive me😢🙏
You da man tony, you da man.
Geese. Has this guy been on every cryptid podcast?? I have heard him on three and I don’t even listen to these things regularly!
The first time I heard him tell this story was a few years ago on Wes Germin’s Sasquatch Chronicles podcast. On that one he said he was an experienced hiker, hunter, and well trained in operating in the wilderness. 🙄 I see now he is inexperienced. He had to pull back on that one since no one with a bit of common sense would walk out into the forest late in the day without even studying a map first. Nobody in the comments seemed to care about how far fetched his story was. It believe that these creatures may exist but his story is total BS! People just eat this stuff up without a thought!
His story changes a bit here and there but it is still just as unbelievable. He has extended it to give his girlfriend a part beyond sleeping peacefully on the forest ground all night. She was not even disturbed about the red eyes staring at her! In the first telling I heard this girlfriend is almost completely silent throughout this ordeal even though they are lost in the woods with no supplies.
One of the comments he made on the SQ podcast was that as they were taking the trail he would not worry if they got lost because the rescue people would come and get them! No adult person with a rational mind would expect a Rescue team to come out in the middle of the night to rescue him and his girlfriend because of his carelessness.
There was another podcast that I heard him on telling the same stupid fantasy. Yeah! Peaceful feeling laying on the ground all night. That girlfriend must be the soundest sleeper on earth! She missed everything! This guy is so full of crap! He needs attention and for some reason wants to make this fantasy story mystical.
Come on you guys! Do you really just take anyone with a story to put on these programs?? Of course, Wes started it as far as I know. Once the guy can say that he was on SQ then that opens the door to every other podcast. Certainly you should know a big fat lie when you hear one! Are you so desperate to fill up time?
Yup and that's how I figure out there full of shit , because they go on multiple shows and can't remember there lies ,I've caught a bunch like that and it's pretty sad that somebody would go on these platforms and make up a whole story like this ,and they must not give the audience much credit for being able to pick up on there lies as they go from show to show
It’s people like you that are the problem not the story teller! You have no proof of what has or has not happened it’s just your opinion and yet you ‘just know the real story’!
You are outright calling this man a liar and that is far worse than someone going on multiple podcasts to share his experiences so others can be more informed.
How does it affect you at all that he gets to share his story? So what if it has changed, probably because after telling it things are remembered better, or because of time allowed he includes or excluded certain details.
By far most people believe and have enjoyed his account. You are a minority troll that just comes across as closed minded and jealous of this poor guys 15 minutes of fame.
@@barbaraflowers1599 it's easy to catch them when they go on multiple shows and there story changes ,nobody is doubting these things are out there and people encounter them ,but when people go on different shows and tell the same story but things change that's how u can tell there full of shit .
I like how she sees the lights coming through the woods and evidently during that went back to sleep. Because he had to wake her up again when he saw the creature standing there. Said he couldnt see any features, but somehow he said it was smiling. Lol. What a load of crap! Convenient she was an ex girlfriend, thats not around to back this story up.
@@gregchapman6190 From all the comments on this video, most people believe everything they hear. Including this Bologna! You dont even have to be a good liar these days, because everybody is so dumbed down now.
holy cow, had to listen to this on 1.5 speed just to get through it, i stopped counting umm and ands after 150
So sorry he isnt a professional speaker and so obviously as eloquent and verbose as you. You should make sure that ppl that have encounters are more professional...maybe you can make sure that could happen, since you obviously are so perfect. Smdh.
Yeah hes drunk or stoned
Yeah hes drunk or stoned
Sorry, but I am with you on this. 1.5x speed is perfect. And umm, whatnot.
Anyone dumb enough to go up an unfamiliar woodland trail that late in the day is going to stumble over his story. On Sasquatch Chronicles he said that he had all kinds of training in firearms and wilderness survival. Oh, please! Nobody with half a brain goes up an unknown woodland trail that late in the day and then just figures that Search and Rescue is going to come get them! That is totally irresponsible! I don't believe this guy had ever been outside the city he was born in. I don't care if he thinks Sasquatch is his big brother, his story is bogus.
You just had your horizons awakened......Love it skeptics get their asses handed to them. LES STROUD had Sasquatch telepath to him were over here come see us..if I am not mistaken was in smokey mountains. He should have went....loved to hear that story!!
Remember Les Stroud saying he was not ready to meet the Sasquatch... after being telepathically messaged while actually searching for Sasquatch.
Awesome! Thank you so much!
I had a similar experience with a star. I was with my cousin. Even from that distance in the sky , we couldn't help but to strongly feel like it was watching us
the guy and his girlfriend got abducted, implanted false memories of a smiling bf, and white owls.
Those owls are a dead give away.
This one lady told about being abducted by a UFO. She said at one point they, the aliens, took her to another part of the craft. It was a round room with a huge circular area in the floor that they opened up to reveal its purpose. When the covering was drawn back, there was a window in the floor and she could see the land beneath where they were situated. They could also make this giant lens zoom down to any area they wished to examine more closely. And they could even eavesdrop on people and hear their conversation, just as clearly as if they were standing right there next to them! Astounding! This is probably why Dan and his girlfriend had the uncanny feeling of being "watched" because they were ! UFOs do not come here from lightyears away, but have been here for thousands of years and have underground and undersea bases all around the world. One woman who lives in upstate New York, wrote in her book (I forget the title, sorry!) about all the hundreds of nights she and some friends spent watching for UFOs... and did they find them too! One time they were even chased in her car by a UFO! She wrote of them witnessing a UFO emerging right up from the ground, and several hours later it would return and go back under the ground where it had first been seen. Yet, when they would examine the area where they saw this happen, there was not so much as a blade of grass, or a pebble, disturbed! This was not magic, but technology! Aliens have been seen entering a home right through the wall, and the person they abduct, tells of feeling like they are smothering for the few seconds it takes to move through the wall material. So don't think locking your doors and windows will keep you safe from an abduction, because those guys come and go as they please! Also, when a person is abducted, their memory is wiped clean, and they have no recollection of what happened to them, better than the best date-rape drug ever used! And the transition is so smooth, it's all over in what would seem like a blink of an eye! But worse of all, is not being believed by anyone, once the abducted person begins to suspect they are being taken, and there may be any number of clues this is happening. Also, most abductions are a generational thing, and every member of a family is being taken, and it can have been going on for decades, from the time they were children, to when they become married, and then their children are also on the menu! The best weapon the aliens have, besides being able to wipe our minds, is being disbelieved they even exist by the major part of the population. But they are real...they exist...they always have...and there is nothing we can do to change it...or them! Keep trekking...into the mystic. kristi
Aliens are demons
"I do not believe anymore that UFOs are simply the spacecraft of some race of extraterrestrial visitors. This notion is too simplistic to explain their appearance, the frequency of their manifestations through recorded history, and the structure of the information exchanged with them during contact." - Dr. Jacques Valle
"Human belief... is being controlled and conditioned, man's concepts are being rearranged, and we may be headed toward a massive change of human attitudes toward paranormal abilities and extraterrestrial life. - Dr. Jacques Valle
"Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of DECEPTION."
- Dr. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 20
Consider, "All warfare is based in deception." - Sun Tzu
"We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us [or, to deceive us]."
-Terrence McKenna
"One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships."
- Arthur C. Clarke, New York Times Book Review, 07/27/75
"The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks."
- Dr. Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 13
"The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past."
-Dr. Jacques Vallee
"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."
- Whitley Strieber, Communion, p. 25-26
"Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal... oI wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 172
"I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 181
Consider, "Far in the past before Atlantis existed, men there were who delved into darkness, using dark magic, calling up beings from the great deep below us. Forth came they into this cycle. Formless were they of another vibration, existing unseen by the children of earth-men. ONLY THROUGH BLOOD could they have formed being. Only through man could they live in the world. In ages past were they conquered by Masters, driven below to the place whence they came. But some there were who remained, hidden in spaces and planes unknown to man. Lived they in Atlantis as shadows, but at times they appeared among men. Aye, when the blood was offered, for they came they to dwell among men.
In the form of man they amongst us,
but only to sight were they as are men. SERPENT-HEADED [Viper-faced fallen Seraphim] when the glamour was lifted but appearing to man as men among men. Crept they into the Councils, taking forms that were like unto men. Slaying by their arts the chiefs of the kingdoms, taking their form and ruling over man. Only by magic could they be discovered. Only by sound could their faces be seen. Sought they from the Kingdom of shadows to destroy man and rule in his place." - The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
Every major civilization from ancient times credits the gods from portals in the sea, the sky and the stars with their wisdom. Clearly, the pagan gods of old Sumeria - Babylon - Egypt - Greece - Rome - will make another appearance here, this time as space brothers and creators who are here to evolve us past our petty differences into one world 🌎. Use discernment. Don't be deceived. ♥️🙏🏼
Alrighty. The first story just dragged and dragged ( and what not!!) This guy really tested my patience. He won. I'm out. :(
What was he talking about again???
Holy Moley!!!
What’s that standing over there? And then falls back to Sleep!?!
When he told this story on Sasquatch Chronicles he said that he was experienced in all kinds of wilderness activity. No one as "trained" as he claimed to be, well, no one with half a brain, starts up a woodland trail that late in the day not knowing how far it goes or how long it takes to complete the walk. If he is irresponsible enough to just think that Search and Rescue would save them then he belongs back in the city where he came from. Don't let him out again!
@@user-bj4bb6cn2g *triggered
New to this channel and this Smokies story caught my attention since I live very near and frequent the park. Some very odd statements from this story teller. I've hiked the Abrams Falls trail dozens of times , 2 and a half miles to a 25 ft waterfall, the trail goes right to the pool at the falls where it's roaring. He never mentions the falls at all , which is impossible if they hiked for the 12 hours or more he mentions . They would have reached the falls in an hour or so and there's no trails to turn on before you get there. Not buying this at all , " rattlesnake season " ? Huh ? Wtf is rattlesnake season ? I think this guy has never been in the woods , ever. And if they hiked for the hours claimed , they would have come out on the outer park boundary. I'm a Bigfoot knower but I can't stand story tellers , the subject gets enough ridicule as is . he really should have picked another trail to tell his tale , not one of the most hiked ones in the Park. " research station "? The trail comes out at a campground at the park boundary and all trails and campgrounds are marked clearly. Amazing he sees all these crazy things but misses the giant roaring waterfalls..
This story had b.s. written all over it. There are so many gaps and and holes. I do have to give it to him for getting 2 hrs of air time.
Thanks for sharing the trail details for those of us who never hiked there. I listened to this encounter several years ago and found it fascinating. I have since then had my own cryptid experience that involved a very bright light at the same location a few days earlier. I thought I'd listen to this encounter again specifically because it mentions lights. You're right, the "tale tellers" only muddy the waters and it's disappointing.
Dude you have the patience of a saint
When he starts talking about his throwing knives I was thinking, ok this guy sounds the type who shouldn't have any knives. I thought he was going to say he was sharping the walking stick, and sliced his hand. Can't remember the name of the movie, where the guy sharpens the wrong way with a knife, slices his hand, and the bear, smelling the blood tracks him and he catches him and eats him.
The Edge
Bears are not blood thirsty like that lol Hollywood is so silly. They get very attracted to the smell of... fruit and vanilla. In many instances they come to people because they are attracted to the smell of their perfume or shampoo. No need for them to bleed 🥴
I've had this type of experience in maynardville TN