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There are
places in the world where the

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boundary between the known
and unknown is very thin.

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Places whose natural and
wild beauty hide secrets

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too incredible to be believed,

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until those secrets begin
to reveal themselves.

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When that happens, people
react in wonder, curiosity,

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and sometimes in horror.

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Humanity often
commemorates these places

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by creating monuments
such as Stonehenge.

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Scholars suggest that it
was a place from which

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to observe the heavens,
a place of burial,

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a place of either human
sacrifice or healing.

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The Nazca Lines, etched into
the earth of Southern Peru

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carry the qualities
of sacred symbolism.

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The dessert southwest has kept
its own disturbing secrets

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from the alleged crashes
of craft from other worlds,

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to the all-too-real
testing of atomic weaponry.

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Then there's the
Bermuda Triangle,

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a region of the Atlantic Ocean
in which hundreds of ships

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and approximately 75 planes
have simply gone missing,

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along with passengers and crew.

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Both scientific and supernatural
causes have been proposed

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for these catastrophes, but
theories do little to ease

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the pain of those who lost
loved ones in the Triangle.

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There are places in the
world whose mysteries call us

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to come and see for ourselves,

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whatever the human
toll might be.

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Places like the Chestnut Ridge.

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The Chestnut Ridge, located
in Southwestern Pennsylvania,

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lies on the western edge of
the Appalachian Mountain range.

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The Ridge rises in
Southern Indiana County,

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and rolls to the southwest by
way of towns like Blairsville,

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Derry, Latrobe, Connellsville,
Mount Pleasant and Uniontown,

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all the way into West
Virginia where it gradually

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comes to rest near Morgantown.

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Villages along the Ridge were
founded as far back as 1770.

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The rich limestone clay
soil rewarded the efforts

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of early farmers and soon
the communities could support

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iron furnaces, whisky
distilleries and general stores.

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One family, by the last name
of Keck, settled in the area

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to bottle and sell spring
water and soft drinks.

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They had no way of knowing
that their town, Kecksburg,

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would one day become world-famous,
but not for ginger ale.

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Then I was 16-years-old
when the incident happened

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near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

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Then I got involved with that,

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that evening as it's
breaking on the news,

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and I've been out in the
field ever since that time

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investigating UFOs and
cryptids and other phenomena

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hear in Pennsylvania.

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Kecksburg, Pennsylvania's a
small rural community in Mount

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Pleasant township in Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania,

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approximately 40 miles
southeast of Pittsburgh.

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Like many
of the small towns

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in Westmoreland County,

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Keckburg sits within the
shadow of the Chestnut Ridge.

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The Ridge is dotted end to
end with these tiny villages,

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many of them founded
well over a century ago.

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Each of them bears their own
strange history of sightings

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and encounters with
things not of this world.

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Many wonder what it is about
this particular stretch of land

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that beckons such mysteries.

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For decades, researchers of
the strange and unknown have

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journeyed back to the Chestnut
Ridge in search of answers.

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Their quest isn't solely
confined to present day.

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For over a century, mysterious
circumstances have shrouded

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the Ridge in a fog of unease.

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I've been involved in the
paranormal since I've been about

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10-years-old and then I
got into the field in 1997

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investigating cases.

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My main base of operation
in Pennsylvania is the

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southwestern part of the state,
namely this particular area

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where we're at here,
Westmoreland, Fayette County,

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Armstrong, Indiana, Washington.

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Probably about 80% of my
investigations and cases that

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I've worked on have been here
in the Chestnut Ridge area.

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There's been a long
history of various phenomena

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along the Chestnut
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the Westmoreland County
side and Derry township.

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We have many reports from
those small communities such as

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Derry and New Derry and Hillside
and Superior and Brenizer,

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and all throughout that area
and many sightings from around

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the Keystone State Park.

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Without a doubt, there's
an atmosphere to this area.

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You can drive these back roads,

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and you just get
a weird feeling.

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Some of these places you
go into, some are very dark

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and secluded, they just give
off a really ominous vibe.

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Something very strange
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the Chestnut Ridge for many
many years and in fact,

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the earliest firsthand account
I have of a Bigfoot encounter

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where I actually
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goes back to 1931 near Indian
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And of course, Fayette County
is one of those areas that has

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year after year
phenomena being reported.

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There are newspaper articles
I've found that date back to

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the late 1800s that talked
about people experiencing wild

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men of the forest or even
gorillas or monkeys in this area.

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It's not just Bigfoot related,
there's all kinds of weird

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phenomena from UFOs,
strange lights in the sky,

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cryptid creatures,
haunted locations.

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There's just a really
concentrated area right here.

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There's a lot of weird
activity that goes on.

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So there's been a lot of
history of all kinds of strange

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phenomena that's happened
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through Mount Pleasant township,

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and throughout the
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UFO sightings in this
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As I said earlier, it's a
very high volume of reports.

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Even all the way up to
Kecksburg in the 1960s.

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There probably was
a time when the residents of

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Kecksburg felt far removed from
the tension of the Cold War

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and obsession over UFOs.

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While the televisions, movie
theaters and drive-ins were

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full of nuclear wars or
countered by fantastical aliens

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and flying saucers, this
tiny burg remained blissfully

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detached from the near
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other areas of the country.

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In late 1965, that sense of
security would be shattered.

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I'll remember it all my life.

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It's something
I'll never forget.

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That night, we was actually
out playing football,

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and we didn't actually know
about it until we walked back

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in the house and Mom and Dad
said that there was a thing on

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the radio that something
crashed in Acme.

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My mom looked out the window
and she seen all the vehicles

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and stuff on the
road, she says, well,

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this is right behind the
house, that ain't in Acme.

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I remember that evening
just like it was yesterday.

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It was a Thursday evening,
December 9th, 1965.

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I was listening to a radio
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There was a breaking news
story coming on the radio

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about this brilliant fireball,
this fire object was seen

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from the tip on Ontario,
Canada over Michigan, Ohio

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and Pennsylvania.

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That night, a
radiant fireball was seen

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streaking through the
skies over Detroit

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and Windsor, Ontario, moving
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allegedly dropping hot
metal debris over Michigan

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and Northern Ohio before hitting
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All sorts of explanations
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Some thought they were
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Others thought a missile
test had gone awry

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or that a satellite was
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The most common assumption
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the brilliant light in question.

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None of those, however,
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with what was happening
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Local witnesses reported
feeling the impact

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of the object's crash landing,

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seeing a wisp of blue smoke
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and some even claimed
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that had fallen to Earth.

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An object shaped like an acorn,

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approximately the
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with hieroglyphic-like
writing around its base.

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The ravine in which it fell
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of curiosity and controversy.

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And it got more exciting
during the evening as reports

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were coming in that the
military was now arriving in the

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Kecksburg area to search for
an unidentified flying object.

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We started watching
out the windows and stuff

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and I seen people coming in
and out and going down into the

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field down to where it was at.

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And then we started
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We seen cars lying
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People going up and
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and then people
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They used our house
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People actually believe
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presence within maybe the first
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But it was during the next
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that most of the military
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And many people throughout
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what looked like a military
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coming in from different
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So what we learned
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as reports of this object coming
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began to circulate on
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hundreds of people descended
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to try to get a look at the
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An alarming
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around the crash site, residents
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armed soldiers were present
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from approaching
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In one instance, a witness
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of the military instructed
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to deliberately misinform
curiosity seekers.

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And the youngsters gladly
complied by giving people

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false directions
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Things took a decidedly
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the closer one came
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A well-known jazz musician
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claimed that US soldiers
aimed their rifles at him

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and his friends, ordering
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as an army flatbed truck
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acorn-shaped object made
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Others, who were
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reported that the
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left them fearing
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Some of the local residents
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that afternoon, they went
down into the wooded ravine

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to see what had fallen from
the sky and they came across

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this large metallic
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semi-buried in the ground.

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There was actually two important
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it was on top of the hill,
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which is where hundreds of
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that night, that's where
most reporters were,

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that's where some military,
other authorities were.

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Far on the opposite side of
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a farm lane which a number of
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that was closer to the
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and that's where a lot
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and other authorities were
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There was people in
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and those people,
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seemed like they was
in charge of everybody.

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We see some people coming
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carrying a big box.

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One had a NASA patch on his
arm and they took this box

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down into where that was at.

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I seen him go down
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Never seen it come back out,
but I seen the truck go down in

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and I seen it come back
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There was a lot of talk
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that people had seen a large
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carrying a large tarped
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late that night, but
that was in the news.

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The next day, me and my
brother went down in the woods.

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We seen where they
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It was a different kind of dirt,

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and seeing all the trees
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over to the other side of the
hill and it was all burnt off.

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There was some guy over
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At the time we thought
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We was kids, we didn't
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He asked us what we
was doing down there,

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told him, "oh, we live here,
we're down here all the time."

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He says, "well, you know
there's a chance of radiation

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"being down here."

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"What the heck is radiation?"

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You know, we didn't know.

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So, we sort of ignored him
and went along our way.

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So, early the next morning
I went to the local news stand

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to see if there was any of the
stories about what was seen

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last night in the local
papers and there it was in all

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the local papers, the Pittsburgh
Press, the Post, Gazette.

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The Greensburg Tribune
Review had two editions

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and the early morning edition
had "Army Ropes Off Area.

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"Unidentified Flying Object
Falls Near Kecksburg."

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The later edition of the paper
had several different stories

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including one that caught
my attention which said,

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"searches failed
to find object."

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And it went on to say that, yes,

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there was a search in
the early morning hours,

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but they found
absolutely nothing,

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and that the official
explanation was that

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it was people's imagination,
they had seen a bright

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meteor in the sky, but nothing
had fallen to the ground.

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And that's officially where
the case remains today.

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I can picture it in my head.

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The people coming in.

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People keeping quiet
about things and

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people I know that was there
and seen it and denied it.

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I'll never forget that,
you know, it's something...

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Something that sticks with you.

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Kecksburg to me seems like
it was almost the catalyst

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for people becoming comfortable
enough to share their

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experiences and the newspaper
media following these

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encounters and
reporting on them.

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The Kecksburg
experience turned the eyes

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of those who lived in the
area to the skies over

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the Chestnut Ridge and what
they saw over and over again

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was more mysterious
than they ever expected.

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What they saw was unidentified.

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In the spring of 1966, a
woman in Latrobe was awakened

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from sleep by her dog which
had become highly agitated.

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Upon taking the dog outside,
she saw a silver object

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hovering no more than 80 feet
above the roof of her house.

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The object looked
and spun like a top,

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and was bathed in a redish glow.

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After several minutes, the
top-like anomaly shot up

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into the sky and was gone.

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The witness faced ridicule
from her family and friends

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when she spoke about
what she had seen.

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Later that same year, two women
were approaching Adamsburg

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on Route 30 when they noticed
a strange aerial craft

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almost touching a series of
high-tension power lines.

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As they drove closer, the object
went under the power lines

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and began to dive
towards their car.

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Fortunately there
was no collision,

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and as it flew off, the women
observed its dark-colored

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oblong shape with a
type of tail in the back

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and deep groves on its surface.

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The driver of the car, who,

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to that point had
been a UFO skeptic,

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suffered repeated nightmares
about the incident.

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In the months and
years to follow,

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reports like these would
become more and more common

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along the Chestnut Ridge.

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Eye-witnesses were
left to speculate about

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what they had seen and wonder
what normal life was going

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to be like now that they
knew something was out there.

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I know what I saw, it stayed
with me all these years.

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I haven't told a lot
of people about it.

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At this point in my
life, it happened,

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and I'm just here to
tell you about it.

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I grew up in Derry
on Ridge Avenue.

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This happened back in,

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it was either the late fall
of 67 or early winter of 68,

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it was still dark, but
daylight was coming.

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I was sitting at the
table in the kitchen,

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when my mother was
in the living room.

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I heard her call,
"Tom, come here."

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When I walked into the living
room we were looking out

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the picture window in the living
room, above Chestnut Ridge,

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out of the picture
window, we saw a circular

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UFO is what I'm gonna call it.

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Multiple lights spinning
around the bottom, red, green,

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white, orange, it
was just strange.

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It was something that I had
never seen or experienced before

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and while we're standing
there, it was in the one spot,

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and then all of a
sudden it shot across

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and you never saw it shooting
across, but it was in

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another position in the sky
above the Chestnut Ridge.

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This went on I thought for
a lifetime, but it probably

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wasn't that long, I'm gonna
say one minute to two minutes.

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And we just stood
there in amazement,

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neither one of us said
anything to each other,

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we just stood there
and watched it.

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All of a sudden, it just shot
straight up into the sky,

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and it wasn't like a sparkler,
but there was a trail

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of red and silver lights that
came off the bottom of it

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and it just disappeared.

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I've looked into the sky
in the last 50 years,

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00:19:34,763 --> 00:19:36,863
looking for something
similar to this.

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I've never witnessed anything
like that since then,

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although I keep looking.

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Strange sightings
around the Chestnut Ridge

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have never been
limited to the skies.

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There's a long history of
earthbound bizarre activity,

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especially on the
Westmoreland, Fayette,

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and Indiana County
side of the Ridge,

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with witnesses reporting
subterranean sounds,

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strange lights, black panthers,
and unusually large birds.

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And then there's Bigfoot.

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Accounts of hair-covered
man-apes can be found in

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Pennsylvania newspapers
dating back to the 1800s,

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00:20:13,167 --> 00:20:15,667
and these creatures have
never really gone away,

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reemerging from time to time

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in the southwest
highlands of the state.

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In the late 1960s, a young
man named Stan Gordon

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began to actively research
the Bigfoot phenomenon.

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00:20:27,983 --> 00:20:30,049
Like many, he was
excited by the search

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for an unknown primate living
in the Pennsylvania forest.

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So it was my determination
to set up a volunteer group

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of research people to go out
to investigate these reports.

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So that's what I did
and I decided in 1969

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to set up my own
hotline for the public.

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So I'm getting calls on
haunted houses and ghosts

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00:20:47,869 --> 00:20:51,003
and flying saucers and
Bigfoot and strange creatures

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00:20:51,005 --> 00:20:53,005
and weird noises,
anything unusual,

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00:20:53,007 --> 00:20:54,640
the calls were coming in.

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By 1973, we expanded to cover

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the whole state of Pennsylvania.

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To our surprise, we were
beginning to get referrals from

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the state police and from the
news media and other agencies,

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so when they getting reports
they would refer the number

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of my group to
investigate the report.

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And it was very lucky that
we were already established,

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because 1973 comes around
and here's this major UFO,

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Bigfoot wave which nobody
could have ever predicted,

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and we were extremely busy
during that time period.

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It was
fortunate that Stan Gordon

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had assembled the Westmoreland
County UFO Study Group

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prior to the events of 1973.

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The volunteer unit would
come to include medical

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professionals, law enforcement
officers, pilots, educators,

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engineers, former military
specialists and scientists,

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and they were united by a
desire to gather information

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00:21:48,196 --> 00:21:50,363
as quickly and
thoroughly as possible

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about the odd happenings
on the Chestnut Ridge.

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Researchers like Barry Clark
could be dispatched to the

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scene of a strange occurrence
within minutes of it happening

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00:22:00,875 --> 00:22:05,043
thanks to Gordon's state-of-the-art
two-way radio system.

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The group's field work
was conducted as often

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00:22:07,247 --> 00:22:09,182
as their full-time
jobs permitted,

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00:22:09,184 --> 00:22:11,717
and many risked their
professional reputation

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00:22:11,719 --> 00:22:15,120
by being associated
with this pursuit.

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But, with their
aptitude for technology,

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and their vast range of
vocational expertise,

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the members of the Study
Group shared a basic optimism

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00:22:23,398 --> 00:22:26,633
that they would eventually
uncover the truth about

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00:22:26,635 --> 00:22:30,806
the outlandish sightings that
seemed to multiply by the day.

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00:22:37,878 --> 00:22:41,280
Barry Clark, I went out to
investigate different sightings

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00:22:41,282 --> 00:22:45,154
and events for people
who saw Bigfoot, UFOs,

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00:22:46,754 --> 00:22:49,388
that type of thing
back in the early 70s.

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00:22:49,390 --> 00:22:51,857
Somewhere along the line,
I bet you if you talked,

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00:22:51,859 --> 00:22:56,294
in the Derry area especially,
Derry to Lake Tiberias,

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00:22:56,296 --> 00:22:59,298
you'll talk to somebody who's
either friends with, related

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00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:03,336
to or know somebody that had
some kind of an experience.

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00:23:03,338 --> 00:23:06,938
Of course, 1973,
Bigfoot was the big story.

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00:23:06,940 --> 00:23:08,907
There were multiple reports
of Bigfoot sightings

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00:23:08,909 --> 00:23:11,243
all along areas of the
Ridge, especially along

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00:23:11,245 --> 00:23:14,146
the Westmoreland County
side and Derry township.

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00:23:14,148 --> 00:23:17,049
What's interesting about
those reports from the 1970s,

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00:23:17,051 --> 00:23:19,886
73, 74, some of those
reports literally took place

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00:23:19,888 --> 00:23:21,854
a couple miles
from where I lived.

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An older lady lived kind of,
not secluded but by herself,

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and the state police were
there the night before,

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I got to go there the
next day to talk to her.

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She had a little yappin' dog,

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and it was carrying
on and carrying on.

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She looked out and
she saw this thing,

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00:23:38,273 --> 00:23:41,139
and the more the dog
barked, the more agitated.

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It literally picked the end of
her trailer up on the corner,

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and dropped it, and there's
no skirting around it.

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When I looked the next day,
you could see that it was

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not back in the same
position it was.

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In the early
70s, the nation was still

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enthralled by stories of
the Abominable Snowman,

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00:23:59,127 --> 00:24:01,793
but was now even more enamored
of his homegrown cousin,

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00:24:01,795 --> 00:24:04,797
Bigfoot, whose presence
in the Pacific Northwest

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00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:08,300
seemed to be corroborated
by a shaky full-color film

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00:24:08,302 --> 00:24:11,838
obtained by Roger
Paterson and Bob Gimlin.

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00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,405
But to the shock
of all involved,

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00:24:13,407 --> 00:24:16,309
a similar figure,
massive, hairy,

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00:24:16,311 --> 00:24:19,979
sometimes leaving large thee-toed
footprints in its wake,

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00:24:19,981 --> 00:24:23,750
was appearing on farms, along
wood lines, and crossing roads

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00:24:23,752 --> 00:24:27,086
throughout Westmoreland
and Fayette Counties.

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00:24:27,088 --> 00:24:29,355
Most distressing was the
creature's fearlessness

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00:24:29,357 --> 00:24:31,389
in approaching civilization,

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00:24:31,391 --> 00:24:34,193
and the damage it
sometimes caused.

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But as these events of 1973
are coming to our attention,

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we begin to see some
unusual patterns.

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For example, we would have a
UFO sighting in a certain area,

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00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:47,173
within minutes to
hours to days later,

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00:24:47,175 --> 00:24:50,309
we would have a Bigfoot
sighting or vice versa.

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00:24:50,311 --> 00:24:53,111
And then the reports
got even stranger.

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00:24:53,113 --> 00:24:56,816
That's when we began to have
reports with UFOs and Bigfoot

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00:24:56,818 --> 00:24:59,886
seen together at the
same time and place.

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As reports were unfolding
during that time,

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00:25:01,555 --> 00:25:04,956
some of the stranger reports
begin to come to our attention.

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00:25:04,958 --> 00:25:08,027
One case was September 27, 1973.

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00:25:08,029 --> 00:25:10,229
This was out in an area
where two women were waiting

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00:25:10,231 --> 00:25:11,931
for a friend to pick them up.

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00:25:11,933 --> 00:25:14,367
Suddenly they see this
huge seven, eight-foot-tall

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huge man-like creature
with white hair,

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running across the
road towards the woods.

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00:25:19,273 --> 00:25:21,339
Strangely enough,
in one of its hands,

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00:25:21,341 --> 00:25:23,509
it had a glowing ball of light.

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It runs off into the woods
and a short time later,

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00:25:27,482 --> 00:25:30,383
this object comes across the
sky, projects a beam of light

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00:25:30,385 --> 00:25:32,851
down into the woods where
the creature ran into.

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So these reports were
getting very odd,

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and then we had the case that
occurred up in Fayette County.

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It was the case that convinced
me and my team that there was

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00:25:41,329 --> 00:25:45,501
a lot more to Bigfoot than
any of us had any idea about.

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00:25:49,337 --> 00:25:53,239
There were several young men
at a farm in Fayette County,

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00:25:53,241 --> 00:25:56,474
not far from here, that,
in October of 1973 saw

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00:25:56,476 --> 00:25:59,544
a very large light in the sky
come down in a farmer's field.

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00:25:59,546 --> 00:26:03,215
What we found out was that
about nine o'clock that night,

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00:26:03,217 --> 00:26:06,152
about 15 people in
that rural community,

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00:26:06,154 --> 00:26:07,485
observed this object in the sky,

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00:26:07,487 --> 00:26:09,488
it was only about 100
feet off the ground.

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00:26:09,490 --> 00:26:11,324
It was as big as a barn,

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00:26:11,326 --> 00:26:13,626
it was bright red
and like a big ball.

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00:26:13,628 --> 00:26:15,427
And it was only
about 100 feet up

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00:26:15,429 --> 00:26:19,500
and it was slowly moving
down towards the ground.

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After he was done
shooting at them,

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00:30:29,951 --> 00:30:33,184
they ran back to their truck,
went back to the farmhouse,

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00:30:33,186 --> 00:30:34,686
told the family what happened,

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00:30:34,688 --> 00:30:36,688
took them to a neighbor's
and called the state police.

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00:30:36,690 --> 00:30:39,290
And then a state police officer
was called in, and he was

477
00:30:39,292 --> 00:30:42,661
called in after the fact,
after the craft disappeared.

478
00:30:42,663 --> 00:30:46,298
He even mentioned how large
the area was illuminated.

479
00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:49,201
There was a very large area
illuminated by this craft

480
00:30:49,203 --> 00:30:51,369
or whatever it was that you
could literally sit down

481
00:30:51,371 --> 00:30:53,806
and read a newspaper in
it, how bright it was.

482
00:30:53,808 --> 00:30:56,242
Unfortunately there was some
ramifications that happened

483
00:30:56,244 --> 00:30:58,777
to one of the witnesses
where he was walking through

484
00:30:58,779 --> 00:31:00,779
the field and there were
investigators with him

485
00:31:00,781 --> 00:31:03,616
and all of a sudden for no
reason, he dropped to his knees,

486
00:31:03,618 --> 00:31:05,917
and apparently having visions.

487
00:31:05,919 --> 00:31:08,486
Visions of end times, visions
of the end of the world,

488
00:31:08,488 --> 00:31:10,755
destruction, chaos,
and that sort of thing,

489
00:31:10,757 --> 00:31:14,659
and it psychologically
messed the guy up.

490
00:31:14,661 --> 00:31:16,828
Some of the
most bizarre cases on record

491
00:31:16,830 --> 00:31:20,734
erupted from the Chestnut
Ridge in 1973 and 74.

492
00:31:22,203 --> 00:31:23,935
One family was chased from
the woods by an aggressive

493
00:31:23,937 --> 00:31:27,272
ape-like creature
with prominent fangs.

494
00:31:27,274 --> 00:31:29,774
A motorist reported
hitting a bipedal monster,

495
00:31:29,776 --> 00:31:32,744
which vanished at
the moment of impact.

496
00:31:32,746 --> 00:31:35,313
Another person claimed to
shoot a Bigfoot that had been

497
00:31:35,315 --> 00:31:39,652
stealing apples from a
bushel basket on his porch.

498
00:31:39,654 --> 00:31:42,421
In many cases, the unknown
figures announced their presence

499
00:31:42,423 --> 00:31:45,357
with an unsettling wail
that witnesses compared

500
00:31:45,359 --> 00:31:48,860
to a crying baby, as well
as a distinctive smell

501
00:31:48,862 --> 00:31:50,764
like ammonia or sulfur.

502
00:31:51,933 --> 00:31:53,732
These things happened
with such frequency,

503
00:31:53,734 --> 00:31:55,867
especially during
the summer months,

504
00:31:55,869 --> 00:31:58,537
that Gordon's investigative
team sometimes responded

505
00:31:58,539 --> 00:32:01,773
to multiple calls on the same
night, with local newspapers

506
00:32:01,775 --> 00:32:05,411
providing coverage
of each disturbance.

507
00:32:05,413 --> 00:32:08,513
One location where repeated
oddities were reported

508
00:32:08,515 --> 00:32:11,716
was the Superior
mobile home court.

509
00:32:11,718 --> 00:32:14,853
In August of 1973, the police
were called to investigate

510
00:32:14,855 --> 00:32:17,990
a close-range Bigfoot sighting,
and they even located and

511
00:32:17,992 --> 00:32:22,828
preserved some unusual tracks
for Gordon's team to analyze.

512
00:32:22,830 --> 00:32:26,331
For reasons still unknown,
this incident attracted

513
00:32:26,333 --> 00:32:30,237
some unwanted attention
from a peculiar source.

514
00:32:33,773 --> 00:32:36,375
The incident at the
trailer court happened on a

515
00:32:36,377 --> 00:32:38,810
Friday night, we come home
from Westmoreland County Fair,

516
00:32:38,812 --> 00:32:41,882
and the whole
neighborhood was abuzz.

517
00:32:49,290 --> 00:32:51,824
I was trying to figure out what
was going on and they said,

518
00:32:51,826 --> 00:32:54,827
the woman who lived across
from me heard a noise

519
00:32:54,829 --> 00:32:56,995
at the back of her trailer
and she opened the door

520
00:32:56,997 --> 00:32:58,864
and Bigfoot was standing there.

521
00:32:58,866 --> 00:33:00,799
The people who lived in
that trailer heard like

522
00:33:00,801 --> 00:33:02,901
scratching on the
end of their trailer,

523
00:33:02,903 --> 00:33:05,971
they heard like a baby
crying sound from close by.

524
00:33:05,973 --> 00:33:08,941
They opened up the back door
and only a few feet away

525
00:33:08,943 --> 00:33:12,645
here's this large,
very broad-shouldered,

526
00:33:12,647 --> 00:33:15,013
hairy Bigfoot creature
standing there.

527
00:33:15,015 --> 00:33:17,482
One other witness saw it
running between the trailers

528
00:33:17,484 --> 00:33:18,916
out of the area.

529
00:33:18,918 --> 00:33:21,552
Everybody scattered
and people were tripping

530
00:33:21,554 --> 00:33:23,422
and falling over each other.

531
00:33:23,424 --> 00:33:26,424
They were all, the whole
neighborhood was shook up.

532
00:33:26,426 --> 00:33:28,761
Four days later after
the incident happened,

533
00:33:28,763 --> 00:33:30,896
I get an emergency
call from an operator.

534
00:33:30,898 --> 00:33:33,799
Well, it happened to be the
woman who lived in that trailer

535
00:33:33,801 --> 00:33:36,801
who, four days before,
had seen the Bigfoot.

536
00:33:36,803 --> 00:33:38,803
What she called was,
she was very upset.

537
00:33:38,805 --> 00:33:40,973
She said, "I think maybe
I did something wrong."

538
00:33:40,975 --> 00:33:42,808
And I said, "well, what's that?"

539
00:33:42,810 --> 00:33:45,778
She said, "well, this odd-appearing
man came to our trailer.

540
00:33:45,780 --> 00:33:47,378
"He was asking all
kinds of questions

541
00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:48,880
"about what we saw that night."

542
00:33:48,882 --> 00:33:51,884
I come from home
work and there's this car

543
00:33:51,886 --> 00:33:55,687
sitting there and it had
Ohio Government plates on it.

544
00:33:55,689 --> 00:33:58,956
He had some kind of an ID
on him about Ohio and UFO,

545
00:33:58,958 --> 00:34:00,725
but she didn't pay a
lot of attention to it.

546
00:34:00,727 --> 00:34:03,095
He had an Ohio license
plate on the vehicle,

547
00:34:03,097 --> 00:34:06,498
and he wanted to know all
about what had happened here.

548
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:07,933
And there's a
footprint in the sand,

549
00:34:07,935 --> 00:34:10,902
and he's about to take
pictures of the footprint,

550
00:34:10,904 --> 00:34:13,771
and the boy who lived
there, the older boy,

551
00:34:13,773 --> 00:34:15,641
he went and got his camera.

552
00:34:15,643 --> 00:34:17,710
As time went on that evening,

553
00:34:17,712 --> 00:34:20,846
he was going over and looking
at the footprints, and I guess

554
00:34:20,848 --> 00:34:23,047
there were several local people
looking at the tracks there.

555
00:34:23,049 --> 00:34:25,951
There was a young boy,
he had one of those

556
00:34:25,953 --> 00:34:27,552
Polaroid Instamatic cameras.

557
00:34:27,554 --> 00:34:30,021
And he started doing the
same, taking a picture,

558
00:34:30,023 --> 00:34:32,491
and the government guy
said, "no pictures."

559
00:34:32,493 --> 00:34:34,625
Started taking pictures anyway
and he ripped the camera

560
00:34:34,627 --> 00:34:36,594
out of his hand, I don't know
if he ripped the film out,

561
00:34:36,596 --> 00:34:39,063
I don't remember that
part, he took the camera.

562
00:34:39,065 --> 00:34:42,134
He had just developed
a picture and he said,

563
00:34:42,136 --> 00:34:43,668
"I just made a picture."

564
00:34:43,670 --> 00:34:45,871
And this mystery
man, whoever he was,

565
00:34:45,873 --> 00:34:49,942
grabs that picture from
that little boy's hand,

566
00:34:49,944 --> 00:34:51,710
wrinkles it up and puts
it in his pocket and said,

567
00:34:51,712 --> 00:34:53,712
"you just made a
picture for us."

568
00:34:53,714 --> 00:34:56,581
And then he went over to the
tracks and with his foot,

569
00:34:56,583 --> 00:34:58,817
he destroyed the footprints.

570
00:34:58,819 --> 00:35:01,420
And the people were very
very upset over that,

571
00:35:01,422 --> 00:35:04,021
started yelling at him and said
"we're calling the police,"

572
00:35:04,023 --> 00:35:05,891
and he ran to his
car and they said,

573
00:35:05,893 --> 00:35:09,061
"he sped out so fast, he
almost turned the car over."

574
00:35:09,063 --> 00:35:11,697
That's the last time
anybody saw that fellow,

575
00:35:11,699 --> 00:35:15,067
and we never found
out who he was.

576
00:35:15,069 --> 00:35:17,636
The incident at
the Superior mobile home court

577
00:35:17,638 --> 00:35:20,505
was extremely strange
yet ambiguous enough

578
00:35:20,507 --> 00:35:22,907
to resist explanation.

579
00:35:22,909 --> 00:35:25,009
It would become far more
clear that the United States

580
00:35:25,011 --> 00:35:26,911
government had knowledge
of the incidents

581
00:35:26,913 --> 00:35:29,848
being reported around
the Chestnut Ridge,

582
00:35:29,850 --> 00:35:32,951
and knew who to
talk to about them.

583
00:35:32,953 --> 00:35:37,155
On September 20th, 1973, Stan
Gordon received a phone call

584
00:35:37,157 --> 00:35:39,157
from a man who
identified himself

585
00:35:39,159 --> 00:35:41,927
as a US Government official.

586
00:35:41,929 --> 00:35:44,195
The caller indicated a strong
interest in the Bigfoot

587
00:35:44,197 --> 00:35:47,699
sightings taking place
in Westmoreland County,

588
00:35:47,701 --> 00:35:50,936
and then, to Gordon's surprise,
asked that any convincing

589
00:35:50,938 --> 00:35:54,940
evidence be sent to a
facility in Washington DC.

590
00:35:54,942 --> 00:35:57,141
The spokesman even
provided a mailing address

591
00:35:57,143 --> 00:35:58,976
and phone number
for what he called

592
00:35:58,978 --> 00:36:03,949
the Bureau of Sports Fisheries,
Birds and Mammals Lab.

593
00:36:03,951 --> 00:36:06,851
Less than two weeks later,
Gordon would be contacted by

594
00:36:06,853 --> 00:36:09,121
and would meet with
two men from the office

595
00:36:09,123 --> 00:36:12,056
of Congressman John H. Dent.

596
00:36:12,058 --> 00:36:13,826
The visitors wanted
to learn more about

597
00:36:13,828 --> 00:36:16,228
Gordon's research group
and their findings

598
00:36:16,230 --> 00:36:19,030
and were courteous enough
that Gordon kept in contact

599
00:36:19,032 --> 00:36:22,934
with them while the wave
of sightings continued.

600
00:36:22,936 --> 00:36:26,070
Later on, Gordon would be
stunned to discover that the

601
00:36:26,072 --> 00:36:29,641
government may have taken a
decidedly more active approach

602
00:36:29,643 --> 00:36:32,013
in their information gathering.

603
00:36:33,514 --> 00:36:35,213
So while we're
interviewing this witness,

604
00:36:35,215 --> 00:36:38,616
backs years later, probably
in the 1980s, and we bring up

605
00:36:38,618 --> 00:36:41,119
the fact we might have to
hypnotize him again and he said,

606
00:36:41,121 --> 00:36:43,221
"why do you wanna
hypnotize me again?"

607
00:36:43,223 --> 00:36:46,824
And he goes on to say that
these two men came to his home

608
00:36:46,826 --> 00:36:48,726
to interview him and he thought
they were part of our group

609
00:36:48,728 --> 00:36:50,628
and we said, "well, tell
us about what happened."

610
00:36:50,630 --> 00:36:52,563
He said, "well, these
two guys come to my home.

611
00:36:52,565 --> 00:36:56,235
"One's in a dark suit, one
in an Air Force uniform.

612
00:36:56,237 --> 00:36:59,070
"The one in the Air Force uniform
has a briefcase with him."

613
00:36:59,072 --> 00:37:01,773
They wanted the witness
to tell the story

614
00:37:01,775 --> 00:37:04,041
of seeing the UFO
and the Bigfoot.

615
00:37:04,043 --> 00:37:06,645
And then apparently
he was hypnotized,

616
00:37:06,647 --> 00:37:08,079
and they told him
"thank you very much,"

617
00:37:08,081 --> 00:37:09,848
that they believed what
he was telling them,

618
00:37:09,850 --> 00:37:11,250
that they would be
in touch with him.

619
00:37:11,252 --> 00:37:14,721
He never heard from
this fellows again.

620
00:37:16,123 --> 00:37:17,788
While Bigfoot
seemed to be lumbering

621
00:37:17,790 --> 00:37:20,525
through the woods of
Southwestern Pennsylvania,

622
00:37:20,527 --> 00:37:23,128
if eye-witness testimony
is to believed,

623
00:37:23,130 --> 00:37:25,264
the skies above the Chestnut
Ridge were filled with

624
00:37:25,266 --> 00:37:29,201
all manner of lights, craft
and inexplicable shapes

625
00:37:29,203 --> 00:37:31,003
flying under their own power.

626
00:37:31,005 --> 00:37:33,170
In August of 1973 alone,

627
00:37:33,172 --> 00:37:36,574
witnesses reported seeing
an hourglass-shaped object,

628
00:37:36,576 --> 00:37:39,043
a sphere dropping fiery debris,

629
00:37:39,045 --> 00:37:41,846
a circular craft with
illuminated windows,

630
00:37:41,848 --> 00:37:45,083
a bright orange ball, red,
green and white lights

631
00:37:45,085 --> 00:37:47,319
that looked like
Christmas tree bulbs,

632
00:37:47,321 --> 00:37:51,692
and a boomerang-shaped object
all floating through the air.

633
00:37:54,694 --> 00:37:57,596
Another really
significant UFO case

634
00:37:57,598 --> 00:38:00,065
was September 3rd, 1987.

635
00:38:00,067 --> 00:38:04,201
And this was on a major highway,
Route 30 near Greensburg.

636
00:38:04,203 --> 00:38:06,170
And that evening, numerous
witnesses in the area,

637
00:38:06,172 --> 00:38:10,141
including law enforcement,
they see this huge cylindrical

638
00:38:10,143 --> 00:38:12,777
object, metallic,
about 300 feet long,

639
00:38:12,779 --> 00:38:16,213
only about 300 feet up,
with multiple lights on it.

640
00:38:16,215 --> 00:38:18,250
I don't recall anybody
reporting any sound.

641
00:38:18,252 --> 00:38:21,286
It's moving across,
coming across Route 30,

642
00:38:21,288 --> 00:38:23,221
across from the
old Greengate Mall,

643
00:38:23,223 --> 00:38:25,157
where there is a
power substation.

644
00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:28,726
So this object is moving
horizontally across the sky,

645
00:38:28,728 --> 00:38:32,130
and then it turns vertical
in the sky and when it does,

646
00:38:32,132 --> 00:38:35,366
all the power in the area
goes out for a short time.

647
00:38:35,368 --> 00:38:38,337
Behind that mall was an annex
where they had movie theaters

648
00:38:38,339 --> 00:38:40,038
and that was all blacked out,

649
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,041
and when the engineers went
to examine it, to investigate,

650
00:38:43,043 --> 00:38:46,277
they found all three of the
master fuses had been blown.

651
00:38:46,279 --> 00:38:48,646
Something that's
apparently unheard of,

652
00:38:48,648 --> 00:38:50,282
and they were very interested in

653
00:38:50,284 --> 00:38:54,052
what caused those
fuses to go that day.

654
00:38:54,054 --> 00:38:56,087
In
September of 1973,

655
00:38:56,089 --> 00:38:58,724
the aerial activity
seemed to intensify

656
00:38:58,726 --> 00:39:02,194
over specific locations
in Derry township.

657
00:39:02,196 --> 00:39:05,063
At one of these locations
called the Bell Farm,

658
00:39:05,065 --> 00:39:08,233
a family and their friends
claim multiple eerie encounters

659
00:39:08,235 --> 00:39:11,139
with both UFOs and
hairy humanoids.

660
00:39:12,772 --> 00:39:15,373
Investigator Barry Clark,
a colleague of Stan Gordon,

661
00:39:15,375 --> 00:39:18,409
spent a number of nights
staking out the Bell Farm,

662
00:39:18,411 --> 00:39:21,279
and soon found himself at
the center of events that,

663
00:39:21,281 --> 00:39:24,819
by his own admission,
he found haunting.

664
00:39:30,424 --> 00:39:34,226
Three times we got a call
from different people saying

665
00:39:34,228 --> 00:39:37,695
that if you looked up in
the sky at 10 o'clock in the

666
00:39:37,697 --> 00:39:39,701
eastern part of the sky,

667
00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:44,235
you would see a real
bright, large star,

668
00:39:44,237 --> 00:39:46,904
just all of a sudden turn on.

669
00:39:46,906 --> 00:39:50,741
So, the one night I left
interviewing one family,

670
00:39:50,743 --> 00:39:53,679
and I went back out to the
farm, sometime after 10,

671
00:39:53,681 --> 00:39:56,348
we were sitting there
maybe 10 minutes after 10,

672
00:39:56,350 --> 00:39:59,250
all of a sudden there
was this bright star.

673
00:39:59,252 --> 00:40:03,054
And we were watching it and
all of a sudden that thing,

674
00:40:03,056 --> 00:40:07,259
it would turn blood-red and
then it'd go back to silver.

675
00:40:07,261 --> 00:40:10,195
Turn blood-red,
go back to silver.

676
00:40:10,197 --> 00:40:14,433
And then there were five flashes
like an arc from a welder,

677
00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:16,768
and they were about
a second apart,

678
00:40:16,770 --> 00:40:20,371
and then there were just
multiple small silver objects

679
00:40:20,373 --> 00:40:24,710
went to it that looked like
bees going to a beehive,

680
00:40:24,712 --> 00:40:26,244
waiting their turn to go in.

681
00:40:26,246 --> 00:40:29,280
But when they got there, they
either reflected the red,

682
00:40:29,282 --> 00:40:31,183
or they turned red.

683
00:40:31,185 --> 00:40:33,018
So we stood there and
watched it in awe.

684
00:40:33,020 --> 00:40:35,353
The guy's wife, she
screamed, jumped in her car.

685
00:40:35,355 --> 00:40:37,288
She wouldn't come back out.

686
00:40:37,290 --> 00:40:40,224
And I said, "there's something,
it's doing something."

687
00:40:40,226 --> 00:40:43,360
And then we realized is
was actually coming down,

688
00:40:43,362 --> 00:40:47,335
it was getting bigger, and
at that point we all left.

689
00:40:48,902 --> 00:40:50,434
After the incident
at the Bell Farm, Barry

690
00:40:50,436 --> 00:40:54,306
Clark decided that he was
finished with the paranormal.

691
00:40:54,308 --> 00:40:58,909
Shaken by what he saw, he never
investigated another case.

692
00:40:58,911 --> 00:41:03,348
But evidently, the paranormal
was not finished with him.

693
00:41:03,350 --> 00:41:06,050
After stepping away
from the research group,

694
00:41:06,052 --> 00:41:08,453
Clark experienced an
episode of missing time

695
00:41:08,455 --> 00:41:10,521
while making what should
have been a short drive

696
00:41:10,523 --> 00:41:13,824
between communities
on the Ridge.

697
00:41:13,826 --> 00:41:16,261
This sensation that only
a short time has passed,

698
00:41:16,263 --> 00:41:18,996
when in fact many
hours have elapsed,

699
00:41:18,998 --> 00:41:23,134
is most commonly linked to
alien abduction scenarios.

700
00:41:23,136 --> 00:41:26,270
Clark does not suggest that
he was abducted, but neither

701
00:41:26,272 --> 00:41:29,340
does he have any answers
for what happened to him.

702
00:41:29,342 --> 00:41:31,308
Only the disturbing
reality of time

703
00:41:31,310 --> 00:41:33,344
for which he cannot account,

704
00:41:33,346 --> 00:41:36,280
of which he has no memory.

705
00:41:36,282 --> 00:41:38,449
And along with that
comes the suspicion that,

706
00:41:38,451 --> 00:41:42,186
when one peers deeply
into the darkness,

707
00:41:42,188 --> 00:41:45,326
there's actually
something looking back.

708
00:41:50,964 --> 00:41:55,136
I've had some things go on
through my life after that,

709
00:41:56,335 --> 00:42:00,304
and what bothers me
is I have a grandson,

710
00:42:00,306 --> 00:42:02,840
who was born in 1986,

711
00:42:02,842 --> 00:42:07,013
and from the time he was like
eight, nine, 10 years old,

712
00:42:08,214 --> 00:42:11,416
he kept telling us about
people that were coming

713
00:42:11,418 --> 00:42:15,420
into his bedroom through
a hole in his ceiling.

714
00:42:15,422 --> 00:42:17,992
Now, he has had lapses of time,

715
00:42:19,458 --> 00:42:22,360
you know, can't explain,
which I have had.

716
00:42:22,362 --> 00:42:26,334
I've had incidents where
I have lost an hour,

717
00:42:27,301 --> 00:42:30,000
an hour and a half, he doesn't.

718
00:42:30,002 --> 00:42:33,003
So I don't know if what
I was doing back then

719
00:42:33,005 --> 00:42:37,942
triggered something, and then
it carried on to my grandson.

720
00:42:37,944 --> 00:42:39,610
I don't know how that works.

721
00:42:39,612 --> 00:42:43,984
All I know is, it was about
1975 when these things started.

722
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,454
I talked to one other person
that was involved back then

723
00:42:49,456 --> 00:42:52,924
that said that they were afraid,

724
00:42:52,926 --> 00:42:55,626
that they were telling about,

725
00:42:55,628 --> 00:42:58,362
seeing things in the mirror
when they looked at themselves

726
00:42:58,364 --> 00:43:00,801
and incidents like that, but,

727
00:43:02,069 --> 00:43:06,103
it's quite scary when
it happens to yourself.

728
00:43:06,105 --> 00:43:08,940
It's nice to read about
it by somebody else,

729
00:43:08,942 --> 00:43:11,512
but when it's
really your life...

730
00:43:16,583 --> 00:43:19,183
I became friends with
a guy named Sam Sherry.

731
00:43:19,185 --> 00:43:20,418
He lived right in the
heart of the Chestnut Ridge

732
00:43:20,420 --> 00:43:23,487
up in Ligonier, Pennsylvania,
a little town called Wilpen.

733
00:43:23,489 --> 00:43:27,391
It was 1986 and he was
fishing at a place called

734
00:43:27,393 --> 00:43:29,194
Sleepy Hollow.

735
00:43:29,196 --> 00:43:33,366
It's a popular spot for fishing
and it's a little breezeway

736
00:43:34,601 --> 00:43:38,235
or a crossover between Route
30 East and Route 30 West,

737
00:43:38,237 --> 00:43:40,572
and one night Sam was
out there fishing,

738
00:43:40,574 --> 00:43:42,940
and he heard some
noise to his left,

739
00:43:42,942 --> 00:43:46,076
and he looked over to see a
figure standing on an embankment

740
00:43:46,078 --> 00:43:48,212
a little further down the
creek from where he was,

741
00:43:48,214 --> 00:43:50,482
and this was Loyalhanna
Creek that he was fishing on.

742
00:43:50,484 --> 00:43:52,449
So as he's fishing
and doing his thing,

743
00:43:52,451 --> 00:43:55,520
he notices this figure's moving
closer and closer to him.

744
00:43:55,522 --> 00:43:58,023
And it got to the point
where it was so close to him,

745
00:43:58,025 --> 00:44:01,525
that he could make out very
good detail of this thing.

746
00:44:01,527 --> 00:44:03,295
And as he described it,

747
00:44:03,297 --> 00:44:06,130
it's not your typical
Bigfoot creature that he saw.

748
00:44:06,132 --> 00:44:10,434
It was an upright-walking
creature that had very sparse

749
00:44:10,436 --> 00:44:13,204
hair on its body, almost
like it had mange.

750
00:44:13,206 --> 00:44:16,942
It appeared to have a mohawk
on the top of its head.

751
00:44:16,944 --> 00:44:21,313
And this creature was
very tall, had long arms

752
00:44:21,315 --> 00:44:24,014
hanging down well
past its knees.

753
00:44:24,016 --> 00:44:26,518
Sam saw this thing walking
closer and closer to him,

754
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,320
ambling closer and it
kind of unnerved him.

755
00:44:29,322 --> 00:44:31,322
So he got in his
vehicle to leave,

756
00:44:31,324 --> 00:44:33,157
and just before he
was able to leave,

757
00:44:33,159 --> 00:44:35,393
this creature stopped
the vehicle from leaving,

758
00:44:35,395 --> 00:44:37,262
put its hands on the
driver-side door,

759
00:44:37,264 --> 00:44:38,697
stuck its head in the window,

760
00:44:38,699 --> 00:44:42,366
and he was literally
face-to-face with this thing.

761
00:44:42,368 --> 00:44:44,134
He said this thing
actually opened its mouth,

762
00:44:44,136 --> 00:44:45,637
he could see there was
no teeth in its mouth,

763
00:44:45,639 --> 00:44:47,973
or it was missing
a lot of teeth.

764
00:44:47,975 --> 00:44:49,340
It was pushing down on the car,

765
00:44:49,342 --> 00:44:51,543
preventing him
from driving away.

766
00:44:51,545 --> 00:44:53,545
He hit the horn on his
car to scare this thing,

767
00:44:53,547 --> 00:44:57,614
this thing stepped back like,
oh-my-gosh kind of expression.

768
00:44:57,616 --> 00:44:59,750
Sam took off and left.

769
00:44:59,752 --> 00:45:02,554
And he said in his tail
lights as he driving away,

770
00:45:02,556 --> 00:45:06,627
he could see thing waving
at him as he drove off.

771
00:45:10,397 --> 00:45:13,098
Although the Chestnut Ridge
has yet to see another outbreak

772
00:45:13,100 --> 00:45:16,569
of reports quite like
the flap of 73 and 74,

773
00:45:17,770 --> 00:45:19,770
unusual sightings
have not stopped,

774
00:45:19,772 --> 00:45:24,108
and if anything, they've
become more bizarre in variety.

775
00:45:24,110 --> 00:45:26,744
Otherwise sober-minded individuals
professed to have seen

776
00:45:26,746 --> 00:45:30,514
enormous dark-colored birds
in flight and on the ground,

777
00:45:30,516 --> 00:45:33,684
which are sometimes
referred to as Thunderbirds,

778
00:45:33,686 --> 00:45:36,054
as well as Black Panthers,

779
00:45:36,056 --> 00:45:39,290
upright-walking canid
creatures known as Dog Men,

780
00:45:39,292 --> 00:45:43,194
winged humanoids and even a
22-foot-long flying lizard

781
00:45:43,196 --> 00:45:45,563
resembling a dragon.

782
00:45:45,565 --> 00:45:48,199
In many cases, observers
struggled to describe

783
00:45:48,201 --> 00:45:50,701
what they have seen because
there are no categories

784
00:45:50,703 --> 00:45:54,405
that correspond to what
they have perceived.

785
00:45:54,407 --> 00:45:57,541
All they can do is react
to the invasive presence

786
00:45:57,543 --> 00:46:00,779
of what appears to be a monster.

787
00:46:00,781 --> 00:46:02,746
But there's all kinds
of strange creatures

788
00:46:02,748 --> 00:46:04,482
that have been seen.

789
00:46:04,484 --> 00:46:07,317
The most recent was the Dog
Man sighting that took place

790
00:46:07,319 --> 00:46:09,554
literally miles down the
road from where we're at

791
00:46:09,556 --> 00:46:10,657
here in 2015.

792
00:46:12,558 --> 00:46:17,061
Four women were going to a
place called Ruringrun Park,

793
00:46:17,063 --> 00:46:19,530
and they pulled into a
pull off at the trail head

794
00:46:19,532 --> 00:46:22,333
to get out of the vehicle
to start hiking the trail,

795
00:46:22,335 --> 00:46:24,601
and as they got out of the
vehicle, they started into the

796
00:46:24,603 --> 00:46:27,838
trail head and they noticed a
figure walking towards them.

797
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,842
The one woman claimed that
this thing wasn't a person.

798
00:46:30,844 --> 00:46:33,578
It was actually a
very tall, muscular,

799
00:46:33,580 --> 00:46:36,313
salt and pepper
hair-covered creature,

800
00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:39,183
that had a large snout
like a wolf or a dog,

801
00:46:39,185 --> 00:46:41,485
had pointy ears and
had a tail on it.

802
00:46:41,487 --> 00:46:43,320
And it was standing
upright on two legs,

803
00:46:43,322 --> 00:46:45,623
and it just approached
them out of the forest.

804
00:46:45,625 --> 00:46:47,592
Three of the four women
got back in the car.

805
00:46:47,594 --> 00:46:50,628
She stood there watching it and
it stood there watching her,

806
00:46:50,630 --> 00:46:52,831
and the stare-off went on
for several minutes before

807
00:46:52,833 --> 00:46:55,400
this thing turned and walked
back off into the forest.

808
00:46:55,402 --> 00:46:57,701
There have been many reports
over the years of not only

809
00:46:57,703 --> 00:47:00,237
Bigfoot sightings, but
reports of Thunderbirds,

810
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,607
those huge generally
dark brown or black birds

811
00:47:02,609 --> 00:47:05,509
with massive wingspans
like a small aircraft.

812
00:47:05,511 --> 00:47:09,179
A Thunderbird basically is a
large bird with anywhere from

813
00:47:09,181 --> 00:47:12,583
eight to 20 feet in
length of wingspan.

814
00:47:12,585 --> 00:47:15,552
Some witnesses describe
the Thunderbird as having

815
00:47:15,554 --> 00:47:17,822
black feathers all over its
body while other describe

816
00:47:17,824 --> 00:47:22,259
the Thunderbird as having
like a reptilian-like membrane

817
00:47:22,261 --> 00:47:25,596
skin on its body, almost
like a Pterodactyl-like thing

818
00:47:25,598 --> 00:47:27,398
flying through the sky.

819
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,737
I only ever heard one that

820
00:47:31,705 --> 00:47:35,907
came from a guy that said that
he was up on the Derry Ridge,

821
00:47:35,909 --> 00:47:38,378
and this large Thunderbird,

822
00:47:39,578 --> 00:47:41,612
well, didn't name
it a Thunderbird,

823
00:47:41,614 --> 00:47:45,849
but this very large bird flew
right over the top of him.

824
00:47:49,755 --> 00:47:52,456
Yeah, I grew up in Lower
Burrell, I joined the army

825
00:47:52,458 --> 00:47:56,629
and then in 2005 I retired,
moved out here to Derry.

826
00:48:06,505 --> 00:48:08,773
I just got done
cutting my back field.

827
00:48:08,775 --> 00:48:12,309
My family was down at
Keystone State Park there.

828
00:48:12,311 --> 00:48:14,244
I went down to get
them to bring them up

829
00:48:14,246 --> 00:48:16,813
to show them what the
field looked like.

830
00:48:16,815 --> 00:48:18,949
I came back up to the field,
I'm looking out there at the

831
00:48:18,951 --> 00:48:21,953
end of the field and it looked
like there was a tree stump.

832
00:48:21,955 --> 00:48:24,255
So we drove out there
to the tree stump.

833
00:48:24,257 --> 00:48:26,623
I go, "that isn't a tree
stump, it's a deer."

834
00:48:26,625 --> 00:48:29,694
It looked like a big deer,
about this tall, maybe five,

835
00:48:29,696 --> 00:48:32,462
five and a half feet tall,
sitting up on its butt.

836
00:48:32,464 --> 00:48:34,831
You know, it was like this.

837
00:48:34,833 --> 00:48:36,400
And I'm getting closer
and I'm thinking,

838
00:48:36,402 --> 00:48:38,402
that doesn't look
like a deer anymore.

839
00:48:38,404 --> 00:48:41,271
And it picked up its head and
it was staring at me like this

840
00:48:41,273 --> 00:48:42,609
like it was mad.

841
00:48:43,810 --> 00:48:46,744
Huh, so I stopped 50
yards maybe from it.

842
00:48:46,746 --> 00:48:48,579
I'm looking at it.

843
00:48:48,581 --> 00:48:50,415
"That's a bird."

844
00:48:50,417 --> 00:48:52,884
It got up and it took one swipe,

845
00:48:52,886 --> 00:48:54,886
and it starts coming
towards me and I'm like,

846
00:48:54,888 --> 00:48:56,853
"oh, Judas Priest."

847
00:48:56,855 --> 00:49:00,891
Came over top of our bus
and my yard is shaped like a

848
00:49:00,893 --> 00:49:03,527
rollercoaster and
when it hit that,

849
00:49:03,529 --> 00:49:05,462
it came up like
that into the air.

850
00:49:05,464 --> 00:49:09,433
It was big-chested,
just claws like this.

851
00:49:09,435 --> 00:49:12,536
If it wanted to and
it swooped down,

852
00:49:12,538 --> 00:49:13,704
I'm not saying it's
gonna pick you up.

853
00:49:13,706 --> 00:49:17,308
It'll pick you into pieces
and take those pieces away.

854
00:49:17,310 --> 00:49:20,645
Strange events like this go
on all across Pennsylvania.

855
00:49:20,647 --> 00:49:23,480
And there's certain areas
where sometimes you get more

856
00:49:23,482 --> 00:49:26,284
activity than others, but the
one area, of course, that,

857
00:49:26,286 --> 00:49:29,587
year after year we seem to
get more than normal activity,

858
00:49:29,589 --> 00:49:31,889
is areas along the
Chestnut Ridge.

859
00:49:31,891 --> 00:49:34,491
There's been all kind of anomalies
up on the Ridge such as

860
00:49:34,493 --> 00:49:38,029
underground sounds and mystery
booms and strange lights and

861
00:49:38,031 --> 00:49:41,766
people seeing small little
lights coming near their homes.

862
00:49:41,768 --> 00:49:44,434
And they appear, as I said,
very close to the ground,

863
00:49:44,436 --> 00:49:46,270
or very very high
up in the trees.

864
00:49:46,272 --> 00:49:48,873
There's no rhyme, nor
reason, nor explanation

865
00:49:48,875 --> 00:49:52,744
for the pattern they move or
why they move, or direction.

866
00:49:52,746 --> 00:49:55,012
They just, they move, and
it seems almost as if like

867
00:49:55,014 --> 00:49:56,947
they're intelligent
enough to move,

868
00:49:56,949 --> 00:49:59,750
so they don't want
you to see it.

869
00:49:59,752 --> 00:50:01,418
Like you see it over here and
you'll be focused over here

870
00:50:01,420 --> 00:50:03,054
and then it'll appear over
here and then when you look

871
00:50:03,056 --> 00:50:06,391
over here, it's gone and
it's back over here again.

872
00:50:11,031 --> 00:50:13,665
To this point, that is the
biggest event that's happened

873
00:50:13,667 --> 00:50:17,270
in my life that I have
no understanding of.

874
00:50:25,045 --> 00:50:29,547
In August of 2015, myself
and a friend of mine, Eric,

875
00:50:29,549 --> 00:50:33,384
we were on the West Virginia
side, near Preston County,

876
00:50:33,386 --> 00:50:36,987
in a very remote location
about two miles off of anywhere

877
00:50:36,989 --> 00:50:39,791
that would have been
near any civilized area.

878
00:50:39,793 --> 00:50:42,092
Well there's a couple times
where I've experienced this,

879
00:50:42,094 --> 00:50:44,529
and I don't know what it is.

880
00:50:44,531 --> 00:50:46,496
I really don't have
an explanation,

881
00:50:46,498 --> 00:50:48,433
and I don't think anybody
does at this point.

882
00:50:48,435 --> 00:50:50,735
We were out doing a
Bigfoot investigation

883
00:50:50,737 --> 00:50:52,969
in this very active area.

884
00:50:52,971 --> 00:50:55,373
This night was pitch-ink dark.

885
00:50:55,375 --> 00:50:57,842
I couldn't even see Eric, I
couldn't even see my hand.

886
00:50:57,844 --> 00:50:59,509
I mean, there was
no Moon that night.

887
00:50:59,511 --> 00:51:01,746
You couldn't see through
the canape of trees.

888
00:51:01,748 --> 00:51:04,415
No residual light
from the stars.

889
00:51:04,417 --> 00:51:06,784
So we were in
total ink-darkness.

890
00:51:06,786 --> 00:51:09,487
And I noticed off
in the woods, to my left,

891
00:51:09,489 --> 00:51:11,822
probably about 100
yards away, this light.

892
00:51:11,824 --> 00:51:14,759
And it first looked like
someone just carrying a lantern.

893
00:51:14,761 --> 00:51:16,594
If you would swing a lantern
as you're walking through

894
00:51:16,596 --> 00:51:18,895
the forest, you could see it
moving back and forth rocking.

895
00:51:18,897 --> 00:51:23,601
What appeared to be a
light permeating underneath

896
00:51:23,603 --> 00:51:27,938
the canape of trees, was
moving around very slowly,

897
00:51:27,940 --> 00:51:29,741
but erratically
at the same time,

898
00:51:29,743 --> 00:51:33,444
almost balloon-like
but it would stop,

899
00:51:33,446 --> 00:51:34,945
and then it would move again.

900
00:51:34,947 --> 00:51:37,382
And as more people focused
on it and more people started

901
00:51:37,384 --> 00:51:39,951
to see this light moving
through the trees,

902
00:51:39,953 --> 00:51:41,786
and we were trying to
figure out where it was

903
00:51:41,788 --> 00:51:43,920
emanating from, where it was
coming from, if maybe there was

904
00:51:43,922 --> 00:51:46,523
somebody over there in the
woods with us that night.

905
00:51:46,525 --> 00:51:48,726
As it got a little bit closer,

906
00:51:48,728 --> 00:51:52,630
you could see, if you've seen
the lava lamps of the 70s,

907
00:51:52,632 --> 00:51:57,567
it has this pulsating light
change going on inside of this

908
00:51:57,569 --> 00:51:59,536
spherical object.

909
00:51:59,538 --> 00:52:02,072
I know for a fact it
was within 60 feet of us

910
00:52:02,074 --> 00:52:03,907
when the next thing happened.

911
00:52:03,909 --> 00:52:06,076
Well, I didn't see Eric
and he couldn't see me.

912
00:52:06,078 --> 00:52:09,045
Well, he has a 500
lumen flashlight.

913
00:52:09,047 --> 00:52:11,648
He lit it up with a flashlight.

914
00:52:11,650 --> 00:52:15,018
This window opened up
in this black darkness.

915
00:52:15,020 --> 00:52:17,688
It was a translucent, silvery,

916
00:52:17,690 --> 00:52:20,991
almost like it was light
projecting out of it.

917
00:52:20,993 --> 00:52:23,661
This thing went in,
this window shut,

918
00:52:23,663 --> 00:52:26,630
and then we're standing there
in total darkness again.

919
00:52:26,632 --> 00:52:28,166
I have no idea
where it came from.

920
00:52:28,168 --> 00:52:29,866
I started talking to
other people about it,

921
00:52:29,868 --> 00:52:31,936
seeing if they had seen it,
other people researched up

922
00:52:31,938 --> 00:52:34,938
in that area and little by
little, I began to hear people

923
00:52:34,940 --> 00:52:39,112
talking about seeing these
floating light in that area.

924
00:52:40,513 --> 00:52:42,480
Is there a simple
cause for the glowing orbs

925
00:52:42,482 --> 00:52:45,949
being detected in the
forests of Pennsylvania?

926
00:52:45,951 --> 00:52:47,784
Perhaps an atmospheric condition

927
00:52:47,786 --> 00:52:51,087
or weather-related
anomaly is to blame.

928
00:52:51,089 --> 00:52:53,023
Or is there something
more than natural

929
00:52:53,025 --> 00:52:55,995
generating light in
those dark places?

930
00:52:57,096 --> 00:52:59,230
What is it about the Ridge

931
00:52:59,232 --> 00:53:03,134
that seems to produce a
parade of the monsters?

932
00:53:03,136 --> 00:53:04,969
Do these creatures crawl
forth from the belly

933
00:53:04,971 --> 00:53:07,672
of the Ridge itself?

934
00:53:07,674 --> 00:53:11,108
And what about the strange
lights that appear in its skies?

935
00:53:11,110 --> 00:53:13,543
Are they terrestrial in origin,

936
00:53:13,545 --> 00:53:17,748
somehow generated by
the great earthen mound?

937
00:53:17,750 --> 00:53:20,717
Do we even know the
right questions to ask

938
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,623
about this window
into the unknown?

939
00:53:24,690 --> 00:53:27,558
In this region,
mysteries tend to layer

940
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,563
one on top of the other.

941
00:53:30,929 --> 00:53:34,130
People, they sort of
make the connection between

942
00:53:34,132 --> 00:53:37,770
Bigfoot or UFO or UFO
along with Bigfoot.

943
00:53:39,873 --> 00:53:44,708
I am no expert by any means, I
think there are power sources

944
00:53:44,710 --> 00:53:48,512
in the area and I think
there might be a link to

945
00:53:48,514 --> 00:53:51,782
power sources having
something to do with this.

946
00:53:51,784 --> 00:53:53,918
I know, if you
look on the internet,

947
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,054
after that I started looking
on the internet what I seen.

948
00:53:57,056 --> 00:53:59,891
There's a lot of stuff that
goes up on the Chestnut Ridge.

949
00:53:59,893 --> 00:54:01,092
Is it strange?

950
00:54:01,094 --> 00:54:04,027
Probably it's everywhere,
they just don't pay attention.

951
00:54:04,029 --> 00:54:05,563
But density of forest?

952
00:54:05,565 --> 00:54:07,063
I'm not sure.

953
00:54:07,065 --> 00:54:10,300
I don't know why this
area seems to attract

954
00:54:10,302 --> 00:54:13,070
the phenomenon, I really
don't, but it seems to be

955
00:54:13,072 --> 00:54:15,572
concentrated in the
state in this area.

956
00:54:15,574 --> 00:54:18,675
It seems like the mountain
areas around here and the West

957
00:54:18,677 --> 00:54:22,779
Virginia area have a lot of
strange things happening.

958
00:54:22,781 --> 00:54:26,951
Over the years, we saw
certain patterns emerging,

959
00:54:26,953 --> 00:54:28,920
and we thought, gee, we're
getting close to some answers,

960
00:54:28,922 --> 00:54:30,755
then another case would show
up that would completely

961
00:54:30,757 --> 00:54:33,190
dismiss your thoughts
and theories.

962
00:54:33,192 --> 00:54:36,293
And you're always hopeful
that you're gonna finally come

963
00:54:36,295 --> 00:54:40,230
to a conclusion, but the more
I receive reports, even the

964
00:54:40,232 --> 00:54:43,134
last few years, some of the
cryptid reports we're getting

965
00:54:43,136 --> 00:54:45,235
are so strange and so unusual.

966
00:54:45,237 --> 00:54:49,139
They're not even close to the
normal Bigfoot or Thunderbirds

967
00:54:49,141 --> 00:54:52,809
or Panthers and other anomalies
we get reports on, so,

968
00:54:52,811 --> 00:54:54,344
there's a lot more
out there going on

969
00:54:54,346 --> 00:54:56,212
than any of us have
any answers for,

970
00:54:56,214 --> 00:54:59,583
and I think we're dealing with
something very strange and

971
00:54:59,585 --> 00:55:03,689
unusual and right now beyond
our scientific understanding.

972
00:55:09,194 --> 00:55:11,628
Some who have
encountered the inexplicable

973
00:55:11,630 --> 00:55:13,197
along the Chestnut Ridge

974
00:55:13,199 --> 00:55:15,833
have been able to go
on with their lives.

975
00:55:15,835 --> 00:55:18,001
The occurrence becomes
an intriguing footnote

976
00:55:18,003 --> 00:55:21,672
in their personal
history, nothing more.

977
00:55:21,674 --> 00:55:24,775
But for others, the
experience has a profound

978
00:55:24,777 --> 00:55:28,079
and lasting effect,
shifting their world view,

979
00:55:28,081 --> 00:55:31,248
changing their thoughts
about what is possible,

980
00:55:31,250 --> 00:55:32,152
what is real.

981
00:55:33,786 --> 00:55:36,052
Like Sam Sherry, they become
obsessed with having just

982
00:55:36,054 --> 00:55:39,889
one more encounter to justify
what they've been through.

983
00:55:39,891 --> 00:55:42,927
To prove it to the skeptics
and maybe to themselves

984
00:55:42,929 --> 00:55:46,230
that they're not
losing grip on reality.

985
00:55:46,232 --> 00:55:47,998
Or like Barry Clark,

986
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,335
they would rather not know
what happened to them.

987
00:55:51,337 --> 00:55:54,739
They'd prefer not to remember,

988
00:55:54,741 --> 00:55:55,909
but to forget.

989
00:55:58,011 --> 00:56:01,645
And maybe if I went
and had regression,

990
00:56:01,647 --> 00:56:04,382
maybe I would
understand more, but,

991
00:56:04,384 --> 00:56:05,918
like I said now,

992
00:56:07,286 --> 00:56:11,221
I don't know if I
wanna know any details.

993
00:56:11,223 --> 00:56:14,160
I know what's
happened, happened,

994
00:56:15,293 --> 00:56:19,195
and I've had some physical
stuff left behind,

995
00:56:19,197 --> 00:56:20,331
but do I really wanna know?

996
00:56:20,333 --> 00:56:24,838
If I did do that, would it
be worse than not knowing?

997
00:56:26,438 --> 00:56:27,907
It's kind of...

998
00:56:28,975 --> 00:56:30,344
Kind of a Catch-22.

999
00:56:31,978 --> 00:56:34,110
Today, the
village Kecksburg has embraced

1000
00:56:34,112 --> 00:56:38,315
its enigmatic past, hosting
a UFO festival each summer,

1001
00:56:38,317 --> 00:56:41,351
that has attracted
thousands of visitors.

1002
00:56:41,353 --> 00:56:43,219
Families bring children
to play in the shadow

1003
00:56:43,221 --> 00:56:46,123
of the UFO replica,
once used in the filming

1004
00:56:46,125 --> 00:56:49,393
of a TV program about the crash.

1005
00:56:49,395 --> 00:56:52,797
Locals are somewhat used
to camera crews in town,

1006
00:56:52,799 --> 00:56:57,268
as media interest in the
incident never wanes for long.

1007
00:56:57,270 --> 00:56:59,704
The people of this community
have done their best

1008
00:56:59,706 --> 00:57:03,243
to turn the events of
1965 into a positive.

1009
00:57:05,310 --> 00:57:08,212
Once again, I started this
when I was 10-years-old in 1959

1010
00:57:08,214 --> 00:57:10,480
so this year is gonna
be 58 years of research.

1011
00:57:10,482 --> 00:57:12,148
Why do this?

1012
00:57:12,150 --> 00:57:14,851
Well, I guess it's just the
fact that I'm continuing

1013
00:57:14,853 --> 00:57:17,221
to be curious, I'm still
learning more and more

1014
00:57:17,223 --> 00:57:19,924
about the phenomena out
there, I've learned that

1015
00:57:19,926 --> 00:57:23,126
this is a very strange world,
and there's a lot of ongoing

1016
00:57:23,128 --> 00:57:26,262
things out there that we
have yet to understand.

1017
00:57:26,264 --> 00:57:28,364
And I guess I'm always hopeful
that that next phone call

1018
00:57:28,366 --> 00:57:30,867
that might come in on my
hotline or the next email I get

1019
00:57:30,869 --> 00:57:33,304
might be the case
that, once and for all,

1020
00:57:33,306 --> 00:57:35,473
gives us the evidence
that will prove

1021
00:57:35,475 --> 00:57:39,846
that at least one of these
phenomena really do exist.

1022
00:57:46,886 --> 00:57:50,087
But countless
questions remain.

1023
00:57:50,089 --> 00:57:52,155
What fell near Kecksburg,

1024
00:57:52,157 --> 00:57:56,427
and what does the United States
government know about it?

1025
00:57:56,429 --> 00:57:59,929
What was unleashed on
this region in 1973,

1026
00:57:59,931 --> 00:58:02,201
and did it ever really stop?

1027
00:58:03,335 --> 00:58:06,302
How do we talk about phenomena
that are continuously

1028
00:58:06,304 --> 00:58:09,208
shifting, always
just out of reach?

1029
00:58:10,909 --> 00:58:12,876
How do we describe
the apparition,

1030
00:58:12,878 --> 00:58:16,447
already disappearing
in the mist?

1031
00:58:16,449 --> 00:58:19,449
It seems that the rolling
slopes of the hills,

1032
00:58:19,451 --> 00:58:22,887
the silent presence of
the Chestnut Ridge itself,

1033
00:58:22,889 --> 00:58:25,523
is the only thing permanent.

1034
00:58:25,525 --> 00:58:29,463
That, and the persistence
of human curiosity.

1035
00:58:58,025 --> 00:59:03,025