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Speaker 2: Let's go to our guest, Jeremiah Horseman. He was telling us, Jeremiah,
Speaker 2: you were right in the middle of the climax part
Speaker 2: where I think it was your mom telling us the
Speaker 2: story of setting you and your brothers and sister down
Speaker 2: to see what was going on, what was happening to
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, we sat down for the second time to discuss
Speaker 3: what was running by the windows at night. This time
Speaker 3: was a little different. She seemed she had a little
Speaker 3: bit more of a serious look on her face, and
Speaker 3: she said, you know, I tried to let the dogs
Speaker 3: out and they wouldn't go out. And she said, there
Speaker 3: was a smell in the air, is a very heavy
Speaker 3: smell of a sulfurous maybe a trash smell or rotting smell.
Speaker 3: And I think something else is going on here, because
Speaker 3: right before I tried to let the dogs out this
Speaker 3: time and seeing this shadow running past the windows, she said,
Speaker 3: whatever it was was making a noise. And I remember,
Speaker 3: look at, you know, my brother, like, what is she
Speaker 3: getting at? What is she talking about? And she said
Speaker 3: the noise was like a grumbling sound. It was something
Speaker 3: that was irritated. It was upset because the dogs were
Speaker 3: barking and growling and snarling. She said it was making
Speaker 3: this grumbling sound as it ran, and she said I
Speaker 3: could actually hear this time individual footfalls. It was something
Speaker 3: really big, really heavy, and she was very certain it
Speaker 3: was Bi beetle. And so again my brother and I
Speaker 3: were looking at each other, like, what is she talking about.
Speaker 3: She said, I'm really worried that we have a very
Speaker 3: large prowler and that there might be somebody that's mentally ill.
Speaker 3: So I want you boys to be on the extra alert.
Speaker 3: And she reminded us again when she's not there, I
Speaker 3: don't answer the door for strangers and so on. We're
Speaker 3: both thirteen years old, so we're thinking, oh, oh, well,
Speaker 3: you know, we're not worried about somebody coming to the door.
Speaker 3: We know what to do. So fast forward maybe a
Speaker 3: week or so, and I had a chiropractor appointment. And
Speaker 3: as I'm waiting for my chiropractory, there was a magazine
Speaker 3: it may have been the Pittsburgh magazine, I can't remember
Speaker 3: which now, and the feature article was about Stan Gordon's
Speaker 3: group PASU, the Pennsylvania Association for the Study of the unexplained,
Speaker 3: and I flipped to that page where the story started
Speaker 3: and read an incredible story about the Textburgh UFO crash,
Speaker 3: which I had never even heard of, and I lived
Speaker 3: a short distance from Textburgh, Pennsylvania, and how it inspired
Speaker 3: Stan Gordon to start his organization. In it, it talked
Speaker 3: about his investigators looking into things such as poultergeist activity,
Speaker 3: UFO sightings, UFO abductions, and big foot sightings, and it
Speaker 3: stressed that there were a lot of bigfoot reports that year.
Speaker 3: And then it went into describing the signs that people
Speaker 3: had bigfoot in their area, and my heart started to
Speaker 3: beat really rapidly, because as I was reading, the article
Speaker 3: was describing more or less the same things that my
Speaker 3: mother just described, the strange sounds at night, It was
Speaker 3: describing the kind of Q tree smell that comes with
Speaker 3: these creatures. And then it had I think they set
Speaker 3: up a one eight hundred number that you could call,
Speaker 3: and so I remember, after reading the article, I was
Speaker 3: thinking myself, I wonder if that's what's going through our yard,
Speaker 3: that's actually pretty frightening. And so I went home and
Speaker 3: I wrote down the number and without even consulting with
Speaker 3: my mother or telling my brother, but I went ahead
Speaker 3: and called the group of Stan Gordon's this PASU, and
Speaker 3: I talked to one of the people what PSU. I
Speaker 3: described to them what my mother had been experiencing to
Speaker 3: describe the smell, and they said they would have one
Speaker 3: of their investigators called back, and in a short period
Speaker 3: later they did have an investigator of theirs who called back,
Speaker 3: a man named John, and he wanted me to redescribe
Speaker 3: what my mother had experienced. He asked if she was
Speaker 3: there if he could talk to her, and I said no,
Speaker 3: she's at work right now. She works at the state hospital.
Speaker 3: She's a psyche nurse. He said, okay. He mentioned a weekend.
Speaker 3: They said, you boys are probably in school now, and
Speaker 3: I'd like to catch you obviously when you're home. So
Speaker 3: I have somebody to show me around, and I just
Speaker 3: want us to show up on property. He said, be
Speaker 3: certain to have your mother call me so she knows
Speaker 3: what's going on. Well I didn't. I didn't bother mentioning
Speaker 3: her till virtually the last minute that these strangers are coming.
Speaker 3: And she was a bit upset with me. She said,
Speaker 3: who is coming? I described to her the article that
Speaker 3: I read described to her how they virtually had every
Speaker 3: detail of what she was describing that making like gurgling sounds,
Speaker 3: screeching sounds. That's a bad smell then, So she was
Speaker 3: a bit upset with me at first for calling these guys,
Speaker 3: but I think within hours of them showing up, she
Speaker 3: realized these are stoutch professionals. They were really incredible guys.
Speaker 3: The group that Stan had, they had had mostly professors.
Speaker 3: Some of them were high school professors and some of
Speaker 3: them were college professors, chemists and engineers and so on.
Speaker 3: And the two guys that they sent were both also
Speaker 3: experiencers themselves. John and Devin were the first two guys
Speaker 3: I met. I remember Devin was a huge man. He
Speaker 3: was like six or five with a big red beard.
Speaker 3: And they asked me to show them where this being
Speaker 3: or whatever was leaving the shadow up against the house
Speaker 3: who had been running. So I took them there, and
Speaker 3: I remember they paid particular attention to the fact that
Speaker 3: we had a huge mature apple orchard to the rear
Speaker 3: of the house on the north end of the property,
Speaker 3: and they kept mentioning, Oh, there's another apple tree, And
Speaker 3: I remember ask him what makes the apple trees a
Speaker 3: part of this and they said, well, what are the
Speaker 3: things that tends to attract these creatures? Or apples, especially
Speaker 3: very sweet apples, and you've got that here. They said.
Speaker 3: Another thing is you have this railroad that runs through
Speaker 3: the forest behind your house. They said, these creatures tend
Speaker 3: to use railroads to get from point A to point B.
Speaker 3: And they said, we noticed on the map before we
Speaker 3: got here a short distance of ways the shark Tears Creek.
Speaker 3: They also tend to be near to bodies of water,
Speaker 3: and you have all three of those here. The next
Speaker 3: thing they asked, they said, do you have any old
Speaker 3: mines or caves here? And I said, we sure, Dore's
Speaker 3: there's several coal mines nearby. There was the old henderson
Speaker 3: Ville coal mine patch just a short distance away, and
Speaker 3: so they seem to not. And I said, what's that?
Speaker 3: What does that have to do with it? And they
Speaker 3: said that's another thing that tends to be a quality
Speaker 3: in common with areas where big foot sightings are. And
Speaker 3: I went curiosity then peaked. I said, do you have
Speaker 3: other calls of other people having the same sort of
Speaker 3: thing going on here? And they both look at each
Speaker 3: other and they said, we do, but those are what
Speaker 3: we call silent case, which is when people don't want
Speaker 3: to be identified and they don't want their exact location
Speaker 3: to be divulged. I said, oh, that's fascinating, And so
Speaker 3: I'm picking their brains. I think I got to be
Speaker 3: annoying to them because they're trying to concentrate on searching
Speaker 3: the property for footprints and so on, and I'm assaulting
Speaker 3: them with questions about big foot slightings. And I remember
Speaker 3: we got to the absolute rear of the property, right
Speaker 3: before the belt of forest which the Chargers Valley Railroad
Speaker 3: cuts through, and I remember the big man Devin with
Speaker 3: the red beard, shouting out to John John Kamer and
Speaker 3: I started to walk over to and he put his
Speaker 3: hand up and with a very stern voice, he said,
Speaker 3: you stop. Stop. So I did, and he was pointing
Speaker 3: at the ground and whispering something and then they both
Speaker 3: looked at me, and John walked over and he said,
Speaker 3: now listen. He said, I'm not much for pranksters. He said,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't be pulling my chain if you and your
Speaker 3: brother were making anything up and leaving footprints about, would you?
Speaker 3: And I said no, why? He said, we just found
Speaker 3: a set of very deep footprints. At the edge of
Speaker 3: your garden going into the forest. And he said, we don't.
Speaker 3: We don't have time for pranksters. And he said, you
Speaker 3: mentioned that you love to watch movies, you love thrillers
Speaker 3: and so on, and he said, you wouldn't be pulling
Speaker 3: our chain, would you. I said, no, absolutely not. I said,
Speaker 3: in fact, this is this is my mother's bag. My
Speaker 3: mother is the one that saw these shadows. I haven't
Speaker 3: seen anything of them yet. He said all right, and
Speaker 3: they said, come here, I want to I want to
Speaker 3: show you something. So they walked me over to the
Speaker 3: forest belt, which was on the north end of the property,
Speaker 3: and sure enough, there was a set of very deep
Speaker 3: footprints from the edge of our garden into the forest.
Speaker 3: And I was shocked. It was something I hadn't seen before.
Speaker 3: I hadn't noticed that. And we spent a lot of
Speaker 3: time walking the railroad. We had our own little path
Speaker 3: that went down through that patch of forest into the railroad,
Speaker 3: and there's kids. That's where we spent a lot of
Speaker 3: our time. And just my mind was spinning. I had
Speaker 3: so many thoughts about what was going on. But they
Speaker 3: asked us if they could come back, and by this
Speaker 3: time my mother's down there looking at the footprints. She
Speaker 3: also is shocked because she was a tomboy growing up.
Speaker 3: She was always out in the forest. She was a hunter.
Speaker 3: She was always hunting, and so she thought she knew
Speaker 3: the Pennsylvania forest really well. She had seen some spooky
Speaker 3: things in her youth while hunting, but never anything like this,
Speaker 3: and so she said, sure, you can come back whenever
Speaker 3: you like. And he said, what we do. We call
Speaker 3: them steakouts, he said. John introduced himself as a master
Speaker 3: chess player. He went to all these different chess competitions.
Speaker 3: She said, I can sit still without moving for hours.
Speaker 3: He said, I'm going to find a place on your
Speaker 3: property where I can observe. He said, probably in the
Speaker 3: apple orchard or watching the apple orchard, and I'll place myself.
Speaker 3: And he said, I'm going to pick a position for
Speaker 3: my colleague Devon where we can just between the two
Speaker 3: of us triangulate the good view of this area where
Speaker 3: this creature had been running through. And I need to
Speaker 3: tell you too, I think there's more than one creature.
Speaker 3: And that made all of us, you know, we kind
Speaker 3: of took that. We're taken back by that, and our
Speaker 3: eyes weren't really wide and my mother said, what makes
Speaker 3: you think that? He said, the set of tracks we found,
Speaker 3: there's actually two different measurements, so that's indicative of two
Speaker 3: different creatures that have been passing through here. So I
Speaker 3: think there's at least two. And we were all just
Speaker 3: kind of speechless about that. So they came back, I
Speaker 3: think a week later, and John got up into a
Speaker 3: tree one of our apple trees. Said it was a
Speaker 3: very mature apple wortrod. And Devon was on the ground
Speaker 3: and they had voice activated headsets so they could talk
Speaker 3: to each other. And they asked if I would go
Speaker 3: out with them, and I said absolutely was I wasn't
Speaker 3: going to miss this. Devon was supposed to be mobile,
Speaker 3: and he said, I don't know this area so well.
Speaker 3: I need you to show me where things are. He said,
Speaker 3: if there's a fence that we might trip over a wire,
Speaker 3: I want to know where it's at. And he said generally,
Speaker 3: just needed to tell on you to be quiet. He said,
Speaker 3: if you can be quiet and do as you're told,
Speaker 3: I'll give you a flashlight. He said, do not turn
Speaker 3: it on unless I tell you to. I said that's fine.
Speaker 3: So this gets to be September late September of nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety one, and this particular September of nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 3: there had just been it was the twenty first, there
Speaker 3: had been a lot of thunderstorms, and it was extremely
Speaker 3: humid and muggy for September, and Pensum anutely cooling off
Speaker 3: by that time, but I remember it was very hot,
Speaker 3: and I remember the man in charge, John had asked
Speaker 3: me to take Devin down to the railroad tracks. They said,
Speaker 3: what I want you to do is just to be mobile,
Speaker 3: and I want you to go back and forth on
Speaker 3: these railroad tracks. And he said, if you hear anything,
Speaker 3: see anything smelly thing, report back to me. He said,
Speaker 3: otherwise I'll call you with further instructions. And these headsets
Speaker 3: were loud. At the time. I had good hearing. I
Speaker 3: could actually hear them talking each other over the headset.
Speaker 3: Now I couldn't hope to because with the reenacting hobby
Speaker 3: of gut tonight is so my hearing is very bad.
Speaker 3: But I remember as it got dark, we had gone
Speaker 3: back and forth a number of times, and I think
Speaker 3: Devin was getting agitated Nancy. They wanted to move up
Speaker 3: to where he believed the action would be and I
Speaker 3: remember he asked John if we could return to the property,
Speaker 3: and John said, no, I'd like you to stay down
Speaker 3: there and keep going back and forth. So we were
Speaker 3: coming back from the trestle with the Chartiers Creek under it,
Speaker 3: walking toward our property, and the trees that were in
Speaker 3: the forest belt with which the Chartiers Railroad goes through
Speaker 3: are so thick and they intertwine over the top. It
Speaker 3: makes more or less a tunnel or a canopy over
Speaker 3: that area. So even with any starlight or moonlight, it's
Speaker 3: pitch black, and this man wouldn't let me turn a
Speaker 3: flashlight on. So I'm stumbling over railroad ties. And at
Speaker 3: that time I'm hungry and tied, and I don't think
Speaker 3: anything's going to happen. I think I'm never going to
Speaker 3: see anything. And suddenly we heard movement to our upper left,
Speaker 3: which was on the same side as our property. We
Speaker 3: weren't quite behind our property yet, and the men put
Speaker 3: his hand out and stopped me from walking, and I
Speaker 3: started to ask him what is it, and he went
Speaker 3: sh He shook me, and I remember my heart started
Speaker 3: to race, and then suddenly there was a crash right
Speaker 3: in front of us, and a huge boulder who was
Speaker 3: thrown down on the railroad tracks in front of us,
Speaker 3: and there was just enough light that we could see
Speaker 3: that the boulder was very big and it had shattered.
Speaker 3: Part of it had hit the iron rails and it
Speaker 3: had shattered made this massive ringing sound, and then the
Speaker 3: dust from the boulder shattering was all around us. And
Speaker 3: then suddenly we could smell the smell, this really horrific, awful,
Speaker 3: sulfurious smell that almost smelted, like a rotting smell. As well.
Speaker 3: Once you smell you never forget that smell. And again
Speaker 3: my heart's raising, unfrightened, and I have no recollection of this.
Speaker 3: But the other man that was in charge, John, so
Speaker 3: he could actually hear me screaming over the headset, though
Speaker 3: I don't actually recall screaming out of fright I don't
Speaker 3: doubt that I did, but I actually don't remember screaming.
Speaker 3: Because several more boulders landed right in front of us.
Speaker 3: It was if something was telling us not to go
Speaker 3: any farther by throwing boulders in front of us. It
Speaker 3: was trying to scare us away. So we stood still.
Speaker 3: After I think the third boulder came down, and again
Speaker 3: part of that had hit the rails and shattered, and
Speaker 3: there was just dust around us, and Devon asked for
Speaker 3: permission from John to turn lights on, which John said yes.
Speaker 3: So we turned on our lights and we're looking around
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking to myself, this is incredible. There's something
Speaker 3: really powerful up there throwing boulders, and this is definitely
Speaker 3: something more strong than man to be able to heave
Speaker 3: these boulders, because you could also hear them crashing through
Speaker 3: the tree branches up above. Now, the ravine that we
Speaker 3: were in is very deep. They had to actually blast
Speaker 3: when they were making that railroad to get the grading
Speaker 3: level down to where it had to be. So there
Speaker 3: was a cliff more or less on both sides, and
Speaker 3: that cliff were these massive fits of rock and different
Speaker 3: types of rock, and that's where whatever this was with
Speaker 3: pulling these boulders out, and we were shining our lights.
Speaker 3: I remember up on the embankment and we could see
Speaker 3: where something had ripped out freshly rock and heave and
Speaker 3: down upon the railroattracks in front of us, but we
Speaker 3: couldn't see anything there. So after I don't know how
Speaker 3: much time had transpired, It seemed like forever to me
Speaker 3: at the time because I was so frightened and my
Speaker 3: adrenaline by this time was going that the man told
Speaker 3: me to turn off my flashlight, which I did, and
Speaker 3: he was standing very still, staring at that embankment. And
Speaker 3: then again I remember he grabbed my shoulder and said
Speaker 3: stay still, and he was looking up there, and I
Speaker 3: remember he said, John, I see two silhouettes. There's two
Speaker 3: of them. And I remember John saying over again, keep
Speaker 3: your eye on them. Are they moving? They said, no,
Speaker 3: they're staring at me.
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