Terror in the Woods (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Hunted by Bigfoot - full transcript

Usually, I have no fear
whatsoever of the outdoors.

There is something in the swamp,

Staring at me.

It was extreme fear and doubt,

And I'm in trouble.

- David!
- Get in the car!

What's going on?

I got to get out of there.

My name is david t. Leidy.

My wife and I
really enjoy camping.

Ever since we met,
we had always gone camping.



We like to stay at state parks,

National parks,
generally quiet places.

We decided we would check out

The outer banks
of north carolina.

We had never been there.

It was unusually
warm weather that year,

And so we decided we wanted
to take advantage and go south,

So that it would be warm for us.

We picked late October time.

It was a little quieter.
Kids were back at school,

And a lot of people weren't
vacationing at that time,

And we liked that.

The interstate highways are
sort of bypassing everything,

And once you get
off of the highway



Onto the little local roads,

You get more of a feel
of the communities.

Honey, just turn over here.

So we got off of the main road,

And we headed south
toward pettigrew state park.

It was getting
darker and darker.

You know, the whole place
had a creepy, creepy feeling.

We went by this one house,

And there were these people
standing out in their yard.

And they all turned
and looked at us go by

With our truck and our camper.

I just didn't get
a good feeling.

Like,

First of all,
why were they out there,

Standing in the dark, and then
why they were looking at us,

Like, "where in the world
are they going?"

It's kind of creepy
around here.

Don't you think?

Yeah.

The drive to the state park
from creswell

Was pretty dark.

It got very creepy.

When we got to pettigrew,
it was completely open.

There were no trees
around the campsites.

This is it?

It's a swamp.

The reality was we were
going to be camping

In the middle of a swamp,

So I had a little bit
of trepidation about it.

Who's this now?

The ranger pulled over.

He looked worried.

What you up to?

We were planning on
spending the night here.

The park ranger said,
"that's a nice park."

And he thought about it for
a second, and he quickly said...

Yeah. I'm heading home,
but I'll be back in the morning.

And when he said that,

We thought, "why is he leaving?"

I just didn't want
to stay there.

We were tired. It's dark,

And we just wanted
to get out of there

And find a safe place to stay.

We drove away from pettigrew,
and my wife and I

Looked at each other and said,
"well, that was weird.

I think we made
the right decision."

We needed to find
a decent-sized town

So that we could stay the night

In a shopping-center
parking lot.

The only thing we could find
was a decent-sized town

In the middle of roanoke island.

Found somewhere?

Yeah, but it's
two hours from here.

It's not like
we have a choice.

- You know, I remember roanoke.
- Yeah?

Roanoke was the site
of the lost colony.

The first settlers to land
in the new world from England,

They set up a colony
on roanoke island

And were there roughly a year.

And when the next boat

Came to supply the town

That they had established,
they found no one.

I think we just
hit something.

You want to take a look?

I really didn't want to stop

And investigate it
in this place.

I felt this was
a little too...Remote

For me to get out of the truck.

What if we hit something,
and it's lying there injured?

Okay. I'll go see.

I pulled over

And stopped the truck.

The area where we are
seems very desolate,

Has a very lonely
feeling about it.

On my way out the door,
I thought about it

And grabbed the.357.

If anything else was out there,

I wanted to be able
to protect myself.

I walk along the driver's side
of the vehicle.

I check the truck.
I check the tires.

I check the hitch area.

I check the trailer,
and I walk around to the back.

I heard his footsteps
on the gravel on the road,

And as he got further away
from the truck,

The footsteps got
softer and softer,

And then his footsteps stopped.

Damn it.

I'm staring at the taillight,

And the hair on the back
of my neck stands straight out,

And all the insect noises stop.

Been in the wood enough
to know what that meant.

Usually, I have no fear
whatsoever of the outdoors.

In that instant, I think

There is something in the swamp

Staring at me.

I slowly turn
to see if I can spot it,

And I see nothing.

I don't hear anything
for maybe a minute.

I didn't see any movement
outside the windows.

It was just still.

And I don't see anything.

And then I listen,

And I start to hear
scrabbling noises

Coming from my left.

The animal is about
20 yards away.

It was dog-like, wolf-like.

This was a large animal,
about 4 feet tall...

...Large, forward-facing ears
like a german shepherd.

There seemed to be
tufts of hair sticking up

From the tops of the ears

And yellow, glowing eyes.

When I looked into
this animal's eyes,

I saw the look of a hunter.

It was not the look of the dogs
that I had trained in the past.

It was the look
of a predator hunting.

And as I looked at him...

...He did something

That was so alien
and so strange

That it haunts me to this day.

And I hear two distinct
popping sounds.

He pushes off the rock
with his front feet.

And he settles in on two legs.

I was shocked.

Now this dog-like,
wolf-like creature

Is standing on two legs.
It's now taller

Than any dog
that I had come in contact with.

I really got a good look
at him at that point.

He was at least 7 feet tall.

He was very muscular
from the waist up.

There was a dark fur or hair,

Like a mane
around his shoulders,

And his paws weren't paws.

They were more like hands with
claws sticking out of the end.

Lower half was a bit skinnier,
and I couldn't see his feet,

But it looked like
there was a short tail.

And it took a step forward

And made a low, growling noise.

Then he showed his teeth.

I can still see that.

They were glinting
in the moonlight.

I can see it.
I can still see it.

After the growl,
I saw another one.

And I looked at him for no more
than two or three seconds

And turned back,

And the first animal had moved
10 yards in my direction.

It strikes him in the shoulder.

And he didn't react

Like I thought a.357 shot
would have done to anything.

And he looked at me
just like I punched him.

I thought,
"I just made him mad."

I heard the loudest gun
going off.

I panicked. I was very scared.

And I was hoping
that he'd come back,

And I'm waiting.

At that moment,

It was extreme fear and doubt.

I couldn't believe

That he absorbed that round.

I don't think another shot's
going to help

Unless I get him in the head.

I don't think I was going to be
able to damage this guy.

And I'm in trouble.

I don't think I was going to be
able to damage this guy.

I got to get out of there.

David!

Then I heard him
running through the gravel

Towards the car door.

Get in the car!
Get in the car!

What's -- what's going on?

He put it in gear and said,
"let's get out of here."

She just stared at me
wide-eyed and said nothing.

She was shocked.
I could tell she was in shock.

In the six years
I'd known david,

I had never seen him
in that state.

He was shaking.

I had never felt that scared
before in my life.

I could feel my heart
beating in my chest.

I felt scared.

I felt scared
because he was so upset,

And I still didn't know
what had happened.

I didn't say anything.

I mean, I know lisa
was staring at me.

She was looking at me, like,
you know, I didn't say anything.

I probably didn't say anything

Till we got all the way
on to roanoke.

As we approached civilization,

I could see he was calming down,

And I knew he was
about ready to tell me.

I decided that I wasn't going
to tell her everything.

He said,
"I don't know what it was,"

And I said,
"well, what did it look like?"

He said, "well, it kind of
looked like a wolf."

I didn't want to tell her
exactly what I had seen,

Because I think,
if I told her that,

It would scare her
beyond anything

That she could think of.

But we got our act together and
decided to go into the market

And get a few things.

There's this truck
in the parking lot,

And this guy in there
is just staring at me.

He had this menacing
look on his face,

Like he was ready to kill him.

And I thought, "I don't know
what this is about."

And dave said,
"who the heck is that?

I never saw this guy before."

You want to take that?

I'm just going to go
and talk to him.

How you doing, there?

Hey.
Can I help you?

And he immediately
started apologizing

And said, "I am so sorry.

I thought you were
a friend of mine.

You look exactly like
a friend of mine,

And I just thought I was
giving him a hard time.

I'm really sorry."

I said, "that's all right.
Happens all the time."

That's okay. You had a pretty
scary look on you, though.

As he was telling me that,
I'm looking in his truck,

And I notice there were
two rifles behind him

In a rack on the window.

So, you ever do
any hunting around here?

And he looked at me,
and he said, "yeah."

And I said, "you do
any hunting in the swamp?"

He didn't answer me.
He just stared at me. I said...

See anything strange
in the woods?

He stopped.

I -- if he could've
dropped his jaw, he would have.

He looked at me, and he...

And then he looked down,
and he looked back up.

He said, "you know,

I thought I was the only one."

A couple years back,

I did see something weird
out in the swamp.

First I thought
it was a wolf.

"but it did something strange.
It stood up."

I've never seen anything
do that before.

I was thinking,
"I'm not crazy.

It wasn't just me."

Have a good night.

He didn't tell me
until after we got home

Because he didn't want
to spoil the trip for me.

I was shocked.

- What was that all about?
- Go.

What was that all about?

But on the other hand,

It sort of made more sense

About the whole
creepiness of the place

And that lost colony
on roanoke island.

And I thought, "maybe that's
what happened to that colony."

I think there's things
out there, and I think,

If you get a creepy
feel about a place,

You know, especially
if you're camping,

But, like, if you're hiking
or just anywhere

Where you just get
a creepy feeling,

I think you should listen
to your instincts

And get the heck out of there.

There may be creatures that
we don't know about out there

That can do us harm.

Someone joked like,

"it's, like, straight out
of 'texas chainsaw massacre.'"

No one wanted to admit
something's not right here.

What is that?

I'm used to hearing animals.

That's like nothing I've ever
heard before in my life.

I grew up in a small-town,

Conservative, christian family.

I grew up in
an assemblies of god church.

I still remain a christian
to this day,

And so it's always played
a big part in my life.

I got to school
in August of 2006.

Hey.
What's going on guys?

- Hey, man.
- Hey.

I had found a pretty
tight-knit group,

My now brother-in-law, joey,

Our friend jordan brelow,
and another friend named rob.

These guys are, you know,
still my best friends right now.

Our friend chris, the r.A.,
he came to us and said,

"hey, you guys should go do
this geocaching thing."

It's kind of of like
online treasure hunting,

Is the way that
I describe it to people.

There was this website
you would go to.

There would be coordinates
for some sort of hidden item

Somewhere in a given area.

Like, there will be
a film canister hidden.

The idea is something's
in the bottle,

And it's something stupid

Like a buffalo nickel
or whatever, you know.

And you take that thing out,
and then you put something back

In that canister,
and you hide it.

And then, you know, you go back
on the website and say,

"davey shepherd found this."

We had to get out and go
do something, and we thought,

"yeah. That sounds like
a pretty good time."

Chris said it's in
pickering dam park.

It was super easy to find.

He gave us two pieces of advice.

He said, "if you can't hear
the creek anymore,

You've gone too far."

And then he said, "it's hidden
in a rock outcropping."

It's got to be around here
somewhere, boys,

In one of these rocks.

So all of us
plow into the woods,

And we start down this trail,

And every pile of rocks,
every rock, every cliff,

Every whatever,
we're looking through

'cause we don't really know.

Come on, guys.
Let's get hunting.

We walk back this little trail
maybe 10 or so yards,

And there's this wooden bridge.

And it's really small,
just wooden planks,

And you walk over this
to the trail.

On my left is the creek,
and then the right,

There's, like, some cliff-y
type areas in that.

So, we're kind of just scouring,
and we're walking,

And we're walking,
and we're walking,

And we can't see anything.

Hey, guys.
Is this it?

Shh. Shh. Shh.

The one thing that was constant

Was that you could
hear the creek.

You know, it's pretty
fast-moving water.

You can kind of hear that water
running next to you.

I was just checking.
I can hear the creek.

So, we're kind of walking
further back,

And you're thinking,
"man, we're kind of getting

Deeper in the woods here."

Man, we're going kind of deep
in these woods, though, davey.

Do you see how dark
it is out right now?

Come on, jordan.

We're here now, and we're
already breaking a few rules,

So let's just keep going.

You're not supposed to be
at the park at night.

Again, that kind of raised
the, like, risk level for us.

You sure this ain't some kind
of wild goose chase, man?

People are getting
a little annoyed,

And, you know,
losing interest quickly.

Listen, everyone.

I can't hear anything.

I can't hear
the creek anymore.

Someone finally says,
"hey, man.

Like, I can't hear
the creek anymore."

And everybody is quiet,
and we think, "yeah, no.

No, I can't hear
the creek anymore,

So I think we've gone too far."

Don't you think
we should turn back?

Let's just give it
a little longer.

The canister will be
around here somewhere.

Hey. Let's check that pile
of rocks over there.

- Come on.
- Fine, but 10 minutes

And I'm out of here, man.

For whatever reason,
there was another pile of rocks

Just a little bit further ahead,

And I think it was me who said,

"well, why don't we just look
in that last pile of rocks?"

As we started walking
up this hill,

We came to, like, a clearing,
a small circle.

The whole trail had been kind
of, like, packed dirt and mulch.

This area, it, like,
seemed like the dirt was,

Like, freshly turned,
which is just weird.

What's the story
with the weird fence?

There was this fence
kind of waist-high

Going around this circle.

And it, like, was, like,
this twisted metal chain,

Not like chain link.

Like, it almost looked
like bike chains

Or something twisted together

To make this
weird-looking fence.

Someone joked like, "man,
that fence, like, is, like,

Straight out
of 'texas chainsaw massacre.'"

You know, it was just
very unsettling.

Hey, guys. You better come
have a look at these.

There was, like,
some weird symbols...

...No symbol
I've ever recognized...

...But were clearly
purposefully put there

As a signifier of something.

What are they?

No one wanted to admit, like,
"something's not right here,"

Or, like, "hey, I'm a little bit
worried about this."

We're kind of off
from the group.

My buddy john, he says,
"did you hear that?"

And I thought, "yeah.
It's kind of weird."

What is that?

I don't know.

The sound, to me, sounded like
this grunt or this growl.

To me, it sounded like something
far away that was making a noise

Saying, to something, like,
"hey, I'm here."

What the heck was that?

Whatever it is,
it sounds angry.

And then, within seconds,
this thing that you heard

And you thought was a mile
or whatever off,

Is now 10, 15 feet
away from you.

Something doesn't
want us here!

What is that?

It was so loud,
and it was high-pitched screams

And, like, low, moaning groans
at the same time.

It's not just one noise
coming from one area.

It's coming from a 360-degree
circle around us.

So, is it 100 animals?
Is it --

I don't know what it is,
but either way,

It's terrifying.

I'm used to hearing animals
in the woods and stuff,

And that's like nothing I've
ever heard before in my life.

Is it an animal, bear?

I've never heard anything
like that before.

Man, something
doesn't want us here.

What is that?

- Get out of here!
- Go!

- Let's get out of here!
- Run, man!

At this point, everyone
just takes off running.

There's no pretense left now.
Like, everybody's gone.

- Run! Run!
- Where the hell are we going?

Everybody ran and sprinted
for three or four solid minutes,

I mean, you know, dead sprint
as fast as you could go.

I kind of slow up,
'cause I realize, you know,

I came here
with like four other people,

And none of them are
with me right now.

Joey!

Rob!

Jordan!

Joey!

Rob! Jordan!

Where are you guys?

- Davey!
- Davey!

I kind of stop to look around,

And a few of the guys
are pretty close to me.

Davey, where are you, man?

I'm here!

Davey!

Is it still out there?

At this point, everyone's
pretty much freaking out.

You know, what could that
have possibly been?

What a strange experience,

And we're kind of
talking through it.

- It's got to be chris.
- It has to be him.

Everybody's saying, "you know
what? Man, we're idiots.

It had to be our friend
chris, the r.A."

Like, that's what
it had to have been.

Like, he set us up.

You know what?

I'm going to call him.

I bet we'll hear his cell
in the woods.

And the first thing we do
is we call the r.A., chris,

And we say, "just, like,
tell us it was you."

Hey, chris?
It's davey.

Just, like -- just, like,
tell us it was you, man.

And he says, "well, what
are you talking about?"

And I'm like, "chris,
just tell us it was you, man.

Like, you know,
we were in the park."

And he says,
"I'm at a restaurant, guys.

Like, I don't know
what you're talking about."

Chris is in a restaurant.

I could hear it
in the background.

It's just a prank, man, and all
of y'all are falling for it.

There's no way he could
organize all this.

That's it.
I'm out of here!

There's something
evil here, man.

Everybody's freaking out.

If it was somebody
playing a prank on us,

Then they brought, like,
studio-level recording equipment

Into this park
without anybody seeing it,

And it was the loudest thing
I've ever experienced.

We all start walking back.

There it is.

I can hear the creek.

Come on.

Davey?

Davey!

Guys, come back!

At that time, one
of the guys who was at the back,

He says to me,

"hey, davey, will you bring
back the flashlight?"

- Come back, davey!
- What is it?

- What's wrong?
- My torch won't light up, man.

As soon as I hand him
the flashlight,

There was this, like,
circle of noise around us.

The sound was, like, immediately
just right back behind us.

- Where is it?
- I don't know, man!

At that point,
you're just terrified

Because you're being
physically threatened.

Where is it?

It's coming from everywhere,
man! I don't know!

There was two sounds
coming from whatever at once.

It's getting in my eyes!

The sounds that were coming out,
whatever it was,

I mean, it, like,
it physically shook you.

It was so loud.

It was this force, like,
trying to remove us.

It felt like a wind
pushing you out.

Run!

We're dead sprinting,
and we're running,

And we're running,
and we're running.

- Davey!
- Jordan?

This time, though,
it wasn't just this noise

That we escaped from.

It was, like, following us.

Go! Go!

It's right behind us!

You could feel -- like,
you could feel and hear sticks,

Like, not on the trail --

On either side of you
on the trail breaking,

Limbs breaking, these cracks
and pops and stuff like that.

This thing, it's chasing you,

Whatever it was.

We had already ran, you
know, four minutes or whatever.

We run another four minutes.

We cross the bridge
across the creek.

You guys still see it?

- Is it gone?
- What the hell was that?

What is happening right now?

I've helped with concerts,

Heard, like,
a lot of loud noises,

And this, to this day,
is, by far,

The loudest thing
that I have ever experienced.

I mean, like,
it physically shook you.

No one saw anything.

There wasn't anything there.

There was no physical thing
that was there.

We had four pretty good
flashlights, and...

There was not -- there was
nothing physical there.

I am extremely
confident of that.

- Come on. Let's get out of here!
- Let's go!

We hop in the car,
and we fling back to campus.

Let's go!

Davey, come on, man!

We go back to campus.

You move on.

It was just this weird thing
that happened to everybody.

I did go back to the park.

It was just spring,
and it was a nice day,

And, I mean,
I was driving that way.

And I thought, "well, whatever.
Let's just go back there."

- What's the hurry?
- What?

You know about this place,
never heard any of the stories?

No, I haven't, but something
really weird happened to me

And some buddies here
a while back,

And we just got
the hell out of here.

That happened to you
up here in these woods?

Yes, sir.

I don't think I'd be
coming back here.

I told them, you know,
the story, and they were like,

"man, that's, like,
a crazy story."

And they said,
"there's a demonic cult

That is apparently,
like, holding sessions there."

And I was just like,
"well, that is so weird.

That's, like, a very
unsettling thing."

And they were like,
"just don't go there at night."

Yeah. I figured
I ought to come back

And see
what I could find out.

Don't suppose you fellas
want to join me?

No. Sorry, man.
Good luck.

That kind of raised
the, like, risk level.

Made me even more interested.

I thought,
"let's walk back there

And figure out what it was."

I get near the end of the trail,

And I'm kind of like, "yeah.
Like, this is it."

Get up to this clearing, and...

It looks very much the same.

This weird metal fence
is still there.

There was, like,
some weird symbols.

That's pretty --
that's just strange.

I will never know if there was
actually a satanic cult

That met there or not,

But I do know the experience
that I had there.

And when you hear that,

"this thing has
been happening there,"

In addition to the freaked-out
story that I had,

I mean, it kind of just
gives you the heebie-jeebies.

I had clearly attached demonic
to that experience

That I had had.

It was unlike anything
I had ever experienced.

Yeah. I was terrified.

It was the most scared
I've ever been in my whole life.