Settle Down
Hunting Stories Lyrics

Settle down, now
Hold on till you are home again
I am broken now, but won't break in

So do your best to swing
Tear me down
And I will find my strength
In the tender hours

Be still and know

There's love, a song in your ear
Home is the ever clear beacon of

The home you're near
But in fear you run to the river's edge
And the sea begins

And the North wind settles for no one

But you, you lie, you steal, you take till you're whole
To try to fix the tear if your heart
But you won't fill the hole in your soul

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Written by: JOSE FIGUEROA SANCHEZ, RAFAEL ANTONIO SANCHEZ

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RuinedTemple

2y↑4

@Hugh Junit
Hey Hugh, fellow Oregonian here, but from up NW in the rural foothills just outside of the Mt Hood National Forest.
After listening to Donnie’s story, it reminded me of what some people have come to call Glimmer men.

Gemma Jade (she has her own YT channel) once witnessed one of them trying to lure her boy into the woods when he was little. She said that it made a sort of clicking sound… or maybe it was her boy that made the clicking sound because it was their way of making “the sound bugs make”. Either way, he started to wander further into the tree line as if in some kind of trance, not paying his mother any mind when she tried to call him back to her or tried to get him to tell her what he saw up in the trees. So, she went after him. When she drew close, she turned her gaze to a spot up in the tree that he seemed transfixed on, & there she saw an almost entirely transparent entity crouching on a limb above them. Gemma describes it like many others who’ve seen the same kind of entity; like how the air above a distant spot on a paved road looks on a very hot & sunny day, or as if it were a cutout of a figure that was made of Saran Wrap, some people say they can just see the visual difference or disturbance of the being’s outline when it moves.

David Paulides also featured the story of another woman (the wife of a well-known physicist, if I remember correctly) who had a visual encounter of a very similar description near the end of his film Missing 411: The Hunted.

Steve Stockton, the narrator of the Missing Persons Mysteries YT channel even had a sighting of one of these invisible beings right smack-dab in the middle of Portland, Oregon. If memory serves, he spotted it just across the street & a bit down the block near a sidewalk trashcan.

If you’d like to look for more videos that feature similar encounters with those entities, try searching YouTube for various combos of the following keywords: “glimmer men/man”, “transparent”, “invisible” or “cloaked” & “being(s)”, “entity/ies”, “figure(s)”, “creature(s)”, or “men/man” & “encounter(s)”, “true story/ies”, “eyewitness”, “experience(s)” or even “caught on video”.

Some may even refer to them as “Predator(s)”, due to their appearance reportedly looking almost EXACTLY like the special effect used for the Predator aliens in the Predator films when they have their invisibility shields activated.

Many people think that these transparent beings are “cloaking Sasquatch”. I don’t personally subscribe to that theory, but you may find related videos by searching for that as well.

All comments from YouTube:

Celebrating Appalachia

2y↑24

Great video Donnie! Your story gave me goosebumps 😀I love thinking about who set on those rocks over the years.

Cornbreadfed Kirkpatrick

and you seem more like my mom's family

DONNIE LAWS

Thank you. You and me both! I would say just old hunters from way back looking supper.

Sebastian SKY Shattles

3y↑389

We need more channels like this I believe. Just laid back story telling. Nothing too fancy or trying too hard. Just sharing knowledge and experience. Very refreshing.

Sebastian SKY Shattles

@Jacob Alexander I like his stuff as well. He got me with that story of the family trapped in the house by those wolflike animals.

Jacob Alexander

1y↑1

Check out MrBallen on YouTube. He's exactly what you're looking for

Mitchell Culberson

@Whispers From The Dark More like a brother.I am from the Southern part of the Appalachian chain.Still in Tennessee though.

Luann Yates

I agree. I’m from Tennessee

Bonnie Brewster

I LIKE THAT 😎 TOO! WELL SAID

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Lisa Colbert

2y↑114

Such a great story-teller . I almost don’t like to use the term “story” because it may imply that it’s fiction . I believe him 100% .

Jamie Pippin

I’ve had good Christian relatives claim to have seen ufo’s and little people in Appalachia. Of course living in such a dark and remote place will play tricks on the human mind. But there’s certainly some kind of energy in mountains.

Randy Baumery

2y↑2

I make myself use the word account. Even testimony.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

@Larry Roberts Thanks for sharing it my friend. God Bless.

Larry Roberts

2y↑5

@DONNIE LAWS I've not told that story to anyone, but hearing your near identical story made me want to tell mine... small world take care my friend

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑4

@Larry Roberts WOW, I know the feeling, So glad you kept your cool my friend. You was glad to see daylight I bet. Thanks for sharing.

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John Hartley

3y↑130

Great story brother! I had a strange experience one night while backpacking with 2 friends in Giles county Va. Something stalked around our camp til sunrise but we never saw it! It would sound like it was laughing at times then talking at times. A few times it charged our tent and threw limbs and small rocks at the tent. We were terrified to say the least. I ran across an old game warden once while hiking and told him about our experience. All he said was and with A straight face, is that there are things in these mountains that if the average person knew what was out here they would never come back! He refused to explain any further. It was clear to me that the old timer had some strange things happen to him as well. Keep up the great work.

bsloannyc

Laughing? Sure sounds like it was a person trying to scare you. No other animals but humans laugh

Joan Hage

2y↑1

The movie Predator comes to mine they love to show you what they can do

Lorif larson

2y↑4

Bigfoot

whippdatjeep

2y↑13

Yes sir , and it's the truth too. Us people that have seen something that isn't supposed to exist know that for a fact.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑17

WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.

Shirley Denton

3y↑47

Donnie, the part of Appalachia I love the most is what we always referred to as the “woods.” We played in them and explored everything including old forgotten cemeteries.. Once found an old Civil War headstone with the name Rufus McComas on it, with several field stones scattered about. Many years later went back with a friend, and a tree had grown up through the tombstone and busted it. His little cast iron fencing was gone. I never hunted, but most men I knew did. There is no fragrance quite like the fragrance of perhaps hundreds of years of leaves falling and making rich loamy soil, and the trees add a freshness. Yes, there are unexplained that go beyond what our five senses can comprehend. I had a Norwegian Elkhound named Smokey who would trot through the woods with me. Never right at my side, but off several feet to the side. Keep telling your stories, and keep showing us your adventures deep in the forests of Appalachia. I love them.

Frank Harrington

@Myk HHH Scotland like England is so full of history and a beautiful place! Patricia Gambino Harrington

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

@Myk HHH WOW, Thanks for sharing.

Myk HHH

2y↑5

I've an elkhound in Scotland they say here that the lands so old that there's not a loch,river,hill or glen without at least one body lain in it however they are mostly man made as this lands been fought over since long before the Romans. Plenty of ghosts but alas no predators bigger than man

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

WOW. Thanks for sharing my friend.

MDR6531

2y↑5

Being a kid in the 80s and 90s, I grew up listening to stories of tougher times from my grandparents. They lived through the depression, WW2 and everything else. When I got married, I grew very close to my wife’s grandfather and I think he looked at me like his own grandson.

They all seemed so different than people now. They were raised in a different time. They are all gone now and I miss the stories.

Thank you.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

Your very welcome my friend. I know just how you feel. I to miss our elders and their dear stories of our past history. Thanks so much for sharing.

Cynthia Swearingen

3y↑125

Eerie tale, Donnie! No telling what it was you saw. Hunting for food is becoming a lost art...one day, it might be necessary again. How many, I wonder, will be ready?💖

David Echohawk

2y↑2

@Time and Time again so true

RuinedTemple

2y↑4

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑4

@james guralski Thanks for sharing my friend.

james guralski

2y↑6

@DONNIE LAWS I'm in Massachusetts! I never thought of sasquatch being here. But they are.. I've had a number of experiences. I've spotted them with some very bright flashlights. Acebeam k75, nightwatch stalker 90.2...

Hugh Junit

2y↑6

@Time and Time again that's too cool.....I was actually wondering if they are being brought here like the missing 411 end up disappearing and nothing is ever found. Maybe the sasquatch are missing from their world as our lives ones go missing here????

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Kenny Stafford

3y↑134

I have seen and heard things in these mountains of southern WV that deify explanation. It is just part of being mountain born, folks who have not lived and roamed these ridges and hollers cannot understand. I enjoy your channel, keep up the great work.

Kenny Stafford

@Saber Max Donnie was speaking to the Appalachians and Allegany regions and so was I. We all know strange things happen all over the world. Some places more so than others of which this area seems to have more than it's fair share of such.

Saber Max

2y↑1

I hate to somewhat disagree with your statement but, there have been 'strange things' seen and heard for thousands of years on every inhabited continent by tens of thousands, if not many more people. This includes strangeness in every state of America that continues to this day. You DO NOT have to live on or anywhere near mountains or even hills to have an encounter. This type of stuff happens in deserts, tropical areas, heavily forested areas like my home state of Minnesota, flatlands, near oceans, in arctic conditions and of course, mountainous regions.

Suenette Edwards

2y↑1

Yeah, I'm from the panhandle... I know exactly what you mean!! Back on Grandma's farm we kids had to be in the house before dark. Cause nobody could find you out in the dark!!

JermZ260

2y↑4

@Opal Allen Oh crap,last week I seen a big white dog looking thing and for a second I thought it was a small horse,at my truck as I came down the mountain looking threw my bino's.It was about dark.So glad a car was coming down the road and it ran off,cause all I had on me was a old muzzleloader that wouldn't shoot,I found out later in that week (wet powder).Not the strangest thing to happen to me in the mountains,but does rank on up there on my list.Still scratching my head over this one tho.

Kenny Stafford

2y↑4

We will let Donnie tell his storys, It is his channel. :) I do not like to talk much about certain things it draws those things to you.

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Ann Miller

3y↑71

Thank you Mr. Donnie for sharing your life with us. You are a master at storytelling!

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

@EverGlow Me to. Thank you.

EverGlow

2y↑5

That’s the God honest truth, Amen 🙏🏽 there’s no place I’d rather be than in these Appalachian mountains ♥️

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑2

You are very welcome

Rick Cagle

2y↑35

Same exact experience here in Texas back in late 90's on our deer lease.. It sounded like an elephant running through trees breaking limbs but didn't see anything. There were 4 of us that witnessed this and we all looked at each other in shock and disbelief.

GG gibson

2y↑1

How far away were you?

Charles Sarver

2y↑7

@Ryan Mendenhall except he said nothing about the tops of trees in his story. He said 4 or 5 feet high. Nice trolling though.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

@Ryan Mendenhall Thanks for sharing my friend.

Ryan Mendenhall

2y↑2

The wind can do that and as it picks up heavily at the top of trees. Breaks limbs and gives off a howl of sorts or animal type sounds as it shifts speeds over branches and each limb giving its own sound. Like blowing over your beer bottle at different levels of liquid. But who knows, there could be an 8' elephant swinging from branch to branch like a monkey in hopes to finding a forever home or 🐘 y'all keep running away 😭

Muhammad Reza

2y↑4

This is just like my father experience, something chasing him and his friend in the forest long time ago , to this day he dont know what it was and it sounded like an elephant running through the trees too

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Aaron England

2y↑18

This story vaguely reminds me of several incidents that happened to me in the woods (more like swamps I guess, very thin line between the two down here lol) in southeastern NC.

This particular day I had gone out squirrel hunting with my blowgun. It was already late so I took a guess at how much light I had left and I took off. This is important to the story because due to prior experiences with the same "thing" I generally had a rule about not being anywhere near the woods after dark. So anyway, I got sidetracked watching this one squirrel that was just out of range and apparently lost track of time. Eventually it left and I was cutting it kind of close to sundown so I decided I'd walk up the trail one last time before I left. So I started up this trail and the further I walked the more I noticed that it had become unnervingly silent. More silent than it should have been at this time. And that's when I started to feel like I was being watched. I reacted to this by getting very quiet and stopping to check my surroundings a few times but all seemed fine so for some stupid reason I kept going lol. I honestly don't know why I did this. I figure that maybe I'd just shrugged it off as my paranoia acting up on account of how dark the woods had gotten. Makes sense I guess. Whatever the reason I continued on despite the fact that I had red flags going up all over the place. So I make it maybe another 15 or 20 feet up the trail and I stop dead in my tracks when what feels like a bolt of electricity runs up my spine and into the back of my head. I didn't feel safe at all anymore. I'd say I felt more like a hunted animal. So I turned and started walking very casually down the trail. I say "casually" because something told me that if I panicked and ran it would attack. I didn't want it to know that I was aware of it. now I wasn't exactly deep in the woods. Probably less than 100 ft from the treeline. I walked up until I was maybe 40 feet from the entrance and the whole time it felt like something was closing in on me. It literally felt like my head was starting to vibrate and the urge to panic got stronger and stronger until I knew that if I didn't leave that area I was going to die. So I darted the rest of the way down that path like a bat out of hell and jumped clean across the brier patch at the entrance. I ran another 15 feet or so, turned and slung that blowgun up at the trail and waited but nothing ever came out.

And before anyone starts making jokes, yes, that's literally all I had to defend my with lol

aicerg

@Cynthia Lee I know I'm late to the party, but you should check out a video about the Superstition Mountains by the Paranormal Files. The guy being interviewed describes an encounter with a cloaked being that flew over him and he could actually take a good look at it. Your description immediately reminded me of that.

Midnight Starr

What are some of the old folk legends that are in that area? That will tell you what it was!! I don't know if I want to know lol

Midnight Starr

AND you had pretty much all the warning signs go off with your senses too!! What heck could be so evil and to throw off such terror and evilness from it? I'm still WOW!!

Midnight Starr

Wow!! I'd of had a heart attack on the spot!! What do you think it could of been? I wouldn't say a bigfoot, they haven't been known to instill a death sentence feeling if one was around, I haven't heard of a person experiencing this feeling, so something much deadlier ? Pure terror that this thing emitted!! Evil I meant. Wow Wonder what heck it was!!!

SIXPACFISH

2y↑1

There are still strange things out in the woods and wild places. Some of them can "Steal" time from you. You will be looking at something and find yourself fixated on it and when you snap out of it. You find hours have flew away from you.

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f1hook

3y↑24

I've seen and experienced a lot of strange things in the mountains and woods of east TN. Most I've kept to myself because I know most people wouldn't believe me. I think some people are "gifted" these experiences and encounters.

Larry Roberts

2y↑3

I agree they are a gift of wonder

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Michael Barnett

2y↑8

Once I was deer hunting in a stand an hour or so from my home in N. Florida. I heard something coming directly behind my stand. Coming slow. I didnt want to turn for fear of scaring it off. It got slowly closer and closer . Finally , it was right behind me. I clicked the safety off , and quickly turned and aimed at where I thought it would be… And I saw nothing…..

But a dang armadillo!!😡

Kentherlan"s Personal Journey

Lol 😆

DONNIE LAWS

😀Thanks for sharing my friend.

turd ferguson

3y↑35

There's a lot of things that we haven't discovered yet, to discount what we don't understand is foolish. I appreciate the way you presented the story, you didn't attempt to explain it you only told what happened. Thank you for sharing your experience.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑2

Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Mama's gone detecting

3y↑122

I believe you. I just wanted to say, you still hunt. You just traded in your shot gun for cameras and we love what you shoot.

Falcon Moose

2y↑1

I see...never...LOL!

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑11

Thank you. I just love to see them in the wild and share them for future generations. Thanks for sharing my friend.

ejwa12

2y↑5

Found your channel just last week and I love it. I am from Eastern Kentucky and my father was a coon turned Fox hunter. Like you he discovered he wanted to preserve nature, not kill it for the sake of killing. He got into American Fox hunting to chase game, not kill it. I regret that I do not Fox hunt myself because I would very much like for my young son to experience it. It is one of those childhood memories that an adult yearns to relive but never can. By the way, I still have my father's 870 Wingmaster although it is a 20 gauge. It was one of his favorite shotguns as well.

DONNIE LAWS

Welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Marty Young

2y↑16

I'm from Kentucky and I've had some strange encounters over the years out in the woods. I heard tales from folks growing up and wasn't so sure about them, but after having a few incidents myself I don't dismiss anything.

Years ago, while working for one of my wife's relatives I talked to a fellow that was helping us house tobacco and he asked where I lived. When I told him he shook his head and said, "I don't like that holler you live in". I asked why and he said that while squirrel hunting there he encountered what he called, "a hairy man". I ride a mountain bike for exercise and on every nice day I'm riding up and down the "holler". In April of this year as I reached the head of the hollow and topped a little hill I saw something big and black standing out in a field past a cabin that sets there. The fellow that owns the property keeps things in good shape and the yard mowed and the fields bush hogged.
This black shape was standing about 300 yards away from me and about 100 yards past the cabin. I stopped the bike and looked at it for over a minute, it never moved. I could see a big head, square shoulders and daylight from its knees to its feet, but none between the arms and body. It was perfectly still and after thinking things over I figured it was a silhouette target the owner had placed in the field to shoot at. I hopped back on the bike, rode on down to the gate of the property, got a quick drink and started for home. Where the gate is I was unable to see out in the field where the target was setting.
When I got back to the top of the little hill I looked back at the field and the "target" was gone. A couple days later I was on another ride and the owner and some friends were mowing and working on the yard, I rode up and asked them if they'd ever seen anything odd while staying there and they insisted they hadn't. One said I'd probably saw his deer feeder which sets another 300 yards past where I saw the "target'. Another one told me I just saw a black bear, I have seen bears in that spot before, but they were down on all fours. When black bears stand up they're wedge shaped with no shoulders visible, on top of that they have a blaze face. What I saw had a big round head, square shoulders and was quite big and all black.

I've had other incidents over the years including an unnerving experience where something big and on two feet followed me out of the woods one night. Strange howls, whoops and something that comes around on occasion that makes the dogs go under the house and not come out for days, even to eat.

Sun Ray

2y↑1

Sounds like a Bigfoot. I was looking into that subject a few years back and someone commented on a vid I had watched. He said he inherited a cabin in Minnesota and a Bigfoot made all kinds of ruckus everytime he went there. Like he didn't like that he was at the cabin

Gerard Lombardi

2y↑1

The Wood Booger

Marty Young

2y↑1

@wake up, phuq off!

wake up

@Marty Young
No,, that's b.s. , my property line is 375 FEET, and it's hard to tell a spike from a doe,, you don't know how far a yard is

wake up

You didn't see that at 300yds,, I call b.s.

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Jay Rice

3y↑30

I appreciate you, Donnie, and I appreciate your videos on such a wide variety of subjects. I especially like the ones on the unexplained. I, myself have seen or heard some strange things in these mountains of Va. where I grew up. There was a place on my Grandmothers land that every time I went through there, it was like it would get sort of dark, the wind would stop blowing, no animal or bird sounds...it was almost like you were in a vacuum of sorts...it was a very creepy feeling and I would always hurry out of there. I used to make rabbit box traps and set them all over that place...well, on more than one occasion I would have something follow me through those woods, but I would never see so much as a leaf move, but you could hear those footsteps flanking you on one side or the other at about 25 to 30 feet away. Once I'd get back out to the old main road, whatever it was would turn around and walk back down through the woods. I've heard that more than once. I'd catch a few rabbits here and there, but never could the first one where I experienced that strange, dark place with no sound. My Grandma lived back in those hills alone with the closest neighbor about 3 miles away...she always talked about a creature she called "Old Shiney Eyes". She said that whatever it was would come near her house every night just after dark and walk just inside the tree line, watching the house. She said that whatever it was never bothered anything, but just watched. She said that she felt like it knew she was alone and was looking out for her and maybe keeping her safe from other things...she was never afraid of it. She said that she would see those eyes shining like lanterns in the edge of the woods, walking back and forth. I feel like what I experienced was maybe the same thing, or maybe something similar. Whatever it was never tried to harm me, but just gave me a strange feeling...I guess that was because it was something that I couldn't explain.
There are many things out there that are unexplainable, but that is just the way it is supposed to be. We as human beings aren't supposed to know everything, God never intended on that...maybe we will never know...maybe after we pass on, God will tell us all about it. Until next time, my friend, thank you for the videos and sharing your life experiences...especially the ones on strange things and ghosts...I've seen a few of those as well.

Suenette Edwards

@Ami Black My prayers are up for Mr. Barton.

Ami Black

2y↑3

@G e r r y Jones I saw that interview as I've followed that channel due to things happening on my property. That poor man-it was difficult to watch but I believe he was telling the truth. I also think what happened to Mr. Barton was because he actively sought those things out which is akin to inviting that evil into his life. I needed answers for what was happening on my property and so started gather information from a lot of those channels. Mark Barton needs our prayers more than anything else right now, I think.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

@Opal Allen Thanks for sharing my friend.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

@John Hartley Thank you.

John Hartley

3y↑3

Incredible story!

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Old Silk Hat

2y↑5

Donnie just stumbled on your channel. Man do I appreciate your stories. I could sit by a campfire with you and listen for hours. Thank you

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Thanks and welcome aboard my friend. Please do enjoy the channel.

James Richardson

3y↑16

i appreciated your story!, back in 1999, i was teaching sunday school adult class in tallapoosa county alabama, i had a fellow member tell about his brother in law and that mans best friend. and this took place about the same time as your experience. this man and his friend had leased some land to hunt in south elmore county..they had spent time and energy establishing food plots and improving the hunting area. one afternoon, one guy, experienced the same thing, except it was walking..he was in a tree stand overlooking a food plot, there were about 5 does feeding in it, the grass and such was about knee high, and he was hoping for a buck. then he heard whatever it was walking in the leaves, but he could see nothing, other than a limb break, here and there. it kept coming toward him, when it reached the food plot, the deer were looking toward the sounds, then whatever it was walked across the food plot, he said the grass was parting as if a man was walking through it and the deer were following all this with their eyes. he said once on the other side of the food plot, you could hear the leaves crunch as it walked away, a limb breaking here n there, once it was gone, the deer resumed eating, till he came down out of the tree., they ran off, he was so shook, by the experience, he got his stuff and headed back to their truck, and when he told his partner, they left..even though, they had money vested, they never went back, it spooked them so bad. guy this happened to, was well known as honest, a straight up type of guy.....so. i guess there is no telling, whats out in the deep woods

Suenette Edwards

@DONNIE LAWS Exactly right you never know what you'll come across deep in the woods!

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

WOW, good story. You just never know what's out there my friend. Thanks for sharing.

Kurt Feltenberger

2y↑13

This brings back memories! About the same time, though I think it's '78 or '79, we had moved to little town in south central PA that was a couple miles from the lower Susquehanna. That summer, my buddy and I would go hiking all along the railroad tracks that led deeper into the woods and fields, splitting off to explore creeks and hollows, and more than once we felt like we weren't alone and that whatever "it" was, it wasn't human. We don't have bears, wolves, or big cats, so we joked that it was Bigfoot.

Fast forward a couple months and we're having one of the coldest, snowiest winters in memory. Near the far end of where we'd hike, a family reported that they'd heard strange sounds, their chicken coop had been torn open, and when they finally went out to look (when it was light - they weren't stupid!) there was a lingering stench and large - much larger than human size - footprints. Over the next couple weeks several other places reported similar events and my buddy and I...we knew what had been watching us that summer was likely what did this.

Southern York county is a strange place and has a long history of odd events.

Lorif larson

Bigfoot

Kurt Feltenberger

2y↑3

@DONNIE LAWS My pleasure! Even to this day, when my friend who shared those hikes and I get together we always talk about it. There's more to the woods and wilds than we realize and we're just seeing the surface.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

Wow, good story. Thanks so much for sharing my friend.

Cørrado “Coco” LéBlanc

2y↑8

It’s so good of you Mr.Donnie to tell these stories, I was born ‘88 on the Westbank of New Orleans, and long as I can remember my pops and I hunted and fished. It’s a dying art nowadays and it’s makes me sad. My daddy has an old mint wingmaster 870 just like that, told me he picked it up around ‘84 . ain’t nothing smoother than them older 870 wingmasters Anyways we’ve spent a lot of time in the wilds and bayous of Louisiana and Mississippi, and there is definitely some strange things afoot out there on them back lands. Even heard stories of witches hiding out and practicing witchcraft deep in the swamps. I’m hoping to move my wife and I out to your neck of the woods in Seersville, Tn. ( I think that’s how the township is spelled) in the next 10 years or so, I always loved the peace and serene wilderness out there. I’ve made many a hunting trips out there and fell in love with it. Sorry to run on. Keep up the great work sir, and god bless! 🇺🇸

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your so welcome. Thanks for sharing your story my friend.

Naomi Tracy

3y↑27

I believe it!! I think most of us that come up in the mountains know there are things no man can explain in them. It feels like old magic and souls that never left, in some places . Great story Donnie👍👍

Imagine Whirled Peas

2y↑3

Yep you nailed it...its primal in nature..make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

Deborah Danhauer

3y↑6

You are exactly right. Old magic… and some of it we will never know.🤗❤️🐝

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑4

Well said! Thanks for sharing my friend.

Curlyanne B

2y↑14

I love these stories. There are so many things that can't be explained. My mom and dad are gone but they had a few stories like this. So fascinating. I'm glad whatever it was was in a hurry ti get where it was going! Would have been really really bad if the brush had quit moving right in front of you! Lol

DONNIE LAWS

Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Betty Spencer

3y↑24

I love your stories and your voice when you tell them . It is perfect. I was raised here in. Tennessee. I love these stories. It reminds me of my childhood. But grandma on my mom's side was half Cherokee. I loved listening to her tell stories. We did not live in the smokies. But we were poor. She cooked and heated on wood stove. We lived in a 2 room house that had barn wood on it snow came through the crakers no electricity no running water. It was a hard life. But a great life

SIXPACFISH

Why is it Always Cherokee? There were lots more Chickasaw and Shawnee and others. But whites always claim Cherokee blood. When real Cherokee's hear that line, they just roll their eyes and laugh.

Robert Searcy

2y↑2

the indian mix happened because most euro settlers brought few women companions with them . unfortunately , sometimes indian men were slaughtered and their women were left to survive with the men available .

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑3

Thanks for sharing your bit of history my friend.

Sam I am

2y↑14

I love hearing your stories. They remind me so much of my grandmother and her family. Thank you, Sir.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

You are very welcome

Roger B

3y↑87

"How many people have set here 200 years ago" ... I live in the NE Georgia mountains and wander around the Trackrock area. The Trail of Tears passed thru here. There's the ruins of an old Cherokee (or earlier) settlement here. Many a time I've asked myself that same question - gives one a great respect for the people that were here before us. Thanks, Donnie.

Grace is Amazing!

@ejwa12 I don't know. I do know it's about 40 miles east of Louisville.
Okay, I just looked it up. It's in Jefferson County.

Suenette Edwards

2y↑1

@Grace is Amazing! Amen!

Ben Long

2y↑1

Im in gwinnett and hate it lol

Grace is Amazing!

2y↑4

@Tip Tipton people suck, don't they? Especially those like this. Ruins things for those who love and do our best to protect the earth.

Tip Tipton

2y↑4

I grew up on trackrock gap, and happen to be 1/4 Cherokee, I love my home and where I come from but people have moved in and ruined trackrock and ruined the rocks that made it notable, the whole place is now to appeal to a completely different mindset of people than I grew up with there, it’s very sad

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GoGoVan

3y↑11

Great story!!! I’m so happy that you had a change of heart ❤️ about the wild life. Like you said when people kill to much wild it becomes scarce and possibly extinct. I don’t know exactly what area my daughter I go visit her often moved to the Cumberland gap area she lives in Middlesboro Kentucky I know that’s close by Pineville but I think that’s totally the opposite way I’m not sure. Anyways blessings and I love your stories. I love history as well. My father was born in West Virginia and we had right on the Ohio River and we have a lot of stories because my uncle used to hunt and I remember going there as a child And you would see the game that he had in the backyard hanging on the clothes pin to bleed out deer mostly. Anyways blessings to you all

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.

ACoupleOfPatriots

2y↑3

Thank you Donnie... We really do need more channels like this, such a joy to watch take care of yourself

DONNIE LAWS

Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Mike Jones

3y↑30

Loved this hunting story. My Dad had the same 870. He used to squirrel hunt and go to shooting matches. He was also a coal miner and a fox hunter.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑5

@Roscoe P. Coltraine Thanks for sharing my friend.

Roscoe P. Coltraine

3y↑5

My pops had same one too used to shoot it at Turkey shoots it was the first gun I ever shot at about 5 or 6 won a smoked ham at Turkey shoot that day down at the gun club. At least pops had me take the last shot and told me that I won but that didn't matter to me all that I cared about is the fact that I got to let one loose

Dell Alderman

3y↑6

Yep as soon as I heard him chambering those rounds I knew it was an 870. Hahahaha

Mike Jones

3y↑5

@DONNIE LAWS You're welcome and I've thought the same thing as I've watched your videos.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑7

We would have been great friends. Thanks for sharing my friend.

daisy chain

3y↑42

I just wanted to say how much i am enjoying your channel. Its a beautiful place that you live and the stories you share are a joy to listen too as well.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thank you so much my friend.

Delilah Rainelle

2y↑5

I hope you are reading your posts, because I wanted to let you know I really enjoy your videos. I was also raised in the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains and have many interesting stories. I’d be happy to share them with you if you’re ever interested.

Meanwhile, keep up the great work.

God bless you, always.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Wow, Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Dusty

2y↑8

I can't tell you how much I appreciate you bringing these kind of videos to the World. Just hearing you talk reminds me of some of the best people I've been so lucky to ever met and learned from in my life and of times that have so quickly come and gone. I was born and currently live in the very top of Kentucky but I grew up in East Tennessee wandering thru those beloved Appalachians and that's where my heart stays. So these videos are invaluable to me, as I live in a perpetual state of being homesick. Thank You so much for your time & effort, and your willingness to share!

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing this my friend.

John Shields

2y↑10

I started squirrel hunting at 9 1/2 years old. My Father had taken me hunting numerous times to teach me woodscraft, hunting ethics and learning to keep a mental map of where you were. This included hill country and swamp areas. He also cautioned me that there 'were places that don't feel right; just back on out of those', and to keep amind to where you are stepping, even unto your very next step, after pausing during a hunt (snakes under logs, old wells openings, abandoned wire fencing, trip hazards, etc.). That 'next step' consideration saved me a number of times. As a matter of course, I started carrying a mid size bowie knife in a covered case, which became a constant companion. Anything that a 22 or shotgun didn't stop, would have to deal with that. I too have heard some strange sounds and commotions over the years in the woods, and chose to set my back against a good piece of cover, checked the wind, and let whatever is was come to me as I waited. Most of the time nothing appeared, though on others feral dogs, a runway cow, foraging racoons, a large black bear and a group of men carying supplies for a stihl came forward.

Giffy

@John Shields Stihl like the chainsaw?

John Shields

@Suenette Edwards Your are quite correct! That stihl group threatened me until I told them who my Father was, and that great harm would come to them if they did anything to me -- they knew this to be absolutely true, and promptly left me alone!

Suenette Edwards

The men carrying the stihl supplies would be the most dangerous of the group IMHO.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Thanks for sharing you story my friend.

John Parog

3y↑6

Thank you for your wonderful narrations that you share we us. I could listen all day long. Your stories with all their facts and history of the Appalachian mountains are the perfect way to end a hard day. There are lots of things we don’t know about these mountains and what’s in them. People don’t realize just how vast these mountains are yet today. Looking forward to the next video , take care and my God bless.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Wow, thank you. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Marcia Johnson

3y↑40

Best video yet too many hunters have had experiences like this, love to hear it in your own words

Marcia Johnson

3y↑2

Can’t wait for next video

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Wow, thanks!

SCgirl 93

3y↑8

What a heart you have for the mountains and the history there!! Thank you for sharing their history!!

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your are so very welcome my friend.

Danny Tolliver

3y↑7

I really appreciate you sharing your experiences, I've had some unexplained experience myself in the woods. I only wish I was still physically able to get around like I used to, I really love the woods and I really love your storys. Thank you for bringing back memories for me

Sweetbriar Farm

2y↑1

You could write about it for others to enjoy!

Wolfgang Gugelweith

2y↑3

Sasquatch?

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑2

Your very welcome my friend Please take care.

PD 51

2y↑1

Thank you for this Donnie, love your channel, genuine and real. Something like this happened to me and some friends once back in 1986 in Alabama. We were camping next to a lake when out of the blue something came running out of the woods towards us. It ran around our campsite, breaking limbs kicking up leaves etc. We got our flashlights and shined them towards the noise but it always remained just out of sight. I could barely see the leaves on the ground being kicked up just in the peripherie of my light but never could see it.. Everytime we moved towards it it would move away. What surprised us was how much of a noisy ruckus it was making. After a few minutes some of my friends became so terrified that they started packing up and leaving..we soon followed suit and high tailed it outta there. To this day we have no idea what that was. One of my friends father's told us later he had a strange encounter in that same area when he was a kid. I haven't experienced anything like that since..yup there is some strange stuff out there in those woods...

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

WOW, Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Wolfgang Gugelweith

2y↑27

It was for sure a Sasquatch and they can manage to be unseen. I heard hundreds of stories about Sasquatch and sometimes from dogman. Thoses creatures are able to do things which are above our imaginations. Many greetings! 😎👍🇦🇹⛷🏔🛶🥨🍺💙🐺

tony jones

2y↑3

Yep
There are some Bigfoot’s out there that are extraterrestrial

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑7

I agree 100% Thanks for sharing my friend.

Jody Nunley

3y↑23

Love the story Donnie!
I know this is going to sound crazy but I've heard sasquatch can cloak there selves, make there selves invisible. I don't know just a thought!

Midnight Starr

I heard same thing!! And that it sounds like a lot of birds chirping at once! This at night too

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑4

Interesting! I didn't see it at all. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Joe De Jesus

2y↑4

That was a interesting story indeed, these days I'm a bit nervous about the woods especially hiking by myself which is a no, no. What I believe you encountered in them woods was what many researchers call "A Cloaked Bigfoot" There are a number of YouTube video's that actually show these creatures cloaked.

DONNIE LAWS

Only at night do I get nervous my friend. Thanks for sharing friend.

Cameron McCreary

2y↑14

I have been watching other channels and I have listened to the people explain exactly what you saw. A being that moves through the forest is seen and then disappears into nothing. I haven't seen what you saw but on 11 October 2003, I saw a Saucer appear in the sky over the City of Auburn, CA hover and discharge "angel hair" then begin flying and disappear north of Auburn into the sky. So, I do believe that you saw a being breaking limbs from trees and it probably looked like a mirage. There is a monsterous evil on this world; may Our Lord Jesus bless you and keep you and your family safe all the days of your lives.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.

Gage Conrad

2y↑4

I just wanted to say this was a lovely video and story. You lived the life I always dreamed of. I grew up in the mountains of Arizona, my papa was never a big hunter, but nature and the woods just always intrigued me so much. I kind of taught myself to hunt small game when we would go camping, it wasn’t until a few years ago I started hunting big game. But I think it’s so amazing how vast this country and terrain is. I went on a trip through Missouri and Tennessee last year for the first time and I was so shocked by how different the forests are over there than in Arizona. Our woods are so dry and dark until you go super high up and find the meadows. My town is half thick forest, and half shrubby desert. It used to make for good coyote hunting but now just about every acre of land within 10 miles is private property. Times have changed, it makes me sad. The woods are definitely a special place with lots of secrets and stories no matter where in the world you are. Thank you for sharing this.

srvntlilly

2y↑2

What part of the mountains do you live? I grew up in Phoenix. My parents worked with the missionaries on the reservation in the White Mountains and Peridot and Cibecue. Also up Apache Trail, Payson, and Mogollon Rim area. Globe, Miami, pretty much everywhere in central and Eastern Arizona, lol. Mogollon Rim is where the home movie of the female Yeti was shot. I was surprised too, when I moved to Missouri, how different the woods are. Instead of pine, they're mostly Oak, Hickory, Black Walnut, Maple, Dogwood, Cedar. There are pines, of course, but mostly in the highest elevations, which aren't very high compared to Arizona. It's still beautiful here, so much prettier than the desert of Southern Arizona. Wow, talk about rambling...

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your so welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Cassie Crowe

3y↑9

Something I've always wondered is why sometimes out in the woods you'll see one limb or branch or plant moving? I've seen it a bunch of times. No wind, no critters, nothing else around it moving...but that one spot will start shaking around like crazy! Thought maybe it's some kind of bugs or something but I never see any. Always wondered about that. I'm sure as a hunter and explorer you've seen it...Any idea what causes that?

Constitutional conservative

2y↑1

I too have witnessed that happening.

Cassie Crowe

2y↑2

@Lisa Colbert funny you should ask as every time this happens my mind instantly goes back to something someone once told me about forest spirits....guardians or elementals of the forest. I always feel deeply connected to the land when I'm out in nature so I've wondered if it could be something letting me know it's there. Especially since I can never seem to find a logical explanation for it's occurrence

JermZ260

2y↑4

I've seen the same thing,so know your not alone just can't explain it.

Lisa Colbert

2y↑4

I don’t think I’ve seen it , not that I can remember . But I’ve seen recent videos of it and it’s most definitely bizarre . I’m curious to know if you’ve ever gotten a “feeling” when you saw it ? Like , have you sensed some sort of intelligence aware that you were seeing it ? If so , was it neutral , negative or positive ? Thanks Cassie .

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑2

Could be a small animal feeding on something there. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Sandra Lane

3y↑18

No disbelief from this city dweller. After seeing my own eerie event, I would never discount another persons experience. Some parts of the woods just carry an eerie feeling.

vegeta R

2y↑1

@Sandra lane please share your story with us. Please.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑2

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Puffy420blazeit

3y↑6

Thank you for sharing this account with us in a video. Many people choose to tell their stories through text on sites like Reddit and it makes it so much harder to distinguish what is real and fake. But I believe your story without a doubt in my mind.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thank you friend.

Irish4life

2y↑2

Hello from Tucson, thank you for this story. I love Powell Valley. Hiked White Rocks many times in my 30' and 40's. I lived in the mtns of East KY. Missing hunting those tree rats. I miss that part of my life. Hope to get back there some day so I can continue to hunt em. Thanks for a great story and those beautiful mtns.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

Your welcome. Get back home soon my friend. Thanks for sharing.

zoemlk

2y↑5

I am new to the channel I'm irish although I'm in England now, I love the music the nature the stories that you tell your kind voice and respect for the good things in life. Thank you for putting a smile upon me

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

Awesome, thank you! Welcome aboard my friend. You are very welcome.

Brooke Shaffer

3y↑2

Thanks for sharing an intimate story telling.I totally believe this situation you had.Too many folks over the years have experienced this very same scenario.KEEP THEM STORIES ACOMIN.WE LOVE EM🌟

DONNIE LAWS

I appreciate that friend. Thanks for sharing.

Edward Demedeiros

2y↑5

I had a similar event happen to me when I was a young teenager. Footsteps in the grass coming toward me, yet as I backed away, so did the footsteps! The grass was literally bending like someone's weight was walking straight at me. Truth.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Wow, Thanks for sharing my friend.

Laura Roberts

3y↑3

I really enjoy listening to all your videos. It's great that folks still like to share and talk about the history of past generations. So much can be learned from listening to these stories.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Cumberland Gap JimBow

3y↑16

That is unreal and I could just imagine trying to make sense of what you are seeing and not seeing at the same time. I spent a lot of my younger years up north working but would be sent down to Arjay KY to stay with my mamaw & papaw just as soon as school let out. They had 100 acres and a creek to play in and I loved it. I remember sitting on the porch at night and hearing all kinds of noises coming from those mountains.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑4

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Carolyn Pierce

3y↑3

You high integrity and appreciation for your home gives us all solid leadership. Thanks for your channel and all you share.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

I appreciate that! Your so welcome my friend.

Tony johnson

2y↑2

Thank you for sharing I have had some strange experiences in the woods I'm part Indian and was taught to respect nature and I know there many things that remain hidden

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.

Glenn Rudzik

3y↑5

Donnie really love hearing your stories. Especially them ones about the things out there that just can’t be explained. Take care God Bless ya. Peace

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thank you and thanks for sharing my friend.

Rodney F.

2y↑1

Hey Donnie , caught this video late but it sure was great gotta love the old hunting stories.
It's much appreciated to hear about our mountains and the traditions of our home .
Again thank you for your time and effort you put out for us . 👍

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Ed Farler

3y↑7

I enjoyed your story, I can relate to it, I grew up in south east Ky, it's true about it being hunted out but during the 70's a lot of game was released there, I can also relate to enjoy the woods and watching the animals, I feel the most alive in the woods and on the water

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thanks for sharing my friend.

I.M. Askance

3y↑4

Thanks for telling us about this interesting encounter. I'd love to hear more of your experiences in the woods.

DONNIE LAWS

Your welcome. You will my friend.

pat murphy

3y↑1

Donnie, thank you for sharing your story. I heard a story like that, I think it was a man in arkansas. He said it sounded like a bull coming through the woods, but he never saw anything. I think he was about three or four feet from it.

DONNIE LAWS

WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend. Your welcome.

Jerri Foster

3y↑2

Donnie, another good one! This old world is filled with more things that we don’t see, than the things we do see! So many secrets , that do not want to be found out. I can only imagine what was going through your mind at the time. I also have had things like that happen, and it’s so shocking, that most of the time you don’t have time to be scared, until you mull it around a while, after the fact. Then, is when you really think about what just happened to you, and it can really give you the goosebumps! It’s so puzzling , to know what you just heard or felt, and lived through, to talk about it, but you couldn’t see it at all! Really looking forward to more of these stories!! It’s that spooky time of year!, but I’ll gladly listen to them any time of year!

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Necron 2112

3y↑4

Thanks for the hunting story Mr. Laws. I greatly appreciate you and the lore you're passing on to the world.

Down here in the Canebreak of Alabama, we had groves and groves of pecan, oak, and fig trees that the squirrels grew fat on. I was raised up on the farm to hunt squirrels with a lever action Marlin .22 and a break back .410... both with iron sights. I'd grab one of the guns and a pocket full of shells every morning when I went out to bring the cows up to the barn for milking and come back with a brace of plump Greys. Grampa used to fry them up in bacon grease in a big old cast iron skillet and make gravy with the drippings to pour over our hominy grits. Those were the best breakfasts of my youth.

Suenette Edwards

2y↑1

LOL you guys!!!

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑3

@Necron 2112 I know the feeling.

Necron 2112

3y↑3

@DONNIE LAWS Preach Brother!!! At this stage of the game I love a pair of reading glasses! LOL

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑2

@Necron 2112 I agree, but when you get older you will love the scope my friend.

Necron 2112

3y↑3

@DONNIE LAWS LOL, you got that right, my friend. Dad and my Grampa's didn't believe in hunting game with a scope. They called it "cheating" ... and wondered why you'd waste money on piece of glass that in most cases cost more than the gun itself.

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Robert Buckey

2y↑1

One can just hear your love for this place in every word you speak. It's like the land itself is your family. Absolutely beautiful.

DONNIE LAWS

Wow, thank you

Brian Carpenter

2y↑1

I just love listening to all of the stories on this channel. It never gets old .thanks for all of your hard work. Killbuck Ohio

DONNIE LAWS

Your welcome my friend.

Cheryl Atkinson

3y↑4

I enjoyed your story Donnie getting to see you tell it not just hearing you tell it. I don't get to hunt like I use to but like you when I was old enough I would be following my dad through the woods squirrel hunting. That's what he started me out with then it went on to other game like deer. It brings back great memories of the times I spent with him I miss those days as I miss him. He was a great outdoorsman and l learned a lot from him. 🐿🦌🎣🐟

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Thanks for sharing this my friend. Thank you.

Kennedy

3y↑2

Thanks for the story and the video. You are correct. We think we have all the answers, but there are many things that we cannot explain. You and Tipper are certainly keeping me entertained!

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Why thank you friend, Tipper is such a great person.

Wandering Out Yonder

2y↑1

Love the style of story telling! Loved hearing your exerience!

DONNIE LAWS

Thank you so much!

Ricky Henry

3y↑8

I’ve lived in eastern Kentucky my whole life and spent a big part of it in the woods. There have been a few times I’ve seen or heard things that most people wouldn’t believe.

vegeta R

2y↑1

@Ricky Henry please tell us your story. Please

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

I truly believe you friend.

Tom R

3y↑20

Hunting is part of tradition in my family. Just got my first squirrel dog!! Mountain cur named tanner. It's on this season!!!

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Great, Thanks for sharing my friend.

jim w

2y↑1

Thank you for telling this story. I believe there are things in this world we don't yet know about and stories like this remind us to keep an open mind.

DONNIE LAWS

Your welcome friend.

Todd and Angel Browning

3y↑1

I’ve been a Hunter in these steep rugged hills of southern WV ever since I could walk with my dad or granddad. Seems like every holler over every point was a different place. We will always be hunters in these hills. We will always be part of these mountains. When I was in my teens we only had squirrel and rabbits to hunt, with and occasional groundhog. The deer were gone, poached out in the 79 s, no bear, no turkey. By the grace of God someone noticed. The wild turkey federation stocked turkey in the late 70 s or early 80 s. Today we have a good population of turkey although coyotes and other predators have moved in over the years. Another miracle happened when black bear were reintroduced, today here in these steep hills, we hunt the bear, the turkey, the white tailed deer, the rabbit, and yes, the ever present squirrel. Glad I found your channel.

DONNIE LAWS

Awesome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Malcolm Hill

2y↑22

Donnie, I live in the west central highlands of Virginia, about 100 miles west of Charlottesville. I've hunted all my life as well. Here in our mountains, abutting the great Alleghany Front, I've heard strange things just as you have. One night two years ago while returning to my truck after a successful coon hunt, I heard the strangest howling/wailing sound I've ever heard. It was so alarming that my two hounds made a beeline for me and heeled all the way to the truck. In my 50 years as a night hunter, I've heard wildcats, coyotes, birds of prey roosting in nearby trees, bears roaring during mid-summer mating season, and possibly even a panther or two. But what I heard that night was different. The howl resonated from the depths of a creature with tremendous lung capacity, much like the sound of a bellowing bull. These vast Appalachians hold a lot of mysteries yet unsolved.

DONNIE LAWS

@Tip Hall Wow. Thanks for sharing my friend.

kerry Taylor

2y↑1

My name is Kerry. I'm hoping you would like to tell me more about your story. I live in va and I'm trying to put together a compilation book of strange stories from va. If you want to contact me please by all means reply here and we will get in contact. I hope to hear from you.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

Wow. I do agree my friend. Thanks for sharing.

Terry Davis

2y↑1

As a young man, my father delivered mail in the mountains around Albany KY. He said sometimes the cabins he delivered mail to were so remote, he'd have to tie his horse up and proceed on, to places the horse couldn't climb. He said those places seldom got mail but when he'd have to go there, it was the loneliest, densest woods, with the steepest trails. You'd never know anyone lived back that deep in the mountains. I can't imagine who would live like that, or how. They would have to hunt to survive. Daddy joined the Marines in WWII, and came back, living in Byrdstown TN. Its nice to hear someone who can talk with a proper accent. Thank you, enjoyed your story. I liked, subscribed and look forward to more.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Awesome. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Howabouthetruth

2y↑6

Great story Donnie. I believe you, and I'll tell you why: Be sure ( if ya haven't already ) to watch the 2 movie/documentaries by David Paulides here on youtube entitled: "Missing 411" and "Missing 411 - the Hunted". The 2nd one is about hunters gone missing. I can't remember which of the 2 near the end interviews a couple, and how she loved hunting on their property, and she explains as they do a re-enactment of what she saw that was absolutely shocking. IT WAS NEAR INVISIBLE, JUST AS YOU DESCRIBED. She took a picture of it with her cell phone. But the image is very strange, and can't be explained by anyone, even the experts on cell phones, cameras, and electronics. BOTH of the Missing 411 movies are free right now!!!

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

WOW, Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Audrey Templeton

2y↑1

I love these stories.as a west Virginia gal I know the mysterious goings on in the woods.keep telling your stories.they are our heritage as well as interesting.thank you for sharing !

DONNIE LAWS

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Ramona Kearns

3y↑1

I appreciate your story and sharing your experiences ❤

DONNIE LAWS

You are so welcome

J Bos

2y↑10

I've got an old single shot 16 gauge H&R shotgun my daddy gave me in 1979. I was a female in the Navy living alone in Ocean View, Norfolk, VA. One night somebody came in my backdoor. All I had was a hammer and a cat that couldn't bark. I tore out the front door and ran two blocks to an open store in my flannel nightgown. I called my friend who was on a ship at NOB and he came off that ship carrying his shoes and half dressed. If you've been in the Navy you know that ain't how you leave a ship. He made it to that store in less than 15 minutes. I was so stupid back then. I don't know why I didn't call the police. Anyway I called my daddy and told him what happened and he said as soon as you can get home I've got something for you. That old shotgun has never left my bedside from California to Virginia and home to Georgia and she's never not loaded. I sure miss my daddy.

Suenette Edwards

2y↑1

I imagine you do!! I miss mine too.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

Thanks for sharing friend.

Shane Gros

2y↑1

Donnie, I really enjoyed this video! My dad grew up in South Louisiana near Thibodaux (Labadieville, LA) and hunted all of his life. He spoke fluent Cajun French. He was born in May of 1936 and passed away in June of 2011 at the age of 75. We had his single shot H&R 12 gauge shotgun, which his dad had given him, standing up next to his fishing poles, paddle, crawfish trap, fishing vest and rubber boots at the foot of his casket for his funeral. He loved the outdoors. I called him the original Swamp King (well before Troy Landry claimed that title on Swamp People). His dad would give him just so many .22 bullets to go hunting with as a kid growing up in the 40's, the youngest child of 11 total. Daddy said PaPere (as we called my grandfather) would whoop him if he didn't come back with as many squirrels and/or rabbits as he had spent shells! I have so many fond memories of hunting with him and so many memories of his tales of hunting the swamps and sugar cane fields of South Louisiana. I used that single shot on more than one occasion, but my favorite was the time he put me in the back of his pick up truck (yes, in the bed, and yes, illegal as all get out!) and drove on the "headlands" (dirt and gravel roads that criss cross the sugar cane fields). We were looking for dove. We were driving along one big block of cane that had already been harvested and huge covey of dove took off. I raised up and let that old H&R bark, firing it's one shot from about 50 yards across the field. When the dust and feathers cleared, I jumped out of the bed of the truck, ran over across the field and starting picking up birds. I had shot 9 in one shot! I think I was shooting 7-1/2 high power 2-3/4 shells. My dad couldn't believe his eyes! He was so proud. I also remember our squirrel hunts very well. He would drop me off at his favorite spot in the swamp on a ridge just off the main road and he would leave to go to another spot. He taught me what to look for and how to spot the squirrels coming in. He set me up on an old tree (hackberry, I think) with my back to the hundreds of acres of swamps behind me, but facing a huge live oak that the squirrels would come to every morning to feast on its plentiful acorns. Without fail, you'd hear them coming in from behind you and all you had to do was wait for the shot, like a sniper with a shotgun! I was using his old single shot .410 then. He had a nice Remington 1100 20 gauge with modified choke (back when you did't have choke tubes) that he liked to use in those days. We always came back with our limit. I had to laugh and rewind the video when you mentioned a plug in your gun and only having 3 shots. I scrolled back to the beginning of the video and watched you shuck 4 shots out of that beautiful 870. I think the old 1100 went without its plug more often than with it! My momma gave it to me after he passed and I cherish it, although now I use it mostly for trap shooting now. I'm 49 now and I wish I had spent more time with him after I moved away from home to South Alabama. There's so many things I want to talk to him about and would love to have filmed some of our hunts, had we had the money to buy a camera back then! He even had his share of mysterious encounters. I loved hearing him talk about the time he heard what he called a panther hollering while he was out in the swamp running crawfish cages. It kept getting closer and closer from the sound of it, so daddy left it some catfish heads on a log and high-tailed it out there. He didn't go back in to check his cages for about 3 days and didn't hear again. Them catfish heads were all gone though! There's another story he never told me, relayed to me by my retired Air Force major brother in law about them two seeing an upright walking swamp ape of some type when they were fishing along a canal one day. Daddy never did tell me about it, but my brother in law is not the type to just make stuff up, so I'm inclined to believe him. Plus, someone else fishing in the same area said they saw the same critter one day, too. But that's all a story for another day. Thanks for the video! Liked and Subscribed!

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

WOW! what a story my friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

NOT IN A CORNER

2y↑1

Hello Mr Donnie! Squirrel hunter here too! I live on the biggest mountain in Arkansas. I was bow hunting once many years ago on Halloween of all days. I was about to climb down as it had gotten dark when I heard "laughing". Sounded exactly like a small child except kind of menacing almost evil and not very loud. I could tell it was coming down the deer trail I was watching. Man I thought it was Chucky the evil doll I was gonna stick an arrow in him lol. When it finally came into view it was a pair of grey foxes! I'll never forget that experience!

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

😂 Thanks for sharing my friend.

Grace is Amazing!

3y↑18

I got a true story for you:
September 21, 1986, when leaving to go celebrate a girl's 21st birthday, I looked up at Mt. Sī (pronounced like sigh) in western Washington state. It was a beautiful crystal blue sky day, except for one thing: a ring of white smoke encircled the entire mountain, with a line of smoke going from the circle into the mouth of the Snoqualmie chief's face formed in the outline of the mountain. There were other people there, & I pointed it out to them.
As we stood there and watched, the chief/mountain inhaled that entire ring of smoke!! Immediately after that, the evergreen trees within a bare Y about 2/3rds of the way down the mountain started waivering, like something BIG coming down that mountain! One word popped into my mind:: WENDIGO!! It's a Native American legendary spirit, reportedly malevolent in nature. I don't know for certain if that's what it was, but if so, I'm sure glad it wasn't any of us it was after!!!

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

@Grace is Amazing! Thanks for sharing my friend.

Grace is Amazing!

3y↑5

@DONNIE LAWS no problem. I've had a lot of very strange things happen in my life, too.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑4

Wow, Thanks for sharing my friend.

Dorky Donut

My old man took me hunting once and I'm hooked, that was when I was 11 years old, he hasn't been hunting since but I have, now 28, will go out every chance I get.
I love being in the forest, I don't have to take an animal life to enjoy hunting, for me I rather be out there and enjoy nature, as long as I get to hold my gun, hike, walk and shoot a few rounds..I'm happy.
Have the forest go quite on me once, worse feeling ever, no predator but the quitness of you're not supposed to be there

T Ritchie

2y↑2

For those that don't know, hunting is a valuable part of conservation. Of course nowadays we have seasons and bag limets so the wild game population can be properly managed. It's been along time sense I've had squrriel to eat. I always enjoyed eating fried squirrel.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

Me to. Thank for sharing my friend.

Mama Needmore

3y↑26

Love your stories. I have encountered many mountain lions, rattle snakes, and bear. I've been in place the over all feel of it will make the hair stand on end. I believe you.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.

Gary Mattox

3y↑8

Thank you Donnie! That same thing happened to me in Virginia about the same time 80 or 81 along the Blue Ridge Mt. Something came barreling though the woods from right to left in front of me shaking bushes and small tree limbs and I never saw it. Not even when it went by me less than 20 feet in front. When I left my stand I walked over to where the bush and rustling moved .....no tracks but overturned leaves.

Susan Fisher

2y↑2

It's true. There's spirits in those woods. Just because it isn't visible doesn't mean it isn't there.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑4

Wow, Thanks for sharing my friend.

Fedup Withem

3y↑1

I live in Maine, and that sounds almost identical to what I saw years ago while I was sitting in my tree stand. Sticks and limbs breaking and a strange, deep growling sound. It came almost directly under me and I was like it was invisible. It made every hair on my body stand up.

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.

JamJar

2y↑2

I love your stories and the telling. My family had a couple of strange experiences in WA St. My husband and his family had strange experiences where he is from. It is universal I think.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

Thank you. Thank for sharing my friend.

Janice Mclaughlin

Great story Donnie. I’m so glad I found your channel! I love history. I love your voice and the beautiful mountains in this part of our country. ✌️❤️

DONNIE LAWS

Awesome my friend. Thank you so much for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

Harold J. Kennedy

3y↑2

Such an excellent story teller experience. I couldnt leave. I imagined that I was there in that forest, sitting on some rock just listening. Continue to flourish in your future posts.

DONNIE LAWS

Wow, Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Lois Reese

Thank you, @DONNIE LAWS for telling us more of your experiences and sharing the gorgeous and historic scenery that has taken care of so many generations. Take care.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

john harris

2y↑13

Now I've seen ya, and you showed me your 870 12 GA with 30" full choke barrel, I subscribed! I'm 68 and grew up huntin in the Missouri woods. Yes we live in a spiritual world. God is a spirit the Bible says. Now we see darkly through a glass, but one day we shall see clear. I'm like you don't really want to hurt animals anymore.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑2

Welcome aboard my friend. I still love the hunt, but I don't have the heart as a young man to take their life. I would rather shot them with a camera and share their beauty. Should I need to eat that would not be a problem at all. Thanks for sharing my friend. God Bless.

Rusty Lee

2y↑3

Donnie I know you're telling the truth about reloading your shotgun so quickly. I have a whole house full of H&R shotguns, at least one in every gauge they make. My son had a 12 gauge that he was determined to use to take out a den full of foxes that lived on our property. He came in from school one day and set off with his 12 ga shotgun and some shells. It wasn't long before I heard bang, bang, bang in close order. I got up from where I was reading only to greet him running down the driveway. He had killed 3 kits that were playing around the mouth of their den. I was just glad he got them before they bot any more of our chickens. I couldn't believe he could shoot a single shot shotgun that fast but he did. Thank you for your stories.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑3

WOW, Thank for sharing my friend.

Chip Miller

Love your videos. You seem like family to me. I was born and raised in East Tn. I was in the woods with my dad and uncles when I could barely walk squirrel hunting. Rabbit hunting. Quail and grouse. We ate everything we killed. Didn't waste much of it. I got older and started hunting deer and turkey. About too old to walk too far back in the old hills and hollars like I used to. But still get in there once in a moon and watch the wildlife. I love the mtns. Thank you for your videos.

DONNIE LAWS

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome. God bless you.

Little NC Farmer

3y↑2

I have been watching your videos for a while now and enjoy them so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of Tennessee and beyond, I love this kind of stuff!

DONNIE LAWS

3y↑1

Your welcome. Thanks for watching my friend. Thanks for sharing.

tony jones

Great story sir
I’ve seen some weird things back in the woods aswell
Thanks sir
Listening to you is like listening to your grandpa telling camp fire stories
Glad to hear your story

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Beverine

2y↑2

Awesome story! Strange for sure. I have a few of my own but keep them mostly to myself. We dont know as much as we think we do.

DONNIE LAWS

Amen to that my friend. Thank for sharing.

Jay Hickman

3y↑2

I used to love squirrel hunting too. Now I'm older and don't hunt anymore. My favorite squirrel gun was a single shot 410. Just like my granddads. In fact I have his old 410 now. No telling how old that gun is. Love your channel and your stories.

DONNIE LAWS

Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.

SpectaclePictures

Thanks Mr. Donnie. We love you, pops!

For what it’s worth, was watching missing 411 and the older woman toward the end in that small town experienced something similar.

They referred to it as the predator experience. Due to the similarities of the cloaking from the creature in that film.

DONNIE LAWS

2y↑1

Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing this story.

Corey Ingram

2y↑1

I experienced something similar this year deer hunting here in NC. It was past shooting light and I was preparing to get out of the tree. Heard something coming through the woods breaking limbs and making all kinds of noise. Turned my head lamp from the green light to the bright LED to see if it was a big deer or a bear as it was within yards of the tree. Could here it walking but never saw a thing, no eyes glowing, no nothing. Whatever it was continued on through the woods past me. Not gonna lie, it was kinda creepy, especially now after hearing your story.

DONNIE LAWS

WOW. Thanks for sharing.

Doodfromellay

Thanks for sharing your story.
Some people know what it was you encountered that day. It's too far down the rabbit hole for most people to grasp.
They've been here a very long time. Stay safe and keep the stories coming...
D from Cajun Country...