Sep 8, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 19 segments
What started as a harmless game of hide and seek behind a Northern California school in 1983 turned into an encounter the kids would never forget. Three mysterious figures crossed the field, and one…
Tom FranklinHostIt's a lot easier for me to tell my story now because I've already, cause I've been on other, other, um, podcasts also, but believe me on my, on my first few, uh, podcasts, I mean, I'm all over the, I'm all over the page and I'm just like, uh, you know, trying to get even confusing myself at times, you know, and yeah, I was doing a lot of studying and I was, even when I first started telling my story, I was actually, when it came to that point where I was scared when I'm telling the story and, uh, I would, uh, I would actually start shaking even then, even just visibly kind of shaking during my podcast.
I'd be, at least I felt like I was shaking, but I guess I was mostly just stuttering most of the time, you know, but to me, I was still shaking.
hat man story yesterday and I was able to see it again for like a split second in my mind.
And then you have someone that listens to you, you know, other podcasters and other friends, hopefully through the years, eventually.
I mean, who do you, who do you tell other than those people? Did you guys end up telling others? Yeah.
And that's exactly what was going on when we were sitting around and stuff, is that we came to, because we were there for about, we were probably there just, mostly out of the excitement of what just happened you know we were actually pretty excited about it after after my after my total fear finally got away from it got you know was back to normal um about two hours later we're just sitting here just talking about we're laughing about it kind of thing and then now we now we decide okay should we go to the police because first of all we didn't know there's no such thing as bigfoot research anywhere as far as right we didn't know anything about like that we didn't know anything about even um looking for evidence i'm only 15 years old i didn't know that I didn't even have the forethought or even thinking about going and checking out on the other side of that fence and see if we can find footprints and all that stuff.
But it was all dry anyway, so I really doubt if there was much prints you can go.
But the next day, we did look right there, right by the field there, and there still was no clear prints or anything.
Yeah, so we, and then the only next step that we thought about doing when we were sitting around that circle is that, should we go, maybe go to the police or whatever, right? But me and my brother, we shut that down right away because we were pretty shy.
we're not going to involve the police unless there's a domestic type of situation right
and then you know the police aren't equipped for that kind of stuff and the fact that these creatures it was already two hours later anyways the the there wasn't considered a uh uh you know an emergency right nothing
It's a lot easier for me to tell my story now because I've already, cause I've been on other, other, um, podcasts also, but believe me on my, on my first few, uh, podcasts, I mean, I'm all over the, I'm all over the page and I'm just like, uh, you know, trying to get even confusing myself at times, you know, and yeah, I was doing a lot of studying and I was, even when I first started telling my story, I was actually, when it came to that point where I was scared when I'm telling the story and, uh, I would, uh, I would actually start shaking even then, even just visibly kind of shaking during my podcast.
I'd be, at least I felt like I was shaking, but I guess I was mostly just stuttering most of the time, you know, but to me, I was still shaking.
hat man story yesterday and I was able to see it again for like a split second in my mind.
And then you have someone that listens to you, you know, other podcasters and other friends, hopefully through the years, eventually.
I mean, who do you, who do you tell other than those people? Did you guys end up telling others? Yeah.
And that's exactly what was going on when we were sitting around and stuff, is that we came to, because we were there for about, we were probably there just, mostly out of the excitement of what just happened you know we were actually pretty excited about it after after my after my total fear finally got away from it got you know was back to normal um about two hours later we're just sitting here just talking about we're laughing about it kind of thing and then now we now we decide okay should we go to the police because first of all we didn't know there's no such thing as bigfoot research anywhere as far as right we didn't know anything about like that we didn't know anything about even um looking for evidence i'm only 15 years old i didn't know that I didn't even have the forethought or even thinking about going and checking out on the other side of that fence and see if we can find footprints and all that stuff.
But it was all dry anyway, so I really doubt if there was much prints you can go.
But the next day, we did look right there, right by the field there, and there still was no clear prints or anything.
Yeah, so we, and then the only next step that we thought about doing when we were sitting around that circle is that, should we go, maybe go to the police or whatever, right? But me and my brother, we shut that down right away because we were pretty shy.
we're not going to involve the police unless there's a domestic type of situation right
and then you know the police aren't equipped for that kind of stuff and the fact that these creatures it was already two hours later anyways the the there wasn't considered a uh uh you know an emergency right nothing
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