Daniel Boone & The Tale Of The "Giant Man"

[@fokkerd3red618]

One thing is certain. Daniel Boone spent years exploring the wilderness. If anyone was going to see something unusual, he definitely would have in all his travels. So why would he make up such a fantastic story about this encounter? He wouldn't have anything to gain. From what I've read about Daniel Boone, he was God fearing man who didn't Drink or smoke, that's why this story is so credible, in my opinion.

[@ronmailloux8655]

Accounts from French Canadian Explorers decades before Boone also make mention of wildmen as they were known. All the way from Southern Quebec the Missisippi river Ohio river out to and including Utah western Canada a vast area of only the natives and no White men.

[@johndeeble4095]

No doubt

[@patriciajrs46]

Boone was reputed to be truly honest. I think this is great. Are there any other ancient manuscripts thst you know of?

[@cray9868]

The story is third hand. Nobody knows if DB said any such thing.

[@ronmailloux8655]

@@cray9868 No one can verify the story from over 200 yrs ago. The story seems far fetched in its telling.

[@chillywilly3397]

Great story. Daniel Boone is my favorite frontiersman. The life he led is truly amazing.

[@Sundance59]

Happens to be told by my great grandfather. I'm a relative of Daniel Boone.

[@johnndavis7647]

I intended to still hunt the South edge of a big swamp in North Florida. There was a clear cut of six year old planted pines about a mile wide between where I parked and the edge of the swamp. A light but steady breeze was blowing from East to West. So I made a big loop to the West so I could ease along the edge of the swamp with the breeze in my face. About the time I got near the swamp I came upon a fire break that had been plowed around the edge of the swamp. It made a shallow ditch about five feet wide and a foot deep. It went in the general direction that I wanted to go and it made walking easy. I hadn't gone far when I came upon a set of huge foot prints in the mud in the fire break. I was wearing rubber boots and the tracks were twice as long and wide as my tracks. I followed the tracks 50 yards up the fire break then they led off towards a dead pine tree. I could see that the bark had been freshly ripped off the tree. My first thought was a black bear had done that looking for the big white grubs that live under the bark of dead pine trees. I went over to the tree to have a look. I expected to see the deep, narrow scraches a bears makes when he goes after grubs. Instead, the scratches in the soft pine wood were wide and shallow. They were about as wide as my two thumbnails side by side . I didn't know what to make of it. I went back to the trail and found more tracks. I followed them maybe 25 yards until they turned and went up into the swamp. I wasn't about to go in there. It was very wet. My next step might be ankle deep or waist deep. Besides that, it all looked the same. If you got turned around in there you could be lost for days. I went ahead and still hunted along the edge of the swamp until lunchtime. I came back that afternoon and the wind was the same so I made the big loop to the West. When I made the turn into the wind something downwind of me roared. I've never heard anything like it. Whatever it was, you could hear it for a mile, and it was telling me that this was his woods and I needed to leave. I stood there 5 or 10 minutes listening to it roar. While i stood there i had time to consider my feelings about it all. I had a high powered rifle and I determined to defend myself if it charged me. But really, I didn't want to shoot it. By this time I realized that it was one of those very rare creatures. And he was right. It was his woods and I was the tresspasser. Since his roaring had scared all of the game, the only sensible thing to do was to go somewhere else. When I picked up my deer stand and rifle and turned to go back the way I came, the roaring stopped. I never went back there.

[@hyrumnielsen4390]

Long winded. Tighten it up.

[@raimundotorres44]

I rather enjoyed your story Mr Davis, some of us like to read. Happy independence day.

[@johnndavis7647]

@@hyrumnielsen4390 Nope

[@TrussttN01]

I enjoyed the story too. Ignore your detractor.

[@ShowCat1]

Very believable and well told.

[@nlitnd1isaloof]

You didn't finish the story. Daniel Boone would NOT tell the story to anyone in the room who would call him out to be a liar. He swore he was not a liar. He later gathered a few men together who would listen to him and know he was not a liar, that he would be telling them the truth of the event because he was concerned with being a man of honor. Receiving the story as truth was paramount importance to his reputation. Only then did he tell the story. Keep in mind he nearly lost his son permanently and his son's gun was broken at the breach in the event, and they measured it and described it's bone structure. Three-quarter inches thick bone in the chest would be a heck of a whopper of a detail to add into a story given there is no known mammal outside of a whale with bone thickness like that in the chest. It would be something for settler to behold and be prepared for if they ever ran across one themselves, so to them it was useful future information.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Told all the story that I had. Did not come by more in my research.

[@AstroVanTribe]

Boone cut open where his sons bullets hit near the left nipple to find a very large and thick breast plate. The phrase in the story of "no ribs" wouldn't mean the thing didn't have any ribs just not where Boone was looking - He didn't preform a full autopsy on the thing... We humans have a breast plate - lifting weights and developing your muscles effect bone growth. Imagine a giant humanoid type creature weighing over 600 pounds heavily muscled, its skeletal structure would be much more robust then a humans - It makes sense that its breast plate would be enormous compared to ours. It's an odd detail of the story that makes a thinking person more easily accept it as true. Boone was a straight shooter (in more ways than one) with an epic reputation.. I've had my own experience as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYWWmKNuqbtnd6M

[@kathykonkle1097]

@@AstroVanTribe I think he was pranking people based on true stories of really tall early American peoples. If the story was true he would have at least brought back something like a severed body part.

[@lovernotfighter]

If Daniel Boone said it, I believe it.

[@DannyPepprs]

Yes sir

[@DwayneShaw1]

now all you have to do is believe that someone said, that some one said, that Boone said it. ... and that, as far as we know, the son never talked about it. ... and that mammals can have thick solid plates instead of rib cages - despite not a single example in nature. Which would require believing that a species of hominid evolved with no relation to mammals or other hominids, and no precursor fossils for whatever it evolved from.

[@williamguillIII]

@@DwayneShaw1 You have to remember, that there were folks who wrote books about these "famous" people around that time, to make money. For them to embellish anything and everything in their books/stories is proven. Look at all the little books sold in NYC and all over about all the shenanigans of the stage coach robbers, the bank robbers, the cowboy gangs, etc. These have all been embellished by the writers.....one and ALL.

[@DwayneShaw1]

@@williamguillIII You have to remember "how dumb the average person is, and realize half the people are dumber than that" (Carlin). Most people have no concept that if they believe something is true - a whole lot of other things must also be true, or false, to make it so. I blame the government .... and religion - which poisons everything .... I keep six good serving men They taught me all I knew They're names are What, and Where, and When And Why, and How, and Who -- Kipling

[@JohnMccormick-vj6xh]

Wow, I Agree; and that's the first time I heard that story.

[@kathyyodertreat]

Daniel is my 6th great-grandfather thru his daughter Rebecca Boone Goe (my Mom's maiden name was Goe) Thanks for this! Neat stuff

[@DavidMyers-df5jd]

My great grandfather's name was Daniel Boone, not the one in the story, not in the same time frame, this was back in the 1800s when he lived. Don't know for a fact that he's not related.

[@gilbertocamacho6769]

Are you on any of the genetic companies like Ancestry or 23andme?

[@TerminusHostilia]

The Indians wouldn't settle the eastern half of this continent because they knew Sasquatch would rip them a new one. When I was a young'un, I caught sight of his huge, black, hairy face from less than 6 feet away one night...lit up by the moon in the upper corner of my bedroom window. Many times, I'd catch 3 of them watching me and my little brother when we were playing down by a pond in a little holler, or at various other spots around a wooded 200 acres. That happened so many times I quit being amazed by it. I never dared breathe a word for fear of losing the privilege of running those woods and splashing around in that pond. I even learned to eat pine chutes by watching them watching me. And that's why I always say: *"Just because **_you_** haven't seen Bigfoot, doesn't mean **_he_** hasn't seen **_you._*

[@MrStroud09]

Teddy Roosevelt and D Boone had something in common.

[@welshman8954]

Yeah they both liked shooting shit

[@unropednope4644]

Roosevelt never had a bigfoot sighting. He was once told a secondhand story from a trapper named Baumann who told him about a series of incidents that could have been caused by bigfoot. H3 wrote about it in his book, wilderness hunter.

[@JamesThomas-gg6il]

The Bauman story is what Teddy wrote about. I dont think Teddy ever had a sighting himself.

[@welshman8954]

None of them had sightings because get this bigfoot doesn't exist simple as that

[@tonyducks1121]

​@@unropednope4644 Teddy Roosevelt never had a bigfoot sighting himself. But there is a story where Roosevelt and his exploration party heard some loud unknown 'animal' noises close by their camp that genuinely shook them all. And Roosevelt wasn't easily spooked.

[@allanboyer2769]

Theodore Roosevelt wrote about a story told to him by a trapper he knew named Bauman, if I remember the name correctly, about the man's encounter with bigfoot along with his partner in the Idaho / Montana mountains somewhere. It killed his partner and he barely escaped with his life. Lewis and Clarke also reported seeing them.

[@robertd.7060]

It is believed that , the Bauman story by many , now . May have been Teddy himself . Way to much details for a 2nk hand story ? Also Teddy & another hunter friend heard some strange screams/ howls on 1 of there hunting trips , 1 night while they were setting around a camp fire ? NEITHER knew what had made the calls OR had they every heard those calls before ! Keep in mind Teddy had hunted all over this planet , not just in 1 or 2 areas . Yes there is a report in the Lewis & Clark trips . But , I don't think they are released to the public , on that part ? I could be wrong on this , though ?

[@alwilson3204]

That wasn't actually a bigfoot story, that creature had fangs and wasn't described as one.

[@markvela8152]

I read undaunted courage and it did not mention an encounter. Where did you read about i

[@allanboyer2769]

@@markvela8152 It was called The Wilderness Hunter.

[@archangel_one]

My great-grandmother knew much more about my great-grandfather's side of the family than her own. She told me three family stories that are almost identical to three of Daniel Boone's stories, but told from the viewpoint of the women. She never mentioned Daniel Boone. This video's story is identical to one of those stories, but she never mentioned the men's names. She told no gory details, only saying that the man/men had killed a Yahoo/Yeahoo. I believe she mentioned a Fanny, Jemima, and Betsy(?). My great-grandmother knew nothing of Bigfoot or Sasquatch, but described the Yeahoo as being a large, hairy forest creature like a man, but not a man. The focus of the story was on the woman who was worried about one of the men, the one who almost died. It was my understanding that the story was relayed originally by Jemima, and the location she presumed was Kentucky. Was this Jemima Boone? I didn't know to ask. I had done some research on Bigfoot and remembered the word (Yeahoo) and could not remember if it was Daniel Boone or Davey Crockett who claimed to have killed one. So I looked it up and found a paragraph somewhere about this incident and read it to my great-grandmother. She had a look of concern and couldn't care less about Daniel Boone. But she would add little things to the story to make sure that I was getting it right. In other words, she thought it was the same exact story. In her story, none of the men's names were mentioned. She did say that the two men were related. She could not say if they were related to the family. Later on in life, I found that my father's mother's family did travel with Boone from Kentucky to Missouri. For what it's worth.

[@billmitchell9501]

That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing this. I live not far from Boonesborough and have never heard this story.

[@philparrish6914]

Great grandma was certainly a fanciful story-teller.

[@marilyncausey9348]

Fascinating!

[@archangel_one]

@@philparrish6914 Actually, not at all. Someone who told her the story might have been, but she was serious.

[@archangel_one]

@@marilyncausey9348 All of her stories were about the women, their point of view -- and very mundane. She's go on and on about her sister having lost her bow, but the part I found fascinating was that this was the first time they rode in a car! They drove to the city, but there were no roads, so they had to drive down farmers' roads. But her focus, her concern, was about the bow. She told the "Yahoo" story the same way -- like "who cares about the Yahoo?"

[@GrizzlyUrsusArctos]

My 7th Great Maternal Grandfather is Daniel Boone. I discovered it in grade school when my Grandma helped me create my family tree. It’s been very interesting to learn about the Boones.

[@gilbertocamacho6769]

Are you on Ancestry or 23andme?

[@robinbonaventura4951]

Great story, never heard this before. So nice to see you back Ben! Take care- Robin

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Thank you!

[@glenturney4750]

​@@HoffmanReproductions: I dig your threads! Do you also have a tricorn hat to go with 'em? 🙂👍

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Yep!

[@randocalrissian347]

He is my great great great g grandfather. I’m taking my daughter to see his Homestead this Summer, and have been researching him to share her ancestry with her.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Very cool! Thank you for sharing!

[@ginobalakonis9657]

My wife is kin to Daniel Boone on her mother's side. This is such a kool story

[@randocalrissian347]

@@ginobalakonis9657 maybe we are related :)

[@davidhutchison7567]

Our Boone Family is descended from his brother squire. I have found a few sites that take it back far.

[@yepiratesworkshop7997]

My wife has some relation to you, then. She's also related to William Howard the pirate.

[@DannyPepprs]

I was just telling my son about this a few days ago , and I just came across this video. I wonder if it was a Bigfoot or a giant ? Sounds like descriptions by Native americans of giants fair skinned , fair haired . Great job presenting this ! Thanks

[@pennsyltuckyreb9800]

They differentiated between all these beings, Sasquatch, Dog men, The fair-skinned giants (Biblical nephilim?), skinwalkers, etc

[@kathleenpimentel9218]

Giant

[@happyg.444]

I have heard this story before. I love history about the early Kentucky settlers. At 5:48, The map seems to be showing Portsmouth and Wheelersburg on the Ohio River instead of Cincinnati area. Makes the most sense by the direction him and his son would be heading to pass Mt Sterling. It's called the "Warrior's Path". There were a couple "serial killers" up in an outcropping on the Ohio River back in those days too. It was a dangerous place.

[@kelleychilton2524]

Those serial killers were located near Paducah in far western Kentucky, on the Ohio River. They were eventually killed themselves in separate incidents.

[@ctd92dad]

Thank you for these stories are becoming very rare. I remember my 3 rd grade teacher reading these kinds of early American stories. I would like to find that book of Lyman Draper. I am a collector of historical accounts, being a history / social studies teacher. Kids eat this stuff up as I tell them stories of Harriet Tubman, Molly Pitcher, Kit Carson, Peter Dunsick, Crispus Attucks, Davy Crockett...

[@billmitchell9501]

It's great that there are teachers that love their job and go beyond the curriculum. Thank you so much. When I went through public school in the 70's there were a few like you. Most of them though couldn't care less if you learned anything.

[@2gpowell]

Hi Ben, nice to see ya ! I heard something about this many yrs. ago but never followed up on it. Very interesting. Thanks for putting this together.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Thank you!

[@patjones2082]

Very interesting story! Daniel sure led an adventurous life. Thanks for posting this.

[@johndoppleguard]

Howdy Pat. Seen dave j?

[@tombailey5413]

His son must have been tough as nails to survive two body slams by a sasquatch before it fell on him and Boone must have been a world class marksman to take one out with a flintlock. Great story though. I have always been fascinated by Daniel Boone and his amazing life.

[@JefferyAshmore]

Flintlock are very accurate rifles. I shoot them often. Old timers always taught me to shoot for eyes as it is instant death or you miss altogether. I believe this story.

[@JefferyAshmore]

I hit a coke can 8 out of 10 times at 100 yards with my Thompson newenglander 50 caliber.

[@ltdc426]

‘Flintlock’ is simply the method of ignition, has nothing to do with the potential power of the gun.

[@lizgibson5266]

Abraham Lincoln spoke of giants in his speech at Niagara Falls

[@TomRiddle-ww5on]

I lived in little town of Boonsboro. They have a parade yearly in Dan's name. Good times ! With a eye of a eagle and tall as a mountain was he....

[@gilbertocamacho6769]

Which state?

[@jessemayle1380]

Great story, I'd love to hear more like it. Thank you.

[@lindadgarcia3]

Wow, awesome presentation of storytelling and scripture. I enjoyed it and was enlightened. It was like a movie and I believe it. Thank you and God's continued blessings, I pray. 🙏

[@williamguillIII]

I didn't see a single episode on the Daniel Boone TV series about him killing a Giant. Anyone else?

[@HepCatJack]

There was another kind of Giant called the Si Te Cah in Nevada that ate "long pig" and had red hair. The Paiute and other local tribes banded together and declared war on them. They finally gained the upper hand an chased the remaining giants in a cave near Lovelock. They set fire at the mouth of the cave to asphyxiate them. Many years later, in 1911, a pair of miners were excavating bat guano from Lovelock Cave for sale, when they allegedly found the mummified specimens of several Si-Te-Cah, although all of these bodies have since disappeared, leading to claims that they were in fact a hoax. However, a later excavation in 1924 did turn up three human bones which had been split in order to extract bone marrow, lending credence to the fact that the consumption of "long pig" was indeed practiced there at some point. Whether this was a product of the Si-Te-Cah or not is impossible to ascertain.

[@michaelharrison8036]

In Australia they had a story of a creature that looked like Big Foot, it was called a "Yowie" and lived in the hills of S.E. Australia in Victoria I think.

[@billmitchell9501]

We saw this story on tv not long ago. History Channel? Thanks for sharing.

[@gankstar2000]

Thank you very much! I haven't heard of that one either. The bible talks about giants in Genesis chapter 6. God bless!

[@gregsayles9253]

Interesting!--I heard that story as a kid after I had my own Bigfoot experience with my cousin's in a tent trying to grab one of us back in the 70's in Pennsylvania/Police later found giant-footprints & a cast was made by an anthropologists & held up on the local-news.

[@marilyncausey9348]

Wow! Glad you're here to tell it!

[@gotredeemed]

Great story and good tellin'. Thank you.

[@motorcyclemikel711]

Great story! Thanks for sharing!

[@martyadamsandthepikecounty6931]

Thats interesting . The details about the teeth and the chest bone are intriging. Blond and yellow skinned ? Idk if ive ever heard of a big foot being discribed like that.

[@BlueRidgeCritter]

Good to see you again Ben! Thanks for another video. I had never heard that one before, interesting!

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Thank you!

[@dansutherlin9244]

Hi Ben! I was surprised to see you covering this story, but well done. I had heard a different version of this story somewhere ( now I'll have to see if I can find it) and I had heard of one of Daniels sons shooting a giant, and now I wonder if also a corruption of the same story. If I can find my sources I'll send them to you if you like. Anyway, it's a great video, as usual.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Not really a "Believer" Dan, just thought it was a fun story to share. Thanks for watching!

[@scorpio7927]

​@@HoffmanReproductionsSo You Just Think That Someone Waaay Back Then In History, Just Thought Up & Fabricated This Story Up About Daniel Boone Shooting & Killing A Giant Man? But I Assume You Believe In Other Story's From Long Ago In History? Hmm. Do You Think All The Stories From Native Americans & First Nation's People That Speak About The "Hairy Man" Sasquatch" "Sabee" All Different Names For These Very Tall, Muscular, Man Like Beings, Covered In Hair, With Really Big Feet, That Live In The Mountains, That Go Back Hundreds Of Years, Past On From Generation To Generation, Are All Just Made Up Stories? And That All The Cave/Wall Drawings Found All Over From Them Of Deer, Elk, Wolves, Bears, Eagles, The Animals They See, Hunt & Kill, Along With Pics Of Themselves/People, Are Drawings Of These Very Tall Muscular Hairy Men, With Really Big Feet, Shoulders, Chest Muscles, With Long Arms, And Conical Heads? Why Would They Draw Those If They Weren't Real? Just As Real As Themselves & All Those Animals? Now, How Come Their Are These Things & Stories In Totally Different Cultures Clear Over On The Other Side Of The World Too? Who Have Never Met, Haven't Swapped Stories, That Describe The Same Creatures, Some With Some Different Characteristics, Which Would Make Sense. Like The Yeti In Nepal & Live At Much Higher Altitudes & Climates, Snow Coverd Mountains, So A White Haired Version Would Blend To Its Environment, Logical Right? I Would Say That All That Is Plenty Of Evidence To Prove They Are Real. But We Can Add The Ten Of Thousands Of Eye Witness Reportings From People Seeing One Of These Hairy Man, Sasquatch, Just In The United States Alone, Do You Really Believe Each Of Those People Who Report To 911, To Forest Rangers, Fish & Game Officers, National Forest Officials, That They Qre ALL Lying? Many Of The People Who Report Seeing Them, Are Pillars Of Their Community's, Police Officers, Military Souldurs, Firefighters, Doctors, Enigeneers, Nurses, And Many VERY Skilled, Knowledgeable Hunter's, Life Long Mountain Men, Guides, Wild Life Photographers, And Just Good Honest People, You Think They All Just Lied About What They Saw? No Way... Remember, It Only Takes ONE Of Them Being Honest To Prove These Things Are Real.... In The Court Of Law, It Only Takes One Eye Witness To Prove A Person Is Guilty Of A Crime. I Won't Even Start About The DNA & 100 Samples Tested By Top Universities, That The Results Are HUMAN FEMALE- UNKOWN MALE... So No, They Are Not An Undiscovered Ape Of Some Kind Either... Lastly, Don't Forget Our Goverment Just Told Us Aliens DO Exist, Just 3 Years Ago. After Lying To Us For Decades & Decades About Them! ANYWAY, I Am Not A Knower. But Definitely A Believer After Doing My Own Research The Last 2 Years.

[@glenturney4750]

​@@HoffmanReproductions: Do you believe in the Nephilim giants?

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Those referenced in the Bible, yes I do.

[@mw-dl9pi]

Good story I love history and bigfoot stories

[@mchrome3366]

I’ve heard this story before but thanks for your work affirming it like you said way before the Bigfoot phenomenon could have just colored a tall tale or inserted one from scratch. Your point is well taken in that in those days someone as accomplished as Daniel Boone would have no need to create a tall tale and repeat it if it wasn’t true. I tend to believe the history from a time when just the writing down of events took a great effort let alone having them published. Thanks for your work.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Thank you for watching!

[@kathykonkle1097]

Even Daniel Boone enjoyed having some fun.

[@Wildwest89]

Bigfoot stories are always entertaining. They always seem to be impervious to bullets in the stories as well. If they are real, and if this is a true story, maybe that would explain it. I have a hard time thinking everyone who reports seeing them is on drugs or mistaken but the lack of physical evidence is rather problematic.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Who knows. Fun story though.

[@user9675]

Well, apparently the Smithsonian has collected thousands of larger than usual skeletons -many 9-10 ft tall or more and keeps them hidden away. Perhaps the powers that be don't want any of the mainstream narratives they push to be disrupted

[@unropednope4644]

Have you actually researched this subject thoroughly? There's plenty of physical evidence that's been recovered over the decades that proves something large and bipedal and hairy lives in the woods of North america. That's not counting the literal thousands of credible witness sightings reports and many "hairy man" sightings stories written up in historical newspapers dating back to the 1800s. Hair and scat have been found on fences and trash cans where a bigfoot was just seen. Unknown vocalizations have been heard and recorded that experts can't identify due to the vocal range and lung capacity. You're also apparently forgetting the hundreds of tracks discovered all over North America that have dermal ridges that scientists and experts deem real. There's also the patterson gimlin footage of an unknown hominid that's never been debunked that makeup and special effects expert Bill munns claimed is not a hoax. Looking at all the combined evidence (big picture), anyone who says there isn't an unknown bipedal hominid out there is either afraid of the uknown and just wont admit it, hasn't done any deep diving research or is a closed minded debunker with a narrative.

[@akaJackLugar]

If they are impervious to bullets they are undoubtedly demonic.

[@felice9907]

the lack of evidence is just a myth .. to keep things under the carpet, officially. i am an elderly lady from germany wandering the woods for years and can tell you from my own experience and credible reports of others around the world, that there is something like a missing link (in case you believe in the concept of evolution) between humans and the great apes and Neanderthals and whatnot. there have been several scientists researching hair and other dna samples in different countries and it has become clear that these creatures are hominid. they are our closest hairy cousins you could say: huge, strong, intelligent, territorial but also migrating, omnivorous, mainly nocturnal, - breaking limbs and bending trees as signs of warning, living in small family units (usually, in remote caves), able to use language and fire (in some cases) etc. their tipi-like structures and other wooden installations can be seen in every forest, so there is no reason to think that they are rare. they differ in hair and skin colour, in character, size and some other features (like we do) but in general you can say THEY EXIST.

[@elfonzo18]

Think you , enjoyed this

[@Ohmy1956]

I’ve been missing your videos, THANKYOU for posting

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Welcome! Thank you!

[@Abishai919]

Davy Crockett also reported to have seen one and spoke to it.

[@tannarbuck7908]

I was kinda cool hearing stories from the past especially this one very cool if that’s what this channel is about I am definitely going to subscribe for more stories

[@sammyday3341]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@brianmarek6159]

Yes, I've heard this and I believe it for sure. Thx for telling this one.

[@uktenatsila9168]

Thank you for the video.

[@susanhunter4746]

My question would be why Daniel Boone wouldn't have taken this creature/man back to Boonesboro to show others and/or bury it? Something this fantastic needed corroboration and certainly to warn others.

[@brycebehnke9566]

Just found your channel. It is pretty good! I have heard this story and thought it a farce. Apparently it is not.

[@jpe1701]

Great video! Thank you. That was an interesting story.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@leidersammlung6955]

Yessir, Bigfoot is always entertaining, and this tale is brand new for me! Thank you!

[@princenamor1939]

Daniel Boone was the Man!!

[@JDale56]

My mother saw one in 1940 near Middlesboro KY. Described it as having mottled brown/white/black coloration.

[@DwayneShaw1]

I think that was my grandpa - did it grunt and spit a lot?

[@elizabethanthony3916]

​@@DwayneShaw1😂👏👏👏

[@lukyguy1240]

Great musical selections! No where better than leaning on the Everlasting arms!

[@ALFAJERKBFH]

That was AWESOME! Thanks for that👍

[@patriciajrs46]

I find two things a bit hard to believe: those slams on the ground should have killed Dan's son, and 2) that Boone could move that creature off of his son by himself.

[@asherdog9248]

I went to college with Daniel Boon's 3rd Great grand daughter. If I would have known this at the time I would have asked her.

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

This is so cool! So Hoffman lives in the actual community from M Night Shyamalans "The Village"?!!! So I bet we can expect an awesome video about the history of "those we don't speak of" any time now! 🤘🤘😜

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Thank you! Well, I don't know how about hair raising tales, but I'll try and get some videos done with decent content for all.

[@tomcaldwell5750]

Interesting thanks for sharing

[@CwL-1984]

Splendid 👍👍

[@Tsonontowan]

Very interesting story. First time hearing this.

[@lindabaldwin3257]

Lyman Draper was five years old when Daniel Boone died. I believe he interviewed Nathan Daniel's son.

[@johngough5109]

It was windy up here in Michigan too

[@mikewilson858]

Wow, I actually live by the Licking River. I take walks their all the time. Cool to know Daniel Boone spent time in the same area

[@patriciajrs46]

I love the stories about the old time mountain men!! Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, and stories of Louis and Clark.

[@SuperChicken666]

Boone died in 1820. Draper was born in 1815. It's doubtful that he ever had a chance to sit down for an interview with Daniel Boone. But that would have been awesome.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Your right. Doubt He ever spoke to him. Thanks for sharing!

[@steveclayton2353]

I have a book by draper,he traveled to see his last surviving son in the 1850's,and wrote down alot of stories about his father,Daniel Boone.Its titled "My Father,Daniel Boone"

[@MKUltra77715]

So Daniel Boone talked like Joe Jack from King of the Hill

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Just reading the story as it was written.

[@kelleychilton2524]

Not sure which one came first, tho. ???

[@a1investigations433]

Can you link a copy of this story or state where you obtained it?

[@nulife022]

There are many stories of early settlers being attacked by "apes" and even killed.

[@sclarin2]

There are also many stories of vampires and zombies and those arent real either

[@nulife022]

@sclarin2 way too many sightings to this day to not have something to it

[@sclarin2]

@@nulife022 Just like UFO sightings right? The human mind is easily tricked and our senses can misread what we see and hear all of these "sightings" are a case of mistaken identity. You are free to believe what you want but I need evidence not stories. We have actual physical evidence of every creature on the planet except for cryptids. No bones have ever been found nothing in any scientific journals has been published and it would be a major breakthrough find if there was any evidence at all it would make any scientist famous for discovering a human ancestor still living but just like the megalodon and dinosaurs they have all been extinct for a long long long time and there is no EVIDENCE to suggest otherwise. Stories are not evidence I could tell you an amazing story that matches other peoples accounts yet is 100 percent untrue, stories are bullshit without evidence.

[@franciswashack89]

That is the reason I bought a colt dragoon. In case I run into a big foot on one of my hikes in the mountains. Good video.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Good choice!

[@frederickking1660]

File the front sight off. It will hurt less when bigfoot shoves it up your ass. I do this with all my big bear guns.

[@kelleychilton2524]

Better go buy a .500 magnum, instead.

[@michaelpriest6242]

Thanks for sharing this bit of Boone history.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Welcome!

[@johnfun3394]

Good story. Thanks

[@09sethman]

wow i am a direct descendant o Daniel Boone, and i look exactly like him..and my sister is married to a Hoffman in Ohio where we grew up

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Cool! Got your message, Will reply back ASAP.

[@williamguillIII]

Daniel Boone is my 1st cousin, 8x removed!

[@kelleychilton2524]

@@williamguillIII No kidding, we're practically brothers cause he's my 3rd cousin 12x removed. Hey bro!! How's the family? Tell Ma I'm coming over for supper.

[@williamguillIII]

@@kelleychilton2524 LOL.....I don't live with my Ma. She's two states away.

[@gilbertocamacho6769]

Are you on Ancestry or 23andme?

[@davidfarney904]

Mr Draper is my kin my grandfather was Frank Draper I have heard some of this tale but it is first time hearing all thank you

[@deanjones9260]

I read this back in the 70's,,as well as the Big Foot tales of Teddy Roosevelt's adventures,,,very interesting,,these guys weren't liars,,🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲👍

[@mackenshaw8169]

Boone spent his life in forrested wilderness so it would surprizing if he hadn't encounted Bigfoot.

[@robertcoggeshall3071]

Intriguing story. What did Boone do with the body, i wonder? Seems strange he wouldnt have kept at least some part of it.

[@jackiestowe6987]

If you understand where they come from it makes this story real. They are the children of the fallen angel’s. They were the reason for the flood of Noah. They ran out of food and began to eat humans. In Genesis 6 and those old clay jars they found in the Cumron Desert, the book of Enoch, tells of the story. They are to come back in Revelations in the end times. I recently saw a video of them on KZbin walking on a mountain in Mexico. They are back.

[@musicalcompanion5890]

what book(s) more than one source? can i find this information from?

[@Hercules1-v9m]

If the story is true it would explain why people report gunfire being ineffective most of the time. A solid bone chest plate instead of a rib cage would be very thick and rounded which is good for deflecting projectiles.

[@DwayneShaw1]

There are biological reasons why all mammals have rib cages instead of solid plates. Besides the biological problems that would pose, it also requires believing that a hominid evolved with no relation to mammals, or other hominids - and no precursor species of whatever it evolved from.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

@@DwayneShaw1 junk word salad from a brainwashed t. Warcher.

[@scottcooksey5284]

​​​@@DwayneShaw1evolved ass!

[@williamguillIII]

The part that makes me think this is a "tall tale" is at the very end, you mention the Osage River. The Osage starts in Kansas and runs through Missouri.

[@woodsy3495]

Osage is a fairly common name for rivers

[@williamguillIII]

@@woodsy3495 I'm pretty sure there isn't one in Kentucky though and the only one I know of is the current one.

[@beverlybuckhorn9168]

Ohio river

[@toddd.9433]

dang.. u lost the first page.. of who what when and where.. makes it so easy to validate.. sheeesh! Thx for the info tho...t.a.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

The first page gave a few names of whom was there that day is about all it listed. The boys name, the man that heckled him, and I believe the name of the boys Father whom spoke up and said he had heard the story from Boone.

[@ChacoteOutdoorRecreation]

Daniel Boone told tales of “killing a ten-foot, hairy giant he called a Yahoo,” says John Mack Faragher in a 1992 biography of Boone. The Yahoos are hairy man-like creatures in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, one of Boone’s favorite books. Boone and his explorer companions, it should be noted right from the get-go, threw around many of the terms used in that book rather liberally. killing a ten foot, hairy giant he called a “Yahoo.” The Yahoos were giant beasts in human shape from Boone’s favorite book, Gulliver’s Travels. It was a tall tale that Boone repeated to a number of people during his last year, one such as he would have told in a winter camp.”

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Yes, I had come by that story as well. However, this one was said to be totally different time, place and so on with other people involved giving testimony. Not saying it's true, as that would involve a huge amount eye witnesses and so forth, but still an interesting story.

[@ChacoteOutdoorRecreation]

@@HoffmanReproductions In a day without the entertainment industry, the value and ability of being able to recite a tale of wonder was surely prized and added to the quality of a man, and without these things spoken around the campfire at night, perhaps we would never have had the ability to imagine, we really did land on the moon, and not far from it being a tale told as the fire cracked. That being said if the Colonel said I will swear to it, based on my regard for the man.

[@justinmurray4652]

Other people's encounters are fat from tall tales.They absolutely exist

[@ChacoteOutdoorRecreation]

@@justinmurray4652 The Secret of Bigfoot - Part 1 Six Million Dollar Man, based on a real government project.

[@jayytee8062]

So Daniel Boone was a big lying man...?!

[@charlieandhudsonspal7031]

I’ve heard it but it’s always cool to hear someone new tell it

[@ericbrabham3640]

crazy amazing story, I liked it,

[@Galen-864]

That was fascinating!

[@charlielaudico3523]

Actually I heard that story in the late 1950s when I was young , I always thought it was one of those tales that was told thru out centuries ! Maybe he really did!

[@mlbolts72]

Interesting story . 😊

[@susieq6212]

Very interesting..

[@Odawa]

Great to see a video again.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Thank you!

[@Odawa]

@@HoffmanReproductions nothing surprises me in Kentucky been alot places still wild country.

[@frankprit3320]

ok Ben, you got me.😀 Which volume of the Draper manuscripts is this in? I've got to check this out.🤠thanks

[@HoffmanReproductions]

I'll send ya the link if I can find it. Thanks!

[@flintlock25]

I'm trying to find the source u read too if u don't mind sharing it. Thank u Very interesting!!!

[@barrybarlowe5640]

Never heard that tale, before. It matches up with the story of the army patrol in the Afghanistan Mountains who encountered a similar giant. He had slaughtered a scouting party, earlier, and killed one of the relief party before someone decided center of mass shooting wasn't effective. The remaining team focused on head shits to finally bring him down.

[@williamguillIII]

Do you have any links to this story? I'm assuming you mean this was a U.S. Army patrol in current times?

[@ACDZ123]

I've heard Steve Quayle tell that story yrs ago ..I'm not sure whether to believe that lol

[@keithduff4124]

@@williamguillIII Google "The Giant of Kandahar." It was during the Afghanistan War.

[@billmitchell9501]

I heard a similar story that took place in China back in the 1800s.

[@gabefields8012]

A man I recently worked with that was stationed in Afghanistan believed the testimony of the Kandahar giant but that's not proof. I do believe it because the Bible speaks of these giants and there are many worldwide stories of them in every culture

[@outtatime4512]

Sometimes God will show you great things. Sometimes he will only let you hear them and that alone will be enough.

[@jeffreymcintire8273]

Great story Ben good to see you.

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Thanks Jeff!

[@jlf8570]

I find it hard to believe, only because Boone actually went into the woods again!

[@moldvox]

He was tough as nails is all.

[@rednecked7462]

He ain't skeerd of nuthin.

[@kelleychilton2524]

Boone was a woodsman/hunter/explorer and you had to be a serious badass to do the types of things, and to go where he did, so it doesn't surprise me at all. He was noted for going on hunting and trapping expeditions alone for months on end.

[@jlf8570]

I guess the art of humor is lost on some.

[@cindyknudson2715]

@@jlf8570 Nothing in the comment to suggest it IS an attempt at humor. And none of us can hear your tone of voice or see your expression.

[@rangermcq6802]

Thank you!

[@williampinner1893]

Great story. I believe it. Keep up the good work.

[@majorswanson]

Thank you. I believe it.

[@dallasacuff9335]

In what state did this take place?

[@HoffmanReproductions]

Kentucky I believe, near the Ohio River.

[@dallasacuff9335]

@@HoffmanReproductions I thought so, but some of the townships you named as well as the Osage River are in Missouri.

[@vincentbuccieri9305]

Great Story !

[@lynn9176]

The rivers in that area are called licking because of all the salt and the Bison use to lick the salt

[@VonFej61]

It's all fun a games till you actually have an encounter.

[@texaskidzuk]

Sasquatch were called " Yahoos" in Daniel Boone's time and area. I heard 2 Sasquatch in Kenefick, Texas bellow out "YAHOOOOOOOOO !" in November 2018 while hunting on my Aunt's land. They were about an 1/8 mile east and 1/8 mile north of me. I believe the were hunting and probably smelled me. Me and my family have seen them all our lives living in Kenefick.

[@Mayhemcountryliving]

Good stuff buddy

[@jeremychinn3651]

Manifest destiny....if life could still be so free that a man could live in such isolation and things were still new and unknown. Dyin meant something back then it was still a part of life that you stared in the face and accepted when the time came. Everyday was a struggle but it was true freedom.

[@AB-wd1zp]

In southern West Virginia several 2000-year-old burial mounds were discovered to contain skeletons of extremely tall people over seven feet tall.

[@roddecker1900]

Ok. Might apply.the only vague part of my story is when I heard it on news, about 40 yrs ago . An archeological dig in Florida and 1yr later one in Washington state were closed down by quart order. What archeologist were finding out didnt jive with the Indian claimed history of who came before 🦬🐎

[@gilbertocamacho6769]

Where are these skeletons today?