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5 min readWhen Donna D'Errico was washing dishes in her Agoura Hills home in 2004, she heard a low rumble that sounded like a distant motorcycle. She sent her eleven-year-old son outside to check. A moment later, he called her out. Above the roof of her 6,500-square-foot house, maybe fifty or a hundred feet up, an object twice the width of the house was moving so slowly she could not understand how it stayed airborne. She and her son stood frozen, unable to speak or look away, until the craft became a single light in the distance. Then that light split in two, and the halves shot off in opposite directions. Only then could they turn to each other and confirm what they had both seen.
That experience, which she kept mostly to herself for nearly two decades, is part of what led D'Errico to create Mythbound, a YouTube series in which she travels to famous paranormal and cryptid locations, interviews witnesses, and investigates reports of UFOs, lake monsters, and Sasquatches. She joined Cliff Barackman and Matt Pruitt on Bigfoot and Beyond to talk about the show, her approach to the subject, and what she has learned so far.
From reluctant enthusiast to investigator
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Intro & Host Check-in** - Cliff hosts solo while Bobo is away, joined by Matt Pruitt; they quickly plug a new kids' book by author Mike Mays.
- 2 (04:54) **Donna's Origin Story: From Secret Interest to Public Investigator** - Donna explains why she kept her lifelong fascination with UFOs and cryptids hidden for decades.
- 3 (09:09) **The Museum Episode & Footprint Evidence** - Donna reveals how Cliff's museum tour became a standout episode, especially the detailed analysis of footprint casts.
- 4 (14:27) **Global Cryptids & The Zana Case** - Donna and Cliff discuss international mystery apes and the famous captured hominid stories.
- 5 (21:30) **What Are They? Cliff's Biological Taxonomy** - Cliff gives his expert opinion on the species identity of Bigfoot/Sasquatch.
- 6 (23:17) **Recent Sighting Activity & The Young Witness** - Donna recounts her field investigation with a 17-year-old witness who had two recent encounters.
- 7 (30:54) **Field Work: The Ohio "Howl" Incident** - Donna describes her first hands-on field experience where a strange vocalization was captured on audio.
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Show Notes
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