So, last year on the farm, I had a pig go missing. Sir Porington is gone. And yes, when I say gone, I mean like he's gone. He is not here on the farm. And I don't exactly know how to explain it either. Yeah, I'm as dumbfounded as you guys are. Like, it has never happened to me. I've talked to many friends who've had pigs. It's never happened to them before. It's been about 7 months since it happened. And up until this point, I haven't had any like information or updates or seen any new activity. I've been looking for tracks. I've been looking for like evidence of a pig wandering around. I've been asking my neighbors. Never in the past 7 months have I had any reports of a pig go missing or anybody seeing a pig or anything even remotely like that until today. I actually got a text message from a neighbor who lives over the hill just a little bit of a ways and they told me that they were pretty sure that they saw out of the corner of their eye a pig. It's a pig. I know. I don't know if it's actually a pig or if it was just like maybe like a fox or a coyote or something else. I don't know even if it is a pig. I don't know if it's my pig. But since this is the only report I've had that's come even remotely close to the pig being there, I decided it's probably worth it to put the drone up in the air and take a look around and see what we can do.
Taking off. So I guess an important thing to note is that this drone that I'm using today, it's actually like an infrared drone. So it has like two modes. It has like a normal drone mode and then it has like the infrared mode which is like basically a thermal camera. So, it actually can help me see. I wouldn't even bother doing this if I didn't also have this technology because particularly this time of year, if I can actually see a pig, it's going to be pretty easy to spot with the infrared. I mean, like look down here, right? So, you can see the birdhouse right over here. So, I don't know. I can't see if that's Toby dog or Abby Dog. Yeah, you can see Toby dog sitting right by the door of the hoop coop. So, it's pretty easy to spot a creature. Um, if we go up and look actually inside the hoop coop. I don't know. I think it's kind of cool to look at this. But like look, you can see the chickens and some of the ducks and geese wandering around inside there. You can actually see even more ducks and geese floating out in the pond in the back. So again, if there's going to be a pig out in the woods, my best bet is to use a camera like this and look. And also, I guess for folks who aren't familiar, so this space that I'm looking at right here, like this is where the pigs were living when my pig disappeared. You know, they'd been there all the summer. It was the second year in a row that I'd kept pigs in that space. And so I was kind of optimistic that I would be able to find them, but I haven't seen anything. Even as you guys recall, like in the fall, I went out there and looked for tracks and I didn't see anything. But let's see if we can see something here today. It's kind of remarkable the stuff you can see on this camera. Let me zoom up a little bit. I don't want the propeller noise from the drone to actually spook him. Uh his name is uh Sir Porington, but we've been calling him Pigfoot. And yes, Pigfoot even has his own line of merchandise available for sale.
Wait, what was that? I thought I saw some movement over there. Did you guys see that? Like I didn't see it visually, but if I'm looking at the infrared camera, it looks like something's right down there, like hiding out. You guys see it? It's like right dead in the middle there. There is there is an animal out there hiding. I don't know if it's pigfoot. Let's give it a watch. Ah, that might have been a false alarm. We're going to keep looking. Huh? No, I don't think that's a pig either. Reaching maximum altitude. I'm looking. I'm looking. Nothing. Whoa. Wait, wait. What's that? Do you guys see that? I'm pretty I'm pretty sure I know exactly where that spot is. And I am pretty certain I'm seeing a pig right now on the screen. Like I mean, you can't see it on the visual camera, but clearly there is a piglike animal. Like you can see it right in there in the infrared. You see it? I think the only thing I can do about this one is go out there and check it out.
Got a little bit of a walk to get to the spot where I think I saw him. And I'm going to probably try to do as little talking as possible so I don't spook him. Heat. Heat. Did you guys hear that? I'm pretty sure I heard that. I hear something over there. It's like right there. Hear it? This is actually terrifying. But there's definitely an animal. I'm kind of scared and I kind of don't want to go see it. But I think we got to go check it out. So, let's go. This is There it is. You see it? It's right down there. Oh gosh. Well, that's not anything to be afraid of. What is this thing? It's like a old stove or something maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Looks like some other pieces of metal down here, too. Definitely not a pig. It's clearly just a stove or I don't know, some sort of old piece of scrap metal. I think I've actually even seen it out here before, but I'm guessing, wait, that that wouldn't make sense. Like the thing I saw on the infrared camera was like moving around and that thing's not moving around. I don't know. And plus, yeah, this thing is uh it's cold. So, uh I don't I don't quite know what actually I saw out there. It was I probably saw some sort of animal and then I got tricked into thinking that was a pig. And so, I guess the lesson is I'm just a big dummy. Oh, well. Listen. Oh My gosh. But whatever that was, that was not my pig. I mean, oh my god, that thing's real. That thing lives with us on Earth. That was terrifying. Oh my gosh. I I don't I don't think I've ever been that scared in my entire life. Holy sniky Mikeies. And I apologize for the bad language. Holy moly. That's insane. What the frig was that? Like I know all the knuckleheads in the comments are going to be like, "Dude, you should have brought a pew pew." But oh yeah, I guess shame on me. Oh, that was terrifying.
All right, now where the heck am I? Oh, wait. I think I know where I am. Oh, yeah. So, this thing that you see right here, this crazy medieval torture device looking contraption over here. Okay, I know where I am. Okay, so this is actually a manure spreader or some people will call it a honey wagon. It's like an oldfashioned implement to take like all the cow poop and spread it on the pasture to fertilize. I mean, people still do that today, but obviously they have different implements. But, okay. So, if I'm here, I think that means if I walk, I don't know, maybe about a quarter mile that way, it'll take me back up to the back pasture. I walked pretty far to come out here. So, I'm I'm pretty far away from the house right now. Oh god, this is terrible. Like, I don't even know what to say. Like, and I even brought a second drone, but the drone batteries are now out of battery. So, I feel like I'm just kind of like wandering around here lost. I think I think I got to just go that way. I saw some movement down that way again. I'm pretty sure there's some movement down there that way. Am I crazy for going back down there? It's right down there. I'm pretty sure that that creature, whatever the hell that was, I'm not going to call it Bigfoot now. I mean, I guess that is pigfoot. It's definitely not Sir Porington or whatever it is that creature is right down there. And like part of me says I should just run that way and try to get back to the farm, but the other part of me says I should just check it out and see what's going on. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack out here. It's terrifying. Oh my gosh. There it is. Holy sh What is that? Oh my god. Did you guys see that? It looked like Oh my gosh. That thing was terrifying. That was not Oh my gosh. Couldn't believe I got a better look at it. But like I don't know how much I got in the video, but like that thing looked like I mean it kind of looked like Sir Porington, but he's like grown bigger and weirder and like clearly gone completely feral. Like I have clearly a feral hog wandering around this farm and I don't even remotely know what to do about it. I mean, luckily he seemed way more scared of me and he just ran off. I think what I'm going to have to do is like probably get my hunting rifle and maybe I don't know if he's illegal. I think I can legally because he's not a like like he's a he's like a farm animal essentially. I think I can bait him and I think I can just shoot him. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's my pig. I'm not 100% but I don't know. I I don't even know. I just know that I need to be careful. He would easily He could actually really hurt my dogs. So, like, if he went to the farm, he could really hurt the dogs. He could easily hurt a person. I mean, my neighbors have kids, so I kind of need to like be careful about this. And uh I don't know. I don't I I like I'm not exactly sure what the Get