Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio

Tonight’s guest, Justin Pladsen, was born and raised in Vinton, Iowa. Vinton is a quiet, little farm town that’s ideal for raising a family. When Justin was growing up there, he got into a lot of the things boys did in Vinton back then. One of the things he liked doing, more than anything, was running around town with his buddies, Mark, Tom, and Charlie. On June 7th of 1993, he and his buddies decided that they wanted to go tubing down a creek called Mud Creek, that’s just east of Vinton. They planned to source the inner tubes at a local Firestone tire shop. When Justin told his dad about his plans to go tubing down the creek, at dinner one evening, his dad made it clear to him that he wasn’t allowed to do that. It was too dangerous. Being an 11-year-old boy, his dad’s words went in one ear and out the other. He went tubing the next day, with his buddies, anyway. That was a decision he came to regret. He and his friends came very close to dying the next day. Less than 24 hours after being told by his dad that