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Now one of your pudding. I
got a string going on here, something

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just cause my dog. Something killed
your dog, my dog. We're flying

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through the air over the tree.
I don't know how it did it,

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Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming

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over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like,

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I didn't see any cars. All
I saw was my dog coming over

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the fence. Sat, what are
you putting? We got some wonder or

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something crawling around out here? Did
you see what it was or was it

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was? Standing enough? I'm out
here looking through the window now and I

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don't see anything. I don't want
to go outside. Jesus, quiet you

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bick Hello, hit the boddy out
here? Poquin on out there? I

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thought of a bitch about TIX forty
nine. I don't know easy an out

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there. Yeah, I'm booking right
eight. The Bigfoot of Riverband, There

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have been several sidings of a creature
fitting the description of Bigfoot reported throughout the

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Riverband, according to the Bigfoot Field
Researchers Organization, an organization dedicated to investigating

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the authenticity of Bigfoot sidings based on
both witness reports and scientific evidence. Says

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as many as two hundred and eighty
four sidings of the Ape Man have been

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reported in Illinois, with most of
the sidings being set in Madison County,

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which has twenty three itself. This
number is compared to the other squatchier states,

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like Oregon having only two hundred and
forty three sidings. In fact,

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only California, Florida, and Washington
have more reported sidings than Illinois, with

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four hundred and thirty four, one
hundred and ten, and a whopping six

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hundred and twenty three, respectively.
Looking at counties inn or near the riverbend,

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Madison has twenty three, mccoopen has
fifteen, Jersey has two, Saint

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Clair has four, Calhoun has three, Pike has one, and Green does

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not have any. These numbers may
be surprising to many because Madison County seems

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to have the most population of them. Perhaps that is why it reports the

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most sightings, because more people are
around to squatch watch. The most recent

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siding from Madison County came in November
of twenty sixteen in Troy. According to

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the bfro's website, a witness reported
the following siding near Scott Troy Road.

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I was driving along Scott Troy Road
after work one night. It was around

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eight fifteen pm when I was driving
through some wooded parts of Scott Troy.

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I saw something large, black in
hand take two or three giant bounds across

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the road before it disappeared on the
other side. I slowed down for a

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bit trying to see what it was, but it was too dark to see

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what it was and where it had
gone. The single witness said it was

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very large, standing at least eight
feet tall, and said that the creature

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was fast enough to take on a
two lane road in just three large steps.

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In October twenty eleven, another siding
was reported by a homeowner near Edwardsville.

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According to the BFRO website, the
incident occurred near I fifty five,

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and the homeowner reported the following incident. I had just gotten my son down

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to sleep. It was one am. He sleeps in the back bedroom.

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I happened to walk by the window
in the hallway because I had to go

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to the bathroom for some reason.
I heard a cough. It sounded like

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someone clearing their throat. I had
just put the pool down. We have

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one of those quick set poolsings that
you blow up for my son. I'd

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just taken it down and it was
drying off. I thought someone was out

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there, for whatever reason, looking
at it or messing with it, so

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I opened the blinds and looked.
I didn't see anything right off the bat,

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but then I saw something between the
woods and my shed. It was

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just standing there and it was big. The head looked huge, so I

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ran upstairs and got my night vision. When I kicked that night vision on,

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I could see every detail. It
was just standing there, staring up

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into the trees. It was at
least eight and a half feet tall,

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and it looked like it was gray
in color. It looked like a really

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big human. If people want to
know what the face looks like, if

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you put this guy in a Viking
movie with a horned helmet on, people

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would say it was a Viking.
That's how human looking he was. He

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had really sunken eyes, but he
was just looking up into the trees.

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And then I heard someone's radio down
at the parking lot at the bike trail.

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It was pretty amazing. I was
watching this thing hanging out there because

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it looked like he was waiting for
people to leave. Nobody could see him

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in there, and the only reason
I did is because I was walking by

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the window and just happened to see
something in my yard that wasn't normally there.

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I even went to wake up my
wife to have her see it too,

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but when we got back to the
window, it was gone. That

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sighting was investigated by BFRO investigator Stan
Courtney, who is bfro's main investigator in

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Illinois. While Angie Mohon and the
rest of the crew at TNI have not

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had bigfoot sightings, that does not
mean that the ape like man or man

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like ape has not made a few
excursions into Godfrey. In the winter of

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twenty eleven, a witness in Godfrey
near Route three reported several incidents near his

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home. The witness reported several sightings
across his property, even saying that members

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of his family had heard mysterious howls. After investigating reports of several incidents,

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Courtney reported the following I spoke with
the witness by phone and met with him

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at his home. The witness went
into great detail about a series of events.

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His home was surrounded by woods on
all sides. He says he and

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his family had a feeling of being
watched there several times. He had a

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friend that would come over to go
mushroom hunting. The friend returned from the

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woods frightened, saying that he felt
like he was surrounded and being escorted out

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of the woods. He never came
back over to mushroom hunt again. Just

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before Christmas of twenty twelve, the
witness put up Christmas lights along his porch

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and bushes in front of his home. While doing so, he said that

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a large bush fifty yards away from
him on the edge of the woods began

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to shake violently. The witness said
he became quite upset and he couldn't see

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what was making the bush shake.
The family hears distant vocalizations frequently, and

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he said some of the howls match
those that we have on our site and

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some of those he's heard on the
popular show Finding Bigfoot. The witness walked

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me to a location on the property
where he had seen an animal walking up

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the ridge. As he pulled his
vehicle out into the lane of travel onto

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the highway, he was able to
watch the animal for about fifteen seconds as

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it walked through the woods and out
of sight over the ridge. The witness

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said that the creature that he saw
was at least seven to eight feet tall,

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weighed over three hundred and fifty pounds, and was dark brown in color.

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In the summer of two thousand and
four, in the city of Alton,

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two teenagers reported seeing a broad,
hairy creature walking upright like a man

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that weighed over two hundred and fifty
pounds. Courtney said that the two young

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witnesses were very polite and serious.
He also spoke with one of the witnesses

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parents, who would walk the area
of the siding for over ninety minutes.

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The two teens were building a blind
for squirrel hunting and tried to no avail

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to push a dead tree to the
ground. Later, that tree cracked and

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fell to the ground, possibly pushed
over by this large creature that was over

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seven to eight feet tall. The
teen said that the creature also howled and

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through rocks, which, according to
many witnesses, is typical bigfoot behavior.

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Outside of Madison County, residents of
Otterville have also reported startling accounts of bipedal

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non human hominids. On May twenty
third, two thousand and eight, a

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driver said he almost hit one of
the creatures on Otterville Blacktop north of Shiloh

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Hill Road. The witness recounted the
following chilling tale. It was right around

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the time of my birthday. I
was on vacation visiting my cousin at his

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girlfriend's house. We had ran into
Jerseyville for cigarettes and we were we were

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on our way back to her house
off of Otterville Blacktop. I was driving

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around fifty five miles an hour around
these curves just before Shiloh Hollow Road when

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I caught something in my headlights running
across the field headed for the road.

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At first, I thought it was
just a man in a trench coat,

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but then it ran up the embankment
and onto the road in front of the

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car. I barely missed it.
It just made it in front of the

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car as I passed, and it
half turned towards me. At the center

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line of the road, it was
within four feet of the side of my

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car. I realized then that it
wasn't a man in a trench coat.

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It was covered with hair and the
face looked flattened, with a wide nose,

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large nostrils, and huge eyes.
I continued to watch this thing run

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up a twenty foot embankment on the
other side of the road without even losing

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its pace. In shock, I
turned to look at my cousin. His

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eyes were as big as mine,
and we found ourselves asking what the hell

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was that. We both agreed that
whatever it was, it definitely wasn't a

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human. The witness also reported that
a friend had spotted something similar running directly

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in front of this four wheeler approximately
ten miles from that location, near a

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bridge. The friend had also almost
hit the creature, saying that it wasn't

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a man, but it was running
on two legs. The friend described the

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creature as heavily built and covered with
hair. While no definitive evidence of such

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creatures are part of the local fauna, several witnesses have claimed to have seen

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it. True enthusiast of this hairy
hominid offers several explanations for this, including

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claims that the creatures are migratory in
nature, they bury their dead, and

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even some more out there claims believe
that they are extra dimensional or part of

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the extraterrestrial visitation phenomenon, to which
many paranormal researchers also describe unidentified intruder or

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unexplained hominid. Mister Toomey was sitting
home watching the baseball game when he heard

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a strange noise originating from the back
porch. Thinking that it was a prowler,

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he retrieved his pistol and went around
the back to investigate. He saw

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what he says, look like a
dark manlike entity running through the woods.

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He fired shots at it, and
then he ran to the back of his

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trailer for more bullets. He saw
the creature again down by the old stable.

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He fired at it again, but
he missed. Toomey discovered that the

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freezer on his back porch had been
broken into, and some of the frozen

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chicken was removed and scattered all around
outside. He also found some unusual white

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hair and impressions on the ground.
Toomey told the Flemingsburg Times Democrat, it

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was very dark, so I really
couldn't tell exactly what it was. It

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stood up like a man, but
it was so dark about all I could

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see was a huge shadow, and
it made a strange thumping noise as it

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ran away. Missus Toomey arrived home
and her husband told her what had happened.

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She immediately called the Sheriff's office.
Deputies soon arrived, along with a

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group of locals who had heard the
complaint on the police scanners The entire group

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searched the area until three am when
the deputies found the scattered meat. The

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next day, more tracks were discovered
by a gully. Evidence indicated that something

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had slid down the embankment. Other
prints were found in the wet sand and

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were estimated to be between twelve and
fourteen inches in length and six inches wide.

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Unfortunately, the prints were not clear
enough to establish whether it was a

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man's print or not. More evidence
was discovered as Toomey found long white hairs

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on the doorknob of his freezer.
All the evidence certainly indicates that something got

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onto his back porch and robbed the
freezer of chicken, hot dogs, and

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bread. To all those that know
him, Toomey's reputation is without question.

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Let us, just for a moment, believe it was a prowler rather than

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some hairy hominid. Police reports do
show that they've been receiving calls about a

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strange, blond haired man seem roaming
about over the past few weeks. The

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white hares found at the site were
forwarded to the Kentucky State Police for analysis

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by their crime lab. A week
later, the results came back and it

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was determined that the hair was of
human origin. The state police concluded that

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the hair was light brown, blonde, and white from a Caucasian male.

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The local police did have the possibility
of a suspect in mind. There was

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a white male who was a former
mental patient who had been seen by others

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in the area. This man was
described as having long, blonde hair and

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a beard. However, this is
circumstantial and to the best of our knowledge,

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nobody has ever been charged. In
a later interview, McGill told us

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that he was not convinced that the
subject seen at the Toomeys was a human.

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Sheriff White told him that they discovered
remains of a package of meat and

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bread that had been ripped open and
consumed in a frozen state. The sheriff

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said that if the meat had thawed, there would have been signs of blood,

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but no blood was found. Hair
analysis can be inconclusive and it does

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typically take longer than a week to
fully complete the comparison testing. The prince

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could have been weathered. Eating frozen
meat is not a human tendency, so

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this case is still up in the
air, although the evidence does weigh towards

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the prowler theory. However, mister
mcguil thinks there is an unknown creature roaming

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the area, based upon the information
that he is uncovered Bigfoot in the Wachuka

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Mountains. My two buddies and I
had gone to the Wachuka Mountains in Coochies

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County for a hiking and camping trip. That year. Wildfires had spread throughout

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the area, so we weren't able
to go to all the places that we

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wanted to. We couldn't go up
to Carr Canyon, so we took a

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detour to Miller Canyon instead. Here
we found a quiet spot off the main

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road to set up our small dome
tent and sleep for the night and stay

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tuned for more sasquatch out to see
we'll be right back. After these messages,

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we didn't see any of the cars
on the road in the area where

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we were. In the middle of
the night, I woke up to my

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friend screaming. Our tent had a
mesh ceiling so we could see the night

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sky. I asked him what was
wrong, and he said he had seen

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a bigfoot. I smiled at first, but his serious expression made me realize

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he wasn't joking. He told me, man, I know what I saw.

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I wasn't dreaming. I remember it
clearly. I looked up through the

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tent and I saw his face staring
back at me. The moonlight was so

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bright, and it was standing in
front of it, so I couldn't make

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out its facial features. But I
could see the silhouette perfectly. Its head

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was long, and it didn't really
have a neck. Its head seemed to

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blend right into its shoulders. It
was huge. It had to be at

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least eight feet tall. It was
leaning over our tent, looking through the

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mesh down at me. I could
see what looked like the whites of its

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eyes. We stared at each other
for about thirty seconds, and then it

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was gone, he said, as
it moved away. That's when he screamed

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out. We didn't try to leave
our tent or chase after it. I

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trust my friend completely. We'd goof
around a lot. But I know when

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he's not kidding about something. I
believe his story. I also had a

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strange experience while hiking in the Wasatch
Mountains of Utah. I had this strong

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feeling, almost like I could touch
it, that I was being watched.

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I stopped and looked around, but
I didn't see anything. This feeling didn't

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go away, so I started singing
as I walked. I've been alone in

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the woods before, but this was
different. At this time, I was

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walking through an aspen grove in an
area known for bigfoot sidings. I later

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found out that this being watched feeling
often happens to people who see bigfoot.

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If I had known that, then
I would have certainly paid more attention.

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Angus Macastle, the Cape Breton Giant. In nineteen eighty one, the Guinness

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Book of World Records recognized my Castle
as the largest true giant, the strongest

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man, and the man with the
largest chest measurements of any nine obese man

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to have ever lived. The distinction
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on the fact that Angus was purported
to be free of any growth abnormalities.

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His stature was proportional in every way, and his immense size and strength was

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due only to his natural genetic gifts. Mcaskell was born in a little village

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called Shaby on the island of Baronaray
in Scotland. His dad was Norman mccaskell

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and he was only five foot nine
inches tall, and his mother, Christina

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Campbell, was also of regular size
for a woman of the time. He

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had twelve brothers and sisters, but
some of them died when they were very

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young. Mcaskell was a normal sized
baby. After a few years, the

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family moved to a fishing community called
English Town and Cape Breton Island, Nova

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Scotia. In around eighteen thirty one, when Angus was a teenager, he

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started growing really fast. By the
time he was twenty years old, he

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was seven feet four inches tall,
and within another year or so he had

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reached seven feet nine inches tall and
weighed and astonishing five hundred and ten pounds.

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His shoulders were forty four inches wide
and his hand was eight inches wide

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and twelve inches long. His wrists
were thirteen and a half inches around,

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and his ankles were eighteen inches around. By eighteen sixty three, he was

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wearing boots that were over seventeen and
a half inches long. His feet were

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around sixteen inches long and eight inches
wide. He had deep set blue eyes

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and a musical but somewhat hollow voice, and despite his size, he was

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said to have had a mild and
gentle manner. In his hometown of Saint

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Anne's, mecaskell was known as jill
Lamore, which means big boy in English.

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Many people also called him the Cape
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When he was fourteen years old,
he went on a fishing boat from

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Saint Anne's to North Sydney. The
crew took him to a dance. During

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the dance, mecaskell got into a
fight with another dancer and punched him in

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the jaw. The man fell to
the floor and was knocked out for so

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long the other dancers thought he was
dead. When the captain of the boat

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found out what happened, he saw
macaskell preying on his knees, hoping that

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he hadn't killed the man. Mcaskell
was known for his incredible feats of strength.

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People said that he could lift a
ship's anchor that weighed twenty eight hundred

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pounds and carried barrels weighing over three
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It was also said that he could
lift one hundred and twelve pounds with just

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two fingers and hold it out for
over ten minutes. In eighteen forty nine

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he joined the P. T.
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He also went on a tour of
the West Indies and Cuba. In

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eighteen fifty three, Queen Victoria heard
about mcaskal's strength and invited him to Windsor

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Castle to show off his abilities.
She called him the tallest strongest man to

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ever enter the palace and gave him
two gold rings as a thank you.

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The fishermen in mecaskell's hometown of Saint
Anne's were jealous of his strength. While

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they worked hard to beil out their
boats. Mcaskell could lift his two ton

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boat and empty it of water effortlessly. He could also raise a forty foot

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mast by himself, and it was
even said that he could lift a horse

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over a four foot fence with very
little effort. There are different stories about

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an incident with an anchor that may
have happened in either New York or New

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Orleans. French sailors dared macaskell to
lift an anchor that weighed between twenty two

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hundred and twenty seven hundred pounds.
He easily lifted it and walked down the

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wharf, but one of the anchor's
flukes caught him in the shoulder, causing

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a terrible injury. However, the
injury didn't cause his death, and he

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would go on to live for many
more years. After his career in show

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business, mcaskell returned to his hometown
of English Town and bought a gristmill,

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a general store, and other properties. In the summer of eighteen sixty three,

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mcaskell went on a trip to Halifax, the capital city. He planned

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to sell some things and buy some
other things for his store for the winter

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season, but during that trip he
got really sick. He was transported back

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to Saint Anne's and put up in
his parents' home. They quickly made his

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childhood bed longer and put it in
the living room so they could take care

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of him. The doctor said that
he had a brain fever. After being

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sick for a week, mccaskell peacefully
passed away in his sleep on August eighth,

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eighteen sixty three. The minister and
many of his neighbors and friends were

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there as he passed away. The
Halifax Acadian Recorder wrote about mccaskell after his

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death. They said that he was
the tallest man in Nova Scotia and maybe

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even in all of British America.
They also mentioned that he was a kind

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and gentle person. Whom everyone liked. The entire country mourned as they buried

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him in English Town Cemetery next to
his parents. His burial mound is much

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bigger than his parents because of his
enormous size. Bigfoot on the Road to

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James Bay, two thousand and nine. My name is Roger. I live

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in a medium sized city east of
Montreal, in an agricultural area. This

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hunting trip represented a sixteen hundred kilometer
car ride. I went there alone after

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the supplier I was dealing with assured
me it was possible to join a group

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of hunters once there. Usually they
asked hunters to form a group before they

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buy a hunting trip. The hunt
went well, and it happened on the

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eighth, ninth, and tenth of
February of two thousand and nine. February

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eleventh was the departure date. After
a ride of about nine hundred kilometers,

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I stopped in the city of Mattagami
for the night. The next day,

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on February twelfth, I had seven
hundred kilometers left before I got home.

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I left Matagami at around eight point
fifteen and on the road one oh nine,

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going south towards Amos City, I
was cruising along at about ninety kilometers

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an hour. The weather was clear
with a little cloud cover. It was

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around negative ten degrees celsius, and
there was almost no wind. The surrounding

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forest was mixed with fir, spruce, poplar and birch. At around nine

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ten pm, the following event happened, though it lasted only around six seconds.

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From the first sight to the end, I must describe to you what

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went through my mind. I came
to a straight portion of the road that

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gave me a view of about five
hundred meters. At the end of that

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portion of the road was a small
hill, with the road curving around back

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to the left. At the top
of the hill, on the left side

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the east side of the road was
a big post announcing hydro Quebec installations.

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The secondary road that led to those
installations was closer to me on the right,

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or the west side of the road, about two hundred and fifty meters

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from the post. At first glance, I thought there was a large black

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plastic garbage tub on the left side
of the road at a distance of about

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four hundred to four hundred and fifty
meters away from me. It looked like

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it was about the same distance away
as the hydro Quebec post right next to

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the road. It was a trash
can, rectangular and tall, but it

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didn't seem to reflect any light.
It was as black as coal. I

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thought it was strange since there wasn't
a house or a cabin nearby. When

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I got closer, about three hundred
and fifty meters away, I noticed it

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was moving towards me down the hillside
on the side of the road. It

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wasn't a trash can. It looked
more like a person, like a tall

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man. He looked like he was
wearing a snowsuit, and I figured that

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he had to have a hood on
the suit because his head and shoulders looked

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bell shaped. The first thing I
noticed was how black he was, and

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the second was that he was all
one color. There was no difference in

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the color from head to toe,
and there was no way to distinguish anything

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from the outline like boots, pants, coat, or anything. But from

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that far away, that's all I
could see. But the reason I think

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this was a bigfoot is because what
happened next. I checked my rearview mirror

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to see if there were any cars
behind me. This only took about one

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to five seconds, but when I
looked back, the person was gone.

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It was weird that he vanished in
such a wide open space. I didn't

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calculate it at the time, but
he must have ran pretty fast to get

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into those woods, because there were
two large clear areas on the either side

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of the road filled with deep At
first, I thought maybe he had gone

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up his driveway to a cabin,
but when I went back and checked out

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the area where he disappeared, there
was no cabin, no house, no

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road, no car, no trail, nothing, just the woods. They

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say, you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay. I don't

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want to be in the world out
that this job, that chart, everything

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you call it brick by bricket back
joy for me joy stay right you call

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it right away? Side still still
said, side still as past in State

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pays uses in State assist US States
and pass