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Now, I went, what are
you're putting? I got a screen going

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on here. Something just became my
dog. Something killed your dog, my

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dog. We're flying through the or
over the tread. I don't know how

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it did it, Okay, damn, And I'm really confused now as I

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saw my dog coming over the fence, and me was did when you hit

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the ground. I didn't see any
car and alls I saw was my dog

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coming over the fence. Why what
are you're putting? We got someone or

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something crawling around out here. You
see what it was? It was standing

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up out here looking through the window
now, and I don't see anything.

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I don't want to go outside.
Jesus quatre by Hello, get the boddy

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out here? Thought of a body? Nine? I don't know out there

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yet. I'm looking right out.
Connie put her head in her hands,

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obviously flustered. I knew she was
getting near her breaking point. But the

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facts were right here in front of
us. There's nothing else that could have

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made that print. You're kidding me, Connie groaned, Where the heck did

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we move? Mark some cryptid jungle? I queed up Milwaukee, John.

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You guys are never going to believe
what we found. Connie and I are

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ten four. We will fill you
in when we get back. We're headed

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out now, rain's moving in.
How about that dog man, Mark,

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Can you at least tell me that
before you get here, John asked,

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Gone, I said, that thing
isn't there. We made it out of

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the woods without incident. I was
hoping that these dog men would give us

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a break, seeing is how they
knew we would kill them, or at

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least try. We loaded up in
the truck and headed back. John and

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Marie were sitting in the kitchen at
the table when we made our way inside.

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We both joined them at the table. Did we imagine it? Mark?

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Was that some hallucination between the two
of us, John asked, perplexed.

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I don't know, John. I
clearly shot it right in the face.

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Nothing could survive that. But I'm
here to tell you that dog man

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was not there where it should have
been. There's more than enough blood on

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the ground to indicate that what you
two experienced really happened. You two witnessed

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something that night, and we're both
part of successfully shooting it. There were

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flies on the blood and everything you
would expect. Just nobody, Connie said,

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John leaned back in his chair and
met eyes with Marie. I could

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tell they were thinking what Connie and
I thought while we were in the woods.

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If this thing can survive that shot, we're screwed. So what else

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did you find? Marie asked,
you said, we weren't going to believe

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it bigfoot. I blurted out,
we're getting ready to leave, and I

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turned my flashlight on, and that's
when I saw the print near the water.

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I could only assume that it was
waiting through and left that deep impression

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when it made its way to the
other side. John carried the same look

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on his face that Connie and I
had in the woods. Maurice sat silent,

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mouth wide opening shock. You know, I wonder if that's what we

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saw the first time we went into
the woods. We thought it was a

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bear. Maybe it was a bigfoot. Then when we were near the water

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and smelled that awful smell, could
that have been a bigfoot as well?

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Connie asked. I sat and thought
about it and couldn't help but lean towards

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a green weather. Granted, the
dog man's breath was wretched, but we

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didn't really smell anything else. Of
course, we hadn't paid attention to anything

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else. In that moment, except
for our own survival. Maybe it was

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a bigfoot we smelled. I thought
back to when my grandpa had told me

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about them. Some people who encountered
them claimed to have smelled a foul odor,

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but then some didn't. Are you
telling me that not only do we

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have dog men in the woods,
but now we also have bigfoot? Are

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you sure it wasn't a bear that
just double stepped? John asked me.

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That's exactly what I'm telling you,
and I can tell you with about one

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hundred percent certainty that was no double
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have seen that before, and this
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It only meant one thing. We
had to go back in the woods

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to sort this out. The good
thing is that three of the four of

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us were okay with it. Marie
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would be. She was traumatized.
I'm not sure how she felt about bigfoot,

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however, but nonetheless it didn't hold
any weight to the facts that it

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played out in front of us.
This is a lot, guys, Marie

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said, Do you think we should
bring someone else in to do the investigations?

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I think we're in over our heads
here. I thought we were from

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the beginning and dealing with dog men, but now there's bigfoot too. If

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there was one thing that held conflict
between John and Marie, this would have

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been it. I could see John's
frustration with her when it came to the

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subject. I could only assume that
he wished Marie had the same confidence as

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Connie. But I could also see
marie side. It was a catch twenty

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two of which there would be no
answer, only compromise. Absolutely not.

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John said, I don't want strangers
coming up here on our property, and

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I'm sure they don't either. They'll
want to interview us. They'll be all

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over our land, and they haven't
been here since day one. We would

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have to explain everything to them repeatedly. All three of us are trained hunters.

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If we can survive an attack from
this, then we can handle a

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bigfoot. I looked over at Marie. I think researchers mean well, and

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they do find interesting evidence, but
they'll come here to look for what we've

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already found. We don't need evidence
of their existence. We need a solution

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to the fact that they exist here
at all. From what I've learned,

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as a young kid. Bigfoot are
generally harmless unless threatened. What do you

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think the connection is between dog men
and bigfoot? Connie asked, did your

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grandpa ever say anything about it?
I chuckled, No, Grandpa didn't say

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anything about dog men. Of course, back then they would have gone by

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a different name. Maybe that has
called them werewolves back in those days.

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I'm not certain what the correlation could
be between the two. Honestly, I

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would think it would be a clash
for a territory. But one thing's for

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certain, they're both here on our
property. I knew we would have to

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take a different approach to this to
fully understand what was going on and how

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to handle it. John, I
think a good approach to begin with us

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to pull up that website you searched
a couple of weeks ago and see if

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there have been any reports of either
dogman or bigfoot in our area or the

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surrounding areas. Did you or the
neighbor ever experience anything strange outside of the

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visual you two had, I asked, John thought about it. Well,

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no, but I also don't really
know the signs to look for concerning bigfoot.

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We just had those two visuals of
this creature. I guess there could

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have been signs all around us,
but not knowing what to look for,

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or even considering that bigfoot could have
been here, we didn't pay attention.

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Connie spoke up, what would be
the likelihood that maybe this what we call

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dog man, is some misidentified bigfoot. I didn't know if that could be

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possible. What John and I saw
in the woods was nothing at all like

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what my Grandpie described. His encounters
were with something large, broad, and

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had similarities of apes. What we
saw was clearly canine, long snout,

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sharp teeth, and pointed ears,
nothing at all fitting the description i'd heard

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of a bigfoot. Of course,
it's all up for interpretation. Maybe some

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people have seen dog men and thought
they were bigfoot. There's so many unknowns

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it's just hard to tell. How
about Marie and I head home and we'll

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see what we can come up with. John said, in the meantime,

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you and Connie stay poot and out
of those woods. I appreciate the spirit

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that you guys have for solving this, but it has to be done together.

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It also has to be handled carefully
so none of us get hurt.

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It's not worth risking our lives over. Connie and I lay in bed that

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night trying to piece everything together.
I tried to recount everything that we saw

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that could be Bigfoot signed. Honestly, we were in the same position John

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was. We weren't paying attention.
We would have to go back and look.

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The storm was bad that night.
The wind blew with such force and

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the rain pounded on the roof.
Thunder woke me up in the middle of

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the night with a loud crack.
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and walked to the kitchen for a
glass of water. I looked out the

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window facing the back of the property
and hoped our animals had gone into their

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respective homes to get out of this
rain. Lightning flashed and lit up the

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yard. In that brief instance of
light, I saw a shadow of something

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dart across from left to right.
I thought I was just seeing things and

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hope for another burst of lightning success. This time it was heading back the

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way that it came, but it
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awful thought instantly came to my mind, our animals. This thing just took

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one of our chickens. I ran
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This thing took one of our chickens. We have to go secure the coop.

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Now. Thunder roared overhead again.
Connie's rang from the bed and threw

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on her rain boots and raincoat.
It was absolutely pouring. The rain fell

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so hard we could hardly hear each
other talk. There's a hole in the

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top of the coop. Mark,
this is metal netting. How did he

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get there? Connie yelled over the
thunder crashing. What about the chicken house

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itself, it's wooden. The chickens
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rain, I yelled back. Connie
looked closer. No, Mark, there's

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no damage to the chicken house.
It's like whatever it was just reached in

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and grabbed it. We need to
at least get a tarp and throw over

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the top of it to block the
rain, and we'll come back in the

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morning and look when we can see
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raining. I ran to the garage
and got a big blue tarp and some

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zip ties. We secured the chicken
coop as much as possible and went back

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inside. Connie was angry. She
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along with her boots. This is
bullshit. This is a brutal storm,

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Mark. What would trek out into
that to steal a chicken? Are you

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sure it was just the one,
Connie ask as she dried herself off with

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the towel. I can only assume
it was one, I said. I

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was standing at the scene looking out
the window when the lightning lit up the

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yard. I saw a large dark
shadow running from left to right, and

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when the lightning flashed again, it
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this time with a chicken. That's
when I woke you up. Connie glanced

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over at her watch and realized it
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No sense trying to go back to
bed. And after that, would you

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like some coffee? She asked,
as she made her way to the kitchen.

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I finished drying off and walked into
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some, Thank you. I called
John a little after eight. I explained

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to him what had happened. Connie
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the coop and all the other animals. It looked like only the one chicken

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was taken out, but that was
still one too many. Have you been

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able to find anything out, I
asked. Nothing had gone near our livestock

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until last night. I don't believe
in coincidences, but this is a little

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strange that nothing happened until we spotted
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they just showed up on our property, if they've always been here. All

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I know is that when we thought
it was just dog Man. As strange

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as it sounds, nothing mess with
them. I did a good bit of

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digging last night when Marie and I
got home, and this is what I

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found. The Dogman was first sighted
back in the late eighteen hundreds in Michigan.

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It seems that the sightings of this
creature start there and go all the

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way up to today in different locations. Since we're bringing bigfoot into the mix

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now, I had to look them
up as well. They have a bigger

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history than dog Man does. But
it seems like both cryptids have been played

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widely into the creature culture. I
followed that rabbit trail and found that they've

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been given different names throughout history,
such as bear, wolf man, wolf

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an indigenous dog man. I also
read that some people have said it was

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a type or separate species of Bigfoot, but obviously no one knows for certain.

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I did find seven different pictures of
this dogman creature, and I can

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tell you with certainty that I saw
at least two of the seven. The

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one that you shot and we were
face to face with was on the list.

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I saw another one through my binoculars
before you got there that night on

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the ridge line. It looked like
a hyaena, which was also on the

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list. To say I was impressed
would have been an understatement. He had

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clearly been up most of the night
pulling all that information. Thank you for

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doing on that, John, I
really appreciate it. It's very insightful.

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Did you happen to see any way
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I asked. I've seen a few
ways, but none of them are

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foolproof. I read about people putting
bright lights on their property and leaving them

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on, spreading salts around, and
then I even read something about putting sulfur

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around your property. I also read
an article about putting up trail cams.

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For some reason, drill cameras helped
deter them, both the Bigfoot and the

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dog men. But again I'm not
sure if this would deter some and not

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others, or none at all,
it's not like they had an area where

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people could leave reviews on what worked
and what didn't. I laughed at that.

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No, I get it. I
really appreci you're looking all that up.

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I'll get with Connie and maybe we'll
leave some bright lights on or put

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some trail cams up near our animals, or maybe at this point we'll do

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both. He and I hung up
the phone, and I was telling Connie

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about everything John had said. We
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get some brighter lights, and we
decided to get some trail cams while we

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were there as well. You can't
be too cautious, I guess. We

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got home and got everything set up. We had lights all over the backyard

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that way, if anything came out
of any direction, he would light up

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like a football stadium. While we
were getting things cleaned up, we heard

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voices coming towards our house. Kannie
and I both looked at each other.

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It's not like folks just to drive
around in this area, and we weren't

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expecting John and Marie. But sure
enough, there was John's truck, and

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then behind him was a beat up
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I know John wouldn't bring a stranger
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so we both walked up to the
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Hey, John said as he got
out of the truck and walked up

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to shake my hand. I tried
to call you both at the house and

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your cell phone, but you didn't
answer. I wanted to introduce you to

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somebody that can help us. To
be honest, I was a little perturbed.

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We had talked about not bringing strangers
into this now here he was with

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someone who can help us. I
was cordial, however, it wasn't his

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fault. My name is Mark and
this is my wife, Connie, I

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said, walking up to shake his
hand. He didn't appear threatening or like

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he was there to waltz in and
take over everything. He was taller,

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younger than us, tanned, had
dark hair and a pleasant attitude. It's

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a pleasure to meet you both,
he said. I used to live here.

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My name is Ashton Samuel's I lived
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Wow. If we could have used
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portion of the woods, his was
it. He could give us much needed

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insight on everything, like when the
activity started for him, how long it

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was before this creature started harassing them? And more importantly, did he also

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have experiences with bigfoot? See,
when we purchased the house from them,

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it was strictly between us and the
realtor. We signed all of our documents

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online and sent them over at closing, so our schedules never matched up for

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us to be here at the same
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to face. Yes, I said, excitedly, it's nice to meet you.

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We've done quite a bit since you
were last here. Come on,

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I'll show you around and we can
talk. We all walked to the backyard

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and started showing him everything we'd added
fixed up, and of course our livestock.

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You all are really brave putting all
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We had our dog and a few
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told by the neighbors before us that
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a bad idea. John and I
cut our eyes at each other. I

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see he didn't say why, I
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He didn't really go into any detail. He just said he didn't want to

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talk about it, but he was
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him any mind. I wish I
would have now it could have saved my

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wife and I at a headache and
stress. Just then, he noticed the

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chicken coop with a large blue tarp
over it. He walked over to it

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and was looking around on the ground
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and Connie walked over. What are
you looking for? Connie asked, It

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was here, wasn't it, Ashton
said, as he looked over the top

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of the coop. That's why the
blue tarps here. I was looking for,

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any prince. I walked around to
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What was here? I asked.
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but I wanted him to say it
as confirmation that we were all talking

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about the same thing. I don't
know exactly what it was, Ashton said.

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I only seen it once, but
it was like nothing I'd ever seen

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before. It was tall, had
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or maybe even a little more.
It had a long torso, and

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its eyes glowed amber in color.
My wife and I saw it coming out

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of the woods at the dead end
one night when we were walking we saw

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it coming through the trees. The
moon illuminated it just enough so we could

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get a good look at it.
It was almost like a hyaena that you

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would see in the wild or at
zoos. But I'd never seen a hyaena

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that tall, and it walked on
its hind feet when it growled. Even

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though it probably wasn't the best idea, we ran. Connie sighed great,

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she said in a hushed tone under
her breath. I was curious if he

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and his wife had seen it close
enough to give that kind of description.

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How were they still alive if they
saw it coming out of the woods.

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Why didn't it attack them? Are
you saying that this thing didn't chase you

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and your wife when you took off
running, John asked, confused, No,

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sir, it never broke the tree
line. I glanced behind me only

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once to make sure it hadn't come
after us. I knew if it did,

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we wouldn't have made it home.
I saw it standing there, growling,

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mouth wide open, but not moving. This had me baffled. Why

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are they not coming out? Clearly? The one I shot had no problem

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leaving that area. I had no
choice but to dismiss it, and I

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went on and told Ashton what had
happened with the chicken? It didn't stay

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here and eat it, he asked, puzzled, No, like I said,

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I saw the shadow figure carrying it
back into the woods. I said,

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is that a strange behavior or something
you hadn't seen before? He stood

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there silently and looked at the ground. Something got our chickens, too,

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but it wasn't carried back into the
woods. That, to me, personally,

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is strange. I just never put
two and two together that what my

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wife and I saw that night could
have been what got our chickens. Until

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now. We just figured it was
something that lived in the woods, you

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know, something of this world.
But maybe it wasn't. I felt bad

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for the kid. Reality had just
smacked him in the face pretty hard.

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I'm not saying that what killed your
chickens wasn't a natural animal. It absolutely

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could have been. But if it
weren't, in my opinion, I don't

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think it was the one that you
and your wife had saw. I think

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it was one that was more evil
and more sinister, I said. Ashton

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looked at all of us, eyes
racing. There's more than just one of

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them, he asked, clearly shaken. Up. I just assumed the one

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that we saw that night was the
one that tore up the side of our

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house, almost like it was saying
stay away, a warning, if you

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will. John chuckled. Oh,
yes, there's more than one of them.

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I personally seen the one you described, But there's more than one of

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them in these woods over here,
he said. But we saw that one

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out in the woods a couple of
times. John, Remember we were hunting

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and saw it twice, Ashton said, I remember it well, Ashton,

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John said, answering, But if
you remember, the one we saw twice

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was blacker than any black. It
didn't look like a hyena. He stood

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silent. You're right, John,
I guess I just blocked it out.

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I remember now. I was terrified. That's a typical trauma response. Connie

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said, reassuringly. It's okay.
Let me ask you a question I began.

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If you don't want to answer it, that's okay. There's something else

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my wife and I discovered, and
I'm curious if you've seen it, heard

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it, or possibly smelled it.
Was hesitant to even say a word.

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This may sound out landers, but
it can't get any stranger than what we've

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already been talking about bigfoot Ashton.
Did you or your wife ever experience bigfoot?

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He laughed, Oh, no,
sir, no bigfoot. I think

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we would have moved a whole lot
sooner had we seen one of those as

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well. We moved after our house
got torn up on that side that was

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just too close for comfort for us
and our children. They used to play

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right there in the backyard. We
knew this could be seen out in the

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daytime when I was hunting with John, but I thought it was something that

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would just simply stay in the woods. But after it scratched up our house,

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we knew it wasn't afraid of humans. We moved shortly after that.

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We couldn't risk it attacking one or
both of our kids or even our dog.

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Plus, the size print that I
found in the loose dirt by the

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house indicated this thing was massive in
size. He paused, Then, wait,

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you guys have seen a bigfoot on
this property. We walked back up

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to the house and sit down in
the John and I told him about our

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encounters with this dog man and how
Connie and I had discovered the big footprint

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when we went back into the woods. It was all terrifying to recount,

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but we were trying to get answers. You shot the thing in the face

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and it didn't die, Ashton ash
shocked. Connie poured herself another cup of

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coffee. Yep, you would think
it had been laying right over there on

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the ridge line, and after taking
a shot like that, the blood was

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there, but nothing else. The
fact that this happened near the water is

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scary to me, Ashton said,
as he took a drink of his tea.

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I took my son there fishing many
times. I'm so glad that nothing

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happened to us while we were there. John and I were thinking the same

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thing. We would love to try
to get him back into the woods with

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us. I wasn't sure how fond
of the idea. Who would be?

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It wouldn't hurt to ask. Let's
cut to the chase, I said,

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sternly. We've experienced hell right here
in our face. We know there's more

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than one of these things now,
and there's been signed a big foot.

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John has done a research on how
to keep these things off of our property,

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but what we need to know now
is how to get rid of them

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altogether. I know bigfoot isn't as
bad as these dog men are. I

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was told many stories by my grandpa
about Bigfoot with these dog men, though

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they have to go. What we've
learned is they are the cockroaches of the

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forest. Now, you're the only
one around here that we know of that

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has had experiences with these things like
we have. Would you be willing to

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go out into the woods with us
to get a better idea of how to

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handle this. We all sat looking
at Ashton waiting for his answer. I

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felt bad for being so harsh with
him, but we had to know.

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We didn't really have any more time
for small talk. I could tell that

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he was nervous as I sat watching. To be honest, I would be

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too. He had a wife,
children and a family. He wasn't obligated

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to help us in any way,
shape or form. They moved away for

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a good reason. The good thing
is he obviously had some interest in helping,

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or he wouldn't have come back here
with John in the first place.

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Cell Phones are of no use in
the woods. There's no signal, Ashton

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said out of nowhere. John said, you guys have been using walkie talkies,

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which is smart. We need to
set trail cams up as far out

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as possible. That'll keep them farther
away from here. I had talked to

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someone who was knowledgeable in wildlife,
not necessarily dog man per se, but

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I would think they have some of
the same tendencies. They all eat,

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drink water, and have to have
shelter. How far away was that kve

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from this house? John, We
were all taken aback by Ashton and his

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response. He was quiet at first, he seemed timid. It was almost

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like the same thing that happened with
John, an instant flip of the switch,

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and he was awful or having me
and Connie go back out into the

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woods that same switch flip for Ashton
right in front of our very eyes.

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I guess maybe half a mile.
John stammered out. I had to get

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the binoculars out to get a good
look. The prince I saw when I

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lived here were big, but in
no way where they like a big foot.

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They were like wolf prints. I
did my own research after we moved

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from here. There's not one good
thing about them that I found. Encounters

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of people going missing, animals,
people, pets. I don't think getting

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rid of them is realistic. I
don't think they can be wiped out altogether.

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The one you shot didn't die,
which suggests to me that there's something

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out of this world. Did they
come from another dimension? That? I

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don't know, but sometimes the encounters
I've listened to suggest that. So getting

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rid of them is a stretch,
but we can try at least to keep

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them away from this property another dimension. Has this turned into some sort of

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science fiction novel? Large wolves from
another world walking into hours, wreaking havoc,

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and then leaving again to go back
to their dimension. I have to

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be honest. My mind was spending. The information John found didn't suggest any

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of that. It was all factual
information that was documented. So I take

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it you'll go with us. Then
Connie asked since me nor John had anything

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else to say, and set quiet. We had halogen lights, trail cams,

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walkie talkies. We just needed another
set of eyes, someone else who

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knows something else about this. Ashton
reached out and shook my wife's hand.

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I'll be there. I'll do everything
I can to help, but if this

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goes bad out there, we can't
be heroes. We have to leave.

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These creatures are big, strong and
powerful. I know you know that,

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based on your own experience, you
won't win one on one with them.

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I'm glad Mark and John did,
but they're obviously the exceptions to the rule.

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I guarantee you it won't happen twice. Ashton left and went home to

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talk to his wife about everything.
Connie and I finished making sure that everything

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was taken care of on our property. John left as well to go home

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to talk to Marie. She was
over the whole thing and was trying to

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keep away from us as much as
possible. She just wanted to tuck it

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away and be done. I understood
her stands, though I wish we could

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all do that, but this was
our reality. To be able to continue

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living our fairytale life as Marie wanted
to see it, we had to take

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care of the evil villain. That
night, Connie and I made one last

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check of our property before going inside
to get ready for bed. Night had

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just fallen. Connie had double checked
the chicken coop one last time. She

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walked up to the deck with me
and we sit in the chairs facing our

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yard. Our porch light was on
as bright as it could be. I

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didn't know if it was enough to
keep them away from us, or if

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it was just enough to illuminate us
to be easier or prey for them.

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But we were tired of not being
able to enjoy what we'd worked so hard

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for, being prisoners of the concrete
jungle we came from. We always used

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to talk about how nice it would
be to be able to sit outside,

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no neighbors, no noises at all
except for those of insects, our own

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hideaway. Now we were fighting for
it. Do you feel like something or

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someone is watching us, Mark,
Connie asked. I looked around the property

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as much as I could see.
I didn't see or hear anything. I

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think we're just being paranoid. Now, if something or someone was around,

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these lights would come on and we
would have plenty of time to get inside,

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I said, trying to reassure.
Just then, the hair on my

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arm stood on end. I looked
down at them and called Connie's attention to

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it. I think we should go
in, she said. I don't feel

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comfortable sitting out here anymore. A
low, snarling growl echoed through the woods.

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In an instant. It sounded like
a freight train that was coming straight

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at us through the trees. As
soon as it stepped onto the property,

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the lights came on and lit up
the whole back area. We saw it

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then, tall, blacker than black, with glowing eyes and a look of

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pure hatred on its face. We
stood up to run when we heard it

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in the distance, a yell that
I had only heard my grandpa talk about

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bigfoot. We watched this thing back
up and almost dissolve into the trees.

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A loud knock followed the yell,
and then everything fell silent. Not one

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footstep could be heard, no growling, no nothing. Connie and I looked

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at each other, confused and quickly
went inside. Was that bigfoot yelling?

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Connie asked me. Yes, I
said, rubbing my face, trying to

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wrap my mind around what had just
happened. Not only was that a bigfoot,

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but a dog man retreated when it
hurt it. That bigfoot saved our

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lives. They say, you don't
want to go home, but you can't

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stay. I don't want to be
chi jibe that chime everything color name my

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joy for me to stay right you
call it right away, still r down

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to the press, Dames, and
years to us ussssss used to us. James