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Right, I have a bigfoot story
here from Mike. I really loved reading

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this. I hope you all enjoyed. I sure did. In twenty nineteen,

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I made a trip to Tennessee to
visit my mom and dad. While

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I was there, Dad and I
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hike the trail that goes by the
lake. Dad was eighty four years old

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and I was more than happy to
do something to spend time with him.

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My wife and I just spent a
weekend there camping in November, a Thanksgiving

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weekend. It's a lovely park,
Chickasaw State Park in West Tennessee. If

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anybody ever is looking for a nice
place to camp, it's a good place.

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Back to the story, the weather
was perfect. The sun was shining,

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the sky was blue, and the
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sixties. We couldn't have asked for
a better day to hike. We began

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at the swimming area and headed across
the bridge. The trail turns into the

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woods at the edge of the bridge, and we followed it until we came

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to a tree that we noticed had
some initials carved in it. They were

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over sixty inches up the trunk,
so I assumed they must have been there

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a while. I supposed we were
both thinking about whoever put them there,

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when I happened to look down and
see a set of tracks. Now I

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bent down to take a closer look
at them. It was a left and

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a right foot side by side,
with toes visible, as if something had

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come and stood where we were,
and looked at the same initials carved into

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the tree. I was carrying a
pilot G two pen with me, so

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I took it out and I used
it for a size reference. They were

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definitely too big for a human.
They were roughly sixteen inches long and five

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inches wide, and Dad looked at
them and agreed with me that they didn't

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look human at all. We were
speculating about what could have made them while

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I grabbed a couple of pictures of
them, and I suddenly began to feel

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like we were not alone in the
woods. The last thing I wanted was

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to alarm my eighty four year old
father, but at the same time I

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was becoming anxious about getting out of
there. About that time, I heard

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a loud tree snap from farther up
the trail, and everything I ever read

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or heard about Bigfoot came rushing through
my mind. How many times had I

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or heard of people having the feeling
of not being alone? Were we being

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watched? I heard that it might
be a way of them telling us to

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leave their territory. Were they communicating
with me? I read somewhere that they

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may communicate by knocking on trees,
and that means there might be more than

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one. So I knew not to
run. I heard they will chase you

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if you run and don't make Ayeka
attack. They might see that as a

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threat. I didn't look up to
where the tree snap came from. I

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gently put my hand on Dad's arm
and we moved away. We made our

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way down the trail and we saw
a deer, a canine, and raccoon

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tracks, and then we ran into
a young lady who said that her dog

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had run off in the woods.
Well, that explained the canine tracks.

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She asked if we had seen it, but we hadn't, and I wondered

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if she was the reason I had
felt like we were not alone on the

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trail. She moved off to the
opposite direction from us, and we finished

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our hike at the park cabins.
I was relieved to be off that trail.

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We got a drink of water and
we cooled down a bit before jumping

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into my suv and heading home.
And although I really do believe that we

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found Bigfoot tracks that day, this
story probably doesn't mean much to most people,

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but it does to me. I'll
cherish the memory forever because of the

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tracks so much because I was with
my father. The tracks will help to

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amplify the memory of that day,
but it was the time spent with Dad

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that mattered the most. Oh,
what a nice story. That is a

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very nice part. We went there, it was cold Thanksgiving weekend, and

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when I go out in the woods, I never think about Bigfoot. I

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just enjoy where I'm at on my
rides in the mornings with my dogs,

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Like this morning was a great ride. It was. We got started a

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little late, the sun was coming
down, and I just enjoyed it.

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So I was at Chickasaw and I
Bigfoot never crossed my mind. But that

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is a thickly wooded area of West
Tennessee, and I suppose there could be

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good habitat for Bigfoot in that area. But this story was great. This

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guy got to spend some time with
his dad. I don't know when I

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got this story. I could look
and see I'm too lazy, but this

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was probably within the last year or
so. So I hope his dad is

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still doing good at eighty four or
eighty five. And I'm glad he got

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to spend that time with his dad
and saw some probably legit Bigfoot tracks.

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It's a great story. I appreciate
these stories so much. Thank you for

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sending. Hey, y'all, welcome
to the podcast. I appreciate you clicking

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on the video. You just heard
a really good Bigfoot story. I've got

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three more. You want to stay
to the end because the last story is

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unreal. It's one of the best
stories I've ever gotten, So stick around.

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Let's get rolling, all right,
Here we go. This email is

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the man wrote a really nice note
on the front end of it. He's

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sixty seven years old. He's working
on a again, as you well.

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There's no date on this. There's
a date on the email, but there

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is no date on my copy.
I copy these out of the email and

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I put them in Microsoft Word.
I send them to Neoma. She makes

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sure they're good. She sends them
back and I read them to you.

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So I don't know when I got
this, But at the time of this

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writing, he was sixty seven and
he was working on a scientific paper about

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Bigfoot, and he said that he
wasn't sure he could finish it, and

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that when he when he did finish
it, he might not consider it polished.

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It was written in a scientific style, but he tried to keep it

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simple for the lay person to understand. I don't know if I have received

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that or not. I'll look.
I have his email address here. Anyway,

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I'm just letting you know this is
a thoughtful man and he's about to

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tell you a story that is not
Bigfoot related, but it's probably pretty good.

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I'm reading this cold, so I
don't know how this is going to

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go, but I want you guys
to pay attention because I think it's going

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to be good. All right,
I'll shut up. Back in the nineteen

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eighties, I was working down on
Long Island for shell oil. I was

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from Saint Lawrence County, New York, so twice a year i'd take a

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vacation and go back home. The
first was in the spring to go fishing,

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and the second was always in the
fall to hunt. In nineteen eighty

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six, during the fall hunting trip. I was staying with my best friend

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and his wife. They had just
moved into a little house on an out

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of the way road with hundreds of
acres of woods behind it. The house

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was so small that I slept on
a cot in the closed in front porch.

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I didn't mind because it was cool
out there and I preferred to sleep

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in a cooler environment. Each morning
during my stay, we woke up early

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and we had our breakfast and we're
out the front door at the crack of

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dawn, and then we'd hunt all
day until dark before heading back. On

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this Saturday, it was a rainy
and windy day. We stayed out in

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it, but I wasn't dressed for
that kind of weather, so by the

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time we got back to the house, I was chilled to the bone and

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dog tired. All I wanted to
do was take a hot shower and climb

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into bed. Unfortunately, my wife's
friend had invited some friends over and they

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had a night of drinking and dancing
playing at the local bar in the dance

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hall, and they were disappointed when
I bowed out of the festivities. But

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my body was aching and all I
could think about was a nice hot shower.

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They said their goodbyes and they left
without me and I headed to the

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bathroom for a desperately needed shower,
and after a nice cup of hot cocoa,

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I climbed into bed. I was
about to doze off when I felt

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my friend's cat jump up onto the
bed. It walked from my feet alongside

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of me, and it laid down
absently. I began petting it. I

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was relaxed having the cat there beside
me. It's fur felt long and luxurious,

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longer in fact, than I remember
it's fur being. My eyes were

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closed and sleep was taking over when
I felt it stand up and walk back

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to the bed and jump off the
bed. The cat's fickled that way.

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Several hours later, I was awakened
by my friend and his wife coming in

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from their night out, and as
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cat in the door with them.
How did the cat get out, I

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asked. My friend's wife shot me
a puzzle look and said I let her

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out before we left. No,
I told her I was in the house

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and it jumped on the bed and
I was betting it well. They laughed

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and they said that I must have
been dreaming. I was one hundred percent

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certain that I was still awake when
that cat jumped up on the bed,

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but it was two am and I
was too tired to argue. If they

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were playing a joke on me,
well then let them have their joke.

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They went to bed and I went
back to sleep. The next day,

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the lady from across the road came
over for coffee. My friend's wife told

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her about me and the cat,
apparently thinking she would tease me about it,

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but rather than laugh, the neighbor
lady turned paling and said, did

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you know this house belonged to a
witch? Three sets of eyes turned to

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her. Was she kidding? She
went on to say that she believed the

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owner of the house was a witch
because she had long black hair and she

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was mean to everyone. The woman
lived alone except for several cats, and

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she seldom came out of the house, and she eventually died in the house

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because no one else wanted to live
in it, and that was when my

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friend and his wife were able to
rent it. I told the neighbor lady

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that I felt the bed move and
then I was petting something with long hair

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that I thought was my friend's cat, and that was when she told us

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that while the house sat empty,
there were times when she was sure that

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she could hear noises coming from the
house, she wouldn't come near it.

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It wasn't until after my friend and
his wife moved in and they became friends

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that she set foot inside, and
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A few days after that, we
were watching TV when I could have sworn

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I saw an apparition walk from the
dining room to the kitchen. Now I

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freaked out, but my friend only
laughed. He said he didn't believe in

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ghosts, and that nothing had ever
happened in the house before to make them

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feel otherwise, nor had his wife
ever mentioned anything about seeing ghosts. A

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few years after that, they moved
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a few odd things happened to them
while they were living there, he insisted

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that they only moved because the place
was falling apart and the landlord refused to

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fix anything. The following year,
the house was torn down. It's easy

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to think that life would be straight
and narrow, all according to science,

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without any deviation, and then one
night a cat that isn't a cat jumps

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on your bed and changes your whole
perspective. Oh man, you know that's

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not like a terrifying type story.
But I keep thinking in my head,

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was he like rubbing that that old
witch's head? Like was she laying beside

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him? And was he like rubbing
her head? His eyes were closed,

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He's almost drifting off to sleep,
and it's like one of those creepy movies

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where those kind of stop motion people
kind of walk and crawl and stuff.

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And did she crawl it beside him? And he was rubbing her head?

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Who? Man, it gives me
the willies. Anyway, this was a

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great story, John, Thank you
for sending it. And I'm going to

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look to see if you've sent your
Bigfoot your Bigfoot stuff. If you have,

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I'll probably pull it up and read
it. If you haven't, I

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would be interesting and reading it.
So it's hard to keep up with all

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the emails I get. I still
still get several stories a week, and

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I'm going to try to get to
all of them. But this one was

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kind of special to me. I
thought it was really good. It's special

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because it was very thoughtful. It
is a thoughtful story. This man really

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thought about this, and so anyway, I appreciate the man sending it,

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and I appreciate you listening to it. Let's go to another one. Here's

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an interesting bigfoot story. I think
you guys are gonnae the writer says.

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I live in North Florida. My
property has grandfathered in with the Swanee River

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Management District in the al Alpaha.
I don't know how to pronounce it Wildlife

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did Conservation District. The al Paja
River borders one side and the Little River

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on the other, making up approximately
one thousand acres where every type of wildlife

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can be found. There are bats
and flying squirrels, and gaiters and coadies,

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and deer and bear are known to
come through at different times. I'm

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a wood savvy woman who is at
sixty seven and is more comfortable in the

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wilderness than in a mall. I
love that. I love that. Oh

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that's my kind of girl right there. It was late summer twenty twenty one,

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when the days were so hot and
the humidity humidity was so unbearable that

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it felt like you were breathing through
a wet rag. The rain would bring

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only a slight reprieve when it felt
like a wall of water hell bent on

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cooling off the land. At five
pm that day, my beagle and my

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bully both made a break for the
woods. A bully is a pit bull,

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by the way, and I love
pitbulls. They're wonderful dogs. Usually

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I would give them time to run
the woods and wear themselves out, knowing

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that they'd return when they got tired. But that day time got away from

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me and a squall was coming in
before I realized they hadn't come back yet.

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By the time I loaded my nine
millimeter and grabbed a flashlight, my

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foul weather gear, and towels for
the dogs, it was already raining.

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On a sunny day, it would
have still been light out, but the

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storm turned that day tonight. The
only light was from my truck's headlights as

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I pulled through the gate heading to
my nearest neighbor's house, where my dogs

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usually ended up when they didn't come
home. My winsheld wipers were wide open,

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and I had an arm out the
window holding the light beam on the

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roof of the truck's cab. The
dirt road was a soupy river of pooling

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water, and visibility was somewhere around
zero. Twenty yards from my gate,

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I caught sight of a rabbit running
across in front of me. I let

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my eyes follow it across before turning
back to focus on the wall of water

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in front of me, and instantly, a very tall figure on two legs

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crossed on the heels of the rabbit. I didn't see any real detail.

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All I knew was that it was
tall and it moved with lightning speed.

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My truck has three inch lifts and
I sit on a pillow, and still

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it was taller than I was in
my seat. It had a flattened down

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appearance, like hair when it's wet, and it didn't seem to have a

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neck. I was reminded of thing
on the Adams Family Show, but clearly

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it was something, but I had
no idea what it was. I quickly

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turned around and went to look for
tracks, and of course the rain had

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obliterated any possible evidence. I went
back to the house and got my three

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to eight just in case, and
then I went to the neighbors in search

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of the dogs. I didn't see
them immediately, but on a hunch,

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I checked this open ended stall where
he parks this tractor, and there was

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my bully. She was crouched in
the far corner and she was whining and

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cowering, was growling and acting crazy, and she refused to budge. I

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grabbed a towel, intent on wrapping
her in it so I could lift her

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into the truck, and she did
something that she's never done before, not

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even once. She snapped at me. I took a good look at her

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then, and her eyes were as
big as saucers, and she was clearly

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scared out of her mind, and
she was peeing on me. Meanwhile,

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the rain was still coming down with
a vengeance, and I still hadn't located

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the little beagle. I pulled back
into the yard and I called for her,

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and I was worried that she wasn't
with the bully. As I listened,

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I heard her barking at the back
of the property. It wasn't a

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bark like she was chasing something or
on a scent. It was an odd

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sound, almost like a cry.
I left the bully in the truck and

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shouldered by three to eight and I
grabbed the light and headed in her direction,

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and I kept calling for her,
and as I did, I could

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hear that she was getting closer.
And when we finally met at the adjacent

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property line, I was so relieved
to see her that it took me a

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moment to fully take in her appearance. A thick layer of mud was perfectly

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covering her back, as if a
cake decorator had spread it on with a

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spatula. I'm guessing that she burrowed
into the mud for reasons of her own.

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As I bent down to wrap a
towel around her, the hair on

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the nape of my neck started to
tangle. It was then that I realized

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that this area where the rabbit was
and its pursuer were headed. I had

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to think, now, if I
carried the dog, I would have limited

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access to my three to eight.
If I put her down and let her

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run, would that trigger the predator
instinct in this thing? Just go?

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My mind sat as I stood there
at water logged boots and soaking wet clothing.

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Go go, go, and with
each step forward I anticipated being jerked

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backwards by massive Eastley hands. Somehow
we made it to the truck and I

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got us back to the house and
I parked as close to the door as

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I could, and I ran for
it, with the dogs leading the way.

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We made it inside and I spun
around and slammed the door shut before

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locking it once we were warm and
dry. I gave myself time to reflect

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on what I had seen. It
was a large, fast moving something that

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ran after a rabbit. That much
was a fact. The dog's behavior could

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be explained away by the weather,
I suppose, But I have never had

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my bully snipe at me before,
and both dogs were terrified. It was

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obvious. Never before or since,
have I seen what I saw across that

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road that day. There was no
roar, there was no smell, there

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were no red eyes. But I
firmly believed that that visitor was a bigfoot.

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Oh that's cool, and she saved
her dogs. I think I'm sure

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those dogs were scared of whatever that
creature was. I'm not saying it was

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a bigfoot. You believe it was
a bigfoot, what else could it be?

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It's probably the most logical conclusion.
But this was a great story,

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and this woman has a lot of
heart. Man. She carries around a

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three o eight and a nine millimeter
and at sixty seven, she's more comfortable

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in the wilderness than in them all. Ah, that's awesome. I really

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appreciate this story. It was written
really well. I know we all enjoyed

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it, so thank you. Ma'am
for sending it. Here's a bigfoot encounter

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from Well. He doesn't say whether
to use his name or not. Obviously

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I won't. Here's what the man
writes. He claims it's true. After

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living with this strange event in my
mind for more than a few years now,

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and upon hearing others coming forward and
sharing their own unusual encounters, I

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thought I'd take the time to recount
to you and your listeners what happened to

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me many years ago. My friend
grew tired of our home state and yearned

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to be somewhere with the mountains,
lakes and an abundance of natural beauty.

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I find plenty of natural beauty wherever
I have been in Ohio, especially in

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the area that borders West Virginia.
But my friend longed for something a little

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different, and when the lease was
up on her apartment, she packed up

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all her worldly possessions and, with
the help of some of her family members,

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she relocated to Missoula, Montana.
A part of me was happy for

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my friend, but another side of
me was sad and maybe even a little

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upset that she chose to move away. We were never more than platonic friends,

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and neither of us ever tried to
move our friendship in a more romantic

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direction, and that suited us just
fine, and it still does. But

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I knew I would miss having her
nearby to hang out with. It helped

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that we stayed in touch with almost
daily phone calls and emails and instant messaging.

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Because Missoula is relatively a small town, she deserves her an inmity.

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And I won't go into detail about
what my friend does for a living,

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but she does it well and enjoys
it a lot and has paid well for

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it. Late in two thousand and
seven, when I expressed a need to

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break from my own work, she
invited me to come to Montana for a

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visit. I needed a rest and
I missed my friend, so I accepted

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her invitation. I'm a mechanic by
trade, and I own my own shop,

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and it takes time to make arrangements, and I also don't like to

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fly, so for me, driving
was my only option. It was June

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of two thousand and eight before I
was able to make it out there.

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The next eight days were great.
I decompressed and reminisced, and together we

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explored some of that natural beauty she
had moved out there for We took a

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day trip to Idaho, and that
evening, after arriving back at her place,

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she surprised me by announcing that we
would be heading north the next day.

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First we would go to Flathead Lake
and then later to Whitefish to do

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some hiking on some private land owned
by her boss. The next day,

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we packed up her vehicle and headed
out, and two hours later we arrived

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at our destination. We were too
full from the snacks that we had brought

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to bother eating anything else before heading
up the trail. I backed her car

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into the narrow area off the road
where the trail began, and we got

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out. The trail, if you
can call it, that was not well

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worn. Considering that we were in
a remote area on a private land,

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I shouldn't have expected it to be
worn. My friend was excited to get

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started, so we grabbed the things
we needed, my walking stick and sunglasses

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and bear spray and bottled water and
my cell phone, and we started up

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the trail. I led the way
with my friend following. I could hear

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every steps she took on the path
that was covered with dead sticks and leaves.

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Although the trail wasn't much the view
was majestic, and the mountains were

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something that I could stare at all
day. Now I had been in the

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Appalachians at different times of my life, these mountains were considerably more impressive and

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scenic. We had been hiking for
twenty minutes when my friend had to stop

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to work a cramp out of her
calf, and I offered to wait and

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rest with her, and even to
head back to the car once she was

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able to walk again, but she
insisted that this was my vacation, and

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since I don't take many vacations,
I should head up the trail and that

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she would catch up with me shortly. Now I was reluctant to leave her

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behind, but she was insistent,
and I finally agreed on the condition that

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she take the bear spray. We
only had one can between us. She

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balked at that too, but when
I told her that I would only go

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a quarter of a mile and then
stop and wait for her, she agreed.

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The next eight minutes or so,
I plodded along, taking in the

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view and listening to the unusual sounds
of small animals, chattering, birds,

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singing, in insects buzzing, and
then everything got quiet. It happened so

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suddenly that I couldn't help but notice
it was like a switch had been flipped.

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I looked all around, wondering why
everything had gone so silent. It

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usually means there's a large predator in
the area, and I was unarmed,

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and then thirty yards ahead of me, I saw it. It was a

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large male grizzly bear, staring directly
at me, and my heart sank into

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the pit of my stomach and then
jumped back up into my chest and began

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to beat furiously. My hand reached
for the can of bear spray, even

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as my mind was telling me that
it was not there. My friend had

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it with her. I took inventory
of what I had. A five foot

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walking stick, a bottle of water, my flip phone, a little beef

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jerky in the poe pocket of my
cargo shorts. Not much to work with

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when dealing with a grizzly. I
considered climbing a nearby tree, but then

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I remembered that it would climb up
after me and pull me out like I

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was one of the stacked potato chips
in a can. I was considering my

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options when the bear started moving toward
me. I nearly voided myself at that

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point, and then this thing suddenly
and without any noise, appeared in the

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path next to me. One minute
I was standing there alone facing the grizzly,

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and the next it was standing beside
me. To my right. The

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bear stopped its charge abruptly. I
don't know if it was sizing up the

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thing beside me, or if it
was just as stunned as I was to

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find it there. Without warning.
In a blur, this thing that I

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now realized was a bigfoot, lifted
a rock the size of a cantlope over

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its head and threw it at the
bear in a long art. The rock

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struck the bear on its shoulder and
the side of its head, causing it

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to let out a startled yipping noise, and when the bear didn't move,

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the bigfoot creature took one step toward
it. At that point, the bear,

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which must have weighed a solid five
hundred pounds, did an about face

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and ran back into the forest.
I was already completely astounded when the creature

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turned and looked down at me with
those kind eyes before walking slowly into the

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woods in the opposite direction. I
was too dumbfounded to react any further.

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I thought a lot about what it
looked like. From everything I've read,

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heard, or seen about them,
it looked like a bigfoot. I've watched

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the Patterson Gimmlin film, and if
I had to guess, I would say

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it was maybe two feet taller than
that one. Its fur was dark brown

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and so shaggy that I couldn't make
out any well defined muscles. However,

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it threw a big, heavy rock
like you are I might throw an acorn,

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so it must have had mussels.
It was the eyes that I remember

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the most. They were almost human, with a mix of green tinged with

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gray. There was no discernible odor. No, a dog rolled around in

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an outhouse pit and then took a
bath in skunk spray. No, it

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smelled so bad that it melted my
eyeballs and burned the hairs out of my

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nostrils. It was nothing like that. I don't remember any odor at all.

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What I found most astounding, aside
from saving my bacon, was how

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it stepped on the same trail I
was walking, that my friend had walked,

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and that was covered in leaf litter
and sticks, and it never made

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a sound. I believe these things
can be extremely loud and vocal when they

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want to, but they can be
silent as a ghost too. I've learned

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about the evil types of big foots, but this one obviously wasn't one of

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them. It was more like a
guardian for me. I didn't waste any

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time heading back down the trail to
my friend, and I found her standing

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in the same area where I had
left her. She might have said something,

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but I didn't give her a chance. We need to go now,

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I said firmly. She opened her
mouth to protest, but there must have

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been something in my expression that made
her close it again, and she followed

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me back to the car. The
whole way back, I felt like the

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Bigfoot was watching us to make sure
that we made it out safely. And

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when we reached the car, I
put my walking stick into the trunk while

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my friend got into the passenger seat, and then I turned back to the

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woods and I mouthed the words thank
you, mister Bigfoot before getting into the

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driver's seat and leaving. On the
drive back, my friend asked me what

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happened. I said that she would
think I had gone backpoop insane if I

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told her. You know, you
can tell me anything, right, She

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prodded, whatever you choose to tell
me does not go beyond us. I

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nodded and hesitated for only a moment
before telling her the entire story. Well,

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she was flabbergasted and shocked, and
she ultimately said, I believe you.

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I told her. I was glad
to hear it, because I didn't

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think I was ever going to tell
anyone what I saw. Ever, I

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went back to Ohio, assuming that
she would be the only one I ever

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told it to. But now I've
shared it with you. My friend is

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happily married now to a wonderful man, and I have a girlfriend and a

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child, and my life is pretty
happy too. Her and I are still

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friends, and we have always been
and will always be. This may be

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the most awesome, nice bigfoot story
I've ever heard. Such a subtle way

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to step in and save this guy
from a probable grizzly attack. The way

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he describes it is unbelievable. This
thing just looks It's subtle. It steps

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out into the trail, the bear
doesn't leave. It chunks of rock at

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it hits it. The bear still
doesn't leave. The bigfoot takes one step

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toward the bear. The bear leaves, looks down at the guy probably kind

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of ends if he didn't visibly probably
inside smile said you're okay, and walked

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off into the woods. And this
man respected all of that. I thought

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this was an awesome story. I
can't tell the writer how much I appreciate

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him, including us in the people
that he's told this story to. I

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didn't give you his name, so
nobody knows who he is. This is

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a wonderful story. I really appreciate
it. Woo who Okay, that was

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a pretty good podcast. I thought
it was. I thought those were great

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stories. I hope you all enjoyed
it. I'm kind of trying to do

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a podcast today. My goal I've
always had this goal to do one podcast

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today for thirty days straight. I
probably won't make that, but this is

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day four. I've got put a
podcast out for four days. Like I

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told you in a previous video,
I m out of worked now, so

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this is all I have to do
and I'm going to try to hack out

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a living doing this. So if
you guys want to help me do that,

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share these videos, comment a lot, hit the like button. If

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you're new to the channel, hit
subscribe. I've got five hundred videos up

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all these kind of stories and they're
all enjoyable, they're all good, they're

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all written by good people. Anyway, I appreciate you listening, and we'll

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see you guys on the next one. Thanks,