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Now, when what are your putting? I got a screen going on here

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something just because my dog. Something
killed your dog? My dog. We're

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flying through the or over the trade. I don't know how it did it,

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okay, damn, and I'm really
confused. All as I saw was

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my dog coming over the fence,
and they did when you hit the girl.

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I didn't see any car and all
I saw was my dog coming over

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

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

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standing up. I'm out here looking
through the window now and I don't see

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anything. I don't want to go
outside, Jesus, point you bet hello,

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get the buddy out here. Point
on the out there, thought up

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a bit about six foot nine.
I don't know eat out there, yep,

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I'm walking right out. On July
third, nineteen ninety eight, my

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boyfriend and our two children, age
five and ten, we're on a camping

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trip in Upton, Maine. We
decided to explore Parmishiany Lake. The route

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to the lake begins from Route sixteen
and Wilson's Mills. We spent most of

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the day driving around, pausing for
a barbecue on a vacant lot before setting

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off again in the early afternoon.
Before four pm. We were in our

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truck, with my boyfriend at the
wheel, the kids in the middle,

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and me on the passenger side.
We emerged from a forested area at the

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crest of a small hill, which
curved slightly at the top before straightening out

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at the base. The right side
of the road opened up into a clearing,

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while the left remained wooded. There
were no other vehicles in sight.

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As we rounded the bend, we
spotted something at the bottom of the gentle

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slope. We both saw it simultaneously. My partner turned to me and asked,

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what did you just say? Without
hesitation, I replied, sasquatch.

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What we saw was beyond belief.
The creature, if that's what it was,

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stood upright on two legs, was
extremely tall. It was fairly thin

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and completely covered in long brown hair
or fur. Strangely, it didn't seem

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to notice our approaching truck, even
though we were close enough to see it

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clearly. Its strides were enormous,
crossing the two vehicle wide dirt road in

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just three steps. We reached the
bottom of the hill within seconds. Slowing

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almost to a halt to peer into
the woods. There was nothing there.

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My partner wanted to stop, but
I insisted we keep moving for the sake

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of the children. We also stopped
talking about it to avoid frightening the kids.

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We planned to return the next day
to look for signs, but a

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heavy rain that night likely washed away
any traces. I've shared this story with

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only a few people, as I
know it's hard to swallow. I did

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mention it to a forester at my
workplace. The road we were on as

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gated, and I had obtained a
key from my employer, which is why

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I brought it up with the forester. I was curious if he had heard

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some tails. The creature was spotted
on bost Buck Mountain, peading towards as

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a Scohost Lake. There was also
an old gate near mile marker number twelve

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in that area. This next story
asks the question is the Adirondacks home to

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Bigfoot or is it just his favorite
vacation spot. While Bigfoot discussions may seem

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relatively new in American history, Native
Americans have been sharing Sasquatch stories for centuries.

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Although often associated with the West Coast, sightings have been reported throughout the

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Adirondacks, from Saranac Lake in the
north to a well known sighting in Whitehall,

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located in the southern foothills. If
this is indeed a myth, it's

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an impressively enduring one. According to
folklore, Bigfoot is a colossal ape like

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creature covered in here, often emitting
a strong odor. This could account for

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the report of a potent unwashed human
smell and a wilderness area near Moody Pond.

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Interestingly, in Florida, bigfoot is
referred to as a skunkate. During

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my college years in Florida, many
of my peers lived in the nearby trailer

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park in the Green Swamp. Party
there, I discovered that most locals had

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a skunk ape tail to tell.
One woman was doing dishes when she glanced

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up through her kitchen window. She
found herself face to face with a hairy,

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surprised face just a foot away from
her own. It was a humorous

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moment where both parties screamed and the
skunk ape fled. Given the typical trailer

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set up, her home was elevated
on submit blocks. For this intruder to

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be at eye level with her,
he must have been at least eight feet

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tall. Remote locations seemed to be
a breeding ground for bigfoot stories, as

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they are believed to be closely related
to the Abominable Snowman or of the Himalayan

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region of Nepal and Tibet. In
the late nineteen fifties, permits were issued

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to US expeditions climbing the high mountains, detailing proper yetie handling procedures. Embassy

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counsel Or Ernest Fisk wrote on November
thirtieth, nineteen fifty nine, that all

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expeditions must first purchase a permit.
The group was then warned that the creature

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could be either photographed or captured alive, but it must not be killed or

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shot except in an emergency arising out
of self defense. Any discoveries indicating the

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existence of the Abominable Snowman had to
be reported to the Nepalese government. It

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would have been a public relations gold
mine if it had ever happened. The

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Northern Sasquatch Research Society has gathered a
vast collection of over two hundred first hand

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accounts of encounters with the elusive creature. Some of these encounters are seemingly ordinary,

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like reports of rocks being thrown at
unsuspecting individuals. One particular story,

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shared by veteran sasquatch investigator Bill Brand, recounts the experience of a man who

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initially believed the splashing and thunking sounds
were caused by a beaver in the water.

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However, this perception quickly changed when
the rocks started landing dangerously close to

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where he was standing. These rocks
were as large as basketballs, and one

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even struck the man's vehicle. Unfortunately, the story does not delve into the

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possible reactions of the insurance adjuster.
My husband vividly remembers a tale from his

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childhood spent summers in Saranac Lake.
He recalls hearing the adults discuss it,

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and vaguely remembers its coverage on the
local needs. The story revolves around a

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woman who was driving through a remote
area when she noticed what appeared to be

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a bear lying in the middle of
the road. Intrigued, she decided to

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investigate the motionless figure and stepped out
of her car. However, as she

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approached, she quickly realized two crucial
things. It wasn't a bear and it

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was awake. In a panic,
she hurried back to her car and attempted

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to get in, but the creature
forcefully ripped the door off. Just as

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things seemed ire, another car appeared
on the scene, scaring the creature away.

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Although there are no documented accounts of
this incident, it likely took place

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in the early nineteen sixties, before
such occurrences were extensively documented on the internet.

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Another local story, recounted by an
adult, dates back to the summer

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of nineteen ninety six. A group
of friends decided to go camping in the

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Pine Pond area, situated at the
base of mount ampersand as dust settled in,

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they found themselves fishing from a canoe. While engaged in conversation, one

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of the friends noticed a peculiar shape
on the edge of the wood line,

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approximately fifty yards away. They pointed
it out to their companion, who also

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saw it. Both agreed that it
resembled a black bear standing sideways. Intrigued,

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they cautiously rode towards it. As
they approached, the shape stood up,

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revealing itself to be crouching on its
feet like a catcher from a baseball

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team. Now upright, it stood
at least seven feet tall, covered in

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dark brown hair, with a fleshy
upper cheek area. Its dark eyes were

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strikingly bright, and it seemed to
observe them for several seconds, tilting its

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head upwards as if sniffing the air. The creature even moved its head and

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hands, captivating the witnesses. Suddenly, the sound of snapping twigs from behind

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the creature prompted it to spring into
action. It swiftly turned to its side,

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checked on the canoe, and then
spun around, disappearing into the woods

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like a nimble cat. The two
friends remained in the canoe, contemplating whether

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they should paddle to shore to search
for tracks. Despite their companion's curiosity,

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the witness's desire to escape prevailed.
Eventually, they mustered the courage to investigate

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and found two indistinct markings in the
sand, likely caused by the creatures pivoting

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movements. The witness found the entire
experience deeply unsettling, even though the creature

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did not display any threatening behavior.
Every sun that night kept them awake,

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and those who hadn't encountered the creature
dismissed it as a mere bear. However,

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the witness knew better, stating it
was no bear. What I find

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most compelling about these accounts is the
consistent testimony from experienced campers, hikers,

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anglers, and hunters. They all
agree that while the creature may have resembled

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a bear in some ways, it
was undoubtedly not one. The seasoned wilderness

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enthusiastics concurred that the creatures appearance,
movements, and even its head were distinct

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from those of a bear. One
of the most remarkable sightings in the Adirondacks

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is the famous Whitehall events that occurred
in the mid nineteen seventies. This small

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town, nestled in the foothills of
the Adirondack Park, has a long history

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of sightings dating back centuries. According
to Bruce G. Hallenbeck's book Monsters of

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New York, Mysterious Creatures in the
Empire State, events began on August twenty

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fourth, nineteen seventy six. Three
teenagers Martin Paddock, Paul Gosselin, and

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Bart Kenney were driving in a truck
near a bear road just outside of town.

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As they passed a field, they
noticed a large human form standing by

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the roadside. Intrigued, they turned
the truck around to get a better look,

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but soon after they were met with
live squealing and screaming. The figure

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began running towards them, causing Gosselin
to urgently instruct the driver to flee.

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Paddock complied, leaving behind a trail
of burnt rubber measuring fifty seven feet.

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They immediately reported the incident to the
police, only to be met with skepticism.

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However, Gosselin's father, Wilfred,
recalled here in erie screams in the

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same area of the previous year.
He gathered two other men and returned to

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a bear road, where they found
that the creature was still there. Gosselin

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vividly described his encounter, stating,
it scared me a lot. What really

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caught my attention were its eyes that
had huge red eyes. It just stood

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there, motionless. It was seven
to eight feet tall, weighing around three

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hundred to four hundred pounds, with
thick, coarse hair. The hair on

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its head was longer than what was
on its body. Brian Kinney, another

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witness, was certain that what they
saw was not a bear. He confidently

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stated, it was no bear.
A bear doesn't move like that. Gosselin

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provided detailed descriptions that were later used
to create drawings of the creature. Another

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sighting occurred that same night near the
Pultney River Bridge, where law enforcement officials

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discovered nineteen inch tracks. Casts made
from these tracks revealed dermal ridges similar to

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fingerprints. Encounters with Bigfoot rarely occur
in densely populated areas or during daylight hours.

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They are often glimpsed rather than seen
and heard late at night or in

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the mysterious twilight, making Bigfoot stories
the perfect tales to share around a camp

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fire deep in the woods, and
it is in those moments when we are

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most immersed in nature that we are
most likely to have an encounter. In

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the secluded wilderness of the New Jersey
Pine Bearns, Dave and his anonymous wife

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encountered an unexplainable sight. They claimed
to have seen bigfoot. The woman said,

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this creature it just leaped across the
entire road. It stood about six

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feet tall, covered in light colored
fur, similar to a deer, but

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it was no deer. Its legs
were spread out, and it seemed to

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be performing a ballet leap across the
road. The siding occurred off the main

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road near Brown's Mills. The woman, who was previously a skeptic, saw

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the creature and her rear view mirror. She is now a believer, she

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admitted, Even now I'm still trying
to comprehend what I saw. It's just

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difficult for me to grasp. They
immediately reported their encounter to Eric Spinner,

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the New Jersey representative for the National
Bigfoot Field Research Organization. Spinner presented a

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big Foot footprint casting he claimed to
have found in New Jersey. Fox twenty

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nine reporter Hank Flynn asked Spinner,
do you consider this credible? I do

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for several reasons. It's rare for
someone to report seeing it in their rear

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view mirror as she did. Also, they weren't intentionally searching for Bigfoot.

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They were simply enjoying a day in
the woods with their dog and riding their

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four wheeler, and then this happened. The pine barrens provide food, water,

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and ample hiding spots. Characteristics come
into other reported bigfoot siding locations.

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The number of sidings in New Jersey
might be surprising. We've had dozens of

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sidings over the years. Reports come
into our website and database, some of

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which aren't even included in our official
siding database because they're either still under investigation

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are deemed as hoaxes or unreportable Spinner
said. In North Jersey, the creature

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is known as Big Red Eye.
Some in South Jersey believe they're seeing the

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Jersey Devil. Regardless, the legend
continues to thrive. Dave's wife was once

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a skeptic, but now she knows
that seeing truly is believing. In New

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York Times reported on October eighteenth,
eighteen seventy nine, that two young Vermont

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hunters saw a wild man while hunting
in the mountains just south of Poel.

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The Time said of the October seventeenth, eighteen seventy nine occurrence, the young

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men described the creature as being about
five feet high, resembling a man in

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form movement, but covered all over
with bright red hair and having a long,

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straggling beard, and with very wild
eyes. When first seeing the creature,

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sprang from behind a rocky cliff and
started for the woods nearby. When

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mistaking it for a bare or other
wild animal, one of the men fired,

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and it is thought wounded it.
With fierce cries of pain and rage.

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It turned on its assailants, driving
them before it at high speed.

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They lost their guns and ammunition in
their flight, and dared not return for

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fear of encountering the strange being.
Other accounts are much more recent. According

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to a report printed at the Space
on the Run newsletter website in December nineteen

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eighty nine, a man from Eden
and Lamoul County found footprints in snow.

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The prince measured twelve to fourteen inches
in length and about six inches wide.

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This was in an area that was
ten miles from the nearest house in East

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Haven. In October nineteen seventy six, a woman who was reading in the

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wood saw something like the creature that
do frame saw. It had a muscular

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neck, a large head, and
broad shoulders. It stood around eight to

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eleven feet in height. Would the
ape like hair and long arms. A

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similar account and description was given by
a boy in Essex Junction in June nineteen

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ninety four, had Bigfoot live in
the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. After

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hearing these big Foot siding accounts dating
back to seventeen sixty five, you can

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decide for yourself. A persistent local
rumor says that Bigfoot may live or at

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least vacations in the Berkshires of western
Massachusetts. It was nearing ten pm on

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Sunday August twenty first, nineteen eighty
three, in the small town of Washington,

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Massachusetts, four friends were enjoying a
steak and chicken cookout near Camp Eagle,

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an abandoned boy Scouts camp on the
banks of Felton Lake. The camp

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had been abandoned since nineteen seventy,
so there weren't many people in the area.

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Suddenly, their peace was disturbed by
strange rustlings in the distance. Praying

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that whatever had made the noises would
leave them alone, they returned their attention

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to the camp fire and got back
to enjoying the night. When another two

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hours had passed, they could no
longer ignore the rustlings. Something big was

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out there, and the young friends
wanted to know what it was. Bared

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Durant eighteen and Frederick Parody twenty two
set out to investigate. About a hundred

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yards later they saw it. It
stood on two legs, silhouetted on the

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trail in the moonlight, and it
was huge. Durant told the Berkshire Eagle

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a few days later, I don't
scare easily, but it scared me.

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Though this is perhaps the most famous
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it is certainly not the only one. October Mountain, so named by

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famed New England writer Herman Noville,
because of its stunning fall color, has

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been the focus of paranormal investigations,
spooky documentaries, and eyebrow raising stories of

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UFOs, from tales of strange creatures
running amok to more recent sightings of a

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ghostly young girl hanging around her grave. There's no shortage of lore here and

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Bigfoot, well, he's a bit
of a local celebrity. Durant and Parody

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ran back to their camp site.
About an hour later, they and their

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friends packed up and headed out.
They climbed into their car, flicked on

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the headlights, and saw it again. This time from the safety of a

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motor vehicle, they were able to
get a better look. It was crouched

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down in the bushes, with dark
brown fur and eyes that seemed to glow

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in the car's light. They estimated
it to be between six and seven feet

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tall. The creature was almost but
not quite humaning six years later, another

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big foot siding circulated. A man
had been hiking the well traveled trail up

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the mountain on a July evening when
he spotted a reddish brown creature crouched in

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the brush. As a rather experienced
hiker, he was less startled than curious.

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He pulled out his binoculars just as
the creature moved into a clearing.

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Curiosity quickly became fear. The creature
was covered in fur, but wasn't like

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any animal the man had ever seen. Its face, slightly elongated with rather

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pointed features, was less furry than
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Its arms just a little too long
to be normal, were reaching into the

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brush to move aside rocks, presumably
in search of bugs. The hiker was

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fascinated with the creature's treatment of the
rocks. Each stone it picked up was

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carefully stacked into a small pile.
Apparently satisfied with its evening snack, the

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creature stood up. Its long,
furry arms stretched all the way to its

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knees, and it was as tall
as a human. It turned its head

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and slowly began to move back toward
the woods. The hiker didn't stick around

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to find out where it was headed. He ran. The first recorded account

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of this bigfoot sighting was in seventeen
sixty five, when a group of explorers

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in the Great Barrington area allegedly found
the creatures sleeping again. In eighteen ninety

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five, a north Adam's newspaper printed
a town selectman's account of seeing it.

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More recently, the creature was spotted
lurking in the bushes near a home,

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and Beckett walking the Long Route seven
in Williamstown and knocking sticks together on Mount

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Greylock. The verdict is still out. Could this creature be real? If

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so, why can't we prove it? If not, why do we keep

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seeing it? On your next trip
to the Berkshire's be sure to keep an

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eye out for this furry mystery.
You never know what you might see.

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A dog with a human face.
Whittier was a popular nineteenth century poet who

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was born in my hometown of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and he had an abiding

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interest in New England folklore. Some
of his most popular poems were based on

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old legends. But The Supernaturalism of
New England is not a book of poetry.

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It's a collection of legends and what
we modern folks would call paranormal encounters.

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Some of these stories are easily categorized
witchcraft tales, accounts of promontory dreams

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and haunted houses, but some are
much stranger and harder to categorize, including

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the following story, which was told
to Whittier by a neighbor who was walking

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near Haverhill's Canoza Lake when she witnessed
something otherworldly. It was a warm summer

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evening, just at sunset. She
was startled by the appearance of a horse

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and the kind used a century ago
in New England. The driver sat sternly,

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erect, with the fierce countenance,
grasping the reins tightly and looking neither

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to the right nor the left.
Behind the cart, and apparently lashed to

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it, was a woman of gigantic
size, her countenance convulsed with a blended

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expression of rage and agony, writhing
and struggling. Her head, neck,

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feet, and arms were naked.
Wild blocks of gray hair streamed back from

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temples, corrugated and darkened. The
horrible cavalcade swept by across the street and

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disappeared at the margin of the pond. Wootier notes that I have heard many

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similar stories, but the foregoing may
serve as a sample of all. Sadly,

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he doesn't tell any of the similar
stories, so it's hard to understand

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what is going on here. Although
the cart is old fashioned. I don't

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think this is just a ghost story. Perhaps the woman is being taken to

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hell by the devil, which was
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But if that's the case, why
is she gigantic and so enraged, and

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why is she being dragged into Canoza
Lake. It's a really puzzling story.

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Wootier also includes this next story,
which was told to him by a friend

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who was a man of strong nerves, sound judgment in ordinary matters, and

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not particularly superstitious. Still, this
unsuperstitious man also encountered something creepy in Havevrail.

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He was standing one moonlight evening and
a meditative mood on the bridge which

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crosses Little River near its junction with
the Merrimac. Suddenly he became sensible of

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a strange feeling, as if something
terrible was near at hand. A vague

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terror crept over him. I knew, said he in relating the story,

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that something bad and frightful was behind
me. I felt it, and when

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I did look round, they're on
the bridge. Within a few paces of

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me. A huge black dog was
sitting with the face of a man.

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A human face if ever I saw
one, turned full up to the moonlight.

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It remained just long enough to give
me a clear view of it,

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and then vanished. And ever since, when I think of Satan, I

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called to mind the dog man on
the bridge. That's certainly an unnerving little

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story. It sounds more like the
description of a nightmare than something encountered in

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waking life. Was this dog creature, the devil, a vision or something

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else? Wittier doesn't really say,
but he doesn't include it with others about

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the devil. Does the devil normally
appear as a human face dog? And

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if it was the devil, why
didn't he say or do anything? Again,

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it's another puzzling story. Interestingly,
there are Japanese folk tales about humans

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dogs called jimminkin. These creatures are
said to be omens of ill fortune,

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but not particularly evil. The dog
manned that Whittier described sounds a little more

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sinister than that. A woman named
Olivia who told us quite an incredible tale

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of what happened to her and her
daughter while horseback riding in August nineteen seventy

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six. Here's what she had to
say. My daughter and I decided to

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take our horses out riding, like
we occasionally did in the Lakeland area by

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Blackwood. It was August ninth,
nineteen seventy six. I remember the date

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because we knew Hurricane Bell was soon
to hit the New Jersey coast, so

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we wanted to get some riding in
before that. It was a windy day,

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but we followed the usual trails,
going along dirt paths that were close

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to a junkyard. We approached one
section of woods when suddenly there was dead

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silence. We usually heard all sorts
of wildlife in the area, but heard

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nothing now. Then a crow called
lively three times and the horses started acting

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up. We couldn't figure out what
was going on, and then up in

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front of us, about one hundred
feet or so, we saw this thing.

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It was about six feet tall.
Its back, which it was scratching

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against a tree, was facing us. At first, to me, it

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looked like a large dog on top
of a horse. I asked my daughter,

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what is that. It started walking
along the path we were riding on,

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and we slowly followed it up the
hill, but the horses were reluctant

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to stay calm. The thing turned
around and I could better see what it

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looked like. It had whitish hair
with black spots on its hips. It

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had horns coming out of its head
and red slanted eyes. It knows how

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to pig like snow. It stood
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Its hands were tipped with large claws, and it looked like it was

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slobbering all over. It jumped into
the path with its arms open wide,

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lowering its head like it was going
to charge us. At the time,

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I felt as though I was in
some kind of trance, like I was

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in a movie or something. Only
when my daughter yelled, let's turn around

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and get out of here is when
I realized we might be in danger.

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Then, seemingly out of nowhere,
it charged at us, tucking its arms

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and running like the Bionic Man.
It tried to grab one of the horses

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tails, but we took off.
When I looked back, I noticed it

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had stopped in the spot we had
taken off from, like in the movies.

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After we got away from this thing, we saw Washington Township police car

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by the junkyard and told the policeman
driving it that there was a strange creature

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in the woods that came after us, and we described it to him.

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The policeman said, well, I
hope to hell we don't catch it,

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and started to fill out a report. But amazingly, this thing showed up

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in the junkyard and we all saw
as it hopped over the eight foot fence,

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galloped in front of the police car, and then ran into the woods.

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After that, we took the horses
right back to the stables. The

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policeman wanted my address so he could
speak with me later, but I didn't

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make it home in time. He
had already come and gone. I never

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found out if he filed the report. Maybe the fact is that he didn't

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want to report it. Later on
after that incident, the owner of a

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local ranch told me one time he
found one of his horses dead in a

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field with its stomach ripped open.
I am telling you, I believe there

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is something out there. There were
three witnesses that day, and my daughter

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and I can recall vividly every moment
of our encounter with this thing, even

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after forty years. I'll never forget
it. I've never told this story to

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anyone outside of the family, but
my daughter convinced me that we should tell

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it to Weird New Jersey. Bigfoot
scene on a game camera. I don't

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know much about this picture. I
do not know where it was taken,

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who to credit, or even if
it is of a real bigfoot. Here's

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what little I know about the image. The best I can assume is that

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the picture was taken around twenty sixteen, but that may not be the date

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at all, a possible location of
Pennsylvania. But again, this is just

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a guess. What we are looking
at, according to what I read,

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is a bigfoot stooping down and looking
directly at a game camera. There are

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some blaring questions about the image,
like if it is a game camera picture,

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whereas the game cam data that is
normally at the bottom of an image,

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this information must have been cropped out. It normally shows the time,

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date, in temperature, all of
that information is missing. Also, to

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me, the image looks as if
it may be from a television screen,

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but this could be very much true, as sometimes people load game cam images

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to their television and then take pictures
with another camera. If anyone has more

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information about this image, then please
let us know, even if it is

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a total fake, we want to
know so we can add it to the

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list of fakes. Knowing something as
fake is good for future references. These

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types of things tend to pop back
up over time. To view the three

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images, head over to our website
click on the Sasquatch Odyssey blog at the

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top of the page. They say
you don't gotta go home, but you

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just say I don't want word.
Trying, des try, try everything.

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Call it baby right, baby,
my joy for me, your stay right,

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you call it right away, Yet
be callous sassssssssssss