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The man who sends this email wants
to be anonymous, and that as cool

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as it can be. My wife
and I live in deep southern Illinois.

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This area is reference to as the
Illinois Ozarks, with a topography being much

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different than the bulk of the state. The terrain is more diverse, complete

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with crystal clear creeks, steep hills, river bottoms, and large swaths of

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wooded areas and swampland. The Shawnee
National Forest comprises a large part of the

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portion of the state as well.
I'm a dog trainer. I own a

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kennel operation outside of a small community. We live approximately five miles from town,

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with stretches of woods and creeks surrounding
our home in kennel. Ten years

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ago, on an October evening,
I was sitting in my recliner in the

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living room watching television. My wife
was in the back bedroom watching TV there.

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I would guess that it was around
eight PM, possibly a bit later.

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Our living room where I was at
is on the back side of our

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house, which butts up against the
section of woods. We have large windows

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on this back wall, providing a
great view of the backyard in woods.

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My wife was in the front porch
of the house on the northeast corner.

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There's only one window in that bedroom, and it's normally difficult to hear much

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going on outside from that area,
while closer to our kennels, the house

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is well insulated and you can barely
hear the dogs barking from that position,

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even though the end kennels are only
thirty feet away. Here's my point.

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If you hear anything from that particular
bedroom, it has to be loud.

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I was startled by a very loud
noise coming from the backyard, maybe the

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woods directly behind the house. It
was loud, I mean really loud.

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The best description I mustard is the
sound of a tornado siren. It started

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low and increased in pitch until it
was ear splitting. I would say it

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was about fifteen seconds in duration,
with no let up. I remember this

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vividly. I was actually shocked,
just sitting there listening and trying to wrap

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my head around what I was hearing. I finally jumped up and I was

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heading for the back door and almost
ran into my wife, who was coming

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around the corner from the bedroom.
She was pissed. She thought I had

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the TV turned way up and was
disturbing her show. I quickly informed her

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that it wasn't me and that the
sound was coming from the backyard. I

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slept out onto our back deck to
listen. And this is where things get

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crazy. From our perspective. At
that time of year, my kennel is

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full, meaning there are probably twenty
five dogs kenneled within twenty yards of that

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woodline. Not one single dog made
a peak, all of them. We're

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laying very still, watching towards the
woods. I can't begin to expound upon

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how unusual this is. Generally,
anything that gets their attention causes them to

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bark. It could be a deer, or possum, a cat, squirrel,

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literally just about anything. But in
this particular case, not a single

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dog made a noise. Meanwhile,
my wife had joined me on the deck

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and we were discussing how quiet the
dogs were. Just then a pack of

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codis began to throw a fit.
These guys were closed, i'd guess no

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more than a hundred yards across the
creek, and still the dogs made no

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sound at all. We finally went
back inside and didn't hear anything else the

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remainder of the evening. The next
night, my wife was awakened around two

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thirty am to an identical howl,
but much farther away. I slept through

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it and she told me about it
the next morning. After that, we

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had no more such incidents near the
home. We had another incident in May

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of two and eighteen. One of
my training locations is actually in the Shawnee

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National Forest, at a little ball
diamond set in the valley. It's surrounded

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on three sides by high hills,
with a tree line creek running on the

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northwest side. There's a particular drill
I like to do in that spot,

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and the seclusion of the area allows
me to work within frequent interruptions. The

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Shawnee National Forest has a history of
sisquat sidings, but I never really thought

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much about it while working there.
On this morning, I pulled in,

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set up my drill, and brought
the first dog off the truck. The

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drill involves teaching the dog to respond
to a whistle. I started to put

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the dog through its paces, and
I blew the whistle for the first time.

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Within a few minutes, a tree
crashed to the ground on the east

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hillside. I couldn't see it come
down because the leaves are fairly full by

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then. But it was obviously somewhere
up the hill. I didn't given any

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thought since I was surrounded by trees
and they obviously fall from time to time.

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I continued the drill. A second
tree fell from the opposite hillside there

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was little to no wind. While
quite possibly coincidental, I still find it

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odd that two trees fell in short
succession on such a calm day. I've

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trained it that spot prior and since, and if yet to hear another tree

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fall, you may laugh. But
now, whenever I trained in that spot,

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I announced that it's just a dog
trainer. No need to worry.

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These are just two scenarios that I've
experienced, and neither provided a visual,

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which I'm perfectly fine with, if
you know what I mean. Admittedly,

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the second account could very likely have
been coincidence, but I found it odd.

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The first defies explanation. I sent, we have no answer other than

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a sasquatch was passing through our area
and decided to announce its presence for reasons

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only known to him. The email
is from Mark Mark Rights. I'm a

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lifelong resident of eastern Tennessee, and
I'm located about thirty minutes from the Great

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Smoky mountains. Three years ago,
I went bass fishing on a little Tennessee

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River one late summer afternoon. I
fished until it was almost dark, and

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I decided to find a cove to
anchor down in and spend the night.

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I do this quite often so that
I can start fishing again at daybreak.

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I found a cove and I was
surrounded by woodlands, and I anchored down.

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It's always so nice to sleep in
my open boat on a clear night.

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I usually lay back and look at
the stars until I fall asleep.

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Close to one am, I was
awakened by what sounded like someone walking through

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the woods. The crickets and frogs
had suddenly stopped making any noise. The

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walking sound got closer and closer until
it stopped right on the edge of the

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lake. I could hear something breathing
heavily and what seemed like a slow sniffing

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sound. Then it made a deep, guttural growl. I've been hunting and

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fishing since I was young, so
I pretty much heard all the sounds any

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animal around here can make. Whatever
that was didn't sound like anything I had

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ever heard. I reached from my
maglight and turned it on the bank where

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I heard the noise. I scanned
the edge of the lake, and I

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caught the shine of two big yellow
eyes that looked like they were up in

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the trees. No sooner did my
light hit those eyes than whatever they belonged

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to turned and ran into the trees. I listened for a minute as it

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tore through the woods until the sound
faded in the distance. I thought about

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pulling up the anchor and leaving,
but I was in the middle of a

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cove, so I felt pretty safe. Needless to say, I didn't sleep

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much of the rest of the night. The next morning, when I checked

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out the location where I had seen
the ice shine, I decided it must

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have been an eight or nine feet
tall animal. I went over to the

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wood line and looked for tracks,
but I didn't see anything. I wasn't

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about to go in the woods on
arm, so I let it go.

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I went on and I fished the
rest of the morning without any further incident.

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The following year, twenty eighteen,
I went fishing on the Little Tennessee

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River again, but this time I
took a friend. That morning, as

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we approached the cove where I had
had my experience the year before, it

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started to rain I'd forgotten to bring
my rain suits, so I told my

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buddy that we'd better head for cover. We pulled the boat up on the

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bank at the mouth of the cove. I tied it off and we sat

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down and we started talking. After
a few minutes, I told my friend

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about the experience I'd had while anchored
in the cove the year before. Jokingly,

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I said that we'd better be careful
because a bigfoot was going to get

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us. We were still laughing over
that statement. When it sounded like a

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huge tree fell. It had to
be a tree. It was so loud

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to be anything else. There was
no wind that day, and it scared

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the crap out of us. I
jumped up and scanned the trees, but

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the leaves were too dense. Afterwards, I could hear something running through the

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woods. I had my nine millimeter
pistol with me, but I was too

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afraid to go chasing after it.
Once the rain finally stopped, we went

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back to fishing. Maybe it was
bigfoot, or maybe it wasn't, but

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my instincts tell me that it was. Recently, I shared my experiences with

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a well known bigfoot reas searcher,
and he was shocked to learn that he'd

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received several reports from around the boat
ramp where we had put in, as

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well as the park across the cove
from the ramp, very close to where

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I had my experiences. This story
is submitted by MJ and she lives in

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California. I think she still does. Let's just read the story. I

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think you're again. I think you're
going to find this crazy. In the

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summer of nineteen ninety four, my
husband and I bought a brand new home

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and one of the many housing subdivisions
being built in the Sacramento Valley during the

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nineteen nineties housing boom. The area
had originally been mostly farmland and floodplains,

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and there were dozens of subdivisions being
built, and each subdivision displayed beautifully decorated

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home plans. The homes were much
more affordable then, so we applied for

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a first time buyer loan and crossed
our fingers. The loan process seemed to

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take forever, but when we were
approved, we got to pick out our

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very own flooring style and upgraded the
kitchen appliances, which was so nice since

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the apartment we lived in had no
dishwasher or self cleaning oven. We moved

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our family, which consisted of the
two of us, our four year old

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son, and our future baby girl, who was due in mid August,

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and we were happy to have accomplished
so much in a relatively short amount of

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time. The house was on a
dead end street since the owner of the

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property behind the subdivision did not want
to sell any of his property, which

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would have allowed for the street to
go through and join up with other subdivisions.

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There was still a lot of open
land and homes in various stages of

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construction, and our neighbors all had
kids about the same age as our son,

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and he made new friends and all
the kids played on the street was

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no traffic during the day while most
people were at work. Unfortunately, my

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husband was not able to find a
job in Sacramento right away, so he

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would stay with his mom back in
the Bay Area during the work week,

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and then he would drive back to
the valley to check in on us so

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we could do our grocery shopping and
other errands. At that time, we

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only had one car and I was
left stranded until he was back from the

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Bay Area. It was a long
commute, but my husband was so happy

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to buy us the house that he
was willing to commute with the hope that

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he would find a job in the
valley soon enough and stop commuting. It

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was a whole year before he was
hired at one of the local auto body

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shops. When our daughter was born, my husband was able to take a

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week off from work to be with
us and enjoy our new baby girl,

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and then he went back to work
and to his commute. He would get

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up at three am and make his
coffee in get his overnight bag, and

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leave at three thirty am so he
could be at work by six thirty am.

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Back then, he was the breadwinner, so we really needed him to

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keep that job, even if it
was one hundred miles away. I would

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normally get up with him and spend
a few minutes with him before he would

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be off. I would go back
to bed and try to sleep before the

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baby would wake up to nurse around
five thirty am. I would feed her

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in bed and then lay and lay
her between me and our four year old

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son, and the three of us
would snuggle in sleep until around eight thirty

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before we started our day. We
were so spoiled. On this Monday,

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after he left for his commute,
I felt uneasy and I felt scared,

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but I didn't know why. I
decided to go back to our bedroom and

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lay down, thinking that the baby
would be up soon enough to nurse,

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so maybe it would be better just
to lay back down. I fell asleep

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and I had a horrible night.
I dreamt that our sun was missing,

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and that we were running to different
streets looking for him and calling his name.

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I woke up suddenly and I was
relieved that it was just a horrible

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dream, and my boy was fast
asleep next to me, and the baby

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was still in her bassinette next to
the bed. I turned over on my

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side facing the bassinette, and I
saw a bright light coming in between the

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window blinds, and, thinking out
loud, I said, is it morning

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already? The light was coming in
between the blinds and it was so bright,

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but the rest of the room looked
dark. There was a bright light

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on the wall next to the window, and I looked up to see where

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the light was coming from, and
to my horror, just above the bassinette

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was an alien gray's face. It
was just the head, no upper body,

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legs, her arms. The head
was dark in color, very round,

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ending in a pointed chin, and
there were small sleeps for mouths for

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his mouth and nostrils, but the
eyes, the eyes were large and almond

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shaped and very shiny black, and
it had some sort of glass lamp on

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the top of its head. The
light on the wall was coming from this

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lamp. The being was looking down
at the baby in the bassinette. Oh

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my god, I couldn't speak.
My heart started pounding so hard that I

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started trembling uncontrollably. It saw me, and it scowled at me when it

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realized I was looking at it,
and it moved towards me, and I

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started screaming and swinging my arms and
kicking, and I remember that I set

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out loud. Oh my god,
I'm going to lose my mind. I

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felt that I could not take the
fact that this creature was there, and

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it was just there in the room
above my baby's bassinette in the house.

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It floated from its original position above
the bassinette to just above my face,

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and I remember saying this light blue
fog build up in front of my face.

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And then, in a dreamlike manner, I remember a sound like pigeons

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mate, like a cooing sound.
I remember feeling that whoever was talking to

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me was stern and was telling me
that it was for our own good.

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And then I woke up again.
When I woke up again, it was

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still dark out, but it was
around six am, and the blankets were

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perfectly made around the bed like nothing
had happened, and everything felt still.

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My son was asleep next to me, and the baby was in her bassinette.

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And I got out of bed and
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room and the rest of the house, and I checked all the rooms in

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the house, and I checked the
locks on the front door and the lock

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in the backyard sliding glass door,
and everything was just like I had left

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it. After my husband had left
for work, I decided to stay up

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and just at my day. In
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even though that was not my usual
time to shower. When I was washing

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my hair, there was a sore
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There was no blood, no bump, just it was very sore. I

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got dressed and I went to the
kitchen and I had some coffee. While

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having my coffee, I was trying
to make sense of all those events.

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Now. I remember the nightmare that
I had woken up from, and how

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relieved. I had felt that it
had just been a bad dream, but

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then that thing was there, and
I couldn't decide if it had been another

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bad dream or if that second part
was real. It didn't make sense,

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But how can a bad dream?
As scary as that could be was still

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making me afraid. My son was
up at nine am, and I kept

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checking in on the baby, and
she kept sleeping. She should have been

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up once to nurse, but no, she wasn't. And I called to

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my sister and I told her about
my weird dream, and I started crying

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because it seemed like it had been
real, but I kept thinking that it

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couldn't be real. I checked on
the baby and she had no fever,

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no rash, but she did not
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afternoon, and by the end I
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the day progressed, I became anxious, and before it was evening, I

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called my sister, asking if she
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I didn't want to be there alone
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She came over and took us to
her apartment. My sister wasn't sure

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what to make of this whole thing. I was just grateful that I didn't

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have to be alone in the house. We stayed in her kid's room that

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night, and I remember feeling very
scared because I didn't know if it would

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happen again. But I put both
kids in me under the under the twin

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bed we were supposed to sleep on, but we slept under the bed.

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I called my husband and told him
about my bad dream, but he thought

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it was just stress from being left
alone so many nights and taking care of

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the kids in the house. My
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and drove us back to our house. That evening. I tried to go

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about my normal routine, making dinner, bathing the kids before bed, and

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watching a movie. And then it
was time for me and my husband to

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go to bed, so I put
both kids in the bed between us,

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and I put a large toy sword
next to me in the bed. I

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was terrified that it would come back, that I would wake up and that

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face would be there looking back at
me when I opened my eyes. I

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knew there was nothing I could do
to protect us, and that made me

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more frightened than anything. My husband
continued to commute for another six months,

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so I was still alone in the
evening, and that was the worst part.

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For weeks, every night, I
would stay up just until I could

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see daylight before I felt safe to
fall asleep. I would leave the TV

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on and the bedroom lights on and
fight sleep until I would see the early

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sunlight peek through the windows. I
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when the morning light starts just a
bit earlier each morning. I went on

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like this for three years every winter, and for years I was terrified to

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look out any window in the evenings. I would close all the blinds in

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the house at night and leave some
lights on before going to bed. My

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husband would just tell me that it
had been a bad dream, and after

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a few months he didn't like me
to talk about it. My daughter was

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only three months old when this happened. She doesn't have any strange scars or

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ill effects from the experience. I
no longer fear the winter nights, but

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I know that it was not a
dream. Regarding the description of the creature

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I saw in the book titled Operation
Trojan Horse, there is a description of

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an et that has been described wearing
some type of light attached to or on

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the top of his head. All
of this has really been blocked out until

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recently. I've heard so many stories
and started putting two and two together.

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I didn't know what it was that
I saw until recently, and some things

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leading up to it and things that
happened afterward have put it all in perspective.

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My name is John, and I'm
a firefighter and a minister of the

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Gospel. What happened to me happened
when I was twelve years old. That

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was back in nineteen eighty seven.
I lived in a neighborhood in Ocean Springs,

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Mississippi, and the neighborhood was not
huge, but not small either.

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However, every bit of it was
surrounded by woods. There were also buy

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us not too far away that we
would sneak away and fish in. And

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we knew most of the woods around
there like the back of our hands.

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We had bb gun wars and pine
cone wars and bottle rocket wars, and

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we camped out and we built forts
and you get the picture. We loved

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the woods and we played and we
played hard, except there was this one

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section of woods when you first entered
the neighborhood that we just never felt comfortable

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in. We call those woods the
creepy woods. When you entered the neighborhood,

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they were on the left hand side. I remember my friend's dad took

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us back their mudding in the back
of his pickup truck, and they seemed

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like they went on forever. In
reality, I believe if you followed them

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far enough, it would drop into
a huge subdivision several miles away. We

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could never put our finger on it. We just didn't like going back there

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again. It was just creepy.
Thinking back, there was a ground road

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that us kids used to take to
the Old Country's store a couple of miles

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away. We were able to avoid
the busy main road to get there,

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and that gravel road covered a section
of those creepy woods. It was just

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close enough to the main road where
you could hear the traffic, so it

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didn't seem quite as creepy. My
dad used to send me to that Old

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Country store to get his newspaper every
Saturday and Sunday morning. I would guess

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that walk was between one and two
miles. There were so many times that

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I would take that walk and feel
like I was being watched, and I

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would stop walking and I would listen, because even though I was walking on

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the gravel, I swore I could
hear leaves crunching, like something was keeping

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pace with me. Many times I
was with my friends and we would all

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get the same sensation. Somebody would
tell everyone to stop and be quiet,

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and we would just listen. It
was eerie, but we almost always chalked

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it up to us being scared of
the creepy woods. One night, my

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dad was driving me home from a
little league baseball game. He was president

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of the league, so we almost
always got home late. As he took

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a right into our neighborhood, the
creepy woods were on the left. We

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went in a hundred yards and then
took another right. There was a field

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that we played baseball and football on
right across from those woods. As he

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took that right, our headlights shined
into the field, and that's when we

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saw it. The lights caught glowing
amber colored eyes and a shadow of something

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that was absolutely huge. We both
saw it for a split second, and

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we passed it. It was so
quick that neither of us could get any

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great detail, and Dad let out
what the heck was that and slammed on

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the brakes and he threw the truck
in reverse, and then it was gone.

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We sat there for a minute or
two in discussed what we had thought

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we'd seen, and after a short
discussion, we determined that we both saw

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it, so we knew we were
not making it up. We told my

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mom and sister when we got home, and they thought we were trying to

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scare them. Well, we went
out the next day and we walked around

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the field where we saw it,
and there was a lone pine tree on

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that end of the field, twenty
five feet from where we had seen the

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shadow. At a best guess,
we determined this creature was at least eight

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feet tall. Now I remember the
ground was dry, so we never found

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any tracks, and over the next
week we had to quit talking about it

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and we got back to our daily
routine a few weeks later. I remember

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this it was the same summer because
we moved away shortly after. My buddy

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and I were walking to his house. It was just after dark and we

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were going to see if we could
stay the night. We had to walk

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by the field my dad and I
saw this creature in and honestly, I

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hadn't thought much more about out it, but as we walked by, I

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got another uneasy feeling that we were
being watched. I did the best I

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could to ignore it. I didn't
mention anything to him because I didn't want

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him to think I was crazy or
scared. We got to his house and

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his parents would not let us stay
the night, so I was stuck walking

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back home by myself. As I
once again approached the field, this time

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it was on my right. There
were two ways that I could go home.

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I could either cut through the woods
to the left, which shortened up

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my trip quite a bit, or
I could go straight and take the road,

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which I added several minutes. I
was going to take the woods.

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I'd done it a hundred times,
and as I was about to take the

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turn into the woods, the hair
on the back of my neck stood straight

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up, and my heart started racing, and I literally became fearful. Something

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on the inside of me screamed,
do not go that way, and I

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listened to that voice, and I
took off, running as fast as I

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could down the gravel road. I
ran all the way home with tears streaming

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down my face, and I never
looked aback. I think I broke a

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world record that night. I opened
the door and went straight to my room,

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and I never discussed it with anyone. I've never had that kind of

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fear come over me before, and
I've never had it since. But after

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listening to so many encounters, there's
no doubt in my mind what was out

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there. Again, I never talked
to any of my friends about it,

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and only recently I'm forty four years
old. Now did I ask my dad

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if he remembered that huge creature we
saw in the field that night. He

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had not thought about it until I
mentioned it, he said, And I

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told him what I thought it was, and he didn't disagree with me.

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That is what I believe to be
my encounter. It may not be as

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exciting as some that I've heard,
but I will always remember the fear that

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I felt that lone night. I
will always remember those amber colored eyes and

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that dark shadow that stood in the
field. God, bless you, and

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thank you for taking the time to
read my story. I just love it

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when people think me it's just so
nice. And he signs off sincerely,

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John. John's a firefighter, John, stay safe, brother. You know

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kids have these experiences. I probably
had something like this where there weren't many

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woods around my house, but there
were a few and at night. I

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don't know. When we were kids, the night seemed so dark. Now

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I walk out in the woods at
night, I don't think anything about it.

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But when I was a kid,
it was spooky. And what's the

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first thing you do when you're in
a position where you're spook as a kid,

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you run like crazy. And that's
what I would do. I would

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tear through the woods, through the
trails, pop out under a street light,

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and then I would tear all the
way home. And that's just what

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kids do. But I have no
doubt out what you encountered that night.

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And the last couple of podcasts I've
done, I've talked about it may seem

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like I'm discounting feelings. That's not
what I'm saying. I'm just saying,

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be a critical thinker and think this
through. Think it through, and don't

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let these things change. Don't let
one event or one feeling change your life

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forever. Stay out in those woods
and have a good time. There's no

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reason to be afraid of the woods. And I know I say this all

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the time, but I really care
that people get out and enjoy that stuff.

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So that was on my mind.
I thought I'd say it all right,

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let's go to another one. Here's
an email from Jeffrey. Here's what

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he writes. It all happened back
in the summer of two thousand and two,

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but I remember it like it was
yesterday. I was about to be

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deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom
as part of the National Guard out of

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Cutsdown, Pennsylvania. A friend off
or to take me on a short camping

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trip to a little pay site on
the west branch of the Susquehanna just west

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of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was
meant to be a relaxing trip before I

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deployed. We were going to drink
a few beers and look for Indian arrowheads

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in the nearby fields. He was
also going to give me a flint napping

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lesson. It didn't take us long
to get bored walking that field. There

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was a good flowing feeder stream emptying
into the river just downstream, called a

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Big Run, and I wanted to
explore it. I've been hunting for arrowheads

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for many years, and I found
that almost every stream that spring in Pennsylvania

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has a small Native American hunting cap
at the head where the water first pops

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out of the ground. Because it
was really hot that day, my friend

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got tired and wanted to turn back
after about a mile or so. However,

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I was determined to find a camp, so I went on alone.

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I followed the stream for another mile
or two until it got so thick with

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rhododendron that it became nearly impossible to
follow. At that point, I started

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to hear the sound of the highway
off in the distance. I then decided

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that the head of the stream was
somewhere on the other side of the highway

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and farther away than I was preferred
to travel. At the bottom of the

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mountain, I remembered seeing an old
logging road that ran up the gorge to

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the left of the stream. I
decided that would be the easiest and quickest

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way to the river. After fighting
my way through the thick undergrowth, I

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finally found the path beside. It
was a nice flat spot with a pushpile

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left for making the road, so
I decided to scratch around and see if

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I could find any traces of flint
chips and the soil in the past.

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I found whole arrowheads in these top
soil piles. All I found in this

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00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:01.279
one was a few northern ring necked
snakes. It was getting hotter and I

412
00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:06.319
was almost out of water, so
I decided to pack up my scratcher and

413
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:10.279
head back down the mountain. Not
two steps into my journey home, standing

414
00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:15.079
about sixty yards in front of me, was the most terrifying thing I had

415
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.559
ever seen. Honestly, I would
like to think that I'm a fairly brave

416
00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:23.319
man, but I was not prepared
for this encounter at all. I'm an

417
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:29.319
experienced infantry soldier and an avid big
game hunter, so it takes a lot

418
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:34.119
to writtle me. What was standing
in front of me was enough to do

419
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.880
just that. It shook me to
my core. I froze instantly. A

420
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:44.480
flood of thoughts raced through my mind. I wanted it to be a bear,

421
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:49.200
but it wasn't. Once I accepted
what I was seeing, I was

422
00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:53.240
overwhelmed with fear. I felt like
I was going to vomit. And then

423
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:59.279
it turned and started running to the
stream where I had just been. I

424
00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:05.799
could not believe its speed. Its
massive legs were thick and muscular and reminded

425
00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:10.039
me of a hair covered telephone pole. He was covered in dark brown hair

426
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:15.920
that probably wasn't any more than four
inches long. Judging from my experience as

427
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:20.920
a bear hunter, I'd guessed his
weight to be somewhere between eight hundred and

428
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:25.720
twelve hundred pounds, and he was
easily eleven feet tall. He sounded like

429
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:31.599
a bulldozer, busting through the roadodendron, snapping branches as thick as my ankles.

430
00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:37.559
I remember thinking, there's no way
I can outrun this thing. If

431
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:42.279
it wanted to, it could easily
catch me. The fact that I was

432
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:46.440
unarmed didn't alleviate my fear at all. I knew if I got out of

433
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:52.240
this though, I'd never venture into
the woods unarmed again, and my mind

434
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:55.799
continued to race. I knew in
order to get back to camp, I

435
00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:00.599
had to go towards where this thing
had just been. I was suddenly tying

436
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:06.039
the sounds that I had heard earlier
in the day attributed to the deer to

437
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:10.159
this thing. I realized it must
have been following me when I was trying

438
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:15.039
to get out of the rhododendron.
I must have inadvertently flanked it, I

439
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:20.440
thought, or it was stalking me. At that moment, twenty years of

440
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:25.639
infantry training kicked in in an ambush
situation. Always charge into the contact,

441
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.840
never go any other direction, because
that's where the real trap is. It

442
00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:36.079
may sound crazy, but I bolted
in the direction where I first saw it.

443
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:38.880
To be honest, I didn't know
if I could run that fast.

444
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:44.920
I didn't look back. I was
in full panic mode, but I knew

445
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.320
I had to slow down a little
or I'd eventually fall on the rocky downhill

446
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:53.719
terrain. I knew if that happened, I'd surely be in even bigger trouble.

447
00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:00.320
Somehow I regained my composure and I
slowed myself down a little, while

448
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:05.199
still running for what felt like three
miles back to the river. I don't

449
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.400
know why, but I never did
tell my buddy what I had seen.

450
00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:13.519
I'm not even sure I got to
look at its face. Maybe fear caused

451
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:16.320
me to block it out of my
memory. I may have gone a little

452
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:22.840
bit into shock because I felt sick
instantly. I know it saw me first.

453
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:25.719
As I started moving down the logging
path. I heard it move and

454
00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.320
look up, and it broke into
motion so fast, with so much power,

455
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:36.440
breaking through those branches like they were
nothing. I still have nightmares about

456
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.360
it. In the nightmares, the
face seemed more human than not, with

457
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:45.559
a head sort of shape like a
coconut still in the shell. It's never

458
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:51.960
aggressive in the dreams, but its
size still scares me. I know this

459
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.320
much. If I'd had a camera
with me, I would have never taken

460
00:35:54.360 --> 00:36:00.239
the picture. I wouldn't have even
tried to. It was too close since

461
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.440
it moved too fast. I really
hope I never see another one, at

462
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.559
least not that close. I've heard
they're supposed to smell bad, but I

463
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:13.280
didn't smell anything out of the ordinary. Its hair was not as long as

464
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:17.679
I have heard. Maybe summer hair
is shorter. I don't know. I've

465
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.199
often thought that maybe the area is
a migration route, but I have no

466
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.199
idea where I got that idea.
I'm thinking that's why I couldn't find Indian

467
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:32.679
hunting camps along the streams. Maybe
the Indians new and they stayed away.

468
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:37.440
If I had a topographical map,
I could easily pinpoint that location. Even

469
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:42.360
today, when I go hunting or
in the woods for any reasons, this

470
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:46.920
event is always in the back of
my mind. I swear this is true

471
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:55.440
to the best of my recollection.
Signed Jeff. Here's an email from someone

472
00:36:55.480 --> 00:37:00.000
who wants to be anonymous, and
here's what he writes. It's an Ohios

473
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:04.239
to worry. It has a little
bit of a woo theme to it at

474
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.519
the end. Just hang on and
wait. You're gonna like this, he

475
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:13.079
says. I live in central Ohio, and I'd rather remain anonymous, no

476
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:16.679
problem. I go out hiking in
the woods looking for sasquatch in the ark

477
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:22.800
they make in the form of structures
and arches. Earlier this year, I

478
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.679
started exploring a forest where just driving
through it, I found all kinds of

479
00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:31.239
signs on both sides of the road. I've hiked this area for maybe three

480
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:36.199
or four months now, and everywhere
I've been so far has had evidence of

481
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:40.679
structure, brakes, arches, uprooted
trees, busted trees, and tracks.

482
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:45.800
I always whistle a couple of times
because I'm just hiking in, just to

483
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:50.960
let them know that I'm here.
There's no doubt that they have been in

484
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:55.760
this forest for years. The area
is ideal for them, with its sandstone

485
00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:01.639
cliffs and small streams. I found
my first prince here along one of those

486
00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:07.519
streams. It runs up a small
valley with steep cliffs on both sides.

487
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:12.800
After hiking for a while and following
the stream, I found a spot that

488
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:16.800
was dammed up with rocks. There
was a small sapling that had been pulled

489
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:22.519
out of the ground by its roots
and debarked. It was shoved upside down

490
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:27.360
with the roots in the air,
in the middle of the small dam.

491
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:31.639
This is also where I found my
first prince in the mud. I wanted

492
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.559
to take the sapling as a souvenir
of the day, but I didn't because,

493
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:39.840
to be honest, I was kind
of scared too. Two weeks later,

494
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:44.559
my wife and I came back on
a rainy day, and as always,

495
00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:49.480
I whistled a couple of times on
our way in. I also used

496
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:52.519
this as a way to build trust
with them. Usually after I whistle,

497
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:58.840
I hear tapping from different parts of
the woods. This isn't always the case,

498
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.480
but it was generally so, but
not today. Everything was just wet

499
00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:07.320
and silent. We came up on
some arch trees, but there was too

500
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.960
much a brush to walk through to
get to them, so I zoomed my

501
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:16.039
camera lens in and I took some
shots. Then I tossed a rock towards

502
00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:22.559
the arches and I hiked on for
a while before leaving That night at home,

503
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:27.199
I kept thinking about that sapling.
It had still been there, and

504
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.880
I just kept thinking that I wanted
something of theirs and that sapling was pretty

505
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.000
cool to look at. The Next
morning, I decided to go get it.

506
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.199
I hiked in as far as the
dam in the stream. I took

507
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:44.199
a quick look around for more prints
and thought, okay, I'm taking this

508
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:49.039
sapling. So I did. I
was pretty nervous on the way out.

509
00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:52.880
I didn't feel right about what I
had done. I got back to my

510
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:57.280
car and found a small tree branch
on my windshield between the wiper blades.

511
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:00.760
I was parked under some tree,
so it could have just fallen there,

512
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:06.199
but the way it was positioned just
seemed too deliberate. It would have been

513
00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:10.159
a one in a million shot in
nature. My wife was with me and

514
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:15.000
we both had to use the bathroom. We drove a mile up the road

515
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:19.400
to a small public restroom. The
whole time I couldn't get rid of the

516
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:24.079
feeling that I shouldn't have taken that
sapling. The restroom was a small building

517
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:29.760
with a metal roof and a concrete
block wall separated the men's side from the

518
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:35.079
women's. We were only in there
for about three or four minutes, I

519
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:37.840
could hear the rain pinging on the
tin roof, but then a rock hit

520
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:43.039
the side of the building. When
we came out, I asked my wife

521
00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:46.480
if she heard anything. She hadn't. Furthermore, the sun had come out

522
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:51.280
and there was no rock on the
ground. Now I was getting scared.

523
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:54.400
I told her that we were going
back right then to return that sapling.

524
00:40:55.880 --> 00:41:00.239
We got halfway back to where we
would have to park the car, and

525
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:05.320
I got a really good feeling about
taking the sipling. I suddenly knew that

526
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.559
it would be okay to take it
home with me. Later that evening,

527
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:12.480
I was thinking over the events of
the day, and I came to the

528
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:17.639
conclusion that the bathroom experience was them
letting me know that they knew I was

529
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:23.239
in the woods that day. Now
I am certain that they have supernatural abilities.

530
00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:31.760
Thanks for reading my story. Here's
a big foot story from Florida.

531
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:37.360
My story begins in nineteen seventy eight
or thereabouts, when I was a young

532
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:42.400
man of nineteen years old. My
friend Kenny and I had been writing on

533
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:47.599
some property that we frequently hunted on
the Mayaca in southwest Florida. We had

534
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:52.679
Kenny's dog Duke with us, and
as we rode, a herd of hogs

535
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:57.320
ran across the road in front of
us. We stopped and Kenny released Duke.

536
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.719
Within thirty seconds could hear a hog
squeal, meaning that Duke had called

537
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:07.000
a hog, and we headed out
in the palmettos to dispatch the hog and

538
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:13.000
reap our reward. We found Duke
with a sixty pounds sow and I killed

539
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:17.159
her with my knife. Duke caught
her underneath a solitary oak tree in the

540
00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:22.000
middle of the palmettos, a hundred
yards off the road, and as I

541
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.760
prepared the field dresser, I noticed
this She had tumors around her stomach and

542
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:30.599
we decided to leave her well.
That evening, Kenny and I took our

543
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:36.039
girlfriends out for dinner and later went
to the hunting camp for a few drinks.

544
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:39.360
I told Kenny that we should stop
and get that hoghead that we had

545
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:45.199
left in the palmettos and scared the
girls on the way to the cabin.

546
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.199
I told the girls that I left
my knife with the hog and we were

547
00:42:47.239 --> 00:42:51.800
going to stop and pick it up. Back then, there was no sich

548
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:54.440
thing as a good flash light and
the one I had was about dead.

549
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.920
It was a moonlight night, so
we didn't have any trouble navigating. When

550
00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:04.920
we got to the hog, I
began to cut its head off. That

551
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:08.960
wasn't a simple task in the dark. With a dull knife, I worked

552
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:14.199
and then I heard a noise in
the pal meadows. I thought it was

553
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:16.599
probably an armadillo, because, believe
it or not, they can sound like

554
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:22.320
a bull coming through the woods.
As a sound approached, I heard a

555
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.039
grunt. Well, it was more
like a growl, or more like a

556
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:31.079
fifteen hundred pound kitten burry. I
told Kenny to shine the light over there,

557
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:36.239
and that's when we both realized that
we were looking at something ten feet

558
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:42.440
tall and it weighed a thousand pounds
at least. Kenny was standing behind me

559
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:45.719
and I was on my knees kneeling
over this hog, and we were petrified.

560
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:51.760
Neither one of us flinched, and
within just a few seconds, the

561
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:57.760
creature turned around and disappeared into the
night. We ran back to the truck

562
00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:00.000
and took the girls home, and
we headed to NIE's house to get my

563
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.360
truck. The next day, we
met for breakfast and we discussed what had

564
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:09.039
happened, and we decided we might
be better off just keeping this to ourselves.

565
00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:14.800
After breakfast, we rolled back out
to the property and we found that

566
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:19.920
the hog was gone with my knife, and that was the last time Kenny

567
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:27.519
and I talked about what we had
seen. Here's an email from Virginia.

568
00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:31.719
The man writes that I was born
on the family farm in Virginia, and

569
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:37.159
I worked there all my life.
The events I'm about to tell you happened

570
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:43.079
on this farm. Repairing fences is
a typical job on our place that keep

571
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:47.639
livestock on our property as well as
keep our neighbors animals out of our fields.

572
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:52.079
Two weeks prior to this event,
I had worked for a week to

573
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.960
restring an old fence that needed repair. And it's not the most difficult work,

574
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.119
but it's not the easiest. While
working and a piece of equipment in

575
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:05.320
the shed, one of my hands
drove up and skidded to a stop and

576
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.079
frantically ran over to me, saying
he had knocked a deer down a few

577
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:14.199
minutes ago. Well, that wasn't
odd news, not so that he would

578
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:17.599
be sweating and speaking so fast that
I hardly understood half of what he was

579
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:22.599
saying, I asked him to slow
down and catch his breath so that I

580
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.480
could follow, and he took a
few minutes and appeared to lower his heart

581
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:30.639
rate and get control of his breathing. All right, there was a nice

582
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:34.239
group of those that walked out of
the trees in the south field where I've

583
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.440
been hunting this year. The season's
almost over and we need some meat,

584
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.960
so I killed her, he said. He looked at his feet for several

585
00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:46.079
seconds, and I thought he was
done, and then his breathing began coming

586
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:51.199
in shallow heaves again. Come over
here and sit down and relax, I

587
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.119
said, pointing to an old log
stool next to the barn door. I

588
00:45:54.239 --> 00:46:00.440
catch your breath and let's start over. He sat down and took several deep

589
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:05.960
breaths, and he continued, I
didn't hit that dough right little above her

590
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.519
heart. I think she jumped straight
up in the air and ran back to

591
00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:12.960
the tree line, and when she
tried to jump the fence, her rear

592
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:16.800
legs caught on the top wire and
she went down. I sat there until

593
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:21.320
she was dead, and I climbed
out of the shooting house. And when

594
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:23.679
I turned away from the ladder to
go get her. There was a huge

595
00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:28.880
bear standing over her. Now,
I don't know where it came from.

596
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.599
I haven't seen a bear all year, but there it was, hunkered over

597
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:35.960
her, and I yelled at it
to run it off my deer, and

598
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:38.760
it stood up on its rear legs
and it looked right at me. But

599
00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:45.119
it wasn't a bear. It was
a giant, hairy monster. I think.

600
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:47.400
I took a step forward, and
as soon as I moved, it

601
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:52.159
bent down and threw that dough over
its shoulder, and he walked up into

602
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:57.480
the trees. I stood there for
several minutes until I couldn't see it anymore.

603
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:00.960
That thing took the whole fence with
it when it stepped over. I

604
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.360
guess it got its leg hung up
in the barbs, and it took a

605
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:09.159
few posts with it and then started
snapping staples out of the post. Well,

606
00:47:09.199 --> 00:47:13.039
he was way up in the woods
when I saw the fence go slack.

607
00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:17.119
Now I think he either broke the
wire or got himself untangled. There

608
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:22.079
was a long silence that I broke. Well, how far was the deer

609
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.679
from the shooting house, I asked, maybe forty yards? He said,

610
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.360
let's go look at the fence.
I said, I'm not going back down

611
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.400
there. He said, you can
go, but not me. I drove

612
00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:37.960
on down there, and sure enough
he was telling the truth about the fence.

613
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:43.400
I don't know what dragged that fence
up into those trees. I couldn't

614
00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:46.960
have done it without a tractor.
No human or even a bear could have

615
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:52.079
done that much damage. He said
it was an animal. Well, it

616
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:55.480
must have been a big one.
A few months later, I was supposed

617
00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:00.800
to meet one of my hands in
a field to repair another fence. I

618
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:04.679
got to the sight and I gathered
my tools and material and I walked through

619
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:07.880
a ravine to the area that we
were to work. He should have been

620
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:14.519
there waiting on me. I was
ten minutes late. I waited another thirty

621
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:17.599
minutes, and here he came running
down the slope straight at me. What's

622
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:22.280
your rush? I asked, why? Part next to your truck? He

623
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.119
said Now. I got out and
I shut the door, and I looked

624
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:28.519
over the bed of the truck about
to get my tools out, and out

625
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:32.480
walks this giant, hairy monster from
the trees. He walked across that ditch

626
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.880
right there and straight through the field
and down into the swampy area on the

627
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.559
low end of the field. I
didn't know what that thing was, so

628
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:45.079
I laid down on the grass behind
my truck so he couldn't see me,

629
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:49.400
and I watched him walk right down
into that slough from under my truck.

630
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.320
All right, show me where he
was, I said. The guy was

631
00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:57.440
not afraid as the other one who
wouldn't go back to the spot where he

632
00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.440
killed the deer. And we walked
to the trucks and down to the edge

633
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:06.280
of the mud where the wetlands started. You see that big limb laying there

634
00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:09.239
in the water, He said,
yeah, what about it? I asked.

635
00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:14.000
He bumped his head on that limb
when he walked under that tree,

636
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.199
and he acted like the limb pissed
him off. And he reached up and

637
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:21.119
yanked that limb off with one hand
and through it where it's laying now.

638
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.119
Man, that limb must weigh two
hundred pounds. I said. It was

639
00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:29.000
a big limb that I would have
had to cut up to even move it.

640
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:32.280
You say he threw that thing,
Damn right, he did. That's

641
00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:36.199
why I said it was a monster. Let's get out of here. I'm

642
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:40.000
getting the creeps, he said,
truthfully, I was getting the Wheelie's too,

643
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:45.119
so I agreed and we went back
to work. My father once told

644
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:50.880
me that he and some teenage friends
were raccoon hunting on a cold moonlight night

645
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:55.679
in the nineteen twenties. In those
days, their equipment was made up of

646
00:49:55.719 --> 00:50:00.599
a miner's lamp, a twenty two
single shot rifle, and a pack of

647
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:06.239
raccoon dogs. The dogs had treed
a raccoon, or so they thought,

648
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:08.280
and it took them a while to
get to the dogs. But when they

649
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:12.480
got there and shine their light into
the tree, there wasn't a coon.

650
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:16.480
The dogs weren't jumping up in the
tree like normal. They kind of hung

651
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:22.800
back and they just kept barking.
My father lowered his light to ground level,

652
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:25.440
and standing there behind the tree was
a creature. He said, looked

653
00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:31.239
like a giant wolf on two legs. The creature lunged at the dogs and

654
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:35.800
they took off back to the truck, with my father and his fringe right

655
00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:39.400
behind them. My father said he
didn't know if that thing was chasing them,

656
00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:45.519
but they sure ran like it was. They never hunted that area again,

657
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.239
but then he saw it again two
weeks later, on a cold night,

658
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:52.559
running across the field, not too
far from where the dogs had at

659
00:50:52.559 --> 00:51:00.000
corner. Over twenty years later,
while driving Old Leesburg Pike or Routes seven

660
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:04.599
and in northern Virginia, he and
my mother were driving across the bridge over

661
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:07.559
Goose Creek. In the middle of
the bridge, he thought he could see

662
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:13.599
a man standing there. When he
was closer and the lights illuminated the man

663
00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:16.719
better, he saw that it wasn't
a man. It was a tall,

664
00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:22.559
lanky, apparently covered in hair creature. His mind went back to those nights

665
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:28.679
in the nineteen twenties when he was
a teenager. My father made the decision

666
00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:34.039
not to back out of that bridge
and instead to speed past this thing.

667
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:38.760
As the car approached, the creature
leapt on to the railing to avoid being

668
00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:45.079
yet, and as they passed,
it swiped at the car. I don't

669
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:51.559
remember my mother ever talking about this
night. Maybe she wanted to forget it.

670
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.760
In nineteen fifty nine, the year
I was born, my father saw

671
00:51:54.800 --> 00:52:00.000
it again, crossing a field at
night on our family farm. I don't

672
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:05.280
know what this creature is. Maybe
there are more than one, but my

673
00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:09.239
family and friends have seen it many
times through the last years. Whatever it

674
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:14.360
is, it must have a long
lifespan, or we're seeing its offspring.

675
00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:19.840
Over time, they appear to stay
well hidden and away from humans, and

676
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:22.679
I assume it is by chance or
that the odds are good, that some

677
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:27.719
humans will catch a rare sight of
them while they move around at night.

678
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:35.360
This email us from Jordan, and
here's what Jordan writes. My name is

679
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:37.400
Jordan. If you read this,
I don't mind if you use my name.

680
00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:43.079
Anyone who knows me knows that I
don't lie. I had always been

681
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:46.679
a skeptic of bigfoot. I assumed
if there were any such species that there

682
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.400
would be hard evidence. Having said
that, I had two experiences that have

683
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:57.920
forever changed my mind. They are
not the most exciting, but up to

684
00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:01.239
this point it's what I have,
and they happened in different areas of eastern

685
00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:07.000
Kentucky. In late December of two
thousand and twelve, when I was twenty

686
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:10.760
five years old. My friend Kevin
and I were trying to trap a raccoon.

687
00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:15.079
I had just recently gotten into hunting, and for some reason I wanted

688
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:20.840
to eat one. His family owned
a few acres hidden back in a holler,

689
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:23.559
along with what was the only house
on that side of the mountain.

690
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:30.199
We placed a trap just over an
extremely steep hill where an old, abandoned

691
00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:35.079
single wide trailer butted up to the
mountain. At nightfall, we ventured out

692
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:37.519
into the woods a few hundred yards
to where we had left the trap the

693
00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:44.159
previous day. We're both considered very
large men. I'm six foot five and

694
00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:47.840
way two fifty. Kevin is six
foot eight and weighs three hundred. We

695
00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:52.119
both played football, basketball, and
round track in high school. We were

696
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:58.880
both also carrying a pump action twelve
gate shotgun. Needless to say, we

697
00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:02.719
thought we were on touchable. When
we walked to our trap, we noticed

698
00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:07.119
that it was empty and the bait
was gone. We decided to stick another

699
00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:12.639
honey bunny inside and come back the
next day. As soon as we put

700
00:54:12.679 --> 00:54:15.519
the bait in the trap, we
heard the loudest, most gut wrenching scream

701
00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:21.199
just over the ridge. Without so
much as a look, we jumped inside

702
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:24.960
the old trailer and we slammed the
door shut. Our backs were pressed against

703
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:30.159
an old couch and shotguns were trained
on the door, and we sat for

704
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:34.960
fifteen minutes mumbling the same questions back
and forth. What the heck was?

705
00:54:35.039 --> 00:54:38.800
That? Was that? What the
heck? Eventually, Kevin said he thought

706
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:42.559
it was a big foot, but
I was having none of that. You're

707
00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:46.880
an idiot, I told him with
a sidelong glance. We hadn't heard anything

708
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:51.679
else, so I insisted that we
were fine and that we should head back

709
00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:57.079
to the truck. We made it
out without incident. It would be eleven

710
00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:02.400
more months before I would come to
believe in foot. During deer hunting season,

711
00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:07.679
I was hunting a large farm in
Lewis County, Kentucky with my brother

712
00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:12.800
and a different friend. I had
set up in a dry creek bottom because

713
00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:16.159
the pines were so thick, I
couldn't see twenty feet away if I was

714
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:22.199
on the bank. After five hours
of sitting in that stand and not seeing

715
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:27.199
anything, I decided to walk around. As I started up a hill,

716
00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:32.159
I looked down and there embedded in
the ground was a bare footprint. Being

717
00:55:32.199 --> 00:55:36.840
a large guy, I naturally have
a large feet. So I put my

718
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.920
hunting boot next to the print to
compare them, and they were roughly the

719
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:45.440
same size. They were the same
length and winth roughly a fifteen to sixteen

720
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:51.480
inches long and six to seven inches
wide. I took a picture and was

721
00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:55.199
promptly ridiculed by my friends and brother. As soon as I got service,

722
00:55:55.280 --> 00:56:00.800
though, I sent the picture to
Kevin and he responded, Holy crap,

723
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:05.719
that's awesome. So I've never seen
a live bigfoot. That footprint made me

724
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:13.039
a believer. Thanks for all you
do. This email us from Farrell,

725
00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:16.840
and here's what he writes. Like
many of your listeners, I've hunted and

726
00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:22.679
fished all of my life. I've
traveled all over the country and hunted in

727
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:27.400
many different terrains. I've hunted quail, rabbit, squirrels, codis, raccoons,

728
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.360
and deer. While hunting, I've
encountered bobcats, cougars, and even

729
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:36.639
bar I say this because I want
you to understand how familiar I am with

730
00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:39.480
the woods and all the animals that
live there. And what's more, I

731
00:56:39.599 --> 00:56:45.760
know they're sounds. My dad loves
to hunt raccoons, my maternal grandfather,

732
00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:50.599
my brother, and a cousin,
and I have often joined him over the

733
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:54.719
years. One night in nineteen eighty
three, we were all with him and

734
00:56:54.840 --> 00:57:00.760
close family friends on a piece of
land just outside Paradise, Texas. Our

735
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:05.800
general practice was to wait for the
dogs to open on a trail and then

736
00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:09.039
sit down and wait for them to
tree. Once they did that, we'd

737
00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:14.039
find the dogs and praise them for
a job well done, and then lead

738
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.920
them away from the tree so that
the raccoon could get away. Then we'd

739
00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:22.079
move to another spot and turn them
loose on another trail to tree another raccoon.

740
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:29.119
We enjoyed the time together and working
the dogs. I especially loved hunting

741
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.280
at night. All the other hunting
I did was during the day. But

742
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:37.000
nature is more exciting in the dark. There's a mystery to it that makes

743
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:44.039
it even more adventurous. Well,
that night things got a little too adventurous.

744
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.199
We were sitting on a creek bank
listening when the dogs barks, turn

745
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.599
from the sound they make when they're
trailing a raccoon to the one they make

746
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:59.440
when they've treed one. Instantly,
in response to their treeing bark, something

747
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:05.599
answered back with a scream so loud
that it reverberated through our bodies. In

748
00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:08.559
all my life, I had never
heard such a loud, strange scream.

749
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:14.679
Every one of us sat up straight, with their hair standing on the backs

750
00:58:14.679 --> 00:58:17.519
of our necks, with eyes wide. We looked around at each other,

751
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:23.079
hoping someone would offer an explanation for
this sound. What was that, my

752
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:28.559
cousin stammered. Well, I've never
heard anything like it, my dad said,

753
00:58:28.960 --> 00:58:32.960
and then he added, ever,
the dogs had gone completely silent.

754
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.760
Nothing in the woods was making a
sound. Even the frogs and crickets near

755
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:43.800
the creek had stopped making noise.
We sat there for several minutes, too

756
00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:49.119
stunned to say anything else, almost
too afraid to breathe. We were all

757
00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:52.519
listening and unsure of what to expect
next. When the dogs came running back

758
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:58.679
to us, they were all whimpering
and had their tails tuck between their legs

759
00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:04.079
and they wouldn't get from under our
feet. The dogs were terrified. I'd

760
00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:07.719
never seen that before. It was
enough to make four grown men and two

761
00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:13.800
teenage boys decide it was time to
go home. Fear drove us out of

762
00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:16.920
the woods in double time, and
by then we were as scared as the

763
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:22.199
dogs were. For years we wondered
what could have made that sound, and

764
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:27.280
then my dad and I watched the
show on Bigfoot and we thought maybe.

765
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:31.800
But in Texas many years later,
I heard the same sound on the Internet

766
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:37.079
when someone posted an audio clip of
what they claimed was a Sia squatch.

767
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:39.760
I had my dad and brother listened
to it, and they both agreed it

768
00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.440
was the same sound that we heard
that night. Over the years, I've

769
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:50.400
heard rumors of sasquatch roaming around that
area. I don't know. I can

770
00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:53.199
only say that since that night,
we never hunted that spot. Unless we're

771
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:59.039
in large groups, we've never seen
anything, nor have we heard that sound

772
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:04.400
again. Thank goodn I'm sorry my
story doesn't include a sighting, but hearing

773
01:00:04.440 --> 01:00:10.239
it was enough for me. Here's
an email from Troy, and here's what

774
01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:15.880
Troy writes. You would be interested
in what happened to me a year ago

775
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:21.920
and twice more in twenty four hours
just four weeks ago, near the Humbolt

776
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:28.480
Mendocino County headwaters of the Mattole River. I know I'm butchering those names up,

777
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:31.199
but I'm trying. I'm trying.
And I got this email a little

778
01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:35.079
over a year ago, so the
dates that you're going to hear in this

779
01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:38.480
video just to add a year two
them. Let's continue on with the email.

780
01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:45.559
I become absolutely convinced that some unknown
animal exists here, and I began

781
01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:52.119
to search the internet for similar accounts. It then became clear to me that

782
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:59.480
these experiences must be documented and conveyed
to others. In July of two and

783
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:05.679
eighteen, I was staying in an
isolated region that had limited access. I

784
01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:10.079
was on a primitive road twenty miles
south of Whitehorn, California, behind three

785
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:15.719
locked gates. This place is at
the end of the world, on the

786
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:21.480
northern border of a vast green belt
spreading from Shelter Cove on the coast east

787
01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:25.199
to Highway one on one and south
to Fort Bragg and then east to Percy,

788
01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:30.039
as can be seen on the Google
Earth. About three am I was

789
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:35.880
awake. It was hot, dark, and completely silent that night in these

790
01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:40.000
mountains. Something above me, where
I lay in my tent, approximately two

791
01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:45.840
to three hundred meters, began knocking
on wood, best described as loud wax

792
01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:51.760
on a tree trunk by a big
club or a branch. It started with

793
01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:54.760
one knock, which got my attention, with a brief hesitation, and then

794
01:01:54.880 --> 01:02:01.519
several more knocks, but randomly timed
to summon succession others. After hesitations,

795
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:07.840
the knocking was loud. It was
so loud that it echoed down the canyon,

796
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:12.480
and the event lasted only a minute
or two. My first thoughts were

797
01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:15.519
that there was no one on the
mountain. Who could be out here in

798
01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:21.079
the middle of a primitive and protected
area. These knocks were from something large,

799
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:24.880
and no North American animal could have
made them. I listened to while

800
01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:30.400
my mind tried to wrap around how
the noise was made. The event left

801
01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:35.639
me puzzle. I told a few
locals afterward and learned that there were other

802
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:43.119
hotspots for Sasquhite sightings between Piercy and
north to Willow Creek. Four weeks ago,

803
01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:46.880
when waiting at the first locked gate
in this same conservation area, I

804
01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:53.159
heard two distinct vocalizations what cannot be
explained. As I waited in the dusk

805
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:58.320
for about forty five minutes waiting to
meet a party at the gate who were

806
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:02.159
running late, I heard loud wail
that I've never heard before in nature.

807
01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:08.400
The noise was at my two o'clock
facing east up the heavily wooded area above

808
01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:14.559
me two to three hundred meters up. I instantly knew where I had heard

809
01:03:14.679 --> 01:03:20.199
such an unfamiliar call. It was
three years ago while watching a Bigfoot reality

810
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:24.559
show where these squatch hunters were making
a unique call while searching for Bigfoot.

811
01:03:25.159 --> 01:03:30.280
At that time, I remember thinking
how ridiculous it seemed for people to be

812
01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:36.400
on television trekking at night making strange
calls in the woods. There was a

813
01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:39.239
brief delay from the first call to
the next, and then silence for a

814
01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:45.519
minute, leaving me to wonder if
this whole experience was even real. It

815
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:52.199
was either an unknown animal or some
kind of implausible prank. It was loud,

816
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.039
echoing down the mountain, as though
some huge creature could belt with the

817
01:03:55.159 --> 01:04:00.920
lungs of Luciano Pavarati, but this
was louder. The chance of being a

818
01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:05.960
prankster waiting in silence with me for
forty five minutes in that remote location to

819
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:12.519
prank me was very slim. And
then another call at three to four hundred

820
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:15.719
meters up to the north at my
eight o'clock that was just as loud and

821
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:21.119
unique as the first. This blew
my mind because the first call might be

822
01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:27.719
attributed to an elk on steroids,
but the response from what was clearly not

823
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:33.360
an owl brought chills down my spine. I quickly moved closer to my vehicle

824
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:39.039
and listened for another thirty minutes in
the darkness. I will never forget this

825
01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:46.280
second vocalization. This was obvious communication
between two individuals. I had a fourth

826
01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:53.679
experience, but it happened the night
before the duel vocalizations. On Friday evening,

827
01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:57.920
November the first, two thousand and
nineteen. I had just moved into

828
01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:02.239
a cabin that my brother and I. It was located along a rugged canyon

829
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:08.079
area of the Mattole River. It
was dusk and quite dark already in the

830
01:05:08.199 --> 01:05:12.800
forest. I was outside looking at
the stars, taking in the newness of

831
01:05:12.840 --> 01:05:17.360
these rugged surroundings. Above me,
a few hundred meters away to the east

832
01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:24.440
of the river, echoed a loud, foreboating scream. My jaw dropped in

833
01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:29.960
amazement. It was terrifying at the
same time, and I conjured up visions

834
01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:36.079
of a banshee. The screaming continued
full throttle for over five minutes. Mountain

835
01:05:36.119 --> 01:05:42.400
lions scream, but nothing like this. Someone had either set up a speaker

836
01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:47.360
and playing the bloodiest scream that Hollywood
could produce, or this was an unbelievably

837
01:05:47.639 --> 01:05:53.599
big animal. It was the night
after Halloween, and I wondered if someone

838
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:58.119
was on the mountain side pranking me
as a newcomer to the neighborhood. I

839
01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:01.320
listened for a bit and then went
inside and told my brother about it because

840
01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:08.239
it was so unnerving. Bigfoot did
not even enter my mind. However,

841
01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:12.599
the next evening, about the same
time, I heard the cause again near

842
01:06:12.639 --> 01:06:16.880
the gate that blocked our driveway.
Why have I been so lucky to hear

843
01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:25.679
or experience such a mystery? Three
distinct vocalizations which cannot be explained. I

844
01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:30.840
began pouring over USGS maps and satellite
imagery to ascertain what the link could be.

845
01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:36.920
Are there neighbors or access for individuals
to get that close? Could one

846
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:43.960
individual in such obvious stress on one
night have triggered the coincidental travel of at

847
01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:48.280
least two or more unknown creatures the
very next night, and what could be

848
01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:55.280
the connection between these events located twenty
miles apart. I've talked to some locals

849
01:06:55.280 --> 01:07:00.280
about hearing strange noises, but no
one claims anything or they don't want to

850
01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:04.360
be ridiculed. I would like to
know if there have been recent experiences by

851
01:07:04.400 --> 01:07:11.920
others in this area. I'm a
sixty year old man with extensive wilderness experience

852
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:15.800
in forests and in jungles. I
have credibility in this area. I have

853
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:21.360
trecked and lived in remote areas of
Africa, Australia, Central America, South

854
01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:29.119
America places of potential danger, and
I've never experienced fear. I was born

855
01:07:29.159 --> 01:07:33.639
and raised near Yellowstone Park and have
had no bad experiences with grizzlies, mountain

856
01:07:33.679 --> 01:07:41.079
lions, or wolves. Traveling all
these years with a firm understanding of ecosystems,

857
01:07:41.119 --> 01:07:45.199
I never could have believed in such
mysteries that anything new would ever be

858
01:07:45.320 --> 01:07:51.840
discovered. What has happened to me
recently has completely changed my mind. There

859
01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:56.679
is a mystery in these woods,
and I have a few ideas on how

860
01:07:56.719 --> 01:08:04.000
to find the answers to it.
The writer's name is Steve. It's a

861
01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:10.280
Bigfoot encounter. Here's what he writes. I'm from a small town in Wayne

862
01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:14.119
County, was Virginia. It's located
in the middle of nowhere, but for

863
01:08:14.239 --> 01:08:19.439
reference, east Lynn Lake is to
the west and Kabwelingo State Forest is to

864
01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:26.039
the south. The landscape is made
up of a series of heavily wooded hollers

865
01:08:26.079 --> 01:08:30.079
and ridges, with the occasional hilltop
field and creek bottoms being the only flat

866
01:08:30.119 --> 01:08:34.640
spots in the whole area. Most
of the roads follow the creeks and ridges.

867
01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:40.880
The first time I ever heard of
Bigfoot is being real happened when I

868
01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:45.079
was thirteen or fourteen years old.
Two of my cousins, Jason and Junior,

869
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:50.800
told me their story. They were
following a slow poke old couple on

870
01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:56.520
Route thirty seven through East Lynn Lake
State Park, near the Lynch Creek boat

871
01:08:56.600 --> 01:09:00.159
route. They said, the older
couple suddenly slammed on their brakes to avoid

872
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:05.399
a giant sasquatch crossing the road in
front of them. There was a wide

873
01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:10.960
spot just beyond the boat ramp and
playground where the old couple pulled over and

874
01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:15.439
my cousins pulled in right behind them. The four watched as the massive beast

875
01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:19.800
ran down the steep hill towards the
lake. It was winter, so with

876
01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:23.800
the lake at winter Pool, it
was about twenty feet wide. Where the

877
01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:28.960
creature jumped across. It ran up
the hill on the other side at an

878
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:33.960
unbelievable pace, disappearing into the brush
about halfway up the opposite hill. I

879
01:09:34.039 --> 01:09:39.039
knew they were stoned when they were
telling me the story, so I thought

880
01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:43.840
they were probably making it up to
get a laugh. Now that I've seen

881
01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:47.399
and heard these things, I know
they were telling the truth. About a

882
01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:53.359
year after hearing my cousin's tale,
I had my first encounter. I was

883
01:09:53.399 --> 01:09:59.199
on the UKC Competition raccoon hunt.
My dad and I both had dogs entered

884
01:09:59.199 --> 01:10:02.840
in the hunt were cast out separately. I was too young to drive,

885
01:10:03.079 --> 01:10:06.119
so I had to ride with one
of the fellows i'd been cast out to

886
01:10:06.199 --> 01:10:11.039
hunt against. It was a great
hunt for my group, with me and

887
01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:16.319
my beloved Bluetick coonhound way in the
lead. Old Blue was the best dog

888
01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:19.760
I'd ever hunted with, and I
loved that dog as much as a fifteen

889
01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:25.439
year old hillbilly could love one.
We had about thirty minutes of a lotted

890
01:10:25.520 --> 01:10:29.279
time left for the hunt, but
had run out of normal hunting spots.

891
01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:33.199
One of the hunters knew a spot
close by, However, it required driving

892
01:10:33.279 --> 01:10:38.560
down a rough road to get there. It was about a half mile away

893
01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:43.119
and then straight up a rocky West
Virginia mountain all the way to the top.

894
01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:46.439
I don't know why this sounded like
a good idea, but we all

895
01:10:46.520 --> 01:10:53.079
agreed and off we went. We
drove the two beat up trucks up the

896
01:10:53.159 --> 01:10:57.840
creek bed and then slowly began ascending
up a steep, rocky, unkept road.

897
01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:01.720
It was more like a four wheeler
trail than a road. We reached

898
01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:05.239
the top and turned the dogs loose
down the other side of the hill.

899
01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:12.399
After just a few minutes, everyone's
dogs came back except mine, and I

900
01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:16.760
called for Blue over and over,
but to no avail. The other hunters

901
01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:21.119
were ready to go, but still
Blue had not showed up. I told

902
01:11:21.199 --> 01:11:25.399
them to go ahead without me and
send my dad back up here to get

903
01:11:25.479 --> 01:11:29.600
me. They acted like they didn't
want to leave me, but I insisted

904
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:32.399
now. I shared them I'd been
hunting in the dark woods since i was

905
01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:36.600
a toddler, and that I would
be okay. I wasn't afraid of the

906
01:11:36.680 --> 01:11:43.760
woods of the dark. After much
debate, they all left. I stood

907
01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:46.000
there alone in the dark. I
didn't turn on my light so that my

908
01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:51.399
eyes would adjust to the darkness.
Not long after the tail lights disappeared into

909
01:11:51.439 --> 01:11:57.239
the darkness, I heard movement coming
through the brush towards me. I quickly

910
01:11:57.359 --> 01:12:00.800
turned onto my light and shined it
on my best friend running towards me.

911
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:06.159
I saw eyes shine behind him.
Blue rushed into my arms with an urgency

912
01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:12.199
that told me something was wrong.
I snapped the lead onto his collar and

913
01:12:12.319 --> 01:12:15.520
then turned the light back on in
the direction from which he had come.

914
01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:19.760
About fifty feet or so away from
us stood a large man with wide set

915
01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:25.520
eyes that glowed when the light hit
them. Except this was no man.

916
01:12:26.039 --> 01:12:30.239
He was way too big. His
brownish red, three inch long hair moved

917
01:12:30.279 --> 01:12:35.359
in the breeze as my heart sank
into my stomach. In a soft tone,

918
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:41.479
I said hello, but there was
no reply. And then I said,

919
01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:45.600
I've got a gun, so don't
come any closer. I was bluffing.

920
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:49.239
I didn't have a gun, and
Blue positioned himself between me and the

921
01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:55.039
enormous thing that was now moving towards
us, its hand up to block the

922
01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:59.439
light from its eyes. Stop right
there, I said, a little louder,

923
01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:03.720
shoot you if you come any closer. I started backing down the road,

924
01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:09.159
pulling my dog with me. I
was never more frightened in my life.

925
01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:14.239
I felt the warm stream of urine
run down my leg as I continued

926
01:13:14.319 --> 01:13:17.199
to back away from the beast.
I'm going to die right here, right

927
01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:20.960
now, I thought, and I
knew I was helpless to prevent it.

928
01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:27.239
I started praying out loud, Lord
God, please just let me out of

929
01:13:27.319 --> 01:13:31.720
here, and I'll never sin again. I was bargaining, I'll obey your

930
01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:36.800
commandments. Please, just don't let
this thing kill me. The creature turned

931
01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:41.399
and I saw another one behind it. It was a smaller, darker one,

932
01:13:41.520 --> 01:13:45.600
possibly black. I could almost make
out breaths, so I assumed it

933
01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:50.920
was a female. They chattered between
themselves while I kept slowly backing away,

934
01:13:51.199 --> 01:13:56.600
never taking my light off of them, and in a flash, one went

935
01:13:56.760 --> 01:13:59.960
right and the other went left,
and I lost sight of both of them

936
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:02.920
them. I shined a light around
in every direction, but I couldn't see

937
01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:08.720
anything. I couldn't hear anything either. I turned off my light and tried

938
01:14:08.760 --> 01:14:12.680
to let my eyes adjust to the
darkness, and after a few minutes I

939
01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:16.640
started walking down the road towards the
creek. I heard the movement on both

940
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:20.520
sides. As I walked, I
would stop and turn my light in the

941
01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:26.159
direction I heard the sound, but
I couldn't see anything, and when I

942
01:14:26.239 --> 01:14:30.920
stopped to listen, the sound stopped. I turned the light back on the

943
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:35.119
rocky road and kept walking towards the
creek. I decided at that moment that

944
01:14:35.239 --> 01:14:39.760
there would be nothing I could do
if they wanted to kill me, so

945
01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:45.079
I just walked as normally as I
could down the uneven road. Blue who

946
01:14:45.159 --> 01:14:48.159
normally walked in front of me,
was behind me, then on my right,

947
01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:50.920
and then on my left for a
few seconds, and then behind me

948
01:14:51.079 --> 01:14:58.600
again. He didn't growl, he
acted as scared as I was. Somehow

949
01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:01.319
I managed to make to the creek, but I couldn't take it anymore.

950
01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:05.479
The tears poured from my eyes like
a fawcet, and I cried out,

951
01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:12.079
thank you God in a loud and
confident voice. I wasn't out of the

952
01:15:12.199 --> 01:15:15.760
woods yet, but I felt like
these creatures knew God, like they wouldn't

953
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:20.439
touch me only because of God.
And I splashed down the creek fearlessly,

954
01:15:20.680 --> 01:15:26.119
knowing they wouldn't touch me. I
pulled Blue, who was still scared to

955
01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:29.560
death and walking with his tail between
his legs, all the way to the

956
01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:32.880
main road. And then I stood
there, soaking wet from the urine and

957
01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:38.079
the creek water, and I cried
while I waited for my father to arrive.

958
01:15:40.119 --> 01:15:44.359
Twenty minutes later, I saw that
old Dodge pull up. I was

959
01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:48.199
never so happy to see my dad
in my life. Normally I had to

960
01:15:48.279 --> 01:15:51.600
pick that stubborn Blue tick up to
get him in the truck bed, but

961
01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:57.159
not that night. He leaped up
on the tailgate and dove into his safe,

962
01:15:57.239 --> 01:16:00.039
warm dog box. And I walked
around the truck and I opened the

963
01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:04.159
door, but before I got in, I took one last look towards the

964
01:16:04.279 --> 01:16:09.399
creek. They were standing there watching
me in the glow of the tail light,

965
01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:14.840
and I waved to them, and
I jumped in the cab. My

966
01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:17.840
father took one look at me and
asked, what happened to you? I

967
01:16:17.960 --> 01:16:21.880
must have had little accident, I
said, with a smile. He handed

968
01:16:21.920 --> 01:16:26.159
me an old jacket and told me
to sit on it, adding that he

969
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:30.960
didn't want that pie smell all over
his truck. I'm crying right now as

970
01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:34.159
i'm writing this. It's so hard
to tell anyone, and that's why I'm

971
01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:40.319
telling everyone. Until now, I've
never told a soul, not my dad

972
01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:44.960
that night, nor my best friend, or even my wife. I remember

973
01:16:45.079 --> 01:16:47.800
what I thought of my cousin's story, and I didn't want others to think

974
01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:53.439
the same about me. I've kept
it bottled up for all these years,

975
01:16:53.720 --> 01:16:57.640
and now at least it's out.
I didn't make good on my promise to

976
01:16:57.720 --> 01:17:00.840
God, either, but I'm sure
he forgives me. That was the only

977
01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:06.960
hardcore visual I've ever had of these
creatures or people. I know they're people.

978
01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:12.359
They have a soul just like we
do. They know God just like

979
01:17:12.600 --> 01:17:15.720
I do, No, probably better
than I do. I think they have

980
01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:21.159
a relationship with God that we can't
even comprehend. A few years later,

981
01:17:21.279 --> 01:17:25.560
when I was nineteen, my mom
and dad told me a story about a

982
01:17:25.600 --> 01:17:30.760
big, skinny bear they saw on
a cemetery road near Cavlingo State Forest.

983
01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:33.720
Mom said it didn't look like a
bear, She said, it looked like

984
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:39.680
a bigfoot. Dad quickly interrupted and
said it was a bear, a skinny

985
01:17:39.720 --> 01:17:42.960
bear that crawled low to the ground
on its belly, trying to hide.

986
01:17:44.079 --> 01:17:46.000
I didn't act like I thought it
was a sasquatch, but I knew it

987
01:17:46.279 --> 01:17:50.840
was. Later Mom told me she
thought it looked more like a bigfoot than

988
01:17:50.920 --> 01:17:57.039
a bear. I had one more
encounter when I was twenty seven years old.

989
01:17:58.279 --> 01:18:01.359
I was camping with an old girlfriend
and her kids at East Lynn Lake.

990
01:18:02.119 --> 01:18:05.560
It was a weekend after school had
started back in the fall, so

991
01:18:05.720 --> 01:18:11.359
there weren't any other campers. We
picked the last campsite at the end of

992
01:18:11.399 --> 01:18:15.760
the campground. Her kids fell asleep
in the pop up camper around eleven pm.

993
01:18:17.239 --> 01:18:21.239
My girlfriend and I were sitting at
the fire when acorns and small pine

994
01:18:21.319 --> 01:18:27.960
cones started landing in the fire,
and then they started hitting us. I

995
01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:30.920
got a flashlight and scanned the area
looking for pranksters, but I didn't see

996
01:18:30.960 --> 01:18:35.720
a thing. No one was around
anywhere. The hills on the side of

997
01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:40.600
us were steep, really steep,
and we were at the last campsite.

998
01:18:41.119 --> 01:18:45.159
The acorns and pine combes were coming
from those hills. We got scared and

999
01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:49.560
we went inside, but then they
started hitting the camper. I heard chatter

1000
01:18:49.720 --> 01:18:55.960
coming from up the hill behind us. It all sounded so familiar. The

1001
01:18:56.079 --> 01:19:00.880
memory of that night raccoon hunting came
flooding back to me. I knew who

1002
01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:04.439
it was then, and I told
my girlfriend it was raccoon's and she believed

1003
01:19:04.520 --> 01:19:10.760
me. I started praying and it
stopped, like turning off the switch.

1004
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:13.279
It was pretty cool, but scary,