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Speaker 1: I had recently moved from Ireland to the United States,

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specifically the North Carolina Tennessee border. I'm going to spare

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you a lot of the details because I would be

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writing for days to protect my sister, her family, and home.

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I will keep her location vague, but it's basically sitting

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on a woodland and forest expanse that continues onto the

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Cherokee National Park. I will try to keep to the

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most significant encounters and how everything played out. It's hard

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to even know where to begin because so much has happened.

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I began to notice strange things a week or two

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after I arrived. I will settle into my new environment

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and in all of everything around me. Ireland is a

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bubble compared to this place. It was early July hot

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and humid, and there was a dead heat in the air.

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I was sitting on the back porch, laying on a swing,

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chatting with a friend over the phone. I felt like

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I was melting in this heat. I hung up the

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phone and gathered my thoughts before I went in. That evening,

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I heard bangs coming from just inside the tree line,

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about half a football pitch a distance away. It sounded

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like someone hitting a tree hard with the flat of

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a hurley or something harder. It was wood on wood.

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Loud bangs as loud and sudden as gunshots. Startled and confused.

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I scanned the area, but I saw nothing strange, I thought,

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and I went back inside. Someone is back in the

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woods cutting timber or something. I told my sister, I'm

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hearing loud bangs from the woods. She looked confused and

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said there shouldn't be anyone on or near the property,

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even in the woods out back, especially not cutting timber.

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We walked outside and across the yard to the fence

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and we listened for a few minutes. The noise had

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stopped and we didn't see anyone. Shrugging our shoulders, we

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walked back into the house. My sister Amy and her

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husband Jay, and my awesome little nephew Adam, their four

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year old had only been living on the property a

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little over three months at this stage, so everything was

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basically new to all of us. The sounds, the smells,

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the wildlife, and everything was so different from Ireland. I

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am a nature buff at heart. I enjoy fishing and

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hunting and everything outdoors, but the lands and the wildlife

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of the United States are vastly different from Ireland. Irish

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wildlife can't kill you, well, unless you're allergic to bees

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and get knocked down trying to outrun one. I had

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not heard of wood knocks, but now I know what

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they are. The sounds I heard that day were obviously

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my first encounter. Looking back, I don't know why I

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shrugged it off. I guess the new environment had a

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huge part to play and why I was so ignorant

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to the early signs of sisquatch in the area. Our

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home was large and miles away from any other buildings

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or homes or developments. We sat nestled in the middle

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of nowhere. The area is beautiful and it took my

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breath away, and knowing what I know now, I understand

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how these creatures go unseen for so long. My sister

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bought her property and from what I know, it was

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empty for six months before she moved there. As the

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days and weeks passed, I heard whistles, endless wood knocks.

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I heard movement in the forest, trees shaking, etc. It

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baffled all of us, but we explained it away as

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people hunting or bears and all sorts of things crossed

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our minds. There were days when all of us, together,

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feeling brave, would investigate the surrounding woodlands. We never found anything,

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and I have to add we never felt in danger,

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but we were always cautious with Adam. We kept a

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close eye on him while we played outdoors. The Irish

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have twisted minds in a strange sense of humor, so

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the idea of being dragged into the forest by bears

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or eaten alive by flesh eating possums was the common

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joke to my poor sister and the rest of us.

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We really didn't know what to make of the strange

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things happening that summer. However, in August, the realness of

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what was happening finally landed. I became aware of what

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was really in the forest surrounding this home. On a

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hot weekend in August, Adam and I went on an

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adventure to check out the area, hunting for treasure, finding

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weird creatures. You know how it is with a four

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year old old boy. Everything is awesome and everything blows

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your mind. We crossed the fence line and we spent

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a couple of hours looking for critters and catching them

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in jars. We never strayed too far from our home

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because he didn't have the stamina at four years old.

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But to him, we were way out in the wilderness.

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My sister called and said that she had started the

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barbecue and for us to get home, so we headed

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that way. When I got off the phone, Adam was

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laughing and staring off into the distance. He was contorting

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his face into strange shapes like kids do. I had

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been sitting beside him on the log, and I stood

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up after the phone rang. I walked around with my

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head down, speaking with my sister, kicking dust and not

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paying attention. But I did notice him looking off into

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space in front of him, making silly faces and giggling.

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I paid it no mind, and I finished the phone

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call and then stuffed my phone back into my front pocket.

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What you laughing at, boy, I asked Adam. His reply

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sent chills down my spine. I'm making faces at the

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brown boy in the woods. He's making funny faces at me,

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he said, with a giggle. I immediately bent down and picked

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him up into my arms and I cradled him. What boy,

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are you talking about? I asked. Adam pointed to an

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area straight in front of a log that we had

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been sitting on and he said, right there, he has

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a funny face, can't you see it? I looked intently

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at the area that was stick with trees and undergrowth,

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and I couldn't see through it. I don't see him, Adam,

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Are you sure you saw a brown boy in the bushes?

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Adam stared at the area and he didn't reply, a

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smile still on his little face. I stepped forward, with

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him still in my arms, and I looked closer at

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the scrub brush that made a sort of wall into

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the woods. From this clearing where we stood good, everything

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suddenly got real quiet. I had not noticed the birds

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chirping and the other sounds from the woods until it

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all stopped. The silence was broken by grunts and hoofs

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coming from my left. It sounded like monkeys or chimps,

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but the tone was too deep. I froze in place,

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and I scanned the area with my eyes. I never moved.

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The chatter continued. I wanted to look closer. I wanted

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to go into the trees and see what was there,

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but an inner voice told me to stop. Time stood still.

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My heart picked up its rhythm, and soon it felt

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like it was pounding out of my chest. Everything was

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wrong about this whole situation. I knew it, felt it,

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and everything in me screamed for me to get this

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child out of there. I calmly and slowly backed up

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a few paces, and then I turned and headed for

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home at a normal pace. Running, in my opinion, would

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have been a bad mistake. Adam's chin rested on my

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shoulder and he watched behind us. As we walked. He

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shrieked with excitement and laughter, and he said, there he is.

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I stopped and I turned around to look. There. Crossing

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the clearing that we had just left was a small

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creature about the same height as Adam. I caught sight

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of it as it exited the brush where Adam and

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I had stood only a few seconds before. It was

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a small, hairy, childlike creature, but it was much bigger

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and more broad than Adam. It walked a few paces

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and stopped, and it looked right at us. The distance

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was less than twenty meters. A loud hoot came from

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the area, a sound deeper than this creature could have made,

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and it snapped the thing out of it stare at us.

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It quickly walked across the clearing over the log that

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we had sat on, and it vanished into the wood.

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Adam was now heavy in my arms and I needed

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to move. I slung him onto my back and I

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began a slow jog. Hold on tight, mate, We're going

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for a jog, I said, and proceeded to the fence.

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Fifteen minutes later, I dumped the kid over the fence

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and I told him to run to his mother. I

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never took my eyes off at him until he was

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in his mother's arms. I then turned to look back

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over the fence. I was overwhelmed with the feeling that

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I was being watched. I turned back to the house

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and Adam was sitting in his mother's lap. Sitting there

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was my sister, her husband, and some friends they had invited,

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over all gathered around the barbecue grill. I stood at

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the fence for a few minutes with the image of

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the brown boy running through my mind. I wanted to

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remember every detail I needed to make sense of this.

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I'm only assuming that it was a male. The creature

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was covered with chestnut colored hair three inches long. The

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facial skin was brown and it looked leathery. Its head

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was wide and misshapen, and I remember its expression like

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a perpetual smile, was across its face, its white teeth

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showing all the time. Dark eyes were set deep in

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sockets with a heavy brow. Ridge long arms hung on

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a wide but lanky torso. Its legs should have been short,

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but they weren't. More proportioned like a human. Every inch

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of this creature was covered in lean muscle. I replayed

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the event over and over in my mind, the hoots

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from another location that got the creature's attention. The noises

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didn't come from the creature in front of us, meaning

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there must have been others close by, maybe its parents

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trying to keep the child in line. I don't know.

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My hands still shook, and the adrenaline kept flowing in

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my veins, and the realization that I had just seen

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a bigfoot finally hit me. I don't know why it

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took so long, but at that moment I knew what

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Adam and I had encountered. Engrossed in these thoughts, I

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had lost my sense of time and where I was.

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Another wood not from the forest broke my trance. My

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heart rate sped a little, and I looked back in

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the direction that we had just come. I was comforted

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by the fact that the noises were far in the distance,

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but the sound bothered me all the same. I hopped

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over the fence and I ran to the barbecue grill,

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and I asked Amy to speak with me alone. I

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told her the whole story, and she believed that Adam

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and I had seen something, but she didn't agree that

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it was a bigfoot. She didn't believe in bigfoot. This

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was not the time or place to have an argument,

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so I dropped it and I joined the others around

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the grill. Later that night, I recounted the story to Jay,

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and he believed me. He knew what we were dealing

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with on this property, but never actually said the words,

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fearing that he would scare his family and me. Amy

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didn't believe we were dealing with bigfoot, but she would

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soon discover that she was wrong. In the days after

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the brown Boy incident, Adam talked about nothing else than

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any chance he got. He wanted to go to the

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trees and see if his new friend wanted to play.

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Looking back, I guess the move and the change of

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environment must have been hard on Adam. He was only four,

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and the family had moved him away from his friends

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and everything else. That he knew. I believe this is

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why he was so excited and even obsessed with this

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new brown boy that lived in the woods. No matter

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how hard we as a family tried to explain to

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him that the woods were dangerous and that no boy

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lived there, that only animals lived there, he would just

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laugh and say, Yes, he does live there. I see

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him all the time. This usually gave me the shivers

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and goosebumps would follow watching him cry overnight. Being allowed

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to see his friend was excruciating for me. His mother

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worried about him non stop, but preschool would soon begin,

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and she thought this would fill the void of friendship

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in this little boy's life. A few days after the

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brown boy event, Adam, Amy and I were all on

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the back deck. I was relaxing after a tough day

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at work. Around seven pm, I went inside to grab

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another bottle. Outside, it was still fairly bright and warm.

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I heard a loud bang and a shriek that would

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shattered glass. So I ran through the kitchen to the

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back deck and into the yard. There I found Amy

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running towards the house, clutching Adam tight and screaming for

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me to get inside. She was as white as paper

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and shaking all over as she explained what had happened.

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Adam had made his way to the fence line to

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retrieve the ball that he and my sister were playing

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with when he saw a large, dark shape ominously hiding

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just inside the tree line, close to where Adam's ball

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had landed. She stood transfixed on the creature as it

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moved closer to Adam, at which point she sprang into action,

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running to get her child. The creature charged towards Adam,

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and they both reached Adham at the same time. Only

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the old wooden, decaying fence acted as a barrier as

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she scooped Adam into her arms and stood still only

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a few feet from the beast. The creature, she said,

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stopped in its tracks and released a horrible yell while

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pounding its fists into the ground. In a fit of rage,

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she gripped Adam tighter and pushed his head into her

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chest to shield him in some way from the beast.

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It licked its lips and it out a growl that

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she said felt like a burst from a loud speaker.

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She felt physically sick and couldn't move. Her feet felt

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like concrete, and her insides felt like a liquid. The

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creature ripped a panel from the fence and flung the long,

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broken piece of wood at Amy, barely missing her face.

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A loud howl came from inside the forest. It was

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another bigfoot. The creature in front of her turned and

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crashed through the woods, away from her in Adam and

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in the opposite direction of the loud scream. Her feet

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felt light again, and she remembered how to run like

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a newborn deer. She clumsily hobbled towards the house with

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Adam hell so tight that he had to ask her

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to stop and let go. He squirmed to break free

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from her embrace. She loosened her grip on her son,

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and she wiped his tears away. I heard Adam say

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between sobs, I don't like that man. I helped them

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in and she collapsed to the floor. She gave me

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orders to lock the door, which I did Before helping

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her off the floor. Amy quickly walked to the restroom

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to get cleaned up. She had wet herself in the yard.

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I don't like telling you this, but to understand how

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terrified she was, you need to know. The three of

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us sat huddled on the couch in silence. Amy's sobs

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and sniffles filled the room with the sadness and fear.

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Jay was not due back until morning, so it was

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up to me to keep them safe for now. But

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truth be told, I was terrified. Amy's description of the

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beast was just like the brown Boy, only colossal and

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enormous in every aspect. I presumed this beast was the Alpha,

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but I would soon learn that he was not. He

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was ten feet tall at least, and covered in dark

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red hair that was dirty and matted. Later, she spoke

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of a dank odor that wasn't really pulsive, but that

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if she smelled it again she would know what it was.

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The eyes were darker than hell and full of rage,

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and there was a wound on its shoulder that she

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described as deep and painful looking. Blood matted the hair

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around it, and there was a lot of hair missing

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around the wound. What the hell are those things? She

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asked between sobs. I didn't reply. She needed to calm

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down for now. Something large hit and roll down the roof.

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Before long, the home was showered with rocks and other debris.

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Amy screamed and Adam became hysterical. It felt and sounded

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as if hundreds of objects were hitting the house like

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a war zone. The pelting would cease, and roars and

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howls would replace the terror. The beasts began circling the house,

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tearing exterior panels away. More rocks or tree limbs would

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hit the other side of the house. By this time

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we had huddled in the hallway. There was nothing I

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could do. They would be inside the house any minute

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and kill us. All I felt defeated. The creatures seemed

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to be concentrated on the west side of the house.

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At this point we heard glass breaking, and then a

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door was kicked open. Here they came. It was over.

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I held the little family as tight as I could.

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A roar like nothing I had ever heard came from

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the east, and an eery silence replaced the pandemonium. During

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the break, I ran to the living area for my phone.

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Maybe I had time to call for help. I approached

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the phone on the coffee table, which sat in front

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of a large window facing east. I could see a

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ten foot tall, massive bigfoot tearing the front porch off

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the house. I snatched up the phone and I called

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nine to one pint one, and then I called Jay. We

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lived a long way from town, and it took the

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police a while to get to us. At least it

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felt like a long time when it was probably only

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twenty minutes or so. But by the time they arrived,

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the creatures had stopped their assault and retreated into the forest.

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I won't go into my discussion with the officer, but

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they know about these things, and they urged us to

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leave for a couple of days and get a room

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in town. Jay arrived thirty minutes later. The police said

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there was nothing they could do at this point because

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nothing was happening, but that we should call them should

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we experience any further trouble, and they left soon. It

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was dark, and Jay didn't want us to leave. He

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said that he wasn't being run off his own property.

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Amy disagreed with the decision, but she soon gave up.

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That night, Jay, Amy and Adam slept in their bedroom together.

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I slept on the sofa. A window was in the

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adjacent wall, and I could see outside. It was a

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dark night and there was no moon. I couldn't see

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it anything, but I knew something was watching me. I

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stayed awake as long as I could, but eventually dozed off.

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From exhaustion. Later, I was awakened by a creek on

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what was left of the deck. Outside the window, I

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could hear faint footsteps. I sat straight up on the

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sofa and I stared out the window, fully expecting to

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see a monster staring back at me. But what I

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saw was more terrifying than that. There on the edge

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of the deck was a tiny figure in pajamas. Adam

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had slipped out of bed and somehow made it outside.

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He was jumping off the deck where the railing had

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been torn away, and was walking towards the woods. By

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the time I got outside, he was gone into the

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shadows of the forest. I was hyperventilating, and I couldn't

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yell for his parents. I think I ran towards the house,

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but running away from Adam didn't feel right, so I

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turned back towards the woods and I ran to the edge.

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I found my voice and I yelled his name. Darkness

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and crickets is all I got in return. They had

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taken my nephew. Tears rolled down my face as I

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stared into the blackness. Jay and Amy ran up beside me.

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By now I was standing at the old fence. Jay

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jumped the fence, and we both followed. He was using

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the torch ap on his phone, frantically looking everywhere for

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his son. Amy took off into the woods with no

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light at all, and I caught up to her and

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tried to talk her down. She listened to me as

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I told her that I think that he only wandered off,

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and that I would go out and find him. I

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asked her to go back to the house. She reluctantly agreed.

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Jay immediately said let's go. Jay and I started walking

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in the blackness with this piece of junk for light.

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Every sound we heard sent us through the roof with fear.

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On a pieceful walk in the woods at night, it

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can be a bit spooky. We knew what was out there.

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Imagine our fear. We followed the trail that Adam and

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I had taken when we first saw the brown boy

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on We went jumping at every sound that we heard,

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even our own footfalls, and then we heard Adam giggle.

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He was near, and we began to scream his name.

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We were now close to the clearing where Adam and

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I had seen the first creature. Jay was on my

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right with the torch, and we slowly moved into the clearing.

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I got that feeling that someone was behind me on

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my left. I consciously evaluated the situation. I knew that

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I was in a fight or flight mode. I was

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going to do one or the other, and I chose

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to fight. It might mean instant death for me, but

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maybe it would give Adam time to get away and

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run to his father. There was movement behind a large

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tree to my left. I got ready for the attack

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when Adam, like a kid leaving a party, strolled out,

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walking towards me. He was walking right at me. He

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saw me, and he was coming to his uncle and

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his father. We moved towards him, his father passing me

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and grabbing Adam up. Jay had dropped his light and

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I reached down to gather it and then shine the

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torch on Jay and his son. Only ten feet on

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the other side of the boys was Brown Boy, looking

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sullen and upset. That is the only way to describe

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the look on this hideous creature's face. He was holding

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onto a tree trunk with both arms. Jay looked at

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me and he said, let's get back to the house now,

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and away they both went. I stood there for a minute,

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looking at Brown Boy, I didn't feel any aggression from him,

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and I was more transfixed by his appearance for a minute.

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As Jay and Adam made their way back to the house,

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That's when I discovered that that tree trunk that he

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was holding on to was not a tree trunk. It

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was a hair covered leg. It was so big that

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in my mind it had to have been a tree trunk.

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I raised my eyes up the leg and up the body,

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and I could make out the right side of its body.

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The other half was slightly hidden behind a tree, but

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not hidden well. I was less than ten feet from

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these creatures, with my light shining right on them. From

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its anatomy, I could see that it was a female.

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She was between eight and nine feet tall and built

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like a machine. Her hand came down to Brown Boy

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and held him to her leg. She made a few

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subtle grunts, and Brown Boy seemed to relax. The terror

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that had filled my day suddenly left me. I was

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watching a nurturing mother scold her child in a soft

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way for causing all this trouble. I never took my

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eyes off this magnet epicent creature the entire time they

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stood in front of me. She had a wound on

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her face that was bleeding. It was a gash under

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her left eye, and she blinked several times as if

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it bothered her. She stepped out from behind the tree

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and I saw her hole shape. I was astonished to

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see a large round belly. I think she was pregnant.

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She turned with brown boy and they walked slowly into

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the darkness, and I saw them no more. That night,

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with Jay's phone in hand, I walked back to the house.

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Something followed me in the forest until I reached the

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fence and climbed over. I could hear it, and I

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got a bit scared on the way back, but nothing happened,

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and I walked into the yard. Amy was on the

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deck holding at him. I hugged them both. She told

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me the police were on their way, and when they

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showed up, I spoke with them and explained what had happened,

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but I left out the sighting. I just said that

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we found him and everything was okay. It's hard to

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explain how calm I was. I should have been talking

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like a madman, but I suppose I was in shock

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or I was genuinely calm from the encounter. I'll never

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understand it. One of the policemen was the man I

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had spoken with earlier. Again, he said there was nothing

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they could do and suggested that we build a higher fence,

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put up some security cameras, and keep a better eye

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on Adam. And then they left. But there was something

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about the way the cops spoke to me that inferred

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that this was not the first he had heard of

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this sort of thing in the area. Soon the house

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was repaired, the fence was replaced, the doors were always

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locked with keys, and security cameras covered the house along

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with the woods beyond the fence. It only took us

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a week to get everything done. Throughout the week, Jay

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and I talked about what I had seen after he

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and Adam had left the clearing. I described the female

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in detail. I explained further that I felt like the

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female and brown boy were not a threat to the family.

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I can't explain it, but I just knew it, and

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then Jay agreed with me. Upon inspection, we found that

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the damage to the house was not as bad as

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we had thought. We replaced a few sighting panels and

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painted the whole house so that we wouldn't have to

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match the colors. The deck took a bit of lumber

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in work, But in two days it was as good

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as new. Even though it seemed like there were a

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lot of bigfoot attacking the house, it's my guess that

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only one attacked it was the beast. Amy encountered at

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the fence with Adam. She clearly saw its shoulder wound,

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and I believe it was a male that had wandered

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into the territory and was fighting for dominance. All this

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is speculation, of course, but it makes sense to me.

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Not had any incidents like that. Again, I think that

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Mail has moved on. Amy was a wreck for the

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next few weeks. She kept Adam in her sight at

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all times. He was never allowed to play outside without

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an adult with him. The weeks have passed and she

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is more at ease living here. Immediately after the attack

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on the house, she wanted to move. Jay made it

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clear that they had everything they owned tied up in

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this property. There was no place for them to go

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unless they could sell the property quickly. She agreed to

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stay a while, with the qualification that if one more

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thing happened that they were going to leave, damn the money,

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she would live in their car Before she would deal

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with this kind of event again. Fortunately things have worked out.

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I have moved and I live in a larger town

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in North Carolina now, but I visit my sister and

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her family often. Once, while staying with them over a weekend,

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we saw Brown Boy and his mother. There's an infant

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she carries with her. Now, Amy says she is accompanied

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with a smaller female, maybe six feet in height, but

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I didn't see this female on this occasion. Adam has

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been given more freedom to move around the yard without

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an adult, and I talked to Adam about Brown Boy

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and I ask if he sees him often? Of course

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I do, he said to me, I see him a lot.

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Later that afternoon, I watched from the house as Adam

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ran out to the fence. He pulled something from his pocket,

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laid it on the second rung, and then sprinted back

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to the house and into his room. Quietly, I walked

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down the hall and pushed the door open just an

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inch and looked in on Adam. He lay on his bed,

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watching out the window. I walked in and I laid

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beside him, and we both watched the fence. What did

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you do at that fence, Adam? I leave round boy

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gummies whenever I can get some. He really likes them.

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And then I come back here and I watch him

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take them. Not long after, we both saw a hair

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covered hand reach on to the fence and rake the

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gummies off, And then it was gone. Flap flap out