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Speaker 1: Okay, here's what I think is a Bigfoot story. The

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writer's name is Bibo b Ee b O b Bow.

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I've been running around the woods all my life, from

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creek beds to swamps to dirt roads and fields, and

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all that time I never experienced anything strange. That is

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until recently. Two weeks before hunting season ended this year,

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my son in law and I wanted to shoot some hogs.

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That morning, I put out some corn for the afternoon hunt.

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A little before dark thirty, we headed to the box

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stand and we jumped five deer eating out of the

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corn pile. When they scattered off, we got settled in

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and man, were those woods alive. Everything was talking, from

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crickets to frogs and raccoons and owls. We could hear

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the hogs coming from the left side of the swamp,

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walking through the water and mud. My son in law

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picked up his ar, looked through his thermal scope and

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said there were five pigs at the pile. I told

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him to hold on, let's wait for the big ones

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to come out. There was a loud yell coming from

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fifty yards down the swamp from us. It happened just instantly.

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Everything that was making noise in the woods went silent.

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It all just suddenly died out, like a light switch

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had been flicked off. What the hell is that, my

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son in law asked, looking like he was ready to

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get the hell out of there. Well, I don't know,

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I said, I never heard anything like that before. When

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we heard the coyotes start back up, we decided to

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wait it out for a little longer, and a few

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minutes later, all the other animals and insects in the

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woods came back to life, filling the air was sound again.

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It was the strangest sensation hearing all the noise sucked

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out of the forest like that, only to hear it

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return a little while later. It was like someone had

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their hands on the volume knob and turned it down

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and then turned it back up again. Two weeks later,

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I put a pig brig trap down below where we

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had been sitting that night, and I caught sixteen little

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pigs out of it, and then rebaited it and set

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it again. The next morning, I found two hundred and

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fifty pounders. It was cold and raining that day, and

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I didn't want to deal with them then, knowing it

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was going to be a sunny day, the next day,

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so I went on about my day and the next

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morning set out to get the hogs. But when I

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got there, the hogs were gone. I got out of

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my truck and walked closer, and I saw that on

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the back side of the trap two of the tea

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posts had been pushed almost all the way into the ground,

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without the smallest sign of blood. I looked around for

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signs of tracks, but I didn't find anything but pine straw.

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I refixed the trap and went on about my day,

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and the next morning, on the walk to my truck,

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I found five dead birds lying in a row on

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the ground. Even the cats wouldn't go near them, so

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I asked my son and daughter if they had seen them,

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but they said they hadn't, and I left them there

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and didn't go back down to that part of the

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woods for a month, except to occasionally check on the

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hog trap. A week ago, when it was hot down

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there in my neck of the woods, my daughter and

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I got on a dirt bike to look for hog signs.

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There was nothing around the farm, so we headed down

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to the swamp. The heat was getting to us, so

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we got off the bike and took a walk down

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to the creek and cooled off. We didn't see much

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other than deer and coon tracks along the way and

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in the cold water of the creek, we didn't see

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anything out of place. An alligator came back to check

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us out, and we saw two watermocks and sunning on

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an old log, but otherwise it was uneventful. Then we

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heard a wood knock. It was loud and distinct, and

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my daughter and I looked at each other. There was

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a lot of natural noises that you expect to hear

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in our neck of the woods, but that wasn't one

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of them. We got out of there and headed back home.

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A little rattle by the noise, but not enough to

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make me lose sleep. The missing pigs and that would

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not don't keep me from enjoying my land. But for

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a man who spent his entire life outdoors, it is

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unsettling to think of what could be out there that

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I never knew about. And then he signs offices. Keep

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up the good work. You're doing a good job. I'm

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a believer. I appreciate that that was a good story.

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It's a lot of anecdotal evidence, but it's good evidence,

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and it makes a dang good story. Awesome. Thanks for

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sending it. In September of two thousand and six, I

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was living in the small town of Gardnerville in western Nevada.

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One night, as I was driving to visit a friend

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in Reno, I kept seeing white streaks in the dark sky.

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I thought it must have been my imagination. After visiting

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with my friend for a few hours, I drove home

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and I had forgotten about it. When I was almost

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at my house, I saw the little white streaks again,

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and I became dizzy and disoriented. The feeling was so

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intense that I couldn't see, so I pulled over until

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the feeling subsided, and when I could see again clearly,

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I drove to my friend John's house, who lived nearby.

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He told me that earlier in the evening he had

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seen the white streaks in the sky, and when I

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told him I had seen them too, he grabbed our

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drinks and headed outside to see if they were still there.

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The sky was empty, but we heard something strange throughout

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the surrounding neighborhoods. Dogs were barking in a way I

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have never heard before. It wasn't overly loud or obnoxious.

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It was like they were talking to each other. One

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would bark a bit, and then the other dog from

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a couple of streets over would respond, and then another,

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as if they were having a conversation or they were

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exchangeing information. That's when I felt the air change around us.

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It became so still and quiet that even the dogs

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stopped talking to each other. I was a little freaked out,

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and I decided that it was a good time to go.

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And then a minute later I was back home and

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talking to my friend who was staying with me. I

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went over the weird events of the night, and we

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ended up outside again. And when I looked up at

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the sky, there they were. Sarah, there are the white streaks,

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I said. Just as the words came out of my mouth,

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a huge white bird flew over a light pole in

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the parking lot across the street, and it hovered for

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a moment above it. It turned its head and looked

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in our direction, and then it flew right at us.

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In a panic, we ran too the safety of the house,

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but just before we got inside, I turned to look

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at the bird again and saw the massive muscles on

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its wings as they moved up and down. It veered

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over to my neighbor's house and landed on his roof,

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and the tips of the massive wings stretched out by

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two or three feet over both sides. After a few

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seconds of silence, the bird seemed to notice us again,

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and it jumped off the roof and swooped low over

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the street toward us. But we were completely frozen in

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all and we couldn't run. When it was just a

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few feet from us, it cut quickly upward into the

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air to avoid running into a fence and some telephone cables.

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Its body swept right over us, just three feet over

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my head, and it landed on my neighbor's rooftop behind me.

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Its torso was at least ten feet long, and its

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breadth was two or three feet across. After it landed

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on the neighbor's rooftop, I got creeped out and ran

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into the house. As majestic as this thing was, the

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part of me was afraid of it and that it

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might try to pick me up in its mass of claws.

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The next morning, as soon as it was daylight, I

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ran over to my neighbor's house with a measuring tape.

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That bird's wingspan was twenty five feet wide, and I

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was grateful that my friend saw it too, Otherwise there

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was no way anyone would believe me. And then, to

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add to the strangeness, I learned that our neighbor whose

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house the bird landed on, died the night before. Some

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time later, I was watching the History Channel when one

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of the guests mentioned something about thunderbirds. I got on

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the Internet as fast as I could, and after looking

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at numerous images of the legendary creature, I'm certain that

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is what I saw that night. And I'm certain those

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were the white streaks my friend and I had seen

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moving through the sky. Maybe they were the cause of

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my disorientation that night and the feeling of strange in

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the air and the unusual way the dogs were acting.

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Despite my neighbor's tragic death, and knowing that that thunderbird

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could have easily flown off with me and its claws,

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I have always felt blessed to have witnessed one with

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my own eyes. Oh man, that was great. We don't

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get too many thunderbird stories I've been I've done a

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half a dozen through the years, but they're always really cool.

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I really appreciate this email. Thank you to the writer.

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I was looking back to see it's a woman She

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didn't say to use her name, so I won't, but

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if she hears it, she'll know that she sent the

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stories really good. It's really good story. Thank you. My

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name is Angie. My husband Keith, is from South Dakota,

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but we met and lived in my home state of Wisconsin.

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We're pretty basic normies as far as people go, and

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we don't lead exciting and adventurous lives, but we're both

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content and pleased with the life that we share together.

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One thing that we always wanted to try was stealth camping.

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As it implies, it's a type of sneaky camping where

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you'd try to be near or amongst people without them

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being aware that you're there. We decided to have our

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inaugural stealth camping adventure in Rapid City, near Keith's mother

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and stepdad, who we would be visiting. We planned out

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all the pertinent details, and after a nice time with

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Keith's family, we set off to start our camping trip.

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The place we chose to camp was on public property,

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close to a street with houses in the Theodore Roosevelt Expressway.

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When it was still daylight, we parked our car in

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a nearby lot and we donned a blade's orange vests

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that said tree Services across the back. We put on

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matching white hard hats and walked around the area, surveying

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where we thought would be a good spot where we

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could blend in and not be seen, yet also not

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be too deep in the wooded area. I noticed people

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milling around in the distance, but no one seemed to

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be paying any attention to us, which was perfect as

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far as we were concerned. With the daylight finally fading,

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we returned to our car and retrieved our camping supplies

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from the trunk and went to the spot we'd picked out.

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We didn't think we did much for a short night

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in the woods, so it was just the basics. Keith

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tied off a small olive green tart between two trees

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so we would not be spotted from the nearby houses.

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It wasn't necessary to have any such visual protection from

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the expressway, since we thought we were deep enough in

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the woods not to be seen by passing vehicles. Behind

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the tarp, we laid out our bedroll on the ground

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and our wool blanket on top of that. We didn't

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bring any food, but we did have a large jug

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of water and a couple of led flashlights. When it

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got dark, we laid on top of the bedroll and

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unfolded the blanket and got under it. It felt to

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me like one of our date nights, the two of

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us together, just talking and holding each other tight, breathing

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in the cool night air, with nature all around us.

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I remember being very relaxed and comfortable with my husband

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at my side, and I eventually fell asleep. I woke

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to Keith firmly shaking me awake. When I asked him

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what was going on, he said something had thrown a

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handful of loose dirt at us. I felt the top

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of the blanket and sure enough it was covered with dirt,

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and I put my fingers in my hair and felt

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it there too. We turned on our flashlights and looked

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at the blanket, and we saw the dirt covering us,

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And just as we were trying to figure out what

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the hell was happening, another shower of dirt was halted

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us from out of the darkness. We were pelted once again,

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with it sprang our faces, the blanket and the tart

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behind us. We pointed our flashlights in the area of

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the dirt came from, and then we saw something that

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changed both of our lives and got us on the

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cryptid subject. It was a brown fur covered female sasquatch

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trying to hide behind a tree that was much too

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small to hide her body. Keith and I were at

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a complete loss for words and just sat there, gobsmacked.

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And when the flashlight beams were on her, she led

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out a low woofing noise and began to sway a

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little from one side to the other as she showed

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us her teeth, And she screamed at us and turned

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around and ran faster than any human I've ever seen,

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deeper into the woods, and she disappeared from sight. Her

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face was flat and white, like a mix between a

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human and a gorilla, but without any fur on her cheeks.

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She had a prominent brow ridge similar to that of

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the Neanderthal, and her teeth weren't as dirty as you

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would expect. She had large breasts, and her arms and

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hands went down below her knees. She was muscular. Keith

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said she was six and a half feet tall, and

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there wasn't a man alive in the NFL capable of

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tackling this person. After she left, it wasn't too awful

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long until sunrise, and we packed up what few items

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we had and we got in the car and we

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drove home. We were not frightened by what we saw

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because we fully realized that we humans share this world

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with things both explained and unexplained. Since that experience, Keith

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and I have stealth camped three more times and we

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continued to do so. Thanks a bunch, Angie and Keith.

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Oh what a cool story. Just a total full sighting,

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no violence, no anything changed their lives and they still

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stealth camp. They're brave. They're brave, braver than I would be.

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What an awesome story. Thanks for sending this, Angie, is

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a great story. Thank you for listening all the way

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to the end of this podcast. I really appreciate that.

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Hit the like button before you there you go, Maybe

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hit the subscribe button. That would be cool, but you

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don't have to, but come back, come back and listen

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to more stories. I'd love that you might like it too.

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Thank you for joining me. We'll see you guys on

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the next one. Thank you