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Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by my newest supporters Nora, Joanne,

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and an anonymous contributor on Buy Me a Coffee. Thank

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you so much for making the show possible. In tonight's

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edition of Enemy Unknown, I'll be talking about more unexplained

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phenomena that military personnel have come in contact with, and

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I'll be focusing on several bizarre encounters with what many

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of them believe was Bigfoot. Thank you for joining me

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and welcome back. I'm your host, Nick Ryan. There are

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many undocumented reports of military personnel that have witnessed unexplainable

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phenomena while on duty, many of which involve sightings or

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close encounters with what the witnesses describe as massive bipedal creatures.

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Many of these reports never see the light of day,

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but in recent decades, more and more soldiers seem to

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be coming forward with their experiences, despite the possible repercussions. Tonight,

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I'll be referencing an article that I came across on

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Mysterious Universe by author Brent Swansor, and it's entitled Amazing

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Mysterious Military Encounters with Bigfoot. The experiences that are outlined

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in the article are compelling and Brent does an excellent

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job of pulling information from multiple sources. Although I won't

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be covering the article in its entirety, I do recommend

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reading the entire article for yourself, which you can find

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a link to in the show notes. The first report

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that swansor mentions was brought forward by author and researcher

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Albert S. Rosales in September of two thousand eight two.

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The story involves a bizarre case that came from an

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unnamed Army tank commander who was on a training mission

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in Salisbury, Plain Wiltshire, England, who, while scanning the landscape

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through the turret of his tank, saw something he just

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couldn't explain. Standing amidst the chaos and clanking noises of

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other tanks rolling and rumbling about, was a large, hairy,

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ape like creature described as looking similar to an orangutan

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both in appearance and color, with a black or darkish face.

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The tank's gunner saw it too, and they watched on

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in awe as the creature ran in quick, long strides

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across the field and eventually into the brush beyond. The

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tank commander would report the incident to his superior officers,

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only to be ridiculed and laughed out of the room.

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In another report, a poster on Reddit came forward with

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a story concerning his brother who was stationed into Homa, Washington,

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back in the nineteen nineties. At the time of this incident,

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his unit was out in eastern Washington around Yakima and

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they were on a training mission where they were dropped

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off by themselves. They then had to navigate their way

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through the unforgiving rough wilderness to different points, and the

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poster would go on to explain what his brother experienced.

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As he was working his way through the forest, he

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got the feeling that something was watching him. He didn't

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see anything, but he kept feeling like something was watching

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him and following him. Then he started hearing something moving

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in the brush. He picked up his pace and he

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started to get creeped out, and as he picked up

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his pace, whatever was following him picked up its pace

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as well. He had his weapon, but no rounds, and

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at this point he said that he was so freaked

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out that if he had ammunition he would have started

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spraying the woods. He did have a knife, but he

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said that he could sense that whatever was watching him

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was really big, and at this point he had probably

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convinced himself that Bigfoot is real and is looking for dinner.

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When he retells the story and gets to this point

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even to this day, he gets shaky and his hair

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stands up on end. He can tell that whatever is

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out there is tracking closer and closer to him, and

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he knows from his map that he's only a couple

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hundred yards to his next checkpoint. Totally freaked out, he

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breaks into a sprint and as he does, he hears

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the creature pick up its pace. He says that it

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was behind him and off to the side a bit.

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He makes it to the clearing and there's a port

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a potty and he jumped inside it, locked the door

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and grabbed his knife. The creature stalked around in the

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clearing and he could hear it grunting. He said it

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was out there for about five minutes and then he

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heard it walk off. Now Bear is the obvious culprit,

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but he insists that whatever was out there was by

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peedle and huge. He sat inside the crap box for

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fifteen to twenty minutes and realized that he had to

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open the door at some point. Long story short, he

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opened the door and it was gone, and he didn't

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encounter it the rest of his hike. Again, he is

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extremely skeptical, even with his experience, and he is not

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one that's prone to hyperbole. Whatever it was freaked him out,

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and it still does today. The next case that Swansor

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references is from the Bigfoot Field Research Organization also known

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as the BFRO, and it's concerning a witness who claims

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this happened to him while stationed in the Marine Corps

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in North Carolina. The witness early describes how Bigfoot would

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often stock and track them during their training exercises, and

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the experiencer goes on to say this, it didn't matter

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how many of us were out there. We were armed

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with rifles and no AMMO and or blanks. During field ops.

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They would pick up whatever trash or snacks we would drop.

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We sometimes could see their eyes in the tree line

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and see random glimmers of shadows through our nods. Military

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nods are pretty crappy, but you can see outlines or

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someone's figure, I mean stuff like that was used probably

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during the early two thousands, and they were monocular. We

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would hear knocks and rustling throughout our nights around Verona

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Loop training grounds or on Camp La June. Many of

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us who spend time in the infantry spend about forty

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five to sixty percent of the year in the woods.

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You could hear them at night. One night, I was

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doing patrol ops in the woods and hills and we

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decided to take a pause. It was around three am

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and we were taking a nap break. It was during

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a war game and I was on watch with one

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of my buddies holding security. We were seeing an outline

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in the woods, and meanwhile we were sleep deprived, not

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thinking that we were actually seeing real things in the

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tree line. That was until we talked to each other

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to confirm what we were seeing through our nods. Pebbles

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were also being thrown at us, and we were confused,

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and we were thinking that we were about to be

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run up on by Op four or Opposition fours. So

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we wake our guys up slowly, thinking that we were

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about to be ambushed. Turns out though we were being stalked.

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We decided to get in defensive positions and the rocks

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kept coming. We thought that we were about to be

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messed with by the advisors running around over watching the

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war game. We then checked on the radio to see

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if there were any of them nearby. None none at all,

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so we thought that it was Op four. We opened

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up with blanks, but as we opened up, we saw

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a massive creature and another one about twenty five to

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thirty meters away. The creatures knocked over a semi thin

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tree and gave a deep growl. This was something that

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would even shake guys who were desensitized and not really

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scared by anything. When daylight eventually came, we circled back

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to look and we found huge footprints. We were so

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confused and shaken after that situation, we didn't know how

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to explain what we saw or experienced that night. I

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became an actual believer, even though I was always skeptical

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about Bigfoot or some creature being in the woods. It

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was about three and a half years ago, and to

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this day I struggle to go back into the woods.

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There are many encounters with bigfoot like beasts reported from

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the war in Afghanistan, a place not traditionally associated with

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this sort of giant Harry Wildman. In one account from

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a Ready user, the witness claims that he had been

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stationed at a command center and that typical knights would

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be filled with boredom and being lost in their thoughts.

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One way they would entertain themselves was by looking at

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the feeds from the drones that crisscrossed and patrolled the area.

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And although they did not control the drones and were

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not allowed to record anything, it was still an interesting

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diversion in the grinding boredom of their shifts. However, one

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night things would get a bit more exciting. The witness

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is one night, this drone was watching someone that was

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hanging out at the base of a mountain. It was

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near a village, about fifty meters or so away from

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the nearest building, most likely a home. We notice that

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the drone operator keeps cycling through the different camera modes infrared, thermal,

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low light, regular cam, et cetera, trying to get the

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best picture in such Then this quote unquote guy starts

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walking around and is moving very weird. At first, we

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think it's a guy with no legs that is walking

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around on his stumps and using his arms to do

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most of the movements. It's not unheard of for someone

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with such a disability to have to resort to such

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a thing in that area. Then, though the drone gets

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a view from a better angle and we see it

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from the side. It totally looks like a gorilla that's

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walking with his arms and just swinging his legs as

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he walks and isn't really using the legs in a

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walking fashion. We all immediately start doing Google searches to

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find out if gorillas are native to the area, which

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they are not. We even took note of the grid coordinates,

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plotted it on a map, and then searched if there

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were any nearby zoos in the area because we thought

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that maybe an animal had escaped, but nope, no zoos around.

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It was really weird. After about thirty minutes of this

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drone watching this thing, the drone repeatedly toggles on off

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his targeting systems. We were like, they're gonna blow this

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thing up, and they did. Then, after the drone confirmed

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nothing was still moving, it started to fly back to base.

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We were all confused as hell. There was three of

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us on that night shift. The highest ranking guy was

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an officer, and during the daily morning commander's brief, we

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showed on a map where the drone blew up Bigfoot

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and we explained the situation to him. His response, though,

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was simply huh, interesting and that was the end of it.

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Another type of location that seems to attracted a large

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amount of bigfoot and hairy giant activity is military bases.

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Several encounters with large hairy humanoids roaming about military installations

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come to us from the nineteen seventies, with one notable

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and very dramatic one occurring at the Fort Louis U. S.

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Army military installation, which is in the state of Washington,

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and this particular base backs up to a wilderness area.

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In nineteen seventy eight, a very strange sighting was made

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on the base by a soldier named Edwin Goodoy, who

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at the time was on his way back from training exercises.

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One evening along with some platoon mates. The truck allegedly

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and suddenly without warning, sputtered to a halt at around

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eight pm, and it could not be restarted. This prompted

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the others to venture back to the base on foot.

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Since Goodoy had been the one to sign out the

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truck that day, he alone stayed behind to keep an

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eye on the vehicle until it could be towed away.

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The next morning, As he sat there by himself from

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the dark, surrounded by spooky sounds of the nighttime forest.

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A little after midnight, Goodoy's attention was drawn to a

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massive figure skulking about and looming near a stand of

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trees around three hundred meters away. As he stared, he

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could make out that whatever it was was very tall

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and broad, and covered with what looked like hair all

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over its body, and rather eerily possessing eyes that seemed

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to glint or even glow. The figure was described as

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swinging his body sideways, and it was staring directly at

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the lone frightened witness. Things got rather harrowing when this

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bulky brute purportedly began to break out into a run

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directly at Godoy, who would eventually describe the following events.

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That thing started running toward me, so I shouted a

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halt three times, asking that thing to stop and identify itself,

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as it wouldn't reply. I made a first shot into

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the air, and then I shot at him or it,

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I don't know what to call it. The hair everything

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grabbed its chest and emitted a loud moan. It then

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stopped and then ran to its right, disappearing into the forest.

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Goodoy was left shaking and terrified, yet out there alone

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in the night surrounded by darkened trees, and with no

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way out of there except on foot, he decided to

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lock himself in his truck, although he was also well

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aware that this would be little protection from the enormous

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hairy beast, which was probably none too happy about having

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been shot. There would be no sleep for him that night,

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and when the tow truck arrived at six a m.

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He was still there, wide eyed and clutching his weapon close.

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When Goodoy told the tow truck mechanics what had transpired

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the previous evening, they skeptically went out to where the

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thing had been standing, and much to their surprise, they

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found very large footprints that were pressed into the ground

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by something massive and heavy. Even more surprising was blood

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that was found on the ground, which they all assumed

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had been left by the wounded monster. And this is

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where the whole story gets even more bizarre. According to Godoy,

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the mechanics made a secretive radio call, and not long

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after a group of men in what appeared to be

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lab coats and thick rubber gloves descended upon the area,

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taking samples of the blood and making casts of the footprints.

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The whole time. Goodoy claims that he was not allowed

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to speak to anyone at all, and that he was

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kept away from what was going on. Goodoy was then

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whisked away to the base hospital, but rather than being

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looked at by the usual medical staff, he was examined

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by a doctor who was from the Air Force. This

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also was odd considering that it was an army installation.

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This doctor was apparently ranked as a full colonel, and

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rather than disbelieving Godoy, he seemed very interested in every

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last detail of his encounter. The mysterious doctor was particularly

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concerned with any anomalous physical symptoms that Goadoy may have

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been experiencing, such as headaches, dizziness, or a tingling sense,

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of which the witness had none. Goodoy was then thoroughly

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examined and he had blood, skin and urine samples carefully collected,

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after which he was told to return to his barracks

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and told in no uncertain terms to never mention a

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word of what happened to him. Later, Goodoy claims that

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he was approached by a hospital worker by the name

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of l. Roebuls, who seemed to come to him secretly

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and allegedly said this, myself, together with two other guys,

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had to analyze the blood samples taken from the ground.

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And we know you are the soldier that was involved

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because it was stated as such in the report, and

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you know it's crazy, But what the hell was it

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that you shot out there? When we examined the blood samples,

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we found three weird things in it. The blood contained

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human blood cells, animal blood cells, and chlorophyll. Man, that's incredible,

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What the hell was it? However, Goodoy stayed true to

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his orders, not telling anyone, and decline tind to explain

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any of the details to Roebuls. The whole thing would

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have likely been forgotten and swept under the carpet forever

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if it were not for a chance meeting with Goodoy

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that was made by a paranormal researcher from Puerto Rico

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named George Martin many years later. It was here that

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Goodoy would relate the whole outlandish tale to Martin and

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the story would finally come out before I continue. Please

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Please stay tuned and I'll be right back after these

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brief messages. Also in the nineteen seventies, there was a

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strange account related by bigfoot researcher Doug Trapp on the

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Sasquatch Chronicles blog. Through interviews with various military personnel at

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California's Edwards Air Force Base who spoke under condition of anonymity,

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Trap has been able to piece together a very bizarre

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story of desert bigfoot haunting the locale for years. One

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of the men interviewed was a lieutenant in charge of

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security in the sector of Edward's Air Force Base who

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was at the base from nineteen seventy two to nineteen

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seventy five. This unnamed lieutenant informed Trap that the basis

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security force spent a lot of time using armed sentries,

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motion sensing equipment, and starlight scopes on the lookout for

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trespassers who were wandering into the area, especially curiosity seekers

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who were interested in all of the UFO conspiracies that

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have orbited Edward's Air Force Base for years. One evening,

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the witness claimed that there was a perimeter breach, and

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the guard who had detected it cryptically described the intruder

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as being a very tall man, but not really a man.

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When the lieutenant went out to talk to the guard,

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he too saw the thing, whatever it was, and Trap

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would later write this. Through the starlight scope, he could

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clearly see that this was not a man. It was

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a very tall, hair covered ape like man walking through

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the desert. He said. The animal appeared to be looking

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at the desert floor in search of something. The animal

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was about five hundred yards distant, but the scope was

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very powerful and tripod mounted, so it could be observed clearly.

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Both men continued to observe the animal as it wandered around,

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almost aimlessly. He then reported to his superiors of the

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activity and was told to keep the animal in sight.

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This was no problem, as the animal remained in the area.

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About five minutes later, a helica was heard approaching the area.

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Then it was seen coming in fast from the east.

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They continued to observe the animal, which continued its activity.

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The helicopter came in over a rocky pile. Then the

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animal spooked. It looked at the helicopter, then turned and

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ran like a deer around a rock pile and out

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of sight. A full search of the area offered up

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not a trace of where the strange trespasser had gone,

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and the whole thing was reported to superiors the following day.

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It was then that the lieutenant was apparently told that

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these creatures were sporadically spotted around the bayse and he

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was told to continue to keep an eye on the situation.

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Over the next few years, he would reportedly spot these

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creatures several more times, and even claimed that they had

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been captured on surveillance video footage, although this evidence was

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unfortunately classified. Then he was moved away from the base,

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and that was that. A second officer interviewed by Trapp

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was a maid serving at the base from nineteen seventy

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to nineteen seventy eight, and he too had his own

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odd stories to tell. The witness not only confirmed the

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previous reports, but also claimed that these things were known

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to prowl about in the various subterranean tunnels that were

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said to fan out in the depths under the bays.

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This witness also confirmed that the sasquatch had been filmed

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on surveillance cameras numerous times, but that these were also

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top secret. A third soldier that was interviewed, who was

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described as a security grunt, claimed to have witnessed these

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bigfoots several times through night vision starlight scopes. Trapp would

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say this regarding the man's testimony, He told me that

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he had seen a couple of sasquatches that stood over

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ten feet tall. He had seen obvious females, one with

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a young one walking with her, and he once saw

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a group of five sasquatches walking together, all of which

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were over six feet tall and the tallest being about

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eight feet. They were fully hair covered except the palms

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of their hands and the base of their feet and

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their face. He said their face resembled an ape, with

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very small eyes, a flat nose, and ape like lips.

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The arms were long and slung down to the knees.

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He said their feet were like ours, but without an

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arch as. They had tracked them through the desert several times.

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When I asked him about the surveillance videos, he told

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me that he knew of them, but was not involved

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in them. He said that only officers were allowed to

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videotape these creatures or the UFOs. Interestingly, all of the

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base personnel had been given strict orders not to harm

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the creatures in any way, and this third witness said

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that he believed this was one reason why they gravitated

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to the area, because they knew they were safe there.

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In the winter of nineteen seventy nine, there was another

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intriguing report published on the Biafaro website. This report was

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from the U. S. Army Signal School Fort Gordon Small

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armsig Impact Area in Richmond County, Georgia. The witness, known

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only as j R. H, claimed that he had been

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near a ravine at South Prong Creek at around two

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pm when he was allegedly approached through the brush by

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a broad and muscular, large man ape creature that was

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ten to ten and a half feet tall. The face

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was described as being rather like a gorilla, dark skin

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and dark, deep set eyes. The head was sloped back

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and was Neanderthal shaped. It had no eyebrows, prominent lips

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but not protruding, a jutting square chin. No ears or

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teeth were seen. It had prominent nostrils, and a slight nose,

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but not flat like a gorilla, and it had an

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aged look to its face. Contrary to many bigfoot reports

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of an obnoxious stench, this particular individual was reported as

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having no discernible odor. The witness reportedly backed away slowly

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toward his truck and got out of there. A later

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examination of the area would turn up footprints measuring a

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wopping twenty two inches in length, as well as twenty

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to thirty rock piles and what appeared to be vomit

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containing deer skin with hair attached, acorns that were not

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well chewed, and droppings that were laced with deerskin, acorns,

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and tree bark. Other assorted sightings during the nineteen sixties

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and seventies occurred around the AMMO storage area of Fort

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Bragg in North Carolina. Over the decades, there were supposedly

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numerous sightings of hairy giants measuring eight to nine feet

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tall lurking about the site, which sits up against secluded

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wilderness and swampland. There were so many sightings that the

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creature even earned the nickname the Manchester Monster. Moving into

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the nineteen eighties, we come to an account from the

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spring of that year, which occurred at Fort Leonard Wood

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Army Base in the state of Missouri in the spring

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of nineteen eighty two. At the time time, the soldiers

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on the base were engaged in an intensive eight week

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training exercise, and for one Eric young Dahl, it would

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prove to be particularly memorable. During the Internet Virtual Bigfoot

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Conference in nineteen ninety six, Young Doll would tell Bigfoot

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researcher Christopher Murphy that the soldiers had been driving along

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in the back of a military truck. They were heading

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towards an engineer bridge crossing training site deep in the

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woods when he observed a giant, seven foot tall, hairy

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creature from the back of the vehicle. He would explain

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that he knew right away what he was seeing, and

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he described his experience. It's funny how the realization dawned

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on me, because the immediate moment that I viewed him,

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there was not a doubt in my mind that the

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creature I observed was Bigfoot. I wasn't looking for it,

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nor did I think that there had ever been sightings

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in that region of the country. It was automatic boom,

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no doubt. What really surprised me was its coloration, which

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was a light brown c It was almost like the

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color of cork on a bulletin board. That definitely is

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not a person or someone in a suit, no way.

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It occurred to me to alert the other trainees in

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the truck, but I immediately thought that by the time

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I did, they would awaken crane their next to look

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out the back, and by that time not see anything.

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This all occurred to me in milliseconds. Also in May

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of nineteen eighty two, there was a late night encounter

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at the Marine Corps base of Camp Pendleton in California.

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This too was reported by the BFRO. The unidentified witness

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was involved at that time with the youth program consisting

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of a rigorous series of two week long mini boot

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camps for teenage boys overseen by the Marines. The witness

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and around three hundred boys on the camp settled down

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for the night, and the marine ended up being one

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of the last ones awake on watch duty. As he

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patrolled the camp, he said that something very weird happy,

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which he would later explain. As I turned facing west

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and looked toward the closest edge of the perimeter, I

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noticed a tall, dark, bulky figure standing about fifteen meters

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beyond the last tent, or about twenty meters from where

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I stood. We seemed to be staring at each other.

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But it's hard to say because I could not make

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out any of its facial definition. But I had a

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strong gut feeling that it was checking me out really good.

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Since I was the only thing moving around. I could

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feel my heart begin to pound, and my entire body

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felt like it wanted to anchor to the ground. There

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was no doubt that someone or something very odd and

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dangerous was standing there and looking at me. I mean,

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this thing was tall, and it was wide at the shoulders.

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I used my peripheral vision to make sure I wasn't

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seeing things, but it only confirmed what I already knew.

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It gently and slightly moved its upper body left and right,

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ever so slightly, as though looking around to its front

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and surveying the area. It was an easy eight feet tall.

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Like I mentioned previously, all I could make out was

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its massive silhouette in no real detail features. It had

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very broad shoulders, little or no neck. It was dark,

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and it looked very powerful. The witness then allegedly grabbed

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a flashlight and went to investigate, but he would lose

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sight of whatever the creature was. It was all very

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disconcerting because he was in charge of several hundred untrained

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civilian teenagers and he was unsure of just what he

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was dealing with. Luckily, though, nothing strange happened for the

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rest of the evening, But when the area was investigated

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in the morning, there was found to be no sign

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of what it could have been, and it still remains

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a mystery. In another report, a man named Robert, a

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former U. S Army specialist, recounts his terrifying experience during

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his service at Fort Campbell, a military base spanning the

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Kentucky Tennessee border. The base is surrounded by a vast

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stretch of empty land, and it was here that Robert

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and his partner found themselves on patrol one evening. As

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Robert and his partner patrolled a large, darkened fenced lot

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which was filled with old, decrepit, rusted cars and equipment,

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they noticed a figure moving swiftly among the husks of

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equipment and vehicles. Immediately after this, the night was pierced

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by loud, blood curdling screams that echoed through the area,

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and they both knew this was not just any normal trespasser.

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They then saw the hulking figure stand near a car,

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and they realized that it stood at least eight feet

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high and seemed to be covered with hair, and it

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had eyes that seemed to glint with the light of

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their flashlights. The creature then apparently turned and looked at

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them before loping off into the night. These reports account

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for only a fraction of what military personnel are encountering,

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and in future chapters, I'll be sure to revisit this topic,

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and if you have an experience regarding tonight's subject matter,

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I'd love to hear about it, and you can contact

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me at Paranormal Mysteries podcast dot com. Until next time,

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thank you again for being here and I hope you'll

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join me for my next episode as we continue our

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journey into the unexplained right here on Paranormal Mysteries