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Speaker 1: I never thought I would write about Bigfoot or anything

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out of this world because until recently I didn't believe

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in those things. What happened this year has changed my opinion.

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I was just released from jail here in Ohio after

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sitting in a cell for twelve days. I was not

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charged with anything, but I was held with some sort

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of federal mumbo jumbo so they could do an investigation.

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In January, we had record snowfall. It's about eleven inches,

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and to me, it was a perfect time to take

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off and work and go deer hunting. I love hunting

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in the snow. Now. I have a couple of felonies

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in my past. I spent five years in prison for

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beating the shit out of a politician's son who took

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advantage of my little sister. And I'm not allowed to

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hunt with firearms, let alone own one, so I couldn't

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hunt the last day of Muzzloder season. That said, I

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do have an awesome Matthew's compound boat, and there was

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an explosion of monster bucks in Ohio. To hunt one

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snowy Tuesday morning, I layered up and headed for private

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property nearer Tar Hollow that I have permission to hunt.

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I had been in my stand for over eight hours.

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It was about four forty five PM, just before it

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started to get dark, when I busted a beautiful fourteen

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point monster. I was already looking forward to getting my

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picture with this trophy. I let him have a half

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hour head start before I started tracking his blood trail

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and his tracks, But there was another snowstorm coming in

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and the light was fading fast, so I had to

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back out. I knew he would be there in the morning.

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Even if the he's got to him, I would still

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have the mount. The next morning, I drove over to

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my brother in law's house and I had him bring

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his bloodhound out to follow the blood trail. His dog's

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name is love Bug. He was an exceptional scent tracker

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for finding and recovering crippled deer well. We got to

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my stand around nine thirty that morning, and the dog

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instantly took to the deer's trail. We had been following

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him for a quarter of a mile past where I

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tracked the buck the night before. When love Bug suddenly

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refused to go forward, I continued to follow the clues

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left on the trail for another half hour. When I

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finally found where the buck fell and bled out. But

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the buck wasn't there. There were giant tracks in the

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snow where some big boy came in and picked the

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deer up and walked off with it. Now, this dude

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must have been superhuman to be able to pick up

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that buck, since even I had to bring a roll

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up sled to drag him out. Now this guy must

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have simply thrown it over his shoulder and walked away

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with it. Well, I was pissed, and I wanted my

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deer back, so I started following his tracks. For the

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next two hours, I followed those giant barefoot tracks until

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they led to a steep hillside and went straight up.

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I tried to follow their path, but I couldn't keep

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my balance, let alone scaled the slope without falling and

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sliding down. I angled to a part of the ridge

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that was not very steep and finally got to the

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top and back on the trail. And an hour later,

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the prince pushed into the massive thicket and there in

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the center was my buck, or at least what was

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left of him. All I could see was its head

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and rib cage. That was the moment that I realized

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that I was in a big foot bedroom. All around

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the clearing were tracks of all sizes and flatten places

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in the snow where they had been sleeping. All I

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had with me was my bow, so I turned to

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get the hell out of there, but I stepped on

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something that rolled under my foot and I fell face

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first into the snow. I looked to see what I

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had fallen on, and I realized that it was a

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human skull. I pulled my phone out, I took a

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picture of it, and then opened to find my car

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app on my phone and pegged the location. I sprinted

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back into the clearing and grabbed my buck's head and

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ran as fast as I could through the deep snow.

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When I was almost back to my truck, I heard

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some sort of roar in the direction of the thicket,

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and then I picked up my pace. As soon as

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I was in my truck and back on the road,

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I called a game warden in the state patrol to

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report what I had stumbled on, and then I met

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up with them at a local gas station. When all

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the authorities were present, I led them to the thicket

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and stood by as they started searching and collecting evidence.

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They even had a cadaver dog that located additional human

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remains under the snow. All I could do was stand

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there and be cold, And when I mentioned that my

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part was done and I was headed home, they insisted

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I remain where I was. It was well into the

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night when the group of other individuals arrived and asked

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me what I had seen and what I thought had

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happened there. Well. When I finished talking, I asked if

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I could go home, and they refused, and I decided

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I was going home anyway. That might have been my mistake.

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One of the newcomers, who was a head taller than me,

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looked like a lumberjack. He grabbed me by the arm

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and swung me into a tree and handcuffed me. Before

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I couldn't so much as grunt. They instructed one of

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the local cops to take me to lock up, and

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that's how I ended up in jail. Each day I

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was visited by two gentlemen from the federal government who

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asked me the same questions. Did I see the bear

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that took my deer? Did I know where the bear's

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den was? When I reminded them that the bears were

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in hibernation and it wasn't a bear that took my deer.

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They told me wrong answer and they would leave. Now,

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I might be a little slow, but it took me

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eleven days to figure out the answer they were looking

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for was Yes, I saw the bear. It was a

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large black bear, but I did not find it's den.

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I must have scared it off. The next morning, I

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was informed that I was not being charged for the

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criminal trespassing. Apparently I had crossed the park's property lines

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and crossed over several private properties too. The kick in

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the ass was that they kept my buck's head. I

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had moved it without calling it in and logging the kill,

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and I had not filled out my tag. I had

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just lost my job, spent over for a week and

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a half in jail, and didn't get to keep my trophy.

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So screw the government. I'm telling what I found and saw.

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Even though I never saw a large hairy man, I

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did see tracks, and I can imagine the size and

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strength that it would take to lift a two hundred

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pound buck. I saw the strides of these creatures, and

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I heard their roar, and I saw the killing field

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and all the bones that law enforcement discovered up there.

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My heart goes out to the families of those they discovered,

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knowing they probably will not even be told. I wish

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Steve Lilly were real and available. We could use him

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in Ohio, Signed Bobby