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Speaker 1: When my father was young, his grandfather took him to

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work on his day off so that the boy could

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see what he did for a living. He worked in

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the logging industry near Eureka, California. They arrived not long

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after daylight, and they walked on a newly cut logging road.

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The road was soft and dusty. My father was overwhelmed

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by the size of the trees and the vastness of

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the place where his grandfather worked. As they walked, they

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approached the dozer that had cut the road in the

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day before. Again, my father was amazed at the piece

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of equipment that could be this big. His grandfather noticed

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tracks in the dusty road. They exited the forest, made

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a circle around the dozer, and went back into the forest.

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My father was young then, so by the time he

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told us the story, he could only remember vaguely what

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he saw. He remembered vividly that the tracks looked human

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and that the person who left them wore no shoes,

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but the tracks were too big to be human, and

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he also remembered his grandfather saying that someone left these

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tracks as a joke. They weren't real tracks. A local

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newspaper did a story on it. We later researched the story,

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but couldn't find the story archived in the library nor

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on the internet. When we would question my father about

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the incident, he would become agitated and he would change

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the subject. Years later, he was with a group in

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California hunting black tailed deer. They camped and hunted for

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several days. Sometime after dark, when the fire was low,

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they were startled by the sounds of monkey type screams

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coming from all directions around the camp. They stoked the

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fire to add more light to the area, but they

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saw nothing. The next day, they packed up and left.

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When I was eight, we lived a few miles west

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of Weaverville in a place called Slaughtery Pond. The mobile

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home was situated way back off the pond and behind

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the house was nothing but wilderness. The landlord told us

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that black bears would sometimes venture into the area and

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cause trouble and that we should be cautious. While we

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lived there, we heard screams coming from those woods that

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sounded like a woman being assaulted. My mother's eyes would

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water up and tell my dad that a woman needed help.

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Dad blamed the sounds on foxes or big cats, but

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we all knew the screams were too loud for those critters.

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My fifteen year old brother came running in the house

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excitedly one day, telling my mom about a series of

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manlike tracks that he found while exploring. His face showed fear,

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and he wouldn't accept our mother's explanation that it was

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a bear stepping in its own tracks. He said the

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tracks were too far apart and they looked like it

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walked on two legs. He also motioned with his hands

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how large each track was. His hands were eighteen inches apart.

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About a month later, I laid in bed awake next

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to my brother. We had a batch of kittens that

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stayed in our room. While laying there, playing with a kitten,

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I noticed some kittens in the windows, still looking outward.

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All of them were in the typical Halloween cat arched

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back posture, their heads moving together watching something outside. Footsteps

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came towards the house, and I could feel the bed

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vibrate with each step. The whole house shuddered, and I

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heard a cracking sound come from across the hallway. I

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slinked out of bed and walked to the door and

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slowly turned the doorknob. The knob made a slight click,

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and I heard this thing run away. I assumed it

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was gone into my parents' room, and I woke them,

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explaining what I had heard. My mother said it was

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cats fighting outside, but I knew better. I returned to

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my room and I went to sleep. The next day

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at school, my brother asked if I remembered what happened

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last night. How could I have forgotten that? I said.

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He then told me to wait until we got home,

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that he had something really cool to show us. That evening,

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he led the whole family around to the backside of

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the trailer, all eight of us, our parents and six kids.

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There was an exit on the rear of the trailer

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that had been covered with plywood. Inside the door was

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my mother's pantry. The trailers sat on sloping ground, and

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we stood on the low side. The threshold of the

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door was two or three feet above my head. There

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were no stairs. At the top of the plywood, there

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were claw marks made by some animal. The plywood was

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caved inward and almost broken. The noise I heard the

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night before was not cats fighting. Something tried to break

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into the house while we slept. We moved from there

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to some property that we bought near Trinity Lake. I

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was ten years old at this time. We were way

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out in the country and our closest neighbors were friendly,

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but they were a little different. They used to tell

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us how they fed a family of sisquatch off their

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deck every night. They told us that there were three

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in this family, a male, a female, and a young bigfoot.

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We acted like we believed them, but we really didn't.

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I slept in a hideaway bed in the living room

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with my younger brother. One night, I woke up feeling

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like I had been choked and I could barely breathe.

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I again went into my mom and dad's room. Mom

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let me slip in with them and they dozed back off.

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I laid there trying to get back to sleep, lying

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on my back with my eyes closed. Through my eye lids,

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I could see light flickers, like sitting in front of

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a campfire at night with your eyes closed. I thought

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I was imagining this, or there was an easy explanation,

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But when I opened my eyes, the room was already

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turning a reddish color, and I could see the source

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moving about through the house. I could see the light

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through the walls as it seemed to go from room

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to room, and when I sat up to see butter,

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a red ball of light came through the wall at

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the top of the door. It stopped halfway into the

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room and it went still. It made no sound, it

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had no odor, and the ball looked like a lava

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or plasma. It was a perfect sphere, moving and rolling.

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It was the size of a basketball with a purple

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aura that was about four feet in diameter. White sparkles

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shot from the edge of the red and into the purple.

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It reminded me of fireworks that I had seen before,

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but there was no fire. It was actually beautiful. I

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could see clearly because of the light. So I put

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my hand on my mom's hip and I said, Mom,

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look at that red light, and I pointed at it

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with my right hand. I looked back at the ball

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and it was just sitting there. So I again said, Mom,

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look at the red light. She raised her head slightly

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and I heard her voice tell me your dreaming son,

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go back to sleep, but her mouth never moved. I

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don't think she's the one who said those words. I

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turned to look at the light again, and I think

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I blacked out. I was not in my mother's bed

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now I was waking up, like from an anesthetic after surgery.

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When I could focus on my surroundings, I was looking

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out of a glass ceiling. The area was clear and

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millions of stars filled my frame of view. Someone was

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holding my hand. I assumed it was my mother and

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I looked for her. My hand, however, rested in the

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hand of a creature. It was a huge black hand

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covered in hair, and it was tipped by long, sharp

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black nails. Next to this huge creature was another just

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like it, but much bigger. I could see the whites

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of their eyes and they both had surprised expressions. Another

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even larger creature appeared in my view, and I decided

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then that this was a family. It was a father,

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a mother, and a child. They all looked like your

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classic image of sosquatch. I felt like I was fully

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awake now and I scanned the area. Standing against the

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wall facing us, only a few feet away were two

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beings that I can only describe as aliens. They were

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both very tall. One had the appearance of a praying

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mantis in the face, a bony head with large black

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eyes that wrapped around to the side. Its head moved

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back and forth as it watched something on the other

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side of me. The other being was about the same size.

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Its skin was light blue, and its eyes had a

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copper sheen to them, as if it was wearing reflector sunglasses,

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but it wasn't. On the other side of me was

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a smaller alien that was gray in color. It bobbled

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its head at the others like it was talking to them,

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but I never heard it speak. At some point, everything

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faded back to black, and I must have fallen asleep again.

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And when I woke, I again felt as if I

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was waking from an anesthetic. Keeping my balance was a problem,

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but I stumbled down the hall and I saw that

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I was in our kitchen. In my ear, I heard

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her voice tell me to drink pickle juice. I hated

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pickles and pickle juice, and I still do. But I

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went straight to the refrigerator and I drank every drop

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left and small jar and set the jar back on

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the shelf. A few minutes later, I felt normal again.

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The sun was coming up over the horizon. I have

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reflected on this event for years, and I never felt

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fear while I was under their control. There were no

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painful tests done on me that I remember after I

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was returned, there were no wounds on my body. I

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don't remember much else than what I described above, but

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I did have a sense of a few things. It

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seemed as though the sisquatch in the room were not

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there by their free will. They seemed to be captive,

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but I could be wrong. Last, whatever room I was

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in felt like an enclosed vessel or a spaceship. I

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think it was made from glass, but that is just

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what it looked like to me. The walls could have

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been translucent. There were no doors or evidence that I

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could see of an exit, and I do not know

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if we were moving. I did not get any sense

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of motion while I was in there. Many years later

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now and I find it of great interest that our

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neighbors talked about the three sisquatch they claim to be feeding.

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Not much later, I am abducted on the spaceship. Are

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the same family of sisquatch? Again, I think they were

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abducted with me. Also of interest is that the famous

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Patterson Gimlin film that was shot in nineteen sixty seven

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was taken not far from this location. Hundreds of Bigfoot

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sightings have been reported in the area, but after this event,

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my childhood was normal, and I've adjusted to these experiences.

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There was a road we used to drive into the

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brackish swamp in eastern Harris County, east of Houston, Texas,

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and in the daylight it wasn't the least bit scary.

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In fact, it was beautiful. Oak trees dray in Spanish

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moss and tall grass and flowers were everywhere we looked.

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But at night it was a different story. Those big

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oak trees closed in and turned the world to pitch.

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As the saying goes, you couldn't see your hand in

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front of your face. We like to find people who

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had never been on that road and then take them

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down at at night. There was a steep drop, and

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just before we'd get to the bottom, we'd turn off

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the headlights and scare the hell out of them. We

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did it many times, never failing to scare the living

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crap out of teenage girls, and never once having a problem.

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One night, my friend Charles decided to take our friend

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Jesse down there and scare him. Charles was a few

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years older than me. He'd gone to school with my brother,

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but when they graduated, my brother joined the Navy. Back

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then volunteering for the military meant you had a choice.

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If you waited to be drafted, you were usually sent

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straight to Vietnam. Well, that night, we were in Charles's

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truck and heading down the road. It was a two

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lane blacktop called Wallaceville Road that no one lived on.

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Charles was driving his F one hundred at fifty five

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miles an hour, and Jesse was already a little freaked

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out by the speed we were going on that road.

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And right at the drop, Charles cut the lights and

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Jesse started screaming for him to turn them back on.

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I was laughing inside and doing my best not to

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do so out loud. And then Charles turned the lights

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back on and boom, we hit something. It happened so

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fast that we never saw what it was. It was

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just a blur. Charles slammed on the brakes and whatever

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it was went up into the hood and over the

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top of the truck. And we sat there for a minute,

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staring at the road, and we were all pretty shaken up.

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What did we hit? Jesse asked, his voice was trembling.

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We were all looking at each other, but no one answered. Finally,

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Charles opened his door and he got out. I exited

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the passenger side, but Jesse stayed in the truck. We

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walked to the front to survey the damage. There was

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a big dent in the bumper, and there was blood

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and hair and scratch marks traced the path across the hood,

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along with more air and blood. I could feel the

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silence closing in on us. At first, I didn't know

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if it was my own shock or if everything had

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actually gone quiet. I focused on the only sound I

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could hear. That was the truck's engine running. Charles pulled

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a flashlight out from behind a seat and walked to

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the back of the truck and then further up the

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road a few yards. He didn't see anything, so we

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got back in and we backed up to where we

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thought we'd hit whatever this was. Charles positioned the truck

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to angle the headlights into the woods. We still didn't

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see anything, so we got out, but not Jesse. Though

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he wouldn't get out, he begged us not to either.

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We could still hear Jesse as we walked down what

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looked like a narrow path. We'd made it fifteen yards

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past the reach of the headlight when the horn started

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honking repeatedly, with a click glance at each other. We

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took off at a dead run back up to the truck.

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Jesse was inside, and he was covered in sweat and

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shaking uncontrollably, with all the windows rolled up. I grabbed

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the door handle, but it was locked. Charles found the

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door was locked too. We pounded on the windows and

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we demanded that Jesse let us in, but he wouldn't

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or he couldn't respond. It was several minutes before he

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regained control of his senses and unlocked the doors. We

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tried to get him to tell us what happened, but

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he just sat there, shaking and sweating. We decided it

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was better to get out of there, so we left

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as fast as we could. We drove back toward the

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highway in lights, but Jesse never uttered a word. We

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dropped him at his house on north Shore, but again

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he never spoke. He climbed out of the truck and

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he walked slowly to the front door with his arms

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down at his side, like some sort of a funeral march.

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We watched him go inside before heading to my house,

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where Charles dropped me off. I didn't go in right away.

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I sat outside and thought over what had happened, and

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a million questions were going through my mind. What had

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we hit? And what did Jesse see that shook him

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up so badly? And why wouldn't he talk to us?

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The next morning, I called Jesse, but he still wasn't talking.

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I had to walk the two miles to Charles's apartment

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because he didn't have a phone. His truck was sitting

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out front and I stopped to look it over and

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there were three deep scratches about one inch apart and

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five inches long on the hood well. I knocked on

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the door and Charles came out to look at the

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damage with me. We decided to go over to Jesse's

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and talk to him, but his mother met us at

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the door and she was furious. What did you do

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to Jesse last night? She demanded. He wouldn't tell her,

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he wouldn't tell anybody. He wouldn't even come out of

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his room. I was thirteen when that happened, Jesse was

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sixteen and Charles was eighteen. It was almost two years

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before Jesse spoke to me again, and when he finally did,

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all I ever got out of him was that something

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came out of the woods. After Charles and I went

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down the path. It started shaking the truck. He said,

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he closed his eyes and he couldn't bring himself to

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open them again. He blindly groped for the horn, and

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when he found it, he just kept honking it, and

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then the shaking stopped when we came back. That was

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the first time something weird ever happened to me. There

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was a second incident that happened four years later, while

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I was fishing near the sand was seen to a

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rip in East Harris County, Texas, but I won't tell

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you that story now. I lost touch with those boys

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over the years, and I wonder if either of them

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is still around. I'm sixty two years old now, and

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this is the first time I've spoken about this. Maybe

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I've blocked it out somehow.