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Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety two, I met a man named Bob

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who became my best friend. He was twenty three years

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older than I was, but he was a character and

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we hit it off immediately. At the beginning of October,

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Bob and I drove an old Ford pickup truck and

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camper to a spot twenty miles into the Nez Pierce

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National Forest in north central Idaho. We would often take

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our outfit up and park it down an old side

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road directly in front of a forest service iron gate

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ten days prior to opening day. This ensured that we

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laid claim to that road and our favorite spot before

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the other locals and out of state hunters showed up.

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We hunted the same spot the same way with the

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same old camper for eleven years. After that time, we

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had memorized the entire area that we hunted. We knew

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how to sneak around and stalk and hide and get

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our four wheelers anywhere in our spot, and as a result,

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we never failed to bag at least one elk every year.

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Our daily routine was to get up before daylight every day.

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I would walk down the old logging road behind our

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camp while Bob walked up the road and we would

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meet up eventually after about three miles, all the while

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being in touch with walkie talkies. Then we would go

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back to camp and load up my pickup truck and

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see if any of our friends had shot anything or

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needed help, and then back to our camp for an

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evening hunt. Every night ended with Bob cooking us dinner

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and us sitting in the camper at the table, and

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we played cribbage, and we drank to access every day

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of our trip, and we would occasionally break up our

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routine with a trip to town to resupply and shower,

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and every now and then our fund would be interrupted

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by an obviously mentally handicapped elk that would wander into

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our sights. On the day of iron encounter, I was

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sitting in a little cutout on a bank of the

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logging road waiting for Bob to come into the clearcut. Now,

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this cutout was like an alcove that gave me one

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hundred and eighty degree view of a clear cut in

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front of me. It was also a great hiding spot,

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and you would have to be directly in front of

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me to see me. As I waited for Bob, I

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started to hear something on the game trail above me.

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It was working its way down the trail that crossed

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the road fifty feet to my left. Now, I'd seen

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several deer and elk and bear from this spot, so

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I assume that's what was coming toward me. I knew

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Bob would be entering the upper end of the clearcut

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soon and he might be able to see what I

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was hearing before I could. Our walkie talkies were specifically

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for hunting communication. They had a cord attached to an

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earpiece and a microphone. If you were careful, you could

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communicate with someone else without anyone else hearing. I listened

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to the thing above me make its way down the trail,

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and I kid my radio and I whispered to Bob

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that there was something right above me, and I asked

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if he could see it. He responded that he could

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see something coming down the trail, but he couldn't figure

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out what it was. He said that it was shorter

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than a deer, and it was much darker. He guessed

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it must have been a small bear. We decided to

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stay put so that we wouldn't spook the bear. And

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as I sat there waiting to see the bear emerge

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onto the road, I heard Bob say, Holy f He

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warned me not to move and to be ready to

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shoot if it discovered me. Well, ask him what the

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hell it was, and he responded with some very colorful

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language that didn't do anything but let me know that

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it was definitely not a bear. As I listened to

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Bob in my ear, trying to reason what he was

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looking at, my eyes were fixed on a spot that

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I knew it would move onto the road, and when

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it came into view, I witnessed a goliath of a

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being step onto the road and rock my entire world.

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As my mind scrambled to reconcile what I was seeing,

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Bob was in my ear repeating over and over, it's crawling.

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It's just effing's crawling. Now it's stood up. It stood up.

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Half of my mind was saying, well, don't worry, it's

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just a man, a big, hairy man, but the other

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half of my mind knew it was way too big

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for that to be true. Now, this thing took four

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steps diagonally away from me and disappeared over the opposite

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edge of the road, and it continued following the trail

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from Bob's vantage point. He could watch it for a

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long time as it made its way down through the

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bottom of the clearcut and up the other side. When

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it was a good eight hundred yards away or so

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and halfway up the other side, I made my way

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over to Bob and we watched it move into the

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standing tw on the other side of the canyon. At

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some point we started walking back toward our camp. During

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the entire three mile walk, we never said a word.

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We got back and we started drinking, and after passing

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the bottle back and forth a few times, I finally

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addressed what we had seen Bob. Was that a bigfoot?

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Bob nodded calmly, yes, he said. When the booze kicked in,

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we relived our encounter, and then we took stock of

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our arsenal, and we made the terrible decision to go

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back out with our four wheelers. When we arrived, we

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found that the ground was too hard to find any

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kind of footprints, but we were able to figure out

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that it was around eleven feet tall. Well, we were dumbfounded,

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and as we sat there, half drunk and talking about

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the height, we looked across the canyon and wondered if

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this thing was actually real. I found the spot where

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it had entered the opposite tree line. I wonder to

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myself if I could continue to spend time in the

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woods after seeing a myth come to life with my

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own eyes. And at that moment, my eyes became fixed

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on a dark spot on the other side of the canyon.

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There was something odd about it, so I grabbed my

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binoculars and brought the spot into view. My Lord, it

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was the same creature. It was just standing there still

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as a tree and looking at us. Bob, I said,

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that thing's looking right at us. Bob quickly took out

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his binoculars and found it too. My Lord, you're a

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big sob Bob said under his breath. We watched it

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turn and walked back into the trees, and it has

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been on my mind ever since that day. Bob and

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I never hunted in that spot again. We took our

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hunting more than one hundred miles away from there. We

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never used the old camper again and only did day hunts,

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and we stayed in moti Els. In December of twenty

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and nineteen, I received word that Bob had passed away.

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During the twenty seven years that I knew him. He

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went and got old on me and I never noticed.

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This man was a huge part of my life, and

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I'm grateful I had my bigfoot encounter with him. Oh

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that's a great story. No violence, nothing like that. They

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just saw it walk across the road. I bet that

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was a scary encounter. But I'm sorry you lost your

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good buddy, your buddy Bob. But I'm glad you got

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to experience that at that from a distance. I'm glad

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it didn't walk up on you and walk over you

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or step on you or something like that. That's a

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great story. I appreciate it. Thanks for sending it. Okay,

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here's another bigfoot story. That's what the writer says. I

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saw a whole family of them. One time I was

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fishing in a remote area. I was walking along a

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dirt road back to my truck and my dog was

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barking behind me and stopping intermittently. I would coax him

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to go further each time, until at last he barked

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and turned around and ran back the other way toward camp.

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This made me think, oh, no, did he smell a predator?

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And right after that, as the sun had just gone

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over the horizon, I saw a few small figures in

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the corner of my eye. I thought they might be

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cougar cubs. I grabbed a pepsi out of my bag

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and I threw it at them in fear, hoping it

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would drive them off. But that didn't work. I saw

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the two small figures fighting over the pepsi and grabbing

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it from each other like children. Well, this blew my mind.

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Then on the other side of the road, out of nowhere,

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appeared a larger bear or dog or an ape like creature.

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One on the immediate right of me was hooking shouldered,

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black figure with giant oval eyes of the color of

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a mountain dew bottle. It looked in my direction, but

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it didn't look at me. It looked more through me.

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I walked in fear and astonishment right by it, and

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it looked away from me like I didn't exist. I

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later told my friend whose family fished there at that spot,

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and I thought I had seen a ghost. But he

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told me that they were bigfoot, that there were families

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of them there and they had all seen them too.

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She said she saw one running across a nearby field

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in the middle of the day, and they were told

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that these creatures lived under the orchard just up the hill.

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There's absolutely no denying what I saw, and I have

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also been told of similar sightings by people not far

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downriver from where my encounter happened. The distinguishing features were

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the large green eyes and the long legs, and that

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they were hunched over. Now, this story is true, but

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I can't tell you where it happened. In my culture,

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it's not good to talk in detail about this sort

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of thing, otherwise folks might try to go and bother

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our bigfoot brothers. Well, that's probably a good idea. Don't

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tell people where you have your encounters. You know, you

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can tell them what state, or even what part of

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a state, but you don't have to give exact locations

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because some of these bigfoot researchers are crazy. If they

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catch interest in one of these stories, they're liable to

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show up and force and get on private property. And

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I don't think we've ever shared an exact location. But

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I thought this was interesting. This person saw a whole

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family of bigfoot. She threw a pepsi at them, and

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they have the color of their eyes where like a

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mountain dew can. That's pretty cool. I thought that was good.

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Thank you for sending the story. Okay, let's do one

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last little This is a short, little email, but it's

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really good. I live in south central Virginia, just a

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few miles from the North Carolina state line. On a

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sunny January day, I was sitting on my front porch

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soaking up the sunshine. In front of my house. There's

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an open field bordered by two sides with trees. To

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my right in the woods, I heard what sounded like

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a large branch breaking. I turned to look and watched

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a dark manlike feature emerge. It was taller than a man.

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It's probably eight feet tall, with broad shoulders and no neck. Well.

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I sat there, dumbfounded, watching this thing and trying to

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get a better look at it, but seeming to know

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I was watching it, it stayed just out of few

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a few yards in the tree line. I rushed inside

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to get my binoculars, hoping to get a better look,

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but when I came back outside again, it was gone.

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On another occasion, I saw a smaller version of the

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same figure standing closer to my house, but still just

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inside the tree line. I went inside and came back

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out with my binoculars again, and just like the other one,

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it was gone. I scanned the woods with my binoculars

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and I did not see any sign of either figure,

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nor did I see any tree or plant formations that

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I could have mistaken for a person or an animal.

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It's over a year later and I have not seen

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any figures like that anywhere till this day. But each

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time I look into the woodline at my house, I

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wonder if something is out there, maybe looking right back

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at me. I would pass out. If I looked out

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my front yard into the we have woods right across

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the it's a little ways away. If I saw something

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like that standing there, And then if I got the

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binoculars and I could actually see it, which she didn't

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say she saw it, but I would freak out. I'd

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call every friend. I man, come over here, look this bigfoot.

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I got one in the front yard. I'd be getting

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my phone out trying to take a picture. Maybe maybe

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I wouldn't remember it that. I don't know. I'm not

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really sure what I'm ever gonna do if I ever

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see a bigfoot, I might just pass out. I might

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just pass out from fright or from amazement. I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure what I'm gonna do anyway. I appreciate

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the woman sending the no. It wasn't a woman. It

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was a man. He gives his name. He didn't say

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to use it, so I'm not gonna tell you what

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it is. But it is a man and it's a

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good story. This is a classic encounter with Bigfoot right there.

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You just heard it, all right. Thank you guys for

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joining me on this podcast. I appreciate it, and we

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will see you guys on the next one. Thanks a lot.