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Speaker 1: All right, here's an odd story from a man who

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I think this occurs in the United Kingdom. I don't think,

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he says. Maybe he does somewhere in the story, and

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you'll hear it if he does. But the way he writes,

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and the way he describes some of these places and

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the vernacular he uses, I think this guy is from

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the UK. But let's read us. This is not a

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bigfoot story. But this is really good, he writes. My

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first strange encounter happened in two thousand and seven. There

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were no leaves on the trees. That is the only

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thing I can recall determining the time of year. We

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lived four miles away from the local town in the countryside,

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on the bank of a large reservoir. From the high

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spot where our house sat, we had a fantastic view

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of the rolling countryside. We own twenty two acres that

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included two large lakes that had excavated and acres of

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trees I planted. I was blessed to live in such

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a beautiful and imposing home. The house itself is a

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converted L shaped barn. My wife and I lived in

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the two story section, and her parents lived in the

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smaller l that was only one story. It was like

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two separate properties, but we could walk straight through each

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other's homes. On the night in question, I was sitting

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with my feet up on the setti watching TV. It

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was dark outside, and I imagine it must have been

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getting close to bedtime. I prefer to go to bed

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early and get up early. The next morning, my wife

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came walking into the lounge and told me that she

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was going to let the dog out, but there was

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someone standing in the back garden. I asked what they

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were doing, and she said nothing, they're just standing there. Well,

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the hair stood up all over my body, and I

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was engulfed in fear. I'm certainly not the cowardly type,

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but I had the sudden feeling that something really bad

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was about to happen. My wife prompted me to get

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up and come with her to have a look. So

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I followed her through the house to her parents' side.

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She took me to her dad's bedroom because it was

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on the farthest side and closest to the back garden.

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The light was off, so I looked out the window

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and allowed my eyes to adjust to the garden, which

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obviously I knew well. The part I was looking at

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was only thirty feet across to where our garden meets

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the neighbor's pasture land. There was a three bar wooden

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fence with barbed wire across the top, and we had

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planted some fruit trees there. After letting my eyes adjust

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and looking around to identify the objects I knew were there,

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I said I can't see anybody. My wife said, now

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look through this, and she had my night vision scope.

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By now her dad was standing next to her and

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looking quite concerned, and I took the scope from her

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and I returned to the window to look. I instantly

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saw the likeness of a person standing in the neighbor's field,

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but right next to the fence. My wife asked if

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it could be one of my friends messing about to

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scare us, and I replied, who the hell would stand there?

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On the off chance that you might look outside with

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a night vision scope, I just died the focus on

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the scope and I looked again, and this time seeing

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something that filled me with terror. It looked like an

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extremely tall man with a heavily woven cloak pulled over

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and around him. The cloak or shroud, whatever it was,

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was coarsely woven twill. The strands were as thick as

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jumper wool and tightly woven, and it looked heavy, so

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much so that I guessed I would have had a

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difficult time lifting it if it were on the floor.

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It was only thirty feet away, so with the scope

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zoomed in, it was the equivalent of being right next

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to it. I could see the waving and the shroud

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as it came below the waist and flared out. The

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arms were to the side and the hands weren't visible.

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In fact, I couldn't see anything of this being outside

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of the intimidating figure with its head leaning forward and

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the cloak pulled over it. You've probably figured out by

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now that what I'm describing is the grim Reaper, and

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it was terrifying. It wasn't carrying a scythe as depicted

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in so many stories. Judging by the fence it was

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standing next to, I determined it to be nine feet

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tall and as much as three and a half eat wide.

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I opened the window slowly and quietly looked again. I'm

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not sure if I did that to get a better look,

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or if I needed confirmation that what I was seeing

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wasn't a reflection in the glass. When I took the

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scope away, I couldn't see it, but when I looked

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through the scope again, it was there. Through the scope,

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I could also see the grain in the wood on

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the fence rails, the cobwebs on the fence, and the

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long strands of grass in front of its cloak. There

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was truly some kind of being in front of me,

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but there was totally no explanation for what it might

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be in our world, our knowledge of what exists among us,

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be it in other dimensions or whatever else. I don't

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think could ever explain this. I later asked my wife

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what she had been doing standing in her dad's bedroom

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window with my night scope. She said that the dog

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won it to go outside, but she had heard foxes

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barking at the back of the house. She thought that

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she would have a look around the garden before letting

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the dog out, to make sure there were no foxes.

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She had a little pug that she treasured and didn't

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want the foxes to attack it. I know this is

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a far fetched story, but it is what I and

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my wife and her dad all witnessed. Her mother refused

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to look. She said it was a bad omen Sadly,

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the truth of that statement came to pass when my

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wife passed away in twenty and thirteen after a four

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year battle with ovarian cancer. She was only forty six

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years old. We had been married for nineteen years and

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five days. She left me with the most beautiful, blond,

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four year old son any parent would be proud of.

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How could such a mythical being have been in my

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back garden, as real as the apple trees, the fence

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and the grass, and as true as the myths. I

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lost my wife and my son lost his mother. I

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know neither you nor anyone else can give me answers,

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but at least you can listen to my story, a

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nightmare really, and be sure that not all things are

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a myth. I have a second, unexplained story that happened

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in twenty eighteen. I had moved from my lovely home

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in the country to a home in a quiet village

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only ten miles away from my original home and encounter.

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I had fallen asleep on the city and awoke in

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the early morning hours. The TV had timed out and

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it was turned off, and I just lay there, fully

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dressed and regaining enough energy to get up and go

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upstairs to bed. There was a street light at the

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end of the drive, and with all the curtains open

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in the lounge, there was an ambient light coming through

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that allowed me to see reasonably well. I had been

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lying there for a good ten minutes and was awake

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enough now to go upstairs when I noticed something coming

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around the corner from the other part of the l

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shaped lounge. I would not call it smoke or a mist.

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The only way I can explain it would be to

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call it a cloud. It was just like in the

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Predator film. There were loads of pixels, and with each

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pixel being an inch square in size. Although I could

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see straight through them, they distorted whatever they passed in

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front of. This cloud was two feet deep, three feet

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wide and a good six feet long. It was just

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floating under the ceiling, and it passed above me and

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went through the wall behind me. It must have been

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another half hour before I picked up enough courage to

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get up from the couch and go to bed. I

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had never heard of this before until I listened into

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a Sasquatch story where someone had explained this same strange

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phenomenon at a time when they had seen a bigfoot.

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I was excited that someone else had also witnessed this.

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Thank you if you find time to read my story.

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All our best from far away in Staffordshire. Yep, see,

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I was right. I could tell that was from the UK.

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And first, let me say my condolences to you. It's

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been a while since your wife passed away, but I'm

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so sorry that you lost your wife. And I have

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to say, in my humble opinion, this you're losing your

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wife had nothing to do with this grim reaper figure

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that you saw out by your garden. I'm so sure

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of that. There may be entities floating around and moving around,

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and I don't know the explanation for them, strange entities, ghosts, apparitions.

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Maybe they're demonic, maybe they're not. Maybe it's something God created.

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It just moves around in the spirit realm. I don't know,

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but this was such an interesting story. Thank you Ian

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is the author. Thank you Ian for sending this. We

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really enjoyed it. And I hope your son's doing well

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and your family has adjusted to missing your wife and

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your son's mother, and that life picks up and gains

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good meaning for you and you can move on. I'm

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sure that's what your wife would want you to do.

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At any rate, I'm probably stepping out of bounds talking

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about any of this, but I just, you know, it

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just breaks my heart when I hear stories like this.

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But at any rate, it was a great story, and

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thank you for sending it. I grew up in the

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mountains of central Washington around the four thousand foot level.

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Our neighbors were twenty miles away and in a different

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zip code and a different area code. The view from

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our front deck was nothing but tree covered mountains and

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huge racks walls. We were as remote as you can get.

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My father was the caretaker of an old mine that

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had been shut down in the nineteen sixties. We lived

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there rent free, as long as the family took care

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of the property and the buildings on the property. My

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father had worked at that mine since before he met

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my mother, so he was extremely knowledgeable of the surrounding areas.

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When I got old enough to join him on some

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of his excursions into the woods, he was quick to

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teach me that for a number of reasons, we didn't

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go out alone at night. We always carried a rifle.

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We hunted every year and fished almost every day, and

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shoveled a ton of snow during the winter. We normally

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got seven or eight feet of snow each year. Our

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road was closed in the winter, and that meant we

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had the snow mobile twenty miles to the nearest plowed

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road when we needed to go anywhere. I wasn't kidding

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when I said we were remote. When I was six

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years old, I heard a howl that still rings in

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my head today. I didn't know what it was until

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recently when I heard something close to it on a

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TV show. Back then, Pops would say it was only

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a bear, not to worry about it. I had no

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reason not to believe my dad. He also told me

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it was a bear that often watched me through the

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window at night, but it never bothered anyone. I was

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proud as ever when my parents would let me stay

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up until ten PM. I felt like a man, even

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though I was only twelve years old. Oh staying up

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at night. I remember that one night, while I was

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watching TV satellite at the time, I looked into the

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kitchen and saw a large black arm reach through the

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window and grab an apple and an orange my mom

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had left on the counter. I was too scared to

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even move, much less say anything. The next morning. When

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I told my dad, he just said, yeah, bears will

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do that from time to time. When I was sixteen,

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we finally got a power source at the camp that

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changed our world. We were able to continue working until

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much later at night. Those lights allowed us to see

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well into the night, and on occasion we would see

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something tall, black and bipedal walking through the camp or

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between the buildings. It scared my mom so much that

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we moved a few months later. Dad stayed up there

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and completed his mission. Obviously, I grew up knowing about

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sisquatch and the power they possess. For instance, a grizzly

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bear ran through our camp one evening. It didn't seem

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to care if we were there or not. It just

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kept looking behind it as if something was chasing it.

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We heard sisquatch fight each other for other territory too.

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We've even seen them do some miraculous physical things that

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even machinery couldn't do. When I was in the military,

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I shared these stories and from there I was ushered

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into another department of the government. That department led me

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to another one that actually studies the sasquat species exclusively.

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I'm here to tell you that the DNR, Forest Service

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and BLM all know about these things, they just don't

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confirm it publicly. But these departments have hair, scat, body parts,

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and supposedly whole bodies from various places where they've been studied.

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I've never seen any of the bodies, but I would

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have loved to. In twenty fourteen, after twenty two years,

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I retired from government service. I've since lost contact with

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all the individuals from the group, so I have no

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idea what the scuttle butt is around the coffee pot

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these days. I do know that certain wildlife area documents,

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especially the newer ones, include wording about keeping areas untouched

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for these bipedal beings. It started showing up in the

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mid nineteen nineties. The problem is, as you have to

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dig pretty deep and have a lot of patience to

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get through these extremely boring book link documents to find it.

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And that's by design. And that's the end of his email.

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And that's pretty interesting. I mean, he had encounters with

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bigfoot when he was young, only to get out of

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the military after telling people about his experiences, and they

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moved him into a government agency that studies these things.

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But I find it odd that if he's in the

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group that studies these things, I wonder why he never

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saw a body or even more evidence, apparently he was

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on the peripheral or maybe in some clerical position with

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one of these agencies. I don't know. I'm just guessing,

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but from these people's letters, you have to guess at

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these things if they're not very specific. So that's my guess.

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What's your guess. I don't know. I've heard of these

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government agencies knowing about these things. Will Jevining even hints

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at that in some of his podcasts, and so does

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Mark Knuble and Larry Porch and Shelley Reid and their

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their podcasts, and I I'm gonna put a little ad

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at the end of this video for their podcast. You

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guys need to go check out the Sawdust Beast channel.

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I'll put a link in the description. If you're into

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this bigfoot thing, you will love these guys. They're happy,

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super nice guys. They're they're just I've hung around them

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some and going on trips with them, and I love

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being around Mark Nouble, Larry Porch and their crew. They're

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just good, good people. Okay, this isn't a necessarily a

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bigfoot story. But it is a good story. It's a

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hunting story. Everybody likes a good hunting story, and I

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think you guys are going to find this captivating, the

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writer says. During trapping season in nineteen eighty four, my

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friend and I went up to his family's cabin on

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the musket tattootuck muskut muskeet tattoo River to set our

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trap lines. Okay, everybody make sure and make a comment

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and correct me on that pronunciation, because I just mangled

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it and blew it. But I can barely read that work.

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That day, a mangy blue tick hound kept following us

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around while we were setting our traps. At daybreak. The

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next morning, we were up and stoking up the fire

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and getting ready to check our traps. A very thick

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fog blanketed the area. While we were sitting around the campfire,

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a voice that seemed to be coming from a well

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called out, have y'all seen my coon dog around here? Well?

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We nearly jumped out of our skins. We were at

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a remote camp, yet the hollow voice sounded like it

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was right beside us. I slowly eased my hand toward

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my rifle, and I yelled out Is it a blue

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tick hound? I'll never forget how he answered. The eerie,

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dejected voice simply replied no. My buddy was getting nervous

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by this time. I had my rifle in my hand,

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and I called out, why don't you come on into

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camp have some coffee. There was silence for a moment,

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and then the voice asked, are y'all trapping well? I

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said we were, and then got up to try to

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locate him in the fog. My buddy was already looking around,

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and he whispered to me, I can't see him. I

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can't tell where he's at. All of a sudden, the

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fog began to lift, and we frantically searched around for

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the man that belonged to the eerie voice. I looked

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toward the river and I spotted the figure of a

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man with a fedora hat and a plaid hunting shirt.

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I ran toward the figure, waving my arm, saying, who

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should we contact if we see the dog? As I

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got close, I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. He appeared

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to be an image projected onto the fog, and as

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the fog began began to break up, his projection began

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to break up with it. He shouted out a name,

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and it escapes me to this day. And as the

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fog lifted, we went down to where I saw him,

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but there were no tracks. The rest of the weekend

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was uneventful, and when we got back to Clarksville, we

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told my buddy's dad about what had happened. He said

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that he had heard stories about a ghost that roamed

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the river bottoms around North Vernon. Twenty years later, I

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was at a historical reenactment in southern Ohio. A bunch

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of us were standing around the campfire one evening, passing

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around a bottle of whiskey and telling stories. Two of

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the guys were from the North Vernon area. The bottle

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came my way, and after a stiff shot, I started

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to tell my story. A buddy and I had something

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where it happened to us up on Musk Attack Musket

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Attact Muska Ta Tuck River. One time. One of the

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men from North Vernon interrupted me. He asked, did a

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man ask you about a coon dog? My luck told

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him the answer, and he told me the story that

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was passed down through his family. The ghostly hunter once

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had a number of children and was a widower and

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a passionate raccoon hunter. He dearly loved his children and

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was their sole support. Well. One night, he lost his

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dog out while hunting. Fearing to lose his treasured hound,

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the hunter left his oldest child in charge and went

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out searching. Tragically, he died that night, never finding his

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beloved hound or getting back to his children. As the

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years passed, my memory fades. Now I try to convince

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myself that someone had shouted at us from a couple

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of hundred yards away and it was just a fog

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playing tricks on my ears. But in the back of

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my mind, I know what happened that day, and I

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know I'm lying to myself to think otherwise. That's what

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people do when they don't have reasonable explanations for supernatural events.

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Looking back, there was nothing malicious about the ghostly hunter.

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He asked a few questions, and he was gone. To

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this day, fishermen, hunters, and trappers along the Muscatatuck River

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still have encounters with him, or so I've been told.

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I've been listening to your channel for a few months

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since my best friend recommended it to me, and your

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show is fantastic. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that.

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I love the stories, especially the ones that occur in

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locations I've been to myself. They made me wonder what

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I've been missing in the woods when I'm there. But

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the story I'd like to share is an experience that

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went far beyond my imagination. I've been a firm believer

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in Bigfoot since the age of seven, when I discovered

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its tracks in the snow behind my house in New Jersey,

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where I grew up. That was in nineteen seventy three,

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and it would be forty five years before I had

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another encounter with the elusive cryptid, and this one was

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really strange. I still don't know exactly what to make

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of it. On August twenty one, twenty and seventeen, the

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day the solar eclipse traversed the entirety of the United States,

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my wife and I took a ninety minute trip from

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our home in western North Carolina to the Calpins National

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Battlefield in Gaffney, South Carolina to view the eclipse. Our

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house was just outside the area of totality, but the

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battlefield was inside of it. We arrived about twenty minutes

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before the eclipse started, and we milled about in the

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open area around the visitor center. Calpin's Battlefield is a flat,

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thinly wooded park that allows a visitor to see one

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hundred yards in every direction. There were approximately seventy five

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people sitting in our immediate area, and I could see

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perhaps one hundred more walking across the battlefield proper from

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my viewpoint. Many of the people brought their dogs that

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day too. When the eclipse got underway, naturally all eyes

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turned to the sky, viewing it with their paper glasses.

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I was also looking at the moon crossing the Sun's path,

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but a few seconds after the totality of the eclipse started,

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my attention was diverted by low, disturbing, grunting sounds coming

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from nearby my spot. I never heard sounds like this before.

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They seemed to be a combination of human grunts and

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pig snorts, only much louder and deeper than a man

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or pig could make. It also sounded pretty upset, like

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it had been woken up when it didn't want to be.

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It didn't come from any of the dogs present either.

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Whatever made the sounds came from something far larger than

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the biggest dog present. Besides, once it got dark, all

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the dogs just lay in the grass, and they stayed quiet.

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I know that animals are supposed to behave strangely during

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an eclipse, but I've never known a dog not to

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bark its head off at the sound of a pen

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drop day or night. It seemed as if they weren't

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aware of what I was hearing, and I was soon

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to discover that that was virtually the truth. Before I

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could say anything, my wife, who was much less a

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believer in Sosquatch than I am, turned to me and asked,

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is that a bigfoot I hear? The grunting continued for

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nearly two minutes. It was kind of hard simultaneously watching

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the eclipse and figuring out where the sound emanated, but

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I finally pinpointed the sounds coming from a thin patch

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of trees and brush fifty yards from us. I wouldn't

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call this patch thick woods. It was only one hundred

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feet long and twenty feet wide, and I could clearly

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see the battlefield and the people in the field behind it.

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I don't think even a toddler could successfully hide in

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that scrub, but that's where the grunting originated. But nothing

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was there. Not only didn't I see anything, but looking around.

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No one else present even seemed to be aware of

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it besides my wife and I. I could see them

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watching the eclipse and going on with their conversations, and

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not one person even looked in the direction of the grunting. Eventually,

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as the eclipse ended, the grunting faded, and then it stopped.

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The dogs jumped up from the grass and started prancing around.

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The people lowered their heads and made to leave, and

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I was left scratch my head and figure out what

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it was I had just experienced. I've heard alleged Bigfoot

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recordings before, the howls, the whistles, the supposed Sisquatch language,

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and while I can't say that what I heard resemble

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those recordings, all I could think of was that the

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sounds could only have come from something as large as

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a bigfoot, and yet there was nothing I could see

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making the sound. I have never put much stock into

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the hypothesis that Bigfoot possesses paranormal abilities such as invisibility,

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dimensional travel, or telepathy. I've always wanted to believe that

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it was a biological, terrestrial creature like you, me, and

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every other form of life on Earth. But this experience

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has me questioning those beliefs. Why was it that only

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my wife and I heard the sounds in the field

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full of people. Why couldn't I see it when it

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should have been obvious in that thin patch of woods.

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Did the eclipse have anything to do with this? It

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would be nice to find out the answers to those questions.

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There have been several credible sightings of Bigfoot within a

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twenty mile radius of my house in the last several years,

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but I don't think he's going to sit down and

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explain it to me.