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Speaker 3: Back in October nineteen eighty three, when I was eleven
Speaker 3: years old, I had my first of several encounters. I
Speaker 3: can't remember the exact date, but I know it was
Speaker 3: a Saturday and we were deer hunting. It was my
Speaker 3: second year doing so. This happened in the Sumpter National
Speaker 3: Forest and in Ora, East South Carolina. I can't recall
Speaker 3: the exact county. It was either Laurens or Union County.
Speaker 3: I haven't been back since the mid eighties, and my
Speaker 3: dad and uncles who knew the exact spot are all
Speaker 3: gone now except for two uncles. Here's what happened. My
Speaker 3: dad and I went to one of his favorite areas
Speaker 3: in the Sumter National Forest, a place we called the
Speaker 3: Horse Trail for obvious reasons. It was named that they
Speaker 3: had done some logging there, and there was a logging
Speaker 3: road where my dad had me sit for the morning hunt.
Speaker 3: It was cold and I was bundled up in a
Speaker 3: heavy coat carrying an H and R single shot twenty
Speaker 3: gage with slugs. It was about an hour before daylight,
Speaker 3: and it was so dark that I couldn't see my
Speaker 3: hand in front of my face. I was facing toward
Speaker 3: Highway seven two. I think that's the highway, basically in
Speaker 3: the direction where we had parked About twenty minutes after
Speaker 3: my dad left me. I could hear him assembling his
Speaker 3: old climbing stand and starting to climb. Once he settled in,
Speaker 3: I noticed how all the birds and crickets suddenly went quiet.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of birds are active at that time.
Speaker 3: I'd say it was around five thirty am when my
Speaker 3: eyes finally acclimated to the dark and I could start
Speaker 3: to make out shapes. I happened to look to my
Speaker 3: right across the logging road, just behind some small pines,
Speaker 3: and I saw a weird looking figure about eight feet tall,
Speaker 3: standing just over thirty feet away. I turned my head
Speaker 3: to the left, thinking my eyes might be playing tricks
Speaker 3: on me, then slowly turned back around and it was
Speaker 3: still there. Yes, there was a slight stench in the air.
Speaker 3: I had a flashlight in my hand, but I was
Speaker 3: too scared to lift it and shine it over there,
Speaker 3: afraid of what I might see. It never moved, it
Speaker 3: just stood there watching me. It felt like a lifetime
Speaker 3: passed before it finally started getting light. I heard a
Speaker 3: noise to my left and turned to look, hoping it
Speaker 3: wasn't another one or a deer, But when I turned
Speaker 3: back around, it was gone. I didn't hear it leave,
Speaker 3: but as the morning went on, I kept my eyes
Speaker 3: wide open, listening, hoping it wouldn't come back. I never
Speaker 3: told my dad because he would have laughed at me.
Speaker 3: He was a non believer. I did tell my brother, though,
Speaker 3: as he had a couple of encounters himself when he
Speaker 3: was younger. My brother is eleven years older than me.
Speaker 3: By the way, we hunted that area several more times
Speaker 3: before we left it for private land in another air,
Speaker 3: but I never saw it again. I grew up reading
Speaker 3: multiple books on Bigfoot and watched shows like In Search
Speaker 3: of and The Legend of Boggy Creek, but I didn't
Speaker 3: let my mind play tricks on me that morning. The
Speaker 3: figure was around eight feet tall, with broad shoulders and
Speaker 3: a massive head. Yes, I could hear it breathing, it
Speaker 3: was that close. I did have another small encounter in
Speaker 3: an area several miles from there, a place where my
Speaker 3: brother had a strange encounter. I heard a tree being
Speaker 3: pushed over. It wasn't windy that evening, and it happened
Speaker 3: right at dark. Knowing about my brother's encounter, I got
Speaker 3: out of the tree as it got dark and quickly
Speaker 3: made my way to the trail to wait for my
Speaker 3: dad to pick me up. That was another thirty minutes
Speaker 3: or so before I saw his flashlight. I never went
Speaker 3: back to that spot again.
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