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Speaker 1: I was about fifteen years old and the youngest of three.

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My older siblings had both moved out for their own reasons,

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but I thought that I could never leave. My father

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owns a small parcel of acreage surrounded by my late

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grandfather's land of about twenty five acres a mile outside

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of Hurricane, West, Virginia. I have hunted my whole life

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in these woods and the adjacent properties. This land is

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full of caves, cliffs, and hillsides so thick with bush

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in some places you can't shoot one hundred yards even

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in the wintertime when the leaves are gone. It was

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and still is my home. I don't live there with

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my father anymore, but I still hunt and sometimes trap

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on the property. It's as much a part of me

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as my two year old son. Late one night, we

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just got back to the house after helping my father's

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new girlfriend move. We got out of the car and

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stopped in our tracks. We heard the most god awful

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yelping and growling coming from a big hillside field that

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used to be a horse pasture on the opposite side

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of the house. I took off running around the house

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and got there before my dad. We had three little

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dogs at the time. One was a rat terrier and

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the other two were Chihuahuah mixes. Blinded by the mix

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of house lights and darkness, I almost tripped over a

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coyote trying to eat one of them. They were spinning

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in circles, jaws locked together and growling up a storm. Instinctively,

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I grabbed onto the leg of my dog and tugged

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him away from the coyote, and I tossed him a

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few feet behind me. At that moment, another coyote stormed

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through the brush to my right, and he plowed into

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the other coyote. They were both back on their feet

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in an instant and running up the old logging trail,

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an old barn built by my great grandfather from start

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to finish. The whole thing couldn't have lasted more than

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ten seconds. Once the codes were gone, I realized the

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dog they'd grab was Rocky, the smallest of the three.

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It ran quickly by my dad, who seemed to have

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walked around the house instead of running. I looked back

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up at the barn and saw something else. It was

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another set of eyes. They were eight feet up a

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tree on the far hillside left of the barn. There

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was just enough light from my grandmother's house to illuminate

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one side of the tree. The eyes were huge, and

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they were far apart. They shined with a different shade

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from the light on the trees from the house. The

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house light was more of a yellow light, while the

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eyes were a dark red color. I didn't think it

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could be eyes at first, and then it blinked. As

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soon as it blinked, it turned its head towards the light.

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It was still hidden in the shadows of the tree,

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but I never lost sight of those eyes. The head

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turned away and then it turned back, never losing their glow.

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Do you see that, I asked my dad. He responded

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with get inside now. I still wasn't sure he was

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seeing what I was seeing, so I asked him again, Dad,

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did you see that? He was holding open the door,

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and he said firmly, get inside now. I sat in

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my room with the lights on and the blinds closed

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the rest of the night. My room was on the

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side of the house that everything had just happened, but

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the window faced the wrong direction, so I couldn't look

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out in the field. My window was seven feet off

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the ground, and I felt like a sitting duck. That

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thing I saw would have had to bend down to

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get in. Every minute of that night is burned into

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my mind. Waiting for the sunrise may have been the

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worst part. I'm twenty five years old now and I

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hunt hard. Every year. I go out before sunrise and

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I stay out until my girl summons me home. I

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have also become an avid Bigfoot researcher. It's become somewhat

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of a religion more than a hobby. I do construction

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with my uncle and my brother. They're far from believing

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in anything of the sort, so I don't talk about it.

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I feel like telling you the story will help me

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relieve my need to tell my story. On a side story,

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my mother is a spiritual woman, a green witch for

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lack of a better term. She has many friends of

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various calibers. One day she told me she had bought

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a gift for someone from an old friend of hers,

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and that the woman was coming to deliver it. My

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mother said she had a story to tell us from

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back when they were teens. I'm not much of one

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to sit around and listen to my mother's friends stories.

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But the lady arrived and this is the story that

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she told. When she was seventeen. She and a handful

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of other kids went out on her family's farm way

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back in the woods. They had a big bonfire and

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a small bowl shaped valley surrounded on all sides by forest.

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They were listening to music and letting all firecrackers and

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making all kinds of noise when a bipedal creature covered

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in hair crept down the hillside and into the light

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of the fire. She said. It was covered in long,

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brownish hair and looked like an old man with a

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long beard, but without a mustache. It was six feet

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tall and walked with its arms up like a t rex.

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It was acting curious like a child. I was glued

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to every word of this woman's story, and I was

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taking in every detail, she said. The other kids were

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getting scared, so they started throwing firecrackers at it. Can

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you believe that I would have given anything to have

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been there that night. I've I've had numerous unexplained experiences,

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and I found tracks at the creek not too far

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from my home. Actually, tracts are everywhere around here. I

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hope you don't mind my cruddy typing abilities and can

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tell my story. I hope everyone who has a story

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will come to your page and tell it. Thank you

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so much, Cam, I hope you're having an awesome new year.

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An avid listener and subscriber thanks Brandon to live in

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a small coastal village in Alaska on the Keenai Peninsula.

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The name of the village is Nanuelik. Most of the

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people from here originally came from infamous Port Chatham or

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port Lock. Sidequatch are known around here as the Nantina

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n a n t i Naq. Carol says it is

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pronounced Nantina, but it could be Nantinac Nantanac, I guess,

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and they're part of their culture and their lives. He writes,

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it's common for people to witness things, and ever since

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I was young, I've heard stories from elders and community

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members about these things. The creature is believed to be

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a big factor in the abandonment of the fishing village

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of Portlock. This event happened to me in early May,

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when I was seventeen. The snow finally began melting, so

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black bears were out. Everyone's freezers were running low at

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the end of winter, and we needed meat. My cousin

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and I headed out on a four wheeler toward a

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nearby bay eleven miles away, and we were hearing the

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black bears were in the area. Many had already been taken,

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and we searched the area and we came up with zero.

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We moved on to other areas looking for signs for bears,

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but again we found nothing. It had been a long

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day and we were tired, so we headed toward home,

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hoping the next day would be better. We were getting

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close to home. I wasn't paying attention much. It was

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a long ride. Now. I lifted I had and looked

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at a mountain that we were approaching, and I saw

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a black figure contrasted against the snow. Is that bear

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in range? I asked my cousin, Well, it looks like it.

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He said, that's the biggest black bear I've ever seen.

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I told him I'm gonna take a shot. I found

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a good rest and got the bear in my scope,

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and then I decided the shot was too far. We

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didn't want to cripple bear in the area. It's getting dark.

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Take the shot. My cousin said, you've made shots like

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that before. Kill that bear so we can get home

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with some meat. I settled back in and I squeezed

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off around the animal never flinched. I obviously had not

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hit my target. Now I was determined to take this bear,

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so I began to move closer. My path straight to

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the bear was blocked by a thick stand of alders,

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and there was no way I was going to get

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through all that tangle of vegetation. I'll clear a path

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for you with the four wheeler, my cousin said, you

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can move behind me, and plus it'll make it easier

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getting the bear out. He headed straight into the brush,

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plowing down a path for me to come in behind him.

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After a hard one hundred yards, the brush cleared and

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the area began to open, and I could still see

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the bear. It had not moved. I still didn't feel

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confident in my position. I needed to get a bit closer,

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and I kept moving, looking for the right angle to

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take the animal. With all the noise and commotion we

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were causing, I expected not to see the bear, but

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it remained. It was black as coal against the dirty

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spring snow. I kept moving forward, and soon I was

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in a thick stand of berries, and throughout the short walk,

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I had looked up several times to make sure the

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bear was still there, and again he had never moved.

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Even though it was difficult to see through the maze

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of branches that I was now trudging through, I would

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stop every few steps and listen. Up until this point,

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all had been quiet except for the noise my cousin

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was making for their back. Once I stopped, I heard

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footsteps all around me. Leaves were crunching, and branches were snapping.

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I called back to my cousin to see what he

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was doing, but he never answered. A step later I

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heard him start the four wheeler, and I knew the

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noise I was hearing wasn't him. Well. I wrote it

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off as local wildlife getting out of there while the

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human invaded their space, and I kept moving until the

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area cleared once again. In front of me stood the mountain.

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While taking a breather, I looked up to find the

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bear and it was gone. While I started to climb.

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move in on the animal within a short distance. I

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was back into a stand of berries again, and if

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the bear had been right in front of me, I

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wouldn't have seen it. Halfway up the slope, I heard

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the noises again and animals moving around me. Leaves were crunching,

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and branches again were snapping. Something was moving in front

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of me, and it was coming my way. It was

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not getting out of the area of the human. In

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my mind, it had to be that bear, and it

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was about to walk right into me. But whatever it was,

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it was big and it was moving fast. But behind

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me I heard the same noises. Were there are two bears,

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I thought. I chose an angle to move that avoided both,

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and I headed up the slope again, stopping to catch

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my breath every few yards. I saw another clearing ahead,

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and I picked up my pace because if I could

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get there, I would have a good field of fire

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if something were tracking me. It would also get me

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out of these berry tangles and give me a chance

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to rest before the action started. So I waited and

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I waited, and nothing came into view. Soon I began

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to relax, thinking the crisis was over. So I found

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a rock and I sat down. The silence was almost

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as unnerving as the noises I heard. Now looking down

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the slope to the clearing at the base of the mountain,

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I saw my cousin burst into that clearing, waving his

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hands and screaming my name. Now, he's not a dramatic

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person and he's not much for talking, so this was

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unusual seeing him behave in this way. It was obvious

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that he couldn't find me. So I removed my hoodie

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and I raised it with a stick and I started

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waving it in the air like a flag so he

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could see me. With me now located, he sprinted the

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distance I had just walked up the slope in five minutes.

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It had taken me twenty minutes. Shaking and sweating, he said,

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I couldn't stay in that brush. Something's in there and

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it's big. There were several of them. Have you ever

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felt like you were being stalked? Well, that sent chills

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down my spine, and even though I was nervous, I

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tried to stay as calm as possible. Okay, I said,

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forget this bear, let's get off this mountain and get home.

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I've been hearing the same noises. His eyes were wide open,

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and he kept nodding as if to say, let's go.

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We were in the last ten minutes of daylight and

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we needed to move fast. To get to the four wheeler.

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We would have to walk the way that we had

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come through the area. We had both heard large animals

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that we felt like were stalking us. Together, we ran

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down the slope at a pace that wouldn't get us hurt.

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And at the bottom of the slope, where the ground

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somewhat leveled out, I pointed to the left and I

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said this way. No, it's to the right. My cousin

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yelled in a panic, and off he ran. I felt

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like either path would probably get us in sight of

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the ATV, so I stayed to the left and I

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ran like hell. It was dark by now, and the

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thicket was difficult to maneuver through, and I was tired

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and disoriented, but I kept running. At one point I

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had to stop and catch my breath. And then even

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over the heaving I could hear those things around me

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stomping around and moving. The sounds seemed more aggressive now,

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as if the predator was about to make its move,

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So I kept going. That's all I could do. I

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wasn't gonna quit when I had energy left. The thicket

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went on and on, and I knew there was no

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way I was headed in the right direction. Earlier, I

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had moved through this area much faster at a walk.

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Now I was running and I could not break out

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of it, so I had to stop and call for

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my cousin up to my right, and on the road

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I heard him go back to me. It was one

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hundred yards. I thought I can make that now. I

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lowered my head and I bull through the branches and

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brambles at full speed until I finally hit the open ground.

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Just up the bank was my cousin sitting on the ATV,

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waving his arm for me to hurry up. Within seconds

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we were full throttle headed toward home. My parents had

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been worried about us, and we stood in the kitchen

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retelling the story. There was a long silence until my

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father told us both to sit at the table. They

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spent several minutes telling us the story of the Nantina

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and the little people who live on that mountain. Many

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people had heard and seen them. We believe we had

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been stalked or chased from the area by a bigfoot.

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Now well, in bed that night, I heard something at

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my window, shuffling and scraping, and then a knock. There

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were no trees close to my bedroom window, so it

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wasn't that. And then there were more knocks, and than

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I heard the window being raised, as if something were

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trying to get in. I had left it cracked that

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night just to get some air. I jumped from my

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bed and ran to the window, and I slammed it shut.

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And I would endure this for several nights. I wasn't

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getting any sleep, and I was always tired. On the

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last night, the knocking started and I could plainly hear

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something trying to open my window. And I had had enough,

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and once again I jumped from the bed and I

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ran outside with a light to confront this creature, but

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nothing was there. The next day, I pulled a tape

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measure from the sill to the ground. The dimension was

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thirteen foot six What size of an animal would it

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take to reach from the ground up thirteen foot six inches. Finally,

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I told my parents about the thing at the window,

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and they didn't believe me. I told a few friends,

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and they didn't believe me either. I was beginning to

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think I was nuts until I heard you telling stories

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from others with similar situations. Now. I don't know if

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sharing this story on your podcast will help me, but

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it feels good to share it with people who have

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an open mind.