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Speaker 1: I have an email from a woman and she has

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four separate stories. I really enjoyed reading this. I hope

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you guys enjoy it all. Right, here we go, I

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may put my good glasses on here now I can

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see the screen. I was born and raised in southern Oregon,

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and I spent a lot of time in the Cascade

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Mountains growing up. Fishing, hiking, hunting, exploring. You name the activity,

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and I did it. My father spent forty years working

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in the timber industry, many of those as a log

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truck driver. It wasn't out of the ordinary for me

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to ride along with him in the truck for the day,

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or for my mom and I to join him occasionally

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when he had to camp out in the woods because

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of work. I was a preteen at the time time

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and my mom and I joined my dad for a

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few days while he was working in the Marble Mountains.

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This encounter took place there. It was thirty five miles

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out of Fort Jones, California, with my dad working as

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a log truck driver. Anyone who knows anything about that

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knows it isn't unusual for those guys to be in

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bed by seven pm and get up at three am

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or earlier to start the day. At around midnight, my

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parents were asleep and I was reading a book with

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my reading light and the camp trailer. What took place

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next changed me for the rest of my life. I

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was reading my book and I got a whiff of

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the famous foul smell everyone who has had an encounter

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knows about. The next thing I noticed was that the

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frogs and the crickets had gone dead silent. I knew

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there was a predator of some sort in the area,

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and I decided to shut off my light and take

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a look out the window to see what I could see.

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I got extremely lucky that night, as it was a

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full moon and it lit the woods up like daytime.

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I grew up in the era of the movie Harry

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and the Hendersons, and this got me obsessed with Bigfoot

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at a very young age. And when I picked out

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the window, I knew exactly what I was looking at.

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Fifty feet away, I saw the outline of a bipedal creature.

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He was just sitting back observing, but I could tell

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that he had places to be. I'm sure he was

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making a judgment on if it was safe to go

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on about his business. He was carrying a dead deer,

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probably to feed himself and his family, and I watched

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him cross the clearing behind our camp trailer, and he

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crossed the logging road and then he strided up a

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steep bank like it was nothing. I didn't mention anything

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to my parents because my dad doesn't believe in bigfoot.

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But the next morning I took my dad's tape measure

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and I measured from the ground to a branch on

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the tree where I saw his head roughly. I granted

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I'm not an expert by any means, but I guesstimated

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him to be probably eight feet tall. There were some

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footprints and they were eighteen inches long and seven inches wide.

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Later that day, one of his coworkers and good friends

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showed up and said they found giant footprints at their

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camp site. They also found the fur of a deer

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that looked like it had been peeled right off the meat,

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just like you would tear a paper towel in the middle.

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The next day, my dad didn't have to work, so

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he and my mom and I joined some of his

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coworkers and their families at the nearby lake three miles

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up the road. There was a group of maybe twenty people,

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and everyone was fishing and visiting and hanging out and

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enjoying the day, and nothing happened until twilight. This is

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when I feel like we crossed over into their territory

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by the lake. As the sun was going down, we

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all started hearing tree knocks and getting closer and closer

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from all directions. And after that came the growls and

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the whoops and the house. And when that didn't scare

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us off, that's when the rocks started being tossed in

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our direction. I'm talking big, old, many boulders. One actually

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almost hit another kid who was around the same age

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as me, and it only missed him by maybe six inches.

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That's when everyone decided to load up their stuff and

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get the hell out of there. My mom and I

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left the next day, while my dad and his co

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workers had to stay up there another week or so.

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My dad said no one had any other encounters, but

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the rest of the time they were there, no one

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went back to the lake. The only thing the workers

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reported was what they found, more footprints and heard more

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wood knocking and howling in whoop sounds Story number two.

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It was two thousand and nine and I was twenty

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five years old, living in Applegate, Oregon. Ironically enough, I

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was on my way to see the famous Bigfoot Trap.

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I had known about it since I was kid, and

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I was technically a local. I just never had the

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curiosity to check it out. But that day I was bored,

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I had the day off, and there was nothing to do,

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so naturally, I set off on an adventure in the outdoors.

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The Bigfoot Trap, located in Applegate, is kind of an

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icon around these parts. It was built in the nineteen

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seventies by a research team. Obviously, they weren't successful in

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trapping a bigfoot in it. You can easily google the

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directions on how to get there or see pictures of it.

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But to my knowledge, because it had become such a

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tourist attraction and was becoming dilapidated, the Forest Service actually

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decided to restore it. So hey, I thought that was

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pretty cool in itself. I reached the trap and did

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my investigation, and I checked it out, and I crawled

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inside it, and I looked around, and there wasn't anything

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super special about it. It was just a wooden box

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with a green grated slide mechanism for a door. It

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was just a normal day in the forest with all

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the forest critters making their noises. Birds were chirping away

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and frogs were croaking. And when I knew there was

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about an hour and a half left of daylight, I

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decided to head back to my car because it would

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take about that long to get back to the Heart

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Heart Heart Tish Picnic Heart Tish Picnic and parking area. Ooh,

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I had trouble getting one out. When I turned around,

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I knew I was no longer alone. At first, I

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thought it might have been other hikers, but this was

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a day in the middle of the week, and I

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hadn't seen other human beings the entire four hours that

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I had been there. Everyone has heard that Bigfoot can

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malk other animals. Well, I can tell you that is

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one hundred percent accurate. I heard whistling, but my train

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tears knew it wasn't. They weren't close enough to me

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to smell yet, but the complete silence was enough to

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alert me to what I knew was present and watching me.

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I picked up a stick and hit the tree next

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to me three times, and it didn't surprise me when

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I got a response. And after that, I said loud

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enough for them to hear. All right, guys, I know

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you're there, I'm not a threat, and I'm headed out

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of here anyway. I heard two more whistles behind me,

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and I started to walk out of there at a slow,

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steady pace. I was afraid of going too fast because

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I didn't want to trigger their predator instinct to chase me.

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As I walked along, I heard branches snapping directly behind

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me and off to the side, and I knew there

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was more than one. I proceeded further and I heard

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a third one come up on the other side. And

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the more of them that I hurt surround me, the

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more freaked out I got. But I just kept moving forward.

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I just knew my little nigh one millimeter wouldn't protect

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me if the situation were to go south. The forest

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going through here isn't super dense, and you can catch

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occsual things through the trees. I'm pretty sure it was

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comical to watch me walking and trying to remain calm

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as I talked to them and tried to see them

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as non threatening as possible. I think they have a

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sense of humor and like to mess with us humans

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very often. And now eleven years later, I think that

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is what this trio was doing. I was scared, and

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I was nervous, but I didn't feel threatened. I never

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got to see the one behind me, but I had

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a feeling that he was the pack leader, so to speak.

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I got a peak of the two on the other

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side of me, though. The first one was to my right,

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and it looked younger than the others, and the sounds

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it made were quieter by comparison. I got a mischievous

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vibe from this creature. It wasn't more than six feet tall,

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and it had wide shoulders, and it looked around four

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hundred pounds. Maybe that was a small female. I saw

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the second one on my left a whole lot better.

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I don't think he was trying to hide anyway, because

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he was a good sized one and he was not

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shy in the slightest. He was only maybe twenty yards

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from me of that, and I stopped, and I turned

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my head and I said to him, easy, big guy,

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I see you, and I respect you. He and I

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made eye contact, and I gazed at him for roughly

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thirty seconds. His hair was black, and he was at

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least seven and a half feet tall and four feet

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at the shoulders, and I'm guessing he was seven to

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eight hundred pounds, and while we were doing a stare down,

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he stepped forward to let me know that he was

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not afraid of me, and in response, I repeated my

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words and continued to walk toward my car. They stayed

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with me for probably another five minutes and proceeded with

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their business once they figured out I was not a threat.

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I thank them for the escort and protection, whether that

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is what they were doing or not. And when I

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was only five hundred feet from my car, they disappeared

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back into the forest. I kind of regret not being

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able to see the third one, but I knew he

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was behind me. I was doing everything I could to

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not make them mad or put them on alert, and

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that's why I didn't turn around to look at him.

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Something told me that would have been a mistake. All right.

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Here is her story number three. It was October of

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twenty fifteen and hunting season was in I was thirty

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years old at the time, and the location was in

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the middle of the woods in no man's land out

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of Prospect, Oregon. I was by myself and going to

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use my usual hunting spot that my family and close

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friends had frequented for three generations. It was early in

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the morning, between five and six AM, and I was

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sitting up in a tree stand looking for wildlife. I

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was armed with a Remington three to eight with a scope.

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Based on my past experiences, I was alert to any

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sign of bigfoot that might be in the area. But

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as I spent the day up in the stand, scanning

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the area and looking for any sign of game, without

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any luck. I was comforted by the sounds of the

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birds and the other animals, knowing if something dangerous were nearby,

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they would have gone quiet. By now, night was coming

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upon me quickly, and I decided to head back to camp,

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which was less than a half a mile away, And

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when I got there, I found nothing out of the ordinary,

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and still no sign of any predators or bigfoot. The

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first night was quiet, and I heard some wood knocking

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and chirps, so I knew they were nearby, But the

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night went smoothly and without any problems. On day two,

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I went back to my tree stand and had a

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day like the one before, with little on both the

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wildlife and the bigfoot fronts. But that night I got

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a little entertainment the woodknocks and the chirps were louder,

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and they were closer, and I could hear them chatter

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amongst themselves. I figured there were at least three of

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them based on the different tones and sounds of the chatter,

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and again based on past experience, I thought it couldn't

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hurt to let them know that I was there, that

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I was only trying to get some food, and that

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I was not a threat. It may have helped me

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because even though I caught one of their outlines among

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the trees in the light of my fire, I knew

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they were just watching me, and the night went smoothly.

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Day three was the same, but by the time I

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got back to my camp later in the day, it

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had been destroyed. The food I had hanged up in

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the trees was gone, and they had gotten into my

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ice chest and all its contents were gone or spread

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out over my campsite, and the rest of my items

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were knocked over and scattered every and when I saw

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my tent had been wrecked and shredded, I got pretty

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hiked off and I yelled at them, and I told

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them it wasn't the right thing to do, since I

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didn't mean them any harm. Looking back, their destruction of

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my camp was probably a warning to get out. Of course,

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I didn't take the hint, and I stayed the night anyway.

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The third night progressed and the situation escalated. The wooddocks

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were my first warning. They were loud and hard and aggressive,

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and they were constant, like every ten minutes, and they

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got closer and closer, and when that didn't scare me off,

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they started throwing rocks, and they came from all directions

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at me, and they were mixed in with the occasional

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small logs and large branches. I yelled at them again

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and told them to stop, and I reminded them that

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they had destroyed all my gear besides my sleeping bag,

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and when morning came that I would be gone. I

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had to sound as confident as I could, but I

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won't lie. I was pretty scared. With me yelling at

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them and telling them to back off. They got silent

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for a little while, just long enough for me to

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fall into a good sleep, and then a couple hours

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later they started throwing rocks again. They were even closer

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than before, and I knew I was surrounded, and I

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fired a warning shot with my pistol, and I told

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them to back off, and after that I heard growls

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and chatter that vibrated through my whole body, and I

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told them to back off again and thought I would

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be heading out at first light. They went silent again,

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just long enough for me to fall back asleep one

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more time, and then my blaring alarm clock woke me

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up just as the sun was shining its first rays

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into the dark sky, and as I fumbled to turn

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it off, I heard the thudding of huge, pounding footsteps

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coming right at me, and I silenced the alarm, and

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when I looked in the direction of the steps, I

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saw the largest bigfoot I had ever seen coming straight

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at me. Now I might be exaggerating because of how

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scared I was, but this one was ten feet tall

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or taller, and his shoulders were five or six feet wide,

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and he was easily over eight hundred pounds. He was

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a big one. I felt the whole forests vibrate as

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he came at me, and I fired two warning shots

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to get him to stop, but he didn't. I grabbed

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my rifle and I started heading down the hill to

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my car, and it was parked on the main road

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and at least a mile away, and I waddled as

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fast as I could go, because, to be honest, I'm

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a fat woman, and my ass doesn't run. You go, girl,

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She's a fat woman and she ain't running. The tree

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branches were cracking and snapping as this guy mowed down

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through the forest behind me, pushing and scaring me out.

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I knew he was going slow, because he could have

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caught up with me in just a few strides if

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he wanted to. When I was halfway to my car,

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I had had enough and I stopped and I turned around,

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and amazingly enough, he stopped too. I pulled my rifle

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out and had him in the crosshairs of my scope,

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right dead on his forehead in the center. I had

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a clear shot, and I looked into his eyes and

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I saw nothing but rage and anger that I was there,

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even though I wasn't a threat to him and his

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family by any means. I was just about to pull

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the trigger when I heard another boom coming from my side,

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and I stole a horrified look to my right and

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I saw another one, just as angry and pissed off

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as the other guy, and he was coming right at me.

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I thought I was a goner for sure. I did

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the only thing I could do. I strapped my rifle

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back on my shoulder and I started running as fast

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as I could go. And all I could hear was

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the stomps of their thunderous steps and the shape of

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the damn earth under my feet. It felt like an eternity.

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But I finally reached my car. I couldn't open the

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door fast enough, and as I got inside, I saw

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both of them at the edge of the tree line.

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And that's when the loudest, must fearsome growl and howl

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i've ever heard reverberated through the entire forest, and I

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swear it made my heart skip a beat and I

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felt like I was having a minor heart attack. They

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let me live that day, even though they could have

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easily taken me out in nothing flat. I've been going

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to this hunting spot every year my entire life, and

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I never saw signs of Bigfoot being in that area.

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My friends and family didn't report anything strange either, And

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over the last decade or more, the wildlife has changed.

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And what I mean by that is the last successful

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hunting trip any of us had was over ten years ago.

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I've not seen any type of game animal in this

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spot for you years, I haven't even seen a bear

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or a cougar, and the only signs of wildlife for

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the birds and the small rodents and in by nearly

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thirty years of going here, this was the first time

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I had ever noticed signs of bigfoot, and it makes

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me think that they must have put a claim on

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this area as their territory. Recently, I haven't been back

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to that spot, nor will I ever go back. This

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encounter is scared to live in daylights out of me,

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and I'm not sharing my encounter to scare people. I'm

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sharing it because my story should add some first hand

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insight that bigfoot are not little puppies and kittens. They

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can be aggressive and territorial, and if they feel the need,

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they can take a human out with no problem. I

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know I'm not the only person on Earth who has

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had terrifying encounters like this, but I'm still afraid to

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reveal what happened to me to anyone. I want to

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warn people about spending time out here, but knowing they

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won't believe me, I won't bother and now here is

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her fourth and last story. As if this hasn't been

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exciting enough so far. She's got another story, so let's

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do it. Let's do this. I lived in central Ohio

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for several years and I frequented a cemetery in the

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local area, Teresa's Cemetery. You had to hide down a

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driveway about a mile. The cemetery closes at dusk, and

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the cops patrol it because of its reputation and the

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rituals that have taken place here. I've had several types

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of encounters in this cemetery, but those are stories for

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another time, So for now, I want to tell you

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about the bigfoot ghost. The first time I saw this

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ghost was on my first visit to the cemetery. It

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was nighttime and I was there with three friends who

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had each grown up visiting and frequenting the cemetery on

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a regular basis. I was walking around and shining my

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flashlight and reading the headstones, and I could hear footsteps

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of a large creature nearby in the woods. I shined

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my flashlight into the trees, but I didn't see anything.

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My friends and I were spread apart throughout the cemetery

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and not really close to each other, and none of

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them were big enough to make that much noise. I

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continued to walk around and read the headstones, and I

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could hear this bigfoot tromping through the trees. I could

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hear it breathing heavy and staying in the shadows, and

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it followed me. I kept shining my flashlight through the

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trees to see if I could catch a glimpse of him,

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and I finally did. I saw a ghostly apparition with black,

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hollowed out eyes resembling a bigfoot. One of the ladies

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that I was with she saw it too and took off,

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screaming and running toward the car, and her reaction made

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the rest of us decide to call it a night

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and get out of there. The second time I encountered

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this bigfoot ghost, I went to the cemetery on Halloween

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night to do a Wiji board reading with three sisters

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who were witches. And as we were doing the reading,

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I had a recorder going as well as my digital camera,

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taking continuous pictures and set up to motion record, and

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I could hear the bigfoot ghosts walking around in the

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tree line, and I could hear his heavy breathing again,

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but I didn't see him. I was leaving and walking

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down the highway, and I could hear him walking off

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to the side of me. And when I got home

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that night, I reviewed the audio recordings and the images

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that my camera got. The audio recorded some grunts, bigfoot

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like chatter, and a couple of howls. My camera caught

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the ghost apparition in three different shots. Unfortunately, though, when

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I left Ohio, I had to leave a lot of

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personal items at my ex's house. That was seven years ago,

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and I'm sure my things, including my ghostly images, had

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been thrown away by now. The third time I encountered

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the Bigfoot ghost was right before I left the state.

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I was there doing my standard thing of reading the

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headstones and seeing if I could catch anything on audio,

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pictures or video. But I could tell there was something

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different in the air. It was an ominous and dark

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feeling that I had never experienced there before. And after

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I had been there for about an hour, I saw

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a disturbing shadow figure that came right at me. It

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chased me out of the cemetery, but just as strange,

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after I crossed a certain point, it was like the

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shadow had hit a brick wall and couldn't go any further.

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It let out a horrible scream, like a ghostly bansheet,

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and when I turned to see it, I saw the

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Bigfoot ghost right behind me, and I froze and I

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couldn't believe what I was seeing. The Bigfoot ghost growled

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at the shadow figure and the thing disappeared. I stammered

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a shaky thank you to the Bigfoot ghost, and after

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observing me for a few seconds, it turned around and

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disappeared into the trees. I looked back in disbelief in

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the direction the shadow figure had disappeared, and then looked

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at the trees with a bigfoot faded away, knowing I

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would never be able to tell anyone what I had seen.

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Mysterious events have plagued my entire life, and as usual,

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I had in my experience that night to the long

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list of things that no one will ever believe they

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never do. Yes, I will agree with that last sentence.

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You have been plagued your entire life with mysterious stuff,

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mainly things with Bigfoot and the Luigi Borg stuff. Are

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you a witch? I'm just curious these stories are I

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think I got these back in twenty twenty twenty three,

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maybe maybe twenty twenty maybe even twenty twenty two. I'm

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just now getting to them. She actually sent them in

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four separate emails, and as I was digging through emails,

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they happen to all still be one right after another.

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I'm glad of that, because when people do that and

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they add to their story three or four days later,

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there's been twenty emails jump in between them, and when

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I'm looking for stories, I'll miss them. But I was

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lucky on this one anyway. I thought this was exciting. Man,

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she's had bigfoot experiences all her life. How do y'all

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do that. I can't even see a broken twig to

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where I could even fake it and say, yeah, bigfoot

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did that. I mean, I never see anything. I just

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see normal stuff in the woods, turtles and snakes and

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squirrels and raccoons and deer, and never a bigfoot. I

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never see a bigfoot. I guess I'm just jinxed. All right.

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Thank you to the writer for sending this story. It

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was wonderful. That's going to do it for this podcast.

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I hope you all enjoyed it and we'll see you

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on the next one. Thanks again,