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Speaker 1: Okay, y'all, is a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and I'm about

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to read this story, and my dog just shitting the

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floor in my office here. She's got runny poops, so

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if you hear me, just ignore it. It smells horrible

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in here. Plus A, I've got about fifteen hens on

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my porch. I have my door open, so you may

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hear some noise from them. I don't know. None of

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this means anything, but I'm just letting you know what

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I go through to get these stories out. Plus, it's

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a beautiful day and I need to be outside working

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in my yard so my wife won't be mad at me.

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But I'm in here doing this because I really want

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to get a podcast out this afternoon. Somebody pat me

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on the back and say, it'll be okay, Cam, It'll

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be okay. Just read the story. The writer on this

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story again wants to be anonymous, and here's what he writes.

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This happened in late julye just after they cut the

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hay and the round bells had been taken, and there

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was a short grass. It's an excellent opportunity to shoot coyotes.

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My dog was lying a few yards away from me,

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in a mowed down path to the creek. She was

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lying in my overgrown food plot. The Johnson grass had

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since taken over and it was a good six feet tall.

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While she slept, I was watching the hayfield from my

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side beside. Now, I had my ten twenty two with

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me with a full magazine. I've had that twenty two

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since I was fourteen. Most folks don't think of twenty

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two is a good weapon for taking coyotes, but it

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shot straight and I've taken codies with it in the past.

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It was late in the evening and the sun had

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gone down, but I could still see My dog woke

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up and started turning circles and barking and looking straight

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up into the trees. Her head was twisted and turning

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as she looked up, and then I heard growls and

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foot stomping and the trees moving ten feet up. I

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stood up to yell at my dog to quit, and

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hit the horn in the process, which added to the confusion.

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Knock it off, I yelled at her, and in response,

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she took off for the house. Well. I yelled at

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her again as she passed me to cross the creek.

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And I think if dogs could talk. I'm guessing by

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the look on her face, she would have said, screw you, buddy,

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I'm out of here. So I sat back down and

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I tried to regain my composure. I was there for

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a long time, watching the trees and trying to see

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what she saw, and whatever it was never made another

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sound or appearance. It was getting even darker out, so

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I started up my side by side and headed across

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the creek. Patience is a virtue. I yelled back over

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my shoulder to the thing in the trees, and then

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I gave my side by side all the gas it

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would take, and I headed for home. My bird dog

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was sitting on the porch, shivering and waiting for me

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when I got there. And for the next couple of weeks,

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me and the dog would go back down to the

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other side of the creek to watch the hayfield for coyotes.

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She wouldn't lie down at the other end of the

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trail anymore. Instead, she'd lie behind me at the crossing point,

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where she'd slept until the sun started getting low. Every

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time we had an encounter, she would wake up, raise

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her head and sniff the air, and run like hell

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for the house. After she would leave and it was dark,

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branches would start breaking on the creek behind me. I

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took my brother in law down there once to experience it,

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and we heard what sounded like rocks clacking, her teeth

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clashing together, and it sounded like it was forty or

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fifty yards away. The last time it happened, I put

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my dog in the side by side with me and

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I headed down there, and I parked where I always did,

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away from the creek facing the hayfield. I wouldn't let

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her get out, and as it got dark, she raised

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her nose and then tried to bust out of the

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side by side, and I grabbed a patch of hair

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and held on to her for as long as I could.

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You're not leaving me alone out here again, I said,

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as I struggled to keep her in place. She kept

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fighting me until I had to let go, and I

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was afraid if I didn't, she'd get out anyway, and

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I'd be left with just a patch of hair and

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skin in my hands. She was fighting that hard, and

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she ran like the devil across the creek and headed

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straight back to the house. I stayed down there as

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long as I could. Branches were breaking up and down

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the creek behind me, and the rock clashing didn't happen

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this time, but I was done anyway. I got the

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buggy across the creek and I raced home. My dog

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was waiting on the porch for me, as usual, shivering.

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Another two weeks of this, and the grass was getting

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tall again and the encounters stopped. I got on the

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internet and I started listening to stories. Things in the

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past started to make sense to me, and I remembered

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years ago walking down there, and movement caught my own

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the creek bank. I thought I saw a small monkey

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climbing the bank with its arms and legs, heading for

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the Johnson grass to find cover, and I went across

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to where it came out, but I didn't find anything,

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so I wrote it off as my eyes playing tricks

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on me. That's just one of the many strange occurrences

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I've had along that creek. I don't think they're mean

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or want to hurt me. They've had too many opportunities

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to do me in if they wanted to. Okay, that

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was pretty good. That was a good story. I don't again.

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The last podcast I did had two stories in it

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about people who had feelings they sensed something around them,

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And I guess that's a few of people who commented

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in the comment section where you know those feelings are valid.

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When you feel those feelings, you need to get out

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of there. Maybe so, maybe not. I don't really trust

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my feelings. That's just me. I kind of trust what

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I can see and what I don't see. But back

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to this story, I mean, this man never saw anything

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when he was younger. He did see a monkey, something

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that looked like a monkey going over the bank. But

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you know what could that have been? Could it have

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been a dog. I'm just playing Devil's advocate here because

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I think this makes him real nervous when he goes out.

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And if you ever hear me talk about these things,

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I really want to encourage people not to be afraid

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to go in the woods. There's really nothing to be

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afraid of. And the reason I say that is of

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all the hundreds of bigfoot encounters that I've gotten, nobody

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ever gets hurt. Nobody gets hurt. We had one story

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where a guy rode in and he claims a bigfoot

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killed his grandfather. I think it's like the fifth or

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sixth video I ever did. But other than that nobody.

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They don't. Not only do they not get killed or taken,

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they don't get hurt. So and I know there's people

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out there who will go well, if you get taken,

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there's no one there to write the story. And you've

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got a point there. But I just don't think people

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should be afraid to go in the woods. I know

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that's going to make a lot of people mad, but

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it's my position and I respect your position if you

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think they shouldn't, and I want you to respect mine

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when I think they should go in the woods, because

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it's a wonderful place to be to go out in

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the wilderness, especially alone, and you don't have to go

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into these wildernesses that are fifty miles away from everything.

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Just walk out in the woods, find some place of

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state park or something, walk around trails, walk in the woods.

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It really is a good experience. So uh huh, okay,

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Well that's my pits for going in the woods. But

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be careful and be alert when you're there. There's snakes

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and depending on where you are, there are predators in

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the North American woods, not where I live, but they

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are there. Enjoy the woods. That's all I'm saying. So

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I'm in my sixties and I'm battling with the MS,

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and I've decided to share my experiences before it's too late.

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Perhaps my encounters will benefit someone, and if so, then

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my time writing this has not been wasted. I was

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raised on a farm and cattle operation in Utah in

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the sixties and seventies. Our land was adjacent to foothills

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that led up into a range of the Rocky Mountains,

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where I spent every possible hour on horseback or hiking

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or backpacking. I log several hundred nights camping out during

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my teens, in twenties and thirties, and even into my forties.

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It came with the territory of my outdoor life. Being

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out of doors every day from my childhood onward gave

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me a tremendous education about the natural world, and I

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was into familiar with every species of tree, all plants

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and wildflowers, and every type of bird that inhabited our region,

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and of course every mammal that lived in these valleys

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and mountains. I grew up fly fishing and hunting waterfowl,

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upland birds and varmints and big game, which took me

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into some of the most beautiful and remote country imaginable.

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I mentioned these things so you'll understand my familiarity with

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every living thing, from the western deserts to Utah Red

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Rock country and the alpine peaks of the highest mountains.

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In all that time that I spent outdoors, I never

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had any calls for fear, nor did I see or

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experience anything unusual. And then one August evening in two

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thousand and four, my fly fishing partner and I decided

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to stay out and watch the persed meteor shower at

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Strawberry Reservoir. We were excited to see the spectacle because

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of the clear skies and there would be no moonlight,

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no light pollution. We launched our float tubes into the

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water shortly before dark to enjoy some fly fishing and stargazing.

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Perhaps an hour into the meteor shower, we both suddenly

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noticed something massive walking along the shoreline on all fours.

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Its silhouette instantly reminded me of a polar bear, with

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its huge hindquarters taller than its front shoulders, and its

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head was small for its body size. That was Garganchewan.

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We were way too close to the shore for comfort

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and paddled into the safety of deeper water as quickly

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as possible, and we both experienced a sense of dread

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and terror. What was this giant thing? It was several

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times larger than the biggest black bear we had ever seen,

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and Utah doesn't have grizzly bears, which are not that large. Anyway,

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we observed the creature for a couple of minutes until

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it walked into the darkness and left the salone in

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the lake. Yeah, we were both terrified, knowing that eventually

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we'd have to get out of the water and run

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up the hill to the suv. We had no explanation

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for what we saw, and back then I'd never heard

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of bigfoot walking on all fours, and since that time,

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I've read numerous accounts of people seeing these things down

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on all fours. It's the only answer I can come

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up with to account for the massive size of the

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animal we witnessed. The experience we had on Strawberry that

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August night was a precursor for the year of two

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thousand and five, where everything changed and my life has

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never been the same since a doorway was open somehow

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to extraordinary strangeness that I never asked for, didn't seek

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and I can't seem to escape. As this is the

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one and only time I will record and recount these experiences,

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I will do my best to give you a detailed

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account of what happened in our lives during two thousand

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and five and subsequent to that time. It all began

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innocently enough on a late winter day when my wife

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and I decided to go for a drive to town

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to get a taco for lunch. On the return trip,

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we were two blocks south of main street in our

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small town when suddenly a dog of some kind with short,

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dark gray hair walked out into the street in front

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of us. It was on two legs, and I slammed

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on the brakes as we watched this thing cross the

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road in disbelief. It ran into someone's yard on two

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legs and went into the shrubbery out of sight. We

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were speechless, what the hell was that. We went home

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and I got online, and it didn't take long to

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find numerous images and videos of these same dogs walking

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upright all over the southwest of the United States and

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down into Mexico. Some people refer to them as chupacabras.

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All I know is that we were both very upset

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by what we witnessed. A few weeks later, it was

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time for another friend and I to go on our

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first jeep expedition of the season, and we headed south

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toward Utah's San Rafael Swell. It's some of the most

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remote country in the lower forty eighths, and on the

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way we passed through San Pete Valley, where the second

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strange encounter took place. At the north end of the valley,

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there is a small town called Melbourne, and just as

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we turned off the highway to head toward Melbourne, there

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was a huge black figure standing in low sagebrush and

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cheek grass at perhaps sixty yards away. I brought the

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jeep to a halt. We both stared at this thing

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with a very broad shoulders and legs like tree trunks.

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We weren't close enough to make out any facial features,

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but could see the glistening black hair that covered this

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being in a conical shaped head, a barrel chest, long

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arms and narrow waist, and massive legs. Time stopped as

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we watched this thing for a few seconds, and then

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it turned its body to the south, took two and

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a half steps, and then it vanished. There was nowhere

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for it to hide. It didn't dash to a tree

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for cover or drop to the ground. It was midway

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into its third step, with one leg raised in its

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foot up off the ground when it completely disappeared. It

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wasn't as though we watched it step into some unseen

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doorway where you'd observe the front part of the creature

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disappear followed by its backside. Not at all. It totally

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vanished in one instant of time in mid stride. You

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can imagine the fear that swallowed us, knowing that we

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had to drive down the road where this thing was

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headed when it vanished. At that time, I had never

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researched anything about bigfoot, though I was certainly familiar with

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the claims of those who had seen those things. I

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didn't know there was a rich collection of encounters with

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these things vanishing from sight. But we both saw it

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in one moment, and the next it was gone. After

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the event concluded, we compared notes and both felt like

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it was nine feet tall, and it weighed perhaps as

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much as six hundred pounds, maybe more. It didn't make

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any aggressive movements toward us, However, we both felt a

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deep foreboding sense of evil. We couldn't shake that horrible feeling,

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and we decided to postpone our jeep adventure for another time.

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The next in our series of life changing events occurred

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during the spring when we were doing some landscaping work

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in our yard. We lived a couple of miles outside

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of town and didn't have any close neighbors at the time.

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I hesitate to record this incredibly strange event because no

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one will believe me, and still it's the most disturbing

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of the events of two thousand and five, and to

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leave a full and honest account, I'll tell you this

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part of my story. It still turns me inside out

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when I think about it. My oldest son was seventeen

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at the time, and he was helping me with some

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landscaping work. We stopped for lunch, and while I was

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eating a sandwich in the house, I was looking into

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the backyard at our project and deciding what would work

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on next, when I saw a male American kestrel hawk

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flying toward a river birch tree in the back corner.

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But something was wrong with a bird, and I thought

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it was perhaps injured due to its erratic flight. Rather

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than landing in the tree. The small and colorful hawk

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landed on the ground where we had been planting some

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barberry bushes, and it started moving its wings in a

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strain's unnatural way. And the next thing I knew, this

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bird pushed its wings up and away from its body

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in a manner that would be impossible for any bird

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to do, and then I was looking at something other

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than the hawk. More than sixteen years have passed since

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this event occurred, and I no longer remember the exact

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order of what I witnessed. But over the next several

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minutes I observed this thing changed shapes into a rabbit

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with badly deformed ears, a squirrel that was incorrectly formed,

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then a weasel, a marmot, a badger, each of which

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was anatomic incorrect. At the same time as I witnessed

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this event, I was suddenly sick to my stomach and

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filled with nausea and a violent headache. The badger jumped

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down from the retaining wall and went over to a

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hole in the field. My son came up stairs at

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that point, and I asked him to keep watching the

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hole while I went over there. I went through the

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garbage and I picked up a stout club I carried

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with me, and when I got to the hole, nothing

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was there, and I retreated to the couch, where I

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rested for a few hours to recover. Later research uncovered

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a material known as black goo or programmable matter that

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might account for what I saw. Perhaps it was something

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from the military or the deep state. I don't know.

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Debilitating nausea continued for the next couple of weeks anytime

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I went outside near where I had seen that thing.

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Perhaps it was some kind of radioactivity. The next two

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events occurred on the same day. I was fly fishing

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with my partner at a different still water known as

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Schofield Reservoir. It was a gorgeous late spring day and

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the fishing was good. The sky was a stunning azure blue,

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with white, fluffy clouds hanging low in the sky. At

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one point I looked almost straight above me and gasped

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at seeing a very large silver sphere in the sky

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that appeared to be covered in radio towers. It was

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not very high above me, as it was hovering between

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two of the low hanging clouds, and as soon as

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I saw it, the thing rapidly ascended and was gone

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from sight in mere moments. And then on my way home,

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As we left the mountains and reached Highway six, we

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both saw a glow bowing orange ORB coming toward us

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in the opposite lane of traffic. My friend commented that

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it was about the size of a basketball. We watched

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it pass us and turned to watch it go behind us,

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but it disappeared. Later that summer, my friend would go

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fishing at Indian Creek Bay on Strawberry Reservoir, where he

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saw two orbs the same evening. Our lives were becoming

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very weird. What in the world was happening to us? Well,

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this story is becoming so long, so I'll skip the

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next orb story. It's not that critical. We finally reached

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July fourth, after all the activities of the day, my

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wife and I were sitting on the back patio watching

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fireworks in the town's east of where we lived. We

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had an unobstructed view for many miles in every direction,

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and after the fireworks ceased, we sat there enjoying the

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cool of the evening until almost midnight, when she grabbed

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my arm and said, what is that pointing up at

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the sky about halfway between our home and the mountains

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to the east. Neither of us spoke for a few

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minutes as we observed a huge, triangular shaped craft moved

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silently across the sky. It had running lights along the

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top and bottom edge of the side we could see,

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and once it passed, we could see the back end,

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which also had running lights. It continued moving north until

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we lost sight of it. We were both two small

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town kids that couldn't understand why these inexplicable things were

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happening to us. But that was not the last unidentifiable

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thing we saw flying in the skies that year, but

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it was the most remarkable one we saw. Sometime in

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August of two thousand and five, my fishing partner called

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me late one evening and said to go outside and

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look above the prominent mountain our valley. Well. I did so,

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and to my surprise, there was a new, very bright

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star in the sky we had never seen before, and

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it was flashing colors at an immense rate of change.

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My friend had the latest and most powerful camera with

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a fantastic zoom lens, and he filmed the star, which

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not only flashed colors we couldn't name, but changed shapes

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each time it flashed. We watched it in slow motion,

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and we were astonished by the revelation of what his

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camera brought into focus, and over the years since two

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thousand and five, we've witnessed many such anomalies. By late

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September of that year, the heat of the summer was

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behind us and it was time to attempt the jeep

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expedition once again. We made plans to explore a section

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of the San Rafael Swell that we had never visited.

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On our drive to the Swell, we once again passed

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through through San Pete Valley, and of course discussed the

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bigfoot siding from the spring. That was not my friend's

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first cryptid encounter, as I learned. After we passed the

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location of the siding, we both gave an audible sigh

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of relief and proceeded on our way. Part Way through

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the valley, we decided to explore a range of hills

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we'd never visited before, and we pulled onto a gravel

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road that led up into the hills. I stopped the

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jeep on a bridge over a small irrigation canal as

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we looked ahead, trying to decide which way we wanted

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to go. It was eleven am and that's when I

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noticed movement below me to the left. In my peripheral.

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When I looked directly at whatever had moved, I was

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instantly paralyzed with fear and incapable of movement or of speaking.

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Time absolutely stopped, and I couldn't even breathe. There below me,

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kneeling in the canal, was a monster covered in grizzled hair,

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a mixture of gray and light brown, with golden yellow

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colored eyes that were far apart, and a wide mouth

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and narrow lips that were closed tightly together. I could

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not look away, and I couldn't move, as time stood

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still and I had a long look at this thing.

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The hair on its forehead began at the brow ridge

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and grew upward on its forehead until it reached the

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top of the head that was cone shaped. The hair

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was a uniform one inch in length, and the hair

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on its face gave it a perfect, full beard that

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grew up close to its eyes, leaving only a small

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patch of charcoal gray skin around the eyes. It never blinked.

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The nose was whiter and flatter than a human nose,

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and hair grew across part of its nose. The space

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between the bottom of its nose and its upper lip

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was much wider than with humans. At least twice as wide,

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and even maybe more. The shoulders on this beast were

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four feet wide and massive with muscle. The hair was

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longer on its shoulders, maybe three or four inches long.

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There wasn't much neck to speak of, and it looked

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like its head rested on its shoulders. The head was

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too small to match the massive shoulders, and its chest

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was full and rounded and covered in hair a couple

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of inches long. The shoulder muscles and biceps were incredibly huge.

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Because of its position in the canal, I couldn't see

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its elbows, lower arms, or hands. I also couldn't see

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below its chest. I never saw the legs at all.

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I have assumed all these years that as I was

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parked on the bridge and the motor was running, it

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must have disturbed the creature that may have been sleeping

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or resting under the bridge, and it came out to

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investigate the source of the noise. But I'm just guessing. After

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taking a long look at this thing, I finally regained

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my composure enough to put the jeep in reverse and

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take my foot off the clutch and speed down out

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of there. My friend said later he thought I was

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going to roll the jeep. He didn't know what I

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had seen, but he did see me staring out of

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the window. I let out a scream as we back

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down the steep road until we reached the pavement and

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drove away as fast as the jeep would go. A

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couple of miles down the road, I pulled over and

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I changed places with my friend, as I was too

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impacted by the encounter to drive safely. This time, we

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did go to the Swell, but the trip was a

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bus for me due to what I had witnessed. What

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else did two thousand and five have in store? And

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as it turned out, that was not the final strange

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experience of the year. But I won't recite another u

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UO experience. My poor wife was seeing them in the

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mountains by our home and it shook her to her core.

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I want to share some observations. Prior to these experiences,

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I had never seen anything unusual or out of place

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in my outdoor life. Suddenly I knew the truth about

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things that most people will never know. Regarding the two

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clearly identifiable bigfoot creatures, I've already said that the first

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black creature we saw felt intensely evil, but I did

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not have the same feeling about the second grizzled one.

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Its face was nine feet from my face, but it

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never grimaced it me or displayed any threatening behavior. It

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could have easily opened its mouth to growl at us

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and show us its teeth, but its mouth remained closed. Yes,

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I was terrified and petrified with fear from simply seeing

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this monster up close, but I didn't feel any fear

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being projected from this creature as many people report. If anything,

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it seemed to purposefully not do anything to terrorize us whatsoever.

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But that being said, I've never been able to bring

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myself to visit that bridge again or camp out since

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two thousand and five. I still go fly fishing as

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often as health permits, but I never go unarmed if

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we're off the beaten path. In October of twenty and nineteen,

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fourteen years after the bridge siding, I had another bigfoot

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encounter at a small lake in northern Utah called Mill Hollow,

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where I was fishing by myself. No one else was

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at the lake that day. I didn't have a visual

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this time, but a mature white fur was pushed over

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nearby and the creatures made a sound I can only

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describe as a symph the orchestra, with all the strings

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and wind and brass instruments striking the same note together,

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accompanied by multiple car horns. The intensely loud sound lasted

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for a single quarter note. They had my attention, and

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I assumed that rather than scream at me, they made

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this less threatening sound so as not to alarm the

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numerous bull elk that were bugling in the mountains around me.

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And I suspected that this was a hunting party and

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they wanted me gone. I gathered my fly riots and

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other gear, and I left the area. I've read other

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accounts of these things making all sorts of sounds, but

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I've never heard anyone report them sounding like a symphony orchestra.

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And last in February of this year, twenty twenty one,

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one night, at twelve thirty am, something slapped the side

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of our home so hard that it fell like the

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house would come off its foundation. The slat was on

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the second floor, on the other side of the wall

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from my head. It reverberated through the house, and my

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youngest son in the basement called me, wondering what had

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just happened. I instantly knew what had happened. One of

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the bigfoot creatures that I had encountered, found where I

489
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was living, and must have climbed up to the rock

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chimney and let me know that they knew where I

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was at. So many people have recorded such events of

492
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being harassed by these creatures that I wasn't surprised, but

493
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I took measures to hopefully keep it from happening again.

494
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And I hate the feeling of being a marked man. Well,

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cam that's my story. You're welcome to share it if

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you desire. I could share other recent cryptid encounters, but

497
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I'm still trying to make peace with the idea of

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the massive upright canine variety. This world is not what

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I thought it was growing up on the farm or

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during all the years of hunting, fishing, and camping. No,

501
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not at all. We share this world with things that

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none of us are prepared for in our pathetic educational system.

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For some reason, the door to all these things opened

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wide for me in two thousand and five, and it's

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never closed since. If I was to recount all of

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our strange encounters, it would require another email of this

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length or longer. Thankfully, the truth about many of these

508
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topics are coming to light and thanks for allowing me

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to get this off my chest. Dixie cryptied his fantastic

510
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thank you, Cam, You're the best, with my kindest regards,

511
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and then he signs off. Well, you know, I'm not

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commenting much on the end of these stories, but I

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just wanted to tell the man how much I appreciate

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him sending this story. This is actually the second version

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of it. He had done some editing and found some typos.

516
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You guys don't have to do that. If it's a

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little errors you find, don't obsess over these stories. Just

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send them on. We take a look at them, we

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read them through before we narrate them. But I just

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thought this was a fantastic story, and I wanted to

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let him know that I know you're battling MS. You're

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in your sixties, and your story is out there, and

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your time was not wasted. It's very enlightening and entertaining.

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So I appreciate the writer. Thank you.