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Speaker 1: This is a story about a bigfoot in England. How

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many stories have you heard about bigfoot in England. Some

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people would say, well, they don't have enough forested land,

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or they don't have enough wilderness to host a bigfoot

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or a family of bigfoots, or a whole population of bigfoots.

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But if they're here, they might be there, so let's

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listen to this story. My encounter had a massive impact

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on how I view the world and it's wonder In

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the early fall of twenty and thirteen, I was out

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on my property with my little jack Russell named Scoot.

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I live on thirteen acres of pines, of cedars and

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locust trees. It was around seven am, and I noticed

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that it was quiet, oddly quiet. Normally, Scoot acted like

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a Doberman in a small dog's body, wasn't afraid of anything.

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But as we were walking, he stopped dead in front

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of me. His ears were back and his tail was tucked,

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and he began to shake violently. He had heard what

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I heard. It was a long, deep, menacing growl. Just

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off the trail to our right, I saw a large

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figure standing behind a tree. Now I began to feel

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sweat gathered down my back and Scoot started quietly backing

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up to my boots. It was not a large man,

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but I could tell he wasn't human, so my eyes

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focused more and I knew instantly what I was looking at.

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I couldn't tell if it was facing me or not

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at first, but I decided to act as though I

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hadn't seen him, in the hopes of it moving on.

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I've been down slowly to Scoot, and I held him

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on his sides to comfort him. He was shaking so

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bad it felt like holding onto a washing machine. His

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eyes were down for all of five seconds. I could

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hear a slight leaf rustle, and I looked up quickly again.

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This creature had moved halfway between me and the tree

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that stood behind. He was slightly bent over and rocking

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side to side. He was so close I could hear

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his deep, heavy breaths, almost like snoring. He had a huge, penetrating,

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dark brown eyes that were moving up and down from

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me to Scoot, who was shaking even worse than before.

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He had enormous arms and dinner plate hands, and his

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fingers were kind of wiggling. His thighs were as white

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as my waist. He had black hair all over apart

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from some places on his face and his mouth, which

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was tightly shut as though he was upset. He had

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scars on his face and lines all over his chest, arms,

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and shoulders which were like basketballs. Though his hair looked

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matted and filthy. The smell wasn't what I heard. It

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was bad, like righting, but not overpowering. He raised his

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enormous right arm and grunted and motioned with his hand

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as if to say go not of nowhere. From the

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left came a gunshot that scared the hell out of

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me in Scoot. It didn't seem to be in our direction,

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but it was close. The big guy looked in that

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direction with massive, bared yellow teeth and clenched hands like boulders.

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He motioned again, telling us to leave. I slowly picked

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up Scoot under my arms, and I stood up, and

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I turned around and gently walked away. I didn't look back,

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but I knew he was getting out of there too.

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He sounded like a tank crashing through the woods. Moments later,

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there was six or seven more shots, but I knew

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that this creature was gone, which was a massive relief.

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I don't remember getting back to my truck, nor the

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feeling of being peed on by Scoot. I was sitting

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in my seat, staring out of the window, thinking about

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what just happened, and this was not real. It couldn't

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have been. It had to be a hoax. It had

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to be a big lie, a trick someone was playing

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on me. It was a weirdly confusing emotional experience. I

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drove back to my home without any thoughts of anything.

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The next morning, there were reports of poachers in the area.

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They had been shooting at people, and one person had

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been shot in the leg by these poachers. A sudden

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wave of shock and realization came over me. The Big

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Guy was protecting me and my dog. I couldn't hold

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back my silent tears, and I lost the ability to speak.

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I had never felt so much emotion in my life.

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These poachers were eventually caught. It seemed my acres hadn't

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been walked by anyone in years, so maybe they thought

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it was safe. Now I know differently. Since the day

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I met the Big Guy, I have left pink Lady apples,

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an interesting shaped rock, and I place two sticks on

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a cross in the place that we met. I know

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he appreciates the gifts because I have been gifted in

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returned with dead birds, squirrels and other interesting rocks and

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more sticks in different patterns. This encounter, which I cannot

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completely wrap my head around, has changed me. Now I

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question everything, I recycle everything I can. If I'm out

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in the wooded areas, I take a bag and I

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pick up any garbage. I become more rational and I

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try to do my best for conservation. I encourage anyone

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to go out and enjoy the outdoors, and I have

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a whole new respect for the gift of life. Honestly,

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I thank God or evolution for putting me in scar,

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a fitting name for my woodland friend on this planet.

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But I do hope they are never scientifically discovered, because

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they will be put through hell in the name of research.

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He and the rest of his kind need to be

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left at peace to enjoy what's left of this crumbling world.

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He does not need humans taking over his way of

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life and destroying his species. Amazing, incredible, and devastatingly beautiful.

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That's the only way I can describe him. Let's keep

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him mysterious and leave him alone to be who he

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is now. I've never told this to anyone and I

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do not intend to after this. This was my en counter,

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and it was mine alone. He came to me, and

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I to him, and it is for us to remember

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and treasure. Keep up with the good stories. Friend. And

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he signs off, and he wants to be anonymous, and

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I could almost hear him telling it in his British accent.

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This guy really made a pack with Bigfoot, a bigfoot

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in the UK, and apparently he owns some lie. I've

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never heard a poacher shooting at people, but I guess

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you know, sometimes the things you read about in fiction

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are something someone's done. Not saying this is fiction, I'm

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just saying some of the weird things that you read

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about in fictional novels and short stories are things that

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the writers have heard people do. And so this kind

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of gave me an idea for a Steve Lily story.

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Poacher shooting at people. I don't know how could I

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twist that into a really good Steve Lily story. Anyway,

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I'm just rambling. Thank you for the story, sir, I

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certainly do appreciate it. I can tell you it's a man.

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It's not a woman. It's a man. All right, Let's

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go to another story. Thank you sir for the story.

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Hey y'all, thanks for clicking on the video. I appreciate it.

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Happy Fourth of July. I hope you're having a good day,

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eating some good food, some good ribs, hamburgers, barbecue, whatever

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y'all like to eat on the fourth. I hope you

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get plenty of liquids, beer, water. Beer doesn't hydrate you,

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but water does. Gatorade kind of does. Those are my

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health tips for the day. You're welcome, But I hope

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you're getting plenty of liquids because it is kind of hot.

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But we've got beautiful weather, looks like across the whole country.

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I just hope you guys are having a great day.

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Here is a podcast for the fourth of July. Nothing

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in it relates to the fourth of July. Just happens

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to be when I'm posting this video. All right, here

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we go. This is a story of a woman's granddad.

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It's titled The Ghost of Granddad, and I'm reading it cold.

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Let's see what goes on with the ghost of Grandad.

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It looks good. Our granddad died the day the Space

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Shuttle Challenger blew up January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty six.

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I remember, I remember that day. He died at home

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on his way out to feed his hogs, just a

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few minutes after the spaceship exploded, and I've always thought

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of him leading the astronauts home. Over one hundred people

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showed up to my grandma's house the evening of the viewing,

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which was held in town, and over three hundred showed

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up to his funeral two hours before the funeral home

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closed for the evening. Our parents left to stand in

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the family line and listen to stories from people who

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had known Granddad for years. Before they left, they asked

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my brother and me to stay at Grandma's to answer

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the phone and give directions if anyone needed them. Grandma

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had a gunshot house. We call him shotgun houses. A

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gunshot house, I know exactly what she's talking about, meaning

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you could stand at the back door and she'd a

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gone down the hall and the lead would pass through

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the front door. The bedrooms are on the side in

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the bathroom, which was only added in nineteen sixty three,

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was added onto what was the laundry room at the

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back of the house. Well, my brother and I had

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never stayed in that house by ourselves. It had dark walls,

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and a dark ceiling and a dark floor. Even the

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kitchen was dark. The ceiling lights were dim too. We

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started wandering from room to room and talking about Granddad

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and Grandma, and then we settled into the living room

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and we turned on the TV with the volume on

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low because the house was so dark. We had every

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light on inside from the back porch all the way

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up to the front porch. And as we were sitting there,

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a light flickered and went out. Well, I got up

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and replaced it, and when another light flickered and went out,

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I replaced it too. A strong breeze swept through the

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house all the way from the back to the front,

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and then one after the other, every light started to

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go out. My brother was terrified of the dark, even

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at twenty one years old. Now we're fifty nine and

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sixty now, and he still got a night light on

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the side of his bed and a lamp in the

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living room where he goes to sleep at night. My

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brother Baba yelled, and I fumbled my way through the

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dark to find him until he grabbed onto my arm

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and we stumbled out the back door and jumped into

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Dad's truck. There was no moon that night, and it

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was blacker than black, and I wanted to cry, but

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I couldn't. I was the big sister, and big girls

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don't cry. I drove us to the funeral home, and

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as soon as we got there, my brother bolted into

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the building and I found him stuck to my mother's side,

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still shaking. Meanwhile, I went to look at Grandad one

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last time. Cam you aren't supposed to swear, but right

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in front of me, with my own eyes, plain as day,

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I saw my Granddaddy it rise up out of his

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body in that casket, and that old man was laughing

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like he had just played the biggest prank on me.

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And I told him that I loved him, and I

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ran outside and I spent the remaining time on the

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side porch of the funeral home. Old men and their pranks.

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What can you do? Oh, that was a good story.

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It's kind of scary, you know. Grandpa probably his if

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his spirit did that, he probably shouldn't have done that.

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I don't know what else to say about this, but

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oh my gosh, i'd rather you know him, come talk

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to me and tell me he loved me and thought

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I was a good kid. But instead he's scared. He

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scared his grandkids. Wow, that was a good story. It

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was kind of heartwarming in a way, kind of scary

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in a way, but I enjoyed it. Thank you Denise

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for the email. That was such a good story. Thanks

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all right, here's a Bigfoot story. Bigfoot story from Butch.

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Although I have not knowingly seen a Bigfoot, I have

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been near them. I'm in my mid sixties and I've

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always lived in Washington State. This is like Bigfoot Central Station.

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And I've always been more curious about the unknown than

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fearful of it. In the mid nineteen sixties, I overheard

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my dad talking to his brother about Bigfoot. After he

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hung up the phone, I asked about the subject. He

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picked up the latest or Argasy magazine and he told

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me to read it, and there was an article reprinted

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in it about some gold miners. In the nineteen thirties,

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some prospectors found gold in a canyon against the southern

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side of Mount Saint Helen's. They found it up on

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a shelf of a very steep canyon with more shelves

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above them. They hit the mother load up there. They

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built a sturdy cabin over the mine entrance and they

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stayed for a few months. The miners noticed the apes

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soon after arriving, but they were more concerned with their

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gold fever, so the apes were left alone, and over

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time the creatures came closer and closer as the weather

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was cooling for the coming winter. One of the men

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went to relieve himself one morning, and as he stepped out,

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he saw a bigfoot standing a few feet away. Well.

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The apes stared at him curiously, and the man reached

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into the cabin door for a rifle they kept for bears.

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When he swung back around, the ape was already walking

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away toward the cliff. The man shot it in the

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back and saw the dust fly off of it in

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the impact. Later they all went out and found blood,

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but they didn't find the body. They looked over the

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cliff and they saw nothing. The other men were not

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happy with the shooter. They told him that the bigfoot

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were harmless unless they were harmed. That night was a

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sleepless one. The apes threw large boulders from above all

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night long. The men hid in the mind for fear

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of their cabin collapsing on them. Come son up. The

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bride stopped when they went outside and found large boulders

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and footprints everywhere. The cabin had withstood the attack, but

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just barely. They packed up the gold and got out

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of Dodds and the canyon was now named Ape Canyon.

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Now two of these guys were father and son, who

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later moved to a small town called Cougar near Mount

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Saint Helen's. Needless to say, after reading this article, I

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was gong ho about these creatures. Dad was happy too.

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Now he had a young, eager assistant. Dad wanted to

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shoot one. He was told that the government denies their existence,

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though it's against the law to kill one. Thankfully, he

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never did bag one. I doubt he could have packed

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it out anyway. Dad bought a camping tree and the

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family started camping around the area south of Mount Saint

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Helen's On most warm weekends. We often heard the sounds

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of tree knocking. We heard whoops and chest thumping, which

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we later associated with bigfoot. At night, I often got

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the sense that we were surrounded and being watched. The

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family never talked about it. I believe Dad did not

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want to scare my mom and my younger siblings. On

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weekends when the family was not open to camping, Dad

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and I would drive near the mountain for the day,

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and on one of those trips we went to the

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town of Cougar. At the store, he asked about any

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old time gold prospectors in the area, and we were

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directed to an elderly gentleman who lived nearby in a

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cabin he built years before. The store clerk told us

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that the old man had been in the area since

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the turn of the century and he had been hunting

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for gold. The cabin was built well and had obviously

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been there for daydes When he answered the door and

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came out, I felt like we had stepped back about

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a century. The old boy looked like a character out

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of an old Western but this guy was the real deal,

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and he was friendly and curious about us, and he

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seemed glad for our company. And when Dad asked the

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man about his opinion of Bigfoot, the man lit up

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like a Christmas tree. He told us that he'd seen

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them often and not felt threatened by them at all.

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The natives in the area had told him that before

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the white man had arrived in great numbers, the natives

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had traded with the creatures. He said they were very smart,

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but they just wanted to be left alone. He asked

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us if we had ever heard the tree knocking. Well,

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we sure had, We told him, and he said that

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the apes used that as a form of communication, that

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if they were around and we knocked a branch against

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a tree, they'd answer with the same knock pattern, which

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later proved to be true. He asked us if we

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knew about Ape Canyon and that incident, and we told

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him that we did. He told us that two of

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the men of that group were alive and they lived nearby,

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and they were father and son. We got directions from him,

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and we thanked him and we took our leave. He

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encouraged us to stop by again. When we came back

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some months later, we found that he had passed away.

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I hope he's walking those streets of gold in heaven.

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The father and son prospectors were also friendly, and we're

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glad to retell their stories. They showed us some of

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the gold nuggets they took out of Ape Canyon. They

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had not gone back to their claim, but they still

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lived on their portion of the gold. We were there

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for a couple of hours and fascinated by the adventures

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that they told us about that they had lived, and

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I felt privileged to meet history well. Dad became an

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avid bigfoot hunter life long before it was cool. Around

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two thousand and five, one of Dad's bigfoot buddies drove

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him to an area north of the Columbia River in

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the Cascades where he knew a family of bigfoot lived.

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The men sat on a hill above the clearing, hidden

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in the shadows of the trees, and they used field

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glasses to view the area below. They saw some movement

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in a grassy clearing, but what they saw was something

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harder to believe than a bigfoot. Now. Dad had not

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told me the story until recently, and I happened to

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mention that the natives of North America talk of a

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breed of dog that lives in the mountains of our continent.

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It is mute, and it looks just like the Hyaenas

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of Africa. Dad then told me that he saw some

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and related the story of that adventure. He also told

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me of an earlier solo trip he made in the

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nearby area where power lines go through steep and wide canyons.

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The ground under the line was cleared of undergrowth. He

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was under some trees about a half mile opposite the

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lines when he saw a man in a brownish tan

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coat climbing the hill under the power lines. It only

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took this man ten minutes to climb to the top

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from the bottom. As Dad watched, he realized that it

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would take him more than thirty minutes to do the

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same thing. He looked again at the man and he

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saw that it was no jacket at all that he

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had on. It was fur and by the time he

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realized what he was looking at, the creature had disappeared

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over the hill. My dad when he was a kid

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his neighbors were firewatchers after World War II in Oregon State.

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They were stationed at a lookout fire tower near the

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Three Sisters. There was another mountain about three quarters of

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a mile away. At the top of this mountain was

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a bare rock. One day they observed movement on and

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around the rocky top. It looked like bears playing grab ass,

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but through them byers that became obvious they were not

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bears at all. They were monkeys, large cub monkeys. Well,

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they called the ranger station to report this. Later they

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were called back and were told not to put this

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incident in writing, nor speak of it again if they

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wanted to keep their jobs and their credibility. Apparently they

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let it slip because my dad overheard them talking about

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it and it got him fascinated by the subject. Now,

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over the many years of camping in different areas of

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this state, I've often heard the strange but familiar sounds

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of these creatures calling to one another, and the stillness

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of the other animals that go along with that. On

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multiple occasions we had pebbles thrown at our tents at

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night by playful apes, but most of the time I

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kept it to myself. Thirteen years ago, my brother and

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I went up to the Northern Cascades near Canada to

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camp near the Cascade Crest Trail. We hiked up the

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trail by day and we returned to camp at night.

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The campground is near the loudest waterfall I've ever been to.

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We brought our gear and our goods and large plastic bins,

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two of which we pushed against the inside back of

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the tent. Now, during all three nights that we camped there,

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in the middle of the night, a large hen pushed

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those bins over onto us in the tent. Each time

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this happened, I woke up quickly enough to see the

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five large fingertips through the nih line tent that hen

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was twice the size of my own. But what I

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pictured were teenage apes out playing pranks trying to hold

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back his laughter. I did not since any danger during

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those episodes, but I would yell stop it each time

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so it would be satisfied that it had given us

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a scare. And my brother believed a raccoon was to blame,

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and I just left it at that. I believe there

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are many varieties of these creatures around the world and

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North America in Washington State. I've not felt threatened yet.

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And he goes on to say, he says, you're a

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good narrator. Obviously you are not naives since you haven't

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open mind and heart, So keep confusing the doubters with

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the truth. We dig, We dig listening to what you

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were born to do. Oh, thank you for that much.

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I appreciate it, and thanks for inspiring me to write

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this down. You're welcome, and I'm glad I finally got

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to it. I've had this story for a long time,

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maybe a couple of years, and I'm just now getting

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to it. Guys, I still have I still have probably

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a thousand or twelve hundred stories that I haven't even

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edited opened up. I just hadn't had time to do

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them all. But now that I'm doing this for a

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full time, I'm going to be getting getting to them faster.

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And I thought this was a great series of stories.

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The man and his father had similar interests. They've both

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had have had experiences, and that story about the Mount

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Saint Helen's pack of Bigfoots that live there. There's all

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kinds of stories around Mount Saint Helen's, but I think

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this eight Canyon story. I've never read it or heard it,

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but I hear people talk about it. Maybe that is

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the story people are talking about. And then when Mount

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Saint Helen's blue, I guess that was back in the

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late seventies or eighties. Supposedly a bunch of those bigfoots

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were killed in in the volcano eruption. But a lot

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of cool stuff going on around Mount Saint Helen's even today.

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I'd love to see that area. It's supposed to be

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beautiful and beginning to grow back and looking more natural.

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It was pretty devastated after that volcano erupted. But anyway,

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but thanks for the story. I really appreciate it. It

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was so good. Good to hear from you. Thank you.

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Here's a bigfoot story from Eric. I'm currently getting a

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master's degree in environmental geology, and I spend a lot

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of my free time camping, hiking, traveling, and spending time

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in the woods. My experience happened back in the summer

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of twenty eighteen. I was traveling from South Dakota to

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Massachusetts by myself and was trying to camp in as

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many remote areas as I could along the way. It

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was my second or third night of the trip and

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I was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I was

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going to camp along the shoreline of the Great Lakes,

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but the camp site that was on my Google Maps

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seemed a little overcrowded and didn't have much for hiking,

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so instead I decided to go further north into the

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woods in search of a better spot. I was a

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little lost and I had no cell phone reception, but

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I came across a small campsite along a river. I

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set up my hammock and I lay out in the

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opening in the sun. I was the only person in

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this campground, and initially I really enjoyed the solitude. After

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resting in the sun, for a while, I heard what

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I assumed to be a moose violently crashing through the woods.

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Eighty yards away, I saw a flash of brown, and

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though I wasn't yet afreight or uneasy, the noise did

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startle me. I started to walk up along the river

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because there were no official trails. Being someone interested in

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ecology and plant life, I was moving rather slow and

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spending a lot of time investigating the ground around me.

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After an hour of moving up the river, I noticed

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to my left an old logging road that was no

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longer being used, and I stepped out into the opening,

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and with the setting sun shining down, my shadow was

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extended a great distance, and I decided to take a

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couple of pictures. To my right were forty yards of

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trees between me and the river bank, and right in

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that area I heard a giant crash from the top

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of the canopy to the ground, and a large stud

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from an object hitting the forest floor. Then came an

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odd sounding bird call. That's when I started to feel uneasy,

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But being twenty five years old and considering myself in

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pretty good shape, I grabbed a large stick and I

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went to investigate the area for a few minutes before,

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my gut told me that it was time to leave.

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The sun was getting low and I didn't have a flashlight,

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so I started walking back. Ten minutes later, the strange

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bird call sounded again, only this time it sounded as

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if whatever made the call was making it directly at me.

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I rushed back to my hammit without any further incident,

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and by the time I got settled in it was dark.

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There was a slight breeze, but nothing too wild. But

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as I lay listening to the woods, a tree right

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across the river from me fell violently to the ground.

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I did notice beeaver activity in the area, but I

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thought it strange based on my previous experiences that a

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tree would fall so close just across the water from me.

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Somehow it felt intentional. I did manage to sleep, and

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I left in the morning with no further incident. It

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wasn't until my car ride the following day that I

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really began to process my experience and just how strange

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it was. I don't have an explanation, but I do

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wish I had investigated it more. During my undergrad years,

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I was a double major in geology and anthropology, and

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I studied human evolution. If I were to take a

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guess if a bigfoot like creature did exist, I would

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think it would be some type of hominem creature that

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diverged somewhere on the human evolutionary story, which we already

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know is incredibly complex for us, or also a terrible

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place for preserving fossils. And in my opinion, there is

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a chance, however, slight, that an intelligent cousin of ours

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has survived hidden in the remote forests of the planet.

481
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I would love one day to actually spot Bigfoot in

482
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my travels, but until that day, I'm going to remain

483
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a dreamer. Oh Eric, that's my thing too. I'm a dreamer.

484
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I've never seen a bigfoot, never really on my own

485
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seen any evidence of bigfoot. I've been with other people

486
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and have seen a little questionable stuff. These same people

487
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have put up videos that is really quite convincing stuff

488
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or very persuasive in tracks and all which wouldn't normally

489
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be persuasive to me. But I know these people. I

490
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know they're honest. They're just good people there. It's just

491
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not in their DNA to makeup stuff. So I'm a

492
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dreamer too, and I can see where these sounds and

493
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things would make you think, make your thoughts go toward

494
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this creature, especially probably hearing some stories and watching some

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documentaries or videos on this and there are hundreds of them,

496
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hundreds of them. I'm talking about documentaries and movies and

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fictional movies for entertainment makes people think toward the Bigfoot. Answer.

498
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I don't know. I don't know. That's kind of Do

499
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you think we're subconsciously kind of leaning toward that when

500
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we hear noises in the woods. I don't know, maybe,

501
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maybe not, what do I know? But it was a

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great story, buddy, appreciate you sending it. Thank you, Thank

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you for listening to this podcast. If you thought it

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was any good, maybe you could reach down there and

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click that thumbs up button, or you could click that

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subscribe button. That would help me in the algorithm. And heck,

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if you're ever so inclined, leave a comment, leave a

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nice comment. If you didn't like it, you know, if

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you don't have anything nice, don't say anything. But I'll

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tell you this, this is the nicest group of people

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we'll ever see on the internet. Just read through the comments.

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People are so nice. So thanks for listening to the

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podcast and we'll see on the next