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Speaker 1: I was seventeen years old in nineteen sixty nine when

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my brother asked me if I'd like to join him

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on a three day hike up in the back country

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of Yosemite National Park. He had just come home from Vietnam.

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Even though I had camped out many times with my family,

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I had never been on a hike for that long before,

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so I said yes. The first day, we followed a

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steep path that dropped a thousand feet to the river.

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It was about the end of April, which is early

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spring in the high country, and Yosemite is a big place.

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We didn't see anyone else throughout the entire trip as

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we traveled over hill and dale in the beautiful Sierra

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Nevada Mountains. The first night, we camped near a babbling stream.

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After lunch the next day, we walked through a sunny

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alpine meadow covered in light green, knee high spring grasses

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and flowers. The meadow was situated in a valley surrounded

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by tall wooded hills, and it was a spectacular sight.

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And then we entered an aspen forest dappled with sunlight.

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There we noticed the faint smell of a skump. It

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was weak enough that We figured the skump must have

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left some time ago, so we kept on walking further

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into the grove, we came across a newly built windowless

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ranger shed constructed of thick corrugated steel. All the necessary

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tools and equipment to repair trails in the back country

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were kept there so the forest rangers wouldn't have to

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haul them back and forth. We knew this because the

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front and one side were torn off, with the heavy

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metal corrugated panels scattered all over the nearby woods. We

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stood there gawking at it for several minutes, trying to

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figure out how this could have happened. My brother said

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it must have been a big bear, freshly awake from

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its winter hibernation that did it. But on closer inspection,

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there were neither claw marks nor teeth marks on any

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of the eight foot long panels. Some of them were

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curled into themselves like a sea, and others were thrown

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up to thirty feet away. It was as if someone

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tall had peeled the sheets off like peeling a banana

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and tossed them aside. Nothing inside the shed was disturbed.

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Whatever peeled away the panels had no interest in the

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contents The bears in California are mostly small brown bears

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like on our state flag. A doubt a bear like

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that could have reached high enough on the shed to

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grab the top of a panel and rip it away.

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It was unnerving to consider what might have been able

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to do that kind of damage. Let's get out of

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here and put a few miles between us and this

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place before we stopped for the night. My brother said,

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I was more than happy to comply. Neither of us

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had ever heard the word sasquatch or bigfoot at the time.

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My brother was carrying a small hunting knife, but that

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was it. We had no guns and no bear spray.

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A small, steady breeze kicked up in the late afternoon

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that stayed with us all night. When we got there,

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we were too tired from our long hike to build

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a fire, so we had supper of salami and cheese

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on bread with a sigh of fruit, and then we

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hung our food pack up in the tree and went

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to bed, and the wind gently swayed our tent for

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the whole night. The sun had not quite set behind

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the tall trees when we fell asleep. Sometime later, something

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woke me up. I had been dreaming that I was

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having a conversation with someone who reminded me of Little Abner.

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I know I'm dating myself now, so I should explain

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that Little Abner was a comic strip character in the

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Sunday Comics when I was growing up. He was a big,

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dark haired man with muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm not

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entirely sure the person in my dream was human, or

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that it was even a dream. In any case, we

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talked for a short time, and then something completely woke

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me up. Instantly, I realized something heavy just outside the

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tent was hitting the ground next to my head, and

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I could feel the vibration of the impacts. I laid there,

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frozen in fear as it, whatever it was, took a

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long inhaling sniff only twelve inches from my head. There

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was no doubt that it had taken in my scent

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right through the thin material of our pup tent. Too

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afraid to move, I listened intently to see if it

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would move to my brother's side of the tent and

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sniff there. Instead, he grabbed the tent pole by our

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heads and started shaking violently. Wake up, Wake up, I screamed,

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and as soon as I began to speak, the shaking stopped,

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so my brother didn't see it. He accused me of

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having a nightmare induced by the sight of that shit,

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and told me to go back to sleep, and then

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he rolled over with his back to both me and

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the tent pole. Again, something grabbed the pole and shook

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it violently for three seconds. There's something outside shaking the tent,

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I said, It's just the wind. He answered angrily, Please

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go back to sleep. My brother is more than just

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a brother. He and I are great friends. Never before

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nor since had he ever spoken so gruffly to me.

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That was as much a shock as the tent shaking.

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I was between a rock and a hard place, and

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I was sweating bullets from the fear of what was outside,

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and thoroughly crushed by my brother's reaction. Well, I laid

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there and fought back the panic and frustration, and listened

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for anything that might be moving around outside the tent.

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The gentle breeze covered all the subtle noises, and finally,

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either from shock or exhaustion, I fell asleep. At daybreak.

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We got up. There were no signs of anything having

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been around the tent, so we took down the pack

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and had some water. We decided we walk a couple

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of miles of then stop and eat breakfast. My brother

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was like a mountain goat, and I had twisted my

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ankle on the first day, so I was constantly lagging

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seventy five feet behind him. But as we walked along,

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I began to have a dialogue in my head, as

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if someone were interviewing me in a sort of a

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get acquainted, friendly talking manner. It was as if someone

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else was asking the questions and I was answering them.

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We were still in that high valley, so there were

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no trees on either side of our trail. Clearly there

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was no one around me, but the conversation continued in

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my head for a mile or so. I felt a presence,

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so I kept glancing around to see if anyone was there,

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but no one was there, and still the questions kept

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popping into my head and I kept answering them, and

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then suddenly it stopped. It was as if the interview

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was over, and when it was over, I felt a

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little silly for having thought about myself and my life

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as if someone were there listening to me. It was

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a bright, sunlit day, but I was alone, Why would

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I go on and on about my life and my

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family like that. I've only recently learned about mine to speak,

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and knew nothing of it at the time, and it

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was a very strange feeling. Well, at that point I

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decided to enjoy the walk, and eventually we were back

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at the Big Trees again. There we came across a

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log jam around a deep pool blocking our way. The

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trees were about three feet in diameter. My brother went

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around to the riot, where it was real swampy, and

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I chose to go to the left and jump from

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log to log while keeping my feet as dry as possible. Well,

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one log turned out to be a bad choice. The

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far end was anchored on the bank, but the end

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closest to me was under the log that I had

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been standing on, and I soon learned it was just

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floating in the water, and as soon as I jumped

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down on it, it began to sink. The crystal clear

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pool was about eight to ten feet deep, and as

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I jumped, I heard run in my mind. With a

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burst of speed, I made it to the other end

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of the twenty five foot log before it sank too

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deep and dumped me in the icy snow melt. It

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was the easiest run I had ever experienced. It felt

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like I was feather light, even with a pack. It

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was almost like someone was pushing me while lifting up

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the pack to take the weight off me. The log

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was sinking fast, but I seemed to be flying over it.

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I managed to get across with only one wet foot.

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Even as I was running, though, I couldn't help but think,

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what is happening to me? At the other end, my

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brother was blanched white as he fumbled to get his

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pack off. He thought he was going to have to

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dive in and help me out. At seventeen, it hadn't

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occurred to me just how dangerous the route I had

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taken was, and that maneuver in particular was very dangerous.

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If I had fallen in with the backpack, the water

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absorbed by the sleeping bag alone could have been enough

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to drag me under. This probably all sounds ridiculous to

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anyone listening, but it is how I remember it. Something

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weird happened on that log. There's no way anyone could

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have been behind me. No one was there but my brother.

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He was in front of me. Even if someone had

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been there, their weight would have caused the log to

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sink even more. The explanation I have come up with

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is absurd, to say the least. Many thoughts have run

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through my mind. Was an invisible, hovering sisquatch pushing me

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along and holding up my backpack? Or was something helping

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a human to save a life. It's definitely one for

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the book of the Weird. Now I know I'm probably

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making a mountain out of a mole hill. I wouldn't

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blame you if you laughed at my story. I'm laughing

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right along with you. The only reason I think sisquatch

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is because of the destroyed ranger shed and the smell

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of the skunk just before we found it. And I

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suppose it could have been any benevolent spirit who saved me.

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But something did. As unbelievable as it sounds, it is

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exactly what happened. Nothing else of any significance happened on

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that trip. We never spoke of it again, and I

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forgot all about it. In recent years, I've listened to

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a lot of bigfoot stories on YouTube. It wasn't until recently, though,

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when another person mentioned being sniffed through their tent, that

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all that came back to me. Having something large sniff

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you through a tent is incredibly unsettling. Perhaps that's what

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caused me to repress the memory until now. I never

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saw a side squatch, nor do I know what the

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interviewing thing was. I'm just glad that whatever or whoever

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it was was there to save my life when I

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needed it on that log, God blessed them for that. Okay,

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here's a story about a dog, and you guys are

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going to have to decide whether this is a Bigfoot

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event or something else. But it's a great story. It's

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really a good, real mystery kind of story. This is

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a true story about my dog and our farm near

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North Ogden, Utah. Crystal Blue is my dog's name, but

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everyone calls her Mama. She's a Blue Healer mix and

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in twenty nineteen, she was a year old. She loves

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to run all over the property and she roams the

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neighbor's property too. Around midnight on a cold night in February,

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I led her outside to do her business. It was

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snowy and a fresh blanket of snow covered the ground.

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After letting her walk outside, I walked back to my

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room to get a cigarette. It was a few minutes

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before I got back to the porch and I lit

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up and finished my cigarette, and then I called for her. Typically,

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she comes back to me right away, but she didn't

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on this night, so I yelled louder. Still she didn't come.

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After several attempts, I became warmed. I rushed back inside

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and found my roommate and asked if he would help

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me to find my dog. I think he saw the

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worry in my expression. Well, he agreed, and we went

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back outside and we called some more. She was gone.

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She never came back. Her tracks in the snow were obvious,

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so we began to follow them, and from the tracks,

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we saw that she left the porch and then made

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two circles around the yard and then headed for a

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fence that separated our property from our neighbors. The tracks

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finally turned and it appeared that she had gone under

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the fence. From there were three tracks and then nothing

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but pristine's snow. This area is open, with no trees,

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shrubbery or buildings close by. It was as if she

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vanished into thin air, and to us it looked impossible.

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Neither of us could wrap our head around this. But

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here we were looking at it By this time, I

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was beginning to panic and on the verge of losing it.

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My roommate calmed to me a bit and said that

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we would keep looking. And we spent an hour searching

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everything and everywhere on our property and the neighbors. There

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was no sign of the dog anywhere, not a sound,

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not a track, zero evidence that she went anywhere after

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the tracks ended under the fence. I wanted to keep looking,

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so we split up and we searched everything again. This

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took about an hour. It was still snowing, I was

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bawling uncontrollably, and we were soaked and freezing. We needed

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to get warm, but I wouldn't give up, so we

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split up again to cover the same ground a third time.

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Stumbling now in the snow, I started for the front

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end of the property while my roommate went the other way,

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and I suppose I walked less than a football field

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when some my dog was right in front of me.

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She acted like she had not seen me in a month,

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and I immediately scooped her up in my arms when

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I hugged her, and then I stood and yelled for

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my roommate, I've got her. My roommate, Jim and I

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had spent hours out looking for this dog, and we

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were both soaked and cold. The weird thing was is

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that Mama was dry, like she had never gone outside.

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Even her paws were dry. How was this possible. I

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don't know what happened to my girl that night, but

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I know that several times that month, I saw lights

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in the sky that I had never seen before. And

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it wasn't just me, many people who lived in that

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area saw them. I believe my dog had been abducted

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that night the lights were there. I remember telling them,

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thank you for sending my dog back in, to please

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never take her again, and since then they have not.

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She's almost four now, and I thank the Lord for

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her every day. All Right, this last story is from Bruce,

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and you're gonna think this story is totally nuts. You're

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gonna think this guy's office rocker. I wouldn't say that,

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because as weird as this story is, it actually jogged

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a memory that I had that I had forgotten. And

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I'm not gonna tell the story. I'm gonna tell his story,

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not my story. But at some point I'll probably tell

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my story, but I need to think on it so

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that I can remember. Try to remember as many details

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as I can. But let's get into Bruce's story, because

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this is a doozy. I've decided to tell you about

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my encounter I had back in the early nineteen seventies.

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Something tells me that even the diehard bigfoot enthusiasts might

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think I'm nuts. But after listening to one of your

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tales about two duck hunters seeing a bigfoot and then

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telling everybody they knew in spite of not being taken serious,

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I knew that I would eventually tell this story to you.

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Like the duck hunters, I too, tell the story as

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often as I can, not because people believe it, but

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just to tell the story. I have yet to have

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anyone stop me in mid stream before the tale is over.

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I'm in my sixty third year now, I don't much

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care if people believe me. When I was fifteen, I

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decided to hitchhike to Atlanta, Georgia, where my older brother

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had moved a few years before. It was summer break

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and I had nothing but time on my hands. I

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remember the day was hot when I departed an arbor, Michigan.

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Now remember the further south I went, the hotter it got.

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The weird thing about this trip was the first guy

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that picked me up was going all the way to Florida,

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and he happened to be a real friendly guy. This

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was when Interstate I seventy five was just being built

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through the tallest mountains of Tennessee, and though the road

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was perfect, the downside was that there were no rest

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stops where one could stop to relieve himself, nor were

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there gas stations or anything else. By the time we

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got to the Kentucky Tennessee state line, I had to pee,

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but for some reason I decided to pass up the offer.

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When I had the chance, somewhere in the highest elevations

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of Tennessee, I practically ordered the driver to stop as

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soon as he could so that I could get rid

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of what felt like several gallons ready to explode. He

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told me that he would pull over at the next

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lookout pull off, which was a paved area for equipment

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and supplies used earlier before the crews headed further down

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the road. It was like a sign from God when

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we came upon one of these lookouts and the place

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was full of cars. I bolted from the car and

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hopped over the guardrail, and I made my way down

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a paved ditch, I noticed that the older lady we

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had parked next to was watching me the whole time.

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I thought I had found a place to peace so

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that I had some privacy, But when I looked up

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over my shoulder, I could see her stretching her head

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watching me, and I walked further down past a hill

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that blocked her view. It was a long time emptying

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my bladder, and while I stood there, I heard a

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noise that sounded like a chipmunk, but it was a

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lot bigger. It was coming nearer, and I expected to

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see it cross the ditch any second. I don't know

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if I was in shock or that I had to

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pee so bad, but when this thing popped out of

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the woods just fifteen feet below me, I didn't move

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a muscle other than a steady flow from me. Relieving myself,

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I didn't move at all and became part of the

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landscape as best I could. I was thinking that if

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I lived through this, no one will believe me if

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I tell them. And as I was musing over the

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fact that these creatures have been extinct for millions of years,

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the creature turned its head my way and made squeaking

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chirps as if from a giant chipmunk. But mind you,

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this was no chipmunk. It was a five foot tall dinosaur.

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I'll give you a moment to compose yourself. It was

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standing broadside in front of me, facing to my left,

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and he was fixed on my position. This thing had

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huge muscular legs with a stretched out tail, just like

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in the pictures, and it had little arms which were

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bent up at the elbows with its hands closer to

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its head. Its head was a dino typical, having a

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large jaw filled with several razor sharp teeth. At least

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that's what they look like to me. This whole encounter

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lasted for no more than thirty seconds, but in my

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vulnerable position, it seemed much longer. With a couple of

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more squeaks, it turned and continued its journey to the

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left of me, and it disappeared into the woods. After

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I finished my business, I walked up the mountain, hoping

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that the old woman had seen what had just taken place,

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but she was no longer there. So of course I

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had to tell someone about my strange encounter, and I

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told the dude that I'd been traveling with for the

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past few hours, and even though I felt better about

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telling someone, this man didn't have a thing to say,

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but I could tell by the look on his face

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that he thought I was crazy, which after I had

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finished telling my story, he didn't hesitate to confirm. I

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saw what I saw, and it doesn't matter what people think.

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I know it's true. Over time, people have suggested various

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animals that it might have been, but nothing ever came close.

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Years later, I happened to be in my home in

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Michigan and a TV commercial came on advertising the new

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King Tut exhibit, which would open the following weekend in Chicago, Illinois.

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The commercial was from the view of a man holding

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a camera as he walked past a giant dinosaur on

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the main level of the museum and up a set

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of stairs to the Tut exhibit, and then down the

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hall to the left, where there was a closed door.

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The camera came to that door and then slowly opened

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the door, revealing my old friend from Tennessee, meaning I

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could see the dinosaur there in the background. I instantly

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blurted out to my wife, who, by the way, also

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thinks my Dino's story is a figment of an overreaching imagination.

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We're going to Chicago, I said. The following weekend, we

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were in the car headed to the dinosaur exhibits, King

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who I wasn't interested in, some old has been King. No,

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I had unfinished business and I was about to have

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the proof at my fingertips at any moment. We arrived

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in Chicago and pulled into the museum, and it didn't

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take long before I was viewing firsthand the same view

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I'd seen days before in the commercial. We quickly passed

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the giant dinosaur on the main floor, and I was

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thankful that it wasn't the one that walked out on

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the trail so many years ago, because it was a

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big one. We flew past the King what's his name,

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and as the door down the hallway was beckoning me

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to come closer. Finally, after decades, I would soon be

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standing face to face with the creature I had seen

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in Tennessee. My hand turned the knob on the door,

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and when it swung open, there it was on a

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platform three feet off the ground behind the door. Honey,

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that's the exact same one. This is the creature I saw,

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I said to my wife. I wasn't aware of how

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many people were in the room until it suddenly got quiet,

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but now only in a whisper, I repeated myself, to

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make sure my wife understands and what I had experienced

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all those years ago. I still don't think she believes me. Well,

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that's my story, and I'd be interested if anyone else

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has had such an encounter other than that. Thank you

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again for allowing these kinds of stories to be told.

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Have a good day, Bruce. Oh, someone sees a dinosaur

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in nineteen seventy, Okay, that sounds pretty crazy. However, like

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I said before I started this story, I saw something

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when I was a kid. I think I was maybe

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ten years old. We were at a vacation property that

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my parents owned, and I had been out hiking all

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day with my brother and my sister and my cousins,

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and we kind of got split up and I was

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on my own and I saw something like this for

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a brief second, and then it was gone. And I'm

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gonna try to put my thoughts together and tell me

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that story. I'm saying this all in response to the

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writer who says he was wondering if anybody else had

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had such an encounter. Those are his exact words. I

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don't know what I saw, but I'm going to try

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to think on it and try to recreate that image

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in my mind and see if I can't tell you

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all that story. So thanks to Bruce for sending this story.

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It was great. I really appreciate it. I love stories

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like this, and I actually believe him. I believe he

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saw something strange that day. I don't know if it

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was a dinosaur, but it's pretty interesting. Good stuff, good stuff,