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Welcome to the Bigfoot Project. 
Tonight we'll hear from 

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witnesses who say a normal day 
outdoors suddenly turned into 

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something unforgettable. 
In the middle of July 2010, in 

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the mountains near Groton, Vt, a
couple had planned a weekend 

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camping trip, just the two of 
them away from town. 

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They picked a quiet wooded spot 
a couple miles off a back Rd. 

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where the trees were thick and 
the trail in wasn't used much. 

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They parked their truck, hiked 
in with their gear, and found a 

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good clearing near a bend in the
trail. 

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There was a patch of flat ground
not far from a small Creek, just

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enough space for their tent and 
a fire ring. 

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They got there late in the day, 
set up camp, ate dinner, and sat

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by the fire until it burned 
down. 

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The weather was warm, but not 
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A light breeze moved through the
woods. 

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There was no one else around, no
traffic, no distant noises, just

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crickets and the Creek. 
After putting out the fire and 

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getting ready to sleep, the 
woman realized she had to use 

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the bathroom. 
It was after 10:00 PM, and it 

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was fully dark by then. 
She didn't want to go right near

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the tent, so she grabbed a 
flashlight and followed the 

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trail back the way they'd come, 
just far enough away for 

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privacy. 
She walked quietly. 

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Light pointed at the ground, 
trying not to trip on roots. 

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The trees formed a solid wall 
around the trail on both sides. 

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She moved about 75 to 100 feet 
down the path. 

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It was silent except for a few 
bugs and the wind through the 

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trees. 
Then she stopped. 

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Something was ahead, just off 
the trail. 

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The first thing she noticed was 
the smell. 

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It was a damp, musky odor, heavy
and close. 

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She raised the flashlight 
slightly. 

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Standing just ahead, maybe 25 
feet from her, was a massive 

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creature. 
It was upright. 

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It had a thick body covered in 
dark reddish brown hair. 

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The hair was dense, but not long
enough to drag. 

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It covered the shoulders, chest,
arms, legs, everything she could

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see. 
The creature stood still, 

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watching her. 
Its body was broad and the 

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shoulders stretched wider than 
any human. 

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The head sat low, with no clear 
neck between the top of the 

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shoulders and the base of the 
skull. 

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The eyes reflected the light 
back in her. 

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They were forward, facing, not 
off to the side. 

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The arms hung down and the hands
were loose near the knees. 

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She could make out the movement 
of its chest as it breathed. 

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It didn't growl, it didn't raise
its arms. 

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It didn't move at all. 
It just stared at her. 

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She froze. 
The flashlight beam hit its 

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upper chest, lighting it enough 
to see the texture of the hair. 

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The legs were thick and spaced 
apart. 

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There was no sound, just the 
faint creak behind her and the 

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wind through the trees. 
She dropped the flashlight. 

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It hit the ground and rolled 
once. 

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The light was now pointing 
sideways across the trail. 

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She turned and ran. 
She didn't stop running until 

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she reached the camp. 
Her husband saw her face and 

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knew something was wrong. 
She tried to explain, stumbling 

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over her words and catching her 
breath, trying to tell them what

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she had seen. 
They look back down the trail. 

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The flashlight was still on the 
ground, a steady beam shining 

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between the trees where she had 
dropped it. 

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Then something moved. 
They saw the light shift. 

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It tilted upward, then sideways,
then it started to move up off 

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the ground, slowly at first, 
then turned to the right and 

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drifting back through the trees.
It was being carried. 

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The flashlight beam swung gently
as it was taken deeper into the 

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forest. 
They couldn't see the creature 

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clearly anymore, just the 
movement of the light held 

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steady as it got farther and 
farther away. 

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There was no sound of footsteps,
but the undergrowth moved just 

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enough to show something was 
walking away with it. 

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They stood there, watching, 
frozen. 

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The light faded, swallowed up by
the trees and the dark. 

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They didn't talk, they just 
packed their things as quickly 

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as they could. 
Tent half collapsed, sleeping 

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bags shoved into bags without 
being rolled, cooking gear 

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tossed into packs. 
They grabbed everything they 

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could reach and left the rest. 
They walked fast with their 

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headlamps on, turning every few 
seconds to look behind them. 

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The trail was narrow, but they 
didn't stop until they reached 

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their truck. 
They drove away without saying a

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word, not stopping until they 
reached the highway. 

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Neither one of them had seen a 
creature like that before. 

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The man hadn't seen it at all, 
but he believed what had 

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happened. 
The way she had run back, the 

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panic in her face, and the way 
the flashlight had lifted off 

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the ground and moved on its own.
None of it added up to anything 

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normal. 
They had camped in many places 

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before, all over the Northeast. 
They were used to hearing 

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coyotes, owls, deer walking 
through brush, and even the 

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occasional bear. 
But this wasn't the same. 

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This wasn't a sound in the 
distance or an animal brushing 

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through bushes. 
She had stood face to face with 

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something large, upright, and 
silent. 

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The creature did not make a 
sound. 

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It didn't try to charge. 
It didn't appear to be hunting, 

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but it didn't back off either. 
It stood its ground and waited. 

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When she dropped the light and 
ran, it had stayed behind long 

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enough to pick up the flashlight
and carry it away. 

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That detail bothered both of 
them more than anything. 

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The creature had watched her, 
then had picked up the 

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flashlight. 
That wasn't instinct, that was 

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action. 
They didn't report it to anyone.

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They didn't take pictures, there
were no tracks, They hadn't 

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followed them, but they 
remembered every second of what 

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happened. 
They remembered how tall it was,

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at least 7 feet, maybe more. 
She remembered the size of the 

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chest, the width of the body, 
the way the arms hung down well 

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past the waist. 
She remembered the shape of the 

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head, which didn't sit high like
a person's, but more forward and

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flat. 
She remembered how still it 

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stood, and how quickly it was 
gone. 

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They believed it was a 
Sasquatch. 

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They didn't go back to that 
trail. 

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They never camped in that part 
of Vermont again. 

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They still camp, but they chose 
campgrounds with other people, 

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now places with cars and lights 
and other tents nearby. 

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In early September 2007, I was 
15 and living with my family 

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near a small private lake 
outside of Middlebury, Vt. 

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The lake wasn't huge, but it had
a few homes scattered around its

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edge, including ours. 
Most of the houses were 

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seasonal, used in summer, and by
fall it got quiet around there. 

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That night the weather was 
clear. 

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No clouds, no wind. 
The temperature had dropped a 

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little, but it was still warm 
enough to be outside without a 

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jacket. 
My girlfriend had come over that

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evening to hang out and my two 
sisters were home too. 

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We were all bored by around 
11:30 and I suggested we sneak 

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out and go walk around the lake.
There was a narrow paved Rd. 

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that circled the shoreline. 
It curved through wooded 

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sections and between the houses.
Most of the area had no St. 

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lights, so once you got past the
few porches with motion lights 

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it was dark. 
We had a small flashlight 

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between us, but mostly we were 
relying on moonlight. 

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There weren't any clouds, so you
could see pretty well once our 

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eyes adjusted. 
The four of us walked in a loose

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GroupMe, my girlfriend and my 
two sisters. 

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My younger sister was only about
11:00, so we had to keep her 

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near us and walk at her pace. 
We weren't being quiet, just 

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talking and goofing off. 
I didn't think anything unusual 

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was going on, and the woods 
around the lake were completely 

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still. 
There were no frogs or crickets,

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no wind in the trees. 
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notice until later. 
We had gone about halfway around

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the lake at that point. 
The houses thinned out and the 

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road dipped between two dense 
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One side of the road dropped 
slightly into a ditch where 

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brush and tall grass grew up 
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The other side had thick trees 
that came in close to the road. 

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Maybe 5 or 6 feet from the edge 
of the road, I heard a sound 

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behind us, Something heavy 
stepping onto the road. 

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I didn't know what it was, but I
stopped walking and turned 

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around. 
The others kept going, but I 

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froze when I saw something large
move out of the trees and step 

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across the road right behind us.
It was walking upright and 

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covered in hair that looked dark
brown or maybe black. 

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The hair on its arms and legs 
was longer and hung a bit. 

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Its arms were longer than a 
person's and they hung low near 

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its knees. 
It crossed the road in just a 

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few steps and was only about 5 
feet behind us. 

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When it passed through. 
It didn't look at us, it just 

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walked straight across and 
disappeared into the brush on 

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the other side. 
It was huge. 

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I couldn't guess the weight, but
it had to be several times 

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heavier than me. 
The body was thick through the 

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shoulders and chest and it 
didn't move like a person. 

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This thing was at least 7 feet 
tall. 

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Its head sat low on its 
shoulders and I couldn't see its

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neck. 
Its back was broad and slightly 

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hunched forward. 
The movement was fast and 

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smooth. 
Just a few steps and it was gone

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into the brush. 
I stepped back. 

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I screamed without even 
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That sound made my little 
sister, who was 13, turn around.

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She saw it too, just as it 
reached the edge of the road and

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went into the brush. 
My girlfriend and younger sister

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didn't see it, but didn't 
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The moment felt frozen in time. 
And then they all just started 

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running. 
We didn't speak. 

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We just turned around and ran 
the way we came back toward our 

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house. 
We weren't that far, maybe 5 

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minutes out of Sprint. 
None of us looked back. 

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I could feel the blood pounding 
in my ears. 

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My little sister was crying and 
I was just focused on getting us

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home. 
We ran across the gravel 

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driveway and into the side door 
of the house, locked it, and 

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went straight to my room. 
Nobody went to sleep after that.

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We sat there in the dark, not 
saying much. 

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I kept thinking about how close 
it had been, how it had passed 

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behind us without making a 
sound. 

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Until that one step. 
I was trying to process what I 

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saw. 
I knew it wasn't a person. 

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The size alone made that 
impossible. 

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I've never seen anything like it
before. 

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I've never even heard stories 
about anything like that 

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happening around the lake. 
I didn't feel safe in my room, 

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even with the window shut and 
locked. 

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I kept thinking it would come up
to the house and look through 

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the window. 
It didn't have a long snout. 

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The face was flat, more like a 
person's, but wider and covered 

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in hair. 
Except for the area around the 

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eyes and nose. 
I couldn't make out the eyes in 

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the dark. 
I didn't see the ears or the 

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bottom half of the face clearly.
I only saw it for about two or 

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three seconds in total, but that
was enough to take in the shape 

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and size of the body and the way
it moved. 

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The thing looked very strong. 
I didn't tell my parents that 

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night. 
I wasn't sure how to explain it 

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without sounding crazy. 
My sister and I talked about it 

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the next day, but only briefly. 
We agreed on what we saw. 

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She said she only caught the 
back of it before it vanished, 

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but that was enough for her to 
know it was real. 

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We didn't know what to call it 
at the time, but later I 

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realized it was a Bigfoot. 
Looking back, there were signs 

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around the lake that people 
never paid much attention to. 

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Strange noises at night, dogs 
that wouldn't go near certain 

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parts of the woods, neighbors 
saying they'd heard walking in 

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the woods behind their houses 
but never found tracks. 

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I hadn't thought anything of it 
until that night. 

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I didn't see the creature again 
after that. 

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I never expected to see it in 
the first place, but that one 

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moment seeing something that 
size walk behind us changed how 

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I looked at the woods around 
that lake. 

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I never felt alone out there 
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In early October 2014, I got 
home from work just after dark. 

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I lived at the very end of a 
short dead end road outside of 

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Barry, Vermont. 
The house sat low near a bend in

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the road, with the driveway 
facing east toward a wooded area

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that sloped down to a Creek. 
It wasn't a thick forest, but 

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the trees lined the bank and 
extended out beyond the clearing

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on both sides. 
The Creek was about 75 yards 

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from where I usually parked. 
Between me and the water was a 

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wide patch of grass and uneven 
ground that stayed damp most of 

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the year. 
Beyond the Creek, across the 

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water and a narrow strip of 
land, there was another 

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property. 
I could see the back of that 

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house from my driveway. 
The yard behind that home was 

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mostly open with some widely 
spaced trees. 

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There were no fences, no sheds, 
just a few tall trees scattered 

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across the lawn. 
I'd always been able to see 

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straight through them. 
That night I stayed in my car to

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make a call. 
I just pulled into the driveway 

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and didn't even take off my seat
belt. 

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I called a friend and sat there 
talking for a while. 

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The inside of my car was dark 
and I didn't have any lights on 

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outside. 
The moonlight was enough to see 

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most of the yard and the trees 
near the water. 

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Everything was still and quiet 
when I started the call. 

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About 15 minutes into the 
conversation, I noticed movement

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beyond the Creek in the yard of 
the property across the water. 

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At first I just saw 2 deer 
moving fast across the open 

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space, then more came from the 
same direction. 

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Within seconds, I counted a 
dozen deer, all running flat out

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across the back of the yard. 
Some jumped over brush and 

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ducked between trees, but they 
didn't stop. 

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They were fast and chaotic, and 
I could tell by the way they 

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moved that something had 
startled them badly. 

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I've lived in Vermont all my 
life, and I've seen deer moving 

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in groups plenty of times, but 
never this many all at once, and

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never running like that. 
I told my friend what I was 

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seeing, but I was focused mostly
on trying to make sense of it. 

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Then I saw why they were 
running. 

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Following behind them was 
something big and upright. 

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It was completely black from 
head to toe, and it didn't match

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anything I'd ever seen in these 
woods before. 

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It wasn't running. 
It moved through the yard at a 

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steady walking pace, but covered
ground quickly. 

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It moved in a straight path, 
heading in the same direction 

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the deer had gone. 
It would pause briefly behind a 

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tree, then step out again and 
keep going. 

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There was nothing blocking my 
view from where I sat. 

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I had a full look at it through 
the trees. 

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The branches were high, so I 
could clearly see its body from 

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head to foot. 
Every time it stepped between 

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the trees, the height stood out 
immediately. 

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The deer had run past it only 
seconds earlier, so I had a good

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sense of the scale. 
This thing was two or three 

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times taller than the average 
height of a deer's body. 

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I estimated it stood somewhere 
between 8 and 10 feet tall. 

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The shape was heavy through the 
shoulders and upper body. 

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The arms were long and hung 
lower than what you'd see on a 

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person. 
The legs were thick and moved 

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with solid steps. 
I couldn't see the feet clearly 

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because of the way the ground 
dipped between the trees, but 

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the body was proportioned in a 
way that did not line up with a 

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human. 
The creature never crouched or 

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hunched. 
It moved upright the entire 

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time. 
The fur or hair covering it was 

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uniform, no patches of different
colour or missing spots, just a 

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solid black all over. 
There was no shine, no 

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reflection from the moonlight. 
It absorbed light instead of 

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catching it. 
I watched it for maybe 20 

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seconds total. 
It never looked in my direction,

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it just kept walking and 
stopping occasionally near a 

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tree. 
The way it stopped was smooth 

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and natural. 
Not quick, not slow, just even 

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strides. 
It would stop briefly near a 

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tree, then step out again and 
keep moving across the yard. 

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I didn't see its face. 
The distance was too far to 

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catch that kind of detail, but 
the outline of the head looked 

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rounded on top and sat low on 
the shoulders. 

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The neck, if it even had one, 
wasn't visible. 

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It looked like the head came 
straight out of the shoulders. 

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I never saw anything in its 
hands. 

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Nothing suggested it was a 
person out in the woods. 

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It was too large, too consistent
in colour and shape and it 

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didn't act like a person either.
It didn't follow the deer in a 

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straight line but but moved in 
the same direction they had 

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gone. 
It didn't veer off or chase 

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them, just followed, almost like
it was tracking them but not 

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running them down. 
By the time it reached the edge 

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of the yard and the trees got 
thicker, it slipped out of my 

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view. 
I kept looking at that spot for 

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a while, trying to see if it 
would come back out, but it 

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didn't. 
I ended the phone call without 

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saying much more. 
My mind was running through what

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I had just watched. 
I couldn't come up with anything

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else it could have been. 
I had enough time to look at it 

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and break down what I was 
seeing. 

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It wasn't a costume or a person 
trying to scare someone. 

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It wasn't any kind of animal. 
It was tall, black, walked 

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upright on 2 legs, The arms were
longer than human's and the 

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shape of the body was huge. 
It didn't show any confusion or 

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panic. 
It moved on its own path, like 

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it knew where it was going. 
I never heard it make a sound. 

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There was no growling or 
breaking branches, and it didn't

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run. 
The deer were the only things 

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making noise. 
Dozens of hooves crashing 

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through leaves and grass, and 
then silence when they were 

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gone. 
I sat in the car for a few more 

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minutes, just scanning the trees
across the Creek. 

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The creature didn't come back 
out, and the clearing stayed 

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empty. 
I eventually went inside, but 

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kept checking through the window
every so often, half expecting 

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to see something in the shadows.
I didn't, but the image of it 

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stuck with me. 
That night was the first time I 

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saw something that made me say 
for certain that was a Bigfoot. 

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There wasn't any doubt. 
I've seen the documentaries and 

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heard some stories, but I never 
expected to witness anything 

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like that myself. 
I had too clear of a view to 

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mistake it. 
I watched it move, I saw the 

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size, and I saw the way the deer
reacted before it even showed 

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up. 
What stood out the most was how 

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calm it looked. 
It didn't make a big entrance. 

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It didn't crash through the 
brush or call out. 

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It just appeared where the deer 
had run from, moved through the 

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yard with long steps, and faded 
into the woods again. 

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I don't think it ever noticed 
me. 

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I had the car turned off, no 
headlights, and I was sitting 

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still in the dark. 
I probably didn't even know I 

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was there. 
The location where it happened 

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wasn't far from my property 
line. 

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If it had crossed the Creek and 
walked in a straight line, it 

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would have ended up in the open 
patch right next to my driveway.

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The thought of that stayed in my
head for a long time after. 

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I'd always thought the woods 
near the Creek were safe, quiet,

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and mostly empty except for 
small animals. 

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That changed completely in just 
a few seconds. 

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I don't know what it was doing 
that night, whether it was 

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hunting or just moving through, 
but the deer saw it before I 

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did, and they ran like their 
lives depended on it. 

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That many deer in a group all 
reacting the same way doesn't 

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happen without reason. 
Whatever that creature was, it 

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scared them badly and had a 
reason for being there, even if 

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I didn't understand it. 
I haven't seen the creature 

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again, but I've heard a few 
strange sounds over the years. 

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Long low vocalizations far off 
in the woods, and sometimes 

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heavy steps in the leaves 
outside the property line. 

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But I never went looking after 
that one clear sighting. 

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I didn't need to, and I didn't 
want to. 

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In May of 2017, I was living 
outside of Morrisville, Vt. 

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My house was set back off a 
quiet dirt Rd. 

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The driveway was long and curved
through a wooded area before 

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opening up near the garage. 
There were a couple of other 

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houses nearby, but they weren't 
close. 

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One was a little over 200 feet 
away through the trees and the 

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other was farther down the road.
Most of the time I felt alone 

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out there. 
Beside where I parked. 

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Just off to the right of the 
driveway was an old Stonewall. 

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Behind that wall was a brushy 
area that sloped slightly 

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uphill. 
It was full of thick plants, 

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uneven ground, big rocks and 
tall trees. 

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That patch of woods always felt 
darker and more overgrown than 

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the rest of the property. 
One evening, just after dark, I 

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pulled in front of the garage. 
I had my young German Shepherd 

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puppy with me. 
She was about 4 1/2 months old. 

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She was still growing, but she 
already had a strong protective 

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side. 
As soon as I opened the door she

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jumped out, but instead of 
staying near me like normal, she

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ran straight toward the 
Stonewall and started barking 

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loud and deep, like a full grown
guard dog. 

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She sounded serious and 
aggressive, barking at something

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just past the wall. 
I had never seen her act like 

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that before, not even around 
deer or strange dogs. 

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I didn't know what she was 
barking at, but I figured it 

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must have been something 
unusual. 

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I reached back into the car, 
grabbed my flashlight, and aimed

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it into the woods where she was 
barking. 

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It was hard to see much, the 
brush was thick, but I could 

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hear something moving about 20 
feet away and I saw a dark shape

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moving slowly through the trees.
I couldn't tell what it was, but

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the sound of it walking stood 
out. 

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It didn't sound like something 
on four legs, it sounded like it

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was walking on 2 legs. 
The steps were steady and slow, 

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it wasn't crashing through the 
brush, and it didn't sound like 

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it was scared. 
It was just keeping its 

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distance. 
I moved a little closer and 

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stood near the wall, shining the
light into the trees. 

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I could still see the shape 
moving, but it was mostly 

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hidden. 
It passed between a few trees, 

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then stopped near 1 of the 
bigger ones. 

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That's when I saw it. 
Crouched down behind the tree, I

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could see most of it. 
It was hiding, but not well. 

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It was wide and bulky and I 
could make out the shape of its 

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head and shoulders sticking out 
from behind the tree. 

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Then it started poking its head 
out slowly, then pulling it back

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again, like it was watching me 
but didn't want to be seen 

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fully. 
I held the light steady and I 

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got a good look at the eyes. 
They glowed red, orange in the 

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beam. 
The glow was bright and clear, 

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not like the reflection you get 
from a cat or a deer. 

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These eyes look different, they 
were deep coloured and steady 

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and never looked away from me. 
That thing stayed low but even 

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crouched down it looked big. 
I couldn't see the full body but

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it wasn't small. 
I stood there for a moment 

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trying to figure out what it 
could be. 

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My first thought was a black 
bear since they're around 

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sometimes, but the way it moved 
didn't fit. 

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It walked on 2 legs and bears 
don't Crouch and peek from 

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behind trees like that. 
I called my dog back to me. 

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She came right away and stuck 
close as we went inside. 

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I locked the door and didn't go 
back out. 

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That night I kept thinking about
what I had seen, but I tried to 

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tell myself it was just a bear. 
That seemed like the easiest 

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answer. 
I didn't want to believe it was 

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something stranger. 
The next evening, around the 

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same time, I came home and 
parked in the same spot. 

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This time I had a friend with 
me. 

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We got out of the car and almost
right away we heard a loud roar 

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come from the same patch of 
woods behind the wall. 

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It wasn't a short sound, it was 
long and deep and echoed through

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the trees. 
Then it did it again. 

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It came from right where I had 
seen the thing the night before.

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My friend froze and looked into 
the woods. 

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The sound was nothing like a dog
or bear. 

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It was stronger and it felt like
it came from something very 

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large. 
He asked me what that sound was 

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and I told him it had to be the 
same thing I saw the night 

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before. 
We didn't stay outside, we went 

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into the house quickly. 
I kept thinking about how big 

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that thing looked and how 
strange it acted. 

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I had watched it crouched, move 
behind a tree and peek out. 

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I had seen the eyes glowing and 
I had heard it walking on 2 

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feet. 
Now it was making loud noises 

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and these roars didn't sound 
like anything local. 

457
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,080
At that time I still tried to 
convince myself it was a bear, 

458
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,600
but a few months later I was 
watching some videos online that

459
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,400
talked about Bigfoot sightings. 
People describe the same kind of

460
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,680
eyes, the same sounds, and the 
same croaching and peeking 

461
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,480
movements. 
That's when I realised it wasn't

462
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,560
a bear. 
Bears don't roar like that. 

463
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,760
They don't move through trees on
2 legs that quietly, and they 

464
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,000
don't hide behind trees and 
watch people. 

465
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,440
What I saw matched the 
descriptions of Sasquatch 

466
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,040
sightings from other people. 
The red orange eyes, the quiet 

467
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,720
bipedal walking, the croaching 
behind trees, the deep roars. 

468
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,160
It all lined up. 
I looked up more reports from 

469
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,600
the region and found out there 
had been other sightings in 

470
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,160
parts of Vermont. 
Some of them described large 

471
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,040
footprints and loud 
vocalizations, just like I 

472
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,520
experienced. 
I never saw it again after those

473
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,520
two nights, but the memory 
stayed clear. 

474
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,520
My dog refused to go near that 
part of the yard for weeks 

475
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,680
after. 
She would stop at the edge of 

476
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,680
the driveway and growl, her eyes
fixed on the trees. 

477
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,680
That was enough for me. 
I didn't go looking for it. 

478
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,800
I didn't want to. 
What I saw had been real, and it

479
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,880
didn't need to come back for me 
to believe it. 

480
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:28,120
It was the summer of 2016. 
I was 15 at the time, and living

481
00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:29,960
near the town of Hardwick, 
Vermont. 

482
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,640
A set of old railroad tracks ran
along the edge of our area, 

483
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,640
cutting through woods and 
fields, eventually running past 

484
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,000
the river and out of town. 
People still walk the tracks to 

485
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,840
get places, especially kids. 
I was on my way to a friend's 

486
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,040
house late one afternoon, 
walking those same tracks like I

487
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,160
had 100 times before. 
The weather was warm and clear, 

488
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,960
the sun was still up but 
starting to drop low behind the 

489
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,640
trees. 
I wasn't really paying attention

490
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,440
to anything around me. 
I was walking between the rails,

491
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,080
watching my feet to avoid 
tripping on the ties. 

492
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,680
I was about halfway to my 
friend's place when I stumbled 

493
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,040
on one of those loose ties. 
I caught myself after a few 

494
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,040
steps, looked up, and that's 
when I saw it. 

495
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,400
Standing dead ahead of me, maybe
100 feet away, was something 

496
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,400
huge. 
It was in the middle of the 

497
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,840
tracks facing me. 
The body was covered in dark 

498
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:26,440
brown hair and it stood upright,
easily over 8 feet tall, maybe 

499
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,600
closer to 9. 
I froze and just stared. 

500
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,280
The hair was about four or five 
inches long, thick and matted in

501
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,480
places. 
In the sunlight, I could see a 

502
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,280
red, a shine to the hair across 
its shoulders and back. 

503
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,080
The body was wide across the 
chest and shoulders, at least 

504
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,280
three feet across. 
It looked thick and powerful. 

505
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,040
The build reminded me of a tall 
athlete, but even heavier and 

506
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,680
more solid. 
Its arms hung low, well below 

507
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,560
the waist, maybe down to the 
knees. 

508
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,560
The legs were long too. 
The head sat right on the 

509
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,800
shoulders, with no neck. 
I couldn't make out much detail 

510
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,880
in the face, only that it looked
flat and there were no visible 

511
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,680
ears. 
I didn't see any skin, just 

512
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,600
thick dark hair from head to 
toe. 

513
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,800
The thing stared right at me for
about a second or two and turned

514
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,000
fast and took 3 or 4 long steps 
off the tracks. 

515
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,040
It climbed straight up a 12 foot
embankment like it was nothing. 

516
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,080
Dirt, rocks and leaves kicked 
loose as it went and it was gone

517
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,240
into the trees in less than 6 
seconds. 

518
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,760
The way it moved was fast and 
strong. 

519
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,120
It covered ground quicker than 
any person could. 

520
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,800
I stood there. 
Frozen, my heart pounding, I 

521
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,400
knew what I saw wasn't a bear. 
There was no sign of fore legs, 

522
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,520
no round ears, no snout. 
It had a body like nothing else.

523
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,440
I could still see where the 
leaves were moving at the top of

524
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,400
the embankment, but the creature
itself had disappeared into the 

525
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,400
forest. 
Just as I took a shaky breath 

526
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,320
and stepped forward to keep 
walking, I heard something above

527
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,680
me. 
Heavy steps moving fast through 

528
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,320
the woods. 
I turned my head uphill, and 

529
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,080
that's when it all changed. 
That same creature came crashing

530
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,320
back through the trees toward 
the edge of the embankment, and 

531
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,920
this time it didn't stop. 
It let out a deep, roaring 

532
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,360
scream, loud and harsh. 
Nothing like a human or any 

533
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:18,640
animal I'd ever heard. 
It came down the slope halfway, 

534
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,720
staying just inside the tree 
line, and started following me 

535
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,160
along the tracks from above. 
I took off running. 

536
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,400
I didn't stop to think. 
I just ran. 

537
00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,080
It didn't come straight down 
after me. 

538
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,960
It moved through the trees 
above, keeping pace but staying 

539
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,680
just far enough back that I 
couldn't see it fully again. 

540
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,120
But I could hear it. 
It screamed again, longer this 

541
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,400
time, and I heard branches 
snapping and leaves thrashing. 

542
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,240
I knew it wasn't trying to stay 
hidden anymore. 

543
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,960
It was chasing me. 
I ran full out down the middle 

544
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,960
of the tracks. 
My legs were burning. 

545
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:54,320
Every few steps I'd glance up 
and catch movement through the 

546
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,720
trees. 
It wasn't running like I was, 

547
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,560
but it stayed with me, and it 
kept making those angry 

548
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,280
vocalizations. 
Deep growling roars followed by 

549
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,800
shorter, sharp barks. 
I couldn't see its face, but I 

550
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,680
could feel it. 
It was angry, and it wanted me 

551
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,240
out of there. 
The trees above the tracks were 

552
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,600
thick in that section. 
I could hear the thing moving 

553
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,800
through them, crashing through 
brush and stomping hard enough 

554
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,320
that I felt it in my chest. 
It stayed out of sight most of 

555
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,560
the time, but I saw parts of it 
now and then. 

556
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,040
An arm swing past a tree, the 
top of its head moving between 

557
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,120
branches and the reddish shine 
of its hair catching the fading 

558
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:32,960
light. 
It never got close enough to 

559
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,400
touch me. 
It could have. 

560
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,600
I know that if it wanted to, it 
could have been on me in 

561
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,320
seconds. 
But it just kept following me, 

562
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,360
staying up above the track on 
the hillside, roaring and 

563
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,840
growling and making sure I 
didn't stop. 

564
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,000
I ran for what felt like 
forever, though it was probably 

565
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,240
only a couple of minutes. 
I didn't look back until I hit a

566
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,800
clearing where the trees pulled 
away from the tracks. 

567
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,520
I stopped and turned, gasping 
for breath. 

568
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,280
Everything behind me was silent.
No more crashing, no more 

569
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,480
growls, no more screams. 
The woods were still. 

570
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,560
I stood there, staring uphill 
for a while. 

571
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,400
I didn't hear it anymore, and I 
didn't see anything. 

572
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,400
I didn't know if it had turned 
back or if it was still out 

573
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,200
there waiting, but I wasn't 
going to stick around to find 

574
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,720
out. 
I ran the rest of the way to my 

575
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,760
friend's house, looking over my 
shoulder the entire time. 

576
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,840
The details are stuck in my 
head. 

577
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,520
The long arms, the wide 
shoulders, the flat face, the 

578
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,000
reddish tint in the hair when it
hit the light, the deep chest 

579
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,240
rattling roar that didn't sound 
like it came from any animal I'd

580
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,320
ever heard. 
The way it chased me, aggressive

581
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,360
and loud, but always just far 
enough back that I could escape.

582
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,240
I didn't go back to that stretch
of tracks for a long time, and 

583
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,080
when I did, I made sure not to 
walk it alone. 

584
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,640
I believe that what I saw and 
what chased me was a Sasquatch. 

585
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,160
I saw it clearly in daylight, 
and I heard it in the trees 

586
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,000
behind me. 
I know what I saw, and I know 

587
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,600
how it made me feel. 
I thought I was going to die 

588
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:10,680
that day. 
It was late summer of 2015 and I

589
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,040
was living with my family 
outside of Thetford. 

590
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,560
Our house sat near the edge of a
wide open field that stretched 

591
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,000
out behind the backyard for 
about 20 acres before meeting a 

592
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,200
thick line of trees. 
The field rolled slightly 

593
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,400
downhill in spots, but most of 
it was flat and covered in tall 

594
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,880
grass. 
Beyond the tree line, the woods 

595
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,040
were dense and untouched. 1 
evening around sunset, our 

596
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,960
golden retriever started 
barking. 

597
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,120
That wasn't anything new. 
The dog barked at deer all the 

598
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,400
time, and there were always 
plenty of them around, but this 

599
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,320
time the barking was louder and 
more panicked than usual. 

600
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,320
I stepped out into the backyard 
to call him in, expecting to see

601
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,480
the usual deer grazing near the 
tree line. 

602
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,960
Instead, I saw 6 or 7 deer 
running full speed through the 

603
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,920
middle of the field. 
They weren't just moving away, 

604
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,800
they were fleeing. 
Their tails were up, their heads

605
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,160
low, and they were running 
straight for the woods like 

606
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,840
something was chasing them. 
Then I saw what was behind them 

607
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,040
through the tall grass, which 
was around 4 feet high at the 

608
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,360
time. 
Something large was moving fast 

609
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,440
on 2 legs. 
It was covered in dark hair and 

610
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,360
ran in a straight line behind 
the deer. 

611
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,960
Its body rose above the grass, 
which meant it had to be well 

612
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,160
over 6 feet tall. 
It wasn't clumsy or slow. 

613
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,680
It ran with long heavy steps, 
covering ground quickly. 

614
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,840
It stayed just behind the deer, 
following them right up to the 

615
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,560
tree line. 
The arms were long and moved 

616
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,960
with the stride. 
I could see them swinging low, 

617
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,960
and its back was wide and 
strong. 

618
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,440
The creature's head was low on 
its shoulders. 

619
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,480
It didn't make any sound that I 
could hear, but the way it moved

620
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,240
through the grass told me it was
something powerful. 

621
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,600
I stood there frozen, watching 
it run until it disappeared into

622
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,000
the woods. 
It was tall, upright, fast, and 

623
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,520
stayed upright the entire time 
it was in view. 

624
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,200
I had no doubt about what I saw.
It was a Sasquatch, and that 

625
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,960
wasn't the last time something 
strange happened back there. 

626
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,960
Later that season, maybe a few 
weeks after the sighting, I was 

627
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,400
outside one night with a friend.
It was around 9:00 and we had a 

628
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,160
small fire going in the 
backyard. 

629
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,000
The night was clear and quiet. 
We were just sitting and talking

630
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,800
off. 
In one corner of the field, we 

631
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,840
heard coyotes yipping. 
That wasn't out of place either.

632
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,960
They made noise on and off all 
through the summer, and it 

633
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,880
usually didn't mean anything. 
But after a few minutes of 

634
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,800
yipping, something happened that
neither of us had ever heard 

635
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,120
before. 
From the opposite end of the 

636
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,720
field, closer to the far tree 
line, a loud screeching sound 

637
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,840
broke through the night. 
It was long and high pitched, 

638
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,120
like something huge had let out 
a scream. 

639
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,600
The coyote stopped instantly. 
One second they were going crazy

640
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,880
and the next it was dead quiet. 
The entire field went silent. 

641
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,640
We didn't hear another sound the
rest of the night. 

642
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,320
That screech didn't come from a 
fox or an owl. 

643
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,120
We've heard those noises before.
This was louder, deeper, and 

644
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,400
came from something bigger. 
I didn't see anything that 

645
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,440
night, but I knew where the 
sound came from. 

646
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,000
It was the same corner of the 
field where the deer had been 

647
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,560
chased weeks earlier. 
About a month after the first 

648
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,720
sighting, it happened again. 
It was a calm afternoon and I 

649
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,360
was outside with the same 
friend. 

650
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,600
We had a few golf balls and were
hitting them into the field for 

651
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,920
fun. 
The grass had grown taller by 

652
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,040
that point, probably closer to 5
feet in some areas. 

653
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,240
We were standing near the top of
the field when we noticed 

654
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,680
movement farther down, closer to
the woods. 

655
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,960
At first it just looked like 
something shifting in the grass.

656
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,640
We thought maybe it was deer 
bedding down, but then it moved 

657
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,680
again and this time it stood up.
The creature rose straight out 

658
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,960
of the grass and we could see it
clear as day. 

659
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,280
It stood on 2 feet tall and 
still facing toward the woods. 

660
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,960
From our angle we could see the 
full upper half of its body 

661
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,640
above the grass. 
It was covered in hair that 

662
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,120
looked dark brown or black. 
It didn't move right away, it 

663
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,120
just stood there and we stood 
frozen. 

664
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,760
After a minute or two, it 
started walking slowly toward 

665
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,000
the trees. 
The movement was smooth. 

666
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,800
Each step made the tall grass 
shift and bend. 

667
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,360
It didn't stop or look in our 
direction. 

668
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,320
It just walked upright without 
rushing until it reached the 

669
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,400
woods and disappeared into the 
trees. 

670
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,920
We didn't say much. 
We just stood there and watched 

671
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,239
until it was gone. 
We both saw it. 

672
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,800
We both knew it wasn't human or 
a bear. 

673
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,040
The shape, the way it stood, the
long arms. 

674
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:30,960
The. 
Stride. 

675
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,360
It was a Sasquatch. 
There was no question in either 

676
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,719
of our minds After that second 
sighting. 

677
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,679
I talked to my dad about it. 
He had grown up on the same land

678
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,639
and I figured he might have an 
idea of what was going on. 

679
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,120
He didn't seem surprised when I 
told him. 

680
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,480
In fact, he told me that he had 
seen something similar years ago

681
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,000
when he was a boy. 
He said he never spoke about it 

682
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,760
much because people wouldn't 
believe him, but he described 

683
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,640
the same thing. 
A large hairy creature moving on

684
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,920
2 legs through the lower part of
the field. 

685
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,920
It had crossed near the tree 
line and disappeared before 

686
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,080
anyone else saw it. 
He had remembered it ever since.

687
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,920
Between the two sightings, the 
loud vocalizations and what my 

688
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,280
dad told me, there was no doubt 
left. 

689
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,680
The fields and woods behind our 
house had a Sasquatch moving 

690
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,080
through it. 
You didn't need to see tracks or

691
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,520
broken trees to be sure. 
I saw the creature twice with my

692
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,680
own eyes, and both times it 
acted just like other people I 

693
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,040
described in sightings from 
other places. 

694
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,600
I haven't seen the creature 
since those two sightings, but I

695
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,360
know it's still out there. 
Maybe it only comes out during 

696
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,000
certain seasons. 
Maybe it stays hidden most of 

697
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000
the time in the deeper parts of 
the forest. 

698
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:43,840
Whatever the case, I keep my 
eyes open when I'm outside near 

699
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,560
the field, I always watch the 
tree line, and I never ignore 

700
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,360
the dog when he starts barking 
like something is out there. 

701
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,640
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702
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and the links are all in the 

703
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,040
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704
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,600
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Thank you. 

706
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,440
Years ago a friend and I went 
deer hunting in the hills above 

707
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,960
Marysville, CA. 
At the time Beale Air Force. 

708
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,240
Base was closed so we went on 
the base in the mountains. 

709
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,400
We camped out in the old 
barracks area that first night. 

710
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,400
My friend had his two retriever.
Dogs with him. 

711
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,800
It was dark and we were in our 
bed rolls. 

712
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,200
We heard a very loud yelling, 
almost a scream coming from the 

713
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,400
woods about 100 yards away. 
The dogs went crazy and headed 

714
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,440
towards the wooded area. 
My friend and I grabbed our 

715
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,680
rifles and followed them. 
I have never heard a sound like 

716
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,720
that before. 
Just as we got a short distance 

717
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:49,960
away from the woods, we seen 
something that the. 

718
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,920
Dogs were running around, it was
on 2 feet. 

719
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,800
It grabbed one dog through it 
some distance and swung on the 

720
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,440
other dog. 
I had it in the flashlight beam 

721
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,520
but couldn't see it too well. 
It turned towards us and my 

722
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,280
friend said that it had a face 
like that of an ape. 

723
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,000
It bounded into the trees and 
the dogs were called off by him.

724
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,520
We didn't stay there that night 
and years. 

725
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,920
Ago they had a program on TV 
that had recorded the noise 

726
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,320
believed to be Bigfoot. 
It was the same sound completely

727
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:25,160
that we had heard. 
In the summer of 2002, I was 

728
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,920
hunting with my close friend in 
Sonoma County, California on our

729
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,720
family property that's adjacent 
to Pine Mountain. 

730
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,680
We were walking along an old 
camp Rd. that had become 

731
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,520
overgrown with brush and scrub. 
It was obvious that bear had 

732
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,840
been using this trail as there 
was a considerable amount of 

733
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,720
bear sign along the old road. 
We got to a point in the trail 

734
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,600
where there was an overhang of 
pine limbs over a slight 

735
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,520
depression on the right side of 
the road. 

736
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,280
Upon inspecting the depression 
we noticed what appeared to be a

737
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,840
left footprint. 
We continued to survey the area 

738
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,680
and noticed what appeared to be 
more tracks leading away from 

739
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,880
this overhang and depression. 
We finished poking around and 

740
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,040
continued on our way. 
We got just a bit further down 

741
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,200
the trail and we walked through 
an extremely strong smell of 

742
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:16,000
skunk or wet dog like odour. 
No sooner you had smelled it 

743
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,280
that it disappeared, but if you 
took a few steps back it was 

744
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:24,160
extremely strong again. 
I've been hunting and recreating

745
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,600
outdoors for many years and I'm 
very familiar with skunk spray 

746
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:29,960
and how it seems to permeate a 
large area. 

747
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,000
This was not simply the spray of
a skunk, it was centralized. 

748
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,440
It was literally like you walked
through it and it disappeared. 

749
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,640
Then you could turn around and 
walk through it again. 

750
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:43,360
The two of us spent a few 
moments looking around and we 

751
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,040
noticed something very strange. 
In the middle of the trail and 

752
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,440
not far from the smell and the 
footprints we had seen, was a 

753
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,720
large pile of oak acorns. 
The strange thing was, there is 

754
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,400
not an oak tree anywhere near 
this pile of acorns. 

755
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,120
They seem to have been placed in
this location. 

756
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,720
They weren't a collection of 
shells from squirrels. 

757
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,680
They were fresh dropped acorns, 
enough to hold a hungry deer or 

758
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,480
two for a little while. 
We theorized that whatever had 

759
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,320
been hunkered down under the 
pine overhang in the depression 

760
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,880
may have placed these acorns 
then set up under the overhang 

761
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,240
of the trail in ambush. 
Our intent was to walk to the 

762
00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:24,240
back of Pine Mountain, then 
still hunt our way to the top of

763
00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:26,760
the mountain. 
We had used this road for years 

764
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,480
to access the back of the 
mountain and we were very used 

765
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,320
to the topography so anything 
out of the norm would be 

766
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,080
noticeable to us. 
My friend and I team hunt very 

767
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,680
well together and after a short 
chat decided to use a 50 step 

768
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:43,720
method, one of which would go 50
steps, stop and whistle to let 

769
00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:46,880
the other hunter know it was 
their turn to take 50 steps and 

770
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,800
then they'd just watch and 
listen. 

771
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,920
We were approximately 130 yards 
apart. 

772
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,960
The ground was covered in heavy 
and dry leaf litter so the going

773
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,360
was somewhat noisy. 
I had gone nearly 3/4 of the way

774
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,040
to the saddle at the top and I 
heard what sounded like a 

775
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,400
whistle, but not the whistle I 
recognized as my friends. 

776
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,240
I also heard what sounded like a
very large boulder break loose 

777
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,040
and rolled down the back of the 
hill. 

778
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,720
I had assumed that my friend had
rolled it down hoping to kick 

779
00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:18,200
something out, but based on the 
last whistle, this rock was 

780
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,760
rolled from that area and seemed
to be 60 yards to my right when 

781
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,320
my friend would have been twice 
that distance away from me. 

782
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,120
I thought that maybe he had 
gotten closer to me as we made 

783
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,000
our way up, but that would not 
have been the case in the past. 

784
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,720
We work very well together and 
spacing is everything on our 

785
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:37,920
team hunts. 
We got to the top of Pine 

786
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,280
Mountain and we had a discussion
and he told me that he thought I

787
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,120
had rolled the boulder and vice 
versa. 

788
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,560
I told him about the whistle and
he told me the exact same thing.

789
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,160
He also had this overwhelming 
feeling of being followed up the

790
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,880
hill like something was timing 
his footfalls as to not be 

791
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,080
detected. 
I have to admit I felt this way 

792
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:02,880
too, even more so after the 
discussion about the boulder in 

793
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,360
2003. 
I had gotten a buck in the late 

794
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,600
evening and by the time we had 
skinned it out and begged we 

795
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,920
heard a very strange ape like 
scream to the South of our camp.

796
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,000
I was with that same friend and 
we both felt as if we were being

797
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,720
watched from something in the 
dark. 

798
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,760
In the fall of 1988, early in 
the morning before light, my 

799
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,640
friend and I decided to hike up 
a Ridge and sit down where we 

800
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,840
could see a lot of area, hoping 
to see a deer that we could beg.

801
00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:34,640
We parked in an area just below 
the Ridge where, when the sun 

802
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,440
lighten it up enough, we could 
easily hike up to the top in 

803
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,760
about 20 minutes. 
As it got light enough to see 

804
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,040
the top, we noticed someone 
already on the Ridge wearing 

805
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:45,960
what seemed to be black of all 
things. 

806
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,560
He had no light and no gun, and 
we wondered where he came from 

807
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,800
because we had been camped there
for 11 days and no one had come 

808
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,840
by that whole time. 
We watched him dig around in 

809
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,200
some brush for at least 30 
minutes, pausing occasionally 

810
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,080
for long periods just to stare 
in different directions. 

811
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,240
We joked that he was probably a 
hunter from LA because anyone 

812
00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:08,880
would be crazy to wear just 
black during deer and bear 

813
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,080
season. 
Then he began to walk down the 

814
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,320
hill right for us. 
Now we never left the truck yet 

815
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,080
and he would walk a little ways 
and stop and look around just as

816
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,200
if he was hunting, but with no 
rifle. 

817
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,760
He walked just like a human. 
So at this time there was no 

818
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,040
reason to think it was anything 
but a man. 

819
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,520
After a little while it was 
getting light enough to see even

820
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,080
better and he was still walking 
straight for us. 

821
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,040
When he was about 50 yards away.
We both at the same time 

822
00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:41,280
realized we were not watching a 
man, but this was a Bigfoot. 

823
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,320
He walks like a man but he was 
not a man. 

824
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,320
He had jet black shiny fur with 
a reddish colour around where 

825
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,520
his eyes were. 
I had to see this thing up close

826
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,640
and he had not noticed us yet so
I tried to open the door of the 

827
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,000
truck real easy so he wouldn't 
notice. 

828
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,640
But that old Ford truck was 
anything but quiet and he heard 

829
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,800
the latch release and took one 
good look before breaking into a

830
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,320
run. 
I tried to bring the scope up to

831
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,600
view him closer but this guy 
could really move and I could 

832
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,840
not get my eye into the scope 
before he got behind a tree and 

833
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,040
never came out. 
It took all the nerve in my body

834
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,400
to walk over to the tree but he 
wasn't there. 

835
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,640
He flat disappeared. 
My friend was hollering the 

836
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,480
whole time not to shoot and 
thought I was crazy for trying 

837
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,560
to go find him or a track or 
something. 

838
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,080
All I know is I have a different
kind of respect for the 

839
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,400
backwoods now and I give a lot 
of room between me and large 

840
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,360
objects. 
This occurred on a very rural 

841
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,320
area between a National Forest 
and a game preserve. 

842
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,440
Pope Valley is located in the 
hills above Napa Valley headed 

843
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,440
toward Lake Berryessa. 
The first occurrence took place 

844
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,480
in 1978. 
My father and I had moved into 

845
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,640
the home to fix it and make it 
livable before my mother and 

846
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,720
brother moved in. 
I was 12 years old at the time. 

847
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,440
The property contained 236 acres
of undeveloped land. 

848
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,680
My father had completed our 
driveway and was sitting on the 

849
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,640
porch in the evening when we 
heard what he thought was me 

850
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,400
walking around the corner of the
house in the freshly laid 

851
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,920
gravel. 
Since I'm relaying this story to

852
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,160
you, you've probably figured out
it wasn't me, but something else

853
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,920
he was faced with which quickly 
turned and ran away when he saw 

854
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,520
him, leaving behind a wild musty
skunk like smell which hung 

855
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,800
around for about 30 minutes. 
Over the next 10 to 12 years we 

856
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,640
had other visits, sometimes two 
or three in the same summer and 

857
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,720
then we would maybe go 2 years 
without one. 

858
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,120
They ranged from footprints to 
screams to smells. 

859
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,640
Needless to say, I took up an 
interest in Sasquatch. 

860
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,160
I was, at the time, intrigued 
and afraid. 

861
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,160
I had avoided actually seeing 
one with my own eyes for about 9

862
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,640
years, and with that I could 
somehow write it off as actually

863
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,120
existing. 
Pretty dumb in retrospect with 

864
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,560
the physical evidence and the 
number of witnesses in Pope 

865
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,640
Valley who incidentally didn't 
want to talk about it either. 

866
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,320
My meeting came one night when 
me and a friend of mine were 

867
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,680
sitting on my parents porch It 
he came walking over the Crest 

868
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,960
in front of the house, spotted 
us and took off running like a 

869
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:16,080
middle linebacker in the NFLI. 
Kept waiting and hoping for it 

870
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,560
to get down on all fours but it 
never did. 

871
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,400
I turned to my friend and he was
as shocked and afraid as I was, 

872
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,240
so I knew I had actually seen 
this thing. 

873
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,800
It was about 7 feet tall with 
what looked like greyish brown 

874
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,920
hair covering it from head to 
toe. 

875
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,920
The sighting lasted about 5 to 
10 seconds. 

876
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,600
One of our neighbors actually 
had one try to enter their house

877
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,720
but frightened it away with a 
gun blast. 

878
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,440
Others told us of livestock 
acting up and they had thought 

879
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,360
they had seen someone trying to 
steal or harass their cattle. 

880
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,600
When they called out to this 
person, he ran off into the 

881
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,680
woods. 
That's when they noticed it 

882
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:57,680
wasn't a person. 
During the summer of 1974, my 

883
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,400
sister-in-law and I were on our 
way home from Lompick, 

884
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,320
California to see our respective
grandmothers. 

885
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,840
My sister in law's grandmother 
lived in Buttonwillow which is 

886
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,000
in Kern County, and my 
grandmother lived in Porterville

887
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,560
which is in Tulare County. 
It had just grown dark by the 

888
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,320
time we were about 5 miles 
outside of Paso Rubles on Hwy. 

889
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,320
46 heading towards Shandon, and 
had just passed a lone farmhouse

890
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,600
to our left when I had to. 
Pull to a quick. 

891
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,240
Stop. 
Just in front of us, stooped 

892
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:29,520
down in the road and holding a 
chicken to its mouth was a 

893
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,720
creature about the size of a 12 
year old. 

894
00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:35,840
It stood up on 2 legs and ran 
quickly past us to the left of 

895
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,080
my vehicle. 
Still holding the chicken. 

896
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,560
We turned to watch it veer off 
to our right behind us and up 

897
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,640
over an embankment. 
I asked my sister-in-law did you

898
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,200
see that? 
She did. 

899
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,320
I didn't know what I was 
thinking because I said to her 

900
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,760
let's catch it and turn the car 
around. 

901
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,400
Then I immediately thought 
better of it as it was obviously

902
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,840
a young Bigfoot and I was afraid
its parents might be close by as

903
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,600
well. 
And with as fast as that 

904
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,400
creature ran, who knew the 
strength of its parents? 

905
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,240
This creature was covered with 
long dark brown hair except for 

906
00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:10,680
its face and region around its 
belly button, and it was obvious

907
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,880
that it was a boy. 
It had a flat face and a broad 

908
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,840
nose, and its teeth looked like 
it could use a good 

909
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:21,600
orthodontist. 
This happened October 25th, 

910
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,400
2010. 
I was watching a movie in my 

911
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,320
room when I heard a noise 
outside. 

912
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,000
This was about 1:00 in the 
morning. 

913
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:32,680
It sounded like a long blowing 
horn so I turned my TV on mute 

914
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,120
thinking it was a siren. 
I knew it was not a siren when I

915
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,240
heard it again and knew it was 
coming from something alive. 

916
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,960
I went outside and the noise was
so disturbing that I actually 

917
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,160
felt scared of it. 
It was more like this cry but in

918
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,800
a howl, like it was hurt and 
moaned in pain by an injury. 

919
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,720
I have a few dogs and each of 
them were very disturbed by it 

920
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:55,800
too. 
They refused to come near the 

921
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,360
front or back doors. 
It was like they didn't want to 

922
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,440
come outside. 
I assumed it must be a bear or a

923
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,880
Mountain Lion, but the one thing
that confused me was I didn't 

924
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,920
think animals like them sounded 
like that. 

925
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,960
The day after this happened, my 
friend came to pick me up at 

926
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,080
around 8:00 at night. 
We enjoy going to casinos and 

927
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,520
there's this one about 35 miles 
from where I live. 

928
00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:20,480
The sun had just set and we 
drove no more than 4 miles down 

929
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,400
the road when I heard the noise 
again. 

930
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,720
I rolled the window down more 
and my friend heard it too. 

931
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,320
It was close to where we were so
we slowed down to get a better 

932
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,600
here. 
The noise stopped so we started 

933
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,640
driving again. 
About no more than 10 seconds 

934
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,720
later we saw what looked like a 
10 foot man covered in hair. 

935
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,760
This is not a joke. 
And when the headlights shined 

936
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:46,200
on his eyes, they glowed. 
Human eyes don't do that. 

937
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,480
He was pretty far from our 
vehicle and no I didn't see his 

938
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,880
face. 
His hair was black, maybe dark 

939
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,280
brown. 
And yes, his eyes glowed by the 

940
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,720
light. 
The first thing we both thought 

941
00:48:56,720 --> 00:48:59,560
was Bigfoot. 
I did a little. 

942
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,560
Look around on my computer and 
found information on Bigfoot, 

943
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,600
the howling and the sight of 
that animal could not have been 

944
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,560
a human and if it were then he 
had some massive eyes with big 

945
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,440
contacts to make them glow like 
that. 

946
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,840
I'm pretty sure the car behind 
us saw it too because they 

947
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,560
slowed down and stayed behind 
for about a minute after we 

948
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,280
drove away. 
We went about our business to 

949
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,240
the casino that night after our 
encounter and now I am a true 

950
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:29,600
believer. 
I'm 42 now and it's been a. 

951
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,080
While since I decided to tell my
story about what I saw that 

952
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:37,720
beautiful sunny day. 
About 11 AMI lived at a house by

953
00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:39,360
a levee. 
In my childhood years, 

954
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,480
immigrants had a shack against 
the levee and always had a 

955
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,400
gathering for the weekend. 
One day my mom went out to show 

956
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,200
the men how she could shoot her 
new 22 Ruger rifle at the tin 

957
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,800
cans. 
After all the fun, a man was 

958
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,840
just having an idea if he could 
just use the rifle on Saturday 

959
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:59,440
morning for cotton tails. 
Mum and dad was happy to let him

960
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,240
use it. 
Saturday came around and I 

961
00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:04,960
noticed the homemade rack with 
cotton tail and Jack rabbit 

962
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,720
hanging upside down near the 
small cabins to the side of 

963
00:50:07,720 --> 00:50:09,800
them. 
My brother told me to go with 

964
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,200
him and check them out. 
It was sad to see such a kill. 

965
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,720
That evening the men showed my 
dad how beer batter makes a good

966
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:20,840
rabbit roast over the fire and 
we all had a share of the food 

967
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,120
with wild rice and flour 
tortillas. 

968
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,520
This went on for two weeks. 
Then a problem occurred. 

969
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,080
Someone was stealing the rabbits
from the rack. 

970
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,520
Since our family was the only 
one in the camp, we were most 

971
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,560
likely the blame. 
My dad was beat up at a card 

972
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:40,000
game as beer caused a climax 
over the rabbit issue and I 

973
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,400
could not stand to see it. 
I was not afraid of anything 

974
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:47,160
'cause I never watched any TV in
my life about scary stuff, so I 

975
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,080
had no feeling for that in that 
direction. 

976
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,080
I went up the levee to just look
around and I saw a rat snake. 

977
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,560
I came down and told Mum about 
the snake. 

978
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,720
Mum said not to go back up 
again, it could bite me, but my 

979
00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:03,920
curious mind took me back up. 
The next day I walked up the 

980
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,560
levee looking down to the right 
side where I might have seen it 

981
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,160
last. 
When I got to the top that was 

982
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:12,080
it, no snake. 
Then in the silence of 

983
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,560
everything but the soft breeze 
blowing a bit in my ear, I saw 

984
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,400
something moving in front of me.
This huge monkey like creature 

985
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:23,200
on a Cottonwood tree. 
Looking over the levee I noticed

986
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,960
it in the shade of the upper 
branches because one of its legs

987
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,280
was swinging back and forth 
below the branch. 

988
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,080
I got closer to adjust my focus 
on this big creature and sure 

989
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,160
enough it was some sort of ape 
like thing but with a smaller 

990
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,440
head and it had human like 
features. 

991
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,000
I looked down to see if there 
was a fence between US and there

992
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,600
was not any fence at all. 
My mouth was watering over fear 

993
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,240
and I could not move my legs. 
I found a way to turn around and

994
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:52,440
get off the levee. 
As I went down the levee halfway

995
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,080
down I started to run and never 
looked back. 

996
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,880
I told my mum about what I saw 
and she stopped cleaning and 

997
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,760
told me to just shut and lock 
the doors. 

998
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,280
My mum was now thinking of the 
rabbits that had gone missing 

999
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,840
and told me food left out makes 
animals gather for more. 

1000
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,280
We never went over that levee 
again. 

1001
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,760
Fear after that was something to
remember when alone at that age.

1002
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:19,320
We moved a few years later due 
to the one corona murders on the

1003
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,720
same farm and never spoke about 
the huge monkey by the levee 

1004
00:52:22,720 --> 00:52:27,920
again. 
In the winter of 1999 I was 

1005
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:32,080
driving back from Blythe and it 
was about 10 PMI slowed my semi 

1006
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,280
down going through the mountains
when I came to a pullout and I 

1007
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,880
got out to relieve myself. 
I was standing on the passenger 

1008
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,760
side of my truck and that's when
I heard the sound of rocks 

1009
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,920
falling. 
When I looked up I saw something

1010
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,960
that I cannot describe in words.
It ran 20 yards in front of my 

1011
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,880
truck heading east. 
I jumped back in my truck and 

1012
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,400
drove off. 
I've never told anyone about 

1013
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,480
this, not even my wife because I
thought people would think I'm 

1014
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,360
crazy. 
I never drove that highway again

1015
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,680
at night. 
What I saw was about 7 or 8 feet

1016
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,040
tall. 
It was greyish brown and what 

1017
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,960
scared me the most was the grunt
it made when it crossed the 

1018
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,680
highway. 
The following information can be

1019
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,800
added to this report. 
The first thing the witness 

1020
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,480
noticed when he pulled off the 
road was a strong, dead, 

1021
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,840
decaying skunk smell. 
So when he stopped the truck, he

1022
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,760
turned off the engine. 
He left the headlights on just 

1023
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,120
in case he might step on 
something as he stepped out of 

1024
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,080
his truck. 
As he was standing alongside the

1025
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,680
passenger side of the truck he 
began hearing rocks falling like

1026
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,960
an animal was walking down a 
mountainside. 

1027
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,320
At about this time the dead 
skunk smell which was bad got 

1028
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,040
even worse, like a gagging type 
of a smell. 

1029
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,320
At that instant he observed this
long haired large framed 

1030
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,320
creature walking in front of his
truck and through his headlights

1031
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,120
and then across the road making 
a loud grunting noise. 

1032
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:58,280
Now this last series of events 
put the witness into a very 

1033
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:01,440
frightened mode and he had the 
strong feeling that he had to 

1034
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:06,760
get out of there. 
Now in late high school a group 

1035
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,720
of my friends drove out of 
Livermore, CA down Arroyal Rd. 

1036
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,080
The time of year was likely 
spring or summer as I don't 

1037
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:18,320
recall it being cold at the end 
of Arroyo at the time or off a 

1038
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,360
turn off was a pumping station 
for the local reservoir. 

1039
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,840
We parked on the street. 
The reason for this trip was a 

1040
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,320
trek to the ruins of a former 
mental hospital. 

1041
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:31,320
Unclear if there was a more 
direct Rd. but a royal Rd. was 

1042
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,280
desolate and rarely used at that
point. 

1043
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,280
We thought it would be fun and 
had attempted this journey 

1044
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,360
before, but we were never 
successful. 

1045
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:40,960
I was driving one of the two 
cars. 

1046
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,280
It was after dark. 
The other driver and I got out 

1047
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,760
of the cars and turned toward 
the hillside behind us. 

1048
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:50,840
I was shining a flashlight along
the hill and almost immediately 

1049
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:54,920
noticed a tall furry brown 
creature walking on 2 legs from 

1050
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,200
left to right for about 30 to 40
feet. 

1051
00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:59,800
This was approximately 40 feet 
away. 

1052
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,760
The other driver was next to me 
and I asked, Are you seeing what

1053
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:05,880
I am? 
I couldn't finish the sentence 

1054
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:10,040
before he replied, Yes, I am. 
I continued shining the light on

1055
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,800
the creature as it moved to the 
right and then started up the 

1056
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:16,240
hillside and disappeared as the 
others were getting out of the 

1057
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:18,160
car. 
The other driver and I quickly 

1058
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,320
discussed that we would not 
mention this to the others as it

1059
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:25,040
would only scare them. 
We gathered flashlights and then

1060
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:26,920
proceeded up the hill behind the
cars. 

1061
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,840
I had been part of three or four
previous trips to this location 

1062
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,800
and had never been scared before
like I was that night. 

1063
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,280
Instead of shining the light 
ahead, I was constantly shining 

1064
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,080
it behind and around us looking 
for the creature. 

1065
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,520
I am and still convinced that 
what I saw was a Bigfoot. 

1066
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:49,600
So was the other driver we later
shared with the group who 

1067
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,200
dismissed our sighting as a bear
or some other creature. 

1068
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,880
It was not a bear. 
It was tall, dark brown, and 

1069
00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:00,120
clearly walked on 2 legs. 
While we had about 10 or so 

1070
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,840
people in our party, only the 
driver and I witnessed the 

1071
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,240
creature. 
Neither of us had anything to 

1072
00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:12,320
drink or any other substance. 
During the spring of 1982, the 

1073
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,440
Witness, a high school teacher, 
his younger brother, and two 

1074
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:19,040
friends, all in their early to 
mid 20s, were on a hiking and 

1075
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:21,680
fishing trip. 
They had hiked about 6 hours 

1076
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:25,120
without seeing another human and
were camped next to the Manzana 

1077
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,560
River. 
They'd been eating dinner when 

1078
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,520
they heard a loud crashing sound
coming from the adjacent 

1079
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,440
hillside. 
As they looked up at the trail, 

1080
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:37,480
which was about 10 to 15 yards 
away, they saw a large bipedal 

1081
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:41,400
animal running down the trail. 
They yelled at it and it turned 

1082
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,200
and looked at them. 
As it continued running, it 

1083
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,400
quickly ran over a Ridge and 
then out of sight. 

1084
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,600
The sighting lasted a total of 5
to 6 seconds. 

1085
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,560
Although it was dark at the 
time, their bonfire illuminated 

1086
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,400
the whole side of the hill and 
made it possible to see some 

1087
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,560
details. 
The witness described the animal

1088
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:03,720
as human like but covered with 
dark brown or black hair, very 

1089
00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:08,160
muscular, with shoulders above 4
feet wide, approximately 6 1/2 

1090
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:13,720
to 7 feet tall and over 300 lbs.
Its footfalls sounded thunderous

1091
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:16,240
as it ran down the hill. 
There was no odor. 

1092
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,400
The four of them spent the 
remainder of the night sleeping 

1093
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,920
in shifts so two people would 
always be awake to keep watch. 

1094
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,560
The witness said that they knew 
immediately that they had seen a

1095
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,040
Bigfoot. 
It seemed as though it was as 

1096
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:32,760
anxious to leave the area as 
they were for it to leave the 

1097
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,360
next morning. 
They looked for tracks on the 

1098
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:40,880
trail but found none. 
October 11th, 2024 I heard a 

1099
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:42,640
noise in the backwoods of our 
cabin. 

1100
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,800
Our friend's dog alerted at the 
exact same time. 

1101
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:48,760
I had a spotlight in my hands 
because we were out letting the 

1102
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:52,520
dogs go to the bathroom. 
When we heard the noises, I 

1103
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:53,960
rushed to the back of the 
property. 

1104
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,080
When I reached the back fence, I
was able to put the spotlight 

1105
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,680
onto a light brown animal 
running away from me. 

1106
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,280
More dogs in the direction this 
animal was running started 

1107
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,080
barking after it was out of 
sight of me and my light. 

1108
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,000
I have seen many deer and a few 
bears here. 

1109
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,600
This was huge compared to them. 
I estimate a minimum of eight 

1110
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,080
feet tall. 
It was about 100 feet away or 

1111
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,680
so. 
My friends were here with me. 

1112
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,880
Two family members who have 
texted about it are asking me 

1113
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,960
about the sobriety level I'm at,
but I know what I saw. 

1114
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,360
I've never seen anything like 
this at all. 

1115
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:32,600
I honestly believe I saw a 
Bigfoot and nobody will ever be 

1116
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:39,320
able to convince me otherwise. 
In the summer of 1962, while me 

1117
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,280
and a friend were riding our 
bikes, my dogs started going 

1118
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,920
crazy. 
I looked at my dogs and saw that

1119
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,040
the hair on their backs was 
straight up. 

1120
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,520
I looked in the direction they 
were barking and standing in a 

1121
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:54,720
sugar beet field 30 to 40 feet 
away was a humanoid figure 

1122
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,120
covered in long shaggy grey 
hair. 

1123
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,800
This thing was massive and I 
would imagine it was at least 8 

1124
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,440
feet tall. 
It didn't move, it just stood 

1125
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:07,800
there looking at us. 
Needless to say, in 1962 I 

1126
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,000
didn't know what Bigfoot was, so
I turned my bike around and got 

1127
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,960
the heck out of there. 
My dogs, a collie and an 

1128
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,120
Australian shepherd beat me 
home. 

1129
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,880
The following information can be
added to this report. 

1130
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:23,320
The witness stated the creature 
was facing them, made no 

1131
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,520
movement and no noise during the
encounter. 

1132
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,920
He had a good look at the 
creature at very close range. 

1133
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,640
It had no noticeable neck, human
features to the face he 

1134
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,640
described as Samoan or like that
of an African American and no 

1135
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,560
hair on the face. 
The arms were massive and he 

1136
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:42,040
stated that it had a gorilla 
looking upper body. 

1137
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,480
The hair was grey, long and 
shaggy on the body. 

1138
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,520
He would estimate it weighed 
between 6 and £800. 

1139
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:52,840
He could not recall any details 
about the eyes. 

1140
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:57,120
He estimates the length he seen 
the creature was about one 

1141
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,760
minute. 
He lost track of time and stated

1142
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,800
he was frozen in shock as he was
staring at the creature. 

1143
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,480
When he did move to grab his 
bike and flee, his friend and 

1144
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:10,040
dogs were a good 100 yards away 
already heading away from the 

1145
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,880
scene. 
As he states, he didn't know 

1146
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,960
what a Bigfoot was, this was 
merely a monster out in the 

1147
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,560
field. 
Over the course of time, he 

1148
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,840
realized what he had encountered
was a Bigfoot, and he developed 

1149
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,840
an interest in the subject as an
adult. 

1150
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:31,120
August 30th, 2002 We had driven 
from the San Francisco Bay Area 

1151
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,320
to Sierra County for a camping 
trip. 

1152
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,240
When we arrived, our usual 
campground was full and we went 

1153
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,200
to a less popular campground 
which was a few miles further 

1154
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:43,360
down the road. 
By the time we arrived it was 

1155
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,040
already dark and we hurried to 
set up camp for the night. 

1156
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,320
Our intention was to camp at 
this campground for the night 

1157
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,400
and look around the surrounding 
area for a better sight closer 

1158
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:53,720
to the water. 
The next morning. 

1159
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,160
Since we had children with us, 
they had to go to the bathroom 

1160
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,360
and my friend who had spent his 
youth camping in the area and 

1161
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:04,040
this campground took the girls 
to the closest outhouse while my

1162
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:05,920
husband and I started setting up
camp. 

1163
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,640
They came back and everyone was 
talking about how horrible the 

1164
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,920
area around the outhouse smelled
and we laughed saying it was 

1165
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,720
close to the end of season and 
about time to clean out the 

1166
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,960
vault toilets. 
Soon we finished up setting up 

1167
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,240
tents and unpacking the few 
things we would need for the 

1168
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,720
night. 
I decided I should visit the 

1169
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,280
outhouse and my daughter, who 
had already been with our 

1170
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:28,240
friend, said she would show me 
the way. 

1171
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,960
We set off down the trail and my
husband decided to join us. 

1172
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,640
We walked down the trail slowly 
because it was very dark and I 

1173
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,320
had only brought a small 
flashlight that I always keep in

1174
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:40,320
the Jeep since we hadn't fully 
unpacked. 

1175
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:44,080
The Outhouse was located in an 
area that was about 10 feet 

1176
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,760
below the trail from the 
campground. 

1177
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,720
My daughter finally found the 
trail down and I flashed my 

1178
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:51,000
light down into the gully to 
look for the outhouse. 

1179
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:55,720
I found the outhouse and also 
found 2 red eyes looking back at

1180
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,120
me. 
The eyes which were reflected in

1181
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,280
my flashlight seemed to Crouch 
down. 

1182
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:04,040
I decided that I didn't need to 
go to the bathroom after all and

1183
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,120
made the decision to walk back 
to the camp rather quickly. 

1184
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,600
When we got back to camp, my 
husband and friend decided to go

1185
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,640
back and look around with a 
better flashlight, but found 

1186
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,720
nothing, although both noticed 
that it didn't smell as bad as 

1187
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,880
it did before. 
The next morning I got up and 

1188
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:22,600
decided to go to the bathroom no
matter what was there. 

1189
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:26,320
When I got to the outhouse, I 
realized that the eyes I saw 

1190
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:30,040
reflected back at me had stood 
about 7 to 8 feet off the 

1191
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:33,320
ground. 
Also, on further investigation, 

1192
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,680
we found some small trees 
uprooted and pushed over in the 

1193
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,960
outhouse area. 
And most important of all, the 

1194
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,720
smell was gone. 
In early August we had had 

1195
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:46,360
another strange encounter at a 
different campground in the 

1196
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,520
area. 
We were camping with many 

1197
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:52,080
friends and we the group were in
several different campsites. 

1198
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,400
One group arrived later than the
rest of us and set up in a 

1199
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:59,560
campsite adjacent to ours. 
That night something raided our 

1200
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:03,160
campsite and made off with a 
large Tupperware bowl of trail 

1201
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:06,520
mix closed with a lid and a 
large pork loin roast. 

1202
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:10,640
The next morning we found behind
our campsite on a small incline 

1203
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:13,320
the Tupperware bowl with the lid
placed next to it. 

1204
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:17,320
No damage at all to either piece
of Tupperware and a large pile 

1205
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,800
of scat that did not look like 
any bear scat I had ever seen 

1206
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,680
before. 
Due to its size it was huge. 

1207
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:31,200
In the summer of 1964, an 
unknown ape like creature walked

1208
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:34,680
upright out of the thick patch 
of brushes and stood looking for

1209
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,040
several seconds up and down the 
fire lane. 

1210
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,520
I cocked the hammer back on the 
32 calibre carbine, shouldered 

1211
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,680
the weapon and began to press 
the trigger. 

1212
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:47,000
Something in my mind ordered me 
not to shoot the creature. 

1213
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:52,800
I call it divine intervention. 
I asked myself if this was a 

1214
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:56,080
bear. 
No, I instantly decided that it 

1215
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:59,120
didn't look like a bear because 
there was not a long protruding 

1216
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,880
snout jutting out from the face.
Besides, bears are not legal 

1217
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,640
game in this area of California.
It certainly was not a buck. 

1218
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:09,520
Never mind the fact that if it 
was a deer, there were no horns 

1219
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,560
on this animal. 
I immediately told myself it 

1220
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:16,080
looked like a monkey. 
Man, I can hear myself today 

1221
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:19,520
saying those words out loud. 
What the heck is a monkey doing 

1222
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,960
out here in the mountains? 
In the meantime, as I made the 

1223
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,280
move to shoulder the carbine and
spoke those words, the big 

1224
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:28,520
animal turned toward me from the
waist up. 

1225
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:33,200
Looking over the sights of the 
little carbine, I observed this 

1226
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:37,080
being to be about 7 or 8 feet 
tall with well muscled, long 

1227
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,360
hairy arms hanging down to its 
waist. 

1228
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:43,320
The hands looked almost human. 
I remember noticing these things

1229
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:47,560
as I slowly put down the gun. 
This creature was completely 

1230
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,360
covered in long dark brown hair 
from head to feet and appeared 

1231
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:55,280
to have a huge barrel chest. 
Some other striking features 

1232
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:59,360
that I noticed were a flat 
square jawed face, a flat dark 

1233
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:03,160
looking nose, no noticeable hair
on the face, and a sloping 

1234
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,000
forehead. 
I don't remember seeing any sign

1235
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,120
of ears on the animal, Too much 
long hair around the side of the

1236
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,320
head, and there was no 
discernible neck. 

1237
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,960
Since I had no idea what this 
creature was, I've always been 

1238
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:18,840
glad to have instantly decided 
not to shoot it. 

1239
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:23,400
Thank God for protective angels.
The other thing I thought about 

1240
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:26,640
at the time was that this thing 
could be some idiot in a monkey 

1241
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:30,360
suit playing a prank on some 
hunter like me, but then only a 

1242
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:33,800
village idiot would dress up in 
a monkey costume and roam around

1243
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,920
the mountains during deer 
hunting season. 

1244
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:40,920
As I contemplate the incident 
today, I realise now that it was

1245
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:44,160
a Bigfoot and it had both seen 
and heard me. 

1246
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,640
I could not tell what sex it was
because of all the long dark 

1247
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,640
hair around the body. 
However, now that I have seen 

1248
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:53,600
numerous showings of the 
Patterson film in which Patty 

1249
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:56,760
was documented, I must 
guesstimate it was male and 

1250
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:01,480
gender within 10 to 15 seconds. 
As quickly as the creature had 

1251
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:04,600
entered my field of view, it 
calmly made about two strides 

1252
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:08,000
across the open fire lane, 
parted some tall bushes with 

1253
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,640
well muscled uplifted hairy arms
and disappeared into the thick 

1254
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:14,840
brush. 
Right away I noticed that it was

1255
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,800
now standing inside the screen 
of thick brush alongside the 

1256
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:19,880
fire lane like it was watching 
me. 

1257
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:23,880
I could readily discern the huge
dark shape as it stood there for

1258
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:27,360
possibly a minute or so. 
Apparently it was looking at me 

1259
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:28,920
sitting up the hill on the 
ground. 

1260
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,600
I didn't know at the time 
whether it was going to attack 

1261
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:34,520
me or leave. 
I kept the little carbine in its

1262
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:37,920
ready position across my chest 
and slowly stood up to get a 

1263
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:39,720
better look at this unknown 
animal. 

1264
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,960
I decided at the moment when I 
stood up that if this thing 

1265
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:47,000
would charge me I was going to 
run back up the hill to my dad 

1266
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:51,320
unless it got too close to me. 
Then and only then would I 

1267
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:55,480
consider shooting the animal. 
I admit it, I was scared fit to 

1268
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:58,400
wet my pants. 
I now recall seeing the bushes 

1269
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,360
shake violently and the dark 
shape stepped out of sight. 

1270
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:05,000
I slowly sat down again and 
listened to its rustling 

1271
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,640
footsteps as the huge ape man 
descended down the hill away 

1272
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:12,240
from me. 
Boy I was glad it was gone now 

1273
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,880
the shake started. 
If I had been smoking in those 

1274
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:17,320
days I would have lit a 
cigarette and probably smoked 

1275
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:21,120
the whole pack. 
Finally after about 15 minutes 

1276
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:24,200
when the stillness was broken by
singing birds and scurrying 

1277
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,880
chipmunks, I got up enough nerve
to carefully go down to the spot

1278
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,760
where I had seen this creature. 
Was I dreaming? 

1279
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,880
No, because there in the loose 
dirt I saw a couple of huge 

1280
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,200
human like bare toed tracks 
where it had crossed the fire 

1281
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:41,400
line. 
Then a raunchy odor hit my nose.

1282
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:44,640
I remember thinking it smelled 
like a horrendous fart. 

1283
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:48,360
In fact, at the time I decided 
to call it the Fart Creature. 

1284
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,480
I know that it's not a very 
endearing name for such a 

1285
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:54,760
marvellous being, but that's how
my scared brain was working that

1286
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:58,200
fateful morning. 
Deciding that now would be a 

1287
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:01,320
good time to leave the area, I 
quickly walked back up the hill 

1288
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:03,960
to where I'd been sitting and 
stood there for a few minutes. 

1289
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:06,920
Clearly I had seen something 
unexplained. 

1290
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,920
Now I had to decide if I should 
tell my dad or just keep quiet. 

1291
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:14,720
To tell you the truth, I was 
afraid to tell my father because

1292
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:16,279
I knew he would never believe 
me. 

1293
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:18,920
I thought he would most 
certainly take my hunting 

1294
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,600
privileges away for seeing 
buggers in the hills. 

1295
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:25,840
I began slowly walking back up 
the fire break toward my father 

1296
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:29,240
in the Piney flats above me. 
I remembered now that he asked 

1297
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,520
me why I had left my dear stand 
so early. 

1298
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,960
I think I replied that I was 
hungry and bored and not seeing 

1299
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,160
a buck right after daylight. 
He probably chewed me out for 

1300
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:42,399
leaving so early, but at least I
did incur his wrath for telling 

1301
01:08:42,399 --> 01:08:46,240
a bugger story. 
Honestly, for many years I 

1302
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:49,359
forgot about this incident. 
I had to go back to military 

1303
01:08:49,359 --> 01:08:52,520
school the next week, and the 
ensuing years later in my life 

1304
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:56,160
was filled with other things. 
Of course, I really never did 

1305
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,040
totally forget about seeing a 
Sasquatch. 

1306
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,600
It was only later on in life, 
after getting married, serving 

1307
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,880
in the military, and leaving 
California for Florida, that 

1308
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,000
this sighting began to trouble 
my conscience. 

1309
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,960
How I kept this secret for this 
many years, I will never know. 

1310
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:14,000
I guess I was frightened that 
people would think I was crazy. 

1311
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:18,000
Usually I'm the blabby type, 
sharing plenty of secrets with 

1312
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,479
almost anybody, especially 
family or friends. 

1313
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:24,439
But this deal? 
Oh no, I kept these cards close.

1314
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:30,680
Too close for too long, really. 
This occurred when the witness 

1315
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:32,880
was 12 years old. 
In 1950. 

1316
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:37,359
The witness was camping alone in
the Los Pedros National Forest 

1317
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:41,000
near her home in Ojai because 
she had run away from home, 

1318
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:43,880
behaviour that was somewhat 
common for the witness when she 

1319
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:47,080
was a child. 
The first time she ran away, her

1320
01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:49,720
parents were alarmed enough to 
have forest Rangers out looking 

1321
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,279
for her. 
However, her subsequent 

1322
01:09:52,279 --> 01:09:55,280
excursions from home eventually 
left her parents indifferent 

1323
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,920
because they knew that she would
return in a few days. 

1324
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:02,480
The witness on horseback rounded
a curve on the trail and saw 

1325
01:10:02,480 --> 01:10:05,920
down below 3 hair covered 
creatures drinking from a 

1326
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,200
stream. 
They were crouched down on their

1327
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:11,320
hands and knees on the bank with
their mouths in the water and 

1328
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,440
did not look up to see the 
witness for about 30 seconds. 

1329
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:19,160
After the creatures rose up, the
witness raised her hand, palm 

1330
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:22,080
facing outward in a greeting 
which was returned in like 

1331
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:25,480
fashion by the adolescent, while
the two smaller creatures stood 

1332
01:10:25,480 --> 01:10:28,040
beside the adolescent and stared
at the witness. 

1333
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,880
The adolescent then took the two
small ones by their hands and 

1334
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,400
the three of them turned and 
walked up the trail and over a 

1335
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:37,480
hill. 
The sighting lasted about 3 or 4

1336
01:10:37,480 --> 01:10:41,360
minutes afterwards when the 
witness moved down to the stream

1337
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,400
to allow her horse to drink. 
She did not look for tracks. 

1338
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,360
She did not know what the 
animals were because in 1950 

1339
01:10:48,480 --> 01:10:50,440
most people had never heard of 
Bigfoot. 

1340
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:54,160
However, she knew that these 
animals were not bears because 

1341
01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:56,920
they didn't look like bears and 
because bears would not have 

1342
01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:02,040
returned her greeting gesture. 
Using her five feet height as a 

1343
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:05,000
yardstick, the witness judged 
the tallest of the three, 

1344
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:09,000
apparently an adolescent, to be 
between 5 foot three and five 

1345
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:12,200
foot 4IN height. 
The two smaller ones were about 

1346
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,680
3 1/2 feet tall. 
The creatures had brow ridges 

1347
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,240
although not as pronounced as a 
Neanderthal. 

1348
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:22,200
They had kind of *** shaped 
noses and the ears were not 

1349
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visible. 
The head shapes were human like 

1350
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,680
with no Crest or point at the 
top. 

1351
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:28,880
The witness is unsure of the 
hair length. 

1352
01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,920
The adolescent had a normal 
build like a teenager and the 

1353
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:35,680
creatures walked with bipedal 
human like gaits. 

1354
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,520
No odour was noticed during the 
sighting. 

1355
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:42,280
The witness never felt any fear 
nor did she have any feeling of 

1356
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:44,040
being watched while moving up 
the trail. 

1357
01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:48,200
After the sighting, the horse 
didn't pay no mind at all to the

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creatures. 
Thanks for listening everyone. 

1359
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:56,360
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1360
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:58,360
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Thanks again. 
Take care.