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Welcome back to the Bigfoot 
Project. 

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Find a quiet place to relax and 
prepare yourself for another 

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collection of frightening 
encounters. 

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Hello, I would like to tell you 
a story that occurred in 

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Tennessee in the 1990s. 
Please forgive me for the length

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but everything is important to 
understand the events. 

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Also forgive me for any errors, 
I'm not a writer. 

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Here's a little background on 
myself. 

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I was an avid outdoorsman and 
hunter, very comfortable around 

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firearms. 
I worked many part time jobs. 

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I would land survey in the 
summers and work local farms in 

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the winter. 
Months later I happened to get 

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my first full time job at a 
local factory I was fresh out 

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of. 
Community College and when not. 

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Working. 
I would help out my friend, I 

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will call him Bruce, on his 
grandfather's farm. 

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His grandfather was a retired 
Baptist preacher. 

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This will be important later. 
Bruce was a stocky, very strong 

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young man. 
He was the best hunter I have 

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ever met. 
There was nothing in the 

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Tennessee woods he couldn't 
kill. 

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He limited out every year on 
whitetail and Turkey. 

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We would hunt and fish every 
minute of spare time we could 

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find. 
The area we haunted was mostly 

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owned by his grandfather. 
His grandfather owned 2 separate

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farms, one on the east side of a
large lake, we call it the 

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Bailey Place and the other on 
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His property was mainly hills 
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government controlled lands or 
public lands along the 

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lakefront. 
We would hunt right up to the 

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public lands. 
We built many hunting blinds and

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tree stands on these properties.
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something watching us, always 
blowing it off. 

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Sometimes we would joke Bigfoot 
is watching us again. 

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We got so used to this feeling 
we would just look at each other

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and say you feel that then shrug
it off and keep on doing 

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whatever we were doing. 
One day while cutting cedar 

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fence post with his dad on the 
West side property, me and Bruce

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had that same old feeling of 
being watched. 

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We continued loading the cut 
poles when his dad cut his 

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chainsaw off and said you feel 
that something is watching us. 

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We both said yes. 
For a while now this somewhat 

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validated what we have been 
experiencing. 

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One Sunday night while I was at 
home I got a frantic phone call 

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from Bruce. 
I could tell he was running and 

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he told me to get to the farm as
soon as I can, no questions 

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asked. 
I told him I was on my way. 

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It's a good. 20 to 30 minute 
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I arrived at his grandfather's 
house and he was waiting on me 

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by the old 4x4 farm truck. 
I got out of my truck and said 

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what the heck man, what's going 
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He just asked. 
You got your rifle. 

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I said yes and he said. 
Get in the truck. 

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We got to go to the back 40 
still not knowing what was going

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on and thinking to myself how 
weird he was acting and how I'd 

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never seen him this nervous. 
As we drive through the dark 

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cattle fields toward the back 
40, which is mainly woods and 

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across a small Creek. 
He told me he was Bush hogging 

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deer lanes on the tractor when 
he ran out of diesel fuel and he

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was afraid with the cold weather
he would not be able to get the 

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tractor started again. 
He needed me to drive the 4x4 

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back to the house. 
I said come on man, is that all 

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that's going on? 
He finally told me after some 

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hesitation. 
He said after the tractor ran 

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out of fuel, he started walking 
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He said something or someone was
stalking him. 

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At first he thought it could be 
a bobcat, which will do that 

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sometimes, but it seemed to him 
this thing was bigger and on 2 

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feet. 
He began to pick up his pace and

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it kept up right behind him. 
Having no flashlight, he started

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getting concerned. 
That's when he called me. 

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He said when he stopped, it 
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When he crossed the Creek he 
said it was right on him, but as

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soon as he reached the open 
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I had never seen this guy so 
nervous and said he just needed 

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backup. 
After reaching the top of the 

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hill we got the tractor fueled 
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watching our six. 
You could feel something just 

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out of sight watching us. 
We soon pushed this event out of

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our minds and carried on with 
our daily activities on the 

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farm. 
Bruce knew these woods and the 

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other woods on the other side of
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We would get up early before 
dawn and go out hunting. 

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Bruce would know as soon as we 
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luck or not. 
He would say it's not good up 

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here today, let's go down in the
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We might get a buck down there. 
Or you go over in that stand and

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one will come up at daylight. 
He was rarely wrong and I 

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started understanding his logic.
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birds singing and small animals 
moving around that meant a good 

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hunt. 
Dead silence meant the hunting 

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would be bad. 
Sometimes while sitting in the 

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stand, the woods would suddenly 
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I would get very nervous and 
think Dang, might as well go 

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back to the truck. 
Still, we didn't put two and two

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together till we found the 
footprint. 

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One rather warm winter day, 
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decided to hike down to the 
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and take a look around. 
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and deer sign, stuff like that. 
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found a fresh track and couldn't
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We just stood there looking down
on this nearly perfect 

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footprint. 
Bruce broke the silence with one

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word, Bigfoot. 
It was unbelievable. 

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A 13 or 14 inch footprint with 
five toes. 

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The big toe showed as plain as 
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I said either this is a 
Bigfootprint or there's a huge 

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barefoot fisherman around here 
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As we walked back we started 
discussing maybe this explains 

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everything that's been happening
around here, at least on this 

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side of the lake. 
Could there be a Bigfoot on this

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lake? 
It became a running joke for a 

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good while, but still didn't 
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A little while after that I 
wanted to take my girlfriend 

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camping. 
I decided to take her over to 

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the east side farm, the Bailey 
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There was no homes and no one 
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I was looking forward to some 
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I set up camp on a high point in
a clearing right outside the 

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tree line. 
The woods fell sharply downhill 

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into a deep holler. 
I knew this spot well. 

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I had a tree stand not far over 
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Bruce had promised he wouldn't 
mess with us and had plans with 

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his own lady. 
The beginning of the night was 

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fantastic, just like a cheesy 
country song. 

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Me and her camp fire and my old 
pickup. 

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We had a few drinks and some 
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At about midnight the woods went
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Oh crap, I thought to myself. 
I started hearing faint movement

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inside the tree line. 
Not loud, but loud enough for me

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to notice. 
It seemed to only move when we 

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were talking. 
I thought about retrieving my 

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shotgun from the truck, but not 
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I pretended nothing was wrong. 
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be Bruce messing with me. 
I finally jumped in the tent to 

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get some sleep. 
I tried to stay awake and listen

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but it seemed to quiet down. 
I dozed off and was later awoke 

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by my girlfriend. 
She said there was something out

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there. 
I said don't worry, it's 

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probably just a small animal 
messing around. 

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As I laid there I could hear 
something walking back and forth

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breaking sticks a short distance
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My girlfriend was almost in 
tears when she said I want to go

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home. 
Being the tough guy, I jumped up

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and out of the tent, walked over
to my truck and pulled out my 

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shotgun. 
I gave it a good pump and 

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shouted out the universal. 
Good old boy warning. 

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Whoever you are, you better 
start stepping because you're 

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fixing to get shot. 
This works well against 

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trespassers and pranksters. 
Again I shouted. 

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You've been warned. 
Say something now or next step 

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I'm shooting. 
The Walking stopped for a few 

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minutes. 
Deep down I knew it wasn't a 

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person out there. 
It was something else. 

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Crack. 
Another stick broke. 

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I told my girlfriend to cover 
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I'm all about gun safety, and up
to this point I have never fired

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a weapon at something I couldn't
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I felt I didn't have a choice. 
This thing was getting bold. 

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The next sound I fired a shot. 
It echoed over the countryside. 

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Another step. 
Two more buckshot loads cut 

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through the underbrush. 
I must have got its attention. 

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It stopped. 
Soon the insects started singing

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again. 
I didn't sleep much after that. 

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Daylight came soon and I took 
her home. 

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Later that day I met up with 
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I didn't say anything about what
happened, hoping that if it was 

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him messing with me last night 
he would give himself away, but 

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he said nothing. 
We decided that we would go back

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and camp at the same spot since 
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Around midnight it was back. 
I still hadn't told him about 

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the night before. 
This time it was just outside 

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flashlight range and bolder than
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I kept quiet just to see how the
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Bruce was not easily spooked, 
but I could see it was getting 

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to him several times, looking 
across the fire light and saying

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what is that? 
What could that be? 

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It sounds big, two legs, what do
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I finally said, I don't know 
man, but I shot at it last 

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night. 
I never saw anything, he said. 

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What? 
You shot at it, you could have 

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killed someone. 
What if it was me? 

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Ashamed, I said, man, I didn't 
think I had a choice. 

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Later that night we were lying 
in the tent listening to this 

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thing walking around, breaking 
what sounded like full grown 

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trees, stomping around like a 
dangorilla. 

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Bruce said. 
Forget this. 

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He jumped up and out of the 
tent, grabbing his Remington 

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1100 automatic shotgun and 
commenced unloading it into the 

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darkness. 
Phil jumped up after him, 

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pumping more rounds into the 
darkness. 

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After the smoke cleared, it 
seemed to get the hint. 

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Not much noise after that. 
We knew this wasn't normal, but 

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what could we do? 
We would go hunt and it would be

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there, or it wouldn't. 
You could always know. 

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You could feel it in the air and
what the wildlife was doing. 

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It became the norm. 
As strange as it sounds, we 

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started ignoring the thing. 
The east side of the lake farm 

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we called the Bailey's Place was
named after the family that 

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owned it in the early 1900s. 
These were distant relatives to 

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Bruce's family. 
Bruce's grandfather grew up a 

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short distance from the Bailey 
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From time to time we would go 
see the Baileys and hang out 

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with the great grandson, which 
was about our age. 1 fall night 

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we went to visit him and cook up
some tenderloin from a buck we 

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had just bagged a day before. 
As we sat there in the kitchen 

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eating we started joking around 
about the Bigfoot out at the 

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Bailey's place. 
We were laughing and enjoying 

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the conversation when his dad 
shouted from the living room. 

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His dad was a very quiet man, I 
don't think I've ever heard him 

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speak, but he was pissed. 
As he threw his beer bottle or 

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tea glass or whatever it was 
against the fireplace. 

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He shouted. 
The beast has been out there 

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years and you don't want to mess
with it. 

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Get the fuck out of my house. 
Without hesitation we jumped up 

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and left. 
I looked at Bruce as we headed 

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back to his grandfather's house.
What the heck was he talking 

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about? 
The beast? 

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Bruce said. 
Ah, he's messing with us. 

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Grandpa would have told me about
a so-called beast. 

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Bruce said we will ask him 
tomorrow after church. 

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Now remember Bruce's grandfather
was a retired preacher and was 

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at least 80 years old, so there 
was no reason for him to lie. 

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So after church and Sunday 
dinner, we sat down on the couch

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across from Bruce's grandfather.
With a wink, Bruce said, hey 

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Grandpa, tell us about the beast
out there at the Bailey's place.

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His grandfather sat there for a 
few minutes, not even flinching 

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or looking our way, just chewing
his tobacco and watching TV. 

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After a few minutes, Bruce 
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told you so. 
Then it happened. 

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The nail in the coffin. 
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voice said. 
I don't ever recall it being 

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called the Beast. 
We never really called it 

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anything, but I heard it when I 
was 12 years old. 

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I was hunting with my cousins 
and I was the youngest and this 

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thing yelled out at us and we 
sent the dogs after it. 

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We only had one Lantern so we 
couldn't see very far. 

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The dogs went out of sight into 
the darkness after this thing. 

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Barks became whimpers and they 
came straight back, passing us 

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and heading toward the house. 
My cousins took off running, 

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leaving me alone in the dark 
with this thing only feet away. 

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I ran and jumped the fence and 
got out of there. 

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Grandpa said the locals would 
gather together and try to hunt 

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this thing down and kill it, but
could never get close enough to 

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do the job. 
It would come back every year, 

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mainly in the fall, and kill a 
dog or two. 

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Maybe a few livestock would go 
missing. 

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He finally ended the 
conversation with I don't know 

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what it was. 
He wouldn't say anything else. 

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We looked at each other in 
amazement. 

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Bruce said we're going to go 
kill this thing. 

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Man was he wrong. 
I had started a full time job in

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a factory on 2nd shift. 
Enter my new buddy Shane. 

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He was one-of-a-kind dude. 
He was a straight up Native 

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American, jet black ponytail and
all. 

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We became good friends and had 
the same interests. 

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It took me a while to tell him 
that me and my friend Bruce had 

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plans to go kill Bigfoot like 
that. 

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Don't sound crazy or anything. 
When I finally told Shane he 

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didn't flinch, he said I'm in. 
We made plans to go out to the 

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Bailey place and hunt the beast.
Me and Bruce scouted out the 

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Bailey place for just the right 
spot to set up our Hunter's 

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camp. 
We decided on a small dry pond 

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on the edge of the woods. 
The banks would give us some 

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defensive advantage. 
The banks of the pond, except 

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for a flat spot right at the 
entrance to the field and pond, 

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was surrounded by trees and a 
semi steep slope fell off the 

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backside. 
The pond was maybe 50 feet in 

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diameter. 
We placed the fire pit dead 

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center in the flat spot at the 
entrance to the pond and field. 

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We would back our two trucks in,
making the pond a kill box for 

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anything brave enough to come 
over the edge and into our camp.

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We found out later the dry pond 
was a good defensive spot, but 

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with no offensive advantage at 
all. 

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We were ready to go and decided 
we would also bring a second 

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line of defence, Hercules, 
Bruce's pit bull dog. 

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Hercules would protect Bruce to 
the death. 

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He would retrieve ducks, kill 
coyotes and was well behaved. 

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He would take Bruce's orders to 
the tee. 

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We set up camp early that day, 
had the campfire ready and tent 

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up a good stockpile of wood and 
most of the gear and ammo we 

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needed. 
Bruce met me and Shane right 

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after work and we headed out. 
We arrived at camp at about 1:00

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AM. 
As soon as we stepped out of the

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truck, I knew the beast was 
there. 

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It was dead quiet, not even a 
cricket was chirping. 

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Hercules, the pit bull was 
frozen. 

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He wouldn't get out of Bruce's 
truck. 

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Hercules, out. 
Bruce commanded with no response

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from the dog. 
He grabbed the dog by his collar

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and pulled him out of the truck.
Hercules dashed straight for the

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tent and curled up in the 
corner. 

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We all looked in dismay at each 
other and Bruce said well that's

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not a good sign. 
Bruce said I've never seen him 

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scared of anything. 
We got the fire burning, 

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unpacked our remaining gear and 
weapons. 

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The air was quiet and calm. 
Then it started just like 

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before, Sticks breaking, the 
occasional tree breaking. 

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The sounds were pretty far out 
from camp, maybe 50 yards. 

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Bruce said it's time to get this
SOB, let's go. 

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Bruce rushed out of camp around 
the truck a short distance 

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through the field and to the 
edge of the tree line, me and 

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Shane right behind him. 
Bruce was trying to flank the 

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beast and come in on its right 
side. 

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The woods went even quieter as 
we slowly creep into the woods, 

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my heart pounding out of my 
chest, fear and excitement all 

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at the same time. 
The night sky was clear and 

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Bruce said no flashlights let 
her eyes get used to the 

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darkness. 
The stars gave us enough light 

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to maneuver through the 
underbrush toward the last known

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position of the thing. 
We hunkered down and listened 

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for a moment. 
We heard it walking farther 

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downhill. 
We could hear this thing 

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walking, but no shadows. 
We couldn't see anything. 

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We followed The Walking down the
hill, thinking this thing was in

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retreat. 
We came up to an old fence line.

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We were at least 100 yards from 
camp at this point and I got to 

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say I was scared to death. 
But at the same time it still 

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felt like a game and not real. 
We sat still for maybe 10 

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minutes just listening, hearing 
some movement across the fence 

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line right in front of us. 
Bruce whispered it's right out 

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there, maybe 30 yards. 
He told me to go up and go to 

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the right and cover him at the 
tree line. 

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He told Shane go straight up 
through the woods to the middle 

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to camp. 
You guys skip a step every now 

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and then, maybe it'll think it's
all three of us going up to camp

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and follow you. 
I will stay here and see if I 

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can get a look at this thing. 
Shane didn't like the plan and 

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said it's right on top of us, 
turn on the flashlights. 

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He begged. 
Bruce said stick to the plan. 

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So we did. 
I ran back up the hill and 

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positioned myself looking back 
down the hill toward Bruce and 

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Shane. 
Ran up the hill, through the 

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woods to the backside of camp. 
A few minutes passed which felt 

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like hours. 
My heart was beating a mile a 

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minute. 
Then all of a sudden, a loud. 

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Whoo. 
Came echoing up the hill. 

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Then again, I thought to myself,
what the heck is that? 

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After the third time, I figured 
it out. 

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It was Bruce's hoot owl call, 
used to make wild turkeys shock 

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gobble. 
Then I heard footsteps running 

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up the hill, fast coming toward 
me. 

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It was Bruce, he slid right up 
beside me and out of breath. 

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He said I think there's three of
them. 

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What? 
I whispered. 3 He said. 

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We jumped up and ran into camp. 
Shane was sitting right by the 

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fire with Hercules curled up 
under his legs. 

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He said what the hell was that 
noise? 

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Bruce said it was an owl call. 
It was the only thing I could 

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think of when I realized I was 
in an ambush. 

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What? 
We both yelled at the same time.

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Bruce said yes. 
Right after you guys went up. 

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The hill in front of me slowly 
moved in my direction. 

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I was ready to unload when I 
heard a second set of heavy 

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footprints follow Shane. 
Oh shit. 

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He said. 
Then the third one came from my 

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right just yards away. 
I couldn't see anything man 

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nothing. 
I need to make them stop and 

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give me a chance to get out of 
there. 

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So I blew my owl call. 
They both stopped and I humped 

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it out of there. 
Me and Shane just listened in 

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disbelief. 
No way there's three of these 

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invisible things stalking us. 
As we drank some water and 

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gathered our thoughts, Hercules 
whimpered and retreated back to 

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the tent. 
About the same time Bruce said. 

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Dang coward. 
An unearthly scream blasted 

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toward us, just yards from us. 
I fell to my knees and Shane 

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fell off the chair, spinning 
around, gun in the air, catching

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himself on a log. 
Bruce almost fell backwards as 

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if the sound was going to knock 
him over. 

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I trembled in fear. 
I've never heard anything like 

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that in my life and never want 
to hear it again. 

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I keep telling myself this is 
real. 

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Oh shit, this is really 
happening. 

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The scream. 
It was unearthly but biological 

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at the same time. 
It started off like a woman but 

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much louder and ending in a roar
like a lion or grizzly. 

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There's nothing in these woods 
that make sounds like that. 

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Like a semi truck running 70 and
locking up 1 tire. 

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The high pitched screech with a 
roar at the end. 

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I couldn't keep myself from 
shaking, but I had to see this 

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thing. 
I had the most firepower, so I 

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said cover me. 
I walked to the edge of the 

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pond, climbed the bank and with 
every fibre I could muster I 

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clicked on the mag light mounted
on the bottom of my AK. 

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Bruce and Shane stood on either 
side of me, covering my six. 

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I shone the light through the 
Cedars and hardwoods, looking 

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for whatever just made that 
scream. 

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It was just moments ago. 
It had to be right there. 

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It was so close. 
It didn't move after. 

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It still had to be right there, 
but I couldn't see anything. 

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I creeped forward a few feet, 
shining all around. 

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I had an overwhelming feeling of
danger and dread. 

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I focused on one tree about 20 
yards away, thinking I kept 

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seeing something. 
I would move my light away and 

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when I focus back on the tree, 
there was nothing. 

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I did it again, only this time 
focusing the light just to the 

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left. 
My rifle started shaking 

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uncontrollably in my right hand 
as I was holding onto a tree 

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with my left, trying to keep 
balanced. 

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It was there, right behind that 
tree, something, a shine of an 

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eye just out of sight. 
It was there, but not there. 

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I can't explain it, I couldn't 
comprehend it. 

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The air was full of dread. 
This was a trap, I could feel it

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in my bones. 
I said to the guys, I'm backing 

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out, cover me, it's right there.
I was doing my best to back out,

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walking backwards this was 
impossible. 

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I just knew if I turned my back 
it would attack. 

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If I could keep my light on that
tree I had a chance. 

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I told myself. 
I must have looked like an idiot

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climbing over that bank. 
I rolled into the pond and 

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crawled to the fire. 
It's out there, I think it's 

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right out there, I mumbled. 
I think this really hit home for

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Bruce. 
He had haunted these woods and 

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nothing was going to scare him 
out of them. 

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He started yelling and cussing 
at this thing, daring it to come

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up here. 
I had never seen my friend so 

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full of rage. 
He said I got something for you.

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And with his 12 gauge he focused
on a cedar just right at the 

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edge of the pond and started 
hammering this tree with round 

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after round from his palm 
shotgun. 

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He blew this tree to shreds till
it fell over the Bank of the 

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pond. 
That's what's coming to you, you

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son of a bitch. 
Then he walked over to the tent,

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reloaded his shotgun and said 
I'm going to bed. 

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Me and Shane sat there in 
silence for an hour or so it 

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seemed, not saying a word, just 
grasping our rifles. 

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I finally said it's time for 
some sleep, I have to sleep. 

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I told him. 
The adrenaline had worn off, 

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leaving us exhausted. 
We both climbed in the tent 

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after not having heard anything 
since Bruce's outburst with the 

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tree. 
I was in the middle with Shane 

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to my right and Bruce to my 
left. 

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Hercules seemed calm. 
He was napping on top of Bruce's

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chest. 
I told myself if he's chill then

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we're all good. 
I don't really know how much 

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time had passed, but it must 
have been a few hours because 

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the fire had almost died. 
There was only a slight glow 

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through the zip tent door when I
woke to Shane saying oh shit, I 

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didn't know what was going on. 
My rifle had slipped between my 

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legs and almost under me. 
I looked to my right as Shane 

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raised his rifle toward the tent
door. 

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At the same time I glanced to 
the left to see Hercules, ears 

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back, staring at the tent door 
with a low growl, Bruce's hand 

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slowly sliding under his collar,
preparing for what was coming. 

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Hercules lunged for the closed 
tent door, jerking Bruce almost 

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upright. 
Growls became furious barking 

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and Shane waving his rifle side 
to side saying oh shit, oh shit.

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Then it was gone in just seconds
to large heavy footsteps and 

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bumping the truck bed with a 
thud. 

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Hercules whimpered a few seconds
and returned to his perch on 

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Bruce's lap. 
This is just too much man, just 

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too much. 
This is bullshit. 

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Bruce said. 
At this point we knew Hercules 

455
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,520
was a good alarm if it came 
back, so we fell back to sleep. 

456
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,400
Well, at least I did. 
Sun up was coming soon and the 

457
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,240
birds started singing and 
insects. 

458
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,000
We had made it through the 
night. 

459
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,480
Bruce got up, said he was hungry
and was going to go get him a 

460
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,720
squirrel. 
We said you're crazy, man. 

461
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,440
No way, he said. 
Nothing is going to keep me out 

462
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,960
of these woods. 
I guess he had to prove it to 

463
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,680
himself and face his fears. 
So he went hunting. 

464
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,920
He came back a few. 
Hours later with a squirrel and 

465
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,560
commenced cooking it over the 
fire. 

466
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,880
We sat around for a while and 
decided to take a look around 

467
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,120
for tracks and whatnot. 
We found some places that looked

468
00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,040
like something had laid there, 
but it could have been a 

469
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,400
whitetail. 
We walked all around this 

470
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,200
property finding the Bailey's 
old home place at the bottom of 

471
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,640
the hauler. 
Not much was to be found. 

472
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,360
We did find some game trails 
with some trees twisted off up 

473
00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:11,000
high, which was a bit odd. 
We really didn't know what we 

474
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,040
were looking for. 
At about midday as we were 

475
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,000
walking around the foot of a big
hill, a bunch of doves came 

476
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,840
running straight at us, running 
from something off the hill 

477
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,280
above. 
They almost run right into us 

478
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,240
till they realized we were there
and quickly changed directions. 

479
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,720
Shane said it was testing us to 
see if we were there to shoot 

480
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,360
the deer. 
Not sure if that was the case 

481
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,280
but it was very strange 
behaviour. 

482
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,560
We were not being quiet as we 
hiked around. 

483
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,560
About an hour later as we hiked 
back up to the top where the 

484
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,040
camp was, we all smelled 
something strange. 

485
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,280
Not like wet dog or rotten meat 
but more like dumpster rotten 

486
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,080
garbage. 
We all went home after that and 

487
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,160
said we will be back. 
Bruce never came back with me 

488
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,240
and Shane. 
I don't think he wanted to know 

489
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,760
any more about this thing. 
I don't blame him, but for me 

490
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,760
and Shane, it was not done yet. 
Now here he goes. 

491
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,120
Nothing. 
Like I said before, this is 

492
00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,120
entirely true. 
Everything is true. 

493
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,560
The story turns from crazy to 
batshit crazy. 

494
00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:13,520
I know most of you guys won't 
believe the rest of this story, 

495
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,360
but I have to tell it as it 
happened. 

496
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,520
As crazy as it sounds, it's 
still the facts. 

497
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,080
We believed up to this point 
that we were out there hunting 

498
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,160
Bigfoot where Bigfoot was 
hunting us. 

499
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,320
I mean we found the print right?
We found the trails with the 

500
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,680
twisted off treetops, and even 
think we've found some hair 6 

501
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,160
feet high in those trees. 
The garbage smell. 

502
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,560
Classic Bigfoot. 
We even started asking around 

503
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,880
and Yep, people claim to have 
seen Bigfoot. 

504
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,440
Not just a few, but several 
accounts of Bigfoot. 

505
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,760
Well, if it is Bigfoot, the TV 
shows have it all wrong, way 

506
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,240
wrong. 
Me and Shane continued to come 

507
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,520
out to the dry pond about once a
week or so, mostly on Friday 

508
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,720
nights. 
We did this for months. 

509
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,280
It was always the same thing. 
As soon as we got out of the 

510
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,800
truck we would know if he was 
going to show up or not. 

511
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,440
If he was there, the same old 
thing, breaking sticks, 

512
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,800
crunching trees, no woodland 
sounds. 

513
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,160
Most of the time he was a no 
show. 

514
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,840
We got used to being out there. 
We would just sit and listen to 

515
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,800
it, walk around and if it wasn't
there we would just shoot the 

516
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,040
shit. 
Always thinking about what it 

517
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,920
could be like. 
Grandpa said it comes in the 

518
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,960
fall of the year and was almost 
winter. 

519
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,960
The nights were getting colder 
and this night was going to be 

520
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,160
the last night we were going to 
camp for this season. 

521
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,880
We got a good fire going. 
It was about one or two in the 

522
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,840
morning and we were bundled up 
in our winter gear laying by the

523
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,000
fire just talking and 
stargazing. 

524
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,000
Then we started to hear him 
messing around out there. 

525
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,920
It wasn't anything new so we 
stood up and scanned the woods 

526
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,320
with the flashlight. 
Things quieted down again and we

527
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,440
went back to talking and looking
at the stars. 

528
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,320
Then off to my right in the 
underbrush I hear dragging or 

529
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,640
crawling or something. 
Almost like a GI would crawl and

530
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,560
drag his legs behind him. 
This was new to us and coming 

531
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,680
from a place a few yards out 
that he has never been before. 

532
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,840
Still lying on my back, I grab 
my spotlight and rifle and shine

533
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,680
it in the direction the noise is
coming from. 

534
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,160
I couldn't see anything which 
made me nervous because it 

535
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,120
sounded so close to me. 
I pointed my rifle in the 

536
00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:24,680
direction and out loud I said if
I see as much as a twig move I'm

537
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,000
unloading on your ass. 
This seemed to do the trick. 

538
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,720
Once again no more movement. 
We laid there for another hour 

539
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,080
or so letting the fire die down 
when I said I've had enough 

540
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,760
let's go home. 
So we both stand up, Shane is in

541
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,680
front of me closer to the truck 
and my back is to the woods. 

542
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,400
I have my rifle in one hand and 
I'm reaching down to pick up my 

543
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,960
big spotlight flashlight when 
all of a sudden from behind me, 

544
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,320
something big charges straight 
toward me. 

545
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,720
This thing is coming and coming 
fast. 

546
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,520
Without hesitation, knowing in 
my soul this thing is coming to 

547
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,560
kill me. 
I swing around and click off my 

548
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,800
safety. 
It has to be just yards away. 

549
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,000
I can't see it, but it's moving 
trees to get to us. 

550
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,800
Like a bull running through the 
woods. 

551
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,560
I again break my gun rule. 
I start firing directly at this 

552
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,680
sound. 
It's right on me, but I can't 

553
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,600
see it. 
This is all in just seconds. 

554
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,960
Shane steps around me and joins 
the shooting spree. 

555
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,960
I'm noticing something, but I 
can't stop firing. 

556
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,880
It's just too close. 
It's in the dry pond with us, 

557
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,600
but we can't see it. 
Holy crap, it's right in here 

558
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,920
with us. 
Shane fires 5 rounds. 

559
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,200
I'm probably on round 10 of my 
30 when this thing breaks, 

560
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,360
right? 
If you're a hunter, you know 

561
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,600
when you fire on your game, you 
don't hear the shot, but instead

562
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,040
you can hear your target and can
hear where it goes and falls. 

563
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,080
You can shoot it on the run. 
Well, that's exactly what I did 

564
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,320
to this thing. 
I was shooting it just feet from

565
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,480
me and I was hitting it. 
Yes, I was hitting it. 

566
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,840
You know why Shane only took 
five shots and I was still 

567
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,200
pounding this thing with lead 
because Shane saw the same thing

568
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,520
I did. 
We were hitting something. 

569
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,720
I fired 25 rounds in a matter of
seconds. 

570
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,560
This thing crashed back into the
woods over the dry pond bank and

571
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,400
slid to a stop several yards out
in the woods, just like it 

572
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,960
collapsed, just like a deer will
do when you lung it. 

573
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,600
It will run, then just collapse.
I was in disbelief. 

574
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,520
Did this just happen? 
This can't be real. 

575
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,520
Did I really just see what 
happened? 

576
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,480
Shane seemed to snap out of his 
trance and he ran over to the 

577
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,280
edge of the pond where this 
thing fell and he said we killed

578
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:38,080
it, let's get it. 
I also came to my senses and 

579
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,400
said hold up, don't go over the 
bank, just keep your gun pointed

580
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,160
where it fell. 
I have to reload. 

581
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,200
Digging through my backpack, 
realizing I forgot my extra 

582
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,760
magazines at the house, I did 
manage to find 5 loose 

583
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:54,120
cartridges in my pack, bringing 
my ammo count back up to 10 

584
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,800
rounds. 
If this thing gets back up it's 

585
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,720
not going to be enough I told 
myself. 

586
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,360
I yelled over to Shane. 
How much ammo you got? 

587
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,040
15 rounds, I know not to go in 
there after this thing, so I say

588
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,280
to Shane if it's down then it's 
down. 

589
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,080
We will wait for daylight. 
After what I just saw there's no

590
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,960
way we would stand a chance. 
Shane agrees. 

591
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,120
We wait for daylight. 
We build the fire back up and 

592
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,320
sit facing where this thing fell
in the darkness. 

593
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,200
We sit in silence for what 
seemed an eternity, the whole 

594
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,200
time running. 
What happened over and over in 

595
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,880
my head? 
What was it? 

596
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,200
What did I just kill? 
Did I just kill someone? 

597
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,640
But it just is impossible what I
saw. 

598
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,600
Finally I got the nerve to ask 
Shane, dude, why did you only 

599
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,120
shoot five shots then look at 
your muzzle. 

600
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,840
He said man, my gun was throwing
sparks. 

601
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,680
I said bullshit. 
He then said yours was too. 

602
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,720
I said they were not throwing 
sparks and you know it. 

603
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,680
I said like what? 
That they were hitting something

604
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,000
invisible and our bullets were 
just absorbed. 

605
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,240
He said yes, it's fucking 
impossible. 

606
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,400
That's exactly what happened. 
Yes, I swear to you, this thing 

607
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,280
was inside our perimeter, 
invisible and bulletproof. 

608
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,720
This is no Bigfoot I've ever 
heard of. 

609
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,520
We didn't talk much after that, 
just sat there peering toward 

610
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,800
the dark woods. 
Daylight couldn't come fast 

611
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,280
enough, and when it got almost 
light enough to see our hand in 

612
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,720
front of our face, this freaking
thing stood up just outside of 

613
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,840
the firelight range and walked 
slowly down the hill away from 

614
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,800
camp. 
And at that point I was more 

615
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,920
scared than ever. 
Shane was a wreck. 

616
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,960
I almost went out there after 
it. 

617
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,680
It was a fucking trap. 
It was waiting on me. 

618
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,600
This thing played possum. 
Did it want us to come after it?

619
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,200
Was there more waiting on us? 
It was too much to handle man. 

620
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,720
We were hunting a Bigfoot, not 
predator. 

621
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,360
That being said, we looked over 
the entire site for blood, hair,

622
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:53,960
anything. 
There was nothing. 

623
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,160
I looked out in the woods for a 
fence or anything metallic that 

624
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,320
may have caused my bullets to 
look like they were hitting 

625
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,320
something crazy. 
Thing is, it's like I was 

626
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,960
shooting blanks. 
I couldn't even find where I hit

627
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,080
trees. 
It's like I hit nothing. 

628
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,480
I know this is too crazy to 
believe, but it happened. 

629
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,720
Shane never came back with me 
and he moved away. 

630
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,920
I haven't heard from him or know
where he is. 

631
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,760
I did go back a year or so later
with some friends and Bruce did 

632
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,920
go with us. 
We camped this time way away 

633
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:25,880
from the dry pond in the middle 
of a field. 

634
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,280
Nothing happened that night but 
I was armed to the teeth. 

635
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,600
The next day after everyone left
camp, I packed up everything and

636
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,040
headed out to the main road. 
At the entrance to the field a 

637
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,840
car pulled in and blocked my 
exit. 

638
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,480
I got out and walked up and 
asked the woman if she needed 

639
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,000
something. 
I'm guessing she was in her 70s 

640
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,640
and a man was with her. 
He looked to be older than her. 

641
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,440
She stepped out of the car and 
said I'm Miss Bailey and I grew 

642
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,080
up here man, I thought to myself
this is like a Dang movie. 

643
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,360
This is my chance to ask her 
face to face about the beast. 

644
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,640
She asked me who I was and I 
told her I was a friend of 

645
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,560
Bruce's and we've been camping 
down here. 

646
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,920
She said she was just stopping 
in to take a look around at her 

647
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,600
old home place. 
She asked if the house was still

648
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,920
there and I told her only the 
foundation where butter cups 

649
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,120
still come up down there. 
She asked about the Persimmon 

650
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,480
tree at the corner of the field.
I told her it still has fruit 

651
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,400
and we have a bow stand in it. 
We chatted for a minute, then I 

652
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,520
knew this was my opportunity to 
ask her. 

653
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,560
So without sounding crazy I 
asked her when you grew up down 

654
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,360
there did you ever see or hear 
anything crazy? 

655
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,960
I said maybe like a bear or a 
cat. 

656
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,480
She laughed and said oh heavens 
no. 

657
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,719
Pausing for a minute, she said 
no joke, it wasn't a bear or 

658
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,120
cat. 
I'm not saying it was a monster 

659
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,679
or anything, but it wasn't a cat
or a bear. 

660
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,960
My jaw just dropped. 
The old lady is verifying that 

661
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,760
there is something down here, 
she continued. 

662
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,520
My dad, rest his soul, tried to 
kill that thing all his life. 

663
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,480
It would scream outside the 
house and kill our dogs. 

664
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,280
About that time the old man in 
the car started shouting and 

665
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,880
shaking his head saying I don't 
want to hear that. 

666
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,360
Over and over. 
She said don't mind him, he has 

667
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,920
Alzheimer's. 
I think us talking about it set 

668
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,960
him off. 
I didn't need more proof that 

669
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,840
this thing is real and here to 
stay. 

670
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,040
I realized I didn't have the 
technology nor the firepower to 

671
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,000
bring this thing down. 
I hope someone else out there 

672
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,760
may have had a similar 
experience to mine and will come

673
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,200
forward. 
I can't be the only one. 

674
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,440
And 20 years later, I still 
think about it every day. 

675
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,920
It has changed my life. 
I do not go anywhere unarmed, 

676
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:44,760
especially in the woods. 
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677
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,520
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679
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00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:58,240
picking up a copy really helps 
and is greatly appreciated. 

681
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,240
Thank you. 
The following two incidents 

682
00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:05,520
happened north of Rosburn, 
Manitoba. 

683
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,000
Both sightings occurred when the
witness was a little girl in the

684
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,120
first incident. 
She was at the family farm 

685
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,360
picking Saskatoon berries with 
her mother. 

686
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,160
Her mother was standing 5 or 6 
steps in front of her deeper in 

687
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,440
the Saskatoon bushes and she 
herself was standing on the 

688
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,440
periphery of the bushes. 
They've been picking berries 

689
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,040
only for a few minutes. 
When she felt as if she was 

690
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:31,320
being watched, she looked to the
right and less than 15 feet away

691
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,680
was a large hair covered 
creature that was also standing 

692
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,200
in front of the Berry bushes. 
She had not seen nor heard it 

693
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,280
approach their position and she 
believes that it may have 

694
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,720
already been standing in the 
bushes when they came out to 

695
00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:47,120
harvest the berries. 
The witness described it as 

696
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,400
being reddish brown in colour 
and twice as tall as she was. 

697
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,120
This would place it at close or 
just over 7 feet tall. 

698
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,880
Because of the very close 
proximity to her, she could tell

699
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,840
that it had hair and not fur. 
Its entire body was covered in 

700
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,880
hair except for its face and the
palm of its hands, which she 

701
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,120
described as black and leathery.
It was very broad and thick 

702
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,680
through the body, and it 
appeared to have no neck. 

703
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,240
The witness stated that it was 
quite calmly picking the berries

704
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:17,840
off the branches and eating 
them. 

705
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:22,000
To accomplish this, it had 
pulled down a higher branch with

706
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,800
its left hand and was gently 
plucking individual berries with

707
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,440
its right hand before placing 
them in its mouth. 

708
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:32,160
The witness stated that as she 
observed this creature, she was 

709
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,120
trying to attract her mother's 
attention. 

710
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,720
When her mother turned and 
looked in the direction 

711
00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:39,960
indicated by the witness, she 
screamed and grabbed her 

712
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,640
daughter away. 
The witness did not see the 

713
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,120
Sasquatch leave the area, but it
may have left going back through

714
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,440
the Saskatoon bushes. 
Several days later, the witness 

715
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,280
was riding her bicycle on a road
near the family farm. 

716
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,800
On her right was a fence 
bordering A pasture and beyond 

717
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,480
that was a small Slough or pond 
with brush on the other side. 

718
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,080
As she rode along she heard an 
animal crashing through the 

719
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,280
Bush. 
The sound made her think that a 

720
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,880
cow or a horse may be in 
distress, so she stopped her 

721
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,040
bike to investigate. 
It was at this point that a 

722
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,800
large ape like creature emerged 
from the Bush and began quickly 

723
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,920
coming through the Slough in her
direction. 

724
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,480
She stated that she was 
terrified and afraid that she 

725
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,440
might not get away from it on 
her bike. 

726
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,520
The witness remembers that the 
second Sasquatch was larger than

727
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,200
the first, being a dark brown in
colour, and appeared to be angry

728
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,760
by the way it was acting. 
For the next several years, the 

729
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,480
witness could not fathom what 
these two creatures actually 

730
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,760
were. 
She firmly believed that they 

731
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,720
were gorillas that may have 
escaped from a travelling circus

732
00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:46,720
or animal act. 
It was not until a number of 

733
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,720
years later when she had seen a 
display about gorillas at the 

734
00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:53,560
Winnipeg Zoo that she realized 
what she had seen at her farm 

735
00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:57,400
had not been an escaped circus 
animal, but something quite real

736
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,640
and natural. 
Franklin County, Arkansas. 

737
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,480
The witness lived near the top 
of Younger Nob on property 

738
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,120
adjacent to the very large, deep
and steep sided mountain hollow 

739
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,960
formed by the South Fork of 
White Oak Creek. 

740
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,240
On the day of the sighting, she 
and her two young daughters 

741
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,400
climbed down the side of the 
hollow to check on her son and 

742
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,720
his cousin who were camped along
the Creek. 

743
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,240
The trek to the base of the 
slope took hours of careful 

744
00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:26,960
travel with frequent rest stops 
along the way. 

745
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,040
When they reached the narrow 
Canyon floor along the Creek, 

746
00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:32,800
they could hear the boys calling
to them from their campsite 

747
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,680
further up the Creek. 
The 2 girls were allowed to 

748
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,800
start walking toward the camp, 
but the witness sat down on a 

749
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,240
large rock beside the Creek to 
rest for a while. 

750
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,800
While sitting there, she noticed
something shining in the water 

751
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,320
and was preoccupied with trying 
to determine what kind of object

752
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,120
she was seen. 
By the time the 2 girls had 

753
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,240
reached the campsite, she could 
no longer hear the four children

754
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:59,000
talking while looking intently 
at the shining object in the 

755
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,160
Creek. 
For several minutes, the witness

756
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,280
had a strong and sudden feeling 
that she was being watched. 

757
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,120
She slowly turned to look down 
the Creek and up the Creek and 

758
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,200
then carefully scanned the bluff
and terraces across from her 

759
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,720
possession. 
She saw nothing in those 

760
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,440
directions but still had a 
growing feeling of being 

761
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,040
watched. 
She then turned around on the 

762
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,800
rock to look up the steep slope 
she had just travelled. 

763
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,240
She froze when she saw a large 
human like being staring down on

764
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,840
her from a sharp Ridge about 100
yards away. 

765
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,920
The witness stared at the animal
for several seconds and mentally

766
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,480
recorded details of its 
appearance while her eyes were 

767
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,120
fixed on the creature. 
She heard all four children 

768
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,400
laughing and shouting as they 
ran toward her. 

769
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,080
She immediately stood up and 
started walking to intercept the

770
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,560
children. 
She quickly looked back toward 

771
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,360
the Ridge and the animal was 
gone. 

772
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,080
She hurriedly gathered the kids 
and started walking cautiously 

773
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,680
back up the wall of the hollow. 
As they approached the area 

774
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,280
where the creature had been 
standing, they could smell a 

775
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:03,000
strong, rancid odor like that 
produced by a large male bear. 

776
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,880
Hours later, they climbed out of
the Canyon and returned home 

777
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,760
safely. 
The bipedal creature was about 9

778
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,160
feet tall with dark brown hair 
that was about 3 to 5 inches 

779
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,600
long. 
The hair covered all the body, 

780
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,360
including the backs of the 
hands. 

781
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,640
There was no hair on the face 
just below the eyes. 

782
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,560
The neck was very short and the 
head sat close to the shoulders.

783
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,200
The animal was lean but very 
muscular, especially in the 

784
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,320
upper torso. 
The witnesses son-in-law had 

785
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,720
also seen one such creature, 
Faulkner County, Arkansas. 

786
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,440
Let me first say this incident 
is not made-up. 

787
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,480
There is absolutely no doubt 
what my father and I saw. 

788
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,360
Neither myself would have any 
reservations about a polygraph 

789
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,080
test. 
It was my 11th birthday. 

790
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,400
My father let me miss school to 
go to Lake Conway, which is 

791
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,800
known for its crappy fishing. 
We were in a boat with a small 

792
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,480
outboard motor in a Cove tied to
a stump, which was in the water.

793
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,960
For 10 to 15 minutes. 
There were noises in the woods, 

794
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,800
like limbs breaking continually.
I kept telling my father there's

795
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,400
something in the woods. 
It's very thick brush and 

796
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,360
Cypress trees. 
But he continually said, son, 

797
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,600
it's the birds. 
I was fixated on the noises, 

798
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,320
which were 20 feet away, so I 
was just looking in that 

799
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,720
direction constantly. 
My father was turned around, 

800
00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:27,640
looking away from the shore. 
All of a sudden it came out of 

801
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,280
the woods, a Bigfoot, and it 
stood there. 

802
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,160
I could honestly say that I 
could not talk. 

803
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,640
This has never happened before 
or since. 

804
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,560
I finally got my father's 
attention and said, get the hell

805
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,960
out of here. 
My father whipped around and 

806
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,440
said, Oh my gosh. 
Then he pulled his 38 and drew 

807
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,200
on the animal. 
It never did anything except 

808
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,120
stand there. 
It was absolutely not aggressive

809
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:53,320
except for the earlier breaking 
of limbs. 

810
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,880
My father then united the boat, 
started it, and we kept circling

811
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,640
around it for at least 10 
minutes. 

812
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,880
I like to think of myself of 
somewhat of an intellectual and 

813
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:08,000
my father has a doctorate. 
My point is, if that was a joke,

814
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,200
then that person risked death 
because my dad had the gun 

815
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:15,800
pointed at it from 20 feet away.
I looked at it in what seemed 

816
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,160
forever. 
The face was covered with hair. 

817
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,840
It wasn't huge like 7 feet or 
anything. 

818
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,120
It was upright with black brown 
hair all over the body. 

819
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,760
I found articles in the Log 
Cabin Democrat of a Lake Conway 

820
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,640
monster back in the 50s and a 
couple of reports in the 70s. 

821
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,960
Both witnesses agreed that the 
subject was about 7 feet tall 

822
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:38,920
and seemed to be built like a 
human. 

823
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,760
It was not bulky, according to 
the men, and was covered in dark

824
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,760
hair from head to toe. 
The father recalled that the 

825
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,200
face looked like an ape. 
It had a deadpan, slightly 

826
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:53,400
curious expression on its face. 
The father continued to circle 

827
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,360
the boat at a perceived safe 
distance from the creature for a

828
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,240
better look. 
The son was terrified and wanted

829
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:02,960
to leave after a few minutes. 
After seeing enough to convince 

830
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,320
himself what he and his son were
seeing was not a human, the 

831
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,280
father steered the boat away, 
leaving the subject behind. 

832
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,240
The men could remember no 
vocalizations from the subject 

833
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:16,360
during the event. 
All the area around the site had

834
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,520
heavy underbrush and there were 
no roads for several miles. 

835
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,400
The witnesses estimated that the
total time spent looking at the 

836
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,840
subject must have been about 5 
minutes. 

837
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,080
Both witnesses believe what they
saw was an unknown animal of 

838
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,880
some sort, like a Bigfoot, not a
human. 

839
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,560
I own 7 acres of land that sits 
right on the border of Anderson 

840
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,440
and Franklin County, Kentucky. 
The land is mostly untouched, 

841
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:46,280
just thick woods, rolling hills,
and a narrow access Rd. that 

842
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,480
runs through the middle. 
It's quiet and peaceful, tucked 

843
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,840
away near a high Ridge called 
Hickory Ridge. 

844
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,440
I spent a lot of time out there 
clearing trees and brush, trying

845
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,120
to make it more usable. 
On a Saturday night, I was at my

846
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,440
property, burning a pile of old 
wood and branches I had cleared 

847
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,520
earlier that week. 
The fire crackled and popped as 

848
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,520
I sat in my chair watching the 
flames. 

849
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,080
It was a cool evening, and the 
only sounds were the occasional 

850
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,640
chirp of crickets and the 
distant hood of an owl. 

851
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,920
Around 8 PMI heard a noise from 
up the road, something moving. 

852
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,280
At first I thought it might be a
deer stepping through the brush,

853
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,560
but when I looked up, I caught 
sight of something that made me 

854
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,800
freeze. 
A massive, shadowy figure was 

855
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,560
coming up the access Rd. 
At first I assumed it was a 

856
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,080
hunter. 
People sometimes wander onto my 

857
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,960
land by mistake. 
But as I stared at it, I 

858
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,320
realized this wasn't an ordinary
person. 

859
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:43,080
It was too big. 
The figure was broad, towering 

860
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,600
over any man I'd ever seen, and 
it moved with a slow, heavy 

861
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,240
stride. 
The firelight didn't reach far 

862
00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:52,200
enough to show details, but I 
could make out its silhouette 

863
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,320
against the darkness. 
I looked away for a split 

864
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,560
second, trying to process what I
was seeing. 

865
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,200
When I glanced back, it had 
veered left, stepping toward my 

866
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,040
property line. 
There's an old barbed wire fence

867
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,280
that runs along that edge, meant
to keep cattle from wandering, 

868
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,360
but this thing didn't stop at 
the fence. 

869
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,040
It cleared it in one smooth 
motion, barely breaking stride. 

870
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,800
That was the moment I knew I 
wasn't looking at a hunter. 

871
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,560
I listened closely as it 
disappeared into the woods. 

872
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,560
A few seconds later, I heard the
sharp snap of branches breaking,

873
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:27,080
like something large was pushing
through the trees. 

874
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,600
Then silence. 
No footsteps, no rustling, 

875
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,200
nothing. 
It was like whatever it was had 

876
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,320
just melted into the forest. 
I sat there for a long time, 

877
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,280
staring at the place where I 
last saw it. 

878
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,240
My mind raced with questions. 
Kentucky isn't the Pacific 

879
00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:45,520
Northwest. 
I had never thought much about 

880
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,920
Bigfoot sightings in this part 
of the country, but when I got 

881
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,400
home to Frankfurt later that 
night, curiosity got the best of

882
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,680
me. 
I searched online and was 

883
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,640
shocked to find that there had 
been fifteen reported Bigfoot 

884
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,800
sightings in Anderson County 
over the last few years. 

885
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,000
Thinking back to that night, I 
know what I saw wasn't a bear, a

886
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,440
deer, or a person. 
It was something else, something

887
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,000
big, powerful, and unlike 
anything I'd ever seen before. 

888
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,960
August 15th, 2003. 
I have often thought I saw 

889
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,880
someone run across the road 
while I deliver the papers. 

890
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,040
I often stop to use the restroom
in the same spot. 

891
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,840
I heard funny noises but thought
it was a bear or some other 

892
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:32,000
animal grunting and whatnot. 
One night around 4:30 in the 

893
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000
morning, I was stopped along the
road. 

894
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,160
Looking over my root sheet went 
out of the corner of my eye I 

895
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,520
saw someone walking. 
I slowly reached up and turned 

896
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,040
off the light. 
I put the car in gear and looked

897
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,720
over. 
What I saw made the hair stand 

898
00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:48,520
on the back of my neck and I got
tears in my eyes. 

899
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,200
It wasn't 7 feet tall, more like
6 feet or so. 

900
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,560
I'm guessing because it didn't 
seem to be bending over too far 

901
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,720
to look at me. 
It was maybe 5 or 6 feet away 

902
00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:01,640
from the car. 
I was so frightened that I drove

903
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,600
off as fast as I could. 
I called 911 and they thought I 

904
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,160
was a nut and said it was most 
likely a vagrant or a homeless 

905
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,080
guy. 
I don't think so. 

906
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,120
The following information can be
added to this report. 

907
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,400
The witness was working at the 
time of the sighting and was 

908
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,240
taking a break from his duty 
when something approached the 

909
00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,040
vehicle from the passenger's 
side. 

910
00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:26,480
The windshield was covered with 
a thin film of dust from the 

911
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,400
road, causing a reflection of 
his car stereo faceplate, which 

912
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,920
is blue in colour with a dolphin
screensaver. 

913
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,680
This is what the witness thought
the Sasquatch was interested in 

914
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,400
as the screensaver was moving on
his radio. 

915
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,920
At the beginning of the 
sighting, the Dome light was on.

916
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:46,200
The witness shut it off to see 
what the movement was outside 

917
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,560
the vehicle. 
The witness stated that when the

918
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,800
Sasquatch approached, it was in 
a crouched position walking 

919
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,400
toward the vehicle, never taking
its focus off the inside of the 

920
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,360
vehicle. 
The witness also said that there

921
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,520
was a small yellow strobe light 
on top of the vehicle that was 

922
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,480
blinking off and on. 
Because of his job, the sighting

923
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,560
lasted less than a minute and 
the witness gave a very good 

924
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,080
description of the Sasquatch 
that approached within 10 feet 

925
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,120
of his vehicle. 
One thing that was noticed about

926
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,760
the Sasquatch was the reflection
of the eyes that were large in 

927
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,360
size. 
The estimated height of the 

928
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:26,520
creature was around 6 1/2 feet. 
The height was estimated from 

929
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,560
the height of the Jeep the 
witness was driving. 

930
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,880
The witness watched as the 
Sasquatch became aware of 

931
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,600
somebody inside the vehicle and 
crossed the road. 

932
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,560
The witness stated. 
I never believed in Bigfoot 

933
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,240
before that morning. 
I was the biggest skeptic out 

934
00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:43,520
there. 
I have a degree in science and I

935
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,080
still can't believe it, to be 
honest with you. 

936
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,240
I don't want to go back out 
there, but it's my job and will 

937
00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:52,560
just not let it bother me. 
I don't think I'll stop by that 

938
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:57,960
same area every morning. 
I was about 13 years old, living

939
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,040
in a small town called Amboy in 
southern Washington. 

940
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,880
Our house sat on five acres of 
land surrounded by thick woods 

941
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:06,760
and pretty far from many 
neighbors. 

942
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,640
The area was quiet except for 
the sounds of nature, wind in 

943
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,240
the trees, birds calling, and 
sometimes the distant howls of 

944
00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:17,960
coyotes at night. 
That day, my stepbrother and I 

945
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,880
were building a Fort deep in the
woods just past the edge of our 

946
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,360
property. 
We had found the perfect spot 

947
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,240
nestled at the base of a small 
hill. 

948
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,040
At the top of the hill there was
a house, but from where we were 

949
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,360
you couldn't see it. 
We were so focused on stacking 

950
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,400
branches and finding strong 
pieces of wood that we didn't 

951
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,600
notice how quiet the forest had 
become. 

952
00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:41,560
Then, out of nowhere, the 
silence was broken by the sound 

953
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,720
of branches breaking. 
It was loud, like something 

954
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:47,000
heavy was moving fast through 
the trees. 

955
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,160
At first I thought it was just a
deer crashing through the 

956
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,880
underbrush, but then the barking
started. 

957
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,400
Dogs, more than one, were going 
crazy, their deep, angry barks 

958
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,280
echoing through the trees. 
I looked up and I saw the dogs 

959
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,760
first, racing down the hillside,
kicking up dirt and leaves as 

960
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:06,800
they ran. 
They weren't just running 

961
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,880
randomly, they were chasing 
something. 

962
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,120
And then I saw it. 
At first, my brain struggled to 

963
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:13,760
make sense of what I was looking
at. 

964
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,360
It wasn't a bear. 
It wasn't a person. 

965
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:20,520
It moved too fast, too smooth. 
The best way I could describe it

966
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,560
was that it looked like a 
gorilla, but taller, thinner, 

967
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,120
and running upright. 
Its long arm swung with each 

968
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,680
massive stride, and even from 
about 200 to 300 yards away I 

969
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:36,040
could see how powerful it was. 
It had dark fur, almost black. 

970
00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:39,240
It covered its entire body 
except for patches around its 

971
00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:41,600
face where lighter skin was 
visible. 

972
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,320
The way it ran was unlike 
anything I had ever seen. 

973
00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:49,320
It wasn't clumsy like a bear on 
2 legs, or stiff like a person 

974
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,040
sprinting. 
It moved with long, effortless 

975
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,960
strides, covering ground 
incredibly fast. 

976
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:59,040
Each step took it several feet 
forward and its arms moved in 

977
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:02,240
rhythm, almost like a sprinter 
but with a wild animal like 

978
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,520
motion. 
The dogs were at least 50 yards 

979
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,600
behind it, but it was clear they
weren't catching up to it. 

980
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:10,920
The creature didn't even look 
back at them. 

981
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,480
It just kept going, focusing on 
getting away like it wanted 

982
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:19,040
nothing to do with those dogs. 
I was frozen, my heart pounding.

983
00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:22,320
I wanted my brother to see it, 
but from where he stood, he 

984
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,720
couldn't get a Clearview. 
I kept pointing, whispering 

985
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:27,600
frantically. 
Look, look. 

986
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:31,040
But by the time he moved to a 
better spot, the creature had 

987
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,720
disappeared over the hill. 
I stood there for a while, 

988
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:36,720
trying to process what I had 
just seen. 

989
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,240
My mind raced with questions. 
What was that? 

990
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,440
Had I really just seen a 
Bigfoot? 

991
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,400
I had always heard stories, 
especially from the loggers in 

992
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,720
town. 
Around here, almost everyone 

993
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,360
knew someone who had seen 
something strange in the woods, 

994
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,280
but I never thought I would see 
it. 

995
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,120
As soon as we got back home, I 
couldn't wait to tell my mum. 

996
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,280
I told her everything, the 
noise, the dogs, the way it ran,

997
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,440
but she just smiled and said it 
was probably just a bear. 

998
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,560
My uncle, on the other hand, 
listened carefully. 

999
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,800
He had seen something similar 
near Mount Saint Helens years 

1000
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,560
ago while hunting and he 
believed me right away. 

1001
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,520
He and his friend had watched a 
creature like the one I 

1002
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:20,480
described walk through a clear 
cut area for nearly 20 minutes, 

1003
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,680
never realizing they were 
watching from a distance. 

1004
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,400
Even though my little brother 
never actually saw it. 

1005
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,680
He heard the barking, the 
crashing branches, and he knew 

1006
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,640
something was there. 
But since I was the only one who

1007
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,480
actually laid eyes on it, my 
story was dismissed as just a 

1008
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:41,760
kids overactive imagination. 
But I know what I saw that day, 

1009
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,960
and now, years later, I still 
remember it clearly. 

1010
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,400
The dark figure, the long 
strides, the way it moved, 

1011
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,040
unlike any human or animal I've 
ever seen. 

1012
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,960
People can believe what they 
want, but I know Bigfoot is out 

1013
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,160
there. 
I know I'll probably regret 

1014
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,880
telling this story. 
Everyone I know will likely 

1015
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,800
laugh at me, and I can't blame 
them. 

1016
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,160
I used to do the same when 
someone mentioned these 

1017
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,760
creatures. 
But after what happened, I can't

1018
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:11,560
deny what I saw. 
I live in central Louisiana. 

1019
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,160
I lived in the area most of my 
life and used to be an avid Coon

1020
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,600
hunter. 
I was serious about it too. 

1021
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,600
I had hunting licenses in 
multiple States and even trained

1022
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,760
several champion dogs over the 
years. 

1023
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,440
But as time passed, life got 
busier and I couldn't keep up 

1024
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,200
with the sport. 
Eventually I sold my Walker 

1025
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:34,080
hounds and moved on. 
Several years ago, on a cold 

1026
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:38,280
night in January of 2002, I went
out for one of my last hunts in 

1027
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,800
the area. 
That night we were deep in the 

1028
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,120
swamps near Black Lake where the
old timers called it Copper 

1029
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,000
Bend. 
It was a thick flooded bottom 

1030
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,560
land with standing water nearly 
a foot deep in most places. 

1031
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,840
Our dogs split up while tracking
ascent, so my hunting buddies 

1032
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:58,280
and I split up too. 
I followed my dogs who had tree 

1033
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,080
on the far side of the swamp 
while the others went after 

1034
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,840
theirs. 
When I got to my dogs, I spotted

1035
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,880
the Coon, caught my hounds and 
got ready to head back. 

1036
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,280
Everything seemed normal until I
heard something walking in the 

1037
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,880
water. 
Now this wasn't some small 

1038
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,240
animal splashing around. 
It was heavy. 

1039
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,280
Each step sounded deliberate, 
like someone wading through the 

1040
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,360
swamp. 
Thinking it was one of my 

1041
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,680
buddies, I called out. 
No answer. 

1042
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,840
Instead I was met with the 
foulest, most putrid smell I've 

1043
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,800
ever encountered. 
It was worse than a dead hog 

1044
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,080
left in the sun. 
Thick, rotten, and nearly gag 

1045
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:37,280
inducing at the same time. 
A low, deep growl rumbled 

1046
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,960
through the trees, followed by a
strange whining whistle sound. 

1047
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:45,040
My dogs, usually fearless, 
tucked their tails and cowered 

1048
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,520
behind me, whimpering. 
Now these weren't just any dogs.

1049
00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:52,480
They were strong, well trained 
walkers, nearly 100 lbs each. 

1050
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,960
Dogs that had ripped apart 
coyotes and stood their ground 

1051
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,920
against aggressive boars. 
But now they were trembling, 

1052
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:03,480
pressing against my legs, afraid
of something I couldn't see. 

1053
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,640
I tried to shake off the uneasy 
feeling and started back toward 

1054
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,800
my friends, but after a few 
minutes, I heard the splashing 

1055
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,360
footsteps again, closer this 
time. 

1056
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:16,600
I turned around, and that's when
I saw it. 

1057
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,760
Standing right behind me, half 
hidden in the darkness, was a 

1058
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:25,000
massive figure. 
It was easily over 7 feet, maybe

1059
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,240
even closer to 8 feet, with 
broad shoulders and long, 

1060
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:31,400
muscular arms. 
Its body was covered in thick, 

1061
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,240
shaggy hair that hung damp from 
the swamp water. 

1062
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,800
The moonlight barely hit its 
face, but I could see enough 

1063
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,680
deep set eyes, a heavy brow, and
a wide, flat nose. 

1064
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:45,520
Its mouth was slightly open, and
I could hear it breathing deep, 

1065
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:49,960
slow, almost a low growl. 
Then it did something strange. 

1066
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:53,160
It hissed and reached down into 
the water with one of its 

1067
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,640
enormous hands, scooping up 
handfuls and throwing it toward 

1068
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,160
me. 
The noise it made was guttural, 

1069
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,240
almost like a warning. 
That was enough for me. 

1070
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,720
My dogs, sensing my fear, 
snapped out of their fright and 

1071
00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:08,720
started barking like mad, 
straining against the leash. 

1072
00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:11,680
But I didn't stick around to see
what would happen next. 

1073
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:15,600
I grabbed their collars and ran 
so fast and panicked that for a 

1074
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,440
few minutes I went the wrong 
way. 

1075
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:21,440
I finally stopped behind a large
Cypress knee, trying to catch my

1076
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:23,920
breath. 
My chest was heaving, my legs 

1077
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,040
were shaking, and my mind was 
racing. 

1078
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:30,200
I listened, and it was still 
following me, but at a distance 

1079
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:34,480
now, maybe 100 yards back. 
Then, after a while, the sounds 

1080
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:36,440
faded. 
I could hear it moving away 

1081
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,840
across the swamp, letting out 
low moaning calls as it 

1082
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:43,080
disappeared into the night. 
When I finally made it back to 

1083
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,280
the truck, I didn't say a word 
to my friends. 

1084
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:49,200
I know they'd never believe me. 
For years, I kept that story to 

1085
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,280
myself. 
Except for one old hunter I 

1086
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,800
trusted, a man who had spent a 
lifetime in those woods. 

1087
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:59,240
When I told him, he just nodded 
and said if you're smart, you'll

1088
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,240
keep that to yourself. 
Folks will only laugh at you. 

1089
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,240
He was right. 
I've haunted the Louisiana 

1090
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:09,600
swamps more nights than I can 
count, but I never saw anything 

1091
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,040
like that before or since. 
I don't know what I encountered 

1092
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,760
that night, but I know this. 
I never went back to Copper Band

1093
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:22,680
and I never will. 
On Wednesday, April 10th, 2013, 

1094
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,040
my two sons and their two 
friends went out for some target

1095
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:29,480
practice outside the small town 
of Cedar Creek, Montana. 

1096
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,120
It was a cool spring evening 
with the sun starting to dip low

1097
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,600
behind the mountains. 
At around 5:40 PM we made our 

1098
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,480
way through a wide open hay 
field, trying to decide where to

1099
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,360
set up next. 
As we stood there talking, I 

1100
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,720
scanned the tree line that 
followed the edge of a nearby 

1101
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:47,280
river. 
Something at the far southwest 

1102
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,760
end of the field caught my eye. 
At first I wasn't sure what I 

1103
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,640
was looking at. 
A dark figure was rising up out 

1104
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,960
of the thick patch of wild 
BlackBerry bushes. 

1105
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,720
It moved slowly at first, 
pushing itself up, and I could 

1106
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,880
immediately tell it was massive.
Even from that distance I could 

1107
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,280
see its broad shoulders, long 
arms, and thick body, all 

1108
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,600
covered in dark brown hair. 
The hair on its head seemed 

1109
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,680
longer, reaching down to its 
shoulders. 

1110
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,760
I watched in stunned silence as 
it fully stood up and stepped 

1111
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,480
out of the bushes. 
It walked with slow, deliberate 

1112
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,680
movements toward a narrow dirt 
trail that ran in front of the 

1113
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:24,800
patch. 
As soon as it reached the 

1114
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,120
BlackBerry patch, I found my 
voice. 

1115
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,080
Look over there. 
I called out, pointing at the 

1116
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,520
figure. 
The others turned to see what I 

1117
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,520
was talking about. 
Just as they spotted it, the 

1118
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:39,280
creature stopped next to a tall 
fir tree and looked back at us. 

1119
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,080
It wasn't a quick glance. 
It paused, turning its whole 

1120
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,480
upper body as if studying us. 
For a few. 

1121
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,400
Long seconds. 
None of us spoke. 

1122
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:52,000
Then, without warning, it turned
away and walked toward the next 

1123
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,360
hay field, heading for the 
southwest corner. 

1124
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,560
That was all it took for us to 
spring into action. 

1125
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,480
We took off running toward where
we had seen it, hoping to get a 

1126
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,800
better look or find some kind of
evidence. 

1127
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:07,440
By the time we reached the 
BlackBerry bushes, the creature 

1128
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:11,000
was gone, but the area where it 
had been was unmistakable. 

1129
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,880
The thick, thorny branches were 
crushed flat, like something 

1130
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:17,040
heavy had been lying there for a
long time. 

1131
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,600
The entire patch looked like it 
had been used as a bed. 

1132
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:25,160
One of my sons, who stands 6 
feet tall, stood next to the fir

1133
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:26,760
tree where the creature had 
paused. 

1134
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:31,000
Based on that, we estimated it 
had to be at least 8 1/2 feet 

1135
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:35,880
tall, maybe even taller. 
We took some pictures before 

1136
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,520
deciding to follow the path of 
bent grass leading into the next

1137
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,360
field. 
As we tracked the trail, we 

1138
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,920
could clearly see where the 
grass had been pressed down by 

1139
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:46,560
something large walking through 
it. 

1140
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,320
The trail continued into a 
second field, then stopped at 

1141
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:53,560
the edge of 1/3. 
Just as we reached that point, a

1142
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,480
flock of birds suddenly burst 
out of the trees ahead of us, 

1143
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,080
making a loud commotion as they 
flew off. 

1144
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,840
It was as if something had 
startled them. 

1145
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,640
We stood there frozen, listening
carefully. 

1146
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,880
A few minutes later, in the 
distance, we heard dogs barking.

1147
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,400
They sounded close, but not too 
close. 

1148
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,920
Then, out of nowhere, a loud 
knocking sound echoed through 

1149
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,680
the trees. 
It came in a series of five or 

1150
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:21,520
six distinct beats, like 
something striking wood against 

1151
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,520
wood. 
Everything fell eerily silent 

1152
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:27,240
after that. 
No birds, no wind, just 

1153
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:30,120
stillness. 
Then, breaking the quiet, we 

1154
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,960
heard a strange popping noise, 
followed by several low, hollow 

1155
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,560
hoots. 
It was unlike anything I'd ever 

1156
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,760
heard before. 
We stood there for several more 

1157
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:43,160
minutes, waiting to see if 
anything else would happen, but 

1158
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:46,680
the forest remained still, as if
whatever had been there was now 

1159
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,680
watching us instead. 
After a while, we decided to 

1160
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,040
head back, replaying the events 
over and over in our heads. 

1161
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,480
We'd all seen it. 
This massive hair covered figure

1162
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:01,040
moving through the fields, 
standing well over 8 feet tall. 

1163
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:05,000
The crushed bushes, the bent 
trail grass, the strange 

1164
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:09,520
knocking and calls in the woods,
it all pointed to one thing we 

1165
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:12,160
had encountered something that 
night, something we couldn't 

1166
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,880
explain. 
To this day, none of us can 

1167
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,600
forget it, and I don't think we 
ever will. 

1168
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,280
I was about 14 years old when 
this happened. 

1169
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,560
I lived in a small town in 
northern Georgia, surrounded by 

1170
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:27,720
thick forests and winding 
creeks. 

1171
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:31,680
I spent most of my free time 
outdoors, hunting, fishing, and 

1172
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:33,320
exploring the woods near my 
home. 

1173
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,840
One afternoon I decided to check
on a simple box trap I had set 

1174
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,200
up near a bushy Creek. 
I had placed it in a quiet area 

1175
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,320
where I'd seen small animals 
before. 

1176
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:47,200
The spot was perfect, thick 
trees for cover, a slow moving 

1177
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:49,040
Creek, and plenty of 
undergrowth. 

1178
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,760
As I crouched down by the trap, 
resetting it, I noticed a sudden

1179
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,960
change in the atmosphere. 
The air felt heavier somehow, 

1180
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,560
like the woods had gone eerily 
quiet, except for one thing. 

1181
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,680
There were dogs barking in the 
distance. 

1182
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,800
Their barking wasn't normal. 
It was frantic and wild, echoing

1183
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,120
through the trees. 
Something had worked them up. 

1184
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,880
I didn't think much of it at 1st
and kept working on the trap, 

1185
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,840
but then I heard something 
moving through the brush behind 

1186
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,800
me. 
At first it was just the sound 

1187
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:22,520
of rustling leaves and snapping 
twigs, but as it got closer I 

1188
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,560
could hear the heavy thud of 
footsteps. 

1189
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,120
Whatever it was, it wasn't 
small. 

1190
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,960
I glanced up, expecting to see a
person walking along the Creek 

1191
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,920
bed, but what I saw stopped me 
in my tracks. 

1192
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:37,520
A massive figure was moving 
steadily toward me. 

1193
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:40,520
At first, my mind tried to make 
sense of it. 

1194
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:44,200
I thought it was just a big man,
maybe a hunter, but something 

1195
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:46,040
about the way it moved was way 
off. 

1196
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:48,840
Still not thinking much, I 
called out. 

1197
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,960
Hey, you. 
The figure stopped immediately. 

1198
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:55,560
It turned its head to look at 
me, locking eyes with mine. 

1199
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,360
That's when I realized it was 
not a man. 

1200
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,880
It was covered in reddish brown 
hair, except for its face, which

1201
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,280
was a pinkish wrinkled colour, 
almost like the weathered skin 

1202
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,520
of an older person. 
Its eyes were dark and deep set,

1203
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,520
and its expression wasn't 
threatening, just curious. 

1204
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:16,120
It tilted its head slightly, 
almost as if it was just as 

1205
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,720
surprised to see me as I was to 
see it. 

1206
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,680
For what felt like an eternity, 
we just stared at each other. 

1207
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:26,640
It was only about 15 yards away.
Standing on the opposite Bank of

1208
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:30,760
the Creek, I could see every 
detail, the way the wet hair on 

1209
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:33,920
its arms clumped together, the 
sheer size of its broad 

1210
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:36,720
shoulders, and the way its chest
moved as it breathed. 

1211
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:41,120
Despite its enormous size, it 
had to be at least 7 feet. 

1212
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:43,080
I didn't feel afraid. 
It. 

1213
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:45,640
Didn't snarl or growl, it didn't
rush at me. 

1214
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,920
It just seemed curious, like it 
was trying to figure out what I 

1215
01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:52,280
was doing there. 
Then, after about two minutes of

1216
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,560
this silent staring contest, it 
suddenly glanced over its 

1217
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:58,240
shoulder as if it had heard 
something in the distance. 

1218
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:01,920
Without hesitation, it turned 
and walked toward a dense patch 

1219
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:04,400
of briars that were tangled up 
in the trees. 

1220
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:08,360
The briars were thick, at least 
12 feet high, and so tangled 

1221
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:10,040
that no person could walk 
through them. 

1222
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:13,560
But that didn't stop it. 
It pushed through the thorns and

1223
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:16,760
branches like they weren't even 
there, disappearing into the 

1224
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:20,320
woods with barely a sound. 
Even though I didn't feel 

1225
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:23,280
scared, and I know I should have
been, I knew this thing could 

1226
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:26,160
have easily stepped right over 
the Creek and grabbed me if it 

1227
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:29,240
wanted to. 
It didn't act aggressive at all,

1228
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:32,760
it just was curious. 
I sat there for a few moments, 

1229
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:35,880
my heart pounding, trying to 
process what had just happened. 

1230
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:38,800
Eventually, I picked up my 
things and headed home. 

1231
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,280
When I told my parents what I 
had seen, they didn't believe 

1232
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:43,560
me. 
They laughed it off. 

1233
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:46,360
That day has stayed with me ever
since. 

1234
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:49,400
Over the years I've spent 
countless hours in the woods 

1235
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,560
hunting and exploring, but I've 
never seen anything like it 

1236
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,520
again. 
Still, I know without a doubt 

1237
01:05:55,520 --> 01:06:01,920
what I saw that day was real. 
During May of 1990, I was in the

1238
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,560
US Army assigned to Fort Lewis, 
WA. 

1239
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:08,840
I was a member of an Airborne 
infantry unit designated as a 

1240
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,120
Long Range Surveillance 
Detachment. 

1241
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:16,520
In brief, the unit's mission was
to deploy 4 to 6 man teams into 

1242
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:20,040
a battlefield and conduct 
surveillance operations of enemy

1243
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:22,720
supply lines and troop movement 
corridors. 

1244
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,840
During that month the unit 
deployed my platoon into a drop 

1245
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,880
zone known as Merrill Drop Zone.
The platoon's teams were to 

1246
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,320
conduct surveillance operations 
of pre designated Rd. 

1247
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:38,240
intersections for a 48 hour 
period then link up together at 

1248
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:42,040
the area known as Cat Lake in 
the South Rainier training area.

1249
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,960
From there we were to walk back 
to the barracks. 

1250
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,680
All went as planned until the 
link up date. 

1251
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,120
Being a native Pacific 
Northwesterner and having a 

1252
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,160
heart stopping run in as an 8 
year old with what I believe to 

1253
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:57,720
be a Bigfoot, I will not 
discount stories of Bigfoot type

1254
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:59,760
info until they had been 
researched. 

1255
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,760
There were, at the time of this 
incident, several stories about 

1256
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,800
the Cat Lake monster, which had 
been circulated by the old 

1257
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:11,600
timers since the early 80s. 
There were about. 13 of us in 

1258
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,360
the platoon at the time and we 
were planning to just bag out 

1259
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,880
for the night and not play the 
typical army game of having a 

1260
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:21,320
watch up all night. 
The night was very clear which 

1261
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:24,520
was unusual for this time of 
year, but the wood surrounding 

1262
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:27,800
Cat Lake and the adjacent 
Theander Lake can be almost 

1263
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,560
pitch black. 
The only light was from a near 

1264
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,960
clearing in the woods at the 
base of a small hill. 

1265
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,040
The light came from the full 
moon. 

1266
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,680
As the rest of the platoon 
quieted down I believed I was 

1267
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,440
the only one awake. 
I initially heard what I 

1268
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:44,520
believed was an elk or deer 
huffing. 

1269
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,840
It was a heavy sound of air 
being blown through nostrils. 

1270
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:52,040
As I listened, I pinpointed the 
sound to be coming from the hill

1271
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:55,360
overlooking our position on the 
far side of the opening, about 

1272
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:58,880
100 yards away. 
The sound came both nearer and 

1273
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:02,000
louder over the next few minutes
but was still a ways up the 

1274
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:05,080
hill. 
As I listened, the sound changed

1275
01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:08,920
to a barking type, becoming more
intense and was followed by the 

1276
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:12,800
cracking of limbs and trees. 
I tried to see into the tree 

1277
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:16,359
line, but it was too dark. 
I then looked up at the tops of 

1278
01:08:16,359 --> 01:08:19,279
the trees on the hill that were 
backlit by the full moon. 

1279
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,840
At that point I could see a tree
shaking back and forth. 

1280
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:27,160
The vocalizations became angry 
sounding and it occurred to me 

1281
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,160
there may be a bear up there. 
Although the sounds were very 

1282
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:34,000
strange, the tree shaking 
continued, but whatever was 

1283
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,279
shaking them came closer and 
closer, choosing different 

1284
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:39,880
trees. 
I could by this time hear 

1285
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,600
something sliding down the hill 
through the vegetation. 

1286
01:08:43,279 --> 01:08:45,760
Several of the smaller trees had
fallen over. 

1287
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,840
The area where we were in is a 
natural rainforest and very 

1288
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,359
swampy. 
There are several rotting trees 

1289
01:08:52,359 --> 01:08:55,439
in the area that can be pushed 
over with a few good shoves. 

1290
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,520
By this time I was completely on
my feet. 

1291
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:01,800
I still had not seen the 
creature and was relying on the 

1292
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:04,800
backlit and shaking trees to 
keep my bearings on the 

1293
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:07,760
creature. 
I realized the shaking stopped 

1294
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:10,399
at the edge of the clearing in 
front of me, and I could feel 

1295
01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:14,000
myself being stared at. 
The feeling was intense and 

1296
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,800
distinctly threatening. 
One of my fellow team mates, the

1297
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,439
one senior in rank to me at the 
time, was by this time standing 

1298
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:24,479
behind me, though I didn't know 
it until he spoke to me. 

1299
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:28,200
He asked what was happening, and
I pointed to the area on the far

1300
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:30,880
side of the clearing where the 
tree shaking had stopped. 

1301
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:35,520
As we both watched, a large 
upright form stepped into the 

1302
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:39,200
edge of the moonlit clearing. 
It stood there for about 30 to 

1303
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:43,520
45 seconds and again made the 
huffing noise, much louder this 

1304
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,439
time. 
The creatures form was very 

1305
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,720
heavy looking with broad 
shoulders but very man like. 

1306
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:54,040
Shortly after the creature 
turned slightly to our left and 

1307
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:56,040
began running through the edge 
of the clearing. 

1308
01:09:56,640 --> 01:10:00,320
The creature ran in an upright 
position and swung its arms in 

1309
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:03,880
large arcs. 
The steps were loping and heavy,

1310
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:06,720
we could feel the feet hitting 
the soft soil. 

1311
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:10,560
It cleared the 300 yards of 
clearing in seconds and was 

1312
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,280
gone. 
I turned and grabbed my gear, 

1313
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,560
stuffing it into my pack, 
thinking to wake everyone up and

1314
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:19,240
get everyone moving in the 
opposite direction the creature 

1315
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,120
went. 
As I looked across the circle 

1316
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,080
the platoon had spread 
themselves into, I realized 

1317
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:28,680
everyone was already awake and 
jamming gear as fast as they 

1318
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:31,480
could go. 
The entire platoon was awake, 

1319
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:34,560
packed, and moving the other way
in bare minutes. 

1320
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:38,760
The following day, me and the 
other member of my team that had

1321
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:41,240
awakened returned to the area in
daylight. 

1322
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:45,080
We found several trees that have
been knocked over and fresh dirt

1323
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:47,760
turned up on the hillside as 
though something heavy had 

1324
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:49,840
walked or slid down the 
hillside. 

1325
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:52,640
No actual prints though were 
located. 

1326
01:10:54,440 --> 01:10:58,400
Thurston County, Washington, 
Fort Lewis Escape and Evasion 

1327
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:02,520
Training Area. 
We observed 3 large individuals,

1328
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:06,160
2 very large and the other about
2/3 their size. 

1329
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,360
When we first saw the 
individuals they were on the far

1330
01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:12,400
side of the open Meadow. 
I remember that there was a 

1331
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:15,960
bright moon out because we could
see features such as trees and 

1332
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:18,560
objects well enough to run 
without tripping. 

1333
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,000
In fact, we could see through 
some of the Pines and that's 

1334
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,680
where we saw the individuals. 
At first we thought they were 

1335
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:29,080
the capture team looking for us.
They were back in the tree line 

1336
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,160
when we first saw them. 
There was a road not far behind 

1337
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:35,000
them and we could see what we 
thought were soldiers moving 

1338
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,360
very slowly. 
When they breached the tree 

1339
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:40,880
line, Mickles decided that we 
had enough space between us and 

1340
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,880
them to escape if they were part
of the capture team. 

1341
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:47,000
Mickles got up and started 
walking towards them and I 

1342
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:49,680
followed. 
They were just silhouettes, but 

1343
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:53,120
as we got closer, Mickles waved 
at them and then they started 

1344
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:57,320
moving towards us faster. 
Not really running, just faster.

1345
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,400
Mickles called to them and they 
came faster without answering. 

1346
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:05,680
I never heard of bears walking 
upright and for sure not that 

1347
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:08,360
fast, but I didn't know that 
much about bears. 

1348
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:12,120
I did know that something wasn't
right and I was really scared. 

1349
01:12:12,480 --> 01:12:15,000
I really didn't think they were 
people or bears. 

1350
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:19,320
I don't know why, I just know I 
have never been that terrified. 

1351
01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:23,120
And so was Mickles. 
We ran as fast as we could 

1352
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:26,240
without looking back but felt 
they were gaining on us. 

1353
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:30,240
I told Nichols to follow me and 
dove under and crawled up under 

1354
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:33,000
a large, low pine tree. 
We just lay there. 

1355
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:35,800
We could feel their presence but
didn't dare move. 

1356
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:38,760
That's when we smelled this 
weird odor. 

1357
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:40,920
I'm sorry I can't describe it to
you. 

1358
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:45,560
It was strong is all I can say. 
We stayed there for probably 15 

1359
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:48,200
minutes and then I said let's 
head for the road. 

1360
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,280
And we did. 
By that time the manoeuvre was 

1361
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:53,320
over and we. 
Saw a bus pull up by the 

1362
01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:56,160
compound. 
We ran as fast as we could and 

1363
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:59,120
caught the bus. 
We never looked back except in 

1364
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,760
memory. 
I've haunted all over the US 

1365
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:04,120
from Colorado to Illinois to 
Texas. 

1366
01:13:04,480 --> 01:13:08,360
What we saw the silhouettes of 
and smelled was not humans or 

1367
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:11,120
any bear. 
I've thought about the incident 

1368
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,400
many times in the past. 
At the time, neither Mikkels nor

1369
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:16,480
myself had ever heard of 
Bigfoot. 

1370
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:19,800
We were in trouble for leaving 
the area early, so we had other 

1371
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:23,800
things on our minds. 
Thanks for listening everyone. 

1372
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:27,480
Don't forget my books are all 
for sale, audio and written. 

1373
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,520
The links are in the descripcion
below. 

1374
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:31,680
Thanks again. 
Take care.