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Bigfoot oh ma Hoopa first nation account

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in August of 2006 I was working in

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Northern California and was interested

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in finding big footprints I have a

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friend who is a member of the hoop of

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First Nation I contacted him and then

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spoke to an elder I was taken to an area

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where some footprints had just been

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found being skeptical

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I took my right boot off and stepped

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down next to the footprint I am seven

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foot one inch tall and weigh 395 pounds

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and wear a size 17 street shoe er a size

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19 boot as boots sizes are often

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mislabeled I am of Lakota Sioux lineage

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and speak a number of First Nation

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languages after putting on my boots we

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heard a screaming howl my friend started

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saying oh ma was coming and we had to

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leave my friend Dave told his elder

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about what I had done and we went back

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to the site three hours later there were

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numerous large footprints surrounding

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mine and what I believed to be a large

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finger hole in the middle of my

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footprint I was contacted a couple of

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weeks later and invited back to the

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reservation as they normally lose a good

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portion of their apple crop to OMA but

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in 2006 they didn't lose anything they

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wanted to know if I could come back

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every year and walk around barefoot to

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intimidate OMA and if I have any big

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friends my size

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oh my either saw me with the much

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shorter native people and thought I was

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another OMA or recognized the footprint

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as a threat the elder thought OMA didn't

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want a confrontation with something

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almost as big as he in left the area the

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OMA footprint was the same length as

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mine but an inch and half whiter at the

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ball and 3/4 of an inch wider at the

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heel the depth of the print was the same

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I have spoken with some so-called

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experts from the BFRO and from the

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Bigfoot Discovery project and got

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laughed at but then they wanted me to

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come with the men's feet to the Bigfoot

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via bullhorn in their native language I

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rather not be used by someone who is too

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narrow-minded for me to speak to the con

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and pay it

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just literally the people of the north

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who don't comb their hair Bigfoot

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Sincerely Yours dawn talks with owl

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you

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huge blue-eyed Bigfoot near Temecula

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California the Bigfoot I saw in Temecula

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California in June 1985 was at night as

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I stopped on a dirt road I couldn't

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drive any farther that night and when I

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got out to do my business I heard and

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saw it as I was finishing up it did have

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an odor of something dead like a

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deteriorated body of the coyote anyway

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it stood about 50 yards into a dry

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riverbed with trees about 45 feet

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average height I shined my flashlight in

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the direction of the smell and saw

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movement but what may be different than

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most sightings as its eyes actually

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glowed bright blue and was about 12 12

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feet tall or maybe a little less judging

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by the tree height his eyes were just

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above a limb that I measured at 12 feet

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the next day I had a 357 with me but I

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had a feeling that it would not stop

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this creature if I was to shoot it in

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case it came for me I left in a big

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hurry

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and that detsen truck just did not seem

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fast enough that was the second time I

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had seen one

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the first was back in March 1952 in the

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sage area between Hemet California and

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Temecula California I went back the next

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day and measured the tree 'land to his

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footprints which were about 20 inches

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long and maybe nine inches wide this was

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a huge creature I had a point three five

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seven I carried at all times but it was

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so big I felt it would not stop it if he

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or she came for me do or don't take my

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word I know that twelve feet is big but

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that is what I believe it to be by the

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footprints in the tree limb and one

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difference than other sightings except

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for the dead and foul smell it emitted

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as this one difference its eyes glowed a

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bright blue when a light was flashed in

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its eyes and me being seventy yards

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distance which is fairly close it is out

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there somewhere most likely and this

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area is close to the Pima Indian

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Reservation which goes on down towards

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Mount Palomar Observatory a whole lot of

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forestry type land RH

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Alabama Bigfoot the Lofa legend Mara

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Roberts story my siblings and I grew up

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hearing hairy man's stories my mother

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Claire Oh Dee Anderson Roberts is almost

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90 years old and still has a sharp mind

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she lives in the Jackson health care

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facility and can tell you these things

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herself when she was young a man named

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Dan Scruggs lived near uncle tom Purvis

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place on the other side of friendship a

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community which was between Coffeyville

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and the witch creek area one day he left

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his house to go to a nearby spring

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taking his gun with him a short time

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later he arrived back at his home

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running and out of breath he was very

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frightened and could only say hairy man

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hairy man as he had neared the spring he

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saw hairy man there and he left in such

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haste that he left his gun there near

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the spring one day mother's oldest

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brother

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Chalmers Anderson an Elmore Bedwell were

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returning to their home after having

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visited the Robert's family who lived in

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the area about halfway between the

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Roberts place in the Ida bedwell place

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they saw a hairy man sitting on a log

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that was over a ravine I suspect they

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lost no time getting to their respective

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homes this also happened when mother was

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young I'm wondering if other relatives

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or descendants of the people who

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actually saw the hairy man might also

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have heard the stories told and passed

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down in their families my oldest sister

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Inez remembers gram and Anderson my

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mother's mother telling her something

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that happened when grandma's oldest

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child Chalmers was a baby grandma said

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she was walking to a relative's house

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and carrying uncle Chalmers and she

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walked up on a big hairy ape sitting on

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a log and holding its head with its

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hands when grandma walked up it just got

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up and ambled off into the woods grandma

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said she figured it must have escaped

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from a circus somewhere and that it may

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possible Bigfoot detected yackin River

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Davie County North Carolina I live in

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West Central North Carolina I live at a

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location that is very close to the yakan

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River in Davie County the rivers

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floodplain comes to my property line in

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a valley with no houses and heavily

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wooded however two roads to cross to get

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to my house

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the river's edge is primarily

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undeveloped with almost a 300 yard flood

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area clearance on both sides for miles

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and miles

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this river floods regularly but not very

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much lately their high voltage power

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lines running across the area as well

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now that the stage is set let's go we

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have also put a game camera out to see

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if we could catch anything on it we so

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far have caught a fat pregnant deer

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several raccoons and the gray fox that

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pregnant deer has twins now have been in

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our garden the deer are pretty thick

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around here this is not a hotbed of

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Bigfoot sightings but I have been

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hearing something very large walking in

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the woods beside my house my dog has

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been kicked by something and knocked out

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for a few seconds all we heard that

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night was a thud as it sounded like he

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was kicked to the side we saw nothing as

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it was around 11:30 p.m. on a moonless

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night a few moments later he was up

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chatting a sent down the neighbors field

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my son grabbed his flashlight and looked

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around down at the wood line and caught

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a pair of large red orange eyes

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reflection we went down later to

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investigate where they were there's an

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opening right where he saw the eyes we

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determined that whatever it was had to

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stand about four feet tall or so if it

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was standing in the field and nine feet

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tall if it was standing in the woods as

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the opening has a steep drop-off to the

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tree he used as a reference spot the

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last explanation is that whatever it is

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was in the tree at that level we are

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hunters and spend time in the woods

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often we have never seen a pair of red

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orange eyes around here not sure what a

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bears eyes look like but we have no bear

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population around here I often stay up

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very late and go outside to look around

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with the flashlight around 3:00 or 4:00

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in the morning I have heard on three

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occasions a very loud knock following my

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spotlighting around it sounds like two

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large rocks being hit together not like

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a rock hitting a tree they have come

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from three different spots down in the

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backyard in the woods the nook sounds

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are only heard about

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once every eight to twelve days kind of

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like whatever it is only passes through

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this area on some kind of schedule not

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sure if that sounds logical

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I have only on one occasion heard what I

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would call how it was in the distance

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and was not a coyote

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not even close it was a different tone

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and lasted too long I would love to hear

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Appalachia and Tennessee Bigfoot I grew

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up in the Appalachia mountains

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completely rural in a Tennessee Valley

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community my house was surrounded by

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forests and mountains when I was about

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14 my dad started to hear strange sounds

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coming from the hills behind our house

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knocking sounds as if something was

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hitting a tree and the occasional

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unhuman yell my dog a rough and tough

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outside boy was very drawn to those

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hills at random times his ears would

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shoot up and he'd quickly run up to the

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forest and stay for a while him going up

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in the hills wasn't uncommon but at the

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time he started acting particularly

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suspicious about them and don't worry

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nothing bad happens to him in this story

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anyways the noises started to become

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more frequent my brother and his friend

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used to hunt for ginseng up in the hills

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and they heard the noises too much

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louder of course since they were near

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the source one day the noises wouldn't

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stop they progressed louder and louder

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and there was growling

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my brother was pretty much sick of it by

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now and wanted to know what the fk was

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up there after about a year of wandering

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it's evening time about to get dark so

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he takes a flashlight into shotgun and

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heads up into the hills he sees a

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creature that looked like what he said

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could be a sasquatch it was tall broad

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shoulders wider than its torso he saw

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its silhouette because of the darkness

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that came he Chas dad off came back to

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the house told me what happened and drew

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a sketch of what it looked like the

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noises had stopped after that day they

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never came back oh and a couple weeks

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later a new Bigfoot special came on TV a

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witness sketch of an alleged Bigfoot

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looked almost identical to the one my

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brother made to this day we're still

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convinced Bigfoot lived there Val

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