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Afghanistan Bigfoot encounter

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I just wanted to recount a little story

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I've been with the United States

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military for about 15 years now

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and I was out in Afghanistan in backlund

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province and we were doing nighttime

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guard duty and it was about 2:00 in the

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morning and I was 249 machine gun I was

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looking through the knob and I saw what

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I at first thought was a large tall man

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but it had an almost like a fur coat

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like my golden retriever has and as I

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watched it you know I clicked from safe

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to semi but it wasn't threatening it

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turned and looked at me and I looked at

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it and I you know I really until this

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point when I saw it you know I always

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thought Bigfoot was like folklore it was

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like a myth like Loch Ness monster now

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I'm truly a believer that it does exist

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and since coming back now this was in

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2013 since coming back I've been

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bushwhacked Bigfoot startles hunter

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walking too blind my encounter happened

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on the second Saturday of November of

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2010 in Central Texas let's just say I

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don't hunt anymore I worked late Friday

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which put me up later Saturday than

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planned

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so I decided on a late day hunt I

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figured I'd go out around 3:00 p.m. and

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sit in the pop-up ground blind till dark

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I got there just before 3 p.m. and got

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ready and headed out by that time it was

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about 10 minutes after as soon as I hit

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the woods I smelled a horrible odor I

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was still a good 75 yards from the blind

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the smell was of death and more I've

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never smelled anything like it before

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It was as if a dead animal had been in

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the Sun for a while but it also was a

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mixture of other smells I stopped and

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looked around for the dead animal but

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saw nothing so I continued on my way

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there was a game trail that breaks off

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onto another trail it would bring you to

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the back of the blind I never took that

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way I always went through the woods to a

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fence line and then turned left and

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followed the fence to the blind I

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finally got to the fence line and the

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smell was a bit stronger so I stopped to

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look around for the dead animal again

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but again there was nothing so I turned

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left and started towards the blind I was

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probably 50 yards from the blind and

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could see someone at the blind I flipped

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my rifle safety off and kept going as I

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got a bit closer I thought to myself

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well it's not dad

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it's another hunter as I got little

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closer I could tell his head was in the

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pop-up blind window I thought it was

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strange that a hunter would be in a

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ghillie suit as I got near the hunter

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looked like someone dressed in a Bigfoot

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suit thinking that's a good way to get

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shot at around 30 to 40 yards from the

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blind that horrible odor hid me square

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in the face at that same time its head

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popped out of the blind window and we

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looked eye to eye at each other for what

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seemed forever

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though I'm sure it was just a matter of

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seconds there were no trees or brush

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between us the clear view I literally

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froze I didn't move as it stomped the

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ground and grunted at me all I could do

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was stand frozen in place and fear I

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wanted to run but my legs wouldn't move

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it then stepped out of the blind and

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walked away from me down the fence line

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then pushed the fence

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down on top as it stepped over it looked

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back me well and walked across the field

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I watched as it reached another fence

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which had stepped over it reached the

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edge of the far woods and disappeared

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from sight

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I got a clearer look of it from head to

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toe face missiles moving under the fur

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the whole nine yards it looked quite

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human in the face the Ndebele like the

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reddish color resembled that of an

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orangutan with Caucasian skin tone it

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had to have been eight to ten foot tall

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and was jacked with muscle I mean like a

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bodybuilders tone there was no mistaking

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it for male I'm five foot eight or nine

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it's safe to say that my hunting days

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are over

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you

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Oklahoma Bigfoot encounter results in

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memory loss was out rabbit hunting

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between the hours of 2130 ctt to about

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20 3:15 CDT on a farm outside of Maude

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Oklahoma in April 2011 it was a clear

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and cold night with a quarter moon out

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upon returning to my home about 20 3:15

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CDT I walked up on my patio which is

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about five feet off the ground as soon

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as I reached the deck I noticed a large

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human-like figure that was bigger than

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any man I ever saw I used the surefire

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white light on my shotgun to see better

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due to light fog I could only see about

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25 feet with the light the creature was

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out in the open enough to see an outline

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of the figure I had seen all my animals

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act unusual prior a feeling of being

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watched at hours of darkness on more

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than once the figure was watching me and

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made eye contact it was very large and

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close to seven to eight feet tall was

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very stocky build would guess well over

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400 pounds the figure seemed annoyed

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that I pointed my shotgun at it it

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seemed to have no fear of me or my

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animals my dog military-trained cowered

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down and would not respond to commands I

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did contact a Bigfoot team that showed

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up within 72 hours of this no evidence

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was found no footprints hair nothing I

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did experience some lapse in memory

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thereafter I am a retired Special Forces

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sniper with ten years experience and

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three tours in Iraq including the Iraq

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invasion with the third Infantry divison

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on the frontlines I have no knowledge

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after all I seen and done to describe

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this figure I do need to be kept out of

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any public report because of my

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background and security clearance with

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the military

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I just want answers and will provide

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full cooperation in person the biggest

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thing that bothers me is the lack of

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fear from the figure and my fear back I

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fear very little in life just want to

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Bigfoot scares hikers in North Michigan

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lower peninsula I haven't really talked

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about this much because when I do I get

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made fun of people laugh and then they

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think of me differently

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I work in tech now so I want my

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reputation to be more on the sight of

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logic decisiveness and efficiency I

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don't want to be the Bigfoot guy or have

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whispers happen so I just don't talk

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about it but whenever I see my cousin

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and I say do you remember she knows what

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I'm talking about and says yes I grew up

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in a northern part of the Lower

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Peninsula of Michigan in a fishing

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village our family was from a state

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south of Michigan so it was a good day

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long drive to them and vice versa the

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house that we lived in at the time was

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on the edge of a state forest and I love

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to just hike around I felt like I knew

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the area pretty well I'm familiar with

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being in the woods I've dealt with wild

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animals before I've been to parts of

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northern Canada where there are no roads

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so you have to fly in I've jazzed wild

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bears and gotten way too close to moose

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than I ever should have I'm no Bear

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Grylls but I'm also know city slicker

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the day this happened was the same day

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that my older sister was graduating from

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high school my cousin and I were about

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the same age all the other kids in the

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extended family were at least four years

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older or younger than us so we were

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default friends during family gatherings

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we decided to go on a hike I wanted to

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show her what real woods looked like

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since she was from a much more urban

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area so we went off I forget what time

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we left but we had to be back by like 5

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p.m. or so to make it to the graduation

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we were hiking around up and down hills

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noticing the half-buried barbed wire

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fences from when it used to be grazing

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country I'm telling her about that and

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that's why not all of the trees are huge

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they were all planted a few decades

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earlier so they aren't fully mature yet

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and then I forgot where I was I wasn't

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sure how to get back so we turn and head

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where I think I should be going to get

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back but that doesn't take us there

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it's been a while we need to get back to

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make the graduation I know that we are

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in State Forest Territory so if we walk

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in the wrong direction we won't see any

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civilization for dozens of miles can't

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hear any cars since we are so far away

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from roads otherwise that would help

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after what seemed like forever we

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stumble into a clearing like mowed grass

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that's on a hill that looks like it

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would be good for sledding in the winter

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the hill has a drop-off on either side

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that has plenty of trees so there would

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be trees rooted in the drop-off area

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that would have branches at ankle level

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on the hill depending on how high up the

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hill you were and that's when it

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happened

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we heard this sound like when you are

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close to a horse that's breathing

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heavily and it stopped us in our tracks

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that seemed unnatural it was not the

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kind of sound that you would expect to

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hear in that moment it was creepy we

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were not close to any animals that we

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knew of we were in a clearing and then

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we saw it about a quarter of the way up

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the hill one of the tree branches from

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the drop-off lifted up and I saw it its

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sauce it was just a head but it was

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plain as day large hairy and snorting

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and just like that it went away we were

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terrified so we ran the mode Hill was a

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part of a farm and we found the driveway

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which lead to a road which lead to

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another road that I knew and we got back

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to my home in time for the graduation

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nobody believed us to this day nobody

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believes me I know that old farmers and

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hairy old hippies are just a part of the

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tapestry of culture in that area I know

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them I've spent time sitting around

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their fires while drinking and telling

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stories to each other this was not them

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this was not a person this was not a

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bear or any other animal that I know

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this was something that I've never seen

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before and I hope to someday see again

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you

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Bigfoot families seniors army Fort Knox

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Kentucky I came across your website and

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want to share what I experienced about

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15 years ago I live in a rural area

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southwest of Louisville Kentucky I was a

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firefighter for a small volunteer

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department we got called by the fire

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department on Fort Knox army base to

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inform us that there was a fire heading

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north out of base towards our district I

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was in the four-by-four field unit going

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along a dirt road on the inside of the

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border when we came around a bend it was

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smoky but you could easily see something

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standing in the middle of the road

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looking towards us we were 150 to 200

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feet away when it let out a deep and I

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mean deep bellow grunts then I saw a

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medium sized creature step out of

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treeline with two smaller ones the

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family group of Bigfoot quickly rushed

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north over the fence and out of sight

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the first one was seven to eight foot

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tall matted brown black hair weighed

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unknown the medium size was definitely a

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female due to the weighed actor towards

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the little ones it was easily six and a

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half foot with a slender build the small

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ones were five to six feet tall and

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skinny the area north of where we saw

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them has multiple areas for them to hide

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with hills and forests and valleys all

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over the area the firefighter I was with

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agreed to not mentioned it to the

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department I have in the years since

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heard of other encounters within a 10 to

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