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eight to nine foot black sasquatch

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observed near beaver bend state park

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oklahoma

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a friend and i both saw what we believe

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to be

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a sasquatch on may 14 2016.

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it wasn't inside the beaver bend state

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park but was on a trail that was in the

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surrounding uichita national forest in

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eastern oklahoma

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as we were hiking we heard a strange

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noise it was a very loud call that

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sounded like it was from something big

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the voice seemed almost horse sounding

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as it called

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i noticed a glimpse of something black

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slip out of view behind some trees

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growing along the creek bed between us

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a second later the black form came out

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from the other side of the trees

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and appeared to be strafing to its right

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it stopped for a second

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and i could faintly see the glistening

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of its eyes contrasting its entirely

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matted black

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figure it only stopped for a short

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moment before vanishing from view again

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behind more trees

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at that point i was really confused what

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i was seeing

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and we were trying to judge what could

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have made the sound

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after what was probably only 15 seconds

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my friend exclaims that he could see it

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it was obstructed from my view until the

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last few moments when it appeared out

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from behind the trees that were blocking

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my view

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it looked like an eight or nine foot

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person who was totally covered in black

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it was running up a considerably steep

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ridge at incredible speeds

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the oddest part is that it almost

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appeared to be gliding up the steep

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incline

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it was moving incredibly fast but it was

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perfectly smooth

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almost like being on a conveyor belt

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each stride it took with its legs

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allowed it to cover a seemingly

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impossible amount of distance

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it seriously almost looked like some

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crouching tiger

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hidden dragon nonsense at first we tried

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to brush it off as just an incredibly

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fit

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jogger we expected the trail to lead up

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the way where we saw the humanoid form

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but once we realized the trail led in a

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completely different direction

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it became hard to rationalize that we

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saw a human moving that gracefully

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through brush at such high speed

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i haven't told many people because i

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don't expect them to believe me

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i wouldn't believe me if i hadn't been

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there i was always skeptical of

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sasquatch existing

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i never thought a species of large apes

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could possibly evade capture for so long

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in a country as densely populated as

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america

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the whole experience has only left me

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with more questions than answers

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why haven't we found bones yet even if

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they bury their dead

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we'd have eventually unearthed something

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accidentally at some point

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there's lots of points to be made about

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how seemingly unlikely their existence

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bigfoot vanishes later a flash of light

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i saw something about three months ago

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it all lasted no more than five seconds

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but it is etched into my memory

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uneventful but very real and spectacular

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i've told nobody yet i never felt like i

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should bring it up and it was meant just

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it was august 2018 at 6 10 a.m in

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upstate new york in the adirondacks area

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i often left bread nuts fruit and

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vegetable scraps thrown in the yard

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i enjoyed watching the birds squirrels

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chipmunks

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rabbits deer fox raven and crows eat the

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food i fed them

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i could sit out there with my morning

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coffee the critters did not mind me

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being there

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i would talk and pretend i was

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conversing with them this went on for

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i would sit here in the yard as the sun

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would go down another animal feeding

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late for a smoke

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again i would walk around in silence

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listening and enjoying nature

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a remote and wooded area the woods if

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you will

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sounds like i'm rambling but i'm setting

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the scene in my pattern of behavior

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not uncommon for me to be here day or

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night so

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one morning i go out the back door for

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coffee and a smoke

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i'm standing at the back door breathing

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in the fresh morning air

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and take a sip of coffee nothing is out

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of normal

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birds chirping and critters moving about

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then i hear a snort like a deer would do

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i look exactly where it came from maybe

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100 or less feet away

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the woods have the morning light shining

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on the line of trees

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but beyond that was still mostly dark i

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could see about 20 feet into the tree

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line

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i don't see a deer within two seconds of

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the first snort i hear another one as i

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am still looking

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but not seeing a deer something steps

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out from behind a tree

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its left side is facing me all i could

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was a large black shaped step out it

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stands there for maybe a few seconds

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i know what i was looking at but i had

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no reaction other than just watching

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it made a noise but not the snorting

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kind then it walked into the woods

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not only did i see and hear it walk away

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but i felt it in the ground

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like it was hollow and vibrated no

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breaking or snapping branches just

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footsteps

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almost like an echo in the ground after

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about six steps it was gone

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nothing changed same birds and critters

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unaffected i stood there processing what

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had just happened over the last few

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other than the echoing thuds of

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footsteps it was silent

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when i realized that i walked forward

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slowly to the spot

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not sure what i would see nothing where

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it was standing the ground was covered

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with fallen and old branches

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you nor iron ninja could have walked

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through here silently

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i judged the height and easy eight feet

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tall based on its head height relative

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to the tree it stood next to

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i stood there looking around with no

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sounds i walked back to the picnic table

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and sat on it

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still everything is as normal after the

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and observing the wildlife i go and head

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as i reach for the doorknob i feel like

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i should turn around

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so i do and scan the treeline again

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just as i turn the knob while facing the

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door i see a flash of light like a

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camera flash

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like someone behind me just took a

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picture instantly i got goosebumps

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my hair stood right up and felt like i

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couldn't get inside quick enough

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strange but uneventful and very

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memorable it had to have watched me for

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at least 10 seconds before it moved

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haven't seen it since it wanted me to

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know it was there

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bigfoot observed while fishing at lake

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barkley kentucky

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i currently live in southern illinois

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with my husband i grew up in rural lyon

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county kentucky and at home in the woods

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and around the water

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my dad and i spent many weekends fishing

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one early april 2000 one morning when i

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we pulled a boat out of the slip and

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headed south into late barkley

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it was an extremely overcast day with a

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heavy fog in fact we almost canceled

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that day

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about an hour after we moved into the

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river the sun broke through the clouds

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and the fog started to lift

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so dad said he wanted to try out the

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brush piles in one of the shallow bays

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off the land between the lake's area

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dad pulled in into one of the bays and

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dropped anchor we then started fishing

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off the brush piles

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i can remember that we were landing

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crappies and were having a very good

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morning

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after an hour things slowed down so we

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decided to have some lunch

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we sat in the boat eating about 100 feet

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from shore

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i think it was close to noon but i'm not

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positive we have finished eating and dad

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started to pull the anchor when we heard

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a loud splash

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we looked towards the brush pile and

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again there was a large and loud splash

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dad thought someone was throwing rocks

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so he said that we need to find another

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location

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we started to pull off towards the main

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lake when i happened to catch a look at

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a man walking along the shore after a

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walk from behind the brush pile

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then i noticed that this was not a man

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because it had hair over its entire body

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it was a bigfoot i yelled at dad and he

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looked as i pointed towards it

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he cut the motor off and we sat there

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watching the bigfoot throw rocks into

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the water

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it looked like it was trying to hit

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something we watched for several minutes

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as the bigfoot moved in and out of the

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brush i'm sure

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dad wanted to get closer so he could

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take a picture on his phone

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but i was scared and begged him to leave

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the water was shallow and i was afraid

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it would get mad and attack us

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he tried to get a photo but for some

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reason the phone wasn't working

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correctly

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we then noticed that there was smaller

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boat heading towards us

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there was a man on the motor as he came

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near he cut the motor and looked towards

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the bigfoot

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he definitely saw it because he looked

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back at us with a surprise look on his

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dad was alarmed and said that we're

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leaving by this time he was upset that

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someone else had seen us observing the

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bigfoot

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he recognized the man on the boat my dad

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was well known in the area

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and he was worried what would happen if

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his name was associated with a bigfoot

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when we got home that evening we told

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mom what we saw

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she was upset as well that's as far as

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the story went

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i was told to never tell anyone what we

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had seen because it would create

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problems

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i told the story to my husband not long

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after we were married

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his reaction was favorable and he has

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showed interest in what we saw

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i guess we can refer to ourselves as

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bigfoot enthusiasts

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that's my story i wish to remain

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anonymous mostly because of my parents

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fears of ridicule

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thanks for reading

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bigfoot encounters in the american

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heartland kansas

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when i was in high school my uncle and i

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would hunt deer in turkey in eastern

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kansas

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in 1999 we were new to the mary's stay

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sequence refuge bull hunting for deer in

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a swampy woodland area

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we had been in the same location before

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and familiar with the layout

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both of us had portable tree stands

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overlooking the bottom land

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we had been in our stance for about an

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hour it was early morning

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but i don't remember the time my ankle

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was to the right of me about 50 yards

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so we could both see anything moving

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below i heard splashing from his

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direction and notice and waving at me

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the splashing was getting louder i first

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thought it may be a small herd of deer

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moving my way

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as i look through the thickest i noticed

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something tall and bulky standing beside

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a tree

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i then saw something similar a few feet

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away from the other figure

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i looked over at my uncle he was

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crouched down and still

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the two figures started to move towards

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me then one worked its way into clearing

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and i was able to get a good look it was

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definitely a bigfoot and it was huge

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it was around eight feet tall and

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covered head to toe in matted muddy dark

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hair

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it was reaching into the water and

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putting whatever it found in its mouth

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i didn't see the other bigfoot it must

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have moved off in the other direction

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i was as still as possible though i was

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shaking this bigfoot was no more than

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100 feet from me

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though i was 12 foot in the tree i must

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have watched it for

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10 minutes or so as it waded through the

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water eating whatever it pulled out

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it eventually walked away from us

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towards the woods on the opposite rise

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my uncle and i looked at each other but

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didn't make a sound

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i was ready to get out of there but he

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remained in his stand holding his hand

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palm out to let me know to hang on

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i wasn't even thinking about hunting

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deer any further that day

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about 15 to 20 minutes had gone by my

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uncle started moving off his stand

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i did the same dropping the ladder and

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climbing down we walked towards each

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other and agreed to come back for the

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stance later

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in fact i didn't go back that afternoon

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my dad and grandfather went back with my

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uncle to look around and retrieve the

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stance

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both of them believed we saw the bigfoot

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my grandfather said he believes they

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were eating freshwater mussels and

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snails

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i never went back to that area though i

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still hunt that was the only time i have

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ever seen anything like that

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i'd be interested to know of other

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witness sightings in eastern kansas in

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western missouri

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i've heard many stories but nothing

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