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growing up with sasquatch though i've

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lived in florida for just over 12 years

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now

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i grew up in ohio i'm convinced that we

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had a sasquatch that would pass through

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the area on a regular basis

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this conviction is due to both sightings

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of them and other evidence

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i had actually emailed autumn williams

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with these accounts several years ago

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after watching a few episodes of

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mysterious encounters when it was in

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production

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she never bothered to write back in

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response so i don't even know

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if she received the message since then i

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contacted a researcher in ohio with

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these events

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sorry to say i don't recall the man's

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name he was excited about it when he

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replied back to me with questions

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but i've heard nothing since my parents

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and i moved into a house

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that was only a couple hundred yards

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from an abandoned railroad bed in

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marysville ohio when i was five years

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old

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it wasn't long after that we my friends

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and i started our forays to the railroad

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bed

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during the summer months the weeds there

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would grow far taller than we were

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for us it was akin to being in a forest

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each summer

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we carve a path through using sticks to

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hack and slash at the weeds

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cutting out a narrow curving path in a

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larger open area

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where we gather to talk and want it when

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the sasquatch first turned up

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or i should say when we first noticed it

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we were still young

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we had no idea what was there we felt

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that something was there on occasion

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watching us but for a long time we saw

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nothing

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then one of my friends reported having

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seen something large and hairy there one

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night

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he saw it from a distance and only

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briefly the rest of us didn't take him

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too seriously at first

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he kept pounding us with it though then

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another friend a girl whose grandparents

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lived in the lot of joining the railroad

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bed saw something one night she mostly

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lived with her grandparents due to

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family issues and her bedroom window

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looked right out at the old railroad bed

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having a second report of something

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large and hairy up there at night

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made us all take it more seriously still

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we were young and stupid

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and the railroad bed was our place to go

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to get away from our parents

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it was our place we weren't going to

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give it up easily

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being so young still we had no idea what

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we had we started calling it a troll

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as we never had the impression that it

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was their full time

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so we learned to live with it it's been

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suggested to me before

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upon sharing these events that the

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sasquatch may have been young itself

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i don't know several years went by we

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were easing into our early teens

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that's when things started to pick up

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maybe there was a juvenile

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maybe it was just watching us grow and

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decided that while i was willing to

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allow young children to play there

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it wasn't going to be so tolerant of

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older children but the girl who lived

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right

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next to the railroad bed had several

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more nighttime sightings

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she was actually so afraid of what she

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saw that she convinced herself

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that she dreamed these rather than truly

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admit that there was something there

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i had three sightings of it them over

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the years she was with me for the first

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we were in her grandparents yard walking

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up the short gentle hill to the railroad

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bed

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she froze and put her arm across my

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chest stopping me

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i looked at her she was staring open

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mouth and wide-eyed

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pointing straight ahead through a narrow

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gap in the weeds i saw what looked like

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the head

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and shoulders of a large humanoid figure

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with dark black hair

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it was either sitting or crouched

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holding perfectly still

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we were seeing its profile we back

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slowly down the hill until it was out of

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sight then turned and ran

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after that she refused to ever go back

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up there not even as part of a group

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the following day we told another friend

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he wanted to see the spot where the

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creature had been seen

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it was broad daylight so i took him up

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there albeit reluctantly

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the only sign we saw of it was a large

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patch of flattened grasses where it had

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somewhere in there he and i also found

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what we refer to as the vine cave which

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i now believe to have been a nest

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from our point of view it simply popped

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into existence literally overnight in

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the large

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open area we carved he and i actually

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crawled into it a few times

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but always felt very uncomfortable in it

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and always left quickly

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not long after the discovery of the vine

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cave a couple of rival kids destroyed it

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thinking we built it i think that may

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have well caused the increase in

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encounters with the sasquatch and its

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attempts to chase us away

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my second and third sightings were

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spaced out over the next few years

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each time i saw it was in broad daylight

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i was in our driveway pulling weeds that

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were growing up through the gravel

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movement from up at the railroad bed

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caught my attention i looked up there to

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see a tall

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humanoid being with long arms walking

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along the hill moving to my right

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it was covered in dark black hair i've

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always suspected it was the same

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creature i saw on my first sighting but

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don't know for sure

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i watched it walk for a few seconds

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until it was blocked from you by a

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neighbor's storage shed

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then i turned and ran into the house i

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didn't go back up to the railroad bed

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for weeks

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my third sighting was from a far greater

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distance on the other side of the

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railroad bed was a fenced in area of cow

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pasture and the local water tower

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beyond that was a trailer cord i was in

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her upstairs back bedroom one afternoon

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again during broad daylight i saw what i

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first took to be a rolled up rug by a

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trash can back in the trailer cord

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i could just barely see it due to the

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distance i looked away

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and then looked back what i was seeing

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seemed shorter as if it had sagged or

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crouched

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i kept looking away and then looked back

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wanting to see if it moved

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i couldn't tell if it was moving or not

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finally i looked away for about 10

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when i looked back whatever it had been

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was gone another friend of mine lived in

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a house just beyond the far side of the

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trailer core

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a wooden privacy fence divided his

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backyard from the trailer cord

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he once told me that he and his family

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would sometimes smell a heavy musky

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scent at night

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they would sometimes hear what sounded

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like heavy footfalls outside their house

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at night

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he said his mother even claimed to have

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heard a loud heartbeat on occasion

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all in all we were lucky we gave it

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plenty of incentive to lash out at us

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luckily it never did anything to hurt us

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just scare us

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employing fear tactics we were just too

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dumb and stubborn to pay close enough

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attention

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even after we'd all seen it aside from

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the direct sightings of the creatures we

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had other evidence that it was there as

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once when i was in my teens and at the

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railroad bed alone

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something that sounded very large was in

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the weeds and brush ahead of me

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thrashing at the weeds

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causing them to move and make a lot of

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noise i thought at first it was the same

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friend who's wanted to go check out the

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site of my first direct sighting of the

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sasquatch

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about the same moment i realized that

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whatever was ahead of me was too large

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to be him a rock about the size of my

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fist was thrown at me

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just narrowly missing hitting me in the

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head i ran and refused to go back to the

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railroad bed for weeks after

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next time i was there alone i was in the

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same place and the same rethrashing

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occurred again

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luckily no rock was thrown that line

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another time that same friend who wanted

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to see the spot of my first sighting and

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i were at the railroad bed by ourselves

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there had to have been at the very least

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two of the creatures with us

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one on either side of us nothing was

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thrown at us but the same reef thrashing

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noises started up to each side of us

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oddly this time nothing was moving that

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we could see

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both of us clearly heard the sounds but

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couldn't see a thing moving

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still after holding our ground for only

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a few moments we both ran

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this same friend also decided to step up

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our own claims on the railroad bed

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after he had found a rockhand built on

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our path one day

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the cairn was small my friend spouted

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his usual lineup

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no freaking monkey is going to chase me

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away and promptly kicked the care and

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scattered the stones

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we gathered up new stones and built a

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new larger cairn in place of the one we

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we left and went back the next day to

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find our own cairns scattered

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and a new larger one in his place my

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friend immediately kicked it apart and

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we built a new one

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larger still in place of the one we

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found this went on for days

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each day we find that the cairn we built

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the day before had been wrecked and new

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larger one would be in this place each

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day my friend would scatter the new one

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and we build our own

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larger yet in place of the most recent

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one we found

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secretly i thought he was going back up

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to the railroad bed later and building

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the new cairn we would find the next day

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and he thought the same of me

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finally after this had gone on long

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enough that the cairns were getting to

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be a bit larger than shoebox size

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my friend decided to go one better and

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sent mark the cairn we just built

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he told me what he was going to do and

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promptly unzipped his pants and urinated

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on the rock hair and we had just built

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afterward we left and went to his house

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we hung out on his front porch for two

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or three hours talking

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then decided to go check on the new sent

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mark cairn

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the smell hit us when we were still a

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good hundred yards maybe more

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from the cairn we knew what we find and

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it scared both of us

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as we've been together for the entire

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intervening time each knew that the

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other had not gone back to the railroad

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bed to do anything

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the scent was an overpowering musk that

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was so strong that made us sick

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things can concentrate we held our

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breath ran in

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saw what we knew we find a new cannon

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that was noticeably larger than the one

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we built a few hours prior

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and ran back out into clear air to

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breath that stench lingered for days but

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that ended the rockharen war

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there were other times before and after

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that where my friends and i would be at

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the railroad bed and smell what smelled

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like a skunk

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we also once found what looked to be

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shallow crew pit toilets

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we saw what looked to be finger marks in

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the mud and suspected they'd been dug

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out with very large bare hands

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several of the toilets contained what

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looked to be human fecal matter

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only far larger the next door neighbors

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we had while i was growing up were very

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wasteful people

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they didn't believe in leftovers for

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meals if something wasn't eaten it went

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into the trash

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not the refrigerator their trash was

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torn open many

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many times they went the expense of

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having a five foot tall brick wall built

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around the area they kept their trash

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cans in

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there was a green picket gate on the

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front for the garbage collectors to open

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to get access to the trash

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they also bought trash cans with locking

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lids none of it did any good

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whatever kept tearing into the trash

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would sometimes open the gate

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leaving it open and knew how to unlock

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the lock trash can lids

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i've often wondered if their trash

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wasn't why the sasquatch liked that area

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and if it wasn't using the railroad bed

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as a convenient staging place to raid

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both their trash and trash from the

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aforementioned trailer cord

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i have no evidence to support these

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claims we were young and never thought

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to gather any evidence

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something i kicked myself for to this

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day having a sasquatch passing those so

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closely so often didn't seem special to

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possible sasquatch encounter near tacoma

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washington

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in 2011 i was working at the lewis

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mccord military base located south of

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tacoma washington

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i was employed at public works and

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assigned to the environmental department

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i was part of a group conducting a study

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in the southern section of the base

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there were several soldiers attached to

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the group for security

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we have been out in the field all day

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and we're getting ready to head back to

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the lab

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about 5 30 pm we heard a distress call

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on the radio from one of the security

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attachments located north of our

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location

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then we heard gunshots coming from the

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same direction the best i can describe

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the situation is that all help recluse

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the civilians were hustled out of the

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area immediately when we arrived at the

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lab we were told by command that our

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department would be non-active until

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further notice

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the next day i received a phone call at

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home from a lady i worked with

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she was wondering if i had heard

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anything i told her that no one

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contacted me but i was having dinner

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later with friends who worked on the

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base

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she seemed very concerned because no one

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was answering calls to base

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that evening i got together with friends

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who worked in other public works

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departments at the base

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at that time there was no official

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information available but there were a

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lot of rumors floating around

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the most prevalent rumor was that one of

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the security detail went off his rocker

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and started shooting at other personnel

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we were all called back to work about a

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week later we each were given a written

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statement that despite the rumors

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the incident was a false alarm and that

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no one had discharged their firearm

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we all rolled our eyes each of us had

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heard the gunshots and realized that the

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situation was more serious than what the

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military was stating

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a month or so later i was collecting

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samples in the field and was accompanied

404
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by two soldiers for security

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we were back in the general area of the

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mysterious incident

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one of the soldiers mentioned that all

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the security people who were on duty

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that particular day

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were no longer with the division which i

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thought was very odd

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i asked if he had heard anything about

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the incident with a straight face he

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said that something was shot after it

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scared a group of soldiers

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i mentioned that i thought soldiers were

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not authorized to shoot at wildlife

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both the soldiers snickered and agreed

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with my comment i asked what was it

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they explained that they were never told

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what the something was but there had

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been unconfirmed sightings of sasquatch

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and other unknown man-like creatures in

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and around the base

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this information didn't really surprise

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me since i grew up in portland oregon

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and was well aware of the legend

428
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that is about all i can tell you i no

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longer work at lewis mccord but still

430
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have several friends who do

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i will say that i am more mindful of the

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cryptic world especially here in the

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pacific northwest

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i believe that the government and

435
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military are very familiar with these

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00:13:22,790 --> 00:13:21,200
creatures the sudden security boost

437
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during the incident and then the fact

438
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that the biological and medical

439
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departments on the base were put on

440
00:13:28,629 --> 00:13:26,800
hiatus

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leads me to believe that the military

442
00:13:33,110 --> 00:13:30,959
was in possession of one these creatures

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i have no confirmation of this but my

444
00:13:35,750 --> 00:13:34,959
gut feeling indicates that this is what

445
00:13:42,710 --> 00:13:35,760
happened

446
00:13:46,230 --> 00:13:44,710
couple encounters bigfoot on the loma

447
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prieta great trail

448
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i'm a silicon valley san jose california

449
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native and have frequented the adjacent

450
00:13:55,189 --> 00:13:53,519
santa cruz mountains all my life

451
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this incident happened on the loma

452
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prieta grade trail in the forest of

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nassim mark state park

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00:14:02,949 --> 00:14:01,040
in the late summer of 2019. my

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girlfriend at the time and i were hiking

456
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on a wednesday morning

457
00:14:08,230 --> 00:14:06,639
there were already people around this is

458
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a popular trail as it's a really

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00:14:11,750 --> 00:14:09,680
beautiful locale

460
00:14:13,430 --> 00:14:11,760
that said there were also stretches when

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it was just the two of us

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i think it's a five mile hike total and

463
00:14:19,350 --> 00:14:17,279
we were about an hour in when my

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00:14:21,590 --> 00:14:19,360
girlfriend had to relieve herself

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00:14:23,350 --> 00:14:21,600
there were thick trees on both sides so

466
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we looked for a clearing on our right

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side

468
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we saw not really a path but an opening

469
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and walked past the tree line

470
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maybe twenty to 30 feet in she wanted to

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be out of sight of anyone who passed by

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i tossed her my backpack which had

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toilet paper and she ducked behind a

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tree

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i walked back down the clearing about

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halfway but i could still see her

477
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she's squatting and i'm just waiting

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like i said i could see her the whole

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time

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it was darker inside the trees obviously

481
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but i could still see just fine

482
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so i'm standing there with nothing to do

483
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but look around me

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that's when i caught the movement of

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something on my left there was a

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medium-sized tree with a very distinct

487
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very dark

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hand on it it was about 10 or so feet

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away

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at first i thought it was someone

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wearing black gloves

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i don't know why but i immediately

493
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thought it was some biker pervert

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looking in on my girlfriend

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that's when i saw the face peek out and

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everything turned upside down

497
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i can't say with full certainty but i'd

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say it was seven to eight feet tall

499
00:15:25,269 --> 00:15:23,839
easy i'm six foot two i only saw half of

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it but it was everything you would

501
00:15:27,910 --> 00:15:27,040
expect from a classic description of

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bigfoot

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big black eyes large flat nose dark

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skinned with blackish grayish hair

505
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i could see only a hint of the conical

506
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skull really based on nothing in

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particular

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i feel like i saw a female not sure why

509
00:15:44,470 --> 00:15:43,279
i just do anyway it peeked back and

510
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forth twice

511
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the eyes were mesmerizing that's the

512
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best way to describe it

513
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they felt like they were looking right

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through my soul i wasn't scared really

515
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but i was definitely in shock like the

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way

517
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seeing a car accident feels like

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everything is in slow motion

519
00:16:02,150 --> 00:16:00,079
and let me confirm what others say there

520
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was no way i had the wherewithal to pull

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out my phone and take a picture

522
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no way i was totally engrossed in the

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moment

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this was all in the space of maybe 20 yo

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30 seconds

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the second time it peaked out it looked

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at me for a few seconds

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00:16:17,910 --> 00:16:16,079
then ducked back behind the tree but

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00:16:18,710 --> 00:16:17,920
also sank like it was going onto the

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ground

531
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that was the last i saw of it my

532
00:16:24,150 --> 00:16:22,480
girlfriend finally finished

533
00:16:25,829 --> 00:16:24,160
and when she came back toward me that

534
00:16:27,829 --> 00:16:25,839
was when the fear hit me

535
00:16:29,910 --> 00:16:27,839
not like i was in danger right at that

536
00:16:31,509 --> 00:16:29,920
moment but more like the reality of what

537
00:16:33,430 --> 00:16:31,519
i saw finally hit me

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00:16:34,870 --> 00:16:33,440
i quickly took her hand and pulled her

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00:16:37,030 --> 00:16:34,880
back onto the trail

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00:16:38,710 --> 00:16:37,040
i didn't say what i saw but i said we

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00:16:40,949 --> 00:16:38,720
had to go back asap

542
00:16:42,629 --> 00:16:40,959
she was confused but i explained to her

543
00:16:44,710 --> 00:16:42,639
what i saw as we walked back

544
00:16:46,310 --> 00:16:44,720
at a much brisker pace than when we came

545
00:16:48,230 --> 00:16:46,320
up she believed me

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00:16:49,990 --> 00:16:48,240
she's canadian and has an uncle and

547
00:16:52,389 --> 00:16:50,000
cousin who claimed to see one when she

548
00:16:54,069 --> 00:16:52,399
was growing up so that was good she

549
00:16:56,150 --> 00:16:54,079
actually wanted to turn around

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00:16:57,910 --> 00:16:56,160
and see if we could find it but i wasn't

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00:16:58,629 --> 00:16:57,920
quite in that space just after it

552
00:17:00,470 --> 00:16:58,639
happened

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00:17:01,829 --> 00:17:00,480
i'd say i was generally a bigfoot

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00:17:03,670 --> 00:17:01,839
believer prior to this

555
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but not anywhere near a fanatic or

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00:17:06,949 --> 00:17:05,679
anything and it's not like i set out

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00:17:09,029 --> 00:17:06,959
looking for anything

558
00:17:10,150 --> 00:17:09,039
i know people argue that if you have

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00:17:11,829 --> 00:17:10,160
bigfoot on the brain

560
00:17:14,069 --> 00:17:11,839
you're more likely to jump to that

561
00:17:16,630 --> 00:17:14,079
conclusion in certain situations

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i did not in fact the whole hike i was

563
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complaining to my girlfriend

564
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about my manager at work bigfoot was the

565
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last thing on my mind

566
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i'm okay with what happened but i had

567
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strange dreams for weeks after

568
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my girlfriend thought it was a great

569
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story and she'd tell our friends over

570
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beers and stuff

571
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but i'm not entirely comfortable with

572
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people knowing but like i said

573
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i'm far away from it now to at least

574
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share it here yeah it's possible a huge

575
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guy in his suit was out there at that

576
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exact time and

577
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in that exact spot but i don't think so

578
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i'm 99

579
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this is lon strickler if you like this

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program

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it would help us if you would give it a

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thumbs up

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then subscribe and click the bell icon

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so you

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get notification when we upload new

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587
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we have many more to come very soon and

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