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welcome to the best of first person

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unknown night stalker along colorado

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i worked at keystone resort in colorado

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for a few years

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during the summers we would set up for

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conferences weddings and things of that

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nature

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a number of weddings were performed at

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one of the mountaintop buildings that

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would be high-end dining in cafeterias

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in the winter and functions in the

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summer

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imagine mountaintop beautiful wood

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buildings with huge stone fireplaces and

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magnificent vistas off of huge wooden

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decks

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nice places for your weddings if you can

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afford it anyway

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to get to these places required driving

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along dirt roads that would snake

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through valleys

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and then up switch back roads along the

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mountain until you reach the top and the

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building in question

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i was approximately eight miles of

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winding mountain roads

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one night we had a quick turnaround from

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a conference into a wedding the

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following afternoon

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this required moving lots of tables and

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chairs out and down the mountain

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and moving up different tables and

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chairs for the wedding

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so we would have a crew breaking down

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the previous setup and loading a truck

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which would then be driven down to a

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building that had the other equipment

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unloaded and reloaded by the crew there

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and then equipment driven back up the

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mountain

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i was the one driving the truck so here

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i am driving the long twisty eight-mile

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drive back up the mountain with my last

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equipment load

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i am about a mile and a half from my

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destination which means i am in the

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middle of the switchbacks that are

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weaving their way up the mountain my

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truck coughs a few times and then shuts

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off

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i try to restart it but i get nothing at

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this point i am pissed

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i have no radio and now i have to hoof

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it to the mountaintop building to radio

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down for another truck

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i get out and start walking i get about

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100 yards and i hear something off in

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the woods

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a kind of heavy footfall and some brush

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snapping i freeze

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the darkness is damn near absolute this

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road has no lighting at all

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just a little light coming from about a

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quarter moon that familiar shiver shoots

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straight from my lower back right to the

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top of my head

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i am straining to hear anything at all

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but i don't hear anything

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i start to walk again trying to walk

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very softly and my head keeps moving

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back and forth trying to catch any

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slight sound

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i get about another 25 yards and the

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movement in the woods starts up again

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sort of shadowing me from uphill and

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behind me there are tingles all through

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my body

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my eyes are like dinner plates and my

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breath is coming in big gasps

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i stop and try and look for any movement

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at all the movement in the wood stops

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my brain is telling me don't worry it's

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a deer or an elk or maybe a bear

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crap my subconscious is screaming

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bigfoot

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i am trying to maintain my calm but calm

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i start walking very fast trying to

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discern any sounds from behind me

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it doesn't take long the footfalls and

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the brush being

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moved through starts up again as i am

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moving and that was all she wrote for me

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i haul off running hell bent on reaching

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the building and safety before i am

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slaughtered by the unknown

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i hear crashing in the underbrush for

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about another 15 to 20 seconds

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after that all i can hear is the

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pounding of my blood in my head

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and the jolting thuds of my own feet

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hitting the ground

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i have no idea how fast i ran that last

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mile and a half to the building

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i was sure that at any moment something

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was going to grab me out of the darkness

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i made it to the safety of the building

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and dashed inside

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everyone there took one look at me and

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then sat me down and gave me a big drink

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from the bar

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i must have been wide as a ghost my

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buddies gave me plenty of crap

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for being scared but none of them set

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foot outside to check out my story

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they just radioed for another truck to

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come and get the stuff out of my broken

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down vehicle

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and deliver it the rest of the way i

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finished up my shift and got cross-eyed

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drunk that morning and next day

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i've never been so scared in the woods

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in my life in case you couldn't tell

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i am not an outdoorsy type i don't

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hunter camp

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i have no idea what was in the woods

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that night my rational side says just a

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big animal

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but my paranoia tells me it was

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something else

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never saw anything just heard noise to

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this day i still think it was probably

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just an alcor

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bear but try telling that to yourself

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when you are all alone in the pitch

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black woods

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second possible bigfoot encounter near

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keystone ski resort in colorado

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in the winter of 1983 at about 9 30 p.m

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while returning from ice skating on foot

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across a frozen marsh

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my friend and i came across something we

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could not identify as human or bear

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we were in summit county colorado near

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keystone ski resort

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the marsh is situated just south of

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highway 6 between keystone village

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hotel and shopping and the base of the

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ski mountain

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there was a dirt road through it going

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from a lodge to the ski mountain

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but no shuttle buses were on that road

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when this occurred

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as we descended the small slope below

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highway 6 i saw what appeared to be a

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man walking parallel to a creek at the

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bottom of the marsh

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there was no path there so he was

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walking in snow in the uneven terrain of

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grass and shrub clumps there

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at the bottom of the slope there was a

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small bridge over the creek

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i saw him cross the road and then i did

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not see him

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when we reached the bridge to my right

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there was a creature covered with snow

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and initially crouched on all fours

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beside the semi-frozen creek that ran

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through the marsh

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the creek was always partially running

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due to warm water runoff at that ski

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the creature had his face to the water

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and appeared to be drinking from it

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not using his ham to scoop water i

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thought he might be vomiting but there

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were no sounds of wretching

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i first believed it to be a drink person

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on holiday at the resort and thought

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we'd better see if we could get him to a

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warm place

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so he would not freeze to death if he

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passed out it was probably about five or

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ten fahrenheit degrees that night

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i began asking are you okay you need

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some help

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and laura was asking similar things

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whatever it was

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it stood up like a person it approached

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us on its two legs with the hands raised

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in the air

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it made moaning sounds but did not

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articulate any words

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in the light reflected from all the snow

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around us and a distant well-lit shuttle

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neither my friend or i could tell if it

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was a human or bear some other creature

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even from a distance of about enfied

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laura was probably five feet from it at

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the closest point

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it had hair on his face and head and was

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just covered in white globs of snow

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and thus appeared to be grayish white in

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color it kept coming towards us

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but did not reach out or grab one of us

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though it was near enough to my friend

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to do so

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since it was about five feet from my

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friend at its closest us

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it was standing beside the road

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initially so we were on the raised road

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about a foot higher than the ground on

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which it stood it arsed around us to my

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right and we turned to continue

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facing it it eventually was standing in

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the middle of the road where we had just

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come through

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i could not tell if it was an animal all

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of one color or if it was in a one-piece

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monotone ski suit

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nor could i discern shoes gloves hat or

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i saw no reflection of zippers if it was

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a suit

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it looked to be between six and seven

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feet tall when standing on the road

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his movements were awkward not fluid but

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stiff-legged

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i did not see the elongated muzzle snout

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of a bear which made me doubt it was a

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bear

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i could see a human face surrounded by

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hair after several rounds of trying to

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ask it if it needed help

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and receiving moaning grunts and three

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rounds with my friend

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saying what is it and one of us saying i

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don't know we decided to run away

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i started running but went back to grab

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laura to get her feet moving

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he stood there staring at us i turned to

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look back several times

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but the creature had only stepped

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forward a few feet it did not run after

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us but stood there looking at us

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we crossed the bridge heading south it

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remained on the north side of the bridge

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the next day i went to look for human or

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animal tracks in the snow but did not

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find anything discernible as a shoe

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printer and animal paw print

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the snow was clearly disturbed where

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this thing had been on all fours by the

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creek but there was nothing else there

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to this day i still do not know what it

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was and there were no reports of drunken

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lost holiday revelers

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so if it was human it made it home okay

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it had not smelled of alcohol prior to

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that i had never heard of bigfoot

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reports in the mountains of colorado

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but i did wonder if this is what we saw

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in the 1990s there were ports of bigfoot

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sightings in the mountains near colorado

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springs but that is some 100 miles from

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where we were

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now the bigfoot hotspot of colorado is

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near bailey which sits on the other side

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of the keystone ski mountain

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south of where we were at any rate we

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did not cross that marsh again at night

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with fewer than four other people

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no one else we knew ever ran across it

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to this day

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neither of us is sure what we saw there

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i submitted a report to bigfoot field

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researchers organization the fro

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but i never was contacted by anyone

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there this is info i included in my

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report at the fro

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it was about 9 30 at night there was

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ambient light reflecting off the snow

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especially from the bright lights of a

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shuttle stop about 50 to 70 yards away

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to our southeast

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the marsh however had no streetlights or

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any buildings in it

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i have not been back to this area since

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1983.

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at that time when we walked to the

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easternmost edge of the ice skating

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outdoor

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a keystone village it gave way to a road

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that ran between the ski mountain and

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the village

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the road was used by shuttle buses but

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was only wide enough for one at a time

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i think the road ran east into the marsh

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area

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snaking around a little bit just before

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arriving at the skew mount and shuttle

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area

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the road crossed a little bridge over

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the creek i had seen it walking westward

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along the creek when we were up on the

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slope heading down to the creek

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when we initially saw the creature it

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was about 15 feet to the west of the

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bridge on the north side of the creek

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the marsh area is an open grassy area to

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the north of it is highway 6 but the

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marsh was somewhat hidden from the road

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by tall pines along the road

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the marsh ran 250 to 300 yards east to

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west

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and was 50 to 100 yards wide north to

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south

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i think it is a watershed the creek was

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more on the southern side of the marsh

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it was not always solidly frozen i think

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some warm water draining from the ski

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area

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cut the creek thought even in normally

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freezing temperatures

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on the west end of the marsh was

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keystone village hotel and shopping

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to the east was marsh then buildings

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related to the ski area

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directly south was the ski mountain and

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brylie-less shuttle stop

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but to the southwest the marsh met up

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with the sub-alpine slopes of the maven

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sides

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there was no development there at the

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time for some distance

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the noteworthy things for me were that

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it did not smell of alcohol

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so i don't think it was a drunk skier i

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did not see a protruding snout

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so i don't think it was a bear it was

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all one color if it was human it was

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wearing all gray white clothing with no

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markings

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zippers are normal winter accessories

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gloves hat boots

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but i did not see toes if it was

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barefoot i was frightened and wonder if

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this has made for poor observation on my

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part

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the ski area had many bears because i

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often heard tales of folks running into

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them

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especially in the warmer months most

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stories however

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had to do with humans running across

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them at the dumpsters associated with

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restaurants around the ski area and on

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the ski mountain

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at the lodge up on top also as a child

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my family camped at lake dillon often in

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the summer we spent most summers camping

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all over the west in canada

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i do not remember any visits from bears

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at dillon lake

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at any rate i have not heard of any

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encounters with something like this

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i did look at the bfro website and saw

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that someone saw something like this in

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the 1960s

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so i thought i should report this one h

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