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tall gray hairy biped observed in

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michigan woods

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i feel it's just an obligation to say

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that i am a skeptic

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i've been trying to convince myself i

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didn't see a large hairy

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humanoid thing in in the woods all those

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years ago but i did

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this was somewhere around the mid 2000s

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when i was in middle school

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i was staying at a friend's house for

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the night in the backwoods of michigan

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for privacy we'll say his name is jay

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immediately behind jay's house was a few

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acres of woods that led to a lake

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if you went straight back into the woods

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from his backyard

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there was a path that went straight to

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the lake which was intersected at 90

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degrees by another path about halfway to

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the lake

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probably a quarter mile from the

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backyard to the lake

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if you went straight down the path from

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the backyard then turned left at the

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intersection

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the path was a downhill grade followed

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by a flat portion

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followed by an uphill grade which

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eventually ran into a two-lane country

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road

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one of those 55 miles per hour ones that

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goes on for miles

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with not so much one or two houses for

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miles

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it was late in the afternoon and the sun

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was just starting to set

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we being middle school boys were running

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around the woods all afternoon playing

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with fake guns and stuff

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good times absolutely nothing leading up

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to this point was strange

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no weird eerie feelings no odd

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unidentified sounds

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no paranoia or ghost stories prior to

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playing in the woods

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just two kids running around having a

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great time outside

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well we were basically pretending we

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were army guys

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at one point jay decided to run off

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saying something about flanking the

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enemy

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he dashes off to my left i started

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creeping through the woods pretending to

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shoot down

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bad guys as it went i found myself

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standing at the intersection

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described earlier straight forward was

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towards the lake

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to the left was the path that went down

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then back up to the road

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i was standing looking diagonally

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between the two paths

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when i hear some faint sound slightly

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off to my right

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towards the lake what i saw made my

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whole body tingle in the worst possible

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way

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about 50 feet maybe more maybe less

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towards the lake and just behind a tree

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i see this face and shoulder arm peeking

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around it

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the most terrifying part was that it was

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probably two feet or more higher than

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you'd expect a human's head to be

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before i could properly observe the face

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which was undoubtedly hairy

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it snapped back behind the tree as if it

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realized i could see it

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the color of the figure i saw was light

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gray like your average cement sidewalk

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because of that i was unsure of what it

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was my first couple thoughts were sheer

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confusion and fear

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then in my frozen state i remembered

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that jay was wearing a shirt almost

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exactly that shade of gray i tried

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whisper shouting his name towards the

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now hidden figure

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i called out maybe two or three times

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went off about 50 feet behind me and to

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my left down the path leading towards

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the road

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jay emerged from the thicker trees this

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was the complete opposite direction from

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the figure i saw

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and there's no way he could have sneaked

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around me in that short of a time frame

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to further drive the point home it was

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full and the ground was covered in

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layers of dry

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dead deciduous leaves the crunch from

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the leaves was very distinct and you

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couldn't avoid it

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anyways jay had heard me call out and

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from just down the slight decline

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he looked up and asked what was going on

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i pointed off into the trees where i had

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seen the figure and set at normal volume

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i saw something big over there as soon

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as i finished that sentence

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i mean the very second whatever i had

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seen started stomping off towards the

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road

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parallel to the path we were on but

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probably 50 to 100 feet deeper in the

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woods

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anything at that distance

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for some god forsaken reason we tried to

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run after it

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jay and i were athletic as athletic as

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sixth or seventh graders could be

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we played tons of sports and we're fast

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we were hauling ass down the path

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parallel to the beast

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as fast as we could sprint and yet it

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was absolutely smoking us

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the road if i remember correctly was a

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solid quarter mile from the intersection

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of the two paths

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we had maybe just finished running down

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the downhill portion when this monster

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was already to the road

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and believe it or not we could tell

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where it was from the crunching leaves

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and you could hear its massive footsteps

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clear as day even while running

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when we realized it was getting to the

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road we also realized a car was coming

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i fool you not as soon as the crunching

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leaves stopped and the thing stepped out

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onto the road

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the car slammed on its brakes and

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pounded on the horn

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its tires screeched for a solid three to

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four seconds at least

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when the car finally stopped we heard

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the leaves start crunching on the other

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side of the road

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and then the car slammed on the gas

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peeled out again and took off like a bat

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out of hell

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keep in mind we could only hear all of

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this we didn't see the car

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so there's no way we could ever track

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the person down to ask what they saw

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but i wouldn't be surprised if their

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story is out there on the internet

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somewhere

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about the time they almost turned a

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bigfoot into roadkill

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anyways we finally made it to the road

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dan cross to the other side

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on that side it was mostly flat woods as

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far as the eye could see

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nothing but trees trees and more trees

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no sight nor sound of the beast we

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waited for a bit then went back home

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was it a big foot for sure i can't say

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but what i do know is that it was tall

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hairy gray

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and one hundred percent bipedal there

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was absolutely no mistaking the sound of

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it running

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but i'm almost sure this thing was

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sprinting the speed at which it reached

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the road was utterly unbelievable

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it ran a quarter mile in probably close

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to 20 seconds

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and trust me i understand how absurd

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tc

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a known hairy creature possible bigfoot

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charges hunter in georgia woods

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i come from a family of hunters it was

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not uncommon for my mom and stepdad

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to go out early morning and not come

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home until well into the night on

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in rural georgia it is fairly common for

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landowners to lease out their acres for

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hunting to different folks

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depending on the seesaw melody and the

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type of hunting they are doing

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and deer season for archers begins at

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the end of the summer

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my mother has this story that i love to

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hear as a child that is an adult

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had a horrifying twist one afternoon my

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parents struck out to hunt for the day

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the land at least that particular year

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ran alongside a power line route

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these routes are clear-cut through woods

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and create a man-made field

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a hunter can set their tree stands up in

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the thicket surrounding these fields

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and wait for grazing animals to come by

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around dusk

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my mom started to look out for my

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step-dad to come and pick her up

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he would usually help her get situated

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in her stand

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then go and find his on set up further

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down the trail

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as the sun began to sink she saw him

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walking down through the power line

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clearing

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my stepdad is a brawlik type man that

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has a wide gate in his walk

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he swings his arms a bit as he walks i

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mean it's kind of similar to a caveman

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even in the low sinking light she could

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make out his silhouette

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and could see that he was zigzagging

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from side to side of the clear-cut

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field he'd obviously forgotten where

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they had set her stand up and was trying

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to find her

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so she stood up and waved her hands to

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get his attention

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at that moment the creature she thought

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was my stepdad noticed her

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it dropped down to all fours and darted

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into the woods making a strange low

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growl as it did

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she waited for what seemed like an

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eternity for my step-dad to come and get

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her she was terrified and in tears this

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was a story shared many times in my

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childhood when i asked for a scary

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hunting story

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they have plenty of them it's not that i

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didn't believe my mom

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but we all know that the night can play

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tricks on us and heighten our

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imagination

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so when i asked for this story in my

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teenage years imagine my surprise when

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my stepdad spoke up

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a man of few words and a lack of

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imagination

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he raised his head at the dinner table

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i've never told either of you this

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but i think i probably should that night

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the creature wasn't running away from

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your mother

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i was walking along the line of the

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woods towards her tree stand when i

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noticed it

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i smelled it before i actually saw the

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thing it had a pungent odour

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almost skunk-like and it seemed to be a

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little over six

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foot tall covered in thick coarse hair

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it saw me about the same time as i was

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drawing back an arrow to take game

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at first it growled then dropped to all

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fours and sprinted towards me as i

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released the arrow

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knocking it in the arm i was shaking and

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just missed the intended hit

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the animal veered to the side and kept

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running to this day

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possible saswich encounter in seminole

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county oklahoma

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for some background i used to live in

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oklahoma more towards the central part

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of the state near i-40

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i grew up there and have spent most of

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my life there until recently

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job relocation i also had about a

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25-mile commute to drive every day

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i used to work a mid-shift at a radio

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station so my work schedule

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was from 4 pm to midnight i used to

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drive home in the dark all the time

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sometimes i would end up working

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overnight too and come home in the early

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morning

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it's not uncommon to see lots of

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wildlife in this part of the state

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i don't know how many times i've had to

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dodge deer and coyotes on the way home

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i will also say that i'm no stranger to

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the woods of the wildlife within

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i'm an avid hunter and fisherman i've

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seen a list of animals here

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mink river otter black bear and heard

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mountain lion but i don't know what i

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saw one night

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it was like any other night i had got in

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my car at a little past midnight tired

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and ready to go home

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started driving and got out of sasako i

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would also say that the roads that i had

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to drive were very curvy

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it's because there is a lot of native

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land in oklahoma this was seminole

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county and the roads often have to weave

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around that in random oil leases

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so after the curves in the road it

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straightens out because about two miles

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ahead there is an intersection with a

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different highway

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so when you come out of the last curve

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the road goes up a large hill and then

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drops down into a low but very wide

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valley

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about a mile wide

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so when i top the hell my headlights

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shined in the bottom of the valley

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that's when i saw whatever it was it was

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just on the incline where my light just

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barely reached

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it was large and brown in the middle of

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the road i kinda thought it was just a

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glare of my glasses until it moved

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it went off the left side of the road i

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don't know what it was

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but i saw it for about four seconds i

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could tell that it was hairy and it was

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very big

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if i had to take a guess i would say at

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least seven feet tall

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i could not see appendages that well but

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i could see some sway because when it

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got off the road it reached out to part

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degrasse the ditch was full of about

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seven foot tall grass and river king

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after it was off the road i could not

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see it my brain had trouble determining

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what it was

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the only thing i could rationalize would

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be a bear but it was not the right color

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or it could have been a horse on its

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hind legs but it wouldn't have been able

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to reach out like it did

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it didn't scare me except for the fact

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that i thought i would have to dodge it

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in my car

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i really want some opinions of what it

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was my best guess is that it was

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sasquatch

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part of our state is known for it the

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main cryptid for our state is the

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octopus but it definitely wasn't it

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