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furry humanoid encountered in northern

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wisconsin woods

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i saw humanoid or something in the woods

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outside my childhood home

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this was real northern wisconsin and i

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was 14.

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up until that day i had zero fear of the

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woods i spent most of my time out there

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exploring and feared nothing

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my parents had a bad marriage and fought

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a lot i felt more at home outside than

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in the house

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on hot nights i take a sleeping bag out

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onto the roof of an old shack on our

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property

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i saw bears i saw wolves they were

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always more afraid of me than me them

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i didn't believe in ghosts bigfoot

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demons or even god

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i only got lost out there once when dark

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fell sooner than i expected

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i stayed calm found the north star and

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knew that if i continued south i'd

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eventually come across the old railroad

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tracks near my house

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even the thought of spending the night

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out there didn't bother me that vhe

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thought of my mom's rage when i didn't

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come home

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did so it was summer i had just turned

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14.

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by that time my mom had left my father

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he worked all the time and my sister was

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living on her own

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one school was out it was me and my cat

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this is before the internet or

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smartphones

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we lived on a dead and dirt road and

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around noon i took my usual stroll down

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the long driveway to check the mail

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my cat followed me everywhere and i

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actually kind of relied on him to give

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me a heads up if there was a bear

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something close by

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i noticed bit of movement behind me as i

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stood at the mailbox made me aware there

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was something across the road in the

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trees but there were pesky deer

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everywhere

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i heard a loud crash as if something

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making its way through the brush loudly

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i simply took the mail under my arm and

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headed into the woods to investigate

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my calf followed close behind i got

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about 10 yards and when i noticed what i

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hadn't noticed before that there was no

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noise

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nothing it was a beautiful june day and

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there wasn't a single bird singing

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no insects no leaves wrestling it was

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absolutely silent

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at the same time i registered the

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silence i got that eerie feeling that

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something was watching me

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i stopped immediately and started

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scanning the woods for deer

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hunters know what i'm talking about when

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i say look for the shape of a deer

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instead of trying to pinpoint them by

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color that's when i spotted it

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two brown furry legs the top of it

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concealed by tree branches

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then my cat hissed i looked down and he

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was completely poofed out with his back

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arched

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looking at the same thing i was i looked

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back up and the legs moved

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not like a deer like a human everything

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happened

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once after that i dropped the mail

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picked up my cap by the scruff and ran

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for it

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whatever was out there with me was

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running after me i have never run so

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fast in my life

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i tore up the driveway into the house

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locked the door and grabbed the phone

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i called my next-door neighbor who was

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the ex-chief of police and he came over

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immediately with his pistol

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he checked out the spot i was in and

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found nothing i was so hysterical i was

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in tears

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he stayed with me until i was able to

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reach my mom and have her come get me

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of course they thought i was completely

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high or delusional i know exactly what i

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saw and felt

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it was broad daylight i never fell safe

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in those woods again and stop sleeping

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outside

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please note i should probably add that i

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thought i was looking at a deer's four

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legs

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but once it took a step i realized the

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legs were far too thick and human

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but was fur for that and there were only

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two legs

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not four plus i realized it was way too

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tall for a deer to be concealed by the

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tree branches

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it all happened within seconds i was and

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still am

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the calm rational middle child and my

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parents trusted me they let me sleep

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outside

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sometimes we all did to catch a meteor

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shower i casually mentioned running into

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a wild animal and my dad would just as

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casually say

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you made a lot of noise good i was quiet

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and sensible and had never freaked out

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about anything before then

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i had my neighbor's number for

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emergencies and had never called him

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prior to that

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this is how shaken i was i was

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embarrassed when he and my mom looked at

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me like a fool

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and later when my dad also didn't

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believe me not once did my instinct set

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me off in those woods until that very

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moment when i absolutely

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beyond a doubt realized i was praying

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ran for my life

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mama bigfoot to the rescue i never told

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this story to anyone but my family and

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maybe three other people

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i'm retired i worked in science and i'm

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a skeptic of most of the things i hear

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about

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this happened to me in 1964. my wife and

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i went out in the northern woods of

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wisconsin

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looking for a place to go camping we

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were going camping we were just looking

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i was going through some really tall

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white grass and i saw a place up in

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front of me that looked like it was

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patted down

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so i was very leery so i went up there

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and peeked

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and there's a bear in there i told my

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wife to run and get my gun

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she ran to the car i ran over and swung

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up into a tree

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and the bear was only maybe a first or

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second year bear

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i didn't see the mother around or

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anything i was so scared

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i couldn't figure out what to do so i'm

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standing there

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looking at despair and i know bears

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climbed trees but this one wasn't trying

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to climb it

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it looked like he was playing with me

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and all of a sudden a tree

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a small tree maybe eight foot long with

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dirt on one end

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come flying out of the bushes and had

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the spare in the rump and boy

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he took off he ran under where i was in

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the tree

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and i turned around and watched him

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disappear through the grass

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i was ready to get down out of the tree

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and i turned around and there was this

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thing standing there

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up until this time i'd never heard of a

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bigfoot or anything like that

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i grew up in the city in ohio so i'd

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never heard of such a thing

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the first thing i really noticed was it

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had forearms it had two arms that were

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long

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and it had two little arms that looked

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like it came out the back of its neck

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and i think i froze i don't know but i

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looked this creature in the eye

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it had dark eyes and his face and eyes

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were one of the most peaceful things

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i've ever seen

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and i just stood there on this slim

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looking at it ten feet away from me

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the first thing that popped into my head

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was it's an alien that had come from

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somewhere off this world

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i don't know how long i stared at it but

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all my fear left me and i was just calm

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standing there looking at this creature

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and my wife come running back from the

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car

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i had told her to get my pistol out of

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the car but it was the wrong car

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it was in my other car i wasn't gonna

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shoot it

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i was gonna shoot at the bear and make

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noise and run it away

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but anyway when i looked over it my wife

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and i thought oh my goodness

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i'm not dreaming and i look back and i

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see turn and walk about another ten feet

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away from me and go back into these

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bushes

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well those small trees and then in back

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of that there was a forest

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big trees anyway hanging on the back

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what i thought was two extra arms

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was a baby hanging in the back of it and

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it had a hold of the hair on the chest

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it didn't look like anything from the

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ape family i gotta tell you

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i have a very good memory and i took a

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picture more or less

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unconsciously of his face i looked on

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the feet of the baby and they were flat

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it had toes like people toes it

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disappeared into the woods

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and i'm just standing there i'm just

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stunned still

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my wife comes over and says where's the

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beer i said it ran off

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she said why i said that tree that tree

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came flying out of the bushes and hit

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bigfoot duo reported at nelson lake

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wisconsin

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i am writing about a sighting i had on

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june 26th around 8 pm

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at nelson lake wisconsin i was fishing

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from my canoe about 30 yards from the

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shore near tanning point

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when i noticed a whimpering sound it was

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coming from the woods of the shoreline

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it sounded like a dog whining so i

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stopped what i was doing to watch the

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woods to see if anything appeared

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after a few seconds i saw a child

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scampering from the woods

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i didn't get a very good look but the

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child had very thick brown hair all over

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its body and was very small

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human toddler size it quickly showed

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itself then bolted back towards the

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woods

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i sat there in shock but within seconds

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i heard three distinct and angry grunts

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i then saw a large ape-like head rise

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above the lower tree boughs

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the eyes were barely visible but i could

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tell that it didn't want me there

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that was enough for me so i started to

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paddle towards the north shore when all

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of a sudden i heard a loud plop

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then splash from behind the boat i

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turned around in time to see another

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rock heading in my direction it was many

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yards from me

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but i got the message i was shaking from

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the time i witnessed these beasts up

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until a few hours later when i was in my

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home office pondering what i had seen

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i think it may have been bigfoot i

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googled wisconsin

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bigfoot and your blog came up was this a

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bigfoot

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i'm not an outdoorsman though i enjoy

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canoeing and fishing

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have there been other sightings in this

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area is there a danger

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i appreciate your help i am a state

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employee

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so i would prefer my identifier remain

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confidential

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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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first person encounters

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we have many more to come very soon and

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by the way if you have a suggestion