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welcome to the best of first person

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johnny mays had a farm pond a quarter

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mile up the canyon from ours

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we enjoyed fishing there and catching

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frogs and camping often we would see

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bears east off at a distance with their

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young cubs

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now i believe they were actually bigfoot

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families we would be scared and climb

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the trees

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figuring the tree branches couldn't

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support their weight and home was too

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far to run to without getting caught

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my brother was two and a half months

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younger than me born december 8th 1960

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when my brother merle was in the fifth

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grade he invited dennis stick to come

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spend the night at our house from school

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merle had already been to his house

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several times i recall

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the stay very well after getting off the

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school bus

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merlin and i took dennis stick to climb

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ghost mound at the top of the peak the

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height and high wind terrified my

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brother's friend

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fearing he would be blown off he clung

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to a large boulder on the top i had to

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track him down several hundred feet

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as he kept grabbing the boulders on the

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way down and i had to pry his fingers

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loose

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we spent the next few hours fishing at

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the pond behind the house

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i didn't want to share a room with my

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brother's friend so i suggested he and

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meryl have a campout

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telling them it should be loads of fun

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we had a rambler station wagon parked

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under a huge cottonwood tree that we

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didn't use any longer

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dennis refused to sleep in a tent

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because he heard the coyotes off in the

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distance

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but i convinced him sleeping in the

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station wagon would be safe

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he could even roll up the windows and

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lock the doors if he got scared

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i made a bed for them in the station

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wagon then retired to my bedroom

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at about 3 am i heard muffled voices

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coming through my open bedroom window

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i climbed through the window so i would

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not awaken my cranky dad

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as i woke up in the bright moonlight i

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could see the station wagon's windows

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were rolled up and it wasn't even

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raining

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the car was rocking back and forth so

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the boys must be playing inside

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all the sudden i saw some tall dark

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shadow flee from jerking the door handle

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so i ran across the yard for a baseball

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bat the boys were badly shaken up and

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didn't want to leave the safety of the

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car

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seat for the rest of the night to

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protect them from whoever it was

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about an hour later while i was fast

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asleep someone began

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jerking on the doors and hitting the

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windows hard with their fists

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the car was under the tree so his shadow

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kept the moonlight away

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the flashlight my brother and his friend

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were using lost its charge

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and the car wouldn't start so i called

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because the battery was low the light

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from the inside car lights didn't help

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me identify the attacker

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and i was only 13 years old no match for

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a big criminal

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finally i thought to honk the horn and

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out came my dad with a 45 cult automatic

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pistol in both hands

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we yelled it was only us then he cussed

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the next day we looked over the station

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wagon and it was covered in scratches

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and the entire top of the car was caved

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in dad then sold it for junk to the

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hydro salvage yard

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it was on a windy hot scorching day in

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mid-july 1972 that i finally laid eyes

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on bigfoot

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dad had requested that we help richard

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waters out with chopping weeds from his

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cotton

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the day earlier we had chopped the weeds

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from the farm in which she lived on

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he had a hippie couple working for him

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from california

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they were middle-aged and used trucks

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while they worked they were supposed to

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meet us the next day

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at richard waters cotton field north of

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hydro on the south canadian river

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the sun rodney waters has later since

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built a home there

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when we arrived at 1pm the small foreign

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car was parked next to the field and a

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small table was set up with sandwiches

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only a bite or two was taken from the

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sandwich and salad

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we looked around for the couple but

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couldn't find them in this remote area

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mother said they probably got too hot

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and walked down to the river for a swim

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there was an old farm house on the

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property that nobody had lived in for

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next to the house was a big peach tree

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full of big rag peaches

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me my oldest sister donna and little

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brother merle headed up our rose

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in the baking heat my mother wanda and

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sister malva went over to the tree to

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get a peach

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we just had lunch so the rest of us were

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not hungry

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after me merle and ladonna were about

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four city blocks down our rose

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we began wondering what was taking

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mother and malva so long to start up

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their rose

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suddenly mother came rushing from behind

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the old house and was waving her arms

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frantically

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we all figured they got into a nest of

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yellowjacket wasps

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and was trying to fend them off a few

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minutes later malva went running for the

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car

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we thought she got stung several times

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and was wanting to go home

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all the sudden one of the bears like

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what i have seen while growing up was

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walking along the barbed wire fence more

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than our direction

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mother went dashing to the car and was

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trying to get malva to unlock the doors

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so she could drive the car to us the

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bear moved forward until it was across

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the car was too far away to make a run

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for it i was 14

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but my little brother was just 11 at the

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time and couldn't run very fast

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i tried to talk my brother and sister

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into making a run for it while i kept it

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busy chasing me by running close to

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ladonna decided our best chance was to

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stick together

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so i came up with the idea to charge the

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bear and yell well swinging our heavy

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steel hose

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as it crossed the fence and got closer

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it became quite obvious that it wasn't a

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bear

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it looked like a big hairy human with

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huge jaws and bright golden eyes like a

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linger

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if you look up homo erectus it will give

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you a good idea what the bigfoot looked

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it looked very angry and i figured we

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were all dead however we charged the

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beast and it stopped dead in its tracks

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we began shouting and charging once

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again and the bigfoot turned and walked

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over to the fence and crossed it

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it stood and looked at us for about

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three or four minutes doing what

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appeared to be sign language with its

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hands

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then it turned and ran like nothing i

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had ever seen this running stripe must

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have covered 30 feet

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and it ran as fast as a cheetah it kept

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his body perfectly 90

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degrees as a tran its head could turn

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and watch us as it ran away without

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stopping

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several minutes later some army

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helicopters flew over

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probably from fort sill oklahoma they

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were flying low and in the same

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direction that bigfoot went

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i thought maybe this beast was something

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that belonged to the army

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some type of remote controlled robot so

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my fear went away

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i just called get a grip on what we just

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saw because it made no sense to me

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the couple never came after their

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belongings from richard waters house

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and he eventually had the car towed away

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i guess the bigfoot must have killed him

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before we arrived

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i don't believe richard ever reported

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the couple as missing

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dad was farming partners with 40 or more

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farmers

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he provided the tractor machinery and

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seed and they provided the land labor

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and irrigation if needed

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we were not allowed to report the

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bigfoot sighting because dad didn't want

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the extra attention

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in fact he never allowed us to call the

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law he always preferred taking care of

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problems himself

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when i was 16 we moved from hydro to

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weatherford which was okay by me

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just about every man and boy in hydro is

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bisexual

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so i never wanted them as friends the

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coaches liked to kick me and walk on my

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hands while i was doing push-ups

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some of the other teachers beat me with

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the paddle for no reason

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it made them feel really big beating up

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on bud shemlin's son

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they didn't have the courage to stand up

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to him so they took out their

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frustration on me

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i never told dad about it because i knew

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they would end up hospitalized or in an

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accident

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many of the local farmers had lost farms

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to dad in poker games

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from the first day we moved to south

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airport road the trouble began

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in 1974 we moved in a house from colony

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to location a mile

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and a half south on airport road and a

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quarter east our address was in

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weatherford oklahoma

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the first day of the house was moved and

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somebody knocked out the windows

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a week later somebody stole all the

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power tools so we built a shop which had

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have strong lock

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after a few months of remodeling we

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moved in however the bad stuff kept

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happening such as mom's veggie garden

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would get raided and the fruit trees

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would get pulled out of the ground

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eventually we got everything established

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in the garden and in the orchard

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we built a barn and chicken coops to

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house my 50 breeds of chickens and

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jungle fell

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it was a constant battle stopping the

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thieves and vandals from stealing our

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things and destroying our automobiles

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even though i stayed up all night long

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sometimes i never caught the vandals and

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thieves

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we kept a big chest freezer in the shop

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full of steak to eat

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one night somebody ripped off the entire

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lid and stole all the meat

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we then had dad's best friend floyd goss

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install lighting all around the property

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i love watching wildlife so i always

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spread peanut butter and honey on our

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back fence posts

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so i could watch the deer raccoons and

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opossums this may have been what first

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attracted our unwanted guests

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vandals would drive steel fence posts

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through our car tires

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drive wooden spears through our car and

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truck radiators hill bricks from the

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canyon near to us

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send waves of homemade arrows with us

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and many more wacky things

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we had no idea who the crazy people were

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why didn't they just puncture our tires

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with a cordless drill or shoot

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store-bought arrows at us

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a few years later when i was 22 years

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old the puzzle began coming together

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wrapped strawberries kerns and

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blackberries began disappearing before

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mother had the opportunity to pick them

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the sheets that she put on the

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clothesline would be ripped to pieces

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while she was indoors cooking meals one

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friday morning when dad was on his way

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out of town for the weekend as always he

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found a pickup that was totally

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destroyed

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and the seat had been torn out and was

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missing this sent my dad into a rage

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and he went door to door in the

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neighborhood trying to find the guilty

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person

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while he was gone i threw all of his

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guns into the pond behind our house

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dad never really forgave me for that

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although i knew it was the right thing

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to do

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i had a pen of really huge pull in

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china's sews where the vegetable garden

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used to be

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mother finally gave up having a garden

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because 70 percent of it would end up

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get stolen

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these 800 pound sews were really mean

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from being tormented by the vandals

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i was selling show pigs to kids in 4-h

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and future farmers of america club

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most of the sows had already farrowed

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and were suckling pigs in the garden

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mother went to check on the last soda

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pharaoh one morning and came running

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back to the house

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yelling one of the sows is eating a

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gorilla like as i began to dress

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i thought what she was seeing was

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probably a large dog or coyote being

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eaten

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i did know pigs love the taste of meat

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once there was a car wreck by carnegie

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where the car landed in a pig pen

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by the time hal came the people were

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already eaten if a chicken ever got

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caught in the pig pen

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it was quickly devoured as i rushed upon

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the scene i found his soul with a large

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leg in its mouth

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the leg was covered in short brown fur

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the calf of the leg was just as large as

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the thigh

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the sows kept trying to bite me because

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of the baby pigs

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so i had to keep kicking they weigh with

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my cowboy boots

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the cell wouldn't release the leg so i

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could take it to my college for

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inspection

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i was a senior at southwest oklahoma

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state university

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i went into the house and got the pistol

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mother kept in her purse

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to shoot the sow so i could retrieve the

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leg when i returned two sews had began

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eating on the thigh portion of the leg

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it looked like i was going to have to

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shoot three sews to get at the

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mysterious leg

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mother came up behind me with a stick of

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firewood and it was lights out

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by the time i came to the leg had long

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since been devoured

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so now i began to figure it was the

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bigfoots that had been tormenting us

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like the one we saw in the cotton field

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eight years earlier

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we must live near their village i

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thought or a place special to them

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why else would they spend six years

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trying to run us off

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i told mother it was just a cow's leg

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the dogs had drug up

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the truth would have made her too scared

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to sleep at night or leave the safety of

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the house

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mother apologized for hitting me over

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the head with a stick of firewood

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she said the neighbors would have called

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the law if i began killing all three

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sows

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i bought three male old english mastiffs

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to protect us from bigfoots and thieves

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each of them weighed over 200 pounds and

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were lean and strong

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lots of chickens were getting stolen and

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i wasn't certain bigfoot was the blame

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for all of it

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because our game foul was very expensive

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so cockers who couldn't afford them

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might be inclined to steal them many of

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my rare breed chickens were european and

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asian imports

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and i had a small fortune invested in

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them the dogs did a great job protecting

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the acre of land we were living on

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rottweilers and german shepherds we had

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died from a broken neck or broken ribs

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so finally we were having no problems

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here

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some of my friends brought over their

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trailhounds and we scoured the local

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sections for signs of bigfoot

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they lost several dogs to wooden spears

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and primitive arrows

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so they called off the hunts they

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figured some psycho must be living on

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the local creeks

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i don't think i ever convinced them they

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were bigfoots my friends tend to believe

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only what they see

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with their own two eyes it wasn't long

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before cattle and horses near to us

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began getting mutilated their legs being

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bound with heavy gauge

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barbed wire and me cut from their body

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with them still alive and driving in

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agony

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knives were always getting stolen from

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our tackle boxes

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in fact all the fishermen in my area

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were losing hunting knives and fishing

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equipment from their fishing camps

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seems a late bigfoot likes to steal what

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he can use

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it was christmas 1984 and many relatives

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were joining us for christmas

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we were busy opening the presents when

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my brother looked out the kitchen window

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and whispered dennis

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somebody is carrying away your chickens

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over the back fence

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it was beginning to get dark and the

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yard light couldn't illuminate the area

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because of the barn

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i sprang to my feet and ran to the fence

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and climbed over it

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it just struck me i hope this seaf isn't

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hard

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the thief came into view with the

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chickens in each hand i grabbed his arm

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and demanded he release them

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all the sudden this huge fist struck me

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in the jaw and drove me back six feet

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into the small cedar trees

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this made me terribly mad because i

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wasn't being hostile towards him

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in a few seconds i responded with four

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quick jabs to his stomach

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and heard him lose his wind i was a

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scrappy 6ft 6 300 pound kickboxer who

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hammered his thick skull and hairy body

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all of a sudden he began biting and

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scratching me with these huge

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fingernails

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next he flung me into the cedar trees

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where my brother had built a treehouse

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i yelled for my brother and cousin to

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get back across the barbed wire fence

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because we were no match for this giant

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of a man the clumps its huge hands

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around my throat

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i knew this guy was planning to finish

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me off so i screamed at the top of my

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lungs to release the dogs

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we had them in pens because of the

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relatives being here my mother's cousin

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dorothy nelson from tonkawa oklahoma was

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running our way

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she had pulled her revolver from her

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purse planning to rescue me

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in the darkness she could accidentally

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shoot me by mistake

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when she heard me scream for the release

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of the dogs she stopped and opened their

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doors

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the dogs were already foaming at the

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mouth ready to bite my attacker

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they hid bigfoot like a freight train

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pushing him into the ground

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i was terrified they would bite me by

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accident the bigfoot screamed in pain as

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the punishing jaws toward his flesh

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from the screen i knew it was not human

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soon bigfoot was up and running with the

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mastiffs on his heels

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when they took me to the emergency room

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i was covered in bites and scratches

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i have no idea what the emergency

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department thought about all my unusual

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wounds

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dad said i look like a bear had attacked

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me it fractured my skull and bruised me

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from head to toe

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my family moved from here in 1992 i

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moved the girlfriend in

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and we stuck it out until 1994.

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eventually all my dogs died at the hand

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of a bigfoot wooden arrows wooden spears

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cement blocks and beaten with a fence

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00:15:47,749 --> 00:15:47,199
post even electric fences didn't stop

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them

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meth makers began taking over the area

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so my family moved away

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it seemed every place i moved the

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bigfoots would soon follow

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neighbors complained that someone was

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trying to scare them in a gorilla or

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bear suit

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00:16:03,350 --> 00:16:00,959
we would have the same pounding on our

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walls at night i contacted the bigfoot

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research people

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and sure enough bigfoots were being

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spotted in my vicinity

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i have no clue why these creatures are

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attracted to me

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finally i moved so far away that they

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might never find me

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