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arkansas bigfoot encounter deeply haunts

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it was back in 2010 right before the sun

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was coming up one morning while hunting

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with college buddies in arkansas

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we stayed overnight and i got up earlier

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and went out with my dog to try and view

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the path we would be taking that morning

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and get a general sense of the area we

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woke for about a mile

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and my dog out of nowhere stopped his

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hair raised up on the back of his neck

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iris went forward to detention and

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growled

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he then made a whimpering sound and

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looked at me and barked at me

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he then booked and i could hear him

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barking from a distance

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i felt very uneasy very motionless like

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i couldn't move and just a sense of

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terror

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i thought it was a cougar i had my

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sidearm on me so

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i grabbed it i checked to make sure i

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was ready to fire while looking around

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it was then ahead of me by this stream a

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full-size male bigfoot stood up

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his breath was visible because it was so

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cold he was breathing heavy

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i could smell him the only way i can

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describe the smell is like a skunk but

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not a skunk

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it's as strong as a skunk smell after

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making eye contact he screeched at me in

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an absolute threat

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i looked down keeping him in my line of

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sight but not eye contact and slowly

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packed away facing him

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i knew if he came towards me i put him

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down i'm a good shot

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i'll never forget the eyes the smell the

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fear it haunts me in my dreams

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i don't go deep into the woods don't go

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camping or hiking anywhere there isn't a

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lot of people or tourists in traffic

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anymore

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don't stay overnight hunting refuse to

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hunt camp anywhere on the northwest of

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the country

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i believe they are everywhere in north

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america i basically duck hunt now and

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did it

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i found out since then that there are

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more people that have seen them in

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arkansas

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which is not where i'm from but where i

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went to college it changed my life

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and if it weren't for being a positive

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glass half full kind of guy

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it could have sent me down a dark path

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my experience was not one of wonder and

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amazement

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my encounter was sheer terror more

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detail of the incident

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i was up on a ridge he was at least

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three feet below me and met my line of

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sight

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i'm six foot three he was anywhere

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between eight to ten feet tall

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400 plus pounds of lean muscle eyes were

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dark like a great white shark

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forehead low back of hat tall to a point

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flat nose

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and flat teeth dark hair it was still

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dark out

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the sun was just coming up i have ptsd

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and i can't tell people why

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even though i function fine the fact

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that i know other things

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exists means other things exist and it

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is terrifying

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as i left i felt i was being watched the

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rest of the time i was there

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i told my butts i was leaving i was

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shaken up and they could tell

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i ended up pulling my truck over and

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just crying uncontrollably

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not understanding why i now think it was

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able to get into my head

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or put me under trance i don't know i

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just know they aren't to be taken

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lightly

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and they'll kill you if you disturb them

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bigfoot pair crossroad near crane lake

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minnesota i am writing to you about an

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incident my daughter and i had in early

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april

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2012 near crane lake minnesota we were

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on our way home and traveling south on

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crane lake road

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only a few miles from the lodge we had

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stayed the weekend as we drove around a

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wide bend in the road we noticed two

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tall dark creatures walk out of the

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forest to my left

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i slammed the brakes and stopped about

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30 feet from them

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they seemed oblivious to us as they

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walked onto the road and barely gave us

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a glance

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they crossed in front of the car and

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leaped over a ditch then into the forest

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i quickly hit the gas pedal and drove

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for about a quarter mile

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i then pulled over to collect myself my

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daughter who is 15

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was sitting with a shocked look and not

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moving my heart was racing and i was

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shaking uncontrollably

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i think we sat there without saying a

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word to each other for over a minute

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i then asked my daughter what she

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thought those creatures were

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immediately she said that we had seen

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bigfoot

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both creatures were about seven foot

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tall and massively built

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i was surprised by the amount of dark

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reddish hair they both had

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and how proportionate their bodies were

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to humans

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i saw the face of one of the creatures

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briefly as it glanced at us

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the nose was very broad but the rest of

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the face was similar to those you see on

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tv

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that are supposed to be cavemen they

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walked upright like humans and didn't

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slouch

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i believe they were both male i have

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lived in minnesota

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insane cloud all my life and i never

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heard of anyone seeing a bigfoot

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my daughter is convinced that these

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creatures were bigfoot

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we looked online and found your website

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have there been sightings in the crane

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lake area previously

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i called the lodge where we stayed and

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the woman who answered said that there

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had been a few sightings in the area

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over the years

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but nothing that close to their location

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i'd be interested to know what it was we

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saw

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i can't believe that there are not more

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reports of these creatures

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thanks for reading mm

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bigfoot encounter in america's heartland

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nebraska

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from the river

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my brother and i were able to do a lot

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back then we were outside year round

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we really enjoyed fishing in the river

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for catfish

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it was the 1950s and things were

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different no one cared much what you did

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just so you didn't cause trouble we

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usually fished in the morning and

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in june 1959 we planned to hike to an

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area on medicine creek can't spend a few

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it was about five miles from home the

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second night we were there

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we heard strange screaming sounds coming

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from one that bluffs west of us

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it wasn't like anything else i've ever

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heard before we also heard something

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heavy moving through the brush and trees

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i'll admit we were scared as the night

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went on things quieted down

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the next morning i walked towards the

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bluff while gathering firewood

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as i approached a rocky pass i caught a

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glimpse of something big and hairy

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running away from me

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it wasn't a bear and stood at least

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seven foot high it was huge with a wide

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that was enough for me i was ready to

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move camp someplace else

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my brother and i packed up and started

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back toward the old trail

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i guess we had walked about the mile

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then stopped to fish at a good spot we

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knew

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we spent most of the day there late

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afternoon we decided to hike back home

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i wasn't feeling well anyway the area

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was much different than today

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it's part of a state park with lots of

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roads and camp areas today

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back then it was much more rugged it was

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about 6 pm

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and we were close to the footbridge of

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the river my brother suddenly stopped

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walking and pointed at a clearing at the

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riverbank

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he said someone was over there we stood

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there for a minute then this huge hairy

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creature stood straight up and looked

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right at us

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it let out a loud grunt swinging its arm

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up over its head

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we started running i don't think we

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stopped until we got near the roadway at

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the end of the trail

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over the years we talked about our

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run-in with the creature

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and we're both sure it was a bigfoot i

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only told a friend about it a few years

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later but he thought i was lying to him

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we've been back to the same area many

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times since then and never noticed

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anything

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i contacted the bfro in the 1990s but

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they never came out to take a statement

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the thing in the woods bigfoot

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confrontations in rural western

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pennsylvania

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within the past two or three years i put

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pieces together for my childhood and

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concluded that the creature we all

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feared when we were kids which we simply

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named the thing in the woods

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was in fact a bigfoot there were just

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too many similarities to a lot of

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incidents and descriptions that i've

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heard from researchers and eyewitness

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accounts

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i also looked up citing reports and

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couldn't believe it when i saw that my

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area

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western pennsylvania was a literal

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hotbed of activity

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and i can commiserate with others having

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something like this lurking in your home

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area is terrifying

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especially for kids i remember these

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occurrences didn't really start

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happening until i was around 11 and my

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sister was a

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i remember when we first acknowledged

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our thing to a couple of our cousins

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when they were visiting for a day

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we were sitting on my gram's porch who

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lived next door to us in a rural area

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it was going to start getting dark in

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about an hour or so and we started

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getting nervous

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our cousins kept asking why we were

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saying we had to go down home and be in

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before dark

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we finally told them that there was

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something that would come through the

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woods after dark that sounded like a

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freight train and broke tree branches

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i guess this was the vital clue that is

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stunk awful

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the best way to describe it then was

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like burning rubber that's when my older

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very calmly but matter of factly simply

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said oh well

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it sounds like you have the thing in the

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woods here too we were shocked and

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asked what he meant he recalled a story

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he'd heard his dad and uncle talking

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about for their wives the previous

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hunting season

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about two or three hours from our place

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this was they always went deer hunting

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and then summer when fishing

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they had this little tin trailer they

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bought for that property that was about

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a couple hours from their houses

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they had it for only about three years

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he said that this past hunting season

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they cut their trip early

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coming home after only about three days

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and they got home at some crazy hour in

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the morning

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because they'd left in the middle of the

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night to come home their reason was the

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following

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my cousin said that his dad and uncle

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had been up a camp and everything seemed

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normal at first

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though it seemed that there were fewer

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deer that season populations changed so

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they didn't think anything of it

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the first night they were there one of

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them thought they heard some tree breaks

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while he was out relieving himself

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but thought nothing of it since there

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are bears up there too

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trees can break naturally and fall that

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night they slept well but when they left

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in the morning they saw some odd

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pinecones and a couple small rocks

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around the trailer

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they couldn't figure out where they came

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from the second night they both heard

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pinching on the roof and back of the

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trailer

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that sounded like really heavy big hail

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it only happened randomly but it was

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enough to pique their interest

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they looked outside but didn't see

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anything they commented that they

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smelled something awful like a skunky

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type smell

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it was my cousin's uncle that it said it

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reminded him of burning tires on asphalt

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in the heat of summer

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that's why when we said that it tipped

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my cousin off outside that next morning

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they found more rocks behind the trailer

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they climbed a ladder to the roof and

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there were rocks on top

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this definitely perplexed them but they

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thought maybe it was some stupid kids

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messing with them

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so they hunted that day and that final

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night they were talking and listening to

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see if something would happen again

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sure enough they heard some large rocks

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hitting the back of the trailer

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they went out with guns and yelled

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whoever it was to stop that they had a

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right to protect their property and

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they'd do it

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but the rocks kept coming they went back

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out and smelled that awful loader again

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very strong at that point then they

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heard what they described was a loud

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powerful slap on the backside of the

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trailer

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now they were mad they ran out again

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with their guns to confront the

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pranksters

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they said that all they saw was a dent

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in the trailer and as they panned their

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flashlight

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they caught a glimpse of something large

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taking off through the tree line

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they said it had dark fur like a bear

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but they both said they saw it running

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upright like a person

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they knew no one in a fake suit could

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move that stealthily or put that dent in

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the sidewall of their trailer

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they went inside and one of them said we

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just saw a freaking bigfoot

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they packed up their things and left

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within the hour feeling very threatened

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that was the last time they ever went to

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that property so something terrified

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these lifelong hunters and woodsmen into

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giving up something they loved

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hearing that story made me a believer we

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were terrified all through growing up of

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the thing in the woods

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even to this day after more recent

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encounters i'm just as scared and won't

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go there at night

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and what really solidified my belief

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that bigfoot were around here was when i

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started to live with my ex

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not living there now because he passed

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away unexpectedly

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he insisted that there were bigfoot

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coming around the property

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he had weird habits too which made me

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feel he was serious

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he was a very well respected army

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veteran and active duty policeman

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