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welcome to the best of first person

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bigfoot habituation in miller county

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i have followed sightings since 1976.

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that year i encountered a creature i

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believe didn't exist

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the first incident i laughed off my

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cousin came running into my bedroom one

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night and jumped into bed with me

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saying something big just walked by the

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window i lived in a community called

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jenna

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it is in arkansas not far from falc a

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very rural community

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we had a horse corral right behind our

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trailer so i thought she had just seen a

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shadow from one of the three horses we

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owned

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i just laughed at her and went back to

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sleep the second incident happened late

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in mayorite before school was out

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i was in my bedroom studying for finals

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my dad came to door of my bedroom

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and motioned for me too to be quiet and

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follow him i followed him to his bedroom

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he whispered to listen through the open

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window came a loud sound of maybe an

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elephant with respiratory

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problems i spent a lot of time in the

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woods and bottoms

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and have never heard anything like that

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my dad went to get his 357.

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he was a retired police officer and i

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had never seen him afraid

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i begged him to not go out he finally

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relented

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a couple of nights later i had to go out

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in the middle of the night to feed a

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bowling calf

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i was standing there feeding the calf

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and i noticed our horses standing up

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against a pine thicket that connected

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the corral to the pasture

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i had the back porch light on and my

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eyes were adjusting to the darkness

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i could see the reflection from the

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light i counted sets of eyes

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there should have been three but there

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were four one set was about a foot above

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the tallest horse's head

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they were round and red my eyes were

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still adjusting to the darkness but i

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could see the outline of what looked

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like the shape of a huge person

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i was in shock we stood their eyes

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locked

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it was maybe twenty feet from me i

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popped the bottle out of the calf's

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mouth

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and back to the door i never told my dad

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or anyone for years because the creature

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could have easily gotten to me

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and we came to an understanding it

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protected our animals in exchange for

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the food it took from the horse feed

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and the garden i always knew when they

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were gone because the coyotes would show

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up again

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massive nine foot shaggy bigfoot up

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i've lived in vermont since i was 17

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years old i'd never heard of bigfoot nor

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seen anything like it in my life

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i've seen black bears stand on their

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hind feet take a few steps

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but always returning to their

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four-legged walk i married my husband in

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and had three children from 1970 to

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1972.

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there are only two lane roads in the

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state except for the interstate i-89

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which goes from i-91 to massachusetts

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into i-89

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and wins its way clear to canada we live

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in windsor vermont

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centered next to the connecticut river

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nestled against mount us gutney

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it's a truly beautiful place to live the

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people are friendly even with their new

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england quirks

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is it place you'd bring up your children

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let them walk to and from school

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never had to lock your cars or houses

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for everyone knew everybody for

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generations

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but one year changed my life forever you

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see my husband was a hunter

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we drove to richford vermont to his

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cousin's house and he and his cousin

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would hunt buck or doe for the two weeks

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we stayed there

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he knew every track and animal would

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leave and enjoyed the sport

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so on that fateful afternoon coming back

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from reading vermont

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it was a typical day maybe 80 nice

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breeze we were talking when i approached

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a long swinging corner

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i had slowed a bit but when i'd reached

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the straight there was an animal in the

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center of the road

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i came to a stop just yards from it we

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both thought it was a bear as it was

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hunched over with its back dust

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i hung the horn a couple of times but in

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no veil the creature continued doing its

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until it started standing up and up and

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up it had to have been nine foot tall

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maybe 800 pounds my husband said reddish

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brown shaggy fur

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then it turned around neither of us

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could speak as it

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it was very apparent that whatever it

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was was intelligent

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it was a male but the largest animal i'd

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ever seen close up

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and my husband was as shocked as i was

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at the side of the thing not being

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disrespectful

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and i just were maybe a minute or two

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looking directly into each of our eyes

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then turned took a step towards the side

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of the road and one step it was on the

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another step it was going into what the

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hunters called pucker brush

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because it had thorns two inches long or

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better and it made you pucker for the

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pain it inflicted

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then the animal was just gone we sat

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there i don't even know how long

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afterwards but a car came up behind us

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and i had to start moving we didn't

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speak of it until the next day we were

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trying to wrap our minds around what we

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had witnessed

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years later i came across a book by ivan

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sanderson about a large humanoid animal

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named sasquatcher yeti or bigfoot and

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that's when i realized what we had seen

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i rushed home to show my husband what i

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had found and from then on we watched

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the sides of the roads and looked in

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fields

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but never saw the creature others again

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i'm truly thankful for what we saw that

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day as it made me realize that there is

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more to this world than we could ever

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imagine

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we never told anyone about our encounter

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till years later feeling like no one

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sf

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trailed by bigfoot in lamar county texas

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i was born and raised in a little town

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west of paris texas in lamar county

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while i was growing up i had heard a

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bigfoot it wasn't something i spent much

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time thinking about

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but i would watch the documentaries with

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my two brothers

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i guess i didn't actually consider it

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real i had never

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seen one and didn't know anyone who had

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so for me

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it wasn't real it was summer and my

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brothers and i were out of school

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just as we did every year we were

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spending as much time as we could at the

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lake

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we had a trail behind our house that

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went straight through the woods to the

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local lake

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the trail was about a mile long but when

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you're a kid

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it doesn't matter how far you have to

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walk as long as you got to go swimming

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with your friends

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my brothers and i were both good

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swimmers so mom didn't worry about us

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too much

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occasionally she would drive over to the

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lake and check on us

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but most of the time we were on our own

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we would get there after our chores were

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done and stay until just about dark

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sometimes she would let my brother pitch

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a tent with their friends and spend the

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night at the lake

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i was never allowed to do this because i

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was a girl

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but that was okay with me mom and dad

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would pitch a tent in the backyard for

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me and my friends

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it was on a friday and my brothers were

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setting up their tent by the lake

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my friends and i had been swimming most

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of the day when my mom came by with a

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late lunch for us

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she had picked up burgers from a local

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fast food place

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i didn't really want anything so i had

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my soda while the boys ate their burgers

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afterwards it was right back in the

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water mom yelled after me to start home

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before dark

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i had walked home plenty of times

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without my brothers so tonight wouldn't

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be any different

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the sun was starting to sink low in the

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sky and most of my friends had already

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left for the day

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i knew i should be heading home too but

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i chose to stay just a few more minutes

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and help my brothers gather firewood

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i grabbed the bag that contained my

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uneaten cheeseburger

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and headed for the path in the woods as

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i walked i began to feel more and more

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uneasy

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i kept telling myself that there was no

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reason to feel this way

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i had walked through here many times and

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a lot of them were alone after dark

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i had gone about a quarter of the way

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when i heard a short snorting sound that

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i wasn't familiar with

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i stopped to listen i knew that wasn't a

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deer

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i stood there silently but the woods

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were quiet

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actually they were a bit too quiet

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usually

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there was the sound of frogs and

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crickets with it being this close to the

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water

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but tonight they didn't make a sound i

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started to walk again

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but this time a little faster i kept

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scolding myself for being afraid

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this time as i walked i heard a deep

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grunt it stopped me dead in my tracks

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there was something in the woods with me

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i had no clue what was out here with me

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but i knew it wasn't normal i kept

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hearing my mom's words

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get home before it gets dark now i was

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really wishing i had listened

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as i began to walk i thought i could

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hear footsteps

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the steps seemed to be matched up with

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my own i needed to stop and listen

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but to stop walking was the last thing i

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wanted to do

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i finally took a deep breath and stopped

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i heard it

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three more steps right after mine i was

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sure of it

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someone was in the woods with me had

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someone been watching us at the lake

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today

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i was absolutely terrified it was all i

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could do to keep myself from breaking

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into a full run

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for a split second i thought about going

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back

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but i was now about halfway so it would

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be best to just keep heading home

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then i wondered if anyone would hear me

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if i screamed

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i heard a low grunt and started walking

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again i needed to get closer to home

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if i got closer to the house they may

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hear me if i started screaming

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i pictured mom in the kitchen cooking

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dinner with her radio tuned to a country

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station and her singing along

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dad would be in the living room with the

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news on the center layer would be

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whirring along

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they would not hear me no matter how

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loud i screamed

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i continued my fast walk with my heart

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beating in my ears

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my sweaty hand clutched the bag tightly

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that contained my uneaten lunch

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i had forgotten all about it until i

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felt the cramp in my fingers

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the footsteps had begun again just as i

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started to walk

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they didn't sound exactly the same as

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they had before

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i was straining my ears trying to find

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out why they sounded so differently

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when i realized what it was my heart

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froze with complete terror

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these footsteps were now behind me on

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the trail i stopped and spun around

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before thinking

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there behind me was something nightmares

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are made of about 15 feet away from me

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this creature that had stopped too

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it stood there in the middle of the dark

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trail looking at me

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i couldn't make out much detail because

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it was dark

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so i assumed the hair was black it

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looked to be about eight foot tall and

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about four feet from shoulder to

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shoulder

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out of reflex i let out an involuntary

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scream

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head to the side much like a dog will do

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when it hears something it doesn't

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understand

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i began to slowly back away from it

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after just a few steps it let out a

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grunt that sounded like a huge ape

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it was a deep throaty sound it took a

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step toward me

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and i let out another scream then threw

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the bag at it

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i turned and ran for home as hard as i

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could run

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i didn't slow down until i reached the

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back porch

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when i went inside it was pretty much

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like i had described

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there is no way they would have ever

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heard me screaming

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i went to my bedroom and sat down on the

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bed

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my mind was still trying to sort out

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what had just happened

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what have i seen just thinking about it

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again gave me the creeps

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i would never be able to walk those

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woods in the dark again i may not be

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able to walk them in daylight

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where had this thing come from has it

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always lived here

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i had so many questions i wanted to talk

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to my brothers about it

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but i knew they would never believe me

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and would tease me relentlessly

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i fell asleep that night thinking about

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the way it had tilted its head when i

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screamed

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the next morning i waited around the

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house until my mom drove into town

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and i got her to drop me off at the lake

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my brothers were getting ready to go

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swimming

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they both asked what had happened to me

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last night

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i didn't know why they were asking me

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this and i was curious as to how much

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they knew

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so i responded nothing why then they

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proceeded to tell me that

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one of them got hit with my fast food

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bag last night while sitting by the fire

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naturally they assumed it was me teasing

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them

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and the other one kept hearing me scream

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really late last night

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how could they have heard me scream late

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at night when i made it home pretty

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early

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i knew i couldn't tell them what

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happened but i really wanted to

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they said their friends told them that

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the screams were coming from a bigfoot

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a few of them got scared and went home i

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laughed right along with my brothers

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how silly to think there was a bigfoot

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in these woods

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possible aggressive bigfoot in armstrong

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kanji pennsylvania

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i was fishing a cadigan on the allegheny

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river in western pennsylvania

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i parked at the top of the ramp going

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down to the river it's not a boat ramp

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just one for backing four-wheel drives

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down to the water

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it's getting to be just about twilight

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when i hear something moving down the

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hillside across from us

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it's steep but not too steep i hear it

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barreling down the hillside

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but the brush is thick and really high

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better part of 12 feet

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i'm waiting for a black bear to hop onto

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the road but it doesn't

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it just stops in the middle of the last

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brush right beside the road

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thinking it was still a bear i usher my

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friend and his four-year-old daughter

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down to the river

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there are a bunch of rocks there a

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variety of sizes

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i'm still in my car less than five feet

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from my door

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and this brush is a good thirty feet

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away so i know i can make it to my car

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and distract it with my horned engine

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and yet it never leaves the brush

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just shakes it violently i stand there

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about five minutes

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and i can see it make its way up the

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hill i didn't realize it was pushing the

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small trees around it

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i wasn't connecting anything because of

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my adrenaline was high

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i never saw it and it was too dark by

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that point i walk back down to the river

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and we're gathering up our stuff

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it's getting way too creepy we're

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packing up and i can hear a knocking

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sound coming from the hillside

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i can see a group of people down river

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from us but they aren't near any trees

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they're actually on an outcrop and about

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20 feet away from the tree

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line this knocking is above us and

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slightly upriver

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and even they had reacted to it looking

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around and not knowing what's making the

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sound

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i yelled to them about possibly being

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bare they said they heard something

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coming down the hill side and seen my

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buddy running towards the water

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they thanked us for the heads-up as soon

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as they thanked us the rock came flying

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off the hillside in between us

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and them we actually saw the rock hit

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the water they jumped as i did

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we really weren't expecting it i turned

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around to see if my friend was up on the

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hill and was messing with us

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as i turned he was just a few feet

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behind me holding his daughter

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and both were white as a ghost i decided

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to reach down and grab a rock to carry

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with me

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just in case it got real three more

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times we heard these rocks hitting the

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water

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and i just had enough our sight was all

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cleaned up and i took it as a perfect

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time to retaliate

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not my best decision but i knew where

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they were being thrown from

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that damn brush up there so i chucked it

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i knew there wasn't any trees around

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and i figured if i threw it it would

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probably just blow right through

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but it didn't it made us sound like

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someone who is beating their chest

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and it rolled back out towards me i

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actually heard whatever i had to get the

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wing knocked out of it and it hit the

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hillside

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it takes off down the road towards the

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other group they start screaming

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other terrorist screams and start

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throwing whatever they could grab at it

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i'm just standing there bewildered and

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watching them scatter

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few of them went into the water and the

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rest ran towards me

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all of a sudden someone yells get in the

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truck they took off to their truck

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they literally left everything nobody

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grabbed anything and they took off

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i'll never forget their screams i ran

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back up the hill and hopped in my car

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my buddy ran up with his daughter right

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after they started shouting

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he was crying and i've known this man

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for 20 years i can count on one hand how

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many times i have seen him cry

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i start up my car and we hightailed it

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out of there never seen what it was but

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i put everything together later that

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night

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it's been five years since it happened

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and he absolutely refuses to go down

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there

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damn shame too because it's an amazing

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r

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