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penelope of the sierra nevada mountains

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sir

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my brother referred your email address

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to me he thought you may have an answer

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to what i saw this past july while

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camping in the sierra nevada mountains

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near tioga lake california my teenage

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son

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and i were camping in our rv there were

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other campers in the area but

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not very close to us on the third night

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of our trip

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we encountered something that neither of

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us can explain

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this is bear country and i know that

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there have been bigfoot reports over the

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years

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but what we saw was neither as far as we

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can tell

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we secured all of the food and other

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supplies in the rv

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and we're getting ready to go to bed it

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was about 12 30 a.m

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my son fell asleep quickly while i was

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getting a few things ready as we were

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going to leave this location later in

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the morning

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i was looking at a map when i started to

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hear high-pitched screams

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at first i thought it was a coyote but

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it was a single scream and sounded more

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human

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like a woman's scream i opened the rv

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door and stood

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silent in the doorway once again the

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high-pitched scream started

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this time it woke my son we both stood

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at the door as the screams continued

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from the direction of the mountain

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after about 10 minutes the screams

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stopped we both went to bed

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something startled me while i was

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sleeping because i woke in

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a panic i looked at my watch it was 2 40

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am

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as it started my son jumped out of his

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rack and fell to the floor

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i grabbed my 44 just in case as we

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looked out through the windshield the

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moonlight was bright enough to

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illuminate a tall thin creature with

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light colored skin

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my son yelled zombie it did look like a

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female human form

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but the face and the rest of the body

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looked horrible

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it reminded me of an old witch no

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clothes deformed face

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long light colored hair long arms and

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legs

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i figured it stood almost seven feet it

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was walking away from the rv

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toward the lake i had seen enough i made

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sure

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everything was ready to go and drove out

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of their asap

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we ended up near mono lake a few days

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later i was able to talk to a ranger as

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he walked through the camping

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area he was an older guy and quite

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engaging

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i described what we witnessed my son

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also verified what we had seen

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the ranger got a serious look on his

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face and said that over the years

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something similar had been reported a

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few times he said that they called it

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penelope but he didn't know why it had

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gotten that name

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that's all he knew when i got home i

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searched the internet

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but no information was available my

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brother gave me your email address and

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said you may have an idea of what it was

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is penelope more than an urban legend hi

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i was searching for things in the sierra

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nevadas

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and i came across a story on your page

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about a creature named penelope

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the entire encounter and creature

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described by the lr person who sent the

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original email was something my entire

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family and myself had witnessed many

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years ago

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we were camping near convict lake

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california but further back in the woods

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there were three other groups of campers

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in the campground and it was late spring

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on our second night there around 1am

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just outside my old nissan datsun

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six-pack camper my father

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mother and i heard a very loud scream

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other people in the camp heard it as

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because when i look out the window i saw

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lights and all the tents turn on

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following the loud screen a second

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scream came from the hell across the

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there were two of these creatures a

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minute or two went by and then again

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from the same location we heard another

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loud blood-curdling scream

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it then proceeded to begin running in

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the direction of the creature across the

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stream

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it must have been large because my dad

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is six four three hundred pounds

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and could not make the same loud thuds

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this creature made when running

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we only got a look at part of it as it

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emerged from the brush when crossing the

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stream

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it was a whitish blur at least that's

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what we saw

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even though several campers had weapons

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we left right then and there

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this was back in 1986 i don't really

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believe in bigfoot

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aliens etc but whatever this was it was

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real and it was real big

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i will never go camping without at least

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a shotgun since that incident

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another penelope encounter i have been

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searching for months to find answers to

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what it is my wife and i saw near labor

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day 2014

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while camping in the eastern sierras in

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the mono village area

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most websites are just so outlandish and

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full of people that want to believe in

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monsters or ufos

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it just became frustrating that any hope

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of putting together the puzzle and maybe

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learning something from these rare

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experiences

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would be lost i read the reported

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sighting of the man and his son

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seeing a tall skinny witch-looking thing

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outside is rv in the same region

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also i was very interested in an article

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that discussed the bigfoot problem

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and how people might be seeing ghosts of

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animals from the past

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this is why it's so hard to gather

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evidence on maybe they materialize and

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dematerialize

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and we are just lucky to be present this

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seems like a legitimate explanation to

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me because the creature i saw running by

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the road of living

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breathing and hunting in our physical

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world would send all the people that

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live in mono county back to the city

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once reports came of its appearance i

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have been coming to the same area to

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camp and fish for over 30 years

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hell it's 40 years to be exact the twin

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lakes resort and bridgeport california

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ride on the california nevada border

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about an hour north of mono lake

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high elevation tons of wildlife and

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great fishing

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one wear out up to the twins ending at

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the base of the huge mountain range

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north side of yosemite my parents

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brought me when i was five

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and now i bring them and my family every

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year so i am very familiar with the

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wildlife

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on many occasions had up close

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experiences with many of its inhabitants

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for instance one time a bear was spooked

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and backed up into my tent

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sending me flying over the other two

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people in my tent

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i've seen some stuff my family loves to

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fish

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mostly catch and release my favorite

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pastime is hiking and bird and animal

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i have developed a keen eye for locating

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and identifying all types of wildlife to

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give you an example of what i have

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personally seen in this valley mountain

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lion

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sierra moose bald eagle golden eagle

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nesting

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mountain goats osprey king snake the

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list goes on

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the point i'm trying to make is i've

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seen every kind of animal in this

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wilderness

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and i have a great knowledge of every

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other species of animal all over the

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world

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nature and wildlife have been a lifelong

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interest of mine

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and been the subject of much of my art

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since a child

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knowing the body parts and how they move

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together has been essential to

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understand as an artist

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okay now to the siding my wife stepson

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and myself were headed to the creek for

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some daybreak fishing

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we left before dawn to get the car

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parked and walked to the creek

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the time must have been close to 5 30 am

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and it was still very dark and a slight

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this trip which is about a quarter mile

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from cabin to creek

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is always full of nocturnal animals

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headed home after raiding the local

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so mule deer black bear and huge

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jackrabbits crossing the road is no

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surprise

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like i have done a hundred times before

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hit the high beams to illuminate the

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beasts with eyes reflecting my car

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lights

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crossing the road that did not have

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reflective nocturnal eyes

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so i slowed down immediately to about 20

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mile per hour

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and tried my best to identify what it

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was i was having trouble doing so since

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the thing was moving very low to the

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its belly just inches from touching the

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ground it appeared very pale or white

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so i think goater sheep i immediately

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remembered decades ago there had been

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sheep herders on the side of the hill

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but they had been gone for many years

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well when my high beams hit this thing

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it turned its long neck and glared at us

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and almost shook its head as if we

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pissed it off

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and didn't want to be seen at all at

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first sight it was crossing the street

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almost diagonally headed our way then

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along the side of the road in our

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direction

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now my wife had seen it from the start

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but i needed extra time

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so that i could id and give her an

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explanation of what type of animal it

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like i always do i asked her what is

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i just wanted to make sure she was

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seeing and observing the same thing i

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now the first odd thing that i couldn't

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understand besides the way it was

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crawling so low to the ground

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unlike a hunting cat the legs were all

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wrong its knees seemed to be backwards

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but it was running on them my thought

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was that it was an escaped sheep or goat

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that had broken knees

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and it was running for its life because

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it was moving fast

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as it came closer and closer towards us

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i could hardly take my eyes off its

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freaky legs

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i still lay awake at night puzzled by

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how they were working i've not seen any

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mammal move this way

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the closest thing would be a crabber

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insect the front and back legs moved

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together in unison

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there was no bouncing swing galloping or

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jumping like that of the mammal

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to me it looked like a puppet with a

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marionette moving it along

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so unreal like one of hr geiger's alien

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creatures is shown climbing around super

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fast with only its arms and legs moving

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by this time my wife could only get out

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what the hell as we saw it from maybe 50

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yards away to about 20 yards

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you could see that it had no fur at all

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just pale sinewy stretched skin over

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long skinny well-defined limbs

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its broken knees were long skinny

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fingers or claws a foot long or more

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the torso was maybe the size of a large

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goat but it also had broad shoulders

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very human possibly like this thing

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normally walks upright

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this is what my wife kept pointing out

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the shoulders made it look human

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all this was freaky but we both stared

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intensely

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as to figure out what it was when as we

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got closer the face became more and more

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defined

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the first second we laid eyes on it the

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face and head did not make sense

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but i put my mind that he is saying to

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myself well it looks strange now

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but when you get face to face you will

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see a familiar goat snout

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or cat or canine nose or jackrabbit face

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no

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this thing looked like it came out of a

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horror movie like a space alien creature

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or humanoid monster

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the nose i was looking for was not there

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just a flat opening with two nose holes

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high up on the face

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no ears just small holes on the side of

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its head but whatever they were they

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were smaller than the humans for sure

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it had high brow ridge bones but the

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skull did not have a huge human cranium

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more like the size of a chimps it had a

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large chin that protruded maybe strong

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jawbones

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but this part i totally don't get it all

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the eyes

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i saw these large eye sockets off in the

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distance but they never reflected in the

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light

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as it came nearer and nearer i saw the

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color red not like a light that was

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glowing

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but maybe many veins the blood within

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was giving it the darkest color on this

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pale beast

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as we were within 10 to 15 yards away i

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only saw sockets and no eyeball

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like that of a blind cave fish now this

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blew me away

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i thought how is this thing turning its

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head to glare at me with no eyes

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was it a ghost but as it passed us and i

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came to a complete stop i saw it zip

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into the chaparral and kick up dust

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this thing had been flesh and blood at

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least for the 15 to 20 seconds that we

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observed it

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i might add there was no smell or

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anything else odd that we noticed

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i should have taken pictures of the

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tracks but did not think to do it

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because i was very puzzled and thought

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maybe we had witnessed a ghost because

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of how unreal it appeared

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i was also with my family which i am

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very protective of

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normally if i had been alone i would be

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on the trail what this thing was doing

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so close

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to a campground puzzles me my wife said

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even though i was only thinking it

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this thing seemed intelligent and was

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creeping in the dark

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mad at us for discovering it the mouth

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was closed but it had tight closed lips

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that almost seemed to grin

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i did not see any teeth large canine or

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flat herbivores

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its coal was that of a predator not prey

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with eye sockets positioned on the front

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not the sides i have seen a great many

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extraordinary things in my life

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so i have learned to be a great

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eyewitness and not jump to conclusions

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only observe make note and evaluate

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later

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my wife is the biggest skeptic i have

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ever met not fully believing the many

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extraordinary stories i have told

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she comes from a lifetime of cold hard

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harsh reality

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no room for any stretch of the

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imagination well now she is a believer

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and is afraid to this day of what is

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walking around those sierra nevada

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mountains

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i would be open for correspondence thank

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