"Shadows of the Ozarks: Encounters with Missouri's Unexplained Horrors"

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Bigfoot Society the privilege of talking to
Dan from down in Missouri about some things

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he's experienced regarding Bigfoot. How's it
going tonight, Dan, It's doing really

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good. Finally got a little bit
of rain dry. But ear season has

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been rolled along and a lot of
people have been out in the woods and

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probably experiencing a few weird things,
because this time of year is when we

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hear or experience more strange things as
far as Bigfoot. Some people claim that

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they migrate through this part of the
country anywhere from the end of October through

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the end of December, first part
of January, so that's when we've had

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most of our incidences. I know
there are a lot of really interesting areas

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in Missouri that have to do with
Bigfoot. Are you able to give maybe

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a general location or if we need
to just leave it at Missouri, that

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is fine too. No, we
live in Reynolds County, Missouri, which

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is about one hundred and twenty miles
south southwest of Saint Louis, and then

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the the Ozarks, Johnson Sheddon State
Park, Elephant Rocks, different things like

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that, but we were in an
extremely rural area you most certainly are.

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The thing that started it with me
was my grandson graduated from high school twenty

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sixteen, and prior to that,
probably about a year before that, my

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daughter and granson lived on the family
farm and there's roughly two hundred acres and

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anyway, they live on the backside
of the farm, and I was over

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one morning it was late October,
beautiful day in the morning, and across

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the ridge from them, it would
be east from them, we heard a

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blood curdling scream and there was a
group of coyotes up on the hill and

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they started yelling and yipping, and
they ran south and continue to yell.

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They were completely out of sight.
I've heard a lot of strange animal noises,

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bobcats, coyotes, foxes, I've
never heard anything like that. And

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we kind of looked at each other. What in the world was that?

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You question what it was and what
it could be, and it kind of

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got the ball rolling. And then
after that, my grandson went to school

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up in Maine for a while.
He came home for Christmas break. He

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came home early Thanksgiving and we'd have
far hogs here. Terrible animal. But

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anyway, we were going to see
if we could hunt a couple of them.

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And we were following a path behind
the farm. And to give you

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an idea, from my daughter's house
to the nearest town, it's twenty miles.

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There's nothing but forest in between there. It's extremely dense forest. And

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we're walking along a game trail which
was probably i would say sixty yards down

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from the peak of the hill.
And as we're walking, he's in front

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of me a rock, probably just
a little bit between a softball and a

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volleyball. Came over the top of
the hill, went right between us and

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hit the ground, and I looked
up and you could see branches and twigs

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and stuff falling off the trees where
it came through there. My grandson turned

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around, goes, where did that
come from? I said, I don't

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know, man, It looked like
it came from up above the hill.

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And we looked. He goes,
I don't think we need to go up

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that way now. I don't think
so. So we made a circuit and

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went back to the house. And
that same year that he was on leave,

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there's a pond in the woods that
used to be an old farm way

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back there, and we went back
there to hog hunt. One night.

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There was a big pig that was
coming in there, and there was maybe

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not quite a half moon, just
bright enough to be able to see walking

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back in there. And we sat
up and we'll come in here pretty soon.

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And all of a sudden, the
night noises got extremely quiet. We

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heard something walk behind us, and
it wasn't a deer, rather heavy.

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You could almost feel it stopped behind
us, and we sat there and finally

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you could hear it walk off and
went up the hill on the other side

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of us, and we sat there
for probably fifteen minutes. The night noises

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came back, and he looked at
me. I go, I think we

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better just go to the house.
Things like that. My daughter this time

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of year show here tree knocks and
usually it's after dark and she's in the

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house with the TV on, and
she called me one night. Her husband's

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in over the road truck driver,
so she calls me. She goes,

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look, I'm hearing these noises.
I went back out there and I listen.

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I don't really hear anything. So
went and visited for a little bit,

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and as I walked out, we
heard it again and it was up

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on the hill. I'm not sure
about that. It's weird this time of

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year. She'll hear them three knots, and she's heard three of them when

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east of the house. One would
have been north and the other one would

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have been west. They were back
and forth. She says, I didn't

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bother the dog and she anymore.
Now, she says, she goes,

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I've heard it so much it doesn't
bother me. And her husbands came home

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from traveling one time and she'd said
something about it, and he say,

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oh, you know, it's probably
the house or something when he heard it

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one night too. It's things like
that. My sister and brother in law

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live about three miles from us,
and they're out about two weeks ago,

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and in the evening they like to
walk around. They've got twelve acres and

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he's got a trail all the way
around that they walk it for exercise.

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And he said there was an extremely
musky smell. Now, he's like a

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lot of us. We live in
this part of the country and you hear

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things or see things. Since,
yeah, that's a fox, or oh

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that smells like pigs or whatever.
He goes Now, he said, this

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was nothing like he'd ever smelled before, and they went home. It makes

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me wonder, now if they're coming
through this time of year, if it's

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a migration, where are they going
and how come we never experience anything like

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this any other time of the year. I'd really like to know if there's

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a migration pattern or something like that. It would be interesting. Oh,

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absolutely, your daughter has heard tree
knocks and this has been going on,

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Like I said, this time of
year. Gosh, probably they've lived over

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there for fifteen years on and off
like that, and it's always this time

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of year. I put game cams
out and I've never, unfortunately, never

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had a picture of anything like that. I've heard and talk to people that

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claim that they have pictures of a
bigfoot. I've never seen the pictures.

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I really would like to see that, but there's just there's a state park,

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marth of Us tom Soak State Park
and one of the rangers. The

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story is that he went out to
get some equipment one time and it was

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off on its own. I don't
know if it was like a bulldoze or

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what. But one of the ladies
that work out there said that he came

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back and said, if you want
that equipment, you go get it yourself.

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I will never go back out there. So I don't know what he

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saw or you hear different things and
you just and it's always this time of

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year. That's what's strange about it. So is that a ranger you know

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personally, or just you've heard about
it from somewhere. No, one of

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the ladies that worked out there told
us about it. I don't know the

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ranger put us And there's a lot
of you hear a lot of stories in

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hearsay. I do know four individuals
and one extremely well that had seen one

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they were in high school on writing
four by fours, and he said,

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it cross the road right in front
of us. And it wasn't a bear,

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he said. The only thing I
could say is it was a bigfoot.

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And this guy's extremely reliable. Same
time of year, I would love

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to have some kind of definite proof
or something. Something's out there, and

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I believe that's what it is,
and this time of year, like I

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said, it's got to be a
migration pattern. Have you ever talked to

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neighbors around around the area about this
as well to see if they've ever experienced

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anything weird on their properties. One
of the individuals that was a matter fact,

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across the street from the highway from
my sister and brother in law.

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They had heard this basically the same
scream we heard, only was a different

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time. Once again. These people
hunt there out in the woods a lot,

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and he said it was. He
said it literally scared him to the

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point where he didn't think he was
wanting to go out in the woods anymore

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after that. But we've had people
that claim that they've had calves missing and

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things like that. But as far
as like I said, is the one

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guy that I do know, He
said, that he had some hunting dogs

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missing, and he said he had
a very had put a game cam up

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and had a shadowy image of He
said, the only thing I could say

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it was a bigfoot. And once
again I asked, I said, hey,

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send me the picture. I never
didn't see it. But some people

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are leery about talking about it.
But now that this time of year,

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like I said, this time years
when most of the stuff when we hear

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strange noises, tree knocks, things
like that. But like I said,

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some people are just leary to talk
about us. Well, I'm not going.

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Let's see what's going on. So
maybe get some researchers down here or

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something. Missouri is a state where
there are there's a ton of researchers.

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You've got Miguel from Sasquatch theory is
hitting up all sorts of places down there

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in Missouri. And I think you
guys have Mark Twain State Forest. Well,

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Mark Twain. That's just yeah,
it's right a stone throw from here,

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is it really? Yeah? Oh
boy? And like I said,

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there's literally miles and miles of nothing. But for us, it's a great

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habitat. Lots of food, deer, wild hogs. Yeah, there's great

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habitat for them. So I even
said an email to was it bf r

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O. I've never heard back from
them when I started following you. Oh

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maybe I can get a like minded
person. There's some response. I'm glad

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that you contacted me. That's wonderful. Absolutely, Whenever I get a connection,

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I always like to see if I
can talk, because you never know

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what kind of small thing you might
drop and that might help someone who's listening

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or some connection out there. It
feels like your daughter's having some really interesting

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things going on. She's really the
one that's heard more tree knocks. I've

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I heard some. Oh gosh,
it's been a number of years ago,

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and I was in a treesty and
bow hunting and it was I heard it,

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and it was like, maybe that's
a wood hacker. And I didn't

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even think about that for a long
time until Leslie started here in a minute

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say that's probably what I heard because
those seasons this time of year two.

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So, like I said, I'd
really like to see if there was a

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way that people could put the dates
together in different locations in the country and

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see if there is a migration trail. That's a cool idea. So you

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said you were in a tree stand
hunting and you started to hear knocks around

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you. Yeah, would have been
up the ridge from where I was sitting

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in a tree stand, And like
I said, at first, I thought

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I really didn't equate it to that, But now that I think about it,

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and it was more than one time, so I wish I'd have thought

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about it back then. So although
I don't know how happy i'd be to

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be in a tree stand the bigfoot
running around, Yeah, exactly. That

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can lead to some really interesting scenarios
that I've heard of, and it can

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really definitely mess with you. Was
there a pattern to the knox that you

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heard when you were up in a
tree stand? I'd here. I remember

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there's probably three to four knocks,
and then it was like a delay,

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and then again, and then I
didn't hear it anymore. And like I

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said, at first, I just
blew it off as a kind of animal,

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or if it was a little windy, maybe it was a tree limb

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hitting another tree. I never did
put two and two together at the time,

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but it was interesting, not that
I'd have went up the hill to

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look exactly the scream that was heard. Do you remember any details about length

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duration, anything weird that you noticed. It was a very one of these

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extremely long how golly, it was
probably thirty seconds forty seconds long, extremely

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long, extremely loud, and it
was one of these things that just raised

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the hair up on the back of
your neck. What in the world.

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And like I said, when the
coyotes took off and they yelped and screamed

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until they went out of earshot,
and we looked at each other and it

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was like, what in the world
is that? When we talked to our

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neighbors and they heard something similar,
only it was probably a year later.

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And that's when we even looked up. We started listening to animal noises on

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the phone. Okay, what's the
bearer sound like? But we know what

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mountain lions and bobcats and coyotes and
foxes sound like, but we couldn't get

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anything like that. And then he
said, let's look up noises for Bigfoot,

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and he started to listen to different
things. There was one in particular,

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and it was like, whoa,
I think that's it. And it

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was I think a recording from Washington
or Oregon or something like that. But

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yeah, it was one of these
things. It brings the primeval fear out.

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Have there been any other out of
place sounds that have been heard around

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the properties at all or not that
anybody's talked about. Mainly, the main

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thing that we hear a lot is
a tree knox, And like I said,

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the rock being thrown at us was
that's when I really it's like my

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daughter told me, she goes,
that's when you really got interested in it.

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I wanted to start researching a little
bit, and I talked to people.

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I've got a big foot sticker on
the tailgate of my truck, and

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of course I've got the one in
my front yard too that I showed you

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a picture of. That's funny story. But anyway, people will see that

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and I'll go, hey, you
believe in Bigfoot? Sure how about you?

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And some people will open up a
little bit. I thought I heard

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this, or I thought somebody talked
about this. You hear second a lot

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of secondhand stuff, but as far
as just down the earth things, I

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just know what's happened to my family
and myself. But yeah, I really

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started. I somebody wants to talk
about it, I'm open to talk about

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it and see what they hear,
what they know. And like I said,

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it's always this time of year.
You had mentioned really quick that there

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were some dogs that came up missus
a gentleman. He lives probably i'd say

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twenty twenty miles from US. I
stopped at his place of business one day

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and he saw my truck and he
goes, oh, bigfoot, and I

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go, yeah, I goes,
Hey goes, I've got a picture one.

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I go, you're kidding me.
I said, can I see it.

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He showed me on his phone and
it was taken from his game cam.

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You could see the outline and it
looked like he had something. It

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looked like it had something in its
hand. And the guy goes, that's

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my dog. I'm going to your
kidney. No, he says, I've

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been missing dogs. And he said, I put my game cam up and

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that's what I got. And I
said, would you send me that picture?

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And I gave my phone number,
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got it. But yeah, and
he was an avid hunter and he uses

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dogs for pig hunting, so they
weren't little dogs by any stretch of the

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imagination. But yeah, it was
bizarre. I'd really like to talk to

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him again and see if he's had
any that was last Yeah, last year.

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See if he's had any incidents this
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Salem, which is like fifty miles
from here, and he does a lot

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of research. I have not been
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but yeah, he and they claimed
he's done a lot of research and did

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talks on it and all that.
But like I said, I've never been

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able to get in touch with him. So once again, it's all secondhand

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information. But there's definitely a pattern
or something through here. Living in that

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area of the Ozarks. Are there
other weird things that happen to or primarily

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a bigfoot type thing going on there. Sometimes these areas have other things going

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on too. There's people that see
different things, hear different noises and stuff

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like that. Being in the Ozarks
here is a lot of oh, I

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don't even know what you would call
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But I've heard some of the older
people talk about, oh, there was

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like some kind of wolf that would
go through and make all these weird noises

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and stuff. And there have been
matter of fact, my brother in law

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has a picture of a wolf.
He'd killed a hog on his property,

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a four hundred pound hog and there's
a wolf. You got a picture on

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a game cam I think was huge. People will hear things like that.

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It's not that there's a lot of
wolves around. I think they probably migrate

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through too. But yeah, different
things like that. Like I said,

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a lot of superstitions, a lot
of areas that people won't go into.

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Mark Twain National Forest has herds of
wild horses, believe it or not,

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in there, And now we have
elk, so people will see something and

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it could be just a large elk
going through. They started that ten years

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ago bringing elk back in. You
mentioned large wolves. Do you think from

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what you've heard these are actual wolves
or is it ever these stories of could

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be like a humanoid type canine or
a dog man or anything like that.

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There are people they'd be a little
more south of us that they claim that

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there's a dog man. I've around
here. I've never heard anybody mentioned anything

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like that. Further south the Missouri
Arkansas border down in that part, people

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talk about it, but up here
I've never seen it. I've got the

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picture of the wolf and the pig. I'll send it to you when we're

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done talking. But as far as
dog men and things like that, I've

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I've never heard anything like that around
here. Primarily people if they hear anything

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that they have, they'll either blow
it off or that could be a bigfoot.

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Some people will say that kind of
laugh about it, but I think

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they think that that could be.
There's definitely something that goes through here this

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time of year. I have seen
type structures before walking through the woods and

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at the time you go through there
and you look at it and go,

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you know, there must have been
a lot of wind or something. And

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doing a little more research, that's
odd. It's we don't have snowload around

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here, and if we do have
a lot of wind, the trees usually

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get blown over. They don't get
put up like tripod things. And yeah,

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yeah, that's not normal for sure. Yeah, you mentioned that there

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were some areas that people stick stay
away from. Is that anything you have

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more details about what these certain areas
are or why they're still going from.

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No, and it's it was more
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that's what I'm now, But No, as a kid, you would hear

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people talk about that. That's you
don't want to go down in that part

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of the woods. That's that's just
not that's not a good place to go,

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and things like that, but you
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the old people, Oldzhimers, would

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say that. I remember as a
kid, there was a lady that told

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my cousin and I that there was
a place that somebody had She said the

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Indians had a mine and all that
stuff. He didn't want to go up

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there. Being kids, we actually
found it and it was creepy, but

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we didn't hang around too long.
But like I said, a lot of

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people would in the old days would
say stuff like that, but you don't

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really hear too much of that anymore. A lot of there's not, I

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hate to say it, a lot
of the younger kids, they're not into

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going out in the woods hunting that
much. There's some, but not like

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it was when I was a kid. He practically lived in the woods.

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But you don't hear too much of
that anymore. There are places that I'm

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sure that people would avoid for one
reason or another, but I've only heard

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of a couple of them, and
that was one of them that my cousin

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and I went to that one time. But other than that, don't hear

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too much of it anymore. Have
you ever heard of a place called the

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Marley Woods in Missouri? Marley Woods? No, it doesn't ring a bell.

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Yeah, I'm not surprised. It's
supposedly someplace in Missouri where it's like

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a ranch type setting where there's a
lot of really weird stuff that happens,

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including UFOs and just we really weird
things like that. But it's kind of

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like only a few people are aware
of the location as it's private property stuff

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like that. But it's one of
those things that's never no, we've seen

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unidentified flying objects around here. I
was in the Air Force and there's things

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that I've seen here that's no plane, that's no satellite, that's just weird.

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And once in a while somebody will
say something, oh wow, I

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saw a UFO last night. Doesn't
surprise me. My son inlaw and I

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will go out, go out and
at night in hog Hunt and it's amazing.

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Some of the things in the sky
extremely interesting, and some of it

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it's like what is it? Don't
have a clue. There is a place

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in Missouri. I think it's a
west somewhere southwest where there is a light

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that evidently goes up and down a
road. They talk about that too.

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I can't remember where that was at
in there West plains or something. I've

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never seen it. So so you
said you saw some like UFO type things

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in the sky. Was it like
strange lights or like an actual craft that

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you saw or strange lights? One
night we were my daughter and my wife

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and my two daughters were coming back
and there was a large white craft or

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something and I stopped in the road
and they said, you just need to

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keep going. Yeah, there's no
there's hardly any light pollution down here.

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So you see a lot of stuff
that was just bizarre. You stopped in

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the road to look at it,
and your families you just need to keep

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driving, just drive. Yeah,
that's really interesting. Yeah it was.

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It was. It was really interesting. But no, and then once in

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a while you'll see something like I
said, I have no idea what it

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is. It's there's can't be human
made. With the way the thing,

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with the way they move, part
of ninety degree turns be there. I'll

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get real bright and disappear. Just
things like that. It's it's cool to

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watch, but at the same time
you wonder what is it and where did

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it come from? Yeah, there's
been some really interesting reports from Missouri over

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the years. You've got everything from
the Momo monster back in the day.

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More recent during the I think it's
Joplin tornadoes, people were reporting seeing beliefs.

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They were calling them butterfly people around
the time of the tornadoes, and

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some people were thinking maybe some form
of angels. We're not sure, but

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it just it's a very interesting state. It is. Depending on where you're

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from, there's a golly different beliefs
things like that. Yeah, like I

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said, the one place down the
West Plains with the light and then further

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south the Howler or whatever you want
to call it. There's just there's all

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kinds of things up north by the
rivers. I'm sure there's things up there,

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but yeah, down here primarily,
like I said, this time of

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year, you'll hear tree knocks,
and like I said, the rock throwne

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thing was the one thing that really
that in the same time period when we

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had whatever it was walk behind us, just it was bipedal, it was

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extremely heavy, and yeah, it
was one of those things. I've never

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been afraid to be in the woods, but that right there creeped me out.

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My grandson said, you about done. Your grandpa say let's get the

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heck out of here, so went
back home. Yeah, you were talking

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about the howler. Is that in
reference to when you heard the screams?

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I would that was more I've heard
people talk about the howler, but that's

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more of a I would think of
a wolf type sound. This was a

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wow. I can't it's hard.
It would be I wouldn't even call it

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would be like an extremely frightened woman's
scream, only more guttural. But it

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was. Yeah, that was really
strange. And like I said, for

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all those coyotes to run away the
way they did, if it was just

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a screaming, probably I don't know
what that is. But to hear the

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coyotes run the way they did,
there was obviously something up there they didn't

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want to be around. That always
makes you wonder, right, like when

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you hear these reports or you actually
hear the recordings where it's like something large

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makes that noise and then the coyotes
just knowed shut up. They've probably been

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messed with from it in the past. It'd be interesting if you put the

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sound recorder out in the area captured. Yeah, as a matter of fact,

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my daughter and son in law did
that, put one on the back

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of their house facing the forest,
and there were sounds that they heard and

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when they checked the recording, it
wasn't on the recording. Yeah, what

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in the world, he said,
I know that things working right, you'd

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hear the dogs bark and all that, but you couldn't hear that. Oh,

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so they here in the house,
they can hear stuff through their own

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ears. But it's not getting picked
up. That is really weird. It's

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not getting picked up. Yeah.
Like I said, we've got game cams

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we put up and we've captured a
lot of different things, but not that

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I don't even know how you would
track those. I put them on game

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trails before out in the woods to
see if we could see anything. But

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like I said, I've got pictures
of deer, I've got pictures of dogs

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and hogs, but nothing like that. No one's trying to do like a

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gifting type situation or leave food form
or anything like that. Right, No,

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we haven't tried anything like that.
That's good. Yeah, I don't

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know if I want to feed the
animals like that or not, but I've

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not heard of anyone trying that.
Like I said, there's so much out

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in the forest farm. We've got
so much deer, and like I said,

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the fare of hogs are unbelievable,
there's so many of them. They

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have ample food, for sure.
I don't know that is interested. Notice

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I remember seeing the TV show that
they were putting stuff out for him to

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eat, donuts and all kinds of
stuff, and I keep thinking that maybe

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that's hooey. I don't I'm not
sure, but yeah, my personally it's

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I am very warrey you of stuff
like that, because like one of the

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times you're gonna either stop feeding them
or you're gonna forget too. And that's

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like, those are the reports I
take where it's like it's just stuff goes

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haywire after that. Yeah, yeah, I think I'd pass on that action

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for sure. Yeah, no sense
pushing my luck. I don't mind putting

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game cams out and seeing if I
can hear them, but no, yeah,

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that might irritate them quite a bit. Dan. It has been fun

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chatting with you. It sounds like
you have some really interesting stuff going on

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there. Definitely keep me in the
loop. If you hear some more stuff

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go on down there, I definitely
will, And like I said, I'll

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talk to different people, see if
there's anything. This time of year,

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there's a lot of people deer hunting
and things like that. See if there's

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anything that anyone locally has heard.
I can tinue to picture of the wolf

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too, if you want to see
what you think of that. Oh.

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Absolutely, my daughter, particularly she's
she'll tell me I heard him again last

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night, Dad, And like I
said, at first it bothered her,

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but now whatever she thought it was
weird when she heard the three of them

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going back and forth though, which
I can I can understand that because where

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her house is at, it's on
the back of the back side of the

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farm. Yeah, but pretty interesting. But now I'll keep my ear to

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the ground see what I can find
out. If I hear anything interesting,

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I'll be more than happy to drop
you a line and let you know what

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we hear. You're a Big for
Society. Art goal is to provide a

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platform for those that have encountered Bigfoot
to share their encounter and is safe in

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respect good environment. But we need
to hear your story. If you've experienced

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something that you just can't explain,
please send me an email at Bigfoot Soociety

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at gmail dot com. Then we
can start the conversation, and I know

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a lot of you have not shared
your encounter at all. It's been twenty

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years and it's time that you get
this off your chest and then you can

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get some well deserved for rest because
I know you haven't been sleeping. I

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understand what you're going through, and
I appreciate every one of you listening