Feb. 27, 2026

South Carolina Hunter Shares His Scoped 1997 Sasquatch Sighting | Member's Only Episode A28

South Carolina Hunter Shares His Scoped 1997 Sasquatch Sighting | Member's Only Episode A28
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In this special members preview episode, we explore powerful firsthand accounts from three individuals whose experiences stretch across Michigan, Kentucky, and South Carolina. Each witness shares deeply personal encounters that have stayed with them for decades, offering vivid glimpses into moments that changed how they view the woods forever.

From the forests near Atlanta in Montmorency County, Michigan, one man reflects on a 1986 mushroom hunting trip that turned into an unforgettable encounter near a quiet creek. What began as a peaceful afternoon quickly became something far more profound, leaving him and his family questioning what they had witnessed.

In Kentucky, a childhood turkey hunt along the Nolin River near Bear Creek became a moment that still stands crystal clear in memory. A presence only feet away. A sound that has never been forgotten. A split second that continues to echo years later.

And in South Carolina, a lifelong outdoorsman shares experiences that began on his family’s sprawling rural property in the 1970s and followed him into adulthood. A later hunting trip near Interstate 26 in Newberry County would deliver a sighting through a rifle scope that permanently altered his relationship with the outdoors.These accounts are thoughtful, detailed, and grounded in decades of lived experience. This preview only scratches the surface of what’s shared in the full episode.

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Hi all, got another preview for a big for Society

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members only episode today, and this one is a wild one.

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The full episode is about just under forty five minutes long,

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but it is one of the best encounters I've heard

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from a hunter that was able to see details through

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a scope for twenty five seconds that just absolutely changed

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the game. So you'll hear a little bit about it

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in the preview that is coming next, but if you

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much for listening to the podcast and enjoy this preview.

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Always read they screams. Always heard the scream sound like

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a woman being beaten to death? Is I mean, we've

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heard that literally our whole you know, our family told

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that story forever. We always when we killed the hogs

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in the spring, I mean in the fall, dumped the

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guts of stuff down in a pile down at the

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edge of the woods. I'll never question while we did it.

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We just did it. That was just a thing. Well,

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we actually saw a creature. I'm gonna say, Bigfoot, go,

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and there's no other way to say it. Step into

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the hog pen one time, pick up a piglet, because

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that was all that was left. The soal couldn't be

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picked up. She was eight hundred pounds easy. He picked

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up a piglet with one hand, stepped over the pence

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and walked away. Scared me so much I couldn't see straight.

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And I was with three of my cousins when it happened.

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One of them, I can call right now and get

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on the phone. He'll tell you about it. And then

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so we grew up hearing that, believing it. We tried

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to find tracks and things. We never found things. We

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started gifting. We started leaving out toys and balls and

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things like that, and they all disappeared.

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Uh.

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The only thing we've ever found is what you would

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consider regifting. Maybe was a couple of feathers.

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It stood up and screamed, and all of a sudden,

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I turned to my right, and my cousins and everybody

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were like, Bob, watch out. And I looked and there

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was two other ones that weren't as big, like a

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mom and a baby, like a smaller one, like a

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young one.

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And he screamed. We ran to the truck and took off.

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Oh wow, Mike, goodness. So so that how long do

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you think you had eyes on.

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Them for about twenty minutes?

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Twenty minutes? Holy Mac.

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She stopped because I was scared.

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I thought it was gonna attack me. I was walking

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back where slowly at first, and then my cousin's like run,

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so we ran.

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We didn't know what to do.

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Okay, So you were able to look at him for

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twenty minutes. There's sounds like there's a bigger one, one

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that was a lot smaller, and then one that was

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more female. Is that correct?

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Yeah? They were about like I'd say, about seventy five.

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Yard Okay, so that's approximately the length of three tennis

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courts for people listening.

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Yeah, yeah, more than a football field.

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Gotcha. The bigger one, how tall would you say he

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probably was? Oh?

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He was at least ten foot tall.

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He was huge.

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Yeah, that's what scared us. The biggest because it was

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so big. We never seen anything. At first.

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I thought it was a bear because we got a

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lot of bear like a bear stood up.

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Yeah, what were the what was the thing that tipped

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you off that it wasn't a bear.

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Then.

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How big it was and what it didn't look like

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a bear? At first?

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We thought it was a bear because of how Harriet

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was because we were at a distance.

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Okay, were you able to see any details about the

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face of any of them?

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Yeah, looked more human than a bear.

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That's why I was like, That's why we were like shopped,

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because we knew what bear looked like.

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Sure, what what specific details looked more human like on

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the face, it.

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Was like its nose, his eyes.

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And everything.

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Gotcha the Yeah, he could see his hands, he hit

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his hand when he stood up, and everything you could

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see his hands looked more human and like a or

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anything like that.

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Okay, how were the How was the female and the

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young one interacting? Do you remember anything about that?

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They were just staying in there.

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We weren't there that long, right, you said you were there.

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You were able to see them for twenty minutes? Correct.

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Yeah, they just stood off to there like I said.

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They were off to the side, Like I said, we

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were awaves. We were up on one hill and they

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were up by the creek down.

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Okay, how tall would you say the little one.

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Was I'd say probably about Well, I'm five nine and

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it was shorter than me, so probably about.

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Or something.

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Okay, and the female the small.

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Because mom picked it up.

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Oh okay, so the mom actually she picked picked up

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the forefoot. Okay, gotcha? How did did it? Did it

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get on its back or did it was it carrying

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in its arms or what would you say?

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I don't know.

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We took off running as soon as like everything happened

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real fast, like after sure we sat there for twenty minutes.

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We were like doing like a stare down at first because.

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We just couldn't believe what we seen, and we just

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rose pretty much just stared and then just started back

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and up because we had to go.

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Like back up a hill. We weren't like on flat ground.

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We were on like a hilly area at the time.

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Were there any weird smells or anything in the area

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when you were sitting there.

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No, because we were in the middle of a mushroom patch.

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Mostly we could smell with mushrooms, I mean nature. You

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could smell dirt, you know what you smell Nature's gotcha.

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Did they seem to be making any noise or communicating

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to each other at all?

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Yeah? He like made noise to her.

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Can you describe what that was like?

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Uh?

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No, it was a long time ago.

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Okay.

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It was more like a like a scream, like a.

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Like to get her attention, like kind of thing. Like

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it was looking like a weird because we come up

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over a hill and come down and then we just

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seen it and then we got out of there.

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Have you seen any drawings or or anything over the

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years that looked like what you saw that day?

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Yeah, That's why I believed in it, because the first

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time I seen a drawing, I was like, we seen

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one of them, and people always thought I was crazy.

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So I was like, huh, believe what you want. I

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know what's true. I had witnesses.

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I've put the rifle on, I'm shooting. I'm shooting a

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three or eight with a six by twenty four by

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fifty scope on it. Okay, I can tell you anything

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you want to know about the creature. I couldn't pull

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the trigger. It looked too much like a person. Goodness,

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not exactly, you know what I mean. It's just it

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wasn't a bear. I know that I've seen bear. We

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have black bear here. I just couldn't do it.

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That's wild. Yeah, so, so how far awaytimate.

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Two and a half yards with a range five.

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Sixty two yards? Okay, So I mean you could see

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with that you could see.

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Said I shoot consistently at twelve hundred yards. Okay, if

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I telled you the power of my skupe.

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How tall would you estimate that it is?

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At least at least nine foot? And the reason I'm

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saying that is we have spindly pines in the south.

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There's no branches that come off of until they get

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to probably about twenty feet. You know what I'm saying.

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I don't know if you're really accustomed to kind of

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what I call whip pines. They blow over all the time.

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But there's no real reference point because where we were

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it's a plan field. But just by looking at it

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versus the trees around it, it's got to be that tall.

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We got after it was all over, I got down

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and called in and we walked over there and we

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looked at the We looked for tracks everything. I did

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not find tracks. And it's a dry It was a

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very very dry field. You have to understand. I mean,

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that's why we were hunting it because we could see

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deer prints. I can track I've done it all my life.

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I'm fifty six years old and hunted for almost fifty years.

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You know.

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And uh, to be honest with you, last time ever

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took a rifle into the woods, I switched to bow

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hunting after that. Only take one deer a year now.

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Okay, oh am I goodness. So it affected just something something, Yeah, yeah,

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that's what I'm saying.

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I knew right then that wasn't an animal. I mean,

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what's an animal?

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Answer?

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Crypt blah blah blah. If you go back and look

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at Meldrum's theory of the displacement versus the ostropithecus, I

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don't know, gigantopithecus versus ostropithcus versus what does it homohidel

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organzas It all makes sense to me now, I just

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ain't shooting one period in the story.

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Yeah, absolutely, man, I got questions for you. What was

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the year again on this approximate year.

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Nineteen ninety seven?

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Okay, thank you? So how long did you have eyes

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on it through the scope? Do you think.

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Not more than not less than twenty five seconds? It

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was a long time. I could have put one through it.

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Oh sure, yeah, especially with that kind of you know,

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scope and being able to look at it. What kind

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of activity were you watching it do during the twenty

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five seconds.

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It was the weirdest thing was and this is not

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this is what really my mind. It was just the

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most weird thing to me is that one it walked out,

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It walked out the woods and it crossed. It literally

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cut the corner of the field, stopped, picked up something,

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walked over to the edge of the woods, pulled up

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a small tree and walked on. I'm not joking. It

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literally pulled up a small tree. It was like a

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green tree. It was like a like a tall, thin tree,

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very few uh branches.

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Okay, So then it keeps on walking and it's holding

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this small tree.

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And it disappears into the woods because literally once it

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gets back into the woods, it's all cross do you

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when they forested, they cross plants, so it makes it

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You got to row one way, then there's a space,

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and then there's a row in the middle there's a space,

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so you technically it makes a look. You're looking into

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a foresting once they replant clear cut land, so you

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can't really see it. You can see pieces moving. But

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I lost it quickly. Not gonna lie about it.

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Right, absolutely, What color was it?

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Red brown, more red than brown, but red brown, gotcha