There's Something in those South Missouri Woods (Member's Only)

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So we're back to tom Sawk Mountain
again. May of two thousand and

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seven. I decided to do a
solo camp, so I set up in

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that same campsite from the previous year
September two thousand and six, but I'm

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by myself this time, and I
get there, I set up camp.

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There's no one else in the campsite. I see a tent set up,

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but there's no car there, and
I kind of like walk by and look

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and the doors open. There's nobody
in the tent. I don't really know

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what's going on. I don't as
far as I know, nobody ever even

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showed up to the tent, which
I didn't think was super unusual because that

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was our trail goes not too far
right behind that. There will be people

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that hike that and then come in
set up their tent in the campground and

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you know, maybe do like some
other hikes and come back to it or

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whatever. Uh, so I never
ended up figuring out what happened with that.

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There's just a tent with nobody in
it. But otherwise there's nobody in

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the whole campground. I'm the only
one there. So I remember, like

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I was going to sleep on an
air mattress and I forgot the inflator,

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so I had to blow that thing
up with, you know, by hand

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with my mouth. And usually I
pick up like the sticks and start a

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fire, but like after doing that, I didn't even feel like it.

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Generally, I clean up my campground
of all the twigs to start the fire

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with, and that's important for later. That took up so much daylight that

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I'm kind of having to use a
lantern to cook at night, and I

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ended up burning. I tried to
make some kind of macaroni and cheese,

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and I end up burning it,
and so I only get about half of

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it, and the other half is
stuck to this bowl, this metal bowl

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that I cooked it in. So
by the time I get that eat,

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I'm ready to go to bed,
and I just I knew I was gonna

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get marauded by raccoons. You do
every time, But I left all that

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stuff out and I was just like, if they wake me up, no

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big deal. So sure enough,
about midnight, the raccoons come by.

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They grabbed that bowl cheese is just
rattling around for ten minutes or whatever.

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You know, that burned macaroni and
cheese really puts out a stink, so

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I'm sure everything in the wood can
smell it. Once all that's done,

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I go back to sleep. Well
about four o'clock in the morning, I

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wake up too. I don't know
how to explain it any other different than

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like sounds like a person walking.
It's like bipedal footsteps. And once they

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get close to my tent, they
started twigs start snapping, you know the

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ones I didn't pick up to make
a fire with. So these twigs start

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snapping, and I'm like, what
is going on? So it just gets

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closer and closer, and then I
feel my tent just kind of come up

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off of the ground, like it
kicked my tent at the corner and not

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super hard, but like enough to
pull the steak out. And I was

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at that point I was just like, oh boy, what we got here?

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So there was silence. I can
always maintain my silence, and there's

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just silence, kind of a little
pause of about five seconds, and then

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I hear the footsteps can start coming
around, and I'm like, if it

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comes to the front of my tent, I have a gun. I was

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like, if this thing is whatever, it is, a person, whatever,

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starts messing with me, you know
it's going to be bad for him.

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Stops again. I may have made
a little bit of a noise.

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Stops again for a little bit.
Then I hear it going over and start

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messing with that bowl and like other
utensils I left out, and I was

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like, this isn't Everything runs through
your mind what could this be? Its

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like, is this another raccoon?
And I was like, there's no way

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this is a raccoon. Snap and
all these twigs, you know, walking

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on two feet or anything like that. So I'm up the rest of the

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night until daylight and I get a
up and I thought my cooler would have

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been gone through and everything wasn't.
And so in thinking about that afterwards,

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I was like, why wouldn't whatever
this was, you know, raid my

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cooler. Well, I think it
smelled the burnt macaroni and cheese and it

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just went for that. What I
do with my coolers is usually I don't

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do anything with them after I go
camping and they get a little nasty,

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so I bleach them out and real
good, use a lot disinfected on them.

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And I don't know, maybe it
couldn't smell food in it because of

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that. I would think, if
you know, if it just knows what

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a cooler is by sight, it
would do that. But I don't guess

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this one did or whatever. But
yeah, I'm pretty sure it was it

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was a bigfoot because the next morning
I got up, I intended to do

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a hike, about a five mile
hike, and I just felt I was

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like followed the whole way, at
least down off of the mountain. I

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didn't feel like it followed me back
up, but it went down into the

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valley that I went down into with
me. I'm pretty sure because I just

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had that sneaky you know, something's
watching me feeling that whole time, and

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then not the way back. So
that was a pretty intense thing to get

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your tent kicked. Oh yeah,
I don't know how I would, man,

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I don't think I could. That
would be hard to deal with,

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Like you're inside the tent, it
gets kicked enough so that the steak starts

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to come out, dude, that's
yeah, yeah, yeah, I checked

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that the next morning. The steak
was like up out of the ground.

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Did you see any footprints around or
anything like that. No. The way

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they do their camp sites there is
they bring in a lot of sand and

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like a chipped up rock gravel and
so no, not really, And it

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was kind of for May, it
was kind of dry. It did rain

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that morning, like my whole hike
was drizzled on, but that's kind of

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after the fat but it really didn't
rain enough to soften the ground for footprints

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anyway. But anyway, in two
November of two thousand, I'm back in

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Holle County to the property again.
So for a couple of years, I'm

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just going Tomshaw Mountain, Howle County
is where I'm having my stuff. We

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actually had footprints. Like I was
working a job at the time, so

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I was only going on weekend.
So I'd went the first weekend and I

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was I would talk about bigfoot like
I didn't really care. I'd get some

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guff over it, but like I
would talk about it. Well, anyway,

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I come back the second weekend and
they're like, hey, one of

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the guys, this is one of
my other cousins is like, he found

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four footprints. Over there's this little
pond in the middle of the woods.

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There's like a little clay dam that
somebody built and created this little pond.

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It's not big, maybe twenty feet
across, twenty five feet across, something

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like that. And that year one
of my cousins worked for US Forestry actually,

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and he said that we were in
a fifty year drought in that area

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at that time. So that made
sense to me that a big foot would

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come up to that little pond.
Because those rivers, both the rivers there

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are what's called and here we're getting
into the little geology here are what's called

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losing streams, which means they're in
limestone. And the basically the rock under

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the river is so cavernous that unless
there's enough flow to fill all of that

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up, it doesn't flow on the
surface. So you have to have a

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pretty good rainfall at that point in
the river. Now on downstream on the

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eleven point, there's some big,
fairly good sized springs that keep it flowing

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constantly, but there you'll end up
it's dry bed a lot of the time.

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So there, you know, the
animals aren't getting their water out of

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the rivers. In times like that, there's little seep springs around, you

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know, they'll just create like a
little five foot pool or something. But

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anyway, we had we had footprints
on this this pond just up in the

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middle of the woods because that's where
things were coming for their water. And

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so they told me that, and
I was like, I was excited about

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it. So I was like,
I'll go over there tonight. So it's

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probably like ten at night. I
grab a flashlight, I go over there.

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I had no idea what to expect. I didn't have the right tool.

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Found out the next day I had
to have a rake to break the

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leaves off. The leaves had like
fallen in that week between the two weekends.

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And but I go over there the
night before and it's pretty close to

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the driveway of my other coven cousin's
cabin, and I'm walking down the gravel

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road and as soon as I step
off into the leaves, I hear something

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start to move, just you know, maybe fifty feet away from me.

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So all I've got is like a
little petzel headlamp, not particularly bright,

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and it's not even one of these
It wasn't even one of these newer ones

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with the uh you know, it's
one of the old bulb kind. So

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I'm like, I wonder what that
is, you know, I'm thinking maybe

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dear or something. So I kept
I take a few more cautious steps,

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and every step I took, it
took a step back away from me.

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And so I would advance a little
bit, and then I would like retreat

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a little bit, and it would
do the same thing. It would.

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If I move forward, it would
move back, and then if I move

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too afraid to tell their story.
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come out. And I feel so
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thinks. I know what I saw, I know what's out there. That's

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Also, there's going to be food
trucks outside this year and new guests,

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new speakers, people you won't I
mean, the coolest thing about last

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year is that I got to meet
people I was not expecting to be there,

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people like less Odell, John Hickinbottom, really cool, big people that

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I never would have thought that I
would have met before and Seth Breedlove made

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it happen by making this incredible place
for the community to get together. Monsterfest

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in kant Ohio June twenty eighth through
twenty ninth. Guys, do not miss

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this year. If you missed last
year, don't miss this year. Head

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on over right now to Smalltown Monsters
dot com. I hope to see you there.