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I have a few stories that I would like to share, even though they're not very exciting

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and I never had a full view of anything, but I know that it was Bigfoot.

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I have three different stories that I'd like to share with you.

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The most exciting story happened when I was 15 years old, and it was so traumatizing,

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I pretty much had forgotten about it until the passing of my cousin in 2023.

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So saying all of that, how about I get started?

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My first story happened in early July 2015.

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At the time I was a truck driver, and I teamed up with a guy named Thomas.

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He was from Tennessee, a great guy, and he taught me most of the things that I know about

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trucking and surviving out on the road.

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Unfortunately, Thomas passed in 2022, and I was with him when this account happened.

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We had just went to Red Bulling Springs, Tennessee, to a water bottling plant.

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We picked up about 40,000 pounds of bottled water.

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He was early morning hours.

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The sun had not come up yet, and we were on back roads.

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You want to talk about dark?

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We were trying to head towards the interstate.

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I know we were heading towards I-40, but I don't remember the exact back roads we were on.

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But everything was two lanes, and the vegetation was so dense and so overgrown, it came right

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up to the roadside.

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We were headed towards 40, and for some reason Thomas was up in the passenger side seat,

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and we were having a small conversation while I was driving down these roads.

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And then I noticed a sign that I had passed, it said, "road closed."

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By the time I had realized what the sign said, it was too late.

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Within another mile or so I was on a two-lane road, in a very large semi-truck, almost impossible

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for us to be able to turn around.

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Thomas was the type of individual that wanted you to know that he was always in control.

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He had every situation handled.

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He never lost his cool.

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He never lost his temper.

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So that's the scenario.

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Thomas jumps out of the truck and decides that he's going to walk down the road and see

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you while the road is closed.

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I stayed with the truck with four-way flashers on.

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We stopped in the middle of this road and low and behold I see him walking down the middle

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of the road, with his iPhone in hand, and all he was using was his flashlight from the

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phone.

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I see him walk about a quarter of a mile, turn a curve, and then I couldn't see the light

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anymore.

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And remember, it was dark.

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I mean darker than dark.

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All I could see was to where the headlights went, and with his light out I couldn't notice

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anything else.

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And like most truck drivers, of course, every opportunity that I stopped, I picked up my

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phone and began to read messages, check emails, and all this other stuff.

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So I'm sitting in the truck, waiting on him, and I keep glancing up.

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I see nothing.

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Then after about five or six minutes I noticed in the distance a light falling all over

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the place just back and forth, bouncing up and down.

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I had no idea what was going on.

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Well, what ended up happening was Thomas gets right to the end of the lights of the truck,

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and he stops.

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Then he kind of gains his composer about himself.

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And then he casually walks into the light, comes up to the truck.

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He was wide as a ghost when he sat down, and he was breathing so hard he could barely catch

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his breath.

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He told me that while he was out there, that it was a small creek, and it had kind of washed

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out the road.

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You could tell by the debris on the road and stuff like that that it came over the road,

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and that's why it had been closed.

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He said though it wasn't like that anymore, but he didn't know if the road was structurally

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sound.

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So I asked him if he was okay during this scenario.

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He told me that when he had gotten into the small washed out bridge, he heard something.

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It was almost like he could hear someone talking in the woods, but it was almost out of

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your shot, just to where you could hear the talking, but you could not make out what they

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were saying.

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He said he turned around to come back.

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He took a step, and right behind the tree line, something else took a step.

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He took two steps, and something right on the other side of the tree line also took two

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steps.

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So he started walking.

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He said he could tell that whatever was in that tree line, it was bipedal, and that it

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was mimicking every single thing that he did.

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If he took three steps and stopped, it took three steps and stopped, and it was getting

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closer and closer to the road.

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He said the hair on the back of his neck stood up, and he ran as hard and fast as he could

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back to the truck.

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So I was like, well, what kind of noises did you hear?

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And then he started making this gobbling noise with clicks and pops.

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Sounds like that, he said.

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The best I can make out, he said, was it might have been some kind of wild hog or something

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like that on the other side of the tree line?

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But the noise he made, and the ones he was attempting to make, well, I had already heard

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those before.

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The closest thing I could say that they sounded to were the Sierra sounds that I've heard

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many times.

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Truth be told, I had listened to a lot of big-foot shows at night while I was driving

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by the time he made those sounds to me.

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I had heard the Sierra sounds numerous times.

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I knew he had never heard any of those shows that I listened to, because I had a single ear

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piece that fit right inside my ear.

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That way I could listen and make sure I was entertained while I drove, but there was never

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any noise to disturb him while he was sleeping.

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Once we realized that the bridge was closed and we had to turn around, he said there was

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a dirt road right up there, and he said, I'm going to do it.

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I'm going to pull on to that dirt road, and I'm going to back the truck out, and we're

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going to head back the opposite way, and we'll get back on track.

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Well, Thomas asked me to get out of the truck and make sure everything was okay.

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Nance, I was so scared to get out of that truck, I was not about to get out.

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Well he started backing up and he said, are we okay?

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Is everything good out there?

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I said, yeah, it's fine.

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I can see everything we need to see.

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But really, I couldn't see anything, but I was not about to get out of that truck.

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I've heard a lot of the Native American stories about Sasquatch and how they are cannibalistic.

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They'll eat people, and I'm not trying to be funny here.

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I know that as a human being, I would be delicious.

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Just picture a guy that has seasoned himself with so much fast food and all kinds of good

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stuff.

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I would be just like eating some kind of good hamburger or a steak or a sandwich or something

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like that to them.

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A lot of the times I used to tell people that my hormones smell like fried chicken, and

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that's why all the voluptuous ladies really liked me.

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I seemed to draw them in and droves.

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But needless to say, we made it out safe, made it to interstate 40, and we got back on track.

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We never saw anything, but we didn't leave that area without being shook up quite a bit.

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My second story is from 2016, late January.

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By this time I had bought my own semi-truck, and during this time I had actually become a

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trainer.

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So I trained several people to drive semi-trucks out on the road, just like Thomas taught me.

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I had picked up a load of parts for Volvo, and I had to deliver those parts to Dublin,

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Virginia.

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It was January 27th, about four in the morning.

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I get to the Volvo plant and it's dark and it had snowed.

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It was cold and they sent me to a drop yard on the property, which was absolutely massive.

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I get to a security gate.

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There's a guard shack there.

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I speak to the guard.

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She tells me where to drop my trailer and where to pick up an empty.

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So I go to the area that she asked me to go to to drop my loaded trailer.

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When I dropped that trailer, I jumped out and automatically the hair on the back of my

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neck stood up.

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I started to get scared for some reason, and I had no idea why.

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I was a type of individual that I always wanted to be comfortable while I was driving, so all

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I had on were some athletic basketball shorts, tennis shoes, a t-shirt, even with snow on

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the ground.

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During this time I start to walk back behind my trailer to let the landing gear down and

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to pull out the pin on the fifth wheel and take my airlines and electrical cable off my

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trailer.

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Now that's also known as the pig tail.

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At that time something kept telling me I needed to leave.

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Now let me tell you that human instinct is a powerful thing that we need to pay more attention

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to.

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I heard a loud grunt.

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That's the best way I can explain it.

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I heard it even with the truck running.

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It was almost like I could feel it in my body, like something had hit me in the chest.

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I happened to have a flashlight.

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I shined it around.

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I didn't see anything until I started to walk back to the cabin of my truck.

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I looked down on the ground and there were two sets of massive tracks in the snow.

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I actually took pictures of those and I'm going to include those in the email.

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From the tip of my toe to the heel of my shoe measures exactly 12 inches.

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In the pictures you can tell that these feet were a lot larger than mine.

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One of them being around 18 inches and the other I would say around 20.

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They were half as wide as they were long and you can really see some good detail in some

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of those prints.

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Not only that, but one of the pictures shows that the creature had to have weighed a lot.

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The prints sink down through the snow and ice.

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You can see the ripples in the ice around the feet to show that they sink down further

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than the people that were walking around them.

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I don't know how far the tracks went there, but needless to say, I didn't waste any time

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getting out of there.

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I had no complications and I did not see anything else.

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I really wish I had because I had in my camera ready the whole time.

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Dark or not, I was still going to at least try to take a picture.

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My third story is the oldest.

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It happened 29 years ago in 1996 when I was 15 years old.

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Back from where I'm from is in North Carolina.

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We live very close to the Virginia border in Central North Carolina.

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My great grandfather had a farm that was about 150 acres and it was split by two different

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counties.

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There was an area on his farm that was called the Bottoms, which was the lowest part of

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the land.

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It had to have been at least 30 acres, flat level, and it was beautiful land that was surrounded

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by a huge creek that was very deep in some spots and it was always flowing.

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This area was prone to flooding, but it didn't flood very often unless we had a whole lot

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of rain that year.

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My family were tobacco farmers, so yeah, while I was a kid, a lot of my after school activities

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and Saturday activities were out working on that farm, especially in those tobacco fields.

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I can tell you, I do not miss that, but those fields in the Bottoms, they rotated them every

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couple of years so that for one year we would have soybeans in those fields.

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The next year we would have tobacco again, so you have to forgive me.

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I forget how the rotation went, but one of the fields began to get overgrown over time,

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so they used the field in front of it, and at North Carolina, Lord knows we have plenty

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of pine trees, so a thicket will start and it doesn't take very long for them to grow.

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One of the back fields of the Bottoms ended up being a ripe-sized pine tree thicket.

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The trees in it were smaller, and it was very thick.

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You couldn't see anything through them.

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Needless to say that you were in November, me and my cousin Dusty decided we were going

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to try to get into deer hunting, so one Friday night I stayed over at his house.

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We asked our great-grandparents if we could go hunting down in the bottoms and see if we

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could back ourself a deer.

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They agreed, as long as we promised to be as careful as we could.

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So we stayed up that whole entire night.

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Now this is back in the time of VHS tapes.

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We rented 10 hunting videos from the local movie store, and we stayed up all night long

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watching videos trying to learn the secret techniques of bagging a big buck.

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Needless to say, the time comes for us to get up, and my uncle takes us down close to

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the bottoms and drops us off, knowing we had stayed up all night watching those videos.

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We didn't want to get up that morning because it was cold, and the frost was thick out

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there.

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The ground was frozen, and I remember complaining all the way down to the bottoms.

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It was probably a good quarter of a mile walk in.

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We walked at a steady pace.

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We get to the bottoms and we look, and there's the largest buck you've ever seen.

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Or at least, the biggest I had ever seen up to that time.

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He was big and beautiful, and he was almost a grayish color, like his fur had a gray tent

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to it, instead of a nice brownish color.

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I guess he was a lot older than most of the bucks in the area, but he was massive.

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He would have been a prize for sure.

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My cousin actually had an SKS with a banana clip with 50 bullets in it.

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I had a 30/30 lever action with four bullets.

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The odd thing about this whole scenario was the deer was actually running towards us,

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until he saw us in a soybean field.

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Once he saw us, he dropped.

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It was like he almost tried to lay flat, but you could still see his racks sticking up above

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the soybeans.

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Of course me and my cousin, we just opened fire.

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He shot three or four times, and I shot three times.

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And I know we did not hit that deer.

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As soon as my cousin shot, he jumped to the ground and started crawling towards the soybean

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field the way a soldier would.

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The first thing I say is, "What are you doing on the ground?"

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The deer knows we're here.

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We just shot everything all around that deer.

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Now, soon as the deer heard me say that, it stood up and it jumped toward the thicket,

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running right beside the field.

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And the very next thing you know, a huge hairy arm came out of the side of that thicket

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and grabbed that deer by the antler on its head.

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And with a quick flick, snap and yank, the deer was incapacitated, and it was snatched into

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the thicket.

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"Oh, you heard was a nasty crunch, a grunt, and that was it.

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It was silent."

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Even though it seemed like it happened in a split second, I did see it clear.

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The arm that came out of the pine thicket was very high off the ground.

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It had five digits on the hand, and it had a dark hair covering the arm.

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But the skin itself, it was almost black with a grayish coating to it, like the skin was

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dry.

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It was very muscular.

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And it seemed like the biceps and the triceps on the upper arm was wide as my 15-year-old

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30-inch waist.

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It wasn't so much scary as it was traumatizing.

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The deer was now gone, and I couldn't believe my eyes.

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My cousin was like, "I know we got it.

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I know we got it."

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He then said, "I heard him fall.

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I heard the noise."

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The only thing I could say for sure was, "We did not get that deer."

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Dusty said, "Oh yes, we did.

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We got him.

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We need to go find that deer."

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I said something got him, but it was a nuss.

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I said we needed to leave right now.

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We walked the three miles back to my grandma's house, and I asked her to take me home.

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My cousin, Dusty, told me later that he went back that day, and he could never find that

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deer.

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I had no idea he had gone back there alone.

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He never said anything about seeing anything or noticing anything out of the normal.

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Needless to say.

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I have never hunted again.

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Time being inevitable and cruel at times.

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This family farm of ours has done nothing but shrink over time.

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My family got out of farming tobacco, and over the years the farm has sadly been divided

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again and again amongst different inheritances, and having a large family, it's broken down

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to about twenty acre parcels now.

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My grandmother's is the only one of those that just so happens to have the bottoms.

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I haven't been there since I was fifteen years old.

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I know that at some point in my life I just might own that piece of property.

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I don't know if I have much use for it.

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Who knows?

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I may go down there and visit, but I think it's highly unlikely.

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Please tell the crowd I'm telling these stories and loving memory of Thomas and my cousin

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Dusty, both who are now passed away.

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I miss them both.

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They were a big part of my life, and they will forever be missed.

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Thank you.

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Signed.

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Red Angel