OK Dan,
Here`s one that will curl your toes, around a campfire.
The story I`m about to tell you, is a true story, and happened to me, this last deer season (2003), in OKlahoma.
I was deer hunting, out of a tower stand, on my personal property at 14:30 hrs. It was the 3rd day of deer season here in Oklahoma, and the weather was 35 degrees, and clear and sunny. I didn`t hunt the morning hunt, cause it was extremely cold at 20 degrees and I have arthurrites, and knew I would freeze out early. We had heavy hunting pressure on the deer the day before and I really didn`t think I would see any deer but I went anyhow. I got in my stand at 14:30 hours and the wind was blowing out of the north about 30 M.P.H. It was cold but I was in an enclosed stand, which cut down on the bite of the cold wind. It was starting to get windy and nothing was moving at all. No squirrels, deer birds, nothing at all. Well at about 15:30 hours, I was looking north at a fence line through a small opening in the trees and for about two second I saw a tall skinny man covered in hair walking east. He was about 6 to 7 ft tall, covered in black hair, and looked like a tall college basketball player. That is to say, he had that type of build. Tall, skinney, long langy arms to his side. He walked a rugular walk, not fast, not slow, just a determined walk, like he had business to take care of. Now my orginal thought was that my eyes were playing tricks on me. LIke if you concentrate to hard to see deer, you will make out deer in the woods, and its only a tree limb with leaves on it. So I passed it off as that, but still it was in the back of my mind, of what I really saw. Will about 15:45 hours, I heard tree knocking about 200 yards from me. Now we have had a lot of trespassers this deer season and I marked it down to another trespasser, that was trying to put up a tree stand, but I would check him out in the morning, cause it was getting to late to go over there then and ruin my deer hunt. I thought the tree knocking was someone putting up a tree platfor.
Now the wind quit blowing and the sun really warmed things up, I was actually getting warm. Still no animals of anything moving. I didn`t care I was enjoying the woods. The leaves were dry as ceral pot toasties and if anything would be walking, I would hear them now as they walked on the dry leaves.
Well it was getting dark now, and the corn feeder went off and I had about 30 legal minutes of hunting left. When the corn feeder goes off, the predators usually move in looking for the deer that come to the feeders, so I thought I would at least take out some coyotes. It was dark now, and I could only see about 30 yards and was just getting ready to come out of the stand when it happened. A loug holler to the left of me that left me paralzed, with fear. It was a holler that was only about 40 yards to the west of me in the thick woods. I had a flash light , that I hurriedly flashed over in the direction, and then what I seen, made me whished I hadn`t looked at all. I saw a large gorilla looking man, with broad shoulders, from the head down to the waist. The rest of him was hid by brush, and I estemate, he was about 7 ft tall, and not the skinny thing I saw earlier, but very strong and broad shoulders.
Well, I hurried out of the stand and headed for the house. It didn`t follow me, just wanted me out of the woods. I was saying some might fast praying that it wouldn`t chase me, cause with my arithitus, I can`t move very fast. Now tell the truth, I hunt with a 444 Marling rifle, and I know it will kill anything on the North American contentient, but there was such a fear of what I just saw that I was not taking any chance, as long as he did`nt charge me.
Once I got back to the house, my wife told me she had heard a large roar to and was worried that something had happened to me. I got to putting the evening events together and decided that I had indeed seen bigfoot the first time and it was not my imagination. The tree stand being put up was actuallyt him doing the tree knocking thing. Not only that but the tree knocking was in the other direction, so there was at least two of them
Now three years ago, I leased out my property to a fellar, that was a avid bowhunter. He would hunt everyday. He would get in his stand, an hour before sunrise, and if handn`t got his deer yet, he wouldn`t come out till an hour after the sun set. About a week into the deer bow season he came out all scared at 14;00 hrs. and asked me what type of animals I have running on my property. He was darn near in shock. He wouldn`t tell me what he saw, just to say it grapped a lot of turkey`s, and that He would never be back.
He never did come back. And I thing I know why now.
This is a true story, I am 57 years old, and retired from Burlington Norther Santa Fe railroad. I believe in God and think there are a lot of misteries yet to be unlocked.
bullet maker
