Those are my stories.Nternal , your killin me bro. This is a contest , if you have a story to offer up you are welcome , otherwise Skeedaddle !
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Those are my stories.Nternal , your killin me bro. This is a contest , if you have a story to offer up you are welcome , otherwise Skeedaddle !
... whatever made the sound was louder than my stereo, the noise sounded like someone yelling at the top of their lungs with a megaphone , and it was like "HAAAAAAAAAAAWW". It lasted maybe .5 of a second...
I don't know about scary but it seems a little weird that i occassionally see people's outlines, shadows out of my peripheral vision regularly at my home. If looked upon directly there is no image. One place I have seen many such "apparitions" is hospital parking lots. Never direct on visions, always peripheraly. I have dicussed this with many others who have had similar experiences. I do not feel threatened by these images but I am quite curious. Anyway BOO to you. Thanks for the opportunity. Good luck and happy haunting....Herb
This story came from a good friend.
He lives and hunts in Utah. He and his uncle were on an elk hunt up in the Uninta mountain range. They well above the snow level and took a shot at a large bull elk (this family harvests 10+ elk a year with every family member tagging out).
The shot was a good shot, but the Elk was able to run down hill into a very dark forested area. The hour was getting late, and they went down into the tree line with their guns ready. They followed the bright red blood trail into the trees and after a few hundred yards, they found the spot where the elk had fallen down and looked to have bled out.
Leading up to that spot, from deeper in the forest was a set of large foot prints. Leading up to the outline where the elk had fallen, and a large blood pool indicated it had bled out. The tracks led back off into the forest. The elk was gone, and there were no elk tracks or drag marks leading from that spot.
The elk had not been quartered. Nor had it been dragged. It had been picked up whole and carried off!
Now Elk cows average 225 kilograms (500 lb), stand 1.3 metres (4.3 ft) at the shoulder, and are 2 metres (6.6 ft) from nose to tail. Bulls are some 40% larger than cows at maturity, weighing an average of 320 kilograms (710 lb), standing 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) at the shoulder and averaging 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in length.
This had been a very good bull, with a fantastic rack (I have seen their hunting photo's and mounts, and if these guys say it was a great elk, they know what they are talking about).
Some one picked up a 700lb 8 foot long elk and just walked off through the deep snow with it.
This, however, is not what caused them to check their chambers, and back up pistols.
Both he, and his uncle swear an oath on the bible (both take that very seriously) that the scary part was that the tracks were human, and they were bare foot tracks. He said they were about a 13-14 size foot print (based on comparison to his size 9 and his uncle's size 11 boots).
A human sized bare food track, several hours above the snow line came out of the dark forest and picked up a whole dead bull elk, and walked back off into the dark woods!
He and his uncle both had a very bad feeling. They had only taken a few minutes to hike down to where the elk had fallen. Not enough time for several normal people to even drag the elk out. No drag marks in the soft snow.
They went the opposite direction, and got off the mountain as fast as possible! By the time they had left the forest line, the sun was set, and it was getting dark.
This two grown men (ranchers). Each carrying a loaded 7mm mag rifle, and each had a 44mag back up revolver, as well as knives. Both said they felt a darkening around them (different than just the gloom of the dark forest grove). Each said they felt a strong desire to follow the tracks further in to the dark, just to see what the heck was going on. Both said they were overcome with a sense of doom and dread when the took a step down that path to follow.
Now, I have had personal experiences where I believe that premonition saved me. I have close friends in the military (one, a gunship pilot, was a POW for 4 years in Viet Nam, the other was a pilot for harrier jets in the same conflict). Both have stories where all their friends died, and they were saved by premonition (one had a cafe blow up, where he was headed for lunch and a voice told him not to go, the other had a feeling of dread about going to his own birthday party at the officers club. Both places were blown up, and lots of friends died...........) I share that part, because I really do believe that sometimes these feelings or premonitions are real, and can save us from disaster!
Both said they they knew, if they followed those tracks down into the gloom of the deeper forest they were not coming back. Like a dark fist was squeezing their heart, until they turned their back on that dark trail and headed back out toward the lighter area above the tree line!
They both insist it was just a large human sized foot print (slightly larger than an average sized foot.....). But definitely a print with no shoes on. He said you could see the lines from the bottom of the feet, and the individual toe prints. The examined them closely with their flashlights.
They both kept a journal, and each account is similar. They both signed and swore to what they saw. They have never really shared it with anyone outside the family, or very close friends.
They know every track of every animal in the wild there. Several generations of hunters, and every family member in that family hunts religiously!
I have had some weird experiences in the wild before, but this one would freak me out!
Bigfoot? Biblical Cain.....cursed to wander the wild, shunned and hated by humans? Some crazy big dude who runs around barefoot, and is able to pick up a 700lb plus animal and run off in to the woods while carrying it?
Who the hell knows.