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Time and Place:<\/div>\n
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Year: 2006
\nMonth: July
\nDay of Month (number only – e.g. 16): July 7-8
\nTime of Day: Friday night: about 8:45 pm & something different at about 11:05 pm. Saturday night:
\n9:45 pm and something different at about 12:15 am. See description.
\nCounty: Missouri Dent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Conditions:<\/div>\n
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Terrain Description: Ozark hills with deep gullies & ravines. Mostly oak forest with
\nsome pine sections. We are located on private property within the Mark Twain National Forest. A lot of\u00a0the ground is rocky or gravelly. We are as rural as you can get with no electricity or running water.
\nLighting Conditions: Bright, half-moon shining both nights.
\nNearest Town or Landmark: Salem, Missouri; Closest Road: Dent County Road 433 off of Missouri
\nHighway 32, There are highway bridges over some of the creeks on MO-32. We don’t know of any caves\u00a0in the area as we are at an altitude of about 1300+ feet and caves usually form at around the 600-800\u00a0foot level in Missouri.
\nDescription of Encounter Area: There are highway bridges over some of the creeks on MO-32. We
\ndon’t know of any caves in the area as we are at an altitude of about 1300+ feet and caves usually form\u00a0at around the 600-800 foot level in Missouri.
\nAre There Food and\/or Water Sources in the Area? (if so, describe): Yes, details not given<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Witness Overview:<\/div>\n
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Not given, anonymous<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Encounter::<\/div>\n
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Number of Witnesses: 2
\nLength of Observation: Over 2-Day Period
\nVocalizations Heard?: various
\nWe (my wife & I and our 3 dogs, 2 Labrador Retrievers & 1 Rottweiler) went down to the cabin this
\nweekend of 7-9 July 2006.
\nFriday evening after we got all settled in and while we were sitting around the fire pit watching the fire, I\u00a0started hearing some whoops and then some howls very far off in the distance (probably 1 1\/2 miles\u00a0away.) My wife says she didn’t hear them but I have been listening for these types of strange noises\u00a0since my last “possible encounter” in March of 2005. She said that she heard what she thought were\u00a0some possible coyotes. These sounds weren’t from any animal I know of in the woods of Missouri. They\u00a0never came any closer than about a mile from the cabin.
\nWe went to bed at about 10:15 after listening to the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. We had the
\nwindows open and a cool breeze was blowing in keeping us nice and cool all night long (the temp
\ndropped to 59 degrees at 03:30AM.) There was about a half-moon shining brightly. I was just drifting off\u00a0to sleep (my wife was already asleep – heavy sleeper) and at about 11:05 pm the night sounds stopped\u00a0(even the whippoorwills.) About 4-5 minutes later, I heard something heavy-footed walking in the brush\u00a0maybe 45-50 yards from the cabin going down the road we use to get the tractor down to the meadow\u00a0to brush-hog our trails. No smell, no other sounds, just a very heavy set of footfalls like a very big\u00a0animal would make. I never saw anything, just heard the footfalls.
\nI got up Saturday morning at 06:45AM and after a light breakfast, got on the tractor and then brush-
\nhogged about 3 1\/2 miles of trails all over our property. It took about 5 1\/2 hrs as I make sure that the
\ntrails are about 6′-8′ wide. We went to town for dinner Saturday evening and came back to the cabin
\naround 8:30 pm. We were sitting on the front porch before going to bed and at about 9:45 pm. All of a\u00a0sudden my wife heard some squeaking sounds coming from the brush about 35-40 yards off to the right\u00a0of the porch. Then I heard some grunting sounds a little closer. At this point I had my wife take the dogs\u00a0into the cabin as I didn’t know what was out there. I sat out on the porch and listened, with the porch\u00a0light off, for about 15 minutes as the grunting and what sounded like mumbling (and this wasn’t the\u00a0noises a wild hog makes) and squeaking continued until it went completely away. Again there was no\u00a0smell or unusual odor of any kind that I could smell. Later (about 12:15 am), after we had gone to bed,\u00a0the night sounds completely stopped and about 4-5 minutes later I heard the same noises again for\u00a0about 10 minutes. Again I heard the heavy footfalls, like from the night before, going down one of the\u00a0newly brush-hogged trails about 30-35 yards from on the left side of the cabin. They were going away\u00a0from the cabin. I was the only one who heard them because my wife was already asleep. We all got up\u00a0Sunday morning and after I investigated the trails and found nothing (no footprints or anything else), we\u00a0ate breakfast, packed the truck up and left to go home.
\nFriday night:
\nWhoops – like a monkey at the zoo.
\nHowls – low guttural howl going up to high pitched howl similar to that of a coyote but much more
\nguttural.
\nFootfalls – very heavy tramping sounds on the road like a heavy animal walking along.
\nSaturday:
\nSqueaking – Noises like a small animal being squeezed or as my wife stated, “…like a rusty gate
\nsqueaking on its hinges…”
\nGrunts – like a wild pig rooting around in the brush but much deeper and guttural and we haven’t seen\u00a0any.
\nMumbling – like an old demented person talking to themselves under their breath but very guttural.
\nFootfalls – very heavy tramping sounds on the newly brush-hogged trail like a heavy animal walking
\nalong. My wife DID NOT hear the footfalls as she was very deeply sleeping. She says the howls are
\ncoyotes. She didn’t hear the grunting or mumbling sounds either, she says. She does not believe in
\n“Bigfoot or Sasquatch” and is a very conservative, straight-laced person. I don’t think she will talk about
\nthis with anyone else. She barely will talk about it with me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Assigned Investigator:<\/div>\n
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Mike Humphrey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Priority Level::<\/div>\n
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Normal 2-5 years<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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