REPORT RECEIVED From:  The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.

DATE:    September 2001
 

TIME:    10:00 pm
 

LOCATION:   NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:   AT 10:00PM MY DOG, A CHOW, WHO WAS IN HIS PEN BEHIND THE HOUSE STARTED BARKING VICIOUSLY. ME AND MY WIFE WALKED OUTSIDE TO SEE WHAT WAS WRONG. AS WE APPROACHED THE BACK YARD, A STRONG SKUNKISH ODER FILLED THE AIR AND OUR DOG PEERED INTO THE WOODS GROWLING. WE
SHRUGGED IT OFF AS A SKUNK, AND WENT TO BED.THE NEXT DAY HAVING FORGOTEN ABOUT THE INCIDENT, TOOK A WALK TO THE STREAM BEHIND OUR HOME. MY WIFE WAS THE FIRST TO NOTICE THE HUGE FOOT PRINTS IN THE SAND.THEY WERE AT LEAST 14 INCHES LONG, AND 4 TO 5 INCHES DEEP ,AS I STOOD
BESIDE THEM I AT 180 LBS BARELY MADE AN IMPRESSION,THEY HAD THREE TOES WITH CLAWS, AND WHATEVER IT WAS WALKED ON TWO LEGS. MY WIFE WAS FRIGHTENED AND WE RETURNED HOME. AFTER CAUTIOUSLY SLIPPING MY PISTOL IN MY POCKET I RETURNED TO THE STREAM  AND FOLLOWED THE PRINTS TWO HUNDRED YARDS AND TWENTY YARDS FROM MY DOGS PEN WHERE THEY WENT BACK OFF INTO THE WOODS.

ABOUT TWO WEEKS AFTER THE FIRST INCIDENT,ONE OF MY FRIENDS AND HIS WIFE STOPPED BY.WE WERE ALL OUTSIDE ,IT WAS LATE 11:00PM.HE WANTED TO SEE MY GARAGE AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS BEHIND THE HOUSE.WHILE IN THE GARAGE WE KEPT HEARING SOUNDS OF SOMEONE WALKING OUT SIDE, BUT IT WAS VERY DARK AND WE COULDNT SEE ANYTHING. WE HAD JUST STARTED BACK UP THE HILL WHEN
SOMETHING APPROXIMATELY  30 YARDS  BEHIND US LET OUT THE MOST BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM I HAD EVER HEARD. NEEDLESS TO SAY WE BOTH GOT A SNAP TO OUR STEP.0UR WIVES BOTH HEARD THE SCREAM.
 

Activities of Witness:   Checking on barking dog
 

Description of Creature:    N/A
 

Other Notes:    AFTER TELLING A FRIEND ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, HE TOLD ME A STORY OF SOMEONE WHO LIVED ON THE SAME STREAM  4 MILES UP WHO WAS HUNTING, WHO SAID SOMETHING LARGE AND HAIRY FOLLOWED HIM OUT OF THE WOODS 2 YEARS EARLIER. WEIRD HUH?

Additional Notes or Comments:  N/A

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