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Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:
February 1, 2008
DATE:
2003
TIME:
N/A
LOCATION:
Raleigh County, West Virginia
TERRAIN:
National Forest
OBSERVED:
Back in 2003, I was visiting my girlfriends mother in West Virginia. This
was near Beckley, West Virginia. We had went in the woods on a National
Forest road, that leads to a creek with a bridge over it. This location
has a few hiking trails, along with a fast moving creek that has several
water falls. Also being very secluded. Being from Louisiana this was like
being a kid in a candy store. Me and my two children were playing in the
creek while my girlfriend went hiking.
My
two children were playing for quite a while in the water falls, I had decided
to go and check on my girlfriend and her mother back at the truck. While
I was walking down the road. I found a small bird with no feathers going
like crazy across the road. Seeing how this bird was going to die anyway,
I picked him up to show my small two year old who was at the truck with
his nanna. When I picked this bird up. I smelled a horrible smell. Sort
of like wet fur, sweet fermented flowers with garbage mixed. I looked up
the mountain thinking I might be smelling a bear. I looked for a few minutes
but due to the thick cover I didn't see anything. I went to the truck carrying
this bird. Something had knocked this bird out of the nest, but what? When
I got there, I put this bird out to show my girlfriend who had just arrived
at the truck. She was Sweet and breathing hard. Needless to say she screamed
and ran. I asked her mother what was wrong with her and she said she had
just been chased by a bear and ran about a mile down the the trail back
to the truck. Not trying to scare them. I thought about what I had smelled
back down the road. I figured we should get back to the kids. So we loaded
up and went got the kids and left. Had I known what I had smell. I would
have done a little more investigating at the scene. I'll always wonder
if that was a bear or was it something else. Oh my girlfriend described
the same smell. And she wasn't chased she just kept smelling it and thought
it was chasing her. She never saw anything, just the smell.
Activities
of Witness: Hiking while the
kids were playing in the waterfalls
Description
of Creature: N/A
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