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A Crawford County teen was staying at a friend's house and fishing in his pond. He hears noises coming from the woods and sees human-like figures. A large rock is then thrown into the pond.
I received the following account:
"I had my encounter in western Pennsylvania near the Shenango River in Crawford County. This was in 2008 when I was a teen. I was night fishing in the pond across the street from my family friend's horse farm I was staying at for the summer. The side of the pond I was fishing from is an open field from the left to the road and the opposite side has a thick oak forest leading up to the shore that is massive and stretches for a few miles in width and probably 10 miles long. His is the only house in the area. His nearest neighbor is almost 3 miles up the road.
I had been out for around an hour and already had four 10-15 lb catfish on my stringer so I was just enjoying the quiet and sky more than anything. I started hearing some rustling a hundred yards or so into the woods across the pond from me. At first, I just thought it was the dog digging something up until I realized he was still lying beside me. Then I started to make out 4 human-like figures that kept walking up near the edge of the tree line across the pond and then walking back to where I couldn't make them out anymore. This went on for around 20 minutes and was freaking me out because the family friend lives by himself and I was the only person there that night besides him so I knew it wasn't just him messing with me. Then I stopped seeing them, but could still hear the occasional noises of something moving in the woods just out of sight for another 20 minutes or so. It was almost 1 am at that point and the fish weren't biting anymore but I was too freaked out to take my eyes off the woodline long enough to pack up my tackle box and rod and clean the fish.
Then I saw one of the figures come up to the edge of the woodline again and it heaved a rock, that had to have been about 40 lbs or so judging by the splash it made. It darn near made it to the middle of the pond which is roughly 60 yards wide. I was scared to death and immediately jumped up and started sprinting the quarter mile back to the house. I left all of my gear there, the fishing line still cast out, a stringer of fish still in the pond in front of me, etc. My tackle box and gear are still my most prized possessions to this day, but that's how deathly afraid I was at the moment. Luckily the dog freaked out as much as I did and beat me back to the house because I didn't think about him at all either.
I ran inside and started to tell the family friend what happened. He didn't even bat an eye and just told me to grab the spotlight we used for coon hunting, and he grabbed his rifle. It took 5 minutes from the time I booked it in fear until we were back down at the pond, the stringer of fish was gone and the whole tub of chicken livers I was using as bait was nowhere in sight. I reeled in my line, packed up my tackle box and we walked around the woods spotting for around a half hour and didn't find the stringer of fish or blue bucket from the chicken livers anywhere, nor any animals or anything.
We went back to the house and he told me that he had had a family of Bigfoot living on his property for a few years but didn't want people to think he was crazy, so never brought it up. I had a lot of experiences on that property that summer and since, but none that intense. Just a lot of being followed through the woods while hunting or collecting mushrooms/berries and hearing them "talking" in the woods around me." GT
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