So, some time back I told this story about some of the creepy weirdness going on in the woods where I grew up. I mentioned I took a plaster cast of a weird footprint (this was probably over thirty years ago...the cast has gone missing since I stupidly let someone take it out of my sight and I have not seen it since.)
Your classic "footprint in the woods" story is, of course, a bigfoot story. This is not. I don't know what the hell kind of story this is. It was nothing like a bigfoot cast. It was like a canine print. Only it was huge. Like six inches wide by about five long with a discernable heel. Three toes, with an impression of what might have been a dewclaw or "thumb" type fourth toe. Heavy claw impressions. Found it on a deer trail. They were deep prints. The animal that made it was heavy.
So here is the thing. I'm watching one of these stupid creature shows about a "dogman" or a "wolfman" or some other such nonsense. And they trot out a series of plaster prints.
I think I must have forgotten to breathe. It was dead on. It was the print. I ran it back about fifteen times, my mouth hanging open the entire time.
You know what? You encounter weird goings on in your backyard, you don't want the word "wolfman" coming up in regard to it. There's all kinda things you might be okay with hearing. "wolfman" is not one of them.
Do I believe in werewolves or wolfmen? No. I reckon not. However, there was something weird running around the woods back then. I heard it and I saw prints. It may have stalked me at one point, I have no way of knowing what that was because I didn't stick around to find out. But you see something like that rolled out by cryptozoologists and whatnot, shit gets real.
Your classic "footprint in the woods" story is, of course, a bigfoot story. This is not. I don't know what the hell kind of story this is. It was nothing like a bigfoot cast. It was like a canine print. Only it was huge. Like six inches wide by about five long with a discernable heel. Three toes, with an impression of what might have been a dewclaw or "thumb" type fourth toe. Heavy claw impressions. Found it on a deer trail. They were deep prints. The animal that made it was heavy.
So here is the thing. I'm watching one of these stupid creature shows about a "dogman" or a "wolfman" or some other such nonsense. And they trot out a series of plaster prints.
I think I must have forgotten to breathe. It was dead on. It was the print. I ran it back about fifteen times, my mouth hanging open the entire time.
You know what? You encounter weird goings on in your backyard, you don't want the word "wolfman" coming up in regard to it. There's all kinda things you might be okay with hearing. "wolfman" is not one of them.
Do I believe in werewolves or wolfmen? No. I reckon not. However, there was something weird running around the woods back then. I heard it and I saw prints. It may have stalked me at one point, I have no way of knowing what that was because I didn't stick around to find out. But you see something like that rolled out by cryptozoologists and whatnot, shit gets real.
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