"OUT OF THE DARKNESS" POST 7

The last ten years had seen dealing with his daughter and a surprise pregnancy, dealing with my daughter and her children and just trying to deal period. My husband and I had never been alone in our home. We had gone from a small mobile home that I had parked on the land to having his moved onto the property.  Oh boy, did we ever need the room.  We went through his daughter having a baby at 16, my daughter and her children living in the house with us after a breakup but thank goodness, not all at the same time.  His daughter tried but just never had a motherly way about her.  Her child had been passed from one home to another.  Her maternal grandmother raised the baby until she got to be around 10 or 12 and then later on when the granddaughter turned 14, we adopted her as our own.  She needed a place that could become more of a stable environment for her.  She was another head strong girl who you could not deal with in a calm manner without feeling like pulling your hair out.  Both mother and daughter were bipolar.  Anyone who has ever had to try and run a household while dealing with that kind of stress, well let's just say you know what I am talking about.   I honestly thought had I known this man came with this kind of baggage, I would not have married him.  We just took one day at a time.

In October of 2009,  strangely enough; Halloween night, I was on my way to an open house.  I walked out of the house to my car.  There was a warm humid breeze blowing that night.

Before I got to the car, I heard quite a frightening howl flowing  through the woods very close to our home. I had never heard anything like it before.  It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.   I backed up against my car and just listened. You could tell this had to be a very large animal.  It froze me in place, it scared me so badly.  I had heard other unusual sounds out there before, but nothing that came close to this.  I was scared and curious all at the same time.  I listened for close to 10 minutes before I finally decided to leave.

I wondered, was this real or did I imagine it?  It was another two weeks before I heard anything else.   I had not seen anything at all at this point but I heard another strange sound coming from up the hill from our home just inside the wood line as I sat in my office at the computer one night.  It sounded  so close and it sounded like a perfect mix of man and ape.. yelling out...what I now know they call a whoop.

Well, the month of December, 2009, was very wet and rainy.  It rained so much that month, the ground stayed so sloshy.  I was walking up the hill off the top of our driveway when I came across two sets of huge footprints;  one set was 18 inches in length and about 7 inches wide.  The other set were maybe 15 to 16 inches long...not sure of the width.  Definitely two individuals walking side by side. 

It looked like some kind of giants had walked across the yard.  I tried so very hard to cast them but it was just too wet.  This is where you will probably start thinking this woman has lost her mind, but I promise you this is all the truth as it happened.  

I tried to tell my husband and show him the prints but he would not listen to me.  This was the beginning of the death of our relationship.  When something so outrageous happens, who is the first person you want to tell...yeh.  He chose to close himself off to it.  I believe now it was because this was something he could not protect me from and it scared him.

I kept thinking about this for about a week.  Then I decided to contact BFRO (BIGFOOT RESEARCHERS ORGANIZATION) and get them to come investigate.  A week or so before their arrival, I was finally able to get a decent casting on a footprint.  Unlike the others this one was only 3 inches in length.  Once again there was a second set of prints, however I was unable to cast them.   The smaller one came out perfectly.  It even showed a definite midtarsal break these creatures have.  I was so excited to have this available for when the researchers would arrive.  I held something in the palm of my hand that not everyone gets a chance to see.