My exploring partner of more than thirty years was terrorized one night by bigfoot ca 1968 on the east shore of Lost Lake in the Marble Mountain Wilderness of northern CA. At daybreak, during a lull, he and his fishing partner abandoned their camp and boogied back to their truck, terrified every step of the way that the creature was following them. When questioned about the subject, he says, "I don't need to be convinced. I know it's real."
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In July of this year, I was in Bena, MN, near the northeast side of Leech Lake. A nice Chippewa woman at a diner in town told me of several bigfoot encounters by tribal members. As she said, "We don't bother them, and they don't bother us." There are many incidents in the northeast section of MN from a Bimidji-Grand Rapids-Duluth line north into Canada.
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