I have'nt seen that one yet. I will have a look. I think there has to be something to it all. Not so much because Billy Joe the Racoon hunter saw one. But what about the historical accounts in native amercan indians folk lore, same with australian aboriginals and the Yowi, Then you have footprints high up in the himalayas. Who is going to treck half way up everest where you can hardly breath to lay a couple of fake yeti footprints. It makes no sense, as a prank, they may never be found, and 5 mins of snow they would dissapear.
I was hitchiking through an area mountains near a town caalled Connabarabran when I was young. I had got a lift with a truck driver, it was late at night the truck driver was almost falling asleep and he commented how tired he was. We went past a truck stop and I said, why dont you pull over in one and have a sleep, I said I will just keep walking.
His face woke up and he said not on your life mate not round here. I quizzed him why, and after a bit he told me.
He said that many years ago he pulled in to a truck stop on this stretch of road and went to sleep in the cab.
He was woken to what he called animal noises and his truck was shaking, This was a semi trailor, he went to get up to look but the truck shook more and he heard tearing noises. He said he was just to scared and hid out in the cab until daylight.
When he got up the tarpaulin covering the trailer was torn to shreds at the back and stuff on the truck was badly damaged.
He also noticed that the tears were in place higher than a mans reach. He said stop on this road, no way. He commented that you wont find many truckers that drive that road who will stop anywhere along it.
I have hitched 27,000 km round Australia on my own, mostly with truck drivers. I have helped tighten tarps and loads more times than I can count. No human can rip a hole in a good canvas tarp. You could expand an existing tear, but to rip one to shreds you would need a knife. And from his description. This was no human.
We continued on for a while then eventually he stopped.
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