Date of incident: Fall 1985 Time of incident: Dusk Location: Thurmont, MD Details: My little brother, and my stepbrother, and I were playing basketball one evening just before dusk. We turned on the flood lights to continue our game (horse I think) The property owner's golden retriever was there with us. It got pretty dark out, but we continued to play while waiting for dinner, suddenly we heard some branches crackling at the trail behind us. The trail leads up to "High Rock" we hiked up there several times in our youth. As we turned toward the direction of the sound, the dog started growling at the trail, I could see the sillouhette of a large "object" crouching at the edge of the trail, just beyond the flood lights reach. The dog began barking frantically, and just as we turned to eachother to confirm that we all were seeing the same thing, this thing stood straight up, too one step across the trail to the other side, and began running to our right, it knocked down a 2 - 3" diameter tree ( we went back to look the next day), and that was the last that we saw of it, because we turned and ran to my father's cabin as fast as we could, the dog beat us all there, it scared us to death. The "thing" was huge, I couldn't give an exact height estimate given the darkness, but it was taller than any person I knew, it walked on 2 feet, and was brown and shaggy looking. we could'nt make out any facial features, but it was definitly not a bear! My brother can confirm this exact story, people (including our father) say we are crazy, but I'd swear on my children that it is true!
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