Man recalls multiple witness incident as a teenager camping south of Cloquet witnessed in Carlton County, Minnesota

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This happened a long time ago, I just found your website and I thought I might as well talk about our incident. Those of us involved do not talk about it much, I probably the most. There was 6 of us and we were camping on the Otter Creek south of the airport in Cloquet, MN, Carlton County. It had to have been in 1977. I was 16 and the others were 15-16 years old. This was my fishing and camping site on the pipeline and I had built a lean too and we were all out there that Friday evening drinking some beer and going to fish for trout in the morning. We had a camp site with a fire pit and we had a good bon fire going. We were sitting around the campfire it must have been around 9-10 P.M. We were not drunk out of our minds. In the distance we heard this walking coming from the east in the woods following the creek. I had been chased by a bear out there on occasion so I felt it was a bear coming down the creek. Then it sounded like a person walking through the woods so we thought it may be...