Woman remembers childhood encounter with Tall Hairy Animal in stream witnessed in Hunterdon County, New Jersey

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This story goes back many years, it has always been a bit of a joke in my family but there isn't one person who was that doesn't believe that I saw somthing that day. I was about 9 or 10 years of age and we used to stay at my Uncle's house in western Jersy (I don't know if anything has ever been sighted there but I saw something). He lived very far west and at the time there was a great deal of woods around his house. I don't know where the nearest neighbor was. Anyway one morning I took a walk into the woods looking for my brothers,as I thought they were down by the stream. As I walked deeper into the woods and neared the stream I heard a lot of noise coming from the other side of the stream out of my sight. I thought it was my brothers trying to scare me so I called out to them and threatened to "tell mom" if they didn't stop. Still no answer thats when I became really frightened (if you've ever met my mother you would know what I mean). I came off the path to the stream and hid behi...