Woman recalls afternoon sighting as a child near Port Angeles witnessed in Clallam County, Washington

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Fall 1983 My four friends and I were playing Chinese jump rope in their yard late one afternoon, just before evening. My neighbor owned somewhere around 100 acres across the street and the five acre parcel we were playing on. He owned a herd of buffalo and for some reason had one young buffalo alone on this parcel. As my friends and I were playing, the buffalo caught our attention as it came running across the property. I remember we all looked up at it and wondered why it could have acted so spooked. We went back to playing and a bit later one of my friends, the only boy, exclaimed 'Did you guys see that? There was a tall black thing on two legs that just jumped across the creek.' We all looked out into the field, but did not see anything. The rest of us told him to quite messing around, but he insisted he was serious. We dismissed his claims and continued our game. Since it wasn't my turn, I kept scanning the field wondering what the boy may have seen. I noticed a black stump und...