Motorist startled by large figure sitting near the highway outside Boscobel witnessed in Crawford County, Wisconsin

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The Wisconsin River runs right by my town. I am an avid deer hunter, turkey hunter, fisherman and so on. I have been in the woods my whole life (48 years old) in this area and I had never seen this before. I was leaving to go deer hunting and I had just pulled onto the main highway along the river and started to accelerate when I looked down into the river bottoms where there are a lot of tops and trees and general river wash and sitting on a log was a what looked like a very large hairy man all dressed in a shaggy brown fur. It was just coming daylight and I was doing about 20 miles an hour when I went by but its head was down in between its shoulder blades like and I remember that the legs just looked huge and the top of the head was cone shaped. I got down to the intersection and turned around and went back but when I got back whatever was there was already gone. There is a natural high bank bend in the river about 30 yards from where it was sitting so whatever it was could have mov...