Possible encounter disturbs a camper in a high country forest witnessed in Coconino County, Arizona

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It's taken me a long time to write this report because shortly after the incident, I managed to convince myself that it couldn't have been a bigfoot. A few months later, a friend had a nearly identical incident at the same location which made me reconsider. As a mechanical engineer, I am trained in the hard sciences and as such, I am a scientist. I really don't believe in something unless there is hard evidence or the scientific community is in agreement. Since the incident and my friend's incident I have been doing a lot of research and feel that there is substantial evidence that a forest primate exists in North America. As a scientist, my previous position was that something could exist but there was not enough evidence to prove it. I do admit that I have always had an interest in the bigfoot phenomenon and knew some things about it like wood knocking, howls, etc. I also took a natural anthropology class in college. My teacher was one of the most famous anthropologist of our time an...