Photographer has encounter near old cemetery at Grand Lake RV witnessed in Yakima County, Washington

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I'm from Yakima, Washington originally, and I call these being Big Foot or Sasquatch. Ran into something which I believe was a Sasquatch about 15 to 20 feet in front of me while jogging in the driveway (about one mile long) going back into the RV resort. This was 4:00 in the morning. So it was very pitch black because it is the thickest part of trees where the driveway passes through. I had jogged this road at this hour of the morning many times. I never thought of snakes laying in the road, but that should have been a huge consideration of mine. I took my camera, a digital Canon A6, with me every morning while jogging to take photographs. I have yet to go back through the photos to see if anything was captured in them. I never gave Sasquatch a second thought. However, this morning I stopped briefly to take a photo, put the camera up to my eye because I preferred to look through the view finder rather than the flip-out screen, when I pressed the shutter, the red eye light came on, which is really kind of weak and does not extend out very far. I heard nothing, smelled nothing. When I was just about to press the shutter, a saw legs walking in the red eye light moving from the left to the right. What struck me is the hair glistening in the red eye light, almost black but with a definite chocolate tinge. There was more than one set. I could see four, but it was if they were not moving in a pattern like a four-legged animal. It was like to people walking side by side. I did not hear feet touching the cement road. It was surprising to me also because they almost appear to be floating above the road. I still cannot explain that. I instantly though of a bear, although I remember thinking that the legs didn't moved like a four-legged creature. I never moved the camera up to capture anything above about the lower leg. I immediately released the shutter and froze. I didn't know what it was, but I didn't want to appear challenging. It was extremely still that morning, not a breeze. On the side of the road to where it was going, there is maybe 15 feet of grass edging and then a barb wire fence about four feet high covered in vine. This ran nearly the entire length of the road. All I could think of was to wait until I heard it cross the fence or walking away from along the fence. I know since it had the hair, that it was some kind of animal and that it would have surely sensed me there. About 15 seconds after I first saw it on my camera and I froze and had turned off the red eye, it exhaled three times. So it was like a snort but exhaling rather than inhaling. It sounded massive. I've biked and hiked on trails, I've been challenged by deer in rut snorting, I was raised on a cattle ranch with very angry bulls, I've seen wild hogs. and I've camped with bears around the tent. This was definitely nothing I had heard before. I lived in Hawaii on a boat, and I've been out on the water and had humpback whales around me. This was very much akin to the blowing of whale, that huge rush of air. It echoed because there were tall trees around, the air was cool and damp, and it was early morning with not a lot of interfering sounds. It was very loud. There was no voice associated with the sound, only rushing air. And it was three times, all of about equal strength. After the third expulsion of air, it was silent. I didn't hear any movement whatsoever; no shuffling in the grass, stepping on dried leaves that were scattered through the grass, no twigs breaking and certainly no jumping over the fence. It was just like it disappeared into thin air. Now, a little while after this, a teacher who lived in the RV park was telling my sister she saw a large monkey-like creature in the woods watching her as she walked her dogs about 7:00 in the morning. I never spoke with her about it because I didn't know her and I moved shortly thereafter. I know that as soon as I moved there, which I lived in a 36-foot RV for about two years, I always felt I was being watched at night through the windows. I'm the kind of person that leave all the blinds open, and I never worry about being watched. I finally had to start closing them at night. I want to also say that at 1:00 or 2:00 every morning something would jar me awake, just as if something was shaking me out of my sleep. I'm a court reporter, and I really needed my sleep for work. This went on every night for the two years I was there. Also, several times when I awoke, I was speaking another language. I'm not certain now, thinking back on it, that perhaps Sasquatch may have been outside my RV waking me with perhaps an ESP type of contact. Also, months before I had the incident in the road, I became very frightened to jog through the woods. I told myself there is absolutely no reason to be afraid, nothing is there but the fear was so intense, I started wearing headphones with music so I didn't hear the breaking of branches and rustling in the trees as I went through them. I have friends that will verify this because I discussed it with them at the time. Now I believe I was being watched all those months and knew I took photos every morning. There were other more paranormal activities I experience in this area, but nothing frightened me like the sounds I heard coming from the dense trees, not even the old cemetery that was beside the road. I do not believe Sasquatch are harmful, but maybe playful, a bit possessive, don't understand property ownership, which, of course, they should have to, and a cantankerous at times. But it would be nice to gain an understanding of their way of life, how they view humans, how we can accomplish a kind of distant relationship, we could teach them some things and they could teach us some things. Needless to say, I did not jog at 4:00 in the morning again, nor do I now jog in the dark at that hour..