One sighting in October near a cabin, then another incident six months later less than a mile away from the first incident witnessed in Johnson County, Illinois

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I have had two encounters, both when I was about 15, both occured in the wooded hills near the home where I grew up. The first incident was at an abandoned cabin where four friends and I hiked to one night. Three of my friends were on the porch when they ran inside screaming,"We gotta get the hell outta here, we just saw SOMETHING". They were frantic and when I finally got them to tell me what they saw, I didn't believe them at first. Until I saw the two "macho" guys about to cry. They said it was about 7' tall, dark hair and sort of hunched over. They heard it in the woods to the left and saw it run across the trail into the woods to the right. Needless to say, we got the hell out of there and never went back to the cabin at night. The second incident occured about six months afer that. I was staying the night at my friend's house, Sheila, who was one of the three people who saw the "bigfoot". She lived about 3/4 of a mile from the cabin. At about one or two A.M. we both had to pe...