Memory told of a possible sighting at dawn by a hunter in his tree stand southeast of Pontiac witnessed in Livingston County, Illinois

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I had been bow hunting with my best friend for about 4 years. His Dad leased a new area that was only accessible through a locked gated field. We scouted the area for roughly a month and put up 2 deer stands 400 yards apart where there was a lot of activity. My stand was 10' high in an old oak tree. I couldn't get further back off the bean field as it was heavily covered in 6' tall sycamore trees that I could not maneuver through even during the day. We arrived about 50 minutes before sunrise opening day. He stopped to let me out. We had the radio cranked up on WLS an old AM station. While I was stringing my re-curved bow and putting on my coveralls we were laughing and cutting up who was going to get the bigger deer as usual. I finally climbed up in my stand and watched as he drove off. I decided to light up a cigarette and take in the beautiful morning scenery while listening to the McDowell elevator churning that morning. About 2 minutes later I heard something walking p...