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I do not think I would call what I felt when I finally "knew" they existed as PTSD, but I can tell you it causes some very serious psychological "disturbances". I sort of thought of it as a mental "REBOOT" . That is without me actually seeing one. I still have not seen one. It is very possible for a close visual sighting, leaving no doubt what you are looking at, to cause PTSD. To make a long story short a friend of the family had an encounter in the yard of seeing something very large she described as a man watching her from the woods. Her dog alerted her she seen the silhouette from a distant light. She and all of us at the house thought it was a person because I had heard bipedal footsteps in the woods. I figured a peeping tom. We could not find anything that night and when I went to look for boot prints the next day in the direction the "peeping tom" ran I did not find boot prints, I found barefoot, human looking prints that were 20" long and 10" wide. I have tracked a little in my time and what I seen in the prints is what clicked in my head that they were real. Skeptics say that all prints are fake or can be fake and that is what I looked at when I first seen them and the more I looked the more I realized that they could not have been faked because of placement and the ability for a human to get to them and back out they would have to leave disturbances on the ground and there were none. The more it sank in that the print was real the more my mental reboot kicked in. There were other experiences after that night that just solidified it not being another person and I started seeing a lot of the signs of what people here have shared. PS: Hammer they have always been out there, the native Americans say they were here before them. I say some of them "might " be harmful to humans but the odds are far higher that you would loose your life to another person in this world than to a Sasquatch.

DWA it is more like 8.5 ft tall + clearing 50 yards of rough terrain in the pitch dark does not equal human. Did not realize the distance and time thing till just now when I converted it on google that is 30.09 mph which is outside human range by itself not counting the rough terrain and darkness. These are real life observations and measurements.

People react in many different ways when confronted with something that is supposed to be a myth, or really any situation that makes you want to start praying! I really don't see that much evidence out there that would indicate any disposition toward harming humans. The fight or flight syndrome will get most of the folks, some will stand there with the deer in the headlights look, and others may go into a mild form of shock. It just depends on the person. Even though we think that we know ourselves pretty good, we really don't know what our reaction would be in that situation. I knew of a Navy SEAL Senior Chief Petty Officer Britt "Slab" Slabinski ( he is also mentioned in Marcus Luttrell's book "Service" who was the commander of a SEAL team named Mako 30 in Iraq and Afghanistan that explained how he continued to operate, and why the bad experiences he went through strengthened his motivations, and how he learned to distinguish fear from the imposter being afraid. Fear is a force that sharpens your senses! Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything! It is critical to understand the difference. More simply put ---- Use your fear to overcome being afraid! Sound advice if your life expectancy is suddenly reduced to less than five minutes! The many posts on this thread are excellent courses of action when faced with an encounter, but the bottom line is to be prepared for any situation that you can possibly think of and leave out no details. Plan your ingress and egress route, and stay out of areas that put you at a disadvantage your life may depend on it!

I've said it before it will take a body. A body 50 years in the finding Yet to be found Not likely to be found. And dwa is wrong on every point, as usual. Poor fake scientist.

Stan your the man. I am done with debating in this thread, if people cannot understand the difference between humans mastery of electricity and a animal that lives in the forest and poops on the ground? Not worth discussing......regardless if it meets me it's gonna die period.