Don't go into the woods.

How many times when we were young, our parents would say to us don't go into the woods. Why? What's in the woods that can harm us, frighten us, destroy us? These are the many questions that all of us when we were young would ask ourselves, and what did we do, most of us disobeyed our parents and took a chance and went into the woods.

Growing up in the Wilmington township area near the Kankakee River, there were lots of woods, and I would go out by myself, and just walk through and look at all the things that's were created just for my eyes to see. One time, I was walking and suddenly a truck came barreling at me, scared me half to death, it almost ran me off the road I got off as quick as I could, and this man stopped and said what are you doing out here? I said I'm just walking, and he said you're on private property get out of here. So I went home as quickly as possible.

There was an old cabin in the woods that you could see from a distance, but we never had the strength and courage to walk up and see who it was that lived there. But we figured it must have been this particular man who was on the old road who almost ran me over, and then we noticed a path that led towards the old cabin.

The old cabin had a towpath and I decided one day in the Autumn of the year to walk through that area and see what was going on in the back deep woods.

And to make it even better I went with a good friend of mine at dusk. Now we had flashlights, but we dared not use them for fear whoever that man was would see us in the woods, and come out after us. As we made our way towards his cabin, strange sounds throughout the woods we're coming towards us and going away from us. Owls were hooting deer were snorking, and all of a sudden right before our very eyes, was a very large looking beast of a man. We ran so fast as if our lives depends upon it. When we got home we were telling our friends. Some people told us that we had an encounter with a Sasquatch, all I kept saying was I have no idea what it was but it scared us enough and we never went back. Maybe that's why we were told to never go into the woods. What do you think?

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