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Pete has left a new comment on your post "Newspaper Column "A Matter of Time"":

Talking about the country behind Canary brings back memories to me. For 32 years I drove log truck for the Murphy Co. Many days in those years I hauled logs out of the mountains behind Canary. As many of my fellow drivers knew this was a weird place to work. 

On many occasions while driving the deep backwoods I had seen big cats, elk, deer and a host of other critters; but, on this one morning, [I saw] some weird hair-covered animals that looked like human and ape mixed (2 of them). That dark and windy morning around 4am, I was heading up to the landing to load when I made a sharp bend on this road and something large, dark and walking on two legs crossed in front of my lights and then a smaller one.

 I was dumbfounded on what they were, so I started asking other drivers if they had ever seen these two leg walking beings before up there. I was surprised that several of them had seen what they thought were wild big apes or wild men.

 A while back a person had wrote on this site about the Weller-Glenn rock pit. That sparked some interest with me because my brother Albert had worked up there till '78 when they shut it down. He had been telling people for over 10 years that a number of giant hair covered wildmen lived in the upper reaches of that area. Through the years many of the loggers talked about the large tracks these beings made during the night on soft dirt logging roads. Several of the tracks were casted and showed to different people without a final conclusion on what they were made by.

 The forest is just that--a forest. Nobody can know for sure what lives in the mountains and valleys of this country.
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Thank you for such an interesting comment. I appreciate your taking the time to  write it. One day I hope to see one of these animals. I expect it will be by accident when I least expect it--if it happens. ... LNP