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To find out how, please go to Bigfootewitness.com, forward slash podcast. name is Harley Owens I am 24 years old I am

from East Tennessee a small town called Newport married to my lovely wife Gabrielle, we have three kids, two girls and a boy.

I'm Alignment, I work on the Power Lines, and before I was Alignment, I actually worked for a auction company, Tri-State

Oxystate Oxy-Oction in Realty, and September 23rd, 2020, was the day that changed my life forever. That day we were working the

week prior we were in a town called Pound Virginia and we went in Torold sawmills apart and auction all the equipment and stuff up so this week prior to having my first encounter, we went up there and was cleaning all the equipment and stuff to get everything ready.

So we talked with the owner of this place to ask him what all he wanted to set up to sell and all this other stuff

So I talked with him and he told me to keep an eye out for this barrier that was rummaging around through the sawmill digging in the trash.

And I said, is he a pretty good size to bear?

He said, yeah, he's pretty good size.

But he said this thing and it stuck with me

till this day, he said, there's far worse things

in these mountains than bears and I'm just

sitting here like okay snakes and all this other stuff and he was saying like the rattlesnakes copperheads

and all this other stuff and he he was just very

adamant about there's worse things than bears and you know venomous snakes in the

mountains and I was kind of joking in my head like

Black Panthers because I always heard stories of Black Panthers growing up.

Bigfoot was the last thing on my mind. I was a skeptic, non-believer. So going on, along the out through the week there. There was

nothing really much that happened. We got everything ready for the auction and everything set up and Friday came along that was the day we had the

auction and then my boss came up to me and asked me if I wanted to stay and help everybody get stuff loaded up that they bought and I was like yeah he said I got to send these other guys to another location to get another sell ready. like, okay, that's fine. I said I meet up with

you all later on. So Sunday I head back out to the site and I start putting stuff on pallets to make it easier to load up because I couldn't load up the big stuff because I didn't have no heavy equipment to load it.

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