Well, hello, last week one of our cousins stopped by for dinner. Our cousin Cappy, he’s a good ole boy that is always good for a fun night. I’ll tell you what, it’s never boring with Cappy around. Like my grandma used to say He’s more fun than a movie. Cappy started telling this story to me, well, more said he was confessing this story to me. Because he hasn’t ever told anyone the whole story until now. He said some things start out in good fun, but turn into a little more than you bargained for.
Cousin Cappy owned a nice little landscape company. He was always known as a happy guy, playing pranks on people, always laughing and enjoying a good joke. His company did pretty well, he liked working hard and being outdoors. And his customers all enjoyed working with him. The end of the summer and early fall his business slowed to a crawl. So, a few years back someone had come up with this Halloween haunted trail idea. It was successful right away and, in the fall every year they made a haunted trail and haunted hayride to make some extra money in the downtime. Cappy enjoyed planning his haunted trail, coming up with different themes and ideas every year. Some years it was zombies and some years crazy killer clowns but everyone knew whatever Cappy had planned it would be a fun time.
The story starts this one-night Cappy and a few friends stopped in at the local dinner to have a nice dinner. Everyone was talking about the bigfoot hunting group that was going to film some kind of documentary in the area. Bigfoot sightings were a common occurrence in the small town, there had been sightings for years and years. Most people around those parts thought most the sightings were just people's wild imaginations or misidentified animals or even people just plain lying. This bigfoot hunting group had spread the word they wanted to hear locals eye witness accounts. For some reason there had been an increase in bigfoot sightings lately. So, when this bigfoot research groups came to town. They had a big townhall meeting to document some of the sightings and zero in on which area to do their study.
This bigfoot hunting group was a funny bunch of characters, they would run around the woods trying to find any evidence of a bigfoot. But they would find things in the woods and say it was bigfoot when it was just a natural occurrence that any outdoors person would know was just natural. Things like a gouge in a large old tree that was an old lightning strike, the Bigfoot people would say it was bigfoot scratches on a tree. They would record howls and cries in the woods at night and even yell back saying it was bigfoot. But these noises were packs of coyotes or screeching of owls. They had made up all kinds of things like that.
