All My Ghosts

Bigfoot

There is a major hiking trail system entrance across the street from where I currently live, and next to where my mother's side of the family used to camp. 

For years they camped on the property which held two cabins until they decided to make the camping property their home. 

They put a trailer on the property and lived the rest of their lives there. 

As this next story did not happen while I was alive, I am not exactly sure the year that this occurred. 

I know it was between the 1970's and 1980's though. 

As they had done plenty of times before, a group of boys on my mother's side of the family took to the trail and set up camp somewhere down away from the house. 

They were no strangers to tent camping nor the woods, and as I said they had done it plenty of times before. 

The group consisted of mainly teens but the youngest was my cousin who was no older than eight to ten years old if not younger. 

They also had a small dog with them.

As I said, I was not alive and so I do not know the exact ages or who was there during the event and my mother is unsure as well. 

Anyway, during the night, something began to stir in the woods. 

The boys were sleeping in their tents, as it was late at night or early in the morning. 

Something began to circle their campsite. 

Something big. 

Then it began throwing something at the tents, something that sounded like rocks.  

The boys woke with a startle, and as the events played out, they became terrified. 

They fled from their tents and ran in the middle of darkness away from the tents, leavings everything behind. 

While the boys were running, the youngest, my cousin who was also carrying the dog, was slower but the other boys were so scared they didn't wait for him. 

The boys came trampling into the cabin in which my mother and her friend were staying, panting and panicking. 

Needless to say, they did not go back down for their belongings that night. 

They never found any evidence of what disturbed them that night.

Whatever it was truly scared those boys.