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Gene McCombs

Bio- I am 44 years old and work fulltime 3rd shift for a rehabilitation hospital in the Reading, Pa. area in the security/maintenance field. I am single and enjoy spending time with my dog Sable. I also run a booster club for an indoor football team (Reading Express), www.expressfans.com, serve as Vice President of the FAB (Fans Advisory Board), www.aifafans.com, of the American Indoor Football League, collect football cards and Philadelphia Eagles memoribilia. I also enjoy surfing the net and run several websites in addition to this one www.squatchwire.com . I have a passion for all Bigfoot, UFO, Ghost, Mothman and all related investigations. I go on a few solo hikes every year looking for our forest friend and like to investigate places in the area that have had either several or recent sightings. Wanna know more, just ask....

My encounters:

August 2006- I work 3rd shift at a Rehabilitation hospital outside of Reading, Pa. The building is located in Cumru Township which is surrounded by lots of woods. One morning i went outside to do rounds, about 4:30-5am and i heard this loud screaming. Sounded like a woman screaming or something. Now it wasnt till about a week ago that i read where other people heard this same sound and thought that was one way that the bigfoot communicate. All i know is that i have never heard anything like that before. I actually did get brave and walk down towards where i heard the screaming and it would stop as i got closer to where i thought it was coming from. When i turned around and walked back up the hill it started once again. I must also note that i usually hear birds chirping and singing every morning but not on this day. Outside of the screaming sound it was quite dead. Again there was no odor or anything like that.

May 2006- I came home late one night around 2am in the morning after a night of celebrating a win for my arena football team. (I run the official fanclub for them). We had a few drinks here and there but i wouldnt say that i was drunk or anything. Overall, in a 3 hour period i probably had 4 beers and 3 vodka & grapefruits. Anyways, i pulled in to our driveway and it was pitch black out except for some ornamental lawn floodlights in my neighbors yard. As i got out of my car i saw something standing in front of my neighbors house. It had to be over 8 foot tall cause it was almost as high as the rain gutters. I stood there for a moment and then took off in the direction of this thing at which time it started to run the opposite direction. Within 5 seconds or so it disappeared into the darkness and i was keeled over outta breath I ran into the house and told my mom and she said that maybe it was a deer but like i told her, whatever it was it was on 2 feet, not 4 and it ran like lightning. I saw no color as it was dark, just a silhoutte, nor did i smell an odor.

1988- I used to walk to work along route 562 every morning between 4-5am. On several occasions i noticed that on the other side of the highway behind some brush that something was following me. Very tall, again i would say 7-8 foot tall. At 1st i thought it was my shadow but the moon was on the side of the brush more or less facing me so if anything the things shadow woulda been cast out in my direction. Anyways, to see if it was my shadow or not i would stop walking abruptly and whatever was on the other side of the brush would take 1-2 more steps after i stopped till it stopped. There was a small clearing in the brush and i could see how tall it was. To confirm this i would walk behind the brush in the day time when i would walk home from work and when i measure where i saw this things head from the ground i saw it was very tall. I didnt notice any footprints though some of the high weeds and stuff looked like they had been trampled. Again no smell nor did i see any actual features or hear anything.

1985?- Sometime between 1985 and 1986 was when i had my 1st encounter with whatever this strange thing is. I was in my room sleeping on a summers night. I had my window open, screen down and curtains closed. It was after midnight, maybe more like around 1am. I was laying in bed and heard some rustling outside as if someone or something was walking thru our yard. All of a sudden this huge shadow is cast upon my window and my neighbors light across the street is not shining thru anymore. Now i had people come to my window before and they were lucky if there heads were just above the sill. Whatever this was was all the way at the top of my window, standing there breathing very heavily. I laid there frozen not sure what to do. After about 5 minutes, maybe a bit less, it went away. I laid there for atleast another hour before i had the courage to kneel up on my bed and take a look out the window.

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