Any Sasquatch/Bigfoot stories out there?

I'm 33-years-old. Though I now live in Florida ( I've been here for just over 10 years ) I grew up in central Ohio. I lived in a small farm town called Marysville for 18 years. We lived at the edge of town, where the residentual area tappered out and farmland began. Somewhere between 200-300 yards from the house I grew up in was an old, abandoned railroad bed. Beyond that was cow pasture, edged in by the beginnings of woods. Growing up, my friends and I almost lived at the old railroad bed. It was overgrown with weeds. When we were really young, the weeds were taller than we were. It was like we were in our own private world up there. Early on, we became aware that something else was there with us part of the time. We'd find places where something very large and heavy had been lying in the grass and weeds, or smell a very rank stink that would linger in the air. Sometimes we'd get the feeling of being watched. We knew something was there, but had no idea what. Later on, one of my friends reported to the group that he'd seen something tall, covered in long, dark hair at the railroad bed a few days earlier. Being very young still, the rest of us had no idea what to make of his report. We didn't believe him at first. Finally, he convinced us that, yes, he had seen something. We just didn't know what. Based on his description, we began calling the thing a troll. Several years passed. We knew the "troll" was still coming through the area once in while, staying at the railroad bed when it passed through. My friends and I grew into our teens. Gradually, we became aware that something really odd was going on. We started paying more attention to signs that the "troll" was there when we found them. Finally we came to the conclusion that we had a sasquatch wandering through a few times a year. Shortly after that, things began to get even more interesting. When we were very small, the sasquatch seemed far more tolerant of us. The older we got, the less it seemed willing to share space with us. When we had the feeling of being watched, we now also had the feeling of anger being directed at us. Myself and a couple of friends had rocks thrown at us. Something that sounded very large and heavy, yet remained unseen, began thrashing the weeds and grasses, chasing us off with the noise a couple of times. Then I had the first of my three sightings. A female friend and I were in our very early teens and walking up the short hill to the railroad bed. She saw it first and stopped me, terrified. Through a part in the weeds ahead, we found ourselves looking at the head and shoulders of a sasquatch in profile. We backed slowly down the hill and left. She refused to return to the railroad bed again after that. The next day another friend and I returned to the spot and found matted grasses where the thing had been sitting. My second sighting was from such a distance I'm not even 100% sure it was the sasquatch. I saw what I first took to be a roll of carpet standing on end by someone's trash can. Later, looking again, the "carpet" had folded into a crouch. Later, it was gone. I think it was looking for food in the trash, but can't be sure. My third sighting happened when I was alone, as had the second. I was outside, in our driveway. I looked up and saw the sasquatch walking to my right, on top of the short hill of the railroad bed. It didn't seem at all concerned about being seen. Over the years, we also found rock cairns ( there's a whole other story involving those! ) and what looked to be shallow pit toilets, containing fecal matter that looked human but was far larger than a human would leave.

When I use to live in Ohio, I had a sighting one time. I was driving out in the middle of no where. The road had notyhing but woods for miles and miles. All of a sudden something ran across the street right out in front of my vehicle. It was very large, human like and hairy. It ran up right and it was very quick for a human. I stopped right than and there because I could not believe my eyes.

Funny you should ask! My neighbor is obsessed with "Bigfoot". I told him that a binocular company is having a million dollar contest for an authenticated picture of Bigfoot and he got so excited. Last week he showed me a video that his brother-in-law took while camping in the Marble Mountains. Whatever the creature was it was a long way away and the camcorder was zoomed in as close as it would go. He swears it was bigfoot....I have my doubts although I don't know what it was. This neighbor of mine has worked in the woods his entire life and is totally convinced they exist. With the million dollar contest now he has a reason to go out and find one!