The now 45-year-old Montana electrician was enjoying the wilds with his two sons, nephew, Army buddy Mike Palagi and his fiancée Olivia Corbin in Washington state's Gifford Pinchot National Forest when the monster came sniffing around their camp near an abandoned road amid the peaceful signs and chirps of the thick woods.
Suddenly at 3 a.m., Stolp shot wide awake with the hairs standing on the back of his neck from a "high-pitched scream" followed by the thumping sounds of a "heavyfooted" creature.
"It sounded like a washboard sound, like a brat-tat-tat, but it was so guttural," he says.
"I don't know if I thought Sasquatch I thought fear." The freaked-out hard hat grabbed his shotgun and yelled to his campmates, but they were dead to the world from nips of whisky they'd downed before hitting the sack.
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