Finally, Bud Jenkins went to get his gun: вЂњIвЂ™m going to shoot the damn thing,вЂќ he yelled-at which point the monster relented and fled. As they tried to shut the door, the creature threw its weight against the door, blocking them from closing it.

Coming around the side of the house, Hatfield ran straight into the thing, which knocked him to the ground and then chased the three of them back into the house. Hatfield hurried inside to tell his hosts, and the three of them set out searching for this strange creature. вЂњIt was covered with fur, with a flat, hairless face and perfectly round eyes.вЂќ вЂњIt was much, much bigger than a bear,вЂќ he later recalled. Looking to see what was causing the commotion, Hatfield turned and saw a creature standing вЂњchest and shoulders above a 6-foot-high fenceвЂќ at the back of the property. On February 7, 1962, JenkinsвЂ™s wifeвЂ™s brother Robert Hatfield, a Crescent City logger, had stepped outside the house around 5:30 in the evening when he heard the JenkinsвЂ™s dogs barking.

Bud Jenkins and his wife were living on far reaches of the small town of Fort Bragg, California, just on the edge of a vast coastal redwood forest, when it happened.

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