Back in the summer of 2002, Ted, his wife Jenny and their daughter Lauren, were camping with Ted's younger brother Mike in the forests near Sisters, Oregon.

They both had deer tags for the Mottolius unit and were scouting the area for deer.

On the second day while planning the next day's excursions, Ted remembered a great location

where he had camped previously where there were major game trails going all over the ridge.

Mike decided to check out the area the next morning with his wife.

The next afternoon they all met back at camp and Mike reported that they had something strange happened while they were up there exploring the game trail.

He told Ted that as they were walking suddenly about 50 yards or so up the trail,

they noticed that a 25-foot tree was being shaken violently, but they didn't see anything that could

have caused the tree to shake. They both agreed that it must have been a bear, as they were not

sure what else it could have been.

The next morning Mike and his wife decided to go back to check it out, while Ted and his family

decided to go explore some nearby caves.

When they returned to camp, Mike's tent and all their belongings were gone. All that was left was a note saying that they had

run into a big foot and they were heading home. Mike explained to Ted what happened the next day

on the phone after everyone had returned home. He said that they made it up to the tree that was

being shaken and they were looking for tracks when he heard some brush Russell towards the top of the hill.

When he looked up, a boulder the size of a basketball was flying through the air towards them and landed on the trail right in front of them, shaking the ground as it hit.

At this moment, he said that every hair on the back of his neck was standing on end.

Before he could say anything to his wife, here comes another rock, similar in size,

and this time the boulder landed to their right.

He explained that when this happened, fear had taken over and he could

fear his back tents up. And then here comes the third rock landing right there as well. He raised his

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