OK, had to read the entire thread. The only Bigfoot experience I had was as a kid driving from Edmonton to Enderby, I was trying to sleep in the back seat, and mind you it was late, so maybe it was my mind playing tricks. Staring out the window of the car watching the signs I saw a humanoid silhouette turn, about 20 feet into the ditch, where headlights weren't going to light it up. The chilling bit was the slight bit of light that caught the eyes, made them go red. My parents convinced me it was nothing, maybe a hiker, but I wasn't fully convinced. It wasn't until high school biology, talking about eyes, when the teacher mentioned how the tapetum lucedum wasn't present in humans, brought it all back, damn overactive imagination. It never helped that on a camping trip that year or the next, my dad jumped on top of the old Fleury motorhome after dark, and shaking the sh#t out of it and making grunting noises to wake us up and scare the crop out of us kids.
Whether you believe or not, some #### just puts a chill in you. Lots of us know what it feels like to be stalked.
BTW, is there a ghostly encounter thread somewhere in the archives? I've got a few stories to resurrect that bad boy but I haven't found anything using the search function.