Yeti. United States

A man named Fran from Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1999 called the popular American radio about paranormal phenomena "Coast to Coast" and told about a strange story that he witnessed during his service in the US army.

"In May 1973, I served as a Marine and one day we conducted a battalion exercise in the California region, in the valley of Casey Springs. To get there, I had to fly by helicopter, because it is so far away that there are no roads there.

I and 15 other infantrymen were sent into a night ambush. We had to work out in reality a possible scenario of actions developed by a computer. Our task was to follow the enemy.

So, we created an ambush site, it had the shape of the letter "L", and everyone who entered this site was considered "killed".

We set up this ambush at midnight and soon "two big men" came into it, as it seemed to us at first. We opened fire on them with blanks. Then we decided that they were bears, but they walked vertically, on two limbs.

When we started firing blanks at them, they split up, one creature ran in one direction, and the other in the other. We did not pursue them, but returned to the location of the point, which was considered our "base", and reported to our lieutenant about what had happened.

He, in turn, radioed the commander and told him about the incident. And after that, an order was received that our war game would be canceled, although we were supposed to be in this area for four days, and we spent only a day here so far.

While waiting for the helicopters, we were ordered to make a big fire, put on bayonets and stand in a tight circle around the fire (that is, behave as if there is a real and dangerous enemy nearby). And for the rest of the night we heard piercing screams nearby . I can describe them as human-like, not bearish at all.

In the morning, two helicopters arrived with some other infantrymen and their superiors. To this day, I don't know who they were. We were forced to point out the place where we had a night ambush, and then two soldiers went in that direction, and we were told to get out of here.

By the way, the Marine Corps never cancels such computerized military exercises, and more than 3 thousand marines, logistics and a huge pile of money were involved in our exercises. And it was all canceled."