Written by:  Rex 

This is usually told to the younger kids around the campfire for fun at the famous Christmas Place.
Years ago, Trent came into the camp and told about some very large and very strange footprints he had found near his deer stand. We went to look at them and sure enough they were huge with big sharp claws for it’s toes. We knew that some strange and horrible creature had entered our woods and that we had to be careful.
Soon after that, we started finding these tracks all over our place. They found them along old roads, in the mud on the edge of the lake and anyplace you might imagine that you could find foot tracks.
Everyone but the very bravest hunters were scared of the horrible creature and everyone was now afraid to go in the woods by themselves. They even found the giant tracks around the camp house where the monster had been watching at night. The terrifying apelike monster with it’s long fangs seemed to be waiting for just the right victim!
Trent finally vowed that he would get to the bottom of this mystery and put the beast on the hanging pole!
Trent started traveling around the property looking for the horrible monster.
One day he was easing along a narrow creek and he suddenly heard footsteps heading his way.
He moved over and hid in the bushes.
In the clearing in front of him he saw Rex come out of the woods and step down into the sandy creek bottom. He stopped right in front of him, carefully looked all around and opened up his backpack. He took out the biggest set of monster shoes you can imagine, slipped them over his boots and started walking up and down in the soft sand while laughing the whole time.
Rex had made up the trick, fooled everyone, and was wearing the fake monster feet.

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