What do Ya'll think( Real or not)

danm it .. the hair is still standing on back of my neck reading that story..

now i havent spoke to anyone about this till now,, but when i was a kid about 10yr old me and my dad coon hunted alot, i mean like every night.. and we had some shure enough good walker dogs.. well we got around late this particular night.. so we headed for the creek bottom and alot of slues and back water... dogs where out hunting good and started baying something on the ground,we could tell they were scared of it,, when we where going to them we started smelling something rank i mean like a skunk with rank feet.. as we got close ,the dogs ran back too us with there tail between their legs , they ran around behind us and where booger barking like crazy,, we started backing out and it was so thick we couldnt see anything but i could hear the bushes in front of us moving like something big was in them. i was scared to death and my dad never said a word he just took my hand and started walking backwards..
we got to the truck and i could see it in his eyes he was scared too. i asked what that was he said he didnt know and we havent talked about it since,,
now im 40 years old and the hair is standing on my neck and im looking over my shoulder while im typing this story..

i have encountered a few bear since then and i can tell you it werent no bear ..