This file from Thanksgiving Day 2015 brings us to the misty hunting grounds near Searcy, Arkansas, where a solitary hunter's traditional holiday outing transformed into a confrontation that would challenge everything he thought he knew about the wilderness.

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What do you make of the hunter's encounter with the family unit? While stress and poor visibility during rainy conditions can certainly affect perception, the specific details about the juvenile's reddish-brown hair and the deliberately constructed shelter are intriguing. If this was a genuine encounter, why do you think the creatures allowed him to witness their family group after he had wounded one of them? Could this have been a deliberate demonstration of their intelligence and social structure, or was there perhaps another explanation for what he saw in those shadowy thickets?

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