I found the first Bigfoot figurine almost ten years ago. It was an early spring, I went to the forest near the house. I was collecting birch sap at the time, so I went to the forest at least once a day. I remember it was very quiet, you could not hear a single bird. There was an unfamiliar bitter sweet smell lingering in the forest. The jars for sap were turned over and scattered around. Usually people do not visit this place, so I thought it was a badger’s or raccoon’s doing. I collected the jars and placed them fairly high in the trees, so that no animal could reach them. When I finished fixing the jars, I found the first figurine. It was standing on a recently cut stump, facing the house. I thought it was some kind of prank, I took the figurine and returned home. The next day the jars were scattered around the forest again and there was another figurine standing on the same stump. I remember I got very angry, I took both figurines and went to get the explanation from my neighbor, but he did not know anything. After that, every day I found figurines left on the stump and jars scattered around the forest. When the sap season ended, I started finding figurines left on the table in my yard. I do not remember how it happened exactly, but we began to exchange figurines for food. When I found the figurine, I would leave some food in place of it, and it would be gone the next morning. If the figurine was bigger, I would leave more food, if it was smaller, then I would leave less. These exchanges continued until last summer. During that time I have accumulated a large amount of these figurines.