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For awhile, those of us who talked about it decided that maybe there was some sort of cult ritual going on and they didn't know we were there. That would explain them all being dressed in white robes. When they saw us, they watched out of curiosity, trying to figure out what we were up to. We explained their height by saying they only seemed that tall because we were sitting in holes in the ground looking up at them and had misjudged their height. The only things we could never explain was:
1. How did Bill and Jim both guess their heights at 8 feet independently?
2. How did they get up into the trees without climbing up them? The were standing on the path one instant, and the next instant, they were in the trees.
3. They never came down from the trees, they just faded away as the day got brighter.
Aside from those 3 things, our explanation seemed to make sense.
As for why Bill wouldn't ever talk about it, my guess would be because he felt singled out by them. Jim never said anything about them staring at him, just that they were looking around. If Bill was around when we told this story to new troops, he would just leave. He wouldn't say anything about it. He'd just walk away.
I'm not sure exactly what it was that we saw. There could very well be a rational explanation. After all, we had been up for about 5 days. Maybe we had all taken on attributes of what others were claiming to see and convinced ourselves that we were seeing it, too. What makes me believe that it could be paranormal was that there were so many other strange things we witnessed during my 4 years there which seem to defy logical explanation.
I'll share some of them soon.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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