Southeast Missouri 2000

This took place back in 2000, I was 20 years old. I've only told two people, and I don't think they believed me. I'm from southeast Missouri, I guess the Ozarks is a better word. I've been hunting and fishing since I was a little boy, I've spent a lot of time in the woods. I've never seen a Bigfoot, but I've always been a believer. It was bow season and I was hunting a new place that borders a state park. I had gotten in my stand really early it wasn't going to be daylight for another hour. No sooner than I got settled, I heard two people talking, it sounded like they were arguing, but I wasn't sure. They were just out of range for me to make out any words. Then I could hear them walking, walking right towards me. As they got closer they started taking again, and now I could hear them, it was some kind of chatter, it really freaked me out. After a couple minutes, they continued towards me, they stopped right under me. I could tell they were close to hitting my stand. I was terrified, I was thinking Bigfoot the whole time. It sounded like they were pulling the bark off the tree, and then I heard a loud metallic snap. I jumped up, and knocked my pack off the stand, it fell right on top of the creatures and they freaked out, it sounded like it was tangled up with them. They took off running back the way they came and climbed down and ran the opposite way. The metallic sound was a spike that was snapped in two