Utah -  October 9, 2018 & October 10, 2018

I was outside in my blacksmithing shop at about 8:00 pm working on my homemade knives that I make out of railroad spikes when I heard a loud thump that startled me and made me pause in my work. I thought that it was something that fell off of a shelf or something so I went to check it out but I found nothing so back to work to blacksmithing. After about 20 minutes so at about 8:30 pm I was smelling something that had a really putrid smell but I didn't think anything about it because I burning coal. After 10:00pm I was getting ready to go to bed I could really smell the stench in the air and at that point I knew that it was not the fires that i was burning in my shop. I was too tired to go see what it was so went to bed 

On 10/10/18
The next morning I went out to my shop at 7:00am to find no smell or anything as a matter of fact so I went on with the rest of my day. Then at about 7:00 I heard the chickens and the turkeys freaking out so I took my rifle out with a flashlight and that was when I saw it. Long shaggy hair,was about 9 feet tall, big feet and hands, and it smelled like death itself. All at once I lifted my rifle, aimed, and fired twice to get it away from my animals. After it ran of in to the little grove that I have it disappeared and I have not seen it since. But I still remember the smell and it occurred to me that what I had smelled the previous day that it was the beast and that freaked me out enough to always carry at least one big knife with me when I go out to my shop.