Youngster frightened by "monster" peeping in window witnessed in Boulder County, Colorado

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This incident occurred after my husband, myself and our 3 children and I had moved up to some land purchased on Sugar Loaf mountain west of Boulder. My husband managed a tavern at the time and had purchased the five-acre silver mining claim for a song from (name withheld) at the bar and on a paper napkin. We built a tiny 12 x 16' cabin and squeezed ourselves in there on the south side of the mountain about 2/3 of the way along the original little mining road. The cabin was on only level land on a heavily treed and rocked parcel. The north side of the cabin snugged right up against the mountain slope with pine trees all around. That side was two plywood sections high, which would have put it a hair over 16'. We had an over-sized plywood platform "bunk-bed" in the NE corner of the cabin with we adults and our baby daughter on the first level and the two boys on the upper level. We put in a little window up there for them for air and put an inside shutter on it so they could close it ...