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This is an email that is that
I received four years ago. It'll be

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four years in September, I believe. And I've never done the story because

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it's so long and detailed. But
it's the absolute oldest email in my inbox,

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and I went to the oldest email
in my inbox. I thought,

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I'm going to do this story.
This will be one podcast, one long

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story. I hope you enjoy it
all. Right, here we go,

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dear mister Dixie Cryptid. I've lived
on this property for forty five years now.

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It was around two thousand and three
that I ever considered that Bigfoot may

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also live in my holler. I
live in the southwestern part of West Virginia.

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Bye God, West Virginia. I
now know many people in my state

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I've seen and heard these creatures.
Let me say that I have not seen

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these animals, but I hear them
often. I've also seen tracks in the

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snow around my house on two occasions. Due to their size, it could

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not be anything else in my opinion. I have seen tracks in the garden.

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Also, I have family members that
live in my hollow that have seen

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them. Most of those encounters were
after dark, and a couple were in

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daylight hours. Let me tell you
how it all began for me. I

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was divorced after thirty years of marriage
and raising three children. It was difficult

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living alone in a big house that
backed up to the woods. All the

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bedrooms were on the second level.
The exterior windowless wall of my bedroom that

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was near the woods is above and
to the side of the cellar. The

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cellar sits a couple of feet lower
than the floor of my bedroom. One

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fall in the early morning hours,
around three AM, I was sleeping soundly,

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but I was awakened by a sound
no more than three to four feet

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to the exterior wall of my bedroom. I couldn't wrap my head around the

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sound of something pulling up from what
I knew to be the cement top of

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the cellar, two feet below the
floor and some nine feet to the top

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of the metal roof over my bedroom. That's a reach of eleven feet plus.

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I could hear what I guessed was
the underbelly of an animal scraping on

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the metal edge of the roof.
After pulling itself up, it stood and

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proceeded to take a large, widely
space to bipedal step to the other end

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of my house, which is forty
two feet from where it pulled up.

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That would be steps, not step. I was lying in the bed,

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cowering under the bed covers, listening
and hardly breathing. And then it walked

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back over my bed, but it
did not jump the eleven feet down to

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the cellar the way it came up. Instead, it walked directly over my

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bed and apparently put off the edge
over the only window in my bedroom,

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and it dropped twenty feet to what
I called the pebble patio. The headboard

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of my bed sat directly under this
window, above the pebble patio, and

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my window shook so violently that I
feared it would break and fall inwardly on

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me, still lying in bed,
even worse that the animal would somehow gain

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access to me. All the time, my heart raced inside my chest because

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of the extreme fear I felt.
I laid there awake, but I heard

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nothing more. I waited for the
daylight so I could leave my house to

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go down to the hill to my
mother's house to let family know what had

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happened to me and see if we
could make sense of it. All.

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My brothers just laughed at me when
I demonstrated the gate of the animal when

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I spread my legs apart as far
as I could to take a step,

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but it was not far enough.
From that night on, I began searching

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online what kind of an animal walks
on your roof? And that's when I

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discovered that I was not alone in
my experience. I can't prove that bigfoot

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walked on my roof, but given
how it happened, I can't explain it

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any other way, and thus began
my armchair campaign to become educated about Bigfoot.

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A few years after the roof walking
experience, my son and daughter were

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on top of the roof installing a
new antenna, and when my son came

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into the kitchen, he said that
I must have a big bird leaving droppings

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on my roof. Well, I
asked what he meant. He said there

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was a big pile of animal feces
near the fireplace chimney. I couldn't get

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much more information out of my son, so I instructed my daughter to pay

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attention and to give me a detailed
report. When she came down, she

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told me that there was a pile
of feces and it was white, the

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size of a large dinner plate.
When I asked what the shape looked like,

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she said, said it was circular, like a big cinnamon roll.

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I immediately thought of the creature that
had walked to the fireplace end of the

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house and back and sprang so far
down to the pebble patio. And when

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I expressed that to my kids,
they had a good laugh at my expense.

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There have been many over the years. I remembered the old TV show

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In Search of with Leonard Nimoy.
My only awareness of the possible existence of

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the animal known as Bigfoot was on
that show. Well, I believed it

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was possible, but it didn't affect
me, or so I thought, since

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it was a West Coast possibility.
That was forty years prior to my experience,

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and I began listening to everything I
could about Bigfoot. That's when I

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began to put together things that had
happened here over the years. For example,

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a number of years prior to my
experience, my ex husband and I

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were helping my brother's family build an
addition onto their house. In the evenings,

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we would hear a peculiar noise far
up into the hollow there was a

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dead end above his property. It
was some type of moaning and bellowing cry.

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I'd never heard anything like it before, nor since those days that I

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spent there, And although both myself
and my brother have both heard very strange

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calls, yells, and noises since
then. After the walking on my Roof

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episode, I'll recall some things that
had happened over the years in my hollow,

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and I'm now convinced that the Bigfoot
were in this hollow before we ever

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called it home. It had been
many years prior to our moving onto this

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land that humans had lived here.
My mother and stepfather always raised large gardens.

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On two separate occasions and two separate
summers, my stepfather went out to

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harvest the crop for canning, and
it was all gone, taken during the

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night once it was fresh. In
another time it was his right tomatoes,

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it was all stripped clean. We
had an above ground swimming pool for our

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kids while they were growing up,
and I was standing by the window looking

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out at the pool, and I
couldn't understand why I didn't see any water.

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I went out to investigate. The
sides of the pool lighting had deep

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gashes in it, and the water
had nearly all leaked out. The sides

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were not caved in, so whatever
took a swim had entered and departed from

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the small deck where the lighter was
located. At the time, I thought,

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perhaps, since it was August and
the creeks were dry, that a

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bear had taken a little swim.
Who knows, it could have been the

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Bigfoot instead. Here are some other
strange things that happened here at my house.

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I've had artificial plants moved from where
I had them in a window box

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at one end of my house and
left in my driveway at the other end

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of my house, and it was
not weather related. I've had a drain

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removed many times. I will replace
it and it has taken off again.

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I've been gifted with objects. Once
a child's metal bracelet, obviously weathered and

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old, was left in the middle
of my front sidewalk so that when I

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left I would have to see it. I've had my screen door opened and

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a beautiful but dead yellow bird in
the middle of my welcome matt. I've

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had my artificial flowers removed from outdoor
wreaths and placed inside my screen porch.

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I had a wooden arbor with climbing
roses broken all to pieces and being tossed

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into the driveway. My beautiful roses
were totally uprooted, and this happened in

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one summer night. My mother lived
with me for five years. She slept

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downstairs in a nook. She had
to use her potty chair often, and

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she had a habit of walking to
the doorway where she stood to see out

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the window into the pebble patio.
One morning, when I came downstairs,

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she had something to tell me.
By this time, I was leaving all

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my outside lights on since the years
before when something by Peter walked on my

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roof. She said that she walked
to the doorway and when she looked out,

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she saw a big hairy back,
no head because it was above the

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window. When I asked what she
did, she said she quietly backed up

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and east back into the bed as
quietly as she could. And after that

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I put the window shades on all
the downstairs windows. In fact, I

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have window shades on all the windows, and they are drawn tight before dark

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every evening. My brother and I
used to play guitars and write songs.

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And my brother came up and I
handed him a guitar and he began playing

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while I went back inside for something. The dogs had been barking like crazy.

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Just as I stepped onto the screen
porch to hear this newly written song,

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we heard the most terrifying scream.
It was an angry scream. It

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was louder than any lion roar,
and deeper in resonance than any bull,

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and it ended in a guttural growl. My brother said, what was that.

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I knew it wasn't a dog,
but I said, I guess it

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was just a dog. And about
that time it yelled again, and it

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sounded like it was close. My
brother said, that wasn't a dog.

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The dogs had gone completely silent at
that time. We walked to the sidewalk

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and we listened, but we didn't
hear anything else. My brother said he

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was going home, and I said
I was going inside and locking the doors,

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and that is what we did.
I've never heard that exact sound again,

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but I have heard other vocals,
actually too many to recount. I've

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heard too many wood knocks to recount. I've heard the death noise of a

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deer after hearing a wood knock a
little way away, and then out at

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the end of my yard hearing another
wood knock and the obvious sound of a

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deer dying. For a long time, I would hear wood knocks and try

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to explain to my brother what it
sounded like, and he would call me

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and I would go out on my
porch and listen. It took a while,

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but one day he called and I
went outside, and yes, it

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was a wood knock. And after
that he learned to tell the difference.

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I explained their knocks as a Louisville
slugger hitting a tree in such a powerful

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way that no human can duplicate it, and it sounds like it vibrates from

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the inside out with such force.
I've also had my doorbell rang and no

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one being there. I've had my
house slapped. I've heard something heavy step

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onto my deck. Especially when I
used to have pets and I fed them

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in the evenings, I learned to
feed in the mornings. I've had walnuts

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thrown at me from a hillside,
and my friend that was visiting me had

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per simmons thrown at her from the
hillside too. There are no per simmons

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near my house. I've heard clacking
rocks and the fall that made me think

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of cracking walnuts. And as I'm
getting a and i'm outside less, I

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don't hear as much as I used
to, but I still hear them hunting

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or calling out to each other,
even twice this past week. I always

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marvel as to why my neighbors aren't
hearing this. Two of these neighbors are

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a son and a grandson and their
family, and they sleep with a fan

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going, so they don't hear what
I hear. My brother has a lot

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of dogs that bark all night long. They get quiet when the Bigfoots are

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around. Actually, I've heard a
pattern of travel the dogs barking at the

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neighbors as the Bigfoots get close,
and those dogs go quiet, and that

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pattern continues to the next house,
and so forth and so on. It

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is my belief that they travel up
and down the winding creeks on each side

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of a hollow so as not to
be detected. I think the bigfoots home

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is far up in the hollow above
the property my brother owns and used to

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live in. There are many caves
and rock cliff in the area. My

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nephews that hunt up in there tell
me that there is a place they have

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their own name for, and they
say they get goosebumps every time they are

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in there. They also say things
don't seem right up there. It's the

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only place in the hollow they feel
that way about. And my brother used

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to live in that hollow and moved
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my heel years ago. His son
was the last one to live alone in

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the other house. He used to
have a lot of slapping on the house

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walls, and one night all the
firewood that my brother had stacked on his

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screen porch up there was all knocked
down. It made my brother angry and

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he yelled out into the woods,
this isn't funny, and I don't like

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this. You've made me angry.
And then it never happened again. There

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have been several things happened in that
hollow, besides the yelling we heard so

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many years ago when adding on to
a house and the slapping on the house

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his son heard. Before my brother's
son moved into his house, our youngest

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brother relocated back to West Virginia from
Georgia. He and his sons hunted deer

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and gutted the animals in the bag
and the gut piles would be taken.

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They had rocks and logs thrown at
them when they hunted and A couple of

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the boys were sitting on the screened
in porch one night with their flashlights,

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and they heard something across the creek
bank, and they went to investigate and

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shine their lights on a group of
bigfoots. They saw them. One was

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on all fours near the creek,
and they said it growled and did a

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backward cross so fast, not unlike
the movement of a spider. And I

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tried to get the other details about
hair color, etc. And they just

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said a couple were dark and one
was dirty white or gray. It happened

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so fast, I think that they
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These animals had the hollow to themselves
for so long that I think they resented

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the family living there and taking game, And even to this day, many

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of the vocals come from that hollow
or one of the other side of my

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hill. My brother and his wife
that lived down the hill from me,

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were on their back porch one summer
evening a few years ago, and they

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heard what they could only describe as
fighting within a bunch of these creatures.

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They said it was chilling. My
brother called me, but by the time

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opened my window, the sounds had
stopped. Ten years ago. This same

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brother's little grandson explained to his grandpa
that he saw a monster, and he

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said it was tall with brown hair. Another time, his grandmother let him

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play on the back screened in porch
while she worked in the kitchen, and

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she came to check on him often. She said that a little brown one

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was about as tall as him came
to the porch and wanted his stuffed dog,

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but he wouldn't let him have it. He said it smiled at him

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and it had big teeth like his
grandpa's teeth. His grandmother came to check

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on him, he said it ran
over to the nearby creek bank and it

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lay down in the grass. When
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he said, now he was my
friend, but he was so afraid

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of the monster in the creek that
when he left his grandparents' house, his

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grandpa had to carry him and put
him in his car seat. That was

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the way he did for many months. One of my neighbors is my cousin,

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and she said one night that she
took her dog out to use the

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bathroom. Now this dog is a
biter, and they went charging its something

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on the hill as it crossed the
driveway. The dog came to an abrupt

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stop when she saw what it was, and my cousin swears that it sounded

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like the creature in a very deep, drawn out voice, too deep for

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a human, and he gave a
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She said, her dog drop through
her haunches. My cousin called the dog

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back and got back inside the house. My cousin said the creature wasn't too

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bulky, but it was tall and
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player. This was my cousin's second
sighting, as she thinks she saw one

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when she was a tiny girl on
the same property. Her sister, who

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lived with her, said one night
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one of the foundation blocks was cracked, and that cousin slept with her gun

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at the ready at all times.
My second born brother lives across from my

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oldest brother's place up in the hollow, and one night he went out to

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smoke on the porch. He looked
across at our brother's place. He thought

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our brother was standing there with a
toboggan on his head, with his arms

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crossed across his chest, looking toward
the hillside. They were always teasing etach

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other as brothers do, and he
yelled out, what are you doing over

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there, you big dummy? He
said. A creature popped up and ran

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like a deer on an old logging
road and went out of sight. My

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brother then figured out it wasn't our
brother that he had seen. Other nights,

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my brother was recovering from surgery and
was lying in a recliner. It

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was a rainy April night, and
he saw bigfoot standing under the light post

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looking at my brother through the window, which had no curtains or window shades.

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They got a window shade after that, and their daughter saw a whitish

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colored bigfoot, which threw a rock
at her when she opened the door to

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get a better look. That scared
her to death. Another time, she

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saw red eyes looking at her in
the bedroom window, and they heard strange

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yells often. One night, her
husband hit a tape recorder on the porch

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and got a recording of the creature
yelling. He tried to find something that

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sounded like it online, but he
could not find a match. Our neighbor

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that lives on a hill within eyesight
of both my oldest brother and my house

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told my brother some of his experiences
prior to moving there. His dad lived

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there. The old man was dying
of cancer, but he told his son

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something that was hanging around the house. His son thought he was delusional due

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to the medications that he was on, but a couple of things happened before

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and after the death of his father. The old man had been a victim

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of robbery a couple of times in
the past, and one night he heard

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what he thought was a prowler,
so he came out letting go of both

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barrels. Whatever it was ran away, and the old man got up the

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next morning to quite a sight.
His four wheeler was thrown up in the

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woods, as was his lawnmower,
his tools, his gas tanks, and

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everything else. After the old man
died, his son continued to come to

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the house, keeping a lookout on
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He fed the dog that night,
as well as giving him some outdated bakery

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bread, and then he went in
inside to check on some things, and

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the dog began to bark and carry
on, and then it sounded like it

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was in pain, and the sun
came out to see what was going on,

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and he shined the light to see
a bigfoot hands full of bread,

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and it growled and took off around
the hillside. The dog had been tossed

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up on the hillside, and after
that, the son said, the dog

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left and he couldn't get it to
stay there again. I can't say I

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blame him. I would have left
too. This same person told my brother

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he started tracking these animals and he
found bone piles, and that he had

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set up a game cam to get
photos, and he showed those to my

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brother. My brother said the whole
face was covered in dark hair. My

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brother, like myself, has listened
to bigfoot programming for years, and when

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our neighbor divulged his plans in regards
to bigfoot, my brother gave him some

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good advice, telling him to let
them be or he could be bringing great

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harm to himself. This man's cousin
lives down the road from him, and

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one night had a creature pounding on
his trailer so violently the girl living with

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him left him, refusing to stay
there any longer. After that, he

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put up a lot of lights trying
to discourage such vigitations. On that neighbor's

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hill is where my oldest brother had
his morning encounter at ten am about three

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or four years ago. He topped
a hill and the creature was so engrossed

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and watching the neighbor's trailer that he
turned and saw my brother's car. He

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had a deer in the headlights look
and he gave one jump over the creek

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bank, and by the time my
brother got there, it slithered around a

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big boulder and it vanished. My
brother was so shocked. He wondered if

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our neighbor was practicing karaoke, which
he does often, and the creature was

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caught up and listening to that and
didn't hear the car. Oh my gosh,

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imagine having a neighbor practiced in karaoke
in his trailer. Anyway, anyway,

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my brother said it was dark and
the creature had a hairy face,

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and it was bulky and not huge, but it was very tall. It

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had huge eyes. Its mouth was
closed so he didn't see its teeth.

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He said it moved so fast that
it was nearly a blur. Three years

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ago, up in the haller,
my niece and her husband had taken my

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mom to my brother's for dinner.
They were trying to load her into her

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car to take her back to the
nursing home where she is a resident at

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ninety one years of age. They
were having a hard time, and when

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my niece heard something growling and making
a lot of noise walking down the creek

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in the dark, my niece began
yelling for her husband to get Mama into

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the car. She started pushing her
bikeside to rush the process. My mother

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is nearly deaf and had no idea
what we were trying to do. And

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my niece was especially frightened because many
years before her her dad had something similar

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happened to him. And in the
same location, my brother had been remodeling

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their home and went out late one
night to burn the old building debris,

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and something came down the creek,
stomping and growling. The fire had nearly

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died down at that point, and
my brother built a fire up again,

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and he was scared, and he
was standing there late at night in the

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dark with no weapon. All the
things I've heard or came to know about

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in the neighborhood has profoundly changed me
in how I do things. There is

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no doubt I am fearful. And
because I live in a rural area on

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a hill, I didn't used to
have window shades but I do now,

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and I didn't think twice about coming
home at night, and I have to

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be in before dark. Now I
realized there had been many, many opportunities

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whereby we could have been harmed by
these creatures, but luckily we haven't been.

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To be honest, I pray every
night not to ever see these creature.

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I'm perfectly happy not to see them. I'm sure they've seen me though.

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I've been made fun of by my
kids and grandchildren, but they don't

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listen or or open their minds.
I think the day will come when they

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will have to know that the bigfoots
are real. One of my granddaughters called

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me around midnight back in the fall. She had opened her bedroom window and

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was hearing sounds up in the hallow
that she had never heard, and they

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scared her. She has also admitted
to me that when she gets home from

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work late at night, she runs
to the house from the driveway. I'm

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sorry for the length of this email. A lot has gone on over the

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years. You can refer to me
as Sydney, but please don't use my

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last name. It would be a
further embarrassment to my children. Well,

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Sydney, that was man. You
and your family have been through a lot

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of stuff, and that was a
good email. I thought this was a

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good story. I appreciate the woman
sending it. I'm sorry it took f

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four years to get it, but
I've got a bunch of them to do

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now I'm gonna try to get to
every one of them. Thank you for

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listening, and we'll see you guys
on the next podcast. Thanks