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Now one of your pudding. I
got a string going on here, something

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just cause my dog. Something killed
your dog, my dog. We're flying

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through the or over the tree.
I don't know how it did it,

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Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw is my dog coming

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over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like,

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I didn't see any cars. All
I saw was my dog coming over

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the fence. Sat what are you
putting? We got some wonder or something

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crawling around out here? Did you
see what it was? Or was it

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was? Standing enough? I'm out
here looking through the window now and I

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don't see anything. I don't want
to go outside. Jesus Chraice, you

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better hello, get somebody out here
when I'm out there. I thought of

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a biture about text forty nine.
I don't know easy out there, Yep,

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I'm booking right ay. Summer camp
was always a special time for me.

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It was my own personal vacation I
got to go to to get away

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from my everyday life. I know, I was fifteen. What did I

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have to worry about? I had
no adult responsibilities. I didn't have a

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boss, and I didn't have to
pay any bills. What would I need

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to escape from. Well, it
wasn't that that I was excited to leave

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behind. It was my parents.
Now, don't get me wrong, my

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parents were great. I never suffered
any abuse, but they worked stressful jobs

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and they never got to see each
other, and when they did, the

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discussions always turned animated, and eventually
they turned to even louder disagreements with each

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other. On the rare occasions that
my parents were home to get I just

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headed to my room and put on
my headphones to drown out the noise.

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I always wondered why they didn't just
get a divorce. It seemed they never

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agreed on anything, especially me.
Decisions would be made about what I was

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and was allowed to do, and
they always contradicted each other. So this

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is why I always look forward to
sleep away camp. I got to hang

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out with my friends, stay out
at the lake as long as we could,

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and just be out and be one
with nature. I always felt like

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that's where I belonged, and I
was anticipating my eighteenth birthday more and more

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so that I could make that my
full time life. The day they dropped

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me off, it was warm and
sunny. I ran up to meet my

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friends and we went out to the
main hall, as we always did,

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to hear from our main camp leader
about the activities we would be doing and

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to introduce ourselves to the camp counselors. The rules were always the same,

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so we never really paid much attention. I was excited to learn, however,

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that one of our new camp councilors
would be taking us out into the

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woods to have dinner around the fire
instead of staying in the cabin that we

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were assigned to. My best friend
Jeremy and I always got to bunk together,

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so we got assigned to sleep in
the same tent. We celebrated silently

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as we gathered our things to take
to our respective cabins. The day of

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the camp out was long and hot. We did many activities, and the

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countdown to dusk seemed like forever.
Our counselor blew the whistle loudly. As

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the sun finally began to sink lower
into the sky and the temperature began to

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drop, we all gathered around in
a large bunch with the other campers to

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hear what was coming next. Finally, the instructions for the camp out were

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given out. Don't wander too far
from the camp circle, don't do anything

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to destroy property, and don't use
the woods as your personal bathroom. Use

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the designated bathrooms instead. We all
decidedly ran to our cabins and grabbed what

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we needed. We met back up
with the counselor and the other kids to

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head off into the woods. It
was amazing. The air in the woods

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seemed different than the air back in
the cabins. It smelled like a home

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like freedom. As we walked to
Jeremy found a large spider web in the

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tree and he pretended like he was
going to grab the spider that was waiting

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for its next meal and throw it
on me. I shoved him hard and

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we walked on. The sun sank
lower and lower as we finally made it

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to the pre made fire circle,
which was about a half a mile into

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the woods. We all set up
our tents and the counselor started a fire

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and laid out things for dinner and
s'mores for dessert. The stars were bright

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that night against the deep purple sky. The fire cracked and we ate heartily,

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and then we began making our s'mores. Then, of course, it

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was time for scary stories, because
after all, who doesn't tell frightening tails

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around the fire in the dark.
I was silently laughing to myself as the

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girls all gasp as the stories were
told. As I listened to the counselor

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tell one of his made up ghost
stories, I heard footsteps fall behind us.

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I dismissed it and chalked it up
to just being in the woods and

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smaller animals walking around, all the
while noting how heavy the footsteps actually were.

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These didn't sound like your typical raccoon
footsteps. These were large. I

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got Jeremy's attention and motioned for him
to listen for the footsteps, but of

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course, in typical fashion, he
lightly shoved my shoulder, believing that I

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was only trying to scare him.
But that wasn't the case at all.

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Before we turned in for the night, I had to go to the bathroom.

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The counselor said that I could,
but that we were on a buddy

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system and I had to take Jeremy
with me along with our flashlights. Jeremy

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ribbed me the whole way, saying
that he would hold my hand and keep

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me safe. What a joy.
Nonetheless, we walked for the porter potty

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as I was finishing it up and
cleaning my hands, Jeremy started pounding on

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the side of the toilet. Jeez, man, hold on, I'm almost

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finished, I yelled. You probably
shouldn't have had that third chili dog.

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Jeremy continued to bang on the side. Perturbed. I opened the door,

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and that's when I saw Jeremy's face. He was as pale as the moon

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that glowed in the sky. He
was looking into the woods, and he

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was shaking. Jeremy was the type
who never seemed to fear anything, so

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seeing him like this made the hair
on the back of my neck stand straight

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up. I grabbed his shoulders,
trying to snap him out of it.

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To find out what was wrong.
Bear, big tall bear, he finally

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said. His flashlight was pointed at
a tree a little ways from us.

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That's when I saw it. Briefly, it would move just enough to where

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I could see the tufts of hair
around the tree, but then it would

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jerk back around so it wasn't visible
anymore. I stood there, confused because

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that didn't really seem like a bear
behavior. Never in nature had I heard

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of any bear accounts where they would
play peekaboo around a tree. We both

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stood there, frozen, staring at
the tree. After a few minutes of

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not seeing anything, we both decided
to quickly make our way back, being

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sure not to run. The group
was still sitting around by the fire when

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we got back. The councilor seemed
to since something was wrong because we weren't

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our regular jovial cells, but he
didn't say anything. He just stared at

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us. Before we went into our
tent for the night, he pulled us

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off to the side and asked us
what was wrong and what had happened.

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He was a nice guy, and
I didn't want to ruin his first camp

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out as a counselor, so Jeremy
and I came up with this BS story

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on a whim of how we had
just scared each other as we walked along

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to the bathroom. After he was
appeased, we hustled into our tent and

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quickly zipped the door closed. He
felt as safe as we could in a

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polyester tint. Once we were sure
that the counselor was out of earshot,

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we talked and made a plan just
in case we heard something else. We

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agreed that we weren't going to keep
both flashlights on. I would keep mine

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on, and we would save the
battery in his and keep it off.

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I have never felt more uneasy in
the woods. The sounds around us were

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normal crickets chirping, but all the
while, having just experienced what we did,

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it now seemed so unnerving. We
laid there in silence forever, it

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seemed, not talking, only listening
to the sounds around us. Finally we

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drifted off to sleep, but it
was asleep that would be short lived,

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as I was awoken by heavy footfalls. Once again. I listened intently to

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the direction from where they were coming. To my horror, they were coming

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from the same direction as the port
of To keep myself from completely freaking out,

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I told myself it was just the
counselor coming back from using the restaurant

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that I needed to chill out.
I tend to overthink everything, and I

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told myself that this situation was no
different. I kept waiting to hear the

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zipper of his tent clothes, but
it never did, and I still heard

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the footsteps. I shook Jeremy awake
and told him what happened. Obviously,

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he was irritated that I'd woken him
up, and he told me to put

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my headphones on and go back to
sleep. The quicker we go back to

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sleep, the quicker morning will come
and we can leave, he said.

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The counselor's tent isn't too far from
ours, and I'm sure if it was

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something that he thought was threatening,
it would come out and look around.

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I listened to what he said,
and even though they were spewed out in

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fear and frustration, they were comforting. He was probably right anyway, and

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this was just me overthinking. So
I put on my headphones and turned my

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music up, drowning out all the
sounds around us. The crickets chirping ceased,

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and I finally found myself drifting off
to sleep again. I don't know

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how long I'd been asleep, but
I was violently awakened by Jeremy. It's

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outside our tent. Something's outside our
tent, he says. His eyes were

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wide as saucers. I quickly woke
up and jerked my headphones off of my

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ears and listened. You could hear
it by the fire ring the food.

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The smell must have brought it in. We thought it was a bear,

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but bears don't always walk on two
feet. They primarily walk on all fours.

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But this was clearly something heavy,
and it was on two feet.

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We heard it gruff and snored as
it picked up what could only be an

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empty chip bag and smelled it.
It crumbled the bag and tossed it away.

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Whatever this was walked closer, and
then we saw the shadow of this

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beast creep up onto our tent.
This was no bear, and then I

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knew we were in deep shit.
Why wasn't the counselor coming out. Didn't

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he hear this thing? How could
he and the other camper sleep through this.

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It's not like this thing was being
quiet. Then it occurred to me

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that maybe they were awake and hearing
all this, they were just too afraid

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to come out and say anything.
What do we do, Jeremy whispered as

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he looked around the side of the
tent. I had no idea. I

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didn't know what to do. We
didn't have any weapons, we didn't even

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have bear spray, and we were
only fifteen. Even though we knew this

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wasn't a bear, I couldn't help
but think that if we had had bear

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spray, maybe it would have worked. But we just sat there in silence

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with this thing walking around. Finally
it found the trash can. We heard

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it throw the heavy metal lid on
the ground. It made a loud thud,

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and I knew then that if the
counselor and the other campers weren't before,

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they had to be now. I
made my way to the door of

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the tent and I grabbed Jeremy by
the shirt. What the hell are you

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doing, he said angrily. I
didn't say anything, but as silently as

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I could, I slowly began to
unzip the tent. My mind screamed at

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me, asking the exact same question
that Jeremy had just asked. I was

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scared, but I was also curious. One of my downfalls and many of

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the things my parents argued about curiosity
kills the cat echoed through my mind.

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But I had to know. My
heart was in my throat. But I

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continue to unzip the tent. I
wasn't going to open it all the way,

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of course, I was curious,
not stupid. I opened it just

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enough to see what it was,
and I quickly regretted my decision. I

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saw a large, tall, hulking
creature bent over the trash can, rummaging

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through the leftover from dinner and s'mores. It threw out the empty bag of

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marshmallows, empty box of gram crackers, and then the empty bag from the

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hot dog buns. It kept digging
until it reached the bottom of the can

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and finally found some half eaten hot
dogs and chili. I watched it as

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it scooped it up and put it
in its mouth. The hands on this

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thing were as big as baseball gloves. I couldn't see too much, but

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what I did see was more than
enough to ensure that I would be haunted

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by this sight for the rest of
my life. I looked around, and

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that's when I saw the counselor had
done the same thing as I did.

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He had unzipped his tint a little
more than me, and I could see

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that a fourth of his face was
peeking out. Yep, we're screwed,

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I whispered to Jeremy. The counselor
isn't doing anything but looking through his tents

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zipper too. What is it?
Jeremy asked, curious, but too afraid

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to move. I didn't know what
to tell him because I didn't know what

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I was looking at. I hadn't
heard of bigfoot before this. Just as

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quickly as this beast had made it
into our camp. It left just the

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same, walking in the direction of
the creek. The ground shook as it

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walked away, luckily leaving only the
mess from the trash can behind. I

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sent the tent and Jeremy and I
stayed awake for the rest of the night.

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I was sure the camp counselor did
the same. I did hate it

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for him. It was his first
camp out in the woods with us,

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and now, just like me,
he would be traumatized and afraid to do

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this again. As soon as the
sun broke over the horizon, we all

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cautiously came out of our tents and
looked around. The councilor picked up the

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trash, put it back in the
can, and closed the lid without saying

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a word. We all helped him
clean up the area around camp, and

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we packed up to go. Jeremy
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way back about what had happened.
The girl seemed just as quiet, which

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was very odd. We wondered if
they had seen and heard the same thing

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that we had. Later that night, before bed, the counselor pulled us

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aside and confided in us what he
had seen. He apparently saw us peeking

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out of our tent as well.
We agreed that we were all going to

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keep this to ourselves. I thought
that was the best option. No one

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would believe us anyway. They would
just chalk it up to us having overactive

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imaginations, and the counselor would probably
lose his job. Jeremy and I grew

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closer that summer, and we formed
a good relationship with the counselor as well.

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No one spoke about that night after
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to today, and I'm now twenty
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school, I became a park ranger
and I'm always on high alert when I'm

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in the woods. I become more
knowledgeable in everything that there is to know

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about the woods, even those things
that aren't supposed to to exist. I

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took that sleep away camp as a
learning experience that I've carried with me throughout

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my life. Jeremy and I are
still best friends. He's also a park

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ranger too. And stay tuned for
mor sasquatch Ot to see We'll be right

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back after these messages. Human looking
creatures seen by the locals. Giovaldo Coritiana,

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a twenty seven year old Indian says
there is no doubt that the Mappinguari

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is real. He claims to have
seen one about three years ago as he

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was hunting in the jungle near an
area that his tribe calls the Cave of

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the Mappinguari. It was coming towards
the village, making a big noise,

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he said in a recent interview on
the tribe's reservation in the western Amazon.

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It stopped when it got near me. That's when the bad smell made me

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dizzy and tired. I fainted and
when I came to the Mappingwari was gone.

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Caritiana's father, Lucas, confirmed the
account. He said that when his

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son took him back to the side
of the encounter, he saw a clear

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pathway where the creature had departed.
He said it looked as if a boulder

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had rolled through the area and knocked
down all the trees and vines. Another

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witness, seventy year old a Jayo
Battista Acevedo, says that he saw a

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Mappingwari twenty years ago after a forty
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I was working down by the river
when I heard a scream, A

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horrible scream. Suddenly, something that
looked like a man came out of the

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forest, all covered in air.
He was walking on two legs, and

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thank god he did not come towards
us. I will always remember that day.

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Reputed to be the wildest, rarest, most mysterious, and terrifying denizen

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of the rain, Nearly every Indian
tribe in these regions has a word for

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this creature, which can usually be
translated to the roaring animal or to the

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fetid animal. Its most common name
is the mappingwari, but it's also known

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as the capellobo juma, or simply
beecho for beast. Descriptions of the beast

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also vary widely. The body of
a giant bear, the backward turned claw

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feet like those of a giant armadillo. The face appears to be monkey or

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even human like, trailing a cloud
of flying beetles, and a roar like

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endless thunder. In some areas,
the creature is said to have had two

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eyes, while other accounts talk of
it only having one, like the Cyclops

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of Greek mythology. Some versions mention
a gaping, stinking mouth in the monster's

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belly, through which it consumes humans. Unfortunate enough to cross its path.

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Some legends even attribute its power to
the supernatural, and even speech. Classic

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stories describe it as a werewolf like
Indian shaman who discovered the secret of immortality

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but paid for it by being transformed
into a horrible monster. To see it

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is to come face to face with
the devil himself, but all accounts agree

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that the creature is tall two meters
or about seven feet. Its upright bulk

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disconcertingly human like when it stands on
two legs, it emits a strong,

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extremely nauseating and disabling smell, like
garlic and fetid peckory, and that it

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has thick, matted, red or
black fur covering a hard exoskeleton that makes

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it all but impervious to bullets and
arrows. Though the physical descriptions of the

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Mappingwari may resemble the sasquatch of North
America or the yetty of Himalayan lore,

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the comparison stopped there. Unlike gets
counterparts elsewhere, the creature does not flee

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from human contact, but aggressively hunts
down the hunter, turning the tables on

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those who do not respect the jungle's
unwritten rules and limits. Often, the

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map Inguari gets revenge on people who
transgress, who go where they shouldn't go,

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or harvest more animals or plants than
they can consume, or set cruel

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traps, says Marcio Souza, a
prominent Brazilian novelist and playwright who lives in

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the Monals and often draws on Amazon
history and folklore in his works. The

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folklore here is full of tales of
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Stories so widespread and so consistent in
their details that in recent years a

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few scientists have organized expeditions to try
to find it. One in particular,

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David Orn, a Harvard and Yale
trained biologist and ornithologist, thinks the fabled

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monster is not only real, but
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Believed to be extinct for eight thousand
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was one of the largest mammals to
walk the earth, bigger than an

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elephant. These ground sloths were members
of the South American group Zanarthra, which

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contains modern tree sloths, anteaters,
and armadillos. Fossil evidence is abundant and

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widespread in South America, having been
found as far south as Chile and as

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far north as Florida. It is
quite clear to me that the legend of

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the mappinguari is based on human contact
with the latest of these ground Sauce,

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says Orrin, former director of research
at the Gelbi Institute in Blam at the

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mouth of the Amazon River. We
know that these extinct species can survive as

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legends for hundreds of years, but
whether such an animal still exists or not

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is another question. Orn is not
the first sign to reach this conclusion.

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In the late eighteen hundreds, an
Argentinian paleontologists named Florento Amegino took an eyewitness

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story of a strange creature seen in
southern Patagonia to also be an indication of

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a living groundsloth. Indeed, it
wouldn't be the first time a creature previously

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assumed extinct by scientists yet familiar to
locals was found alive in Kicking about twenty

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five years ago. The Chocowan pekerey
was seemingly a mythical animal thought to have

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gone extinct within the last few hundred
years. But against all odds, this

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very large species of South American pekerey
was discovered very much alive in Paraguay.

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Indeed, an even larger and hence
so called giant peckory was discovered in Brazil

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in two thousand. New species are
being discovered in this part of the world

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with great frequency, so much so
that no less than ten species of monkeys

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were discovered in the Amazon in the
last decade. Given that a lot of

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the Amazon, the greatest expanse of
rainforest in the world, remains unexplored,

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especially one that's rich in groundslaw fossils, is it so hard to believe that

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such beasts could still live there unknown
to science. The basis for Oran's hypothesis

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is largely down to first hand accounts
from a couple of hundred people who claim

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to have seen the mappingari and a
handful who say they've had direct contact with

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them. Amazon dwellers year after year
described to him stories of mothers with offspring,

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their seasonal movements to find water,
and even what their feces looked like.

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But it is not just anecdotal evidence
that he's collected. Orn has taken

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video footage of clawed trees taped to
what he believes are creatures, minute long

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thunderous roars, and made molds of
large round footprints with backward facing claws.

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He's also collected hare and twenty two
pounds of feces, which are undergoing analysis,

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and is hoping the DNA in the
hare can be compared to the DNA

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from the blood of living sloths.
At this point to the fact that nearly

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every Indian tribe in the Amazon,
including those who have had no contact with

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each other, have a word for
these creatures, and that their descriptions are

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so remarkably similar that it can't be
a coincidence. Glenn Shepherd, Junior,

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an American ethnobiologist an anthropologist based in
the Manals and the Central Amazon, said

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he had been among the skeptics who
considered the mappingwari a rural legend until nineteen

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ninety seven, when he was doing
research among the Michigana people of the far

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western Amazon in Peru. Tribal members
he questioned there about local wildlife all mentioned

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a fearful slothlike creature that inhabited a
hilly forested area in the U territory.

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The mysterious death of a handyman from
a small village near the town of Siwa

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Tepeke in Honduras has caused numerous rumors
that a chupacabra killed him. A farmer's

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assistant was found dead in February of
twenty nineteen after being attacked by a mysterious

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animal who sucked all of his blood
out. Details of the incident are known

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only from the words of their neighbors. They say that the handyman got tired

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after a busy day of work and
decided to take a break. He lay

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down in the shade of a tree
next to the stones and took off his

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shoes. The unfortunate man did not
notice that next to his resting place was

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the whole of some animal, and
when he settled next to it, an

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unidentified animal jumped out of the hole
and firmly gripped his bare foot. The

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animal didn't just bite the man,
It began to suck the blood out of

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him, and soon the worker died
from blood loss, right there on the

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spot. The corpse of the man
was found later that night by his family

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when they became worried after he did
not come home from work and they went

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out to look for him. According
to his relatives, the body of the

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deceased was pale. There was a
single drop of blood left in it.

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No further details of this case are
currently known. In two thousand and nine,

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in the district of Asparta, an
unidentified predator killed fifteen sheep. Local

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farmers immediately blamed the chupacabra for their
death. In May twenty seventeen, something

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killed more than thirty five domestic animals
in the village of Monterey, and the

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locals were very scared. In April
of twenty nineteen, several farmers stated that

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a chupacabra killed thirty of their cows
in less than a month. Less than

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a month later, in March of
twenty nineteen, another person died in the

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same way. The deceased was a
young man named Jovanni, who went to

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a party in the city and laid
in the ear evening. He had returned

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to his village, but he never
came home for three days. Frightened relatives

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search for the young man throughout the
district and finally found his lifeless body in

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an inaccessible mountainous area not far from
his native village. Those who found his

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body immediately became puzzled by how he
got there in the first place. There

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were no paths that led to the
area. As they began to inspect the

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body to understand what he died from. To their whore, they realized that

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there was no blood in the body
at all. Something had drained him completely

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of blood, just like the farmer
before. There was nothing strange noted around

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the body, and there were no
traces of any wild animals in the area.

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As one can imagine, residents of
the region are on edge following this

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second puzzling death, and remarks made
by a veterinarian brought in to consult on

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the livestock cases are likely to only
exacerbate their fears. The veterinarian observed that

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whatever killed these animals left no evidence
behind, yet it managed to enter a

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well protected area and seemed to strike
its victims with remarkable precision. The massive

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amount of blood seemingly consumed by this
predator left the veterinarian baffled as to what

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kind of creature could be behind these
attacks, and remarkably, he ultimately mused

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that we think this may be a
supernatural being. The phenomenon of the cupcabra

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has been associated with the vampiro demacha
from February of nineteen seventy five, when

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a Puerto Rican legend tells of fifteen
cows, three goats, two geese and

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a pig that were found with puncture
marks in the Rocha Barrio suburbs of Maca.

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Later autopsies showed that the blood had
been drained from their bodies. The

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incident made headlines and police blamed the
animal deaths on stray dogs. When a

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cow was found dead with the similar
marks on the skull, a newspaper called

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the phenomenon El vampio demaca. A
series of isolated attacks took place on the

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island from nineteen ninety two until nineteen
ninety five. In March of nineteen ninety

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five, there was a supposed Chipcabra
incident where eight sheep were found dead.

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Their bodies were completely intact, but
their blood had been drained. Their only

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visible wounds were puncture marks in their
chest and