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I'm born and raised in Upstate New
York and have been hiking since I was

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four years old. Beyond hiking,
I'm an avid kayaker, fisher, and

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hunter. I tell you this to
set the tone that I'm familiar with outdoors

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and have encountered everything from black bears
to white tailed deer from a very young

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age. I've never had any fear
of the forest, and when I was

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an awkward teenager, I sought refuge
in the dense forest surrounding my home in

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Richmond Hills of New York. Some
of you may know the area by its

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notable ski resort, Bristol Mountain.
This story, however, takes place in

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the Blue Ridge Mountains, just outside
of Asheville, North Carolina. I apologize

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in advance because this will be a
long one. In order to convey the

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necessary details, I was about twenty
five years old at the time. I'm

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now thirty one, but I remember
it like it was yesterday. At the

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time, I was in a very
strained living situation with my ex boyfriend John.

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It is important for the sake of
this story that you understand that he

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was a simply terrible person. He
was quick to anger, verbally abusive,

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and just overall a miserable, wretched
human being. In a last attempt to

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find some positivity in this situation,
I came up with the idea to take

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a trip to the mountains. I
had never been there before, and I

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was eager to get away. We
packed up my tiny car, an Akira

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Integra, with supplies and my best
friend, Lola, a pure white lab

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Husky pit bull mix. My dog
was only about six months old at the

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time and had more energy than the
energizer bunny. Lola was not very well

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behaved yet, and I was still
very much committed to her training. Remember

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this. After a six hour drive
from my current residence at the time outside

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of Raleigh, North Carolina, we
arrived in the lovely ashvill area. The

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next two days, we spent our
time driving up and down the Blue Ridge

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Parkway, stopping at overlooks, and
hiking in search of the many beautiful waterfalls.

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The Fourth of July holiday had brought
crowds of people to the area,

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and I found myself searching for areas
less travel to get away and into the

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serenity of the mountains. On the
third day, things were unraveling quickly with

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John and I was severely debating my
life choices. I told John I had

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found a place named Graveyard Falls and
I was going whether he liked it or

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not. Now, for some background
information on this area, it is a

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heavily traveled area because it has a
natural water slide for families to enjoy.

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I decided, crowd or not,
I was going to enjoy the experience one

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way or the other. John argued
with me as usual and finally gave up

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when I told him in no uncertain
terms that if he didn't like it,

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he could get the hell out of
my car and find his own way home.

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I was at my breaking point with
him, and I knew my family

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would help me to get back in
a better direction. We pulled into an

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overflow parking lot at the trailhead for
Graveyard Fall. After gathering my things and

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getting Lola into her harness, I
surveyed the area. The parking lot set

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above the trail where you could see
it steadily sloping down until it comes to

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a split, and both directions were
swallowed by the thick forest. I watched

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as every person I saw took the
path to the right, and I quickly

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gathered that was the way to the
falls. This was confirmed when I saw

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a family come from that way,
wrapped in towels and smiling from ear to

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ear. The three of us started
down the tree, and a sweet older

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couple that I would gauge to be
in their mid to late sixties to ask

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if I was familiar with the area. I told them no, and that

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I was from New York. They
told me they were from New York as

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well, and they wanted to see
the falls, but the woman was concerned

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that her husband may not be able
to handle the terrain. I advised her

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to check with the park rangers so
they could give them advice on the trails

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that may be easier for them,
and she thanked me for the idea,

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and we wished each other well.
John was visibly irritated about me taking too

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long to speak with the couple and
was gesturing me to hurry up. I

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jogged a few paces to catch up
with him in Lola. He growled at

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me that he wanted to smoke some
marijuana before we embarked upon the crowded trail.

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Well, I was not opposed to
the idea and have been an habitual

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user of marijuana for many years.
I gestured for him to take the trail

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to the left, and it was
surprisingly empty for the of people that were

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there. We followed the trail for
about fifteen to twenty minutes before we came

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to a point where it looked like
another trail was carved out. This trail

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sloped down about sixty five degrees.
For some reason, I was drawn to

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this area, and without a word, I started down. I had my

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dog's leash in my hand at this
point and decided that we were far enough

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away from people to let her off
the leash and do some training exercises.

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John was far behind me, as
he was not in as good as shape

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as I was. Lola and I
did a couple of sit in stay commands

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while we waited for him. Finally, the three of us reached the bottom

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of this trail. I was elated
to find that we were now in a

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lush, green meadow with a small
crystal clear pond. The scene was picturesque

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and I felt completely relaxed. Ignoring
John's grumbling, he started to roll a

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blunt or a marijuana cigar as you
might call it, played with Lola,

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tossing her sticks and running barefoot through
the water with her. My second pass

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of the pond. I noticed what
I can only describe as a hat sitting

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on a rock that was half submerged
in the water. I walked closer to

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it, and it was a dark
green hat with feathers attached. My first

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thought was at look native American.
I was no more than two inches from

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touching it when I heard the lighter
click as John hit the blunt. I

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was at that moment the hair stood
up on the back of my neck.

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John called to me to come and
take a hit from the blunt, and

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I stood rooted in the spot,
staring at this hat. Lola returned to

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my side and nudged my hand with
her nose. This snapped me out of

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whatever trance I was in, and
I immediately felt the need to run like

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hell. I repressed this feeling,
telling myself to calm down that I was

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being ridiculous. I told John about
the hat, and he just said it

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was probably a hangout spot for locals. I didn't respond and hit the blunt

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once. As I sat, I
realized the forest had gone completely silent.

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No birds, no squirrels, no
occasional holler from fellow tourists. I had

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frequently heard upon my descent to the
spot that we were sitting. It was

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just complete eerie silence. This was
my first sign and I stood up quickly

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and I told John something was not
right and that I was leaving. He

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called me names and yelled at me
because he wanted to stay. I didn't

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hesitate. Within a minute, I
stuffed my feet back in my shoes.

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I called Lola, and I started
climbing the hill. John was still sitting

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there smoking when I looked back for
one last glance at this gorgeous meadow,

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and he swore at me, and
he didn't move a muscle. I quickly

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moved up towards the more difficult part
of the climb, and that's when I

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heard it. Something was following me. As this realization set in, I

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stumbled over Lola, who was pressed
against my leg. Normally she is running

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around and pushing her boundaries, but
she wasn't. Now. She had had

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her tailpin between her legs and she
looked terrified. I clipped the leash onto

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her and I slowed my pace.
I was not going to flee and make

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myself look like pray. That was
my first thought. My second thought was,

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maybe it's just some a hole trying
to scare me. I started and

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stopped in a different pattern, and
whatever this was mimicked every step I took.

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I started walking again, at a
brisk pace and looking all around me.

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I couldn't see anything but forrest,
and I started trying to piece this

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together in my mind. First off, this thing was on two feet.

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There was no doubt in my mind
about that. The second, this thing

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was big. Not only could I
limbs breaking like they were nothing, but

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I could feel the ground shaking beneath
me. It was like when you were

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near a train track and you feel
the earth vibrating as the train passes.

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To this day, I do not
know why I did this, but as

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I'm cycling through my brain about what
this could possibly be, I stopped.

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I felt Lola tugg at her lead
as she tried to pull me ahead,

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and I tightened my grip and that's
when I felt hot breath hit me directly

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in the face. I froze and
stared into the trees, and they were

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so thick I couldn't see anything except
intertwined branches. I felt that exhale again,

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and this time I registered the smell. It was an earthy and rotten

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odor. Like when you leave your
worms and direct sunlight on a hot day

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after a long day of fishing.
I didn't throw up, but I'm not

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sure how. At this point,
Lola started to whine. Any sense of

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control over my actions was gone.
At this point, I grabbed my girl

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and I ran until I reached the
fork in the trail and I heard people

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again. I'm five foot tall and
at that time I weighed about one hundred

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pounds, soaking wet. My dog
was about forty five pounds at that age,

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almost full grown, and I picked
her up like the morning newspaper.

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Adrenaline is a funny thing. The
story does not end there. I reached

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the trail, out of breath and
shaking like a leaf. I put my

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dog on the ground as I finally
felt the true toll of her weight hit

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me. At this point, I
was looking like a crazy person, spinning

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around and looking everywhere for whatever this
thing was, Was it still after me?

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And most importantly, what the hell
was it? At this point I

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heard a familiar voice, and it
was the older couple. The woman saw

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me and asked me if I was
okay. She was clearly concerned for me.

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It took me a few moments to
catch my breath and attempt to speak.

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I told her something had chased me
and we all need to get out

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of there. Well. She seemed
unsure of what to say and stared at

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me as if to try and figure
out what I was telling her. In

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the most polite tone I could muster, I told her something is out there

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and it's not safe here. I'm
leaving immediately, and that's when she told

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me, dear, you were only
gone a couple of minutes. My husband

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and I turned around after we talked
to you to go speak with the rangers

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at the visitor center. My expression
must have given me away, because she

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said, are you sure you're okay? You don't look very good. I

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stuttered, yeah, I'm okay,
and I assured her I was parking the

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lot above and that I was going
to rest in my car. We said

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goodbye again, and I continued towards
the lot. It was then that I

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realized John was still not behind me. I looked up at the sky as

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my feet touched the gravel, and
I watched a massive storm cloud roll over

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to the top of me. My
heart sank as I pondered his fate.

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I didn't like the guy, but
I didn't want to be responsible for whatever

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was going to happen to him.
I remembered the moment that I had my

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hand over my key and I heard
someone sprinting up behind me. It was

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John. He looked white as a
ghost and did not say a single word.

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He just pointed to the car.
I nodded my head, and a

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rush of relief hit me as I
opened the doors of the car and moved

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the seat to put Lola in.
The minute I closed my driver's side door,

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it began to pour A true mountain
thunderstorm raged, and I didn't even

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bother to try and drive away.
We just sat there in silence, and

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we never spoke of any of this
ever again. And that's the end of

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the story. That's man, That's
like, that is so freaky. It's

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like a Twilight Zone type of She
smelled the breath. It's like it's like

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this thing was right in front of
her, breathing on her. She could

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smell the breath, she could feel
it, the heat from the lungs.

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But at the end of her email, she has several bullet points here,

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and I'm going to read those to
you because I think these are interesting to

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the topic. She says, I
don't have to read them. It doesn't

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matter to her, but I'm gonna
go ahead and read them. She Bullet

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point one, the trail I took
was, without a doubt, about a

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quarter mile from where I saw that
man and woman. There's no way I

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was only gone a few minutes.
I walked to the trailhead, plus down

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the hill and hung out for a
bit at the pond. The couple was

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close enough to the parking lot that
you could see where the overhang was to

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the parking lot. They should have
been long gone, even with mobility issues.

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Where did that time go? Here's
bullet point two. John could not

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have been the one following me.
He could not have made the ground move

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had that kind of lung capacity,
and the timing and how fast he was

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running made no sense. Number three, My dog has never done anything like

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that. I still hike with her
weekly, and to this day, I've

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never seen her do any of this. Not to mention, if it was

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John, she would not be afraid. Number four. I've heard a sizeable

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deer snort, and this breathing made
that seem like a kitten yawning. Number

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five, what happened to the person
with that hat, how old was it

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really? Number six? Most of
all, there are no creatures in the

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woods that exhibit this behavior. I'm
a small girl with a smaller to medium

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sized dog. If it wanted us, we were baking in eggs for this

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thing. Animals do not pace you
out. That was six. Number seven.

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I was never thinking bigfoot because honestly, it never crossed my mind.

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In fact, I used to tell
my dad he was nuts because he believed

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the Patterson Gimlin film was It's real. I've lost count here. I think

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this is eight. The storm that
rolled in so quickly reminded me of missing

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for one one and the last note
is which I think is ten. Obviously

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I can't count. Lastly, I
just want to say I never saw it,

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and I'll never claim to, but
it started me on a mission to

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find out what it was, and
between you Cam and Wes at Sisquatch Chronicles,

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I have found my answer. Whatever
methods are being employed against these victims,

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one thing is becoming clear. There
seems to be an intelligence behind it.

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As David Pilate's has stated, whatever
is happening here has one hundred percent

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success rate, implying that there are
no substantiated reports of anyone successfully repelling or

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escaping the phenomena once it begins.
Of course, if this were just a

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random natural phenomenon occurring in nature as
of the environment by forces we've yet to

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understand or prove through science, then
it would happen seemingly everywhere and with plenty

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of eye witnesses. But that just
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when the victim reappears inside of a
metal water tank with no apparent way for

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a human to gain access to its
interior, indicating an attempt to, as

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the mafia would say, get rid
of the body. I am, of

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course, referring to the Elisa Lamb
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but might be explained as having been
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the interior. Either way, it
smacks of something right out of Star Trek,

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the use of technology to manipulate the
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to complete its task. Okay,
I'm gonna stop right here, and I'm

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gonna for those of you who don't
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I'm not sure. Okay, it
says right here, I'm just going to

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read this little clip that I clipped
off the internet, so just to get

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you familiar with the Elisa Lamb case, because it's real interesting. Matter of

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fact, there's a documentary either on
Netflix or HBO where I saw this,

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but it's fascinating, and it happened
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which has reportedly got a bunch of
weird stuff goes on there, but Alisa

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Lamb. To this day, nobody
knows exactly how Lisa Lamb died. We

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know that the twenty one year old
Canadian college student was last seen at the

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Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on January
thirty first, twenty thirteen, but the

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infamously chilling hotel surveillance video that captured
the bizarre final moments before her disappearance,

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let alone the other details that have
emerged since, have only elicited more questions

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and answers. Ever since her body
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on February of the nineteenth, her
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And this article is very long.
I actually copy the whole thing and it's

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anyway, just google Elisa lamb Elsa
Lam, I think you'd be pretty interested.

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If you're into the true crime mysterious
disappearances thing, you might be interested

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in that. But back to this
man's email. One piece of evidence to

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support the idea of intelligent design being
that it appears to be very selective and

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it's timing when people go missing,
such as when they are in a group

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or waiting for one victim to get
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Is the deciding factor being the person
who disappears is momentarily out of view of

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the others. Another is when bodies
are found in an area that's been searched

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multiple times. It can't be determined
if the culprit is aware of the search

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efforts and returns the victim to the
spot of insert whatever term you like,

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simply because it had departed the scene
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to drop the body off, or
conversely, it was there the entire time,

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observing the search and waiting until there's
an opportunity to do so. Why

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this is done is a mystery.
Is it an act of compassion to grant

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closure for the rest of us,
or simply a tactic to discourage or eliminate

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any further investigation into the disappearance.
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and we go on about our normal
lives, none the wiser, or

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perhaps more sinisterly sinisterly, is this
action a way of giving us a big,

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fat mental finger by stating that it
can do whatever it wants and there

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isn't a damn thing we can do
about it. Further still, it might

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suggest a complete and utter disregard for
human beings, in that, for whatever

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reason a human is needed or wanted, people are taken and then simply dumped

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where and whenever the task is completed. Like labrats, we are used for

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some purpose, and if when that
proves to be fatal, like refuse,

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the body is simply discarded. Either
way, the latter two are very disconcerting.

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Surely, the agency behind this appears
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employ stealth and remain undiscovered. So
why are clues often left for us to

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investigate? Clues such as the bodies
themselves, are clothing that is neatly folded

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and left behind, but without any
evidence of trauma or violence. If it

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truly wants to remain hidden, then
why leave any evidence at all? Especially

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when it seemingly possesses the ability to
instantaneously snatch anyone at any time without being

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witnessed, perhaps the rationale being it
doesn't take into consideration our deductive reasoning and

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our compulsive determination to solve a mystery. But then again, it may see

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itself as so superior to us that
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assume it is some form of intelligence
perpetrating these events, then we have to

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see and call it for what it
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it is done on a small scale, in that there usually tends to be

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only one victim at a time,
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remain deliberately hidden i e. Remote
locations, forests, and in the case

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of urban locations, when the victim
is alone and out of view. Both

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of these factors indicating a thought press
involved a psychopathic thought press us. But

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this is not what we categorize as
typical alien abduction. One might even go

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a step further and call it being
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and from not so discrete locations such
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another word would be appropriate, and
of course mass panic would ensue for certain,

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but the compelling nature of the methods
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While hunting. The hunter enters the
forest, he's camouflaged and is quietly

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positioned in a manner where the hunted, such as the deer, is unaware,

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with the weapon at the ready until
boom. Typically with what we have

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come to term alien abduction, when
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for the most part unharmed, and
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Only through nightmares and or hypnosis,
the events may be recalled. People often

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describe various entities that we as society
have come to recognize and categorize as the

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typical grays, reptilians, mantis,
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But again, these apparent races tend
not to kill and will even communicate

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with the abductees. Their involvement with
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So on the surface, who or
whatever is doing this is something new and

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or different. I mean new as
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and possibly not even alien in nature. In the rare cases where the missing

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have been found alive, they are
unable to give any description as to their

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whereabouts in any events that occurred during
their time missing. This in itself implies

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a classic alien abduction. But since
they are so rare, while the same

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time meeting all of the other criteria
as laid out by David Pilates to warn

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inclusion on the Unexplained disappearance list,
it is not difficult to exclude the involvement

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of the aforementioned aliens and to begin
formulating alternative ideas as to what is potentially

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occurring. At least in cases of
alien abduction, people often report positive experiences,

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such as the impart of knowledge that
might better mankind, or warnings of

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potential planetary crisis and how to cope
with or avoid them, cases of technological

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information being provided and the healing of
illnesses. And despite the overwhelming evidence of

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breeding and genetic experimentation, while itself
is unpleasant, it never seems to end

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in permanent disappearance and death. Indeed, in these cases, it seems to

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be in the best interest of them
the abductors that the abductees remain healthy and

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alive for future encounters. Not so
with this phenomenon, Apparently, Whitley Striver

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once said when asked, how do
we know if they are good or evil

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regarding alien encounters. His answer has
always stuck with me, and I think

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he quotes it from the Bible by
stating, by their actions you will know

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them, simple and direct. But
then the truth often is, whatever is

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happening regarding unexplained disappearances, as investigated
by David Pilates, it is something different.

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It is outside the scope of what
we identify as alien abduction. In

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other words, who or whatever is
doing this is clearly malevolent and lacks any

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good intentions or even simple respect toward
us. Like lab animals, we appear

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to be nothing more than a means
to an end. What end can only

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be speculated. However, in a
strange twist of art imitating life, there

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is of course the report from a
woman bow hunter who was out there in

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her tree stand late one afternoon and
who, according to her description, witnessed

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a humanoid shape in the woods,
moving through the tops of the trees,

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and though not completely invisible like the
predator from the movie of the same name,

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it was completely see through and only
visible because of a distortion causing a

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slight displacement effect around the edges of
the interloper of the underlying foliage. What

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adds credibility to this story is that
the woman is the wife of doctor Bruce

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Maccabee, a noted physicist and now
UFO researcher and former optical data analysts for

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the US Navy's Surface Warfare Division.
Furthermore, a little research has turned up

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an interesting fact that the screenwriter of
that film, James E. Thomas,

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based much of the movie on an
account taken in Vietnam during the war that

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has been declassified through FOIA. A
Phoenix team disappeared and was found skinned hanging

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from trees. The Specops guies they
sent for rescue disappeared and were found in

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the same way. Also incidentally,
he grew up in Bakersville, California,

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which is not at all that far
from as the crow flies from the larger

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cluster of the Missing four one one
disappearances in California. So if we analyze

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and collate the available facts and evidence
is compiled by the Missing four to one

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one investigations, and we embraced the
axiom posted by Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle,

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when one eliminates all other possibilities,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be

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the truth,