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All right, here's a story about
a creature I've never heard of. Kind

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of breezed through this as I pulled
it up. But I'm not sure the

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writer gives this creature a name.
But I'm going to read the story because

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it's pretty good. I don't know
what we saw. If my daughter hadn't

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been with me and seen it too, i'd have chalked it up to imagination.

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She was with me, and she
did see it. At the time,

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we were living in a small town
south of Fort Worth, Texas.

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My daughter and I were on our
way to a larger town to do some

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school shopping, have a little mother
daughter time. It was close to dusk,

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and we drove along the winding road
through the farm land around us,

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but it was still light enough to
see clearly well into the distance. Two

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hundred yards ahead of us was a
flatbed truck. As we drove along,

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what I first assumed was a large
black trash bag flew out of the back

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of it and went straight up in
the air. Most trash when it flies

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out the back of a truck will
do that, so I gave it very

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little thought, and then it started
gliding straight toward our little Toyota Corolla.

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As it got closer and it grew
bigger, I began to realize that this

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was no trash bag. It had
wings that were spread out, but they

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weren't flapping, which made me wonder
if this was someone on a glider.

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It continued to move even closer,
and as it did so, it began

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to lose its altitude. Now it
was flying so low, and I thought

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it was going to land on our
car. I was so sure of this

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that I quickly closed the window in
the sunroof. This thing reminded me of

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the creature from the movie Jeepers Creepers, and as low as it was flying

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and as close to us as it
came, it should have landed on our

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are I honestly don't know how it
didn't. And as soon as it passed

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over us, I looked in the
rear view mirror to see where it had

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gone, but it wasn't there.
I reopened the sunroof and I looked up.

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It wasn't over us either. It
had disappeared. I looked over at

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my daughter and I realized that she
was doing the same thing. She turned

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all the way around in her seat
looking for it. Neither of us said

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a word. I wasn't about to
stop the car, so I kept my

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eyes on the road and kept moving
forward. We'd gone a mile or two

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before I finally spoke up, did
you see that? Oh my god,

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what the hell was that thing?
My daughter interrupted before I could finish my

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question. I don't know, I
cried. We were both completely freaked out

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by what we'd seen, and neither
of us could identify. It didn't look

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like a bird, and it didn't
fit the description of a moth man.

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It appeared to have burlap and leathery
wings, and it had a humanoid head.

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There was no beat, no feathers, and no glowing eyes. It

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was completely blended together, like it
was a single entity and not a person

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on a glider. If I had
been alone, I would have said it

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was all my imagination, it was
a trick of the sun, or a

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product of watching too many scary movies. But I wasn't alone. My daughter

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was there too, and neither one
of us to this day can explain what

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we saw. Oh my gosh,
that creature in Jeepers Creepers might be the

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scariest imaginary creature Hollywood has ever come
up with. And why in the world

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did you open that sunroof? This
is like a horror movie. It's like

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in a horror movie, you always
tell the people don't go on that closet,

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don't open that door, don't walk
down that hall. And this woman

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opens her sunroof thinking this thing is
on the roof. Lady, are you

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crazy? I'm just kidding. I
may have opened the sunroof too, I

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don't know, but oh, what
a creepy story. This was so good.

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I really appreciate the person who sent
it. Thank you very much.

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Hey, guys, welcome to the
Dixie Crypted Podcast. I've got six I

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think that's right, six stories in
this video, and I hope you guys

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enjoy it. Three of the stories
are the stories that I uploaded last week

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that we're in an artificial intelligence voice. I was just kind of playing around

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with it, but I promised the
people who sent the stories that I would

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read them in my own voice,
and that's what I've done. So you

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may have heard three of these,
but there's three you haven't. I don't

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know what order they're going to be
in, but I hope you enjoy this.

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Let's get on with it all,
right, here we go. This

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is a story from uper why O
O Peer from the up of Michigan Upper

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Peninsula. This is one of the
stories I did in Artificial Intelligence a few

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days ago, So I'm gonna be
I'm going to drop those three stories in

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this podcast. In the mid two
thousands, my friend Eli bought a new

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video camera. He was around twelve
years old and he was eager to put

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it to good use. His camera
was not nearly the same quality as the

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ones on the market today, and
it was definitely not user friendly, especially

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when filming something without benefit of a
second pair of hands. Eli lived way

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out in a rural area. There
was a clearing nearest home that was overgrown

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with tall grass and weeds. He
was typical of a country boy his age,

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and he wanted to film himself on
his four wheeler. Eli set up

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his camera on a tripod at a
safe distance and jumped on his ATV and

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he began doing a series of reckless
stunts, the more dangerous the better.

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He was a beginner as a budding
film director and he didn't always capture him

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self perfectly in the frame. But
when he was done, he took the

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shot footage back to his house to
pull it up on his computer and review

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his movie making skills. Watching the
videos he took that day, something unexpected

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appeared in several of the frames,
and what he saw shocked him. The

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footage showed Eli on his ATV performing
several stunts, and suddenly, in the

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background, in the dead center,
a dark figure walking on two legs rose

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up from behind a tree and walked
into the forest. It was hesitant in

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its movements, as if waiting for
Eli's attention to be drawn away so it

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could escape undetected. Eli posted it
to YouTube and the video got ridiculed and

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labeled as a fate. The haters
and nonbelievers suggested a number of scenarios on

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how Eli used everything from camera angles, a gorilla suit, and even photo

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shopping the image. November fifteenth is
a holiday in Michigan. It's the opening

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day of the state's firearm deer season. Schools close and families get together for

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the annual tradition of deer hunting.
A friend of ours named Jimmy. He

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was a sixteen year old man child
who stood six foot two and weighed two

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hundred pounds, and he was eager
to get out well before daybreak and park

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his truck and begin a mile long
trek to his deer blind, which was

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really more of a shack with windows
and a door. Was a shooting house.

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He had been regularly placing deer bait
in front of it to bring the

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deer out. Jimmy was sixty yards
from his blind when he heard something off

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to his right. What he saw
would seriously change his attitude toward hunting in

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general. He panned his flashlight in
the direction of the disturbance, and he

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saw a huge figure moving quickly through
the trees. He didn't glimpse any defining

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features beyond its enormous, brown haired
back. He later described it like a

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freight train barreling through the woods.
But whatever it was, it freaked him

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out. Too scared to run back
to his truck, he instead headed to

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his blind and quickly locked the door
behind him. He dropped to the floor

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and hid there until dawn. Once
the first rays of sunlight began streaming through

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the cracks of the dear blind,
Jimmy wrenched open the door and he raced

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to his truck as fast as he
could, never daring once to stop and

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look behind him. No opening morning
of deer hunting season was going to ever

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bring him anywhere near that place again, even if we agreed to travel back

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there with him. Like me,
Eli and the rest of our friends,

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Jimmy grew up in the sticks,
and he swears that what he witnessed wasn't

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a bear or like anything he had
ever seen before out in those woods,

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and for me, I believe him. Here is a story about an unknown

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creature. I don't know what this
is. You guys are just going to

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have to hear the story and decide
for yourself, But let's read it.

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When I was fourteen, my dad
would drive me out to my friend's house

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to play airsoft in the woods near
Wells, Maine. We would go into

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the woods behind the sand pit that
was right behind his house, where we'd

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built a pretty decent fort that was
surrounded by a knee high wall. Inside

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the fort, we'd made foxholes and
we had a fire pit in the middle.

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We had a lot of fun spending
nights out there and doing the stupid

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things that kids do, like shooting
each other with our air guns and throwing

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CO two canisters in the fire.
On more than one occasion, we spent

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the whole night huddled up by the
fire. We were freezing and waiting for

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the sun to come up and thaw
us out. My friend Greg. He

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and I had been at the Sea
Cadet program together for several years. The

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Sea Cadets as a youth program of
the Navy that was similar to the Boy's

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Scouts. He would later serve several
years in the military. He was a

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no nonsense person and that kind of
guy, and you could trust your life

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with him. That's only one reason
why I ended up believing him when he

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told me the story. On one
of the occasions, when we were hanging

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out in our fort with a few
of our friends, we decided to do

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a night maneuver operation. At that
age, darkness was our friend, or

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so we thought. Darkness is never
your friend, though. It creeps over

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the woods and it puts an extra
blanket of protection on those things that can

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hurt you, while leaving mere humans
more vulnerable and in greater danger. During

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our operation, my squad was in
charge of guarding the fort while Greg and

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his squad spread out and they went
around the sandpit and then circled back to

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try to lay waste to our defense. It was just me and my other

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friend and we were sitting there waiting
for quite a while. We knew it

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would take Greg and his squad a
little time to circle around the sand pit.

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I was in the forward foxhole,
but something drew my attention to the

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rear. I looked back, and
I saw what looked like a human being

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crawling over the knee wall at the
back of the fort. It was too

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dark to make out who it was, but when it stood up, I

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decided that it couldn't beat Greg.
It didn't look right. Its arms were

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too long for its body, and
as I watched, it stood there and

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silently watched back. I didn't move
or speak a word, and neither did

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this thing. Eventually, it dropped
back down on all fours, and it

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silently moved off into the woods.
I never once believed it was Greg.

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It didn't match his silhouette, and
nor did I think it was any of

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the other kids that we were out
there with. That's why I never raised

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my air gun and shot at it. Several long minutes later, we heard

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Greg in his group walking down the
path from the sand pit. The game

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continued, and I pushed the incident
to the back of my mind. Sometime

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later, Greg came to me with
a drawing he'd made it was a black

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humanoid figure with what looked like dreadlocks
hanging off the back of its head.

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He said he'd seen it in the
woods. Well I didn't believe him,

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but Greg wasn't the kind of makeup
stories, and besides, I was reminded

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of something I'd seen crawling over the
knee wall. How could I deny Greg's

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story when I had one of my
own. I asked him then if he

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or any of the others were trying
to pull a prank on us that night,

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and he swore that it wasn't him
or anyone else in his group.

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Over the years, I've asked him
several more times, thinking maybe with time

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he would admit it was a joke. But he's never changed his story,

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and neither has he ever changed his
story about the thing he drew in the

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pit picture. I don't know what
lives around Wells Main. It's an isolated

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spot with places that only ten people
in a hundred would ever explore. The

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forests go for miles. I live
in Michigan now and I work with the

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Coast Guard. I don't get back
there much, but sometimes late at night,

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when I'm alone, I can't help
but wonder what I saw crawl over

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the knee wall that night, and
if it was the same thing Gregg had

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drawn in that picture, Oh my
gosh, what a creepy story. This

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was so good. Thank you.
Let's see the writer's name is Landed,

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and he said it was okay to
use his name. This was a great

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story. I can almost see that
in my mind, this kind of creepy

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thing coming coming over a knee wall
and kind of moving around and then going

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back. Is that creep y'all out
as much as it does me? Who

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that's weird? Thanks Landing for the
story. You to man. The woman

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who sent this email is anonymous.
And this is another one of the stories

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that was in the AI version I
put out a few days ago. So

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I'm going to redo it in my
voice because it's a pretty cool story.

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All right. Here we go.
Not long ago, my husband and I

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purchased a small log cabin that sits
on ten and a half acres of land

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in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
We're working to restore the property and bring

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it back to its former glory.
It faces a small pond and we can

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see a few neighbors in that direction. Other than that, we are surrounded

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by densely forested state owned land.
It's isolated, but it's the kind of

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seclusion that induces peace and tranquility.
I was sitting out on the open porch

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enjoying the tall glass of iced tea
one day when I saw something directly ahead

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of me that looked like a massive
iridescent bubble floating about fifteen feet off the

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ground. It was moving slowly into
the thick forest and changing shapes and configuration

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as it was doing so, I
wasn't sure what I was looking at.

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After watching it for several minutes and
marveling at how beautiful it looked, I

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chalked it up to being some sort
of weird natural phenomenon and I went back

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inside. Later, we were putting
together our log bedroom set in the small

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back bedroom when I was overwhelmed with
a feeling of being watched and it raised

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goose bumps all over my body.
I looked out the two side by side

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windows and I saw a gray,
human looking creature with a large elongated head.

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It had two black oval eyes and
no eyelids, staring back at me

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where it snows should have been.
It had two small slits, but I

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couldn't see its mouth. We had
a hundred gallon propane tank right outside the

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window that wasn't hooked up yet,
and the creature was standing behind it.

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The tank was four and a half
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fingers stretched out across the tank,
and it was craning its neck to look

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over the tank so it could watch
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it ducked down behind the tank and
out of sight. I ran to

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the window, but it was gone. It was mid morning on a clear

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day. There was no way I
must took what I was seeing. I

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reached the window in plenty of time
to see any human that might have been

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out there before, they could have
disappeared into the woods. But this thing,

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it was gone. I've never had
an experience like this before. It

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isn't a story that I share with
anyone who knows me. I wasn't frightened

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by what I saw. In fact, I was probably as curious about it

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as it was about me. But
I sure would like to know what it

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was. Does anyone in your audience
have any ideas? Okay, here's the

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last story that I did and the
artificial intelligence voice cloning thing I wanted to

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do it my own voice, and
here it is. There is no name

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for this email. Might have an
email address, but not a name,

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so I don't know if that ever
matters to y'all. Probably not, but

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always feel like I need to say
it. So whatever, anybody, here's

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what this person writes. It's a
bigfoot story. I've always had a recurring

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dream where I was being pursued by
what I don't know. Always managed to

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out run it and wake up before
whatever it was had me cornered. It

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was really unsettling. I couldn't remember
if any of my friends were in the

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dream. Maybe they were the ones
who got caught while I was escaping.

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It's like the joke when you're in
the water with a buddy and a shark

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attacks. You know you don't have
to outswim the shark, just the other

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guy. One week end, a
couple of my friends and I were hiking.

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It was autumn and the ground was
heavy with fallen leaves, the kind

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that drive quickly and crunch under your
feet as you make your way down the

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trail. Sometimes you can't tell the
sounds of the outdoors from the sounds of

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your friends as they laugh at dumb
jokes and struggle to maintain a heart healthy

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walking pace through the woods, and
we were oblivious to everything else. We

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hike for hours, so we stopped
by a tree for a rest. It

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was getting dark and we didn't have
the energy to make the long trek back

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to the car, so we decided
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We told more dumb jokes and we
laughed until we each started to drop off

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to sleep. But that was when
I heard something rustling around out in the

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dark. I grabbed my flashlight out
of my backpack and I swept the light

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being back and forth into the darkness. But I didn't see anything, and

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the noise stopped, which only put
me on edge. I made one more

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sweep of the area with my flashlight
and that's when I saw it. It

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looked like something half human on all
fours with its high end up in the

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air. I couldn't tell if it
was wearing a black suit or if its

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entire body was covered with coarse hair. I flashed my light back at my

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friends just to see if any of
them were awake and seeing what I was

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seeing, they were still snoozing and
totally unaware. Suddenly I heard this horrible,

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demonic roar, like something out of
that movie The Conjuring. I spun

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around with my flashlight. There it
was some sort of animal who was standing

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upright on two legs like a man. I ran my light up its body

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all the way to its head.
It must have been eight feet tall.

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My friends were now wide awake and
scrambling, every man for himself as we

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ran back to the trail. After
ten minutes of total panic, we finally

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ran out of breath and I sat
down by a big rock. We realized

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we'd left our wallets behind with our
hiking gear, so we voted to wait

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until daybreak took go back. I
kept aiming the flashlight into the night,

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but it appeared that our monster friend
hadn't followed us. Maybe he was as

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afraid of us as we were of
him. We could only hope. When

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the sun came up, we went
back and recovered our things. Our backpacks

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smell like sewage. When we got
back to the car, I threw everybody's

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gear in the truck and I left
my backpack outside in the rain for weeks

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before I finally broke down and took
everything to the laundry map. I didn't

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want to contaminate my own washer.
It goes without saying that no one believed

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our story, but at least I
knew that unlike my dream, in real

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life, all of us got away. Okay, that's the last story I

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did in the AI voice that I
cloned on that little trial subscription that I

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did with an AI voiceover website or
whatever it is. I think there's great

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possibility with AI, and look y'all, we have to roll with the times,

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especially as a creator. But I
don't think the AI is there yet.

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Obviously they they can't totally replicate the
human emotion that goes into reading one

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of these stories. Now, you
know, I've heard narrators before. I'm

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talking about audiobooks and even on some
YouTube channels, not YouTube channels that do

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what we do, these creepy stories
and things. But like i'd like to

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give you some examples, but I
don't want to talk about I don't want

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to talk bad about other YouTube channels
because they're actually pretty good. I think

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to be able to make a story
come to life, a human needs to

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get into the story. You can
just be reading words. You have to

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be able to comprehend what you're reading
and know where the story is going,

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and be able to emphasize specific words
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Now, Hell, guys, look, I am absolutely no expert in

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this, and I've said it a
hundred times. I'm not a good voice

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actor or narrator. But I can
read these stories pretty good. And I'm

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quite average or below average on audiobook
stuff, so I kind of consider myself

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a proficient what's the word vocal reader? You know, I'm I'm fairly proficient

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at that. I don't do voices
very well. I don't do I actually

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auditioned for an audiobook just randomly on
ACX, and the guy wrote me back.

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It was kind of a it wasn't
a horror thing, but it was

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it's kind of a dark, kind
of a dark theme to the book.

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And it was a set of short
stories, is what it was. And

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he wrote me back and he said, you just you are not able to

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sound menacing or dark? Are you? You can't do it. It's like

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your personality, you can't. And
I don't know, I don't I'm not

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sure what he meant. But a
few weeks later I was listening to some

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other audio book narrators and I finally
got what he said, and I don't

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know, even if it's a scary
story. Sometimes I read it kind of

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in a happy voice. But that's
the way I feel all the time.

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I'm always happy, so my voice
and my reading it kind of comes through

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in my reading. Anyway. I'm
just rambling on. But talking about the

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AI, I want to let you
know I'm not going to use that for

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anything on this podcast. I think
there's a place for it, and I

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think if we give the AI creators
to the people who are programming this stuff

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another year or two to really refine
what they've done, probably in the future

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ninety percent of the audio books you
listen to will just be people copying and

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entering text into some software and allowing
the software to read the book. They'll

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take the MP three files that they
get from that and they'll upload them as

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audio books. I think that's what's
coming, and I don't think that's necessarily

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a good or bad thing. It's
just the way technology is taking us.

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So you have to be you know, we have to be able to adapt,

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especially as creators and listeners and lovers
of the spoken story, to kind

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of adapt to that. But I
have a feeling in the next couple of

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years, you may not be able
to tell if the reader or narrator is

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a machine or a person. And
some people say that scary, and some

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people say it's I don't know,
it's pretty cool. I think it's pretty

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cool. So I guess that's about
all I have to say for that.

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There was something else on my mind
I was gonna say, and it's completely

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gone, squirrel. I'll tell you
one thing about this AI. What the

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cloning service did was it took my
voice, my tenor and my bass and

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the way my voice sounds, and
they put a Midwestern accent on it.

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And all my life I've been you
know, people who live in the South.

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When they're around other people who don't
have our accent, some of us

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are a little, i don't know, maybe a little self conscious. Some

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people aren't, but some people are. I've never been really self conscious,

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but I'm aware that my accent is
different because well, I'll tell you,

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when you're around people like from California
or not necessarily up north. Yeah,

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sometimes up north they'll comment on your
accent. They'll they'll they're not laughing at

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you, but they're kind of laughing
with you. And I have a customer

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in California, and one of the
secretaries told me, they said, when

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you call sometimes we get we put
you on speakerphone, and we have people

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that will stand around just to listen
to your accent. And I'm like what,

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and she goes, oh, yeah, we love it. We love

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your accent. We don't know anyone
who talks like you do anyway. All

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that to say, they put a
Midwestern accent on my clone. And I

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have never been so happy in my
life to have the Southern accent that I

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really can't shake. Listening to my
voice in a Midwestern accent makes me cringe.

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And it's sixty years old, and
it's the first time I've ever thought

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about it, but it's true.
I like my Southern accent. I think

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I'm gonna keep it. Come on, y'all, all right, let's go

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to another story. No name with
this email, but it don't matter,

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because here we go. I'm originally
from the cornfields of southwestern Ohio. I've

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never considered myself to be superstitious or
even a believer in the phenomenon of sasquatch.

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This was my attitude when I moved
to a rural southeastern town twenty one

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miles from the banks of the Ohio
River. I do a lot of catfishing

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on those banks and quite a bit
of deer hunting. Two On the first

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day of deer season in twenty twenty
one, I was invited to a hunt

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on a private parcel of land and
shade a small town near my home.

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There were two of us hunting that
day. We got into the woods at

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three pm. They were alive with
the wildlife activity. Birds were singing and

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squirrels were chattering, and an occasional
rabbit, startled by our arrival, skittered

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off into the underbrush. I settled
into my ground blind three hundred yards up

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a ridge from my partner, and
I got comfortable. It was a kind

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of peaceful afternoon. Anyone who loves
being in the outdoors lifts four. At

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four fifty, the sun was beginning
to set and dusk was falling. In

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the distance, I heard a faint
whoop come from directly ahead of me down

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the valley. I guessed it was
about one hundred and thirty yards away.

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At that moment, a deer came
crashing through the brush, and it was

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panting and its mouth hung open,
and she looked like she'd been running for

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her life. I decided to put
my range finders on her to see if

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I could locate exactly what had that
poor girl so distraught. As I lifted

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range finder, the world went still
and the deer was frozen in place.

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Silence swept through the valley and washed
over the ridge, bringing the hairs on

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my arms to stand up. It
was as if all the energy around me

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was being pulled out and drawn to
one spot thirty yards away, at the

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fence line, there was something moving
coming toward me, like a bulldozer crashing

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through the woods. It stepped from
the tree line and dropped to all fours,

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and in one motion it had the
dough in its grip. And in

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all of my thirty five years,
I've never seen anything with such power and

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such force, and one single effort
move and snap a deer's neck. The

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shock of what I was wittinges seeing
left me weak and terrified, and I

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struggled to control my nerves as it
laid its kill on the frozen ground and

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raised its head to lock eyes with
me. It glared at me with a

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malevolent anger, telling me with a
look that I was trespassing in its territory.

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My response was to unstrap the holster
on my four sixty Smith and Wesson

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and unzet my blind and run.
I left my bow behind, I left

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everything behind. The fear kicked in
my body, and I went in to

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overdrive. Even as a varsity football
player, I had never run as fast

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as I did that day. I
made it fifty yards when I heard it

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coming every fifteen to twenty seconds.
That led out an unholy growl, telling

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me it was there and pushing me
to run even faster. By the time

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I got to my friend's blind,
he was already running ahead of me.

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I saw my truck in the distance, and I managed to get the keys

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out of my pocket and hit the
automatic start button. As my friend reached

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the truck, I hit the unlocked
button as well, and I was right

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behind him. In that last second
before I got in, I turned in

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and saw it forty yards away.
I didn't waste another second. I threw

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the truck in dry and I pushed
all five hundred and fifty horsepower that Cummins

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engine for all it was worth.
We didn't slow down until we hit the

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main road. I'd be a liar
if I said there wasn't tears in my

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eyes. My only thought was that
I was never going to see my son

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again. From what I could see, the creature was covered in long,

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shaggy gray hair, and its head
was semicne shape, and the skin where

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I could see it was dark and
resembled tanned leather. I'd say it was

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nine feet tall with shoulders that were
four feet wide, and if I had

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to guess its weight, I'd say
it was eight hundred pounds. Its arms

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hung down past its knees, and
its biceps were enormous. It was not

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lacking muscle mass by any means.
I learned a lesson that day. There

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are things in this world that are
beyond the realm of thought and belief of

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most people. Maybe they don't want
to believe, maybe it's fear of ridicule

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fule, But I can tell you
this bigfoot exists in southeast Ohio, and

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they will hunt you, they will
prey on you, and they are the

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ultimate apex predator. I went into
the woods that day as a hunter,

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and I came out as the hunted
oh Man. That is like the uh,

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that's like the ultimate Bigfoot story.
This guy was chased. There's a

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lot of people who are gonna come
in. They're gonna say, well,

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he wasn't trying to kill you.
If he'd wanted to catch you. Heiter

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caught you. You got out because
he let you out. But you know,

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I always think that's a bunch of
bull because you never know what's going

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on in these situations. Maybe it
was a slow bigfoot. Maybe maybe they

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are just chasing people out. But
maybe they aren't the apex predator. Maybe

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we are the apex predator. Just
ask Steve Lily. Anyway, this was

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a great story, and it's um
it's always cool to read these stories where

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there's a face to face, almost
violent encounter and everybody loves he's including me,

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and I appreciate the man who sent
it. I don't have his name,

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I've got his email address. It's
really good, you know. If

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this is real, man, what
an experience. I don't think i'd ever

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be the same. Thank you for
the story. All right, I think

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that I'll wind it up. Thank
you all for hanging with me on this

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podcast. I hope you enjoyed it
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on the next one. Thanks,