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We started to hear this strange noise, you know, noise we had never

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heard before. It's hard to compare
the noise to anything. Give me an

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idea how loud this thing was.
I didn't. It didn't come into my

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view for about five total mounts did
the lights on the outside of the garage.

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I could see down into the cornfield. I couldn't tell what it was.

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You know, if you look at
a lobster, how that had like

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those long, like whisker things coming
out. He had. He had a

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couple of those too, And when
he got into my garage, we have

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four or five exposed light bulbs that
were pretty bright. It must have scared

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him or he lost control, and
he just started slamming up and down into

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the ceiling of my garage. Instantly
we knew something was wrong, and we

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ran right into the house because as
soon as he started hitting the ceiling,

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you could hear that this thing had
weight behind it, so you could hear

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the force of it just crashing into
the ceiling. So we ran into the

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house. I was scared to open
the garage door again. But I should

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have opened the garage door, and
I should have closed I should have tried

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to trap this thing in my garage
just to shows someone, you know,

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or to capture it somehow. But
I you know, I was only like

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twenty two at the time when this
happened. Just with everything that was going

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on, maybe I was just a
little scrambled and it just didn't run my

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mind until the next day. Man, Tommy, you've got a story unlike

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any I've ever heard before. This
isn't a Bigfoot story. Let's just get

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right into it. Man, I'm
ready to talk about this. I have

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never ever heard of anything. I'm
sitting here trying to think of anybody that

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I've talked to that has told me
something like this, But I'm just drawing

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up a blank. I have never
heard anything like this. So if you

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don't mind, just start back over
from the top and tell us what happened.

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Okay, about fifteen years ago,
I was hanging out with one of

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my he was my best friend at
the time. His name was Steve.

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We were listening to music and my
garage and you know, we were listening

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to music during the day. It
was later in the evening, so the

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sun was starting to go down,
and after the sun had pretty much completely

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set and it was dark we started
to hear this strange noise. You noise

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we had never heard before. It's
hard to compare the noise to anything.

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I guess now, knowing what I
know, it would be some type of

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wings or a flapping sound. And
about give me an idea how loud this

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thing was, I didn't. It
didn't come into my view for about five

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total minutes. So I did the
lights on the outside of the garage.

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I could see down into the cornfield
that was across the road, and I

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could see that whatever was making the
noise was flying in a straight line to

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my garage, and I couldn't tell
what it was. I I knew it

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wasn't an owl or a bird or
anything like that, because it was like

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it was on a string, because
it stayed in one one straight line all

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the way, never went like he
never bobbed at the left or right,

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up or down. He stayed right
where he was and he flew up.

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And by the time he had got
to my garage, me and my friend

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had both realized that it was an
insect of some type, but a very

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large insect. He was about the
size of a regular NFL football. He

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was actually probably just a little bit
bigger than that if we're excluding his wings

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and his little legs or appendages that
were hanging off of his body. And

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he had like a design on his
body. Like I said, I'll do

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my best to draw you a picture
of the design. He had like rings

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or stripes that went around like his
abdomen or but and his eyes were black.

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They were a little bit, uh, a little bit bigger in a

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marble. Another thing I forgot to
mention too, like you know, if

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you look at a lobster, how
they had like those long like whisker things

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coming out. Yeah, he had
he had a couple of those too.

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When uh, and when he got
into my garage, we have four or

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five exposed light bulbs that were pretty
bright. He just it must have scared

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him or he lost control, and
he just started slamming up and down into

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the ceiling of my garage. And
instantly we knew something was wrong, and

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we ran right into the house because
as soon as he started hitting the ceiling,

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you could hear that this thing had
weight behind it, so you could

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hear the force of it just crashing
into the ceiling. So we ran into

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the house. You know, we
talked about it for a few moments,

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his mother called him and you know, said she was passing my road and

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if he wanted to ride home,
you know, he better be ready and

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you know, come out. And
so when he went out and got in

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his mother's truck, his mom said, hey, and I forgot to mention

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when we went inside, I turned
off the garage lights, so now it's

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pitch black outside. So when she
pulled up in her truck and my friend

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had gotten in the truck, now
they were watching this thing in the headlights

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and it was just flying around,
and his mom made a comment like,

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oh wow, it's you know,
what's that weird bird flying around in you

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know, Tommy's garage, and my
friend tried to explain to her that it

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was some type of bug. They
left, and then shortly after I'd say

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twenty to thirty minutes no longer,
one of my other friends, Dustin,

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had stopped over, and I walked
out my front door and I got into

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his truck and it was the same
situations. The lights were still off.

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So now I'm looking at this thing
through the headlights and it's you know,

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it's some type of massive moth or
some type of strange insect that we've never

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seen before, never seen since,
and it was flying around and going crazy.

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My friend Dustin only you know,
we only sat out there for maybe

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five or ten minutes, and we
talked about it and he had to go

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home, so he left and was
scared of the thing. So I ran

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into my front door. And that's
basically, you know, the whole story.

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It's a short run one and earlier. My only regret was just because

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I wasn't thinking straight at this moment. I should have opened I was scared

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to open the garage door again.
But I should have opened the garage door

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and I should have closed. I
should have tried to trap this thing in

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my garage just it just shows someone, you know, or to capture it

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somehow. But I you know,
I was only like twenty two at the

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time when this happened, so idiot, you know, young man, and

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just with everything that was going on, maybe I was just a little scrambled

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and it just didn't run my mind
until the next day. People that know

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me know that this may be kind
of silly. I have a slight not

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a phobia, but I'm afraid of
birds, Like I don't like to be

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like close to birds and it's all
based on there's been a few times a

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bird has like gotten inside my home
and been freaking out, flying around,

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slamming into stuff, and that has
just always freaked me out. And what

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you're describing as like drumming up those
feelings of fear, I would have been

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freaking out, dude. I mean
we were talking about it. I'm in

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Oklahoma. Our climate downe here a
little bit warmer than where you're at typically,

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and we've got a lot of bugs. We've got some really big bugs,

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but nothing anywhere close to what you're
describing the size of what you're describing.

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Yeah, And I think it's worth
mentioning too that he didn't he didn't

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fly very fast either. This was
until he got into the garage. When

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he got into the light, he
sped up quite a bit. But this

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was in like the first, i
want to say, the first two weeks

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of October. So you weren't in
upstate New York. You're not seeing bugs

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flying around in October. You're really
not. I mean maybe like some of

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the leftover like lady bugs and you
know, the wood bugs and crap,

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but yeah, uh yeah, nothing
like this. And like I said,

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I also, you know, I
used the Internet and a couple of books.

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I you know, looked at the
biggest insects around. I checked all

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the surrounding states, and nothing even
you know, close the best you can

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kind of give a detailed description of
what it looked like as much, you

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know, as much as you were
able to see. You were talking about

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the legs hanging down and stuff like
that, Like what were the wing shaped

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like things like that. Okay,
his wings were kind of flapping really fast,

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It's like, so that was probably
the part I didn't get the greatest

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look at. Okay, So the
legs that were hanging have you ever seen

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like a picture of like a blown
up flea, yeah, or something like

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that. It looked like that,
Like it looked like those type of legs.

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And its body was either white brown
or a grayish color. And he

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had like rings around his like his
body he had like these, Uh,

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it was a different it was the
same color, but it was like a

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different shade. So he had some
type of pattern or design on him.

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His eyes were all black. They
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marble, but like a bigger one, like a good size marble. Yeah,

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and then he had kind of like
those weird I don't know if they're

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called whispers, but like if you're
looking at like a like a crab or

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a lot I think a lobster.
Actually, you know they have those whisker

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things. He had like a couple
of those. They were gray too,

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you know, that match the rest
of his body. Did it look like

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just a typical moth except larger.
It's so hard to describe because when you

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see when you when you think of
a moth, you think that they're just

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kind of flat, you know what
I mean. Yeah, So, so

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it wasn't flat. It was like
it was rounded and fat somehow, you

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know, Like it was more so
so picture like a moth, but in

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the shape of like one of those
fuzzy bumble bees. Yeah. I was

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getting ready to say, so it's
body was shaped more like a B type

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insect. Yeah, and just the
size of it, you know, we

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didn't couldn't tell what type of insect
it was. We both instantly ran in

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the house and because I was like, we were both thinking, like this

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thing could either like suck your blood
or even if it couldn't, if it

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bit you looked like it would hurt
a lot. Yeah, I mean if

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it's a biting insect or a stinging
insect that size. Ain't no way,

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man, I'm not hanging around to
find out you were you were talking about

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whenever it was like flapping around and
like hitting the ceiling and stuff like dust

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was falling off of it. Yeah, So I don't know if And that's

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why where I came up with these
little theories. Possibly where it came from.

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Like I said, we could hear
it for five minutes before it came

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into view, so it must have
come from the forest there the tree line

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past the cornfield that was across from
my house. So when he got up

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to the garage, he was banging
on the ceiling of my garage and there

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was a I don't know if it
was the brownish grayish color, but just

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for the first car. I don't
know if it continued to happen, but

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what we saw when he was hitting
the ceiling, there was debris like dust

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just raining off of him. Yeah, like moths have like that dust on

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their wings. I wonder if it
could have been that or if it was

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like dirt or something. And the
only theory like when me and my friend

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lie inside like we were, you
know what the with that, and in

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my the only two theories I could
think was, like, is this some

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thing that's been burrowed in the ground
for God only knows how long, and

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you know, and I don't know
why it would choose a cold time like

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October to come up, or maybe
it you know, maybe it didn't come

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up on its own, or maybe
the tree it was or I thought maybe

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another theory was that could have lived
inside of a tree and maybe that tree

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just got like really old and decayed
and it had to fly out. But

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when it flew out, you know, it saw all the lights at my

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house and it just made a straight
line right right for the lights. I

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saw an article today, as a
matter of fact, that was talking about

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some cicada that hasn't been seen since
some crazy amount of time, you know,

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because like certain insects, especially cicadas, will like be buried underground basically

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and they'll come up, like I
think here in Oklahoma we have one that

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comes up every seven years out of
the ground or something crazy like that.

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So I mean, your theory about
like it possibly being something that was burrowed

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underground for a long time and just
came up, I mean, that's definitely

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a possibility. You've obviously never heard
anybody else in your area talk about anything

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like this before. Oh yeah,
no, And everybody I told, like,

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you know, a couple of my
close friends believe me, but basically

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everyone laughs at me when I tell
them. They just you know, they

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laughed. This happened. You originally
told me what fifteen years ago? About?

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Yeah, about fifteen to sixteen years
ago. I want, probably closer

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to fifteen years ago. I assuming
that amount of time, you've you know,

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scoured the Internet and everything trying to
figure out what this thing was.

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Yeah. And another thing that I'd
like to mention too, I was I've

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always been sessed with, you know, cryptozoology, the supernatural and paranormal,

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so you know, just seeing something
like that and then having nothing to go

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off it was very weird. Do
you remember that one website, American Monsters.

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Yeah? I love that website.
Yeah. Yeah, speaking of that,

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I actually met the people that ran
that website. I bumped it.

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I was skateboarding at a Blockbuster parking
lot. I saw the hairy hommetted sticker

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on a jeep and I walked over
and it was actually those guys that ran

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the website. Oh wow, I
mean those are like ogs of the cryptid

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world, you know. Yeah,
such a weird coincidence. I was like,

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wow, look at I was like, I never meet other fans of

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stuff like this, and I went
and it was them, that's crazy.

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Do you have any theories or guesses
or anything about I mean, obviously it's

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some kind of giant flying insect.
Any ideas, Oh, honestly, like

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nothing. The closest thing I could
think of was just some type of uh

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uh, you know the moth that
time forgot, some kind of prehistoric moth

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or whatever. I mean, there's
those you know, stories of mon talk

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out there. Maybe it came from
there, like joking around. We've for

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the last like decade, we've joked
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moth. Yeah, that's crazy,
man. And then you know, other

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people were like, oh, you
know mathra, So you know we've that's

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and that's it. You know.
I've I've I looked into you know,

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a couple of books and the websites. I checked all the surrounding states for

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the largest moths, and they not
only were they not even the same color,

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but they were what you'd expect and
you'd see a giant moth. They

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were like, you know, almost
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Yeah. Yeah, They're kind of
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and flatten themselves out against it and
blend in. And you know what,

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even though this one was rounded and
had more of a shape of like one

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of those fuzzy bumblebees, the color
he was. I mean, I'm telling

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you right now, if he like
landed on a tree and didn't move,

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you'd never see it. Huh.
What condition was the cornfield in at the

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time you said this happened around October? I want to say that the cornfield

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had been caught. It had already
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we had talked about once was did
the and these guys, you know,

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they're very thorough about their work,
did the you know, NonStop noise of

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these giant tractors like disturb this thing. But but then at the same time,

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it's they do it at the same
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Yeah, so why would this one
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this thing up or make it angry
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you know, insects go through different
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a larval stage and stuff. So
like, if you're talking about like a

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moth type insect, was it at
one time a giant caterpillar or something?

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Maybe somebody has seen something else out
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different stage of life, you know, and maybe that's why nobody else has

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described what you're talking about. But
I mean, like I'm just racking my

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brain, man, Like I don't
get stumped on cryptids very often, and

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not very often do I run across
somebody that described seeing something that I've never

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heard anybody else talk about. Another
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another regret that I'm having now is
besides you know, trying to close

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the garage door and capturing it,
I should have it wasn't my property.

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But I'm pretty sure I could have
got away with going down there. I

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should have went down there, like
with a strong flashlight, and I should

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have looked to see if there is
any type of like shell, you know,

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that it came out of, or
any odd holes in the ground or

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anything. But like I said,
I was twenty two. I was not

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the person I am now, that's
for sure. I mean, there's no

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time where it came from either,
So you probably wouldn't have found anything,

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But yeah, I know what you
mean, especially now that you're sitting here

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fifteen years later, still talking about
it and still know we're closer to figuring

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out what it was than the night
you saw it. Yeah. And if

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I called up, like right now, if I called up my you know,

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my buddy that was in the garage
with me when it happened, I

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did just say hey, remember you
know megam Off and Keith laugh, and

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he'd be, you know, be
like, yeah, damn right, I

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do. I mean, have you
talked to those guys about it over the

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years? Me and my friend Steve, Yeah, we've talked about it a

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couple of times. And then my
one friend Dustin who pulled in. I

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believe we've at least talked about it
once or twice. Not recently, but

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yeah, your friend's mother and this
guy Dustin both whenever they saw it flapping

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around inside your garage immediately associated with
being some sort of bird. Yeah.

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I mean that tells you, you
know, the size of the thing was

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way too big to be a bug. Yeah, well she said, you

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know it when my friend Dustin played, he said, hey, you got

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some kind of weird bird flying around
because he was like flying around the middle

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of the garage, so I could
see him in the headlights, and I

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could see his shadow on the back
of the wall, so I could tell

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he was a solid like chunky dude. And then, like I assume,

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the next day, it was just
gone. Yes, that's crazy, man.

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I wonder if anybody else saw it, and anybody that's listening, if

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you've seen a giant insect like this, you know, hit me up and

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tell me. I'd love to hear
about it, because this is something I

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don't know. This is something that
like cryptos will all just get really excited

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about, because while you're describing something
completely out of the ordinary and much too

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large to be anything that we know
about, you're also describing something that's like

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totally feasible, yeah, and could
very well be a real species and not

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just some folklore you know. Yeah, because it's not like, you know,

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it's not like its eyes were blawing
red and you know, shooting lasers,

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you know, and he acted very
much like an insect of the hack.

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You know, he got into the
lights, didn't know what to do,

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and bumped us out a bunch of
times. Well, have you experienced

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anything else in your lifetime. Any
paranormal events or UFOs or anything. No,

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nothing, just the giant attack of
the moth. Yeah, nothing,

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nothing with I mean, Bigfoot's always
been my favorite cryptid. When I was

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younger, my favorite cryptids are always
the Lake monsters. But as I got

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older, you know, I shifted
the big Foot. But I've never had

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any you know, UFO or like
paranormal ghost experiences or anything like that.

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Where do you think your interest in
this stuff came from when I was a

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young boy. And second, I
was in second grade when X Files started

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coming on TV. Yeah, and
my mother, So I would watch the

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X Files with my mother like when
it you know, we watched every episode

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as they aired. Same thing with
the Robert stack on Solved Mysteries. We

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watched all of those so I so
I loved all those the ghost ones.

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And I know they didn't do much
with Big Fat, but there were a

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couple of them. Yeah. And
then uh was it Tim White with Sightings?

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Yeah, Yeah, I loved I
loved Sighting. Sights was a great

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show. Man that that's a show
that doesn't get enough recognition, you know,

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it kind of gets overshadowed by like
Unsolved Mysteries, but Sightings was Sightings

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is way better in my opinion for
that type of stuff. I loved you

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are always you know, Unsolved Mysteries
is kind of a gamble because I'd watch

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it regardless. But you knew You're
something good was going to be on Sightings.

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Yeah, yeah, for sure,
they always had great stuff. Yeah.

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And then when Monster you know,
and then it was obviously years and

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years later when Monster Quest started,
I was like, wow, I can't

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believe, you know, the stuff's
popular at this point to where there's going

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to be multiple seasons of a show
like those. Yeah, and it's only

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gotten more popular over the years.
Now it's kind of its own thing.

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It's become part of pop culture and
gotten trendy in some ways. It's pretty

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crazy. Yeah, I agree.
Well, all right, man, I

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appreciate you sharing your story. Thank
you for listening. I wish I I

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wish I had some information give you
or help you out with on this one.

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Man. I'm sure it's really sucked, you know. Yeah. Yeah,

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I've been waiting to tell this one
for quite a while. Like I've

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only told you know, like my
wife and a couple of my close friends,

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and you know, I told the
kids, and that's pretty much a

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didn't you say you reached out to
Ken Gerhart? Yes, yes, I

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did. I just know he deals
with a lot of weird stuff. You

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know. I read Ken's book Flying
Humanoids in twenty fifteen, and so September

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thirty, ath twenty fifteen, I
wanted to tell him about it. And

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you know, this was on my
part. This was probably my fault that

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I never got to speak with him, because he did ask what was you

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know, what would be a good
time to call tomorrow, and I don't

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remember what was happening in my life
or what, you know, what was

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going on, and I just never
messaged him back. So that was actually

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on my end. Hey, it
happens. Yeah, and you know,

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maybe this was for the better,
you know, because I'm glad, you

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know, I listen to your show
every time you guys put out a new

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episode, So maybe this will be
for the better. Yeah, man,

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I appreciate you coming on. For
sure. I'm gonna be thinking about this

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one for the rest of the day
at least. Yeah, if you ever

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hear anything from anyone, make sure
you let me know. Yeah, for

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sure. And if you've seen a
giant moth Bigfoot or a lake monster,

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or anything at all that you can't
explain. Send me an email at Bigfoot

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Crossroads at gmail dot com. Check
out the website Bigfoot crossroads dot com.

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You can find links to old episodes, a contact form, everything you need,

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all in one place. And until
next time, remember there's something in

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the woods.

