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Hi, Cam, I hope this
finds you well. Your video the other

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day about the ghost in the kitchen
reminded me of the first ghost story I

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ever heard, told to me by
my mama when I was a little kid.

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She said it happened when her and
my papa recording sometime prior to nineteen

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thirty three, they were riding around
in her friend's car and they stopped at

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Montgomery Baptist Church, which is a
church out in the country in south west

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Lincoln County, Mississippi. The reason
they had given for stopping was to switch

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places in the car, but they
all hopped back in and drove off and

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left Mama standing on the west side
of the church watching them drive off in

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the distance. After a few minutes, an older lady emerged from the woods

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and asked her if she was okay. Mama said that she told the lady

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that she was fine and they were
just acting fools and that they would be

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back directly. Not long after that, she heard the car and turned to

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see them coming back for her,
and when she turned back around, the

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old woman was gone. She called
for her and got no answer. When

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Papa and their friends pulled back up, she told them about it, and

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they looked for the woman, and
they knocked on the church door, thinking

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she might have went inside, but
she was nowhere to be found. They

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asked Mama what the lady looked like, and she said the lady was thin

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and tall and had a black dress
on with a white bonnet. My Papa

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and his brothers were the grave diggers
for the cemetery across the road, and

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he said a lady fitting that description
was buried there last week. I forget

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the woman's name, but Mama later
saw a picture of her, and sure

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enough, it was that woman who
came up to her that day. In

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Mama's final years, she told us
that she saw people in her yard and

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that a little boy was among them
and told her that he needed a hat.

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She would sometimes leave one of Paupa's
hats on the porch table for him.

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Once I went by there late at
night and I saw Mama sitting on

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the porch with a light on.
Now, I walked back over and stayed

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out of sight and made my way
to the north corner of her house,

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where I could see her in what
she was doing. She was sitting there

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talking to someone that I couldn't see. Just the same as she would sit

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there and talk to me. And
since then, I've worked with other dementia

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patients, and I honestly believe that
our loved ones come back for us to

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lessen our fear about passing on.
I know everyone says that their stories are

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true. I believe some of these
stories are true because I have one of

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my own to tell you about Bigfoot
and an encounter that I had. I

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was five years old when this story
took place. Yes, I can remember

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things from that age because it still
haunts me to this day. At the

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time, I had never heard of
Bigfoot and I didn't know anything about them.

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My family and I were living with
my grandparents in their house in Porter,

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Texas, which is about thirty miles
north of Houston. This happened in

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nineteen sixty seven and there was a
population of maybe a little over three hundred

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people. We had no TV at
my grandparents at this time. All we

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had was a radio, so most
of the time we were outside playing.

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One night, we were all sitting
in the living room listening to my Papa

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play as harmonica and I had to
go to the bathroom. Well, I

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went in and did my business and
as I was about to leave the restroom,

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I heard a noise at the window, which was to my left.

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I had to look up to see
the window because it was taller than I

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was. When I looked up,
I saw a giant harry face looking back

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at me through the window. Well. I screamed as loud as I could,

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and everyone came running to see what
had happened. I told them that

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there was someone looking at me in
the window, and my papa and my

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father my older brother, grabbed their
guns and ran out back to see whoever

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was outside. They came back after
a little while later and said that they

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didn't find anyone out there, and
I told them that there was someone there,

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but no one believed me. The
next morning, they took me outside

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and they said there was no way
anyone could have been looking through the window

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because it was too high for anyone
to look in unless they were standing on

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something to see, and there was
nothing around for anyone to stand on.

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There were no footprints either. It
was built three house blocks high off the

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ground, which is pretty high,
and the window for the bathroom was another

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six feet higher than that from the
house blocks. I know what I saw

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that night, and it took me
a long time before I could go in

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that bathroom by myself again. I
remember the face that I saw that night.

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The window was like a medium sized
window, and the face covered almost

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the whole frame. Its face was
hairy, but not all of it was

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covered in hair. You could see
around its eyes and its forehead, and

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its nose was big, and it
was kind of fat, but not like

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a gorilla. The hair that I
saw looked dirty and matted, and its

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skin was dark, but I'm not
sure how dark it was because it was

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nighttime. Then in nineteen seventy six, my Papa passed away. He passed

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away in that same bathroom that I
had seen the face in the window.

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Everyone thought that he had had a
heart attack. A couple of days later,

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I overheard my grandmother telling my mother
that the corner said that he did

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not die of a heart attack,
and that his heart was fine, and

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he said that he had been scared
to death. So I knew that Bigfoot

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had come back to the house.
And I am now sixty years old.

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I do not tell any one my
story because I was made fun of as a teenager