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Now I went, what are you're
putting? I got a screen going on

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here. Something just became my dog. Something killed your dog, my dog.

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We're flying through the or over the
tread. I don't know how it

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did it, Okay, damn,
And I'm really confused now as I saw

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my dog coming over the fence,
and me was did when you hit the

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ground. I didn't see any car
and alls I saw was my dog coming

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over the fence. Why what are
you're putting? We got someone or something

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crawling around out here. You see
what it was? It was standing up

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here looking through the window now and
I don't see anything. I don't want

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to go outside. Jesus, point
by hello, get the Boddy out here.

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Nine. I don't know him out
there yet. Right out John was

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lying on his stomach, almost afraid
to peer over the large amount of dirty

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was hiding behind. Once he gathered
enough courage, he pulled out his binoculars

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and he could clearly see over to
their den. They held their noses in

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the air, and he knew that
they were trying to sniff him out.

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Their massive size made them easy to
see, but he still couldn't believe what

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he was seeing. How was this
real. How did they get here?

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Where did they come from? It
was almost as if he were looking at

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a science experiment going horribly wrong,
an average wolf filled with demons, and

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somehow they escaped from the lab,
a genetic mistake, and here he was

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looking at them. He knew that
there wasn't a lab that could create something

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like this. However, these creatures
were straight from the depths of hell.

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They were standing there on their back
legs, walking as if they were human.

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The firt was long on some but
short on the others. Their chests

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were broad, and they had long
torsos, and they had hands instead of

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pause. Except for their feet.
He noted that their feet were like those

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of actual dogs. They didn't all
look the same, though. Some reminded

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him of hyenas, and some were
just like werewolves he had seen in the

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movies as a kid, large protruding
snouts with jaws that opened, displaying razor

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sharp things that would strike fear into
anyone. This creature he was looking at

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was pure evil. He thought back
to all the encounters he had listened to,

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and he was completely understanding as to
why people would never go back into

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the woods. After seeing these things, he wondered to himself if he would

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after this. After all, he
and Marie had animals to harvest for their

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food. He didn't need to hunt
at all. Marie. His thoughts went

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to his dear sweet wife at that
very moment. I must survive this from

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Marie. She is my whole world
and me losing this battle against these hell

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beasts is not an option. He
turned from his position to look down below

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him. He hadn't heard anything creeping
up on him, but with these things,

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anything is possible. Why couldn't it
have been a big foot? Why

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did it have to be dog man
inhabiting these woods. He turned the volume

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down in his walkie so anything coming
through didn't alert them as to where he

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was, although he knew he already
did. They were just messing with him.

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John, come in, buddy,
Please tell me where you're at again,

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Mark said over the walkie. I
need to know exactly where you are

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so I can come help you.
John fumbled with his walkie. Even the

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slightest sound at the moment was too
loud. I'm right at the ridge line

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near the water. I hunkered down
behind a large mound of dirt. I

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can see them, Mark, The
sun is starting to set, and I

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need to get the hell out of
here, John whispered into his walkie.

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They know I'm here. There's no
way that they can't. I'm headed your

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way now, Bud. Don't move
unless it's an emergency. We can't risk

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you getting turned around and then getting
lost in these woods. That would be

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a fatal mistake. John replied.
I looked at Connie and Marie were both

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like fragile children standing in the kitchen, both on the verge of tears.

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I'm taking this walkie with me,
so I'm going to need both of you

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to trust me. I must be
able to communicate with John, but that

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means I won't be able to communicate
with either of you. I'm going out

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there to get John before it gets
any darker. Once complete nightfalls, he

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and I are both going to be
sitting ducks. The good news is that

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he didn't have to go in too
far before he found them. Connie walked

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over to me and hugged me sobbing. I love you Mark with every fiber

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of my being. Please come back
to us safely with John. I pulled

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away and smiled at her. I'll
do my level best. You know that,

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Marie stood up, not saying a
word. She didn't have to at

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this point. It was a make
or break situation. I knew that I

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had to get to John as well
as myself back in one piece. I

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ran to my truck and sped as
fast as I could. I saw John's

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truck and I parked off to the
side away behind him, and I ran

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the rest of the way in.
John, come in. I just made

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it to the woods, said,
are you still at the ridgeline? They're

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making the way into the woods now, mark. They're all disappearing in different

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directions. The sun was setting further
below the horizon, and I knew that

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I had to get to him quick. I started to make my way up

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to the water where he was at. I could hear far off noises,

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and I knew, based on what
he had just told me, it had

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to be the echoes of these dog
men walking. I saw John in the

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distance, and I mustered all the
strength that I had left in my legs

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to run up to him. Come
on, we've got to get out of

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here, I said breathlessly, as
I grabbed his shoulders to pull into his

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feet. I hear them walking,
and they're bound to get closer to us.

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As John stood up, his pack
got caught on a large branch.

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As he turned around to remove it
from the limb, the head of a

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dog man came up over the mount
of dirt. He and I were face

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to face with one of these hell
beasts. His head was large and its

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ears were pointed. Dark, sinister
red eyes bore holes into our souls.

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Saliva dripped from its fangs, and
blood covered the dark black fur around its

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face, and we could only assume
that they had had a recent hill.

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We were both frozen in fear.
What the hell do we do now?

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If we turned our backs on it, we were done. If we stay

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here, we faced the same fate. John was staggered just enough from me

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that I felt comfortable pulling my weapon. I slowly pulled my shotgun as this

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thing snarled and growled at every move
I made. My mouth was dry and

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my heart was in my throat.
I didn't know of me shooting. It

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was a good idea, but at
this point it was our only hope.

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At the very least, I would
injure the damn thing. I said a

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prayer under my breath and quickly raised
my weapon. The rest of the way

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and fired. My shot was a
direct hit right in the face of this

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dog man. It instantly fell backwards
and we could no longer see it.

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Not knowing if a shotgun blast to
the face would actually kill one of these

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creatures, we immediately took off,
running as fast as we could down the

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mountain to our trucks. Even though
our ears were ringing from the shotgun blast,

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we heard them all clambering behind us. The echo from the gun hadn't

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scared them off as I'd hoped.
It was almost as if it had called

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them in, and they were closing
in fast. We raced to the water,

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sliding across the slick rocks as we
crossed, and we both fell in

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with a splash. We quickly got
to our feet and made our way closer

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and closer to the exit of the
woods. John flew into this truck and

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I got into mine. We started
them at the same time, and as

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we turned on our bright lights we
saw them. Their eyes shine brighter than

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the moon, and their large,
ghastly figures outlined the trees. But they

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didn't come after us. For whatever
reason, they stopped. It was almost

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as if something were keeping them in
the woods. We certainly didn't stick around

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to find out. We raced backwards
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That way we could keep an eye
on them, just in case they came

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after us again. John and I
slammed our trucks into park and quickly made

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it inside. Connie Marie both gasped
when we came in. I'm sure we

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looked rough based on our ordeal.
I'm just glad we made it back at

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all. They helped us take off
our wet clothes that were covered in more

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than just water. If I'm being
honest. We both had blood on our

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faces from that shot that the dog
man took. The only thing that we

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knew to do then was to pace
the floor. We were two filled with

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adrenaline to sit down, calm down, or do anything else. We recounted

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everything to Connie Marie as best we
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coming out too quickly for them to
truly understand. We looked death right in

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the face tonight. John said,
shaking, I don't know if I'll ever

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go back in the woods again,
knowing these things are out there. Hell

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after that, we may even move. I know I've seen these things in

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the woods before, but I've never
seen more than one, and never that

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close. I feel bad for not
leaving beforehand, knowing what I know now,

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Marie gasped, maybe moving should be
a decision that's made when cooler heads

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prevailed. John, He took a
deep, ragged breath. When cooler heads

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prevail, Marie, John asked harshly, I was face to face with one

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of these damn monsters. Its breath
was a stinch you can't describe. Its

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eyes were red, and the teeth, the teeth. John couldn't go any

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further. He broke down. Then
Maurice sat down and held him as he

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cried. I knew in that moment
this was something that was going to take

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John a while to get over,
and he was right after seeing them that

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close in the woods, maybe we
should all move. It really was something

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of nightmares that we were face to
face with. Guys, you really don't

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understand. You two have seen it
from a distance. We were inches from

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this thing. There were at least
five of them in the woods, six

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counting the one that I shot.
But something strange happened when we were leaving,

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something I found very peculiar. We
turned on our lights and we started

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backing up, and they didn't come
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It was almost as if they couldn't
break some imaginary barrier. John pulled himself

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together and apologized for breaking down.
I knew it was hard for him,

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but I understand there's no need to
apologize, John, Connie said, but

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when you two were up to it, we really need to all collectively sit

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down so you can calmly tell us
what it is that you saw. Then

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we can regroup and try to figure
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none of us want to move,
so we have to figure out how to

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handle this bunch and if you're shooting
that one did any good? And where

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we go from there. John stood
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I need to go home. I
want to go home. I would

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love to take a shower and get
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stood up and walked over to him
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We'll get through this, Bud.
I know it's tough right now, but

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you're not alone. I was there
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How about me and Connie follow you
guys home to make sure that you

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both get there and inside safely.
He looked me in the eyes. That

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would be nice. I'm hungry and
scared right now. I just need to

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be in my own element. Don't
take offense to me. Wanting to leave

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home is just where I feel the
safest. Connie walked over to where we

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stood. It's also farther from the
woods than we are now. So do

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you guys know if you were able
to kill that thing or not? I

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mean, I shot it in the
face. We're covered in the remnants of

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it. Who knows if I were
able to kill it or not. We

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surely didn't stick around to find out. I know hindsight is always twenty twenty,

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but when you're in that position,
you wouldn't have stayed either. We

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hauled freight after I shot it and
wasn't about to turn around to see if

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it were dead or not. I
said blood, John said, out of

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the blue, recounting things going through
his mind. Its face had blood on

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it. I could only assume at
the time that the blood was from a

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recent kill. But what is the
likelihood that that's the one that came through

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the cornfield mark? I thought about
it for a while. I had poured

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all that pig's blood in the corn, about two gallons of it. If

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it were the same beast that ravaged
the cornfield, that would explain the blood

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on its fur. The thought of
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However, if that's true, I
exclaimed, that would mean that it was

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the one chasing me through the tall
stalks of corn. I was relieved that

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I hadn't stopped to look for that
walkie talkie. Then if I would have,

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I would have met that creature in
the corn and I'm sure that I

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wouldn't be here now. We only
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in the woods, but in an
instant that dog man could have been on

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us. If it's head were that
large, its body would have to be

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massive. The corn Marie said,
with wide eyes and fear coursing through her

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veins. There's still all that blood
in the cornfield. What if they come

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back to it knowing it's there.
We'll make sure that you get in safely,

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Marie Connie said, more than likely, if this were the same dog

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man that was in the corn I
don't think the others are going to venture

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out this far. We've only seen
that one that matches the description of the

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one that Mark shot, And honestly, who is to say that it was

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the only dog man to come out. We don't know anything about them,

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so it's hard to say. Yes. I saw the other ones through my

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binoculars and they didn't appear to have
anything on them, not like this one

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did. Come to think of it, I never saw it the one Mark

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shot. My thought is, now
that I think about it further, is

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that one had to be in the
corn, because it wasn't there at the

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den with the rest of them when
I looked. Therefore, it would make

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sense as to why it wasn't there. John interjected, it's a miracle we

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made it back. I said,
it could have gotten you or me at

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any given time. Marie tried to
shake that thought from her mind. We

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just need to get home. It's
already dark, which limits our sight,

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but these things I know can see
even better at night. I grabbed my

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shot gun and watched John and Marie
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Connie and I got into hours to
follow them to their home. Connie kept

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an eye out on the sides for
any movement. I was hoping one didn't

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decide to jump in front of my
truck. Again. We made it to

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John and Maries without incident. We
both got out and made sure that they

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got inside safely. Please let me
know when you're home. They both said,

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there's no one to protect you,
guys. I smiled at her and

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John. I knew that we would
be okay. Having faced what could have

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been the leader of the pack,
then shooting it left me feeling more confident

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about these things, along with trying
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I still didn't know exactly what they
were, but if they can be

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injured, they can be killed.
We sat at the table the next morning

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over breakfasting coffee, talking about the
previous night's events. I was just thankful

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to still be here and to be
able to sit here with my wife.

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It could have ended horribly. We
stood the possibility of being injured or worse

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yet, killed by one of these
dog men. That's what I struggled with

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the most. Not that I wanted
to be maimed or killed, but why

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didn't this thing attack us when it
could have? At some point? I

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also knew that we would have to
go back into those woods. I didn't

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want to put Connie at risk,
but I also didn't think John would be

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up for a trek in the woods
anytime soon or ever again. But to

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get to the bottom of this whole
thing, someone would have to. I

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was anxious to see if that dog
man was lying dead over there near that

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large amount of dirt it should be
given. Then I shot it in the

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face. But I knew getting Connie
on board with this wouldn't be easy.

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We waited until mid afternoon to go
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livestock had what they needed. We
decided to get them on a different schedule

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and start giving them more food at
night. We didn't want to be out

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in the early morning hours just in
case. I decided now was a better

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time than any to drop my plan
onto Connie. You're joking, right,

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Mark, good one, that's not
happening, she said, as she tossed

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grains and corn to the chickens.
Connie, do we ever leave a dead

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or injured animal in the woods that
we've shot? I was hoping that if

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I used a hunting analogy she wouldn't
be able to dispute it. Well,

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no, of course, not,
Mark, she said as she turned to

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face me. Okay, so how
is this any different? I said,

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trying hard to get her to go
along with it. It's some kind of

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an animal, and we need to
go to see if it can be killed.

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If it can, we're home free. That means they all can.

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Connie thought it over, Well,
this is different. This dog man is

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not your typical animal that we hunt
in the woods. If it isn't dead,

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it will be looking for revenge and
extremely pissed off because you tried to

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blow its face off. She wasn't
wrong, but at the same time,

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we had to know if we would
be able to move any further or plan

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anything at all. Well, I
guess I'll go out there on my own,

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then I said. As I walked
away, I heard the shovel that

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she was holding in her hand hit
the ground hard, and I turned around.

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Fine, Mark, she said angrily. I'll go out in the woods

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with you, but on one condition. We have to let Marie and John

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know that we're going, because if
something happens to us out there, someone

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has to know where we went.
I knew that what we were planning wouldn't

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be something that either of them would
go for. Walking into their living room

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the next day, I was nervous
as a long tailed cat in a room

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full of rocking chairs. You're not
serious, you guys, Marie said.

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John just hung his head mark Connie, please don't go back into those woods.

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I knew what they were thinking,
and if I were in their shoes,

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I would have been thinking the same
things. I would have probably been

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a little harsher, but that wasn't
their nature. We explained to them why,

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and they understood, but they still
didn't like the idea. Well,

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how are we going to know that
something has happened to you? We can't

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just let you run off into the
woods without any way to communicate, Marie

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said anxiously. I have three walkie
talkies. I told them the fourth in

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your cornfield. That's right, John
said, I forgot about that. Just

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then I had a thought, let's
see what the condition of your corn is.

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Maybe we'll find the walkie on the
way. I know I dropped it

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right at the edge of the corn
so it's not like we have to go

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into the thick part. John chuckled, did you hit your head on the

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rock the other night when you fell
in the water. Do you really want

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me to go into the cornfield that's
covered in pig blood to look for a

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walkie? I'll admit, not the
smartest. But at the same time,

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I was curious. I wondered if
the beast came out this way after me

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or I had went another way.
We all know that they're here, there's

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no question about that, but we
have to know what makes them tick,

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if they can be injured, if
they can be killed, and why didn't

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they come after us the other night, I said, pleading my case.

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Connie was just looking at me,
and I could see that her wheels were

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spending. I was hoping she would
say something. She stood up and then

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walked over to the screened front door. Silence. She finally turned to face

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us. I know he sounds like
he's lost to mind, and I too

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thought the same thing when he told
me what he wanted to do. But

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the fact of the matter is he's
right. It's just us out here.

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No one would ever believe in a
million years what has happened to us.

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We only have each other. If
we don't go out there to see if

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this dog man that he shot the
other night is dead, we'll never know

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how to truly defeat them, or
if they can be defeated, then all

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of us will either have to live
in fear or pick up and move.

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I don't see that we have any
of the choice here, Connie said adamantly.

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Thank god she's on my side.
I can't do this alone. Something

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of this magnitude must be done together, either the two of us or the

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four of us. Connie walked outside
with me to go look for the walkee.

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I remember the last time I was
here. I was running for my

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life with this literal hellhound on my
trail. I didn't think I would make

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it to my truck. I imagined
it lunging at me from behind, pulling

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me to the ground and tearing me
to pieces. The worst part of that

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feeling is that one would ever know
until they came back. I shook the

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thought from my head, thankful that
the worst case scenario never played out.

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Then I heard Kindie yell from me. She had walked a little way ahead

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of me, but not too far
away that I couldn't see her. I

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ran over to where she was knelt
down, and I picked up what was

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left in my walkie. It was
in pieces. She picked up the largest

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handheld part and the cover fell off, pulling the wires out with it.

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Smaller pieces of plastic littered the ground. This didn't appear to have any teeth

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marks on it, though, which
meant it was stomped on. I tried

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to think back to when it fell. Did I fall on it or step

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on it? I couldn't have.
This was on my side. If I

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had crushed it, it would have
had to have been in the front because

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I fell on my face. For
me to have stepped on it, I

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would have had to backtracked, and
I didn't. I also wasn't heavy enough

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to do this much damage. These
walkies were sturdy. These weren't some cheap

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plastic walkie talkies that break or quit
within a few days. That means it

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didn't run this way. It was
behind me, hunting me. This dog

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man is heavy, without question,
I said to Connie. It was chasing

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me, and it followed me this
way. My truck was right over there,

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almost where we're parked. Now.
Man, that's not far at all.

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I'm glad that you're a fast runner, she said, while looking over

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at me. Conne and I made
her way back to the house and showed

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John and Marie what was left to
the walkie. John took it from me

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and looked it over for a while, shaking his head. Well, John

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said, smiling, I guess we
need to work out a new plan.

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Marie scoffed and shook her head.
Connie and I looked over at each other,

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confused but eager to hear what she
had to say. You can each

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take a walkie in case the two
of you get separated, and then me

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and Marie will have the third I
don't know what snapped in his brain from

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being totally against this to now being
fully on board with us going back into

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the woods. I wasn't going to
ask either, and feared that he would

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change his mind. We sat down
that evening and formulated how things would go,

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when we would enter the woods,
and what all we would take in

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with us. The next evening,
John and Marie showed up in our house.

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They were going to stay there armed
to the teeth, while Connie and

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I made our way into the woods, geared up and ready to go.

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We came up with a code words
yell over the walkee, just in case

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things went south for both Connie and
I. We decided to go with the

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traffic light system code red meaning stop, code yellow meaning proceed with caution,

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or code green meaning it's safe to
go or come in. We drove to

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the edge of the woods and set
there for a minute, taking in how

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ominous they now looked. I envisioned
all the dog men almost reaching for us,

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but not coming out. That part
still guide to me what was keeping

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them in the woods. We got
out and cautiously looked all around us.

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We had each other's backs in safety
was number one. If Connie was facing

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forwards, I was looking behind us
in vice versa. We made it to

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the water's edge. Not one single
sound could be heard. The water sounded

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so loud against the silent backdrop of
the forest. It was almost like everything

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there knew that there was a predator
around. I was second guessing this now.

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Maybe they were right, Maybe we
shouldn't have come, but it's too

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late. Now we're here and we
have no choice. This is our home.

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We moved ahead, slowly, weapons
drawn and ready. A little further

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up from the water set the large
amount of dirt. There was still dried

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blood all over the ground, and
it was covered in small flies. I

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stood staring at the vast open space
where the dog man's head once filled.

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I remembered feeling its hot breath,
it's glowing red eyes, and its sharp

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fangs the growl is something you'll never
forget, though, Connie reached over and

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touched my arm. Are you doing
okay with this mark? In reality,

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no, I wasn't at all.
All I had to do was look over

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at the dirt mound to hopefully find
the remains of something that shouldn't exist.

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I just couldn't make my body move
from its place. Do you want me

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to go look, Connie asked,
after noticing the fear in my eyes.

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I sighed, No, this is
something I must do. I had the

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guts to shoot it, now I
have to have the guts to look and

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see if it's dead. Fear pricked
every hair on my body to stand on

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the end. I was afraid that
if I looked over, another one would

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pop up again, just as it
had the other night. But this time

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I didn't think I would be so
lucky. I finally got both my head

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and my legs in tune with one
another, and I walked forward. I

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got down on my knees, took
a ragged breath, and peered over the

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side. I turned around, and
Connie inched closer to me with her shot

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gunning ready to fire. It's gone. I was finally able to get the

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words out. Connie looked at me
in amazement. I thought, you said

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you shot it in the face.
How is it gone? I was just

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as confused. He shouldn't have survived. That nothing would survive that. The

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sun seemed to instantly go down at
that point, eerily, though. A

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band of frogs followed the darkness off
in the distance. Thunder rolled across the

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sky, and a how could be
heard. It was almost like it was

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calling attention to the others that we
were here. Connie looked at me,

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this is like some sort of horror
movie. I don't know if this was

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such a good idea. I know, but we're here now. The dog

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men is gone, and I don't
know how it's not going to have a

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face at all. I said,
let's go a little further and see what

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we find. I don't hear anything
now, just thunder. We'll look for

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a little bit more and then leave
before the rain comes. I could tell

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that she didn't agree with me,
but she went along with it anyway.

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The thunder cracked loudly overhead, and
lightning began illuminating the woods. The further

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end we go, the worst this
is getting. I think we should leave

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now. Connie said, beginning to
turn around. I turned to follower.

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I pulled out my flashlight and that's
when I saw it. A footprint,

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an actual human footprint. But this
wasn't normal. Who has a print that

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big? Connie turned around when she
heard me stop. Abruptly, our eyes

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met and she knew something was up. I held my finger to my mouth

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and told her to be quiet.
As I showed my flashlight on the print.

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Her eyes grew wide with fear.
Bigfoot, I said, an amazing

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bigfoot are also here. They say
you don't want to go home, but

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you can't stay here, and no, I don't want to be alone.

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The world out time, this job, that time, everything coming right back

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right baby, my joy for me
to stay right now. I'm coming right

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away. US status ussis used US
persons