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This is an email from Richard.
He writes, my wife and I live

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in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Recently, I listened to your Halloween podcast about

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a man that bought property on Lake
Watchtaw and who had a visit from the

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Big Guy. Watch Tall Lake is
about fifteen miles from where we live.

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As the crow flies Lake Watchtall.
I've been on that lake before. That's

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the clearest lake I have ever been
on. We went in the summertime.

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We were skiing, swimming and jumping
off cliffs and stuff like that, and

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you can see like thirty feet down. You can see fish thirty feet down

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swimming around. It's a very clear
lake. Anyway, back to the story.

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We live in a heavily wooded area
near the National Forest. The plots

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of land were sold in sizes ranging
from three to ten acres. We have

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a wide variety of wildlife and a
large creek runs through our property. It's

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not uncommon to have white tailed deer
in our yard and occasionally while turkey can

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be spotted too. It is truly
beautiful country to live in. But during

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the summer we have the thick green
shield around our house to protect us from

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the outside world. We're far enough
from the road that we rarely hear traffic,

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aside from the occasional jake break of
a large truck coming over the hill.

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In the summer of two thousand and
three, I worked a shift at

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a factory fifty five miles away.
It could take up to an hour and

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a half to drive each way.
My shift started at five am, so

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I was getting to bed around seven
pm and back up again at two am

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to go to work. It was
late June when my wife was out in

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the yard trying to coax our cat
to come inside. He's a large,

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furry black cat who I named Harley
because I've always wanted a Harley soft tail.

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At eight pm, it was still
daylight, but the sun was low

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in the western sky and it was
through the trees in our woods. We

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have a twenty foot by twenty foot
deck on the back of our house that

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our cat had snuck under to hide. My wife, an animal lover who

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is devoted to that cat, didn't
want him outside all night by himself,

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so she was out there trying to
get him out from under the deck.

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I was upstairs, laying awake in
bed. Isn't an easy feeling falling asleep

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when daylight is still streaming through the
windows. I heard the back door slam,

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followed by the sound of my wife
running up the stairs with the cat.

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She was agitated, and she wanted
to know how I got upstairs so

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fast. I've been in bed for
over an hour, I laughed, and

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then I noticed a look on her
face. She was clearly upset about something,

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so I asked her what was wrong. I was crawling under the deck

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to get the cat when I heard
what sounded like a stick being hit against

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a tree, she said. I
looked back, and I saw a dark

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silhouette of someone standing in the woods
forty feet down the hill from me.

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There is approximately a seven to eight
foot drop in elevation from where she was

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to where she saw this figure.
But when she crawled out from under the

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deck, her head was even with
the head of the silhouette. Then she

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glanced over at the door and looked
back as quickly as that it was gone.

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That was when she ran inside,
and I went out and had to

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look around, but I didn't see
anything. Two nights later, I was

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leaving for work. It was three
am when I walked out the front door,

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heading for my truck. As I
walked, I heard something in the

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woods inside the tree line. I
know deer or active at night. However,

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when I stopped, it stopped.
I stood still and I listened for

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a moment. If I had spooke
to deer, I would have heard it

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running off. But after a minute
I began walking again, and as soon

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as I did, it began walking
too. I hesitated and began to walk

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slowly, and with each step I
took, it took one, two,

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It was matching my stride. I
made it the short distance to my truck

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and I jumped in and then I
rolled down the window so I could listen

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and see if the footsteps were coming
closer. Instead, I heard a loud

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whoop. At that time, I
didn't know that was the sound that they

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made. The only thing I could
equate it to was the sound that I

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heard of the howler monkeys at the
zoo, but this was much deeper.

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I started my truck and I put
it in drive, but I idled the

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eight hundred feet down my driveway with
my head out the window, listening to

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the sound of the leaves crunching and
twigs breaking, indicating that it was following

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me. I also heard two more
whoops before I exited the driveway, and

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as soon as I got to the
main road, all of the sounds stopped.

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I have never heard those sounds again, but I'm waiting for that day.

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It could have been someone out in
the woods, but it seems odd

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to me someone would be so far
out there at that time of night.

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I prefer to think it could be
the big guy that I have nicknamed Fuzzy.

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Oh. To the writer, I
think let's see, yeah, he

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said Richard. He said it was
okay to use his name, Richard.

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Do you hope it's the big guy? Do you hope Bigfoot's on your property?

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I don't know if I would want
Bigfoot on my property or not.

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I want to see him on someone
else's property, that's what I want.

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I don't want him here. I
just don't want Bigfoot on my property.

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But this was a great story.
He did a great job writing it,

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and I really appreciate it. Okay, here's an email. I got to

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read the first two or three sentences. It looks like this person can write.

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So I'm going to read this cold
and if I stumble and bumble over

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my words, just bear with me. But here's what this person writes.

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She says it is a woman.
She says, please do not use my

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name. She says, Cam,
how are you? I hope rested.

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I've been mulling around for the last
three years now whether to put this weird

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incident on paper or not. I
trust you with this personal spine tingling incident,

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and I'm sure others would say that
I was hallucinating at any rate.

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The unexpected incident took place in two
thousand and four. In two thousand and

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five, in Waco, Texas,
it was around ten thirty at night.

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My two lovable pets, Mika and
her best friend Rico, indicated that there

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was a need to relieve themselves before
retiring to their blanketed, cushioned bed.

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I was hesitant to let them out
because it was dark outside except for the

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full moon that left Eerie's shadows in
the gravel road. Since it was so

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dark, I stepped outside onto the
porch to hurry them up and call it

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a night. The most chilling sensation
suddenly hit me. I felt a cold

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gust, even though there was no
wind blowing. I heard some flapping,

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and I thought there must be some
kind of bat flying around here, and

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I tried to shake it off.
It was an uneasy feeling while I called

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my pups to hurry up and come
inside. As I looked across the road

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at the neighbor's property, I saw
a thing flapping toward a large, fifty

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foot tall tree. I could not
believe my eyes. It had the appearance

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of a human sized bat with leathery
wings. Never have I seen such a

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creature that large. And then it
hit the tree, and the size of

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the creature caused the tree to shake. The bat wings wrapped around the trunk.

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The silhouette was perfectly visible with the
full moon shining from behind it.

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And then it turned toward me and
I could see large red glowing eyes staring

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at me. I had been frozen
to the porch, and I tried to

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move backward to run into the house. My dogs did not bark, but

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they sense something wasn't right. I
finally moved back toward the house without ever

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t turning my back to that bat
like thing. My dogs quickly scampered into

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the house and I backed in through
the doorway, and I slammed the screen

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and then the strong wooden door and
double locking and trying to calm my heart

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that was racing almost out of my
chest. After leaving the living room area

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and closing the door in that room, as if that would offer any protection,

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I went back to the living area
to double check to make sure that

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I had not imagined what I had
seen. Opened the Venetian blinds and looked

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at the tree where it had been, and I could still see the red

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eyes. I didn't look anymore.
In that central part of Texas there are

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sightings varying from black panthers to bigfoot
to incredibly large birds where hunters camp and

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hunt. What bothered me for so
long has been answered because I have read

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through books in the Bible. There
are descriptions of creatures that old man can

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imagine. Tam, That's one of
my supernatural events in my life, and

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now it is laid to rest.
Well to the writer. I don't know

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if that's laid to rest, and
I don't know if they are like flying

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batman creatures in the Bible. But
there are weird, weird creatures described in

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the Old Testament, and this is
scary. I think this would scare me

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more than a bigfoot. If I'm
standing outside just at dusk, I saw

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this giant human looking bat thing flying
to a tree and the tree start to

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shake at the top. Oh my
gosh. I don't even know what I

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would do. I would just assume
it knew who I was and it was

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coming to get me. But I'm
a scaredy cat. I'm a little bit

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of a scaredy cat. That's true. This was a really good story,

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and it's another one. I kind
of hope it's true. The good thing

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is she's fine. Anyway, thank
you for sending this story. There probably

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was a little need to edit this
because I stumbled through a couple of things,

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but it was good. It was
really good. This woman did a

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great job writing this, so thank
you for sending it. Here's an email

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from a young man in California originally
from Italy. Here's what he writes.

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I live in Santa Cruz, California, but my family is originally from Sicily,

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Italy. We had lived here for
fifteen years when we moved my grandmother

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to the United States. She had
endured a lot from the Italian government.

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Her dream was to come here and
buy a large piece of property in the

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mountains where she could live out her
days in peace. And as soon as

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she arrived in the fall of twenty
twenty one, she began to look for

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a place. She found one hundred
and twelve acres between Mount Laguna and oh

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god see Uyamaca Rancho State Park.
I have no idea how to pronounce that

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in eastern San Diego County. Who
knew that she had saved enough money to

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make such a purchase and to build
a house there off the grid? Uh?

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Yeah, how do you save enough
money to buy one hundred and twelve

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acres in California? Good grief,
man, that property is expensive. Anyway,

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on with the story. I fell
in love with the property from the

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first time I saw it. Nonah
had already called contractors to build her house,

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to diggle well, and do whatever
other things were necessary. Again,

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we were surprised at the amount of
knowledge she had of the things that she

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would need to live there. Most
eighty one year old women wouldn't have known

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much about any of those things.
The property was teeming with wildlife. There

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was a trout stream and tall,
healthy pines, and a small open plane

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where there could be a lot of
activities. At the time, my friends

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and I were obsessed with air soft, so much so that we would put

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on full gear such as plate carriers, camouflage, gille seats, and face

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paint. And what we loved was
to gather up branches and sticks and bind

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them in our suits for added camouflage. I wanted to feel like I was

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part of some sort of special forces
team. I guess I'll watch too many

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military documentaries. Back then, that
property was a perfect place for my friends

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and I to play that game.
There were four of us including me,

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and one of us would scale to
the top of the hill overlooking the small

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plane that was surrounded by woods with
a marksman's rifle, while the other three

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would have to evade being shot before
reaching the bottom of the hill. It

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was almost always a blast. Almost
one time, my friends and I decided

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to wake up early before Nona got
home at noon for lunch and go have

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our fun. We started unpacking our
gear bags and guns to get ready.

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We got into our gilly suits and
I went looking for sticks and limbs to

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add to my suit. And since
it was winter, there was a fair

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bit of snow on the ground.
My friends headed to the other side of

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the property while I headed up the
hill parallel to them. And when I

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reached the summit and I looked down, I saw the boys standing in the

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middle of the property. I waved
my arms to signal the start of the

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game, and they each scattered in
different directions, and I began searching for

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them. As I scanned the area, I noticed something off in the distance.

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In front of the main tree line, there were some pines. They

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were shorter and they sat a little
in front of the rest of the trees.

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And behind them I saw a large
dark blob that stood out from the

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trees in front of it. I
was thinking it was one of the boys,

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and I took the safety off my
gun, and then this thing stood

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up. It was covered in what
looked like a gilly's suit. So I

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took a long breath, and as
the last bit of excel left my body,

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I pulled the trigger and watched as
the white BB traveled at its head.

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It made contact, but I was
confused. When I took my face

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from the optic, I must have
moved the sun reflected off of it and

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gave away my position. I looked
into my optic again and I saw a

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leathery, dark face looking at me. It looked soulless, and I realized

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that this was not one of the
boys. It was one hundred and twenty

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yards away, but I guessed it
to be six feet tall. Immediately I

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stood up. I wanted to alert
the boys at the bottom of the hill,

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but they weren't there yet. I
picked up my rifle and looked through

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the scope again to see this thing
drop down on all fours and it began

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to run toward me. I couldn't
believe how fast it was moving. Something

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that large should not be able to
move that fast. When the monkey or

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eight thing got to the bottom of
the hill, I could hear it breathing

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and the pounding of its limbs on
the ground as it climbed up the trail

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and jumped over the rocks. I
dropped my rifle and I grabbed the knife

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on my vest, and I backed
into a rock behind me. As I

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did so, something was telling me
that I was about to get my face

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beaten in by this thing. I
had to be ready to fight. I

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wanted to melt into these rocks so
that it would just pass by me.

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I heard it stop in front of
the rocks that I was now hiding behind,

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and my heart was pounding in my
throat. The sweat was beating across

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my forehead, and my breath was
coming in shallow burst. And then it

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pulled itself over the rocks and it
looked me straight in the eyes. It

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felt as if God himself was staring
into my soul. I felt a wave

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of nausea wash over me when I
saw its muscles that I realized it could

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rip me into if it wanted.
I backed up a little and tripped on

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a branch, and my gilly suit
got ripped off. When I pulled myself

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back up to my feet, we
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this point. Its eyes were a
black void, and finally I screamed at

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it. I don't know why,
but it stepped back and it started down

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the hill. I could hear the
snow crunching under its feet with each step,

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until it disappeared into the woods.
As soon as I felt safe,

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I ran down the hill as fast
as I could. My friend saw me

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barreling toward them faster than they had
ever seen me run before, with forty

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pounds of gear on my back,
with my voice shaking. I tried to

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tell them that there was a giant
monkey, bigfoot thing up there, but

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I was so shocked that I couldn't
speak clearly. None of my friends had

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seen or heard anything except for me
screaming, and then they heard running in

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two different directions. I had left
my rifle up on the hill, and

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as far as I know, it
is still there. I'm seventeen years old

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and I've never gone back to Noah's
property again. This writer was a little

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worried that he sounded like a kid
writing this story, and I want to

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let him know that Neoma looked over
this and she just made a couple of

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punctuation and grammar changes, and you
did a great job writing this. I

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think the boy's name is Thomas.
His family's from Italy, so I guess

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that's an Italian name. Byway,
Tomas, thank you for sending this.

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It was a great story. Hope
it's true because that's an exciting story.

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Wouldn't it be cool if that really
was true. What if it's true,

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that's the name of my podcast.
Brother, Hey, thanks for sending it.

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I really appreciate you. Okay,
I hope you guys enjoyed that podcast.

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I've got I want to talk to
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if there's no more stories left in
this podcast, so if you want to

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click away, go ahead, that's
fine, but I want to give you

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an update on Steve Lily and Blood
Eagle. Two weeks ago, I think

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it was a Friday or a Sunday, I can't remember. I put up

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a video and I said, look, I'm going to be away for a

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while. I'm going to be working
on Steve Lily recording Blood Eagle. I

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have been working on and in between
those times, I uploaded an audio book

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that it was not Monster related.
It's called Asper Y'all's Requests, written by

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a man named bo Ray. It's
an excellent book. I got some feedback

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on that. Most of it was
good, ninety nine percent of it was

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good. But of course I have
the people who are saying, oh,

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he's tired of the subject. He's
not going to be doing any more Bigfoot

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or Cryptiit or UFO or ghost stories. I don't know why people do that.

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If you do one thing different,
all that channel's just going to crap.

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I kind of got into it in
the comment section with this woman.

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I'm like, I've got five hundred
uploads for anybody on YouTube or the podcast

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network to listen to, and I
do one thing that isn't Monster related,

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and I get that kind of comment. It's asinine to me. Anyway,

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if you want to hear a really
really good book, go back to that.

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I'll put it on the endscreen of
this video. But anyway, I'm

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getting distracted here. I'm working on
Steve Lilly, and the deep I get

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into this, the longer it takes. And what I'm trying to do is

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take you all back to where Steve
Lily came from. There's a story of

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where he came from and why he
is the way he is, and it's

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a long story. So it's taken
me longer than I anticipated to write that

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story. But I think I'm about
halfway done with it. I had already

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started Steve Lily sixteen and I scrapped
it because I thought, I want to

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tell the story of where Steve Lily
came from. It's real interesting, it's

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real exciting. It's very violent,
if you like that kind of thing.

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I'm having the best time writing it, and I'm really taking my time with

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it trying to get it. I'm
trying to learn how to write. That's

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what I'm doing. I'm trying to
learn how to write all the Steve Lily's

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I've done up to this point,
I just kind of just pump them out.

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I don't even think about him.
I just have this story in my

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head and I start writing. But
I'm trying to write in a not a

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different way, but a more thoughtful
way, and I'm loving every minute of

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it. So anyway, Steve Lily's
taking a little longer than I thought.

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Maybe I can be done with it
in about a week. So I didn't

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lie to you. And then when
I get my fingers get tired of hitting

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this keyboard, I go over to
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And the reason I'm doing this podcast
is because this other stuff is taking so

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long. I thought, man,
I really want to just get my mind

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off of both of those for a
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So that's my report. I know
people are anxious to anxious to hear

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another Steve Lily, and I'm so
so happy and thankful that you guys really

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like this character that I've made up. If you just hang with me,

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the weight will be worth it.
I think I think the weight will be

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worth it because then you'll know where
Steve came from, and you'll know why

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he is the way he is,
and then we're going to go back in

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as the stories progress, I'm gonna
tell you where Hook came from, and

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where Isabelle came from, and where
Lewis came from. They all have backstories,

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and every story will bring you to
the present, and they're gonna fight

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some kind of monster in every story. So it's just fun. It's really

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fun for me, and I think
it'll be fun for you. That's why

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I wrote those in the first place, because they're fun. They're off the

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seriousness of this crazy Bigfoot topic.
Everybody's so serious about it. So that's

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why I wrote to Steve Lily's stories, is to kind of break the monotony

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and just to do something fun.
And that's why I'm writing them, and

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so they can be fun, and
they are fun, and I'm trying to

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make it fun. My being redundant
saying that away, I'm trying to get

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a point across. I hope you're
getting it. Thank you for listening to

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this podcast. You now have an
update on what I'm doing. And when

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I get a little burnout on writing
Steve Lily and recording Blood Eagle, I'll

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just stop into another podcast like this. I really appreciate you listening and we'll

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see you on the next one.
Thank you,