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<v Speaker 1>The County of Wiltshire gets three to four hundred large

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<v Speaker 1>and complex crop circle patterns every year. I have camped

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<v Speaker 1>up there quite a bit and it's a beautiful place

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<v Speaker 1>with a lot of history. I've seen three with my

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<v Speaker 1>own eyes. The first one appeared during the day by

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<v Speaker 1>a main road and clear view of everyone traveling east.

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<v Speaker 1>It was the end of a long driveway where I

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<v Speaker 1>was living, and we walked up there and went to

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<v Speaker 1>have a close look. The field was full of thick

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<v Speaker 1>stems of oats that were all pushed down into perfect

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<v Speaker 1>circles spiraling inward. There was a main large circle forty

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<v Speaker 1>feet across, and snaking lines about a meter wide that

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<v Speaker 1>turned into smaller circles. It was hard to see how

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<v Speaker 1>any human could have done this. The stalks were actually

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<v Speaker 1>woven together and patterns, and they were bent over, but

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<v Speaker 1>none were snapped or uprooted. It was unbelievable. The next

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<v Speaker 1>one I saw was while a friend and I were

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<v Speaker 1>on a road trip. We had pulled into a rest

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<v Speaker 1>stop and were taking a walk to stretch our legs

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<v Speaker 1>when we noticed an enormous crop circle with perfect triangles

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred and fifty feet across in the field. Below.

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<v Speaker 1>The third one I saw was five years ago. I

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<v Speaker 1>was sitting on the raised roots of an old wild

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<v Speaker 1>cherry tree, looking at the familiar view of flax fields,

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<v Speaker 1>which have a nice blue hue when they are flowering.

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<v Speaker 1>I looked down just for a second or two, and

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<v Speaker 1>when I looked back at the field, a perfect circle

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<v Speaker 1>had formed out of nowhere. It was baffling. Two years

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<v Speaker 1>later I read about it in the local newspaper. Apparently

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<v Speaker 1>there were three perfect circles in total, each one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and fifty feet across. They were in a perfect equilateral

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<v Speaker 1>triangle a mile apart, with our town in the middle.

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<v Speaker 1>A specialist team of researchers came down and took soul

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<v Speaker 1>and plant samples from within the circles, and they did

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<v Speaker 1>find anomalies whatever that means. Crop circles are often extremely

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful to look at. Orbs of light have been seen

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<v Speaker 1>frequently in conjunction with crop circles, as if they are

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<v Speaker 1>the ones making the patterns as they fly around low

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<v Speaker 1>above the crops, much like the Bigfoot phenomenon. Though crop

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<v Speaker 1>circles tend to be dismissed. Some explain them as hoaxes

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<v Speaker 1>or works of art, but as someone who has seen

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<v Speaker 1>them with my own eyes, as someone who has witnessed

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<v Speaker 1>one appear right in front of me, I can tell

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<v Speaker 1>you a human could not possibly accomplish such a feat. Hey, y'all,

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<v Speaker 1>welcome to the podcast. I have got a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>of work that I'm trying to do, so I'm in

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<v Speaker 1>here extra early this morning, trying to record some new stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been putting up the archives because I'm busy to

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<v Speaker 1>make sure that I keep the stories flowing. But this

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<v Speaker 1>is a new podcast, new stories that have never been done,

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<v Speaker 1>and the podcast probably over the next week or two

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<v Speaker 1>will probably be a little shorter. I'll just do a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of stories for each podcast and get something out.

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<v Speaker 1>Hope that's good enough for everybody. Sure appreciate you joining

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<v Speaker 1>me on this. Two good stories coming up. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>here we go. Okay, this is a Bigfoot story. This

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<v Speaker 1>email actually came to me, I think in five or

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<v Speaker 1>six separate emails. It's like people will write a few

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<v Speaker 1>paragraphs and they'll say the rest of it to come later,

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't really like those. I wish you guys

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<v Speaker 1>would just hang on to them and write the whole story,

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<v Speaker 1>send it in one email and you know, proof read it,

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<v Speaker 1>make sure you got all your memories right, think on

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<v Speaker 1>it a day or two, and then send it. But

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<v Speaker 1>in an attempt to try to get almost every single

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<v Speaker 1>email that I get on the podcast, I'm doing this story. Rebecca,

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<v Speaker 1>my editor, she's doing a great job. She was able

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<v Speaker 1>to piece this together out of the It was supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be in six parts, but I only got five,

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<v Speaker 1>and she okay. So I've been accused of changing stories.

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<v Speaker 1>I know where that comes from, and that's fine. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't change stories, but I'm going to tell you up front,

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<v Speaker 1>I am changing this one because there was a part

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<v Speaker 1>of this where this guy had shall we say, enchanted

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<v Speaker 1>moments with the bigfoot ladies, let's put it that way.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's not in this story. But the rest of

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<v Speaker 1>it was pretty good. So I'm trying to do the

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<v Speaker 1>best I can and get all these done. So let's

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<v Speaker 1>get into the story. The man's name is Skeeter s

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<v Speaker 1>k e E t E R. Skeeter. To skip through

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<v Speaker 1>a lifetime of stories and important events. A long time ago,

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<v Speaker 1>on a camping trip near Yosemite Valley, I befriended a

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<v Speaker 1>bigfoot that I came to know as Stella I had

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<v Speaker 1>set up my camp and started fishing in a stream

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<v Speaker 1>nearby when we ran into each other. Neither one of

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<v Speaker 1>us seemed to know what to think of the other,

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<v Speaker 1>and we stared at each other for a while, waiting

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<v Speaker 1>for one of us to make the first move. When

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<v Speaker 1>she concluded that I wasn't going to cause her any problems,

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<v Speaker 1>she not only tolerated me, but seemed interested in communicating.

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<v Speaker 1>That's when I learned that sosquatch communicate telepathically and can

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<v Speaker 1>control the emotions of nearby humans. The alarm I initially

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<v Speaker 1>felt was inexplicably replaced with an overwhelming sense of calm,

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<v Speaker 1>and I happily continued fishing. I lured in for trout

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<v Speaker 1>and offered two of them to her, and then watched

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<v Speaker 1>as she stood there, knee deep in water and gorged

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<v Speaker 1>on them raw. It was something to behold, and when

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<v Speaker 1>I went back to my small campfire to cook up

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<v Speaker 1>my room main catch, she joined me and watched. I

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<v Speaker 1>cooked the fish, and we engaged in a sort of

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<v Speaker 1>mental discourse, and I was amazed at how easily this

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<v Speaker 1>telepathy business worked. She heard me think it and laughed gutterly.

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<v Speaker 1>I looked at the grint on her face the block teeth,

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<v Speaker 1>with the exception of the rather large canines, which obviously

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<v Speaker 1>could do considerable damage if called upon. Her arms and

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<v Speaker 1>her entire build were powerful, and she heard my thoughts

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<v Speaker 1>and seemed amused at them. Are there more of you?

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<v Speaker 1>I ask? I learned that she was part of a clan,

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<v Speaker 1>and that there were twenty three of them in a

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<v Speaker 1>twenty square mile area. As our mental conversation went on,

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<v Speaker 1>it occurred to me just how superior the Sasquatch are

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<v Speaker 1>to humans, not just physically, but because of their exceptional

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<v Speaker 1>power to project mental images and thoughts on us. I

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<v Speaker 1>should have been scared straight, but there we sat like

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<v Speaker 1>two old friends. It was very calm. Night came and

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<v Speaker 1>the forest woke up with the sound of wood knocks

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<v Speaker 1>and yells, and Stella screamed back, basically telling the others

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<v Speaker 1>to shut up that she was fine and I was

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<v Speaker 1>an okay dude. I was growing tired and sensing that

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<v Speaker 1>I needed to sleep. Stella reassured me that I would

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<v Speaker 1>be safe that night, and even offered to keep my

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<v Speaker 1>fire going for me. The next morning came a big surprise.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a second bigfoot in camp, a larger, more

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<v Speaker 1>powerful looking male with the hairy physique of a bodybuilder

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<v Speaker 1>underneath all the fur. It was Stella's brother. I soon

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<v Speaker 1>learned that I called him William. He pronounced his name

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<v Speaker 1>for me, but I couldn't understand it beyond being a

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<v Speaker 1>guttural mess in my ears. But just because their voice

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<v Speaker 1>boxes are not constructed like ours does not make them

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<v Speaker 1>any less of a being. We need to keep that

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<v Speaker 1>in mind as we encounter more of them other species

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<v Speaker 1>here an off world, and consider that we may not

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<v Speaker 1>be at the top of the heap as we'd like

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<v Speaker 1>to think. Thank god, William was friendly, or at least

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<v Speaker 1>friendly enough. He had brought a quarter of a venison

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<v Speaker 1>and he and Stella were partaking. I was offered some

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<v Speaker 1>and I frighted up in the skillet, and like Stella,

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<v Speaker 1>William seemed to sense that I had a good heart.

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<v Speaker 1>In getting to know them, they shared their history with me,

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<v Speaker 1>and I learned that they were one quarter human. If

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<v Speaker 1>my memory serves me, a Native American man had relations

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<v Speaker 1>with their Sasquatch grandmother. Her son, a half human, had

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<v Speaker 1>children with a female sasquatch. Their children were Stella and William.

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<v Speaker 1>The two of them were wild as a cat's gat

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<v Speaker 1>make no mistake, but they had a slight tolerance for humans.

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<v Speaker 1>To make a long story short, they knew me to

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<v Speaker 1>be an alright guy, and they also knew about the

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<v Speaker 1>Smith and West and four sixty magnum revolver that I

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<v Speaker 1>carried for close encounters with bears. Seeing my gun, William

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<v Speaker 1>shared a story with me about an encounter they recently

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<v Speaker 1>had with the Mexican cartel growing illegal weed in the area.

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<v Speaker 1>Only a mile or so away. One of their Sosquatch

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<v Speaker 1>cousins had been wounded by an ak and died shortly thereafter.

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<v Speaker 1>The two brothers of the slain were posted to watch

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<v Speaker 1>while the plan was formulated amongst the Klan to take

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<v Speaker 1>out the offenders that evening. The task was relatively easily

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<v Speaker 1>accomplished by stealth. Even at eight feet tall and six

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<v Speaker 1>hundred pounds, their ability to travel unseen in the woods

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<v Speaker 1>is unparalleled. Matched with their ability to communicate telepathically and

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<v Speaker 1>control the emotions of humans within a certain range, they

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<v Speaker 1>were truly a force to be reckoned with. They snuck

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<v Speaker 1>up on two members of the cartel and ripped their

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<v Speaker 1>heads off their and then caught up with several other

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<v Speaker 1>members of the cartel, and they broke their arms. It

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<v Speaker 1>certainly sent a message, and the remainder of the cartel

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<v Speaker 1>cleared out of the area in a matter of minutes. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>my supplies were becoming limited, and is it near time

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<v Speaker 1>for me to end my camping trip and leave. Stella

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<v Speaker 1>gradually released her hold on my mind and my emotions,

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<v Speaker 1>but left me with the knowledge that the other sisquatch

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<v Speaker 1>in the clan would leave me alone unless given a

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<v Speaker 1>good reason not to so. Before I left, I gave

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<v Speaker 1>my fishing pole to Stella and Totter and William how

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<v Speaker 1>to tie flies or use bugs that they could find.

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<v Speaker 1>Also left a good supply of fishing line, so that

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<v Speaker 1>in a pench they could use the branches of trees

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<v Speaker 1>as fishing poles. I gave them all the fish I

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<v Speaker 1>and a mile later, when I was close to my truck,

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<v Speaker 1>Stella's hold on my mind was completely released, and a

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<v Speaker 1>flood of emotions washed over me like a tidal wave.

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<v Speaker 1>I felt panic and anxiety and wonder and dumbfounded shock

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<v Speaker 1>all at once. If I had encountered anyone else in

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<v Speaker 1>the klan, I'm sure my camping trip would have ended

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<v Speaker 1>with wild horror, but by what could only have been

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<v Speaker 1>sheer luck, I ran into Stella and William. In the

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<v Speaker 1>months and years that followed my experience, I came to

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<v Speaker 1>develop a great fear and appreciation for the Sisquatch. I

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<v Speaker 1>feel intense gratitude for having had such a life altering experience,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm filled with a bittersweet sadness that I might

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<v Speaker 1>never encounter Stella and William again. Okay, that's the end

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<v Speaker 1>of that email. I don't have any comments on that.

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<v Speaker 1>It was an interesting story, and if they're not just terrible, terrible,

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<v Speaker 1>terribly written that we can't make any heads or tails

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<v Speaker 1>don't really care, but I thought i'd throw that out there.

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<v Speaker 1>Appreciate you listening, and we'll see you guys on the

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<v Speaker 1>next one. Thanks,