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Speaker 1: I live in a house in the country near Eldorado, Texas.

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I woke up one morning and looked out in my

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bedroom window toward my chicken coop, and I saw a

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figure standing there. Judging by the height of the coop,

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the creature was at least seven feet tall. The only

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way to describe it is that it looked like a Chewbacca.

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The way its hair flowed and the fact that you

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couldn't see a neck rubbed my eyes several times, but

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it was still there. It was like it wanted me

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to see it, It wanted to be seen. It just

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stood there, looking at the house. Finally I looked away,

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and when I look back again, it was gone. I

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never said anything for a while, although I never saw

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it again. I would carry my pistol if I went

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outside after dark. We would hear strange sounds at night,

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but we never saw anything again. Now my friend had

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to run in with a dog man, but that was

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months later. We had a tracker come in to look around,

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but he found nothing, or at least nothing that he

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would admit to. I told my family, and they gave

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me the strangest looks. Some of them think I should

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quit listening. To shows like yours. They think I'm seeing things.

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Oh well, these stories are great. People are seeing things,

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and I'm just so glad you sent this in. It

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was a short, little story, but it was great. I

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am an outdoorsman and I live in Middle Tennessee. During

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the last deer season, I was out hunting one evening

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with my bow, trying to spot and stalk a deer

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when I felt the sudden urge to look up at

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a nearby sycamore tree. There, hovering by the branches, saw

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a brown object that somewhat resembled the batman's symbol if

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you were to cut off the ear and jagg at

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the edges. It was some sort of flying, silent creature.

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It wasn't a bat, but it wasn't a bird. This

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thing just hovered there above me for what felt like forever,

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and when it finally moved from its stationary position, it

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shot straight up in the sky until I couldn't see

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it anymore. That was the most interesting UFO encounter I've

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had up close, but I've seen more than my fair

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share at a distance. In fact, I see white lights

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in the sky so consistently that it's become as interesting

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to me as seeing an ordinary plane pass by. They

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never make any sound, and I'll notice multiple of them

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in a night. The lights don't blink, and their speeds

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very dramatically. Sometimes they move slowly and other times incredibly fast.

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Sometimes I see them ascend into the sky, and sometimes

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they shoot up rapidly and disappear. I hope you get

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to see them one night. All you have to do

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is look up and wait. I've been a lifelong transmission rebuilder,

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and in the year two thousand I opened my own

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shop in Summerville. It had three lifts and it was

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joined by an automotive shop, with a solid block wall

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dividing the two. The automotive shop was run by a

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man named Keith, who had been there for twenty years.

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Keith was a good man, and he and I became friends.

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My nephew, Raymond, was also a transmission man. About four

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weeks after I opened, he would come to help me.

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I opened my shop and I was there all day.

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That night. I had another friend who would come in

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and pull the transmissions out so I could rebuild them

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the next day. The following night he would put them

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back in. One morning, I arrived at seven am. I

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opened the roll up shop door and out of the

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corner my I saw a black looking animal run by

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me and then hide behind a trash can. It looked

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more like a shadow than a solid critter. I picked

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up a shovel, ready to defend my shop. Now quickly

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pulled the can back and there was nothing there. I

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soon forgot about it. But at that point things started

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to happen. I would be in the shop during the

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day rebuilding a transmission, and I would hear a wrench

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or a metallic object hit the floor as if it

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had been dropped from six feet in the air. I'd

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walk around the cars and there wouldn't be anything there.

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I knew right off it wasn't from the shop on

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the other side. It was in there with me. I

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had a restroom at one end, and I could see

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the mirror in the hallway from the shop. Around the

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corner from it was a toilet, and sometimes when I

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would go to relieve myself, I would smell a woman's perfume,

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and sometimes I would smell pipe tobacco. Sometimes I would

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hear a loud bang on the side of the building.

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I would walk out and look, but nothing would ever

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be there. One night, my friend Benny, was putting a

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transmission in for me. Around eight pm. He called me

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and he told me that I needed to come in.

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I asked him why, and he said the lift wouldn't

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come down and the car was stuck up in the air.

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I hung up and I started putting my shoes on

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when he called back and he said the lift had

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come down on its own and he was leaving. The

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next day, Keith came over and laughed. He said he

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was up there working late when Benny came over to

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his shop scared to death. I asked him why, and

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Keith told Bennie that he had seen Henry. I asked

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who that was, and Keith informed me that it was

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a ghost that lived in the building. Henry was the

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name his wife gave him. I asked Keith if he

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had seen strange things too, and he said strange stuff

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had happened all the time for the past twenty years.

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I called Benny and I asked him to come up

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and put in a transmission for me that night. He

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asked if I was going to be there, and he

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said that he wouldn't come back by himself to work

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in that shop again. He told me that I had

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a ghost. I asked him what had happened, and what

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he told me made my hair stand on in. Benny

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said that when he worked, a man in a burgundy

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colored shirt watched him from the mirror. Benny heard him sometimes,

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and sometimes he'd see him walk by. My nephew finally

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came to help me. Instead never told him anything. He

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had an old race car and at night he would

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stay and work on that. After maybe three weeks, I

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asked him if he had seen or heard anything strange.

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He started telling me stories about all the strange noises

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and shadows that he would see walking by. One day

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he went out of town for a race and I

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was in the shop with the doors closed and I

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was working. All of a sudden, I felt a pair

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of lips against the back of my neck, and I

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felt air blow and took on me. I turned around.

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I was ready to fight, but there was nothing there.

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There was another time I was walking across the shop

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when something put its fingers in my right back pocket

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and gave me a hard tug. I turned around, and

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again there was nothing there. My nephew and his friend

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were in the shop one night talking when his friend

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did a double take he swore that he saw a

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man standing there, and then the man vanished. On another night,

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my nephew was working on his race car. He was

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by himself, and he was whistling a tune, and when

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he stopped whistling, right in front of him, someone whistled

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the exact same tune. After that, he left for the night.

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And then on another time, I had a customer in

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the shop and we had a slight disagreement. We were

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raising our voices at each other, when suddenly he stopped talking.

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In the corner, about five feet away, he could hear

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muffled voices of two people arguing back and forth, just

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like we had been arguing. The man looked in the

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direction it came from, and then he turned white. He

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turned around and just left. Finally, after a year, I

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closed up and moved to another shop closer to home.

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I have many other stories from that creepy place, but

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I'll save them for another time. I'm retired now, and

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every time I ride by that old building, I still

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think about Henry