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<v Speaker 1>I was returning to my hometown after being abroad for

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<v Speaker 1>almost a decade. I was going from one of the

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<v Speaker 1>most populated cities in Southeast Asia, where I had managed

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<v Speaker 1>to survive some nine years traversing endless seas of people,

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<v Speaker 1>subway stations, and taxis, and I was going back to

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<v Speaker 1>my small town routes in North Carolina. To say I

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<v Speaker 1>was looking forward to my return trip would be an understatement.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a country boy at heart, and even in the

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<v Speaker 1>big city, I never lost that part of me. One

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<v Speaker 1>of the first things on my long to do list

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<v Speaker 1>was to get out to my parents' cabin and break

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<v Speaker 1>out some fishing poles around dusk and catfish long into

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<v Speaker 1>the night. Fishing had been a big part of my

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<v Speaker 1>life and my favorite pastime before going abroad, and I

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't wait to cast out get a line into the water.

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<v Speaker 1>On my first night out to the cabin, I did

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<v Speaker 1>just that. It was a glorious night. I could not

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<v Speaker 1>have dreamed of better conditions. It was a warm summer's

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<v Speaker 1>evening with fair skies and almost a full moon, absolutely

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<v Speaker 1>perfect for fishing. There was no question that I was

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<v Speaker 1>going to do some fishing down by the dock even

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<v Speaker 1>though my father had warned me it was pretty shallow

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<v Speaker 1>out there. The water could have been inches deep. For

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<v Speaker 1>all I cared. I just wanted to go fishing, so

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<v Speaker 1>that's what I did. I set up my pole, and

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<v Speaker 1>I walked down to the dock, and I ready myself

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<v Speaker 1>a nice comfortable spot with my pole rigged up in

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<v Speaker 1>my first cold beer open and lying out in the water.

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<v Speaker 1>I sat back and took a moment. Finally I was

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<v Speaker 1>in my personal little heaven. As I sat there, I

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<v Speaker 1>decided to get out my camera and take a few

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<v Speaker 1>shots of the moon in the cabin. I've been taking

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of photos in general, as I had no

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<v Speaker 1>idea when I'd be getting back again once trip was over.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd only been sitting there thirty minutes when off high

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<v Speaker 1>and to the west, I could see a red ball

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<v Speaker 1>of light moving and descending rapidly down in my direction.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't have time to think about what it was,

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<v Speaker 1>or if it was a plane or a drone or

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<v Speaker 1>anything I knew of. It obviously wasn't. It was a

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<v Speaker 1>plasma like red ball, about the size of a grapefruit,

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<v Speaker 1>and it seemed to admit its own dull, deeply red

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<v Speaker 1>light and it would change shape as it appeared to

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<v Speaker 1>react to the gravity of its movements. As it got

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<v Speaker 1>to about fifty yards from me, it began to slow down, Thankfully.

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<v Speaker 1>At this point, my instinct was to get the camera,

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<v Speaker 1>so I began taking pictures of the orb as it

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<v Speaker 1>slowly descended approximately thirty yards away to my left toward

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<v Speaker 1>the water. I managed to zoom in on it and

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<v Speaker 1>zoom out, feverishly taking photos as it stopped and hovered

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<v Speaker 1>about three feet above the water. It hovered there for

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<v Speaker 1>five seconds, and then it sped off to my left

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<v Speaker 1>toward the bank and into the woods. That's where I

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<v Speaker 1>lost sight of it. I can't say that I was scared.

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<v Speaker 1>I really can't say if my feelings were positive or negative,

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<v Speaker 1>but something told me to call it a night. Back

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<v Speaker 1>at the cabin, I took a shower, and I picked

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<v Speaker 1>up my phone to message my wife, who was waiting behind,

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<v Speaker 1>to tell her that I was okay, and chat a

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<v Speaker 1>bit before going to bed. We chatted about how our

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<v Speaker 1>days had gone and what we'd done. Of course, who

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<v Speaker 1>could top of UFO siding right? I told my wife

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<v Speaker 1>what had happened, knowing she'd laugh and not believe me.

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<v Speaker 1>She'd think I was kidding with her, as I often

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<v Speaker 1>do about everything, only this time I wasn't kidding, and

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<v Speaker 1>I had the photos to back it up. I randomly

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<v Speaker 1>chose five photos of the fifteen or twenty that I

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<v Speaker 1>had taken of the orb and I texted them her.

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<v Speaker 1>Had I not after the following day, they would have

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<v Speaker 1>all been lost at the bottom of the lake over

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<v Speaker 1>which they had been taken. The following morning, at the cabin,

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<v Speaker 1>I woke up hungry, as I'd gotten in the late

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<v Speaker 1>that evening before, and I'd missed supper. I can't say

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<v Speaker 1>I was jazzed up about my sighting and the photos

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<v Speaker 1>that I had. At most, I figured i'd share a

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<v Speaker 1>few photos on Facebook and other social media outlets. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just something interesting that happened on my trip. After breakfast,

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<v Speaker 1>I told my father what had happened, and I handed

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<v Speaker 1>him my phone to scroll through the photos that I

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<v Speaker 1>had taken. And you'd have to know my father to

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<v Speaker 1>understand his reaction, but I could tell he believed it,

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<v Speaker 1>and after all, there were photos to prove it. I

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<v Speaker 1>put my phone away and began the rest of the day.

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<v Speaker 1>After all, I had more fishing to do and Facebook

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<v Speaker 1>would still be there when I was done. I used

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<v Speaker 1>the rest of the day to fish and help out

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<v Speaker 1>around the cabin a bit. I wanted to prepare an

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<v Speaker 1>old canoe my father had for another catfishing excursion, this

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<v Speaker 1>time using the canoe in deeper waters where I knew

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<v Speaker 1>the big fish were well. Day turned into night and

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<v Speaker 1>I was already prepared for my journey at chicken livers

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<v Speaker 1>and fishing poles, my tackle box and life jacket and lights,

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<v Speaker 1>and of course a shotgun. There were a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>snakes out this year. Who knows whatever else was out there.

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<v Speaker 1>I also packed my smartphone, which would remain at the

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<v Speaker 1>red ege, just in case my little red friend decided

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<v Speaker 1>to pay another visit. I set out for deeper waters

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<v Speaker 1>where the larger fish lay, not so far from the

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<v Speaker 1>dock of the cabin, just far out enough to get

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<v Speaker 1>past the sandbar in the wash out from the creek

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<v Speaker 1>which ran into Haiko Lake. I had rolled out about

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred yards and I decided to set an anchor

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<v Speaker 1>and ten feet of water, and I baited the hook

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<v Speaker 1>of one of the fishing with my trusty chicken liver,

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<v Speaker 1>and I began to rig up a second pole. No

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<v Speaker 1>sooner had I had the second pole rigged. My first

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<v Speaker 1>pole had a bite and it was something big, so

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<v Speaker 1>I set the hook. The fight was on, but the

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<v Speaker 1>catfish had a secret weapon, my anchor rope. He swam

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<v Speaker 1>around the rope of my anchor, making me shift my

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<v Speaker 1>body in order to try to get to the anchor

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<v Speaker 1>and get it up, while hopefully somehow managing to still

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<v Speaker 1>land this fish. Looking back, it was perhaps an overestimation

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<v Speaker 1>of my own rusty abilities. I should have let go

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<v Speaker 1>immediately in the melee, I lost the ever so delicate

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<v Speaker 1>balancing act of canoe fishing and capsized. I emerged from

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<v Speaker 1>the water the canoe completely turned over, with all the

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<v Speaker 1>contents eight to ten feet underneath me. I turned the

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<v Speaker 1>canoe back over, and with a little help from my

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<v Speaker 1>small plastic container of chicken livers, I managed to bail

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<v Speaker 1>out enough water to keep it floating. That catfish won

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<v Speaker 1>the battle, but I had more important things on my mind,

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<v Speaker 1>like finding all the items I knew were somewhere at

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<v Speaker 1>the bottom of the lake. And one by one I

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<v Speaker 1>dove down and I found each item. The shotgun was

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<v Speaker 1>one of the more tricky ones, as it camouflaged itself

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<v Speaker 1>quite nicely among the sticks and branches. Finally, it was

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<v Speaker 1>down to my smartphone. I knew this would be tricky,

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<v Speaker 1>if not impossible, but half of my trip and over

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<v Speaker 1>three hundred photos were still on my sim card, and

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't going to give up without a fight. I

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<v Speaker 1>must have doved down to the bottom fifty or more times,

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<v Speaker 1>feeling around since visibility was about zero, but I never

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<v Speaker 1>could emerge with the phone. I was getting tired, and

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<v Speaker 1>I knew that I still had one hundred yards to

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<v Speaker 1>cover over a sandbar with a water filled canoe. I

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<v Speaker 1>resigned the phone and all photos lost, and I began

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<v Speaker 1>the arduous task of salvaging the canoe in its contents.

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<v Speaker 1>The events of what happened later that night have haunted

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<v Speaker 1>me ever since. I returned to the dock, completely exhausted

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<v Speaker 1>and wanting nothing more than to hit the shower and

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<v Speaker 1>go to bed. I climbed the hill to the cabin

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<v Speaker 1>and I reached the front porch. There, I decided i'd

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<v Speaker 1>pause for a smoke and gathered myself before going inside.

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<v Speaker 1>As I sat there in the rocking chair, enjoying my Marlborough,

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<v Speaker 1>I got an eerie feeling of being watched. I leaned

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<v Speaker 1>forward in the rocking chair and I turned my head

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<v Speaker 1>towards the sky, hoping to see another orb. But before

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<v Speaker 1>my eyes could reach the stars, something else caught my attention.

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<v Speaker 1>Near the tops of the trees in our front yard,

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<v Speaker 1>I saw four hovering figures, unmistakable figures that were darker

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<v Speaker 1>than almost a full moonlit night, wearing dark hoods that

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<v Speaker 1>covered their faces. It's difficult to express what I felt

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<v Speaker 1>as I stood there looking at them and them looking

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<v Speaker 1>at me. Now, I wasn't scared, I was in complete

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<v Speaker 1>alle I closed my eyes and I opened them, but

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<v Speaker 1>they were still there and still staring at me. They

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<v Speaker 1>were the size of an average man, maybe a little shorter,

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<v Speaker 1>and they stood out brilliantly on the bright night. I

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<v Speaker 1>stood there for maybe a minute longer, and finally a

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<v Speaker 1>feeling came over me, as if I'd seen too much

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<v Speaker 1>and it was time for me to leave. So I

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<v Speaker 1>took one last drag from my cigarette and I shoved

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<v Speaker 1>it into the old sand bucket beside the rocking chair.

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<v Speaker 1>I stood up and turned my back to them, and

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<v Speaker 1>I walked into the cabin, where I opted out of

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<v Speaker 1>the shower and I went straight to bed. I've never

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<v Speaker 1>spoken of it since then, but what I saw that

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<v Speaker 1>night is seared into my memory. I know the orb

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<v Speaker 1>and the figures are related, but how and why where

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<v Speaker 1>they're from? Well, your guess is as good as mine.

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<v Speaker 1>The red Orb incident is a true story, and the

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<v Speaker 1>photos are completely real, and to this day I am

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<v Speaker 1>no closer to knowing what it was. I may be

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<v Speaker 1>in the dark about what I saw, but one thing

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<v Speaker 1>is completely clear to me. We are not alone. One time,

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<v Speaker 1>a few friends and I traveled to a bothy, which

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<v Speaker 1>is like an emergency shelter for hikers. We'd like to

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<v Speaker 1>find new ones and stay there often. We went to

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<v Speaker 1>I can't pronounce this smith Hup Bothy in the border

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<v Speaker 1>region of England and Scotland. We got there and chopped

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<v Speaker 1>wood and did everything you needed to do. Upon arrival,

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<v Speaker 1>we had a couple of drinks and we got settled

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<v Speaker 1>in and just when it got dark, I looked out

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<v Speaker 1>the door of the bothie and I could see what

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<v Speaker 1>looked like headlights coming from about a half a mile away.

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<v Speaker 1>We hid because we didn't want to be found, and

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<v Speaker 1>when we looked out again, the headlights joined into a

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<v Speaker 1>single orb and began bobbing up and down. Then it

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<v Speaker 1>zipped right up into the valley toward us, and we

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<v Speaker 1>saw it had many different colors, sort of like a

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<v Speaker 1>pie chart. We stood watching in amazement and trying to

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<v Speaker 1>guess what it was. It moved quickly in a pattern

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<v Speaker 1>of constant triangles, and it stayed there for a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of hours. Now I know this sounds stupid, but we

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<v Speaker 1>were actually bored looking at it. We all saw it,

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<v Speaker 1>but only two of us wanted to talk about it.

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<v Speaker 1>We listened to a football match on the radio, and

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<v Speaker 1>we all fell asleep early. And when we woke up

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<v Speaker 1>the next day, the grass in the valley had been

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<v Speaker 1>flattened where the ORB had been. I like your show

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<v Speaker 1>and I like to listen to it a lot. I

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<v Speaker 1>noticed you have a few UFO and ORB stories for

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<v Speaker 1>my part of the world, so I thought I would

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<v Speaker 1>write to you until you mine. Well. Thank you for

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<v Speaker 1>doing that. Yeah, well, I love UFO stories and ORB

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<v Speaker 1>stories and alien abduction stories. Send them on. Okay, listen

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast with a Bigfoot story. Someone left comment in

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<v Speaker 1>the comment section the other day said why do you

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<v Speaker 1>keep doing all these bigfoot stories? Want you do other stuff?

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<v Speaker 1>And I thought, man, that's the first time anybody has

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<v Speaker 1>ever said that, I do get burned out on these

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<v Speaker 1>Bigfoot stories. But I get it because that's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>how the channel originally started telling Bigfoot stories. But I

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<v Speaker 1>did get I did get to one to read some

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<v Speaker 1>some different type things, hauntings and you know other things UFOs.

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<v Speaker 1>We've had a couple of those in this podcast, and

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<v Speaker 1>I've never had anybody say that. I thought that was

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<v Speaker 1>pretty cool. I wonder how many people will feel that way.

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<v Speaker 1>You guys get burned out on Bigfoot. I do. I

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<v Speaker 1>like doing them, but sometimes if I can just take

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<v Speaker 1>a break for a podcast or two and a different story,

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<v Speaker 1>it kind of revives me a little bit going back

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<v Speaker 1>to Bigfoot. So anyway, let's end this up with a

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<v Speaker 1>Bigfoot story. In the mid nineteen eighties, I joined a

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<v Speaker 1>group of people on a hunting trip. The first morning,

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<v Speaker 1>we didn't get out to our hunting location until seven

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<v Speaker 1>point thirty, way after daylight. The location was a plateau

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<v Speaker 1>above miles of timber and a waterway. Several other vehicles

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<v Speaker 1>were already there when we arrived, and the last thing

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<v Speaker 1>I was going to do was walk into another hunter's

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<v Speaker 1>location during the daylight. The other three headed west for

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<v Speaker 1>the timber, and I went north as there were no

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<v Speaker 1>tracks in the snow headed that way. One of the

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<v Speaker 1>other guys warned me that I would be going into

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<v Speaker 1>a forty square miles of timber and swamp land, and

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<v Speaker 1>it was easy to get lost there perfect I told him.

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<v Speaker 1>I let him know I'd be hunting until dusk and

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<v Speaker 1>not to leave without me. I walked downhill on a

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<v Speaker 1>game trail for one hundred and fifty yards, and to

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<v Speaker 1>my right side was an entanglement of brier bushes at

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<v Speaker 1>least six feet high with massive thorns. It stretched from

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<v Speaker 1>the top of the hill, just short of the park vehicles,

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<v Speaker 1>all the way to the bottom of the hill. No

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<v Speaker 1>one in their right mind would attempt to walk through

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<v Speaker 1>those heavily intertwined briars, because even the heaviest protective honting

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<v Speaker 1>clothes would be ripped to shreds. Once I reached the

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<v Speaker 1>bottom of the long hill, I had a thirty foot

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<v Speaker 1>wide waterway to cross. Luckily, a falling tree allowed access

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<v Speaker 1>to the other side, but halfway across a tree branch

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<v Speaker 1>broke and I fell in. I managed to throw the

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<v Speaker 1>sling of my thirty thirty over a branch and pull

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<v Speaker 1>myself back up onto the log before my feet sunk

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<v Speaker 1>anymore into the silt in the river bottom. I made

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<v Speaker 1>of my boots and I started walking to dry myself

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<v Speaker 1>off on dry land again. I looked for track in

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<v Speaker 1>the snow, but I didn't see any. I headed for

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<v Speaker 1>high ground for a panoramic view, and I saw that

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<v Speaker 1>in the area where I crossed the log were fresh

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<v Speaker 1>tracks right next to me. Now, at first glance, they

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<v Speaker 1>appeared to be black bear tracks. It must have seen

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<v Speaker 1>me fall in the water and figured that it would

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<v Speaker 1>check me out just in case I was an easy meal.

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<v Speaker 1>I was wary, but I kept on high ground to

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<v Speaker 1>heading east in front of me, but I didn't have

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<v Speaker 1>a good shot. After hours of little to no action,

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<v Speaker 1>I went back toward the water to head toward the

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<v Speaker 1>vehicles and my ride back. At that point in the day,

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<v Speaker 1>the cloud cover had become thick and the snowfall was heavy.

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<v Speaker 1>It was getting close to dusk, so I quickened my

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<v Speaker 1>pace towards the vehicles. By the time I reached the

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<v Speaker 1>fallen log across the waterway. The snow had turned into

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<v Speaker 1>a blizzard, and thankfully this time I crossed the water

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<v Speaker 1>without issue, though it was pitch dark at that point

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<v Speaker 1>with very limited visibility. When I finally made it up

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<v Speaker 1>the hill and passed the wall of briars to the

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<v Speaker 1>spot where the vehicles were parked, I realized everyone had

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<v Speaker 1>left without me. I was stranded in the middle of

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<v Speaker 1>nowhere in a blizzard. I waited for twenty minutes when

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<v Speaker 1>I heard a noise come from downhill. I thought it

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<v Speaker 1>must be another hunter from the area, but the visibility

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<v Speaker 1>was near zero, so I couldn't see him. I yelled

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<v Speaker 1>down to him, thinking it might help him find his

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<v Speaker 1>way up the hill, but there was no reply, so

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<v Speaker 1>I yelled down again. Still I got no response, but

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<v Speaker 1>I could hear him heading uphill toward me. He wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>going along the snow covered game trail, though he was

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<v Speaker 1>coming up through the briar patch. Now there was no

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<v Speaker 1>way a human could have traveled through it. Even a

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<v Speaker 1>bear would have avoided it. But there I stood, listening

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<v Speaker 1>to the briars crunching snipe under this thing's feet. Is

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<v Speaker 1>it took one step after another going through this impenetrable

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<v Speaker 1>briar patch with little effort, the way a regular person

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<v Speaker 1>would get through knee high grass. I yelled down again

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<v Speaker 1>to whatever it was, convinced at this point that I

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<v Speaker 1>was not dealing with a human. I got no reply,

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<v Speaker 1>but I did hear it stopped for a few seconds

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<v Speaker 1>before continuing through the briers and closer to me. I

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<v Speaker 1>had an experience with three bigfoot on a fishing trip once.

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<v Speaker 1>They were eight feet in height, totally black, but they

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<v Speaker 1>were friendly. But this time felt different. I was scared.

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<v Speaker 1>All I had was a thirty thirty, which wasn't enough

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<v Speaker 1>to stop a bigfoot. At best, I would be able

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<v Speaker 1>to fire a warning shot to hopefully change his mind

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<v Speaker 1>from coming in my direction. I yelled down one more time,

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<v Speaker 1>letting it know that I would be forced to fire

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<v Speaker 1>if it came any closer. Still, there was no response.

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<v Speaker 1>I heard it stop and then start toward me again.

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<v Speaker 1>I fired around near his location and listened to the

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<v Speaker 1>silence for a few seconds. After that, then I heard

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<v Speaker 1>it getting closer again. I fired another round in the

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<v Speaker 1>same location, and I listened to the silence again, and

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<v Speaker 1>then I heard the sound of it approaching once more.

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<v Speaker 1>If this beast was mad before, it had to be

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<v Speaker 1>really pissed by now. I realized my option at that

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<v Speaker 1>point would be to fire a headshot when it came

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<v Speaker 1>into view, and I backed up a few feet and

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<v Speaker 1>readied myself for a split second shot, listening to this

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<v Speaker 1>thing get closer and closer. Just then I heard something

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<v Speaker 1>to my right. It was a pickup truck, and it

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<v Speaker 1>came to a stop and I jumped in. The guy

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<v Speaker 1>in the back seat asked why I didn't unload my

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<v Speaker 1>rifle when I was supposed to, and all I could

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<v Speaker 1>say was, you do not want to know the answer

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<v Speaker 1>to that question. Lord knows what would have happened if

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<v Speaker 1>that pickup had not return when it did a few

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<v Speaker 1>seconds later, and this story would have ended a whole

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<v Speaker 1>lot differently. Oh, man, I bet it would have. That's

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<v Speaker 1>a cool story. This guy had experiences with Bigfoot before,

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<v Speaker 1>so apparently he knew what he was dealing with, since

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<v Speaker 1>this thing wasn't answering him, and he knew what it

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<v Speaker 1>sounded like coming through that big, thick briar patch. But

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<v Speaker 1>this was exciting, great story. Oh just imagine this happening

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<v Speaker 1>to you. It would just scare me to death. Scare

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<v Speaker 1>me to death, but I'm sure glad he sent the

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<v Speaker 1>story to us so we could all enjoy it. Hey, y'all,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks for listening to a podcast. Wasn't very long, but

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<v Speaker 1>I had a few minutes this afternoon waiting on some

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<v Speaker 1>answers on some questions I have on a job I'm

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<v Speaker 1>working on. I thought, well, I'll just keep being productive

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<v Speaker 1>and record a podcast. So I recorded this real quick,

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<v Speaker 1>edited it, and got it up for everyone to enjoy.

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<v Speaker 1>Me included all right, I appreciate y'all, and we'll see

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<v Speaker 1>you on the next one. Thanks Older added