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Speaker 1: Here is a story from Katie from West Virginia. This

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is a paranormal case or it's a series of paranormal

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stories that I really got a kick out of. And

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she writes, I've seen that you have other stories on

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your channel, and I thought these might be interesting to you,

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So even if you don't read them on the podcast,

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please enjoy. I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia.

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My grandpa was great at recounting stories from his childhood,

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and it was a family pastime to sit on the

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front porch or by the coal fire in the winter

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and hear him tell a tale or two. These two

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stories happened in Webster, West Virginia. It's a tiny area

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just outside of Grafton where a lot of coal miners

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and railway workers used to stay. It was between Grafton

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and Philippi. When my grandma Paul was younger, he and

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his brother slept in what was a large walk in

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closet situated near the front of their house. He said

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the wall next to their heads backed up to the

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front porch. From as far back as he could remember,

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he and his brother Junior would hear footsteps on the

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porch at night he said it sounded like a lady

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wearing high heels, pacing back and forth. As they got older,

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they started playing around with it, and they were shouting

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and knocking on the wall, yelling at it. And one night,

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he said, his dad came in there and shouted, now,

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you boys, settled down to leave that alone. That thing

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has been here for as long as I have, and

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it's never heard anyone. My grandpa always thought it was

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a ghost of some description, and from then on they'd

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lay there quietly and listened for it every night, because

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nobody messed with his dad. My grandpa had an aunt

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named Izzy. Izzy ran a boarding house for coal miners

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not far from where we grew up in Webster. Izzy

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was known to have a bit of a foul mouth

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and was afraid of nothing. The big burly guys from

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the coal mines never gave her a bit of trouble,

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but she started getting annoyed with them when she found

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that there was one room none of them wanted to

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sleep in. She finally got out of them that the

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covers would not stay on the bed at night, and

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they would frequently leave the room in the middle of

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the night to go sleep elsewhere. I remember finding that fascinating.

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Since these guys had to have heard and seen some

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pretty scary stuff down in those coal mines, Izzy would

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have none of it. She decided she'd go sleep in

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that room and show them a thing or two. After

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a few nights of the covers coming off the beds,

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she tucked them in under the mattress, and they'd still

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fly off in the middle of the night, so she

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decided to take safety pins and pin them to the mattress.

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Still in the middle of the night, all the pins

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had come undone and the covers were on the floor.

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The boys staying there said that they could hear her

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cussing whatever it was, you damn sons of bitches. She

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wasn't afraid of nothing. And I don't know whatever happened

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after that, but I've always wished I had known old

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Aunt Izzie. And finally, having moved away from West Virginia

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a long time ago, I now live in Scotland. My

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friends and I like to watch podcasts like yours and

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freak ourselves out from time to time. My friend Jen

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recounted a story from a man in her village near Pennicook.

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She said many years ago when he was a young man,

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he would walk home around midnight from a local pub

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up on an old country lane, and on occasion he

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would see a big black dog with red eyes sitting

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on one of the rock walls in the area. He

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said he never paid it any mine, because the legend

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had it that the dog would show up to protect you.

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As creepy as that was. Once we all finished shuddering

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at the thought of a spectral dog in the middle

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of nowhere in Scotland, we looked at each other and

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we said, what on earth is that dog protecting you from?

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And I hope I'll never find out anyway, there you go.

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I hope I've provided some good fodder and I love

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your podcast and the interviews you've done. Keep them coming.

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Signed Katie, Katie, that was so such a good little

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series of stories. I really appreciate you saying that I've

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had this for a long time and I've neglected some

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of these paranormal stories, but they are so good and

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I'm just going to do them on this channel like

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it or not. Paranormal stories are just as good as

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bigfoot stories. Thank you, Katie. Okay, this is a story.

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This is a little bit of a non typical story.

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There's no huge theme here or any kind of point

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climax in the story that will shock you. But it's

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a really fun email from a gentleman in Atlanta that

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I read a couple of weeks ago, and I thought,

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I'm gonna put this in a podcast because it's really

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kind of fun. It's serious, but it's kind of fun.

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So let me just read it and let's see if

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you enjoyed as much as I did. Let's see the

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man rights. Welcome to my first night on Battlefield Avenue.

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My stories don't have anything to do with bigfoot. I've

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never had that experience. But the stories about my house

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are true events that I have experienced. My friend Raj

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owns this house and he's from India. He raised his

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son's here and when I told him about the spirits

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that live here, he just laughed at me laughter. A

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few minutes he ask if it bothered me. I had

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to say, no, haven't had any negative experiences. So let

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me jump in and tell you a little bit about them.

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My name is of no concern to the readers or listeners.

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My house is in such a geographically specific place that

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it is easy to find if you research any history

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about General McPherson and his death, you will find a

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treasure trove of information. This is the history of Battlefield Avenue.

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It's only three blocks long now. When I twenty plowed

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through Atlanta, my street was significantly shortened. I live here

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by myself with two crazy cats, and I have lots

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of work to do on this old house, and I

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don't get lonely. I'm retired from the movie industry. Now

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get a check from Social Security, and I try to

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get to the end of each month. I was a

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special effects fabricator, so if you drive down my streets,

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you'll see my cats and my work in the front

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of the house. I never call it my house. I'm

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not here alone, and the spirits that call this home

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have been here, and we'll be here after I'm gone.

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The work is never ending here. There's not a single

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miter joint in the whole house. Nothing is up to code.

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The first time I took the cover off the electrical panel,

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I thought I was going to die. There were ground

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wires that were barely attached, and everything had the appearance

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of being hand tightened or just in place, ready to

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be locked down and tightened from the installation. There was

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no master breaker either, so I put on my rubber

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gloves and grab what I hoped was a well insulated screwdriver.

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Needless to say, I learned something about electrons when I

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was younger, so a lot of my mystery circuits started

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working a whole lot better. There's an LED strip over

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my couch, and it still didn't work. It has two switches,

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one by the door for a light and a separate

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switch for the ceiling fan that I wanted to put in.

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I took the ghost lights down and I tossed them,

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and when I came in from the trash, the kitchen

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lights blinked. And when I say blinked, I should say

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strove like a disco. I thought the door closing might

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have just helped me find another loose wiring problem. So

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I slammed the door several times, but it didn't blink anymore,

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and I replaced the bulb with a new one, and

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I went back to work. My cats are so funny.

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One is black. His name is Merlin because he thinks

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he's invisible. He is most of the time when I'm

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not wearing my glasses asleep in my black chair. His

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brother's name is Mervin. Mervin. Mervin is huge and he

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weighs fourteen pounds and has weird spots on his back

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like a bobcat. His tail is like a small chain

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which he uses to clear off my desk when it thunders.

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I call it my accessory. It doesn't matter what you

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name your cats. They only come to you when they

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want something. They are part of this eyewitness story. One afternoon,

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I was about to climb up on the roof from

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the back patio and I heard a lady's voice and

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she plainly called my name. Well, I was shocked, and

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I turned and I expected to see someone on the porch,

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and there was no one there. The hair stood up

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on my arms when these things happened, and I have

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that feeling now as I type this into my computer.

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It's like electricity or static. I don't know how to

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describe it. I just go with the energy. The lady

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is plainly only one of my roommates, unless she also

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pulls on my shirt. One afternoon, I was working on

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a guitar and I felt a tug on my sleeve.

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I turned, expecting to see Merlin on the arm of

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my chair, and there he was asleep on the chair

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behind me. Mervin likes to climb up to the highest

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point in the room, so he was on the the

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arm wy. He says he doesn't know how to spell it.

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I don't know how to smell that either. I think

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it's a RMS maybe anyway, armoy and he was fast

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asleep again. The hairs on my arms stood up once.

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When I tried to get up from the chair. I

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felt like my shirt was caught on something right behind

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my back, like a hand pulling me back down or

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a bungee cord. The shirt tug was just the beginning

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of a lot of physical manifestations. Also have a big

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attict tin roof and a fireplace that heats the kitchen

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in the bedroom. I've heard a lot of noise from

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the attic, mostly squirrels. One day I was in the kitchen,

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Merlin was laying in the exact middle of the room

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licking his butt. Sorry, that's what cats do when they're bored.

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They always have to be right in the center of

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my way. Well, I heard footsteps from the attic, and

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it was no mistake. Someone was walking just above my head.

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Above the kitchen. The roof is low, there's no way

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to walk, not upright on two feet. I looked down

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at Merlin and he had stopped licking his blood, and

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he was staring at the ceiling, just like I had been.

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That's when I realized I wasn't hearing things. The light

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flicker is my other roommate. He rings the doorbell and

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makes me think I have a bad bub by making

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it get dim or flash. He seems to be the

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one with a sense of humor. It's funny as hell

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to turn off or just flash the bathroom light when

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it's dark and I'm in the shower. Does it all

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the time. Sometimes I think he's acting like a little kid.

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Now I wonder if this is also the middle of

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the night doorknocker too. Oh yeah. I have two doors

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in the front. The patio has tools in my solar

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system battery, so I keep the outside door locked at night.

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The doorbell is also on the inside door. Usually the

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knocker comes around four am. Sometimes it's three soft knocks

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and that's all. But a couple of times it's been

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followed by five or six loud bangs. And one time

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the doorbell wouldn't stop and the alarm system went off. Well,

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that would be okay, but the alarm system is not

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wired up and it does not work. So I'm glad

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my life is filled with the knowledge that when my

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physical shell is gone, I can come back and mess

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with a living There's more to come from Battlefield Avenue.

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That was just a short email, and I thought it

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was kind of comical, and this man has a great

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attitude towards this stuff and he's having fun with it.

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And you know, we always tend to be afraid of

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these things, and maybe sometimes we don't need to be.

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Maybe sometimes we just need to keep a good light

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attitude toward the things like this gentleman on Battlefield Avenue

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is going through and just kind of roll with it

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and have fun with it and just assume these things

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are not evil or not assumed that they're evil, and

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just kind of wiged him out. And he seems to

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have found out that these things aren't evil or bent

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on hurting him yet he hasn't figured that out yet,

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or hasn't discovered that yet. So I thought it was

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a great story and I wanted to share it with you.

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All right, Here is a story from my friend Gerald.

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Gerald has sent I bet he sent me a half

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a dozen stories and he takes. I've never talked to Gerald,

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but we just kind of communicate via email, and he

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writes stories about his local area and a lot of

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folklore and things that are true, things he's heard. I

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guess through the years or has researched Gerald. If I'm wrong,

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you can email me and tell But he was a

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good writer, and he recounts stories that he knows about.

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This one is called I can't remember the name of it.

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I can't remember what he called it in the email,

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but I'm just going to read it. It was a

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breathless day and Walnut Run, Iowa. Sunlight fell like a

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golden lance. Bud de Young jounced up and down in

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the tractor's hard seat. That's the only thing wrong with

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this John Deere forty twenty. He thought, this open cab,

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he ran a brown arm over his forehead. Damn this

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dusty work, he thought. Behind him, the plow blades turned

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over thick scabs of earth, and he steered deeper into

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the mound. De Young had bought his land last autumn

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from Irwin Path. As the old timer began disposing of

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his life, cancer would kill him. In December, Path was

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reduced to his holdings so as to have something to

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leave his wife and children. His son was in an

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accountant in Des Moines, and his daughter had married a

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young dentist and moved to Colorado with him, and neither

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was interested in taking over the large farm. De Young

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felt a small pang of guilt for having driven such

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a ho bargain with old Path, but only a small pang.

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Path was one of the old timers, the old fogiese

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who sat in their ways and so superstitious about farming.

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It was nineteen seventy one, the twentieth century. Farming was

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now scientific, and there's no room for sentimental worries of

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an old man. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butts was advocating all

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out fence post to fence post cultivation. De Young had

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never understood why Path had let this fat land lie fallow.

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There was a lush, loamy soul under the grasses and

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wildflowers pay dirt Iowa stall. Incredibly, the young Path had

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cautioned him that mound over there by Walnut Creek, that's

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an old one, that mound. Searching lee Path had looked

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up into the younger man's face. That's from the Kahokia

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people before the Mandans before the pawn. Who knows what

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lies under that mound. It's best just to leave it alone, sun,

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he said. De Youong smirked at the thought. What an

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old goat good land like that, just wasting it. You

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find those airheads and bits of pottery every spring, cast

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up by the winter frost, and they don't mean anything.

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These Indians had this land for a long time. They

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just wasted it. Yeah. He concentrated on plowing down the

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distinctive mound, and in the distance a small plane was

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silhouetted against the sun. Was too early for crop dusting,

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he thought, must be just general aviation. It's a perfect

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day for flying. Three passes later, the mound was no more,

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and approvingly, Deyong looked back over his shoulder at the

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rutted furrows corn. He decided, this whole section will be

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in corn. He was trying to compute what his potential

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return on the investment might be when a dark shadow

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crossed over him. He peered up, but there was nothing there,

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and then in the distance he saw it. It was

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a small plane canted at an impossible angle, and then

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it banked upward. He stared, and the plane flapped its wings.

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Bud de Young break the tractor to a halt, and

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he blinked. It was so far and so high now

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that it was difficult to see. But the plane soared

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lazily against the sun again. Its wings flapped two, three,

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four times. And it wasn't an aircraft. It was a bird,

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some fantastic bird. What the hell? De Young thought as

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he watched the giant bird turn toward him. Its wingspan

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was easily thirty feet tip to tip, maybe longer. The

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improbable bird was larger than the cessnas, than pipers to

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Young had seen in the Elewa sky all this life,

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and now the bird was diving toward him at an

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incredible speed. Clean sunlight illuminated brilliant red and gold coloration,

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and the bird's beat gleamed like a gemstone. De Youong

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ducked involuntarily as the impossibly huge bird careened toward him,

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and it passed just missing him. And in his peripheral

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vision he saw intensely dark hooded eyes. There was no grace,

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no mercy in those black eyes. Distracted and alarmed, he

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had lost concentration in driven the deer out of the

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field and down the creek bank. The diesel engine chugged

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and barked and restarted, but the tractor wheels were firmly

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mired in the sodden ground. De Young shifted into reverse,

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but the heavy plow behind him had bitten deep into

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the earth and it was lodged, and he couldn't go

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forward or back. Distantly, he could see the bird turn

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and again another plummet toward him. Seperately, he shook the

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steering wheel from side to side, but to no avail.

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He was stuck. De Young jumped down from the tractor

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and scrambled up the creek bank and began to run

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for his life. The bird was closing quickly. He looked

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up in time to see the bird swooping toward him

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at astonishing speed and so large it blocked the sun

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and all possibilities of escape. Its huge talons opened wide

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like gutting knives, leveled out toward him, and he opened

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his mouth to scream. This was written by Gerald Gustafson,

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October twenty twenty one. Great story, Gerald, I'd be curious

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to know if this is folklore around that area in Iowa,

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or if it's some piece of fiction you made up.

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But it's a really good story. I loved it when

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a writer can take a thought and an action and

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condense it down to a story like this and tell

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the whole story and and have an impact on the

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listener or the reader. He's done a good job in

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Gerald's a great writer. Thanks Gerald. So I'm a hunter,

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gatherer and all around out dorseman. I decided to head

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out to a state forest here in southern New Jersey

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to hunt for some mushrooms after a few days removed

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from heavy rains. It was a large track of land

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and it's known as the Pine Barrens, and it's over

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a million acres of pine forests and plenty of wetlands

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that snake their way through the sandy barren land. It's

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a rich ecosystem nestled in the southern part of the

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most heavily populated state per square mile in the Union.

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The recent rains gave the forests a renewed green as

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autumn approached, and this was certainly one of the last

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real humid, warm days before the cold weather arrived. And

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I pulled my truck over to a sandy shoulder on

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a sugar sand road, and I began to search the

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sandy ridges and road banks that the mushrooms grew on

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the day went on, and my bag got heavier and heavier,

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with shan trails, black trumpets, and I even scored some

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chicken of the woods on an old oak tree. We

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cut that off an oak tree right behind this office.

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We get a big slab of it every year, and

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we eat every bit of it. It's good stuff. I

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had plenty for supper and much more, but I wanted

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to enjoy the perfect day a little longer, so I

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took a hike down an old indoor bike trail that

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spit me out at the headwaters of an old bog.

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I was overheated from the ninety plus degree weather, so

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I decided to hike into the dark throes of a

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cedar swamp just below the bog. After wrestling with tangles

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of briar and thorns and stickers, I finally stumbled into

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a dark swamp and began to saunter my way along

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the tann extream. I felt my boots sinking the moss,

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and I listened to the birds and the tree frogs

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and the distant gun and cannon fire at a nearby

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bombing range. And I gazed over the forest floor, looking

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for any sign of orchids. I know of a few

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types that bloom this type of year, and I wanted

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to see if I could get a photograph my days

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from my senses coming together in harmony that put me

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in a spiritual nirvana that was interrupted by a low,

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guttural growl that cut through me. My heart dropped to

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my belly like a bobber dropping into a lake, and

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at the same moment, a stench filled the air that

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I can only describe as I can only describe as

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stew of chicken livers left out in the sun for weeks,

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a truck stopped bathroom, and a sprinkle of burning tires

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for good measure. I was tearing up and gagging at

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the smell, and I began to lurch backward the way

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I came, knowing whatever growled at me from the bushes

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wasn't how happy to see me. I stumbled my way

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across the swampy landscape, while at the same time hearing

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large limbs breaking behind me as someone or something pursued me.

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My boots were concrete as I continued to sink into

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the muck. As the light from the surrounding pitch pine

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forest grew larger. I didn't dare look back behind me,

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as I knew that would probably slow me down. I

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burst through the opening like a sprinter running through the

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finish line, and I high tailed it out to my truck.

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I knew the thing was not far behind me, so

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I got in and I peeled off, leaving a rut

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from skidding off that's still there today. As I drove off,

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a loud screech that sounded like a woman being murdered

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filled the air. As I flew down the trail to

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the main route that cuts through the pines, I believe

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I may have encountered the Jersey Devil that day. To

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this day, I've only been back a few times to

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my little gathering spot. Each time I go back, I

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always remember not to walk far from the truck. Also,

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I always try to bring along someone for extra safety.

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If there's anything that I've learned over the past few

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years is that there's much more out in the woods

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than we think. I was a skeptic for years, and

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I would laugh at people if they had any sort

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of weird encounters. But now I completely know what's out there.

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Woop man, what a good story. This thing chased him

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out of the Pine Barons. That's what it's called. My

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friend Eric, who does a ssquatch podcast, He's done a

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lot of expeditions in the pine barns, and that Jersey

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Devil story seems to whole some water. I mean, tons

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of people see that stuff. Okay, here's another email that

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I think you guys will find interesting. The writer doesn't

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want her name revealed. Thank you for letting me share

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these encounters that I'll never forget. I'd like to keep

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my name anonymous due to the risk of being ridiculed

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or being made fun of. My first encounter occurred in

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the summer of two thousand and two in central Indiana.

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I grew up with my mother being interested in Bigfoot,

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but it was always a joke in my family and

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not considered to be a real creature. My beliefs quickly

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changed in just a moment with an unexpected encounter. My

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older sister and I often enjoyed going to youth group

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that met midweek about an hour from our home. Our

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parents let us go, but we were told always to

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get home before dark. That particular night, the service lasted

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longer than normal, causing us to be traveling home in

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the dark. And my parents lived on a dead end

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road fairly remote with an additional quarter mile driveway. We

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rounded the curve of the dead end road and standing

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in the middle of the road was a large, dark

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figure with glowing red eyes. My sister was driving and

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quickly stopped the car in the road. The figure just

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stood there staring at us, and we stared at it.

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I know it only stood there for a very short time,

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but it felt like it was several minutes, and then

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the creature quickly walked off the road and into the woods.

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I don't remember feeling fear, but more absolute shock. My

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sister quickly went down the driveway to the safety of

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our parents' home. The picture of those glowing red eyes

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has never left my mind. I can see it in

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my mind just like it was yesterday. Twelve years later,

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and I was married and living with my husband on

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almost a two hundred acre horse ranch that was shared

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by his family. I told my husband my previous experience,

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but he never acted like he believed me. One night,

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we decided we wanted to camp out, and we pitched

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a tent in the woods where we lived and enjoyed

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the evening around the campfire. We climbed in our tent

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to go to sleep, and at the same time we

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both had this overwhelming feeling of dread and danger close by.

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We didn't see anything, but felt like we immediately had

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to get out of there, and we grabbed our phones

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and flashlights and we took off on the four wheeler

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to go back to our home. A few weeks later,

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my husband decided to take our two dogs on a

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late night four wheeler ride in the hayfield behind the

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large wooded area. He wanted to see what wildlife was

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out there at night. The dogs were excited to go

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and joyfully ran ahead of the four wheeler like they

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usually do. My husband got to the hayfield and he

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shut the four wheeler off, taking advantage of the moonlight. Suddenly,

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the dogs came back crying and tried to climb onto

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the fore wheeler with him. My husband was trying to

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figure out what had our dogs so scared, and he

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shined us light across the field, and across the field,

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his light hit a large black figure with glowing red eyes.

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He said. The creature quickly started walking away into the field,

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but kept its eye on him. He started the four

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We learned and came back to the house with our dogs.

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He came inside and his face was completely pale, as

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if the blood had drained from his face. He told

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me what he had seen. We didn't get much sleep

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that night, and our dogs slept inside with us. I

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haven't seen anything out of the ordinary since then. I

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started to get scared to go out in the woods,

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but have since decided that the woods are God's creation

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and I'm going to enjoy them. Good for you. I

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don't know the origins of Bigfoot, but I know they're real.

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Thank you, and God blessed well. God bless you, ma'am.

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That was a great story. I really appreciate it. I

478
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think it might be kind of unusual for one person

479
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to have an experience when they're younger, and then they

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get married in their spouse years later has almost an

481
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identical experience. That's kind of unusual, but it sure, you know,

482
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it kind of justifies everything you told him all up

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until that date. But it's just a wonderful story. I

484
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really appreciate it, and I know it's scary, but we

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all loved it, so thanks for sending it. I don't

486
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know who this is from, but it's a good one.

487
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At some point anyway I'm reading it, Cole I have.

488
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I've just kind of breezed through it, so I'm going

489
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to stumble through it. Hey, Cam, I found your YouTube

490
00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:34,720
channel a week or so ago, and I enjoy all

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the stories you share from all the people that have encounters.

492
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I'd like to share my encounters with you. My first

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encounter happened when I was nine years old. I was

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fishing with my brother and my stepdad on a remote

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part of the river in Edwards, New York. We were

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about two miles back in the woods from any main

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road or house. I was fishing by myself in a

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section of the river when all of a sudden, I

499
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had a sense of fear come over me. I was

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scared like any nine year old boy would be, when

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all of a sudden, on the other side of the river,

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a forty foot tall dead pine was pushed over thirty

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yards inside of the woodline, right in front of me.

504
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There was no breeze this day, and no black bear

505
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was going to knock over such a huge tree. It

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scared me to my core, and being a clueless kid,

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I ran to find my stepdad at the time, just

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for a sense of safety. My second encounter happened in

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a small town in western Vermont, where I have lived

510
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my entire life, and I was heading to a job

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site early that morning. When driving down a two lane

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country road which I had traveled a thousand times, I

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came around the corner in the road and a figure

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stepped out from behind a tree for a few seconds.

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As I caught it in the high beams of my

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lifted Chevy pickup truck, I was at a loss for

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words when my brother said from the passenger seat, did

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you see that too? Judging by the hood of my truck,

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this thing was all of seven feet tall that had

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yellow eyes shine. Although the sighting was one of only

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a few seconds, but I knew what I had seen,

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and my brother was there too to witness it with

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me for verification. My third encounter happened in November of

524
00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:30,799
twenty twenty. I was deer hunting in northern Vermont. I

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was hunting with my brother on an eleven thousand acre

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parcel of state land around ten in the morning, and

527
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I had not seen a thing, when all of a sudden,

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I had an overwhelming sense of fearing something was watching

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me in the woods, and everything went quiet. And I

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00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:50,319
couldn't help but fixate on a strange looking stump one

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hundred and twenty yards out through the hard woods, and

532
00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:57,880
it didn't look right. Many people have the experience of

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mind speak from these creatures. I knew what was in

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the area, and I simply said in my mind that

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I was only here for one deer, and I meant

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him no harm, would he please leave me alone? Although

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I didn't get a response, after five minutes or so,

538
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the feelings went away and the stump I was fixated

539
00:32:18,799 --> 00:32:22,400
on was gone. I've had many odd things happened to

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me in the woods in my twenty one years of honting.

541
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These times are definitely the weirdest. I hope to hear

542
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,640
my experiences on your channel, and thank you for the

543
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outlet to provide so many people. I wish to keep

544
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my name anonymous because I live in a small town

545
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,359
in rue Vermont and where everyone knows everyone. There You go, man,

546
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,839
you got to hear your story on the channel, and

547
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,279
I didn't say your name, so I read this cold.

548
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If you'd had your name up top, i'd had to

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go back and edit it out. This is really interesting

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and I appreciate the story