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<v Speaker 1>Hello, everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>My name is Chris Kirk, and I live on Douglas

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<v Speaker 2>Lake up in Dandridge, Tennessee. Have been here about thirty years.

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<v Speaker 2>And what I'm here to tell you about today is

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<v Speaker 2>a very strange period of my life, which is pretty

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<v Speaker 2>much the summer of twenty fourteen. The summer of twenty

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<v Speaker 2>fourteen here began very strange, and it ended just like

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<v Speaker 2>it began. And I'll try to make this concise and

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<v Speaker 2>try to remember the sequence of these events, because it's

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<v Speaker 2>already been ten years now. But I was sitting right

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<v Speaker 2>behind this camera one night in April of twenty fourteen,

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<v Speaker 2>and I felt an overwhelming compulsion to go out this

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<v Speaker 2>door and over and get in my hot tub. And

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<v Speaker 2>I really didn't want to do it, but my own

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<v Speaker 2>function took me out there finally.

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<v Speaker 1>And as soon as I.

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<v Speaker 2>Got in the hot tub, I got all set up

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<v Speaker 2>and I looked up in the sky above my home

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<v Speaker 2>here looking north, and I saw a star and it

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<v Speaker 2>got really bright and being and bright and dim. It

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<v Speaker 2>did it four times, and on the fourth time it

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<v Speaker 2>got bright, it just took off. Well that just seeing

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<v Speaker 2>that left me in a quite a state. But that's

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<v Speaker 2>just how it began until I developed this vertigo real bad.

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<v Speaker 2>This lake has become rather popular, so I fish at night,

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<v Speaker 2>going out with all the boat traffic and stuff. It

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<v Speaker 2>sort of bothers them for someone who's a little dizzy.

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<v Speaker 2>But so I go out at night, and it's a

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<v Speaker 2>lot in those days. But right after I saw the star,

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<v Speaker 2>I packed my little bag and I went down my

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<v Speaker 2>steps and got in my boat about midnight and went

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<v Speaker 2>up to my favorite fishing spot right up the lake

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<v Speaker 2>here less than a mile and a half, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was fishing on a point that I've been very successful

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<v Speaker 2>catching some small mouth on and something was dropping little

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<v Speaker 2>pebbles close to my boat, and at first I thought

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<v Speaker 2>they were acorns, But then the pebbles started coming with

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<v Speaker 2>some velocity right off and this is now one o'clock

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<v Speaker 2>in the morning, right off of this hillside that's maybe

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<v Speaker 2>seventy five feet high. And then the rocks came a

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<v Speaker 2>little larger rocks, and they came around my boat, and

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<v Speaker 2>they were getting close to my boat, and I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>know if there were some kids up there or something

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<v Speaker 2>was shaking stuff off the bank. So I got on

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<v Speaker 2>the troller motor and I backed off the bank, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>ten yards well, I began to fish again, and the

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<v Speaker 2>next rock that came was a rock that was about

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<v Speaker 2>the size of a large coffee table, and it hit

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<v Speaker 2>within a foot of my boat. And I came home

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<v Speaker 2>a mile and a half down the lake, turned into

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<v Speaker 2>my cove here, pulled in my dock, and generally speaking,

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<v Speaker 2>in the summer, this cove here's probably one hundred decibels

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<v Speaker 2>of natural sounds, crickets and frogs. It's a loud cove.

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<v Speaker 2>And I pulled in and parked, wrapped the boat around,

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<v Speaker 2>wrapped the rope around the cleak, turned off the motor,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was just a whole cove was just alive.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the time I got my paraphernalia to bring

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<v Speaker 2>back up the hill to home, the woods went totally silent, totally.

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<v Speaker 2>That's never happened before. So I climbed these steps, which

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<v Speaker 2>usually is a ten minute trick for the old man.

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<v Speaker 2>I did it in about thirty seconds. I came up

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<v Speaker 2>this hill and was inside terrified. Quite frankly, it's sort

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<v Speaker 2>of hard to admit to be afraid of something like that,

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<v Speaker 2>but just a weird evening. I had other evenings after

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<v Speaker 2>that where I went out at night like I say,

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<v Speaker 2>fishing here in the daytime, with the boat traffic the way,

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<v Speaker 2>it is pretty intenable, untenable, but at any rate. As

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<v Speaker 2>the summer progressed, I went out one evening.

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<v Speaker 1>I went out.

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<v Speaker 2>I was on my favorite fishing spot. Again I made

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<v Speaker 2>I had to make myself go back because I've got

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<v Speaker 2>quite this creepy feel about that place. And again I

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<v Speaker 2>was getting some little pebbles thrown around me, and I

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<v Speaker 2>backed off the point and decided to just come home.

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<v Speaker 2>And as I turned the boat around to head back home,

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<v Speaker 2>something that was extremely heavy, and some physicists may be

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<v Speaker 2>able to tell me just how heavy, but it was bipedal,

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<v Speaker 2>and it ran around from one point I was fishing

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<v Speaker 2>on through the like a circle sea back of a cove,

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<v Speaker 2>around to the other point, which was between me and home,

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<v Speaker 2>like it was going to meet me. And this thing

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<v Speaker 2>was by pedal in it did probably a quarter of

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<v Speaker 2>a mile and about twelve steps.

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<v Speaker 1>Boom boom, boom boom.

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<v Speaker 2>And I could actually feel it resonate through the water

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<v Speaker 2>into my boat, into my feet. I could feel this thing,

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<v Speaker 2>that's how heavy it was. Well, I came home rather quickly.

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<v Speaker 2>This part I don't know if I've mentioned before when

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<v Speaker 2>I came in the cove. My neighbors have boats, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's not nice to pass somebody's boat dot doing

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<v Speaker 2>sixty in a cove because you've just torn their boat

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<v Speaker 2>up or ripped it. You've done damage. But I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>slow down like I should have that night. Now, I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't come off a plane until I got right here,

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<v Speaker 2>close to my dog. And something as I came off

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<v Speaker 2>a plane. If you're familiar the way a bass boat

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<v Speaker 2>does when you dethrottle, you'll come off a plane and

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<v Speaker 2>come down.

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<v Speaker 1>As soon as I did, I heard something go kok boosh.

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<v Speaker 2>It felt like someone throw a car or a truck

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<v Speaker 2>in the lake beside me. This is a very small

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<v Speaker 2>cove here, even when the lake's at full pool, it's

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<v Speaker 2>only about sixty feet across, maybe fifty.

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<v Speaker 3>So so I grabbed my spotlight immediately shined it in

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<v Speaker 3>the water in front of me, where there was no

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<v Speaker 3>boat wake.

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<v Speaker 2>Yet something the size of a bus just fell in

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<v Speaker 2>there and there was no wake, So I'm really creeped out.

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<v Speaker 2>So I tie the boat up, I come up the

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<v Speaker 2>hill quickly. The next day, I looked out there and

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<v Speaker 2>from across the cove as I say, this cove at

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<v Speaker 2>full pools only about fifty feet wide. There were six trees,

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<v Speaker 2>not five or two or seven, six trees specifically broken

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<v Speaker 2>from across the cove to lay right up against my

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<v Speaker 2>boat motor, so I could not.

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<v Speaker 1>Get my boat out of the dock that was in

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<v Speaker 1>the middle of all this.

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<v Speaker 2>Soon after that, my favorite fishing hole whole was off limits.

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<v Speaker 2>I quit going up there. I started fishing close here,

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<v Speaker 2>and one night, at three o'clock, I was on this

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<v Speaker 2>point we call it Ike's Point. Ike didn't own this

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<v Speaker 2>big farm here, and there's a well, I shouldn't tell

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<v Speaker 2>that much. I don't want anybody else fishing it. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a very fishy point here close to my house,

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<v Speaker 2>very close to my house. Because I wasn't willing to

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<v Speaker 2>go off into the dark night anymore, I.

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<v Speaker 1>Was a little spooted.

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<v Speaker 2>But I'm standing out here fishing and I'm catching fish,

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<v Speaker 2>and I hear this scream and I can't mimic it,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was. It was a blood curdling very It

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<v Speaker 2>started off very base, it went right crescendoed into this.

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<v Speaker 1>And what spooked me the most was this.

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<v Speaker 2>As the summer began, I knew something was going to

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<v Speaker 2>happen that got my happy butt in that hot tub

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<v Speaker 2>so I could see that star. When I heard this scream,

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<v Speaker 2>I had the same feeling. I knew it would do

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<v Speaker 2>it three times, and I knew the timing.

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<v Speaker 1>This blew me away? How do I know this?

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<v Speaker 2>And I went three two one, and I stood there

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<v Speaker 2>a few moments and I went three two one on

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<v Speaker 2>Q perfectly right, So I came up.

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