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Speaker 1: I'd prefer my name and email not be used, even though,

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as I've said before, the ship has already sailed. In

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regard to people thinking I'm crazy, lol, he writes, this

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is in reference to a comment that you made about

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elders with dementia in the video Bigfoot Kills a Rogue Gugwy. Now,

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no worries. I'm not attacking or a complaining, but rather

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suggesting an alternative explanation for occurrences of that sort. In

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any case, A funny thing back several weeks to a

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month ago, when my dad was in rehab after having

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a pacemaker installed. He kept complaining for three or four

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days about being able to hear a conversation in his

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room in the wee hours of the morning between two

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people who weren't there. We checked the area around the room,

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and on one side there was in fact another room,

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and the walls in the place were notoriously thin, But

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on the nights in question, no one was in that room,

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so it would have been unlikely that he would have

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heard any voices from that source. The other side of

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the room shared a wall with a nurse's station that

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was only occupied during the day in a broom closet

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on the adjoining hallway that was never used. Several others

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who had been assigned to that room, I was told

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by one of the orderlies or maybe it was a

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nurse I can't remember, had reported and complained about similar

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occurrences there. He said that he didn't know, but maybe

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that room was haunted. There had been at least one

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death in the room, he said. One of the residents

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apparently overheard and later told me that several people had

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had similar experiences that he had heard about. All of

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that made me think about your comment in the Bigfoot

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Kills the Road Gugwe video about people in nursing homes

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walking around talking to people who weren't or aren't there.

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Maybe the people those residents are talking to are really there.

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Maybe they're ghosts or similar or you and the staff

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just couldn't see them. And as I said, maybe that's

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on an alternative explanation to just dementia. I'm reminded of

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Terry Pratchett's line about wizards, something to the effect that

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wizards can see what's really there. Maybe the elders who

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are talking to the air, as it were, are actually

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conversing with someone invisible who is really there, and that

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could very well be the case whoever they're talking to.

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In just a few instances I've seen in the nursing home.

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Like I refer to people who don't know what I'm

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talking about, I was talking about visiting my mother in

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law in a nursing home. I haven't spent much time

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in nursing homes. My grandmother was in one for years

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and we would go see her, but we would just

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go straight to her room and sit with her for

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a couple hours, and then we'd leave. We didn't really

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interact with the other patients at the at the care facility.

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But in this case, this nursing home, retirement home, whatever

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you want to call it, here seemed to be a

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little more maybe crowded, I'm not sure how you would

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say that, but the people were more active and they

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would walk around and there were a couple that I

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would see just talking. They'd just be sitting there, like

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you walk by their rooms. All the rooms are open,

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and they're just sitting there on their bed just talking

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to somebody. I don't know what it is, and I

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don't know if someone is there or not. There's so

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many mysteries to this and what happens to the mind

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when we get older we or if we begin to

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experience the effects of dementia and Alzheimer's. And I don't

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know the connection between the two. I pretty much just

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know it's two different words, and one of them means

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one of them means one thing, one of them means

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the other. Not other's experts out there, your parents or

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someone you know, your wife's spouse, somebody's had Alzheimer's and dementia.

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So I'm not trying to be an expert on any

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of this. The point was is that they're talking to

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somebody and in their mind there is somebody there that

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they see. I could tell you some stories about my

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mother in law had a roommate a she was just

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living on Social Security, and you have to they stack

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people up in rooms. She was very comfortable, everything was

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working out pretty good. I honestly, I don't really think

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she knew where she was, but she was happy. She

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was always smiling, and she was a lovely, lovely woman

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and I miss her terribly. My wife does too. But

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her roommate would often go off on these tirades about

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people she would see in the corner, and she would

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be screaming at them, screaming at him in the corner

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and saying really really kind of strain stuff. And so

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she was seeing or imagining someone and maybe there was

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someone bad, some entity bad there in the corner. Actually,

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she was kind of pointing. At first. I thought she

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was pointing at me, and I was like, you're not

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talking to me, are you. She never acknowledged me. She

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just kept pointing, and I can't tell you what she

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was saying. It was kind of it was kind of creepy,

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but she was a sweet old lady and she passed

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away a couple of months after that. But maybe there

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was some kind of evil entity in the corner sitting,

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you know, I don't know. Maybe it was ready to

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pounce on me. Who knows. But anyway, all that to say,

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I thought this email was interesting. I thought i'd share

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it with you. Has nothing to do with cryptids, but

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you know me, I'm always doing something different. So let's

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go to another story. A few years ago, I was

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sitting home alone on Saturday night and I was looking

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for something to do, and I couldn't find anyone to

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hang out with. So I headed an nor to a

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secluded spot that I used to frequent to do a

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little target shooting. The moon was bright and the lonely

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Arizona desert at night, and I drove seven miles down

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a two lane highway to where a hidden dirt trail

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took me a mile and a half to another trail

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that wrapped around the mountain. My plan was to fire

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each of the weapons that I'd brought until they were empty,

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and then head back home. The whole time I was there,

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I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched. Man.

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That is a huge theme of this podcast, isn't it.

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Everybody feels like they're being watched. Anyway, back to the story.

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I had tracked a movement on the mountain side fifty

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meters away when I got there, and it looked like

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large piercing eyes of a towering being. But I wrote

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it off as a coyotee or something that only looked

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a big because of the angle I was viewing it from.

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I figured it would run off when I started firing.

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The first guy and I planned fire was a pistol.

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I took an aim and I pulled the trigger. Clicked.

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That's odd, I thought, and I racked the slide and

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the round fell out, and I pulled the trigger again. Click.

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For seven rounds it was click, rack, drop. I must

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have some bad AMMO, I told myself. I picked up

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my eighteen fifty one and I cocked it and I

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squeezed the trigger. Click. The cap didn't discharge. I tried

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it again. It didn't discharge again, and there was a

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hiss from the fourth attempt, indicating a partial ignition. But

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other than that, all five rounds were duds. It was

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a piece of crap, anyway, I said. Next was my

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hunting rifle. It was my favorite. So I brought two

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stripper clips and I cycled it and clicked. Every round

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was cycle, rinse, repeat in both magazines. It was the

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same for every other gun i'd brought with me that night,

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and I'd brought quite a few. The best I'd managed

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was one partial ignition in my eighteen fifty One. Months later,

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I tried this same AMMO in the same guns, and

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I had no problems at all. My frustration with my

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weapons took a back seat when I suddenly tasted a pungent,

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foul smell, followed by the sound of footsteps, and I

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glanced back up to where I had seen the eyes earlier,

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and it was back, and I got the impression that

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it was glaring at me. Adjacent to it on the

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other hillside were two or three more sets of eyes,

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and I looked around and I saw five more figures

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down in the valley in Unison. They all moved in

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on me, and I left all the guns in the

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bed of my truck, and I slammed the tailgate shut

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and jumped in the cab and turned the key to

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start it. The fear was welling in my stomach and

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it jumped into my throat when I realized that my truck,

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for the first time ever, failed to start. I turned

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the key again. Nothing, and three more times I turned

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that key, and then finally, as a delayed reaction, it

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sprang to life. I threw it into driving a massed accelerator,

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and twice it spun in the soft sand and the

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cac die before it caught and lurched forward. I never

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dropped it below thirty miles per hour until I hit

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the asphalt, where I pushed the speedometer to one hundred.

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I opted to take the interstate home that night and

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stay off the dinky desert bike roads. As I drove,

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I called my girlfriend to help calm me down, but

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that didn't work. So I called my buddy, who was

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always out there with me, and when I told him

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everything that had happened, he and I had the same thought, Well,

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I'm so anal about my guns having even one act

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up as a rarity, but all of them. I happened

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to glance down at the clock as we were talking,

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and it was one am. I left home at eight pm.

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I drove forty five minutes to the spot, and I

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was there for less than an hour and was back

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on the highway in less than twenty minutes, talking to

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my friend on the phone. It shouldn't have been any

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later than ten pm, but it was one am. How

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did that much time pass so quickly? And to this

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day I have no explanation for it. When I got

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home that night, I'll pull the powder from the black

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powder rifles to investigate, and every one of them had

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exactly the same amount of powder they would have if

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they'd been fired. I waited till the next morning to

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go check my Kentucky rifle, but all the measurements were right.

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I'll never go out to the desert alone at night again.

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It's been a few years since this happened, and it

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still shakes me up to go out at night at all.

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I won't write what I know these creatures to be.

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I am superstitious, and after that night, I don't want

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to take any chances. It's taken me years just to

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write down this incident at all. I'm riding it now

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because a few days ago I went back. I had

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to get some answers. My friend came with me this time,

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and we arrived before the sunset and we walked the

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whole area. The spot where I first saw the eyes

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is inaccessible by humans. The distance they covered when they

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moved in on me was too far and too difficult

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to do in the time that they'd done it. We

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found evidence of dwellings made by something beside Cody's and

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Jivelina's and the Palo Verde tree that had been snapped

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off seven feet off the ground and bent down to

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create a wall that blocked the sun on that side.

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We climbed up to it and found scratch marks that

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looked suspiciously like claw marks, and the ground underneath it

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had been picked clean of stones. Considering the fact that

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the entire area was made of stones, that was a

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bit odd. As night drew near, we walked further down

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to the U shaped valley and I made a fire

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to burn some of the rains trash left by other people.

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I was hoping it would draw in the prying eyes

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I had seen before. It was uneventful until it wasn't.

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I heard a rustling of what I thought was a

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rabbit or a cody and the bushes to our east,

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and seconds later I saw a figure crossing the slope

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we had just walked down. I knew immediately that it

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was not a hiker. I trained my rifle on it

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and watched as it traversed the hard terrain, and it

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stopped behind a tree that partially blocked my view. It

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was too dark to get a clear picture, but I

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could see well enough to know that the creature was

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staring at us, and it didn't like what we were doing.

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A feeling of ill intent swept over me, and I

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realized that I may not like what this creature was planning.

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It stood behind the massive paaloverde for five minutes, staring

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through a fork in the tree that I knew was

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well over six feet above the ground. I was not

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comfortable with the idea of being stared at by one

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of these things that had run me off years before.

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My buddy suggested that I fire a warning shot, and

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I managed to prove a large branch above its head,

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and the branch fell at its feet as the shot

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echoed through the valley, but the creature never moved. A

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and I maintained my staring contests with the beast while

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my buddy packed up. I knew not to back down

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to this animal. I've always been told they'll charge and

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if I turn my back, but if I stay firm,

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they'll be more wary. Although I didn't see any others

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that night, I felt their presence as we drove back

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around the mountain. The Sognooran Desert is my home. I

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grew up here and I camped here since I was

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a kid, and I know the Native Americans who have

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lived here since long before the Europeans arrived. I've shared

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this story with them, and they've told me their own tales.

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I don't know for certain what these creatures are, but

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I'm sure that you can guess the name that I

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would give them. The supernatural is never my first thought.

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But if anyone else has an explanation, I'd love to

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hear it. What I need most of all is answers.

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In nineteen ninety, my husband and I moved to Bentonville, Arkansas,

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from Texas, Okay. The event takes place in Arkansas, close

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to Bentonville, up in the northwest part of the state.

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She writes. My parents helped us load the U haul. Dad,

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my husband, and my little brother went in the truck,

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and me and Mom and my sister were in the car.

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There's a turnpike that starts near Paris, Texas, and it

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goes to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it's called the Indian Nation Turnpike.

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This turnpike in nineteen ninety was the loneliest road in Oklahoma.

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Mom said that I should get some sleep deep and

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I could take the wheel in Muskogee. I was asleep

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when I heard my mother scream What the hell was that?

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With sleepy eyes, I could see that she was pale

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with fear. Maybe it was amazement, and I told her

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to stop and let me dry, but she wouldn't. Dad

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stopped at the gas station in McAllister, and he looked worried.

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He and my mother hugged each other and he said,

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no one says a word. Well, we were all asleep,

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so none of us had seen it. And later Mom

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told me in the car that she had seen an

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eight foot tall naked man covered in hair walking on

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the side of the road, and when we passed it,

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it ran between our two cars. I guess my father

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had seen it too, but he didn't say anything, and

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my mother swore it was a bigfoot up until the

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day she passed away. We never told our kids this

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story until my son had his encounter. Willis, Texas is

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like any small town, and when we moved here, the

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population was four thousand people. We moved to a neighborhood

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of mobile homes and it was wooded in some spots

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and heavily wooded on the north side of the street.

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In that area, a young boy could explore to his

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heart's content. Sam Houston National Forest is connected to those woods.

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One day, my son and his friend came into the

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house and they were breathing hard and scared to the

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point that he was shaking. I asked them what had happened,

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but his friend kept telling me that he just wanted

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to go home. My husband told him that he would

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take him home, but he said he had called his

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dad and they were going to meet us on the trail.

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At this time, my son was eleven years old. My energetic,

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talkative boy was quiet, and he went to his room

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and he shut the door. My husband and I were concerned,

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so we went in to talk to him. The blinds

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and curtains and sat in the dark, and when we

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came in, he asked us not to turn the lights on,

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but he knew that I have a phobia of the dark,

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so he turned on his lamp. He kept saying, please

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believe me, I know what I saw, and we said, well,

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tell us what you saw and we will believe you.

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He and his friends went to do their boy things

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in the woods, exploring and all, and soon it was

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getting late and the other boys decided to head home,

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and he and another friend decided to check a pond

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to see if there were any fist jumping. Then they

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heard footsteps in the woods. They thought maybe it was

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an animal like a deer or a cow, but then

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they figured out it was walking toward them, and then

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they heard a whistle and then the walking stopped. His

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friend told him that he was getting spooked and they

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decided to walk back to their bikes, and then the

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thing started walking beside them in the woods. Well, my

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son looked over and he saw something red and dark

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in the trees. He said it was tall, and he

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kept telling his friend to walk faster. He knew if

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he ran, this thing would chase after him. And finally

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they got to their bikes and they took off. They

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could hear the creature running beside them in the woods still,

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and at one point his friend's chain broke on the bike.

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My son stopped long enough for his friend to run

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and jump on the bike, and at that time he

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looked over and there was a face of a human

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ape man looking right at him from the woods. He said,

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the teeth were the scariest thing about it. Well, my

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son took off, and when he looked back in the

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mirrors of his bike, this thing stepped out in the road.

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He said he about peede his pants, but he kept

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on going until he got to the house. And then

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he looked at me and he said, Mom, this thing

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is real and it's here. Two days later, I was

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doing dishes late at night. I had six children in

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the house and they were all teens except this one son,

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and it was the only time I could really clean

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and watch TV. I looked out the window because my

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dog was whimpering and scratching at the door. That was

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weird because he loved being outside. Well. I went to

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the door and he ran inside, and then I looked

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toward the woods and I saw something in the dark,

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and it was moving and it was big. I slowly

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closed the door and I locked it, and I ran

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to my daughter. My husband was working nights then, and

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she turned off the lights and we looked out the

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window and she saw it too. I told my husband,

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but he told us that we were imagining it. And

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then one night, taking out the trash, something happened to him.

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I don't know what it was, but what I do

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know is he said that we're moving. Years later, my

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son told me that the creature knew where we lived

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because it waited for him to come outside, but he

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never did. He is a father now, and when I

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go to Bigfoot conferences, it is for him and my mother.

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He tells me, I know you believe me, Mama. Thank you. Well.

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He's one tough young man, but look into his eyes,

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and you know the event is very real. I don't

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know if you take alien abduction stories, but I'm compelled

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to tell my story to you. I think there are

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many stories out there, but they don't dare talk about it. Anyway,

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Here goes mine. Let me start to tell you that

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I was an RN for thirty five years. I was

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an educator and a director. I lived in Florida for

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many years and got my nursing education there. Back in

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my college days, it wasn't uncommon to go on a

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date and then go parking on a deserted country road.

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Those days, it was just a big kiss fest. After

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a while, I had to step into the bushes and

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use the restroom. Eventually he took me home. He kissed

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me good night, and I got ready and went to bed.

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No drama at all so far. I woke up the

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next morning when I was getting dressed, and I noticed

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a deep wound in my right hip. It was one

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and a half inches deep. It had a dark ring

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around the entrance. I could put my little finger down

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in it, almost to my second knuckle. Normally, when you

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get a wound like this, it bleeds and it hurts.

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It usually gets infected. It drains until healed up, and

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then it leaves a scar, but not this wound. It

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didn't hurt at all, and it didn't bleed, it didn't

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get it infected, and it never drained. I eventually healed up.

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It did not leave a scar. I didn't tell anyone

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for years, except one time I told a lady doctor

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about it, and her eyes got really bad and she

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freaked out a little. She told me that it was impossible.

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Well impossible or not, it happened. I'm retired now, and

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throughout the years I've had occasional visions of a white

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alien face staring down on me while I lay on

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a stretcher. I was watching one of the alien abduction

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TV shows a couple of months ago, and in that episode,

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this poor guy was being tormented by aliens flying around

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his property. They brought in a hypnotist to uncover his memories.

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He reported that he had been abducted at one time

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or another. I thought that this is a good idea.

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I wanted to get to the bottom of what happened

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to me that night. I had a friend who was

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a psychologist and she was trained to do hypnosis. I

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was a bit scared, but I went through with it anyway.

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I was taken back to the scene of that night.

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I was walking back to the car after spending a

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few minutes in the bushes, and suddenly a clear white

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light came down on me and pulled me up into

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a spacecraft. When I got into the craft, there were

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two tall white aliens to greet me. It was small

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in there, and to my right there were controls to

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the craft. In the back was a white bench with

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what looked like specimen tubes lined up, and in the

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middle was a narrow white bed. One of the whites

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made it known to me that I was to lie

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on the white bed. I protested, but I laid down

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as directed. He took a green, glowing stick that looked

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like a pencil, pulled down the corner of my pants

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and on my left hip, pierced my skin with it.

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Things got fuzzy after that, but I asked him why

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he was doing that. He telepathically said to me d

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n A. That totally freaked me out as to why

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they wanted my DNA. I will leave you to speculate

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why this alien wanted my DNA. I have my own theories.

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I would like to say that that was the end

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of the story, but it's not. When I was in

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my fifties, I woke up one morning and I noticed

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that the outer eyelashes on both eyes were neatly clipped

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off at an angle. The shortest cut off lashes started

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at the outer corner of my eye. The cut angle

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up to the lashes in the middle. This made a

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nice triangle cut of my outer lashes on both eyes.

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I thought, what in the world would cause this. I

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then remembered that when doctors want the eye wide open,

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they would put a clamp on the outer lashes that

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could potentially break off in the same pattern. All I

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could think is that they came back for a checkup.

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May I add that I was not scared of the

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watch during my hypnosis. They seemed familiar. I do know

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that me and both of my sisters were terrified of

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aliens at night when we were little girls. That's the

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end of my true story for now. I don't know

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if this is appropriate for you or not. Use it

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if you like. Please don't use my name. I don't

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need any men in black coming to bother me.