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Speaker 1: All right, all right, this person rode in with two experiences.

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One is with a bigfoot and I think another's with

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an alien. But let's see what they write. In the

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late nineteen eighties, my stepfather Rick had a hab enough

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smoking pot. At that time, it was still illegal and

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people had to find places to smoke where they wouldn't

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get caught. One time, Rick went with his friend up

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into the mountains, parked on an old logging road, and

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turned the lights and engine off in his truck. When

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everything seemed clear, they pulled out their stashed and sparked

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it up. Whoop. They were sitting there when out of nowhere,

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a large man appeared in the middle of the road.

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There were no vehicles or buildings in the area. The

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entire reason they chose a back road on the mountain

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was because they knew no one would be there. Well,

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seeing this man come out of nowhere startled Rick and

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his friend, who immediately got paranoid, thinking they were about

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to get busted with pot. Paranoid. No, how would they

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be paranoid? Then, just as quickly as this man appeared,

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he vanished. He reappeared a moment later, with three more

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of his kind behind him, That's when Rick and his

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friend realized they weren't regular people. They were far too tall,

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and it was a family a bigfoot. They walked across

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the road right in front of the truck, from the

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tallest to the shortest, and then they disappeared into the

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trees on the other side. Rick and his friend got

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out of there as quickly as they could, desperate to

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get off the mountain before they had another run in

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with these creatures. That was pretty good. Let's go to

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story number two. In nineteen ninety seven, near the small

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town of Oro Fino, Idaho r f I No, Idaho,

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my family and I were staying with their friends Louise

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and Kelly. The first night passed by uneventfully, but the

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next morning, my stepdad Rick told us something terrible happened

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to him in the night. He said he woke up

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and was unable to move. His eyes could look around,

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but the rest of his body was paralyzed. Then he

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watched five little creatures travel right through the wall and

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they surrounded him in the bed. He described them as

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the classic gray aliens you hear about in abduction reports.

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They had big heads and big black eyes, and they

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were no more than four feet tall. He looked at

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our dog, Daisy, and he said her eyes were open

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in fear, but her body seemed to be paralyzed too.

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As he laid there helpless, these creatures began to pump

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some sort of orange substance down his throat. When his

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body couldn't take any they helped him regurgitate it. The

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next thing he knew, he woke up in bed in

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just his underwear, which was unlike him normally, Hi went

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to bed in full pajamas. As Rick told this story,

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I could tell that he was visibly shaken. I didn't

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know him to be afraid of anything, so I believed him,

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but his friend Kelly didn't believe him. We consoled Rick

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as Kelly went outside, only to see him walk in

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moments later with his face as white as a sheet,

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and he told all of us to come outside and

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look at something. We followed him outside and saw a

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two foot puddle of gelatinous orange goo in the middle

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of a patch of snow in the front yard. There

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were no signs of footprints anywhere, and we never did

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get an explanation for what it could have been. Most

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of us cannot openly discuss these experiences, but you give

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us a platform to speak freely and tell the world

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what happens in the dark corners of this world. So

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thank you Cam for all that you do. And he

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signs off, well, I appreciate it. That wasn't really the

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intent when I started this podcast. I just wanted to

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tell fun stories. But apparently, and I've said this before,

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people get some kind of relief, They get a little

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sense of peace when they're able to share a story

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that probably most people they've told don't believe, just like

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this guy did with the orange stuff pumped down his throat.

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Nobody believed him until they saw the orange goo out

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in the front yard. That's weird. That is a weird story.

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But I certainly appreciate the gentleman sending the story to me.

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Thank you, sir. All Right, all right, welcome to the podcast.

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I'm sorry I've been absent. I did get a couple

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of podcasts up last week, a couple of long ones, actually,

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but I've been busy at work and I'm also trying

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to put the finishing touches on Steve Lilly nineteen. It's

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a good story, or at least I think it is.

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I hope you guys enjoyed. I hope to have it

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up in the next couple of weeks, but welcome to

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of people complaining about the ads. Look, I don't have

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anything to do with the ads. There are a few

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would place my own ads. But when I would watch

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the video, they're just putting the ads wherever they want

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to put them. That's the way YouTube does, and I'm

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of weeks where they said, we see that you're placing

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ads in your videos. You're manually placing ads in your videos,

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which is what you all would want me to do

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to make sure there's not twenty ads. There's only like four,

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three or four ads. But the YouTube was so kind

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ads anyway to help me make more money. It's not

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to help them make more money, it's to help me

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make more money. But anyway, the whole point is I

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have nothing to do with the ads. I've tried to

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control them the best I can. But if you listen

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gonna get maybe two ads per podcast. That's it. But YouTube,

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that's how they make their money. I understand it. I

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don't have a problem with it. I actually have you

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premium so I never see an ad. And let me

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tell you, it is worth every penny. It's like one

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Plus you get full length of movies. You get tons

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know some people they don't want to spend another one

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hundred dollars a year. That's a year, not a month,

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that's every year. I understand people don't want to spend

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that money, but I thought i'd let you know about it. Anyway,

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enough talking, Thanks for clicking on the podcast. I got

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two more stories after this. They're really good. They're really good.

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All right, here we go, all right, all right, we

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got a Bigfoot story. Everybody's favorite Bigfoot stoory. This is

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a little bit longer than some, and it's very interesting.

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Here's what the writer says. My encounter with Bigfoot started

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in nineteen seventy seven and continued until we moved in

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nineteen seventy nine. I was seven years old at the time.

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My parents had rented a house right up against the

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San Bernardino County Mountains in California. We lived in a

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small town called Ukuipa. Why you caipa u Kaipa, I

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think that's how you pronounce that. And our house was

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ten or more miles away from town. It was an

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older home on thirty five acres of land full of wildlife,

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and our only neighbors were a chicken ranch a quarter

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mile away down the road. We lived there for six months,

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and it was in the winter time and we had

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settled in nicely. We were all sitting in the family

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room watching TV one night when we heard a loud

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thud on our roof. Well, whatever this was, it walked

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over the roof, stopped at the chimney, and it all

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went silent again. We all looked at each other, none

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of us having any idea what it could have been,

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and then we settled back down and we watched TV again.

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the night, and not long after that I heard my

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father talking to my mother. He was telling her to

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hand him a shotgun. My siblings and I came out

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of our bedrooms and we looked down the hallway in

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time to see my father go out the back door

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with his shotgun in his hand. Right then we heard

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the thud on the roof again, only this time it

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was louder. It was like a giant was running on

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two feet over the roof. It ran from the chimney

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to the other side of the house, and it landed

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on the ground with a massive thud that we could

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feel all the way inside the house. The next night,

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as we gathered together to watch TV as a family again.

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My father returned from his usual Friday night poker game

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and he was looking upset. He kept saying he saw

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something walk out in front of of him as he

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was pulling into our driveway. It was massive, he said,

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and it stood on two feet, looked like it was

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wearing a mink coat or a heavy hairy jacket from

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head to toe. He said. It stepped out in the

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middle of the road and paused for a second to

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look at him, and then it stepped right over a

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four foot fence like it was nothing, and it disappeared.

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dead in the middle of the road. When he got

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his wits about him again, he drove as quickly as

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he could down our driveway and he ran inside. Over

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the next two months, every evening when we had the

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fireplace going, all of us were sitting in the dining room,

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we would hear something on the side of the house

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climb on to the roof and walk on two feet

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over the house and sit by the chimney. We figured

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whatever this was it was trying to get warm. I

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remember my dad and my oldest brother running out opposite

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doors on different sides of the house to get a

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look at this thing, and then we would hear it

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sprint over the roof with its massive thudding feet, jump

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off the house, and disappear into the night. During the summer,

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when things were warming up, my mother would keep all

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the windows open to get a nice breeze inside the house,

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but late in the evenings, in the wee hours of

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the morning, an extremely foul smell would waft inside. One night,

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I could always see the bright lights from the chicken

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ranch in the evening, but that night there were no lights. Well.

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maybe they had had a power outage and the lights

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would come back on again at some point, but they

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never did. Finally, I got out of bed and went

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to my window, and I put my face right up

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against the screen, and I looked out, and I heard

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a horrendous growl. To this day, I tear up thinking

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how frightened I was. I screaming out of my bedroom

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to my parents' room. They followed me back to the window.

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Shining clearly in the night were the lights from the

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chicken ranch. Which meant something had been staring at me

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the whole time that I was lying there, and it

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was blocking my view. For the rest of that year

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that we lived in that house, my siblings and I

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slept in my parents' room. My brother and I were

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on the side of the house cleaning up the garbage

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because of the codies had gotten into it, or at

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least that's what we thought. We were gathering the garbage

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back into the bins when something started to throw little

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sticks at us. We thought it was my father playing

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games with us, and we hollered at him that he

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wasn't scaring us. But when we confronted him later in

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the house, he looked at us like we were crazy.

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He said he had been on the couch watching TV

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all that time. I made friends with a kid whose

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parents owned a chicken ranch, and one night I got

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to spend night at their place. He told me that

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something had been getting into their chicken coops late at

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night early in the morning. Also learned that they were

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dealing with the very same mystery creature that had been

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bothering us at our house, only it had been terrorizing

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them for much longer. He told me that on many nights,

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he and his parents had to sleep in the basement

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because they were afraid that whatever it was outside was

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going to get into the house. The way his father

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described the creature was just like my father had. It

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was hairy and tall, and it walked on two legs.

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He said, the smell of this thing was so foul

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that when they caught a sin of it, his father

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sent them to the basement while he stayed upstairs with

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the shotgun well. The next morning, I rushed home and

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I told my parents, and that same day my dad

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went and bought a couple of extra shotguns to have

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on hand. Winter was coming again and it was starting

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to get cold, and one night we heard the creature

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walk on our roof again and straight to the chimney well.

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My dad got the idea that he and my older

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brothers should go out opposite doors again, only this time

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they would shoot around from their shotguns. He was sure

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this was scared of the thing away for good, but

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it turned out to be a big mistake. Soon after

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that night, my sister and I were playing on the

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side of the house near the field where we would

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run and play. We were digging in the dirt when

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we heard a loud roar from the brush not far away.

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We ran into the house and when we turned around,

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we saw a large, dark figure in the field behind us.

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My sister and I froze in our tracks and just

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stared at this thing. It was so tall that its

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kneecaps were just above the top of the bushes, which

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were four feet tall. It started to walk toward us,

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but we were so terrified we couldn't move, and right

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then our German shepherd came running around the side of

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the house and it charged at the creature. Seeing our

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dogs snapped us out of it, and we ran inside

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and we told our mother, so she locked the doors

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and forbade us from going outside and grabbed her gun. Later,

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when my father got home, we told him what happened,

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and from that day on we were not allowed to

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play outside without an adult present. We were so frightened

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by what we had seen that we didn't want to

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be outside after that anyway. Not long after that day,

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we were sitting around watching TV together again with the

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windows open, when in drifted that horrible foul smell. Each

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of us turned and looked at each other in silence.

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My father ushered us into the bedroom and told us

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to settle in for the night while he and my

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mother got the house locked up well. That night, we

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tried to sleep, but there was no use. We were

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all wide away lying there in silence. Since my parents'

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bedroom was high enough off the they left the window

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open for fresh air, but the smell still managed to

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intensify and find its way into the bedroom. At one point,

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my father stood up and looked out the screen on

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the window. Now I remember hearing him muttering to himself

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that the smell was really bad, when right in front

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of him, a large, hairy creature stood up and stared

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him right in the face. It had been kneeling down

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beneath the window. My father yelled at the top of

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his lungs that it was an ape man, and he

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fell back on the bed, and the rest of us

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jumped up in panic, and we turned on the lights.

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After that night, these creatures harassed us all the time.

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Something would hit the side of the house and it

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would jump on the roof or even try our door handles.

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One night, some of my parents' friends stayed over. My

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dad had come up with this plan to have more

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men in the house so that when this thing would

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come around on the roof. Everybody would run out of

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one of the five doors and catch this thing and

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kill it. Sure enough, that thing jumped onto our roof

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that night. But when everybody ran out of each of

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the doors to catch it, all they could hear was

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the massive thud of it hitting the earth again, and

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it disappeared into the night. I spent two years of

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my childhood living in fear in that house. We were

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afraid to play outside, and when we were asked to

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get the mail, we went out with our German shepherd.

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We knew we were being watched, not just because we

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could sense it, but because our dog would stop and

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stare into the woods like he knew exactly what was

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out there and was waiting for it to make a move.

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The day we finally moved out of that house was

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the happiest day of my life. Today, I'm fifty years old,

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and every time I'm out in the mountains or driving

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through the forest, I am on alert. It's not something

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I can shake. That's how badly Bigfoot affected me. I

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now live near the San Bernardino County mountains again, and

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to this day I wonder if Bigfoot is still terrorizing

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the family at the Chicken ranch, or if they decided

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to move too. Whether your experience with Bigfoot is positive

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or negative, it will stay with you for the rest

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of your life. Oh I agree without one hundred percent.

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If you see something like this, just forget that it

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terrorizes your family every night. If you just see something

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like this out in the woods, your outlook on nature

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and wildlife and everything has to change. Everything has to change.

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But this family was actually terrorized by a monster. I

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know some people will say, oh, well, you're in their territory,

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it's your fault, or they'll give the Bigfoot some kind

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of excuse. I don't think there is any excuse for this.

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I wonder if we ought not I don't know, start

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slinging lead at these things and trying to get if

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you can get them. These people couldn't even see it.

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They had five men at the house one night trying

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to kill it, and it was just gone, just gone.

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So they're crafty, they're clever. They can get up on

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your house, make all kinds of noise. It's like they

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can see through the house. They know you're coming out,

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so they leave. Maybe it's good that they know guns

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are dangerous to them. So I don't know. I don't

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know what I'm talking about, but it makes sense to me,

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and as long as it makes sense to me, I'm

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gonna say it all right. I love this story. It

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was a great story, very detailed story. I certainly appreciate

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the gentlemen for sending it. Thank you. In nineteen seventy two,

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I was just old enough to carry a shotgun to hunt.

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Our grandparents lived in a deep holler at the end

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of a gravel road on the Kentucky Tennessee border. There

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were three routes out of the haller, either through the

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mouth of the holler or over two different mountains. My

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cousins had twenty two rifles and I had a four

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to ten shotgun. One day, we decided to hike up

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the top of the ridge and shoot some squirrels for grandmother.

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It took us some time to get there, but we

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did not see any prey, so we started traveling along

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the ridge and some of the fingers that branched to

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it to see if we'd have better luck. We had

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been gone for several hours when we saw the sky

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changing quickly to a terrifying black. We started back toward

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the farm as quickly as we could so that we

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could miss the storm, but we didn't go the way

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that we came. We took a shortcut down the side

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of the ridge to save some time. We had never

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been in this part of the mountains, and actually we

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were lost, and with the storm raging behind us, we

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realized we weren't going to make it back to the

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farm without getting wet, and worse than that, we were

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afraid that we were going to get struck by lightning.

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Ran through some of the dense thickets until we found

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what appeared to be a small abandoned house. We sprinted

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to the house and ran onto the broken down porch,

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just as the rain started. We shouted to see if

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anyone was home, but there was no answer. We weren't surprised.

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There was a thick layer of dirt and dust that

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was left on the floor. There was some old furniture

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in there, and ten cooking utensils. Well. We did some

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snooping around to see if we could find any treasures.

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As a storm intensified outside and the lightning became more frequent,

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then we gravitated to the windows. There in the darkness,

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we could not see anything beyond the steps of the porch,

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and as we looked out, the sky lit up. There

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just fifty feet in front of the porch stood an

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older man with a jacket and a hat on. He

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was holding an axe in one hand and a rope

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in the other. The sky darkened and it lit up again,

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but there was nobody there. We stepped back from the

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windows to the center of the room and we heard

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footsteps on the porch. Mike, the oldest of us, yelled

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out that we all had guns and we knew how

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to use them. Shortly after that, we heard hounds baying

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in the distance, and the back door burst open. We

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jumped and we moved closer together, but when we looked

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there was nobody there. But we stood there wondering what

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was happening. And then we heard heavy footsteps walk across

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the room from the corner. The lopsided rocking chairs started

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to rock back and forth. As if that wasn't enough

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to stop a young man's heart, the screaming started. It

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was a woman crying for her life, and it sounded

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like something was killing her. And then there was a

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massive clap of thunder and a flash of lightning just

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outside the house, and a massive poplar tree came crashing

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to the ground. Well that was enough for us. Hotail

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and ran like the gates of Hell had just opened

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up and released the hounds. I was the youngest, but

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I did my best to keep up with my older cousins.

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It wasn't long before we popped out on the road,

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just past the lower tobacco field and toward the abandoned

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timber camp. But at least we knew where we were,

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and it was only two miles from the farmhouse. We

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dragged our tired bodies up the hill toward the house,

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and we could see our parents looking at us with

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concern and worry. Well, we were soaked a out of breath,

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but once we caught our breath, we were able to

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tell everyone about our adventure, which was when we all

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realized that one of my cousins had left his twenty

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two rifle in the abandoned cabin. I could still hear

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his screams and crying as his father broke out the

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belt and tore his tail up. The next morning, my

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uncle took my cousins up the road toward the cabin

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to retrieve the missing firearm, but after looking for the

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entire day, they were not able to find the house,

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and my cousin got another beating for losing his gun. Well.

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This repeated for the next three days, but they never

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did find the cabin, and my cousin lost a couple

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of inches off his butt. Our grandfather returned home from

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the mines that Friday night and told us that there

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was once a couple that lived way back up in

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the haller when he was a boy. We learned that

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the man who lived there was not a peaceful man,

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and he had taken to beating his wife because she

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wasn't able to give him children. In one of his

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fits of rage, he killed her, and afterward he burned

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his house down with himself inside. The entire holler community

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saw the smoke and ran to their homestead to see

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if they could save anyone, but everything had burned to

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the ground. Saturday morning, our grandfather took all of us

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up to where the couple's homestead had been, and there,

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sitting in the middle of an open space, was a

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giant poplar tree lying on the ground that had been

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struck by lightning. We could see the large stones that

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had been used for the cornerstones to stabilize the house,

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but there was no sign of a house that night.

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My cousin did not get his beating for losing his gun,

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and everything seemed to go back to normal. That Sunday

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we headed back home and we never spoke of that

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night again. Oh man, that is a spooky story. It's

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like this house just appeared in the woods where these guys.

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Oh man, what a great story. Heck, I'd like to

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read that. I want to read that story again. It's

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so good, excellent story. I appreciate the writer for sending it.

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Oh man, it was so good. Thank you, thanks again

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for listening to the podcast. Drop me a comment if

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you made it all the way to the end and

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you're hearing this. I always love to get those, and

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I usually always respond to the comments and say, hey,

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I made it to the end, because there's no way,

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there's no unless you did make it to the end,

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you would know to make the comment. So I'm always

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so appreciative and I respond to most of those. I

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bet I get ninety nine out of one hundred, So

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drop me a comment, let me know if you made

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it all the way. Otherwise, you guys have a good weekend.

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Rest of your weekend. It's Sunday, and I'll see you

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guys next week on another podcast. Thanks