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Speaker 1: deal of our time ruinating endlessly about life after death

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Speaker 1: Our favorite destination was a couple of miles away. It

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Speaker 1: and I stopped under one very large, gnarled ancient tree,

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Speaker 1: something inexplicable happened. It was like a glass bell jar

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Speaker 1: There were no crickets, no wind, and no waves. Lapping

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Speaker 1: feel this? What's happening? She was stunned and frightened. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: only the two of us were experiencing this dead, eerie,

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Speaker 1: suddenly as it fell over us, the bell jar lifted

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Speaker 1: and we still talk about that experience. For years and years,

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Speaker 1: message from the afterlife. In recent years, I've heard of

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Speaker 1: many Bigfoot accounts and on your site that make me

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Speaker 1: think now that this was a close encounter with a creature. Instead,

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Speaker 1: it makes sense perhaps that they can flip into a

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Speaker 1: we certainly did experience something otherworldly that evening, even if

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Speaker 1: just for an unforgettable moment. All right, all right, if

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Speaker 1: y'all hear a little rumble going on during this podcast.

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Speaker 1: That's my wife out running the lawnmower in our yard.

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Speaker 1: She's a peach. She said she wanted to cut grass,

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Speaker 1: so I said, you go for it. Girl. Here is

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Speaker 1: and I listened to podcast with my daughter. Doing so

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Speaker 1: has triggered a memory of a story. My father used

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Speaker 1: but he never forgot it. In nineteen thirty three, he

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Speaker 1: My mother's father had died just before she was born,

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Speaker 1: so to make ends meet, my grandmother had turned their

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Speaker 1: they planned out their future nuptial. In those days, there

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Speaker 1: As he ran, he thought, where are my coon hounds?

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Speaker 1: We have often wondered what it could have been that

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Speaker 1: then in the winter of nineteen ninety seven, I was

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Speaker 1: Next we heard something crunching through the snowpack across the valley.

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Speaker 1: be sixteen to eighteen inches long and eight inches wide.

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Speaker 1: As we stared at the prince, our normal banter stopped

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Speaker 1: the size of the prince, but the distance between them.

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Speaker 1: Whatever this thing was, it had a stride of six

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Speaker 1: to seven feet. The tracks led into the tree line,

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Speaker 1: how much we begged to do it. As the class

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Speaker 1: were already mouthing off about it being a bigfoot. Well

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Speaker 1: we didn't see anything, nor did we hear what we

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Speaker 1: I just followed orders. However, as military guys will do,

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Speaker 1: we all heard and saw the tracks of a bigfoot,

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Speaker 1: even though we didn't actually see it. The gutal roar

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Speaker 1: and the tracks convinced us that's what it had to be.

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Speaker 1: I was honestly never scared, nor were any of my

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Speaker 1: fellow marines. Mostly we were just curious and amazed. I'm

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Speaker 1: guessing the overwhelming fear that people experience is from actually

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Speaker 1: seeing it and not from distant noises. To this day,

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Speaker 1: I fully believe that the source of those sounds in

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Speaker 1: Princes was the ever elusive Sosquatch. I have also come

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Speaker 1: to the conclusion that our training was stopped because our

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Speaker 1: training staff heard it from their position. Maybe they knew

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Speaker 1: something that we didn't. Maybe they were used to being

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Speaker 1: around and knew better than to mess with it. Stay

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Speaker 1: vigilant and simperfi