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Speaker 1: Here is a story about a swamp creature from a

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National Park ranger in the Everglades in Florida. Here's what

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he writes. I was a National Park ranger at Everglades

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National Park, Florida. I've since retired, but I worked as

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a ranger for forty seven years. My encounter took place

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on December twenty five, nineteen ninety one. Along with another

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park ranger. I was patrolling the swamps of the Everglades

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in the middle of the night because we had gotten

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a call from the police department about a missing person.

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We were patrolling and we heard a sound that we

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could not explain coming south of our direction. We were

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both so scared that we started to run back to

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our car. Before we could get to it, an entity

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bigger than an upright pickup truck suddenly appeared in front

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of us. Its skin was green and its ears were

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twigl like. It had a round head and a thick,

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wide belly, and it seemed to be wearing clothes. I

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know this is hard to believe, but it looked like Shrek.

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The encounter seemed like it lasted forever. We were so

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terrified that we couldn't move, and then it walked off

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and disappeared into the darkness, and we ran as fast

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as our feet could take us back to our car.

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And then we told our boss that we were not

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able to find the missing person, and we didn't tell

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him what we had seen, and we never spoke of

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it again. Uh. I don't I'm not going to cast

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doubt on this story, but it I don't know this

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guy was a National Park ranger anyway. This story was

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greatly lacking in detail. It's very short. It's only a

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two hundred and twenty eight words for the whole story.

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Most stories I do are at least one thousand and

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fifteen hundred words. But as I was reading this, it

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was almost like and I'm not trying to insult the

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writer at all, but it's almost like a kid wrote this.

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Maybe that's what happened. I do get trolled on these,

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but if this is true, that's scary as hell. Man

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running into Shrek and the Everglades National Park down in

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Florida for a park ranger who worked as a ranger

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for forty seven years on Christmas Day nineteen ninety one,

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they run into Shrek. Come on, man, that's crazy, but

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it's a good story. I really like the story, thanks

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for sending it. Here is a Bigfoot story you're gonnae

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Around nineteen eighty two, I took my sons and their

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friend deer hunting in Colvill National Forest and Washington and

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camped at Muddy Creek. While the boys had gone off

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to a different low, I made it to the top

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of a steep ridge, and when I got there, I

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realized that the deer were probably down in the valley

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from where I was standing, so I decided to go

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down the ridge side through the heavily wooded area to

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get there. It was so steep that after a short

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try to get down, I got to thinking that if

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I went all the way down at this time of day,

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early afternoon, it would be after dark before I'd get

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back to camp. So I stopped to take a breather

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before heading back up the ridge again, when all of

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a sudden, I got this strange feeling that something was

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watching me. I sat there for a short time and figured, oh, well,

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I'd made my mind up to start back up anyway,

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and I kept looking around all the way back, not

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for deer, but for whatever was watching me. The next

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morning was clear and sunny. I was about a half

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mile from where I was the day before, and I

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was creeping peak hunting in a thick brush patch around

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five feet high and trying to be real quiet to

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blend in with my surroundings. I was using my son's

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old thirty thirty that didn't have a sling on it,

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so it was in hand and it was ready to

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fire out of nowhere. What I thought at first was

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a bear jumped up from a lying position in the

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brush ten or fifteen feet in front of me. It

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took one look at me and it headed out for

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taller timber and fifty feet away, crossing the distance in

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just seconds. It was brownish in color, and it ran

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on two feet that had a flat face, a small

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nose and ears and no snout. It was only four

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or five feet tall, but it was quicker than lightning,

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and the entire encounter happened in just a few seconds.

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I never even had time to pull the hammer back

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on my rifle to shoot if I had needed to.

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Now that night, we heard a blood curdling, howling, screeching

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scream that lasted a full minute. Now, I've been hung

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my entire life, and I've heard it all, but I

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have never heard something like that. It was a completely

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unknown noise to me, and it put a big yellow

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stripe right up my back. The following morning, I dropped

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the boys off on top of the ridge so they

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could make a drive down to the bottom where I

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would pick them up later. And I was waiting at

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the bottom in an open area maybe five hundred yards

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with a high voltage power line running through it. Another

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hunter from Tacoma drove up. His party was doing the

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same hunt as me and my boys, and we talked

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and I asked if he heard the screechs from the

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night before, and he's told me he did, and that

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he had seen a bigfoot run across that very same

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feel last year. He reported his sighting to the game department,

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but they didn't seem concerned. They just told him they

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were aware of it and that it had been there

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for some time. Now. What bothers me to this day

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is that my kids don't remember that's screaming. How Maybe

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that's a good thing. And I don't remember any foul

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odor either, lest it be for me. That's the end

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of his email. That's pretty cool. So you heard this

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horrible scream, You heard this horrible scream in the night,

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and you had seen something run in front of you.

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You probably didn't know what it was, though, And I

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was about to ask, and you still send your boys

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out there to hunt. A lot of people do that.

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I know that I'm not making a judgment on this.

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I just, you know, we all kind of make judgments

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on these stories. But that's the first thing that popped

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in my head if I had seen what I thought

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was a bigfoot. But maybe he wasn't thinking that at

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the time and just probably just wrote it off of

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some strange animals screaming, a blood curdling, howling, screeching scream

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that lasted a full minute, he wrote. He said he'd

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been hunting all his life and he's never heard anything

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like that, and it put a big yellow stripe right

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up his back, he said. But he sends his kids

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back out in the woods and says, hey, y'all meet

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me at the truck down there in the clearing. I

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just thought that was funny. They were safe, and I'm

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just joking around, but that was a good story. I

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sure appreciate the man sending it. Thank you, sir. Here

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here is an email that I got a couple of

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years ago, just getting to it. It is things flying

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in the sky and screams in the woods. This is

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pretty good. It was a fall in nineteen seventy nine

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and I was about to turn fifteen in December. There

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was a new kid in school that year named Louie.

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He was two years older than me, but he was

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in the same class. Because he had been sick, he

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was able to drive, and I and some other boys

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knew where the good hunting and fishing spots were. Louie

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had twisted his ankle during basketball practice, but he drove

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me and three younger boys raccoon. Anyway, things were different

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back then. Our parents were more lenient about us going

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out hunting and fishing. We arrived at the spot that

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we wanted to hunt, a spot where my dad and

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I had hunted a lot before, and we turned the

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dogs loose. It didn't take long before the dogs were

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on a trail. They would bark to alert us that

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they had treed something and wait for us to get

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close to them, and then they would run off again. Well,

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this went on for a while, and when we were

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deeper into the woods, Louis stopped my ankle's killing me.

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How far are we from the truck. He asked, pretty

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good ways, I said we were close to the highway,

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so I told the three younger boys to head up

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there while Louie and I went back to the truck.

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We got in and we're headed to pick up the

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other boys. When I saw an orange light on the horizon.

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Do you see that, I asked Louie. It's too low

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to be a star, I said. A plane flew over

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us in the direction of the light, and the light

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did the strangest thing. It followed the plane, and I

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watched it for a while, wondering what on earth it

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could have been, and then I told Louie that it

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was time for us to go. We went down the

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road a bit and stopped on the way to listen

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for the dogs, and then we heard a scream. Did

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you hear that, I asked Louis. It was a deep,

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guttural scream, like a cow was being slaughtered. We kept

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going and got to the highway and found the three

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boys right where I thought they'd be. Louis slowed to

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a stop and I joked around and opened my door

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and I said, y'all need to ride. They didn't think

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it was funny. Something had upset them. The first boy

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that got to me grabbed me by the shirt and

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he pulled me out of the truck. Man. There's something

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in these woods, he said. He looked paniced. Let's get

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out of here. One of the other boys asked us

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if we heard it, the sound of that woman screaming. Well,

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I held my tongue and I didn't say anything. The

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next day I had to go back with my dad

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to get the dogs. I wasn't sure what would be

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waiting for us there. Though. I wanted to tell him

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what happened, but I never did, and not one time

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did any of us boys ever mention it again. Wow,

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let's see, that was nineteen seventy nine. He was fifteen,

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So it's twenty twenty four, fifteen plus forty four. Roughly

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it's sixty. This man's about sixty years old. This was

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This is an old No? Is that right? Sixty? Nineteen

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seventy nineties fifteen, that's about right. I'm sixty two. I

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graduated in eighty. I'm not a genius at math, y'all.

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I'm trying to add it in my head. I only

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got ten fingers. Anyway, he's about my age. This is

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pretty cool story. They saw something in the sky and

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they heard a scream like a woman's screaming while they

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were raccoon hunting one night. What do you raccoon hunters?

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Do you just leave your dogs out in the woods.

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I've never owned any coon dogs before, But if they

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get away from you, do you all just leave them

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and go back and get them? How do you know

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where to find them? Will they run coons all night long?

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How does that work? I've been on raccoon hunts before,

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and they're kind of fun. They gathered up the dogs

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at the end of the night and put them back

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in the boxes and took them home. I've only been

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a couple of times. It wasn't really that fun. It's

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a lot of work actually for raccoon I don't really

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care for raccoon meat anyway. It's hard. It's hard to

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make raccoon meat taste good in my opinion. Venison, on

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the other hand, totally different story. But raccoon meat. I've

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eaten beaver, I've eaten what else have I eaten? Beaver?

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I guess beaver, raccoon. I think I had gatortail one time.

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I had snake one time. Anyway, I don't know how

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I got off on that tangent, but I just thought

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i'd tell you all that. Thank you to this writer

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for the story. It was very good. I appreciate it

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all right. This is a cool story. And the man

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said he has nothing to hide that I could use

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his name, but I'm just going to say his first name.

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His name is Tim. It's a dog man's story, and

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it's pretty scary. A few years ago, I had a

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mind blowing encounter with something I'm not sure how to categorize.

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Never in my fifty four years on this planet had

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I ever heard of this creature. Even now, I'm not

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willing to call it what it looked like. Fortunately, I

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wasn't the only one who saw it. There were three

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other cars on the road with me that day. We

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were all affected the same way, with confusion and fear.

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It was August of twenty eighteen, and where we lived

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in Arizona, the summer was experiencing a dangerous heat wave

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with temperatures reaching one hundred and twenty two degrees, and

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when the sun began to set and gave us a

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little break from the heat, my friend Ronnie and I

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decided to head over to the local Indian casino so

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we could get some cigarettes. We turned on the well

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worn two lane road that took us to the casino

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on the other side of the Colorado River, and about

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a mile down the road, the terrain changes from desert

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to finally groomed alfalfa fields, separated only by a single

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dirt road that crosses it. The other cars were following

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closely behind us. We were coming up on the dirt

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road intersection when something jumped across the road in front

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of us, only ten feet away. The strangest thing was

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that we could see the shape of this thing, and

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we could see how big it was, but it was

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like it was made of glass. We could see right

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through it. We looked at each other, and from the

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expressions on our faces, it was clear that neither one

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of us was sure what we had just seen. And

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we both said, bro, did you see that thing that

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just ran in front of us? And then Ronnie said, well,

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what did you see? And I said it looked like

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a massive wolf, except I could see through it. And

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the color drained from Ronnie's face, so I asked him

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again what he saw. I saw exactly the same thing,

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he answered. After that we didn't speak another word until

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we got to the casino store, and when we pulled in,

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we realized that the three cars that were following us

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had pulled in behind us. And we got out and

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we stood there in a small circle for a minute.

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Maybe no one knew what to say, maybe we didn't

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know how to start the conversation. But when someone finally

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broke the silence, we all began talking at once, and

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after a minute we slowed down and took turns describing

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what we had seen. It was the same thing for

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all of us. It looked like a giant wolf, but

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we could all see right through it. This older couple

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who was out there on vacation, were really shook up.

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The husband yelled at his wife to hurry up and

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get what they'd come for. We're getting out of this

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place and going home, he said. They don't have things

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like that where we live. And when his wife came

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out of the store with their supplies, they climbed in

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the car, locked the doors, and they sped away, doing

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about sixty The rest of us disgusted a little more,

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trying to wrap our minds around what we had seen,

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to confirm that it was real, and it was a

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few minutes later. We all went our separate ways. We

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were all shaken by the encounter, but Ronnie and I

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decided to pull onto the dirt road and look for

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any evidence to support what we had seen. And it

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didn't take more than getting out of the car and

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looking down at the dirt to find what we were

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looking for. There were massive paw prints that came down

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the dirt road and around the corner, and after seeing

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how big they were, we jumped back in the car

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and we got out of there. Those prints were a

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good eighteen inches wide by twenty inches long, with giant

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claw marks jutting out in front of them. Now you

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can see why I don't want to call it what

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we saw. Who would believe me if I told them

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I saw a thirty foot long, eight foot tall glass wolf. Well,

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we wrote it off as maybe a spirit of the reservation,

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but me and Ronnie never failed to speak of it

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whenever we were together. Well. Sadly, last year Ronnie succumbed

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to a crippling disease he was born with. He made

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it to fifty six, and may he rest in peace.

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I hope he's looking down on me and smiling because

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he knows that now our encounter is public knowledge. Well,

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that's right, Tim, your encounter is public knowledge. And I've

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had this for a long time, and I just just

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am getting to it. I wish I I think I've

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had this for a couple of years. I'm going I'm

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going to my oldest emails and bringing them up and

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doing them first for the next couple of three months.

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Usually I just pick randomly from the I have. Well

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I'm not going to talk about how many I have,

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but I have a lot of them, and usually I'm

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in a big hurry, and I just find so, Okay,

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that looks good. Oh, this looks good, and I copy

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them and put them in a folder and then I

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read them. But I'm intentionally going back to some of

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the oldest emails that I have, and I'm up to

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twenty twenty one, maybe late twenty twenty one, and we've

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got a long way to go, got a lot of them,

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to a lot of them to do. But this is old.

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I wish I'd gotten to it sooner, because it's a

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very good story. So I appreciate you sending it, Tim,

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You to man. I hope everything's going good in Arizona.

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I hope you're healthy, and I hope you haven't seen

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this creature again. Man, that's really cool. Okay, that's the

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end of the podcast. Thanks again for joining me and

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we will see you guys on the next one. I

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love you all.