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Speaker 1: I've lived at the foot of this mountain in southeast

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Oklahoma for twenty years, and all that time I've seen

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these critters twice, but I've heard them many times. They

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howl and whoop and chatter, or they make a bird sound,

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which if it were a bird, it would have to

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be the size of a house to make a sound

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that loud. They eat the pears off my trees, but

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they always bring me one with no marks on it.

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They leave me a perfect pair. They lay it in

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the same spot in my driveway every time, where I

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can see it from the porch when I have my

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morning coffee, and if they're out to hurt me, they've

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had apple opportunity to do so. The first time I

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saw one was when I glanced out in my bedroom

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window as I was walking down the hall. There it

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was a face looking in the window. I could tell

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it was a young one. It was gray with large eyes,

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and when it registered what I had seen, I stepped

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back to look again, but it was gone. The second

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time I saw one, I was putting clothes in my

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washing machine and I glanced out the window above the washer.

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This one was very shiny black, and I think it

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may have just been in the pond that's farthest away

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from my home. I don't know for sure, but I

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know it was not a bear. A few days later,

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my husband and I walked out to where I saw

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it and measured him beside a small tree that I

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saw it walk behind the tree came to the hairy

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person's waist, and when my husband walked behind that tree,

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it was over his head. My husband is six feet tall,

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the hairy person must have been eight or nine feet tall.

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My point is they are here, and they are real.

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There is simple proof out there. They are not a

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grete eight. DNA has been tested and tested and then

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tested some more. They do have bodies, and the question

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we should be asking is why the government is trying

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to keep them a secret from the American people. They

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are not a joke or a sitting around the campfire

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scary story. They are real. The DNA shows them to

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be a human hybrid. Every American should be asking our

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government to let people know about them. While the secrets,

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is it the money or is it something else? And

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after all these years, the government has finally come out

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and said, yes there are UFOs. We Americans have known

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that for years. We benefited from that secret? Who benefits

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from this one? Voices United make a mighty roar, and

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that's the end of our email. And I agree. If

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these things are real, it's and the government knows about it,

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and they have bodies and there's been DNA testing that

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shows they are a human hybrid, then you know, why

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not just make it clear? I don't. That subject is

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so deep. I just can't I can't even begin to

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think about it because I don't know. I'm just busy.

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People with less busy minds can probably think about that

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and maybe come up with some theories. And all they

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are is theories. All we have is ideas. Unless the

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government comes out or some school or college or whoever

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would be a reputable give a reputable representation of the species.

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Until they come out and actually show the evidence a body,

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then we're just never going to know. We're not going

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to know. But this was interesting. I like that there's

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two stories in a row where there's gifting going on.

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I don't think she's gifting them, but they're leaving her

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a pair in her driveway. That's pretty cool. Thank you

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man for the story. I really appreciate it. As a

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nine year old in the nineteen eighties. I spent most of,

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if not all, of my time in the woods. From

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the time I could crawl. My mom sent me outside

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to play with our Rhodesian ridgeback bullet. Somewhere in the

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rubber maid container full of photographs is a picture of

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me and a diaper propped up against a bullet under

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our house with a bottle I lived outside. The first

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day of the first grade, I was already deep in

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the swamp when I heard my mom yelling from the

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porch to come home and eat breakfast and get ready

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for school. School hadn't even thought about it until that moment.

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My life to that point had been a blur of camo,

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my Swiss army knife buttoned into a leather sheath on

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my hip, a machetty, my dog, and the twenty thousand

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acres of wildlife preserved behind our little patch of swamp

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in Christmas, Florida. At that time, the little town of

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Christmas was composed solely of a post office, a church,

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and a thirty foot Christmas tree that was lit year

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round off the side of Highway fifty seven in the

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middle of nowhere. Nowhere was just how I liked it.

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I fished and trapped and built every kind of fort

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imaginable among the pal meadows and the cypress of those swamps.

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When I was nine, my dad helped me build a

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little hut with a thatched roof made from palmeadows. It

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was long and narrow, and the perfect size to hang

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my hammock. Despite having spent so much of my life

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in the woods until then, I had never spent a

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night alone out there. With my new hut, I decided

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that this was the time to attempt my first solo

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camping trip. I had to prove it to myself and

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my dad that I was a woodsman that I claimed

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to be. Later that day, with my machete in hand,

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I hacked my way the quarter of a mile or

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so into the swamp behind our house to my hut.

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As the sun's lash rays began to fade and darkness

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swallowed the air around me, I struck my lighter to

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start a fire, and I was looking forward to the

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eggs and sausage that I was planning to cook for dinner.

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The same instant the flame sprung from my lighter, a

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scream erupted from the swamp not thirty feet into the

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darkness behind me. It was a kind of blood curling,

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freezer muscle scream that send your mind racing. It sounded

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like a woman was being stabbed to death in the

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palmetto patch, and I strained to see something, but the

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night was already so thick that I couldn't see. I

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sat frozen in terror, and a few seconds later the

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sound of the scream had faded, and I was relieved

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to find my heart had an actually explode. It felt

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like an eternity as I struggled to comprehend what I

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had just heard. Who would be all the way back

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here in the dark. If they were here, they were trespassing.

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Could it have been a poacher? Why were they murdering

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a woman? Who was she? Was I next? In reality?

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All of these thoughts flashed through my mind in less

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than a second. My heart had just begun to slow

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its relentless effort to escape my rib cage when a

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roar that shook my insides exploded from the same patch

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of pal meadows behind me. It was followed by another screen.

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A lion was now eating the woman. But no, lions

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didn't live here, I thought, the urge to mess my pants.

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There was no conscious decision between flight or fight. There

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wasn't time. I was already flying down the path towards

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the house. Later, all that I would remember of my

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escape was passing the pond that marked the halfway point

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back to the house, and the next thing I knew,

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I was beating at the French doors on the back

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porch with all my strength. My Dad had been in

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his room reading when he heard my pleading and relentless

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assault on the glass panels. Open the door. It's me,

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I screamed. There's a guy in the woods with a knife.

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He's killing her. That was all I could think to say.

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Dad rushed to the door and opened it and asked,

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what in the world was wrong with me now? I

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explained that I had just heard a woman being murdered,

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and then lions roaring. Well. Then he started to laugh,

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and I wasn't amused. Your hair is standing straight up,

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he said. I didn't give a right speckle backside what

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my hair was doing. A woman was being murdered. She

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was being stabbed to death and eaten or whatever, right

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in our backyard. It was probably a cougar, he explained,

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They sometimes do that. I decided that I'd had enough

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for one night. I'd have to attempt a solo camp

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some other time when I was sure no women, bears, lions,

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or cougars or axe murderers were out and about in

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the dark. I've spent plenty of nights in the woods

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since then, both alone and with others, but I've never

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again heard anything like that. I was only nine at

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the time, but I'm pretty sure I broke speed records

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that night, and I don't think my feet ever touched

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the ground. Whoa man, What a story These stories with

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the children. You know, when these people are small and

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they have these encounters, we listened to them, and we're

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kind of entertained by these stories. I mean, really, we

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are entertained by these stories. But if you put yourself

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in their shoes, oh my gosh, you know, it's just

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got to be terrifying. It would have been for me

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at nine years old. I know that. And there were

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things that scared me at nine, nothing like a bigfoot

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or anything like that. But you know, you're very impressionable.

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Fear level is like off the charts when something scares you.

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And so that's why I kind of, I don't know,

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I kind of identify with these stories. People reminisce about

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their childhood and these weird things that happen. But Matt,

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this was a great story and I really appreciate you

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sending it. I'm gonna look up on the map where Christmas,

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Florida is. I've never heard of it. Well, I'm just

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gonna look it up and figure out where it is.

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Maybe time next time i'm down there, I'm gonna go

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look at that Christmas tree. I live on Fort Hill

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overlooking Charleston, West Virginia. Over the last thirty five years,

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I've heard bigfoot screams many times. On cold winter nights.

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The dogs up on this hill will start barking until

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a terrible scream echoes down across the valley and silences them.

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I've heard tree knocks up here, screaming as if a

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woman is being murdered in whoops, and jabbering like humans

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talking but not human. This seems to happen most often

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around the fourth of July. I guess that's because of

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all the fireworks disturbing the creatures deep in the woods.

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I've heard these same sounds on the Internet, listed under sysquatch, sabe,

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and Bigfoot. In twenty eighteen, mold A Sun and a

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few of his friends were shooting off fireworks in a

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parking lot in a neighboring town not too far from

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our home. When they got there around ten pm, they

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decided to walk to the top of the hill, where

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there was a water reservoir. They reasoned that they'd be

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far away from any homes at the top of that

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hill and they could shoot the fireworks high into the

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air there. Besides, if anything went wrong, they figured they

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had an immediate water source. They walked up this hill

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through the dark woods with only their flashlight to guide them.

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It had rained that afternoon and a low fog was

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hanging in the air. The path was paved with asphalt

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with gravel on both sides. The boys took turns carrying

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the box while the girls were busy walking and talking

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in the front. There's a fork in the path halfway

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up that hill, and one fork leads straight up on

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the hill while the other stays low and wraps around

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the reservoir. The girls took the wrong fork. The boys

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weren't paying attention as they continued down the wrong path.

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They began to hear someone walking over in the woods,

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and my son realized they should have reached the reservoir

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by then, so he told the girls to stop. Don't

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be silly. They told him we'll be there soon. They

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pointed out that they'd stayed on the path and kept walking.

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My son is a high functioning autistic. He thinks a

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little bit different than others. He said, I hear somebody

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walking behind us, walking in the gravel. Look y'all, I'm scared.

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I want to go home. Someone in the group suggested

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they shot off the fireworks where they were, that they'd

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gone far, and the girls agreed. My son said, I

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think this is a bad idea. We need to get

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home now. The other kids laughed at him and called

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him a scaredy cat. They pulled out one of the

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coffee can sized fireworks and they lit it. It spewed

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on for about two minutes, sparkling and lightning and popping

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and crackling, and finally it went out and everything went

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silent and dark, and from the woods they heard a

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low growl. See. I told you he wouldn't like it.

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My son said, it's time to go. We gotta go now.

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The boys hurriedly picked up the box while the girls

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were screaming. They all went running back down the hill,

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leaving my son behind in the dark, and he heard

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the growl again. I'm sorry, mister, he said, it was

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their idea to set it off in your house. Now,

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I'm going to start walking and I'm going to leave

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your house now, and I'm sorry for disturbing you. I'm

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going to go now. I did not mean to dishonor you,

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and the growling stopped. My grandfather told me about the

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old Man of the Mountain when I was just a

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little girl. He taught me about the old ways and

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what to do when being confronted by a sisquatch. Don't

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make eye contact and speak loudly, but be non confrontational.

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no matter what. That's exactly what my son did. He

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told me that the sisquatch followed him down the mountain,

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keeping about ten feet back. He could hear it walking

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in the gravel. He used to cell phone to light

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his way, but he never looked aback, and when he

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got to the car, the others were yelling for him

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to hurry. It's right behind you, they said, But my

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son continued his slow, steady pace to the car, and

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he never once looked aback. He got into the car,

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and as they sped out of the parking lot, he

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caught sight of it in the headlights. It was standing

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at the edge of the path swaying back and forth.

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He said it was nine feet tall, and it was

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covered in black hair, and its arms were longer than

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a human, and it had green eyeshine. When the other

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kids dropped my son off, they were all nervous. The

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girls were crying. They were all talking over each other,

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trying to tell me what happened, But my son was

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calm and sober, like a priest. I sent the other

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kids home and I had my son recount a story,

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and I believe every word of it. Oh wow, what

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a great story. An autistic kid caught out in the

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woods shooting fireworks by a bigfoot. He sure did a

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good job getting out of there by not running and

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not being confrontational. That's I guess that's the way he

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made it out. Who knows if this thing would have

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hurt him otherwise, but it was just escorting him out.

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What a great story. Okay, this is a short This

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is a little short story that I've had for a

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little while, and it's not real scary or anything, and

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it's not a bigfoot story, but it's very heartwarming. The

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writer's name is Missy. She writes, I heard you reading

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a ghost story. Now, I haven't seen a bigfoot, but

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I have seen a ghost on more than one occasion.

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Most are just a fleeting moment of a stranger, but

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this one was special. My husband was in the Marine

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Corps and we were stationed in Yuma, Arizona. We were

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living on the base in base housing in Yuma. We're

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from the same little town in Alabama, not too far

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from Mississippi. At the time, I was twenty six weeks

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pregnant and did not know it yet, but things were

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about to get scary. I woke up in the middle

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of the night to see my mama and two people

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that I didn't know. I think they were her parents.

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They died before I was born, so I only have

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seen old black and white pictures. They all looked concerned.

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I was startled but excited to see her. She had

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passed away just under two years before then. They disappeared

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in just a few seconds. Now. I got up and

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went down the hall, but they were gone. What I

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didn't know was at twenty seven weeks, I would be

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hospitalized for pre eclampsia, eclampsia, eclampsia, I'm not sure what

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that is. I would go home after a couple of

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days on bed rest. However, on my next check up

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at twenty nine weeks, my blood pressure was out of

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the roof, so I was taken to the hospital. I

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was about to go full eclamtic and be air ambulance

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to Phoenix. My son was delivered by cesarean section and

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was in NICU for three months until his due date.

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He was born one pound in twelve ounces, and if

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not for the grace of God and the good care

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at Good sam and Phoenix Children's Hospital, we would have died.

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I think Mama was either there just worried or preparing

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to take us home. My son was lucky and he

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never had to go back into the hospital. A lot

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of premies do have to revisit a bit. But he's

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now five foot ten and he's a radiology He is

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a radiology technologist, and she writes, that's a fancy name

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for the person that takes your X ray in the hospital.

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We're blessed to still be here on this big blue

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ball and to have family no matter where they may be.

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Thanks for working so hard doing these stories. You can

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use my nickname Missy. What a great story. One pound

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twelve ounces. Just think about that, these babies. He was

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twenty nine weeks think it was twenty nine. He was

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born by caesarean, weighing one pound twelve ounces. I don't know.

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There's a lot of argument going on about if these

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fetuses or people or humans or not, you know, the

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whole debate. And this is one of the things that

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always really makes me wonder if a baby can be

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born at one pound twelve ounces and grow up be

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a five foot ten radiology technologist, which again is a

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fancy name for a person that takes your extra at

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the hospital. It's pretty compelling, pretty compelling. Save those babies.