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Speaker 1: All right, here's one from Michigan. The writer says, I

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grew up in a small town in southern Michigan. The

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name of the town was Seamen City. I had to

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be around eleven or twelve years old. The road I

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lived on led straight into a dead end at Gate

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three into mis which is the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.

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Our house was four miles from the speedway. It was

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in the mid to late seventies. I have an uncle

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that is only three years older than me. Because my

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grandparents had a change of life baby whoa Anyway, to

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try to make a long story short, my grandpa and

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grandma and my uncle came to visit. My uncle and

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I went for a walk, heading over to see one

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of my friends that lived three quarters of a mile

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from me. As we were walking, it was like the

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times Stoptors. Something in the sky made it go dark.

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It's hard to talk about, but something happened that day

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to me and him and I just talked about it

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for the first time a few months ago, but we

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both came to our senses. We were looking up at

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a spaceship hovering just above the treetop level. This thing

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was huge, and it didn't make a sound, and it

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slowly pulled away and like a flash, it was gone.

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My uncle and I ran back to the house to

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find out that we were gone for over two hours,

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and we started telling my father, mother, and grandfather what

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we had seen. They told us that we were making

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the story up, and they said we were crazy and

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we had been hiding from them. They had been out

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driving around looking for us. Later that night, it was

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on the six o'clock news that there was a spacecraft

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hovering over the Michigan International Speedway and they had all

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the roads closed around the speedway, and our government tried

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to cover it up. I can't say what happened with

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the time. We never talked about it. Like I said, Well,

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they just walk out the door, start walking down that road,

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this spaceship comes over. They lose two hours of time.

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They get back, the grandparents are all hacked off because

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they've been out riding around looking for him. Now that's creepy.

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That's a creepy story. Right there, you're walking down the

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road and all of a sudden, I don't know where

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they sucked up in the spaceship. I don't know, you

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know what very plausible. There's all kind of stories like

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this around. I really appreciate his name is Ronald. He

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didn't tell me not to use his name, Ronald. I

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know I've had your story for a while. I kind

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of explained it at the beginning. But there it is. Brother,

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there's your story, and it's a good one. Here is

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an email from Ohio. I think this is really interesting,

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and y'all, may hear a rooster crow behind me? We've

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got like six roosters, now, I don't We bought a

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bunch of chickens and we didn't know the sex of them,

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and five or six of them wound up being roosters.

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They're real pretty and they're not fighting too much yet,

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so if they there, he goes. They're young and learning

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how to crow, and they sound ridiculous, but they're putting

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on their big bloy pants and trying to attract some

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of these hens. But anyway, this is a story from

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Ohio that I really thought was good. And here's what

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the band writes. In the late nineteen nineties, I was

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deer hunting down in Athens County, Ohio. It was a

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four hour drive from my house on a Friday night,

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and I planned to arrive at the area around midnight.

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I got the gear out of my truck and started

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to walk to my spot. I had to walk up

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four big stair steps cut in the side of this

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big mountain, and by the time I reached the top

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where it leveled out, I was out of breath. I

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leaned against a big tree to catch my breath, and

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then I decided I wasn't going all the way to

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the spot that I wanted to hunt. I was tired,

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and this spot looked as good as any to sleep.

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I spread out my sleeping bag and I sat down.

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And this is how I hunted in those days. I

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would get there before anyone else and sleep a short

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distance from where I wanted to set up, and it

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worked out great. I wanted something to eat after the

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hike up, and I pulled a couple of snacks out

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of my backpack. And then I heard a commotion above

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me and to my right, and to my horror, something

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huge was barreling down the hill straight at me. Of course,

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my first thought was that it was a bear, but

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this thing was running on two legs. A bear couldn't

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move that fast in an upright posture. I reached for

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my pistol, and I remembered I had left it in

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the truck, and in a panic, I pushed a button

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on my flashlight and I heard the bulb click and

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go out. There was enough light from the moon to

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see the shape of this enormous creature, though, and there

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I sat in the dark with a crossbow. I would

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have one shot, and it wouldn't be a kill shot.

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There was no way to outrun this thing, and it

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was closing on me fast. I was out of time.

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The growls from hell got closer and closer, and I

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raised my crossbow and I was ready to shoot when

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this thing took a slight turn and ran past me

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down the hill. As it ran, leaves, branches, sticks that

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lay on the ground in dirt lofted into the air.

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Other than the size and speed of this creature, this

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is what I remember, trash flying up and passed me

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in his wake. It felt like ten minutes before all

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that stuff settled. I guess I was in shock. I

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didn't know it then, but I was shaking uncontrollably and

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I couldn't inhale enough oxygen. I was about to pass out,

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but I didn't. Trees were snapping when it hit the

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road way down below me, and it stopped growling. And

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my guess was that it walked down the road and

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it was gone. I remember hoping that was the case.

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I never slept that night. I never laid down on

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my sleeping bag. I just sat there against that tree,

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afraid to move until the sun came up. When the

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beautiful rays of sunshine came into the woods, I cautiously

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eased down that mountain to my vehicle and I drove out,

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and I watched for that thing until I finally hit pavement.

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My wife was surprised to see me when I walked

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in and I told her the story. She didn't say much,

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and I don't know what she thought about me. I

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think if my flashlight had worked and I saw this thing,

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I really would have passed out. Or maybe that would

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have directed this thing's attention toward me. I guess I'll

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never know, but I am alive to tell this story.

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I didn't die of fright or a bigfoot attack, and

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I'm thankful for that. Ten years later, I was talking

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to a friend at work. He described a few hunts

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they had been on in that same area, so we

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had something in common to talk about I went ahead

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and told him the story that I just told you.

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He was quiet for a while, uncomfortably quiet, and I

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wondered if he thought I was crazy. And then he

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told me his story about that area. I don't know

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exactly what happened to them, but he mentioned that growl

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from hell. And then he told me they had never

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been back to that area to hunt. They wouldn't go

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back there for anything, he said. Well, he and I

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parted ways and we've never talked about it again. I'm

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seventy two years old now and I don't hunt much,

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but when I get to go, it is not in

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that area. Oh man, what a great story that was. Whoo.

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I just can't imagine how scary that would be in

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the dark, Sitting in the dark in the woods, on

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the side of a big hill or mountain. Here comes

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this giant thing barreling down the mountain. You just have

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to assume it's coming at you. And he was ready.

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I mean, all he had was a crossbow. You get

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one shot with one of those and that's it. And

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that wasn't gonna kill whatever. Even if it was a bear,

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it wouldn't have killed a bear. It takes a while

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for him to bleed out. But this thing takes a

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turn right at the last minute and a minute and

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runs by him, and that dirt and sticks and trash

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flying up behind it is I can absolutely see that

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in my mind. But this was a great story. I

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appreciate the writer. Thank you, sir. Here's an email from

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John this is really this is an interesting UFO story,

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and he claims it's true. We built our house in

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two thousand and three. A couple of years later, I

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was sitting out on our patio smoking and enjoying my

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view of the northern sky. The patio was in set

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with a roof over it, and I was sitting even

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with the roofline facing east. It was that time of

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the year when a front rolling through will lay out

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a sheet of clouds so low that the city lights

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reflect off of them. And behind me, the seven eleven

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in Exion Station was reflecting a lot of light that night.

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I was sitting there when something caught my eye right

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above me, and I looked up and I saw an

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object that looked like the belly of a large transport plane.

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This thing was low, not more than two hundred feet up,

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and it came right over the center of my house.

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I had a front row seat. That first, I wasn't

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thinking UFO. I immediately started trying to rationalize what I

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was seeing. My first thought was that's drug smugglers. I

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couldn't see any wings. I could only see the bottom

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third of it, no matter how hard I strained my eyes.

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But I thought they were gliding to an airport because

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there was absolutely no sound and there were no lights.

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I am halfway between Dallas Fort Worth and Alliance, Texas,

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twelve miles either way, and I realized they'd never be

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able to glide that far. And then I thought they'd

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better get higher. Are they going to hit those tall

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pines up the road. And it seemed to be paralleling

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the two lane highway one hundred feet west of my house,

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and it was heading directly north. I thought maybe I

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could see a tail section, but I couldn't. What I

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could see was a white stripe that ran the length

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of it with cymbals on each side. This thing had

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to be sixty feet long. It was gray or grayish brown,

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and as it disappeared into the darkness, I thought about

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reporting it, and then I figured no one would believe me.

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Somebody else had to have seen this thing in front

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of our house, and across the street is a five

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acre city lot with no trees. There's also a six

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lane parkway with an intersection at the seven eleven. Even

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at ten o'clock at night, it's still pretty busy. And

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if it came directly from the south over the house,

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it had to cross this roadway. Well that's my story.

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Bigfoot are out in the remote woods. This thing comes

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over your house while you're sleeping. It's a scary thought.

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Friend and I made plans to go hog hunting in

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the Honey Island Swamp a few years back. We invited

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two other friends, Mike and James, who we know love

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to hunt. The hunt happened and we had a great weekend,

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but Mike and James never showed up. Only the two

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of us went. The next week, I called them to

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find out why they had never gotten back with us

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about going on the hunt. I couldn't reach them, but

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the next week they both came by the house. I

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was persistent in asking them why they had never called

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us back. They didn't really want to talk about it,

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but after a while they relented and here is what

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they told me. They had actually been down in the swamp.

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The weekend before that, we went. Mike launched his eighteen

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foot aluminum boat on Friday afternoon and they left the

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ramp on the way. They decided to go farther in

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the swamp than they usually went, finding a good spot

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to pull the boat up on the bank and some

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dry ground. They unloaded the boat and they set up

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their tents and started cooking some steaks. Everything was perfect

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so far. After finishing off the steaks, they played cards

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until after dark. Then they went to bed. Throughout the night,

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whenever one of them got up to peel get a drink,

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they would throw wood on the fire to keep it going.

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James was afraid of those woods at night, and he

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wanted to keep it lit. At some point way after midnight,

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James woke up and saw that the fire was down

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to coals, so he got up to throw another piece

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of wood on the fire. Walking back to his tent,

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he heard a loud, odd scream way off in the swamps.

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It echoed across the water. He had never heard anything

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like it. Crawling back in his tent, he began to

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settle down to get some sleep, but the scream blasted

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out again, and it was much closer. It sounded like

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it was moving towards them, and when he heard something

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huge walking in the water, he got nervous. At this

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point in there retelling of the story, James and Mike

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both were shaking. It was weird listening to them while

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watching both men's hands twitch and shake like it was

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all happening to them again. I didn't say anything. I

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just listened. James started shaking Mike to wake him up.

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Mike was a sound sleeper, and he slept through several

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minutes of shaking and kicking, but he woke up real

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quick when that scream blasted out again right out by

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the boat. Mike sat straight up in his sleeping bag,

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asking James what the hell made that noise. It was

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as if it had woken him up, but it had

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not registered what had made the sound. Mike looked at

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me and he told me he knew animal sounds in

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the woods. Whatever this thing was, it didn't belong there.

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Mike had a pistol under his pillow. He pulled it

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out and they both sat there in the tent listening

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to this thing walked down the bayou towards them. This

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thing was getting closer with each step. They had each

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brought a rifle and a shotgun, but they had left

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those in the boat. Now this thing was beside the boat,

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and they heard something banging on the aluminum hull, like

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it was being dragged or shoved. It dropped the heavy

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boat and came into their camp. Ice chests and camp

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stoves were tossed about. It sounded like it was pissed,

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and then it started walking towards the tent. Mike threw

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his pillow to James and told him to bury his

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face in it. James was crying uncontrollably, and when the

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beast walked between the fire and the tent, Mike could

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see it silhouette through the tent fabric. It was on

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two legs. It was tall and slender, but built like

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a linebacker, thick shoulders and no neck. They were terrified,

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but sat silently in the tent and they waited. I

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looked over at James while Mike was telling his version.

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His head was dropped and tears rolled off his nose

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to the ground. That's when I was sure that they

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were not pulling my leg. The thing took a couple

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of steps towards the tent and it bent down, almost

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touch the fabric in its screen. Neither man would have

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made it if they had had heart trouble. The beast

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stood there for a minute, and then it walked around

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the camp, rattling more items to the ground, and then

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it walked off into the swamp. They both sat awaken

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the tent for several hours, never opening the fly to

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see out until well after the sun was up. Their

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camp was a mess. Every piece of gear had been

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thrown about, and all their food was scattered across the ground,

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but none of it was eaten. When they got to

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the boat, they saw it fully on dry ground, ten

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feet away from the bank, with the motor down, making

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the rear of the boat elevated. This boat and motor

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weighed twenty five hundred pounds easy, and it had been

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dragged onto the bank with ease. There was no way

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they were going to pull it back in the water

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to get home. About two hours later a boat raced by,

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and they were lucky to flag him down, but one

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boat wasn't enough. It wound up taking two boats pulling

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from the water and four men pushing to get the

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boat moved. These two men grew up hunting and fishing

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in those swamps. To my knowledge, they've never been back,

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and they don't plan to go back. I've known them

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all my life. They've never told any kind of story

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like this. They're not prone to pranks or making things

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up to get attention. Ever, when two men you have

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known all your life tell you a story like this,

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and you see the look on their faces while they're

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telling it, you tend to believe them. Oh man, man,

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what a story this Honey Island swamp thing is. I'm

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guessing it's a bigfoot. I mean, I haven't really read

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too much on it. I think we've done three or

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four stories on it throughout the life of this channel,

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but apparently it's a Swampscott's swamp squatch, or a family

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of them, or a tribe or troop or whatever you

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call them. The reports are constant on this thing, and

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whatever it is, it must be still in there now.

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I don't know when this story took place, there's no

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dates on it. But man, can you you know the

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swamps are kind of creepy at night anyway. I love

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being down there at night by the way, seeing the

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gators and the snakes. I don't know, there's something about

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those Lowland areas that I love. They don't really bother

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me at night, but I guess if you thought about it,

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it could be really creepy. But it's such a beautiful place.

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It's hard to imagine anything scary being in there. But

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apparently there are in the Honey Island area and maybe

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all over Lowland America. I don't know. But can you

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imagine being back there on a quiet night, sleeping and

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you hear this scream and this things? You can hear

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it walking through the swamp walking at you. I don't

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blame them for not going back in there at all,

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not one bit. Well, thanks w for sending this. This

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is a great story. I love these secondhand stories, now,

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sure do you appreciate you? Brother? When I left the Army,

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I had a tough time adjusting to civilian life, so

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I went to the Oregon Mountains to connect back with

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nature and find myself again. A month after I arrived

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in Oregon, it was the winter season. I may do

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with what I had and wrote it out in a

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tent that I insulated with pine needles. One night, in

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the middle of a massive ice and snowstorm, I thought

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I could hear some sort of howling. I wrote it

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off as being the wind, and soon after I got

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lost in a book. Hours later, as I was silently reading,

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I noticed the storm had subsided and I could hear

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movement in the distance. This was a common thing, so

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I didn't pay it much mine until it got closed. Sir.

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Now I was on high alert. It wouldn't make much

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for a hungry bear to rip through my tent. I

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could hear noises outside of my tarp supplies being rummaged through,

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along with the distinctive bipedal steps in the snow. I

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believed a person was trying to rob me, But who

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in the world would be up here? So I reasoned

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that it was a bear. It couldn't wrap my head

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around why it would be out of hibernation. I quietly

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got dressed and looked for my rifle. I had left

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it in my truck. That's when I got the idea

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to push the alarm button on my keyfob to scare

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whatever was outside. Mind you that when you're under eighteen

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inches of snow, things are easily hidden, and I thought

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this would be a good surprise to use. Before I

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could get to pushing the button, I was putting on

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my boots and loading my nine millimeter pistol. When I

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heard a scream or a yell that sounded like it

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was coming from a woman. I instantly assumed that it

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was a large cat, but none like I had heard before.

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I waited, frozen in place, for any other sounds. Minutes later,

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I heard multiple crunches in the snow and couldn't make

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out the distinct sounds, but it was getting closer in

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The sounds that had been coming from outside my tent

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were no longer audible. I sat in silence for what

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seemed like hours, waiting to hear another sound. As I

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was about to give in and go out and have

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a look, I heard the scream again, but this time

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it was maybe ten feet away, and I could feel

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it resonate in my chest, almost like two different pitch

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sounds at the same time, one high pitched tone and

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one low pitch tone being belted out together. I was scared.

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I was on kill or be killed status. At that point.

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I could feel my heart pounding in my ears and

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my eyes. I did all I could to control my

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breathing so that I wouldn't be heard by whatever was

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making this sound. I thought I was scared then, but

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I wasn't even close to how terrified I would soon become.

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Behind my tent, I heard a huge limb snap that

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sounded as though a four inch pine had been broken

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in half all at once. In my mind, I blamed

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it on the ice and snow that weighed down the

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tree limbs and caused them to break, or so I fought.

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The female sounding scream roared out again right next to

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my tent, and from behind me came a low growl

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that I swear felt like it broke bones in my ribcades.

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It sounded as though ten different thousand pound grizzlies all

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roared at the same time. Next, I heard a high

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pitch roar again, and I immediately figured it had to

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be a pair. The male was behind me and the

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female was to my front, but I had no clue

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as to what they were or what they could be.

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I consider myself very sane, not easily rattled, and a

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man that doesn't panic in battle or on a large

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game hunt. But I was letting my mind get the

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best of me. I decided to use the truck alarm

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that was about twenty yards from my location. I pushed

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the button and nothing happened. I guess I was too

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far away or the snow was too thick for the

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signal to reach. I kept pushing the buttons and moving

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up and down, trying to get the horn to hank. Finally,

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when I reached up toward the roof of the tent,

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I heard the horn hank. At that time, I heard

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something tear through the trees behind me that sounded like

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a t Rex from Jurassic Park, and then a loud

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crash from the direction of my truck. I panicked and

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rushed out with my pistol drawn, only to find nothing,

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nothing but a white haze from the moonlight in every

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direction that I looked. I made my way over to

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the truck to grab my rifle and saw that a

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boulder about eighteen inches in diameter was sticking about halfway

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through my windshield. I was freaked out. It took all

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my strength to remove the rock and let it fall

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to the ground, let alone pick it up and throw

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it from a distance, which is what I theorized had happened.

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I grabbed my rifle off the back glass, got extra

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shells out of the glove box, and went back to

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my shelter. I didn't sleep a wink that night or

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even blink my eyes that I know of. The next morning,

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I went out at daybreak to look around, and I

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found massive tracks in the snow. I found large tracks

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around the back of my shelter and around the supplies

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I had tarked outside. The tracks were about one and

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a half times the size of my boots, and I

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wear a size twelve. The tracks were about fifteen to

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eighteen inches long. Investigating further, I found multiple sets of

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tracks ranging from eleven to fourteen inches. I believe it

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was a family traveling that got separated in the snowstorm

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and regrooped when the storm cleared. If it wasn't a

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group of Sasquatch, I don't know what else it could

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have been. These events motivated me to build a cabin

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in a hurry, though in all reality, I don't believe

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a cabin would stop them anyway. If they're that massive

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and strong, they can do what they want when they

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want to.