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<v Speaker 1>Now one of your pudding. I got a string going

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<v Speaker 1>on here. Something Just kise my dog. Something killed your dog.

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<v Speaker 1>My dog. We're flying through the air, over the tree.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over

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<v Speaker 1>the fence and he was dead. And once you hit

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<v Speaker 1>the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I

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<v Speaker 1>saw was my dog coming over the fence. Satan, what

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<v Speaker 1>are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling

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<v Speaker 1>around out here. Did you see what it was?

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<v Speaker 2>Was?

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<v Speaker 1>It was standing up. I'm out here looking through the

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<v Speaker 1>window now and I don't see anything. I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to go outside. Jesus, quiet you bick Hellohet thebody out here?

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<v Speaker 1>What quin on out there? I thought of a bit

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<v Speaker 1>about Tech forty nine. I don't know. Easy ann out there? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm walking right.

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<v Speaker 2>Head Tonight we're doing something different. This is a Halloween

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<v Speaker 2>special with a story that merges two forces, one from

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<v Speaker 2>the wild, one from the darkness of man. We're talking

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Myers, the unstoppable force of evil from the Halloween franchise,

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<v Speaker 2>going head to head with something even more primal, even

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<v Speaker 2>more ancient, A sasquatch deep in the Alaskan wilderness, and

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<v Speaker 2>caught in the middle is Laurie Strode, who spent her

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<v Speaker 2>entire life running from the nightmare that won't end. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>before we get started, I need to give you a warning.

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<v Speaker 2>This episode is intense. We're talking graphic violence, brutal fight scenes,

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<v Speaker 2>and some genuinely frightening imagery. This is not suitable for

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<v Speaker 2>younger listeners. If you've got kids around, maybe save this

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<v Speaker 2>one for after they've got on to bed. This is

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<v Speaker 2>adult horror content, plain and simple. It gets violent, it

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<v Speaker 2>gets dark, and it doesn't pull any punches. But if

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<v Speaker 2>you're ready for a wild ride that mixes slash or

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<v Speaker 2>horror with cryptid encounters, if you want to hear what

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<v Speaker 2>happens when two monsters collide in the frozen darkness of Alaska,

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<v Speaker 2>then settle in, turn off the lights, maybe lock your doors,

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<v Speaker 2>and let me tell you a story about the night

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<v Speaker 2>that evil finally met its match. And it all starts

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<v Speaker 2>with a woman who just wanted to be left alone.

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<v Speaker 2>There are things that live in the spaces between civilization

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<v Speaker 2>and wilderness that we were never meant to understand. Ancient things,

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<v Speaker 2>things that existed long before we carved our towns from

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<v Speaker 2>the forest and pretended we had conquered the wild. The

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<v Speaker 2>old timers in Alaska know this. They know that when

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<v Speaker 2>you go deep enough into those mountains, far enough from

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<v Speaker 2>the lights and the roads and the sound of human voices,

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<v Speaker 2>you're not alone. You're never alone. Something else you need

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<v Speaker 2>to understand about the darkness. It's not just one thing.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not just the creatures that have always lived in

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<v Speaker 2>the wild places. Sometimes the darkness follows you. Sometimes it

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<v Speaker 2>wears a mask, and it won't stop. It can't stop,

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<v Speaker 2>because that's what evil does. It endures, It persists, It

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<v Speaker 2>finds you no matter how far you run. This is

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<v Speaker 2>a story about two kinds of monsters, one that belongs

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<v Speaker 2>to the wilderness and one that should have stayed dead

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<v Speaker 2>a long time ago. And somewhere in between those two

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<v Speaker 2>forces stood a woman who had spent her entire life

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<v Speaker 2>running from the inevitable, only to discover that sometimes salvation

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<v Speaker 2>comes from the most unexpected places. The locals in the

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<v Speaker 2>small Alaskan settlement of Coldfoot will tell you about the

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<v Speaker 2>winter of twenty twenty three. If you ask them well,

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<v Speaker 2>they'll tell you part of it. They'll mention the strange

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<v Speaker 2>sounds that echoed through the valley that Halloween night, sounds

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<v Speaker 2>that made the dogs howl and the old folks lock.

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<v Speaker 3>Their doors and pray.

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<v Speaker 2>They'll talk about the woman who lived in the cabin

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen miles up the frozen creek, the one who kept

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<v Speaker 2>to herself and never quite met your eyes when she

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<v Speaker 2>came into town for supplies. And if you buy them

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<v Speaker 2>enough drinks, if you earn their trust, they might even

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<v Speaker 2>mention what they found in the woods when the snow

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<v Speaker 2>finally melted that spring. But they won't tell you everything.

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<v Speaker 2>They can't because some stories are too strange, too terrible,

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<v Speaker 2>too impossible to believe. This is one of those stories,

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<v Speaker 2>and every word of it is true, well, if you

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<v Speaker 2>choose to believe it. Laurie Strode had been running for

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<v Speaker 2>forty five years, and she was tired, bone tired, soul tired,

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<v Speaker 2>the kind of tired that settles into your marrow and

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<v Speaker 2>makes you feel like you're a thousand years old, even

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<v Speaker 2>though you've only lived through fifty nine of them. She

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<v Speaker 2>stood at the window of her new cabin, watching the

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<v Speaker 2>snow fall in the gathering dusk, and wondered for the

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<v Speaker 2>millionth time if this would finally be far enough vsca

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<v Speaker 2>the last frontier, a place where you could disappear if

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<v Speaker 2>you wanted to, where the wilderness was so vast and

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<v Speaker 2>unforgiving that a person could vanish into it like smoke

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<v Speaker 2>and never be seen again. That's what she'd been looking for.

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<v Speaker 2>Not peace exactly, she'd given up on peace decades ago.

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<v Speaker 2>But maybe distance, maybe silence, maybe a place where the

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<v Speaker 2>nightmares couldn't follow. The cabin was small, just two rooms

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<v Speaker 2>and aloft, but it was solid, built by someone who

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<v Speaker 2>understood the brutal winters up here, someone who knew that

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<v Speaker 2>when the temperature dropped to forty below and the wind

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<v Speaker 2>came howling down from the mountains, your walls better be

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<v Speaker 2>thick and your stove better be hot. She'd bought it

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<v Speaker 2>with cash from a trapper who was too old to

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<v Speaker 2>handle another winter, and he'd looked at her with eyes

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<v Speaker 2>that had seen too much and asked if she was

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<v Speaker 2>running from something. She'd met his gaze and told him

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<v Speaker 2>that everyone was running from something. He nodded like he understood,

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<v Speaker 2>and hadn't asked any more questions. That was three months ago,

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<v Speaker 2>late August, when the fireweed was still blooming and the

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<v Speaker 2>salmon were running.

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<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>It was late October and the world had turned to

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<v Speaker 2>ice and darkness, and she was starting to think maybe

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<v Speaker 2>she'd made a terrible mistake. The cabin sat in a

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<v Speaker 2>small clearing, surrounded by spruce and birch, fifteen miles from

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<v Speaker 2>the nearest neighbor, accessible only by a four wheeler trail

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<v Speaker 2>that would be impassable once the heavy snows came. She

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<v Speaker 2>had six months of supplies, a satellite phone for emergencies,

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<v Speaker 2>and a shotgun that she knew how to use. She

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<v Speaker 2>had her pills for the anxiety and the nightmares. She

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<v Speaker 2>had her journals and her books, and her memories, both

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<v Speaker 2>the ones she wanted to keep and the one she'd

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<v Speaker 2>been trying to forget for most of her life. What

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<v Speaker 2>she didn't have was any illusions about what she was

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<v Speaker 2>doing here. This wasn't a fresh start, This was a

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<v Speaker 2>last stand. This was her version of dying, except she'd

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<v Speaker 2>still be breathing. She'd cut every tie, burned every bridge,

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<v Speaker 2>left no forwarding address. Her daughter Karen, thought she'd finally

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<v Speaker 2>lost her mind completely. Maybe she had, After everything, after Haddenfield,

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<v Speaker 2>after the fire, after the hospital, after watching her family

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<v Speaker 2>torn apart again, and again by the evil that refused

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<v Speaker 2>to die. Maybe going mad was the only sane response left.

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<v Speaker 2>The first week had been the hardest. The silence was oppressive,

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<v Speaker 2>almost physical. She'd spent so many years in a state

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<v Speaker 2>of hypervigilance, always looking over her shoulder, always waiting for

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<v Speaker 2>the other shoe to drop, that the absence of immediate

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<v Speaker 2>threat felt wrong. Somehow, her body didn't know how to rest.

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<v Speaker 2>She'd paced the cabin at night, checking the locks on

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<v Speaker 2>the doors and windows, peering out into the darkness, seeing

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<v Speaker 2>shadows that weren't there. But slowly, grudgingly, she'd started to adapt.

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<v Speaker 2>The rhythms of this place were different from anything she'd

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<v Speaker 2>known before. The days were getting shorter, the sun barely

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<v Speaker 2>clearing the mountains before it began its scent again. The

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<v Speaker 2>cold was a living thing, something you had to respect

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<v Speaker 2>and plan for. She'd learned to split wood, to keep

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<v Speaker 2>the fire going through the night, to read the weather

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<v Speaker 2>in the clouds and the behavior of the ravens. She

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<v Speaker 2>was learning to be alone with herself, and it was

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<v Speaker 2>harder than she'd ever imagined. By the end of September,

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<v Speaker 2>she'd fallen into a routine up before dawn, which came

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<v Speaker 2>late up here, coffee and oatmeal tend the fire, paul

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<v Speaker 2>water from the creek while it was still flowing. She'd

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<v Speaker 2>spent weeks preparing for winter, cutting firewood until her hands

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<v Speaker 2>were covered in blisters and calluses, reinforcing the cabin's chinking,

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<v Speaker 2>organizing her supplies. Physical labor helped it kept her mind occupied,

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<v Speaker 2>kept the memories at bay. It was early October when

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<v Speaker 2>things started getting strange. The first incident was the rocks.

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<v Speaker 2>She'd been inside reading when she heard a heavy thump

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<v Speaker 2>against the cabin's north wall. She'd grabbed the shotgun and

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<v Speaker 2>gone out to investigate, thinking maybe a branch had fallen,

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<v Speaker 2>but there was no branch. There was a rock about

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<v Speaker 2>the size of a soft ball sitting in the snow,

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<v Speaker 2>about three feet from the cabin. She'd looked up at

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<v Speaker 2>the roof, thinking maybe it had slid off, but that

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<v Speaker 2>didn't make sense. The rock hadn't fallen, it had been thrown.

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<v Speaker 2>The trajectory was all wrong for anything else. She'd scanned

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<v Speaker 2>the tree line, her heart pounding, her finger resting lightly

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<v Speaker 2>on the shotgun's trigger guard.

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<v Speaker 3>Nothing moved.

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<v Speaker 2>The forest was silent, except for the whisper of wind

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<v Speaker 2>through the spruce branches. She'd called out into the emptiness,

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<v Speaker 2>her voice sounding thin and small in the vastness, no answer,

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<v Speaker 2>just the wind and her own breathing, visible in the

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<v Speaker 2>cold air. She'd gone back inside and told herself it

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<v Speaker 2>was nothing. Maybe a snow slide from a tree, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>thermal expansion in a rock near the cabin, maybe anything

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<v Speaker 2>other than what her instincts were screaming at her, which

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<v Speaker 2>was that someone or something had deliberately thrown that rock

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<v Speaker 2>at her cabin. Three days later, it happened again. This

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<v Speaker 2>time she was outside splitting wood when a rock sailed

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<v Speaker 2>over her head and crashed into the woodpile. She spun around,

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<v Speaker 2>raising the axe defensively, and saw nothing but trees and shadows.

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<v Speaker 2>But she'd seen the trajectory this time. Whoever or whatever

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<v Speaker 2>had thrown that rock had done it from a position

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<v Speaker 2>about thirty yards into the forest, and they'd thrown it hard, strong,

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<v Speaker 2>very strong. She shouted into the forest that she was

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<v Speaker 2>armed and didn't want trouble, but would defend herself if

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<v Speaker 2>she had to. Silence answered her, and then, from somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>in the trees a sound she'd never heard before, low

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<v Speaker 2>and deep, almost subsonic, more felt than heard, not quite

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<v Speaker 2>a growl, not quite a vocalization, something in between. It

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<v Speaker 2>made the hair on the back of her neck stand

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<v Speaker 2>up and triggered some primal instinct that screamed at her

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<v Speaker 2>to run, to get inside, to hide. She'd back toward

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<v Speaker 2>the cabin, keeping her eyes on the forest, and once inside,

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<v Speaker 2>she'd locked the door and sat with the shotgun across

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<v Speaker 2>her lap until her hand stopped shaking. That night, she

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<v Speaker 2>didn't sleep. She sat at the window and watched the

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<v Speaker 2>darkness and wondered what the hell was out there. The

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<v Speaker 2>vocalization started after that. At first, just at night, that

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<v Speaker 2>same deep, resonant sound, but sometimes it would change in

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<v Speaker 2>pitch and tone. Sometimes it sounded almost curious. Sometimes it

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<v Speaker 2>sounded like a warning. She'd lie in her sleeping loft

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<v Speaker 2>and listen to it echoing through the valley, and she'd

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<v Speaker 2>think about all the stories she'd read about Alaska, about

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<v Speaker 2>the things that lived in the deep wilderness, bears, wolves, moose.

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<v Speaker 2>But this didn't sound like any animals she'd ever heard of.

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<v Speaker 2>She drove into Coldfoot on a supply run and casually

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<v Speaker 2>asked the woman at the general store if there were

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<v Speaker 2>bears still active this late in the season. The woman

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<v Speaker 2>whose name was Maggie and who looked like she'd been

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<v Speaker 2>born with callouses and a scowl, gave her a long look.

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<v Speaker 2>You're hearing something up at your place. Laurie kept her

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<v Speaker 2>voice neutral, just curious. Maggie leaned forward and lowered her voice,

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<v Speaker 2>That's wild country up there, real wild. You get all

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<v Speaker 2>kinds of things moving through Bear sure, but they should

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<v Speaker 2>Laurie hesitated, then decided to be honest. Deep vocalizations rocks

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<v Speaker 2>being thrown at the cabin. Maggie nodded slowly, like she'd

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<v Speaker 2>and you're just now mentioning this. Maggie smiled, but it

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<v Speaker 2>a secret and wasn't sure whether to share it. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not going to tell you what to think, but there

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<v Speaker 2>are things in these mountains that don't show up in

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<v Speaker 2>native folks, especially they know about They have names for them,

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<v Speaker 2>the hairy Man, the tall one Bush, Indian bigfoot, Laurie said, flatly,

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<v Speaker 2>call it what you want. Point is, if something's taking

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<v Speaker 2>is show respect. Don't threaten it, don't try to shoot it.

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<v Speaker 2>Leave it be, and maybe it'll leave you be. Laurie

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<v Speaker 2>one monster, she didn't need to worry about another one.

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<v Speaker 2>But Maggie's expression was dead serious, and Laurie spent too

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<v Speaker 2>out of hand. What happens if it doesn't leave me be?

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<v Speaker 2>Maggie shrugged. I guess you'll find out what you're made of,

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<v Speaker 2>though from the look of you, I'd say you already know.

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<v Speaker 2>That conversation was a week ago. Since then, Laurie saw

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<v Speaker 2>it just once, just for a moment, but it was enough.

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<v Speaker 2>everything is cast in shades of gold and purple. She

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<v Speaker 2>was tired, not paying as much attention as she should

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<v Speaker 2>edge of the clearing, partially obscured by a thick spruce,

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<v Speaker 2>stood something that made her stop dead in her tracks

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<v Speaker 2>and forget how to Breathe tall, very tall, at least

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<v Speaker 2>eight feet maybe more, covered in dark reddish brown hair

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<v Speaker 2>that seemed to blend with the shadows. It stood upright

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<v Speaker 2>like a man, but it was too broad, too massive,

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<v Speaker 2>too wrong.

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<v Speaker 3>To be human.

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<v Speaker 2>She could see the shape of its head, conical and powerful,

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<v Speaker 2>and she could see its eyes catching the last of

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<v Speaker 2>the daylight. Dark eyes, intelligent eyes, eyes that were watching

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<v Speaker 2>her with what looked like curiosity, and stay tuned for

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<v Speaker 2>more sasquatch ott to see. We'll be right back after

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<v Speaker 2>these messages. They stared at each other for what felt

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<v Speaker 2>mind went completely blank. All her training, all her preparation,

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<v Speaker 2>all her years of paranoia and self defense, and she

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<v Speaker 2>just stood there, frozen, like a deer in headlights. Then

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<v Speaker 2>it moved, not toward her, Thank god, It simply took

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<v Speaker 2>a step backward, moving with a fluid grace that something

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<v Speaker 2>that large shouldn't possess, and melted into the forest like

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<v Speaker 2>it never existed at all, no sound, no crashing through brush,

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<v Speaker 2>just there one moment and gone the next. Laurie stood

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<v Speaker 2>there until the water buckets got so heavy her arms shook,

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<v Speaker 2>and then she walked very carefully back to the cabin,

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<v Speaker 2>locked herself inside, and poured three fingers of whiskey with

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<v Speaker 2>trembling hands. A sasquatch, Are you kidding me? A freaking sasquatch?

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<v Speaker 3>Really?

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<v Speaker 2>After everything she'd been through, after all the human monsters

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<v Speaker 2>and the knives and the fires and the fear, she

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<v Speaker 2>that wasn't supposed to exist. She should have been terrified,

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<v Speaker 2>should have packed her bags and driven straight back to civilization,

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<v Speaker 2>But instead, lying in her loft that night, listening to

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<v Speaker 2>the deep vocalizations echoing through the valley, she felt something unexpected.

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<v Speaker 3>She felt less alone.

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<v Speaker 2>Maggie's advice finally made Laurie decide to try something different,

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<v Speaker 2>show respect, leave it be, So she started doing research,

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<v Speaker 2>pulling up what she could on the satellite Internet about

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<v Speaker 2>sasquatch behavior, habituation, situations, people who claim to have ongoing encounters.

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<v Speaker 2>Most of it was probably nonsense, but some of it

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<v Speaker 2>rang true. The stories about rocks being thrown as territorial

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<v Speaker 2>markers or attempts at communication, the vocalizations, the way they'd

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<v Speaker 2>watch human habitations from a distance, curious but cautious.

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<v Speaker 3>One thing kept coming up in the accounts. Food.

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<v Speaker 2>People who'd had extended contact often reported that leaving food

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<v Speaker 2>out seemed to ease tensions, to transform the dynamic from

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<v Speaker 2>confrontational to something more like coexistence. So three days after

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<v Speaker 2>her sighting, Laurie took a bucket of apples she bought

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<v Speaker 2>in cold Foot, walked to the edge of the clearing

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<v Speaker 2>where she saw it, and placed them on a flat rock.

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<v Speaker 2>She stood there for a moment, feeling ridiculous, and then

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<v Speaker 2>spoke to the empty forest. I don't know if you

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<v Speaker 2>can understand me. Don't know what you want, but I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not here to hurt you, not here to prove you

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<v Speaker 2>exist or take pictures or do any of that nonsense.

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<v Speaker 2>I just want to be left alone. Figure you probably

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<v Speaker 2>want the same thing. So here's some apples. Consider it

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<v Speaker 2>a peace offering. From one refugee to another. She walked

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<v Speaker 2>back to the cabin feeling like an idiot, but that

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<v Speaker 2>night she slept better than she did in weeks. The

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<v Speaker 2>next morning, the apples were gone, all of them, and

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<v Speaker 2>in their place, arranged in a neat little pile, were

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<v Speaker 2>four pine cones. Laurie stood there looking at those pine

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<v Speaker 2>cones for a long time, a gift or a response,

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<v Speaker 2>or something, an acknowledgment. She picked them up carefully, like

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<v Speaker 2>they were precious and set them on her windowsill. That

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<v Speaker 2>night she left more apples and some smoked salmon she

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<v Speaker 2>bought from a local fisherman. The next morning those were

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<v Speaker 2>gone too, and there was a dear antler placed carefully

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<v Speaker 2>by her door, not dropped or tossed there, placed there deliberately.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's how it started. That's how Laurie Strode, survivor

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<v Speaker 2>of Michael Myers, veteran of forty five years of running

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<v Speaker 2>and fighting in trauma, ended up in a gift exchange

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<v Speaker 2>with a sasquatch in the Alaskan wilderness. She learned its

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<v Speaker 2>patterns over the next few weeks. It would come at dusk,

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<v Speaker 2>moving through the trees with remarkable silence for something so large.

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<v Speaker 2>She'd see glimpses of it, shadows at the edge of

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<v Speaker 2>the clearing. Sometimes she'd hear it moving around the cabin,

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<v Speaker 2>testing things.

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<v Speaker 3>Curious.

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<v Speaker 2>It never tried to break in, never acted aggressive, more

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<v Speaker 2>like it was trying to figure her out, trying to

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<v Speaker 2>understand what this strange human woman was doing in its territory.

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<v Speaker 2>The vocalizations changed. They became softer, almost conversational. Sometimes she'd

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<v Speaker 2>be inside and hear that deep sound, and she'd walk

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<v Speaker 2>to the window and see it standing at the tree line,

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<v Speaker 2>just watching. She'd wave feeling absurd, and it would shift

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<v Speaker 2>its weight from foot to foot, a gesture that looked

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<v Speaker 2>almost bashful, before melting back into the forest. She started

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<v Speaker 2>leaving better food. She'd cook extra portions of whatever she

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<v Speaker 2>was making and leave them out, stew bread. Once, she

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<v Speaker 2>made a barry cobbler and left half of it out,

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<v Speaker 2>wondering if sasquatches had a sweet tooth.

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<v Speaker 3>It was gone.

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<v Speaker 2>The next morning, the pan licked clean, and she laughed

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<v Speaker 2>for the first time in months. She started talking it,

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<v Speaker 2>even though she never knew if it was listening. She'd

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<v Speaker 2>be outside chopping wood and she'd just start talking, telling

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<v Speaker 2>stories about her life, about Karen about the grandchildren she'd

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<v Speaker 2>never see again. She talked about Haddenfield, about that first

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<v Speaker 2>night forty five years ago when she was a teenage

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<v Speaker 2>babysitter and her life turned into a nightmare. She talked

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<v Speaker 2>about Michael, about the shape that refused to die, about

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<v Speaker 2>how many times she thought it was over, only to

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<v Speaker 3>You're probably the.

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<v Speaker 2>Only one who could understand what it's like to be

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<v Speaker 2>something people don't believe in, she told the forest, something

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<v Speaker 2>that gets written off as legend or delusion. They made

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<v Speaker 2>movies about what happened to me, made me into a

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<v Speaker 3>But we know the truth. Monsters are real.

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<v Speaker 2>They walk among us, and sometimes they wear masks, and

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes they're covered in hair, and sometimes they're just your

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<v Speaker 2>brother who won't stop trying to kill you. The sasquatch

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<v Speaker 2>vocalized then, that deep, resonant sound, and she felt like

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<v Speaker 2>somehow it understood. The creature started leaving her gifts more frequently,

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<v Speaker 2>interesting rocks, feathers, once a perfectly intact wolverine skull that

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<v Speaker 2>she kept on her mantle. The arrangement seemed to work.

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<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch kept its distance, but stayed close, a presence

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<v Speaker 2>in the forest. Laurie went about her business preparing for winter,

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<v Speaker 2>and felt something she hadn't felt in decades. She felt safe.

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<v Speaker 2>That should have been her first warning. Laurie Strode should

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<v Speaker 2>have known better than to feel safe. She learned that

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<v Speaker 2>lesson over and over again throughout her life. Safety was

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<v Speaker 2>an illusion. Security was a lie. And the moment you

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<v Speaker 2>let your guard down, the moment you started to believe that, maybe,

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<v Speaker 2>just maybe you'd finally escaped, that's when it came for you.

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<v Speaker 2>The calendar pages turned, October deepened, the temperatures dropped, Snow

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<v Speaker 2>fell more frequently, beginning to pile up a round the cabin.

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<v Speaker 2>She talked to Karen on the satellite phone, a brief,

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<v Speaker 2>awkward conversation where her daughter asked if she was okay,

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<v Speaker 2>and Laurie lied and said yes. She didn't mention the sasquatch.

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<v Speaker 2>How do you explain something like that? She couldn't very

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<v Speaker 2>well tell her daughter she was living in the woods

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<v Speaker 2>and befriended a cryptid Halloween was approaching October thirty first.

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<v Speaker 2>That date defined her existence for so long. She tried

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<v Speaker 2>not to think about it, tried to tell herself that

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<v Speaker 2>up here, thousands of miles from Haddenfield. That date didn't matter,

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<v Speaker 2>just another day, just another rotation of the earth. But

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<v Speaker 2>deep down, in the place where instinct lives, she knew better.

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<v Speaker 2>She always knew better. October thirtieth dawned clear and cold,

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<v Speaker 2>the sky that impossible blue you only see in the north.

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<v Speaker 2>Laurie was outside splitting wood when the sasquatch appeared at

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<v Speaker 2>the tree line. Unusual, it rarely showed itself during the day.

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<v Speaker 2>It stood there, visible for once in full sunlight, and

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<v Speaker 2>Laurie got her first really good look at it. Massive,

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<v Speaker 2>at least eight and a half feet tall, probably heavier

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<v Speaker 2>than three men combined, dark reddish brown hair covering its

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<v Speaker 2>entire body except for its face, which was dark and leathery,

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<v Speaker 2>more human than ape, but not quite either. Its eyes

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<v Speaker 2>were deep set and intelligent, watching her with obvious concern,

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<v Speaker 2>It shifted from foot to foot, making low vocalizations that

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<v Speaker 3>What's wrong. Laurie set down the axe.

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<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch lifted one long arm and pointed toward the

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<v Speaker 2>trail that led away from the cabin, the trail that

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<v Speaker 2>connected her property to the access road miles away. Then

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<v Speaker 2>it vocalized again, louder, this time more insistent. It was

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<v Speaker 2>trying to warn her about something. Is someone coming? Ice

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<v Speaker 2>water flooded her veins. Someone on the trail. The sasquatch

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<v Speaker 2>beat its chest once hard, the sound echoing through the

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<v Speaker 2>clearing like a drum, and then it bounded into the

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<v Speaker 2>there for a long moment, her heart hammering, and then

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<v Speaker 2>she walked quickly to the cabin. Inside, she locked the

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<v Speaker 2>and watched the trail until the sun set and darkness fell,

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<v Speaker 2>but no one came. That night, she didn't sleep. She

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<v Speaker 2>sat in a chair by the door with the shotgun

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<v Speaker 2>across her lap, and watched and waited and felt something

416
00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:33.640
<v Speaker 2>she'd been trying to escape creeping up her spine. Fear,

417
00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:37.799
<v Speaker 2>the old, familiar fear, the knowledge that he was coming.

418
00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:43.720
<v Speaker 2>Because she knew, even without proof, even without evidence, Michael

419
00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:48.480
<v Speaker 2>was coming. He found her, somehow, impossibly, he tracked her

420
00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.160
<v Speaker 2>across thousands of miles to this remote cabin in the

421
00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:55.400
<v Speaker 2>Alaskan wilderness. That's what the Sasquatch was warning her about.

422
00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:01.079
<v Speaker 2>That's what the creature sensed evil, recognizes evil. October thirty

423
00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:04.000
<v Speaker 2>first arrived with a white out blizzard. By noon, the

424
00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:07.559
<v Speaker 2>world disappeared into a wall of white snow, falling so

425
00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.920
<v Speaker 2>thick you couldn't see ten feet in any direction. The

426
00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:13.960
<v Speaker 2>wind howled around the cabin like something alive and angry.

427
00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:19.079
<v Speaker 2>Laurie prepared for this. She had supplies, heat, light, but

428
00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:22.759
<v Speaker 2>she also had something else. Now she had certainty he

429
00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:27.559
<v Speaker 2>was coming. Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, but he was coming,

430
00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:32.480
<v Speaker 2>and this time she was ready. Laurie spent Halloween Day

431
00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.519
<v Speaker 2>turning her cabin into a fortress. She learned over the

432
00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:38.640
<v Speaker 2>years that you couldn't kill Michael Myers through conventional means.

433
00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:42.880
<v Speaker 2>She shot him, stabbed him, burned him, watched him fall

434
00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:45.400
<v Speaker 2>from heights that should have killed him, and still he

435
00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:50.000
<v Speaker 2>kept coming. He was the shape the Boogeyman, the embodiment

436
00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:51.240
<v Speaker 2>of pure evil.

437
00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:52.640
<v Speaker 3>And evil didn't die easy.

438
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:56.000
<v Speaker 2>But you could slow him down, you could hurt him,

439
00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:58.640
<v Speaker 2>You could make him work for it. And if you

440
00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:01.920
<v Speaker 2>were smart, if you were prepared, if you spent forty

441
00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:05.559
<v Speaker 2>five years learning how predators think, you could maybe just

442
00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:08.599
<v Speaker 2>maybe survive long enough to find a way to end it.

443
00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:12.880
<v Speaker 2>The cabin had two doors, front and back, and four windows.

444
00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:17.119
<v Speaker 2>She barricaded the back door completely, nailing boards across it

445
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:20.799
<v Speaker 2>and piling her heaviest furniture against it. That left the

446
00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:22.160
<v Speaker 2>front door as the only.

447
00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:23.279
<v Speaker 3>Way in or out.

448
00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:26.440
<v Speaker 2>She reinforced it with a heavy beam that dropped into

449
00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.759
<v Speaker 2>brackets she installed, making it strong enough to withstand significant force.

450
00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:34.359
<v Speaker 2>The windows were the weak points. She couldn't board them

451
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:38.559
<v Speaker 2>all up without trapping herself inside, so she compromised. She

452
00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:41.960
<v Speaker 2>reinforced them with additional latches and prepared piles of furniture

453
00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:45.119
<v Speaker 2>that could be quickly shoved against them if needed. She

454
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:47.680
<v Speaker 2>placed her heaviest cast iron skillet on the sill of

455
00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:51.079
<v Speaker 2>each window, ready to be used as a weapon. Then

456
00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:53.920
<v Speaker 2>she started on the traps. She learned a lot about

457
00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:57.680
<v Speaker 2>survival in Alaska, about the old ways of hunting and trapping.

458
00:26:58.319 --> 00:27:02.039
<v Speaker 2>She applied those lessons. Now, outside the front door, she

459
00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:05.559
<v Speaker 2>dug a pit, covering it with branches and snow, making

460
00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:09.160
<v Speaker 2>it look like solid ground. It wouldn't stop him, but

461
00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.759
<v Speaker 2>it might slow him down, might give her a few

462
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.799
<v Speaker 2>extra seconds. She strung wire at ankle height across the porch,

463
00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:19.519
<v Speaker 2>nearly invisible in the darkness. She rigged a bucket of

464
00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:22.200
<v Speaker 2>boiling water over the door, ready to be tipped on

465
00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:26.039
<v Speaker 2>anyone who broke through. She scattered cowtrips she made from

466
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:29.039
<v Speaker 2>nails and wood on the approaches to the cabin, hiding

467
00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:33.359
<v Speaker 2>them under a light dusting of snow. Inside, she prepared stations.

468
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.160
<v Speaker 2>The shotgun by the front window with extra shells, a

469
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:40.599
<v Speaker 2>fire axe by the door, knives within reach wherever she

470
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:43.759
<v Speaker 2>might need them. She learned from her last encounters with

471
00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:45.920
<v Speaker 2>Michael that fire was one of the few things that

472
00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.839
<v Speaker 2>could genuinely hurt him, so she prepared accelerants, bottles of

473
00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:52.799
<v Speaker 2>lamp oil and grain alcohol that could be lit and thrown.

474
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.440
<v Speaker 2>She thought about the sasquatch out there in the storm somewhere.

475
00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:00.720
<v Speaker 2>The creature hadn't shown itself since yesterday's warning, and Laurie

476
00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.640
<v Speaker 2>felt a pang of worry. Was it hiding from what

477
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.799
<v Speaker 2>was coming or was it preparing to Either way, she

478
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.359
<v Speaker 2>couldn't count on help. This was her fight, It always

479
00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.160
<v Speaker 2>was her fight. As the short winter day faded into

480
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.160
<v Speaker 2>the long winter night, Laurie sat by the window and

481
00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.000
<v Speaker 2>thought about her life, about the girl she was before Haddenfield,

482
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:27.440
<v Speaker 2>before Michael, before everything. That girl was long gone, burned

483
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.640
<v Speaker 2>away by trauma and terror. But maybe that was okay.

484
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:33.680
<v Speaker 2>Maybe that girl needed to die so this woman could

485
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:36.880
<v Speaker 2>be born, this survivor who learned to stand her ground

486
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:40.640
<v Speaker 2>and fight back. She thought about Karen and her grandchildren.

487
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.319
<v Speaker 2>She left them a letter with her lawyer, to be

488
00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:44.720
<v Speaker 2>opened only if she died.

489
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:45.920
<v Speaker 3>In it.

490
00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:49.240
<v Speaker 2>She tried to explain everything, tried to tell them she

491
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:52.319
<v Speaker 2>loved them, tried to make them understand why she chose

492
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:55.759
<v Speaker 2>this isolation overstaying with them and putting them at risk.

493
00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.559
<v Speaker 2>She hoped they'd forgive her. She hoped they'd understand. Mostly,

494
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.480
<v Speaker 2>she hoped they'd live long, happy lives without ever having

495
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.599
<v Speaker 2>to know the kind of fear she lived with. The

496
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:10.319
<v Speaker 2>wind died around nine o'clock, the storm suddenly ceasing, as

497
00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:16.640
<v Speaker 2>winter storms sometimes do. The silence afterward was profound, absolute.

498
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:18.720
<v Speaker 2>Laurie stood at the window and looked out at a

499
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:23.240
<v Speaker 2>world transformed. Everything was buried under two feet of fresh snow,

500
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.000
<v Speaker 2>The clearing a perfect white expanse, broken only by the

501
00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.440
<v Speaker 2>dark line of trees. And there at the edge of

502
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:35.039
<v Speaker 2>the clearing, a shape moved, not the sasquatch. She knew

503
00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:37.279
<v Speaker 2>the creature's profile, its movements.

504
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.079
<v Speaker 3>This was different. This was human.

505
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:45.000
<v Speaker 2>This was a man walking slowly, deliberately, wading through the

506
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:48.799
<v Speaker 2>deep snow toward her cabin. He wore coveralls and boots.

507
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.519
<v Speaker 2>His face was obscured by a white mask. Pale and

508
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:57.799
<v Speaker 2>expressionless in the darkness. He moved with mechanical purpose, not hurrying,

509
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:03.839
<v Speaker 2>not hesitating, walking forward with the inevitability of a glacier. Michael,

510
00:30:05.319 --> 00:30:07.640
<v Speaker 2>and stay tuned for mar sasquatch oat to see We'll

511
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:14.599
<v Speaker 2>be right back. After these messages, Laurie felt her hand

512
00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:17.279
<v Speaker 2>start to shake and force them to be still. She

513
00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:20.920
<v Speaker 2>knew he was coming. She prepared for this, but knowing

514
00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:25.119
<v Speaker 2>and seeing were two different things. After everything, after all

515
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:30.279
<v Speaker 2>this time, there he was her brother, her tormentor, the

516
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:34.440
<v Speaker 2>shape that defined her life. It's okay, she whispered to herself,

517
00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:38.519
<v Speaker 2>We're going to finish this. She watched him approach the cabin,

518
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.119
<v Speaker 2>watched him step onto the approach and trigger the first trap.

519
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.480
<v Speaker 2>His foot came down on a cow trip and he paused,

520
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.880
<v Speaker 2>looking down. In anyone else, that would have been a

521
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.680
<v Speaker 2>moment of pain, of shock. In Michael, it was just

522
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.400
<v Speaker 2>a moment of curiosity. He pulled his foot up the nail,

523
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.119
<v Speaker 2>pulling free and continued forward without any sign of distress.

524
00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:04.519
<v Speaker 2>The ankle wire caught him next. He stumbled, his momentum

525
00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.480
<v Speaker 2>carrying him forward, and crashed into the snow. For a moment,

526
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:11.480
<v Speaker 2>Laurie felt a surge of hope. Maybe the fall would

527
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:17.279
<v Speaker 2>disorient him, give her more time. But Michael pushed himself up, slowly, methodically,

528
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:22.640
<v Speaker 2>and continued forward. Nothing stopped him, nothing ever stopped him.

529
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.240
<v Speaker 2>He reached the pit trap and fell through, disappearing from view.

530
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.160
<v Speaker 2>Laurie ran to the door. Peering out through the reinforced window,

531
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.079
<v Speaker 2>she could hear him down there, moving around in.

532
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:34.799
<v Speaker 3>The six foot deep hole. She dug.

533
00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:39.119
<v Speaker 2>Then she saw his hands appear on the edge, impossibly strong,

534
00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:41.640
<v Speaker 2>and he hauled himself up and out, like the pit

535
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.440
<v Speaker 2>was nothing more than a minor inconvenience. He stood at

536
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.440
<v Speaker 2>the base of the porch steps, snow covered, and tilted

537
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.119
<v Speaker 2>his head in that characteristic gesture, looking at the cabin,

538
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:55.559
<v Speaker 2>looking at her. She could feel his eyes on her,

539
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:58.880
<v Speaker 2>even through the mask in the distance. You're not getting in,

540
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.559
<v Speaker 2>she shouted, not this time, not ever Again.

541
00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:04.359
<v Speaker 3>He took another.

542
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:08.039
<v Speaker 2>Step forward and triggered the bucket trap. Boiling water cascaded

543
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:11.640
<v Speaker 2>down on him, steam rising into the cold air. Any

544
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:15.559
<v Speaker 2>normal person would have screamed, would have fallen back. Michael

545
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:18.319
<v Speaker 2>just stood there and took it, the water soaking into

546
00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:21.640
<v Speaker 2>his coveralls, and then he reached for the door. The

547
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:25.240
<v Speaker 2>door held, the reinforced frame and the heavy beam did

548
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:28.599
<v Speaker 2>their job. He pulled on it, shook it, and when

549
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:31.440
<v Speaker 2>it didn't open, he stopped and looked at it, studying

550
00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:35.279
<v Speaker 2>it problem solving. Then he raised his fist and started

551
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.559
<v Speaker 2>to punch through it. The door was solid wood, thick

552
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:41.680
<v Speaker 2>and heavy, but under Michael's assault, it began to splinter.

553
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:46.359
<v Speaker 2>Each blow landed with mechanical precision, the sound echoing through

554
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:49.839
<v Speaker 2>the small cabin. Laurie grabbed the shotgun and aimed it

555
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:53.640
<v Speaker 2>at the door, her finger on the trigger, waiting. The

556
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:58.240
<v Speaker 2>door cracked, splintered, a hole appeared, and Michael's hand thrust through,

557
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.480
<v Speaker 2>Groping for the latch. Laurie fired the shotgun directly at

558
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:05.799
<v Speaker 2>the opening. The blast was deafening in the enclosed space,

559
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:09.519
<v Speaker 2>and she saw Michael's hand jerk back. She pumped another

560
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:13.039
<v Speaker 2>shell into the chamber and fired again and again, blowing

561
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.599
<v Speaker 2>chunks out of the door, trying to drive him back.

562
00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:18.440
<v Speaker 2>She heard him fall from the porch, and for a

563
00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:21.880
<v Speaker 2>moment there was silence. She ejected the empty shells and

564
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:25.599
<v Speaker 2>reloaded with shaking hands, her ears ringing from the shots.

565
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:29.519
<v Speaker 2>The smell of gunpowder filled the air, acrid and bitter.

566
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:33.359
<v Speaker 2>A window shattered. She spun around and saw Michael's arm

567
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.799
<v Speaker 2>reaching through, sweeping aside the curtains, finding the latch, she

568
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:39.960
<v Speaker 2>ran across the room and brought the fire axe down

569
00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:43.359
<v Speaker 2>on his forearm with all her strength. The blade bit

570
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.119
<v Speaker 2>deep and she felt it hit bone, but Michael didn't react.

571
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:52.359
<v Speaker 2>He just kept reaching, kept moving, mechanical and unstoppable. She

572
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.359
<v Speaker 2>wrenched the axe free and swung again, and this time

573
00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.440
<v Speaker 2>he pulled his arm back. She grabbed the heavy cast

574
00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:01.240
<v Speaker 2>iron skillet from the windowsill and smashed it against his

575
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:04.839
<v Speaker 2>hand as he reached through again. The window frame was

576
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:07.279
<v Speaker 2>too small for him to fit through, but he was

577
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:11.679
<v Speaker 2>tearing at it, enlarging it, making an opening. Laurie ran

578
00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:13.119
<v Speaker 2>back to the other side of the cabin.

579
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:14.119
<v Speaker 3>The door was.

580
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.679
<v Speaker 2>Barely hanging on now, just splinters and nails holding it together.

581
00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:21.119
<v Speaker 2>She grabbed one of her prepared bottles, lit the rag

582
00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:23.360
<v Speaker 2>stuffed in its neck with a lighter, and threw it

583
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:26.559
<v Speaker 2>at the door. As Michael's hand came through again, the

584
00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:30.440
<v Speaker 2>bottle shattered and liquid fire spread across the porch. Through

585
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:33.280
<v Speaker 2>the damaged door, she could see Michael standing in the flames,

586
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:37.320
<v Speaker 2>his coveralls starting to burn. He looked down at the fire,

587
00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:41.119
<v Speaker 2>almost curious, and then he stepped through it and slammed

588
00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:43.159
<v Speaker 2>his full weight against what was left of the door.

589
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.800
<v Speaker 2>It gave way, The beam cracked, the hinges tore free,

590
00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:52.039
<v Speaker 2>and suddenly Michael was inside the cabin, burning and relentless.

591
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.400
<v Speaker 2>Laurie screamed and swung the axe. It caught him in

592
00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:58.079
<v Speaker 2>the chest and stuck there. He looked down at it,

593
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.559
<v Speaker 2>reached up and pulled it free like it was a splinter.

594
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:04.440
<v Speaker 2>Blood was soaking through his coveralls, now mixing with the

595
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:07.920
<v Speaker 2>water and the fire, but he kept coming. She threw

596
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:11.800
<v Speaker 2>another Molotov cocktail and it shattered against his chest, igniting

597
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:16.119
<v Speaker 2>the oil soaked coveralls. Michael was fully ablaze, now a

598
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.239
<v Speaker 2>walking inferno, and still he advanced. She backed toward the

599
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:23.519
<v Speaker 2>ladder to the loft, firing the shotgun point blank into

600
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:27.559
<v Speaker 2>his midsection. The blast knocked him back a step, maybe two,

601
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.960
<v Speaker 2>but he just kept coming. Her heel hit the bottom

602
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.679
<v Speaker 2>of the ladder and she made a decision. She dropped

603
00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:36.079
<v Speaker 2>the shotgun and scrambled up to the loft as fast

604
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:40.159
<v Speaker 2>as she could, hearing Michael's footsteps behind her. The loft

605
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:42.760
<v Speaker 2>was a dead end, she knew that, but it would

606
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.320
<v Speaker 2>give her a few more seconds to plan, to think,

607
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:48.679
<v Speaker 2>to find a way out of this. Michael reached the

608
00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:53.079
<v Speaker 2>ladder and started to climb, methodical as always. Laurie grabbed

609
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:55.440
<v Speaker 2>her sleeping bag and lit it with her lighter, then

610
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:59.000
<v Speaker 2>threw it down on top of him. More fire, more smoke.

611
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:02.159
<v Speaker 2>The cab was filling with it. Now the heat was

612
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.559
<v Speaker 2>overwhelming and she was choking. She could barely see, barely breathe.

613
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.679
<v Speaker 2>Michael reached the top of the ladder, fully engulfed in flames,

614
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:14.360
<v Speaker 2>now a burning figure of death, and grabbed for her ankle.

615
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:17.679
<v Speaker 2>She kicked at his face, her boot heel connecting with

616
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:20.599
<v Speaker 2>that white mask, and he lost his grip on the ladder.

617
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:24.519
<v Speaker 2>He fell backward, crashing down to the main floor, taking

618
00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:28.280
<v Speaker 2>the ladder with him. Laurie coughed her lungs, burning from

619
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:32.320
<v Speaker 2>the smoke. The loft was filling up fast, heat rising,

620
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:36.000
<v Speaker 2>and she realized with horror that she trapped herself the

621
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:39.239
<v Speaker 2>cabin was burning, Michael was down there, somewhere in the

622
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:42.960
<v Speaker 2>smoke and flames, and she had nowhere to go. She

623
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.519
<v Speaker 2>crawled to the loft window, the one she kept clear

624
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.440
<v Speaker 2>for ventilation, and kicked it open. Cold air rushed in,

625
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:53.920
<v Speaker 2>making the fire roar louder. She looked down about a

626
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:56.599
<v Speaker 2>twelve foot dropped to the snow below, and she had

627
00:36:56.599 --> 00:37:00.840
<v Speaker 2>no choice. She heard Michael moving below, climbing through the wreckage,

628
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:04.280
<v Speaker 2>coming for her. She didn't look back, she just jumped.

629
00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:07.480
<v Speaker 2>The landing knocked the wind out of her, driving her

630
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.960
<v Speaker 2>deep into the snow. She lay there, gasping, trying to

631
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.440
<v Speaker 2>get air back into her lungs, trying to make her

632
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:17.800
<v Speaker 2>body move. The cabin was fully involved now, flames shooting

633
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:20.360
<v Speaker 2>through the roof, lighting up the clearing like a beacon.

634
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:23.840
<v Speaker 2>She could see her shadow cast stark and black against

635
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:28.719
<v Speaker 2>the snow movement in the doorway. Michael emerged from the inferno,

636
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:33.320
<v Speaker 2>still burning, pieces of his coveralls falling away as charred debris.

637
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.199
<v Speaker 2>How was he still moving? How was any of this possible?

638
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:42.079
<v Speaker 2>But she knew the answer, She always knew. Michael Myers

639
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:45.320
<v Speaker 2>wasn't human anymore. If he ever was, he was something else.

640
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:50.639
<v Speaker 2>Something that wouldn't stop, couldn't stop. He started walking toward

641
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:53.119
<v Speaker 2>her through the snow, leaving a trail of fire and

642
00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:56.199
<v Speaker 2>smoke in his wake. Laurie tried to crawl away, but

643
00:37:56.239 --> 00:38:00.760
<v Speaker 2>her body wouldn't cooperate. The fall injured something. Ribs are back,

644
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:02.719
<v Speaker 2>and every movement was agony.

645
00:38:03.320 --> 00:38:03.880
<v Speaker 3>This was it.

646
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:08.079
<v Speaker 2>After forty five years of running, forty five years of fighting,

647
00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:11.000
<v Speaker 2>it was going to end here in the snow, far

648
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:15.559
<v Speaker 2>from home, far from everyone she loved. Michael reached down

649
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:19.159
<v Speaker 2>and grabbed her by the throat, lifting her effortlessly. His

650
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.639
<v Speaker 2>hands were charred, the flesh burned and cracked, but his

651
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.480
<v Speaker 2>grip was iron. He held her up so she could

652
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.280
<v Speaker 2>see his mask, so she could look into those empty

653
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:31.840
<v Speaker 2>eyes one last time. She tried to speak, but couldn't.

654
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.599
<v Speaker 2>Tried to fight, but had no strength left. The world

655
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:38.599
<v Speaker 2>was going dark at the edges, her vision tunneling down

656
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:42.039
<v Speaker 2>to just that white mask and those dead eyes. Then

657
00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.280
<v Speaker 2>something hit Michael from the side with the force of

658
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:47.639
<v Speaker 2>a freight train, and suddenly Laurie was flying through the air.

659
00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:51.039
<v Speaker 2>Released from his grip, she hit the snow hard and

660
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:55.400
<v Speaker 2>lay there, gasping, trying to understand what just happened. It

661
00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:59.280
<v Speaker 2>was the Sasquatch. The creature stood between Laurie and Michael,

662
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:02.679
<v Speaker 2>and in that moment, Laurie understood why people told stories

663
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:06.559
<v Speaker 2>about these beings for thousands of years. He was magnificent

664
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:10.199
<v Speaker 2>and terrifying in equal measure, a force of nature, given

665
00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:14.159
<v Speaker 2>flesh and hair, It stood at its full height, easily

666
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.159
<v Speaker 2>eight and a half feet of corded muscle and primal power.

667
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:21.840
<v Speaker 2>Its chest thrust out, arms spread wide, making itself as

668
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:25.599
<v Speaker 2>large and intimidating as possible. It beat its chest with

669
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:29.800
<v Speaker 2>both massive hands. The sound like thunder rolling across the clearing,

670
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:33.559
<v Speaker 2>reverberating off the trees and echoing back from the mountains.

671
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.760
<v Speaker 2>The vocalization that followed was something Laurie felt in her bones,

672
00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.679
<v Speaker 2>in her teeth, in the cavity of her chest. It

673
00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:45.920
<v Speaker 2>was deeper than sound, more vibration than noise, a challenge

674
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.159
<v Speaker 2>that spoke to something ancient and instinctual. This is my territory,

675
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:55.880
<v Speaker 2>This human is under my protection. Back off. Michael, still burning,

676
00:39:56.199 --> 00:40:00.559
<v Speaker 2>still bleeding, turned to face this new threat, his head

677
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:03.639
<v Speaker 2>studying the Sasquatch like he might study an interesting puzzle.

678
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:08.119
<v Speaker 2>There was no fear in his posture, no hesitation. He

679
00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:11.800
<v Speaker 2>simply processed this new variable in his mechanical, inhuman way.

680
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:16.159
<v Speaker 2>Then he took a step forward. The sasquatch didn't back down.

681
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:21.199
<v Speaker 2>It roared again, even louder this time, and charged. The

682
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:24.599
<v Speaker 2>collision was cataclysmic, eight and a half feet of pure

683
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:29.400
<v Speaker 2>muscle and primal fury meeting the unstoppable force of evil Incarnate.

684
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:33.480
<v Speaker 2>The impact when they came together sounded like a car crash,

685
00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:36.400
<v Speaker 2>like two bull moose, and rut like the end of

686
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:40.039
<v Speaker 2>the world. They went down together in the snow, rolling

687
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:44.400
<v Speaker 2>and grappling, and Laurie could only watch in horror and awe.

688
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:48.880
<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch was stronger than Michael, much stronger. Where Michael

689
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:53.480
<v Speaker 2>had inhuman resilience and mechanical determination, the creature had raw

690
00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:57.880
<v Speaker 2>physical power that defied comprehension. It got its arms around

691
00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:01.039
<v Speaker 2>Michael's torso and lifted him off the ground, spinning with

692
00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:04.440
<v Speaker 2>terrifying speed, before hurling him across the clearing like he

693
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.960
<v Speaker 2>was made of straw. Michael's body sailed through the air

694
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.880
<v Speaker 2>in an arc of flame and blood, covering at least

695
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:13.840
<v Speaker 2>twenty feet before he hit a thick spruce tree. The

696
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:18.480
<v Speaker 2>impact was devastating. The tree trunk easily two feet in diameter,

697
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:22.559
<v Speaker 2>cracked audibly. Snow cascaded down from the branches in a

698
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:26.559
<v Speaker 2>white avalanche. Any normal person would have been killed instantly,

699
00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:31.360
<v Speaker 2>their spine shattered, their organs ruptured. Michael hit the snow

700
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:33.920
<v Speaker 2>at the base of the tree. His body bent at

701
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:39.360
<v Speaker 2>an unnatural angle, and then he stood up. He rose slowly, methodically,

702
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:43.159
<v Speaker 2>pieces of burning fabric falling from his body like molting skin.

703
00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:48.159
<v Speaker 2>His coveralls were mostly gone, now burned away, revealing the

704
00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:52.000
<v Speaker 2>scarred flesh beneath, flesh that should have been dead long ago,

705
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:56.159
<v Speaker 2>but somehow kept moving, kept functioning, driven by something that

706
00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:59.840
<v Speaker 2>existed beyond the realm of biology or reason. He had

707
00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:03.440
<v Speaker 2>a knife, now, that knife, the one he used for

708
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:06.599
<v Speaker 2>so many kills over so many years. He pulled it

709
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:09.159
<v Speaker 2>from somewhere in what remained of his clothing, and the

710
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:12.519
<v Speaker 2>blade caught the firelight from the burning cabin, glinting orange

711
00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:15.519
<v Speaker 2>and red like it was already covered in blood. The

712
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:20.440
<v Speaker 2>sasquatch circled him warily, now its initial charge spent assessing

713
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:24.239
<v Speaker 2>this opponent that refused to stay down. The creature's dark

714
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:29.400
<v Speaker 2>eyes narrowed, intelligence and calculation visible in its gaze It

715
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:33.159
<v Speaker 2>dealt with bears, with wolves, with all manner of predators

716
00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:36.760
<v Speaker 2>in these mountains. But this was different, this thing that

717
00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.760
<v Speaker 2>looked like a man but moved like a machine, that

718
00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:43.159
<v Speaker 2>burned but didn't die, that took punishment that would kill

719
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:47.239
<v Speaker 2>any living thing, but kept coming. Michael lunged with the knife,

720
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:50.320
<v Speaker 2>faster than something so damaged should have been able to move.

721
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:54.559
<v Speaker 2>The blade arked through the air, aimed at the Sasquatch's throat,

722
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:58.239
<v Speaker 2>but the creature was faster. It caught Michael's wrist in

723
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:03.760
<v Speaker 2>one massive hand, wrapping completely around his forearm. The Sasquatch's

724
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:06.239
<v Speaker 2>other hand shot out and grabbed Michael by the throat,

725
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:10.280
<v Speaker 2>lifting him off the ground with terrible ease. For a moment,

726
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:13.639
<v Speaker 2>they were frozen there, a tableau of two monsters locked

727
00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:17.400
<v Speaker 2>in combat. Michael dangled in the air, held at arm's

728
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:20.599
<v Speaker 2>length by the creature's massive hands, still trying to drive

729
00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:23.599
<v Speaker 2>the knife forward, even as his windpipe was being crushed.

730
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:28.480
<v Speaker 2>The Sasquatch's muscles bulged, cords standing out beneath its hair

731
00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:32.960
<v Speaker 2>as it squeezed, But Michael was still burning. The fire

732
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:36.039
<v Speaker 2>that covered his body, fed by the accelerant, soaked into

733
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:39.400
<v Speaker 2>his flesh, and the remaining tatters of his coveralls was

734
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.199
<v Speaker 2>spreading to the sasquatch's hair. Where they made contact. The

735
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:47.000
<v Speaker 2>smell of burning hair filled the air, acrid and nauseating.

736
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:51.719
<v Speaker 2>The creature's hand wrapped around Michael's burning throat, began to smoke.

737
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:56.360
<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch made a sound of pain, a vocalization unlike

738
00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:59.599
<v Speaker 2>anything Laurie heard from it before. It was a sound

739
00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:04.480
<v Speaker 2>of suppse and agony, high pitched and terrible. The creature

740
00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:09.000
<v Speaker 2>released Michael and stumbled backward, its hand already blistering patches

741
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:12.280
<v Speaker 2>of fur on its arm. Blackened and smoking, it beat

742
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.880
<v Speaker 2>at the burning spots, frantically, slapping them with its other hand,

743
00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:19.639
<v Speaker 2>rolling patches of snow over its arm to extinguish the flames.

744
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:23.639
<v Speaker 2>Michael hit the ground and came at the sasquatch again, immediately,

745
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:27.840
<v Speaker 2>relentless as a machine, giving no quarter for the creature's pain,

746
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:31.559
<v Speaker 2>he drove the knife forward in a straight thrust, putting

747
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:35.079
<v Speaker 2>his full weight behind it. The blade caught the sasquatch

748
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:38.840
<v Speaker 2>in the left shoulder, sinking deep into muscle and tissue.

749
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:42.320
<v Speaker 2>The creature roared and swung back handed, catching Michael across

750
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:45.199
<v Speaker 2>the face with enough force to snap a normal person's neck.

751
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:49.440
<v Speaker 2>Michael's head snapped to the side, the white mask, finally

752
00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:52.960
<v Speaker 2>cracking down the middle, but he didn't go down. He

753
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:55.760
<v Speaker 2>twisted with the momentum of the blow, using it to

754
00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:59.920
<v Speaker 2>drive the knife in deeper, wrenching its sideways. The sasquatch

755
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:03.119
<v Speaker 2>bellowed in pain and rage, a sound that shook snow

756
00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:07.599
<v Speaker 2>from the trees and set Laurie's ears ringing and stay

757
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.119
<v Speaker 2>tuned for more sasquatch ott to see We'll be right back.

758
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:11.840
<v Speaker 3>After these messages.

759
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:18.440
<v Speaker 2>The creature grabbed Michael with both hands, one on his arm,

760
00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:22.800
<v Speaker 2>one on his torso, and pulled. Laurie heard Michael's shoulder

761
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.880
<v Speaker 2>dislocate with a wet pop that carried across the clearing.

762
00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:29.599
<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch lifted him overhead like a wrestler performing a

763
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:33.440
<v Speaker 2>power slam, holding him there for a moment, silhouetted against

764
00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:37.199
<v Speaker 2>the burning cabin and the star strewn sky beyond. Then

765
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:40.360
<v Speaker 2>it brought Michael down across its knee. The sound of

766
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:45.280
<v Speaker 2>Michael's spine bending cracking was like green wood breaking. The

767
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:48.320
<v Speaker 2>Sasquatch held him there for a moment, bent backward over

768
00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:51.199
<v Speaker 2>its knee in a position that should have paralyzed him instantly.

769
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.400
<v Speaker 2>Then it threw him aside like garbage, and he tumbled

770
00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:57.360
<v Speaker 2>through the snow, leaving a trail of blood and ash.

771
00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.159
<v Speaker 2>Laurie dragged herself to the base of a tree, using

772
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:04.159
<v Speaker 2>it for support, trying to stay conscious through the pain

773
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:06.679
<v Speaker 2>in her ribs and the horror of what she was witnessing.

774
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:11.039
<v Speaker 2>She watched the sasquatch lumber toward where Michael fell, its

775
00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:14.719
<v Speaker 2>left arm hanging useless at its side, blood streaming from

776
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:18.119
<v Speaker 2>the knife wound in its shoulder. The creature was favoring

777
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:22.400
<v Speaker 2>that side, its movements less fluid, now pain evident in

778
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:23.199
<v Speaker 2>every step.

779
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:26.400
<v Speaker 3>But Michael wasn't finished. He never was.

780
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:29.960
<v Speaker 2>He rose from the snow like a revenant, like something

781
00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:33.519
<v Speaker 2>that already died, but refused to accept it. His body

782
00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:37.360
<v Speaker 2>was broken, now truly broken. His left arm hung at

783
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:41.400
<v Speaker 2>an impossible angle, the shoulder destroyed, his spine had to

784
00:46:41.440 --> 00:46:44.760
<v Speaker 2>be fractured, damaged beyond any reasonable hope of function.

785
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:47.559
<v Speaker 3>But still he stood still.

786
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.519
<v Speaker 2>He moved toward the sasquatch with mechanical determination. They came

787
00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.519
<v Speaker 2>together again, and this time there was no grace to it,

788
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:58.920
<v Speaker 2>no display of strength. It was ugly, and brutal, two

789
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:02.360
<v Speaker 2>damaged monsters trying to destroy each other through sheer attrition.

790
00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:05.840
<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch swung its good arm and a haymaker that

791
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:10.039
<v Speaker 2>caught Michael in the ribs. Laurie heard bone's crack, saw

792
00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:14.519
<v Speaker 2>Michael's torso compress from the impact. He staggered but didn't fall,

793
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:18.519
<v Speaker 2>driving forward inside the creature's reach, punching at its wounded

794
00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:22.679
<v Speaker 2>side with his one functioning arm. They grappled, crashed through

795
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:26.079
<v Speaker 2>the underbrush, destroying young trees and churning up the snow.

796
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.639
<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch got its good arm around Michael's waist and

797
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:33.320
<v Speaker 2>squeezed a crushing bear hug that should have pulverized his

798
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:38.519
<v Speaker 2>internal organs. Michael's mask fell away completely, now revealing his face.

799
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:41.960
<v Speaker 2>Laurie could see it in the firelight, that face she

800
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:46.159
<v Speaker 2>knew since childhood, transformed by evil and damage into something

801
00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:50.679
<v Speaker 2>barely recognizable as human. Burns and scars covered his features.

802
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:54.519
<v Speaker 2>One eye was clouded and dead. His mouth was fixed

803
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:57.119
<v Speaker 2>in a permanent rictus that might have been a snarl,

804
00:47:57.519 --> 00:47:59.599
<v Speaker 2>or might have just been the way his damaged facial

805
00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:04.000
<v Speaker 2>muscle naturally rested. He drove his thumb into the Sasquatch's eye.

806
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:08.239
<v Speaker 2>The creature shrieked and released him, staggering backward, one hand

807
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:11.199
<v Speaker 2>going to its face. Michael fell to his knees, but

808
00:48:11.239 --> 00:48:15.159
<v Speaker 2>didn't stop. Even on his knees, even with his broken body,

809
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.800
<v Speaker 2>he lunged forward and grabbed the knife that was still

810
00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:21.360
<v Speaker 2>sticking out off the sasquatch's shoulder. He wrenched it free

811
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:24.599
<v Speaker 2>and drove it into the creature's chest, just below the sternum.

812
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.400
<v Speaker 2>Angling upward, the sasquatch stumbled backward, blood pumping from the

813
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:34.039
<v Speaker 2>new wound, dark blood, almost black in the firelight, steaming

814
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:36.760
<v Speaker 2>in the cold air. The creature's hand went to the

815
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:39.840
<v Speaker 2>knife handle, wrapped around it and pulled it free with

816
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:42.440
<v Speaker 2>the sound that Laurie would hear in her nightmares for

817
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.599
<v Speaker 2>the rest of her life. The knife came out, followed

818
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:47.960
<v Speaker 2>by a gush of blood that told Laurie everything she

819
00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:52.599
<v Speaker 2>needed to know. That wound was mortal, deep, and mortal.

820
00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.079
<v Speaker 2>But the sasquatch wasn't done fighting. It lurched forward, using

821
00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:00.280
<v Speaker 2>its good arm to grab Michael by the head. Michael

822
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:02.679
<v Speaker 2>tried to twist away, but his damaged body couldn't move

823
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:07.039
<v Speaker 2>fast enough. The creature's massive hand wrapped around Michael's skull,

824
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:11.639
<v Speaker 2>fingers digging in, and it began to squeeze. Michael drove

825
00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:15.159
<v Speaker 2>his fist into the Sasquatch's wounded chest again and again,

826
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:18.760
<v Speaker 2>each blow sending fresh gouts of blood streaming down the

827
00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:23.360
<v Speaker 2>creature's torso, But the Sasquatch held on its hand, tightening

828
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:27.400
<v Speaker 2>more and more. Laurie heard Michael's skull beginning to crack,

829
00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:30.840
<v Speaker 2>small popping sounds, like ice breaking on a frozen lake.

830
00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:34.960
<v Speaker 2>They stood there, locked together, each dealing death to the other,

831
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:40.480
<v Speaker 2>both refusing to fall. Michael's fists pummeled the Sasquatch's chest, cavity,

832
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:46.280
<v Speaker 2>breaking ribs, rupturing organs. The Sasquatch's hand compressed Michael's skull,

833
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:50.800
<v Speaker 2>fracturing bone, crushing the tissue beneath, and then the Sasquatch

834
00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:54.159
<v Speaker 2>got its other arm, working the wounded one, and brought

835
00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:58.239
<v Speaker 2>it up, despite the pain, despite the damage, Both hands

836
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:01.920
<v Speaker 2>now on Michael's head, the creature roared one final time,

837
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:06.599
<v Speaker 2>a sound of triumph and agony combined and twisted. The

838
00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:10.320
<v Speaker 2>crack echoed across the clearing like a rifle shot. Michael's

839
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:14.719
<v Speaker 2>body went limp instantly completely, his arms dropping to his sides.

840
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:16.920
<v Speaker 3>The sasquatch held him there for.

841
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:21.559
<v Speaker 2>A moment longer, making sure than released him. Michael Myers

842
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:24.840
<v Speaker 2>collapsed into the snow, face first and didn't move. His

843
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:27.679
<v Speaker 2>head lay at an angle that was not compatible with life,

844
00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:33.000
<v Speaker 2>with consciousness, with anything except death. The shape was finally still.

845
00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:38.440
<v Speaker 2>The sasquatch stood over Michael's body, swaying slightly, blood pouring

846
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:41.360
<v Speaker 2>from its chest wound. It looked down at the dead

847
00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.039
<v Speaker 2>man for a long moment, as if making certain the

848
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:45.360
<v Speaker 2>threat was truly ended.

849
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:49.599
<v Speaker 3>Then it turned its gaze to Laurie. Their eyes met.

850
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.519
<v Speaker 2>Across the clearing, across the burning cabin and the churned

851
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:57.159
<v Speaker 2>snow and the blood soaked battlefield. Laurie saw intelligence in

852
00:50:57.199 --> 00:51:02.079
<v Speaker 2>those dark eyes. She saw pain, She saw recognition, and

853
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:04.519
<v Speaker 2>she saw something that might have been a question, or

854
00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:08.159
<v Speaker 2>might have been goodbye. She tried to speak to thank

855
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:11.480
<v Speaker 2>this impossible being that saved her life, but her voice

856
00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:14.880
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't work. She could only watch as the sasquatch took

857
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:18.480
<v Speaker 2>a step toward her, then stumbled. Its hand went to

858
00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:21.360
<v Speaker 2>the wound in its chest, and came away, dark with blood.

859
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:25.199
<v Speaker 2>The creature looked at its own hand, seemed to understand

860
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:28.880
<v Speaker 2>what that meant, and turned away. It limped toward the

861
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:32.559
<v Speaker 2>tree line, toward the deep forest, leaving a trail of blood,

862
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:37.360
<v Speaker 2>black and stark against the white snow. Laurie found her voice, wait,

863
00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:42.239
<v Speaker 2>but the sasquatch didn't stop. It moved with painful determination

864
00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:46.079
<v Speaker 2>into the shadows between the trees, moving towards some destination

865
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:50.360
<v Speaker 2>only it new, someplace it chose to die. And then

866
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.920
<v Speaker 2>it was gone, swallowed by the darkness and the vast wilderness,

867
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:57.519
<v Speaker 2>leaving only that trail of blood, disappearing into the forest.

868
00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:01.880
<v Speaker 2>Laurie sagged against the tree, tears streaming down her face,

869
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:04.719
<v Speaker 2>mixing with the smoke and the blood and the snow.

870
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:08.360
<v Speaker 2>She looked at Michael's body, lying motionless in the clearing.

871
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:11.559
<v Speaker 2>The fire from the cabin was beginning to die down, now,

872
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.760
<v Speaker 2>the structure collapsing in on itself. The clearing was lit

873
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:18.920
<v Speaker 2>by dying flames and starlight, and in that light she

874
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:22.559
<v Speaker 2>could see clearly that Michael Myers was finally truly dead.

875
00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:26.920
<v Speaker 2>After forty five years, the nightmare was over, but the

876
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:30.719
<v Speaker 2>cost was terrible. The creature that showed her kindness, that

877
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:34.639
<v Speaker 2>became her unlikely companion in this remote place, gave its

878
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:37.639
<v Speaker 2>life to end the evil that pursued her across a continent.

879
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:41.119
<v Speaker 2>She knelt there in the snow beside Michael's corpse and

880
00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:45.239
<v Speaker 2>wept for the Sasquatch, for herself, for all the years

881
00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:48.920
<v Speaker 2>of fear and trauma, for the impossible price of her survival.

882
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:52.199
<v Speaker 2>The cold bit into her damaged body, and she knew

883
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.079
<v Speaker 2>she couldn't stay here much longer. She would freeze to

884
00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:58.599
<v Speaker 2>death if she didn't find shelter, get warm, call for help.

885
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:02.079
<v Speaker 2>But for now, for just a few more moments, she

886
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:06.159
<v Speaker 2>let herself cry, She let herself mourn, and she looked

887
00:53:06.159 --> 00:53:08.960
<v Speaker 2>at the forest where the creature disappeared, and whispered words

888
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:12.199
<v Speaker 2>of gratitude that the wind carried away into the vast

889
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:17.519
<v Speaker 2>Alaskan night. They found Lauri three days later, half frozen

890
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:20.719
<v Speaker 2>and delirious in the burned remains of her cabin. A

891
00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:23.360
<v Speaker 2>passing bush pilot saw the smoke and called it in.

892
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:26.800
<v Speaker 2>The state troopers came, and then the medics, and they

893
00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:29.880
<v Speaker 2>airlifted her to the hospital and Fairbanks, where she spent

894
00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:34.559
<v Speaker 2>two weeks recovering from broken ribs, frostbite, smoke inhalation, and

895
00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:38.920
<v Speaker 2>severe hypothermia. They found Michael's body too, or what was

896
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:41.719
<v Speaker 2>left of it. The official report said it was a

897
00:53:41.719 --> 00:53:45.639
<v Speaker 2>home invader, probably someone high on drugs, who attacked her

898
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:49.360
<v Speaker 2>and whom she killed in self defense. The burned condition

899
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:53.519
<v Speaker 2>of the body made identification difficult. They checked dental records

900
00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:56.880
<v Speaker 2>and DNA, but the samples were so degraded that they

901
00:53:56.920 --> 00:54:01.239
<v Speaker 2>came back inconclusive. Eventually, they listed him as John Doe

902
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:05.599
<v Speaker 2>and cremated the remains. Laurie didn't correct them. What would

903
00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:08.920
<v Speaker 2>she have said, that was my brother, the serial killer

904
00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:11.920
<v Speaker 2>who was supposed to be dead thirty years ago. They'd

905
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:14.920
<v Speaker 2>have put her in a psychiatric ward. She told them

906
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:17.800
<v Speaker 2>someone helped her, a large man who lived in the woods.

907
00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:20.920
<v Speaker 2>But the troopers never found any evidence of anyone else

908
00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:24.320
<v Speaker 2>being there, just animal tracks in the snow. They said,

909
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:29.159
<v Speaker 2>probably a bear. Laurie didn't argue. Some things were better

910
00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:32.480
<v Speaker 2>left unsaid. Karen flew up as soon as she heard.

911
00:54:33.079 --> 00:54:35.960
<v Speaker 2>They had a long, tearful reunion in the hospital, and

912
00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:39.119
<v Speaker 2>Laurie tried to explain why she came here, why she ran.

913
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:44.760
<v Speaker 2>Karen didn't understand, not really, but she stopped arguing. Maybe

914
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:48.239
<v Speaker 2>she could see something in her mother's eyes, some fundamental change,

915
00:54:48.719 --> 00:54:52.440
<v Speaker 2>some burden that finally lifted. It's over now, Laurie told

916
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:57.639
<v Speaker 2>her daughter, really over. He's gone forever this time. Are

917
00:54:57.679 --> 00:55:01.000
<v Speaker 2>you sure, Karen asked, and heard all the years of

918
00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:05.159
<v Speaker 2>fear in that question. I'm sure I watched him die.

919
00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:09.360
<v Speaker 2>I saw it end. Spring came to Alaska like it

920
00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:13.440
<v Speaker 2>always does, sudden and overwhelming. After the long winter, the

921
00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:15.960
<v Speaker 2>snow melted and the rivers ran high, and the tundra

922
00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:17.719
<v Speaker 2>exploded with flowers.

923
00:55:18.119 --> 00:55:19.119
<v Speaker 3>Laurie bought a new.

924
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:22.840
<v Speaker 2>Cabin, smaller, this time, closer to Coldfoot, where neighbors could

925
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:26.480
<v Speaker 2>check on her. She was healing, both physically and mentally,

926
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:29.159
<v Speaker 2>going to therapy for the first time in her life

927
00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:32.840
<v Speaker 2>and actually talking about everything she'd been through, but she

928
00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:36.639
<v Speaker 2>couldn't stop thinking about the Sasquatch. On a warm day

929
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:39.280
<v Speaker 2>in May, when the fireweed was starting to bloom, she

930
00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:42.239
<v Speaker 2>made a trip back to the old property. The burned

931
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.440
<v Speaker 2>remains of her original cabin were still there, black and

932
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:49.039
<v Speaker 2>skeletal against the new green growth. She walked past them

933
00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:52.760
<v Speaker 2>into the forest, following paths she remembered, looking for something

934
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:56.159
<v Speaker 2>she knew she probably wouldn't find. She found it anyway.

935
00:55:56.920 --> 00:55:59.639
<v Speaker 2>The skeleton was laid out in a small clearing covered

936
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:03.719
<v Speaker 2>in maws and new vegetation already being reclaimed by the forest.

937
00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:08.119
<v Speaker 2>It was massive, the bones thick and heavy, the skull

938
00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:15.119
<v Speaker 2>unlike anything in any anatomy textbook, sasquatch, real, undeniable, proof

939
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:19.000
<v Speaker 2>of something that wasn't supposed to exist. Laurie stood there

940
00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:21.639
<v Speaker 2>for a long time, looking at all that remained of

941
00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:24.800
<v Speaker 2>the creature that saved her life. Then she knelt down

942
00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:27.679
<v Speaker 2>and placed her hand on the skull, feeling the bone

943
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:31.559
<v Speaker 2>solid and real under her palm. Thank you, she whispered

944
00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:34.039
<v Speaker 2>to the empty air. I wish I could have saved

945
00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:36.679
<v Speaker 2>you too. I wish you could have lived to see

946
00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:40.880
<v Speaker 2>another spring. A raven called somewhere in the trees, its

947
00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:44.719
<v Speaker 2>voice harsh and clear. The wind rustled through the birch leaves.

948
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:49.159
<v Speaker 2>Life continued as it always did, indifferent to the small

949
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:52.480
<v Speaker 2>tragedies and victories that played out beneath its green canopy.

950
00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:56.239
<v Speaker 2>Laurie stood and looked around the clearing. This was where

951
00:56:56.280 --> 00:57:00.360
<v Speaker 2>it happened. This was where two monsters fought and was

952
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:04.400
<v Speaker 2>finally defeated, not by fire or bullets or traps, but

953
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:08.559
<v Speaker 2>by something far more primal, by a creature defending its territory,

954
00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:10.760
<v Speaker 2>protecting something it cared about.

955
00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:13.760
<v Speaker 3>She pulled out her satellite phone and made a call.

956
00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:17.280
<v Speaker 2>It took a few tries to get through, but eventually

957
00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:20.400
<v Speaker 2>she heard Maggie's voice on the other end. I need

958
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:22.800
<v Speaker 2>help with something, and I need you to promise to

959
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:26.360
<v Speaker 2>keep it quiet. An hour later, Maggie arrived on her

960
00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:29.599
<v Speaker 2>four wheeler with shovels and heavy duty trash bags. She

961
00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:33.239
<v Speaker 2>looked at the skeleton. You weren't kidding, were you, No,

962
00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:38.199
<v Speaker 2>Laurie said quietly, I wasn't. They worked together in silence,

963
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:43.079
<v Speaker 2>carefully bagging the bones, handling them with respect. Maggie knew

964
00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:46.639
<v Speaker 2>people native elders who understood these things, who would know

965
00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:49.639
<v Speaker 2>what to do with the remains, how to honor them properly.

966
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:53.719
<v Speaker 2>The bones would be hidden away, protected, kept safe from

967
00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:56.599
<v Speaker 2>trophy hunters and scientists and all the people who would

968
00:57:56.639 --> 00:57:59.199
<v Speaker 2>want to prove something or make money off the discovery.

969
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:03.440
<v Speaker 2>Some secrets were meant to stay secret. Some stories weren't

970
00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:06.360
<v Speaker 2>meant to be told to everyone. As they loaded the

971
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:09.119
<v Speaker 2>last of the bags onto the four wheeler, Maggie put

972
00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:13.280
<v Speaker 2>a hand on Laurie's shoulder. You okay, yeah, Laurie said,

973
00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:16.119
<v Speaker 2>and she meant it for the first time in a

974
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:19.639
<v Speaker 2>very long time, she thought she actually was. What are

975
00:58:19.639 --> 00:58:22.960
<v Speaker 2>you going to do now? Laurie looked back at the forest,

976
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:26.400
<v Speaker 2>at the clearing where the sasquatch made its last stand.

977
00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:30.000
<v Speaker 2>She thought about all the years she spent running, all

978
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:33.599
<v Speaker 2>the fear and trauma and sleepless nights. She thought about

979
00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:36.480
<v Speaker 2>her family, about the life she'd been too afraid to live.

980
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:39.840
<v Speaker 2>I think I'm going to go home, going to see

981
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:44.239
<v Speaker 2>my grandchildren, going to stop running and start living. He's dead,

982
00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:49.199
<v Speaker 2>it's over, and I'm still here. That's good, Maggie said,

983
00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:53.880
<v Speaker 2>that's real good. They drove back to Coldfoot together, the

984
00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:56.719
<v Speaker 2>bones of a legend secured on the four wheeler, a

985
00:58:56.840 --> 00:59:00.599
<v Speaker 2>secret that would be kept. Laurie looked back one last

986
00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:03.639
<v Speaker 2>time as they crested a hill, seeing her old property

987
00:59:03.679 --> 00:59:06.960
<v Speaker 2>disappearing behind them, the burned cabin and the clearing and

988
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:11.039
<v Speaker 2>the forest that briefly was home. Goodbye, she whispered into

989
00:59:11.079 --> 00:59:14.960
<v Speaker 2>the wind, thank you for giving me back my life.

990
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:18.199
<v Speaker 2>That night, in her new cabin, Laurie slept without nightmares

991
00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:21.320
<v Speaker 2>for the first time in forty five years. And far

992
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:24.239
<v Speaker 2>away in the mountains, in the deep places where humans

993
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:28.280
<v Speaker 2>rarely go, something moved through the trees, something large and

994
00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:32.840
<v Speaker 2>quiet and impossible, because legends don't die easily, and the

995
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:35.000
<v Speaker 2>wild places always keep their secrets.

996
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:37.320
<v Speaker 3>The sasquatch that saved her.

997
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:40.400
<v Speaker 2>Was gone, yes, but the forest was full of mysteries,

998
00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:43.719
<v Speaker 2>full of things that watched from the shadows and left

999
00:59:43.719 --> 00:59:49.320
<v Speaker 2>no trace. And maybe, just maybe that creature wasn't alone.

1000
00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:52.400
<v Speaker 2>Maybe there were others out there, moving through the darkness,

1001
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:57.360
<v Speaker 2>living their ancient lives far from human eyes. Some stories end,

1002
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:02.840
<v Speaker 2>some monsters die, but the wilderness endures, vast and unknowable,

1003
01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:07.039
<v Speaker 2>full of wonders were not meant to understand. And sometimes,

1004
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:09.360
<v Speaker 2>when the wind is right and the night is dark,

1005
01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:12.920
<v Speaker 2>people in the remote parts of Alaska hear sounds echoing

1006
01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:17.519
<v Speaker 2>through the valleys, deep vocalizations, calls that might be bear

1007
01:00:17.679 --> 01:02:04.199
<v Speaker 2>or wolf or wind, or might be something else entirely

1008
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:00.840
<v Speaker 2>u