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Speaker 1: I live in a house in the country near Eldorado, Texas.

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I woke up one morning and looked out in my

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bedroom window toward my chicken coop, and I saw a

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figure standing there. Judging by the height of the coop,

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the creature was at least seven feet tall. The only

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way to describe it is that it looked like a Chewbacca,

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the way it's hair flowed, and the fact that you

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couldn't see a neck. I rubbed my eyes several times,

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but it was still there. It was like it wanted

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me to see it, It wanted to be seen. It

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just stood there, looking at the house. Finally I looked away,

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and when I looked back again, it was gone. I

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never said anything for a while. Although I never saw

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it again, I would carry my pistol if I went

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outside after dark. After that, we would hear strange sounds

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at night, but we never saw anything again. Now my

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friend had to run in with a dog man, but

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that was months later. We had a tracker come in

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to look around, but he found nothing, or at least

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nothing that he would admit to. I told my family,

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and they gave me the strangest looks. Some of them

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think I should quit listening to shows like yours. They

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think I'm seeing things. Oh well, these stories are great.

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People are seeing things, and I'm just so glad you

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sent this in. It was a short, little story, but

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it was great. In nineteen ninety nine, I was a

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tradesman working on an apartment complex that was being built

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in my town. Operated my own company, and I was

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working after the bulk of the trades had left for

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the day. I was finishing my task in one unit,

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and I was gathering my tools to do the same

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thing in the neighboring unit, and I was moving quickly

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to take advantage of the daylight. Out of the corner

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of my eye, I caught a figure outside the window,

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and when I turned my head to look, person was gone.

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There were other apartments in the area that were inhabited,

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so I thought someone was taking a shortcut through the

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construction site. When I got to the next unit, I

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looked at the window in the back and I saw

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the coast was clear. But while I was working, I

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got the sensation that someone was watching me. I turned

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to the back window again and got a glimpse of

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a shadow as it walked away. It was the same

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figure I had seen earlier. When I finished my work,

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I moved upstairs. These apartments did not yet have the

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decks installed on the back side of the building, so

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I didn't think it was necessary to even entertain the

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possibility that this figure would be there. While I install

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the fixtures on the second floor unit, I felt that

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feeling again. I knew someone was watching me, and when

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I looked over my shoulder, I saw a man with

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a hat and a jacket outside the window. I had

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no clue what he was standing on because the balcony

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was not there. I turned around and looked at him,

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and he stared back at me, expressionless. I was nervous

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and dangerously close to being behind schedule for the project.

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I finally said out loud, well, if you're here to help,

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I could use a hand. If not, my insurance will

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not cover you on my job site. After I said that,

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he left. I decided to leave and come back the

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next day to finish. But before I went to bed

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for the night, I made a sketch of the man

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that I saw. The next morning, I was getting dressed

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for work when my wife watched TV. It was a

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Saturday morning, and I asked her what she was watching.

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She said she was watching Poltergeist. She said it's a

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good movie. I told her that I had never seen it,

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and I started lacing up my boots. I glanced at

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the TV and saw something that caught my attention. A

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familiar looking ghost walked across the road and across walk

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I couldn't believe what I saw. I went and got

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a sketch that I drew from the day before, and

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I handed it to my wife and I asked her

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if she could rewind the movie to that scene. She

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looked from my sketch to the TV and she said,

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are you sure you haven't seen this movie before. I

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told her I hadn't, even though the actor looked just

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like the man in my sketch, I didn't tell her

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what I saw out the second floor window of the

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day before. I didn't want to scare her look stupid.

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It took about a month or two for me not

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to get startled whenever I saw a flat brim farmer's hat.

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In twenty fifteen, my son and I were hunting in

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south central Colorado. We were tent camping like we always do,

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and I brought two different propane heaters along with the

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three cold weather sleeping bags just to be safe. Long

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story short, Neither heater would work at the elevation that

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we were at, so we I ended up placing our

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heavy duty hunting kots right next to each other. That

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way we could share the third sleeping bag across the

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top of us. The low that night was in the

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upper twenties, but we were okay. Before I went to

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bed that night, I pumped up the pressure really good

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in my comb and lantern and I left it on low.

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I was hanging in a tree in case either of

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us had to go relieve ourselves in the middle of

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the night. Around midnight, not long after I fell asleep,

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I woke up to my son tapping me on my shoulder. Dad,

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there's something outside the tent. I can hear it breathing,

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he said slowly. I reached over and grabbed my nine

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millimeter off the table next to me. My son's cot

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was up against the back wall and my cot was

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next to his. I lay there silently holding my gun,

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and I could clearly hear something outside breathing. He was

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right from the angle I was lying in the position

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of the sounds. I made it the height of our

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visitor to be in the ten foot range. I could

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hear the blood pumping in my ears, and I was

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on full alert. I told my son to plug his ears.

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I heard this thing slowly walk around the corner of

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the tent and then stop. Then I heard a second

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creature come to the tent from a different angle, and

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I knew I needed to make some noise. No, no, no,

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I shouted, making myself known. These things stopped in their

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tracks right before they cast a shadow onto the side

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of the tent from the lantern. I heard them slowly

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back away, but their footsteps weren't heavy like I heard

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about in some other stories. When we got up in

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the morning, I looked around our tent and the frost

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covered grass, but there was not a single track to

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be found. I don't have any idea who visited our

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camp that night, but I do know I've never been

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so scared in my life. I know what came to

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your camp. Brother. I'm pretty sure we all know what

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came to your camp. That's a cool story, scary story.

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Thank you for sending it. It was great. I am

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an outdoorsman and I live in Middle Tennessee. During the

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last deer season, I was out hunting one evening with

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my bow, trying to spot and stalk a deer, when

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I felt the sudden urge to look up at a

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nearby sycamore tree. There, hovering by the branches, saw a

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brown object that somewhat resembled the batman's symbol if you

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were to cut off the ears and jag at the edges.

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It was some sort of flying, silent creature. It wasn't

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a bat, but it wasn't a bird. This thing just

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hovered there above me for what felt like forever, and

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when it finally moved from its stationary position, it shot

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straight up in the sky until I couldn't see it anymore.

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That was the most interesting UFO encounter I've had up close,

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but I've seen more than my fair share at a distance.

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In fact, I see white lights in the sky so

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consistently that it's become as interesting to me as seeing

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an ordinary plane pass by. They never make any sound,

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and I'll notice multiple of them in a night. The

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lights don't blink, and their speeds very dramatically. Sometimes they

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move slowly and other times incredibly fast. Sometimes I see

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them ascend into the sky, and sometimes they shoot up

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rapidly and disappear. I hope you get to see them

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one night. All you have to do is look up

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and wait.