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Speaker 1: All right, all right, one long story in this video.

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I pulled this up yesterday and I thought, man, this

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is a great story. I've got to share this story.

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I've had it for a long time. I just am

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now getting to it. The title is I Met a

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Strange little Man in the woods. It's not going to

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sound like a Bigfoot story right out of the gate,

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but it just hang on because it's really good. He

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writes Cam. Please don't use my name. You'll find out

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why later in this story. In nineteen sixty nine, I

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was twelve years old. My parents owned a river cabin

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on a very remote section of the Natchez River and

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what is called the Big Thicket. The Big Thicket is

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a name given to a region of heavily forested area

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of southeast Texas. We spent our summers away from my

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hometown in Beaumont, Texas, on that very beautiful but rustic river.

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In the spring of nineteen sixty nine, b and my

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best friend Tim and I decided to save our money

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and purchase a two man GI surplus rubber raft. We

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had great dreams and discussions of how we would fish

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all day from our own raft. We worked all spring

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and summer mowing yards and collecting bottles to earn money,

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and finally, in midsummer we had saved the thirty one

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dollars for the raft. We asked Tim's father to take

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us downtown to the GI Surplus to finally buy our raft.

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Let me say that the raft lived up to our expectations.

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We rode that thing all over the river, fishing and

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swimming from our own personal two man survival raft. We

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had tons of fun and the feeling of accomplishment was

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the absolute best. It was a great summer. The raft

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represented our freedom and our own ability to provide something

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special for ourselves. One day, toward the end of summer

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and before school started, we were staying up the cabin,

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but Tim wasn't with us. I decided to go up

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early and I got out fishing in the raft. And

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my dad always insisted that we row upriver so that

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no matter what, the current would bring us home. My

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dad was a wise man and a great outdoorsman. I

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was always smart to follow his advice. I stuck near

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the shore when rowing because the current wasn't a strong

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near the sandbars. While rowing upriver that morning, I passed

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a sandbar that I was familiar with. We had fish

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from it and swam off of it. We called it

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our secret sandbar. I don't know why, but back then

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everything had to have a name, and it was a

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great place to sing for men of us for bait.

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But on that warm summer morning, I noticed something different.

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There was a long, thick, black rubber hose that was

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partially covered in coming out of the woods behind the sandbar,

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and it trailed down into the river. That was odd,

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I thought, I've never seen that before. Being twelve years

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old and very curious and too young to be alarmed,

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I rowed to shore and pulled the raft up on

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the sandbar and decided to investigate the origin of the

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mysterious hose. Perhaps I should have gone back to the

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cabin and gotten my dad or my older brother, but

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I was too eager to know where the hose was

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coming from. Walking alone in the woods didn't concern me

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at all because I did it every day when I

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was at the cabin, So off I went into the

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thicket to investigate. I walked fifty yards into the woods,

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and the whole time carefully following the hose. I noticed

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that the hose was jumping a little like it was

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pumping water from the river. This was just getting more

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and more interesting. I came upon a metal box that

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the hose was connected to, and then it split into

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two hoses that vied off in two directions, but not

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far apart. I followed the hose further until I heard

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a noise up ahead in the woods, like someone hammering

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on a pipe. I kept following the hose until I

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saw something in the distance, and it didn't fit, and

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I crept a little closer, and I was stunned when

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I saw sitting there in the woods an object that

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looked like a small submarine. I stopped and stared and

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went into Indian Daniel Boone's squirrel hunter mode. And I

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quietly snuck up a little further and saw a little

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man wearing a jumpsuit and a hard hat working on

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some type of equipment out in front of the submarine thing.

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I could now see that it was larger than I

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first realized what was I looking at. I was a

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naive kid, so I yelled hey. The little man looked

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up at me and stared, and then looked behind him

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and said something to someone that I could not see.

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And then he said in a strange accent. Are you

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a lone boy, Yes, sir, I'm following this black hose

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to see where it goes. It leads right here, he said.

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I'm using the hose to pump water to cool some

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equipment I'm working on. How did you get here? I

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told him that I rode to the sandbar in my

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rubber raft and then things got interesting. What happened next

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I'll never forget as long as I live. The little man,

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who was shorter than me, stopped working and came over

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to me, and he reached out and patted my shoulder

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and said, what's your name? Boy? I told him my

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name and asked him his. Now I don't remember his name,

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but it wasn't one of the usual names I had

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heard before. I asked him what the little submarine was

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doing in the woods, and he turned and looked at

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it and laughed, boy, this in a submarine. Have you

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ever seen a submarine in the woods before, he asked.

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It was silvery gray, like a submarine, and tubular shaped

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with a porthole and a hatched door opened on the side.

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It was thirty to forty feet long. At my best, guest,

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what is it? I asked, it's a re entry vehicle,

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he said, oh, what, it's flying ship for space travel.

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He said, you mean like Apollo. I asked, kind of

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like that, he said, but it doesn't have rockets like

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your Apollo craft. And then I realized the little man

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was pulling my leg. What is a space ship doing

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out here in the woods on the Natchez River, I asked, smiling.

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I'm a transfer agent and I'm in the process of

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transferring my resource into a salt cave far under the

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surface of this forest. Well, I had no idea what

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he was talking about. And then the little fellow told

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me that he was hungry, and he asked if I'd

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like to eat with him. I hadn't had breakfast, so

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I asked, well, what do you have. He offered some

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fruit and some dark bread. The fruit was kind of

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like grapes, but yellow, and the bread was thick and

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very tasty. He said he liked our butter, but he

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didn't have any. What do you mean our butter, I asked.

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We sat down to breakfast, and he started to tell

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me a far out story. By the way, the yellow

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grapes were the best fruit I have ever eaten in

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my life, he said, to me, you look like a

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smart boy. And what am I about to tell you?

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You have to keep a secret. If you tell it,

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no one's going to believe you. Anyway, I should have

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listened to him and kept my mouth shut. But more

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about that later. And this is what he told me.

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I am one of sixteen hundred transfer agents stationed on

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this beautiful blue planet. I am assigned to the Petroleum Division,

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and my job is to transfer crude petroleum into various places,

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into underground caves in Texas and Louisiana. There are one

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hundred and thirteen of US petroleum agents a sign to

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this planet. The other agents are not in my division.

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They transfer other resources such as water, salt, plants, animals,

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precious metals, chemicals, and other needed resources to and from

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this world of yours. We transfer the resources mostly from

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the other planets in our Solar system. The plants and

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animals come from places far away. And he went on

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to say that our water originally came from the Red planet,

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and now it comes from the rings of Saturn. Our

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salt comes from Mercury, and our petroleum and sulfur come

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from Venus. Most of our metals come from Uranus and

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Pluto and some transfer agents continually test our oceans for

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the correct salinity balance, and when needed, salt is transferred

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from mercury. He said that when water is corrupted, it

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is removed and replaced with fresh water, and that this

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process goes on continually, but more recently since there had

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been a fast rise in our population. It's our job,

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he said, to make sure the blue planet never runs

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out of what is needed for mankind. I ask if

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the OL is brought in his spacecraft. Good question, he said.

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The best way to explain it is like this. We

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transfer on and off planet through another dimension. The resources

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changed into a non physical quintessence and then transferred to

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where it is a sign, and then changed back into

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its physical form. If we couldn't do it that way,

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we couldn't do it at all. Well, who do you

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work for? I asked? Do you work for Mobile or Texaco? Oh?

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You're a smart boy, he said. I cannot tell you

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who I work for, but if you think very hard,

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you will figure it out. Well, why can't you just

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tell me, I asked, that's the one bit of information

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that I can't share with you. He said, Well, do

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you work for God? I asked. He only stared at

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me and said, all I can say is that he

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comes from a physical realm, and that the transfer agents

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are assigned by very wise and affectionate authorities. I asked

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him how much he gets paid to do his job.

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He laughed out loud in his funny little voice, and

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he said, I'm getting paid right now by getting to

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visit with you. Well. I wasn't sure what he meant,

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but it made me feel good. The little man turned

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and said something in a different language behind him and

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toward the vessel. So I looked behind him, and I

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saw something that I had not seen before. There in

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front of the craft stood a large, hairy man type animal.

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I have since figured out that it was a bigfoot.

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At the time, I thought it was an eight, but

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it didn't stoop over like an ape, and it had

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a face with a nose, and it had human like eyes.

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This thing was huge. It was tall as the craft

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and looked at me in a way that scared me. Immediately,

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I jumped up and I said, what is that thing?

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The little man said, this is a friend of mine.

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He's a forest guardian who make sure no one comes

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around here to tamper with the transfer equipment. He then

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took me behind the craft and he showed me a

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Christmas tree, or that's what we call him in Texas.

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A Christmas tree in Texas is a stack of well

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Haad valves and adapters. It was like none I had

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ever seen, and I had seen many in my life,

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even at twelve. Well had adapters were everywhere in Southeast Texas.

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This is where I transfer the resource into the ground

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and down to the salt caves below. He said, well,

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what does that big Harry fellow do? I asked. The

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little man told me that he is here to guard

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this and other equipment so no one bothers it. He

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said there are many of them all over the and

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all over the planet. That they are our friends who

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protect the transfer agent's equipment when we're not here. He

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went on to say that they are good at frightening

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people away who get too close to what they protect.

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They won't harm you, he said, unless you get too

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close to what they guard. These things are not from

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this planet, but they like it on the Blue planet

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because they are left alone and there's plenty of food

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to eat. He also told me that they can cause

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a person to become very scared just by looking at them.

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The little guy then took me back to where we

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were eating, and he told me he had something for me.

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He went into his ship and brought out a box.

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He opened it and inside was a small device the

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shape of what I can only describe as a small

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mercury space capsule. He took it out and placed it

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in my hand. It was small and it was made

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of metal like stainless steel. What is it? I asked.

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He told me that he wanted me to keep it,

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and as long as I had it with me, I

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would never be bothered by the forest Guardian or by

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any one of the other more unfriendly visitors. Well, who

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are the unfriendly visitors? I asked? There are creatures that

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visit this planet for much different reasons than the transfer agents.

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He said, they're cruel and nasty little brutes who are

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up to no good. If you hang on to this

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little gift, they will never bother you. He then asked

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me to tell him about my family and friends, and

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where I went to school and if I went to church.

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I chatted on about all the things that I was

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interested in, fishing, baseball, comic books, model airplanes, and hunting squirrels.

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I told him about how my friend Tim and I

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had saved up and bought the raft. And I told

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him about being a boy scout and an altar boy

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in the Catholic Church, and that I attended Catholic school.

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He seemed to like hearing this. He told me to

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always be especially good to my mother and my sister.

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I told him I had a gift for him, and

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I pulled a folded comic book from my back pocket.

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It was a Marvel comic of the Fantastic Four. And

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he smiled and thanked me and said that he would

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enjoy it. And then un alarm sounded, and the little

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man put on his hard hat, wrapped up his leftovers,

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and said he had to get back to work. He

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patted my shoulder again and said he enjoyed talking with me.

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He made me promise that I would not tell anyone

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about our conversation and to never let anyone see the

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small device that he had given me. I promised him

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I would keep our secrets, and I said goodbye. I

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waved at his big hairy friend, and then off I

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went back to my beached draft. I knew I would

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never forget to wear to stay of my whole life.

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The next school year, I was in the seventh grade

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and changed from a private case Atholic school to public

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junior high. All my old friends were there too. My

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friend Tim would come a year later because he was

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a year younger than me. School was going great, but

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a problem started when we were assigned an English class

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to write a paper on what we did over the summer.

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I wrote about Tim and me buying the raft, and

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I stupidly wrote about meeting the little Man in the woods. Yep.

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I wrote everything, including the part about the resources from

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the other planets and the big hairyman. I told about

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the submarine that turned out to be a spaceship and

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the food and all of it. I even told about

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the device the little Man gave to me and that

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it would protect me. It was an eleven page report.

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I turned it into Missus Beal and expected an a

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on my first assignment in junior high. Man was I

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surprised two days later when I was called to the

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principal's office. I didn't even know who the principle was

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because I was a brand new student. Well, I went

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to the office during math class and I waited on

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the bench outside, and I was called in and was

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greeted by not only the principal, but also a man

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in uniform who was introduced to me as the local sheriff.

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I started to get scared because me and some buddies

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had recently been throwing rocks at hoboes who were writing

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in open train cars over the tracks. I was sure

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the sheriff was there to arrest me for stoning hoboes.

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That's not what they were concerned about, though. Mister Newberry,

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my principal, opened his desk and pulled out my assignment

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from English class. I immediately began getting nervous and scared.

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Mister Newberry asked, did you write these papers? Thinking back,

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I should have said no. I should have said my

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brother wrote it, or I read the story in a

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comic book, or anything other than what I said, But

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being a good Catholic boy, I couldn't lie. Yes, I

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wrote it. What's wrong with it? I said? Mister Newberry

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chimed in, Darryl, you were supposed to write what you

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did over the summer, not a fantastic story about spaceships

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and big hairy monsters in the woods. Did you really

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buy a rubber raft? Yes? Sir, I replied, it's in

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my garage right now, but it's deflated. Who is your friend, Tim,

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asked the sheriff. Well, I told all about Tim and

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that he was still in the sixth grade at Saint Anthony's.

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The sheriff then asked if my parents had a cabin

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on the Natcheesh River. Yes, Sir, I said, and right

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then I should have asked to have my parents called in,

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but back then I was too stupid to know better.

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And then the sheriff asked me if I really didn't

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meet a little man in the woods, and this is

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where I finally snapped, no, I said, I made the

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whole thing up. And then the sheriff asked, have you

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ever seen a big, hairy ape man in the woods

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on the Natchez River. No, Sir, I made that up too,

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I said, why did you make this story up? Young man,

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said mister Newberry, I thought fast, I don't know. I

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guess I had a boring summer and I wanted to

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write something interesting. And then the sheriff said, son, it's

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okay to tell us if you really didn't meet this

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little man. If you did, i'd like to thank you

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for writing the story. I would like to see the

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device he gave you. Maybe you would be willing to

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sell it to me for twenty dollars. Twenty dollars, dang,

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I thought, twenty dollars, and then reason trump my excitement. No, Sir,

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I said, I made the whole thing up. The principal

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and the sheriff looked at each other, and then mister

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Newberry said, in the future, son, you should stick to

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the truth and not make up science fiction stories like

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this ever again. Then he told me that it had

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upset missus. Beal now, I promised I would stick to

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the truth, and then I'll was dismissed. I have a

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cousin who at the time was a captain in the Army.

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He flew helicopters in Vietnam. I'd even written a story

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about him in sixth grade as the person who was

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my greatest hero. I guess I shouldn't have written that

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story either. But out of the blue, and some weeks

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after my visit to the school principal, my cousin called

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and said that he was going to be in town

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that next Sunday. He asked if I'd like for him

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to take me to the dairy Queen Dairy Queen. Heck yeah.

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The next weekend, my cousin arrived at our house and

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visited with my parents and then we drove to Dairy Queen.

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When we arrived at the DQ, there was an Air

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Force officer sitting at a booth in the back. We

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ordered Sundays and then my cousin walked over to the

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Air Force guy and spoke to him. He then invited

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me to join them. Cool, I thought, an Air Force

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guy and an Army guy. This is awesome. When I

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joined them, I was introduced to the Air Force man

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who was a captain. Now, I asked what he flew

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and he told me that he wasn't a pilot and

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that he was in Air Force intelligence. So you're a spy,

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I asked. He laughed and said no, I only study reports.

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After visiting for a few minutes, the unexpected happened. The

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Air Force officer pulled out a briefcase and he opened

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it and pulled out a copy of my English assignment.

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There it was, again, my English assignment about what I

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did last summer. I became confused and scared. Darryl, you've

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written quite a story here. Can we talk about it?

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He asked? The conversation was quite different from the one

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I had with my principal and the sheriff. The Air

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Force guy told me that I was not the first

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person to have this type of experience and that he

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believed that I really didn't meet the little man in

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the woods. He said, they know there are big Harry

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aight men in the big thicket, and that he would

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like to know all that I could tell him. He

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asked me if I entered the spacecraft. Well, I made

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the mistake and said no. Instead of saying I made

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it all up, he asked me if I still had

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the device, and I finally snapped and said no, that

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I made it all up, and he kept at it

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as if I was being interrogated. He said that it

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was my duty as an American and a Catholic boy

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scout to tell the truth and to let him see

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the device. Well, I'm not proud of what I did. Next.

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I was a tough kid, but I'd had enough and

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I started crying, I mean really sobbing. I guess I

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was just too stressed out to take anymore. I felt

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betrayed by my cousin and by my English teacher and

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my principal, I wished I would have just kept quiet

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about the whole thing. I wanted to call my dad. Heck,

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I was only twelve years old, and I was scared.

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I didn't like lying. I was in the depths of despair.

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I had never felt this stupid and upset with myself

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and my whole wife. Why couldn't I have just written

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something else, I thought? And then something awesome happened. My

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cousin put his arm around me and pulled me close

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to him, and then he looked at the Air Force

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guy and he said, that's enough, you're scaring the hell

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out of my little cousin. This meeting is over. The

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Air Force captain didn't respond. He got up and he

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walked out. I was sad for two reasons. First for

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having to answer yet again to some unknown person in

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uniform about my English assignment. And two, I didn't get

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to eat my ice cream Sunday. My cousin is still alive.

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He is a retired Army colonel. He is still my

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hero and has never asked again about my story. I've

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never said another word of it. And today I'm in

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my sixties and I'm no longer afraid. I have not

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had another encounter with a bigfoot or the strange little

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Man in the woods. I still have the little device.

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I guess it's kept me safe. I'll never know for sure.

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Even now I have a copy of my original English assignment.

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That's another story. And yes, I've completely figured out who

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the little man and all the other transfer agents work for.

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This long ago experience has shaped my life and my beliefs.

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I don't worry about things other folks fred over. I

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know that we will not be left to starve or

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run out of clean water or any other wonderful necessities

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that we enjoy on this beautiful planet we call home.

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I know that we are loved and provided for and yes,

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even protected. I also know that all those bigfoots you

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are always talking about are here for a good reason.

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And one more thing. Over the years, I have remembered

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other things the strange little Man in the woods told me.

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Do not be afraid to believe in what your parents

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taught you about someone up above. Also, the strange little

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Man taught me roughly ten or so things that would

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ensure my success in life. They sounded silly at the time,

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but I started taking those things seriously twenty five years

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ago they've worked out extremely well. Please do not share

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my contact information. I said, I'm not scared anymore, but

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the last thing I want is to be visited again.

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Thanks for giving us folks who have had unusual experiences

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of voice. Cam. I love your stories, and some even

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sound true. What about yours, dude, what about yours? And

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he writes, I love you man, I'm one of your people. Well,

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I'm one of your people too, sir. And I don't know.

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Story yesterday called Bigfoot in the Monster in Me it's

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actually an email I got, and I got this one.

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I'm just kind of going through a face where I'm

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drawn to these really strange stories, and a lot of

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people think I should kind of brush those aside. Now,

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I will say I do get some that are so

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outlandish that I know that the writer's trolling me. There's

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no doubt in my mind, and I'll trash those. But

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you can tell by what I just read. I don't

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just throw away, you know, stories that just seem outrageous.

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This man is quite believable. I cannot attest to the

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truth or non truth of this story, but he spent

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a heck of a lot of time writing this thing,

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and it's a great story, and I actually believe him.

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I don't know. Now, that doesn't mean I necessarily believe

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that the Bigfoots are space creatures that are put here

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to protect well heads and things like that. I don't know.

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I don't even want to try to figure all that out.

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It's just such a deep subject. I kind of like

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keeping all of these theories kind of bouncing around in

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my head. I watched Carries one hundred and sixty eight

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hours last night and this morning, and he's making the

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case that the Bigfoot that you cannot get a good

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image of them. It's just impossible to get a good image.

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I don't know about that, but that's a theory that

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I like bouncing around in my head. That's a different

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idea that I've actually never heard before. I always thought

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people were just taking pictures and finding dark objects behind

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green foliage and just kind of I mean, you can

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do that with clouds. You can look up at a

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cloud and you can make it look like anything. You

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can make it look like a dinosaur or a dog

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face or a I don't know, a razorback. I've done

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that all my life, and you can do the same

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thing in the woods. Through a blurry picture anyway, But

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I enjoy the possibility of all these theory They're fantastic.

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This particular story is the theory that Bigfoot are alien

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and that there are actually entities from other solar systems

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in the universe visiting our planet and supplying our planet

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with the resources that we need to survive and even thrive.

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So it was fascinating to me. The guy's a good writer,

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and there's your story. I hope you guys enjoyed it,

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and we'll see on the next one. Thanks.