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Speaker 1: I wasn't going to do a podcast today. I was

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going to take a day or two off. But I

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was in here this morning and I came across this story,

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and I thought, I got time to do this one.

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I'll do one story in this podcast. All right, here

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we go. In nineteen seventy five, I lived in rural

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Connecticut on four acres of wooded property. There were over

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sixty acres of woods and tobacco fields beyond that. Now

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I remember sitting on the backstairs and hearing a monkey.

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Not a roar like a gorilla, It was a monkey.

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I told my mother what I heard, and she said, well,

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it must be just a bird, and then she made

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me come inside. Every afternoon, when I was sixteen years old,

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I would take my Norwegian Elkhoun up into the woods

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for a walk, and at a certain point i'd let

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him off the leash. Leaving my back door, I had

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to walk up an old dirt farming road that no

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one used beside my family, and then go up and

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incline through the woods before they broke into the tiniest clearing.

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Each time I reached the clearing, i'd hear three knocks

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on a tree somewhere off to my right. Now, this

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happened every day, and there were three knocks every time.

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I didn't think much of it at the time, though

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it did stick in my mind. One day, after I

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reached the tree Knock point, my dog became unusually clingy,

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and I heard something pacing me. And when I stopped,

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it stopped, and when I walked forward, it walked too.

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I wondered if it was a deer, and I kept walking.

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When I let the dog go off the leash, he

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didn't run through the cornfield at the next clearing like

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he usually did. This time, he stayed close by me.

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And then one spring day, I was running after it rained,

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and I found the cougar tracks paralleling mine. It looked

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like a cougar had been stalking me. I eventually saw

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the cougar, along with its deer kill and its cubs.

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At the time, no one believed me about the cougar,

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except my father, who had once seen it too, though

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he never talked about it. And then the snow came

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and I tucked up to my place at the tree

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knock spot, and I saw more cougar tracks and a

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tail drag deep in the snow. The tracks were five

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feet apart the whole length of my stride as far

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as I could stretch it. I ran and got my

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mother to prove to her that there was a cougar

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and that I wasn't crazy. And I showed her the tracks,

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and she was terrified of the size, but she was

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even more disturbed by the smell oh that. I said, well,

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it always smells like this up here, right in this place.

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I think that cougar must mark her territory or something.

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My mother looked uneasy, and she swayed back and forth

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a bit in her own footsteps and said that that

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smell was not cat bee. That smell was right at

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the Treenock location, And in hindsight, I think my mother

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knew it was from a sosquatch. Well, I grew up,

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and I got married, I had children, and when my

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first child was around ten years old, we were walking

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with two of her friends in a brand new development

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built on the edge of our old neighborhood. They built

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ninety four houses in a stretch of land that when

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we first moved there was nothing but farm fields and

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a whole bunch of woods. We had gotten permission from

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the previous owner to hike there and we did that often.

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It was sad to see the woods go, but here

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we were on a new road going through it. On

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the top of a hill. As the girls and I

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were talking, I saw the strangest thing, and I thought

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my imagination was running away with me. Probably two hundred

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feet away on the opposite hill was an enormous figure

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with long, blondish hair, standing in the woods. It was

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the end of summer and the fir tree needles were

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a bit sunburnt and tawny color, and this figure camouflaged

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perfectly with it. It was enormous and it had its

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back to us, but from the side I could just

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see a slim sliver of a face, mostly the nose,

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which looked more human, although the whole thing looked like

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a giant orangutan. It seemed to know I had seen it,

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and it slowly moved sideways through the trees until it

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was gone. I thought I was seeing things, and I

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told the girls that we should hurry back, And when

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they asked why, I led and I said, I thought

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I saw bear up on the hill. A few years

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and two more kids later, we moved two towns over

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into a more rural area down the street from our

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home as a two hundred and fifty acre state forest.

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On a humid, sweltering July morning, my sons and I

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decided to take a hike on a short trail in

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the forest. We packed up water and our two dogs

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and we headed down the street. We had just gotten

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onto the trail when I heard the strangest howl. It

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was far away, but it had the fullness to it,

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and as so many people attest to, I felt it

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in my chest. It sounded like a warning, like it

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was trying to scare us off, but like an idiot,

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I shrugged it off and I kept going. Not too

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far down the trail, we smelled the impenetrable stench, like

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cat being dead fish. Now I remembered encountering the same

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smell in my youth at the three Knock place, and

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Why didn't anything, and as we went on the smell

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got stronger and stronger. We went home without any other event,

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but I felt a little shaken by the howling that

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filled my chest. And then two months later I went

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back to the same spot with my dog. I had

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been watching Bigfoot videos on YouTube, mostly sparked by my

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husband's interest. He had grown up in this town and

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knew someone who saw one, and he heard one himself

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a few years ago. I was learning all the signs

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of what to look for broken trees, that hideous smell,

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the tree knocks, and the howling. I was walking along

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the same trail that I had been on with my sons.

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Went off the trail on a far away bank, I

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saw a felled tree. The crunchy dead leaves on top

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of the tree were mixed with other brush and resembled

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some sort of nest or a shelter. I took out

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my phone and I snapped pictures of the tree in

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the surround. And later, when I got home, I went

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back over my pictures and I enlarged everyone, and I

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studied the images. It didn't take long until I discovered

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that I'd captured images of the creature that I'd never

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seen in Connecticut before. Well, first I sent the picture

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to my best friend. I said nothing, only ask her

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what the picture looked like. Well, first, she said it

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looked like a guy with a hood. But if she

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looked at it a little longer, she said it looked

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like some kind of an ape Now. I can't tell

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you how shocked and delighted and frightened and horrified I

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was to have captured images of these creatures. I believe

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the first one I photographed was juvenile. It had small ears,

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and the rest of it looked just like a chimpanzee,

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with protruding lips and a flat nose. I have photographed

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others who were all so hairy and dark and you

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couldn't see their faces. I got babies that look like

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baby gorillas, and a mother with no hair on her face.

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a dense pine thicket, and she was holding an infant.

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and feet, some with human like eyes, and some with

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all black eyes resembling those of a gorilla. I thought

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seeing the face of sasquatch would solve the mystery of

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whether they are human or animal, but unfortunately seeing them

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just makes me question it even more. Apparently they vary

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greatly by individual some look more ape like and some

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more human like. If I could tell you about every

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one of my encounters now in the last three years,

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i'd never finished writing this email. What I do know

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is that I have been unknowingly very close to these

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things and have not been harmed. But at the same time,

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there have been three mysterious deaths in the state forest,

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and I'm thinking sisquatch could be to blame. There's an

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aggressive one amongst this group. I once drove down the

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road near where they are and I stuck my head

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out the window when I did a call that I've

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heard in the woods a million times. That was a

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big mistake. A sidequatch showed up out of nowhere and

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threw a rock at my car. As incredible as it

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may seem, these beings are here, and there are a

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lot of them, even in places you'd least expected, like

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a well trafficked state forest. Please feel free to share

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this or any portion as you see fit. I enjoy

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your channel. And the woman signs off, and this is

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one of those. This is a person who for years

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saw signs of something and she couldn't put it together

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what she was seeing. She even mistook it for of

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her cat, big cats or other thing deer. She said.

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This is when she was younger. She ignored the signs

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that her dog was wary of going into places and

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stuff and just wrote it off. I mean, who would

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suspect anything other than that? And then she gets toward

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more current times and she's seeing them all the time,

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taking pictures of them, all kind of stuff. I just

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think that's extremely interesting that it's like once you see

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one and you know what to look for, all of

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a sudden you start seeing everything. Now with me, of course,

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doing all these stories, I know what to listen for,

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I know what to look for, I know what the smells,

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and I never see anything nothing, And I'm back in

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the woods all the time. Matter of fact, I'm thinking,

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I just bought a new electric bike. Yes, I splurged,

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but I got one on sale, and I'm about to

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go out and ride it and through my neighbor's pine thicket,

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and I'm going to put a chest camera and I'm

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going to show you. You've seen a lot of videos

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of me walking my dogs, but that's just a real

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small area of his property that he allows me to

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walk on and walk my dogs on. But I'm going

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to ride this electric bike because my fat ass can't

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pedal up those real steep hills. A bot this electric

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bike so I could get up the hills and just

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have some fun out there on his place, and he's

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such a good neighbor to let me do it. But

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I'm going to put a GoPro on and you'll see

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how many woods that I walk through. And I walk

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this whole place at least once a week, sometimes twice

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a week, and sometimes I do night walks with just

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a headlamp. That's really fun to me. It's too hot,

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too many mosquitoes out now, But when it starts cooling down,

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I'll take you all on a night walk with a

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headlamp on and I'll film that really fun for me.

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I don't know why I don't get scared. I just

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I'm sixty three years old. I've seen everything, with the

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exception of Bigfoot in these woods, and they just don't

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bother me. At night day, sometimes I turn my light off.

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venomous snake. I don't want to do that. But other

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than that, there's really not much out there that's gonna

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bother me, and it's very peaceful for me. But anyway,

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I'm kind of rambling. I'm gonna get on this electric

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bike and you'll see these woods and you would think

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that from these stories Bigfoot and like this woman says

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that they are absolutely everywhere, but you'll see I don't know.

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Some people will say, oh I saw one in that frame,

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I saw one in this frame. I don't ever see anything.

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Maybe I'm just having too good of a time. I

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don't know. Anyway, I hope y'all enjoyed this story. The

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woman who wrote it is very gracious to send it

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to me, and I appreciate, appreciate you guys listening. And

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we'll the one story in this podcast, and I hope

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that was Some people like shorter podcasts, and so I'm

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gonna drop a few of those every once in a while,

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not the hour, hour and a half long ones. I

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think this one is probably gonna be twelve fifteen minutes long.

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So enjoy your week. It's Wednesday, August the thirteenth. Tomorrow

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is my sister's birthday. I've got to remember to call

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her anyway. I love you all, have a good week,

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and we'll see you on the next podcast. Thanks.