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Speaker 1: When I was young, I had a close group of friends.

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We were an neglectic group of guys who first met

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early on in high school. Our group consisted of dungeons

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and dragons, nerds, jocks, martial artists, rich kids, poor kids,

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and some with trouble backgrounds. Despite our many differences, we

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managed to bond and remain close, partially because we understood

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the other's personal traumas, but also because we shared some

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pretty strange experiences together. A favorite pastime was to get

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together late at night play a game that we called

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TESSO Tactical Environmental Scouting Operations what teenage boy wants to

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admit playing hide and seek. We would play TESSO in

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graveyard or parks, but we weren't above playing it through

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a random neighborhood either. Vermont in the nineteen eighties was

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a good place to grow up. We felt safe there.

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Wherever we went. We were kings of our domain. As

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far as we were concerned, we owned the whole state

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and it was our personal playground. A couple of us

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had driver's license, so it was nothing for us to

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leave our city and drive thirty minutes into the country

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to find the perfect woods for our nighttime operations. One

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thing about Vermont is there is always plenty of snow,

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and one cold winter night we headed out to a

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spot on the lake near Shelburne. Apparently we thought it

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would be fun to up the coal factor by adding

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the freezing winds off the lake to make our game

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more challenging. We drove down the road leading to the

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beach under a bright moon, and we parked. The large

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sheets of ice were fascinating to watch as they wave

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in the turbulent water, and the sounds of the ways

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slapping across the ice chunks intermingled with the occasional popping

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and crashing sounds as they slammed against each other. We

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were so enthralled with the sight that we were oblivious

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to the unnatural quiet around us. We didn't exactly have

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permission to be where we were, but as kings of

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all we surveyed, we didn't care. We were near barns

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where horses were kept on the property, and in our youth,

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it didn't occur to us that we should have been

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hearing the normal animal sounds that should have come from

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that barn or from the fenced in pasture behind us.

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We assessed our playing field. We were on the beach.

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Calling it a beach might have been a bit optimistic,

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but there was no more than fifteen feet of it

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before it dropped into the icy water. Between the beach

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and the pasture was a small playground outfitted with swing

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slides and a jungle gym. An erosion wall stretched the

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distance from the playground to the beach. Once our boundaries

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were set, we made sure no one else was around

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and we began our game of Tesso. This night was

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special in that we had brought along some special guests

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to play the game with us. One of the guys

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was trying to get friendly with a girl from school,

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and we invited her and a couple of her friends

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to come so we could introduce them to our strange

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nightly activities. As girls, they were enchanted and expressed their

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joy with the giggles and whispers, and as boys, we

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decided we'd give them a good scare. Halfway through our game,

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at the designated moment, one of the guys pointed to

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the edge of the woods near a horse pen and said,

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did you hear that? And, as if on cue, a

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cracking sound came from the beach. It was only the ice,

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but it added to the sun sudden change of emotions

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from play to an early silence. Everyone stopped to stare

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at the tree line. The boys knew it was a joke,

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but the girls were looking uneasy. They each took an

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unconscious step to close in their ranks, and then a long,

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piercing shriek of a howl came from that exact point

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in the woods where my friend had pointed, and now

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we were all looking. I had never heard a wolf's

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howl before, but I knew that wasn't what it was.

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It sounded a lot bigger, half animal, maybe half female scream.

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Now it was the boy's turn to step closer. Together,

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we took a mental note of everyone present. We were

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all there, but none of us was hiding in the

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woods making that awful cry. Surely no one in their

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right mind would be out in the woods after midnight,

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and whether that cold just to play a prank on

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a bunch of teenage We wouldn't have been there if

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not for the fact that we were afraid we'd miss

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the opportunity to frighten these girls. Thirty seconds later came

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a second howl. It was even more evil sounding than

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the first, and it broke our stupor. Panic ensued. The

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girls were crying. We so called kings, were panicking and

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screaming too, just like them. Someone yelled for everyone to

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run to the cars, and all at once we were

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in motion, each of us overwhelmed by terror and feeling

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that the second howl was meant to be a dinner

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bell ringing. All eight of us, five boys and three girls,

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piled into the two vehicles and slammed the door shut,

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and we locked them and then everything went quiet. Were

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we all holding our breath? I don't remember. After a

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minute or two we began to relax. False security fueled

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by window glass and sheep metal, enhanced our bravery. I

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felt my shoulders relaxed for a second before one of

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the girls laser locked on the woods and pointed her

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finger and screamed. We instantly turned to see what she

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was pointing at and found ourselves staring into a pair

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of red glowing eyes from just inside the tree line.

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And then a third howl rattled the windows, seconds before

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a black blur shot out of the edge of my

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line of sight. Then the car was shaking, as if

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something were rocking it side to side. It felt like

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it was almost lifting the car off the ground. We

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all yelled and streaked with the realization that mere sheep

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metal was no protection against our impending doom. We scrambled

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around trying to see what was shaking us to death.

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And it should have been easy to make out features,

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a shape, anything, but all we saw was a black

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blur outlined by the white light of the moon. And

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then the vehicle rocked to a stop as the same

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black blur raced toward the beach and out of sight.

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A minute passed, and then two, and finally someone rolled

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down the window and shouted over to the other car,

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did you guys see anything? We saw your car shaken.

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Someone replied, yeah, but did you see it? And after

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a pause, they answered, now we didn't see anything. We

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sat there for another ten minutes, shouting back and forth

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between the vehicles. I can't honestly say why we didn't

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immediately leave. Maybe we were too frightened to move. Eventually,

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our nerves settled and bravado won out over common sence.

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Oh to be a teenager again, showing off for the ladies. Simultaneously,

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we opened our car doors and we all got out.

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We were clearly still shaking and doing our best to

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hide it. Everyone was talking at once and asking questions

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and offering opinions. What was that? I don't know. What

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did it look like? I couldn't see it. What was

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it like being in the car as it was being shaken? Well, hell,

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it terrified me. Where do you think it went? I

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started to pull away from the group. I was sure

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i'd seen something ahead toward the beach. I walked through

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the crunching snow. The ground was covered in our footprints

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from earlier, and that's when I saw it. It was

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in the middle of a patch of clean, untouched snow,

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and it was a very large, pall print. It was

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a single padded print with claw marks extending from them,

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isolated and ice covered white. And it was huge. It

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was easily eight inches wide. And I called everyone over

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to check it out, and in shock, we murmured to

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each other about what could have made that track, And

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then one of the guys yelled, hey, over there, and

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sure enough, there was another print eight feet away. Whatever

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it was, it must have been enormous, and it was

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running on two feet. We found five tracks in all,

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and their distance apart and sizing reinforced the fact that

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some huge thing had run toward the beach. We scoured

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the entire area looking for more prints, but it was

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like it dissolved into nothingness. We searched both left and right.

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It never turned. But where could it have gone? I

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walked down to the beach area and there was a

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break in the wall and had ice covered stairs leading

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down to it. I more fell down the steps than

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I walked down them, and the wind had stopped. The

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resulting lack of sound from the water increased the eeriness.

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Now I could hear the crunching of my own feet

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pushing through the top layer of snow. Then I found

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what I was looking for, more tracks. The first one

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was fifteen feet from the wall, and now yelled to

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everyone to come down. There was a moment of comic

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relief as I watched them slide and fall down the

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icy steps. There they were, and there we were, huddled

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around the first of the princes that led into the

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edges of the freezing lake water. We determined that the

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last step above the wall was fifteen feet from it,

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and the first step below was another fifteen feet, A

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thirty foot jump, A three and a half foot tall

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wooden railing ran along the top of that wall that

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it also had to maneuver over, and it sailed over

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that rail and dropped a minimum of twenty feet to

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the beach below. It was time for us to leave.

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We went back the next day. The prints were still there,

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confirming that we had indeed witnessed something strange, and over

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the years we've joked about our run in with a werewolf.

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The term dog man hadn't entered the lexicon yet. Later

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we found a plaque posted to a tree at the

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far end of the beach. It stated that the land

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there was once the site of an Indian massacre or

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something worse. It's been so long that I no longer

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remember the story written on it. But over the years

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we went back to the beach many times and it

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sort of became our spot, a place to hang out

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and chill. It was left unspoken that we were there

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to see if we would ever encounter this thing again,

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and luckily we never did. I wonder now if we

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somehow summoned that thing there that night. I'm now a

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well armed child of God, ready to speak with the

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authority of Jesus against any such encounters. Be watchful, be viligent,

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and most of all be ready. When I was twenty

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years old, I went to work in the clothing mill.

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After a few years of working in the winding room,

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I was transferred to the print works on second shift.

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It would get really hot in that room, so while

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they were shut down and cleaning the machine between batches,

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I would go out into the cool air and catch

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a breath. One night in November of nineteen seventy two,

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as I was standing outside, I saw something out of

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the corner of my eye that was coming around the building.

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I turned to see a circular object that was one

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hundred feet in diameter. It was flat on the bottom,

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It had a dome on the top, and it was

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flashing colored lights that spun around and rotated with the

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spin of the craft. There was a dark hole in

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the center of the bottom. It was a clear night,

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with lots of stars in the sky except where the

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craft blocked them out. I want to make it clear

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that I have never done drugs, nor have I consumed

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alcohol or even so much as smoked a cigarette. This

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was not un hallucination. I had never seen anything like

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this before. I wouldn't even have known what I was

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looking at if I hadn't watched the day the Earth

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stood still. This craft was only about forty feet off

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the ground, and it was moving slowly. It didn't make

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a sound, not even a wooshing sound. It was quiet

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in the building, so there was nothing to drown out

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any of the noise. I'd have heard it if this

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thing made any sounds. It crossed my field of view

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and I yelled for a coworker to come out and

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see it too. He was a retired Air Force officer.

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He said he'd never seen anything like it either, and

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we watched as it drifted along and followed the river

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in a northerly direction toward Greenville, South Carolina. When I

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got home that night, my husband told me a flying

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saucer had been spotted over Greenville around eleven pm. I

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had seen it at ten pm, so it took an

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hour to reach a Greenville. I told him I had

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seen it too, and he laughed at me. He was

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an abusive man who laughed at me and made fun

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of me all the time for being a simple country girl.

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Sometimes he hit me when he was angry. It was

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a stressful marriage, so I didn't pursue a conversation. He

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worked third shifts, so he had to leave for work anyway.

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The next day he came home all excited. He'd driven

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down the road that paralleled the river the craft had followed,

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and he'd seen it too. I thought that was strange.

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Had it come back? He said, A bright, pulsating light

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was hovering above the tree, so he stopped and turned

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off his lights, and he watched it for a few minutes,

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and then turned his lights back on, and it shot

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straight up into the sky and disappeared, but it didn't

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stop there. That same week, I had the oddest dream.

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I dreamed I was floating out the door and up

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the dirt road we lived on. There was a big

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circular object hovering over the road that I was being

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drawn to, and I could see a wide light coming

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out of the bottom, and it seemed like there were

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bodies standing under the craft waiting for me. Then I

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started feeling like I was spinning, or maybe I was

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feeling extremely dizzy. Either way, it felt like I was

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spinning around really fast, like I was in the spin

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cycle of a washing machine. And then I found myself

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sitting on a table in a white room that appeared

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to circle around me. There were machines that looked to

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me at the time like vending machines. We didn't know

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about computers back then, but later I came to realize

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as that's what they looked like. A man dressed in

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white pointed at the machines and asked me what I wanted.

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I want to ham I said, yeah, I know how

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funny that sounds, but that's what I told him, and

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a hamburger popped out of one of the shoots. I

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don't remember eating it. The man stuck me in the

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arm with a needle, and the next thing I remember,

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he was showing me around the ship. We were standing

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at a long curving window, and I realized we were

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not on Earth anymore. We were speeding through space. We

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stopped in midair, and I found myself looking at these tall,

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twin buildings and a place I'd never heard of. He

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said there were going to be changes on Earth, but

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he didn't elaborate on what those changes were going to be.

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Mostly he warned me of my predicament. He said that

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I would have to change myself because the life I

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was living had no future. I don't remember anything after that.

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The next morning, I was back in my own bed.

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I thought about that dream and how real it feel.

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Oh At three pm, I headed to work, and as

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I drove down the road where I had seen the

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craft in my dream, I thought to myself, this is

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where it happened. And then I looked up into the

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sky and there it was again. It had a bright

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silver bottom that sparkled in the sunlight, and as I

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watched it, it shot straight up into the clouds and

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out of sight. I only trusted a few people enough

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to share this story with in the past, and then

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only because they had shared with me something that had

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happened with them. The more UFO stories I hear, though,

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the more I realized the UFOs are getting bigger and bigger,

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like mother ships coming down to Earth. I don't know

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what's going to happen to us, but it's getting to

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be a bit scary to think about. After that first dream,

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I've had several experiences when I would wake up in

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the middle of the night feeling as if I were

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being pulled up to the ceiling. It was so scary.

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Would think Jesus helped me, just help me, and then

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I would float back down to my bed and feel

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loving hands rubbing my face. That's no joke, it really happens.

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I don't think all of these alien creatures are evil,

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but I know these last ones trying to abduct me

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felt evil. No, I'm not insane, nor am I out

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there as some people call it. I have several degrees

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in various technical courses. Now. I manage my own business

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for years, and though I am retired now, I still

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try to get out and work as much as I can.

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I built my own house by myself, and it looks amazing,

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And the funny part is that I built it in

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a bigfoot hotspot. I've caught them on my game cameras

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and I have many casts of their footprints. My life

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has been a really amazing story. Thank you for reading it.