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Speaker 1: Back in twenty and seventeen, I purchased ten acres in

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northern Michigan, a few miles away from Huron National Forest.

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I bought the property to use as a weekend getaway

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from my mother and myself. The area is set up

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for RV camping, close to the road frontage and adjacent

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to a garage. The rest of the property consists of

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unused wooded areas and a long narrow drive lined with

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thick trees and scrub, and there's also a shared pond

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all the way in the back. During my first overnight stay,

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I was awakened by a loud whoop from something close

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to the bedroom window. It caught me off guard. I

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almost fell out of bed. Well. I grabbed my flashlight

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off the nightstand and I walked to the front of

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the RV where Mom was. She was sound asleep. I

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was sure the sound would have awakened her, even though

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she cannot hear thunder without her hearing aids. On another visit,

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I took the garden wagon loaded with tools to get

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some work done back by the pond. I was standing

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fifteen feet across from a thick tree line, clipping branches

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to widen the drive path enough not to scratch the vehicles.

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The trees and the bushes are so heavy that it

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looked dark there even during the day. As I was

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busy clipping away, I heard a loud grunting directly opposite

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me from the thick trees. I was so startled that

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my skin was crawling and my hands felt like they

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were moving in slow motion as I grabbed the wagon

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handle and pulled it along, walking out as fast as

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I could. After that, I never went past the culvert

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by the pond without carrying a weapon. Every time I

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mowed past that point, I had the strong gut feeling

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that I was being watch At times, I'd get so

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creeped out that i'd keep my weapon trained on the

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tree line as I moved near the trees, not that

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a nine millimeter would do much good with the size

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of whatever this was. Lady, if you can do that,

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I bet you're not driving a zero turn lawnmower. I

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have a zero turn, and if I even let go

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of one handle, I just start going in circles. So

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I always I just can't see myself holding a pistol

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and steering a zero turn with one hand. But I

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don't know that just hit me. I thought I'd talk

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about it. Let's get back to the story. After about

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a year, I thought it would be nice to put

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a small shed down by the pond to use for

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a more private getaway place further from the road. I

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had an area cleared, the shed delivered, My father and

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I spent the day up there mowing and trimming weeds.

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When we reached the covert at the start of the pond,

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we saw an enormous pile of gap. We got out

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of the truck and tried to figure out what could

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have made such a large pile. It didn't look like

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bear droppings. When we gave up on trying to identify it,

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I realized that one of the large logs I hadn't

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split yet was floating in the middle of the pond.

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It had been taken from a stack I had under

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a lean to at the road. Now, how on earth

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did it get all the way to the pond. Well.

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My dad was puzzled just like I was, and he

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quietly mumbled under his breath that it looked intentional. It

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wasn't until later that I got the impression that something

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was upset that I had invaded their space so I

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stopped using the property as an overnight getaway. I only

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went up for the day to mow and hang out

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in nature until the early evening, when I would drive

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home well. I fixed the shed with a small front

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porch and placed a small metal table on it. It

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had a raw iron base and an umbrella tightly secured

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in the center. I drove my mother down with refreshments

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and she sat in the chair next to the table

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under the umbrella, with a nice view of the pond.

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I started trimming trees, and after a few minutes I

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looked down to check on my mom. She was standing

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behind her chair, looking into the woods and trying to

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get my attention. When I got back to her, she

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said she heard a loud grunting across from where she

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was sitting. This time, I brought a long gun. I

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went to the vehicle and grabbed the rifle, and I

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walked over to where my mother pointed at the noise.

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I wasn't planning on shooting anything, but I had a

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good scope and I hoped I could get an idea

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of what was responsible for all the strange activity happening

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on the party. I stepped several feet into the trees,

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and then I heard something say sh fear took hold

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of me and I only had enough courage to make

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a quick scan with my scope. My instincts were yelling

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at me to get out of the area immediately, and

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I listened, and I packed Mom in the vehicle, and

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I grabbed our goodies and we drove out. That was

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the last time my mother went to that property. Later

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that fall, my father and I went up for the

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day to mow and trim, and after we finished working,

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we decided to eat our sandwiches next to the little

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pond area. When we got there, we saw the umbrella

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lying on the ground. I picked it up to put

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it back in its slot in the table, and I

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noticed the folded metal in the center hole was bent,

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as if something had slammed it around before picking it

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up out of its holder and throwing it to the ground.

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In the winter of twenty twenty, I drove up to

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check the grapevines and see if I should trend them

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back and check on the shed. The snow was pretty

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deep and the plows had done their job on the

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main road, but that driving onto my property was impossible

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due to the wall of snow blocking my entrance, so

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I parked across the street in the church parking lot

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instead and walked to my property. It was a typical

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Michigan winter weather day, and I had my down coat

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on with a large poncho over it to make sure

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that I stayed warm. It was cold and overcast and

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only two more hours of daylight left, and I tracked

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on into the property and checked on the grapevines and

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I did a bit of cutting back, and I noticed

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strange tracks in the snow that I could not figure out.

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But it was the huge length of stride that caught

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my attention. I tried to measure them using my own stride,

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stretching my legs as far as they would go next

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to the tracks, but I didn't even come close. It

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looked like whatever made these tracks had done it on

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three legs. Sure as rain as I reached the culvert,

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a sick, dark feeling hit me hard in my stomach,

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and I stopped in my tracks. My senses were telling

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me that something menacing was only feet away and it

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wanted me dead. And then within seconds the feeling of

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danger lifted. I was confused but relieved, and I saw

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my neighbor was pulling into his driveway all the way

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up at the end of the road, and must have

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accidentally scared off what had been there with me. There

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have been numerous times while I was at the property

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that I felt watched. If I walk along the drive

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I hear something pacing me slowly in the tree line.

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I never smell anything foul or out of the ordinary,

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but often I will walk back a short distance and

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find a feather placed directly in my path. For the

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entire day last summer, I was tracked by something in

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the trees. The neighbors were gone for a weekend at

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a wedding, and I knew I was alone. I popped

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up a small privacy tent to place my lugaloo. I

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don't know what a lug aloo is. He set up

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a table with a wash stand just outside the door.

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I hammered in new tent steaks as I lost the

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last ones, or so I thought. As the day was

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coming to an end, I felt a very strong presence

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in the bushes next to the pop up tent. Well,

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this time I spoke to it. Don't worry, I'm leaving soon,

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I said aloud. I went to use the bathroom before

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the drive home, and after I finished, I could hear

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a loud sniffing sound in the bushes right where I

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had been standing. I couldn't see anything, but it was alarming. Nonetheless,

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I'm leaving if you would just stop, I said louder

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this time, thinking it would calm my nerves. I folded

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the table down and grabbed the water jug and I

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walked about thirty feet to the truck put the items

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in it, and when I turned around, the pop up

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tent was flat on the ground. I walked over to

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it up and put it in its travel bag, and

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again all of my tent steaks were gone. I looked

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all around and I could not find a single one

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of them. What on earth I thought? Was that bigfoot

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that made the sniffing sound? Was he the one who

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stole my tent steaks? I told it once more that

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I was leaving, and I finished packing up and I left.

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After all of this, I decided to sell the RV,

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and after the buyer removed the trailer, I went up

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to the property and found a tree that had been

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near the RV that had been snapped clean off fifteen

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feet up from its base. There hadn't been any storms

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or high winds that I was aware of, And even

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if there had been, why had the surrounding trees not

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been affected. I pondered the strength that it would have

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taken for the creature to break a thick, healthy trunk

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like that, and I wondered if it had been Bigfoot.

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I bought another shed in place to near the road,

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and I currently use it for storage. I rarely go

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back near the pond and contemplate whether I should just

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sell the property because I cannot muster up enough courage

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to spend any real time there. It's a shame, too,

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because it's a lovely place. I guess Bigfoot seems to

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think so too. Oh that was a good story. But

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the sad part of it is, and I've heard this

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so many times, so many times, that people are run

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off of their property by these creatures. You know what's

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the answer to that. I have no idea. It's the

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luck of the draw. You buy some property that you

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haven't frequented, and then you know, within the first few

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months you find out you have these weird creatures on

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the property. You can't enjoy it, you can't go out

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at night. They run you off, They scare you all

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the time. You're paranoid every time you go, and then

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you wind up selling it. It's really a shame, and

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I hate that this person had to move her RV.

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It's she can't enjoy the pond anymore and she's thinking

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about selling it. It's just a sad state of affairs

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in my opinion. Maybe you'll get it worked out. I

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don't know what would be a method to run these

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things off. That's that what I might need to call

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Steve Lilly get him out of there. Of course he

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doesn't just run him off, he kills them. But maybe

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that's the answer. Who knows. All Right, that was a

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good story. Thank you, ma'am for sending it. I thought

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it was great. Thank you. Okay, here's another Bigfoot story.

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I think this whole podcast is going to be nothing

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but Bigfoot, which people seem to enjoy. So let's get

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into story number two. I'm from southern Virginia, about two

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hours north of North Carolina. When I was fourteen, my

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buddy and I were going to do an archery bear hunt.

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We set out around lunchtime after school and we made

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it to the location we wanted to hunt. My buddy

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made his way northwest and I went northeast. Thirty minutes

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in he texted me and he told me that he

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saw a bear cub and that he was going to wait,

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hoping there may be a boar or a sow nearby.

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I sat down and I waited too, until fifteen minutes

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later when I heard him screaming. I had just drawn

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my gun and was running in his direction when a

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five foot tall black creature running on two legs ran

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past me, going the opposite direction at full speed. When

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I got to my friend, he was bawling tears. I

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asked him what happened, but he couldn't speak. When he

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finally got a hold of himself, he said that as

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he drew back his spow, the bear cub he thought

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he was looking at stood up on two feet and

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looked him in the eye, and it snarled, and then

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it took off. To this day, we don't go near

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that area where we saw it. Another time, I was

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out fishing, but the bike was slow and I hadn't

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caught much. I decided to quit for a while and

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check the trail cams. I've decided to carry a shotgun

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to our ponds because of snakes, and that day I

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was carrying a pump action shotgun. I had just set

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my fishing pole down on the picnic table and was

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making my way to check my cameras, hoping to see

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if I had any good bucks to look at for

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the coming rifle season. I walked on and I heard

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a loud crunching sound twenty yards to my left. I

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shouldered my gun in case a wild boar, pig or

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a black bear was about to attack me, and as

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I looked in the direction of the sound, a creature

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stepped out from behind the trees, and he was covered

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head to toe in brownish blonde hair. I couldn't do

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anything but stop and stare at it, and when it

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started coming toward me, I yelled at it to stop.

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It backed up forty yards or so and I relaxed,

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but I tensed again just as quickly when it turned

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around again in it charged right at me. I knew

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right then that I'd have to shoot at it. I'm

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six foot seven and I weighed two hundred and forty pounds,

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but this thing was so tall I had to point

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up when I shot at it. Way up. It was

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easily over ten feet tall. I had number four buck

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shot in that pump action. Each shell has fifty four pellets,

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and I swear all fifty four of those pellets bounced

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off of this thing when I shot it, and it

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roared in a way I had never heard, like it

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was speaking, yelling at me to get the hell out

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of there. And as I watched it run back into

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the dense forest, I knew that was the last time

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I would hunt there. Oh my gosh, buck shot bouncing

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off of bigfoot didn't even penetrate its hide. Now that

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is amazing. The longer I do this podcast, every once

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in a while I come across something new, and this

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is really new. Most time when people shoot a bigfoot,

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it either bleeds or tears a hole in it, or

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makes it limp or kills it. I've never heard of

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bullets or shotgun shot bouncing off of bigfoot of bigfoot hide,

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But lucky for you, it was good enough to send

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him on his way. You're six foot seven, two hundred

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and forty pounds. You're a big man. But even at

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that size, a ten foot bigfoot coming down on you, you

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gotta start shooting. You just gotta start shooting. Thank you

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for this exciting story. I thought it was great all right,

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Bigfoot story number three. In twenty and twelve, my family

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moved into a new home that we built in Grandview, Missouri.

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It's located in a small valley next to Longview Lake,

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which consists of nine hundred and sixty acres. Woods surround

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the house property and behind us as a trail that

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completes a circle, and there's wildlife galore, deer, Turkey's codes,

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mountain lions, and everything in between. A year after moving in,

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my wife and our lab and I were walking the

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trail almost at dusk. As we cleared the end of

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the trail directly at the top of the hill, we

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heard a strange call. It sounded like a bird of prey,

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but ended in a long whistle, and it was moving

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from left to right. When we got back to our house,

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I saw my next door neighbor was out working on

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his car. He heard the noise too, and we both

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agreed it was unusual. A few months later, I was

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wakened by something hitting the house. It sounded like a

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big tree had fallen, Though now I don't have trees

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anywhere near the property big enough to make that kind

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of racket. I figured the wind had knocked something down,

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and I didn't think much more of it. We have

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a mating pair of great horned owls nested up on

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the hill, and I used to have fun calling back

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and forth with them because they always responded to me.

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Late one night, I was waking to the sound of

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one of the owls in the back of the house.

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I enjoyed listening to its call for a while, and

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then I went back to sleep. A little while later,

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I realized that it wasn't an owl. It was way

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too loud, and the tone suggested it was from a

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much bigger creature. Not only that it was coming from

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the other side of my window, and the owls had

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never gotten that close to our house before. I was

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feeling ill at the time, with a scratchy throat, and

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I had a glass of water on my nightstand. When

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I coughed and leaned over to take a drink, something

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right outside my window mimicked my cough exactly. I nearly

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choked on the sip of water. Later on, my son

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and I measured the height of that window. It's eight

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feet off the ground. After that night, it took me

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a couple of years to get the courage to sleep

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in that room again. I finally moved to bed, but

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I still had trouble sleeping. In December of twenty twenty two,

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my neighbor called me in a frenzy and asked me

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if I was home. I told him no. When I

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asked him what was going on, he told me it

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sounded like a tree had hit the house. He said

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that when he heard the noise, he went outside with

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a flashlight, but he couldn't find anything wrong. Our neighbor

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had heard it too. He went up into my attic

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to see if there had been some kind of damage,

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but he couldn't find anything broken or out of the ordinary.

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A year later, I was taking a shower when all

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of a sudden, a scream came from outside. It sounded

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like a cross between an elephant trumpeting and a lion roaring.

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I was twenty feet from the window and in the

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shower with the water and exhaust fan running. I usually

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can't hear anything when I'm in there, but this screen

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was so loud that I felt it. It took me

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so off guard that I had to catch myself from

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slipping on the floor of the shower. I thought someone

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had broken into the house, and my system went in

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to fight or flight mode. I quickly got out and

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looked around my house, but thankfully I didn't see anything.

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I have always enjoyed watching those Bigfoot shows, and one

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of them a couple was woken in the night by

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a strange whistle. I found myself screaming at television and saying,

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that was the same whistle that I heard. How could

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that be? The people in the TV show were sixteen

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hundred miles away, but it's all woods where I live,

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and I'm next to the water overrun by deer, and

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I guess it makes perfect sense that if Bigfoot lived anywhere,

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he would live near me. That's a good story. I

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don't think he ever saw it, but he's getting some

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really really good evidence that Bigfoot does live near where

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he lives in Grandview, Missouri, close to long View, late

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nine hundred and sixty acres of woods. It's a perfect

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habitat for a Bigfoot. Missouri is a big hotspot. I

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think that's where the let's see what what is the

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what is the Bigfoot in Momo? Momo is the Missouri Bigfoot?

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Maybe it's Momo living around your house, brother, I don't know.

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It's a great story, thank you so much for sending it.

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I know everyone enjoyed it. Okay, Rebecca says, this is

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a heartwarming story from the other side. I think it's

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a bigfoot maybe not. I'm reading this cold. Let's see

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what this story is about. I'm kind of excited. In

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nineteen ninety four, I was twenty three years old and

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my wife and I had been married for just under

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a year. It was that spring when I got a

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call that my grandmother wasn't going to be with us

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much longer. I went to the hospital to say goodbye.

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My grandparents were parents to fourteen children, most of whom

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were parents to at least four children, so our extended

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family was massive. Oh that is such good news. We

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need to be having more kids in this culture. We

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need more people. You guys need to be getting married,

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having kids, raising families. You will not regret it. If

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we don't, We're going to lose our population. There are

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other cultures that are reproducing three or four times as

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many kids as we are, and someday this American culture

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will be gone. But I digress. That just made me

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think of it. This is a topic that I worry about. Anyway,

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back to the story, we saw our grandparents from time

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to time, but being a bit of a drive for them,

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we didn't see them nearly as much as we should.

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That afternoon, not long after I had left the hospital,

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my grandmother passed away. I phoned my wife and I

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told her the news. She offered words of love and support,

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and before we ended the call, she asked if there

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was anything she could do to lift my spirits, and

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I said, how about some hugs when I get home?

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And she replied, you got it. I finished work and

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went straight home. When I walked into the door, my

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wife had taken post it notes and written the word

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hug on them. There must have been a hundred of

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them that were stuck all over the place, the walls,

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the tables, on chairs, on the TV, even a half

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a dozen spots on the ceiling. This was no small feat,

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seeing she is only five foot six. She also offered

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the real thing, a big, long hug that truly did

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make me feel better, and thirty years later, it still does.

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We ate supper, and we cleaned up and watched some

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TV to pass the time. Later that evening, when it

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was time to turn in for the night, we decided

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that we should probably take down all those papers, her hugs.

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We each started to pull them down and we tossed

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them in the trash, and we climbed into bed. And

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that's when I noticed one post it note on the

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ceiling directly over the bed. I decided I'd get that

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one in the morning. My wife falls asleep quickly, but

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I always lay awake for some time before drifting off.

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At night was no different. As I tried to fall asleep,

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I thought of my grandmother. I remember my mom telling

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me how hard she worked to feed all of those kids,

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how she'd make hundreds of loaves of bread and canned

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hundreds of jars of preserves. And I soon found myself

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regretting not getting to know her better and letting her

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know that I had always admired her. And then I

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started talking to her directly, not out loud, of course,

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just in my thoughts. I let her know that I

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loved her, and I wished that I could have told

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her that more when she was alive. I asked her

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to please you send me a sign in the next

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few days if she heard me. And then out of

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the blue, I felt something lightly tap my forehead and

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then my nose. It was dark and I was a

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little startled, and I assumed it was a big mouth

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or or some kind of bug. So I brushed my

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nose and I placed my hands on my chest, and

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that's when I felt it. It was the post it

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note Grandma had sent me a hug. I'm not a

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diehard believer in ghosts or other such things. I don't

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discount the possibility out right. I guess I just have

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to experience it myself to really believe it, that's all.

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But this was different. I started crying right then and

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there as I thought of the odds. My wife had

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to make the post it notes she had put them up.

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One had been over the bed, and it had to

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fall at the exact right time for me to get

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that hug. It had to hit my head first. If

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it had landed on my chest first, I wouldn't have

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felt it through the comforter. It hit my forehead first

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and then my nose, as if to say, Hey, pay attention,

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this one's for you. I woke my wife up to

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tell her what had happened. She was sure it was

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no coincidence, and so was I. It was a truly

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wonderful feeling. Oh that was not a Bigfoot story at all,

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that was not really even a ghost story. And I think, uh,

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you know, I don't know. I think if we look,

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if we watch, keep our mind open, and watch the

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things that happen in our daily lives. I think a

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lot of times God speaks to us through images, through

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actions of other people, through coincidences. There's a word for it.

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Is it serendipity. I don't know, but I've heard a

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lot of people talk about it, and I've had a

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lot of those experiences in my life. It's hard to

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remember them. They kind of they kind of fade away

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with time. But after reading this story, I have made

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a resolution, at least for the next few days, to

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be conscious and look for those little signs that God

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sends me that tell me that He's there. I'll tell

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you one thing that always makes me think of Jesus,

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and I don't know why it does, but in the

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spring and in the summer, and this usually happens when

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I'm having a terrible day and my wife and I

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have had an argument. Something's going on with one of

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the grandchildren, her children, something is off. And it's almost

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every time I will see a butterfly close to me,

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they don't get on me. They don't land on my shoulder,

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they don't land on my knee when I'm sitting, but

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they'll be just right there and I get close to them,

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and they get up and they flutter around, and they'll

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go around me and around my head, and then they'll

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fly off somewhere, and sometimes I'll watch them for days,

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and that makes me think that everything is going to

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be okay. Something about butterflies. They're so pretty. How in

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the world you know butterflies. I'm getting off topic here,

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but sometimes butterflies they just look like they're just kind

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of will and nilly flapping their wings. But if you

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watch them, it's like they'll go to a specific plant.

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They know exactly how much effort to put in to

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their wings to get to a specific spot. Anyway, that's

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quite a tangent. But that's one of the things that

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really makes me think of God and his creation and

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all the good things in the world are butterflies, and

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they always show up at the perfect time. So thanks

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for listening to this person's story who wrote this email,

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and thanks for listening to my story. I really appreciate

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this person sending it in. It lifted my spirits. Thank you,

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Thank you for joining me on this podcast. If you're

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hearing this, you are listening either on Spotify, spreaker out Podcasts,

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or some podcast out. I love posting to these platforms

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because they're easy to listen to, they're easy to upload to.

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In other words, it's easy for you and me. I

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would really appreciate it if you would take the time

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to leave me a good review on Apple podcast or

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Spotify or whatever podcast app you use. That really helps

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the podcast. That helps bump it up in the algorithm

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and gives me a little more reach. It puts the

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podcast in front of more eyeballs. I don't ever ask

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for stuff like this, but since I'm kind of doing

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this for a living now, I'd appreciate any of the

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help I could get. But only do it if you

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enjoy the podcast. Leave me a review on Apple, Spotify,

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spreaker comment, do whatever you can do to provide some engagement,

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and it only takes a second. I would really appreciate that.

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All right, Thanks for joining me. I appreciate you hanging

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with me this long. You on the next one. Thanks