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Speaker 1: In the early nineteen nineties, my brother and I used

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to go to Eyehop every night. We would spend hours

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there drinking coffee and discussing philosophy and art and religion

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and literature. We were sitting in the last booth in

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the corner where we could see out of both sides,

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because each side had a row of windows, and the

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window showed a scene of the Dallas LBJ Freeway leading

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into I thirty five and an endless stream of fast cars.

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And even though it was late at night, the stream

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was still moving. I noticed to my left, way out

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in the distance, a figure coming off of I thirty five.

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It walked down the middle of the median between the

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two sections of east and westbound traffic, and as it

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got closer, I could see it was a woman in

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a long white dress. She had long black hair and

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wore white veil that flowed behind her like a train. Well.

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I blinked and rubbed my eyes, and I squinted to

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make sure I was seeing what I was seeing, And

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I watched as she got closer and closer, thinking that

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when she passed the bridge, I might be able to

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see her going down the other side. But while she

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was on the bridge. My view was obstructed by a

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service station, and I didn't see her come out the

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other side. She either disappeared on the bridge or crossed

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the freeway there amid the heavy stream of traffic and

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went down the grassy hillside. I read about a legend

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once called La La Nna. I'm sure I'm not pronouncing

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that right. She is the weeping woman of the Southwest.

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It eerily fits the woman I saw. The legend says

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that the beautiful woman has long black hair, and she

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wears a white gown, and she wanders through the night

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looking for children to take with her. Maybe that was

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just a meth head walking around doing that jerky kind

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of thing they do, and she had found a sheet

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to wrap her up with. I don't know. I don't know.

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Let's go to the next He's got another story here,

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Let's go to that. In the nineteen eighties, I used

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to visit my sister and her husband and spend time

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with their kids every year. My brother in law's father

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lived with them. He was disabled and he stayed back

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in his room most of the time. My sister was

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a teacher and her husband ran his own company, and

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while they were at work and the kids were at school,

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I would be left alone with his father. Often, my

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brother in law's clients would call the house and I

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would take a message for them, and when the phone rang,

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the father would pick up the phone and answer it too,

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and each time I told him that I had it covered,

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and then he would hang up. I never saw the

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guy much, and that was about the only contact I

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actually wanted with him. He was not a personable guy.

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My sister and her family moved to a new house

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with a pool, and his father died shortly after that.

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We lot visit to them at their new house. One morning,

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after everyone had gone to school and work, I was

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left alone again, and I was planning to swim in

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their new pool and read a book and watch TV.

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But as usual, the phone rang. It was a customer

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for my brother in law, and as I spoke to

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the customer, the phone made a clicking sound like another

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extension had picked up. Hello. I heard the voice say

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the same voice as my sister's late father in law. Well,

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I kept talking and I took the message and the

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caller hung up, and I didn't hear the extension hang up,

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so I stayed on the line and there was no

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doll tone, and it sounded like the line was still open,

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the way it used to sound on old ground lines

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with extensions. I listened for twenty seconds or so, and

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I felt rattled. When I finally gathered up my courage,

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Is anyone there? I asked? The phone made a clicking

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sound of someone hanging up, and then came the doll tone.

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I was out the front door and down the block

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in a second, and I drank coffee at a local

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deli until it was time for my sister to come home.

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I am of a Christian faith, and I could tell

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you about some miracles I've seen. I do not draw

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major conclusions from these experiences, but I'm smart enough to

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know that I don't know everything, and some things just

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can't be explained. What a creepy, creepy whoo. That kind

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of gave me shivers. It's almost like that those movies

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they make with the you know, the phone rings and

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the young twenty somethingter women pick up the phone and

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it's like, we know what you did? You know, those

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kind of creepy shows. I get bored with those, but

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when they first came out they were pretty interesting. It

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kind of reminds me of that. And I saw a

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movie probably in the last couple of years on this

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La Lorona of the Weeping Woman of the Southwest. That

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was a horror movie. My wife and I love to

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go to movies. We go to We're always looking at

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the ads at the movie theaters for what cool movies

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are coming out. We're always watching trailers and stuff like that.

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Have y'all this is way off topic, but who has

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seen the new Kevin Cosner movie out called Horizon. That

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movie has gotten terrible feedback from the public and from reviewers.

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But we went to see that movie and we loved it.

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I guess we're just of a generation who likes the big,

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epic scenery and the long stretching story and the different characters.

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But it was like a minute or two over three hours.

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And we both said driving home that that movie it

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felt like we were in there for fifteen minutes. You

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just stay engaged and you're watching the story. I would

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recommend you all go see it and just don't go

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with any expectations, but go see Horizon and understand that

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it's either going to be two or four movies. I

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don't know if he's going to do four now that

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this first one isn't making money. Actually, he's taking a

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financial beating on this movie. But I like Kevin Costner.

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He seems to be a pretty idealistic guy. He's got

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visions for his movies like Dances with Wolves. Go to

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this movie or rent it on a streaming service with

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the expectation that there's more common. None of the loose

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ends are tied up in the first one, but it

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really sets the stage and gets you engrossed and involved

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in the story. I recommend it. I don't know why

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I go. I guess talking about movies, horror movies got

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me off on that. Here's an email I received from

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a woman a while back. These are this is two

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secondhand stories that she heard that friends of hers told her,

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and I thought this was fascinating. So here we go.

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She writes, dear cam' fan of your channel, and I

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have two stories for you. One is an alien abduction

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and the other is a dog man sighting. Neither story

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is mine, but I know the people that witnessed these incidents.

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Story number one the alien abduction. This is Randy's story.

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Rest in peace, Randy. I'm representing you, dear friend. In

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nineteen ninety eight, I returned to my dusty little hometown

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in New Mexico for my twenty year high school reunion,

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and being in a little town, I ran into a

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dear friend of mine, Randy. It was great to see him,

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and he looked awesome. He was a short, blond headed,

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blue eyed athlete who was always eager for a good

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joke and any activity that involved people. After twenty years,

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he hadn't changed a bet. The only difference in Randy

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was his eyes. He had a wide awake look in

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his eyes that was almost too enthusiastic. Was he excited

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to see maybe or was there something else. We decided

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to go for a drive together, because in high school

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that's what everyone did. We all got together and drove

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through the hills, looking at different scenic landscapes and doing

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stupid things like rolling dad's four wheeler or burying our

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axle in a sandy wash. So there we were, like

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old times in nineteen seventy eight, parked on a bluff

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overlooking the town and smoking pot. I had outgrown the

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pot thing, but I did partake in it just for

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the novelty and to prove to myself I hadn't become

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an old prude. I was buzzed and out of things

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to small talk about, and I made the comment, Randy,

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are you nervous about seeing everyone at the reunion? I

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don't know why, but I'm nervous about it the reunion.

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That's nothing. He smiled, and he laughed, I'm completely relaxed

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around those people. There's nothing scary about those people at all.

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And then his face changed and he stared down at

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his arm. Did you see that scar on my arm?

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He asked. I looked at his forearm and the scar

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on it was the size of a dime. It was

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round and irregular, like a small bullet wound. I dug

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a shard out of my own arm with a pocket knife,

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he triumphantly said, pointing at the scar. A shard. How

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did it get there? I asked? One day, em and

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I were ditching school. We were just riding around out

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in the bluffs and smoking, and a spacecraft picked us up.

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What the hell an actual UFO picked you guys up?

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I asked. My face was frozen in total shock at

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what I was hearing. Yep, he said, they picked us

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up in their spacecraft and they laid us out on

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a table I was physically examined, and then they put

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these glass like shards in my body. One was here

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in my arm. In the the other one, he turned

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his back to me and pointed at the base of

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a skull on the back of his neck. They put

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it in the base of my skull. He said, what

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did the shard look like? I asked. The one I

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dug out of my arm looked like glass. It was

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about the size of a grain of rice, but it

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was flat and kind of curved, he said, drawing an

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imaginary shard with his fingers. I really had to dig too.

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It was embedded in my muscle, close to the bone,

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but I was determined to dig it out, and I did.

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That thing bothered me, looking out and recalling a memory,

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he continued. When I went into the army, the doctors

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took the one out of my skull after they had

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to put me through a series of hypnosis sessions. Well

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that's good, but how did they find out about it?

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Did you tell them? I asked. No. I went in

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for a physical and the doctor asked me about the

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scar on my arm, and I told him what happened,

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and then I showed him in the back of my

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neck where I thought the other one was, and he

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asked if I still had the shard and I said, yeah,

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it's in a box of my locker. He told me

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to bring it in for him to look at it,

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and so I did. Apparently it was quite a fine.

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They kept having me come back in for more conferencing

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than other physical exams. I want to see it. This

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is really important evidence, I said, you actually have evidence

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of an alien contact. Yeah, I guess I did, but

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not anymore. They took the shard that I dug out

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of my arm, and they never gave it back to me. Instead,

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they started the whole process of these hypnosis sessions and

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it really freaked me out. They found exactly where the

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other shard was and they removed it, but I didn't

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get to keep that one either. I never even saw it.

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The whole Lord deal messed up my head and I

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couldn't stop crying after that. I kept crying and crying.

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It was weird. I didn't want him to start crying,

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as I was in his car and we were both

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high on Pott, so I've changed the focus. How's Mike

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after all this, I asked, He's cool, Let's go see

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him Randy said, firing up the engine. So we went

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into town and back into the old neighborhood where both

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Randy and Mike grew up, arriving at Mike's and parked

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in the car and Mike's driveway. We both walked up

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to the door and we knocked. Mike answered, looking the

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same as he did in high school, and he invited

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us in, and we continued more pot smoking. These guys

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had become the heads and I had become the square.

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And after some small talk, we looked at vacation photos

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and we never talked about the abduction again. But a

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curious note is Mike is still a bachelor, and he

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had become quiet and reclusive. I never got married or

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had kids, he said. I don't know why. It just

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never happened. It's not unusual in this day and age,

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I said, but I thought, it's because you got the

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life scared out of you in high school. That night,

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we went to the reunion and we had a great

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time disco dancing and catching up with life stories. Everyone

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was amazing, and for the most part, everybody seemed happy.

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apartment in Bisbee Arizona. It was hush hush as to

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how he died. Was it suicide? I think so. I

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think he was implanted with tracking devices and his suffering

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of fear was unrelenting. I believe that's what happened, one

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hundred percent. God bless Randy in the heavens with the

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peace and love of our eternal grand Creator. So be it,

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the woman writes at the end of her first story,

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I thought that was very interesting. Let's move on to

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story number two, The dog Man Sighting, and she writes,

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this is my nephew's wife's parents' story that takes place

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in the same little dusty town in New Mexico. Here's

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the town layout, she writes. The town is situated down

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in a valley where two rivers meet. Looking up, the

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valley is lined with jagged sandstone bluffs, and the only

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things that grow up there are desert plants, sage brush,

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and gnarley cedars. Then down in the valley is a lush,

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green farmland with towering old cottonwoods and salt cedars and

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rabbit brush. The rivers are mountain runoff, and they're teeming

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with fresh water trout and bass. And it's not unusual

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to see an eagle perched on a limb, just chilling.

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My dad lived down by the river and he loved

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hearing the hawking geese fly by. He also had lots

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of deer that came into his yard for a tasty treat,

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and he used to mimic them with his front teeth

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and say, the deer have nipped off all those rose

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buds from my rose bushes. Then he'd click his teeth

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together to show just how they did it. One night,

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my nephew and his wife came over for dinner and

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we were sitting around the table afterward having a beer.

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My nephew suddenly looked puzzled. Hey, a weird thing happened

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to Peggy's parents the other night. He said, they were

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on the other side of the river, delivering newspapers to

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people who live in all those little houses back there.

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You know how everyone has their houses tucked away in

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the back of their acreage. Well, Peggy's mom was driving

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along a dirt road while her dad tossed the papers,

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and there was barely enough like to see, and then

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her dad sniffed something in the air and looked over

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at her mom with a stink eye. He said, you

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smell thy Yeah, that's really right. Something definitely died around here,

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she said. And then on the passenger side of the car,

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they saw a creature with the dog's head, running on

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two legs like a man. It was keeping pace with

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them alongside of their car. Well what did they do,

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I asked, Well, they didn't do anything. They didn't have

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any time to do anything. The creature was so fast

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and it ran around the front of the car and

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then it ran into these people's front yard. Well did

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anyone see it, I ask No. It went to the

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side of the house really fast, and it hopped on

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their brick wall like nothing. And Peggy's dad said, the

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wall was high up. That thing didn't need to jump

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without any effort. It hopped up and then it just

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turned back and it stared at them. They froze, and

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suddenly it just turned and hopped down in the people's

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backyard and that was it. That was the last they

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saw of it. That's a true story. And then she

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goes on to write, after listening to your podcast, I'm

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able to include other details and have put two and

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two together. I recall that after my dad passed away,

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Black helicopters started cruising the valley. They chased away all

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the geese and the eagles, and then the county started

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clearing all the underbrush away from the trees, so no

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more or deer where they're either. And then they diverted

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the river so that it became a trickle of water,

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and the wildlife has systematically gone away. Now that I've

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listened to your podcast, I wonder if that wasn't a

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way to flush out the dog men. My hunch says yes,

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and then she goes on to write, I hope people

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hear these stories because credibility is important, Validation is important,

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but even more important is protection. And I'm not really

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sure what that means, but I thought these were two

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really good secondhand stories. These are, you know, the first

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stories from a high school mate, and the other is

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from some people in her family, who, I mean, why

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would they Why would the dog man thing? Why would

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somebody just make that up? It's not you know, these

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are just normal people having dinner. There's no way to

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know if they have a history of lying, but let's

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assume they don't. And then all of a sudden, this

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woman said, this woman in man say, well, we just

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saw this doglike creature running around on two legs, run

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right around the front of our car, into someone's yard,

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up on the fence, and then boop on the other side,

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it's gone. I don't know why anybody would tell that

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story if there wasn't a little bit of truth to it,

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and this dog man information myth or these stories are

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not really super prevalent, not like Bigfoot. Bigfoot is known

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in alien abductions and all of that other stuff is

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far more notable, and information on it is more widespread

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than anything like a dog man. The dog man, the

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werewolf thing is quite It's just not a huge popular topic.

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But people see them and then we get stories about them.

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So to the writer, she didn't give me permission to

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use her name, but I thought this was wonderful, so

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thank you for sending this to me. I appreciate it.

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I'm sixty years old and I live in a suburb

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on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. At the rear court

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that I live in, there's a large parkland covering over

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two hundred acres. This parkland separates our estate from the

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local beach on the perimeter of Port Phillip Bay. I

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work locally and daily ride a pushbike along the paths

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leading through the parkland to the beach and onwards to

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my place of employment, some fifteen kilometers away. For eight years,

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I would exit my driveway, ride up the road for

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thirty five meters and turn right into a pathway entrance

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situated between two houses, and begin my ride to work.

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That journey was interrupted two years ago, and while I

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still ride to work, I no longer go through the parkland.

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I now stick to the road all the way and

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take the longer but safer route. On a winter morning

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in twenty sixteen, I exited my house and made my

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way to the front gate in the usual manner, but

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I felt anxious for some reason. The magpies that usually

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greeted me with song from a tree at the front

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of my property were silent, and while I always started

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my journey in the pitch black of night, this time

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I felt trepidation, and I wondered irrationally if I should

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drive to work today. There was something else strange about

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this night. In the distance, emanating from the area of

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the path entrance was an increasingly louder, asthmic growl. At

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this point, I'd like to say that I've never, in

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all my days, experienced anything like I'm about to describe.

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I have hunted, camped, and lived in the forested areas

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along our coast and inland districts. The wildlife that I

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see is always expected kangaroos, koalas, and snakes, etc. I

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stopped in a loud eyesight to focus on the entrance

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to the pathway leading to the parkland, as I was

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sure it was the source of the rasping, but couldn't

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see anything exiting onto the road, so I waited. Finally,

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I decided it must be an old, large dog that

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had been brought to heal by its owner. Therefore, save

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for me to proceed on my bike journey. I pressed

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the crank into action and started cycling along the road

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with a view to entering into the park, Inquisitive as

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to the type of dog that I would see. As

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I came closer to the creature, I veered to my

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left and ordered a sweep right into the park entrance.

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When I was stopped dead, I had caught sight of

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the dog, and it was unlike anything I had ever seen. First,

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there were no owners in sight. The dog was laying

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down ten meters from the entrance as if it was

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lying in wait. When it saw me, it rose on

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all fours and began prowling towards me. But not like

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an ordinary dog. This was big, really big. Its head

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was double the size of e labradors, but more rounded.

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Its height was that of a Shetland pony, and its

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width was four or five feet. Its arms were muscular,

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so much so that it had to roll and display

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them in order to move forward. It was dark brown

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in color, moving in the shadowy moonlight, and its eyes

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glowed orange. I have a scientific background, and funny as

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it seems, the conundrum of its eyes glowing without any

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source of illumination from the environment around it intrigued me,

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and I dare say, rooted me in place. As it

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came to the front of the entrance, six meters away

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from me. I remember overcoming my curiosity and exclaiming if

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this or something of that nature, and began furiously peddling

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along the road. My bike has an electric function, and

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with some post purchase modifications, it can reach speeds up

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to forty miles per hour fairly quickly, and it sure

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did that day. I never looked back, and I didn't

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stop until I was a block away to catch my breath.

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I then rode all the way to work using the road,

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not venturing onto the park at any stage. I contacted

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the local ranger later that day and asked if they

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had any reports of large stray dogs in that area,

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and he replied no, so I left it at that.

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I happened to be watching YouTube earlier this year, and

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your channel came across my feet. When I heard your

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stories about the dog man, I finally had a name

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for what I had seen. I don't want to see

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this thing again. I ceased riding my bike to work

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until summer that year, and although I still right today,

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I never go into the parkland, and I refrain from

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writing during the winter. I think it's about all I

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can recall, but if you have any questions, feel free

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to ask. You can also feel free to modify the

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report to fit your narrative style. God bless you all.