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Speaker 1: I'm a fifteen year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces

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and I've been deployed overseas several times. I've been shot

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at and i've been stabbed once. I don't get shaken

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easily in high stress situations, and I'm not prone to panic.

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On top of this, I've been camping since I was

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nine years old, and by fifteen I was solo camping

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for extensive periods in all seasons. I've camped in every season,

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and I've had many encounters with wildlife. I'm telling you

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all this to give you a reference to not only

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my credibility and experience, but also my ability to keep

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calm under pressure. Now, I've told very few people of

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the events that I'm about to tell you, and in

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telling you, I really want to keep what I can

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in my career. I'm like most who share their encounters

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with others. I've been ridiculed and I've been called a liar,

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and this has made me hesitant to tell my story.

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But with that said, you come across as a straightforward

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man who thinks critically, but you also give people the

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benefit of the doubt, which, even as a skeptic, still

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provokes trust. I've been going to this same property in Tamagami,

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Ontario for twenty five years. This is a large acreage

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that backs on to Crown Land that was owned by

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my late grant grandfather. There's a lake on this property

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that I've enjoyed for not only its peace and quiet,

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but it's beauty. On October the ninth, twenty twenty, I

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traveled here for a one week camping trip before the

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winter set in. I come here twice a year, but

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this year, due to COVID, I didn't get a chance

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to go until October. I arrived early in the day

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and I unlocked the gate and I drove in on

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the two kilometer old logging road to its end, where

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I got out and my gear, including a twelve gay

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semi auto shotgun. I brought the shotgun due to it

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being fall and the black bears have a tendency to

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get a bit aggressive as it's closing in on their

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hibernation season. I left my truck for the one point

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five kilometer height to the lake. The day was going

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great at this point. After setting up camp, I relaxed

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and I sat by the fire until after dark and

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I was turning in for the night and I saw

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eyeshine not far off, that was seven to eight feet

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off the ground. When I turned my head to look,

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there was nothing. I saw it out of the corner

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of my eye. Even so, the hair on the back

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of my neck stood up well. I shook it off

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and quickly assumed that it was light from the fire

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reflecting off some leaves maybe, but that was enough to

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keep me relaxed again. I let the fire die out

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a bit and then I lay down in the tent,

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and immediately after getting so, I discovered there were no

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animal or insect sounds now, even in the fall, some

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of the birds were active in the area, and in addition,

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there were no other animal sounds that I was used to.

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There was only the sound of a light breeze and

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water rolling onto the bank. I was shocked to wake

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At one fourteen am. I heard something I couldn't identify it.

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Coming out of a deep sleep. My watch told me

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that it was not yet morning. Laying there relaxed for

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several minutes, trying to decide if the sound I heard

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was from a dream or if it was real. And

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I heard the first growl from eight o'clock. It was

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a vibrating, low sound that didn't match anything I had heard,

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and instantly I sat up and this was real. There

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was no dreaming happening now. I could hear leaves crunching

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under heavy footfalls, and it heightened my senses. That was

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moving from I left to right, ending at my eleven

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o'clock where another growl rumbled into my tent. My rational

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mind knew it was a bear, even though the sound

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was different. Slowly I slipped out of my sleeping bag

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while pulling the shotgun closer to my side. I was

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slipping on my boots when I heard the same growl

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from the same position as before, and I yelled out

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at the animal, hoping to scare it off. Wildlife, even predators,

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will leave the immediate area, or they'll back off when

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they hear human voices. But that's not what happened this time.

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I was answered with the same growl and it was

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more intense. The animal was out in front of my tent.

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Flipping the safety off, I pointed the shotgun toward the

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entrance of the tent and then reached to unzip the fly.

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I wanted to see what I was shooting at. If

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it came to that, I moved the barrel out of

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the tent door and pulled the fabric aside to better sea,

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and first the right and then the left. I didn't

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see anything. I didn't move for a few minutes, and

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I just listened. I needed to know where it was

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so when I came out, I could get it in

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front of me. But it never made another sound. I

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moved toward the opening, crawling with my left arm for

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support and the gun in my right, and I would

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pop up and search for the target when I was

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clear of the tent. But before my head had cleared

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the tent opening, I was snatched out of the tent

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in a violent motion. A bear would have bitten me

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to pull me out, or would have been gouged with claws,

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but that wasn't what had me. It was a grip.

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Something had its hand wrapped around my arm, and faster

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than I could process what was happening, it had me

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out of the tent. Reflexively, I squeezed the trigger and

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the gun boomed in the darkness, aimed at nothing, roaring.

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The creature wung me in several directions. The world had

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turned into a nightmare of tumbling and impacts, until there

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was intense pain in my head and then I blacked out.

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My eyes tried to flicker open, and it was daylight.

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My left shoulder was hurting terribly with my right arm.

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I got to a sitting position after getting my bearings.

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I began to look over my body for injuries. My

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left eye was closed and caked in blood. I wiped

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some of that away and looked at the shoulder that

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was in pain, and I saw it was dislocated. That

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and the gash over my left eye seemed to be

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the only major injuries. My legs were okay, which meant

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I could walk now to assess where I was. My

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tent and my campsite was not there. I couldn't see it.

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I was in a different place in the forest. There

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were drag marks in the dirt. It was plain to

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see that I had been brought to this location. I

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used the GPS watch to try to figure out where

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I was, and I was astonished to see that I

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was a half mile away from my campsite. I wasn't

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going back there, so I set my GPS to where

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I had parked, and it was actually closer than my campsite.

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Thank goodness for small miracles. The walk to the vehicle

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took twice as long as it would have had I

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not been injured, but I made it, and during the

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walk the feeling of being watched was as strong as

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I had ever felt in my life. I unlocked the

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door and a loud roar came from the area of

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my campsite, maybe a bit closer. That's all I needed

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to hear to get moving. I started the engine and

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peeled out of their throwing gravel and dirt, not caring

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if I damaged the vehicle, I stopped at the medical

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center in Tamagami, where after examining my shoulder, they told

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me I needed surgery to repair the damage. If I

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wanted to use that arm again, I would need to

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go to a larger facility that could do the surgery.

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There were more cuts and bruises on me than I thought.

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I had a concussion, and my scalp was glued back

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in place and the doctor stitched other cuts. My left

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forearm was black and blue from the grip the creature

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had on me. Days later, I was recovering in a

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hospital room from the surgery that repaired the torn muscles, ligaments,

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and cartilage in my left shoulder. On my last day there,

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the county police came in to take a statement. Well,

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I told them the truth as best as I knew

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what that was. I never saw the animal that dragged

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me out of the tent into the woods, and in

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their report it was concluded a bear had attacked me. Well, hell,

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I knew it wasn't a bear. Whatever yanked me out

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of that tent had a grip on me. Had it

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been a bear, there would have been teeth or claw

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marks on my arm. Within a few days, both my

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brother and my father went back to the campsite to

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gather my stuff and they found it destroyed. The tent,

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the pack, the clothes, and sleeping bag were shredded and

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tossed around. The shotgun stock was split in half and

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the barrel was bent. The pile of wood was thrown

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around everywhere. My brother and father said they didn't see

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or hear anything, but the entire time they were there,

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they felt like they were being watched. None of my

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family has ever felt that, feeling like they were unwanted

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at this property, and that's how my father described it.

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To date, I have permanent mobility loss of thirty percent

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and constant nerve pain in my left shoulder. My career

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is now limited, and I'm clueless to what really happened.

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I've never been afraid of the forest, but I dreaded

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going back there for over a year and I still

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won't go there alone. I still i'll have nightmares and

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I take medication to sleep. And I was diagnosed with

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PTSD from the event in twenty twenty one. I've had

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plenty of time to think of why I was attacked.

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It obviously wasn't happy with me being there, but I

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think it was the shotgun that set it off, and

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when it fired, all bets were off, so to speak.

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I still don't understand why it let me live. You

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are free to share this story on your channel, and

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you can use my first name, but please keep my

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email and last name confidential. I also will not give

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the details of the exact location in Tamagami. My family

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doesn't want every Tom, Dick and Harry with a bigfoot

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fetish to show up. It's still our land and we

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like our peace and quiet. I'm thirty two years old.

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I live in southwestern Illinois, right across the Missississippi River

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from Saint Louis. When I was a young kid, about

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eleven or twelve, and my little brother was about seven

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or eight. Our grandparents lived further north, up in Macopa County. Y'all.

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I know I mispronounced these county and city names. Just

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cut me some slack, okay, But I know somebody in

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the comments is going to correct me. That's fine. It's

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nothing but farmland, and between all the acres of farm

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fields are vast expanses of forests. My grandparents' house and

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land was surrounded around the south and east with corn

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and beanfields. Behind their house to the north and west

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was a small creek and a long stretch of forest

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that seemed like it went for miles. My grandparents got

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their water from a well. It was a well with

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a hand pump. I remember my grandfather pumping bucket after

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bucket of water and carrying them to water as horses

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and pigs. One night, my brother and I were spending

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the night with them, and my grandfather told us a

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story about a wild man who lived in his woods.

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At sundown every night, just after he would water his animals,

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this wild man and his girlfriend or wife and child

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would come out of the woods because it was hot.

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My grandpa had my little brother and I come up

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to the back porch to watch towards the red barn

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and the water pump. We didn't have to wait long.

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Sure enough, in the low light of sunset, a huge

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hair covered male wild man walked out of the woods.

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He was enormous and covered in dark hair. With him

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was a female with red or brown hair covering her body,

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and behind her was a smaller childlike creature, also covered

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in brown hair. They walked over to the well pump

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and started pumping it. They each took their turn drinking

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water while the other worked the handle. I was only

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eleven or twelve, but I was old enough and had

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seen enough TV shows that I knew exactly what they were.

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I was excited, but then I got nervous and my

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grandfather calmed me down. My brother thought they were a

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family of wild humans who never cut their hair. They

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each took several turns with their mouths under the runout

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while either the male or the female would pump the fountain.

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It was amazing. When they had had enough water, they

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returned to the woods and they vanished into the darkness.

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My grandfather said they never caused trouble, they were just thirsty,

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and he didn't mind them using his well. One bit

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I never forgot that night. I've thought about this through

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the years, and it's obvious that they had been watching

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my grandfather pump the water. They are intelligent and they

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learned by watching us. My grandfather passed away a few

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years ago, and now my grandmother lives there alone. The

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horses and the pigs are gone, and as for the

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family of Sasquatch, well, they've moved along too. No telling

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when or where they went. But they never caused any

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trouble at all. My grandparents said when my brother and

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I were young, they would always hear wood knocks and

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vocalizations during the day and night, but they were never afraid.

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My grandfather would always carry his twelve gays just in case,

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but he never used it on anything, only to run

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off varmints that were getting in the trash. I know

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that these things are real. I have seen them, a

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whole family of them. Sasquatch is absolutely real. Part one

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my sister's house many years ago. When I first met

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my wife, we both shared an interest in the paranormal.

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We met later in life, so the kids were all

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out of our respective homes and we were free to

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do what we wanted when we wanted in retrospect. This

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ill advised interest led us to numerous cemeteries, old houses,

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haunted cities, and hotels. And I say ill advised because

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we soon found out that what you find doesn't necessarily

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stay where you found it. What came to fruition. A

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few years into our adventures, bore witness to the advice

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of a very spiritual man who once said, if you

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go looking for those kinds of things, I promise you

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footsteps in your hallways. To make a long story short,

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we never got rid of those footsteps. I have two

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stories I would like to share with you. The first

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is not scary, but one of the most remarkable experiences

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we've ever had. The second is much more intense. My

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sister lives in a suburb of Nashville, and for more

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than twenty years I would make annual visits to her

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home and spend several days fishing, since she was located

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near a well known lake. After I met Judy, we

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made those annual trips, and one year we were invited

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down and we arrived late in the afternoon following an

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eight hour drive from Chicago. My sister's home is medium sized,

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but appears like something you would see in a Home

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and garden magazine. In fact, I'm pretty sure a local

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rag figured at once. It's just beautiful. Inside. She has

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a small kitchen with a fridge and a stove opposite

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the sink in cabinets that occupy the east side of

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the room, and just next to her countertops and cabinets

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is a small marbletop dining table. A three bulb chandelier

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hangs over that, with four chairs around the small table.

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Behind the table, again to the west, in each corner

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are two additional chairs separated by a tall wrought iron

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and glass and knickknacked shelf. We have a brother with

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whom we were very close, who has passed away, and

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it seemed to us that every time we got together,

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little things would go bump in the night. They occurred

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so frequently that we often joked about it. In this trip,

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my sister told us as we sat around the table

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that her television was turning off and on by itself

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all day long. We laughed as she told us that

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her husband, who was an electrician and a good Baptist fellow,

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would quietly dismiss our ghost looking with a smile. Michelle

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was standing at the kitchen sink preparing things for dinner.

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Her husband was still at work. Judy and I sat

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at the table, Me on the north side of it

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and Judy on my right on the west side of it.

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While we were all laughing about teasing Michelle's husband, suddenly,

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out of nowhere, a drum roll began, almost like someone

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was standing in the entrance of the kitchen drum roll.

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It was really loud. It startled all of us, as

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you can imagine. I immediately looked to my left toward

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my sister and exclaimed, are you hearing this? I was

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afraid I was having a stroke or something. When I

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looked at Michelle, I saw her jaw was dropped and

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her eyes were wide open, and she had the most

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shocked look on her face. Her eyes were fixed in

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the direction of Judy, so I quickly followed her gaze.

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In doing so, I got my first glimpse of Judy.

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She was wheeled around completely in her chair and was

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facing the knickknack shelf, so I immediately shifted my focus

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to that area as well. All along this time, the

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drum roll continued and was still deafening, And that's when

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I saw the unbelievable that Judy and Michelle were fixed upon.

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On the shelf at eye level. With Judy lay a

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crystal about four inches long, round, like a small log,

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about an inch or so in diameter. It was levitating

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up off the glass shelf about an inch. The crystal

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was vibrating so that each end of it was alternately

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hitting the glass shelf, and it was doing this with

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such fury and speed that it was the source of

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the drum sound. The incredible nature of what was going

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on was that as fast as that thing was hitting

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the glass, it was not damaging it at all. And

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then it was done right before us. It plopped down

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and remained motionless. But that's not the end of this event. Naturally,

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we all went nuts. Did you see that? Did you

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see that? We asked each other and answered yest almost simultaneously.

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We were flabbergasted. Once we all caught our collective breaths,

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we started chatting a mile a minute. It was me

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who said first. That had to be Chuck, our brother.

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This cost for further explanation. Chuck was an excellent drummer.

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We both belonged to the Green Sabers Drum and Bugle

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Corps from Schylerville, New York. I'm not sure how to

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pronounce that town. Growing up, he taught me to play

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the tenor drum first, and then the snare drum. We

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marched together in the inauguration parade for John F. Kennedy.

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We took high drum for the best drum line in

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the Canadian Championships one year, and we spent hour upon

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hour practicing on magazines that we would lay on my

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mother's coffee table. I knew it was him. And as

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soon as I said that, each of the lights and

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the chandelier above the table when it's bright as two

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hundred watt light bulbs, and then they dimmed normal. Immediately

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after this display, the light directly above me brightened and

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dimmed again three times, and then all was quiet. It

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was either my brother reaching out to us or something

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else trying to con events. It was him. I prefer

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the former. It was a joyous, albeit stunning experience. And

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now here is part two of my Sister's House. I've

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already shared some background Visa VI our trips to Nashville

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to see my sister, so I want reiterated here on

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one of our subsequent trips. Judy and I were invited

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down to house at Michelle's place while she and her

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husband were attending the US Open in New York City.

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Her husband is a wonderful tennis player. I once was,

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but football injuries in Vietnam and a broken knee ended

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that pastime for me. We arrived on Friday afternoon and

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immediately set about planning our itinerary for Saturday. We planned

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on spending the day on the lake, since I brought

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my boat along. We would get off the water early

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enough to rest up, maybe take a short nap, and

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then head downtown to dinner and hit a few clubs.

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We executed our plan the next day. We enjoyed a

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great dinner in Nashville, and we found ourselves in a

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few clubs dancing and listening to music, and concluded the

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evening with a horse and buggy tour of the city.

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The primary difference between youth and age is the stamina

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to do what the brain wants to, and though we

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planned on an evening well into the wee hours of

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the morning, age dictated a return home about eleven PM.

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The second floor of the house was a balcony that

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completely encircles the downstairs living room. So we retired to

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the bed as soon as we got back home, and

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we fell asleep as soon as we laid down. It

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had been a full day for us on the lake

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and on the town, and we were beat I rarely

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sleep on my back, but this night I did because

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Judy fell asleep on her left side facing me, her

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right arm across my chest, and I couldn't move if

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I wanted to with out waking her, so I just

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laid there until I apparently fell asleep. At three o'clock

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in the morning, I felt a stabbing pain, now maybe

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a scratching kind of pain on my right thigh. It

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not only woke me up, but it startled me at

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the same time. I am and have always been since

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I returned from Vietnam. I'm a very light sleeper. When

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I woke, I jumped as well, and this woke Judy

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out of reflex. I immediately accused her, Why did you

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do that? Do what? She said? Why did you scratch me?

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Was it your ring? Lights came on and we began

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to search for what happened. My right thigh had about

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an eight inch fresh scratch that started at the outer

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edge just below my hip and ended above the inside

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of my knee. It was bleeding just a bit, so

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we knew it was fresh. And then Judy said, my

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rings were on my left hand, which is beneath me

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when you woke me, our right hand was holding onto

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your shirt collar. I sure didn't do that. I must

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admit that we were a little rattle. So we got

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up and we went downstairs to have some hot chocolate.

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We plopped down on the love seat, which is located

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almost under the balcony that leads to the guest room,

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and when we sat down, it started a cocktail party,

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clinking glasses, multiple voices, and a room full of conversations

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and laughter coming from overhead emanated from the bedroom we

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had just vacated. Needless to say, we slept on the

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love seat that night and changed bedrooms for the rest

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of our stay. These are just two of the events

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of many that we've experienced, including full bodied entities. We

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know paranormal investigations are popular and indeed fun, and we

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all liked being scared, something in our natures, I expect,

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but we would issue the same that we got all

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those years ago. If one moves forward, be prepared for

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the footsteps in your halls, So I'm not going to

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ask you to believe me. Heck, if I didn't live

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through it, I wouldn't believe this either. But in the

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nineteen eighties, I was in the United States Marine Corps.

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I was a recon marine. We were in the jungles

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of Nicaragua, and my rifle squad was tasked to man

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a listening post in the jungle. We arrived at our

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position in the early evening and began to set up

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our defensive positions. By nightfall, we were ready to settle

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in and listen for any troop movement in our area.

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Around two am, we heard something big moving in our direction.

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We were all on high alert. As we sat still

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and quiet, my E four got my attention and pointed

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directly in front of me and said, Serge, what the

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hell is that. I looked in the direction that he pointed.

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What I saw was what I can only call a demon.

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It was eight or nine feet tall and had to

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weigh four hundred pounds. It had the head of the

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largest wolf I had ever seen in the most powerful

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body I've seen on any animal. I'm a lifelong hunter,

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and I've seen a lot of animals. The eyes of

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this thing still haunt me. They were glowing red. They

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were like fires. What happened next was World War three.

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We opened up with everything we had, and all we

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did was back it up. We never even knocked it down,

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We just backed it up. The firefight lasted for fifteen minutes,

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and the beast was trying to flank us and we

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were trying not to get flanked. There was a point

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that my sawgunner yelled out that if the saw didn't stop,

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we were going to be toast. But as fast as

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it had started, it was over, and the beast hit

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the jungle and we hit the ami boxes. The rest

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of the night was quiet, I mean real quiet. There

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were no sounds, no insects, animals, human, there was nothing.

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The next morning we returned to the AO. My captain

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asked for a report hesitantly, I gave him the honest report.

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Cap left the tenth for twenty minutes and then came

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back and called my squad together. He was laughing at

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us when he informed us that the Core was aware

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that we were attacked by a jungle bear. I interrupted, hey, Cap,

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this is Nicaragua. They don't have jungle bears here, nor

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would they be that size. Okay, smart ass, then maybe

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it was a possum. But according to the powers that be,

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it was not, and I repeat, it was not a creature.

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That means you, sergeant, Do you get me? Yes, sir,

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it was a possum. I got it. This is only

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the second time that I've told this story. The other

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was to my wife. Please don't relay my name, just

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call me sergeant. Thanks. Brother, keep up the good work.