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Speaker 1: The first time I saw si squatch was in December

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of twenty eighteen. It was late bow season in my

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great state of Michigan. My mother's horse had just passed away,

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and we were devastated at the loss of our show boy.

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So I did what I do best from October until January,

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I went hunting. I took my crossbow and headed down

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the road to a nearby property that I should have

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never gone to. I had managed to slip in and

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out of there on many occasions. I was working my

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way up a deer trail through deadfall poplar trees, with

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the wind in my face. The plan was to stalk

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the upper meadow and wait until dark and attempt to

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ambush any large buck or fawnless dough that stepped out.

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As I approached the meadow, my thoughts and vision began

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to swirl, and I thought I was going to pass out.

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I stepped to the edge of the meadow, stood five

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feet from an old maple that was almost six feet across,

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and I looked to my left and I was horrified.

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Thirty yards away from me, I saw two large sasquatches

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walking away. I distinctly remember the muscle mass of the

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male's back and shoulders and the large girth of the female.

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She was the ten foot tall blonde version of the

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Patterson Gimlin film. The male was taller than her by

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two feet, and his hair was black and buckskin brown.

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He was half as white as that old maple tree.

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The pines he walked through just came above his knees

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nine five foot six, and those same trees came up

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to my chest. Had he been right next to me,

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he would have dwarfed me. And it scares me as

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I think about it. I don't like to go in

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the woods in the darkness, and this experience almost ruined

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hunting for me. I've had many more encounters since and

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have learned plenty. I've lost my fear of forest neighbors

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now and have grown fond of them. I feel safe

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with them as I've seen them protect me. But it's

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not all good news. I'm actively dealing with one in

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my new territory that has proven to be aggressive. If

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you're interested in any of the other encounters, all you

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have to do is ask, and the gentleman signs off

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Coyode Wild Bay, which is the name of his YouTube channel.

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If I think about it, I'll try to find it

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and link it in the description below. But if I

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forget about it, which I'm likely to do, just look

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up Coyote wild Bay in your search bar and his

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channel should come right up. You could probably hear a

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lot more of his other stories. I really appreciate this

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encounter story. Thank you for sending it, Cody wild Bae.

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You de man. Appreciate you all right. Here's a story

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about a dog man or rugaroo or a werewolf. The

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category is rugaroo according to my editor, let's us read

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this story. This looks really good, looks kind of spooky.

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In the mid nineteen eighties, I was visiting my great

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aunt Cat. I had just broken up with my first boyfriend,

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and I was pouting on the back porch looking out

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into the by you. My Aunt Cat could walk like

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a ghost if she wanted. We all called her Cat

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because she was as silent and graceful as one. She

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asked what I was upset about, but I didn't want

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to answer her, so I asked her a question instead.

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Do you believe in the rugaroo? I ask for your

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listeners who don't know, the rugaroo is our version of

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Bigfoot of the by You, Aunt kat sat down beside

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me and smiled, looking out as well. Well, I believe

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in many things, she said in her strong but frail voice.

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I believe in the magic of the bay you, and

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there's a good and evil in the world. Well, do

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you think the rugaroo is evil? I ask? No, No,

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she said, They're trying to survive, just like the rest

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of us, hiding from humans. Will you make it sound

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like humans are the evil ones? I told her. She

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gave me a strange look, as if she were searching

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for something. Then she nodded and continued, Now you're old

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enough to understand that not everything is so simple or fair,

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she said, looking out again. I could tell she wasn't

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looking into the by you sparkling in the sunlight, or

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the dragonflies that fly about. But in her own past,

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I knew not to disrupt her. The story she went

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on to tell me is something I will never forget.

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She was born to a wealthy and influential family, but

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life was never easy for her. She never had the

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true luxury of wealth since she was born girl. She

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had a room, and she had food and clothing and

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an education, but that was it. At that time, girls

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were only good for being sold off into marriage to

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increase their empires for future sons. For some reason, her

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elder brother always hated her and made her his target.

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When he would practice hunting, he would do it with

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her as the prey, and as he grew older, his

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hunts grew as well. Once, when my aunt was only

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ten years old, she had to put a lock on

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the outside of her bedroom door to keep her brother

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out because he was putting rats and spiders and scorpions

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in her bed. She had made the mistake of screaming

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bloody murder and telling her father what had happened, thinking

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it would help. She couldn't have been more wrong. Not

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only did her father not offer any help, but he

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also scolded her for yelling, and he cut the lock

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off her door. She rushed into the bedroom and whipped

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the bedspread off the bed and found a copperhead snake.

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Though it wasn't her fault, her father was so furious

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with her he sent her away to their summer house

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in the woods. She never complained. It was wonderful out there,

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away from her family. The only other people there were

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the servants. She ran wild and free in the woods

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and learned every nook and cranny of the landscape and

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memorized every tree and learned about each of the animals.

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But her joy at the summerhouse was short lived, and

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her brother came to visit the property to continue his

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hunting games with her. As she grew up, the game

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became more dangerous, and spending time alone in the woods

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became her salvation. When she told her parents about what

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her brother had been doing, they were of no help.

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Her father's only comment was to her brother, don't hurt

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her too badly. She's going to be married off in

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her seventeenth birthday. The sneer on her brother's face was

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pure evil. He told her that night that he would

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be taking a young woman deep in the woods so

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he and his friends could haunt her down. Don't you

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ever worry that they'll talk, she asked him, But her

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brother only laughed as he walked away, saying the dead

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can't talk. One day, a few months before her seventeenth birthday,

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she came downstairs to a room full of her brother

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and all of his hunting friends. He introduced her as

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that day's prey, and then he gave her a twenty

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minute head start, But instead of running in fear, she

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calmly turned away and walked back upstairs, not letting him

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see her. Scared, she knew that she had to disappear

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into the woods, even though it was late in the day,

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so she changed into brown and green clothing and left

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her shoes in the closet, and then she shimmde down

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the tree outside her window and she ran off into

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the forest. She ran silently, stepping with great care to

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avoid leaving any footprints for them to follow, as she

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rubbed wildflowers all over her skin to get rid of

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any scent. And when she was deep in the forest,

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she climbed a large tree until she was twenty feet up,

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and she waited, and she caught her breath. Even though

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she knew she was still alone, she was drawn to

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look over into the tree next to her. There looking

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back at her were two big orange eyes. The being

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was huge and massive as the tree it sat in.

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At that time of day, the sun was setting and

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the shadows were growing quickly. She could not see the

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details of the creature, except that it had a shaggy outline.

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She sat there staring at this being, and she heard

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her brother's hunting party in the distance looking for her.

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Are you sure you saw her run into these woods,

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her brother said positive. One of the others said, laughing,

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no one has a body like your sister, Mat. Can't

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you trailer yet, her brother asked another friend. Not yet.

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Another from the party said, kneeling on the ground with

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a handful of leaves and rubbing them between his fingers

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to catch a set. She looked back to where the

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monster was in the tree. It was looking down at

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the men as if trying to figure out what they

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were doing. When their eyes locked again, she could tell

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it realized that it wasn't the one being hunted she was.

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Its eyes widened and then turned to red slits. A

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commotion came from below, and she turned to watch the

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men arguing about what to do. When she looked back

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at the other tree, the creature was gone. She waited

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until she heard the hunting party move further away, and

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then simmy back down the tree and she made her

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way back to the house. She climbed back into her bed,

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and just as she was about to close the window,

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she heard an ear shattering roar and vibrated through the forest.

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A few minutes later, she saw movement outside. Her brother

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and his hunting team came running toward the house, yelling

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and tripping over themselves as they ran for their lives.

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She could see stones being thrown at their backs. She

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heard the roar again and nearly laughed at how ridiculous

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the hunting party looked. And when she heard them rush inside,

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she went down the stairs and found them all as

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scared and angry as they could be. One of the hunters,

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full of rage and adrenaline, exclaimed that he was going

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back out there to kill the thing, and he rushed

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back outside. After a few gunshots and more roars, the

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other two men were so terrified they jumped in their

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vehicles and they sped away, and then everything was silent

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again in the woods. In the end, my aunt left

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her family and didn't marry the man her father had

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planned for her. It turned out that he had been

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in the hunting party. Now that is a story from

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my great aunt Kat and her bigfoot encounter. I know

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it was a dark story, but I felt that it

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answered some of the questions I hear repeated on your channel. Often.

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I hear someone say, no one can be that silent,

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or no one could run full out and not leave prince.

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But I'm here to tell you that my Aunt Kat could.

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And if your life is in constant survival mode, you

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become what you have to be to live and to survive.

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I think humans like Bigfoot can be extremely adaptable if

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and when the circumstances call for it, and we should

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never underestimate the human drive to survive. Thank you for

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reading my story. I love your channel. Keep doing what

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you do, just the way you do it, and she

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signs off. B what a cool story. I thought a

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rugaroo was like a werewolf. Maybe maybe it can be

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all sorts of things down in louis that's a Louisiana

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Bayou monster, the rugaroo or loop garu. There's two or

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three different names for them. Maybe the loop garou is

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the werewolf and the rugaroo is the bigfoot. I don't know.

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I don't know anything about this stuff. I just do

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these stories. But I think this was a great story,

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and I really appreciate miss b sending this. What a

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great nostalgic story to share with this audience. Thank you, ma'am.

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I live in a ranch style house. The garage is

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at one end of the house and the bedrooms are

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at the other. My bedroom is the master bedroom and

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it has a large picture window that looks out onto

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the backyard. Due to the slope of the yard and

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the door to the cross space being directly under my

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bedroom window, the window is nine feet off the ground.

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Now I'm five foot six, and the window is still

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probably a good four feet over my head if I'm

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outside underneath it. There's this evergreen tree in my backyard

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twenty feet from the window. The needles are broad and flat,

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and the bar can be peeled off in stringy bits.

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The lower branches of this tree are six feet off

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the ground. In September of nineteen ninety eight, I was

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a sophomore in high school. It was a Sunday, and

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once church was over, my mom and I went to

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eat lunch and then went home. Within minutes of walking

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in the door, my friend called and I took the

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handset of our cordless phone into my bedroom so we

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could have a conversation. While I was on the phone,

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I started pacing back and forth in my bedroom. I

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walked toward the window, and turn and walked toward the

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opposite wall, and then turn and do it all over again.

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At some point in the conversation, I walked toward the

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opposite wall and turned around to face the window. Right

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then I noticed a dark shadow at the base of

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the window that resembled a human head and a neck.

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At first, I tried looking for a tree or something

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that could have cast a shadow of that shape, but

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I couldn't find anything. Then I realized that the shadow

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had a three dimensional quality to it, and I said,

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oh my God, out loud. The shadow dropped down out

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of sight. I rushed over to the window in time

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to see this human shaped shadow run across the yard

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toward the evergreen tree and he climbed it. And when

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it reached the lower branches, it stopped and turned its

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head to see if I was looking at it, and

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then it kept climbing and it disappeared. My friend asked

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me what was happening. I told him what I saw,

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and he said I needed to thank God because what

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I had described to him sounded like a demon that

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he had read about in a book on demonology. Well,

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not really knowing what this thing was, I thank God anyway,

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and I figured it couldn't hurt. Two days later, I

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in my backyard and went over to that tree. The

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branches this thing had grabbed on too had died, and

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all the leaves on those branches had turned brown and

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fallen off to the ground in a loose pile. In

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two thousand and five, I was working as a third

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shift security guard and my favorite thing to help pass

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the time was to listen to the late night radio

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talk show about the paranormal. I finally summoned the courage

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and I called into the show and I shared my story.

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I told the host that I wasn't sure what the

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thing was, even though my friend said it was a demon,

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and the host asked me if it had glowing red

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eyes and I said no. The host believed that since

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it didn't have glowing red eyes that it wasn't a demon.

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I still don't know what it was, and I haven't

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seen anything quite like it since. Oh man, that is spooky.

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Young girl pacing back and forth in her room looks

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out and sees this giant thing in her backyard. The

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creepiest thing about this is the limbs dying on the

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tree wherever it touched it. I guess demons are all

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about death and everything they touch is contaminated like that,

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and the tree just couldn't take it. But what an

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interesting story. Only demons It's only a demon if it

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has red eyes, apparently to this person on I bet

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it was an art bell show about the paranormal. Apparently,

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if it doesn't have red eyes, it's not a demon,

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according to this guy. I don't know. I'm thinking maybe

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all demons don't have red glowing eyes, but who knows.

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What a great story. Thanks for sharing it with us,

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and we certainly do appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am. My

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sighting happened when I was fourteen years old, and I

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remember it well. I haven't told many people about it

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because I know they will look at me like I'm nuts,

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but I want my story to be heard. I live

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in Oklahoma. My youth group went to an ast forest

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for a camping trip for the weekend, a three hour

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drive from our town. Our clearing was surrounded by hundreds

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of miles of forests. To the left, thirty yards away

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was a creek, and forty yards to the right was

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a sad excuse for a toilet, which out in the

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middle of nowhere as a hole in the ground with

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a concrete building around it. There was plenty of game

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in the area. We saw deer, and we heard there

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were bison and bear and all the other little critters.

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We figured that out when we found bison poop in

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our campsite. No one was allowed to drink from the

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creek because it had E cola in it and it

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would make you sick. On the second night, I got

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up to use the bathroom. Everyone else was sacked out

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because some of them had gone rock climbing and other

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tiring activities. I was the only one up at the time.

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I had taken a flashlight so I could see where

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I was going and make sure I didn't step on

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a snake or something. When I lifted my light toward

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the creek, I saw a huge black figure. It was

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at least eight feet tall and four feet wide and

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had long black hair hanging from its arms and body.

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But I wasn't able to see any features, and it

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didn't seem aggressive in the least. I was only half awake,

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so I was thinking it was my shadow, and I

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waved and it waved back. In my sleepy mind, that

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confirmed that it was my shadow, and I did my

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business and I went back to bed. It didn't strike

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me until about a week later that it was not

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my shadow. My flashlight had been in front of me

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not behind me. It would have taken a huge light

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from far back to cast a shadow of me that size.

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There was no possible way that was my shadow. The

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fact that it mimicked me by waving back shook me

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to my core, and it still does. I think back,

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and I wonder if this thing had been coming into

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our camp all along and we didn't know about it.

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Thank you for all the videos and the awesome content.

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I hope you'll see this, and I think it's a

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good enough story to put in the video. Heck, yeah,

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it's a good enough story. I think I've had this

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for a long time, maybe a year or two. But

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I'm getting through them all, getting through them all, even

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with the breaks and the lags between me posting podcasts.

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I'm going to do every single one of them. If

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it's illegible. This was a great story. I thought this

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was very interesting. It's kind of a unique take on

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running into a bigfoot in your campsite. It was very good.

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Thank you for sending the story. It was wonderful. Okay,

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this is kind of a creepy story that I thought

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was really good. It's a swamp story. I love swamp stories.

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I don't know why maybe because I've been in a

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few swamps and I just think they're beautiful. But anyway,

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never mind, let me just read the story. In twenty sixteen,

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several hurricanes and tropical systems dumped copious amounts of rain

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in North and South Carolina. All duckholes, creeks, and rivers

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were flooded out of their banks. I have one particular

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spot that shines when high water floods the moist soil vegetation,

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allowing the ducks to access it. The spot is in

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a swamp, flat off and artificially straight, man made canal

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that is plainly visible from satellite images. I've talked with

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locals and historians in the Police department and the low

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country areas, and the consensus is that this complex of

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canals was dug by slaves in the seventeen hundreds or

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the eighteen hundreds in order to drain the swamp land

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and allow access for farming, much like canals were dug

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for rice propagation closer to the coast. It is no

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sea that, with their involuntary servitude, slaves brought a great

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deal of culture and beliefs with them from their original motherland.

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To this day, their descendants that remain will tell you

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stories of haints, mooo hags, plaid eyes, and the like.

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Right up the road. A farm owner once told me

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the story of Maggie, a local witch doctor in the

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post Civil War area who leveraged her reputation to protect

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a fishing hole via threats of putting a route or

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casting a spell on anyone that poached her fish and game.

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Are places like this still protected? Do ghosts move on?

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Or do they still wander? I'm crossing some line by

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going along a remote canal that was surely miserable and

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grilling to handig in the slave days. Could it be

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that the forced labor that dug the canal that facilitated

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my duck hole dabbled in some sort of hoodoo or

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voodoo or witch hundred years ago? The thought had certainly

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crossed my mind as I hunted this spot. But still

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I nearly always hunt solo, and I don't frighten too

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easily to access this duckhole. I dropped my piro in

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off side of the road, and I paddled about a

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mile down the overgrown in beaver Dam canal before I

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broke off into a grass flat on either side The

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water was so high that there was no dry ground

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or even waitable water for five hundred yards on either

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side of the canal for the length of a mile.

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I was getting close to exiting the canal for the

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flooded vegetation when I saw two rectangular reflections several inches

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apart in my head lamp. They looked like they were

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on a big tree five or six feet up, but

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I didn't get a great look because they were shining

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back through the thick wax myrtle bush. They were so

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large that I thought they must have been reflective taxure

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tape left by another hunter to mark their spot. I

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wasn't sure if I had paddled far enough to break

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off from the canal, so I nosed my pirow into

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the wax myrtle and I pulled out my phone to

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check my progress on the map. I saw that I

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still needed to go another couple hundred yards down the canal,

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so I backed out of the bush and made it

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ten yards down stream. I don't recall what made me

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look over my shoulder, but I did, and I saw

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those two rectangular reflections still there. I thought it was odd,

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since I was one hundred and eighty degrees on the

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opposite side of the tree from where I saw them

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the minute before, meaning that whatever it was had crawled

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around the tree and was watching me from the other

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side well. I paddled in reverse to turn my pirow

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around to face the tree, and when I did, the

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two rectangular reflections quickly dropped down a foot and disappeared,

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as if they were eyes watching me before for their

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host spooked and turned its head and fled. I heard

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three splashes in the swamp, and then I heard silence.

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I shined my light around, but I didn't see anything,

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and I thought the interaction was odd, but I chalked

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it up to being a displaced deer or a wild

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hog washed away out in the swamp a quarter a

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mile from the shallow water. The large rectangular pupils were notable,

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but I figured that maybe that is what a deer's

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eyes look like when you're extremely close shining them with

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a head lamp, and I had never paid close attention

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to even notice. I moved on and a hunted, and

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I returned home with modest brace of wood ducks. I

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lived with my brother at the time, and I recounted

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the story to him. He immediately balked at the rectangular reflections.

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He said the only animal with rectangular pupils were octopuses.

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A quick Internet search showed that the actual list also

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includes goats and toads. I'm confident that the eyes were

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too large to belong to a toad or an octopus,

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and I'm almost nearly as confident that there was not

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a goat standing five or six feet above the water

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that far back into the flooded swamp. Now, there's plenty

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of folklore that states that when the devil walks the earth,

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he takes the form of a man with cloven hoofs

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and horns like a goat, and often with wings as well.

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Now I'm not saying I came face to face with

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Lucifer deep in the South Carolina swamp, but given the

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area's history and what I saw, I am not ruling

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it out. Oh that is so cool. I've never heard

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of rectangular eyes or irises as an iris or pupils pupils,

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I've never heard of that. I wouldn't have never even

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known an octopus had square pupils, or a goat or

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what was the other animal? Can't remember ducks, I can't.

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I'd have to read back anyway, I would not put

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square red eyes looking back and me I would not

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put that together with the devil. But this guy did

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because he did know about the hexes and the voodoos

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and hoodoos and plaid eyes and all that stuff with

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the slave culture that was there long before he got there.

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And you do have to wonder if some of those

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pagan religions didn't cast some kind of demonic spell on

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a place. I wonder about that. That's really got me thinking,

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that's interesting. Anyway, I'm just rambling. Didn't mean to carry

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on and say nothing, which I do often, but I

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just thought it was an interesting story. Anyway, I'll shut up.

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That was a great story. Thank you for sending it,

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Thanks for joining me on this podcast, and we'll see

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you on the next one, which will be pretty soon.

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Thanks again,