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Speaker 1: On the west edge of the small town of Five

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Lakes lies or Lake Road. It is a narrow, ruddy,

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twisted lane that runs between small and waverly roads. On

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one side, the land is heavily forested and rises higher

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than the church steeple, and on the other side, the

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land slopes down to or Lake, a large dank, lily

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covered wetland beyond. On both sides, the land is wooded, dark,

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and as silent as a grave. They say it always

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feels cold on or Lake Road, even on the hottest days.

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Some say the road is haunted, that a wild man,

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a creature, or even a witch lives in the forest.

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The first person to notice something strange on or Lake

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Road was young Master John Rumley Sky, one of the

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richest family in Five Lakes. One day, as Rumley later

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told the tale, he was riding down the road when

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halfway through he saw an old, withered woman sitting on

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a stump paring an apple. He didn't recognize her as

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anyone he knew, so he dismounted to address her. Once

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he was on the ground, the woman had vanished stumping.

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All after that, there were disappearances at least three known

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to the people in Five Lakes, people traveling alone down

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or Lake Road who went onto the lane and never

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came out. Legend, of course, added another two. On Waverley Road,

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there was a small country store called Miller's Market. Mister

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Miller owned this old time general store and had for

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many years. He was a respected man in Five Lakes.

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He didn't believe the Or Lake stories, though he did

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acknowledge that, yes, over the years, there had been some

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disappearances in the area, and that what they all seemed

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to have in common were people traveling on Oor Lake Road.

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Mister Miller had a daughter named Mary. His wife had

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died some years before, and Mary was very dear to

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her father. Like her mother, she had rich, thick hair,

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dark as coal, eyes a gem like blue, and lips

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red as summer berries. She was a lively, dutiful girl

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and a renowned sixteen year old beauty. Many people would

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stop at Miller's Market just to see Mary, maybe buy

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a coke or a sandwich as an excuse to pause

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a while and talk with her. One of the people

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was a big, husky young man named Daniel Martin. Dan

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would stop every day after work to spend time with Mary,

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and one day mister Miller asked Mary about the braid

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and her hair, and she told him it was what

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they called a love Not on the other end of

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our lake road was Small Road, and the last house

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on Small Road was owned by the Wilmos family. As

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it happened that winter, the Wilmos baby took sick. Doctor

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Kepler went out there to find the infant to be

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very sick, indeed, so he phoned in a prescription to

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be delivered immediately. The delivery boy from the pharmacy in

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Five Lakes went out on Waverley Road and stopped at

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Miller's market. When he learned from mister Miller that he

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would have to take or Lake Road to reach the

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Wilma's place on Small Road, he declared that he was

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afraid and he wouldn't do it. It's your job and

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your duty, mister Miller told him. But the boy said no,

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he wouldn't travel on or Lake Road. Had they never

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heard the rumors about the place. Confounded rumor boy said,

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mister Miller, you might be saving that child's life with

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this medicine, and I might be losing my own in

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doing so. The boy replied, and he set the package

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down on the counter and ran out. It happened that

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Dan Martin was in the store just then talking with Mary.

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He heard the conversation and watched the boy leave. Mister

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Miller stood there, almost quivering with disgust. He started to

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take off his shop apron and said, Mary, I'm off

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to the Wilma's place. You mind the store for me,

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and just do as we always do and close at six.

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This was December and it was already dusk. The sun

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was a cold ragball on the splintered western horizon. Dan

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Martin stepped up and said, mister Miller, here, give it

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to me. I'll deliver the package. The Wilma's house is

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that blue house, right, yes, said mister Miller. It's the

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last house on small road, and as soon as you're

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off four Lake Road, it's that house. You sure you

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want to do this, Dan, Well, I'm not sure, said Dan.

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But it's better for me to go than you, with

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your business and all. And if I leave now, I'll

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be back no later than midnight. And so that's when

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Dan Martin left. But he didn't return at midnight, and

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he didn't return at dawn. In fact, he never returned

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at all. What we do know is that he did

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reach the Wilmos house sometime around ten o'clock because he

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delivered the medicine that saved the Wilma's boy. That baby

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was Ron Wilmos, and his son Ray now owns the

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dry cleaning shop in Five Lakes. But Dan Martin never

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returned from his errand that saved Ron Wilmos, and he

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never returned to Miller's market, and he never returned to

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Mary with the dark love knot in her hair. Many

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years passed, the water table rose, and the rising waters

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of or Lake nibbled away at or Lake Road, and

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they had to close it. No one had traveled that

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road for a long while. Anyway, the store worries about

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the creature, the wildman or the witch persisted. There was

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a new story about the disappearance of Dan Martin. Mister

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Miller took sick. A few years after this happened. He died,

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and dutiful Mary took over the market. She was known,

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like her father, for kindness and for her beauty, though

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they said something seemed to have gone out of her

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after Dan Martin disappeared. She never married, though it is

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said she had many offers. Some time later, Mary died

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when she was in her early forties and there was

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no one left to take over the store. Five Lakes

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has changed over the years, but not much. The land

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indoors or a lake indoors and has in fact grown.

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There is still a deep gnarl dark forest where Ora

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Lake Road once lay. Eventually, over the years, the stories

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about the wildman, the creature, the witch, even about Dan

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Martin ceased. Things change and go on what do you do?

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But sometimes on dark December nights, between twilight or his

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latest midnight, the people that still live along Waverley Road

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swear they can see a shadowy figure, a big man,

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walk out of the woods where or Lake Road once lay.

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He walks to the ruins of Miller's Market, which is

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now abandoned and boarded over, and he walks to the

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market and looks around as if someone is waiting for him,

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expecting him. If you go to or Lake Road today,

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you can still find a remnant of the road where

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John Rumley met the old woman on the small roadside.

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The Wilma's house is long gone, and there's an orchard

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and a day spa there. Now on Waverley you can

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see the old Miller's Market building washed gray by the

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years and back by a tangle of thorns. Be careful

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if you walk around the building the thorn you're thick

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and sharp as knives. But above all, don't spend much

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time pondering oor Lake Road. You just might wind up

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writing a story about it. I got a message on

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Facebook from someone who follows my page, or is who's

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liked my page, and they posted a series of articles

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on a some kind of creature down in Smith County, Mississippi.

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This caught my attention and it's a whole series of articles,

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and I thought i'd just share it with you guys.

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The name of the publication is The Morning Call. I

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don't know where that paper was based out of, but

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the first article was issued on September one, nineteen twenty nine,

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on a Sunday, and the big headline is big posse

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will seek wild woman this morning. So I'm just gonna

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start at the first article, and I'm gonna read them

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all to you because I don't know why, but these old,

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older articles really interest me. But here we go. Let me.

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I'm just reading this off my screen, so y'all bear

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with me. Here a wild woman reported in the swamps

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in Smith County. Scores of citizens from Smith and Jones

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Counties are expected to gather at Taylorsville Sunday morning, when

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a hunt will begin at eight o'clock for a wild

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woman reported to be in the swamps near that town.

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Marshall TE. Blankney of Taylorsville informed the call Saturday night.

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Whether the affair will be a wild woman chase or

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a wild goose chase remains to be seen. At any rate,

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a lot of people who have never before chased wild

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women are expected to be on hand. Quote. We are

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extending a special limitation to our Laurel friends to come

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out and join us in this hunt. Marshall Blankney stated, quote,

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we intend to comb the swamp where she is reported

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to be until we find her. That Marshall can con

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tinues on we will begin our search. We will not

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use dogs to track her down, but should it become

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necessary in order to locate her, we will probably secure

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some good hounds. Some of this is real faded on

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the article, so I'm having a strain to read it.

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The search for the wild woman reported to be inhabiting

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the swamps near Taylor Taylorsville follows the account which Pa Walker,

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a farmer, tells of having seen such a creature and

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talked with her several days ago at his farm. According

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to mister Walker's description, the woman, who was nude except

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for a cloth girdle, was covered from head to foot

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with hair about four inches long. From mister Walker's description,

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she has more the appearance of an animal than a

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human being. Mister Walker states that he questioned the woman

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when she suddenly appeared near him at the edge of

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the swamp where he was chopping wood. She told the

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Smith County farmer that she was reared in Alabama about

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six years ago and became mentally deranged. Since that time.

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She has reported to have said she has lived in

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the Smith County swamp, where she has shot her food

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and eaten it raw. We have heard no definite reports

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of the woman since she was seen by mister Walker,

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Marshall Blakeney told the call, but we have reason to

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believe that she is still in the swamp where she

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was first reported. That's the first article. The second thing

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of the Gentleman sent me is another article says big

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Posse fails to find trace of wild woman. If there's

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a wild woman in Leaf River Swamp, in Smith County.

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One hundred and fifty citizens from that and adjoining counties

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failed Sunday morning to find hair nor height of her,

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and from all reports, she has plenty of the lighter

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and maybe presumed sooner or later to shed some of

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that hair near her lair. Gathering at the home of

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Pa Walker, Smith County farmer, who reported several days ago

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that the wild woman had visited him at his farm,

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a large posse led by Sheriff TJ. Tullis, Smith County,

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began a search for the harry Swamp Dennison. About eight o'clock.

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Members of the posse stationed themselves fifty paces apart and

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proceeded up to swamp until they reached a vacated mill house,

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where the woman told mister Walker she spent her nights.

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Nowhere was there a trace of the wild woman found,

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and before eleven o'clock the posse decided that it might

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be engaged in a wild goose chase instead of one

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for a wallwoman, and abandoned the search. No further efforts

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will be made to apprehend the weird creature, officers state

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unless she again makes her appearance. In such a case,

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dogs will be secured and put on her trail. Failure

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of the posse to find the wall woman was the

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greatest disappointment in the lives of a lot of Laurel

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County people who have been preparing themselves for a look

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at the unusual lady. From all the descriptions, she is

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covered from head to foot with brown hair about four

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or five inches long. Her face is covered with hair

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two inches long, and for six years, as the wild

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Woman's story goes, she has been living in Leaf River swamp,

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shooting her food and eating at raw That's a second article.

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Here's another article, and I don't I guess it's from

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the same newspaper. Call offers reward for a wild woman.

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The Morning Call will pay one hundred dollars in cash

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to any person or persons delivering to the office of

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this newspaper a wild woman found in a Smith County swamp,

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whose body is naturally covered with brown hair between four

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and five inches long, and whose face is covered with

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hair one inch long, whose hair drops down over her

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wrist us to her knuckle joints, and that on her

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feet trails in the dust as she walks to and fro.

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Provided these conditions are carefully observed. Number one, said wild

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woman must be securely tied and delivered at this office.

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We don't propose to have our whole staff laid up

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in the hospital. She must be brought directly to this

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newspaper office after she is found. Note. If her clothing

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or absence of it is ultra modern, she may be

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taken first to a dress shop and guarbed. However, the

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lady's wishes shall be abided by in this case. If

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she doesn't care well, we aren't particular either. Number three,

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Any and all newspaper interviews with her must be secured

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by representative of the call. We may have to employ

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a special reporter to handle this assignment. Our regular staff

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is skittish of the wild woman. Number four the said

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l must be really wild. That is wilder, wilder than

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the wilder than women usually are. We don't want her.

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If she's just crazy. A lot of people are that way. Okay,

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this gets better as we go. Okay, here's another one.

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I can't see the title of it. Let me zoom out. Okay.

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Smith County Man seeks wild Woman Naked in the Woods, Taylorsville,

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August thirty first. Apparently this was written before the first

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article I read you, but here we go hopes had

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not been abandoned Friday night in the search for a

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wild woman who is reported to be living in the

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swamps a few miles below here. The first reports were

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given last Wednesday, when Pink Walker, a farmer who lives

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below here, said that the woman approached him where he

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was at work in the woods. A search was made,

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but no trace of her was found. Rumors were spread

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Friday that other people living in that vicinity he had

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seen a wild woman. Walker is said to have stated

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that she had long hair, she was manlike, and wore

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very little clothing. Okay, that's another. Here's one more again.

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I'm assuming this is from the call, but it says

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wild woman eludes Smith County posse. All right, this is

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September two, the day after the first article. Smith County's

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wild woman is still at large, roaming the woods of

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that county at will and eating raw rabbits and other tidbits,

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unmolested by the rules of etiquette and unhampered by the

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criticisms of society. Efforts of a posse is said to

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have contained at least one hundred and fifty seekers for

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the wild woman. And determined to catch her, have returned

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to their homes solely disappointed and painfully unrewarded they didn't

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find her. The posse was headed by Sheriff TJ. Tullis

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and Town Marshall Borough Blakeney of Taylorsville in the name

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of the law to capture the wild Woman of Leaf

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River Swamp or know the reason why they now know

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they couldn't find her. The party formed at the home

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of Pa Walker, who reported seeing the demented woman who

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claims to have lived in the swamps the past six years,

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and took to the lowlands of the river at eight

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thirty o clock space fifty paces apart. The party moved

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down the river for several miles to the abandoned sawmills

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site where the young woman claims to have lived, without

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seeing any trace of her. The search was given up

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about ten thirty o'clock and the party made its way

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back to the starting point. It is likely that no

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further effort will be made by a posse to run

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the woman to earth, but that if she reappeared, it

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is planned to secure dogs and put on her trail.

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The woman, extremely muscular, is said to be covered in

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short brown hair. That's the end of that one. And

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here's one more. I don't see the title for it, mitral, Okay,

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the title is wild Woman. I'm sorry. Unmolested by the

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rules of etiquette and unhampered by polite society, A wild

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woman has been eluding all searchers in the woods of

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Smith County, famous now as the wild Woman of Leaf

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River Swamps. She dines on raw rabbits and other tidbits,

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wears little if any clothing, and is covered with short

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brown hair, and has been seen several times but never captured.

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And I think that's the last article. But anyway, I

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thought that was interesting, and you all may not think

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it is. But I have so many people, most of

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them that I know are dead now dead and gone,

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but uncles and aints and just people I grew grew up.

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This team down there around Amy and the tom Bigbee

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River bottoms. That's where my people lived, and I would

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love to have them around and ask them if they

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remember this, because a lot of them were live in

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nineteen twenty nine. Anyway, I thought i'd take a break

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from working at Sunday. I'm trying to crank some workout

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that's due Tuesday. Missed the great camp out at Land

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between the Lakes with some friends because of this damn

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work good griefs driving me crazy. I thought i'd just

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put this podcast out real quick and I don't know

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ten fifteen minutes long. Hope you guys enjoyed it and

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I'll see you on the next video. Thank you. I'm

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not interested in bigfoot research whatsoever. I'm not interested in

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camping out to look for them, gathering evidence of anything

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that has anything to do with looking for them to

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prove they exist. I know they exist. I've seen them.

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There is at least one clan that lives in this

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particular area, and I'm not the only one who has

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seen them. You could say that all the farmers who

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live in this area have seen it, and we all

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know they're here. We choose to leave them alone. I

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am other than a farmer, a paranormal investigator. I live

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on my family farm that has been in my family

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for over two hundred years. This particular house that I

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live in was built in eighteen sixty. Of course, it

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has gone through many updates through the years, and it

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also happens to be haunted. But that's not really why

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I'm sending this This property borders the largest land state

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park in this state. There are thousands of acres of

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forest in this area, which a lot of people find

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surprising for this area of Illinois. Our fields are spread

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out a bit in this area, and instead of taking

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the highway, we would cut up over the ridge and

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end up on the blacktop road that ran behind the park.

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I've heard about bigfoot all my life, and sometimes the

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other farmers in the area would mention seeing one or

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catching a glimpse of one from time to time. I

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didn't pay much attention to it because at the time

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I never had had an encounter. I would sit out

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on the back deck at night, would hear wood knocks

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in an occasional whoop, but I never saw one. Sometimes

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I would take a baseball bat and hit a tree

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or even the railing of the deck, and sometimes I

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would get an answer. In the late nineteen nineties, I

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cut up over the ridge and I was on the

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black top. I was almost to the back entrance of

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the park when this huge creature jumped the fence along

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the park. It was on my right and it stood

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in the road. I had to slam on my brakes

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or I would have hit it, and when I stopped,

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I could not have been more than twenty feet away.

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This thing was huge, and I'm guessing it was seven

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and a half feet tall and three feet across at

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the shoulders. It had dark brown hair all over its

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body except on its face. It had a broad nose,

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wide set eyes, and a protruding forehead, and its arms

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almost appeared to be normal from the shoulders to the elbows,

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but from the elbow to the hands, the arms were long.

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Stood there and we made eye contact for what seemed

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like a full minute. I had the window down on

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my truck, and there was a slight breeze, and I

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caught a whiff of a strong odor. It was almost

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like a bad body odor, like someone who had not

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had a bath in months. It never made a move

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towards me. It just stood there, and then suddenly it

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crossed the road and went down the hill to my left.

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I tried to see where it was going, but the

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trees were so thick and I couldn't see it. It

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was almost like it vanished. The sun was setting, but

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it was not quite dust, so there were still plenty

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of light. The sun that was left was behind me.

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I rolled up my window, and I locked my doors,

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and I turned around and I went back home. When

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I got home, I told my mom what I had seen,

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and she never said a word. She just nodded. Her

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response made me think she had seen it, or at

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least knew of its existence. We never had problems with

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them coming down to the farms and bothering our livestock.

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But I think that's because there are so many deer

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around here and there's no need to come raid a farm.

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But listening to them, you can tell there are more

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than one. You will hear a tree knock coming from

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one direction and it will be answered from another. The

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same with the whoops. This farm sits near the Mississippi River,

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and in December of twenty fifteen, we had what you

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might call a freak of flood. We have flooding in

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the spring, but never in the winter. It was flooding

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our land, so my mother and I moved into a

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house in town. Three weeks later, the floodwaters receded enough

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that we could have moved back, but we decided to

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spend the rest of the winter in town. We had

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a hired hand and he called one day to say

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that he had seen a bigfoot crossing one of the

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pastures near the house. This was the first time he

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had seen one, so he was very excited and even

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a fresh I went down there to check things out

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and to assess any damage from the flood. It had

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snowed a couple of inches the night before, not much.

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My farm hand and I went to the house and

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there were these huge footprints that looked like it had

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walked around the house and had even stopped to look

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into four of the windows. I believe they know who

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belongs here, and since we were gone, it was looking

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for us. I know it sounds silly, but that's my opinion.

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This is the only time I know of that one

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has come to one of our houses. We and the

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other farmers in this area have not been bothered by them,

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except for a sighting now and then one either crossing

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a field or walking along the woodline or along the river.

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Sometimes while out hunting there will be reports of a sighting.

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I'm not saying we see them every day, but we

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do see them. When they decide to come out of

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the woods. They pretty much leave us alone and we

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don't bother them. We've been fortunate that they have not

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bothered our homes are our live stock. On October twenty third,

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twenty eighteen, my farm hand Mike, and myself went to

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pick up some per simmons because we had had a

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frost a couple of days before and that's the best

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time to pick them up. I also wanted to see

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if there were any pawpaws left, and even though it

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was a bit late in the year for them, any

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that were left will fall off the tree and the

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deer and other animals are going to get them. But

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I figured it was worth a look. Mike and I

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hopped into his truck and headed for the pawpall trees

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because they were closer. When we got there, we saw

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that there were some on the ground and some on

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the trees. Mike grabbed a ladder out of his truck,

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and as he was setting it up, he pointed to

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a tree stump about halfway up the small hill and

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said that he didn't remember that stump being there. I

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don't remember seeing it either. Mike set up the ladder

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and as he was picking off the tree, I was

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picking some up off the ground. I picked a few up.

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I straightened up and I was hitting the head with

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a paw Paul oh Crap. I heard Mike say we

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looked up the hill and that stump was gone. I

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told Mike to quickly gather up what he had and

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get in the truck. He grabbed the ladder and he

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threw it into the bed of his truck. I stopped

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and started digging through a backpack. We heard a grunt

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just inside the tree line thirty feet away, and we

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heard a big crack, like something had stepped on a

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large stick. I was still fumbling through my backpack, and

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he was urging me to hurry up. I was trying

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to hurry up, but I couldn't find my phone. Who

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the hell are you gonna call? He asked, The phone

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has a camera on it. I said, apparently I had

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left the phone at home. Though I had some venison

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jerky with me that I had brought for the day.

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I pulled it out and I stopped and laid some

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on a stump, and then I headed for the truck

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and we left. Mike was in his stairs. I knew

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something was wrong with that stump. It had eyes, he said.

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He kept asking me how I could be so calm.

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I finally persuaded him to stop and let me dry,

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because I honestly thought he was going to wreck. He

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stopped and I drove the rest of the way to

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Mike's house, and then I walked home from there, it

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was only about a mile. The next day, I drove

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out to the Pawpall Pass to see if I could

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find anything. I had left a five gallon bucket with

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a few pawpoles in it. The bucket was tipped over

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and the paw poles were gone, along with the jerky.

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I looked around for footprints or anything else that I

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could find, but I didn't see anything. I drove out

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to the Presimon trees but didn't get out of the

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truck because some of the lower branches had been broken off.

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They looked almost like they had been twisted, and you

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could tell these were fresh breaks. We had not had

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any storms or high winds, so I can only guess

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at what broke them off. I never got out of

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the truck and I went home. In July, I had

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to have some work done on my truck. I took

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it to my cousin who has a shop in the

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next county. He's a good mechanic, and when he fixes something,

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he does it right. He also gives me a break

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on the labor charges. He had my truck for a

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week because he had to wait on some parts to

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come in, And when I went to pick up the truck,

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he told me that he was going to the Great

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Smoky Mountains for a vacation to stay in a cabin

478
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,480
owned by his sister. He had seen bears and other

479
00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:36,519
critters on his last trip there, and so jokingly I

480
00:28:36,559 --> 00:28:39,119
asked him if he had ever seen a bigfoot, because

481
00:28:39,119 --> 00:28:42,000
there are a lot of sightings down there. He went

482
00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:45,880
totally quiet. I had to coax him to tell me

483
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,640
what was wrong, and he asked me if I believed

484
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,559
in bigfoot, and when I said yes, that I had

485
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,000
seen him, he told me about when he and his

486
00:28:54,039 --> 00:28:56,920
wife and his son went mushroom hunting in the hills

487
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,400
on the back of our property just last May. The

488
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,240
three of them had been standing on a hill when

489
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:07,160
one walked across the clearing below them. He said it

490
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,799
was dark and it was walking on two legs. He

491
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,559
raised his binoculars, but by the time he got them

492
00:29:13,559 --> 00:29:16,200
out to look at the creature, all he saw was

493
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,519
its back. He told his wife and son not to

494
00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:22,599
make any noise and to walk quietly back to the truck.

495
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,759
He didn't want to draw the attention of the creature.

496
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,599
But that wasn't the only bigfoot my cousin had seen.

497
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,400
He was raised in this area. They lived on a

498
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,240
farm up on the ridge. He didn't lean towards farming,

499
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:39,119
so he got a job in town when he was

500
00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:44,000
nin eighteen. He worked late one night until one am.

501
00:29:44,519 --> 00:29:46,720
On his way home, he was about a mile from

502
00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:49,200
home when one came out of the woods and crossed

503
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,359
in front of him. It stopped for a moment and

504
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,519
then went into the woods on the other side of

505
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:57,519
the road. It scared him so bad that he didn't

506
00:29:57,559 --> 00:30:01,480
drive on that road at night again for two years. Instead,

507
00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:05,079
he took a longer route home. He never told anyone

508
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,799
about that until he and his family saw the one

509
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,200
in May, and on the drive home he told them

510
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,920
all about it. I'm guessing he felt better knowing he

511
00:30:14,039 --> 00:30:16,920
was not the only one who had seen a bigfoot.

512
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,799
The area where these farms is are isolated. The nearest

513
00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:26,240
town in any direction is forty minutes away. The Mississippi,

514
00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:29,680
Missouri and the Illinois rivers are not far away either.

515
00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:33,759
There are acres and acres of woods It's a great

516
00:30:33,839 --> 00:30:36,319
area for bigfoot to live and hide and not be

517
00:30:36,519 --> 00:30:40,160
seen for long periods of time. There are plenty of

518
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,359
deer berries and other sources of food for them, and

519
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,359
this is probably why they've not rated our farms. But

520
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,960
we also know that these things are dangerous. They have

521
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,039
enormous strength, and at any time they could turn on

522
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,400
us if they had a mind to live and let live.

523
00:30:57,599 --> 00:31:00,920
Only go so far when dealing with a non human creature,

524
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,440
but we give them a wide path. Not long ago,

525
00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:07,839
the man down the road told me about being in

526
00:31:07,839 --> 00:31:11,599
his field checking his corn when one appeared out of nowhere.

527
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,559
He was almost face to face with it, and it

528
00:31:14,599 --> 00:31:18,559
shook him up pretty good. I grew up on this farm.

529
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,079
I was born on it. I played in these woods

530
00:31:21,119 --> 00:31:24,400
and I hunted in them since I was fourteen. I

531
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,559
fished in the river. I've been all over this area.

532
00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:31,680
I never saw one until I became an adult. The

533
00:31:31,759 --> 00:31:36,039
first encounter, although it didn't traumatize me, changed my life.

534
00:31:36,799 --> 00:31:39,039
It made me aware that there are things in this

535
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,519
world that you once believed did not exist. That's a

536
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:48,160
strange statement coming from someone who chases ghosts. I know that,

537
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,960
but the ghosts seemed far more normal to me because

538
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,359
I had been around them all my life. My dad

539
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,599
was from Arkansas. I remember him telling me when I

540
00:31:58,599 --> 00:32:01,440
would be getting ready to go play in the woods,

541
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,680
be careful, don't let them boogers get you. I never

542
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,440
took him seriously because I always thought he meant the

543
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,200
Boogeyman and I didn't believe in it. Little did I

544
00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:14,759
know that he is real and sign spooking