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<v Speaker 1>Today, I want to tell you about a journey that

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<v Speaker 1>I've been on for most of my life. Ever since

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<v Speaker 1>I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and

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<v Speaker 1>wild men while spending time with my friends and family.

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<v Speaker 1>As I grew older and read more about the paranormal,

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<v Speaker 1>my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why I'm so excited to share with you what

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<v Speaker 1>much more. I even have my own show called Weird Encounters,

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<v Speaker 1>So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold

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<v Speaker 1>radionetwork dot com Today. Hey everybody, this is Left Striving Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>yes I know aka Survivor Man, and you're listening to

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<v Speaker 1>Brian on Sasquatch Otisy. Hey there, and welcome back to

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<v Speaker 1>Sasquatch Audits. Thank you so much for clicking play. It

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<v Speaker 1>is Wednesday. I hope you're having a great week. We

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<v Speaker 1>have an amazing show lined up for you. But as always,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to start by inviting you. If you've had

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<v Speaker 1>an encounter and you'd like to be on the show,

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<v Speaker 1>shoot me an email. You can get me a Brian

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<v Speaker 1>at Paranamoworldproductions dot com. You editver to the website, check

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<v Speaker 2>Support the show.

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<v Speaker 1>I decided to do something a little bit different for

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<v Speaker 1>your midweek bonus show. Many of you may be aware

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<v Speaker 1>that I started a new podcast several months back called

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<v Speaker 1>Backwoods Horror Stories. I have talked about it from time

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<v Speaker 1>to time over here on Sasquatch Out to See, and

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<v Speaker 1>I think I've even posted at least one or two

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<v Speaker 1>stories that I've shared over on Backwoods Horror Stories. Many

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<v Speaker 1>of the stories that I share over There are stories

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<v Speaker 1>that I have sourced from many databases, but we do

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<v Speaker 1>get stories that are submitted via email from listeners just

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<v Speaker 1>like you, and this is one of those stories. I

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<v Speaker 1>will tell you that what you're about to hear is

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<v Speaker 1>probably going to be very difficult to believe. In addition

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<v Speaker 1>to that, I want to provide a warning for you

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<v Speaker 1>as the listener, if you have small children in the

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<v Speaker 1>car with you or wherever you may be listening to

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast right now. This story does include some sensitive

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<v Speaker 1>subject matter that may not be suitable for all listeners,

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<v Speaker 1>so listener discretion is strongly advised. If you would like

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<v Speaker 1>to check out backwards Horror stories that get more of

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<v Speaker 1>these amazing stories that we share over there, there's a

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<v Speaker 1>link right here in the show notes. All you have

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<v Speaker 1>to do is click and choose whatever podcast app you

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<v Speaker 1>want to listen on. That said, all that's left for.

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<v Speaker 2>You to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey Brian, before I get started, I want to tell

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<v Speaker 1>you how much I enjoy your shows. That Bigfoot podcast

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<v Speaker 1>has become my new favorite. It's my guilty pleasure. I

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<v Speaker 1>love the nobs approach and the banter between you and Wayne.

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<v Speaker 1>You guys do a great job. It's for that reason

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<v Speaker 1>I've decided to come to you with this. I've recently

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<v Speaker 1>heard you guys talking about a subject that got my attention.

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<v Speaker 1>You guys covered a story about a woman giving birth

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<v Speaker 1>to Bigfoot's baby. I first thought about reaching out to

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<v Speaker 1>the show that first shared that story, but not knowing

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<v Speaker 1>to show the way that I know yours, I decided

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<v Speaker 1>to contact you with it. I hope you can understand

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<v Speaker 1>and respect how difficult this is for me to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about and accept the fact that I must insist on

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<v Speaker 1>remaining anonymous. This is my grandmother's story, and I'm one

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<v Speaker 1>of the few people in the world that she ever

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<v Speaker 1>told about it. It all started when she was a

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<v Speaker 1>young girl. Her family lived in Arkansas on a two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred acre farm. Her father, which would make him my

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<v Speaker 1>great grandfather, had some grain silos on the property. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not a farmer, so I couldn't tell you how they

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<v Speaker 1>worked or what all they did other than hold grain.

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<v Speaker 1>He noticed that he had some new fresh dents on

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<v Speaker 1>they were coming from. This all started very suddenly, and

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<v Speaker 1>he could not figure out for the life of him

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<v Speaker 1>what was going on? Until one day my grandmother said

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<v Speaker 1>she heard a commotion coming from around the silos early

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<v Speaker 1>one morning. It was just past dawn and the sun

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't fully out yet. She knew that my granddad had

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<v Speaker 1>already been up for a while attending to the animals,

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<v Speaker 1>so she ran outside right in time to see this

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<v Speaker 1>thing that was a little bit smaller than she was,

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<v Speaker 1>running off into the woods with her father giving chase.

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<v Speaker 1>This thing appeared to be covered in black hair with

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<v Speaker 1>patches of brown all over it. She said she'd never

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<v Speaker 1>seen anything run so fast. She asked her father about

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<v Speaker 1>it and ask him what happened. She said she would

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<v Speaker 1>never forget what he told her. He said, I think

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<v Speaker 1>that was a little bugger. The damn thing fell in

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<v Speaker 1>my silo. I thought it was some kids messing around

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<v Speaker 1>and climbing on it, So I yelled at him to

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<v Speaker 1>get off, and I reckon. I startled him because he

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<v Speaker 1>fell through the damn roof. I ran over to open

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<v Speaker 1>the hatch, hoping it wasn't full yet. When I opened

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<v Speaker 1>took off running a holler. He scared the shit out

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<v Speaker 1>of me. Turns out the silo wasn't anywhere near full,

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<v Speaker 1>but there was definitely grain in there. That's why he

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<v Speaker 1>appeared to have these brown on spots on him. It

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<v Speaker 1>was the grain that he fell into. In reality, this

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<v Speaker 1>thing was jet black. It was covered from head to

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<v Speaker 1>toe and thick black hair. Grandma said she had no

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<v Speaker 1>idea what to make of it. She knew her daddy

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<v Speaker 1>to be a hard working, honest man that would never lie,

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<v Speaker 1>not to mention her seeing it for herself. They were

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<v Speaker 1>the only two to see what happened that morning, and

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<v Speaker 1>she was told not to speak a word of it

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<v Speaker 1>to anyone, so she decided that she wouldn't now the

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<v Speaker 1>way I was told that her daddy figured it, this

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<v Speaker 1>thing must have felt like he saved its life or

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<v Speaker 1>something of the sort, because this thing started showing up

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<v Speaker 1>from time to time watching her daddy work around the farm.

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<v Speaker 1>She said, the first few times he noticed it, it

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<v Speaker 1>would run off from it, but it never stayed gone

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<v Speaker 1>long though. He would always come back the next day,

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<v Speaker 1>and sometimes that same day. Her daddy just started to

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<v Speaker 1>accept it. He said, it never did bother him or

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<v Speaker 1>anything else. That's until one day or Daddy noticed a

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<v Speaker 1>chicken or two had gone missing. This really pissed him

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<v Speaker 1>off at first, and he did something that shocked her.

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<v Speaker 1>The next time he saw this thing, he stopped what

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<v Speaker 1>he was doing, walked over to the chicken coop, grabbed

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<v Speaker 1>up one of the chickens, and started walking towards the booger.

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<v Speaker 1>Grandma said she wouldn't have believed it had she not

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<v Speaker 1>seen it with her own eyes. She said he walked

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<v Speaker 1>over towards this thing, swinging the chicken around in circles

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<v Speaker 1>and yelling, no, no, my chicken, my chicken, leave my

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<v Speaker 1>chickens alone. She said. She laughed so hard at the

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<v Speaker 1>sight of her daddy yelling at this thing she almost

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<v Speaker 1>peter her pants. I can still hear how hard she

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<v Speaker 1>was laughing every time she told me that story. Her

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<v Speaker 1>daddy was able to get pretty close to this thing,

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<v Speaker 1>and when he did, that's when he noticed how skinny

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<v Speaker 1>scared or sad look on its face as well. This

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<v Speaker 1>made her daddy feel terrible because this thing was clearly

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<v Speaker 1>just hungry. He speculated later on in life that its

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<v Speaker 1>family must have abandoned him once he took interest in

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<v Speaker 1>and started showing himself to humans. He always said he

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't prove it, but that's what he always felt. This

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<v Speaker 1>is when her daddy started leaving food out for it.

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<v Speaker 1>When this began, it was the beginning of what my

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<v Speaker 1>grandma called the greatest love of her life, her love

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<v Speaker 1>for a sasquatch named Coda. As the years went by,

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<v Speaker 1>Coda became a permanent fixture to our family. Grandma was

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<v Speaker 1>an only child and her mother, my great grandmother, was

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<v Speaker 1>the only other person on the farm aside from my

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<v Speaker 1>great grandpa. Of course, they had family and friends that

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<v Speaker 1>would visit from time to time, so their guard always

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<v Speaker 1>had to stay up at all times. I mean, how

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<v Speaker 1>exactly would you explain this to others? How do you

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<v Speaker 1>explain the almost eight foot tall, hair covered farmhand that

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<v Speaker 1>always followed them around all the time. It's also important

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<v Speaker 1>to remember that my grandma first saw Coda when they

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<v Speaker 1>were both very young. Grandma was actually a bit taller

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<v Speaker 1>than Coda when she sawing, but that didn't last for

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<v Speaker 1>very long. She said, Coda started growing like a weed.

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<v Speaker 1>They grew up together. It's what it boils down to,

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<v Speaker 1>and during those very impressionable years, the puberty years, they

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<v Speaker 1>managed to get even closer. Grandma says she fought it

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<v Speaker 1>as much as she could, but the feelings just became

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<v Speaker 1>too strong. Something else you'll need to know about my

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<v Speaker 1>grandma is that she had a cousin we'll call her S.

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<v Speaker 1>S was born deaf, and in those years it was

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<v Speaker 1>much harder on people with disabilities. S came from a

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<v Speaker 1>loving family and they were very well off financially compared

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<v Speaker 1>to most back then. They did their best to make

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<v Speaker 1>her life as comfortable as possible, including sparing no expense

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<v Speaker 1>on education. Everyone, including my Grandma, learned sign language so

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<v Speaker 1>they could talk to S. This ended up coming in

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<v Speaker 1>handy later on, as it became the only way Grandma

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<v Speaker 1>and Coda could communicate. That's right, Coda was able to

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<v Speaker 1>he'll learn a bit of sign language to hear my

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<v Speaker 1>grandma tell it. All he knew was a few simple

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<v Speaker 1>and basic signs, but it opened up all kinds of

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<v Speaker 1>doors for the two of them and only helped to

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<v Speaker 1>bring them closer and stay tuned.

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<v Speaker 2>For more sasquatch ot to see, We'll be right back

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<v Speaker 2>after these messages.

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<v Speaker 1>Now. Don't get me wrong, this was not a relationship

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<v Speaker 1>that was accepted by my Grandma's parents. They fought it

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<v Speaker 1>with all they could. They told her many times that

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<v Speaker 1>if they had the money, they would send her off

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<v Speaker 1>to boarding school. There was this one time they were

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<v Speaker 1>caught alone in the barn and Grandma's daddy stormed into

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<v Speaker 1>the house and came out with his rifle, screaming, we

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<v Speaker 1>aren't going to have to worry about sending you off.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm about to send his hairy ass off. Luckily, Coda

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<v Speaker 1>had time to get away and into the woods. Grandpa

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<v Speaker 1>never really viewed Coda the same way after that, and

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<v Speaker 1>he definitely looked at his little girl differently. As if

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<v Speaker 1>this story wasn't hard enough to believe, it gets even

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<v Speaker 1>more crazy. It was summertime, right before my grandma's seventeenth birthday,

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<v Speaker 1>when she realized it had been over a month since

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<v Speaker 1>she had had her last period. She said that she

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<v Speaker 1>had never really been very regular to begin with, so

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't something that concerned her right away, But when

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<v Speaker 1>she began to get sick every single morning, she began

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<v Speaker 1>to worry. She said that it was not just sick,

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<v Speaker 1>but violently sick. She described it as the most violent

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<v Speaker 1>she had already been thinking. She was pregnant. Around three months,

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<v Speaker 1>the doctor estimated her heart sank and her father's eyes

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<v Speaker 1>aware of. Imagine that, hoping your teenage daughter was pregnant

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<v Speaker 1>by some man you didn't know, because the alternative was

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<v Speaker 1>half booger for a grandchild. That wasn't to be the case.

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<v Speaker 1>Though Koda was the father. My grandmother said she had

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<v Speaker 1>no idea how it was even possible. Koda wasn't even human, right,

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<v Speaker 1>how could this be? For months they discussed what to do.

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<v Speaker 1>Coda came around less and less at the request of

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<v Speaker 1>she wore her daddy down. After all, Grandma had always

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<v Speaker 1>There was nothing he wouldn't forgive her of and eventually

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<v Speaker 1>what was this child going to look like? It mattered not,

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<v Speaker 1>because this was going to be their grandchild and they

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<v Speaker 1>would love it and help protect it in any way

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<v Speaker 1>they could. To hear it told, my great grandfather wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>and in no time he had built a small, rustic

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<v Speaker 1>He had cleared out a spot a couple hundred yards

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<v Speaker 1>away from anyone else. It would all have to learn

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<v Speaker 1>as they went, because this was new to everyone. Grandma

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<v Speaker 1>told me that this was the hardest eight months of

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<v Speaker 1>to mention the nausea that seemed to get worse as

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<v Speaker 1>the pregnancy went on instead of better. I know the

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<v Speaker 1>normal length of a pregnancy is almost ten months, but

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<v Speaker 1>she barely made it to eight. She believed that this

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<v Speaker 1>child took much longer than anyone expected. Grandma was in

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<v Speaker 1>labor for over twenty four hours. It was the single

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<v Speaker 1>worst and most painful experience of her life. She delivered

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<v Speaker 1>in that little cabin with only her mother and father there.

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<v Speaker 1>They were too afraid to have any doctors present. No

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<v Speaker 1>doctors meant that there had to be no complications around

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<v Speaker 1>our twenty six she was able to push him out.

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<v Speaker 1>I wish this could be a happy ending to a

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<v Speaker 1>crazy story, but that's not to be the case. The

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<v Speaker 1>baby was still born. Grandma was devastated. She had no

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<v Speaker 1>was her child and she loved him just the same.

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<v Speaker 1>She would never talk much about what he looked like

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<v Speaker 1>She did say that he weighed fifteen pounds, but basically

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<v Speaker 1>he looked like a large, hairy newborn baby. It was

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<v Speaker 1>the following day, when Coda came around, she said, not

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<v Speaker 1>only are bigfoot reel, but they have emotions and the

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<v Speaker 1>ability to cry. Coda let out a terrible scream and

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<v Speaker 1>tears started to flow down his cheeks. He held his

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<v Speaker 1>with the help of her mother and father, followed him.

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<v Speaker 1>They were all devastated and unable to control their emotions.

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<v Speaker 1>They watched his Coda place the baby in Grandma's arms,

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<v Speaker 1>and he picked up a rock that an average man

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<v Speaker 1>He took one of those smaller pieces with a sharp

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<v Speaker 1>The hole was about three by three foot and four

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<v Speaker 1>feet deep, as deep as Coda could reach with his

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<v Speaker 1>arm anyway. He then placed the baby in the hole

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<v Speaker 1>and covered it up with the remaining dirt. Coda then

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<v Speaker 1>found a much larger rock, bigger than the one he

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<v Speaker 1>had already broken, and placed it on the grave. He

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<v Speaker 1>and my grandma just stood there, holding each other for

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<v Speaker 1>several minutes. Coda then kissed her on the head and

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<v Speaker 1>walked into the woods. My grandma said she didn't know

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<v Speaker 1>how she knew it, but she knew that was going

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<v Speaker 1>to be the last time she would ever see him,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was. It took some time, but she eventually

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<v Speaker 1>healed from the berth, but she never really healed from

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<v Speaker 1>the loss of Coda and the baby they shared. She

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<v Speaker 1>went on to meet and fall in love with my grandpa.

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<v Speaker 1>They were married and had three children of their own,

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<v Speaker 1>but she never told him about her first love and

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<v Speaker 1>the child that they had had. My grandpa died not

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<v Speaker 1>long after I was born, so I never got to

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<v Speaker 1>know him, but everyone says that he was a great man.

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<v Speaker 1>Now you have to keep in mind that this, of course,

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<v Speaker 1>is a secondhand story. It did not happen to me,

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<v Speaker 1>and I only know what I was told, so if

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<v Speaker 1>there are any details that are off, it's not on purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>I did my best in the retelling. Take this story

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<v Speaker 1>however you want, but it was very difficult for me

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<v Speaker 1>to write this. I struggled with if I should because

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<v Speaker 1>I know most sane people will not believe this. But

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<v Speaker 1>I have never known of my grandma to lie. She

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<v Speaker 1>was your typical, sweet old grandmother, and I believe every

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<v Speaker 1>word that She told me, it's up to you and

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<v Speaker 1>your listeners to decide if you do. Thank you again

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<v Speaker 1>for allowing me and others to share their experiences, and

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<v Speaker 1>I wish you and Wayne the best and continued success.

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<v Speaker 2>Did to Pa