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<v Speaker 1>My grandmother was a god fearing woman. She was in

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<v Speaker 1>her late eighties when she told me this story, and

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<v Speaker 1>she swore on the Bible that it was true. My

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<v Speaker 1>grandmother and grandfather were newlyweds. They had spent the first

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<v Speaker 1>few months living with her parents until they could find

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<v Speaker 1>a home to rent. My grandfather was the pastor of

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<v Speaker 1>a small country church down Sycamore Avenue. He didn't make

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<v Speaker 1>much money preaching, and many of his congregation members couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>give money to the church, so they brought chickens and

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<v Speaker 1>corn on the cob and eggs to the preacher. We

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<v Speaker 1>limited income, finding a home was challenging. One Sunday, a

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<v Speaker 1>church member came up to my grandfather after church and

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<v Speaker 1>told him that his aunt had a house that she

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<v Speaker 1>was trying to rent. Wanted to know if he wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to rent it. The house was a two story white

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<v Speaker 1>home with a big picture window in the living room.

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<v Speaker 1>The kitchen was on the main floor, the two bedrooms

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<v Speaker 1>were upstairs. The house was nice and it was cheap,

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<v Speaker 1>only ten dollars a month. Well why is it so cheap,

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<v Speaker 1>my grandmother asked the owner of the home. Well, I

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<v Speaker 1>can't lie to a preacher, but the house is haunted.

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<v Speaker 1>He said. Well, my grandparents were shocked and shook their

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<v Speaker 1>heads because they didn't believe in ghosts. The only ghost

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<v Speaker 1>that we believe in is the Holy ghost, said my grandfather. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>said the owner, But I warned you. He said this

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<v Speaker 1>with a nervous laugh. My grandparents moved in all day

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<v Speaker 1>and finally got settled. Nothing happened the first night, but

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<v Speaker 1>that was the last peaceful night's sleep they would have

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<v Speaker 1>in that house. The next night began normal. Grandpa and

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<v Speaker 1>Grandma went up to the bedroom and went to sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>At two am, they heard people talking down in the kitchen,

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<v Speaker 1>several people in fact. They heard the cabinets being opened

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<v Speaker 1>and dishes being set on the table, and chairs were

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<v Speaker 1>heard moving across the floor. My grandfather got a shotgun

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<v Speaker 1>and quietly walked down to the stairs. He turned on

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<v Speaker 1>the light and there was nothing, nothing out of place.

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<v Speaker 1>The kitchen was perfectly clean and in order, just like

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<v Speaker 1>Grandma left it. Grandpa searched the house and he still

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<v Speaker 1>found nothing. And then he remembered the owner's words, it's haunted.

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<v Speaker 1>A cold chill came over him. He quickly prayed the

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<v Speaker 1>Lord's prayer and checked both the front and back doors

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<v Speaker 1>to see that they were locked. He then went up

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<v Speaker 1>to bed and only to have the same thing happen.

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<v Speaker 1>The voices started and the dishes started to be moved

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<v Speaker 1>about the kitchen. Grandpa finally went to the kitchen and

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<v Speaker 1>turned the light on. Everything stopped. He put his Bible

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<v Speaker 1>open to Psalm Nighty and went on the table, and

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<v Speaker 1>he went to sleep with his head resting on the book.

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<v Speaker 1>The next morning, my grandmother told him she wanted to leave.

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<v Speaker 1>She didn't want to live in a haunted house. Grandpa

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<v Speaker 1>told her they would pack up and leave, and they

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<v Speaker 1>did just that. It took most of the day, but

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<v Speaker 1>with the help of family members, they had everything out

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<v Speaker 1>of the house in one day. My grandparents shut the

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<v Speaker 1>curtains on the massive front picture window in the living

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<v Speaker 1>room and quietly looked left and right, and again they

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<v Speaker 1>felt a cold chill come into the room. They quickly

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<v Speaker 1>walked out the front door and locked it. As they

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<v Speaker 1>slowly pulled out of the driveway, my grandmother yelled stop.

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<v Speaker 1>My grandfather stopped, and they looked at the house and

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<v Speaker 1>the curtains they had closed upon leaving were slowly opening.

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<v Speaker 1>My grandparents looked at each other and said it's haunted.

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<v Speaker 1>They left, and the house sat empty for many years

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<v Speaker 1>after that. It may sound strange that a skeptic like

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<v Speaker 1>me would write to you about an exp xperience that

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<v Speaker 1>could have been a sisquatch. Regarding my skepticism, I can't

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<v Speaker 1>help but feel that a complete lack of concrete, irrefutable

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<v Speaker 1>physical evidence is suspicious. Now, don't get me wrong, I

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<v Speaker 1>would be thrilled to learn that we shared this earth

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<v Speaker 1>with another mysterious primate. But again I have serious doubts.

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<v Speaker 1>I spent my childhood enchanted by stories of the unknown,

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<v Speaker 1>and I cut my teeth on Sunday afternoon reruns of

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<v Speaker 1>In Search of And I had seen the Patterson Gimlin

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<v Speaker 1>film dozens of time by my fifth birthday, Having learned

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<v Speaker 1>to read at an early age, I was even aware

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<v Speaker 1>of the Baumanns story at that age. I bear in

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<v Speaker 1>mind that I grew up in the seventies when the

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<v Speaker 1>Bigfoot phenomenon was hitting its stride. Bigfoot was everywhere. I

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<v Speaker 1>even saw him fight the six million dollar Man. I

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<v Speaker 1>suppose years spent in the woods with no experiences of

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<v Speaker 1>my own allowed my grown up common sense to overtake

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<v Speaker 1>my sense of wonder, and I hadn't thought about this

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<v Speaker 1>subject for years until I found your channel a few

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<v Speaker 1>days ago. After watching several episodes of your podcast, my

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<v Speaker 1>wife and I began to talk about weird experiences from

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<v Speaker 1>our past. It was during this talk that memory came

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<v Speaker 1>flooding back, and I related a story to my wife

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<v Speaker 1>that astonished her. We've been together more than fifteen years

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<v Speaker 1>and this was the first time she had ever heard

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<v Speaker 1>anything about it from me or my family. I almost

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<v Speaker 1>think that somehow this memory was being blocked from my

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<v Speaker 1>conscious mind to some degree. So enough about me, let's

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<v Speaker 1>get on with my story. I was born and raised

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<v Speaker 1>in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. If that sounds familiar, you may

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<v Speaker 1>know it from the John Prime classic about a small

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<v Speaker 1>town named Paradise that was turned upside down by strip mining.

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<v Speaker 1>I lived most of my childhood a few miles down

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<v Speaker 1>the Green River from Paradise, on the edge of a

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<v Speaker 1>small town called Martwick. It was also displaced by strip mining.

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<v Speaker 1>I lived in a rural, heavily wooded area that was

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<v Speaker 1>adjacent to hundreds of acres of desolate and uninhabited minelands.

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<v Speaker 1>It was like paradise to a young kid like me,

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<v Speaker 1>I spent countless days trekking across this rural wonderland. We

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<v Speaker 1>got to the back porch and Mom and Dad were

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<v Speaker 1>sitting there waiting for us. We walked up the backsteps

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<v Speaker 1>and showed off the projects that we had worked on

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<v Speaker 1>during the week, and we sat down to join them.

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<v Speaker 1>After a few minutes, Dad stated that he was going

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<v Speaker 1>to slop the hogs that we were raising at the

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<v Speaker 1>edge of the woods behind the house. We didn't have

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<v Speaker 1>a huge piece of property and we didn't necessarily need

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<v Speaker 1>it for meat, but Dad liked to expose the kids

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<v Speaker 1>to different ways of life that he remembered from his youth.

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<v Speaker 1>Mom or I took to this chore, but probably due

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<v Speaker 1>to my wearing my Sunday best clothes in it being

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<v Speaker 1>so dark, Dad decided that he was going to do

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<v Speaker 1>the task this evening. He grabbed up a five gallon

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<v Speaker 1>bucket and he headed toward the woods. And the woodline

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<v Speaker 1>started thirty yards from the back porch and fell into

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<v Speaker 1>a steep ravine. The pigpen was about twenty feet into

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<v Speaker 1>the woods, situated right where the hill began to descend,

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<v Speaker 1>and as the edge of the woods was grown up

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<v Speaker 1>into a thicket. One had to go several yards left

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<v Speaker 1>to the edge of our property to enter the woods

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<v Speaker 1>where the undergrowth was thinner, and then we went back

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<v Speaker 1>to the right to get to the pigpen. We watched

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<v Speaker 1>Dad walk down the backyard and disappear into the woods,

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<v Speaker 1>and it wasn't long before we heard petunias starting to

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<v Speaker 1>oink and even squeal a little. My sister and I

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<v Speaker 1>had named the hog and we were playing with it,

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<v Speaker 1>much to Dad's disapproval. Like most animals, it wasn't unusual

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<v Speaker 1>for her to get excited at feeding time. However, the

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<v Speaker 1>intensity of it seemed unusual to us back on the porch.

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<v Speaker 1>The squealing stopped shortly, and we imagined that she must

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<v Speaker 1>be in hog heaven ears deep in putrid leftovers. A

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<v Speaker 1>moment later, we could hear the most got awful thrashing

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<v Speaker 1>of something or something coming right through the thicket, not

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<v Speaker 1>far from the pigpen, and to our utter disbelief, the

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<v Speaker 1>figure of my father came bursting from the thicket at

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<v Speaker 1>a dead sprint, heading back to the porch well. All

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<v Speaker 1>three of us on the porch were watching this in

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<v Speaker 1>slack jawed shock. My father is not a particularly excitable man,

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<v Speaker 1>nor was he ever one to adopt an overly macho persona.

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<v Speaker 1>He was just a plain, ordinary man from ordinary country

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<v Speaker 1>stock who just seemed to have that John Wayne, a

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<v Speaker 1>man's got to do what he's got to do sort

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<v Speaker 1>of attitude. My dad had been a star athlete high school,

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't think I had ever seen him run before.

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<v Speaker 1>He'd worked all day and at his own pace if

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<v Speaker 1>something needed to be done, but he wasn't into exercise.

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<v Speaker 1>Well now here, he was running so fast that he

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<v Speaker 1>was tripping over his own feet coming up the backyard,

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<v Speaker 1>and as he drew near the porch, we could see

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<v Speaker 1>his face. It was as white as a sheet, and

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<v Speaker 1>we were freaking out. Mom started calling out to him,

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<v Speaker 1>asking him what was going on, but he never answered.

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<v Speaker 1>He never slowed down, and he jumped up onto the

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<v Speaker 1>edge of the porch, and he continued into the house

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<v Speaker 1>as fast as he could go. This happened so quickly

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<v Speaker 1>that we didn't have time to react, and by the

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<v Speaker 1>time we had started to stand up and go see

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<v Speaker 1>what was wrong, he emerged on the back porch with

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<v Speaker 1>a twelve gate shotgun in his hand, and by this

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<v Speaker 1>point all four of us were terrified. Mom was pleading

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<v Speaker 1>with him in hush tones to explain what was wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>He just kneeling there against the porch post, shot gun

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<v Speaker 1>across his knee, in visibly shaking and staring at the woods.

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<v Speaker 1>Eventually she just stopped asking, and we sat there with

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<v Speaker 1>him in silence. What else could we do? Something had

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<v Speaker 1>happened in the woods, and he was so obviously shaken,

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<v Speaker 1>and looking back, I don't know if he was able

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<v Speaker 1>to form the words well. This behavior went on for

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<v Speaker 1>several minutes until it started getting so dark that it

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<v Speaker 1>would have been hard for us to see anything if

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<v Speaker 1>it had emerged from the woods, and he finally seemed

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<v Speaker 1>to ease up a tiny bit, and he started relating

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<v Speaker 1>what had happened. He had entered the woods and cut

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<v Speaker 1>back to the right to reach the pin. He wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>paying that much attention to anything, and as he entered

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<v Speaker 1>the area of the pen where the woods were thicker

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<v Speaker 1>and the thicket grew up all around, he realized it

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<v Speaker 1>was darker than he thought. He couldn't see much at all.

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<v Speaker 1>At first. He had noticed the pig agitation, but he

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<v Speaker 1>didn't think much of it. He was dumping out the

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<v Speaker 1>slop when it occurred to him that the pig wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>coming to the trough. It was scrunched up against the

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<v Speaker 1>wall of the pin where he was standing. His eyes

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<v Speaker 1>were starting to adjust to the darkness when he looked

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<v Speaker 1>up from the trough and he saw it, and standing

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<v Speaker 1>opposite him across the pin was a large, upright figure.

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<v Speaker 1>It was covered in dark hair. His first thought was,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a bear. It was common in the area for

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<v Speaker 1>people to report seeing things that had been rendered extinct

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<v Speaker 1>to the area for years, such as panthers and bears,

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<v Speaker 1>and the light and things like that were generally laughed

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<v Speaker 1>at and seldom backed by any evidence. He didn't have

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<v Speaker 1>any better explanation. That was the first thing he thought.

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<v Speaker 1>He stood there, frozen by fear briefly when he realized

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<v Speaker 1>that this thing was reaching into the pin for the pig,

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<v Speaker 1>with its arms extended toward it. At that point he

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<v Speaker 1>turned and ran for it. We spent a very uncomfortable

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<v Speaker 1>night at our house, and I don't think any of

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<v Speaker 1>us slept much that night. It was weeks before I

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<v Speaker 1>could go back into the woods to play, and I

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<v Speaker 1>promised the hog was slopped in the daylight. From that

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<v Speaker 1>point forward, we were going through hard financial times, and

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<v Speaker 1>Dad was drinking a lot more than I ever had

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<v Speaker 1>seen him drink before. He was drinking that night, but

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't think to excess, and by the time he

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<v Speaker 1>reached the porch there was no trace of intoxication left

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<v Speaker 1>of that night. Oddly, I don't remember Dad or Mom

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<v Speaker 1>ever speaking of it again. I don't know if I

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<v Speaker 1>would call it shame. He just didn't seem comfortable with

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<v Speaker 1>I was terrified, and I don't know what was worse,

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<v Speaker 1>a creature in the woods out back or seeing my

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<v Speaker 1>I tried to reason it out. I would love to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to explain it away, but I can't. My

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<v Speaker 1>wife suggested that maybe he might have staged the whole

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<v Speaker 1>thing for me. Well, I was eating up with all

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<v Speaker 1>things bigfoot at the time, and I was walking toward

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<v Speaker 1>the woods with a camera seven days a week. I

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<v Speaker 1>can't accept that either. Though first, he did seem to

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<v Speaker 1>delight in feeding whatever curiosity was fueling my young brain

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<v Speaker 1>at any given time. I have a hard time believing

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<v Speaker 1>he would go to such extremes for that reason, though,

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<v Speaker 1>And second, if he had talked to mom and my

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<v Speaker 1>sister beforehand, I don't think all three of them could

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<v Speaker 1>have pulled it off that seamlessly. My sister is a

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<v Speaker 1>notoriously poor liar. The most important, I know what real

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<v Speaker 1>fear looks like. Almost get chills now thinking about it.

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<v Speaker 1>I had never, nor have I since, seen my father

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<v Speaker 1>in that state. In closing, I just want to say

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<v Speaker 1>how much I've enjoyed watching your channel on YouTube these

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<v Speaker 1>last few days. I thought this story would fit perfectly.

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<v Speaker 1>It does fits perfectly, honestly, if it doesn't get used,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel better having aired these feelings after all these years.

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<v Speaker 1>And also I love your chickens. There's some sort of

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<v Speaker 1>strange zen I achieve watching the chickens walk around pecking

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<v Speaker 1>for feed in the yard, and sometimes I just drift

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<v Speaker 1>off to sleep while I'm watching