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<v Speaker 1>I found a job working the afternoon shift, and I

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<v Speaker 1>started listening to Bigfoot podcast when I went to bed.

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<v Speaker 1>The house I shared with my family had farmland five

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<v Speaker 1>minutes down the road. There was also a large parcel

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<v Speaker 1>of wilderness land that had not been developed because of

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<v Speaker 1>the swampy areas. That area has many ponds with Canada

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<v Speaker 1>geese and it is connected to the surrounding subdivisions by

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<v Speaker 1>nature trails. One night, after work, I was listening to

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<v Speaker 1>the Bigfoot Outlaws. This podcast features bigfoot calls and interesting lee.

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<v Speaker 1>They come with a warning not to play them out

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<v Speaker 1>loud and accidentally summon a bigfoot. My dog and I

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<v Speaker 1>went to bed and I listened to the podcast with

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<v Speaker 1>my YouTube on AutoPlay. I woke up at one am

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<v Speaker 1>with the Bigfoot Call podcast still playing, and I cursed

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<v Speaker 1>at myself. I turned off my phone and I went

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<v Speaker 1>back to sleep. At three am, awoke again to the

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<v Speaker 1>loud sound of rock clacking. I cursed at myself again

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<v Speaker 1>and I reached to turn my phone off, thinking what

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<v Speaker 1>a moron I was. I tried to turn the phone

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<v Speaker 1>off and I realized it wasn't even on it at all.

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<v Speaker 1>A loud rock clacking was coming from the backyard through

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<v Speaker 1>my window. Now I didn't look. My dog and I

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<v Speaker 1>stared wide eyed at each other, terrified, and we didn't

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<v Speaker 1>move for an hour. It all finally stopped and we

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<v Speaker 1>went to sleep. But I was left wondering who could

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<v Speaker 1>clack rocks together at three am out in my backyard.

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<v Speaker 1>I think Bigfoot may go around the neighborhood at night,

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<v Speaker 1>searching through the garbage for food. I grew up on

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<v Speaker 1>a small farm in southern Johnson County, thirty miles south

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<v Speaker 1>of Indianapolis. Until the nineteen seventies, the area was nothing

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<v Speaker 1>but farms and sparsely populated spots of homes. Nowadays, it

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<v Speaker 1>seems there's a house on every hill that includes the

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<v Speaker 1>family farm I grew up on. The sixty acres at

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<v Speaker 1>once encompass now has five homes dividing up the land.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess that's the price of progress. The first strange

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<v Speaker 1>experience there took place in nineteen sixty. My grandfather came

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<v Speaker 1>over and he and my dad went to the back

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<v Speaker 1>pasture to try to figure out what had killed one

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<v Speaker 1>of our calves. Of course, being a curious six year

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<v Speaker 1>old boy, I tagged along. I remember that poor calf

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<v Speaker 1>was pretty gruesome looking. My father and my grandfather both

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<v Speaker 1>thought it was killed by a big cat. I remember

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<v Speaker 1>my brother coming to the house and telling Dad that

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<v Speaker 1>something was in the woods out beyond our pond. He

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<v Speaker 1>never said what he thought it was, only that he

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<v Speaker 1>must have startled it and it ran off through the thicket.

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<v Speaker 1>In the fall of that year, we were having a

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<v Speaker 1>family gathering at the pond when something came up to

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<v Speaker 1>the dam and it screamed. Our dogs stood on the

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<v Speaker 1>bank and they were going nuts barking, but they weren't

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<v Speaker 1>brave enough to go and chase whatever this thing was.

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<v Speaker 1>Dad and a couple of my uncles went to the

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<v Speaker 1>house and came back with guns, and by the time

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<v Speaker 1>they made their way to the dam, whatever it was

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<v Speaker 1>had left. But through all this that never stopped me

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<v Speaker 1>from wandering through our fields and woods. I was thirteen

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<v Speaker 1>years old when the Patterson Gimlin film came to light.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember reading about it in Argasy magazine, and I

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<v Speaker 1>found the subject of Bigfoot fascinating and terrifying. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>think I slept without the drapes closed in my bedroom

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<v Speaker 1>window until I was in my twenties. In the early

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventies, I had graduated from high school and I

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<v Speaker 1>took a job work looking nights at a factory in Greenwood.

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<v Speaker 1>I got off work and was usually home by two

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<v Speaker 1>in the morning. My parents had taken a vacation and

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<v Speaker 1>I was at home alone. I'd just gotten home from work,

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<v Speaker 1>took a shower, and had fallen asleep in bed when

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<v Speaker 1>something outside let loose with a god awful growl. Whatever

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<v Speaker 1>or whoever it was continued this growl and chatter for

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<v Speaker 1>a good while. I rolled over and dropped to the

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<v Speaker 1>side of my bed, and I low crawled through the

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<v Speaker 1>house and I retrieved one of our shotguns from the

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<v Speaker 1>hall closet, and I sat there the rest of the night, awake,

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<v Speaker 1>alert and scared. Whatever it was it stopped and eventually

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<v Speaker 1>wandered off. My brother usually got home about four in

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<v Speaker 1>the morning, and when I saw that he was up,

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<v Speaker 1>I asked him if he had heard anything or seen

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<v Speaker 1>anything when he got home, but he said that they hadn't,

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<v Speaker 1>and we just left it at that. Next summer, my

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<v Speaker 1>dad woke me up at one in the morning and

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<v Speaker 1>handed me a shotgun. Our dogs were throwing a fit.

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<v Speaker 1>My dad was a World War II veteran, and he

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<v Speaker 1>did not spook easy. We went outside and he told

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<v Speaker 1>me to wait by the garage. Some of the dogs

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<v Speaker 1>were barking, and some were whimpering, and some were just

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<v Speaker 1>flat out crying. Dad went out as far as the

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<v Speaker 1>old corn crib twenty five yards away, and then came

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<v Speaker 1>back not long after that, and he was unnerved. We

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<v Speaker 1>best get in the house, son, he said. The next morning,

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<v Speaker 1>he and I both called in and didn't go to work.

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<v Speaker 1>We found two of our dogs cowering in the barn.

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<v Speaker 1>The third one we found back by the lake, beating

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<v Speaker 1>up and in shock. Though he did recover. One of

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<v Speaker 1>the neighbors had two big german shepherds. He found one

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<v Speaker 1>of them in the same shape. The other one he

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<v Speaker 1>never saw again. Said what fear drove him back to

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<v Speaker 1>the house that night, but he did utter the word

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<v Speaker 1>bigfoot in a joking matter the next day. I doubt

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<v Speaker 1>this is very interesting, but I'm glad to get it

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<v Speaker 1>off my chest. After fifty years. My parents and my brother,

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<v Speaker 1>as well as the old farm are all gone now.

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<v Speaker 1>I still drive by there now and then. Though the

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<v Speaker 1>old place may be gone, I still have those memories.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh man, this, what do you mean this wasn't interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>It's very interesting, especially the part about your dad coming

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<v Speaker 1>back and saying joking about it being a bigfoot, and

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<v Speaker 1>you could tell he was unnerved. To me, that made

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<v Speaker 1>the whole story perfect. It was just awesome. But I

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<v Speaker 1>bet you do have memories, and I really appreciate you

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<v Speaker 1>sending this story. Thanks a lot. The ghost stories I'm

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<v Speaker 1>about to tell come from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I

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<v Speaker 1>moved to Morehead in August of nineteen ninety five. My

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<v Speaker 1>little sister had been attending Moorhead State University for two

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<v Speaker 1>semesters and had been pastoring our mom the entire time

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<v Speaker 1>to pay for her an apartment. Mom finally told her

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<v Speaker 1>that if I agreed to move there and go to college,

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<v Speaker 1>she would get us an apartment. At that time, there

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<v Speaker 1>were limited opportunities back in Pike County, and Mom wanted

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<v Speaker 1>me to move away to perhaps have a better life.

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<v Speaker 1>Confident in the outcome, my sister had already located a

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<v Speaker 1>place to live and had made arrangements to get it

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<v Speaker 1>when the ladies who occupied it moved out. The apartment

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<v Speaker 1>was located on Christy Creek Road and it faced the

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Zoo Trailer Park. We had been living in the

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<v Speaker 1>apartment for very long when I noticed that my sister

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<v Speaker 1>was sleeping on the couch. She had the bigger bedroom

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<v Speaker 1>because she had more stuff. She told me that she

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<v Speaker 1>didn't feel comfortable being in the apartment alone. Well, I

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<v Speaker 1>thought that was odd. All the neighbors were her buddies

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<v Speaker 1>and swarty sisters or guys from friendly fraternities. Trying to

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<v Speaker 1>be a big brother, I bought a chain lock and

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<v Speaker 1>put it on the door, hoping that extra thing would

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<v Speaker 1>ease her mind. But even with the new lock, she

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<v Speaker 1>started staying over at her boyfriend's house. I decided that

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<v Speaker 1>her own ease had to be an excuse for sleeping

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<v Speaker 1>over at his place, but it wasn't any of my business.

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<v Speaker 1>The first time I experienced something odd was on a

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<v Speaker 1>Friday night. I was alone and my sister was away.

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<v Speaker 1>The door was locked and the new chain was in place,

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<v Speaker 1>and I had no sooner turned off my bedroom light

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<v Speaker 1>to go to sleep when the front door slam. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't mean it closed hard, I mean it was a

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<v Speaker 1>grown man, two handed swing the door slam. I jumped

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<v Speaker 1>up and ran to the confront. Whatever was going on.

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<v Speaker 1>The front door was closed and the chain was in place.

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<v Speaker 1>I proceeded to clear the apartment, checking all the rooms,

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<v Speaker 1>in closets in any corner someone might hide, but no

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<v Speaker 1>one was there. I went back to my room, climbed

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<v Speaker 1>into bed. I turned the lights off. Slam. It happened again,

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<v Speaker 1>and I ran back out and everything was just like before.

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<v Speaker 1>I checked everything again and went back to bed. I

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<v Speaker 1>kept the lamp on, but I had no further strangeness

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<v Speaker 1>that night. In the nineteen eighties, I had developed a

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<v Speaker 1>weight problem that happened to coincide with my acquisition of

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<v Speaker 1>an Nintendo. In nineteen ninety two, I started lifting weights

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<v Speaker 1>and riding a stationary bike like it was my religion.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I managed to lose seventy pounds in the Moorhead apartment.

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<v Speaker 1>If I wanted to ride my bike and watch TV,

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<v Speaker 1>I would have to sit with my back to the hallway.

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't do it. I had to sit so my

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<v Speaker 1>back wasn't exposed to the hall or else. It felt

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<v Speaker 1>like somebody was staring a hole through my back. A

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<v Speaker 1>few years later, my little sister had dropped out of school,

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<v Speaker 1>met another guy, and she had moved out. I was

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<v Speaker 1>still at that apartment, living alone. I was coming home

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<v Speaker 1>from the gym and I saw all of our neighbors

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<v Speaker 1>had gathered at the apartment number twenty seven, two apartments

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<v Speaker 1>over from mine, to watch the UK Wildcats play in

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<v Speaker 1>the tournament. Someone invited me in as I was passing,

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<v Speaker 1>and I sat down on the couch for a bit.

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<v Speaker 1>While I was watching the game, the others were talking

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<v Speaker 1>about the ghost. My ears perked up and I asked

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<v Speaker 1>what they were talking about. Someone told me to listen

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<v Speaker 1>toward the steps. Well I did, and sure enough, it

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<v Speaker 1>sounded like someone was walking up and down the stairs.

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<v Speaker 1>Then they told me to look up to the steps

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<v Speaker 1>to the second floor, but to use my peripheral vision.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure enough, there was a dart shape moving back and

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<v Speaker 1>forth between the rooms up there. If you look directly,

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<v Speaker 1>you couldn't see it, but if you look peripherally, there

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<v Speaker 1>it was. I was floored and couldn't believe it, but

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<v Speaker 1>it did explain so much. The upstairs of number twenty

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<v Speaker 1>seven extends over to number twenty eight. The nursing students

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<v Speaker 1>told me that on weekends, when the guys in number

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<v Speaker 1>twenty seven were out of town, they could still hear

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<v Speaker 1>people walking around upstairs, and sometimes the TV or the

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<v Speaker 1>radio would come on in the empty apartment. When my

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<v Speaker 1>little sister made her exodus, she left most of her

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<v Speaker 1>stuff in Moorhead. I had eventually decided that she wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>coming to get her crap, so I moved all my

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<v Speaker 1>stuff into the big bedroom and all her stuff into

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<v Speaker 1>the little one. The big bedroom had to walk in

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<v Speaker 1>closet that connected to the bathroom. It was really strange.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't like the room either. I had to sleep

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<v Speaker 1>with both doors closed and locked. One night, I was

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<v Speaker 1>in the room in the dark and both doors locked.

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<v Speaker 1>When something sat on the bed right beside me. That

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<v Speaker 1>was not cool. I turned on the light and ended

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<v Speaker 1>up sleeping with the lamp on. Oddly enough, I too

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<v Speaker 1>ended up sleeping on the couch. Imagine that. In the

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<v Speaker 1>year two thousand, I was working at a local movie theater.

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<v Speaker 1>My buddy worked there too, and she was into the

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<v Speaker 1>coult She and her husband came over several times and

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<v Speaker 1>they hung out watching movies with me. Every time she

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<v Speaker 1>was over, she was very withdrawn and would sit with

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<v Speaker 1>her knees pulled up to her chin, and that wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>like her at all. One night, I was asleep on

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<v Speaker 1>with no face was strangling me. I fought myself awake

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<v Speaker 1>and made sure that my blanket or shirt hadn't been

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<v Speaker 1>In two thousand and one, I moved to a new

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<v Speaker 1>but my buddy did, so did my future wife. On

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<v Speaker 1>Thursday nights, the new movie would be put together in previewed.

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<v Speaker 1>She said that one night, while she was cleaning, she

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<v Speaker 1>work with him, but that night she was happy. In

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand and four, I joined the local police department.

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<v Speaker 1>I just completed my twenty first year on the forest,

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<v Speaker 1>and during that time I've had some experiences. The old

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<v Speaker 1>Late at night, something would move about the place. The

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<v Speaker 1>filing cabinet drawers opening in the squad room. I first

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<v Speaker 1>It sounded like someone was walking down the hall jangling keys.

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<v Speaker 1>Then in the sergeant's office, it sounded like someone was

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<v Speaker 1>using a whole punch. She and I started exchanging ghost stories,

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<v Speaker 1>who had lived in my old apartment, number twenty nine,

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<v Speaker 1>right before my sister and I moved in, and she'd

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<v Speaker 1>yelled at it and I said, be quiet, George. Immediately after,

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<v Speaker 1>there was a crash in the sergeant's office. The dispatcher

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<v Speaker 1>and I ran down the hall and we saw that

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<v Speaker 1>a big fan had been pushed over. From then on,

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<v Speaker 1>the ghost name was George, and people still refer to

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<v Speaker 1>him by that name. In twenty nineteen, the downstairs flooded

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<v Speaker 1>done things in the past. It had scared the dispatchers,

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<v Speaker 1>but he was apt to do it more often. You

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<v Speaker 1>could see the papers fluttering when there was no breeze.

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<v Speaker 1>And one night a deputy was bringing the dispatcher her

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<v Speaker 1>he looked to his left and saw a dark shape

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<v Speaker 1>in the kitchen, and when he investigated, there was no

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<v Speaker 1>one there. And then in twenty twenty two we moved

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<v Speaker 1>to our new building, and thankfully George did not move

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<v Speaker 1>with us. On June sixteen, twenty twenty five, I had

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<v Speaker 1>my first bigfoot experience. I stepped out of my house

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<v Speaker 1>carrying my cat and a pet carrier when she let

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<v Speaker 1>out an unhappy yell from her crate. At the same time,

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<v Speaker 1>one of the semi feral outside cats broke cover and

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<v Speaker 1>darted down the street away from the woods. The Daniel

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<v Speaker 1>Boue National Forest has just passed my house, and right

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<v Speaker 1>after the cats made their commotion, the wood knocking began.

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't believe it. I've lived in this house for

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<v Speaker 1>nearly eight years and I've never heard anything like this before.

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<v Speaker 1>Right after the first knocking started, a second set started

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<v Speaker 1>up further into the woods. You know the scene in

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<v Speaker 1>Jaws too, when the chief is banging on the electrical

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<v Speaker 1>line with the boat oor. That's exactly what it sounded like.

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<v Speaker 1>I was so mad at myself for not recording it.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a dead tree right behind the house. That is

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<v Speaker 1>all the bark stripped off, all except a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>feet at the top. There had been one in front

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<v Speaker 1>of the house on a game trail, too, and the

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<v Speaker 1>bark was stripped off up to about fifteen feet off

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<v Speaker 1>the ground. I had always thought those trees were odd

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<v Speaker 1>deer that high, I don't think so. On a few

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<v Speaker 1>occasions I had been huffed at from the dark. I

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<v Speaker 1>thought it was a buck I had sometimes seen on

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<v Speaker 1>the property on at least two occasions. I was growled

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<v Speaker 1>at one occasion, I was walking toward the house from

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<v Speaker 1>my car when something growled at me, low and guttural.

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<v Speaker 1>It scared me. As I've said, I'm a police officer,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm no sissy. I worked nearly eighteen years on the

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<v Speaker 1>midnight shift. Can't be a sissy and be a successful

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<v Speaker 1>police officer. Well, I thought you'd get a kick out

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<v Speaker 1>of hearing these tales. Feel free to use them however

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<v Speaker 1>you wish. Thanks for all you do. Well, Thank you, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>for that was a long email. Thank you for spending

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<v Speaker 1>so much time and remembering all those things in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Ghost stories and the Bigfoot story. I thought they were great.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you much. I hope everything's going good for you

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<v Speaker 1>in Kentucky. I appreciate the email. Thanks. Here's a story

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<v Speaker 1>about something other than Bigfoot. Thank goodness. I love Bigfoot stories,

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<v Speaker 1>but I like doing different stuff just to break up

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<v Speaker 1>the routine. This is short little story about a thunderbird.

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<v Speaker 1>In nineteen thirty two, my mother was almost a year old.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a sunny spring day and my grandmother wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to put her baby daughter out to get some sunshine.

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<v Speaker 1>She selected her favorite baby blanket and later on it

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<v Speaker 1>on the grass near the kitchen window, where she could

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<v Speaker 1>be washing the dishes. The house faced a mode feel

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<v Speaker 1>that stretched out about five acres from the kitchen to

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<v Speaker 1>the state Road twenty eight in Short Gap, West Virginia.

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<v Speaker 1>Fifty feet up the hill from the main house was

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<v Speaker 1>a smokehouse. My great grandfather, my mom's grandfather, was there

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<v Speaker 1>chopping blocks of wood with a hatchet when he noticed

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<v Speaker 1>a large shadow fly across the sun. It was a

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<v Speaker 1>huge bird with a cold black plumage, dropping from the

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<v Speaker 1>sky and flying directly toward my mother, who was lying

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<v Speaker 1>on her baby blanket. My great grandfather knew he could

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<v Speaker 1>never run fast enough to grab up the baby, so

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<v Speaker 1>he aimed his hatchet and he threw it at the bird,

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<v Speaker 1>and he killed it. When my grandfather came home, they

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<v Speaker 1>stretched the huge dead bird across the wall of the smokehouse.

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<v Speaker 1>It was sixteen feet four inches from wingtip to wingtip.

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<v Speaker 1>Many neighbors stopped by to see the thunderbird, though nobody

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<v Speaker 1>knew what it was. At the time, no one had

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<v Speaker 1>seen anything quite like this. A picture of the bird

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<v Speaker 1>was taken, but now ninety years later, it has been misplaced.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw it when I was a boy. My mother

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<v Speaker 1>is ninety one now, and it will always be a

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<v Speaker 1>great family story. Oh my gosh, that is a great

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<v Speaker 1>family story. Wish that picture had survived. If that picture

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<v Speaker 1>sure had survived and someone had scanned it. You you

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<v Speaker 1>had scanned it and put it on the internet, it

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<v Speaker 1>would be all over the internet. You may have could

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<v Speaker 1>even made some change with that picture. Anyway, I thought

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<v Speaker 1>this was a great story. I really appreciate the writer

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<v Speaker 1>sending in. I love these different stories. We do get

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<v Speaker 1>mostly Bigfoot stories because that's how I started the channel

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<v Speaker 1>several years ago, and we just did Bigfoot for a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of three years, and so everybody kind of thought

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<v Speaker 1>we were just doing Bigfoot. But I got a little

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<v Speaker 1>burnout on Bigfoot. I still get burnt out on Bigfoot.

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<v Speaker 1>But some of the stories, the stories are great. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just a great change up to do something different. Like

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<v Speaker 1>this thunderbird story. What a crazy story. Killed it with

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<v Speaker 1>a hatchet? What that's awesome. It dude, was like Daniel

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<v Speaker 1>Boone or something. Very good story. I really appreciate it.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you to the writer.