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Speaker 1: While exploring an abandoned farmhouse in rural California, two friends

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came face to face with something dark, an encounter so

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chilling that still haunts them decades later. My name is

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Edwin and here is Dory. It's true scary story.

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Speaker 2: I grew up on my grandparents and great grandparents property

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the Central Valley of California. In the eighteen hundreds, my

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family settled there. I'm not sure how they got the land.

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I think they got it from the Native American Indian

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tribe that was in the area. I think it's the mewalks.

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My great grandparents built a big, huge custom home on

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the property at Peach Orchards, then Walnut Orchards, all the orchards.

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Then my grandparents built a big branch house on that

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property as well. When I was a teenager, we moved

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onto the property, onto a separate house next to my

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grandparents' house. So we spent a lot of time outside.

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I had horses and whatnot. Our property was forty acres

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and we were up on a bluff. The bluff overlooked

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the top of Walnut Orchards, so we would go down,

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especially in the summertime. We'd either ride the horses or

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walk and we'd take this one road that went straight

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down of almost a mile and our property ended at

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the river. Good day where this story comes into play.

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This summer, my friend and I we were going to

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walk down there, just killing time. We usually went to

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the east. This time I said, let's go to the

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west because last week when I was with another friend

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riding our horses, I rode past this old house that

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was sitting back off the river, off the road. We

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could tell from the road far away it's abandoned. I said,

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let's go check it out. Here's anything cool there. So

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we start walking down there. It's a small, little white,

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one bedroom, little square house. Immediately behind it is a

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very large wooden barn. It was clear that this house

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was probably built like in the twenties, turn of the century.

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It's an old, dilapidated house. It's in the middle of nowhere.

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There's just for as far as you can see in

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any direction, it's just orchards. So as we were approaching it,

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we were being kind of quiet because we didn't know

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if there were like any other random people out there.

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It was just we were just two girls, so we

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wanted to be careful that we weren't going to bump

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into some sairy dudes down there, so we kind of

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did a big circle around the barn in this house

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to make sure nobody was there and we were quiet

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as we were doing it. This barn is massive, huge, huge,

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huge barn, the size of a two story building, but

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there was no second story in it. It was just

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really high rafters. The doors to the barn were slid open.

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There was probably maybe a five or six feet space

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between the back wall of where the house was and

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the back wall of the barn, and the barn was

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totally intact. There was nothing wrong with it. That thing

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was solid. The house, on the other hand, half of

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the walls one half of the house, there were no

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walls left. Trees had crashed into it, Branches and leaves

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were everywhere. The front heart of it was intact, but

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the back wall of the house and the back right

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side of the house the walls were gone, but you

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can still see kind of the footing. Three quarters the

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wall was still standing. We go around to the back

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of this barn as we were making our loop around

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to make sure known as there there's an old tractor

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completely covered by the weeds and dry grass twenty feet

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thirty feet away from the barn behind us. As we're

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facing these barn doors, we're looking inside of it. You

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could tell it's not used anymore. There's cobwebs from ceiling

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to floor, dust moats floating through the air. It was

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late in the afternoon, sun shining through. Everything is covered

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in this real fine layer of dust. It's clear no

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one uses this barn. On the right hand side of

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the barn there was like a workbitch that just had

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odds and ends of stuff that people just never used anymore.

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Old tools and cans and bottles, suitcases, not a whole

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lot of stuff, but there was nothing really of any value.

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Over there. On the left hand side of the barn

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was big railroad ties, those heavy wooden railroad ties, probably

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twenty or thirty of them, butted up. It probably took

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up like fifteen feet long by maybe four feet highs.

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They were just staffed, not very neatly until they'd been

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there for years and years and years and years. Cobwebs

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all over hay, all over dust, and there were barrel

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hoops thrown on top of them, and pieces of wire

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that used to be maybe a grape vineyard that was

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in the empty fields that were around us. They also

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had peach orchards down there, so there was a lot

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of old orchard equipment, wooden things and metal rings and wire.

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And then at the back left corner, all the way up,

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actually the whole back wall of the barn was hay

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bales that had fallen apart and were just high piled

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up there. It was probably five feet high by maybe

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the width of the house. There must have been tons

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of bales of hater that fall on apart over ten

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or twenty years, and it's just laying there, covered in dust,

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covered in cob webs. So as we walked through, you know,

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we're kind of breaking through a few cob webs, and

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I'm afraid of spiders, so I'm giggling about, Oh, I

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don't want to see any spiders. And we walk around

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and we're looking, oh, maybe we'll see some old cool

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tool or some old cool bottle or something interesting, fun,

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old antique, whatnot to take with us. We walk around

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in there, we don't see anything of interest, and we

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walk back out. We go around to the front of

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the house. On the front porch is a whole bunch

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of old abandoned washers and dryers and from probably the fifties.

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As we get into the main part of this little

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square house, we walked into where there used to be

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a wall, but there was no more wall there. It

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was only about two feet high, like the foundation in

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the bottom part of the wall was there. My friend

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goes in and as we walk into the house, if

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we were standing in the dead center of this perfect square,

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we were both looking at the back wall of this

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bar because there's no wall there to the house. While

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of that house was gone. To the left is a kitchen.

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You can walk into this little tiny kitchen, and then

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going on that side also as one little bedroom. And

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I stayed right where I was in the center of

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this house, and I was looking at what was probably

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the living room, and there was no wall there. There

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was a pile of just junk on the ground. There's

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also branches, leaves, everything kind of mixed up in this

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pile of junk. So my friend goes to the front part.

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She's looking through the other rooms, and I'm looking in

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this pile. And as I'm kind of using a stick

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and I'm pushing things around, see what's in this pile,

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I see this staff like a walking stick. It's probably

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about four or five feet long, and it is intricately carved.

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There's carving over every inch of it. It's very detailed,

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ornate carving. And so I'm like poking it with a stick,

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looking at it, squinting, like what is that? My friend

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calls me kind of in a panic. I startle and

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I go kind of hustling back to the front part

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of the house where she is a lizard scared or something.

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I said, Kimar, you got to see what's in this pile.

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This thing's cool. So we walk back to where I

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was standing at this pile, and from where we're standing,

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we are probably five or six feet from the back

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wall of the barn. If you've ever been in an

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old barn or like an old wooden fence, you could

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see kind of through the cracks of the wood, just

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a little tiny bit you can see through the cracks

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of the wood. And so I get to that pile

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and I'm like, look, there's this stack here. I start

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poking around on the pile and there's nothing there. It's

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not there. And she goes, what what did you see?

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And I said, there was this stick. And as soon

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as I started talking about it. There came a sound

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from inside that barn that was so deafeningly loud. It

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sounded like somebody had dropped a great train inside that barn.

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The ground shook, and it was like whatever was at

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the back of the barn where the doors were, it

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was like a train, or it was louder than a truck.

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It was. Whatever it was was so loud to barreling

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into the barn, so fast, so furious. You could hear

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the wood flying, you could hear those barrel rings flying,

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you could hear the railroad ties flying, you could hear

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those hay everything scattering in there. The walls were shaking,

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the ground was shaking, the air was just reverted. It

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was so loud. Everything was moving in there. And then

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whatever it was hit the back of the wall of

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that barn, right in front of us, eye level, and

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you could just hear this guttural rowel and breathing on

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the other side of this wall. And this wasn't a person,

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this wasn't a car. This was a sound that I

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can't even describe how incredibly loud it was. We're both frozen,

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staring at this wall. Through the slats of this wall,

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we start to kind of inch our way to the right,

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to God to walk out away from this house. Staring

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at the wall as we do, you can tell something's

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on the other side of the wall. You can see it.

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Dust is kind of coming through the slats of the wood.

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You could see eyes through those slats, but you can't

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make out the shape. You could see something on the

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other side of the wall. It was dark black. The

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eyes were like a yellowish, thin kind of red. As

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we started facing the wall, slowly inching our way out

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of the house, not taking our eyes off of this wall.

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It's still breathing and following us, and you could hear

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things moving on the other side of that wall. We

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come around where there's a clearing and we take off running.

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We don't look back. We take off running, and we

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must have ran three quarters of a mile before one

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of us just literally collapses on the ground and run

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itself out. We look at each other. You look around,

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make sure nothing's following, nothing's following us. We look at

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each other, what the heck just happened? And we start

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reliving and recanting what we saw, what we heard. When

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we both first started talking, we couldn't believe what had

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just happened. Part of you wanted to say, this can't

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be what I thought it was. So as I started

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explaining what I saw, my friend Jennifer starts finishing my sentences,

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and I'm doing the same for her, like did you

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see the skin looked like it was leather. Did you

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see his eyes? Yeah, the eyes were red. What was

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that we saw? Why was that so loud? But how

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was that barn still standing? As we're sitting there catching

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our breath. Another friend was like a younger brother to me,

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comes up because he was going down the river to

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go fishing. He's like, what are you guys doing? We

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tell him what happened. He's like, you guys are full

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of craft. There's nothing there. You guys are crazy. I'm like, dude,

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I am not kidding you. I am never lie to you.

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I am not joking. He was like, all right, then

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show me. We get up. We start walk back there.

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I said, I'll walk back there, but I'm not going

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in there again. I'm never going back in there. So

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we walk back over there, take a big white berth

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around it, you know. When we go back to where

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the barn, I said, I just want to see what

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you go in that barn, you'll see there are that

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place is toward the shreds. So we get to the

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very back and I'm far away and I'm looking at

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the inside of this barn and it looks like exactly

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like it did when we first got there. There's still

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cobwebs hanging on the ceiling. Everything's in the exact same place.

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Nothing has been moved, no dusts, a skew anywhere. It's

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exactly the same. I tell him, I was like, hey,

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go over there in that house and go look in

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that file over there and see if there's a long

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stick in that set him and there I'm beginning pick

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and he's stupid. So he went in there and he's like,

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there's nothing new here. There's just trash in here. There's

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old cans and like leaves and trash and there's nothing

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in air, And what are you talking about? I go back.

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I start doodling. Later that evening, I'm like doodling, like

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I can't picture the images that were on that stick,

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but I've never seen anything like it. Later and Jennifer

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and I talked about that years later and for days

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after that. The only thing I can say to describe

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what we saw what would being. I have a hard

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time telling the story to people because no one's going

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to believe it. But at that time, I didn't watch

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scary stories. I was raised in a very religious family.

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We weren't allowed to talk about that stuff. Being reolved

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in that stuff like it was not part of my world,

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part of my just my experience. It wasn't something I

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was looking for, It wasn't anything I was expecting. But

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I know what I saw, and it was from that

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point on that it really made me wonder what else

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is out there because I can't explain what I heard

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and what I saw. Since that time, as an adult,

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now it has made me interested in what else is

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out there. There's something else that goes on in our

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world that's more than just you know, flesh and bone.

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There's there's something else out there. So I've been interested

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in reading and studying, trying to figure out but a

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little bit afraid of finding out exactly what I saw.

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Since that day, there are very few things that actually

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scare me. Almost everything else is tangible you can fight

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your way out of it. There was no fighting. You

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knew you were completely powerless to this. That terrified me

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to buy Core, to.

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