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Speaker 1: I live on a short one mile long road in

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the Drry Township of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. My house sits

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at the halfway point of the road, with a few

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other neighbors dotted here and there along the way. My

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backyard butts up to a large pond in an open field,

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and to my chagrin, I have recently discovered that this

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part of Pennsylvania is pretty much Sisquat Central. I might

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never have bothered to learn this small bit of trivia

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if not for what had happened to me on Sunday,

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May the ninth, twenty twenty two. At one pm that day,

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I took my dogs for a walk. I opted to

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walk down the end of the road where a retired

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federal government employee lives. That he values his privacy is

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evident in the no trespassing signs posted and the fact

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that his property is gated. I usually stopped at the

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gate and turned around when I choose to walk the

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dogs in that direction. I had walked past another home

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on the opposite side of the road when I saw

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what I thought was my neighbor. Walked from the corner

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of his yard and on to the driveway at the

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same time, both of my dogs began to react strangely.

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They dropped their tails and began to whine and whimper

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as they backed away. I stared in amazement as what

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I had first taken for a human being crossing the

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driveway in two strides. Realization began to set in. This

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was not my neighbor. This was not a human being.

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This was something seven and a half to eight feet tall,

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and it was covered in long, matted, dark brown and

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black hair, and it was only fifteen feet away from me.

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It never looked at me or in my direction. There

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was no accurate smell that so many have talked about,

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nor did it make any sounds. It simply crossed the driveway,

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which was about two feet wider than a car, and

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then it went up a slight embankment and disappeared into

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the woods. At this point I still didn't realize, or

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perhaps I hadn't accepted the reality that I had seen

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a bigfoot. I was surprised and rattled and in denial,

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but I couldn't tell you what I was thinking at

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that moment, and I wish I could. I was still

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holding on to the thought that it was my neighbor,

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as I began walking back toward my house. When I

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reached the spot where it had stepped into the woods,

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I realized there was no earthly reason why anyone would

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venture into that heavy thicket. It would be dangerous to

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do so, A healthy man would struggle with it, and

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someone like my neighbor, who smokes heavily and enjoys his drinks,

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would never be able to make it through there. Well,

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this is when I began to get nervous. The dogs

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had stopped whimpering and whining, but they were in as

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much of a hurry to get home as I was.

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I kept checking back over my shoulder, but I didn't

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see the creature, nor did I hear anything. And when

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I realized I didn't hear anything, it occurred to me

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that even the birds had gone silent. There were no

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normal woodland noises at all. A few days later, I

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was able to have a conversation with the man who

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owns the property, and I began by saying, so, I

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saw something while I was on a walk the other day.

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There was a nervous pause while I collected my thoughts.

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You're probably going to think I lost my mind. I

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began again, did you see bigfoot, he cut in. His

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question caught me off guard, and I wasn't expecting that answer,

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But I can't say I wasn't hoping for it either,

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I believe, so I managed to get out, Have you

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seen bigfoot? No? He answered again, not what I was

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hoping for, but not entirely unexpected. There isn't much to

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tell beyond that it isn't the most exciting story. It

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certainly isn't how I imagine things would play out if I

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ever saw a bigfoot. But it is what it is,

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and I know what I saw. So I started hunting

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and fishing when I was ten years old with an

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uncle here in the UK, and I've hunted and fished

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worldwide ever since. Being in the outdoors is me at

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my happiest, even if I don't get anything. I enjoy

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stalking deer, working the land, and being selective as to

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what I harvest. Everything I harvest is for the pot,

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except for the foxes and the rats. As a hunter,

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I believe in selective and ethical hunting, and when I

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do take a life, I always give the best I

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can for a quick, clean kill. I live in England,

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but most of my hunting was in Scotland on syndicate

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land least from a tree plantation company. The plantation consisted

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of mature tree with fire breaks, clear fell and new

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plantation with gravel tracks. We were allowed to have a

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static caravan on site. Americans call these camping trailers. The

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least area was fifteen hundred acres, but next to this

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was a further twelve hundred acres of woodland and farmland

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that was run by a local and they shot for

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driven pheasant. The agreement with the gamekeeper was if we

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helped keep the foxes down on the chute by lamping

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at night, we would get an invite on the chute

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for the end of the season. On keepers Day one

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weekend in early October two thousand and four, I arranged

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for myself and a friend to go deer stalking. I

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was all packed up and ready to go when my

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friend called me and said he couldn't come due to

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a family emergency, so it was just me and the dog,

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which was fine. I set off later than I was

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hoping for and on the way up to Scotland, I

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got held up even further with road works. The five

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hour drive turned into six hours, and when I got

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to the trailer in the woodland. It was getting on

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for about nine thirty PM and I was losing light.

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There was not enough light left to start an evening stalk,

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so I made a meal and I thought I would

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drive the plantation next door after midnight and see if

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I could nail some foxes whilst lamping. For all you

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rednecks out there, lamping is what we call shining or spotlight,

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but he's doing it legally for foxes and predators, which

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is cool. We can't even do that. We can't even

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shine a light in a field at night, and the

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game war will be on us like white on rice.

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But anyway, I digress. It's shining for all the Rednecks.

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Just after midnight, I put the dog in the back

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of the land rover, set the spotting lamp up, and

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headed off with my two forty three. I arrived at

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the gate of the plantation and unlocked the gate and

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I drove in. It was strange because I've remember a

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funny feeling when I opened the gate. I wasn't sure

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what it was, but something didn't feel right. I drove

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along the mature woodland and I looked down a firebreak

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and noticed a bright light in the sky. It was

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very bright. I thought it was a satellite off in

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the sky. This was looking out the right side of

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my car at my three o'clock. I carried on past

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the mature trees and I turned right down a track

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that opened on some clear fell I expected to see

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the light in front of me, but it was still

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at ninety degrees to my right, which was strange. I

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carried down the track for about three to four hundred

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yards and I stopped. I looked at the light and

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it was still there, just hanging in the sky. I

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put my zeice binoculars on it, and it was hard

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to look at due to the brightness. The thing was

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a bright silver. It looked like a cylinder on its end,

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like you would put a coke can on a table.

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I put the rangefinder on it, and it was six

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hundred and fifty yards from me. It must have been

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twenty five feet long and maybe ten feet in diameter,

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and hanging about two hundred feet off the ground. I

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could see the trees illuminated by its brightness below. I

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carried on down the track and I turned right again.

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I was now driving behind it. I stopped and put

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the rangefinder on it again, and it was now at

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five hundred yards. This thing just hung there. I don't

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know what it was, but it made no noise and

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it didn't seem to move. I was mesmerized by it.

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Fear took over, and I thought it best to move along.

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I floored it down the track. The road curved at

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the end and joined the original track that I came

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in on. I looked out the window and it was

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still hanging there. I had driven all the way around it,

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and it was always on the right side of the vehicle.

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I drove back to my syndicate area and I went

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to bed in the caravan. In the morning, I drove

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to the next door plantation again about NW and I

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looked at the area again and saw no sign of it.

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I drove the same route and stopped in the same places,

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and I never saw anything strange. A few months later

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I told a friend about it, and after he finished

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laughing at me and saying it was the moon or

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a planet, he asked me why I didn't go closer

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to it, or why I didn't take a shot at

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it with my rifle. At the time, that never occurred

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to me to even think of doing that. And in hindsight,

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I wouldn't have done so anyway. It's kind of drummed

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into me always to know what I'm shooting at and

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never to aim or discharge a rifle above a backstop.

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To this day, I don't know what it was. Primeval

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fear kept me from getting closer and told me to leave,

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and I think a deep, unknown sixth sense told me

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something wasn't right when I arrived. I don't know if

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it was my eyes playing tricks, but I did get

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hits with the rangefinder, so this thing must have been

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solid and reflective. It seemed to emit a light, but

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it didn't have any lights. I've never seen anything like

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it again, nor do I really want to. It would

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be interesting if any of your followers have encountered anything

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that fits this description. Paul's got another thing he wanted

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to share, and I thought this was really good, just

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as good as his story. And here's what he writes.

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I wanted to give you one more short story that

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isn't a Bigfoot story, and it's not really a UFO story.

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This is about people who tell about what they have seen.

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I've noticed the amount of decent people who are ridiculed

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for telling the truth about what they saw, regardless of

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whether it can be explained or not. A lot of

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these people are well respected professional people who have their

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lives really affected by simply telling the truth. And that's

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what this story is about. Many years ago, I used

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to shoot wildfile and game with a really nice guy.

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He had a great sense of humor and the banter

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that he gave and was able to take was legendary.

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He worked for a local farmer and also was a

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part time truck driver, and he worked for various hall

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firms in the southeast of the United Kingdom. He was

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ex army and served with his original regiment in Germany

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and Northern Ireland. Then needed more of a challenge and

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went for the parachute Regiment. You have to be a

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tough bastard to get in that also, and you also

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have to be a bit mad. This was in the

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early nineteen eighties. In nineteen eighty two, he found himself

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on the way to the South Atlantic on a troop

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ship with his regiment in May of nineteen eighty two

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and found himself in full combat at Goose Green during

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the Falklands War. After he left the army, he returned

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back to rural life, settled down and married, and they

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had a child. He was well known in the community

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and very well liked, and was a kind of guy

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who would help anyone out. Over a couple of beers.

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One evening he told me this story and how it

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affected his life, his work, and his marriage. In the

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summertime in the late nineteen eighties, he was trucking freshly

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harvested peas with another guy in another truck. It was

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early morning and they were driving through a rural area

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in Suffolk and heading for a pea processing factory. As

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they drove down the quiet country roads, the sun started

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to rise and in the pink and blue sky they

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saw two black triangles. They seemed to just hang silhouetted

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in the sky. He drew them and they were Isaceles triangles.

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He said, you could even see the heat haze coming

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off of them. He got on his sebee to the

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other driver and said, do you see them? What the

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hell are they? The other driver said, screw this, and

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they both floored the trucks and didn't stop until they

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reached the truck stop twenty miles away. He said they

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both felt shook up and told other truckers what they

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had seen. This was a big mistake. At no point

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did they ever say UFO or spaceship or aliens. They

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just described what they had seen in the sky that morning,

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and they received a fair amount of ridicule. And it

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didn't stop there. It spread like wildfire and it never ended.

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They both were accused of drinking on the job and

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being mentally unbalanced. They lost a work through the ordeal.

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They just weren't hired by any of the haulage companies.

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Every time he went into town, someone would draw an

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alien face on his car in the dust, or whistle

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the close encounters theme. It was the same in the

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local pub. You would think that a tough guy like

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him could take it, and that it could only go

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on for so long. But it stopped being banter or

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a joke, and it simply turned into harassment. One day

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he had had enough and he punched one of his hecklers. Unfortunately,

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that got him his shotgun certificate revoked over it. I

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can't stress how constant it was. The other driver moved

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away because of the bullying. Also in nineteen ninety one,

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when the First Gulf War started, it suddenly became clear

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to him what he had actually seen on television the

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United States Air Force rolled out the F one seventeen

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stealth Fighter. What he and the other driver had seen

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was these aircraft coming into land at an air base

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in Suffolk. Even when he explained to people that's what

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he had seen, it never mattered and the harassment never stopped.

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I last saw him in the mid nineteen nineties when

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he was running aid out for the United Nations to

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the Balklands War. I heard he met a Bosnian woman

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who was from Germany and moved out there after the war.

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He was a good friend and a great and really

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didn't deserve what he got for simply telling the truth.

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My name is Kelly and I'm from England and I'm

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a regular listener to your show. I have a true story,

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but I'm not sure if it will interest you. It

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isn't about Bigfoot nor dog Man, to be honest, it

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does not even involve a cryptid, and I'm not sure

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you could class it as paranormal or supernatural, but I

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will let you decide on that yourself. First, let me

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tell you a little about myself. I am a forty

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seven year old woman and I live in Lincoln with

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my husband. The story did not happen in Lincoln, but

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in Manchester, where I used to live before I'm married.

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I lived on a rather large estate back in two

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thousand and two when this strange incident occurred, and I

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had lived in that area since nineteen seventy two. It

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was the beginning of July and we had just had

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the hottest day of the year. It had been around

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ninety four, and the night was so humid it was

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still in the eighties. I knew I would not be

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able to sleep, although I was doing for work at

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nine am the next morning, and I stayed up watching

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television until two AM. When I retired to bed, it

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was boiling hot in the room, and I opened the

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window as wide as I could to let some air inside,

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but there wasn't any. Sadly, we don't have air conditioners here,

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and the air outside was as warm as that within

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the room. I dressed lightly and I chose to sleep

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on top of the covers, but as hard as I tried,

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I couldn't sleep, and I did not even feel tired.

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But I knew without any sleep, I would pay for it.

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The next day at work, I clock watched instead as

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I tossed and turned, and then two am changed into

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three AM, and then four am. It was just far

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too warm to sleep, so I took a book from

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my bookshelf and I began to read, hoping that I

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would eventually drift off to sleep. There was not a

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sound from anywhere coming through the window as I read,

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and then about four thirty am I heard the clopping sound,

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clip clop, clip clop. My first thought was who was

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riding a horse at this time of the morning. The

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clip clopping noise continued, so I put my book down

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and I leaned out to look through my window. It

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was daylight and from my home I could see either

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end of the street that I lived on and the

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main road that it attached to. The clip clop sound

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grew louder, and then in the distance on the main

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road came a figure. I could not see them clearly,

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only the top of their head over the distant hedges,

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but it was a woman, I was sure of it,

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and she was wearing heels, and that is what was

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making the clip clop noise. There was no traffic at

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the time in the morning, and it was a Tuesday,

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so I wondered why someone was out so early, I

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popped my head back into the room so she would

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not see me spying on her, and as she turned

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the corner, I was amazed to see that she was

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wearing a winter jacket with a hood pulled up in

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all that heat. She was also wearing trousers in what

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looked like old fashioned hobnailed boots, which still made the

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loud clip clop sound. The jacket had the old style

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wooden toggles on the front to tie it up, and

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I stood back in the shadows watching her, thinking that

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she must be slightly mad to be dressed for winter

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after the hottest day of the year. I observed her

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and she drew level with my house, clip clopping along.

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She was side on to me, with her head down,

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looking at the ground, so all I could see was

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her hood, and then she suddenly stopped abruptly, she turned

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and looked directly up at me. This caused me to

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take a sharp intake of breath and step backwards. How

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did she know that I was there? I thought? I

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remember her face well from what I could see of

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it under her hood. It was pale like alabaster, and

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she had dark eyes and a thin mouth that remained closed.

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Everything about her was off kilter to me, and the

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hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end.

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I thought, what am I doing stepping away from the window.

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It was still wide open, and I thought, if anyone

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is weird here, it's her. So I stepped back to

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the window and she was gone. All this occurred in seconds,

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and seeing as I had heard her approaching for the

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last five minutes with her loud footwear, if she had

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run off or walked, I would have heard it. I

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knew all my neighbors well and she wasn't one of them,

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so she had not skipped into the houses. Plus, they

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all had iron gates that made a loud noise as

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you open them. I looked out of the window the

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entire length of the street, left and right, but she

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was gone. I thought I had spooked her and she

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ran into the garden to hide. I would have heard

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that clip clop of heels though on the pavement. I

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stood at the window until five thirty am in case

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she was hiding somewhere, but I never saw her again.

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As I stood, observing and slightly baffled at the window,

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a cat came from the left of the street, walking

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along and another from the right, and they met and

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sat side by side where the woman had stood. When

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she turned to look up at me, it was so weird.

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Cats usually fight, and these two were not known to

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me as any of the neighborhood cats either. I stood

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watching the road with the window shut, even in the heat.

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I had images of her flying through my window to

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get me, so I slammed it shut and watched through

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the glass. The whole episode creeped me out. I could

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not sleep at all that night, and I went to

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work a few hours later. I told a few family

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members and they thought it strange, but they had no ideas.

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I wondered if the lady had maybe a skin problem,

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hence why she was covered over, But why would you

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wear the heaviest clothes in that heat. Plus it still

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did not answer where she suddenly disappeared to silently. I

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suppose that will remain a mystery. I moved out in

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twenty twelve, and the only time I ever saw and

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heard anything was back in two thousand and two. But

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it has stuck in my mind as odd all these

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years later. And if she was real or not, your

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guess is as good as mine. I don't even know

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if this story is scary or just perplexing, and I

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was most definitely not dreaming. I know as I never

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slept that night, and on hot evenings afterwards, I'll always

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keep the window closed and endured the heat. As I

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finished typing this, the hairs on the back of my

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neck stood up again, and I turned around to check

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that she wasn't standing there. How foolish is that? I

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was raised in the desert desert area of Utah, in

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the small town of Caneville, population fifteen On a good

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day when everyone was home. This town was so remote

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it was thirty miles to the west to the nearest

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town in twenty miles to the east of Hanksville, which

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is just north of Hyte Marina on Lake Powell. Only

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a handful of cars passed through our town on Highway

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twenty four on a busy day. My father was a

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desert tour guide and he knew the Utah Desert like

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the back of his hand. So I was raised rough

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camping in the desert with my parents and their friends

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for several years. In the spring, Dad would lead a

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group called the Wonder Bunch on a three day camp

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trip into the desert and canyons of Utah. They called

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themselves the Wonder Bunch because they always wondered where they

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were going, and wondered who would be going, and wondered

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when they would make it back. I love going on

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the Wonder Bunch camp trips, which usually had seventy five

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to one hundred people in the group. Every night, after

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eating a great meal, several men would get out their

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musical instruments and play songs around the campfire. My dad

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played guitar, one man played a banjo, and another played

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a harmonica, etc. While they played, some of the others

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would clear an area of brush and rock so we

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could dance in the sand. Most of the time square

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dancing or doing the old fashioned waltz or two step,

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and if people didn't want to dance, they just sat

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listening to the music or singing along if they wanted.

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It was usually long after the moon had come up

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and the fire had died down that we would finally

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retire to our beds beneath the stars. In May of

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nineteen sixty eight, when I was fifteen, I talked my

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dad into letting me take five of my girlfriends on

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a weekend camp trip. A girl's only trip. Since we

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were teenagers, their mothers were concerned that some of the

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local boys might find us and cause trouble. So Dad

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promised that he would take us where no one would

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be able to find us. He wouldn't even tell me

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where he was going to ensure no boys could find us.

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On Friday, after school, we loaded all of our camping

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gear and six girls into Dad's nineteen sixty six international

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travel all and we headed out to the desert for

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a girl's weekend of giggling and fun. Dad loved to

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entertain and pull practical jokes, so at the right time

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on our way into the desert, he stopped the vehicle, saying,

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I'm sorry, girls, but I have to wi. Of course,

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being in the desert, there wasn't any bush or large

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boulder in sight. While Dad stepped out of the travel

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all the girls turned their heads and covered their eyes,

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and then we heard Dad yell we long and loud,

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before getting back into the driver's seat and continuing on

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our way. Of course, of course, the girls had a

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big laugh over that joe. After an hour, we stopped

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at the head of the canevill Wash, about five to

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seven miles from my home. We hurriedly unloaded our gear

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and Dad told us that he would be back to

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pick us up on Sunday afternoon before he waved and

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he drove away. There was a full moon that weekend,

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and Friday night went really well. We set up camp

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and spread our bedrolls in a line in the bottom

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of the wash where it was sandy and soft, and

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then roasted hot dogs around a small campfire. Since it

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had been a fairly long day, we went to bed

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as soon as he got dark, and all went well

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that night. On Saturday morning, after eating breakfasts of burned

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bacon and pancakes and eggs, we straightened up camp and

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decided to do a little exploring of the area. I

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love to gather rocks, as my dad had taught me

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the difference between petrified wood, dinosaur bone, jasper, quartz, flint,

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and other types of rocks. The wash had several small

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canyons and gullies that ran off of it, which were

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perfect for rock hounting, so we hiked some of them

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until it started to gently rain. We hurried back to

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camp stowed our gear on a ledge beneath an overhanging

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cliffs so it wouldn't get wet. The storm was just

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a summer cloud burst that only lasted a few minutes,

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so when it was done and the sun came out again,

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we decided it was time to sun tan. We spread

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our bedrolls back out. Since we were up on a

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small canyon in the middle of the desert with no

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one around us for miles, we stripped down to our

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brawls and panties and then laid face down on our

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sleeping bags to get a good tan on our backs.

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And then someone suggested we didn't want to get the

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brawl line on our back, so we unhooked the back

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of our brawls and just laid there in the sun.

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All of a sudden, one of the girls noticed the

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jet flying over, so we all squealed and jumped up

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and ran to the overhanging cliff, leaving six white bros

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lying in a row on our bed rolls. After a

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moment of panic, we realized that jet flying that high,

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probably at thirty thousand feet, couldn't see us anyway. But

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our sun tanning mood was over, so we got dressed

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again and we did a little more exploring before it

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was time to cook supper. I remember at the very

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head of the wash was a natural seep with just

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enough water for us to wash our hands and do

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the supper clean up. Before long, the sun had set

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00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,880
and our day of fun was over, so we put

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00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,799
out the fire and we crawled into our beds that

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00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,240
were still at the bottom of the wash, and we

484
00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:53,039
quickly fell asleep. Sometime in the night, we were awakened

485
00:27:53,079 --> 00:27:56,759
by a small sprinkling of rain drops, and I told

486
00:27:56,799 --> 00:27:58,839
the girls we needed to move our beds out of

487
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,440
the wash and up under the overhanging cliffs so we

488
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,000
wouldn't get caught in a flash flood if it rained

489
00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:08,839
any harder. The desert canyons of Utah are notorious for

490
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,559
flash floods. If people aren't cautious and aware of the

491
00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:15,000
weather and their surroundings, they could end up in a

492
00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:20,319
life threatening situation. Throughout the years, Dad had rescued several

493
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,640
people who had been caught or stranded by flash floods. Anyway,

494
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,000
the moon was full that week end, so we had

495
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:31,319
no trouble gathering up our beds and quickly getting underneath

496
00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:33,519
the overhang out of the rain that was coming down

497
00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:36,920
a little harder now. And as soon as we were

498
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,000
all under the overhang. Before we even got a chance

499
00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:43,440
to spread out our beds, a light came down from

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00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,000
the sky and began to search the area in the

501
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,680
wash where we had been sleeping only moments before. The

502
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,119
beam of the search light was fifteen to twenty feet

503
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,880
in diameter and it was coming straight down from the sky. However,

504
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,160
there was no engine, only the hushed breathing of six

505
00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:07,319
terrified girls. One of the girls tried to stick her

506
00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:09,920
head out from underneath the overhang to see where the

507
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,160
light was coming from, but three of the other girls

508
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,599
held her back for fear that she would give away

509
00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:20,119
our hiding place. We realized the light was not normal,

510
00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:24,440
and we since something sinister was happening, and we were frightened.

511
00:29:25,839 --> 00:29:28,519
Like I mentioned, there was no motor noise of any

512
00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:32,599
type of noise, just the silence of the desert, and

513
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,160
we watched in fear, and the light searched our camp area,

514
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,400
and it swept the bed of the wash where we

515
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,279
had previously been sleeping, and up the side of the

516
00:29:41,359 --> 00:29:46,480
hills and cliffs that line the wash. After ten minutes,

517
00:29:46,599 --> 00:29:50,400
the searchbeam of light disappeared. We saw a bright light

518
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,079
shoot to the north and do a ninety degree turn

519
00:29:53,279 --> 00:29:56,799
and shoot to the east and over the horizon. It

520
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,799
was gone in a matter of seconds. There was a

521
00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:04,400
temporary military base to the east of us, maybe thirty

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00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,240
miles between Hanksville and Green River, Utah, and I have

523
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,319
wondered if it had anything to do with this incident.

524
00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:14,799
It took a while for us to settle down and

525
00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:17,519
go back to bed and sleep the rest of the night.

526
00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:21,079
I might also mention that there was a small flood

527
00:30:21,079 --> 00:30:23,519
that went through our camp and right down the wash

528
00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:27,319
where we had been sleeping earlier. Thankfully, no one was hurt.

529
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,119
None of our camping gear was washed away. The next

530
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,519
day was Sunday, and it was just afternoon when Dad

531
00:30:35,559 --> 00:30:39,000
came to pick us up. We excitedly told him what

532
00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:41,279
had happened and how the light had come down from

533
00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:44,960
the sky and had been searching for us. The blood

534
00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:48,160
drained from his face and he just said, hurry and

535
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,599
pack your stuff. We need to get going. So we

536
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,839
loaded everything in his trusty travel all and he drove

537
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,759
us back to town. It wasn't until many years later, when

538
00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:02,359
I was an adult, that I learned about the many

539
00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:07,799
strange objects he had seen in the skies of southeastern Utah.

540
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,400
As I remembered this night in the desert, I'm very

541
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:16,160
thankful that we were protected and not abducted. In my heart,

542
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,480
I feel the Lord saved us by sending that small

543
00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:21,440
shower to wake us up and get us to move

544
00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:24,759
underneath the overhang where we couldn't be seen from above.

545
00:31:25,599 --> 00:31:28,680
I can only imagine how horrific Dad's life would have

546
00:31:28,759 --> 00:31:32,400
been had us girls gone missing, especially since he was

547
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,200
the only one who knew where we were and the

548
00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:37,640
last one to see us on that Friday night when

549
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,440
he dropped us off to start our camping adventure. Throughout

550
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,079
my teenage years, I saw other strange lights in the sky,

551
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,640
but they were not as frightful as this one. This

552
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,599
craft was definitely looking for us. It's a puzzle to

553
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,599
me how it knew where we were. I know Daddy

554
00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:01,680
didn't tell them, and as Dad promised, the boys didn't

555
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,640
find our camp, but the UFO certainly did. And she

556
00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:08,039
signs off Utah Desert Girl