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Speaker 1: Back in the late nineteen nineties, I was commuting to

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work from Yakima to Kennewick in Washington State. One morning,

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on my drive, I spotted a road killed by Sunnyside,

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and it was big. It was covered in brown and

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orange hair, and as I drove by, what struck me

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there was a hand sticking out of the mound of

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the hair. It looked like a human hand, and I

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didn't see a face. I thought it was an orangutang

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by the color of the hair, and I told the

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folks at work, which was met with some disbelief. It

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wasn't until recently that I learned that some bigfoot can

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have orange brown hair, especially when growing up. I'm sorry

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I didn't stop, but the city of Sunnyside, Washington or

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the Washington State Patrol had the body picked up. The

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whole life I've grown up in the hills and hollows

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of Mississippi, Hunting and fishing and other outdoor activities were

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just a way of life. Thanksgiving Day of twenty twenty

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will stay in my memory until the day I die.

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I woke up that morning and I headed out to

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the woods just before dawn. I had a portable hunting

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blind that I had gotten for Christmas the previous year,

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and set on top of a small hill looking down

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over a clearing into an old roadbed. I was sitting

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there listening to some music in my earbuds when I

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thought I heard a branch snap, and in my head

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it was most likely a deer, since we don't have

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many large animals in this area. I paused my music

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and I waited and listened. It sounded like it was

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coming from behind me, but I couldn't see anything because

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the back window of my deer blind was put up still,

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and all I could do was hope it walked past

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me and i'd get a good shot. I noticed the

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noise this thing was making wasn't normal, and it sounded

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almost like someone took a big rock and was hitting

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a tree. And after every time at knock there would

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be an airy whistle. And this went on for thirty

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minutes until I heard it walk away. By this time,

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it was so cold, I couldn't feel my gun in

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my hands, and I couldn't take this anymore. I slowly

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peeked out from behind the blind wall and the coast

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was clear, so I packed up my stand and I

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shouldered my rifle and I tailed it out of there.

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I told my parents what happened. They didn't believe me.

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A year later, my mother came home after riding through

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that same area, and she told me, I think I

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might be starting to believe you on that bigfoot thing.

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She explained that she had seen something tall and dark

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walking into the woods, and when she passed that spot,

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it was gone. Sometime seeing is believing. I hope you

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enjoyed my story, and I hope y'all have a great summer.

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I love listening to your podcast, and I'm especially fond

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of the Steve Lilly journal entries. They're a great way

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to pass the time at work. This happened in nineteen

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seventy four in an area of the fort that, for

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many miles was open range for local ranchers who could

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let their cattle run free. Unfortunately, it was also an

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area where people would abandon their unwanted dogs. The dogs

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had gone ferrell and had packed up in several large groups,

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which then attacked the herd of animals of the ranchers,

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which really made the ranchers mad. So they had looked

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around until they found some military men who would hunt

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the dogs down and get rid of them. I was

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well acquainted with the leader of the group since he

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knew I was a very good shot, and he came

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to get me to join them. It took some talking

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on his part, but he did get me to go

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with them. We found that the best time to go

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after them was in the evening, just as the sun

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was starting to go down, and afterward. We had access

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to a deuce and a half that's a two and

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a half ton army transport truck. There were seven of us.

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There was one driver and six shooters, which worked out

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really well for us. We had a beef quarter hung

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up in a tree for bait, and the six men

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in the back loaded up and were ready to hunt.

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If you could call what we did hunting, it was

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more like an ambush than actually hunting. We could hear

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the dogs coming and the pack sounded to be very large,

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so we knew the ranchers would be paying a good

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bounty on this one. And when they got to about

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two hundred yards away, they went totally silent. At the

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same time, there was a high pitched, loud, long howl.

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I remember saying that if this is a dog, it

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has to be the size of a mack truck, and

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about that time a second howl came from the woods.

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The driver said something like, holy crap, everybody, hang on,

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and he started the truck and didn't wait for the

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engine to warm up before taking off, like he was

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in a big money race. Some of us were almost

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thrown out the back. We were all yelling, and it

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got very colorful, very quickly. I hadn't heard that much

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loud cussing since the last time I was in the

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military bar on pay Day night. The driver yelled back,

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but almost no one could hear what he said, and

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the two guys closest to the driver looked out toward

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the front left side of the truck. What startled us

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was that they opened fire as quickly as they could

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chamber around. They fired their weapons empty and reloaded and

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kept firing. Others of us moved over to that side

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of the truck to see what in the heck was

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going on. One of them pointed forward to the truck

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and into the woods and said that in a very

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loud and somewhat frightening voice, And with that I could

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just make out a very large, very dark black brown

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figure that was obviously not a bear. When it looked

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at me with those large glowing red eyes, I dropped

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to my knee and I opened fire, and I reloaded,

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and I fired some more rounds at it until I

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emptied the magazine again. We never slowed down until we

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got back to the main fort proper, and then we

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broke up and went our separate ways. Early the next morning,

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four of us ended up eating breakfast together at the

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mess hall, and while talking about what had happened the

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night before, it was decided that when we were done eating,

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we would go out and see what we could find.

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It didn't take us long to finish eating and get

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our weapons and move out. And the weapons we were

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carrying were not military weapons. They were all our private

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weapons that we went shooting with quite often in order

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to hone our shooting skills. We were all much better

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shots than most of the people we knew. I was

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carrying my fully loaded at Springfield Armory M one A,

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along with twenty extra twenty round magazines I carried in

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a ruck pack, making my load out four hundred and

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sixty rounds of seven sixty two NATO rounds. I was

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locked and loaded as soon as I got out of

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the car. I wanted to be ready if that big

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black critter came back. It was easy to find the

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place where we ran into it the night before, because

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all the spent rounds in the area. These in the

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tree where we had hung up the bait on a chain,

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and the bait was gone with no sign of it

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left behind. The limb was broken off right at the

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marks left by the chain and tossed to site. And

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we checked the area where we had heard the dog sparking,

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and we found four of them dead and badly mutilated.

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That's when we noticed the tracks. I was the only

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one of us who have ever seen anything like them,

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and only because of the books and magazines my mother

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would buy for me to read. Thanks to her, I

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was well read on cryptids and the supernatural, so I

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knew what this most likely was. I knew the Pacific

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Northwest was a hotspot for bigfoot and cryptids, and I

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was sure that we were hunting a bigfoot or a sosquatch.

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By the looks of the footprints, we were hunting at

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least four of them, and I decided to keep that

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little bit of information to myself. I was hoping that

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the other guys wouldn't freak out on me when I

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would need them to stand tall and keep their faces conglomerated.

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As it ended up, I didn't have to worry about

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it because we didn't run into them again as a

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group or alone. A few weeks later, I and the

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group went our separate ways. I didn't stop going to

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the forest in the evening, and I was no longer

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hunting the same things they were. This was just one

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of the interactions with bigfoot I had at Fort Lewis.

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This was not the only interaction I had was sasquatch

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during my time at Fort Lewis. Later in life, I

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would move back to the Pacific Northwest, and it wasn't

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long before I once again started having interactions with the creature.

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I will watch the reactions of those reading it here

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and then decide if I will send in another one

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or not. I really love hearing the stories you read.

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They helped me pass some long days and nights here

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at home, so I will keep listening and maybe writing

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a few more stories of my own to share. Thank

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you for all you do, and keep up the good work.

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It was a night of Halloween in the year two

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thousand and I had just graduated high school, a few

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friends and I were hanging out at the local truck

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stop having coffee. We were too old for your typical

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Halloween festivities, and there were no underage parties going on

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that we knew of, probably because so many of our

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friends had just left for college. We were sitting a

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around talking about what kind of excitement that we could

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have with what was left of the night, and my

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friend Amanda said that she had visited the Haunted Road

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to Okee Panocch and had some weird things happen, and

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if we really wanted a scare, we should all go there.

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There was no end to the stories about Oki Pinocch.

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People said it was a haunted and a Satanist killed

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people out there, and even that there were small hobbit

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like people that had been seen in the area. It

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all sounded absolutely ridiculous to me, but it seemed to

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shake the other's nerves, so I pushed for us to

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all go out there to see something for ourselves. Amanda

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and Lisa and I and Ryan and another guy piled

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into Amanda's little white Chevy Cavalier and headed to the

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Haunted Road. You can google ok Pinocch and see the

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road on Google Maps. It is a short dead end

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road by the miss miss Cisswana Reservoir. I probably didn't

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pronounce that right. There are no houses or anything on

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the road and it just dead ends at the turnaround

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in the woods. On the way out there, we were

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talking about being out in the country at night, and

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I argued that it was not scary at all, and

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as long as there was a little moonlight and starlight,

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it would be fine. We argued back and forth for

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a minute, and then I said that to prove my

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point that it wasn't a big deal, that I would

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walk out into the woods along the road and when

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we got to the turnaround they could pick me up.

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On the way out, it started to snow, and when

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we stopped the car in the woods, I headed off

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back up the road. A guy that I can't remember

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his name ran up and said that he wanted to

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go too, and it completely defeated the point that I

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was trying to prove. But I didn't really know him

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and I didn't want to be rude. As we walked out,

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we discussed how scared the others were, and I decided

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that we should try to scare them, and we thought

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about going into the woods and jumping out at them

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as they drove by, but the danger of them just

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speeding off and leaving us out there was too high

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for risk, and besides, the fresh snow would show us

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leaving the road and they would know something was up.

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the road like we were hurt or dead to scare them.

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But as we discussed this, the headlights of Amanda's car

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came around the corner. It was too late for anything

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like that, so we decided to just tell them that

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we had seen something in the woods. And as the

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car pulled up and opened the door, me and the

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other guy jumped in and started crying, did you see

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that it was in the woods? What was that? Much

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to our shock and surprise, they said, yeah, you saw

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it too. Ryan agreed and reminded the girls that they

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had been watching where our footprints went before they picked

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us up, and they were deep shaken, and I asked

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them what exactly they had seen, and they said that

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someone in a coat like mine was in the woods

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and it was watching them. I had on an old

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dress coat from goodwill, not so common thing to be

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wearing out in the woods. At that point, I told

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them that we didn't see anything, which led to a

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lot of confusion and another round of them thinking that

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it was us in the woods. But after reassuring them

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that it wasn't us, I convinced them to go back

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to the turnaround so I could see it. They were terrified,

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but I was insistent and mocked them, and I prodded

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them until Amanda turned around. When we reached the end

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of the road, they pointed out the spot and they

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huddled shaking in the car. All right, I said, I'll

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go check it out. They were gobs smacked and screamed

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at me to stay in the car, and I blew

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them off and I walked out into the woods. Tell

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me when I'm at the spot, you saw them, I said.

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I tromped into the woods, and at that point the

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windows were all down and Amanda, Lisa, and Ryan were

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directing me to the spot. It wasn't far from the

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road at all, maybe ten feet from the tree line,

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and at that distance there was no way they mistook

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what they saw. The other guy that had gone down

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the road with me then got out of the car

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and looked around with me. The moon was bright. There

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was fresh snow everywhere, but still on the floor of

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the woods, I couldn't make out much. We returned to

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the car and began to drive out, speculating on what

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they had seen. Amanda was driving, Lisa was in the

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front seat, and I was in the middle back with

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the two other guys. As we drove out, Ryan was

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telling us a story and I was looking at him.

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As he spoke, I saw in the field that we

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were now entering a large, dark shadow, and moved very

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fast along the woods and moved toward the car. Ryan,

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in mid sentence, noticed something had caught my eye behind him,

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and he slowly turned his head as he continued his story.

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As Ryan turned his head, I saw the shadow nearly

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reach the car and run into the ditch next to

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the car, and I raised myself in the seat and

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I tried to look into the ditch, and just then

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it jumped out of the ditch and came right next

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to the car. Just as Ryan's eyes reached the small

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triangle window in the rear back seat, a giant maw

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of white teeth barked out inches away from Ryan's head

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as the biggest black Great Dane ferociously barked at the car.

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Ryan screamed so loud and with such a girly shrill

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that I started laughing hysterically before he even stopped screaming.

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It was the funniest thing I think I have ever seen,

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and we laughed the rest of the night about it.

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For many years, I thought that that was the end

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of it, just a funny story about teens out scaring

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themselves in the woods on Halloween night. Years went by

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and I became a bit of an amateur local historian.

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I've read many books and looked at a lot of

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local maps, and the origin of Okee Panochi is a

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little vague, but from what I can tell by the

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old maps, one of the last Miami Indian chiefs here

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had a trading post in a cabin at the end

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of the road, and it was kept open for some

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historical purposes. There were a few Miami Indian villages in

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that area, and many of them were sites of massacres.

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When Mad Anthony Wayne marched his troops down the Wabash River,

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killing all the Miamis, betraying the peaceful tribe. General Wayne

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was in a war with other tribes and decided to

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wipe out the Miamis in the area because he didn't

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trust them, even though they never joined the other tribes

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in the attacks on the whites and had good relations

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with the local watfe Ees. So with all this history

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around the area, I approached a Miami Indian language expert

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at a conference in twenty sixteen that I attended. I

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told her the story and I wanted to get her

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take on what had happened. She said something that stuck

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with me to this day. Have you ever seen a

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pure black dog that big in your life to this

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day besides the one you saw that night? Well? No,

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I said. It was definitely the biggest pure black great

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name I've ever seen. And you're telling me you believe

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that this dog was out roaming the woods on her

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road with no houses for miles, in the middle of

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a snowing night. I hadn't really thought about that much before,

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but now that she laid it out like that, it

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didn't make sense. It was no dog you saw that night,

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she said. It gives me chills right now as I

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write this, I don't know what we saw that night.

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Was it an angry Indian spirit, a dog man, or

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just a really freaking big black dog. Like I said,

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We were in a Chevy Cavalier and this thing's head

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was at the top windows and it ran alongside the

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car doing thirty miles per hour. And as a side note,

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a young girl went missing out there back in the

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eighties and they found her murdered. And just recently someone

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else was murdered a few years ago back there at

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the turnaround, and the paper said it was a drug

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deal gone wrong. But regardless, it just adds to the

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creepiness out there. Hi, mister cam. The following is a

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bigfoot story my good friend Mac told me, and I

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recorded the story on a tape recorder Back in twenty twelve.

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A group of his friends and he used to go

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riding their dirt bikes along the railroad tracks in central Florida,

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out in the middle of nowhere. The year was nineteen

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seventy six and he was seventeen years old. On a

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Saturday after afternoon, they took off to the tracks with

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a tent and a small cooler. They set up the

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tent and they got some firewood and they went off

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in the nearby woods riding their dirt bikes and exploring.

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They came back to their camp and got a fire going,

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and they roasted some hot dogs on palmeadow sticks and

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ate chips, and drank a couple of six pikes of bush.

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They all got in the tent and they went to sleep.

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He said he woke in the middle of the night

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by the sound of rocks on the tracks. Someone was

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walking on the rocks, and it was loud. He said.

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He got up and out of the tent and walked

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down the short trail to the grassy lane that ran

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parallel to the tracks, and he stood there and he

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took a leak. He could begin to make out a

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shade coming up the tracks. He said. It was a

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swamp monster, and it was big. And he ran back

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to the tent and he got in and he zipped

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the door shut and got under a sleeping bag, and

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he laid there trying to be still and quiet. He said.

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All three of the others were fast asleep, but he

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could hear it coming. It stopped at the trail. He said,

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he could hear it snorting, and it was louder than

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a sweated quarter horse. He said. He eased up and

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looked out through the screen, and it was standing right there.

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He could see it through the oak trees. He said

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it was smelling his urine where he had peed. Then

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it turned and started walking on the rocks again, and

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he said he lay down and he could hear it

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walking on the rocks for a while, and he went

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to sleep in the early hours. The others didn't believe him.

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When they woke up, they said he was crazy. When

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they rode out that afternoon, he found where it had

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left the tracks and cut through a wash out of sand.

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By the lane. There was five big tracks, but one

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of the guys accidentally ran over two of them. He said.

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They got back on their motorcycles and they hauled as

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out of there. It's the third time this story has

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been told of that night in July nineteen seventy six,

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forty four years ago. And Cam do with it what

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you do. Mac would be honored if he knew his

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story made it to you. Cam Mac passed away eight

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days ago. Hi. My name is Alyssa and I'm from

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north central Mississippi. My family and I live in the

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hills of Carroll County. We live on property belonging to

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my husband's family and there are three generations of family

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living here. The land is mainly woods in pasture with

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cows and two ponds, except for the few homeplace sites.

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Several summers ago, we began seeing an odd looking creature

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roaming around our place. All of those who saw it

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described it in a similar way, like a mangy dog

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or a code, with a larger head and ear, standing

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straight up and often running on its high and its

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fur was a mix of dark brown and black, but

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it was very sparse, with skin showing in some places,

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and it came around, but it didn't show itself. Often

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it would swiftly run away if we caught a glimpse

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of it. Very few of us were able to see it,

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and even fewer quick enough to snap a photo. My

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daughter and I saw it a few times, especially around sundown.

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It would dart from the edge of the woods and

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back in as quickly as it could. The multiple times

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I saw it gave me the cold chills. Due to

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its thin frame and oddly shaped body and its thin hair.

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We often heard it yelping or squealing as it would

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run past us. In fact, one of the ways we

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were originally alerted to the creature was from hearing it first.

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He would stick close to the wooded areas on our

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property and would seem to want to catch a glimpse

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of us. And one day, my husband's aunt was out

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on one of her daily walks on our dusty dirt

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road when she spotted him. He actually lunged toward her,

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but she was able to get away. A family friend

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whose property is near ours even called a photo of

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the creature on his game camera. It has been years

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since we have seen the creature, but listening to her

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channel brought it to my memory. Many people around town

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whom we've told about the creature thought it sounded like

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a chupacabra, and comparing the photos that we do have

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and the images we found online of the chupacabra, they

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are very similar. I have a UFO encounter that happened

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to me when I was probably around the age of ten.

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I hope that I can put it into words, as

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I've never told this story to anyone except my husband,

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and that was just recently. So in your words, here

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we go, all right, here we go. It was in

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the summer of nineteen eighty eight in Arkansaw, and my

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mom and her husband, Wayne, and myself were heading home

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from being at one of Wayne's friend's house. It was late,

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probably one am, and I laid my head on Mom's shoulder,

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as I always did so I could close my eyes

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and nap on the way home. Mind you, we were

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only about thirty minutes from home, but it was late

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and I was tired. I had my eyes closed for

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about ten minutes, dozing in and out of sleep because

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the bumpy back roads Wayne would always take home. When

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I heard my mom say to Wayne, what in the

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world is that? I opened my eyes and I looked

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at my mom to see where she was looking, only

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to see that she was looking out the driver's side window.

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I turned and looked in the same direction and my

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mouth fell open. Wayne hadn't answered her. I don't think

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he knew what to say, as he started to slow

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the truck down to a stop. When I looked over

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at what my mom had spotted, I saw a huge

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cigar shaped object hovering in the the air. It was

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so close to us that I couldn't see the entire

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object's full length. It was hovering over a pasture just

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off the road, maybe one hundred yards, and there was

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a large oak tree that blocked some of the view

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of this object. It was so close that I could see.

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It had round windows along the side, and they looked

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as if they went all the way around the thing.

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The moon was bright that night, so I could tell

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it was gray or silver in color, and there was

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a slight humming sound, but it wasn't loud, kind of

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like a hum of a ceiling fan motor. As Wayne

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stopped the truck, my mom said, don't shut this truck off.

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We sat there for thirty or forty five seconds, and

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then Wayne did take off. The object stayed in place

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as we drove away, and Wayne and Mom both looking

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in the mirrors out the back window. I stayed facing forward.

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No one said anything the rest of the way home.

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We didn't know what to say to each other. Even

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though I was young, I didn't ask any questions or

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say a word. Once we got home, we still didn't

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talk about it. We all just went to bed. I

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wasn't scared, but I was in disbelief at what we

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had seen, and I still never told anyone after that.

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I'm now forty one years old. My husband and I

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were talking about UFOs recently, and I decided to ask

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my mom if she remembered that night. All she said

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was a quick yes, and that was it. We both

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just left it at that