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Speaker 1: Here's a story that I've had quite a while, and

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I'm just getting to it. The man is in his sixties,

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says he's battling MS, multiple sclerosis. I assume that's what

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MS means now to say, he writes, I've decided to

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share my experiences before it's too late. Perhaps my encounters

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will benefit someone, and if so, then my time writing

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this has not been wasted. I was raised on a

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farm in cattle operation in Utah in the nineteen sixties

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and seventies. Our land was adjacent to foothills that led

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up into a range of the Rocky Mountains, where I

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spent every possible hour on horseback or hiking or backpacking.

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I log several hundred nights camping out during my teens

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and in twenties and my thirties and into my early forties.

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It came with the territory of my outdoor life. Being

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out of doors every day from my childhood onward gave

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me a tremendous education about the natural world, and I

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was intimately familiar with every species of tree, plant, wildflower,

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every type of bird that inhabited our region, and of

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course every mammal that lived in these valleys and mountains.

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I grew up fly fishing and hunting waterfowl, upland birds

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and big game, which took me into some of the

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most beautiful and remote country imaginable. I mentioned these things

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so you'll understand my familiar rity. That's a hard word

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for me to say. I mentioned these things so you'll

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understand my familiarity with every living thing, from the western

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deserts to Utah's Red Rock Country and the alpine peaks

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of the highest mountains. And all that time spent out doors,

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I never had any calls for fear, nor did I

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see or experience anything unusual. And then one August evening

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in two thousand and four, my fly fishing partner and

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I decided to stay out late to watch the I

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can't pronounce this word. I think it's per Sade meteor

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shower at Strawberry Reservoir, pe r seid per side or

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per se meteor shower at Strawberry Reservoir. We were excited

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to see the spectacle because of clear skies, there was

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no moonlight and no light pollution. We launched our float

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tubes into the water shortly before dark to enjoy some

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fishing and stargazing. Perhaps an hour into the meteor shower,

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we both suddenly noticed something massive walking along the shoreline

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on all fours. Its silhouette instantly reminded me of a

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polar bear with a huge hindquarters taller than its front shoulders,

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and its head was small for its body size, and

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that body was gargantuan. We were way too close to

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the shore for comfort, and we paddled into the safety

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of deeper water as quickly as possible. We both experienced

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a sense of dread and terror. What was that giant thing?

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It was several times larger than the black bears that

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we have in Utah, and we don't have grizzly bears

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in Utah, but they're not that big either. We observed

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the creature for a couple of minutes until it walked

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into the darkness and left us alone on the lake. Yes,

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we were both terrified, knowing that eventually we'd have to

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get out of the water and run up the hill

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to the car. We had no explanation for what we saw.

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Back then, I'd never heard of bigfoot walking on all fours.

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Since that time, I've read numerous accounts of people seeing

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these things down on all fours. It's the only answer

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I can come up with to account for the massive

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size of the animal we saw. The experience we had

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on Strawberry that August night was the precursor for the

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year two thousand and five, where everything changed and life

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has never been the same since a door was opened

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somehow to extraordinary strangeness that I never asked for, I

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didn't seek, and I can't seem to escape. This is

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the one and only time that I will record and

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recount these experiences. Now I will do my best to

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give you a detailed account of what happened in our

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lives during two thousand and five and is subsequent to

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that time. It all began innocently enough on a late

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winter day when my wife and I decided to go

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for a drive to town to get a taco for lunch.

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On the return trip, we were two blocks south of

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main street in our small town when suddenly a dog

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of some kind with short, dark gray hair walked out

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into the street in front of us on two legs,

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and I slammed on the brakes as we watched this

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thing cross the road in displa It ran into someone's yard,

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still on two legs, and went into the shrubbery and disappeared. Well,

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we were speechless. What the hell was that, we both

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said to each other. We went home and I got online,

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and it didn't take long to find the numerous images

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and videos of these same dogs walking upright all over

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the southwest of the United States and down into Mexico.

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Some people refer to them as chupacabras, and all I

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know is we were both very upset by what we saw.

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A few weeks later, it was time for another friend

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and I to go on our first jeep expedition of

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the season, and we headed south toward Utah's San Rafael Swells,

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some of the most remote country in the lower forty

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eight States. On the way, we passed through San Pete Valley,

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where the second strange encounter took place. At the north

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end of the valley, there's a small town called Melbourne,

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and just as we turned off the highway to head

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towards Melbourne, there was a huge black figure standing in

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sagebrush at perhaps sixty yards away. I brought the jeep

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to a halt and we both stared at this thing

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with very broad shoulders and legs like tree trunks. We

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weren't close enough to make out any facial features, but

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we could see the glistening black hair that covered this being.

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It had a conical shaped head and a barrel chest,

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and long arms and massive legs. Time stopped as we

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watched this thing for a few minutes, and then it

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turned its body to the south, took two and a

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half steps, and it vanished. There was nowhere for it

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to hide. It didn't dash to a tree for cover

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or drop to the ground. It was midway into its

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third step, with one leg raised and its foot up

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off the ground when it completely disappeared. It wasn't as

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though we watched did step into some unseen doorway where

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you'd observe the front part of the creature disappear, followed

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by its backside. No, it totally vanished in one instant

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of time in mid stride. You can imagine the fear

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that swallowed us, knowing we had to drive down the

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road where this thing was headed when it vanished. At

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that time, I had never researched anything about bigfoot. Though

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I was certainly familiar with the claims of those who

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had seen these things, I did not know there was

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a rich collection of encounters with these things vanishing from sight,

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but we both saw it one moment and the next

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it was gone. After the event concluded, we compared notes

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and both felt like it was nine feet tall and

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weighed perhaps as much as six hundred pounds or more.

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It didn't make any aggressive movements towards us, However, we

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both felt a deep, foreboding sense of evil. I didn't

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shake that horrible feeling, and we decided to postpone our

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jeep adventure for another time. The next in our series

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of life changing events occurred during the spring when we

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were doing some landscaping work in our yard. We lived

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a couple of miles outside of town and didn't have

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any close neighbors at the time. I hesitate to record

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this incredibly strange event because no one will believe me,

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but still, it was the most disturbing of events of

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two thousand and five, and to leave a full and

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honest account, I'll tell you this part of my story.

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It still turns me inside out when I think about it.

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I'm shaking right now as I right. My oldest son

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was seventeen at the time, and he was helping me

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with some landscaping work. We stopped for lunch, and while

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I was eating a sandwich in the house. I was

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looking into the backyard at our project and decided what

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we'd work on next when I saw a male American

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kestrel hawk fly toward a river birch tree in the

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back corner. Well, something was wrong with this bird, and

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I thought it was perhaps injured due to its erratic flight.

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But rather than landing in the tree, the small and

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colorful hawk landed on the ground where we had been

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planting some barberry bushes, and it started moving its wings

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in a strange, unnatural way. And the next thing I knew,

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this bird pushed its wings up and away from its

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body in a manner that would be impossible for any

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bird to do, and then I was looking at something

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other than the hawk. More than sixteen years have passed

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since this event occurred, and I no longer remember the

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exact order of what I've witnessed. But over the next

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several minutes, I observed this thing chained shapes into a

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rabbit with badly deformed ears, a squirrel that was incorrectly formed,

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a weasel, a marmot, and a each of which was

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anatomically incorrect. At the same time as I witnessed this event,

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I was suddenly sick to my stomach and filled with

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nausea and a violent headache. The badger jumped down from

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the retaining wall and went over to a hole in

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the field. My son came upstairs at that point, and

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I asked him to keep watch on the hole while

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I went over there. I went over through the garage

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and I picked up a stout club. When I got

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to the hole, nothing was there, and I retreated to

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the couch, where I needed to rest for a few

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hours to recover. Later research uncovered a material known as

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black goo or programmable matter, that might account for what

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I saw. Perhaps it was something from the military or

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the deep state. I don't know. Debilitating nausea continued for

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the next couple of weeks anytime I went outside and

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near where I'd seen that thing. Perhaps it was some

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kind of radioactivity. The next two events occurred on the

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same day. I was fly fishing with my partner at

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a still water known as Schofield Reservoir. It was a

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gorgeous late spring day and the fishing was good. The

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sky was a stunning azure blue, with white, fluffy clouds

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hanging low in the sky. At one point I looked

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almost straight above me and gasped at seeing a very

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large silver sphere in the sky that appeared to be

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covered in radio towers. It was not very high above me,

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as it was hovering between two of the low hanging clouds,

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and as soon as I saw it, the thing rapidly

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ascended and was gone from sight in mere moments. Then,

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on the way home, as we left the mountains and

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reached Highway six, we both saw a glowing orange orb

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coming toward us in the opposite lane of traffic. My

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friend commented that it was about the size of a basketball.

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We watched it pass us and turned to watch it

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go behind us, but it disappeared. Later that summer, my

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friend would fish at Indian Creek Bay on Strawberry Reservoir,

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where we saw two orbs the same evening. Our lives

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were becoming very weird. What in the world was happening

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to us? Well, this story is becoming so long, so

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I'll skip to the next orb story. It's not that critical.

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We finally reached July fourth, and after all the activities

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of the day, my wife and I were sitting on

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the back patio and watching fireworks in towns east of

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where we lived. We had an unobstructed view for many

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miles in every direction. After the fireworks ceased, we sat there,

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enjoying the cool of the evening until almost midnight, when

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she grabbed my arm and said, what is that pointing

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up the sky about halfway between our home and the

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mountains to the east. Neither of us spoke for a

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few minutes as we observed a huge, triangular shaped craft

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moved silently across the sky. It had running lights along

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the top and bottom edge of the side, and once

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it passed we could see the back end, which also

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had running lights. It continued moving north until we lost

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sight of it. We were both two small town kids

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that couldn't understand why these inexplicable things were happening to us.

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That was not the last unidentifiable thing we saw flying

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in the skies that year, but it was the most

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remarkable one of all. Sometime in August of two thousand

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and five, my fishing partner called me late one evening

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and said to go outside and look above the prominent

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mountain in our valley. I did so, and to my surprise,

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there was a new bright star in the sky we'd

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never seen before, and it was flashing colors at an

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immense rate of change. My friend had the latest and

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most powerful camera with a fantastic zoom lens, and he

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filmed the star, which not only flashed colors that we

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couldn't name, but changed shapes each time it flashed. We

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watched it in slow motion, and we were astonished by

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the revelation of what his camera brought into focus. Over

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the years since two thousand and five, we've witnessed many

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such anomalies. By late September, the heat of the summer

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was behind us and it was time to attempt the

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jeep expedition once again. We made plans to explore a

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section of the San Rafael Swell we had never visited.

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On the drive to the swell, we once again passed

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through the Sand Pete Valley, and of course discussed the

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bigfoot sighting from the spring. That was not my friend's

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first cryptid encounter, as I learned. After we passed the

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location of the sighting, we both gave an audible sigh

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of relief and proceeded on our way. And part way

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through the valley, we decided to explore a range of

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hills we'd never visited before, and we pulled onto a

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gravel road that led up into the hills. I stopped

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the jeep on a bridge over a small irrigation canal

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as we looked ahead, trying to decide which way we

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wanted to go. It was eleven am, and that's when

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I noticed a movement below me and to the left

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in my peripheral vision. When I looked directly at whatever

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had moved, I was instantly paralyzed with fear and incapable

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of movement or speaking. Time stopped and I couldn't even breathe.

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There below me, kneeling in the canal, was a monster

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covered in grizzled hair and a mixture of gray and

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light brown, with golden yellow colored eyes that were far apart,

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and a wide mouth with narrow lips that were closed

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tightly together. I could not look away, and I couldn't move,

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and as time stood still, I had a long look

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at this thing. The hair on its forehead began at

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the brow ridge and grew upward on its forehead until

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it reached the top of its head that was cone shape.

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The hair was a uniform one inch in length. The

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hair on its face gave it a perfect, full beard

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that grew up close to its eyes, leaving only a

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small patch of charcoal gray skin around the eyes. It

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never blinked. The nose was wider and flatter than a

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human nose, and hair grew across part of its nose.

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The space between the bottom of its nose and its

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upper lip was much wider than that of a human,

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at least twice as wide and maybe more. The shoulders

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on this beast were four feet wide and massive with muscle.

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The hair was longer on its shoulders, perhaps four inches long.

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There wasn't much neck to speak of, and it looked

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like its head rested on its shoulders. The head was

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too small to match the shoulders. Its chest was full

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and rounded and covered in hair and a couple of

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inches long. The shoulder muscles and biceps were incredibly huge.

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Because of its position in the canal, I couldn't see

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its elbows, lower arms, or hands. I also couldn't see

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below its chest, and I never saw its legs at all.

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I have assumed all these years that as I was

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parked on the bridge and the motor was running, it

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must have disturbed the creature that may have been sleeping

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or resting under the bridge, and it came out to

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investigate the source of the noise, but I'm just guessing.

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After taking a long look at this thing, I finally

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gained my composure enough to put the jeep in reverse,

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take my foot off the clutch, and speed back down

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out of there. My friend said later he thought I

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was going to roll the jeep, but he didn't know

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what I had seen, but he did see me staring

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out the window. I let out a scream as we

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backed down the steep road until we reached the pavement

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and drove away as fast as she would carry us.

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A couple of miles down the road, I pulled over

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and change places with my friend, as I was too

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impacted by the encounter to drive safely. This time, we

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did go to the Swell, but the trip was a

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bus for me due to what I had seen. What

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else did two thousand and five have in store for me?

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As it turned out, that was not the final strange

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experience of the year. But I won't recite the other

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UFO experiences. My poor wife was seeing them often in

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the mountains by our home, and it shook her to

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the core. I'd like to share some observations prior to

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these experiences. I had never seen anything unusual or out

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of place in my outdoor life. Suddenly I knew the

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truth about things that most people will never know. Regarding

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the two clearly identifiable bigfoot creatures, I've already said that

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the first black creature felt intensely evil, but I did

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not have the same feeling with the second, grizzled one.

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Its face was eight to nine feet from my face,

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but it never grimaced at me or displayed any threatening behavior.

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It could have easily opened its mouth to growl at

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us and show its teeth, but its mouth remained close.

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I was terrified and petrified with fear from simply seeing

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this monstrup close. But I didn't feel any fear being

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projected from this creature as many people report. If anything,

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it seemed to purposefully not do anything to terrorize us whatsoever.

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That being said, I've never been able to bring myself

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to visit that bridge again or camp out since two

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thousand and five. Now I still go fly fishing as

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often as health permits, but I never go unarmed if

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we're off the beaten path. And that's that's the end

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of his email. But there's a PostScript, and here's what

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he writes, in October of twenty nineteen, fourteen years after

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the bridge siding, I had another bigfoot encounter at a

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small lake in northern Utah called Mill Hollow, where I

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was fishing by myself. No one else was at the

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lake that day. I didn't have a visual this time,

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but a mature white fur was pushed over nearby. In

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the creatures made a sound I can only describe as

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a symphony orchestra, with all the string and wind and

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brass instruments striking a note together, accompanied by multiple car horns.

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The loud noise lasted for a single quarter note. They

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had my attention. I assumed that rather than scream at me,

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they made this less threatening sound so not to alarm

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the numerous bull elk that are bugling in the mountains

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around me. And I suspect it was a hunting party

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and they wanted me gone. I gathered my fly rides

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in another gear, and I left the area. I've read

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other people's accounts of these beings making all kinds of sounds,

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but I've never heard anyone report them sounding like a

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symphony orchestra. Last in February of this year, twenty twenty

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one one night, at twelve thirty am, something slapped the

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side of our home so hard that it felt like

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the house would come off its foundation. The slap was

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on the second floor, on the other side of the

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wall from my head. It reverberated through the house, and

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my youngest son in the basement called me wondering what

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had just happened. I instantly knew what had happened. One

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of the bigfoot creatures that I had encountered found where

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I was living and must have climbed up the rock

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chimney and let me know they knew where I was.

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So many people have reported such events of being harassed

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by these creatures that I wasn't surprised, but I took

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measures to hopefully keep it from happening again. I hate

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the feeling of being a marked man. Oh man, that's

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the end. That's the end of the PostScript. That's that

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last paragraph gives me the creeps. Whoo. What an amazing

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set of events in this man's life. And this is

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the one and only time he's going to record or

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recount this and all. I can't add anything to this story,

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but I can tell the man thank you for thinking

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of me and sending the email to me to share

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with this audience because we love these great stories. I

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know they're unsettling to the people that they happen to,

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but we love hearing them, and so I appreciate the gentleman.

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He never said whether to use his name or not,

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so I'm not going to. But it's just a wonderful story.

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And I got this back in twenty twenty one and

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I'm just now getting to it. So I hope the

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man is still listening. I hope he's not dealing too

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terribly bad with MS and was able to hear this story.

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And I'm sure, I'm sure it's helping some other people. Okay,

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thanks sir for the story. Here is a story written

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up rather roughly. I tried to tell it as it

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was told to me, though I had to add a

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few points of context for it to make sense to

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someone outside the family. My fiance's family has been in

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North Carolina since the early seventeen hundreds, and since then

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a few family legends have cropped up. The most interesting

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of these is of the brother of the man she

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is descending from. He fought in the French Indian War

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against the Cherokees, then against the British under Nathaniel Greene.

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After the British withdrawal from the Carolinas, he took his

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family further west into the Appalachians in search of a

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life away from war. The story of what he and

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his family found in those mountains starts here. To preserve privacy,

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I have changed the family name to Smith. Upon receiving

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his discharge from the North Carolina Rifle Corps, the militia

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unit he served in during the War of Independence, Jacob

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Smith returned home to his wife and two sons. His

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third son, Arthur, who served with him, accompanied him to

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their home in the New Hope Valley. Their homestead was.

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Speaker 2: Humble, but the earth was fertile from the frequent floods

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that often occurred in the area. Jacob, however, returned home

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a changed man. He avoided his neighbors and would often

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leave for days at a time with just his rifle,

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coming back empty handed more often than not. Arthur eventually

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took his place as the man of the house, and

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with his brothers and mother, kept the farm in good order.

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In seventeen eighty four, however, a terrible flood swept down

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through the New Hope Valley, killing most of their livestock

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and destroying their crops. Faced with debt accumulated during the war,

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Arthur chose to sell their property and move elsewhere. Arthur

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wanted to move east, closer to the coast, but Jacob

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would not allow it. He wanted to be as far

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from people as he could go, and that meant moving

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to the edge of the Cherokee Territory into the Appalachians.

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He convinced Arthur that they could purchase a much larger

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track of land than they already owned and start fresh

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in solitude. At the end of winter, they set out

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for the edge of the Cherokee Territory. During the winter,

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Arthur had married the daughter of a wealthy neighbor, and

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she accompanied the family on the trying journey west. With

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her father's help. They had purchased a large swathe of

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land along the New River, and they intended to split

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the land among Jacob's sons upon his passing, leaving each

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with a respectable homestead. By May, they had built the

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first house at the foot of a mountain, and after

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much labor, had cleared and planted their first fields. Jacob's

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skill at hunting had returned, and they ate well as

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they waited for their crops to grow. They kept on

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good terms with the Cherokee neighbors, who occasionally visited to

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trade for gunpowder and metal tools. Their first harvest was

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good that autumn, and they had good stocks to relan

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for the coming winter. Arthur's young wife became pregnant during

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this time, much to the amusement of his younger brothers

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and the joy of his parents. Jacob seemed to be

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somewhat returned to his old self, the war seeming to

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have become a distant and unwelcome memory. The winter of

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seventeen eighty five was bitter cold and came early. The

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first snow fell in early November, and cold, old winds

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blasted through the hills. As the days got darker and

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the nights got longer, strange things began to happen around

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the snowed in homestead. Early one morning, the family was

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awoken by the sound of pounding and splintering on their barn.

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Jacob loaded his Baker rifle and stepped to the window,

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where through the gloom he saw a strange sight. A

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large black bear was desperately clawing at the barn door.

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It was clear the door was not going to give way,

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but the bear seemed not to mind. Jacob did not shoot,

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and intrigued by this strange behavior, he tried yelling at

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the bear, which had often worked in the past. The

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bear only looked quickly back at him with an expression

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of a hunted animal in its eyes, and continued trying

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to force its way into the barn. Jacob taken aback,

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shot the terrified animal dead. Upon examining the carcass, it

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was found that the bear had ripped out its own

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claws and had left great bloody streaks on the door

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in its attempt to get into the barn. Several of

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its teeth had also been left embedded in the wood

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of the door as a testament to the animal's madness.

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The same day, Jacob ordered his sons to load their

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rifles and pack for three days in the wilderness. Arthur

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was left behind to guard the women and told to

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report the incident to any Cherokee that might pass by.

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Jacob and his boys made for Kiowe, the largest of

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the Cherokee settlements and the home of an old warrior

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whom Jacob knew from the French and Indian War. How

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they knew each other is not known for sure, but

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it is speculated that one had spared the other during

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the fierce fighting and had since become friends. Upon reaching Kiwi,

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they were welcomed by the old warrior and told him

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of the incident with the bear. He was immediately concerned

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and gathered his own sons from around the village. They

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all questioned Jacob as to recent events, and upon hearing

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that author's young wife was pregnant, an expression of horror

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came to their faces. In a hurry, they gathered their

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gear of war and painted their faces with large black

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circles around their eyes, and outlined their mouths in black,

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so they seemed to stretch wide across their faces. The

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six Cherokee and three Whites set a fast pace back

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towards the Smith homestead. Two days later, the party crossed

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the French abroad and covered the short miles between the

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ford and the house. By the early evening, thick boards

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had been nailed into place over the windows on both doors,

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though a gap had been left wide enough for the

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muzzle of a rifle. They were welcomed home by Arthur,

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and as they ate, he told them of what he

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had experienced in the time of their absence. On the

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second day, the smokehouse had been demolished during the night,

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and the bear's meat and hide had been taken. Arthur

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could not see what had done it, though he had

481
00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:31,319
heard savage screams and hoots amidst the noise of the destruction.

482
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,599
He fired his rifle in the direction of the smokehouse,

483
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,119
and as the report echoed in the hills, all noise ceased.

484
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,200
The third night was what caused him to board up

485
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,920
the windows. He awoke to a shriek from his mother,

486
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,960
whose bed was on the second floor of the house.

487
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,759
He hurried up to her, and she stood holding a

488
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,119
musket to her shoulder, the barrel pointed at the window.

489
00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:01,839
She told him that she had seen a horrid beast

490
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,880
of a man peering down at her, and that she

491
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,519
had awakened to the sound of him trying to reach

492
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,440
into the window. As she was telling this to him,

493
00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:15,400
he heard his wife scream from downstairs and heard the

494
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,400
shattering of glass. He took the musket from his mother

495
00:31:19,599 --> 00:31:22,400
and made it down to find his wife cowering in

496
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,079
the corner, staring at the window. He ran to the

497
00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:29,640
shattered window and fired his musket at a dark shape

498
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,480
retreating rapidly into the gloom of the night. She described

499
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,640
much the same face as had a mother, but it

500
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,000
had crashed its hand through the glass in an attempt

501
00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:46,039
to grab her. He boarded the windows that morning. Since

502
00:31:46,119 --> 00:31:49,599
then they had stayed in the house and heard great

503
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,960
screams coming from what seemed like all around them. Every

504
00:31:54,039 --> 00:31:58,319
few hours a great impact would shake the house, always

505
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,599
opposite from the side or was guarding. The door had

506
00:32:02,599 --> 00:32:06,079
been hit several times with great force, and cracks were

507
00:32:06,119 --> 00:32:11,079
beginning to show in its timbers. Yona, the eldest of

508
00:32:11,119 --> 00:32:14,960
the old warrior's son, spoke in a low voice. He

509
00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:17,799
told them that the beast had come down from the

510
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,240
hills in search of food and had smelled the pregnant girl.

511
00:32:23,359 --> 00:32:26,119
This had drawn it to the farm, which must have

512
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,519
angered it. He said that his people had long ago

513
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,160
come to an agreement with it, and that it no

514
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,359
longer rated their settlements, but that strayed into their territory,

515
00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:41,640
especially with young children or pregnant women, was extremely dangerous.

516
00:32:42,599 --> 00:32:46,319
He was reluctant to speak its name aloud, but eventually

517
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,160
told them its name, sul Keloo. He told them that

518
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,839
it was part of a race of people who lived

519
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,359
high up in the mountains and came to the valleys

520
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,319
at night to hunt. He said that they were quick

521
00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:02,279
to anger and could not speak as men did, and

522
00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:07,359
that they were terrible foes. When his people would see them,

523
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:10,200
they would bow their heads and walk backwards until they

524
00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:13,599
heard it leave, and then would return home and not

525
00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:17,920
hunt for seven days. If he returned to the hunt

526
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,160
too early, he would return to find his children or

527
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:26,960
his wife gone, never to be seen again. The Indians

528
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,119
went outside and built up a great pile of brush

529
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,400
and fallen timber in front of the house. As darkness

530
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,680
began to fall, they lit the fire and slowly walked

531
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:42,759
around it, singing a mournful song. Jacob and his wife

532
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:47,240
stood on the porch, watching in fascination, when suddenly, from

533
00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:51,160
the darkness beyond the fire, a scream thundered out, long

534
00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:56,720
and terrifying. The Indians instantly ceased their song and stepped

535
00:33:56,759 --> 00:34:01,480
backwards towards the house. Their heads bowed. Then the great

536
00:34:01,599 --> 00:34:05,519
beast stepped into the firelight and screamed again, staring directly

537
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,599
at Arthur's young wife. The girl collapsed and was quickly

538
00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:12,920
pulled into the house by her mother in law. Now

539
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:15,719
only the men stood on the porch, and the beast

540
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,159
focused its gaze on Jacob, baring its teeth and emitting

541
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:25,199
a rumbling growl that seemed to shake the earth. Jacob

542
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,719
stood firm and returned the creature's gaze without fear, Having

543
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,400
many times before faced death on the battlefield, he quietly

544
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,679
told his sons to go inside and bar the door.

545
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,079
The old man was now alone face to face with

546
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:47,199
suel Koleu. In a flash, he raised his rifle and fired,

547
00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:50,039
and the ball struck the creature in the center of

548
00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:54,320
its chest. With a mighty roar, The creature lunged forward

549
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:58,599
through the fire, scattering sparks and flaming branches about him.

550
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,440
With one he seized Jacob by the head and smashed

551
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,880
his body against the house, killing him instantly. The creature,

552
00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:11,639
in a violent rage, stomped around the house, beating it

553
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,880
over and over with the body of Jacob, as his

554
00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:17,960
sons fired at it from the slits left in the

555
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:23,360
windows again and again, to no effect. The house, which

556
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,280
had been showered with embers, began to burn. The rest

557
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,320
of the family, faced with a choice between burning to

558
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:35,360
death and facing sul Kaloo, themselves, banded together As the

559
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,519
smoke thickened in the air, Arthur led them out and

560
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:41,840
they ran as fast as they could to the ford.

561
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,639
They were not followed and made it to Kiwi the

562
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,920
next day. They sheltered with the Indians for some time

563
00:35:50,119 --> 00:35:54,599
and eventually traveled back east. As they passed their farms

564
00:35:54,639 --> 00:35:56,920
did they found that it had burned to the ground.

565
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,800
The barn had been destroyed, and a foul smell came

566
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,480
from their well. As far as we know, they settled

567
00:36:05,599 --> 00:36:08,679
in Greensboro and have been there ever since.