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Speaker 1: Many years ago, we moved into what was technically called

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the last house on the left, at the end of

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a long road. Although this has nothing to do with

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the story. When we moved in, previous tenants warned us

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that odd things would happen there. Well we didn't believe

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him at first, but our disbelief was short lived. It

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began with my four year old daughter screaming at something

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she had seen in the living room. She said it

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was a black cloud that had crossed the room and

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disappeared into a corner. At the time, we dismissed it,

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but a few days later, when my wife's sister came

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for a visit, she watched in horror as that same

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black cloud reappeared from the same corner and enveloped her

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two little girls. Later that same day, my wife saw

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that same cloud come from the corner and wrap itself

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around her. She described it as suffocating. It was hot

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and smelling of sulfur and burning meat. The clouds seemed

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to manifest itself around only women and girls. Fortunately for

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my sons, that did not mean that males were spared

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from the haunting. The house was built into the side

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of a hill, with the front door on the west

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and it opened onto the second floor, where the living

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room and dining room, and kitchen and bathroom were The

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door on the east side of the house opened onto

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the first floor, where the bedrooms and laundry room were located.

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The front door always squeaked loudly, and no amount of

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w D forty graphite or silicone jail would make it quiet.

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One night, the boys aged eight and six, heard the

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front door open, so they went to investigate, and in

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the open front door they saw an odd green mist

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and when they approached the door to see from where

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the glow was originating, it vanished. My younger son was

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the one who discovered the specter's aversion to pleasant smells.

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My wife would set out store bought air fresheners, but

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this was useless. Once the room was vacated, the fresheners

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would be closed. My younger son pointed this out, as

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well as the fact that the scented candles we used

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would extinguish themselves when the room was empty. My older

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boy was beset with his own terror. Frequently he would

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awaken in his bottom bunk to find a horrific contorted

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face shrieking at him. It was an aged and wrinkled

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face of uncertain gender. He would also learn to put

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away his toys. One night, he was roused from asleep

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by the sound of his toys moving around on the floor.

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He opened his eyes to see a small black being

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moving his trucks, warships, and cars against the door, as

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if to barricaded from entry. As soon as they realized

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he was watching them, they turned and began climbing the covers,

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trying to get at him. He screamed, and I came

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running to find him clinging to the bottom boards of

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his brother's approl bunk. Until now I had seen nothing,

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so I was still somewhat skeptical of all these stories.

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But that was about to change. We were asleep downstairs

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and I was dreaming. In my dream, I walked into

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our bedroom, but there was no bedroom furniture there. It

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was furnished as the living room, and on the sofa

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sat the most beautiful, redheaded woman I had ever seen.

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My wife, beautiful in her own right, was a brunette.

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But in this dream I knew the redhead was my wife.

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She was crying. She turned and looked at me through

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black and tear filled, frightened eyes. And I should have

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felt pity for this woman, but I felt only rage.

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She cowered into an arm of the sofa, and I

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started toward her to continue the beating. I knew she deserved.

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I heard a voice and realize that the dream had

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been silent up to that point. Somehow I knew this

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was because my wife was deaf. The voice had come

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from my six year old. I turned and saw my

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real life son standing in the doorway, wearing clothes I

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had never seen before. He was wearing black pants and

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a long sleeved red pullover. He was soaking wet from

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head to toe, and his skin was ashen and lifeless.

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And again I felt no love for my family, only

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a burning rage. The boy looked up at me and

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said Dad. He too had a look of abject fear

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in his eyes, but he continued. Dad helped me. I

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turned to him, and with an uncontrolled fury, I raised

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my fist and struck the child square in the face.

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I sat up in bed, suddenly awakened. My wife was

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awake beside me, screaming, what the heck, Oh, what's that?

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I realized that there was a fight going on in

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the living room above my head. Two men were yelling

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at each other, throwing around furniture and breaking glass. I

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jumped from my bed and ran upstairs, and as my

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foot fell on the carpeted hallway of the second story,

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it went silent. No one was there. The windows were intact,

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the furniture was upright, nothing was out of place. But

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the door stood open, shrouded in an iridescent green glow.

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I walked over and looked out onto the darkened street.

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There was nothing. Everything was quiet. Fallen autumn leaves swirled

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in the cool night's breeze. And I returned to my

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wife and climbed into bed and waited with her in

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silence for the dawn. And dawn did come, and as

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it happened, it was October the thirty first. I stood

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on my front porch, drinking my coffee and trying to

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rash my dream. And then I heard it. A chill

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locked my spine as I heard my six year old

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son say, Dad, afraid. I turned and looked down the

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hill to where my son was crouched down doing something.

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Dad help me, he said. I approached to see that

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he was using a stick to try to dig something

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out of the ground. It was a strip of black corduroy.

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I've been down to help him, but pulled him away

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when I saw a flash of yellow bone and I

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grabbed him and ran into the house. The police came

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and dug up the remains of a little boy. He

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was six when he died, and he was wearing black

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corduroy pants and a long sleeved red pullover shirt. My

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brother is now a detective with the local police department,

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and although they have a lengthy file on the boy's father,

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they remain unable to locate him or his beautiful, deaf,

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redheaded wife. In November and December of twenty eighteen, my

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husband and I were moving into our new home in

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a small town in Ohio. Our new neighborhood was comprised

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of mostly small homes with a lot of wooded lots

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mixed in beyond. Our neighborhood was all countryside and woods.

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There's a steel mill not far from us, and there

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were power lines and a railroad track fairly close. We

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were excited to move into our new, smaller house in

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a different city. We were retired and looking forward to

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the fun times ahead. My husband would stay at the

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old house packing things up, sometimes overnight while I was

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at the new one unpacking. Our house sits on a

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corner lot with a motion activated security light over the garage.

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With our neighbor's garage running alongside our driveway, we have

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the feeling of extra privacy. We were happy to get that.

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We have neighbors all around us, but everyone minds their business.

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We watch out for each other, but not to the

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point of being annoying. Right away, I began to hear

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taps on the windows in the side of the house,

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and sometimes I'd smell something awful. But I attributed all

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of this to nerves from being in the new house

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alone at night. Sometimes the security light would flash on

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and off as well, But again I told myself I

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just needed to get used to living in the new place.

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One night, my husband had brought home another load from

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the old house. He'd loaded some of it up, but

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we were exhausted, so we decided to go to bed

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and finish up the next morning. We drifted off to

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sleep pretty quick. Suddenly we were woken up by what

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felt like a car being driven into the side of

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the house. The whole place seemed to shake. It was

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so loud, and we could smell a terrible odor. We

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shot up in bed, wondering what the world had just happened.

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My husband ran outside to look around, but we didn't

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see anything. There wasn't even any damage to the house.

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The odor grew fainter after a few minutes, but nothing

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else happened. He decided to stay an extra day after

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that to make sure everything was okay. Except for the odor.

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Nothing else happened. Our tiny dog would not go outside

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at night. Instead, he would bark and stare, and then

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there was that smell. Every night, that awful odor would

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come back. I still shake thinking about it. I was

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glad when my husband finally brought the last load and

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was home for good. For a while, the only thing

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that was strange was the odor, and I refused to

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go in the kitchen at night because the odor seemed

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to follow wherever I went. It was like nothing I

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had ever smelled before. It was indescribable. There was one

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night when I thought I heard a tornado siren going off,

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but there were no weather reports or any storms at

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all that night. Things began to quiet down after that,

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except for the occasional slap on the side of the

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house or the roof. If I was in the shower.

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Then came the night of the first ground covering snow.

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Our curtains were open as my husband and I sat

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on the couch watching a DVD. I noticed the security

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light was flipping on and off. My husband was sure

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it was being caused by the snow. I joked with

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him that maybe someone was playing peekaboo around the neighbor's garage.

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And then I saw a big shadow darting back and forth,

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but I put it off to my imagination. After a while,

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it stopped and we went back to watching our movie.

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A little after eleven, I nearly jumped out of my

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skin when I heard a loud knock on our side

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of the door that faced the neighbor's garage. It caught

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me off guard. It was two policemen asking if I

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had seen anything. A neighbor had reported that something big,

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not someone, something was watching our house from beside the garage.

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My husband was unloading some things. I told them, well, no, ma'am,

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it wasn't him. They said, well, he's the only one

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who's been out there. I explained, no, it wasn't him.

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The officers repeated, but you've never even met him, I pointed, out.

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They laughed and said that he would not match the description. Well,

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what is the description, I asked. They laughed and said

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they'd followed tracks around the neighbor's garage that went through

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our backyard and we needed to look. And then they

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asked if I was sure I had not seen anything. Well,

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I told him about the security light going on and off,

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but I left off the rest. Again, they said we

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needed to look at the tracks in our back lot,

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and then they said that we should be sure that

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our trash is secure because of bears, and then they left.

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I asked my husband to go out into the backyard

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and look at those tracks, and when he came in,

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he was white as a sheet and he said he'd

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never seen anything like it. He said it was like

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barefoot footprints in the snow, except they were really large.

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It wasn't until we heard your show and we looked

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up Prince that he said that that's what they looked like.

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They were eighteen inches long and they were barefooted. Everything

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fit the tracks, the horrible odor, everything. Did we see anything, Well,

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I did see a shadow, but it was a very

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large shadow. And I wonder still if my eyes were

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playing tricks on me. It was snowing hard that night,

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But what about the slaps on the side of the

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house and the roof. What about the car that hit

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the house but left no damage, And how about those

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tracks and that? And why did my dog act so strange?

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We still don't know which neighbor called the cops that night,

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only two houses or positioned so that they could have

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seen anything. We only had a few slaps this year,

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but still a shake. Just writing this, I just wanted

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to tell someone who wouldn't think I'm crazy. And by

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the way, we google bear sidings in our area and

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there are no bears here. Back in the early nineties,

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when I was a twenty something young buck, two buddies

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and I ran a huge plant nursery and after work

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we did some landscaping with the plants that we sold

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all day. I had a brand new truck and apartment

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and life was good. The nursery was owned by an

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old man named k C. K C's brother was a

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distinguished attorney and had been elected mayor. K C, on

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the other hand, was a foul mouthed school bus driver

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who happened to own his own nursery. These two brothers

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were polar opposites. That's small town Georgia for you. Kse

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raked in the cash and we ran the place from

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top to bottom. The nursery was located behind his house

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on a steep grade heading down to the woods. We

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grew and sold every plant that would grow in Georgia.

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We actually built the whole growing area for him. We

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cut steps in the side of that hill, and we

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built growing beds with old railroad ties. And for all

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our hard work, Kse paid us well and he gave

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us full run of the place. It was a big

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plot of land, and not all of it was used

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for the nursery. We were also allowed to hunt on

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his property. A half mile into the woods. I built

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a camo treehouse to hunt from. It was located on

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a great spot where two trails converged, and I had

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a large killing field when the deer showed up. It

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was four feet by eight feet with a roof on it.

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It was a comfortable place to spend a day honting.

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I was in the stand before daylight on a cold

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Sunday morning. A twelve point buck had come through a

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time or two, but I never had a good shot

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at him. Shortly after daylight I heard movement in the

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distance of an animal of some weight. It was my buck,

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or that is what I thought it was, coming towards me,

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so I settled in to stay completely still. It was strange, though,

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because the woods had gone completely silent, other than this

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animal coming towards me with each step. That should have

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been a clue to me, but I was young and dumb.

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I knew a bigfoot, but to me it was something

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in the Pacific Northwest, if it existed at all. Two

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hundred yards away, I began to see the trees parting.

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They were getting knocked down pretty good, and the racket.

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I thought this had to be one of three things.

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It was either a man, a big hog, or a bear.

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We have bears here, but no one ever sees them. However,

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one bear made front page news in the local paper

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after it was found digging in a dumpster behind a

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Captain D's. But that was a while back. I kept

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waiting and wondering what in the world could make so

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much racket and push trees around like that. My treehouse

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stand was well camouflaged. It was enclosed, and it was

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spray painted camo. Camo net was all over it, and

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plenty of limbs and piled up brush stuck to it.

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It had shooting slides on all four sides. By this time,

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I figured that whatever was heading my way was not

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a deer. If it was a man, he was about

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to catch an earfull from me. On three sides. It

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was a pretty steep hill that opens up into a

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pretty good sized bear area. It was a perfect kill

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zone with two game trails that ran right through it.

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The thing or the guy I kept coming, and by

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this time the sun was out good and I could

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see better. It was finally at the bottom of the

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hill where I sat, and from my vantage point I

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could see the top of its head. I thought he

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was wearing a brown sock cap. His dark face was

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now visible, and I figured it was one of the

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neighbors who lived close by. I looked closer, and with

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the light now different on his face, I realized it

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was not one of our black neighbors. He wasn't black

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at all. It was the tan color of an old

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baseball glove. None of this made sense, and I began

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to get worried. I should have raised my rifle to

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look through the scope, but I never thought about that.

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I would have been able to see what this thing

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was a few minutes earlier, but now I could see

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it clearly, and it was close. It was covered with long,

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shaggy hair, except on its knees and its face. There

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were areas on its hide where the hair was missing.

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It made me think it had a disease like a

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dog gets mange. It was maybe seven feet tall and

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three feet wide at the shoulders. This was a monster.

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I have never seen anything move with so little effort

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through the woods and brush. It was like he was gliding,

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and he was making good time. Now he was only

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twenty yards in front of me, and I could see

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everything now, and I was terrified. He was almost beneath me.

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I thought he would hear my heart pounding. But in

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the middle of all this, somehow my fear turned to

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amazement and curiosity, and I thought that I might be

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experiencing the best sighting anyone has ever had of a

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big foot. And I was getting away with it. I

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was recording all of the things about his appearance in

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my mind, and I would soon take notes when I

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got back to my truck. But then things changed. He

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stopped right under me. He tilted his head back, and

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he began sniffing the air. He moved around a bit

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below me, and I heard something hit the bottom of

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the tree stand. I think he knocked his head on it,

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and it annoyed him. I actually almost laughed, but I

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knew better. I was still well hidden and ten feet

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above him. He started getting froggy on me, and he

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came out from under the stand. He went down on

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all fours and he scanned the area slowly and methodically.

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It was like he was taking in every branch and shrub.

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He was swaying back and forth, kicking dirt and leaves,

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and seemingly getting more angry by the minute. I was

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praying that he wasn't looking for me, and I was

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praying that it wasn't me that was making him angry.

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I backed away from the shooting hole, and I could

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only hear him now. The tree stand has a rope

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ladder that I had already pulled up long ago. He

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wasn't going to climb up, but I still didn't feel secure.

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The roar of this thing let out was something I

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can't begin to describe. It shook the entire hill. Trees

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seemed to sway and vibrate. It sounded like his lungs

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were the size of a Volkswagen, and it paralyzed me.

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I felt like both ear drums were gonna blow out.

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And I'm embarrassed to say it, but I peed in

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my pants. Make fun of me if you want, but

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I dare you to hear this from fifteen feet away.

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You might do the same thing. And I could hear

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him moving around below. One minute, he was in front,

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and then he was behind me. I think he was

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looking for me. I know he was. I raised up

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to the shooting slot and I could see him circling

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the stand. Half the time he was on two legs,

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and then he would drop down to all fours. It

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was just so strange. Finally, his head snapped around and

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he looked right at me. He had found what he

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was looking for. He was at the base of the tree.

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Now what I thought was a unique vantage point to

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observe an unknown creature was now a life or death situation.

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I eased back away from the slat and I flipped

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the safety off my thirty six, and then the thing

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started to climb. I quickly moved back to the slat

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and I looked out and I saw its hand gripping

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one of the trees my stand was framed to It

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was only a foot or so below me, and I

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was panicking. I'll be honest, but in the middle of

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the terror, I remembered the forty five ACP I carried

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on my hip. I pulled it from the hoster and

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was about to start shooting through the floor to stop

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this thing. I really had no choice. It was going

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to jerk me out of that stand and it was

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going to kill me. Both hands on the forty five.

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I started to pull the trigger and I hesitated because

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I felt like it had stopped climbing. I could still

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hear the noises on the other side of that plywood,

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but the thing had stopped. I released the pressure on

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the trigger and I waited. Clicking noises came from the

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woods out in front of me. The noises were loud.

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Nothing in the woods sounds like that. Then a loud whistle,

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and then more clicking. There was another one close by,

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and my fear doubled. There was no way out of this,

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but the creature hanging under me let go and he

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dropped to the ground. I heard it. I raised my

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head to look out, and I could see it running

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towards the clicking sounds, and then it was gone. I

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never saw the other one, and after that I never

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saw my guy again, and then the woods went quiet.

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I often wonder what happened that day. Did the second

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one have pity on me? Was its mate or parents

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scolding the big male that had me located? I eventually

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stopped guessing, and I went on with my life, and

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I was thankful that it worked in my favor. I

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didn't tell a soul for ten years, and finally confiding

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in my wife and my best friend when the Bigfoot

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shows became popular on TV. I don't know if they

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believe me. Still, these bigfoot are real, and some of

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these bigfoot hunters are in for a big surprise if

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they ever find one. They aren't cuddly koala bears. These

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things are intelligent. They're fast enough to catch you, and

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they're strong enough to kill you in a split second.

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We're dealing with some form of human, whether it's a relic,

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a hybrid, or something never discovered. It's a part of

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the human family tree. I think one day DNA will

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prove this. These creatures are not apes. I believe hundreds

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of years ago there were probably more of them here

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is a description of the bigfoot that I saw. It

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was at least ten feet tall. It hit its head

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on the bottom of my shooting platform. From the ground

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to the floor is nine foot eight inches. The skin

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on its face was a tan color and it was leathery.

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Its hair was mainly deep red and brown, with patches

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of hair missing. There were, however, dark patches here and there,

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and it gave it an almost brindle color. The hair

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on its head seemed long and appeared similar to dreadlocks.

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The hands looked human, and they were tipped with black nails,

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but three times the size of my hands. Its eyes

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were a hazel color with a tint of green. The

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nose seemed flatter to its face than a human nose,

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but it also had a roman shape that ended with

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a pronounced tip. It was handsome in a strange way.

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The lower jaw protruded a bit, and above its eyes

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was a heavy protruding brow. There was virtually no neck,

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and the ears looked human except for the color. And last,

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there was a feature over all about this creature that

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looked as if his face vaguely resembled a human with

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down syndrome. I cannot explain it but I came away

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with that sense. Thank you for reading my encounter. It

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is all one hundred percent true, Signed Christopher