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Speaker 1: Everybody, Welcome to the Dixie Cryptid Podcast. My name's Cameron Buckner,

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and we don't ask for money, and we don't have

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a membership program. All of this content is free, doesn't

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cost you a dime, So if you don't like it,

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send me an email and I'll give you your money back.

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I usually go through these stories and just randomly pick two, three,

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four or five stories to put in a podcast, and

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I did that on this one. But I don't know

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how it happened, but I picked three of the best

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stories I have read in probably a year for this

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particular podcast. So I hope you guys enjoy this. This

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is a good one. This is a really good one.

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All right, here we go. When I was growing up,

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my mom and dad had a rule. When the son

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started to set, my siblings and I had to come inside.

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We had a small farm with chickens and goats and

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rabbits and pigs, so all of our chores had to

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be done before sunset. One day, I asked my mom

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why I couldn't play out in the yard, and her

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answer sounded like a mother trying to scare her child

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into listening. She said it was because there were monsters

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in the woods that wanted to take me. I wasn't

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sure I believed her, but some of our animals started

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to disappear at night, so I didn't push it very far.

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My father was the president of the West Virginia Trappers Association.

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He had let me hunt and run traps with him

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since I was eight years old. I was sure I

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knew every animal in our woods, but I was wrong.

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One day, Dad got a call from our neighbor Den,

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who raised a cattle. He said that one of the

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cows was dead and her calf was missing. Dad took

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me along to Den's house with him, who showed us

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the dead cow. There were deep scratches on her front

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quarter and her neck had been broken. Dad didn't know

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what to make of this. There was no sign of

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anything dragging the calf off, besides the trail leading into

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the woods that connected to our property. I started to

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track it, but Dad and Den both yelled at me

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to stay put. Instead, I helped set some bear traps

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around the dead cow, and Dad told Den, if it

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comes back, these should hold it. Later that night, after dinner,

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I overheard my dad tell my mom that whatever killed

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Den's cow was probably what had been taking our animals.

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Mom asked what we could do, and Dad told her

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about the traps that he was confident they would catch

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some thing and then we might finally see what was

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killing the animals. The next morning, Din called frantically, telling

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my dad that we needed to come back to where

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we set the traps. We went straight out to the cow,

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and this time my older brother joined us. We were armed,

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expecting to find a large bear. When we got there,

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Din was at a loss for words. The dead cow

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was gone and there were clear large tracks leading back

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into the woods. Dad was furious. Our traps were gone too,

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and seven bear traps are not cheap. He told Den

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that he'd never seen anything like this. The animal had

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to be intelligent to spot and pull up the traps

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from their steaks. About that time, life got stranger. None

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of us kids were allowed outside unless someone was with us,

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and we both had to be armed. I was eleven

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at this point, and I felt safe by myself, especially

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with my twenty gage shotgun with me, but we still

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had to do our chores in pairs. Well, nothing happened

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for about a month until one day I was out

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on the porch drinking a soda After feeding and watering

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the chickens and the rabbits, I was watching the upper field,

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hoping to see a deer or turkey. I remember the

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sun was already getting low and dusk was starting to

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set in. I saw what I told Mom and Dad

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was a large man sneaking across our field. It scared me.

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He was wearing what I thought was a gilly suit.

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Dad immediately grabbed his rifle and yelled for my older

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brother Joe to grab his. They ran into the field

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and looked for it, but it was long gone. Later

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that night, we heard one of our rabbits screaming. We

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could hear something banging against one of the cages and

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making deep grunting noises. Joe and my father grabbed their

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rifles and flashlights and ran out the door. I grabbed

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my forty four mag brush rifle and I followed them.

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The rabbits were going nuts and one of them was

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still screaming, and before I made it to them, I

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heard my brother scream and he started shooting. I froze

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in my tracks just twenty feet from the house, and

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I saw them running back towards me, and Dad grabbed

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me with his free hand and he dragged me back inside.

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He told Mom to bolt the doors and shut all

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the windows and turn off the lights. Apparently they had

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pissed off whatever the thing was. No one slept that night.

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At first, the creature threw rocks at the house, breaking

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one of the windows, and there was an ungodly roar

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that gave us chills. Eventually the rackets stopped. We thought

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it was over until we heard a loud thud against

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the back of the house, and at the same time

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there was a thud at the front. I remember Dad

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turning white and he looked at my mother and he said,

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my god, Judy, there's more than one. Mom started crying

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and the kids asked what it was. Dad said he

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didn't know, but that it looked like some kind of

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a giant eight. The thudding against the doors went on

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for hours, right up until an hour before sunrise. The

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next day. We went to check out the damage, and

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what we found was awful. There were large footprints all

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over the house that looked like fists. That was nothing

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compared to what we found when we checked our livestock.

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Over thirty rabbits were dead. They were ripped in half

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and half pulled through the wire on their cages. Two

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goats were gone. There was no sign of them at all.

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They were just gone. One of our hogs had been killed.

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It's his neck was broken. Dad was furious. He called

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our neighbors and told them what had happened. He called

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two of my older brothers who had moved out, and

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he told them too. Everyone came over to check on

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us and check out the massacre, each of them as

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livid as my father. Later that evening, everyone showed up

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again and they packed everything from twelve gate shot guns

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with deer slugs to high powered rifles, not to mention

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the pistols that were on their belts. Mom fed everyone

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a nice chicken dinner, and then we waited. Round ten thirty,

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we heard grunting coming from the woods behind the house.

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Knowing there would be more than one of them, three

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of our large group went around the house to check

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it out, while the rest of us waited inside at

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the ready. Ten minutes later, we heard a scream. It

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was like a woman shrieking mixed with the bear's roar,

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and from the safety of the inside of a house,

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we heard our neighbors open up gunfire, letting off round

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after round until the scream turned again to a cry

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of pain. Then we heard a second roar so intense

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it vibrated our chests. It came from the other side

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of the house. We ran to the windows in time

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to see this thing tear through some of the bushes.

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It had to be at least eight feet tall. And

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then a third, smaller one, maybe six feet tall, came

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running toward us. It took three rounds from us, and

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it turned toward the first one, who was screaming. The

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big one let out one more loud and long roar

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as it lifted its mate and barreled into the woods.

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Later that morning, we found blood in several places and

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even tracked it for almost a mile to the stream

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that was running around an old strip road, and we

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lost it there And we never found the bodies, but

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I know one had to be dead. Dad contacted the

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DNR and reported what had happened. Two officers came and

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looked around. They didn't even cross the woodline. They tried

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to tell us that it was a bear and that

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they could find us if we had tried to kill

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it out of season. We all know what we saw

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and shot, but no one believed us. Thankfully, nothing ever

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came back since that night, and for years after that

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we lived peacefully. I grew up and I moved out,

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and the events of that time became a memory. I'm

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thirty seven now, and just recently something has started taking

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my dad's animals again without leaving a trace. Seems the

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peace on the farm has come to an end. I'm

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afraid they're back. I grew up in central West Virginia,

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and my dad and I are big into coon hunting.

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Almost every night during coon season we would go together

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and run the dogs. In the summertime, when I was

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on break, I would take the dogs every night to

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get them ready for the season. Most of the time

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I would take off walking, but every once in a

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while my dad would come with me, even if he

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had to work the next morning. We would take his truck.

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That particular night was hot and muggy, but it was

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clear and there was a full moon. Dad and I

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loaded up the dogs and set out to try to

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get them to strike. That night, we treed three or

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four coons by one am. Seeing that we did pretty good,

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and because Dad had to get up in a few

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hours to go to work, we packed up and headed

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back to the house. That's when my work usually began.

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There were multiple things that Dad wanted done before I

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went to bed that night. He told me to wash

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out the kennels, and feed and water the dogs, and

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collect the eggs from the chicken coop. Our house sat

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right smack dab in the middle of a holler, and

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on either side of the house was straight up hills

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into the woods. I took off and did my chores

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while Dad went in to go to bed. When I

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was done, I started walking back to the front porch,

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and I got a weird feeling that something was staring

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right through my soul. I looked to my right up

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the hill, and there, thirty feet higher in the trees

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or a set of red eyes looking right at me.

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They were so big. My first thought was that it

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was a small airplane. I sat and stared right back

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at it for a few seconds, completely mesmerized, before I

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realized there was no way it was a plane. It

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was too close, they were too big, and it was

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far too silent. I think it was two thirty in

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the morning by then. I hauled my butt inside, where

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Dad was fast asleep on the couch, and I debated

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on waking him up. That was a cardinal sin in

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our house. So I sat there and stared at the wall,

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contemplating what in the world I had just seen outside.

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A few minutes passed and I heard a huge bang

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on the roof, like a paratrooper had landed on top

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of the house. Once it landed, it started walking toward

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my parents' bedroom. It was so loud and heavy that

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I could hear every footstep, and once it reached the

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end of the house, it turned and it walked all

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the way back to where my room was on the

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other side. About that time, I decided, screw this, I'm

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waking my dad up. I don't care if he will

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beat my butt or not. So I woke him up.

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I was freaking out, and he just groaned at me

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and he went back to sleep. I sat there the

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rest of the night, wide awake until we woke up

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for work the next morning, and when I told him

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what I heard the night before, he just laughed at me.

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He thought I was crazy. I'm in my twenties now,

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but ever since that night, every time I come home,

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I stay inside. I barely go out at night, and

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Dad hasn't been able to get me to go hunting

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very much. Since then, no one has ever believed me.

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Hopefully you all will. It feels good to get it

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off my chest. I am a graduate of the University

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of Kentucky's Veterinary Medicine program. I achieved my doctorate in

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veterinary medicine, specializing in bovine, equine, swine, and small ruminants.

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After working with some older veterinarians, I was able to

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open my own practice at nineteen ninety five. Later, I

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was offered a position with the Tennessee elk reintroduction program.

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In two thousand, the state reintroduced two hundred head of

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elk in the Northumberland Wildlife Area, fitting a portion of

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them with radio callers. Later in twenty fifteen, we began

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using implanted transmitters to help with the retention rates of

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the calves born each year. In the early years, we

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became proficient at monitoring the callers and quickly identified when

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a specimen was distressed. We were able to catch several

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poachers in the act of illegally harvesting bull elk, and

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even monitored one bull elk that traveled into Kentucky and

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set up squattersh writes in a peaceful valley and mountain

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along Wolf Creek. Needless to say, Tennessee had something to

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say about this and had to recover the runaway and

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bring him back home to his family. On the morning

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of September nineteen, twenty seventeen, I got the call to

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meet a game warden and park ranger off one of

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the service roads in a wildlife area. The collar of

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one of our bull elk was transmitting some erratic data.

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I was the last to arrive with my field pack

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and tranquilizer gun. I had three darts loaded with enough

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xylazine in fentanyl to immobilize a twelve hundred pound bull

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in a matter of seconds. This bull was over ten

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years old and he was one of the hurd's dominant breeders.

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The park ranger's name was Brian, and he had the

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radio telemetry equipment that detected the location of the callers

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signal and the game warden. Rick was equipped with an

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M four rifle just in case the signal came in strong.

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As soon as Brian fired up his equipment showing us

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we were within five hundred yards of the bull, we

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slipped into the bush and began the trek toward him,

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careful not to make unnecessary noise with our approach. We

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were a little more than one hundred yards out when

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Brian said the signal was moving away quickly, as if

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it had hopped into a truck and was driving off.

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Rick burst into action and ran forward with reckless abandon

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When Brian and I finally caught up with him, he

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was standing in a small clearing that was drenched in blood.

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The smaller trees had been smashed to the ground, and

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there in the midst of all this carnage lay a

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single leg bone and a hoof of our missing bull.

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It appeared that all the flesh was chewed off his

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leg and cast aside. We all knew that this animal

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did not run off on its own, missing a leg

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to stand on, Rick again took the lead and began

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to track the animal, following the droplets of blood and

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broken twigs and tree limbs, and the moved leaf litter

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on the forest floor. Occasionally Brian picked up the signal again,

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but it would quickly disappear a moment later. Over the

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next four hours of playing cat and mouse, the signal

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came in strong and it was moving right at us.

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Rick positioned himself to the side and took cover behind

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some down trees. Brian and I followed his lead. Ten

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minutes later, an older Native of American dressed in buckskins

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and moccasins walked out of the dark woods on his

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outstretched arms. He presented the collar and he said, I

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believe this is what you're searching for. He laid it

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on the ground and started to walk away. When Rick

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told him to stop and turn around. The older man

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did what he was told, and Rick identified himself. He

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asked him what in the hell made him think he

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could just walk up and drop the collar and walk

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off like that. The older man looked at him, calmly

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in the eyes, and he said, I answer to a

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higher power than you. I am the uniony, the spiritual leader,

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and the medicine man for our people, and the one

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who oversees the sou Kaloo. He seemed to appreciate our confusion,

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and then he added, the sou Kaloo do not wish

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to be disturbed. He only took the elk to feed

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his mate. She has recently given birth and is not

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ready to travel. The answer wasn't good enough for Rick.

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A law enforcement agent can't just take a stranger's word

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and call it a day. The old man could have

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been an innocent messenger, or he could have been trying

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to distract us while his poacher buddies got away with

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our bull. Rick asked the man, well, what is a Sukloo.

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The old man was patient in his response. They're the hairy,

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slant eyed devils of old. Their tribe and ours have

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made peace many years ago, though we have yet to

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reach peace with the Judicula tribe. But our alliance with

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the Suklou keeps the Judicula away from our people. Rick

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called his bs. He grabbed a man's arm and swung

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him around and slapped a handcuff on one of his wrists.

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My life changed then, and there, fifty yards away, a

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monster stepped out from behind a tree and it roared.

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It was unlike anything I had ever seen in my life.

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It was a train horn, an elephant bugle, and a

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lion's roar, all mixed into one enormous sound, and it

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shook through our bodies in the entire forest. The three

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of us were frozen. The old man didn't react at all.

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This creature stood over nine feet tall and was almost

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four feet wide, with the build of a linebacker. We

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could see his muscles flexing as he roared, and we

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could see his large canines as his mouth widened. His

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hair was long, and it covered the majority of his

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body except for the palms of his hands and the

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bottoms of his feet. And his face. His face is

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what got me. There was a hint of something human,

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but also something ape or demon like. The eyes were

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solid black with no visible white, and the nose was

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flattened against his face, like a gorilla with dark gray

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skin pigmentation, and there was no sign of ears on

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either side of its head. My instincts kicked in, as

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it has so many times in private practice, when a

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large animal became unexpectedly uncontrollable, and I took aim with

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the tranquilizer rifle, and I fired immediately after the first

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one impacted the creature, I inserted the second dart and

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readied myself for another shot. The beast stood stationary for

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twenty seconds, not seeming to know what had hit him,

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but realizing something was wrong, and began to fade back

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into the dark woods. Brian stood there, slight jawed, not

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doing anything. As Rick composed himself, he handcuffed the old

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man's older wrists and secured him around a small tree,

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and he left the man there and he took the lead.

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Tracking the monster. We found it less than one hundred

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and fifty yards away, was face down in the forest floor.

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We approached it and the smell became overwhelming. It was

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a mix of rancid trash, festerring road killed sewer, and

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rotten potatoes. The three of us weren't strong enough to

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roll it on its back, but we were able to

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turn its head to the side so that it didn't

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suffocate in the ground. Brian and Rick began taking pictures

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with their phones as I pulled out a specimen kit

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and took samples of blood and skin and hair. Within

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just a few minutes, this beast had already started to

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regain its awareness. I gave him a shot of something

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to help with the opioid component of the tranquilizer, and

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we began our retreat, with Rick covering our backs with

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his M four. We moved out backwards the way we

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came in, and our eyes trained on the beast as

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we quietly slipped away, but we didn't get much of

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a head start. Within seconds, the beast raised himself upright

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and staggered off into the thick woods like a drunk

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man stumbling home, picked up the pace and made it

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back to the area where we left the older man,

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but he was gone. We found Rick's handcuffs laying on

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the ground in a mysterious cloud of fog around the tree.

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We didn't know what to say, there was no sign

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of him anywhere. Rick said a string of curse words,

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and we quickly headed back to our vehicles. Brian called

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the park office and informed them of what had happened,

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stating that we had photos and specimens to validate the

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existence of sisquatch, but we had a two hour walk

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back to the vehicles. As we walk, we discussed how

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we had evidence of a mythological species and that we

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would be featured on every TV station around the world,

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and we might even earn some money from all this.

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I was just excited that we could be able to

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put the laws in place to protect these creatures. This

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was a green peace Christmas. Our excitement soon faded as

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we approached our vehicles, we saw two black suburbans with

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blacked out windows and government plates waiting for us. Four

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men dressed in black suits and wearing dark sunglasses stepped

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down and approached us. The one in charge presented his

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credentials badge, and he told us that we had a

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very forgettable day to day and that he needed my

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field pack and our phones. They patted us down and

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made it clear that we had not seen a thing

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other than evidence that a pack of feral dogs had

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taken down a bull elk, and that we were not

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to mention anything or our jobs would be history. As

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they were driving away, Brian told us that he was

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afraid that might happen, so he emailed the photos to

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himself and his parents and his girlfriend in Knoxville. We

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were overjoyed, but it was short lived. When I got home,

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I went to the and found that my email had

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been entirely wiped out and my eye cloud was empty

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as well. The next day I tracked down both Rick

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and Brian, who told me the same had happened to them.

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Brian's parents' email had been wiped out and his girlfriend's

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phone quit functioning. She was unable to recover anything, not

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even her contacts. The following week, I submitted my resignation.

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I didn't want to work with or for an employer

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with such questionable ethics. I re established my practice as

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a livestock vet, and I will continue to seek the

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answers I want on my own, including what I have

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already discovered about the two tribes of Bigfoot. First, the

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Soux Kaloo, they simply want to avoid humans and avoid

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all contact. But the Judahicula are not the same. They're

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the evil side of Sasquatch, and we'll take a human's

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life if given the opportunity. I'm unsure of the motivation

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behind the government's decision to keep the existence of Sasquatch

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a mystery, or why they would confiscate our personal property

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to maintain this secrecy, but I would truly like to

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know before I leave this world. Okay, thank you for

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listening to this podcast. I certainly do appreciate you, and

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we will see you guys on the next one. Thanks