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CRYPTID ENCOUNTERS - UPRIGHT CANINES / MANTIS HUMANOIDS / HUMAN-LIKE BIGFOOT - Lon Strickler (Host)
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Apr 16, 2025
Welcome to Phantoms & Monsters 'Personal Reports' - cryptid & unexplained accounts directly from the archives of Phantoms & Monsters, and the Phantoms & Monster Fortean Research team. Narrated by Lon Strickler. Join us in the chat, discuss, and ask me questions about the accounts. Featured in this edition: This presentation will include a variety of cryptid encounters that were forwarded to Phantoms & Monsters. These incidents include: - Multiple Upright Canines Observed at Camp Stewart, Georgia (1941) - Two Tall, Thin, & Muscular MANTIS-LIKE HUMANOIDS Seen Near Two Human Bodies in Eugene, Oregon - Herpetologist Encounters HUMAN-LIKE BIGFOOT in the Chattahoochee National Forest - Cloaked 'PREDATOR-LIKE' LIZARD HUMANOID Observed in Tree - 4-FOOT-TALL 'BIRD PEOPLE' Manifest in Front of Security Guard I will describe this incident and others in detail and answer all questions from the chat room. Lon Strickler is a Fortean researcher, author, and publisher of the syndicated 'Phantoms and Monsters' blog. He began the blog in 2005, which has steadily grown in popularity and is read daily by tens of thousands of paranormal enthusiasts, investigators, and those seeking the truth. His research and reports have been featured in hundreds of online media sources. Several of these published reports have been presented on various television segments, including The History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens,' Syfy's 'Paranormal Witness', 'Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files,' and Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America.' He has been interviewed on hundreds of radio & online broadcasts, including multiple guest appearances on 'Coast to Coast AM.' He was also featured on Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America' television show for 'The Sykesville Monster' episode. Lon has written 9 books and is currently the host of Phantoms & Monsters Radio. Lon was born and raised in south-central Pennsylvania, near the Gettysburg National Military Park and Battlefield. After living in the Baltimore, MD metro area for 40 years, he eventually moved back to his hometown in 2016.
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hey folks good evening and welcome to fam zamasu's personal reports where I
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um and I'll try to get to each and every one of them so let's start off with a an anode
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account um from actually 1941
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uh before uh well multiple upright canines were observed at Camp Stewart
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Georgia and currently Camp Stewart Georgia is
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Fort Stewart it's a um at the time before World War II
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it was used as a um as a boot camp and kind of a training area
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but you know I have heard a Bigfoot sightings there in the past
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uh and it's a it's a large area they do allow some people to come in there and hunt
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with permit but most of the sightings that I have been reported to me of the Bigfoot have
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been actual soldiers but this account was of multiple upright canines that was
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seen when the camp was fairly young so um
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so before the U.S got involved in World War II um
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you know this was uh like I said this was a training camp and uh the the individual who had the
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encounter stated Highline and joy reading and newsletter and thought I would send a story my
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grandfather John told me now in 1940 he volunteered for active duty
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it was later shipped off to Camp Stewart Georgia he had graduated high school in
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New York City the year before and thought that the US would be fighting in the war eventually so he
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signed up before he got drafted now at the time he was part of an anti-aircraft training
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unit that was housed in large tents now Camp Stewart now Fort Stewart was a
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fairly new facility and much of it was under construction so most of the tents were in or near an area that were
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densely forested and I don't know how many guys were in the tent with him
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but he was friends with another guy from New York by the name of Pete
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uh they hadn't been there long when stories about weird creatures of the woods started to circulate among the
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soldiers now one of the rumors was that a few soldiers had been attacked by an unknown Beast Within the camp
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and there wasn't a lot said and no one I mean he believes no one ever witnessed
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the attacks one early morning Grandpa John and Pete along with other soldiers were
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transporting garbage to an area north of the camp he said that there was a large ditch
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where all the refuse was dumped it was hauled in large barrels which were emptied one by one
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now he was in the lead truck as they pulled up to the dump area they noticed a very large dog
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on the back edge of the ditch which looked to be digging in the trash
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they were commenting that the dog may have been a wolf because it was huge and while they were talking amongst each
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other the dog stood up on his two back legs and looked directly at them
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after a few seconds it turned it dropped to all four legs then ran into the woods
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now they were alarmed and considered leaving but there were armed Personnel on patrol
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they then wondered why armed soldiers needed to guard a garbage dump
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it quickly got their work done because they wanted to leave as soon as possible so Grandpa John said that he
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later had a conversation with one of the guys who had spent time guarding the garbage dump
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so according to him the higher-ups were where the large dogs would they bleed which they believed to
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be wolves he said that they were there were other beasts in the area and that they were
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ordered to shoot to kill if they had the opportunity and he admitted that he witnessed one of
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these wolves stand up on two legs and walk though he didn't say uh why you failed to shoot at it
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so Grandpa John was later injured during training but after two years he was
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clear for a Simon's surging U.S Army in Europe he said that over the years he had
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talked to other vets who had trained at Fort Stewart a few of them were aware the attacks and
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that it probably occurred on more than one occasion I read about Dogman sightings on your
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website I wonder if Fort Stewart Beast may have been the same type of creatures
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I'd be interested if others had heard of these attacks thanks and like I said that's the only account
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that I have ever gotten from there as far as uh crypto K9s
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so so I don't know but if anybody who's listening to us has
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heard anything I'd really like to know some more so you can contact me
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so next next account we have are about two tall thin and muscular Menace like
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humanoids senior two human bodies in Eugene Oregon now
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this account I sent to one of the team members who lives in or Eugene Oregon
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and uh Reagan Lee and she's going to be investigating us and looking into it
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but anyway this Eugene Oregon witness was taking photographs along the the
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Wilmette River early in the morning when he knows his too tall thin muscular menace-like
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humanoids near two human bodies uh he stated Highline this must be a
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this might be a long email as I'll include all the particulars this happened to me in the early 2000s
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it was near 4 45 a.m and I was taking some time by Wilmette River before
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stores open I was living in Eugene Oregon the spot I chose to stop and Russ was next to the
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famous oh and Rose Garden Park and Interstate 5 ran overhead
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I was underneath and next to the river spring and the temperature was cold but
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not freezing put my back up against one of the support beams from the highway and
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rested that's when I noticed some strange things going on across the river from where I was maybe 50 feet on the on the
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bank I saw two tall thin but very muscular mantis insect beings on the other bank
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now he said I'm nauseated just writing this now the first one was less than 10
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foot from the water's edge not moving at all but eyes were open they were glassy like mirrors
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there was a person there on the ground face down looking like maybe he fell
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then I noticed the second one I hadn't noticed him before because it
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wasn't all that clear this creature was beating forward and back quickly
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he was leaning over another body the body didn't move but this thing did very
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fast a blur actually I became afraid at this point and slid my butt forwards so head and vision
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would go down that's when I heard a strange talking
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also heard the banging of metal on concrete I looked up I didn't want to
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and saw what looked like a white bald man with black big black sunglasses
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he was looking from behind the pillar barely 15 foot away from me we just looked at each other and then I began
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sliding down as far as I could to not see him I thought there must see so what
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what's this what's going on I gathered my courage jumped up grabbed my bike and began riding as fast as I could to get
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away now right after I started writing I heard I I started throwing up
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it was way too much for me by then something flashed right by me in Hyper Speed
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all I saw was this disturbance in the air I said out loud what the hell was that
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feel safe I ended up at our Hospital sitting in the ER Lobby there was a car going around and around
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the block until about 6 30 in the morning the windows were fogged but I could see
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three outlines were they lost I'm not sure I went back two days later and there's
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nothing to stand on behind the pillar of the guy with the glasses the pillar goes right into the river
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also I couldn't find any tracks on the other side but it did look dug up like a bull's a
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dozer or something I'd come in there there were also others in line going up to the highway I
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couldn't figure out where they were going so that's kind of an unusual story
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um like I said Reagan's gonna look into this and see if she heard anything about
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this I received this account maybe about two or three weeks ago so even though it was in the early 2000s
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I I don't know what to say about it but uh maybe she'll be able to come up with something so we'll wait and see and if I
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do get something from her I'll post it so next account was a herpetologist
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encounters a human-like Bigfoot at Chattahoochee National National Forest
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now in Atlanta Georgia herpetologist encounters a supposed Bigfoot wow and
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chick Chattahoochee national forest from the description the creature seems more
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fearful than aggressive he States I'm from Atlanta Georgia and
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I'm a herpetologist I traveled frequently to North Georgia Mountains up into the Helen area at
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Chattahoochee National Forest on this day I was going there to observe some
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Wildlife that I frequently studied this was last of 10 this was in
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September 2016. it was a probably five to six it was approximately five to six o'clock in the
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evening and as I was going to my usual sites I observed that there's new Wildlife
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active I didn't notice it at first but it did I did later on as I was walking
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I walked up to the Ridge and I noticed there was something diagonal from me
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it was on the ground and it wasn't moving I was about 20 25 foot away from it I
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moved towards it and jumped up and spun around very quickly
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I realized you know this was something very out of the ordinary something I hadn't seen before
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and it was sitting there it was staring at me and some minutes had passed and at
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this point in time it was making groans and growls or I was making sounds close to that
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that's the best way I can describe it it was man-like some might say it was ape-like but in my
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opinion due to my study various Wildlife it was nothing close to being an ape
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it was like a man there was absolutely nothing ape about it very muscular the hands the best I
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can describe to hands are about 13 to 14 size 13 or 14 and maybe even larger as
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far as trying to fit a ring on it very muscular I cannot stress that enough
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you can see the whites of the eyes unlike many other creatures they were squinted and aggressive
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the forehead was not a Blake it was more Homo Sapien than ape
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I did have a full I did have full body hair except for the hand it did have full body hair except for the hands and
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feet there was hair on the knees and elbows it had hair like a man the teeth I was
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able to observe the teeth as they were bared most of the time the teeth were like a man's it did had
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two three or four canines but they were worn and pretty nasty I stood in front of this creature for a
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significant amount of time I didn't know whether to run or just stand there or do whatever you do
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definitely this creature could outrun me like I was saying his hands and skin were tanned they weren't black
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it would I wouldn't even say dark brown they were just tan it did have fingernails human-like it
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didn't have blood on them as I was able as far as I could tell
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this was all happening and as I observed this was all happening and as I was
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Discerning his hands it besides me up that's the best way to describe it
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then it picked up a log I was able to observe that he was most
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likely right-handed I know this is going to be hard to believe but it's true and it chucked it in my general direction
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notice I said him it did have male sexual organs it was able to I was able to observe
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that no tail it walked upright it had brownish reddish hair it was matted I'm not 100
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sure if it was due to the Georgia Clay or if it was just actual hair color I
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was able to observe it was a observance a mix of brown and red now after a chuck the log at this point
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in time I started backing up slowly and I didn't charge me to try to beat me or anything like that I was expecting
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I was slowly backing up there was a strong statute body odor
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somewhat that of a wet dog but I I'd say probably a hundred times stronger I was
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backing up and this all happened within two minutes and I slowly started backing down the
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Ridge and eventually it got out of the sight and made a beeline back to where I came from
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it was definitely real beyond the shadow of a doubt it was what some people may call a Sasquatch big four or whatever
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he's not a man it was not a native creature it's that scene every day
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someone might make their own decision about it but that's all I've got to say
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there wasn't much to compare it to but it was about 400 pounds I'd say the
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forehead was sunken back and his shoulders are more forward it didn't have a proper human posture it
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was definitely leaning more forward and straight it's rare to see somebody that would be
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as muscular as this creature it was exhibiting more caution on the verge of aggression the eyes I was able to
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observe the eyes and did have more downright fear but there was aggressiveness in it the eyes were
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squinted the breathing was rapid and going by the noise the creature was making it was threatened by men
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interesting observation um and the fact that he got a herpetologist someone who's very
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familiar with wildlife uh in coming up with those descriptions is very you know
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it's helpful when we get stuff like when we do get those really distinct descriptions so did he see a Bigfoot
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most likely but you know like I stated when I had my encounter with Bigfoot in Maryland
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um they remind me of Neanderthal somewhat like human more so than an ape
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so I can understand what he's trying to say here uh
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then we have a cloaked predator like lizard humanoid observed in a tree now
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a married couple sitting on their porch when both observe a semi-transparent figure high in the neighbor's pine tree
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the white described as being similar to The cloaked Predator from the film franchise
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now she states it was a late Summer Afternoon in 2017.
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my husband and I were sitting on our sun porch it's a side porch that looks out over a
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driveway and towards the neighbor's property where he has a humongous pine tree and my hottest husband asked me do you
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see what I see it just so happened that I did he never described what he was looking at but
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pointed and followed I followed that and saw a creature like that in the movie Predator
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transparent kneeling and looking at us from a perch high up in the tree
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you could only see an outline when it moved it appeared weightless because it was so high up in the tree those
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branches could hold much weight it was just staring at us and then it realized that we saw it it went behind
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the main body the tree and disappeared this is the first time my husband is seeing anything with me and so it
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changed his whole perspective of course he was more open-minded not too quick to
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dispute when I shared things I've seen is ex-military and has been all over the
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world but this was a home where he saw something that just couldn't be explained we both saw it without a doubt
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now those semi-invisible beings I don't know for certain what they are
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um we both have theories what I know for certain is that they look like that cloaked alien in the movie Predator
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when it was transport parent or invisible mode it had a lizard-shaped head now
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it's interesting how some of the phenomena that are shown in film or
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later seen by Witnesses I mean is it a top effect is it a thought form
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or did maybe the original creators of the film or the film series have a similar encounter
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now in the years since the original film there are many many other sightings of
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what we call glimmer men uh kind of that glass scene look to it throughout the world but more so in
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North America now the Predator franchise was originally created by Brothers John
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and and Jim Thomas now I've attempted over the years to gather insight as to how they came up
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with the colloquin concept in the film and so far I still have no tangible
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information now several witnesses at the Chicago Mothman investigative team and I
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talked to have described wind humanoids as being similar to Jeepers Creepers and
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creatures well so do these memes or troops from films the internet and pop culture influence what
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the witnesses observe I'd be interested in what you think about them
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so here's the last account I'm going to read tonight and if you have questions you can start posting it up on the uh
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on the on the chat um a security guard in Nashville Tennessee
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recalls her wild encounter with four herd people while on duty
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four foot tall bird-like humanoids has simply appeared before her they later
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sing to her now she writes I do security work at night
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and it is in a big fenced-in yard kind of like in a rural area
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one night I was getting ready to go to the rest of them you know to the building and one minute I was walking in the next
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minute I was in front of four what I called the bird people because they stood above four foot
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now their faces were kind of humanoid but you know between a human and a bird
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their body was you know it was shaped like a bird and it had like looked like
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what a bird's face it had a bird's face but it was different their faces were different
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it wasn't exactly a bird face but between a human and a bird kind of flat
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gray Their Eyes Were kind of slits and the nose was kind of
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like a bird nose or a beak but it was in the front of the face and
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it had kind of a small mouth it was just for a few seconds I'm not
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the kind of person to see things though I know a lot of different phenomena
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it's still really fresh in my mind because of it it was different beings and I did have the sense that they were
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very intelligent and then the next thing I was heading towards the restroom and I was thinking
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it was interdimensional or an outer body type of thing this was kind of like out in the open
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and I'm thinking that these beings wanted me to see them they were standing apart they were for
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them and they were just looking at me and I was just looking at them so the next night I was just sitting in
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my car patrolling like I always do and I heard this beautiful Melody it was like a bird and a human
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like what it was like they were saying to me it was you know and I acknowledged him and they
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acknowledged me that's the kind of that's the indication I got from the singing it was like the most beautiful sound an
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enchanting Melody so I don't know what to think about that
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one uh I'd be interested to get your ideas on
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that but uh that that's kind of a strange one so
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let's see what we got here for questions go ahead and post your questions and caps please
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well I got yeah uh shorter cook one said move on a contacted her during the week
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regarding a UFO report which I I published for her she'll send the analysis
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later today so uh yeah that's great I'll post that so folks
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uh if I'll go ahead and repost what she had sent and uh
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then I get the analysis and I'll go ahead and post that as well so you can find that on the blog uh
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Danny Garcia thanks for your uh your support
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so we got any questions folks
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I'm not seeing anything okay
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Tina Johnson are the bird people Concept in American Indian lore
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sure I'm sure there are some examples
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somehow or somewhere offhand I can't think of any um
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of course you know with a lot of the uh indigenous rituals and and dances and such they use
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representation of a lot of different birds uh these humanoid like birds Maybe
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you know um the Thunderbird lore is is is not a
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humanoid per se but uh I don't know Steve C have you heard any similar
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stories of bird people not like that um there had been
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stream javians uh Cryptid sightings but as far as humanoid-like Birds
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if I did I don't I I can't think of it all hand
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line uh this is from shorter or cook do you think the mantis live underground
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um I guess it's possible you know I I guess I I honestly believe
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that these mantis beings or interdimensional beings
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um you know just like a lot of Cryptids I believe they come from another another
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dimension is a dimension very close to our Dimension possibly
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um is it something very similar to uh like what's going on in Chicago now with
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those Wing beings possibly um are they alien
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again I imagine it's possible Orla Snyder are there a lot of Glimmer
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Man stories where they are in trees there are a few um very similar to what you see in the
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films uh I don't think they're hunting like the Predators but uh I I think they use the the
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um the trees is cover or for for observing but I have had a few I have had a few
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and more recently be honest Jennifer Bowman what is the strangest script that you
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encountered well personally the winged humanoid encounter I had back in 1988
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um yeah that's uh that's the weirdest one and quite frankly like I've said before
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this is um these are very the one the Cryptids the
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winged humanoids that we're seeing in Chicago those descriptions are very similar to what we've seen or what
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people have seen in Chicago as a compared to what I encountered in here in Pennsylvania so
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yeah I think that but that is as strange as I've seen I have had a Big Foot encounter and I've had that encounter
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so um Jennifer Bowman thanks for the super sticker I I appreciate it
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yeah if if you have a question please put in the cash because quite frankly the chat is so full I can't pick them up
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unless I see them in in um see them in caps
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so how about have you seen Bigfoot I wish one day I will well maybe you will
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I recently had an investigative friend who in in Wisconsin who saw his first
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Bigfoot about a month ago and uh he's been investigating this for
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several decades so yeah it was uh he was real real excited about it it's
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something you never forget I mean my encounter was uh back in 1981 with a
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Bigfoot and um you just never forget it
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Steve thanks for uh thanks for the uh donation
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could most of these Cryptids all be the same thing that can just change its
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shape you know there there have been these shapeshifter theories or that some Cryptids can change their
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parents I believe that's possible I think in some respects the wing human noise that Chicago Wing humanoids I
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think they do change um I think that they may look different to us and
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what they really look like I think other Cryptids may as well um
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so that's the best I can say on that we have any other questions
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let's see Tina Johnson your opinion what is the most aggressive Cryptid or humanoid oh I'd say definitely the
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canines the upright canines in particular uh somewhat aggressive
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um there's there's no real evidence that they actually attacked anybody or hurt anybody
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but from the witnessing who I have talked to who Butch also talked to
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there there is some type of uh aggression to the way they communicate
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uh and it's it's like a a mind talk thing
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our minds speak but I think they are probably the most
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aggressive uh canned Squatch how tall were the Mantis creatures and
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how muscular normally they are described as thin yeah uh the muscata Khan New Jersey sighting
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River sightings uh from the witnesses I talked to they were anywhere from six seven six seven foot
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other other sightings that had been reported me kind of same range
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you know I guess it's up to anybody to figure if if they're if if they're alien or
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some type of interdimensional being or what they are
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uh Castor pogs said one good show my son was stationed in Fort Steward 2005 2006
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and so there were a lot of UFOs over the base wow I had no doubt I mean there's a lot that
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goes on there uh Donna Forte do those glimmer men ever
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kill anyone not that I know of I haven't heard of that
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have not heard of that at all use televisions have you ever heard of any type of mechanical device in trees
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associated with Cryptids or UFOs
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no I can't say that I have I can't say that I have
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Jennifer Bowman absolutely incredible where can I go read listen to your encounters
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or you go to my website at fans of monsters.com it's all there or you can go through the uh you can go through the
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archive here at YouTube channel fans of monsters radio we've got some older accounts and uh some older videos listed
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there
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no I don't have anybody blocked I don't think I don't
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yeah if any if any of the moderators see the social def 3 is blocked somehow or
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just go ahead and block them but I don't think they are I'll check later but I I don't think they are
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Bobby Fern why do you think upright canines are being seen more habitat and
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corrosion possibly um yeah I mean
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that's probably the best explanation as to why
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they don't seem to want to come into uh residential areas or areas where there are people no they have been they have
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been seen but uh as far as encroaching on their natural habitat
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Yeah the more that's going on and I here in Pennsylvania in particular
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many of the sightings that we have gotten or been around or we've received have been around state parks state
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forests and other types of uh game lands so
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I don't know
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okay well folks I want to thank you for uh for coming on here and um
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in the chat and for your donations absolutely
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um okay and so
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so if you have a citing your encounter and you'd like to be considered for the report show or you know for fams and
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monsters feel free to forward to my email and launch stricklerfamilismmonsters.com and like I
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said um the the website is families.com
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uh please you know please share our links as well
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as well as our programming here on on the channel we're trying to get to ten thousand I
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you know we want to get this thing going to where we can start getting a little bit uh for our efforts
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so um hey shall we meet again to stay healthy stay
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safe and uh have a good night
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foreign
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thank you
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