CREEPY CAMPING ENCOUNTERS: Terrifying Cryptid, Aliens & Paranormal Stalker Reports | LIVE Chat Q&A

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is lifted one story at a time. I welcome you and all listeners to the channel, as
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well as first- timers in the chat. I hope you find tonight's subject and reports interesting.
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So, tonight we're heading deep into the woods to confront the terrifying
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unknown. From the mystical forest of Mount Shasta to the shadowed trails of Michigan and
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the haunted hollows of Pennsylvania. Tonight's presentation dives into
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chilling firsthand accounts from campers who encountered entities that defy explanation.
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Whether it's winged humanoids, blackeyed beings, alienike figures, or primal
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crypted canines, these witnesses came face to face with the bizarre and lived
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to tell the tale. We'll explore a horrifying brush with a Michigan dog man at a winter youth camp.
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an unsettling humanoid presence at Spruce Knob in West Virginia, and a
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skeletal beast stalking the woods of Devon, UK. You also hear about the encounters with feral women, blackeyed
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strangers, and possible Sasquatch or Dogman type creatures from Dead Woman's
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Hollow in Pennsylvania, one of the most paranormally charged sites in the eastern United States.
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These are the stories that unfold under canvas by campfire in the dead of night when nature itself seems to take a step
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back and something else steps in. Tune in, share your thoughts in the live
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So, the first witness contacts me and asks or states, "Something is haunting
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the woods of Mount Shasta, California. I don't know what it is, but I think
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I've seen it twice. Before I moved to Mount Shest, I had heard all the strange stories about the area, including weird
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disappearances, underground alien bases, and UFO sightings, but I didn't take them seriously.
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I was living in the suburbs, which was as far away from anything strange as anybody can get. It's just not something
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you go around thinking about all the time. Now, I lived in Mount Chester for a couple years before I saw anything
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like the kind of stories people were telling me. Almost everyone you meet will talk about something they've seen
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at you get to know them. Now, a couple miles from the town is Lake uh Cisco.
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There are miles of trails and shoreline to hike along and swim surrounded by
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hills and forest. I hope what I'm about to admit doesn't
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make me sound less believable, but I've used marijuana occasionally since high
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school. At the time this happened, I was using it medically to help with some medical issues. It's illegal in
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California. Not a big deal. Most people are okay about it. To make a long story short, I wanted to grow a couple of
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plants on my own. So, I bought some seedlings and went searching around in some areas for the in the woods for the
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forest in the back of Lake Cisco where a series of creeks flowed into it.
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I was trying to find a place near a water source where I could plant some seeds and had a lot of shing shrubbery
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and tree cover so the plants would be hidden. This wasn't a big operation. I just
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wanted a few plants for my use. We were renting a place and I didn't have any property to grow on. So, it seemed like
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a harmless thing to do. Now, you can understand it's partly because of this that I'm being very
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careful about remaining unknown. Technically, I could get in some trouble for this.
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It was getting near the end of summer when a friend and I camped out in the woods behind the lake. Before dark, we
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took the trail to the north shore of the lake and walked up into the forest where we set up a tent in a wooded area close
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to where my plants were growing. We were trying to be very quiet and
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didn't use any lights because it's illegal to camp here overnight.
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It was around midnight when we decided to go to the lake's northshore for a swim because it was too hot to fall
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asleep. We were walking on the trail back to the lake and it was dark and felt humid. As
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we continued down the path, we passed through a grassy area and there was a mist hanging over the area at about 3 or
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4 foot off the ground, but just this one area, nowhere else. I remember my friend
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saying something about it because it seemed so unusual to her. A little
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further ahead, something crashed high up in the trees above us. We were both startled by the sound of branches
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splitting, breaking. Whatever it was made quite a bit of noise, like something scrambling to
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hide. It scared the hell out of both of us. When I turned around and looked up,
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I saw two large glowing yellow eyes looking down from high up in the tree,
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but the rest of its form was hidden in the branches. It only looked down for a moment and
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must have turned away because its shining eyes were gone a moment later. When there was another crashing in the
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limbs, like something suddenly jumping or falling, breaking more branches, but nothing hit the ground. My friend was
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looking up when this happened and she looked directly behind us and she heard it and turned around
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at the second as the second crash happened. The tree limbs high up shook
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causing broken branches and tree and limbs to fall but nothing large like an animal hit the ground only falling
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debris. It freaked us out. We both ran and got out of there. After we were
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further down the trail, I told her it was probably a bear or mountain line climbing up a tree, and we must have
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scared it. But I couldn't forget how large its eyes must have been for me to
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have been able to see that shining so brightly from high up in that tree. In the weird mist, that was only in the
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grassy area. It bothered me, but I didn't say anything more about it because I didn't want to freak my friend
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out for the rest of the night. It was probably about an hour after we
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went swimming on the Northshore that we saw something again. Now, we were both sitting on the sand having a smoke and
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from behind us, we both heard a large like or sound like a huge wings
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flapping. We both turned around at the same time and saw this large black
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bat-like form soaring directly over us, flying at about the same height as the
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tallest trees. It crossed over the lake and then veered off toward the south. Then it where it
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disappeared. The creature looked like a flying humanoid with bat-like wings about the
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size of a tall man. It was far too big to be any kind of owl or bird. And it was both we were both so
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freaked out that we didn't go back into the woods that night. We just went back to the main campground next to the lake,
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got in our car, and drove home. I returned the next day with a friend to
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get our tent tent. we had left. My girlfriend didn't want to go back there. I looked around the area to see if there
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were any tracks or something. Remembering that someone had told me that a long time ago there were reports
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in the local newspaper of a three-toed tracks up on Mount Shasta. But I
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couldn't find anything that looked out of the ordinary. And I I've never seen anything like that since. But we don't
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go camping up in the remote places around the mountain anymore. I never knew how hot widespread the
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sightings of these flying creatures were until after this happened to me and I started researching it online. That's
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how I found out that there's some strange truth to the strange things people claim to see around Mount Shasta.
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Now, this next witness states, "This happened to me in 2018 at a
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sleepaway camp, and it was still sending shivers down my spine. I've always had a passion for the supernatural and the
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idea of cryptage roaming the forest, but I've always kept my guard up since this encounter."
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So, to set the scene, I was on a uh on a winter camping retreat with my church
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called Ice Camp, and we traveled to a place called Camp U Mckhinden. our MC
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Hindo located outside the town of Hillsdale, Michigan.
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The first night was pretty much uneventful, but we got to explore the campgrounds at night as well as get
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settled into our cabins. However, all the joy was taken away when we were told
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never to explore the campgrounds alone at night or the monsters would get us.
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But for a bunch of rowdy teenage boys, we just laughed it off and went to bed.
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The morning was uneventful, but one detail about where my cabin was. It was across a large lake with a relatively
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small foot bridge connecting our cabin with the main lodge and all the other cabins.
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So, in the main dining hall, one of the cabins mentioned how last night none of them got to sleep because something was
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howling in the woods near the section called the Western Town. And my cabin didn't believe them for one second. And
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just we just told them that it was coyotes or wolves since there had been grey wolf sightings near the camp.
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However, the teens telling us this were shaken up and they were adamant about it
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was something else and we joked that it was a Bigfoot. So they just told my
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cabin to shut the f up and we did. Well, as the day progressed, my cabin and
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counselor had done activities to keep us interested. However, that evening would be the worst night of our lives.
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It was around midnight and we set up a bonfire to sit around, reflect upon the sermon that was given. Shortly after
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that, we just began to talk about random stuff. And when we heard a bunch of coyotes, we thought nothing of it. But
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then it went dead quiet in a span of maybe a couple minutes.
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Then we heard one of the most guttural howls that sounded like a human being murder mixed with a wolf howl.
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This made us all jump up, but we wondered wanted answers to what we heard. So my counselor him myself and
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two other cabin mates entered the woods with a 200 lm flashlight.
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We had good visibility at first. We didn't find anything. Then way off in the distance, a further area the
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flashlight could reach. We saw two pairs of red glowing eyes looking at us. And
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as it got closer, we thought we saw wolves, but the movement were unusual.
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It was more like a person down on all fours. My counselor told us to move away
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slowly, but the creature kept approaching. And before I could remember, the second one stood up and
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began to charge us, and we ran as fast as we could. We yelled to our cabin
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mates to get their butts to the cabin. And of course they were confused as to why we were running until they heard the
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same howl as earlier. And we hauled our butts from the bonfire across the foot bridge. And we stopped halfway because
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we thought it wouldn't get any closer until we heard the wood creaking rapidly
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and my entire cabin broke it once again, this time up to my cabin and we bolted
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the door shut. Whatever had followed us was now circling the cabin. All of us were
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freaking out. And then the thing looked into the window and I got a good look of
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what it was. It had a humanoid body, muscular yet yank lanky at the same
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time. And the head wasn't like that of a Sasquatch. It was like that of a wolf.
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All night we heard scraping and heavy footsteps until earlier morning it lost
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interest and left. I went to get some breakfast early that morning and to my horror I found a large
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set of claw marks in the wood and a large set of footprints leading towards
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the woods. So after that howling encounter I found out that the thing we
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saw was not Bigfoot but rather an older crypted from Michigan folklore called the Michigan dog man. Now, ever since
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then, I refused to go to a sleepa away cab camp because whatever I saw, I knew
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it would still be roaming the campgrounds.
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So, this next witness states, "When I was 16, my life changed forever. I had broken my back in a bad accident, was
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bedridden for months, unable to move. The pain was excruciating, but the psychological toll was even worse. being
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trapped in a hospital bed, staring at the same four walls day after day. But I was determined to recover and get my
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life back. Now, as soon as the doctors cleared me, I decided I need to get out of into
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nature to truly heal my mind and body, my mom agreed that the camping trip down
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in the beautiful Devon countryside might just be what I needed.
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She dropped me off at a remote forested area with my tent, some supplies, and a portable charger to keep my phone
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powered up. I had scoped out what looked like a perfect isolated spot to set up camp.
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Sure, it seemed to be on private land, but it was getting late, and I didn't want to risk camping too close to a
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public area. I quickly pitched the tent as darkness fell, cracked open a cider,
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and fired up YouTube on my phone as I settled in to relax.
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That's when things took a turn for the sinister. I noticed my phone battery was
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draining faster than it should, even while charging. Strange, but I tried not to think too much about it. That's when
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I heard it. The unmistakable sound of heavy footsteps trampling through the underbush, rapidly getting closer.
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My heart pounded. It sounded like at least 30 footballs. Was it an aggressive hiker or worse, a property owner with a
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shotgun? In a panic, I unzipped the tent and stuck my hands up and prepared to face
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whoever it was out there. But there was nothing, just the eerie silence of the
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forest. The footsteps that had been nearly on top me just seconds before simply faded into an unnatural
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nothingness. A deep sense of dread washed over me at
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that moment. Something was wrong here. I turned my head slowly, my gut telling me I wasn't
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alone. And that's when I saw it barely 20 ft away, unmoving yet undoubtedly alive. A
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massive skeletal beast about 5 foot tall, vaguely resembling a hairless,
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emaciated dog. Its blank face was frozen in the permanential
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snarl, lips pulled back to expose rolls of jagged teeth.
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I never felt such primal wordless terror. Fight or flight didn't even enter into it. I instinctively scrambled
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backward into the tent and zipped it up, curling into a tight ball on the ground.
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My mind had simply shut down, overloaded by the sight of that thing.
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After whom knows how long, I somehow thought to check my phone in desperation. It was completely drained.
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So I frankly swapped in the portable charger an agonizing 50 minutes later,
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crawled by before it finally turned back in just 3% battery remaining.
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With shaking hands, I managed to turn text my mom a frantic plea for help,
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dropping my location pin and rearranged code phrase for an emergency extraction.
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The phone died again before she could respond. All I could do was hunker down in my sleeping bag and try not to
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imagine what sort of a godly abomination was lurking just outside those thin nylon walls.
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The next few hours passed like a waking nightmare. Every minor sound, a snapping
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twig and rustling bush sent panic visions through my mind of that towering bony creature closing for in for the
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kill. Finally, I heard the blessed rumbling of an engine in the distance, risking a
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peak outside. I nearly collapsed with relief at the sight of my mom's car pulling up. I didn't even wait for the
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code response. I just grabbed my bag and sprinted straight for her open arms, leaving the tent and all the other
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belongings behind without a second thought. To this day, I have no rational
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explanation for what I encountered out in those woods. Maybe it was a delirious hallucination
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or vivid waking dream brought on by stress and fatigue. Maybe it's just an unfortunate trick of light and shadow
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playing on my already afraid nerves. All I know is that I have never felt
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such abject primal terror before or since. My body was robbed of all ability for
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rational thought or action. Only the most basic instincts of self-preservation remain.
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I'm not generally someone who believes in the supernatural, but that day in Devon will eternally be burned into my
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psyche as an omen, a warning from the universe that some places are better left undisturbed by human trespassers.
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If I had pressed on with my ill- fated camping excursion, I shudder to think what other shadowed monstrosities might
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have surfaced from the murky depths of the ancient woodland.
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Now, this next account, the witness states, "My husband's son and I went camping in rural West Virginia, kind of
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traveling around other parts of the state we don't get too often.
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We live in Eastern Panhandle, but the places we camped were in Grant, Hardy County, Pendleton County, and Lost River
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area, and Spruce Knob, closer to the middle of the state. We camped Friday through Monday and had
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no cell service the whole time. Anyway, on our second night, we set up
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at Spruce Knob in Managila National Forest. It's not a campsite. It's a fire
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ring we found on a good hike from a long, quiet, sparsely populated country
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road. So, not seriously backpacking, but not populated by any means. People
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occasionally drive up to see the overlook, but after sunset, we generally hear no cars and cannot see or hear
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evidence of others camping nearby, not even a distant fire.
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We got into our tent around 9 or 10 p.m. About 30 minutes later, my husband describes his primal overwhelming fear
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sense that something is off. So, he's wide awake and so is our son.
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The tent flap rain cover moved and made a odd but quiet rustle. And then
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suddenly we saw a human-like figure standing right next to our tent like close a silhouette.
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An imposing stance and tall like staring into the dark tent looking down at us
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inside. It just appeared. There were no sounds like a bear or person would make
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approaching the tent except for the possibility that the the wind blowing over our rain cover, which was very
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quiet and odd sounding, not someone walking up. My husband yells, "Hey,
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hey," etc., and clapped and made noise, maybe because it was a bear, and his first thought was to scare it off.
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It wasn't moving around. And it was very still, not swaying with the pretty non-existent gentle wind like a tree
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moving or how the eyes trick would appear, but it just standing hovering
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there. It hung around a few more seconds after my husband made noise and then it just
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kind of evaporated or vanished. Still no sound like a good horror movie. We got out and
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looked around with a flashlight, still yelling, clapping, and looking around. He found no disturbance, no tracks, no
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rustling or any noise, just simply gone. Now I know this may sound based some
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trick of the eye. We always feel very safe in these woods and know them well.
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So this his having this fear response immediately before seeing this or hearing the rain flap is unusual.
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He doesn't get creeped out for no reason. We're built with instincts, so we should
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they should be trusted. Also based on what the moon was waning crescent,
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it offered very little light, not enough to uh create a silhouette. Our campfire
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was out plus the apparition was close to the woods on the back side of the tents.
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So even if our campfire was going, the angle would have been wrong to create an illusion.
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It's bothering us because there's no good explanation. I want to reiterate that we never got
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bad vibes while camping like this. We're experienced in the woods and I'm always
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warmed. I do wish we'd snapped a pick or something, but panicking about a bear,
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scary ax, murder, ghost, whatever. Taking a pick just didn't cross our minds.
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It was all too quick anyway. It felt like forever, but this was probably only a good 60 to 90 seconds. So, Moth Man,
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has anyone had anything similar happen? We may be going back next weekend
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because other than our our visitor, we had no we had so much fun and it was a
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lovely camp spot. Or will we be pushing our luck? I want to write this out while
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the details are still fresh. They never got back to me, but I wish I
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knew what they ran across.
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This next witness states, "In the summer of 2009, my husband and I went camping in the
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Uniccoy State Park in Georgia. One morning around 4:00 a.m., I woke up
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to go to the restroom. There was a building near the campsite provided restroom and shower facilities. It was
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pitch black outside except for the light from my lantern and the lights from the building. I went in, did my thing, and
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as I started to leave to walk back to my tent, I stopped walking. I had a feeling
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someone was behind me. I turned around and I saw three figures standing in the woods behind the building near our
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campsite on the hill in the back. They didn't seem to be doing anything
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but standing there. I thought it could have been people from the campground on the hill. But why would they be standing
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in the middle of the woods at 4:00 a.m. for no apparent reason? When one of them turned and looked at
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me, I realized they weren't human. For one thing, the arms were too long
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and the bodies were too thin. The skin had pale, glossy look, and they had very
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large craniums with lumps all over the top of the scalp. They had huge black eyes that seemed to
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pierce right through me. I stand 5'3 and they looked about two inches shorter
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than me. The one that saw me started to inch towards me, but I bolted back to my
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tent. When my husband asked me what was wrong, all I could say was, "There are freaking aliens back there." When he
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finally calmed me down, he had me stay in the tent while he went to see what it was.
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You found nothing. I don't know if I had any missing time or not. It was around 5:00 a.m. when I
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finally calmed enough to leave the tent with my husband. We had a cigarette and
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talked about my sighting. Then around 6:30 a.m., we got a fire going and cooked breakfast, and that's all I
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remember from that morning. The next night, we said we saw he said
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he saw a sat shadowy figure moving outside. We didn't hear any footsteps. We looked
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up and saw the top cover on the tent move as if someone pulled it aside to look at us from above.
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When we woke up again later that night, the blankets on his side of the tent were wet,
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and it started raining that night. My side was dry for the most part, and I
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couldn't remember exactly which campsite we used, but I'm sure it was lot 60. It was located directly across in the
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parking lot. Now, I didn't see any signs of a crap nearby, but I did see the creatures. Now, I know it was what I saw
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was real, and I was wide awake when I saw them.
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Next witness states, "Hello, sir. I came across one of your reports concerning blackeyed kids in Pennsylvania.
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My cousin and I had a very weird experience in September 2011.
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We both lived in the town of Wolverine, Michigan, and our dads are brothers. My cousin and I have been hunting and
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camping together since we were 12 years old, and we're only two months apart in age.
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We had graduated from high school that spring and plan to go camping later in the summer. We finally got permission to
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use my dad's popup camper and headed off. We planned to stay a week or so at a place southwest of Meno City in a
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forest near the state park. We drove back into the woods about four miles off the main road and set up a
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small clearing in a small clearing. We both thought the area looked familiar
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but could not recall when we had been there. It was weird because we both comment at the same time at, you know,
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to each other. We really didn't have much plan to do other than be together and hike the
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area. Both of us were going to move away from home the next spring, so we didn't
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know when we'd see each other again. And I'll be honest, the camping trip was a good excuse to get away from my
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girlfriend for a while. We uh didn't do much that first night
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other than drink a few beers and talk, and we were in our racks early that night. The next morning, we decided to
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explore the area. We started at about 10:00 a.m. and started west towards headed west towards the lake. And we had
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been walking no more than an hour when we heard some somebody yelling ahead of us. It didn't sound like they were in
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trouble, so we cautiously continued walking toward the sound. After about 10 minutes or so, the
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yelling stopped and we never saw anyone. I had a GPS with me, so I figured we'd
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be able to find our way back easily. Now, we did get crossed up a few times,
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but we got back to the campsite late afternoon. There was a small creek nearby, so we washed up and started
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cooking dinner. Now, as we sat to eat, there was a sound of something moving through the trees
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north of us. There were a lot of small animals in the area, so I figured that's what it was. A few minutes later, we
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heard thrashing sounds, like something was sweeping at small trees and bushes.
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Since we were eating, I thought maybe a black bear got wind of our food. Whatever it was, it soon stopped, but
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occasionally it would start up again. That night, we could hear the sweeping sound coming from the same area, which
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seemed odd to us. The next morning, it was quiet, so we
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walked in the direction of the noise from the previous night. We didn't see anything, but it did look like something
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had been kicking up the the ground in a few places. We walked back to the campsite and
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started to eat breakfast. I just wanted coffee, so I went into the popup and searched for a c uh a coffee cup. As I
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was in there, I heard my cousin say something. I asked what he wanted. He replied that I had better get out there.
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I looked through the netting and there was a tall man with a with a black tracksuit standing at the edge of the
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clearing. I stepped out and asked the man if we could help him. He smiled and said,
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"Maybe I can help you." My cousin and I both looked at each other and kind of laughed. The man started to slowly walk
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towards us and I asked what he wanted. He stopped walking. It was about 15t
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from us. Right away, I noticed that his eyes were totally black and that the
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tracksuit had cake mud and dirt on it. I asked who he was. He smiled and said, "I'm just taking a walk and meeting
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people." By this time, I was freaked out, and my cousin walked towards the popup.
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I knew he was going to grab a shotgun. The man got a serious look on his face, like he sensed we were alarmed. So, he
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turned and walked towards the woods. At the edge of the clearing, he stopped, turned around, said, "I'll be seeing you
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boys later." And started to laugh as he moved towards the woods.
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Uh, we didn't need another confrontation like that. So, we gathered everything and hauled ourselves out of there. We
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set up in another area about 70 mi south of there, and we had an enjoyable couple of days.
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But when we get together, we still wonder aloud who the weird blackeyed man was.
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So, this next witness states, "I grew up in a very outdoorsy family in southern
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Indiana, and we often went camping and hiking in the summer. My mother told
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this story to my sister and me about a time she had went camping with my dad before we were born."
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She said, "I was in my tent and it was in the middle of the night, perhaps 1:00 a.m., and I had woken up to to go
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relieve myself just like normal. I was about to unzip the tent when I heard a small scratching sound." I paused. It
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was a slow, deliberate, crunching, digging kind of sound. It was too rhythmic for an animal. So, after making
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sure it wasn't your father who was sharing the tent, I unzipped the corner of the door and peaked out. The moon was
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just bright enough for me to see a young woman squatting right next to our little twoman tent, digging at the ground with
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her bare hands. Even your father was scared. So, he went and shined a flashlight on
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her and told her to go back to wherever she had made camp. The woman got up silently, leaving a 4-in deep hole next
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to the tent, and started walking away. I went outside, relieved myself, and got
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back into my sleeping bag. A few minutes later, I was awoken again
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by a clattering sound of a person or animal walking around where we had put our stuff.
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I looked outside again and the woman was crouched low, walking around her stuff
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and looking at things the way a monkey might. Your father stepped out of the tent,
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shined the flashlight on her again. She faced him. He asked her to kind of leave their stuff alone, but she just stood
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there dirty and neglected looking, but not malnourished, staring at his light.
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He gave up and went back into our tent. Soon we heard her digging again at her
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little hole, which was literally 6 in and two pieces of thin nylon away from
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my head. I shouted for her to go away and she ran away in an animalistic way of kind of
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way and and never returned. I fell back asleep and in the morning our stuff was scattered but nothing was
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stolen. My mother and father never did find out who the woman was. My mother believed
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that she may have been a feral. They did report the incident to the local police the next day, but they were
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never contacted afterward.
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So this next account, the witness tells me, "Hi, Lon. I don't have any idea what I witnessed
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in May 28th, 2013, but it was the most frightening experience in my life. My
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wife and I were camping at an RV park near Jasper, Arkansas, and planned to be there for several days. We arrived early
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Saturday and got situated soon after. Now, my wife wanted to look around the area since she had never been to the
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Ozarks. I was born and raised in the mountains and was familiar with the terrain and
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wildlife. After we tinkered around the campsite, we decided to take a short hike through the nearby valley.
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There were a few caves and caverns along the way, but nothing where I would have guessed any large predator would live.
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After walking for an hour, we started to head back towards the RV park.
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Now, not long after we started walking back down the trail, something caught my eye on the right in a sassifrass
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thicket. My wife sensed it as well and stopped to look in the same direction. I could see
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this dark four-legged creature moving back and forth slowly through the brush.
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We immediately started to walk at a fast pace towards the park. This creature was moving along as well, keeping its
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distance but tracking us. This continued for what seemed like 10 minutes until we reached the clearing.
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We got back to the campsite very shaken and nervous. All my years growing up the mountains, I had never seen anything
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incomparable to it. From what I could gather, it was very large, almost the size of a black bear, but moved close to
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the ground like a cat. It was also very dark in color. We didn't say anything to
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the other campers nearby. Now, the rest of the evening was very quiet and peaceful until around 2:15
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a.m. when we heard what sounded like a high-pitched howl coming from a distance.
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It was loud enough to to it was loud enough to wake both of us, and I noticed several campers were looking outside,
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millowing around and talking as well. Someone said it was a just a coyote, but
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that was not a coyote or anything else that what I had heard before.
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The next morning, we woke up around 900 a.m. When I stepped out of the RV, a
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woman walked up to me and asked if I had heard the howling. I said that I did and had no idea what it was. The woman who
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was camping nearby said she believed it would be the a the Ozark Hower and that
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there had been a few sightings recently. I knew the stories about the Ozark Hower, but never believed any of them.
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Well, my wife wanted to leave as soon as possible. Now, I'm not sure what to think. We came home today and I looked
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up the Ozark. There isn't much to go on and I read your blog and thought you may want to get the word out. It is it
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possible this creature may live. Now, you know, information on the Ozark
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how it the hower is pretty scant as well as the history is pretty vague as well.
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Uh, a lot of anecdotal accounts, but nothing to really hang your hat on. But, uh, I have had a few reports over the
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years, so I don't know what people have seen.
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So, an eyewitness contacted me after finding a crypted canine report that I
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posted from Misho State Forest in here in Pennsylvania, not far from me. The location, Dead Woman Hollow, is well
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known for its creepiness. So, I received the following account.
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Hi, Lon. I recently found your post about the dog man encounter in Dead Woman Hollow. I
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thought that I would contact you about the creepy experience I had there. It
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happened about 8 years ago in Misho State Forest in South Central Pennsylvania. It was a charming fall day
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and I stopped at a little roadside pool for a hike which turned out to be
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Deadwoman Hollow, a snowmobile trail that intersects with the Appalachian Trail. I think I set off walking.
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I set off walking. I was so relaxed and enjoyed the hike until I turned around and started back.
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As I was walking back, I got this awful feeling that I was being watched and even pursued. At some point, I felt what
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seemed to be a handful of smalish rocks hitting the back of my leg. And I turned around, expecting to see a couple of
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dudes being funny, teasing a lady, me alone, alone on the trail.
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But there was no one there. I brushed it off, but feeling of being watched
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increased until it was all I could do not to break into a run. Now, I made it
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back to the car fine, but the feeling I experienced, a dead woman's hollow, shook me. Of course, I later Googled
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Dead Woman's Hollow and found out about the horrible murder and shooting that happened there in the 80s. I honestly
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wonder if I'd ever pick if I had been picking up on that incident somehow. I'm not psychic or anything at all, though.
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Over the years, though, I must admit I I've wondered about Sasquatches rock throwing and feelings of being watched
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or associated with with sightings. Anyway, dead woman's howl can get creepy.
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Well, the post that the witness referred to that I had on my blog was the
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following post. Hello, Lon. I came across your site and listened to
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the episode about the uh need for people to submit information for your investigations.
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Let me start by saying I have no desire to experience any anomaly, but for whatever reason, I seem to draw them,
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much to my dismay. This is the first time I have spoken to anyone outside of my family. So, here's my encounter.
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It was at Misho State Forest in Cumberland County in the Dead Woman Hollow. It was the last weekend of
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August in 2015. My husband and I began sitting around a
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fire pit at my sister's cabin shortly before dusk. There was no one else present the entire
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time. As always, we were both armed. We always had a spotlight and were about 20
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ft from the front door of the cabin. We had been avid outdoor people all our
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lives with many, many hours hunting various wildlife, trapping, fishing, camping, canoeing, and hiking.
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My husband began playing around, yelling weird sounds to get a reaction out of me because I was nervous for the first time
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out of all the times I'd ever been there for some reason. Now, to our surprise,
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something answered him from, you know, from what I say about 100 yards away from through the woods with the same
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sounds that he was making. He stopped and we sat solidly looking and listening
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for what it was. No more joking around. The yells, probably five in total, came
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closer over a few hours until the last one heard was clearly within 40 yards of us. It was like that I decided to go in.
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It was that that when I decided to go inside, I had been shining the spotlight intermittently through the the evening
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into the woods and thought I would do so one last time as we both walked towards
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the cabin. That's when I saw something for the first time. Yellow eyes.
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It did not look away or blink, but remained staring back at me from an area where the last yell had come from.
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I tried to see his body, but everything else was dark around it. When I said, "I
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see eye shine to my husband." The eyes moved several feet sideways, staring at me the whole time, then disappeared
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completely. I have spotlighted deer and various animals, and this was not the same.
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They were at least twice the size of a deer's eyes, and there was no indication it had turned its head or walked away,
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but instead gave the impression of stepping behind something. Once inside the cabin, we retired for
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the night with the the bed being having been positioned directly under a window that was left open for ventilation.
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My husband slept undisturbed throughout the night. I however heard what sounded like wood chopping six different times.
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I heard a loud crack close by also. So the next morning, I walked through
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the area the last vocalization I shine down a path. I found the biggest tree in
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the area about 5 foot off the path. It was too big to put my arms around. I
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noticed a clear line from the tree to the path of the disturbed leaves as something walked to the tree and then
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returned the same way. None of the other leaves around were disturbed except the line continuing
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around the path in the opposite direction into the thick cover. I also found a freshly broken tree limb about
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10 in diameter about 4t long lying in the path. All of this within 10 square
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ft. It appeared to have come from a live tree nearby and had broken off several
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feet above my head. I had every intention of investigating
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the scene even more, but frankly I lost my wit, which is not like me, and returned to the fire pit to tidy up. I
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knew all this was abnormal and didn't feel right. That's when the most frightening thing happened.
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My attention was brought back to the big tree by loud sounds of sounds of something big moving fast toward me from
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the cover where the line of undisturbed leaves or disturbed leaves was. I saw
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the foliage move closer as I ran into the cabin. I'm sure I couldn't have been but a second or two from seeing it burst
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out into plain view, which is exactly what I did not want.
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So, what I would like to know is what mimics humans voices or people's voices,
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has large eyes that shine yellow at night, hides behind big trees, makes
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wood chopping sounds, break big limbs off like live trees, and charges at people in broad daylight.
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Thank you for your time and consideration of this email. I hope you find it helpful the helpful information
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somehow. H So where do I start? Well, this area
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uh has the Appalachian Trail traversing through it and there was a murder there. dead woman. How
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uh Rebecca Wit, but it got its name from the fact that a
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woman whose identity is no longer known was bitten by a snake and had died there many, many years ago.
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After she was found, the natives referred to the area and the road as Deadwoman Hollow. There was also a crime
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or horror movie, which was fiction made about the location called Dead Woman Hollow that was made in 2013.
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Anyway, the witness most likely had a runin with a Bigfoot, which has been reported throughout Mish Misho State
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Forest, but then again, I'm not going to discount the fact that bipedal canines
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have been seen in Cumberland County and Misho State Forest would be an excellent habitat for them. And as well, the
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yellow eyes are indicative of a canine or a feline. So, folks, that's it. Um, yeah. Any
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questions, put them all caps and put them up there and we'll try to answer.
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Any questions? Any comments? Anything anybody wants to say?
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Yeah, good crowd in here tonight. Almost 100 people right now.
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And if you did make a donation, I really appreciate. I just didn't see any flashing up there.
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real truth. Is there a countdown yet from the PM site?
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Uh yeah, I I I talked to them today. They're still working on it. They they've got the landing page done. It
47:43
took a while because there were some issues with um the coding, but uh I'm
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thinking about two weeks. So, um, you know, these things take time, especially
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when you're working with a a busy developer and creator and, um, they got
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other jobs going on. So, I had to wait until they could actually spend more time with it, but I I'd say about two
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weeks, but it will be back.
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Dag dam, do you have any crypted stories from Yellowstone National Park? Um,
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yeah, I me I I don't know. I I I had to look in the archives. Um, I I think there was a Bigfoot story
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I had from there a while back.
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Barbara Mora, have you ever had an an account of BEK adults? You mean myself?
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No, I've never had that. I've had a lot of accounts, but I never had an encounter anything like that before. I
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have no idea what those things are. I I personally believe they're possessed beings, but who knows? I mean, you know,
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they had the black eyed kids and as years gone by, we got the black eyed adults. Are they growing up? I don't
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know. Hard to tell. Paranormalism net. Does cryptid activity
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increase after extreme weather events like tornadoes, hurricanes, and flooding? Um
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yeah. Yeah, it does. In some cases I, you know, the the whole Sykesville
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monster thing, which is interesting that the theory about that when it started up
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back in 1972 was uh for those who live on the east coast to remember the Agnes
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floods in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and you know, Mid-Atlantic.
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They believe that pushed the Bigfoot out in the open for some reason. But those
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sightings were right after the Agnes uh the tropical storm Agnes flooding.
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Philip Blair was a Devon report from over in England. Yeah, that was in Devonshire.
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Jose Sanchez, have any dog man or Bigfoots been seen in actual cities? Um,
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I have a Dogman report or a cryptic canine report in New York City from
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around the turn of the century. Uh, also
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I have had reports of several Bigfoot being seen in towns, but those are older
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older reports. Um, and towns that weren't that populated.
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Uh, as far as a Bigfoot in a city, I don't know. I don't think I've ever had one of those.
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Anything else, folks?
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report that you'd like to be considered for the personal report show or post on the Phantoms of Monsters blog site when
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I finally get it up, uh, feel free to forward to my email at lawnstrickerfamsmonsters.com.
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So, until we meet again, stay healthy, stay safe, have a great weekend, and
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good night. Talk to you later.
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