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a Chilean confrontation

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lavalla Spain hello I would like to tell

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you about an experience I had in 1954

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while working with the u.s. naval

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engineers at Zaragoza Air Base near zero

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goes to Spain this was to be a

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refurbished NATO facility I was a

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contractor 24 years old and working my

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father's construction firm and hired by

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the DoD this was my first time away from

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the United States

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I had another fellow with me who had

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worked for my father for a couple of

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years only a few people knew of my

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experience my wife who's deceased and

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two close friends who have also passed

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away I have read some of the stories of

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other people you have published I

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thought that I could add my story to the

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record after I had been in Spain for

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several weeks I decided to take in the

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surroundings I was told by some of the

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locals that the monasterio de Peter Nero

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Volos would be an excellent place to

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visit the monastery was about 60 miles

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away so I decided it would be an

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enjoyable day trip when I arrived I met

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a young lady who offered to show me

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around the complex it was a very hot day

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early August so we took numerous breaks

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along the way as the afternoon waned in

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the early evening approached it was time

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for me to head back towards her ago see

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the young lady mentioned that there was

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an very nice in not far from the

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monastery if I wanted to stay the night

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then get an early start in the morning

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so I decided to stay the night maybe do

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some exploring that evening the inn was

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very rustic though quite comfortable I

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had dinner outside on the back patio it

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was an excellent evening though it was

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dusk I could still see the terrain not

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far from the inn

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there was a vineyard and his small

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avender meadow behind the inn which led

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to a series of rocky outcrops I thought

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that I would take a look around but I

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first asked the owner if it was okay to

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do so I walked through the vineyard and

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reached a small pond which had a loud

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chorus of frogs by this time it was dark

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but there was a fair amount of available

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moonlight but I still needed a

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flashlight to see where I was going I

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walked around the pond and started to

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cross a small bridge over a narrow

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stream as I walked over the bridge I

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noticed something run through the water

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about 50 feet upstream there was enough

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moonlight to where I could make out in

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upright shape this thing was heading

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toward the High Rocks

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I lost sight of it I stood silent for

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about five minutes it was eerie because

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the frogs were now quite the only sound

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was coming from the direction of the

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rocks and the noise was very strange it

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sounded like a guttural rakia Cox series

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that would pause for a few seconds than

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repeat they were also fade in and out

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after a few minutes it stopped I had no

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idea what it was I crossed the bridge

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and started to slowly approach the rocks

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as I came to the rock face there was a

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fairly well-worn trail on the ground

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along the edge

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I walked further until I reached an

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opening in the rock face I pointed the

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flashlight in sight and saw that it was

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a grotto about 15 feet deep and high

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enough for me to standing the floor of

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the grotto was littered with small

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animal bones so I figured that there

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were predators about most likely Fox I

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continued on the trail until I heard the

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yak-yak-yak sound again and it was very

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close I instantly stopped walking and

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started searching around me with the

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flashlight just then some gravel landed

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on me and a loud yak-yak-yak sound was

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coming from above me I quickly looked up

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and pointed the flashlight there was a

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creature standing on a small ledge about

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15 feet away staring at me with yellow

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eyes reflecting that it was screaming

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yak-yak-yak and could constant rhythm

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this was the most ghastly thing I've

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ever witnessed it was standing on two

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legs and was about four to five feet

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tall I've read about resilience

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encounters on your blog well I think

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this may have been one it was dark in

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color and had arms like a human the face

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looked like that of a lizard resembling

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that of an iguana after a few seconds it

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leapt off the ledge onto the trail

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swiftly running on two legs in the

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opposite direction it was then that I

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noticed the long tail as it moved away

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from me I quickly made my way back

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toward the inn and directly to my room I

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laid in bed thinking about this creature

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the entire night I was terrified to look

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out my window fearing that it followed

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me back to the inn early in the morning

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I checked out and drove back to Zaragoza

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I have no proof to my experience other

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than my word but I now believe that this

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Ouija board and black-robed reptilians

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this story I'm just gonna preface it

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with this it's the gospel truth this

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happened to me and this is one of the

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reasons you should not mess with a Ouija

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board

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rid of them

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anyway story is I'm coming back from

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Florida with my wife we stopped in st.

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Mary's Ohio we had friends there they

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lived in this house this house was four

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stories 150 years old stone beautiful

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full of antiques a gorgeous place it was

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known to be haunted of course so I got

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questioning them on the house what the

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house was doing and stories came up what

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was going on the daughter said there was

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lots of noises when she would go to take

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a shower on stairways invisible people

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on stairways then the Ouija board came

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up turns out at one point there was

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thirty kids after school that would land

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at their house and they would all be

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working the Ouija board things just got

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crazy

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shaking chandeliers the whole deal the

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mother says that is it it goes away no

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more so it goes away and it never came

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back out again so of course I had to say

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look I've never seen one work I'd like

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to see something happen

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could we try she hummed in hogg and she

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was like all right she went and got it

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i sat down across from the daughter her

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name was Renee we put it on our laps and

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put our finger on it immediately it

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started moving slowly nice pace and like

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I said Renee commented about sounds when

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she took a shower so I said who in the

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house make sounds when Renee is

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showering supposedly a ten-year-old boy

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came on and he said he liked to watch

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Renee undress I can understand if I was

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a ten-year-old boy I'd want to watch

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Renee undress too so anyway we spoke to

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the little boy for a little while all of

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a sudden he said I have to go we said

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where are you going

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he said it's coming we said I hose

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coming he said he's coming all of a

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sudden the planchette stopped dead we

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looked at each other and we were like

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what is going on here all of a sudden it

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took off like wildfire we had to work to

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keep

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fingers on it it was almost impossible

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to get answers from it because it was

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moving so fast and at some point it

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would pull away from your fingers and

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the minute had lost your fingers it

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would stop dead and the minute our

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fingers would grab it and offered would

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go again and it was just ridiculous my

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wife was a real naysayer she was

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actually saying a lot of stuff she

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shouldn't say we were getting the idea

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was getting angry

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I said stop speaking at his getting

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really ticked off so we said look we

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don't want to talk to you anymore

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you are not friendly go away we want to

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speak to someone else then it would like

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it would come back and save his other

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people but we knew it was it because of

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the way the planchette made it was a

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hundred miles an hour so anyway at that

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point the mother had said okay you know

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what we've seen enough I was like you

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know what I've seen it work I am

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impressed it works we put the Ouija

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board away so that evening we went to

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bed we stayed at their house that night

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so anyway I woke up in the middle of the

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night and it was not as if you woke up

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and you were groggy and tired I opened

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my eyes and I was wide awake now I

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didn't have a clock near but I'm gonna

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say I told my wife it was 3 o'clock in

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the morning because that's when that

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stuff always happens I leaned up on my

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elbow and this is gospel truth there was

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an eight foot cloaked creature standing

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in the corner of the room it was not

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facing me it was facing off to the right

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I could not see its face it was blocked

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by this cloak it had to approximate two

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foot tall and type creatures that were

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kind of moving in and out of its robes

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on the floor they almost had a reptilian

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like look to them and they were they did

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have black cloth now here's the other

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weird part that you really got a picture

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as they went through this things robes

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they did not move the RO they went

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through the robe as if it were waterfall

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the Rope just kind of disappeared around

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the creatures the creature went through

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popped out the other side and continued

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its little motion

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it looked like death actually - the

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sickle I looked at it in disbelief and I

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thought dear God what is that and I laid

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my head down I stuck my face into my

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wife's back and just I said to myself I

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am not moving until I see daylight and

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the next thing I did see was daylight

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and I looked and the thing was gone and

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I swear to God that is gospel truth I'm

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telling you that is the last time I used

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the Ouija board I am never touching one

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female reptilian in Philadelphia

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playground in 1975 or 1976 I was in 2nd

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or 3rd grade my elementary school class

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went on a class trip to Smith Memorial

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playground in Playhouse we boarded the

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buses and headed to the Fairmount Park

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section of the city Smith playground has

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been around since the 1800s it has the

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world's largest wooden slide board our

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class arrived for the day's fun sliding

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the slide and having fun with other

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school kids that were there also on a

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class trip myself and some of my

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classmates became bored so we decided to

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make our own fun we scaled a fence to

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another section of the playground that

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we came upon a swimming pool area in

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this new area we can see that the pool

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haven't been used in years there was so

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many leaves in the pool that its color

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was dark green we began throwing rocks

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in the pool until we again became bored

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so we scaled another fence this new area

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put us out in the park that was a

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pathway to a ride as we began to walk

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down pathway I heard a female voice from

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behind me say stop children when I

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looked back there was this green lady

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hanging from this tree when she came out

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of the tree I can see that she had scaly

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skin like a lizard her skin had a design

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pattern which covered her from top to

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bottom as if her skin was also her

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clothes she walked on two feet and she

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had a small slit for a mouth dot when

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she spoke to us we can hear her in our

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heads her mouth never opened her moved

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we hot tailed it back over the fences

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and I have never been back I cannot

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remember all my classmates that was

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there after 30 years of questions I

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found one classmate that remembered this

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incident there were probably five or six

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of us also through some research I found

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an article from The Times daily Google

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News archive dated 10 6 1959 which

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describes an incident about a green lady

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chasing school children with a knife

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this does not fit the description nor

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the same green lady that appeared to us

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I witnessed something truly amazing and

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out of this world I feel very blessed to

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have experienced this and truly lucky

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that I can finally share my story with

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professional people instead of the nah

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verb Tilian and Walmart it was fall of

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1998 I suddenly found myself separated

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from my husband and with two preteen

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children to support

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living in a small Kansas town there was

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very limited employment options

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I needed to remain close to home to

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attempt to keep a handle on preteen

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adolescence and still keep a roof over

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our heads it was convenient when I saw

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an ad for workers at our local Walmart

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the store was converting to a superstore

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and needed staff 24/7 so I applied I got

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hired on as a department manager

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I got dug in I laid out the department

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and everything on the shelves on the day

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of the opening including the shelves

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themselves was put there by my two hens

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the new store opened in school had

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started so I tried to keep my hours

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mostly to accommodate that but weekend

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work was mandatory usually I got to work

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early there was only light register

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staff and I'd be the first department

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manager on the floor

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it was early days for the new store but

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the majority of the setup crew had

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departed the job site one morning I

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arrived even earlier than usual

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I had timed in and was just about to

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leave the freight room when a young boy

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about the age of my own two kids rushed

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past me nearly knocking me over he

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started sputtering something about how

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his ID had been lost and he had to see

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CCTV to see who picked it up the first

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thing weird about this is that I didn't

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know this kid my kids grew up in this

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town and being a small town I thought I

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knew all the kids from town and all

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parts around the second weird thing was

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back in 1998 it would be very unusual

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for any small-town preteen to have an

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idea of any kind I told him I knew

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nothing about it but he could follow me

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back to the office to inquire there was

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only one lady back in the office she was

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a member of the set of team and had been

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responsible for hiring me I left him

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with her after a short explanation and

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went out on the floor to begin my day

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but I forgot in my scanner so I turned

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heel and went back into the office area

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to get one immediately I could hear this

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kid becoming very aggressive with my

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coworker he was ranting on insisting

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that he view the CCTV tape immediately

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the human resource officer was trying to

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calmly

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explain to him that only security staff

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and the store manager could view it and

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she would pass on his concern worried

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about my co-workers safety I crept

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closer to the door which remained open

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his back was to me but looking past him

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I could clearly see her white and

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shocked face the boy sensing my presence

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swung around and stormed past me and I

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assumed flew out of the building did you

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see his eyes did you see his eyes she

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exclaimed though in fact I had I said

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nothing I think I was basically

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gobsmacked and as it turned out I never

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again spoke to her that was the last

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time I saw her when I inquired after her

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I was told she was transferred though

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others whispered she had been fired by

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Home Office the third weird thing was

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look into the eye of a snake and you

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will know what I saw as the boy fled by

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me you are welcome to use this story but

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please do not use my name this is a true

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story in detail to the best of my memory

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