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dog Minh attacks teen at abandoned

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Hospital in Kentucky I live in southern

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Ohio near the Ohio River myself and a

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few friends decided to go explore the

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abandoned hospital that backed up to a

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giant Hill and large forest across the

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river in Maysville Kentucky it was a

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local spot for dumb teenagers to go and

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scare each other and play grab-ass with

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their girlfriends so running into other

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people wasn't uncommon but you could

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usually tell if other people were there

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because there would be cars parked near

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it that being said on this night we were

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the only dumb teenagers there the moment

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we got out of the car though everything

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felt wrong we knew we weren't allowed to

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be there because the building was

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condemned but this felt like we were

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actually in danger which of course we

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always were because it was condemned but

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it just felt different now by this point

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I had been to hayswood Hospital 20 times

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or so and I was familiar with the layout

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once the three of us had gotten inside

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we had been there about 45 minutes we

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split up to tag some different places

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and explore I went to go take pictures

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of the morgue in the basement and to see

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if I could photograph any orbs or

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anything really cool I had been in the

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morgue for about ten minutes when I

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smelled the most foul odor I've ever

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smelled it was rot I don't know what it

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was that was rotting I imagine it was a

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large dog or a coyote but all I could

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make out was it was about 40 pounds of

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rotting meat I had just started to look

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at the meat chunk when I heard the slam

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of a steel door and what sounded like

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running through puddles of water this

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meant whatever it was it was in the

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basement with me because the floor had

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about three inches of water standing in

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it so naturally I figured it was my

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friends playing a prank on me

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that was when I decided to get them back

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and scare them before they could scare

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me now the way the morgue was set up you

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could actually climb on top of the

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coolers they used to store the bodies so

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I hopped up there and laid in wait to

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scare the sh-t out of my friend I had

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been there no more than a minute when I

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heard screaming now I've known my

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friends my entire life which at this

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point had been 19 years I've never heard

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screaming like this the

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screaming stopped and I heard hard

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footsteps running above me and what I

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can best describe as pounding now I'd be

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lying if I said I wasn't freaking out a

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little because this wasn't like my

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friends it was usually hide behind a

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corner and jump out and go gotya

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this was different this was dread I was

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starting to feel as I continued to lay

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there about five minutes past when I

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heard panting and footsteps in the water

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they were getting closer

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that was when I smelled wet dog but it

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wasn't just wet dog I was smelling I was

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smelling that same smell of rock - then

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another steel door slammed and I could

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tell it was the same door I passed

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before I got to the mordoor the panting

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was even louder now and honestly it

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sounded more like labored breathing and

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sniffing now at this point I'm terrified

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I'm trying to slowly back away from the

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edge of the cooler I'm on so I can slip

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behind the wall the cooler backs up to

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and drop into the boiler room I'm almost

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to the end of the cooler when I hear the

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morgue door slam open and break the

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tiles on the wall with the door handle

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I'm less than thirty five feet from

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whatever is panting and smelling like

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death and all I can do is think run run

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run I could hear the sniffing and then I

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heard the deepest most menacing growl

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I've ever heard the movies and shows

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don't do justice to just how deep and

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rough a growl of the size sounds it was

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sniffing me out it was actually smelling

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where I had been I dropped down behind

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the wall in the boiler room

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I thank God the door that connected the

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morgue was blocked with old Gurney's and

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a locker on its side which I thought

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would stop this thing from getting in I

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was wrong so very wrong I hadn't been in

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the boiler room 30 seconds before I

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heard the pounding scratching on the

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steel door it sounded like Freddy

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Krueger was trying to carve his way

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through the steel door then I heard the

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sound that still haunts me to this day

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it howled and I mean it bellowed a howl

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so loud I had to cover my ears now on

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the other side of the boiler room was

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the access to the generator and the dock

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doors trucks used to unload and the

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hillside that lead to the woods when I

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reached the other side of the room I

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could hear this thing slamming into the

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door and knocking the lockers away in

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the Gurney's I opened the door to the

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doc room and when I looked back I saw

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the arm of this creature sticking

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through the opening it had made and it

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was like a horror movie it was a grey

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and brown mass of fur that looked like a

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human arm but it didn't because the hand

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was all wrong the hand had five digits

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but the claws would have made a bear run

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in fear I slammed the door behind me and

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ran for the dock doors the dock doors

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wouldn't budge and I could hear the

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Gurney's overturning and the lockers

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sliding on the floor it was getting

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through and the only thing between me

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and it now was a single door I ran to

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one of the windows by the dock doors and

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proceeded to bust it out which mangled

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my hand from the glass then as I was

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pulling myself through the window I

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heard the door gets slammed into and one

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of the hinges completely flew off the

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door and hit the wall I tumbled out of

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the window and hit the cold wet ground

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when I stood up I saw it in the doorway

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now I'm 6 foot 4 inches and 250 pounds

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not little by any means and this thing

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took up the entire doorway an 8-foot

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tall 3-foot wide door it was covered

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head-to-toe in grey brown fur it had a

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very narrow snout almost like a Doberman

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Pinscher and its ears were just barely

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visible because of the doorway but I

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could tell they were pointing up just

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like a dog I couldn't believe what I was

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seeing I was completely paralyzed this

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thing was staring right into my soul

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then it snarled and that woke me from my

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disbelief of what I was seeing I turned

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and ran I ran up the hill into the woods

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to get around the hospital to get back

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to the street where the car was parked I

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hadn't made it 25 feet when I heard it

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clawing to get out the window I knew I

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would never make it to the car this way

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so I ran back towards the hospital where

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the fire escape ladder was I had used

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the ladder before to climb to the roof

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to take pictures of the entire town I

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completely skipped the first three rungs

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on the ladder and was now inside the

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enclosed part of the fire escape again

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this thing howled and I could feel waves

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of pure terror filling my body my hand

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was killing me at this point and I was

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getting blood on everything just as I

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was

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reaching the first-floor window I could

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climb into this thing slammed into the

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fire escape ladder knocking me down a

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couple rungs it leapt onto the outside

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of the fire escape and began clawing at

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my feet just as I reached the window I

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felt it pain like nothing I've ever felt

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it had grabbed just above my ankle and

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yanked and in doing so shredded my boot

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the end of my jeans and into my flesh I

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was able to pull myself into the first

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floor window and I heard it push itself

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off the fire escape and head back the

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way it came I'm now dragging my left leg

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and trying to keep my right hand in my

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hoodie pocket the entrance we came in

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from is only about 150 feet away down

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the main hall and around a left turn as

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I'm halfway down the hall I hear the

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steel doors slamming again I'm dragging

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myself down the hall just trying to stay

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focused on getting out of this hellhole

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then the howling starts again and I can

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hear it getting closer I make the turn

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and hear the pounding coming up the

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stairs from the basement I make it to

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the entrance and hear the padding of

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hands and feet on the floor I made the

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mistake of looking back just as it

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rounded the corner and it was running on

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all fours like a real dog I bolted down

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the hill towards the street where the

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car was parked and realized the car was

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gone they left me my only way of escape

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was gone I just zoned out and kept

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running down the hill my leg was

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throbbing my hand was in agony and all I

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could think was I'm going to be [\h__\h]

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dog kibble finally I made it to the

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first house I could find and ran full

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force into the door and began pounding

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on it like a crazy person

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thank God this little old lady was home

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because she opened the door and I

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literally fell inside

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just before I kicked the door closed

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standing up on two legs at the end of

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her driveway was this monster I broke

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down in tears I didn't know what to do

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luckily the old lady had called the cops

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because a crazy person who was bleeding

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everywhere just fell into her home when

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the cops got there and asked me what

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happened I told them the same thing I've

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said here of course they didn't believe

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me and thought I was on drugs

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the EMTs took me to the hospital and

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when they did blood

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and found no substance in my system they

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then concluded I was attacked by a wild

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dog I ended up with 36 stitches in my

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leg and 17 in my hand I had to get

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rabies shots and tell the local wildlife

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officer my story he informed me that

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they had reports of wild dog packs

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running around the outside of town

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ransacking garbage cans and killing some

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of the local pets I informed him that it

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wasn't a pack of wild dogs and it was a

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giant dog Minh but they all just thought

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I was crazy the only thing I had in my

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favor was the claw mark on my leg even

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the doctors were confused about how a

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wild dog could make a mark like that now

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you know my story and you know why I

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absolutely know we are not at the top of

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the food chain I've never been back to

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hayswood hospital and I've deterred

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anyone from ever going there that

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experience has haunted me for the last

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11 years of my life it has made me into

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the overcautious man I am I always have

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to know where every exit is when I walk

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into a building and I always know where

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large clumps of woods are this

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experience changed me forever and it

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changed the way I look at the world we

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live in just because we all haven't seen

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hunted for their life I have no doubt

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what stalked me that night was the dog

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