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Jewish humanoid crawler running between

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headstones in Illinois back when I was

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in high school my friend and I saw

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something I've begun referring to as a

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crawler this was in Roseville Illinois

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night time and in a cemetery I think it

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was probably late summer or early fall

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because I don't remember it being too

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cold out would have been between 2007

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and 2010 pretty sure the moon was full

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of close to it because visibility was

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pretty good my friend and I used to walk

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this loop we would leave her place and

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go down a block to a side road that led

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to a park we would then turn left and

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cut across the park to the side entrance

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of the cemetery the cemetery in park

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said at the very southwest corner of

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town beyond that was just woods and

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cornfields if we went straight across

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the cemetery it would take us to another

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side road that then led to the Main

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Street back to where her house was we

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made it to the cemetery and were walking

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the main drive that split the property

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in half there was a sudden noise that

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made us both stop my friend started

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laughing nervously and asked if I had

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heard the noise I told her I had seen

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what made the noise to our left I had

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seen something running behind the

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headstones it was on all fours but

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humanoid it had extremely pale skin and

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no hair and looked very thin I remember

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it was so pale had almost reflected the

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moonlight it moved so fast too fast for

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any human I've ever seen on their hands

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and feet that I couldn't see many

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details it was in total profile so I

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never saw the facial details the way it

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ran was animal-like as well in that it

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had that gate where its feet came

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forward almost between her past its

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hands watch a video of a big cat or wild

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dog running to see what I mean we were

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both terrified we just stood there

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panicking and listening to it moving

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around just out of sight while we called

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one of her friends to come meet us and

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take us the rest of the way home her

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friend a very typical high school boy

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arrived and naturally wanted to stay in

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this cemetery and goof off for a while

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for some reason with him they're acting

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dumb it was less scary but I remember it

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just kept making these white circles

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around us it always stayed out of sight

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but you could hear it as it moved

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occasionally it would come a bit closer

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then seemed to dart further away again

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eventually we left I spent a while

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researching it and even reached out to a

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paranormal group in Champaign for advice

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the guy I talked to had never heard of

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it but wanted to document what we saw we

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met up with him

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and did an interview but the group never

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did an investigation fast forward a few

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years and I'm living in Aurora Colorado

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I met one of my closest friends in about

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2012 we really hit it off

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because we were into the paranormal when

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I eventually told him about what I had

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seen his jaw hit the floor he told me he

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had seen the same thing and told me his

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story he described exactly what I had

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seen but he had seen it under a porch

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while living in Thornton it was crouched

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down and squatting he thinks he startled

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it while it was eating because he said

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it was hunched over something it was

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holding he comes from a Navajo Apache

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background and when we first met his

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best guess was skinwalker Wendigo but

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then and especially now he said he had

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doubts about either of those things

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being the answer he was dating a girl at

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the time whose mom claimed to be a

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medium she said she thought it was

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something that someone woke up and that

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now it was angry we both have serious

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doubts on that one the stranger part

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came when he and I brought it up we both

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started having very intense nightmares

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about it his were worse than mine and

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lasted much longer

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this was also punctuated by a six-month

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period of time filled with a lot of bad

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luck and anxiety for us I always sort of

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brushed this off as us just psyching

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ourselves out until I sent my story in

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to a podcast after it was read another

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listener sent in their story they

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described what my friend and I had seen

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and also described the sightings as

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being punctuated by nightmares I

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couldn't write that off because he spoke

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about his nightmares in detail and they

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matched my friends nightmares

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exactly I have never given out details

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of what actually happened in either of

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our nightmares I've read a ton of other

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stories by other users and people on the

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internet I've dug through mounds of lore

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encrypted lists I still don't feel like

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I have an answer to what this thing is

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my best guess at this point is that the

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nightmares aren't coincidental and that

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this is something that is

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interdimensional it seems like it can

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interact with physical things around it

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but I've never heard anyone tell a

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first-hand account to being physically

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attacked or even touched i've speculated

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on what it could be for hours and the

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only conclusion that I've come to is

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that I don't feel like there is an

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actual concrete answer it doesn't act

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exactly like this or that cryptid I

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think it might be something that's been

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around and inspired other cryptids and

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paranormal tales but I don't think it's

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a Wendigo skinwalker ghoul flesh get etc

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two witnesses have a late night

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frightening close encounter with a pale

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snarling white crawler humanoid in

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Huntington West Virginia on a summer

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night at the end of the July in 2008 we

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were camping while working to sell our

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wares at a flea market in Huntington

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West Virginia it was hot in the camper

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so I got up and walked outside where I

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found my nephew sitting and texting on

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his cell phone it was about 3:00 in the

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morning deciding to take a walk in the

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night air we made our way about a

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hundred yards to the end of the long

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flea market building and sat down on a

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concrete slab the light that was on top

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of the building illuminated the area

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where we said to our front there was a

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big open field and behind the field

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there was a tree line that led to a

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forest a large billboard on the highway

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cast a sliver of light across the ground

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but the rest of the field was pitch

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black as we sat there chatting I saw

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something wide about 75 to 80 yards away

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squatted down on the edge of the tree

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line I looked at my nephew and asked if

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he saw what I was seeing he said he did

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but neither of us could determine what

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it was the creature started to emerge

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from the tree line it came out about 20

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feet almost crawling to stay close to

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the ground when it reached the edge of

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the sliver of light that was streaming

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across the field it paused for a second

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never breaking its gaze on us when it

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reached the edge of the lighted leaped

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along gating its body to move through

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the light in one movement and landed in

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the darkness on the other side still

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maintaining his stare the time and the

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light allowed me to see it more clearly

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its body was long gangly slender and

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pale white at this time it was about ten

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yards away from us having cleared half

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the original distance it started to inch

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closer pausing in a stealthy curious

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manner inching toward us as we sat there

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shocked and frozen at the sight of it

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now it is about three yards away and it

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stayed in that position for a longer

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time at that point I had time to take in

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its features in greater detail its

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stature was four to five feet tall very

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lean and skinny pale white skin with no

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hair on the creature at all it kept

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itself in a hunched position when still

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its knees folded backward like an

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animal's hind flank its arms were long

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and skinny reaching down to hands that

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had very long thin

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with Klaus it had big black

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almond-shaped eyes very small pointy

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ears that were close to its head it had

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very long pointed interlocking teeth

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that were always exposed and lips that

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were so small they barely showed around

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the huge teeth its nose turned upward

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like a bat and laid closed against its

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face crouched had slowly walked to the

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edge like we were enveloped in within

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two yards now it was looking at us

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making a low snarling sound as it

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breathed that was all I could hear over

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the pounding of my heart which was now

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in my throat it was staring at us and

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cocking his head from side to side as if

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it was trying to figure out its next

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move

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as I sat there wondering what could

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possibly happen next it sprang into the

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light with its arms up and mouth open

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wide making crazy screaming growling

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sounds running toward us coming to

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within a foot of us I left to my feet

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putting my fists up in a defensive

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posture it looked up as if noticing I

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was larger than it originally thought

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then it quickly turned and ran away

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kicking dirt and gravel up in my face it

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was off through the field and I watched

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as it ran toward the forest then I heard

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the rustling of the brush as he moved

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crawler humanoid encounter and belorus

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forces relocation by KGB I never saw a

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UFO but I saw an entity mostly

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associated with UFO I grew up in the

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USSR in now northern belorus until I was

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13 years old 37 years ago my mother and

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I saw an entity outside looking in at us

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through the window it was hairless pale

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white huge bulging black eyes and it had

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teeth that were very small very well

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spaced skinny and pointed almost like an

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anglerfish we hid for hours and until we

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heard my father drive towards the house

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we both looked out the window to see the

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being then stand up from behind a wall

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it was much taller than a human and it

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was hiding behind that wall and I

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believe waiting for us to come outside

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my father drove up the driveway

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we saw the silhouette of its body from

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the back it was hunched over staring at

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the car my father saw it in the

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headlights and what it looked like

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perfectly he drove that at a gnat ran

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away into the brush around the house

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that never made a sound

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it seemed smart but cautious and the

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overwhelming feeling I got that night

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that it was vicious and violent my

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parents spoke with police as we were so

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horrified about the encounter after

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speaking to police or KGB we were

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relocated and forced never to speak of

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the event to anyone within 30 hours I

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was living in a new home nearly 100

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kilometres away I have searched for so

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many years for an explanation I've spoke

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with government officials in belorus I

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have interviewed with people who lived

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near our home then about 10 years ago I

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you

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encounters with a tall pale crawler

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humanoid in New York I've had some

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run-ins with a pale humanoid creature it

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was in the summer and early fall of 2014

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I was walking down the road two of the

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times I saw it

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driving the third each time late evening

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not quite dusk but getting there same

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stretch along some swampy woods near my

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home north of Binghamton New York there

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is an old pasture that separates the

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road from the woods by about fifty to

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seventy yards or so the two times I saw

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it while walking it kept pace with me

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from just within the trees for about a

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mile each time I could tell it was there

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but couldn't get a good look at it I've

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had coyotes and feral dogs do the same

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thing I always assumed it was because

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they are trying to decide whether or not

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to attack which is more than a little

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unnerving when it's unknown humanoid

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thing I would know how to react to a

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coyote or dog coming at me I had no clue

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what would have happened if this thing

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came at me the time I saw it when

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driving it was out in the open when I

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spotted it but it went back into the

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trees very quickly that was the best

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look I got of it but some brush obscured

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the hips and legs it was short maybe

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five to 5.5 feet tall and I could tell

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it was in proportion like a human its

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torso was too short and the arms were

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too long didn't get a great look at the

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head

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it was facing away from me and either

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the head was low without much neck or it

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was just holding its head down as it ran

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it was uniformly pale off-white in color

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at the distance and lighting conditions

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it was in I couldn't tell if it was fur

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skin or whatever but it appeared to be

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the same color all over I haven't seen

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it since but I have occasionally had the

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Red Alert feeling when in the same woods

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hunting even though there wasn't any

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visible reason not sure if there is a

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connection because I get a similar

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feeling when I run across coyotes or

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bears and the like but it always struck

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me as odd that I couldn't notice the

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cause consciously at least part of me

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pale white crawler encountered on former

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Virginia Civil War battlefield I live on

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the East Coast in central Virginia

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Hanover County and the property I live

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on contains ten acres of fields and

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woods just as some background info the

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property was once a battleground during

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the Civil War the Battle of matata Queen

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Creek took place right around where I

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live my friends and I have always seen

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ghosts and paranormal activity around

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the property whenever we hang out a camp

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but that isn't why I'm typing this I

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should probably mention that our camp

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site contains tarp roofs with pallets

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set up as walls I should also mention

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that we always carry firearms with us in

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the woods but I always enforce making

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sure nobody has any bullets chambered in

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their weapons unless they have a reason

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to shoot one night in late April 2023

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friends and I were hanging out by the

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fire within our campsite at about 11:30

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p.m.

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one of my buddies and I wandered down

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the trail with no flashlights of any

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sort in the dark we stopped at an

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opening by the field where we could see

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the stars we chatted about random topics

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for about five to ten minutes until we

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start hearing steps and twigs snapping

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in multiple areas in front of us we are

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skeptical but keep an ear out all the

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sudden a yellow crab and

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uncharacteristically rock a bullet in

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the chamber of my rifle as quick as I

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can then I immediately aimed my rifle

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towards what I'm seeing it was dark so I

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couldn't distinguish details but this is

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what I saw it was a pale wild silhouette

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and it was crawling uphill from another

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trail it didn't seem intimidating though

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rather intently curious its body moved

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similar to a chicken that Bob's its head

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but more subtle my friend did I yelled

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for other two friends to come assist us

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as the creature got closer wheeled

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louder we were terrified simply

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frightened and in awe the creature went

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behind a tree and repeatedly poked its

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head out and back behind the tree it

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occasionally began to crawl towards us

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from behind the tree but would retreat

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once again all its movement were slow

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and agile after about two minutes it

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disappeared as in we couldn't see it

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because of the brush I assumed it fled

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into the woods our other two friends

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arrived in my neuters so after the

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creature had fled their excuse was that

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they thought we had ran into a hunter or

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somebody so they decided to take the

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bull

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it's out of their weapons anyway the

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next day we went back to the spot of the

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sighting we found disturbed leaves and

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tracks exactly where we saw the creature

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the friend I was with during the

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sighting is a skilled hunter and trapper

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we follow tracks that lead off the

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property until it seemed to either go

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cold or we lost them we did find his

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small-sized goat skull in the woods with

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no carcass to follow near the sighting

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area does anyone know what this could

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possibly be the closest thing that

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resembles that I can think of is the red

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