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upright canine encounter dwayo hexenwolf

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in frederick county maryland

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i am not making an official report

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because it was so long ago

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and i have always brushed this incident

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off at the time i was about 11 years old

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and i can't recall what year exactly

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1963 or so

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since this was many years ago and nobody

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believed me since i was a kid

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i was spending the summer at my

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grandma's house on shank road in

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middletown maryland

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frederick county as i had for a couple

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of years in a row

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i welcomed the summers i spent with

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grandma except for the darn outhouse

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if i had to go at night it was a

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nuisance having to take grandma with me

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which meant waking her up it was an

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awful part of being there

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one late night i had to get up to use

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the outhouse and it was stark black

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no lamp posts or outdoor lighting lined

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the main lane

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grandma had electricity but it was only

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for the house inside

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oven and appliances she had a tv

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a very old floor model and nobody

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watched it anyway

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since there was not much tv on the

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maryland airways back in the early 1960s

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it had to be like three am when i

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ventured outside

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i didn't take a flashlight and i didn't

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want to wake grandma up for finding the

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flashlight or for her to walk me to the

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outhouse

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main grouping of structures on the

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property and the main house

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for obvious reasons it was not a full

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moon

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but enough nighttime illumination in the

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sky that my eyes adjusted quickly to see

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the grounds

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i could easily navigate my way using

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grandma's long and narrow flower garden

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as a guiding trail

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my biggest fear was of black snakes and

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copperheads

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because i was warned constantly to look

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out for them

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i made it down to the outhouse and don't

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even remember hearing the usual night

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noises like crickets or owls

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it seemed almost too quiet i was a sharp

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and smart kid with a great imagination

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but not enough to make this story up i

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felt an

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uncanny sensation of being watched and i

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started to get scared

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i left the outhouse peaked outside first

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and for some reason i wanted to run back

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to the house

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getting to safety as quickly as possible

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it was a rough and long run

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and i tired quickly and began walking

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the last few hundred feet to the porch

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of the house

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something told me to look back where i

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had been

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to this day i wished i hadn't what i saw

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was an impossible sight

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this animal stepping through the

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backyard of grandma's property

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just past the garden about 10 feet past

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the outhouse

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it was this upright furry creature with

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a dog wolf head

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i have owned german shepherds from the

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age of seven so the head was almost

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similar to the ears and snoot of a

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german shepherd dog

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i stopped dead in my tracks not

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believing my eyes because it was

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it had arms that had claw-like hands

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that hung out in front of it

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as it turned its head and looked right

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at me the eyes looked yellow and super

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chills shot up my spine as it quickly

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walked on two legs

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that looked like real dog legs bending

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backwards

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traveling from left to right past her

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garden into the old

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gravel lane then across into the thicket

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of the woods where it disappeared

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i heard the rustling through the weeds

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it may have initially traveled from the

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usually full cow pasture that was up an

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incline

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past the spring and up to the cow

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pasture that was behind grandma's house

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i shudder to think it was hiding behind

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the outhouse i was in

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but that is a distinct possibility as

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ever since that night after being teased

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of the cliche of seeing the big bad wolf

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at grandma's house

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nobody believed me and thought i made up

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this story for attention

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like the imaginary friend syndrome of

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kids from those teasing me

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i just put it all behind me buried the

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story forever

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and never told another human being this

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tale until now

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dorker shoots upright canine near reed

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city michigan

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my uncle had an encounter in the summer

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several years back

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only reason i believe him is because his

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whole life he's always been a super

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serious

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no bullcrap kind of guy when he told the

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story

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he sounded genuinely upset about it he

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is a long haul truck driver and was

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stopped on the side of the highway in a

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heavily wooded area

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this was somewhere several miles in the

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middle of nowhere but he said it was

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closest to reach city michigan

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i can't recall what he said he was doing

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but he had to fix something before he

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could take off

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also he didn't have a trailer on at the

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time he had just gotten done fixing up

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his stuff

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and was about to climb into his vehicle

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when he saw a deer come towards him from

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the tree line

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he said it looked like it might have

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been running from something he assumed

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it might have been a bear

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he was just getting ready to leave when

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he suddenly sees something looking at

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him through the passenger side window

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he described it as having jet black fur

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and bright yellow eyes

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as well as vicious looking snarling

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teeth it was so close to him that he

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could see its fur blowing with the

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slight breeze that was coming through

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the window was open but it didn't seem

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to notice as was evident when the

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creature put its paw up to the window

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as if to press it against the window but

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pulled it back in shock when it realized

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its paw actually entered the vehicle

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my uncle typically carries a gun on him

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at this time he had a heavy revolver

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the exact name and caliber is beyond my

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memory right now

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he pointed it at the dogman and pulled

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the trigger effectively shooting it

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directly in the face

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finally the truck started moving fast

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enough for him to be

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confident that the thing wasn't

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following him should it have survived

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the shot

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he didn't bother waiting around to find

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out he said he still gets disturbed when

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he thinks back to that event

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he described it as giving off this aura

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of pure evil and ill intent

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in only the few seconds he faced it he

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has nightmares about this creature to

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this day

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and he refused to tell anyone about it

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until several years after it happened

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for fear of people thinking he had lost

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his mind

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another reason i am able to buy his

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story is because he has never been

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interested in the occult

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supernatural paranormal cryptids etc

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he had no idea what to make of this

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thing i saw him but when he told me the

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story i told him to look into the dogman

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when he looked online he said the

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artist's depictions of the dogman

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perfectly for what he saw that day

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upright canine possible skinwalker

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observed in albuquerque new mexico i

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grew up in new mexico

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and still live in the state my whole

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life i've heard stories about

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skinwalkers and i consider myself to be

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somewhat knowledgeable on the subject

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i've always been interested in the men

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find and creepy yet fascinating

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and i talk about them a lot even though

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one of my navajo friends insists that i

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shouldn't

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and always leaves the room when i bring

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up the topic anyways

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i live in a third-story apartment in

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north albuquerque

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the area of the city i live in is rather

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busy even at night there are lots of

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restaurants

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businesses and even a shopping mall

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nearby one night i was chilling alone in

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my place

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eating some cereal and watching netflix

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it was late about 1am

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and i was about ready to go to bed when

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i hear barking from

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outside my window this isn't uncommon in

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my apartment complex

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as they do allow dogs that are under 40

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pounds but something was seriously wrong

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with the way this sparking sounded

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it was almost as if the dog was drowning

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or something like half the barks were

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coming from underwater

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i creep outside onto my balcony and i

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see the source of the noise

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it certainly looks like a dog except for

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the fact that it's enormous

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like the size of one of those fresh and

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caucasian mountain dogs

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i've seriously never seen a dog that big

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before in person

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it was standing in a dimly lit grassy

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courtyard area of my apartment complex

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the lights are the still yellow and the

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bulbs are really old

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so i couldn't make out the details of

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this animal all i could honestly tell

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was that it was really big

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really furry and that it seemed to be

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pointed in my direction

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when i stepped out into my balcony the

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barking immediately stopped

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i stared at the dog for a while and it

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almost seemed like it was staring right

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back at me

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we stayed like this for maybe two

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minutes or so when i hear a loud honk

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from the car on the nearby highway

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at this point the dog stands up on its

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hind legs and sprints off toward the

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small royal near my complex

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it was honestly extremely terrifying

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i've never come that close to actually

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pooping my own pants

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of course my first thought is that i

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just witnessed a skinwalker

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the only thing is that i've never ever

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heard and read about skinwalkers being

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in such a busy city urban area

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the scariest thing is that my navajo

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friend has always told me that i need to

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stop talking about skinwalkers

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because that attracts their attention so

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now i feel paranoid

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upright canine encounter monongalia

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county west virginia

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hi thank you for reading my email i am

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reaching out to you for an opinion

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it has to do with an experience i had a

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few weeks ago i was driving west on

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morgan run

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road near lubbock lane in mongalia

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county west virginia

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this is close to cheat lake it happened

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on june 8 around 7 30 pm

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i was on my way back to my friend's

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house after i drove past lubbock lane

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i noticed a tall figure move out then

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back into the trees

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i wasn't driving fast so i got a good

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look at it though it's still hard for me

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to believe what i saw

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it turned back and looked at me i swear

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it was a wolf standing on two legs

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the head was huge with dark long hair

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the body was almost like that of a

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powerful man

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but it still had the characteristics of

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a wolf i didn't get a good look at the

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legs but they were definitely shaped

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like wolves

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very muscular arms with humanlike hands

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and very long fingers or claws

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when it looked at me the eyes seemed to

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twinkle or shine as the head moved

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the face was a wolf's face same snout

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and ears with a thick neck

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i believe it had something in the right

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hand but the body blocked it from my

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view

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it just looked at me for a few seconds

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and then took a few steps into the brush

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that was all i saw i found some of the

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sightings reported to you on google

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i didn't notice any from west virginia

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but since this is near pennsylvania so i

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thought you may be interested

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i haven't talked to anyone about this

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this beast looked evil

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and i'm not really sure i should have

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reported this but it would be

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interesting if others had reported

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seeing something like this in the same

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area

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upright canine encounter hidden valley

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lake indiana

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this is basically a beast of barrow-type

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siding but it happened in southern

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indiana

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far from brair-out i'm wondering if

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anyone else has had

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or heard of sightings in the same area

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for the record this

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is not a werewolf story what i saw was

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an animal

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not a shapeshifter i know the beast is

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often called a werewolf but i don't buy

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that explanation

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my sighting happened between 1992 and

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1995 because i only lived in the area

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during that time

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my best guess is that it was 1992-1993

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because i was coming home late at night

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around one or two a.m without my

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then-fiance and she would have been with

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me after 1993.

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the sighting happened on state line road

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just off route 50 in southern indiana

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ohio

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right by hidden valley lake you can see

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on google maps that the area is still

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pretty wooded

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even 25 years later the usual caveats

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apply

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i had not been drinking and i wasn't on

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drugs i had just turned into state line

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road from route 50

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and i saw a large animal in the road it

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looked like a huge dog hunched over

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roadkill

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as i neared it i began to suspect it was

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one of my neighbor's dogs he had two

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irish wolfhounds

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if you don't know those are huge dogs

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that stand about three foot at the

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shoulders

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i assumed one of them had got out by

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this time i was slowing down because the

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animal didn't seem aware of my

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car and i was about 30 yards away i was

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starting to plan how i was going to get

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a dog that big into my car

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so i could drive it home and also

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wondering if wolfhounds were typically

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dangerous to approach

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i was also trying to figure out if i

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should wake the neighbors up or just try

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and tie the dog up outside or something

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as my mind raced through these thoughts

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this all happened in just a few seconds

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the animal finally turned and looked at

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my car so i stopped the car completely

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its face looked more like the shape of

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the police dogs than a wolfhound

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and that threw me i remember wondering

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why my neighbor's dog looked so strange

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and then the animal simply stood up on

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two legs and calmly walked off to the

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west

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into the tall grass off the road my mind

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at this point was still trying to

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reconcile how this was my neighbor's

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wolfhound

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i literally thought he had trained his

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dogs to walk on two legs and had never

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told us

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then it started to sink in the shape of

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the head was wrong

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the build of the dog was too muscular

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and it walked like a human not a circus

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dog

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my mind looked back to that of course it

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had walked off like a human on two legs

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and its gaze had lingered on me as if

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its attitude was telling me

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i didn't have to move you know the fur

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was long and shaggy and gray

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although in the darkness i could have

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misjudged the color and my mind filled

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it in with the color i was expecting to

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see on my neighbor's wolfhound

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i watched it walk still casually until

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it was swallowed by the shadows and

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trees on the other side of the small

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field

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i was terrified to drive the rest of the

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way home i never mentioned it to anyone

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but in the morning i asked my mom if the

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neighbor's dogs had got out and when she

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asked why i wanted to know

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i just said i thought i'd seen one but

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both dogs were accounted for

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and neither had got out then about 10

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years later

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i heard linda godfrey on coast to coast

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talking about the beast of brerod

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and i was like that's exactly what i saw

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it was even the same time

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period as the original barrowed flap

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with that confirmation

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i finally started to tell people about

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it to see if anyone else had seen

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anything like it

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no one had of course so that's my story

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are there historical sightings of the

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beast in the southern indiana ohio state

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line area

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