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welcome to the best of first person

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upright canine in southeast texas i'm 56

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years old and have been in southeast

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texas most of my life

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raised in the swamp and inexperienced

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hunter at 16 or 17 was in vidor texas

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throwing football in a secluded area

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with a friend

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20 feet from us a wolf-like creature

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came out of wooded area onto the road

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i asked my friend if he thought that it

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was a wolf there were no wolves in that

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area at that time

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the creature heard me and stood up and

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started leering at us

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it took three or four steps towards us

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my observation was that it was five feet

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tall with a long snout and very large

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canine teeth with eyes that were not

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like a dog's

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my friend had already abandoned me and

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locked himself in the car

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i yelled something in fear and it ran

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across road and went back to four-wicket

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stance and disappeared into force

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i have never seen any strange things

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before after i get ridiculed for telling

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this

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but i know what i saw thanks for your

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upright canine near camp pendleton in

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march 2015

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i woke up at around 3am i have no idea

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why

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usually i wake up to drink water or use

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the bathroom

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but i needed neither of those anyway i

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was living in southern california at the

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time near camp pendleton

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and where i lived there was my

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neighborhood then just wilderness

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there was nothing beyond my neighborhood

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for miles just land

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just in fyi i have always been into the

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supernatural

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but i don't think i really believed it

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until this experience

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before i went to sleep i opened my

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window because it was hot

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and i had my curtains shades open and

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pulled up to make sure

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air was getting in so at 3 am i woke up

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and just looked out my window which was

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next to my bed

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and i thought i saw someone standing at

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the crosswalk across the street

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i was just thinking that's so weird

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because usually we didn't have runners

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or early morning walkers until about 4

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45 a.m so i got up and went to my window

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so i could get a closer look

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and what i saw i will never forget this

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thing was standing

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but its legs were bent and it had some

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white fur covering the body

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however i could still see some skin its

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back was hunched over

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and its face looked like some sort of

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dogs

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if this creature was standing straight

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up i'd say that it would be about seven

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or eight feet tall

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now mind you this was a three am so i

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was just like wow okay

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you're hallucinating go back to sleep

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however

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i was literally paralyzed and could not

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take my eyes off this creature

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its nose and ears just looked so similar

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to a dog's or some sort of wool for

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coyote

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prevalent however they never really came

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into the neighborhood

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so as you can tell i was just completely

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shocked and nervous

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and as i was about to shut my window the

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thing turned its head and stared right

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at me

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it was standing directly under a street

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light so i could see its features very

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clearly

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and its eyes were so black but somehow

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they were shining to where you could

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really see them staring right into your

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soul

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that did it for me i slammed my window

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shut pulled down the blinds

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closed the curtains and jumped right

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into bed while pulling the covers over

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my face

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i never went back to sleep that night

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flash forward two years later

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in june of 2017 i again woke up but this

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time i was just hungry

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so i went downstairs to get some food

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and sat at my kitchen table

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in the chair that i sat my back was

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facing the window on the side of the

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house

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this window was about a foot off the

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ground and it was open about 10 inches

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because my mom forgot to shut it

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now that window had no screen because it

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got torn somehow

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and we just didn't get around to

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replacing it yet

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anyway i had my earbuds in and was

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watching a movie or show

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i can't exactly remember but i heard a

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noise

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i couldn't tell if it was from the movie

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or from outside

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so i paused it and listened i then heard

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heavy breathing

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but i have never heard this kind of

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breathing before and it was coming from

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directly behind me

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right outside the window the breathing

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was rough

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rigid and sounded not anything like a

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i was too scared to turn around but the

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hairs on the back of my neck were

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standing up and i had goosebumps

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everywhere

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the breathing lasted for about two

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minutes then i heard heavy footsteps

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as if this thing was walking away after

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about 10 minutes have passed

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i shut the window locked it closed the

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curtains

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and ran up to my room i told my parents

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about my first encounter the next day

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after it had happened

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i was 16 at the time and still living

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with them

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they just kind of looked at me and

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laughed and said i was seeing things

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and that it was probably just a coyote

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after my second encounter

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i told them the next day and that time

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they really thought i was just tired and

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was hearing things

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my question to everyone out there is

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have any of you experienced something

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similar to this

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was this just a coyote or do you guys

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think that i was hallucinating

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it's been bothering me for a while now

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and i had to get my story out there

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mc

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upright canine shapeshifter in austin my

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dorm friend at university of texas

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austin and i walked to a small park as

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dusk was falling

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to practice our guitar lessons we had

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not taken or drunk any type of

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mind-altering substances

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we were walking down a steep street when

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i noticed that down the sidewalk from us

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someone had placed an impressively

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true-to-life life-sized statue of a

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large german shepherd dog right across

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the sidewalk

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facing the street and completely

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blocking said sidewalk

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i thought that was so odd but my dorm

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mate did not seem at all surprised

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so i tried to shrug it off until we got

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a bit closer and realized that it was

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not a statue but a real german shepherd

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lying so motionless that only his

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breathing gave him away

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with legs stretched out in front of him

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hind legs straight next to his rear

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tail straight out behind him and staring

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straight ahead across the street with

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ears pricked forward

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i was getting uneasy about this because

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the dog did not which in ear arm move

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his head one bit to notice us

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as we approached him from up the hill

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just stared straight ahead of him

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this did not seem like normal behavior

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and i told my dorm mate who again

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shrugged it off

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she had never owned pets knew little

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about them and did not particularly like

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them

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i however grabbed her arm and made

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across the street with me

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rather than get any closer i looked at

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it across the street and it did not move

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i stared as we walked by on the other

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side and it was looking right in our

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direction

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but i could not tell if it ever looked

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directly at us i looked back at it as we

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proceeded on down the hill and it never

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i stayed uneasy but we left it behind

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reached the small park and climbed on

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the picnic table

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and proceeded to strum guitars shortly a

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tiny striped manx cat appeared

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not a kitten but very small it

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immediately began running round and

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round our picnic table faster and faster

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i was freaking again i had no idea what

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it was doing

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had never seen a cat do that then it

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stopped reversed itself and started

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running faster and faster round and

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round our table in the opposite

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direction

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then it shot up a tree directly over our

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heads crossed its paws

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laid its little head on its paws and

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looked directly into my eyes with round

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golden eyes

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its expression was so wise with a scary

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to me

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glint that i interpreted at the time as

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anticipation

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however as i well knew this was not a

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cat expression

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they can be wise and they can anticipate

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but they do not express it through their

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eyes like humans do

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i had had enough i felt like a bull's

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eye had been pinned to me

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i told my buddy that i wanted to get out

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of there when i told her why

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she was just puzzled she felt nothing

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unusual about any of it

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night was falling and i scanned the park

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around us

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lo and behold about a half a football

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field away a creature skulked from

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behind some bushes

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crossing a small space to disappear

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behind some other bushes

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it was canine but i can tell you now it

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was not a recognizable dog to me

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it was not shaped like a house dog and

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it did not move like a dog

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it was larger than a coyote i had an

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impression of severe scruffiness

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i could not see its face at all clearly

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only that it was a weird creeping

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stomach load of the ground canine i had

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never seen a silhouette like that

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including wolves that i had seen in

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books and zoos not much tv for me at

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that time

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at that point a figure of a man emerged

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directly from behind the bushes into

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which the canine had sculpt

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knight had almost fallen but i could see

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that he was very tall

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had long ratty seeming hair and a long

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ratty beard i could see his clothes were

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literally in tatters

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and i could see that his fingernails

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were very long on hands that hung down

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by his sides

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i could not see his eyes he shambled and

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i used that word correctly

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implying some kind of walking disorder

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directly towards us across the park

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the canine did not reappear i had heard

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no noises from the bushes at all

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so i concluded he could not have been

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attacked by the canine in the few

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seconds they must have met behind the

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same set of bushes

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as he came closer i saw at a hair and

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beard his long fingernails and tattered

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clothing more clearly

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alarm bells were going off non-stop in

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my head i decided that we were seeing a

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werewolf and took off running leaving my

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pal behind

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she followed me we ran out of the park

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back to the bustling ut streets

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finally headed for the dorm we were

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crossing a very short crosswalk when i

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noticed that an old arthritic grizzled

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white dog was slowly crossing from the

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other side

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i looked at it as it passed right by me

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as i do all animals and it stopped dead

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in its tracks

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crouched awkwardly on all four legs and

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stared directly into my eyes with

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totally blind eyes

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milky blue white with no pupils i stared

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back unbelievingly

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my heart was still thumping from running

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and my mind was still shocking overall

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that it just happened

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and now it was still continuing with

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people in cars all around us

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it craned its head to look over its

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shoulder at me not turning its body

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around

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still in this awkward painful looking

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four-legged crouched position

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i leaped away from it and headed for

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home people did notice this incident and

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stared at the dog and at me

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at this point i heard a horn blaring and

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whirled back around to see that a car

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had driven right up to the crosswalk

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inches away and with lights full on the

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dog and was honking and honking its horn

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to move it out of the road

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it did not seem to notice the car the

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lights are the horn

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it just squatted and it was still

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staring after me

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people were standing and staring at the

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dog i ran back to my dorm and went to

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bed

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it changed my life forever but i stopped

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telling anyone

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i had never heard of cryptids i

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eventually concluded to myself that we

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ran into something to do with magic

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i discovered cryptids finally several

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years ago and went straight to the

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internet

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i could not find anything like the

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experiences i had online

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but i am thinking perhaps there was one

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or more of what they call shapeshifters

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or maybe it was magic anyway sorry this

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is so long

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i have contacted ken gerhart and he

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seems interested but i know he is busy

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with current cases

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as you probably are however if you ever

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find time and have any theories

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i sure would like someone who knows

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coprite canine peers through window near

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crescent mountain pennsylvania

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in western pennsylvania on crescent

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mountain in 1965

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i was exploring the woods with a friend

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who lived in the area

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we crossed a stream at the bottom of a

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ravine and went uphill

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maybe a mile up slope in trees we came

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upon a dome made of interlaced tree

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branches

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it was tall enough for me to enter

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without bending over

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i did so it stank horribly inside we

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found fresh timothy grass laid out in a

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kind of palette or bed in one end

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there was no debris of a human kind

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anywhere but there were small bones and

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sticks

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we couldn't stand the odor and backed

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out then felt we were being watched from

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upslope

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growing nervous as dusk fell we left

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fast

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we told his father about it who

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dismissed it as a hopos hutch

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we'd found many of those it was not a

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person who made what we'd found

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we glimpsed a shadow moving and maybe a

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glint of eyes

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too reflective eyes can be down to

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something as simple as the lurker

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wearing glasses

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we were told but it had felt more animal

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than hopo to us

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one foggy saturday morning i was again

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visiting my friend

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we preferred roaming the woods to

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wandering in town where i lived

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we were sprawled on the floor watching

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an old horror movie neither of us

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understood i think it was dementia 13

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which seemed incoherent it did feature a

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good many spooky images and a few jump

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scares

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so it held out interest especially with

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the fog that day

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we heard a thump on the front door

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glancing across the living room

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we saw a dog's face gazing at us through

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the middle of three narrow windows set

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high on the door

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it would have had to be six or seven

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feet tall to peer through those windows

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its gaze shined and we both screamed

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thinking werewolf

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as we gasped it dropped down below the

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door's windows

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nervously we peered out the picture

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window that took up most of one wall of

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the room

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in the fog we saw it again moving past

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just far enough away to be little more

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than a shadow

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thing is it was upright it sort of hop

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walked on its hind legs

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its four legs held in front of it this

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sight scared us even more

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when it had vanished headed toward the

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tree line we talked about whether the

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thing we just seen could be what had

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made the dome nest we'd found not long

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back

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at the time this seemed reasonable to us

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we knew though not to tell his parents

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about the huge dog thing looking in

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through the front or

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windows we didn't want to be ridiculed

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again but we did learn to be more

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careful when playing in the woods

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only years later did i hear about the

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ohio grass man

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a sasquatch analog for that area where

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we were fell within its range

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later still western pennsylvania began

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experiencing a cluster of what people

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called a dogman

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supposedly it was pretty much what my

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friend and i had seen as kids

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peering through his front door windows

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and moving past his house as it went

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toward the trees

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i'm glad we didn't encounter it directly

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either time

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but kinda wish we'd seen it more clearly

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before it moved away

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still gives me chills thinking about

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being out on the mountain at dusk with

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something like that

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or what would have happened had it

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gotten through the door

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