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winged cryptid magog quebec canada i

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live in a recently built house in magog

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quebec about one kilometer west of lake

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magog

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near my house is a forest and large

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marshy area approximately

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200 meters beyond my property i have

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lived here for two years

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many of my neighbors have been here the

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same amount of time

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since june of this year we have been

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hearing loud snarling sounds coming from

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the marsh

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mostly late at night at first i thought

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it may be a coyote or other canine of

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some kind

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but recently we've noticed activity that

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rules this out

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my neighbor three houses down had

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recently obtained a llama and kept it in

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a large railed pen

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behind their house this past weekend the

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llama disappeared

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the only evidence found were drag marks

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in the area around the pen leading to

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the marsh

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there were no tracks or blood anywhere

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in fact the police took a report and

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searched

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they found nothing on sunday night i was

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in my greenhouse cleaning up when i

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heard a loud thud come from behind my

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utility shed

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i started to walk out of my greenhouse

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when i heard that distinctive snarling

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and it was very close i immediately went

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back into the greenhouse

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cut off the lights and quietly watched i

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called my wife on my cell phone and told

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her what was going on

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and to make sure all the doors were

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locked i sat on a bench and waited

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i had been there for about 10 minutes or

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so when i heard this gnarling again

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there is a security light on a timer

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mounted outside of the back porch

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it was on and shining towards the

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greenhouse there is an additional

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security light by he driveway that comes

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on if triggered by something moving

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nearby

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i heard some movement near the utility

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shed again then another thought and a

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brief shrieking sound

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suddenly the security light above the

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driveway came on

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it was a huge winged creature with a

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long thin tail

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it was hideous looked like it had bat

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skin and short horns on weird snake-like

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head

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it opened its wings at one point i say

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the wingspan was at least eight meters

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i didn't notice feathers it stood about

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three to four meters high as well

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it was snarling and thrashing its head

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as it ran towards the marsh i really

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know of no animal to reference it to

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one of my neighbors came running out but

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he didn't see it

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i described what i witnessed he looked

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shocked at what i was saying

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i don't know if he believed me or not we

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decided to call the police and report an

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unknown animal on the property

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i didn't want to describe what i'm sure

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i saw the next day

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i contacted a zoologist in montreal and

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was referred to a cryptozoologist in

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sherbrooke

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neither of them offered much help and

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neither volunteered to come and examine

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the area

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the police found nothing though my yard

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had four dig marks in it but looked like

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someone took a shovel and overturned the

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soil

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i haven't heard any sound since that

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incident if you like to contact me

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i wanted to tell a story of what i

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experienced in the vicinity of rio

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arriba county

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abiquiu tierra zoll i was 15 at the time

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so this was in 2005. my cousin and i

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were the only ones together

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there was a car in front of us all of a

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sudden i see this black figure

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it looked like trash flying in the wind

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but then as it got closer

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it started to look like a runner with

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its hands in front of it

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flat like runners when they are running

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but it didn't look like a man

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the car in front swerved and in that

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next seconds everything slowed down

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the creature in front of the car to

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right of the shoulder started coming at

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our car

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and it jumped when it did that it spread

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its arms and these wings came out

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about the size of the car with wise from

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driver to passenger door

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its face was freaky because it wasn't

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human at all

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and had beady yellow eyes two fangs but

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it now that i look back

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it reminds me of the mothman it didn't

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have ears

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and its face looked almost blank besides

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eyes and fangs

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the fangs looked like three to six

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inches sticking out of its mouth

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its chest had a white v its fur was

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something similar to a deer like grayish

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white and brown

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or an all the legs were weird and looked

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like goat legs

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i now know they are called hawks the

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height was like four to five feet tall

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the wings looked like they came out of

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its sides rib cage

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like a glider but they extended longer

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than the arms and looked like bad wings

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except they were big my aunt told me

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that she thinks my cousin

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who witnessed the being with me saw it

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again a few years ago

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this is her story is told to me my

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cousin was checking on her double wide

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because it was not connected to the grid

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she told my aunt that she had a weird

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feeling

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so she stayed in her van it literally

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came out of nowhere

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and her youngest daughter started

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screaming and pulling on her headrest

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from behind her and said

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it's going to get us there by her

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trailer she said she saw the yellow eyes

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peeking around a tree looking at them

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both

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then hiding again she said that right

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away she got out of there

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they think it was the same creature

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since her trailer is one mile from where

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we saw the winged creature the first

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time

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it's strange that she saw with me all

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those years ago

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then again 10 years later m

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large dark wing being encountered on

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i-90 near illinois

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wisconsin state line i've been meaning

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to reach out for some time now and

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finally am

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i became aware of you from a chicago

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mothman video on youtube around a year

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and half ago

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i have occasionally shared my story

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through the years which isn't a whole

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lot with others

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when paranormal topics arise my wife

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recently purchased mothman dynasty as a

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gift

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and i did feel it was very thoughtful

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i'm roughly halfway through it

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i also listened to a podcast by members

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of your team while extensively traveling

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last month

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the slight difference between my story

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and many of the others in your book is

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the time frame

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my sighting was december 2007 it

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occurred about a mile or two past the

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illinois state line from wisconsin on

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i-90 southbound around

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4 or 5 a.m i was very tired while making

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an attempt to travel from northern

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minnesota to western new york with my

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son who i picked up for the holidays

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i basically wasn't trying to pay for a

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hotel and did eventually stop at the

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rest area a couple hours later i believe

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i saw a dark silhouette on my front left

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side in the darkness ahead

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and didn't really think anything of it

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until it came into my headlights

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what i saw flew straight across the road

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like a cross

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street at a decent speed but not in a

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from what i recall it was dark brown and

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it was possibly the length

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top to bottom as the width of my car i

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don't recall a body

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but may i maybe intentionally blanking

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it out

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i saw a leather-like wing flapping down

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for sure

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that seemed oval i don't recall a tailor

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the one picture behind the big indian in

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chicago may be the closest thing to what

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i recall

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most descriptions in your book don't

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seem to represent what i saw

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i say this because what i saw didn't fly

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fluidly or smoothly

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it was awkward and far from the flap of

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when it left my headlights view i could

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see the same silhouette on my right in

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my first impression was something

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not the wing of what i believe a

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pteranodon would look like

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another first impression that was

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immediate was the hair on the back of

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neck my standing up

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realizing i saw something unexplained i

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was scared but not terrified

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and can't recall how long i stayed on

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the road after but do you recall as long

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i did try an internet search a couple

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months later that had an interactive map

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and the closest thing i found was a

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sighting probably 20 miles south from

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mine someone described an awkward flying

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creature flying away from them during

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dusk

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and that's about the closest description

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street lamp with a friend

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he was talking and i was looking at the

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stars as we walked

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we walked under a street lamp that was

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also shining light upwards

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plain as day i saw a flying humanoid

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body arms and legs almost like human fly

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above the street lamp flying about 10

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feet from the edge of the asphalt road

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30 to 40 off the ground flying in the

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opposite direction as we were walking

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the creature was traveling south on the

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west side of the road

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the height i would say is around the

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size of an adult human

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its arms legs and body were athletic

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looking but looked like it hardly had

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any muscle

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it had five fingers like us but had

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three toes

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the toes narrowed down to a point like a

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corner triangle

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it had two wings one coming off each

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the length of the wing was about the

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the wings were narrow and had very

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little surface area

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i did not see the creature flap its

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wings to fly

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its wings look too small to support its

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body plus the body

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was parallel to the ground and was

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elongated like it was laying down while

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flying

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the weight of the hips leg's feet should

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have been sagging towards the ground

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it had small hooks like things that came

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off from the creature's leg

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mid calf area and faced outward i did

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not see any breasts or penis

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i don't know what sex it was hopefully

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it does not reproduce

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but i am sure it does i have told many

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people about what i saw that night

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most people don't believe me although i

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did run into a guy that saw one

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i'd say the same species of the creature

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he was camping also around salina utah

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area

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it flew down swooped at him and made a

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creepy noise

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