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seven foot cryptid owl encountered near

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lake michigan

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i live in the u.s midwest 30 miles from

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lake michigan

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i don't scare easy or believe in much

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unexplained but there's definitely an

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undiscovered species of giant grey owl

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that cut through the neighborhood and

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woods where i used to live

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i later assumed it migrates because i

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staked out the spot for a month

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afterwards

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armed and with a night vision camcorder

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hoping to prove what i had told a few

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people

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a few believe me because i'm not a bsr

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and i'm also willing to help people

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the first time i was told about

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something strange in this area

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i didn't believe it myself it happened

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in the very same spot i saw this owl

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i really didn't care for the person that

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said he'd seen a four foot owl

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so i dismissed it completely and enjoyed

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making fun of him when he'd bring it up

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i grew up in the area and was more of an

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outdoorsman than most adults

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my grandfather taught me skills other

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kids didn't get

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he was a ww2 survivor and as a teenager

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he was enlisted by his mother

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he made me tough as nails hoping

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something like that wouldn't happen to

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me

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a friend and i were cutting through the

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same patch of woods that divides to a

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dead-end street with lots of acres of

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woods we were halfway through this patch

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of woods not saying much

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then we hear a raccoon scurry away it

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was loud because it was early spring

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no leaves were on the tree and last

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year's leaves were laying on the forest

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floor

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it was dark but our eyes had adjusted by

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then i'm walking ahead when i first hear

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what sounded like a heavy person jump

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off a wood diving board

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i stopped walking looking and listening

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for the source

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about 10 yards ahead and about 20 feet

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up in a full grown oak tree this branch

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is whipping like something very heavy

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had jumped off

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reaching in my pocket to see if i even

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had a pocket knife which i did not

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i look back at my buddy real quick to

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tell him the first thing that came to

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mind which was that it was probably a

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bobcat

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he rolled his eyes at me turned back to

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scan the ground

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then out of the corner of my eye while

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looking down i see

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something diving from the tree in

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disbelief this huge owl is standing in

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front of us

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i'm six one and this owl was pushing

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seven feet plus

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with outward curving ears it had dull

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yellow eyes the size of baseballs with

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three quarter inch thick black rings

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around the eyes

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almost the size of volleyballs that's

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how big its head was

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the chest looked like somebody took a

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sheet of silver and shredded it into

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shavings

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these were the strangest feathers i've

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ever seen i was mesmerized by the sight

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my legs didn't work for the first time

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in my life i must have been in shock

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the owl was within eight to ten feet of

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grabbing me my leg slowly started to

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work and i began to scramble backward

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not wanting to take my eyes off the owl

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i bumped into a large tree

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then quickly got behind it if i would

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have had a gun on me i would have taken

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a shot at it

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it backpedaled like a hummingbird but

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sounded like a helicopter blade in the

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distance with no engine noise

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it came around the tree to get me as i

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positioned myself in order to avoid it

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i remember not wanting to take my eyes

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off it just in case it came back after

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i was looking for a log i could swing if

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it did come back

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i never looked at my friend's reaction i

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told him to find a big stick also

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but he kept tapping my shoulder from

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behind telling me to look at something

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i remember being kind of pissed thinking

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to myself that this was more important

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i finally did turn to him and noticed

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what looked like six or more baby owls

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in the tree

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each about three foot in height that was

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it we ran like hell and got

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away i felt fortunate that we got out of

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there in one piece

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eight foot out like cryptid encounter i

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can't tell you what it was that i saw

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that day but i can describe it

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i lived in skykomish washington for a

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couple years

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and had a big curiosity in sasquatch

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i've had a couple experiences in that

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field but this was different

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after a walk with my dog one afternoon

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and turned to see

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something watching us from behind an

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embankment it looked as if it was trying

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to look like a tree stump

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in fact it did it first i stopped and

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stared at this thing for a good 30

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seconds with my glasses on

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it had l-type features it was huge

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though the head of it that was sticking

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up from behind this embankment was the

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size of a large old growth tree stump

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i was close to this thing about 20 feet

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away and i could see its eyes for

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clothes

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but squinting to see me and they almost

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looked sloth-like

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it had designs that were crossed between

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barklines and l pattern lines

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i felt no fear at all i was looking at

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it and said what the hell is that out

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loud

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my dog didn't notice it after a bit i

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looked down and stepped forward to

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actually get a better look not feeling

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any threat

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when i looked back up it was gone i

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stood there for a minute then got a

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little spooked and went back home

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i went back to that spot and would stand

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there every day looking for whatever it

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might have been i saw that day

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i went behind the embankment one time

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and sized it up to be about six feet

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tall

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so whatever i saw was about seven and a

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half to eight feet tall i estimate

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a lot of super loud depal cults around

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the area

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a lot of sasquatch i believe there are

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other undocumented creatures as well

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i have some photos of a few odd things

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but did not have my camera on me that

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day

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bread-eyed-winged humanoid feigned

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attack during encounter at o'hare

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international airport

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i had just gotten off of work fedex

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facility on june

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30th 2020 and was walking with my friend

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toward the parking lot to go home

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as we walked we saw something fly over

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us at first it looked like a huge owl

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but it was solid black the thing flew

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over us

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and then landed by the edge of the

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parking lot and was just standing here

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we again thought it was an owl until

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this son of a stood up

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and was standing about seven feet tall

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my friend shrieked

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and that's when this thing turned around

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we saw two glowing red eyes

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that looked like it belonged to the

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devil himself that's when we both

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screamed

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and this demon spread his wings out and

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lunged at us

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while screeching at us it sounded like a

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bunch of little girls all screaming at

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once

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and was the scariest thing i have ever

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heard we ran for my car and this thing

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acted like it wanted to come after us

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as we ran to the car it took a step in

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our direction before it took off into

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the air

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and was out of sight in about three

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seconds we could still hear it

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screeching as it flew

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off into the night sky i can tell you

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that i never felt so scared

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and all but pissed myself from fright i

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thank the lord for watching over us

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and not letting that thing attack us or

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large bath wing creature in lebanon ohio

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i don't know how exactly you guys

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function but i saw an article about a

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large black winged creature that flew

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without flapping its wings

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and i have seen something like that

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before it was at my old house

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i no longer live there and don't know if

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it would still be around

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but what i saw only came around at night

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it was huge and blacker than the night

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sky

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it never really moved but when i looked

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away and back again it would be gone

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i am also very convinced i saw a shadow

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person while i still lived at the old

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house

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though it was only once and i haven't

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seen one before

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since that incident it walked just like

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a normal person

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but as it moved it gave off black smoke

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it had no eyes that i could see

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which i have done research on shadow

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people and know that that is a bit

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different than what others report

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but the experience was over all the same

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as what is typically reported

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my current house seems to be haunted to

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some degree though

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i've seen what looks like a woman though

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only once

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but i've felt her or something else

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multiple times

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i never hear voices and for the most

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part i am left alone

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but every once in a while i get a bit

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more activity than usual

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like something in the basement getting

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knocked over but when i go to look for

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it

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nothing is out of place or when i was

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walking through my dining room i felt a

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strong presence right behind me

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on my heels but when i turned around

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nothing was there

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i live in ohio but the article said

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something about illinois

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i was really looking forward some advice

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or insight as to what i may be dealing

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with or what i was dealing with while at

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my old residence

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thank you for your time lb

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