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grandpa parker and the hairy man i've

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been reading so many theories about

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bigfoot to me

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it's somewhat comical i believe that

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certain people are allowed to witness

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these creatures in particular those

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people who have traditionally lived

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among them

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i'm not sure what other people are

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seeing my family has lived in jackson

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county north carolina for

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as long as anyone can remember we are

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cherokee

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there are stories of men or hairy

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savages seen by our people historically

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throughout the coral boundary

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i have a story told to me by my

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grandfather when i was a boy

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grandpa parker talked about the large

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garden in cornfields his parents

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maintained

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they would grow heirloom bean and tomato

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varieties that came from hundreds of

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years in cherokee culture

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they kept a few field animals but at

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that time they didn't raise livestock

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after a while his parents decided that

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they would try raising chickens

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he helped his father build a large

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chicken house and another small barn

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that would be used as a workshop

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everything went well and after a few

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years their flock of egg-laying hens

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were prospering

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his father was also a very good handyman

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and fixed equipment for other farmers in

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the area

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one day just before the harvest season

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grandpa parker and his father went

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hunting in the woods west of the farm

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their main quarry was squirreled that

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day as they reached their regular spot

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along ridge thick of hickory trees

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his father looked worried they rarely

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talked or made any noise while

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in the woods but his father suddenly

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started to whistle in a long sustained

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they sat quietly on the boulder for a

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few minutes until his father once again

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let out a long whistle

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we need to move his father abruptly said

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they got up and started to briskly walk

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on the trail towards the farm

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when they reached the end of the woods

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they heard a loud whistle coming from

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the direction where they came

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they cut through the cornfield and

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quickly reached the workshop

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grandpa parker was becoming worried his

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father didn't say anything just

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directing him to stay with him

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his mother was in the garden working

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when his father shouted out to her to go

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to the house

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they all met at the door by the kitchen

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and went inside he and his father sat at

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the table while his mother cooked coffee

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why do we leave the woods his father

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looked at him and asked if he had ever

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heard anyone talk about the hairy man

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grandpa parker told him that he had not

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he was scared now

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my great-grandfather said that the hairy

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man was a tall hairy human-like creature

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that would migrate to different

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locations along the mountains following

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food sources

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when they were in the woods he had

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noticed that there were no birds or

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other natural sounds as they approached

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the ridge

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he said that he noticed something large

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in the hollow much larger than a black

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bear

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and walking like a man he whistled

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hoping it would move on but he didn't

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notice and move or make any sound

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from his experience that was an

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indication that it was time to leave

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because the bear man was staying put

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the return whistle they heard was a

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warning to stay out of the woods

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when my great-grandfather was younger a

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woman and her young boy went missing in

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a woodland in nearby swing county north

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carolina

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people had seen a hairy man in the area

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and suspected that it was responsible

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for the disappearance

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there had been other disappearances

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previous to that no remains were ever

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the next day his father decided to start

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harvesting corn

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this year a large patch of cornfield

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nearest to the woods was left

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unharvested

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his mother also left several baskets of

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potatoes at the wood's edge that winter

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they didn't want any problems from the

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hairy man especially since he was known

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to raid chicken houses

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one evening while he and his father were

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working in the shop they heard a long

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whistle coming from the woods

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his father smiled and said don't mind

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that hairy man is saying thank you

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the next spring they once again went

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into the woods to hunt

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the hairy man had moved on john p

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i saw a wolfman hi mr strickler i have

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really enjoyed your phantoms and

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monsters at books and blog the last few

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years

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i just finished the most recent book

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which had a number of dog and wolf

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humanoid encounters

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i like reading these encounters because

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it makes me feel better to know that

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there are others out there who have had

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encounters with something that they

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can't explain

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i decided that i would send you my

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weirdest story which happened to me as a

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child

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i have seen and felt strange things

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since then but this encounter was both

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the strangest thing that has ever

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happened to me

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and i believe a catalyst for other

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unusual things in my life

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and an interest in them several years

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ago i sent this encounter to another

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well-known researcher but i never

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heard anything back i'm not surprised as

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it is pretty odd and seems made up but

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it did happen

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what it was i have no idea when i was a

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little girl

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my pat paul lived in an old farmhouse in

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the upper end of cleveland county north

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carolina

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we used to go visit with him every

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saturday my dad

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my mom my baby brother and i along with

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usually several of my dad's brothers

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his sister and their assorted children

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would congregate after lunch at pappas

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us cousins would play together outside

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and out in the woods

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which ran behind my papa's farm and

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stretched for probably 10 miles to a

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beyond which was an apple orchard and a

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cattle pasture

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this was the early 80s in the rural area

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back when kids could take off to the

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woods for hours

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and it was okay we would all have dinner

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and then hang out until bedtime for us

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kids when we would all head home

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at the time i had just turned eight my

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cousin jay was six

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my brother and jay's sister were both

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small toddlers barely walking

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the night in question jay and i and our

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little siblings were the only kids

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present at pappas

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he and i had spent the day playing in

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the woods as usual and adam and yard

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where jay was trying out his prize brand

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after supper we hung out in the back

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bedroom watching tv

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until our parents informed us that it

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was time to go home dot patbah's house

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had a glassed in porch which also served

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as a laundry room on the front

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because of the way the lot was laid out

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in the house was built

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was fairly tall and looking out the

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windows gave you a panoramic and

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slightly elevated view of the backyard

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i would speculate that the porch windows

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were about 20 feet off the ground

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and the backyard sloped away from the

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porch the backyard was lit by two large

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one which was mounted on a pole to the

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left of the yard the other mounted on

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the side of papa's shop

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which was to the right they were very

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bright and each light lit up a fairly

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the only really shadowy part of the

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backyard was the area where a large tree

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casting a shadow that fell between the

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shop and the greenhouse

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which was to the far left of the yard it

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was under this tree that jay had left

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his skateboard when we stopped playing

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to eat supper

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and he and i decided that we should go

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out to get it while our parents were

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still seeing their goodbyes in the

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the wolfman was in the backyard we saw

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him at the same time

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as soon as we entered the porch he was

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man-sized and he looked exactly like a

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movie he had a shaggy dark brown wolfman

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head with long pointed ears and a

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lighter brown muzzle

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his hands were human-like as best i can

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and he had long claws he was wearing a

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red and black shack flannel shirt and

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i don't remember anything about his feet

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whether he had shoes or claws

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but his legs were straight like a

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person's not bent backwards like a dog

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he was walking back and forth in the

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yard almost robot like or as if he were

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i can't really describe it well it was

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like his legs were moving a little

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but not enough to actually campus

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walking it was more like he was gliding

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but in a jerky way

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his body was human in proportion he

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would move from the edge of the light

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stopping when he reached the end of the

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illuminated area and turning around in a

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strange jerky way and gliding back

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his eyes were red and glowed some like

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one of those laser lights that he used

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to tease casts

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that colored about that level of

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brightness the only time he was out of

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our sight was when he passed into the

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shadowed area of the tree

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he seemed to be showing off for us

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wanting us to see him or

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at least it was what it felt like the

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feeling that he carried with him was of

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overwhelming malevolence

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i felt like he knew we were there and

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could see us watching and feel that we

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were afraid and he was glad

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not sure if that makes sense but it was

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what i felt at the time

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dread and fear and like he was aware of

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us and doing what he was doing on

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purpose to scare us

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of course we freaked out and started

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screaming for our parents

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and of course once they all rushed out

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onto the porch only to hear us

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hysterical because the wolfman was in

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the backyard

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they said the usual parent things about

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overactive imagination and too much

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scooby-doo

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because even though he was there walking

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back and forth right in front of them

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and we could both see him

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none of the adults present could i

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remember pointing and saying

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it's out there and being really

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frustrated because they couldn't see it

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finally my dad determined to put an end

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to the nonsense

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announced that he was going to go out

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into the yard and get jay's skateboard

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from under the tree

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we tried to stop him but he went anyway

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at that time the wolfman was still doing

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his strange gliding walk back and forth

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when my dad opened the porch door and

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hit the steps that led from the porch to

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the yard

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he triggered the motion sensor light

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which was on the corner of the porch

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awning

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lighting up the shadow tree area just

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before this happened the wolfman had

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stepped into that shadowy area and

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disappeared from view in the dark

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when the light came on lighting up the

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tree area the wolfman was just gone

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it was as if he had vanished into thin

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air as they say

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we never saw him again though we became

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mildly obsessed with werewolves for a

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while after that

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and started hoarding silver in case we

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needed to make silver bullets

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when you are a child it is pretty

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amazing what you can consider normal

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we were scared at the time it happened

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but it's like afterwards it didn't feel

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completely real because it was so

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bizarre

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and we sort of made a game out of it a

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few weird things happened to us in the

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woods after that

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but nothing that could be considered

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paranormal beyond doubt and nothing like

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seeing the wolf man

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years past but i always wondered about

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what we saw that night

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my cousin jay forgot about it all

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together i asked him about it just a few

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months ago and he didn't remember it at

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all

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was the story in linda godfrey's real

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wolfman

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about the girl who saw the hitchhiking

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werewolf wearing clothes

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before that i'd never seen a serious

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report of a canine or lupine humanoid

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wearing clothes in any publication

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i don't often tell anyone about the

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wolfman we saw because it sounds so

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completely crazy

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of course my parents and jay's parents

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never for one second believed we saw

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anything

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i don't fully know the history of the

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land around papaws

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i know that there were lots of catawba

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indians in that area before colonial

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times

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and that there are several strange

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formations in that part of the county

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that people claim are indian mounds

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though none of them seem to be

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officially recognized as such there have

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been several bigfoot flaps in that

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county as well

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and there are black panthers there i

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have seen both black and tan panthers as

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has my father and many hunters he knows

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though they are not in my opinion

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anything supernatural

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just regular animals i have no idea to

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this day

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what it was that we saw in the backyard

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i find it hard to believe that it was

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actually a werewolf but i feel like it

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was something paranormal

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seeing it caused me to have a lifelong

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interest in cryptozoology and fortian

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phenomenon

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i thought a lot about it and i sort of

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feel like john keel was right when he

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suggested that there is something out

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there that messes with us

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just because it can like maybe something

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that wanted to be scary

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and knew that a stereotypical werewolf

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would frighten some little kids

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i've even wondered if it could have been

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someone dressed in a costume playing a

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prank but that wouldn't explain the

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weird gliding unnatural wave move

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or the way it was able to disappear so

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fast or the fact that apparently five

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adults couldn't see it

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even though two kids could just thought

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that this might interest you because of

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the novelty

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it sounds so out there and frankly made

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up that i doubt anyone would believe it

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anyway

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i have told maybe four people my entire

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life about it

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including my ex-husband who did not

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believe me i have never even mentioned

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it to my current husband

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because it's just so weird i would

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however be interested to know if anyone

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else out there has experienced anything

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similar

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either werewolf type form dressed in

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clothing or something that they felt was

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something pretending to be something

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that it really was not

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for whatever reason i feel strongly that

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this is what was happening

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this and have really enjoyed your work

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