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glimmer man appears in vet's bedroom i

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had experience last night

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sunday may 17th that i thought you two

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would love to hear about

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now a little background on me i'm 36

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years old and a military police veteran

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of 10 years

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i've had some weird things happen to me

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in my life that i can explain and others

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i still can't until this day

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i have a healthy skepticism of the

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paranormal which is why these

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experiences bother me so much

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i don't worry myself about how people

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may perceive me when i tell others some

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of my stories

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because after being a cop for 10 years

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you know what you see and the facts are

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the facts

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i have asked before if you had the

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chance to see any kind of creature

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which would it be well last night i'm

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pretty sure i saw the damn glimmer man

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now any other night my girlfriend and i

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would have went to bed at the same time

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but i end up staying up later due to due

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to having to get my daughter from work

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late

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i got home and stayed up until around

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1am

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my girlfriend went to bed maybe an hour

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earlier went through my usual routine

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check the doors and windows to make sure

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they were locked and then laid down

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i usually toss and turn throughout the

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night fully waking up for a few minutes

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before going back to sleep

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i sleep on the end of the bed furthest

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away from the bedroom door

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i have blackout curtains over my window

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so my corner of the room is very dark

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our neighbor leaves her porch lights on

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so some light pours in through our

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window

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on my girlfriend's side she prefers to

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have a little light shine through

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on her bedside table she plugs in her

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phone so you can see the light

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periodically shine when a notification

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comes in

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as i turned over to face her side of the

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room that's when i saw it

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now this wasn't a let me focus on

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whatever this is

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it was an instant what the hell is that

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i don't care who you are or what you've

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done in your life or how bad you think

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you are

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when you're in a vulnerable state and

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face to face with something that

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shouldn't exist

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everything goes out the window i've been

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in convoys

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high-risk traffic stops and patrols in

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iraq but no fear compared to this

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it had to be at least six or seven feet

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tall maybe

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and wide i say that because as my

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girlfriend's phone notification light

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illuminated the corner next to the head

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of the bed

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i could see its right hand shoulder arm

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and a little bit of its side

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from what i could see especially in the

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shoulder area it looks like it had on

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some kind of

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i know this sounds silly but small

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shoulder pads

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nothing big like football pads but

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imagine baseball knee pads on your

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shoulder

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like that when the light hitted it did

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have that predator look to it with

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slight glimpses of reds

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blues and purples maybe just like it was

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somehow bending light

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i couldn't see the legs chester face

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area cause i guess the light wasn't

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strong enough to reach it

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what was even more scary is that it was

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moving while standing next to my

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girlfriend like it was touching her in

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some way

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it would seemingly reach over to her

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nightstand and grab things

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and then turn back to her doing all of

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this pretty fast

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maybe there was something else there

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that i couldn't see now that i think

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about it

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imagine laying on a gurney and being

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operated on that's what it looked like

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it being the doctor i laid there

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completely frozen

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jumping up crossed my mind then i

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quickly decided not to

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if this is real i don't know the risks

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is this thing capable of reacting

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would i upset it and something more

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severe could happen from what i could

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see my girlfriend would sound asleep

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while all this was happening i was still

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in the same position i was

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in when i rolled over and saw this thing

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my entire body was hot and i could feel

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myself starting to sweat

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now i work out on the regular and have a

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pistol on my nightstand

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and a gun safe full of weapons in my

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closet no more than 10 feet away

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i'm not afraid to say as i laid there

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watching this thing opening and closing

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my eyes to make sure i wasn't seeing

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things that wasn't there

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a tear ran down my face and it was

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because of pure fear

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the whole full sighting lasted about two

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minutes from there i closed my eyes and

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began to say the lord's prayer over and

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over again

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until i couldn't see it and got the

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courage to roll over

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needless to say i slept like crap last

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night i probably won't mention this to

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my girlfriend

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it wouldn't help the situation any and i

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feel like the less she knows the better

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either this thing is real or all of us

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that have seen it or something like it

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are going insane

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hell they said that about ufos and look

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what happened

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unexplained noisy humanoid encountered

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in yutazu into mountains

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here details and specifics on an

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experience let me first clarify that

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this was four years ago

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when i was 15 on a muzzleloader's mule

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deer hunt in the far northeastern part

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of utah

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which contains some of the most remote

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and beautiful places in the state

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i've been frequently out in this area

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spreading in summit county that cuts in

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and out of lower wyoming since before i

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can remember

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this includes lots of hiking backpacking

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camping

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hunting and being involved in some of my

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now retired grandfather's work as a

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biologist conservation officer and

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wildlife land manager

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i am skeptical of things not proven by

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methods of science

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but i don't deny all of those things i

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find that it's impossible for science to

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know of all that is out there in our

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vast world

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my grandfather has seen mountain lions

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bears

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plants a natural phenomena for a

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majority of his life

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and he understands so much that many

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people including myself

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will never be able to even imagine his

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scientific comments straightforward

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level-headed he's agnostic and is not

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superstitious and often used to

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lovingly and respectfully he's a certain

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conservation officer who thinks certain

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bigfoot

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skinwalkers and other beings exist other

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than this experience

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he has never encountered an animal that

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he could not at least partially if not

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completely

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identify other than the natural innate

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fear of being in close quarters with a

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bear

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a drinking and belligerent hunter or

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incredibly pung tranquilizer medication

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he's told me over and over he's never

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been terrified of an animal or

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experience like this

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only curious or surprised it was late

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september and we were in a small camp by

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a lake in the higher into mountains

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hunting both grouse and mule deer with

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muzzleloaders the camp was a small

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collection of men and women my

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grandfather had worked with over the

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years as a supervisor biologist

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conservation officer

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and these were people i grew up with one

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of the women a new wife to one of the

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guys

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had shot a buck ear injuring but not

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culling it immediately and they had lost

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track of it

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devastated by the thought of wasting the

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animal she returned to camp in the

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afternoon upset

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and concerned that the deer had run into

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an even more secluded area of the

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mountain which was hard to reach from

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the trail that she had shot from

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this was a place my grandfather was

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familiar with because it was such a pain

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in the ass to get to with lots of

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deadfall and steep terrain

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we volunteered to go in the late

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afternoon to search for the deer

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following a scant blood trail that she

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attract for a while before getting

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fatigued and intimidated by the terrain

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because both my grandfather and i were

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in good shape and he was so familiar

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it didn't seem like a big deal before we

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left she mentioned hearing what she

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assumed was coyotes which made her even

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more so concerned that if the deer died

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they would ruin the meat and hide before

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she could harvest it

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we took off in the early evening

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expecting to be back within an hour or

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two after searching and having our guns

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with us

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in case we found the animal still alive

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or came across another buck worth trying

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to harvest

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it was steep in places with lots of

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deadfall varying heights

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making the hike slower and more tedious

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than we had hoped making us understand

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the other hunter's fatigue

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she had marked the blood trail with

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bright orange pieces on the trees which

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we followed for maybe 20 minutes

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and then it got hard to track the sun

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was getting close to setting at this

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point and we knew getting out would be

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just as long as getting in we had just

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about decided to stop when we found a

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spot near a fallen tree that looked like

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it had been recently bedded down in

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followed with spatters of fairly fresh

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blood and we continued for longer

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when the sun had just about set and the

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light had faded from the trees we

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removed the firing caps from our guns to

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make them now completely safe as it was

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now illegal and irresponsible to hunt in

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such absence of decent light

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my grandfather pulled out his large mag

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life flashlight from his pack and i put

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in my headlamp to begin the hike back

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using our gps to find the trailhead

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about 10 minutes on the way back we

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started to hear more movement among the

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it was normal for animals to start

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moving now that the sun had gone down

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as animals would likely be starting to

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head towards clearings for water

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or to graze in the safety of lower light

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small and distant sounds of crunching

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leaves

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patterns of whose animals are small bits

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of movement and the trees from squirrels

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or birds were common and expected

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we did not expect a deafening disturbing

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sound we heard next

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which vaguely initially reminded me of a

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coyote howl but by a few seconds in it

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was unidentifiable

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frightening and human-like it started

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with what sounded like a person

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screaming

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but then got louder and more intense

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with a screech to it

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so unlike any coyote or any animal we

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had ever heard

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then was the almost tutoring that came

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in between the shrieks and the movement

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of the trees becoming almost calculated

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almost threatening we stopped that in

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our tracks frozen as my grandfather

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started using the light to look around

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i was far more freaked out than him at

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this point he just seemed perplexed

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curious and a little baffled at what

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could make that sound

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it sounded human but with no words with

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no urge of tone of help or i'm just

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screaming to mess with you

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we continued on after mostly stop and it

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seemed like the other

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natural and distant sounds had gone

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almost silent i listened intently to the

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sound of my boots crunching with the dry

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aspen leaves underfoot

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trying to tell myself that it was just

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some weird coyote with a horribly

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deformed larynx or something

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maybe 20 minutes from the main trail

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that would lead us to the truck

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we heard the chattering sound again and

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sounds of thumping against dead trees

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looking around with our lives in between

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deadfall maybe 12 to 15 feet in front of

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us was a large human looking thing

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it was almost hunched down with long

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slender arm around the front of a

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standing aspen

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the aspen of course was pale white with

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the knots being dark brown

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and whatever it was had skin almost as

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pale i caught a very brief glimpse of

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his face

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it seemed round and the eyes seemed

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sunken and i could not tell you eye

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color

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other than a flash of reflection on the

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eye for my light and that its face

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seemed sunken and emaciated

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i didn't seen any for her hair i never

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felt like it looked right at me more my

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grandfather and just in our direction

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almost confused and curious

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like he was before with a sound for a

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mere couple of seconds i caught a

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glimpse of

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it but that was it i looked down at the

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ground holding my eyes shut by trying to

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imagine being safe and secure in the

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truck

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and my grandfather took a few stumbling

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steps backward toward me

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i heard the thing go off to her side

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moving quickly and with purpose through

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the trees to the side

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and then drop down behind us i would

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assume according to the sound

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but i hope it went in the opposite

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direction my grandfather turned to where

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did viewer off

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as to follow it but he soon stopped and

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looked at me

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i had never before and ever since seen

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him so confused

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baffled horrified curious into naw

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i was crying at this point ugly crying

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trying to muffle my shaking breath and

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voice

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and i asked him what was that over and

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over i asked

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and he had no answer for me he pulled

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his gun off his shoulder

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sling and put a cap back on the nipple

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of the igniter making a gun live and he

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then carried it in front of his body in

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his arm

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he pulled out another headlight to put

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on himself we started walking again

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towards the trail

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as he lifted off as like talking to

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himself as to what a w-a-s-n-t

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things like couldn't have been a d-rock

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or moose it had arms

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it was hunched it stood upright or a

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bear a very sick bear

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it could have been a bear was it the

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light we heard the sound the screeching

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human hall distantly once more before

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reaching the trail which was dirt and

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gravel

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but fairly flat and no deadfall we

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practically jogged to the truck

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i locked the doors immediately and sob

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and my grandfather turned on music as

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loud as possible to try to distract me

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on the way back to camp

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i was a mess when we arrived back and he

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went to talk with the others by the fire

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when he got me settled in my sleeping

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bag in my bunk he explained some to his

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friends but i don't know what all was

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said

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the next day everyone was extra sweet to

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me trying to comfort me and saying it

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was probably a sick animal that looked

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scary in the dark

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the deer the hunter shot was found the

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next day in the daylight

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scavenged quite harshly by what i

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assumed was coyotes

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to this day he has no clue what it was

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nor what that sound was and before and

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since i've heard both coyote and many

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other animal sounds that never even

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compared to that sound

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the scientist in me and in him the

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hopeful and blissfully ignorant people i

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must hope and speculate it was just a

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deformed sick animal and scan life but i

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still have no clue of what that thing

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was

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and i hope i never ever experience it

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