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glimmer man multiple encounters in

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i want to tell you about a series of

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events that have happened to me

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starting in 2012 and could still

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currently be happening

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my story is what i have recently found

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out could be called the glimmer man

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i had never heard of anyone else seeing

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anything like i've experienced before

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and i have also never seen the movie

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predator i know

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lame but i just never have my close

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friend

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nick is obsessed with all things

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supernatural and i am obsessed with true

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crime

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so he suggested i watch the missing

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4-1-1 the hunted

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i did loved it and by the end i was

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pretty disturbed because i had never

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before heard of anyone

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seeing something that was essentially a

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translucent figure before like i had

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it really took me back because for years

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i have thought that either i had a

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psychotic break

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or that i'm a medium and can see ghosts

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it never occurred to me that it could be

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something paranormal or anything like

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that

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translucent being before

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but that's all the detail i could admit

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to him he told me i had probably

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seen what's called a glimmer man and

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sent me a podcast

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so i could have my sanity validated i

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have never told a single soul these

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stories

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i have tried to block it out of my mind

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because i realized after the fact that

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it

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wasn't then i couldn't tell anyone

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because i was sure they would think i

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was insane

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this has really freaked me out for a lot

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of years now

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i vowed i would never tell anyone but

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after listening to the other stories

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i really think i need to i refer to this

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thing as a mass

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because that's the best way i could

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describe it

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physically it was translucent and had no

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discernible edges

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however i could tell it was made of

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something if you took

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light got it to refract through a prism

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and took a picture of it

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the cut that picture into quarter inch

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squares and faced them every single

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direction you can

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all at random that's what it looked like

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i could see the blue

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green and red bouncing back to my eyes

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but it all moved like static

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so i couldn't hook on to a single

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section or color for long

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this description is the same for every

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time i've seen it

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the shape and size are the only thing

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that changed and it was by no means

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smooth

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usually the upper half would be sort of

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distended but in a very rough almost

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rocky cliff-like

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shape one last thing before i start two

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months before the first incident

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my roommate kylie made a suicide attempt

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that lead to her accidentally drowning

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in the boise river

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it was not actually her intention but

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very long story short

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she passed away i say this because i

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thought that this glimmer man was her

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coming back as a ghost

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at the time i thought she had come back

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to talk to me

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i wanted in my mind to believe it was

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her i say that to explain why i did not

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panic when i saw the thing on the first

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incident

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i can't explain why i was so calm on the

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so here it goes october 2012 i had moved

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to portland oregon from boise idaho

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in the wake of my roommate's death i was

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in my room alone at about 11 p.m

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my room has a sliding glass door that

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connects straight to the backyard

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i looked over towards the door in the

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corner of the room and i see a strange

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mask that was about four foot tall and

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three foot wide

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i would estimate the depth to be three

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foot as well and was completely

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translucent

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i blinked because i had assumed it was

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my eyes playing tricks on me

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but it was still there i felt very calm

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the figure was very obviously focused on

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me

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it didn't have eyes but it's almost as

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if the top part of it was leaned in a

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little closer than the rest

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and if i moved around a room it would

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turn in my direction

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immediately i think this is a ghost it

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needs to tell me something

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so i reached out my hand and the mask

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came towards me and lifted my hand

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very gently and weakly but i did not

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have to use the regular amount of muscle

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it takes to lift my own arm

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it was clearly lifting my arm for me i

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would describe the feeling as if you

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took two

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opposite magnets and tried to force them

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together

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not the strength of it but just like an

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invisible force that you can physically

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feel pushing you

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it was completely even pressure where it

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would touch me

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and it could move my hand and arm if i

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had it relaxed

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i held out my arm and asked it to tell

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me who it was

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the mass pushed on my arm to the left

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and led me through my room to group of

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magazine posters on the wall

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it lifted my hand up to the posters and

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put my hand over a picture of a band i

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had liked

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this is a band kelly loved as well so i

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said

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move my hand up if yes and side to side

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if no

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but are you killing the mass moved my

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hand up

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i got very emotional cried immediately

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but i held it together because i wanted

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to talk to her

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i went and got a blank notebook and a

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pen and asked the mask to write to me

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what it wants to say

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while i held the pen the mask would move

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my hand while i had it on the paper

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but none of the drawings made any sense

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so i asked it to move the pen instead

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i was barely holding on the pen i just

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had it between my fingers to keep it

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upright

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the mask started to move the pen across

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the page

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i realized that i couldn't be imagining

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things because i could literally see the

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pen moving by itself

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even though i was still holding the

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bottom of it slightly

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this went on for probably two hours i

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tried and tried to get this thing right

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something legible

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but nothing looked like any type of

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letter it was all just strange designs

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and shapes

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i believe i still have this journal in

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my parent storage area in idaho

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i plan on finding it in sending pictures

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of it once i leave alaska this fall

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this is where things get really nuts

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what i am going to say next is why i

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have never told anyone any part of this

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story before

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if someone told me this i would never

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think they were sane

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my new roommate alexa came into my room

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to ask me who i was talking to

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all of the sudden the mask got very tiny

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like the size of a mouse

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and it sat in my hand i told her i think

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kylie is here

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talking to me and to watch this i say

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please move the pen for me the pen in my

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hand start to move across the paper

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and alexa freaked out she said this is

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insane and she doesn't know what's

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happening

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but she said i need to stay away from

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her for the night

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i was honestly too preoccupied to care

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about her reaction

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and we didn't get along well anyways so

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i just let her go

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she goes to bed and the mask gets really

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big skinnier than before

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but probably two foot taller than the

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start it starts pushing my hand left and

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leads me to the door

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out to my living room and to my front

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door i said no i'm not going and walked

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back to my room

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but it just keeps putting this pressure

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on my hand to get me to go out in the

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living room again

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i oblige because at this point i am

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convinced that this is like the lost

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soul of my close friend

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and nothing she could do would be

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dangerous i go outside and it leads me

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to my car

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i must have gone back in for my keys and

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coat because i remember wearing a coat

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but i don't remember exactly how i got

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it or my keys

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at this point i'm in the car and i tell

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the mass move my hand left or right

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for turns up to stop and down for

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forward

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the mass leads me out of my neighborhood

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and down at least

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a full mile to an area that is sort of

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industrial but also like an abandoned

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park

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i don't know how to describe it totally

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and this is the only time i've ever been

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to this location

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there were several big trees surrounding

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this place

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it was like an open sort of park behind

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an industrial building

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so there were no lights and there were

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several random pieces of abandoned scrap

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just assorted random things everywhere i

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got out

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and it was very clear that the mass was

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putting pressure on me to go forward

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i'm going wherever it's telling me to go

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we get to this six foot tall and ten

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foot wide

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about metal structure that has a little

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ladder on the side

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it wants me to go up the ladder so i

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climbed it

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then it's jolting my hand forward but

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forward is the ground below

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it wants me to jump off the structure

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which i did one time because it wasn't

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too high

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and i sat down before i jumped to lessen

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the impact

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then the mass puts pressure on my hand

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side to side

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which we had agreed was no leads me back

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to the ladder

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and signals up like it wants me to climb

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at this point

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i'm realizing that i don't think this is

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my dead friend anymore

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i'm thinking something is tricking me

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but i also didn't want to completely

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give up in case it was her i

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climb up one more time and stood at the

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top the mass signaled me to jump

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but i told it no i said it's not fair

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because i'm alive and this could hurt me

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so if you have something to tell me you

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need to find another way dot i climbed

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down from the ledge

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and the mass tried twice more to lead me

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back to the metal structure

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i just couldn't be there anymore alone

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in the dark in a weird part of portland

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i didn't want to be arrested or killed

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so i said enough

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i'm going home the mass tried to control

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my hand the entire ride home

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even getting out of my car and walking

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up to my house

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but keep in mind the pressure is not

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that strong

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so i was easily able to ignore it i

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walked straight to my room

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and i kept feeling the pressure on my

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arm trying to get me to go outside

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at this time and for the whole time we

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were on our outing

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the mass was about the size of a

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basketball i tried one last time to

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communicate with the mass via pen and

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journal

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but i still couldn't get anything

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legible so i decided to tell it that

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it's time to go

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i walked out back and told the mass it's

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time to go

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if you are killing then i hope you go to

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heaven now

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but i can't do anything further so you

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need to leave

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the mass went about 10 to 15 feet in the

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air and hovered

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it was big at this point at least seven

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feet and then i walked back inside and

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closed the sliding glass door

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i was hoping it was gone but i saw the

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mass a few more times out of the corner

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of my

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eye i chose to ignore it and just kept

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repeating

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you need to go away i can't do anything

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for you i'm sorry

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and eventually it was gone i didn't see

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it again for a long time

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i never talked about it and my roommate

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never brought it up

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i had decided i must have a strange

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ability to talk to ghosts

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but i obviously cannot tell the good

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from the bad

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so i knew that i couldn't communicate

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with them if i ever saw them

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for my own safety about six months goes

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by

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i moved into a new house in portland

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with my brother and close friend

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i drove down to southern california for

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the coachella music festival in april

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2013

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a friend and i drove down for the

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weekend and then had to drive all the

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way back up the i-5 back to oregon

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but he had to drive because i dropped my

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driver's license on the first day of

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coachella

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so i had no id as soon as we crossed

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over the oregon border

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we stopped in a town i believe ashland

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with a dmv

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so i could get a replacement temporary

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id and share the driving

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i had to fix my makeup before i went to

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get my picture taken and all that

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so we stopped into a grocery store to

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use the bathroom

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i believe it was a safe way as soon as i

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got into the bathroom

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i saw it a vibrating translucent static

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mass just standing in the corner very

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ominously

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i looked straight at it and assumed it

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was a ghost and i thought it was

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probably lost if it's just sitting here

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in this bathroom

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i can't explain why i did this i'm not

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actually a brave person whatsoever

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but at the time i just felt

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overwhelmingly calm

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i can't express to you how unlike myself

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that is for me to do

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i proceeded to fix all of my makeup in

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the mirror

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then i turned around and looked at the

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mask that was still very obviously there

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and i said you look lost you can come

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with me if you want

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my thought process at the time was that

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maybe i'll get another chance to help

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some lost soul or something

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i had blocked out most of my first

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experience and wasn't immediately

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remembering how terrifying it was

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i did not touch the mask this time but i

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could feel it following me in the same

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way you can feel something watching you

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i walked out of the store into the car

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where my car buddy was

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he never mentioned anything about the

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mass being in the car

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which could be because he slept almost

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the whole rest of the way

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but i could see it in the rearview

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mirror from time to time

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this mass never changed size or shape it

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was always about four foot tall

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and two to three foot wide sort of

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rectangular but very rounded

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as we drove i started to remember how

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bad of an idea this could be

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and realized i didn't want to do it

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anymore and that i didn't have anything

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left to say to the mass

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when we got back to portland the mass

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followed me inside my house and stayed

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in my room for the next two days

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i ignored it almost the whole time and i

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started to feel guilty about that

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because i had told it to come with me

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initially

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the night before the last time i saw it

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i told it

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i'm sorry i don't want to do this

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anymore

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i don't think i can help you you should

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leave so you can find someone who can

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the mass stayed in the corner all night

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and then the next day it was gone

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forever

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since that time there has been multiple

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occasions where i have seen something

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like the mass out of the corner of my

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eye

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but i have always avoided looking

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directly at it

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after a few years of avoiding looking i

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completely stopped seeing them

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i live in seward alaska now with my

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boyfriend

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we have a house in the forest on five

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acres with a lot of tall trees

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he watched the hunted with me and

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afterwards i told him

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this really freaks me out because i have

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seen that before

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referring to the sarin rap like thing

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the woman in the movie had described

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he told me immediately that's what i've

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been seeing looking in our windows

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he told me he has seen these things

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multiple times and multiple at a time

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he is a hunter and he will see them

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almost every time he goes on hunts alone

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but almost exclusively out of the corner

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of his eye

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very rarely can he get a full front view

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of them he says they're following

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alongside him

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and they don't have any trouble getting

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over obstacles like trees or rocks

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he knows about bigfoot and skinwalker

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ranch but that is literally the

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extent of anything he knows about this

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sort of thing

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i know he could not have made this up

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and he said it to me before i told him

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any details from my experiences

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even now he knows far less than what

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i've written here

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it worries me that maybe the reason he

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sees them is because of me

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he said it's only been in the last two

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years that it has happened

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and that's how long we've been together

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evidently his sightings have been

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increasing lately

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which is why i feel like i can't waste

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any time in getting this information out

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to you

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one last thing my boyfriend has seen

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these so many times at our house in

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seward alaska

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and we live four miles from a location

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where michaela made her vanished on

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mount marathon in 2012

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during the annual fourth of july race up

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the mountain

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our town swells to over 10 000 people

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during this race

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so there were plenty of people to search

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or to have seen something

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but no trace of him was ever found after

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numerous searches of the area

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the animals all leave the area because

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of all the tourists and there was no

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evidence of an attack

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and this mountain is so close to

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downtown it's impossible he could have

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been lost

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makes me wonder if there is a connection

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