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piece of the land between the lakes

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encounter in grand rivers kentucky

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the summer of 1988 will always be a

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turnabout in my beliefs of real monsters

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versus the demonic paranormal type

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when a new avenue of fear introduced

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itself and made a permanent pathway

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inside my mind

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it was on one of those hot july summer

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evenings in grand rivers kentucky back

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in 1988 when this took place

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grand rivers is at the beginning of land

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between the lakes entrance

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the sun was not completely down i was

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staying at my aunt's house with my

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cousins for a few weeks during summer

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vacation

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a very welcome home at the end of a dead

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end road hundreds of acres of wood

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surrounded the home that had been built

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down a hill and into the side of a large

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hill of dirt

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there were several homemade trails

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throughout the woods that led to several

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places

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an old abandoned railroad track that

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went on for miles another abandoned

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place the old sawmill

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and other paths led to parts of the

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shoreline of the kentucky lake

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they all started out as walking trails

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but with a new addition of the dirt bike

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that my cousin joe had the trails became

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well outlined and defied

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as with almost every day that i was

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visiting joe was out riding his bike

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through the woods

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exploring and just being with his own

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thoughts of a 15 year old

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his younger sister rhonda was with me

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outside on the porch swing

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she was 10 and i was 13 at the time my

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uncle was working and my aunt was at the

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local icas store down in town

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beside the driveway was a huge dog pen

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where their pet passive hounds lodged

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and was at the moment quite relaxed in

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the shade

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the woods have been filled with only the

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sounds of birds and the chatter

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squirrels for a few hours

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joe must have been way far off on the

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trail somewhere to not have heard that

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distinct sound of the dirt bike

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screaming through its gears echoing

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around the trees

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i knew he must be on his way home

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because his dad forbid him to be out in

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the woods at dark

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so ronda and i was waiting to hear that

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familiar pop footing of the bike slowly

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coming down the drive as he reluctantly

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came home to park it for another night

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as we swing back and forth we heard

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something a bit strange in the distance

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it was joe's dirt bike screaming at

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almost a soprano type of gear

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long steady and fast with no shifting

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sounds just a straight stream of one

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gear in motion with a full throttle

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going a top speed

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the sound accelerated as he drew closer

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such a fast pace

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and we watch from the swing up to the

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top of the driveway where he would

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appear from the other side out of the

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woods

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i couldn't help but think that he had

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better slow down or he would come flying

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up over the top of the hell and

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downwards

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missing a white stretch of pavement by

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being airborne the noise didn't soften

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his slow

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steady infix was his speed and just as i

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had thought

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he emerged from the woods in such a

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tenacious movement that he did indeed go

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airborne a few feet before pounding down

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the front tyre on the driveway

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continuing his descent now with the

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struggle of keeping the bike upright and

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straight

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ronda and i jumped from the porch swing

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and got out of the way as we didn't know

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where he was going to stop or in what

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position

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the brakes hit hard and the bike slid

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sideways and as it came down to the edge

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and ended the drive

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joe tilted his body and let the bike

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slide out from under him

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before he went down the rest of the hell

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with it instead of the bike continuing

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to slide to the edge it was caught in a

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spin that variably died down as the

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engine sputtered

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and then quit altogether everyone was

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wide-eyed and full of adrenaline all our

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mouths open in shock

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but joe's mouth was open in a strange

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fearful grimace he was sweating

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profusely and his breaths were coming

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and going in great ease

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tears were coming down his cheeks mixing

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with the dusty dirt that the trail had

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left him powdered with

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his eyes were at the top of the hill at

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the top of the drive unblinking

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searching waiting we followed his gaze

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not understanding what this escapade was

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all about

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in silence we watched within for about

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30 seconds and then the dogs started

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barking

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growling and then whining trying to get

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out of the pan in a frantic panic of

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[\h__\h] and gnawing at the fencing they

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grabbed me

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look at my leg joe screamed making us

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jump with alarm at the sound of his

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voice

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we looked down at his levi's and saw

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scratch marks going across his right

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thigh

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scratches that tore through the tough

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denim and left small bloody marks on his

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skin

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the marks who like a pair chloric not

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those caused by branches or sticky

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bushes but a definite white pattern of a

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paw print

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a wuck on two legs his voice startled us

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again as he was trying to tell his story

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in between huge cultsvir

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he was frightened beyond belief and the

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bits and pieces of what he was striving

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with extreme effort to tell us

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was coming out in loud syllables that

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filled us both with the same dread

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it was following me through the woods

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along the path from the old sawmill

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harry it was so hairy and its now was so

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long and it walked on two legs

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it ran on two legs his voice was

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sputtering slowing

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his eyes were still wide and i could see

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the pulse of his heart be throbbing

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under the skin of his temples a howling

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from the woods not from the dog pan

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where now the dog suddenly stopped their

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own complaining

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standing deathly still staring up at the

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top of the hill

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the nape of the hair on their back

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standing up ruffled their noses up in

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breathing in a strange scent then a

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wolf's health

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it was close it seemed it was just a few

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yards from the road up above

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just as the idiot in a horror movie

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stands and stares at something to appear

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that was what i was doing then with a

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mixture of anticipation and confusion

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what the hell was he talking about i

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thought to myself mulling over the brief

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descriptions

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torn blue jeans walks and runs on two

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legs stalking him

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harry with a long nose and calling the

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mysterious hunter in it

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joe's tears came quicker and he started

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to push us towards the front door of the

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house

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demanding that we go inside and lock the

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doors he had a hand on each of our backs

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and was urging a songword when it came

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out of the woods above

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at first it appeared to be a very large

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wolf emerging from the dark outline of

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the trees but as it approached the one

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lane road that connected to the driveway

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its height grew to a towering shadow

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that stood on two legs

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much taller than a man's height maybe by

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a foot and with the sun gone down behind

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the clouds

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it only cast a silhouette of blackness

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hairy blackness

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my mouth dropped white as well as my

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eyes this was not happening

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this was not what i was seeing my mind

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was going back and forth from

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rationality to reality

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it raised its lung snout up in the air

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and let out a curcumin

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slow deliberate how one of the creatures

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arms bent and shaded its eyes from the

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glare of the security light above it

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it wasn't in it any longer nor was it a

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bigfoot this was a wolf-like creature

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that like joe said

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stood on two legs was taller than a man

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and was staring at the three of us down

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the hill

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those huge black eyes i will never get

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out of my mind

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they were like two sockets of ebony oil

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shining under magnifying glass lenses

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we ran into the house tearing the screen

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door in the process

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slamming the main door locking it

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pushing things anything we could reach

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against the inside of the door

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the kitchen was right behind us and so

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was the knife drawer which we raided and

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took several with us

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as we tried to decide where to hide

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there was a house dog inside another

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basset hound stupi

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and he met us in the kitchen wondering

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what the racket was another hell from

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outside

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coming from the driveway stubby's hair

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raised and he started backing up at

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first

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then he went to the front door and was

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smelling around the edges

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the three of us ran to my aunt's room

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and was about to slam the door and lock

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it when the dog tucked tail and ran

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after us beating us under the bed all of

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us squeezed under the four poster

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knives clutched in our hands scared half

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to death we could hear the dogs in the

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pen outside going absolutely crazy with

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barking and we could also hear other

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things being knocked around on the porch

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then on the side of the house

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then at the side door we heard glass

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break we could tell it was from one of

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the bedrooms

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the windows were up high and they were

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very narrow so we knew that it would

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take some effort for anything to get

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through them

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but still we shivered from fright that

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my aunt's horn on her cadillac sounded

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several times as she drove down the road

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and approached the house

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that meant for us to meet her outside

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and help with the groceries

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we didn't budge we couldn't move we

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didn't answer her yells from outside for

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us to come unload the bags we didn't

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crawl out and unlock the door for her

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no answer for knocking she finally had

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to use her keys

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and then give some hefty pushes against

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the pile of items we had up against the

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door the trashcan

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25 pound bags of dog food water jugs and

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a variety of other stuff

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we stay put she discovered us only after

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all the groceries had been brought in

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and she noticed that her bedroom door

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was closed and locked it was amazing

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that we hadn't cut each other in some

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way or another with the immature use of

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the knives in our haste to hide and we

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were chastised

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in more ways than one when it came down

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to my aunt observing us slowly emerging

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from her bedroom with the kitchen

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weapons in hand

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we all started talking it once in a

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fervor then we finally let joe tell his

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story first

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then we finished with it breaking a

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window just before we heard her horn on

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the car

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she must have startled it she didn't

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laugh she didn't respond at all at first

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in fact she never said a word until she

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came back from inspecting the windows in

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the bedrooms

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my aunt said indeed there was a broken

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window broken from the outside in

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she made us clean up our barricade and

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put up all the groceries

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later that night after we were all in

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bed and my uncle came home

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she related that evening's events to him

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the next morning their dad warned us

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stay out of the woods he went on to say

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that he himself had went down in the

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woods earlier that morning and found

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several pits dug

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and filled with animal bones and parts

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of carcasses along the path that led to

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the old sawmill that couldn't be

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explained

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there were also holes stuck in the sides

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of the bluff along the hills that

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overlook the old mill that looked like

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deep caves

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big enough for a man to hide in then he

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told us that years before when the old

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boy scout camp used to be on the other

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side of grand rivers that an unexplained

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creature with wool features was seen

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along the water's edge close to the

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campsites

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he and his older son had witnessed it

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themselves one evening

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i went back home a few weeks after this

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happened and since then it has never

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ceased to be a moment of complete terror

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lodged inside my mind

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not awful long ago in the late 90s my

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uncle and my dad who had come down from

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missouri to visit decided to venture

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into those same woods in front of my

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aunt's house

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they took a couple of pistols and two

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rifles and were gone for several hours

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these were two brave men the bravest i

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know of both of whom served in the

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military and farden wartime

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these two men came back ashen faced and

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bewildered they had walked all the way

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back to the old sawmill

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the pits fresh ones were still around

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filled with the bones of forest animals

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the hulls in the bluffs still there also

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they both experienced the feeling of

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being watched and felt an uneasiness

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that something just wasn't right

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the area where the sawmill was had no

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life stirring rounded

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no birds no squirrels no crickets no

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bugs

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even the small pond was still and

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lifeless they couldn't shake the feeling

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of being observed by a secret watcher

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and both swore they saw large black

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shadow looking in the shade of one of

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the mysteriously duck caves

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that had been the first time they had

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been down that far on that side of the

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woods in many years

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and both of them agreed that it was to

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be the last my dad said there are some

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things you just can't explain

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that science doesn't know about it and

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these things should be left alone

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they are not a part of our modern world

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he felt that whatever it was that it

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scared the [\h__\h] out of us so many years

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ago

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still existed in the same area his

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intuition has never been wrong so far

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urban legend maybe some of the stories

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pass along the years have been added to

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stretched a bit like all local folklore

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and first-hand stories are over time

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my story wasn't an urban tale though it

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was a first-hand account of something i

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really and truly do not want to believe

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in

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and wish i could forget erase from my

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memory because the nightmarish image

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remains real

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even though the events are still

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unexplained by the laws of science as we

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jt

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