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navajo witch skinwalker curses mormon

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missionaries on reservation

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i finally turn 19 the big age for

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mormons where i get to leave for two

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years of my life

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and share my gospel as a latter day

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saints missionary

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i get my calling where and when you'll

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serve open it up

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and see that i've been called to serve

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in the farmington new mexico mission

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my best buddy who happens to be navajo

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gets super excited for me because my

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area covers all of the reservation

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i get stoked as well and get ready to

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leave in a few months

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within that time period my buddy gives

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me some heads ups about what i'll

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witness on the reservation

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and one of course has to be of

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skinwalkers the white men for good

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reason albeit

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still aren't that lacked on the

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reservation so he warned me to be humble

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and kind

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and to try and not warrant any bad juju

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in my direction

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so i agreed and left for two years the

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first month was pretty uneventful

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i prepared in utah then flew out to

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farmington where i met my mission

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president and where my first

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area would be i got assigned to the town

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of tehachi a tiny dot of the place on

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the reservation

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we lived in a trailer behind the local

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church because there weren't really any

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houses for rent out in the middle of the

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reservation

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here is where things get weird on my

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first week seriously my first week i'm

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there this happens to me

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missionaries have a strict schedule

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during the day we pray

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eat go teach and come home to do a few

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push-ups and in bed by nine

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so me and my companion i won't share his

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name because i'm not sure if he'd enjoy

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being mentioned

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we start to do our little workout when

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all of a sudden we hear some footsteps

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outside

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creeped us out a little bit but sadly

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the reservation has a lot of drunk

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residents that'll stumble around

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until they are eventually picked up by

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cops or family members

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we brush it off and keep on with our

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routine that is until the steps are

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right outside our door

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now mind you i'm six foot semi-athletic

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so i'm definitely not gonna try and pick

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a fight with anyone

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but my companion was a six foot five

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inch 280 pound tongan

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let's just say i felt a bit safe then

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the person started pounding on our door

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i looked over to my friend and he looked

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a little worried more cautious than

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anything like i said non-natives aren't

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very popular on the reservation

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and it wouldn't be out of the ordinary

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for someone to try and rob or frighten

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us

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kind of get the hell out of your message

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here is the freaky part the pounding of

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fists turned into scratching

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almost instantaneously our first

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thoughts were oh

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he has a dog we came to the conclusion

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to grab our weights and just try to

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sleep through this crap

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well nothing else eventful happened that

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night it was rough falling asleep but

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once i did everything seemed fine

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we walked outside to see if we could

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sherlock holmes together some evidence

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to see if we knew who it was or any beer

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cans to verify our suspicions

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what we found was terrifying and

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shocking to say the least

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we were right boot prints leading to our

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door but where we should find boot

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prints leading away were paw prints

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i remember them like it was yesterday a

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bit bigger than the dogs

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i figured they were coyote wolves we

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couldn't understand what we were seeing

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why weren't there boot prints leading

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away or these paw prints leading to

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we didn't say it out loud but i think we

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came to the same conclusion

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whatever knocked on our door changed

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shape right then and there

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the day went on uneventful we told our

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bishop and he knocked it off too just a

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drunkard bugging us

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he said to pray and to stay safe by

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being indoors before dark

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nothing crazy happened until that night

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where i had one of the worst night

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terrors of my life

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i had my back door door when i woke in

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my dream i didn't even have to turn

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around to feel the unholy energy that

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was gravitating from whatever was inside

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our trailer

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i had no voice i silently plead in the

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name of jesus christ but nothing helped

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it stepped on the corner of my bed and

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it felt as if my entire mattress was

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lifted

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whatever it was my best way describing

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it is like a dementor from harry potter

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it then drove me into my bed ripping the

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breath from my lungs

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i start crying praying to my god to

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protect me from this thing

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then in a second wham i'm awake in a

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cold sweat

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crying and waking my companion up this

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happened to me the next week

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every night without fail long story

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short i ended up going home early

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it was mentally taxing reliving that

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every night and they instantly went away

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when i got home if anyone has any

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experiences with skinwalkers and the

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curses they can hex people with

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i'd like to hear from you maybe that's

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what i was experiencing but it scared me

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half to death

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and was the most dreadful two months of

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skinwalker valley story i am about to

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tell you a story that's absolutely true

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my grandpa lived in might in utah and he

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told stories about skinwalkers and how

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they could take the form of any animal

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or anyone you knew

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i asked him one day did you ever meet

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one he told me yes

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i asked when a very long time ago before

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you were even born

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before your mother was born it was when

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i was young and foolish

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i went to the valley skinwalker valley

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it's a valley where life never enters

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not even the crows the very guardians of

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death will never go there

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they too feared the evil that lives out

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there he continued with his story

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i went out there to show people that

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nothing evil existed in the valley

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nothing but their fears but i was wrong

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he went on that he had gone to the

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skinwalker valley

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and his old red ford truck to prove to

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everyone that what they thought they

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knew

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were just stories used to scare them

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when he reached the valley

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he remembered the grass was black as if

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it had been burned and survived the fire

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the trees looked dead but were still

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alive he told me he had seen a house not

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far from where he stood

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it was old and the roof was caved in the

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door was gone

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so he walked towards it there were

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strange marks on the sides of the house

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animal skeletons were strewn about

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around the property as if it were

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sacred burial ground then he heard her

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his grandmother

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she had died long ago but he heard her

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the spirits were calling for him

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for his life for his skin for his blood

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for his soul

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they were the lost souls they could

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change form from man to beast

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they chased and scared him and told him

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that they would never forget him

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whenever i visited my grandpa he would

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show me something that was brand new but

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had been broken the next day

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these spirits would kill his animals so

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he finally stopped keeping his dogs

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outside

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it got to the point where i snapped at

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him telling him that his stories were

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lies

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i told him prove it he turned around and

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pulled his shirt up

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all i could do was gasp as i looked at

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his back it was torn here and there

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not one part of his back was unmarked

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there were white claw marks

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too straight and too far apart to be

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made by a human i was scared and started

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to cry

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i remember my mother running to see what

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was the matter she screamed and dranted

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at grandpa as she held me but he did

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nothing but stare at the field across

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the road from his house

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she finally gave up and carried me

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inside but as i looked over my mother's

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shoulder

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i saw it a large black dog with white

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eyes

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it was watching grandpa and he was

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watching it as if waiting for it to

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attack him

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it never did i never saw that dog again

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my grandpa died two months later

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the doctor said his heart gave out but i

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knew that was a lie

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his arm had fresh claw marks that was 42

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years ago

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no one has ever believed me but it's a

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true event so i'll tell you

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so that the world will know never look

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into a skinwalker's eyes

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they will never forget you if you do

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sooner or later it will have your soul

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you can fight and refuse to give into

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the skinwalker's power

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but if that is the case then i hope

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