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montana werewolf incident this event

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happened five years ago during mid july

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i live in montana outside of a rural

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community with a population of about two

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thousand

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this is my first time bringing this

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story forward during this time

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i lived in a small one floor ranch home

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by myself

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my nearest neighbor lived one mile away

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and was a farmer i never had many

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strange encounters leading up to this

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one

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but the woods by my house always had an

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ominous feel to it

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soon after moving in i realized why the

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previous homeowners left pretty quickly

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i'd start to hear noises in the woods

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these weren't just any noises

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but what sounded like blood curdling

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screams and growls

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after some research i learned that even

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something like a raccoon or bobcat can

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make these unnatural noises

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and chalked it up to being that but

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still it just never felt right

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it's hard to explain but i never felt

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like this before

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and it was just something about the

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woods around my house that made me

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uncomfortable

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like i was always being watched the

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first experience i couldn't explain

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happened about two weeks after i moved

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in

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there was a thunderstorm and the thunder

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was loud enough to keep me awake

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i never did feel comfortable in storms

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by myself

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the lightning was crazy and would light

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up the whole surrounding area for a

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fraction of a second

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i was laying on the couch and got up to

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get a glass and a drink at the sink

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it was about 2 am a fire call correctly

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above it

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is a small window that gives a view of

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my yard leading up to the tree line

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when the next flash of lightning hit i

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saw it admittedly it wasn't a long view

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but it gave me enough time to see

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whatever this thing was

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it was near the tree line just a few

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steps into my yard

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at first i thought it was a bear but it

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wasn't it was standing on two legs with

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its face pointed towards the house

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its legs were like a dog's and i could

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clearly make out the hawks

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it was hard to tell the color of the fur

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but it was dark

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its upper body was massive with the

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white torso and arms that could almost

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reach the ground from standing

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the strangest thing is is how the upper

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body seemed to dwarf the lower body

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after standing there frozen in shock i

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waited for the next lightning strike but

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when it happened it wasn't there

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it happened so quickly and was gone so

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quickly after that i bought a gun and

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would sleep with it within an arm's

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reach

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the next encounter is what i consider

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the most frightening thing of my life

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for several weeks nothing worth noting

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happened i don't get cable where i live

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and one night i was watching something

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and my satellite kept acting up

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i didn't like going outside at night but

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this would be quick

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i just had to move the antenna a little

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bit nothing had happened for a few weeks

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so i decided to just go out and do it i

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grabbed my gun and flashlight and went

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out

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the first thing i noticed was the eerie

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quietness that surrounded me

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this time of year at night the woods are

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active with all types of creatures

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not tonight despite the fear i was

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developing i made my way over to the

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satellite and began to adjust it

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i heard a small snap of a stick and

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quickly turned to my left and shined the

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light towards the direction of the noise

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what i saw will horrify me for the rest

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of my life i was immediately met with

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red eyes

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these eyes were color of blood and they

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were evil the head of this thing looked

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like a mutated german shepherd

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i don't like to say it but it looked

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like a werewolf the long snout and

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pointed ears

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the fur was black and shaggy in some

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places i could see this creature's

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extremely developed musculature and it

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warped even the biggest humans on earth

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it was half in half out of the woods

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almost crouching

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and it still came up to my head at six

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foot fully standing

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this thing would have been eight foot i

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estimated i was about 20 feet from this

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i didn't even consider my gun which i

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thought to protect me

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chances are in hindsight the little two

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two three bullets would have just pissed

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this thing off before it tore me to

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shreds

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i backed ways slowly never breaking eye

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contact with it

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i gently picked up my gun and my

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fight-or-flight reflexes kicked in

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i chose slide maybe not the best option

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but even if i stayed there

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this thing would kill me i ran the

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fastest i ever have in my life and

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didn't turn back once

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i have no idea if it was pursuing me i

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got in the house

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locked every door window covered the

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blinds and sat with my back against the

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wall cradling the gun the entire night

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i didn't get a wink of sleep that night

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and very few the following days

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to make a long story short i don't live

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there anymore

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people often talk of sasquatch being

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harmonious with nature and living within

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the ecosystem

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sure if you see one it might be scary

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but it's probably more well than

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anything

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with this thing it was totally different

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it felt unnatural

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it was sinister they felt evil it was

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stalking me

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toying with me and i believe it would

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have killed me i have never seen nor

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experienced this feeling again in my

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life

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it is a memory i try to put past me but

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i still get nightmares about it

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i think until the day i die i will

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always have the image burned into my

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memory

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the best image i have seen that fits the

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description of the creature are the

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werewolves from the movie the howling

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the isolation is definitely the worst

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part it's just you and this creature out

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there and if it decides that it doesn't

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want you around anymore

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you will disappear then your death will

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be ruled as either an attack from bears

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or wolves

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looking back there were a lot of

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wildlife related deaths in my general

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i wonder if it's just coincidence in my

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mind there is no way this way bear

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i was so close to it i could see every

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feature it had an obvious canine

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appearance in the face and also had

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hawks

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like the legs of a dog misidentification

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is always a thing but i don't believe

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this was anything like a bear

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maybe the whole sinister and evil thing

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is an exaggeration

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if it wanted to hurt me would have done

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it it's just how i justify coming face

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to face with something

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so terrifying i think it looked like a

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predator that would rip me apart

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it's just that it wasn't scared of me

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unlike other dogman stories i have read

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this thing didn't run off for back down

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it wasn't expressively aggressive in the

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encounter it was just

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silently watching me it didn't growl at

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me either

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it was just that silent yes i saw it

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very close

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so close i could even smell it it

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smelled like a wet dog

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a wet dog that rolled in something nasty

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very strong and pungent

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when the light was shined on its face

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its eyes had the same reflection that

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the cats would

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i will answer any questions you have rc

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two werewolves encountered along the

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little canoe river west virginia

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one night i was out along the road that

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goes past my house

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we are pretty rural area here along west

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virginia 5

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which parallels the little kanor river

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from elizabeth to grantsville

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but the animals here are always the same

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until the late 1990s the state

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department of natural resources let

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coyotes loose and in the early 1980s

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wild turkeys

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now they are releasing wild elk yet

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there is no

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sightings of these creatures i have

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heard black panthers and even seen two

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kittens dead

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at my friend's house her dad had treated

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the kittens

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but the mother got away to this day west

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virginia dnr refuses to state that black

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panthers exists in west virgina

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this night i saw something i never

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thought i would have seen

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two huge wolves that were bigger than

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anything i have seen before

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i know people who own wolves and i have

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been around them

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when they left on vacation i even feed

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their pet wolves

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so i know how big they can get but these

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were no regular wolves

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they were twice as big as me and they

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gave this eerie feeling

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they walked off the hillside and came

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out of the foggy mist

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their eyes have this glow of yellow even

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before i turn my phone's flashlight on

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them

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yes i have my phone in hand why no

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picture because i was scared

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scared stiff and was just able to look

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and see these two wolves with one being

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smaller than the other

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both were very skinny hippie or one

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could say bony

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gray with black color markings around

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eyes and ears

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browned on their backs and grey bushy

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way bigger than my own

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glowing yellow eyes looking right at me

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slowly walking past me

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both moving together and moving their

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heads when needed to keep me in view

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then they crossed the road and

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disappeared into the river bank

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across the river on the hillside were

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coyotes barking and yapping

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that was until those two wolves crossed

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the river to their side

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dead quite then no noise at all

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no bugs no birds no coyotes

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when my heart started again i ran as

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fast as my legs could carry me

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i posted what i saw on my facebook page

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many said they were just northern wolves

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that haven't been brought here as pets

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these two wear no pets i think the

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smallest the one closet towards me

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was a female i also feel she protected

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me from the male

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the biggest one she nudged him to go on

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i thank her for that he would have

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killed me easily

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they both could have with one bite to my

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throat it's not too often i venture out

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further than my yard nowadays

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this property has many of supernatural

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events happen here

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but that night i truthfully feel ice all

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werewolf and his mate

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i know what i saw and it scared me so

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bad that i have become afraid of the

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dark

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even on my own property that i grew up

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on

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it has changed me in ways i can't

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explain

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i have become more nature minded i

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worship nature and the power she holds

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if it wasn't for her i wouldn't be here

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today

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i know those creatures exists and i give

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them a wide path to travel

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always respected and mindful of their

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