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wampus cat stocks coastal north carolina

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native family

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i live on the edge of the north carolina

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coast and have been in this beach town

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my whole life

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you get a few miles west from the beach

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and you're immediately in the country

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my mother's side has lived here as far

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back as memory serves

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and my father is a sioux's mother moved

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him here as a child away from the

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reservation

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since i can remember my mother's side of

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the family

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hazard run-ins with the wampus cat

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legends vary depending on where you are

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but commonly around here it said she was

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a cherokee woman who snuck into the

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woods

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to listen in on a male's only meeting

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that included the chief and their

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medicine man

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not sure if it's the correct term for

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this tribe

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she wore the skin of a cougar as a

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disguise but she was found out

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and the medicine man cursed her to

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forever wear the cougar skin

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she now stalks people for what reason i

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don't know

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but it follows me and my family

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always has we've gotten so used to the

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wampus cat

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we just expect her when we move to a new

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or the seasons are changing or we find

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ourselves in a moment

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of emotional weakness when my mother had

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a rough day being bullied in middle

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school

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back in the 80s she was crying and

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riding her bike home down a country dirt

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road

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the sun is setting but it's not dark out

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yet

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behind her she hears this shriek i've

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heard it before

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and it sounds like when an eagle screams

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but with that gurgling gutturalness of a

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cougar's roar

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so she turns around and she sees a huge

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creature

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dark matted fur and a stance like a

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gorilla stands in when it walks on its

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knuckles

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back legs crouched a bit chest and head

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up and supported by the arms on the

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knuckles

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she turns around and races on her bike

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all the way home

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she told her mom what she saw and she

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calmly says

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that's a whampus cat they've never hurt

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us

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so i grew up with a native father

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superstitious as all hell

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and practically jumping under the bed to

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hide when we heard the wampus cat scream

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in the backyard some nights

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while my mom and grandmother just kind

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of acknowledge

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oh it's the cat again and i have gone my

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whole life with this is completely

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normal

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even when i got married and my husband

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was out by the woods with me

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we'd hear that scream see the leaves on

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the forest floor kick up as it stalked

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never coming too close and have to

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realize that to people who didn't grow

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up in my town

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this was a terrifying experience to me

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it's like when you occasionally see a

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cardinal in the trees

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a bit different than the day-to-day but

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nothing life-changing

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my closest encounter was one night in

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high school

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my friend and i and her boyfriend were

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sitting on the front porch enjoying the

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nighttime salt hair and the lightning

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bugs

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a huge gorilla-sized extremely hairy

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animal runs up to the front of the porch

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and screams like hell has opened up now

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i'm semi-used to the critter

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but i don't want it five feet from me we

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go to her bedroom

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and for about an hour here is talking

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back and forth under her window

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about 10 feet down coastal towns have

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raised houses on stilts in case of

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hurricanes

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growling spitting screaming rolling

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around in the foliage

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just being pesky and grumpy finally it

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wanders off

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all is quiet and we fall asleep every

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once in a while

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i'll still hear it it's just life here

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this town is extremely haunted i've

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grown up a few miles from the fort

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fisher battleground

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and many historic and tragic places i

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have too many unnatural encounters with

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all sorts of things

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to put in one post but that's it my

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experience with a

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not so talked about creature that is

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just a part of life to me

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hope you'll learn something and don't go

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out too late in coastal north carolina

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upright panther in rural illinois my

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aunt saw black panther man when she was

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a kid

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ever since i had experienced paranormal

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activity i started pulling people

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asking if they've ever had anything

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paranormal happen to them

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at dinner with my aunt and uncles i

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asked them and she said when she was

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maybe seven or eight years old

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she was playing in a creek in the woods

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behind their house in the middle of

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rural illinois

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she heard a noise and looked up to see a

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tall muscular black panther man looking

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at her as he just walked by

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she said she was scared to death but the

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creature was almost beautiful

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she watched as he just walked away out

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of sight he did not threaten or do

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anything other than look at her as he

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at the time i had not heard many or if

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any of these animal human sightings

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so i thought it was interesting and i

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believed her but it was the first time

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i'd heard of a cat man

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my uncle who's very meat and potatoes

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logical said he had not experienced

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anything paranormal

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and he just smiled as my aunt told her

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story they asked why i was interested

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and i told them that i'd experienced

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some supernatural things

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and now i make a point to ask people if

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they've experienced anything

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my uncle quoted carl sagan and said

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extraordinary claims need extraordinary

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proof

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but my aunt was not embarrassed and

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stressed that she indeed saw it and

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she'll never forget it

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that must have been 10 years ago and i

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now know these encounters are somewhat

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more common than i once thought

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you have the egyptians depicting catman

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bird men dog men etc

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stephen king's the dark tower writes

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about these entities working with the

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men

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story they're called the tahin

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so is it a human shapeshifter are there

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actual catman entities from another

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dimension that slip into our reality

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from time to time

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is it a genetically created hybrid

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monster from some government program

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perhaps aliens created this hybrid as a

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vessel that humans can possess like an

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avatar to walk around our realm maybe

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it's like the werewolf phenomena but a

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wheelbarrow

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i have no idea but the possibilities are

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endless

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h jones

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upright tiger man encountered in

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queensland i've also encountered a cat

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man humanoid being in the woods of

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northern queensland australia

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i was working at a security detention

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center in a place called weeper up there

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it's absolutely vast land there with

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woods stretching for miles and miles

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it was about three a.m in the morning

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when the encounter occurred

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there were four security posts around

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the fence line which we had to man

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and make sure the detainees didn't

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escape i was

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stationed at zulu 3 post which was

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situated behind the detention center

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where those seven lebanese detainees

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escaped three months before i started

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working there

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it was 3 am and i was sitting at my post

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watching a kookaburra bird swoop down

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from the top of the tall fence to the

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grass collecting bugs

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lizards etc when i heard a crash in the

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woods behind my post

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this caused all the occupying kookaburra

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birds to wake up and call

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there were thousands of them up there in

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the northern queensland

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i quickly got up and ran to see what the

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commercial was all about

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is when i saw what the birds were

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hacking at it was a cat humanoid being

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standing about two meters behind my post

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it was making its way through the trees

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until it saw me standing there watching

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which looked like long claws

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it stood about eight to nine feet tall i

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was trying to see what it looked like

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through the darkness

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but all i could see was feature wise was

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the shape of a cat's face

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like a tiger honestly it looked

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ferocious and it was built like it was

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made to do

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serious damage standing on two feet

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it then walked backwards into the woods

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and vanished into the darkness of the

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woods

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i was so glad i had a 40 feet fence

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between me and that monstrosity

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for the remainder of my time working

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there i kept my back face towards the

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detention center

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and my front face towards the woods this

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encounter i'll definitely take to my

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grave

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