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black goblin suddenly appears in living

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room i've been struggling with what i

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saw and whether or not to share it

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part of me wants to know if i'm not

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alone in my experience

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and the other part wants to believe it

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was just in my imagination

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and i shouldn't attempt to learn more on

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the grand scale of experiences this

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but i'm afraid because of it and that is

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what has led me to share

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two nights ago i was in my apartment

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with my one-year-old son

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his dad was working the night shift at

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1am

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so i don't know the exact time this

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happened but i'd say between two to four

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in the morning

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we have a king-sized bed and our son

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fell asleep with me

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so i let him stay there at some point i

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woke up to the baby rolling around the

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bed and kicking me

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at the time i didn't know what his

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problem was but he was keeping me awake

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this lasted for a while because usually

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when my son sleeps next to me

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he doesn't move so much and i figured

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he'd eventually be still

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he didn't though he kept moving around

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half asleep

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and i was worried that he'd roll off the

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bed it felt like this went

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on for at least 30 minutes if not longer

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and i got frustrated that i was awake

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so i decided to move him to his playpen

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in the living room

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i laid him down and then went to the

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bathroom from the bathroom i could see

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the living room

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i left the door open i should also

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mention that even at night it's not

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completely dark in our apartment

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so you can still see fairly well as i

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was on the toilet i looked over to where

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the play pen is just for a few seconds

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and i saw some kind of creature it was

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all black and hunched over like it was

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hiding behind a playpen

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but not very well the playpen is made

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with see-through netting anyway

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so you can see right through it this

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thing had long

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arms and my memory says it was slightly

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muscular on its upper body

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what struck me is off about the whole

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thing was that it had long pointy ears

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like an elf

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but bigger wtf i finished and rushed to

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the living room

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and nothing is out there so i walk into

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the bedroom with the image of this thing

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lingering in the front of my head

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i try to discount it or come up with an

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explanation

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but i don't have one i know it's natural

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for people to see faces

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or human shapes but this thing was not

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human looking

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and i've never seen anything like it

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there's no reason my brain would have

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just made this thing up while i'm trying

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to go to the bathroom

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and i'm worried about my son i ended up

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grabbing the baby and he slept with me

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anyway

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i wasn't going to take any chances the

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next morning he was sick with a cold

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so i'm guessing that's why he was so

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uncomfortable but it's been a couple

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days now

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and i can't shake off what happened if i

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had to give this thing a name i'd say it

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resembled a large goblin

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it also had a larger than human-sized

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head

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i guess i'm looking for input or some

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kind of advice

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do i pretend nothing happened how do i

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protect my family if this was something

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paranormal and it comes back

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i've had a few unexplained experiences

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in my lifetime

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but never anything like this in my own

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home this whole thing has me very

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worried

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goblin encounter in my house around 2010

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i saw something in my house

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i was up studying it was around 2am i

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had my 160-pound roman rottweiler

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sitting on the bed with me

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for reference he wasn't really scared of

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anything he was well trained and always

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followed my commands without hesitation

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he's also a very friendly dog despite

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the reputation of rottweilers being more

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of a

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loves the family but suspicious of

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others breed normally when there is a

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bear outside he can tell

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and he'll give me that low quiet growl

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and walk to the door i let him out and

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he'll chase it off he knows to not

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pursue or attack it

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he doesn't even react to deer in the

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yard because he knows they're no threat

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back to my studying if i remember

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correctly it was bovine anatomy

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i had finished my notes and decided to

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change my music

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all of a sudden he starts whimpering he

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doesn't really do that unless it's

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something serious

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once when he got bit by a snake and the

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other time was when a tornado got close

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i loved on him patted him and told him

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to stop that whining

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i guess it didn't click at the time that

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something might have been wrong

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he jumps up suddenly posted up teeth

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showing guttural growling and his scruff

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is on end

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he's staring at my bedroom door so i

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look to see what it is that has him so

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freaked out

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this thing was about three feet tall it

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had a pointed nose and ears

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the eyes were long and bloodshot looking

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the pupils were way bigger than they

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should have been

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looking at them was like staring into a

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dark hole its hair was long and matted

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really dirty looking

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its arms hands feet seemed longer than

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they should have been i couldn't tell

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exactly what it was wearing but it

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looked like some kind of hooded poncho

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that was tattered and covered

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in mud its skin was almost an olive

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color but was covered in dirt

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the lips were extremely think and it had

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a kind of smirk on its face

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i couldn't even move i just had a hold

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on my dog

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unable to speak i'm sitting there just

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staring at this thing then it f king

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smiled at me revealing sharp teeth

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when i say shark teeth i mean it look

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like when a person files their teeth

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into points

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all the while my dog is still growling

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like i've never heard

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i buried my head and my dog and didn't

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move for what felt like hours

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in reality ten minutes had passed i

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guess that kid part of me came out

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and i was doing the equivalent of hiding

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under the blanket so the monster can't

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get you

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even though i was terrified he seemed to

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calm down after a while and i looked up

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this thing was gone i grabbed him by the

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collar and drug him through the house

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with me

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so i could make sure all the doors and

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windows were locked my front door was

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wide open when i made it into the living

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room

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i didn't sleep that night and i didn't

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sleep well for a good while after that

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afraid this thing would come back

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i noticed after the incident i started

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waking up with my dog laying over my

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body like he was trying to pin me

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this lasted for weeks but eventually

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stopped he still followed me anywhere i

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went though i couldn't even close the

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bathroom door without him trying to get

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in

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fills me with a sense of dread and

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terror

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i've always lived alone so it's not as

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if a roommate planked me and there's no

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way what i saw was human

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it's crazy to think that if you told

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others they'd think you're crazy

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or think you're just telling them a

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spooky story i've never seen anything

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like that

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and i've never experienced anything

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weird like that again

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life moved on but i still think about

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that encounter

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i know i wasn't asleep and i know i'm

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not crazy all of my searching just led

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me to things like fairy folk

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i don't even believe in that stuff i've

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never really told people about this

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