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tall red eyed o'hare mothman close

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encounter at usps sorting facility

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i had just left work at the usps sorting

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facility at o'hare international airport

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at about 11 pm on thursday the 24th of

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september

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and was walking out to my car when i saw

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something standing at the far end of the

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parking where i usually park

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at first i thought it was a very tall

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person with a long coat

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as i got closer to my car i unlocked my

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car

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which caused my headlights to come on my

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headlights hit the person standing about

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20 to 25 feet from my car causing it to

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turn and look right at me

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i saw that this was not some person but

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some red-eyed being

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and what appeared to be a coat were

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actually wings which it spread out as it

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turned to look at me

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at first i thought it was some kind of

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very large bird

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but i've never seen any bird that stood

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almost seven feet tall

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i'm five foot four and this thing looked

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taller than me by at least two feet

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this thing then started making some type

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of chirping sound

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almost a half chirp and half click like

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someone was clicking their tongue

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but much much faster it then made some

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type of screeching sound then took off

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running toward me

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it got to within 10 feet of me and took

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off into the air and flew above me

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i was screaming hysterically as i

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crouched down behind my car's open door

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and i dived into my car head first i was

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in a near panic as i tried to start the

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car

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close and lock the doors and turn on my

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interior lights

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i started my car and took off out of the

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parking lot and flew down the road

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until i hit the main road i got home and

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told my husband who also works at the

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same facility

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and he was the one who told me about the

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sightings of this thing

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i was scared shitless and hope i never

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see this thing again

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this thing is roaming around the area

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scaring people half to death

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i hope the airport people decide to do

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lenore

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could wink cryptids really be harbingers

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of bad luck

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i live in little rock arkansas i am so

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glad i found your website

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i found it by googling large flying

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thing with 20 foot wings

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over the years i have stepped outside my

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home at night

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just walking around often to look up at

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the stars

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i love the night sky and find it

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beautiful and mysterious

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back in 2017 i went outside after the

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sunset

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around 10 p.m i looked to the south side

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above my home

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i couldn't believe it but i saw a large

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wing thing on my roof

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it spread its wings and swooped toward

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me i couldn't move

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i remember its wings were wider than

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length of my house

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it flew around and was gone i thought

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what was that

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i only would see it randomly other times

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i would come outside around dusk i would

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see a black flying thing the size of a

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hummingbird

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swoop around my yard going extremely

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then it would disappear last night on

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october 10

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2020 i was sitting at the drive-through

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at a wendy's here in little rock

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arkansas

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i had ordered food then drove up in the

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line i heard someone running near my

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vehicle

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i looked behind me and saw a dark wing

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thing flying over back of my vehicle

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i looked at the cars behind me and

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wondered if anyone else had seen

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anything but i didn't get out to ask

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this was troubling to me

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i thought is this some bad omen taunting

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me because back when i saw this thing

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around my home

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bad things would happen bad luck things

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relationship problems water pipes burst

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in my house

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car problems sewer backup lost my job

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i got scared and i'm still scared i got

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holy water

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sprinkled it in my yard and burned white

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sage outside and inside

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praying to god for protection i don't

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need nothing else bad coming my way

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i just got my transmission fixed and

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since i saw this large wing monster

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my engine light is on the first time i

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saw the dark flying humanoid was at

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night after 10 pm

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between 2012 and 2017 on my roof

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i didn't see its face i only saw the

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huge wings

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and i'm wearing a long black coat i

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began seeing a smaller dark wing thing

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flying around my property

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it looked like a large dragonfly it

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would show up right after sunset

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or dusk it would fly at high speeds

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around my porch

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where i would be sitting it would fly

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around for only seconds

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and disappeared i had not seen it for a

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while

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nor did i tell anyone or google it until

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i saw it sunday 10 11

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20 20. i did experience bad things

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after i first saw it i had financial

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problems and personal relationships

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ended water pipes burst inside the house

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my three cars broke down i even lost my

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job when visitors would come by the

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house we would get into arguments

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visitors would act strange like they had

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an affliction

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it would flare up when they got around

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me or at my home

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so i got tired i sprinkled sulfur and

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holy water all around my property

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burn white sage into a small burning pit

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i made

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prayed out loud each day for weeks

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months that the thing would

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get out go i have not seen

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or sensed this thing for about nine

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months i was feeling better

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situations getting lighter finances

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transmissions in my cars

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fixed everything in house that broke

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saturday october 10

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2020 around 9 30 p.m i see it near my

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vehicle

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while i'm sitting in a drive-through at

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wendy's so

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that's my story my question to you from

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all of the stories you have received

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from people over the years

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what have you come up with have you seen

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the humanoid

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have you experienced anything negative

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well that's my story

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if you know what this large wing thing

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is please email me back

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batwing humanoid observed behind

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schoenberg illinois catholic church

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i was just reading an article on

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facebook about the illinois mothman bat

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creature

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i recently just saw something that

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matched that description over in

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schomburg illinois

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it happened just two nights ago my

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cousin and i were walking around the

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area

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over by a church we were playing pokemon

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go

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and right before we walked up a path

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there was an open meadow with tall

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street lights shining at the opening

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into the grassy area

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i happened to notice two big black wings

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flap a few times

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then take off and it actually passed

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through the lights of the street lamps

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and i could tell it wasn't a bird but

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more like a bat

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i could see the light through the

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membrane wings as well

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but then i thought how could that be a

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bat it was huge

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i'm talking like a wingspan of about 12

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feet or more

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thomas

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flying jeepers creepers humanoid strikes

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windshield in south dakota

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back in 2013 my friend brad lived in

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rural south dakota and i would go see

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him any time of the day or night

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it was late and i was headed to his

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place no traffic on the highway

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and just had the light of my headlights

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to see i came upon a curve

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and up ahead was something black

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crouched over in the middle of the road

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like it was looking at something or

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maybe eating it i like to drive fast and

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love animals and

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didn't want to hurt whatever it was so i

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hid my brakes to slow down

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when all of a sudden this thing spread

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out its wings which looked like a black

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cape

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i think it all happened so fast and i

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thought it would have lifted up in the

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when it took off backwards towards my

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car and it hit the top center of my

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windshield

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it was so hard i ducked and instantly

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looked in the rear view mirror to see if

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it was still alive

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it was way too dark to see plus there

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was a row of bushes

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i knew it had to have smashed my

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windshield i couldn't tell how bad

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but i could see this glitter splatter so

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i just kept driving to my friend's place

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which was about another 10 minutes away

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when i pulled up and he came out to

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greet me

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i was so shook up on what i just hit and

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was telling him the story

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and how we had to take his truck and go

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see if it was still alive

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he kept telling me to wait for morning

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but i wouldn't stop begging him

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he finally agreed to ease my mind and we

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started to walk to his truck and stop to

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look at my windshield

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the windshield was not cracked at all

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but the splatter it left behind was a

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huge grey glitter splatter and felt all

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silky and soft

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like when you kill a moth only bigger

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way bigger

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we got in the truck and drove to where i

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had hit it and nothing was in the router

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ditches

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i felt better about not seeing anything

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still alive and suffering but was

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baffled at what just happened and the

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glitter splatter

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about a week later my friend died of the

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massive heart attack

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this happened in 2013 and i moved away

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for a couple years

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and now i'm back home i haven't told a

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lot of people my story

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i did research mothman and it makes me

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wonder it happened so fast and i'm very

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observant and it kind of reminded me of

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the jeepers creepers guy

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all crouched in the road eating

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this is lon strickler if you like this

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program

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