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leather gloves and sunglasses i was

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referred to you by a friend who is a

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i recently had an experience that i

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cannot explain

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i was hoping you were someone you know

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could help with an explanation

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i work for a limousine service in new

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york city and on 24-hour call

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a few nights ago i received a text

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message from the dispatcher around 9 30

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pm

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and was instructed to pick up a client

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who would be arriving at the westchester

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county airport at midnight

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though i'm on 24 hour call i rarely

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receive

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late night calls especially for a pickup

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outside of the city

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i decided to leave as soon as possible

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since i wasn't really familiar with the

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westchester area

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i arrived at the gate to the airport and

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was instructed to park in a waiting

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section not far off the tarmac

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i could see the entire runway from my

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position at 11

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45 pm i received another text message

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from the dispatcher that repeated

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the client's name and where i would be

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taking her i was instructed that i may

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be in service for an extended period

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since the client had several errands to

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make in the city and that i would need

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to return her to the airport when she

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was finished

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this was very strange since i usually

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take a client from point a to point b

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though i will occasionally run across an

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odd request

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a little after midnight there was a

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knockout on the passenger window

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i looked over and noticed a young woman

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with sunglasses

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i stepped out of limo and asked if i

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could help her it was the client

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i was totally confused because no

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private jet landed and i never saw her

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walk up to the limo

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anyway i opened the back door for her i

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returned to the driver's seat as she

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handed

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me a list of locations she want to stop

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at i noticed that all were residential

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addresses

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a total of five locations as we started

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our way back into the city i noticed

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that she never removed her sunglasses

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but seemed to be reading a document in

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the dark as well

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she never spoke and only nodded her

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motion her gloved hands

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we stopped at the first location which

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in the upper east side

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she simply got out of the limo on her on

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and walked directly into the townhouse

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a few minutes later she returned to the

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limo and quickly got into the limo by

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herself

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it was the same routine at the other

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locations two in the west village

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another in soho and last residence was

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in the lower east side where she

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remained for close to two and a half

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after we were finished i asked if she

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wanted to return to the airport

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and she nodded in the affirmative i

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noticed that she act very tired and was

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more pale than before

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we finally reached the airport around 6

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15 am as it was just starting to turn

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as i pulled up to the gate she suddenly

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opened the door and got out

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she walked around to my side and

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motioned for me to open the window

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as i was doing this she reached into her

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small briefcase and removed five 100

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bills and handed it to me i looked up at

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her as she smiled and spoke in a very

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weak high-pitched voice saying go home

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now

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remember me then she turned around and

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walked quickly toward the hangers

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i was simply dumbfounded what did she

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mean i

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started to back the limo out of the

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access road when suddenly i felt a warm

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rush of air and a bright flash

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the next thing i remember is waking up

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in bed in my uniform

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i rushed out of bed and looked out the

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window to see if the limo was parked in

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my driveway

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the limo was there as usual so i went

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outside and looked inside

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on the front passenger seat laid the

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five one hundred dollar bills

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when i looked into the back seat there

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were a pair of long leather gloves and

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the sunglasses worn by the client

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can you possibly explain what happened

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to me i have suffered no ill effects

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from this incident but feel that

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something else will happen

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what did she mean by remember me any

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information you can provide would be

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most appreciated

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gollum in the city bizarre humanoid in

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downtown chicago

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what i'm going to tell you is the honest

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truth i've had experiences before but

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this incident

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i still doubt as to what i saw this

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happened two summers ago

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2018 in downtown chicago if you've ever

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been to downtown chicago during the

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after working hours you know how crowded

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it can get

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i've been living here 13 years and i've

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seen my share of homeless weirdos

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i commute using the subway every day and

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seen some weird people

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the city has many and at first that's

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what i brushed the sighting off as

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i was walking to the comic book store

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coming up to state street

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there's lots of shoppers and tourists

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going about their business

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when i saw what i will refer to as a

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homeless man on a corner on his knees

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it was only when i looked at him again

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that i was confused

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he looked like a caucasian man that had

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a scar on his face

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that made him look a little deformed he

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was wearing an oversized hat

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but i could see he was bold he was on

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his knees and muttering something

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partially covering his

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face i've never stared at someone before

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but there i was in the middle of state

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street

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shocked and confused he didn't look

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normal

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his eyes were huge and i felt really

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sorry for him

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his facial expressions just had lots of

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sorrow

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i looked around to see if anyone had

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noticed him

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a young boy in his teens with his dad

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was looking at this thing the same way i

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i heard his dad tell the young boy not

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to look at him but i could see the boy

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also in shock and confused he also knew

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that wasn't a human

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something about this humanoid was not

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right everyone else who walked by dared

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look and ignored this humanoid it was my

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to cross the street and i walked away

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but i kept turning around to get a

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glimpse

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the last thing i remember that was odd

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was how his eyes blinked

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it reminded a lot of smeagol from the

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lord of the rings movie

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he didn't look real i think about this

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sighting a lot

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and sometimes brush it off as it was

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just a weird looking homeless human

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the more i recall the sighting the more

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i'm convinced it was not a human

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that's exactly what this thing was doing

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trying to hide in plain sight in front

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of hundreds of people

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its mannerisms were strange too the way

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it kept its head down

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but occasionally looking up to make eye

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contact was bizarre

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it almost felt like i was looking at a

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wild animal at a zoo

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bizarre entities in dark swedish forest

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i am an au pair in sweden and spend most

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summer weekends in my

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family's summer house which is out in

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the archipelago outside of stockholm

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breathtakingly beautiful place but

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boonies doesn't even begin to cover

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the nearest neighbor is about a 30

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minute brisk walk away

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and after that there's nothing except

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ocean and terrifying forest

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this particular night was date night for

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the parents so i was left with the two

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children alone out in the terrifying

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alone

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it's literally two meters from the ocean

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the game plan was to go exploring in the

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forest which i had never done alone with

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the children

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only with the parents and then want to

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pick up my boyfriend from the bus stop

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he would stay with us until the parents

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got home from their date and then my

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boyfriend and i would go sleep in the

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guest house

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so while in the forest i kept getting

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the jitters

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things were definitely stranger and it

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wasn't just because i was alone with two

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children

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i grew up in the forest but several

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times we heard the birds calling out

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these weird distress call noises

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and big flocks would appear a long time

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before we were even close enough to

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scare them

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and there were big fighting footsteps

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nearby i was terrified of there being a

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moose or something

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we came to a little hidden lake and then

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things got even weirder

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though the place is unpopulated for

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miles there was a woman sitting on rock

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opposite us

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about 60 feet away she was naked and wet

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as though she'd been swimming

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even though the water was much too cold

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for that when she saw us she stood up

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and did this weird pacing thing

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like she would get close to the water

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and then back away then move close again

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like she wanted to cross and comfort us

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but there was the obvious late barrier

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in the way

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the kids were mildly worried and it

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wasn't long before i ushered them back

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the way we come

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and we made our way out of the forest on

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the road to pick up my boyfriend i had

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the oddest sensation of being watched

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i was really terrified actually but we

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met him with no incident and returned to

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the cabin just as the sun was setting

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we gave the kids dinner and just as they

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were curling up with a swedish comic

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book the main door slammed open

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i really remember thinking it was a real

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person there was a heavy footfall and

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then bam

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like someone had stomped and flung open

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the door but there was no one there

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my boyfriend went out and had a look

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around nothing

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must have been the wind of course right

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it's always the wind

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while we were in bed reading the story

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we could hear skittering around and

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clung from underneath where we were

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i knew for a fact that rats and other

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rodents camped out at the other end of

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the house

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because that's where the kitchen was i

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had a really awful feeling in the pit of

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my stomach

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but my rational boyfriend promised me it

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was a fox or weasel and not to get

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worked up

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fast forward to 3 a.m i had to pee my

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boyfriend and i were in the guest house

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my bosses had come home long ago right

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after i had finished

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i straightened and adjusted my shirt

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that i got that awful feeling of dread

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i had it in the forest i had it on the

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way to see my boyfriend i had it while

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we were camped out inside the house

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i had felt just fine in the guest house

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with my boyfriend but now the feeling

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was back

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behind the guest house is a steep hill

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about a 45 degree angle

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and on that hill sits what we call the

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ghost house it was the house of an old

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soldier in the 1600s

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and now it just sits there vacant

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there's a trail going from the ghost

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house to the main summer home and my

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boss had lit the trail with dim solar

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lamps

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you can't see how to read by the light

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of the lamps but the idea was to

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light your way up the hill and not rip

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and die over a triode

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i could sense something moving up the

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trail that means

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something moving from the main house to

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the ghost house i squinted in the dark

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and saw a shape of a person

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but that wasn't right because by the

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solar light you can see color

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jeans and shirts or jackets and ours all

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had reflectors on them

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but this was just a black shadow i

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thought animal

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but then ruled that out because it was

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two legs walking really fast and

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smoothly

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but then it slowed and seemed to notice

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me i was actually terrified

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but my intuition told me to commence

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stare down so i did

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i was fighting to see in the dark and

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just when i couldn't focus

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i realized there were two very softly

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illuminated eyes on his face

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and they were on me it slowed down to a

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stroll and i could see the eyes changed

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tin from a bluish to yellowish glow

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based on where they were in relation to

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the solar lamps

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they were catching light so i stared it

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was going so slow now this felt cereal

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and i could hear twigs snapping and

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other noises that a real-life

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non-imagined creature makes

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i remember actually thinking this isn't

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a hallucination it's freaking walking on

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the ground

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and then the weirdest part adam instead

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of moving into normal relative height

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the way human eyes

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or animal eyes would do the eyes started

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kind of hovering

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they were six feet off the ground

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suddenly would dip down to four feet

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then back up to five and they never left

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me

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but the direction this thing was moving

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and never changed it kept going up the

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hill the eyes and the figure faded out

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into the darkness once the solar lamps

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ended

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and i went back into the guest house and

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locked the door

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i heard nothing else that night my

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boyfriend slept through everything but

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early in the morning he woke up

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whimpering from a nightmare and that's

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the only time anything has ever happened

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at that summer house

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bizarre humanoid attempts to board bus

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in chicago suburb

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tonight was a wild night one that i'll

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never forget

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i had my scooby-doo umbrella by my side

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after a good day

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and i was headed back home on a public

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bus i believe it was a pace

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and i was pretty much alone just me and

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the bus driver and one or two other

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people

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that in and of itself was strange but

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i'm not sure that was related

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anyways i board the bus and the bus

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driver is stopping off at plenty

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of locations and we arrive to one where

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there's little to no light around it

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no street limps no houses or buildings

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no nothing

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the only thing illuminating the scene

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was the dim light inside the bus in the

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headlights

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the bus driver opened the doors and

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nobody budges

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but as the bus driver began to close the

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doors we heard these really heavy

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footsteps come out of nowhere

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then i heard the most god-awful sound i

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have ever heard

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it wasn't quite screaming it wasn't

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singing but it sounded angry

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the bus driver began to open the doors

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again for the thing to board

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but as soon as it came into eyesight

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nobody wanted that that thing

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to board this bus the driver shut the

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doors as quickly as he could

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and this creature became infuriated it

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was wearing women's clothing

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an orange shirt and an orange hat with

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some shorts it's been hot here

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but that thing was not like any women

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i've ever seen

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i don't even know how to describe it it

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could have the power to shape shift

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if that's a thing this thing it was a

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she

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or at least wanted to appear so began

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pounding on the bus doors

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howling its angry screaming song it went

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on for a long time

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the bus driver was clearly in shock and

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confused and downright scared as he

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should be

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hell i was scared too i don't think any

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of us knew what to do

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and at the same time we weren't sure if

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this thing would follow us

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if we did let the creature in would it

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harm us

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kill us even would it chase after us if

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we didn't

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if we called the police and it left

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would they even believe us

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it wasn't any kind of cryptid like

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bigfoot or the chupacabra

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without a doubt it was an

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extraterrestrial life form

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it is an experience i will not forget

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ever in my life

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the first thing i did when i arrived

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home was look up anything

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similar to no avail so i came to report

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