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reported in lexington illinois

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my wife and i moved to lexington

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illinois in april 2016.

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during that first summer here we heard a

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lot of stories from residents that we

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talked

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to back on january 27 2018

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i wasn't sleeping well because the local

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coyote pack was getting riled up about

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something

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they were extremely vocal that night i'm

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usually a deep sleeper but they woke me

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up with their incessant dipping barking

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and howling

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it sounded like a hand was on i got up

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and decided to use the bathroom

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after i did a quick check outside from

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our windows while in there i heard what

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could be like to an animal-like screech

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like the ros from the princess bride

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film and a really deep bass woo

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i thought it was odd so i look out our

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bathroom window and saw a large shadow

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pass under streetlight about 30 feet

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from our place

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it did it a couple times before a

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creature like witness from wilmington

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illinois described landed

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it made no sound when it flared its

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wings when it landed in a tree not more

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than 10 feet from our place

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a local creek is about 60 to 70 feet

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away from our place

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and about the same distance from the

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tree the speed was perched in

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it walked with a kind of hop the feet

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had a splayed three-clawed foot with

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digits like a sloth

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i did not get a good look at the torso

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or how its arms and grasping digits

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looked but the way it landed it looked

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like it had paws

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but i'm not sure i never got a good look

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at the head

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i observed it for a few minutes before

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it made that unnerving screech shoot

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sound about four times before it just

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glided out of the tree towards the creek

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in the south southwest direction of the

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mackinaw river the coyotes started up

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again with their noise but it sounded

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like they were following it

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i don't think it knew it was being

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observed it was more unnerving than the

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times of bigfoot made visits to my

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family's property when i was young or

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the night when something literally

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destroyed two of our mares

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i remember enough of that night

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sometimes to actually have nightmares

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but not this thing it just unnerved me

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but one thing i did notice was the

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stench of blood in the air

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i don't know if you've been hunting but

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that blood smell when you were field

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dressing a deer or antelope that was the

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smell

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left behind this occurred between 2 30

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am and 2 45 am on 1

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27 18 dot the wilmington illinois

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witness reported helicopter activity

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in my area that ramps up in the late

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full early winter between 11 pm and 1 45

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am the quits and starts up again at

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around 2 30 2 45 am until around 4 a.m

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one night i was out for a quick walk and

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heard an odd chopper sound

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it sounded like a black hawk looked

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really weird like it had baffling on

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but the chop of the blades is

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unmistakable that night there was a

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clear enough sky for a full moon

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i saw the silhouette but the tail

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section was shaped like the rear tail of

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the cancelled comanche helicopter

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they flew over the cornfields and little

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forest area nearby and the mackinaw

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river for hours

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back and forth one night in november

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i got curious enough to try out my night

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vision camera

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i waited for the chopper to come right

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like clockwork it began its root in a

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5x5 search pattern

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to the lens i seen two domes under the

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fuselage by the cockpit

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to my i not glued to my eyepiece one was

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emitting a rather powerful searchlight

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but it was concentrated on the river

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area

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it banked north and came close by our

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place i seen a brightness emitting from

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the other dome

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i couldn't see it with my naked eye but

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it was there on screen

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it overloaded the optics on my camera

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also the video

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that i recorded on the flash drive was

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corrupted and not retrievable

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the battery supply burst and the main

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board was toast

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that same night around 2 30 am 3 am i

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was woken up by the sound of diesel

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engines

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keller highway

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and there was a small convoy of 3m wraps

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four hummers

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and five m8va couple hummers had that

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new 50 cal minicon mounted

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the rest had either the m2 or m240

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mounted they all look like they were

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prima grey colored

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they stopped at intervals on either side

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of the small bridge 50 foot away

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troops dismounted from the mrap and m8

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tv they had rifles and strange body

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armor

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they kept the lights on the vehicles on

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i took out my field spotter glasses

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and got a better low ok number at number

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fast entry helmets

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bella clavis 4i night vision sets dull

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finish metallic looking body armor

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vest arms legs and curiously neck they

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all carry combat sabers

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and either fn 2000 rifles or rifles that

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look like the xm 25

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26 or 27 prototypes a team of three went

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into the woods off to the right of the

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road

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if you were headed west by the cemetery

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they were gone about 10 minutes

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when a couple shots rang out and all the

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troops came out of the woods in a hurry

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got in the vehicles and took off

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the helicopter flyovers stopped until

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this past august

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it's like clockwork monday wednesday

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saturday and sunday 11 p.m to 12 45 a.m

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and 2 30 a.m to 4 a.m

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currently one is flying over as i type

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this 1 31 2018

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12 30 a.m i prefer to remain anonymous

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for now

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i worked as a civilian independent

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contractor in the dakotas for about

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eight years

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advised in the golden coyote exercises

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in the black hills of south dakota and

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the bombing range recovery in the

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badlands of south dakota

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i grew up in a military family all

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branches been around military vehicles

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since i could remember i couldn't join

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because of the health problem they

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large wing being encountered in western

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kentucky about 10 years ago my

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ex-husband and i were visiting friends

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and the guys left to go rent some movies

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from a local video store we live in

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small towns surrounded by other small

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neighboring towns in western kentucky

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lots of wooded areas and lots of country

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roads not a lot of big city action

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street lights are on most roads but not

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the back roads

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my friend's husband zach and my

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ex-husband josh decided to hit a back

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road so zach could show josh a house he

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had been helping bill

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i am familiar with the road they were on

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because my grandparents live off it it's

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a very long road probably 20 miles from

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start to finish

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a childhood friend of mine lived

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directly on this road so i

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grew up in these woods and have had some

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strange stories from down there

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it's not like people talk about this

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place being haunted or anything

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paranormal

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i just had experienced weirdness myself

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mostly i chalk my stories up to being

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young and impressionable

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anyway the guys were talking about the

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house and hanging out when they got a

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part of the road that is some will curve

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at that point off the side of the road

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stood a figure that my ex-head had to be

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seven foot tall

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they were in a dodge neon so he said

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maybe he could have mistaken his height

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because they were sitting low

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but he towered over the vehicle neither

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of them said a word to each other until

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they had passed the figure

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after they passed another car was coming

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and that car hit their brakes which led

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the guys to believe that carr had seen

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it as well

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zach pulls into the next available place

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to turn around and that's when they both

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started talking and freaking out

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did you see that what was that they

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turned around and drove back but nothing

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was there they stopped the car and got

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flashlights out

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no street lights the only light had been

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their headlights

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they hurried back to the house and when

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they came inside both were very quiet

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i was like what's up with you guys each

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kept saying for the other to tell us

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they tell us the story of what they had

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witnessed but with no description

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so me and my friends separated the guys

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and asked them to draw what they saw

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basically it was the same thing only one

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of them drew half of it and the other

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drew the entire figure

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both have the center as being black

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except red where the eyes are

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josh described that it didn't appear to

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have feet and it was floating

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zack said he didn't remember if he

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looked at the feet because he was so

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taken back by the giant wings

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the wings they both drew and said were

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white at the top then faded to yellow

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then red

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the craziest part of me was that both

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guys said that it wasn't flapping the

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wings up and down

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but that it was flapping them in towards

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the center body and then back out

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my ex and i would talk about this

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engraved links for years

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zach had since been in an accident and

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suffered a traumatic brain injury

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he was alone on his motorcycle and the

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eyewitness said he seemed to have just

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drove off the side of the road like

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something ran in front of him

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but he is no longer able to communicate

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to be able to tell anyone what happened

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to him that night

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but it's always made me wonder if he saw

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that creature again or if it was some

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sort of warning for what was to come

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winged humanoid encounter in morehouse

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parish louisiana

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i've never told anyone this or talked

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about it to anyone besides the people

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that were with me that night and my best

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friend

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who claims to have seen him at a

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different date that i didn't know about

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until i described my experience to him

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i lived in a small town bastard

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louisiana with my cousin and his wife

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there's not much to do in morehouse

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parish besides drive backroads like

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we've done

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thousands of times before then one night

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in 2015 we were leaving a church we used

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to clean

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it was around 2 am or so we were in my

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cousin's 1990 gmc sierra single cab 4x4

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and we decided to ride back roads so

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we're cruising

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he and i are talking and listening to

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nirvana probably we played music

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together

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but anyway his wife was asleep in the

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middle seat when we turned on a paved

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road five miles or so outside of town

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and come around a curve and there it was

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something we had never seen before

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i'm an avid hunter been in the woods all

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hours of the night and day

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i was in the army but had never been

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more freaked out by something than what

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we witnessed

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there was something dead in the road and

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something was eating it when the

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headlights hitted

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it looked up was about two and a half to

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three foot tall like it was kneeling

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over whatever it was eating

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had red eyes and it stood up so fast

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seemed like a millisecond was seven or

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eight feet tall

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was pitch black its skin looked like a

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bat skin but way darker

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in one fell swoop it left and its wings

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opened and flew into the woods on the

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side of the road

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it had to be moving over 50 miles per

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hour freaking wildest experience of my

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life

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and i've always been cynical when it

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comes to paranormal stuff

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but i know what i saw that night and so

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does my cousin

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enormous black wind cryptid observed in

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tequila washington

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i have a story to share which to this

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very day still makes me shrink on the

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inside

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wanting to become very small it only

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lasted about two to three minutes yet

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this short event filled me with a heavy

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dark feeling of the ultimate ending of

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my existence

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i have only shared this with maybe a

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single handful of people

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even then they give me that look of oh

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whatever with a sideways grin

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that familiar reaction about myself i'm

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60 years old now and beginning to

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understand that if i don't share my

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experiences

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well someday it will go to the grave

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with me then no one will have heard them

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so at this time of my life ridicule is

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not a fear anymore

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believe my story or not this is not my

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concern

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my story starts as follows i was walking

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to work to begin my night shift at a

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manufacturing company

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the shift started at six pm to six am

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i lived about four blocks from work so i

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walked all the time

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i would leave home at about 5 p.m take

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my time and enjoy the walk

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the walking path i followed ran along

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the green river

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i was just starting on the head of the

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path with a slight downward incline

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it was spring warm clear with no wind

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just a very beautiful day

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as i was looking ahead something dark

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caught my attention from my right and

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slightly high above the tree line

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and towards the shopping mall which was

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about two blocks in that direction

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i just slightly turned my head to see

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now what i saw was giving me a right

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profile of it

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it was a very black thing humanoid like

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it had wings black with legs it was in a

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bird of prey position

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just when they were about to grab their

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prey i turned my attention forward and

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was hit with a feeling of fear and dread

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like i was a field mouse in an open area

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now my mind is telling me that it was a

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black bird's whooping down yet another

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part is saying

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what the bleep so i turned my head right

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again to see

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there it was in the same spot it hadn't

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moved

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it looked like a bird but with legs and

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arms held slightly out from its body

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and with what looked like a head not

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like a bird at all

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and wings back in the position a bird of

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prey would have them when swooping down

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now my mind is trying to take in all

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this information

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and it is not going well warning signals

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going off like crazy in my mind telling

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me to move slow and quietly

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at the same time i'm beginning to

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realize that this thing is hovering in

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the direction of the shopping mall

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and kind of above it now wait that's two

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blocks away

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how can i see this in any detail it's

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over there a far enough distance i

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should not even be able to see it

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other than a black spot yet i can

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at least enough to see that what i'm

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seeing shouldn't be

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i'm beginning to understand that it must

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be large

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i mean really right two blocks away yet

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large enough for me to see the shape

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definition

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no detail just shape i shift my gaze

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forward to gauge how much farther into

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line down this incline and out a visual

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not far maybe 50 feet i decided to look

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again just to see

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and of course it's still in the same

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position but giving off that feeling of

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pure dread

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i had no desire to stop and look all i

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cared about was get to work full

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so after the third look i just focused

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on getting to the location of not being

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seen or seeing it

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i made it to work ahead of time of

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course still

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feeling scared later in the shift i

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shared it with a co-worker and received

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laughter

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so i shut up and didn't talk about this

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for many years

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over the years i have tried to grasp

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what i had seen

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i really don't know maybe i don't need

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to know

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yet even to this very day when i think

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about this the feeling of fear is

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present

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i just have this strong feeling that

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what i had seen was not known

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now there is a short incident that

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happened about three or four months

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later

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i believe that it was around the first

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part of july

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it was around one o'clock in the

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afternoon i was walking in the parking

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lot of the shopping mall

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yes the same one i was about halfway

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across the parking

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lot which is quite large i had my

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headphones in

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listening to music all of a sudden i had

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a feeling that something was flying

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above me

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i mean i actually ducked down thinking

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something was going over me

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at the same time that this occurred i

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saw shadow pass over me

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and it was shaped like a very large bird

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i mean i could tell it was a wing

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end to end maybe 20 feet just a poor

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guess at best

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i immediately stopped and looked up

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there was nothing in the sky

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except for a few high and thin white

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clouds i looked to see if it was a plane

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nope i did a complete 360 looking up

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nothing

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so i beat my feet to the entrance once

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again having that feeling of being a

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field mouse out in the open

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so i have no idea what i saw those two

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different times

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but i think they may have been related

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whatever it was

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i know the feeling that being seen is

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not going to be good

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well that about covers that subject take

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it for what it's worth

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thank you for your time in allowing me

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to share final thought

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i've noticed that people who have had

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strange encounters seem to be able to

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check a few boxes off in the cryptid or

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paranormal

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or even ufo categories dot i know i can

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check a few of those boxes off myself

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and all are in the category of i just

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don't know

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