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bizarre fire snake just after dark one

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night i had occasion to go out to the

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barn to look after the horses

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a public highway passes within yards of

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my house and the barn is built about 20

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rods from the house to south and

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somewhat near the road

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i started from the house in the

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direction of the barn and that gone

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perhaps half the distance when i noticed

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something playing along the ground that

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looked like a tremendous fire snake

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the object crossed my path and as it did

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so i felt the air grow much

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colder and the peculiar moaning sound

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arose like the sighing of the wine

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through the trees

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only it was loud enough to drown a man's

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voice when he would shout

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then i felt something come over me like

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electricity and i became motionless as

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though i had grown fast to the crowd

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i was terribly scared but i never lost

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the use of my hands or legs through fear

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though there was something peculiar in

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the air that simply paralyzed me

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but the thing had got perhaps 50 feet

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from me going west

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it turned and came back and as it did so

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the moaning sound changed to a shrill

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whistle

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something like a locomotive would make

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and when it got just in front of me

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it took a course directly away from me

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and toward the board

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it traveled very rapidly and looked like

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a large racket streak of fire

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perhaps 30 feet long and 18 inches in

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diameter

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the thing reached the barn and in almost

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an instant ran directly up in front of

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the building

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and onto the roof i expected every

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moment to see the barn burst into flames

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but it did not

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the great fire snake ran with great

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rapidity all over the building

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in almost every direction up and down

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crosswise and everywhere

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i suppose a thousand times it then came

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to the front of the building and

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elevated itself

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and it stood straight on its tail fully

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30 feet in the air

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i was perfectly conscious all the time

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but try as i would i could not move from

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the spot

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after the thing had remained in an

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upright position for i presumed

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three or four minutes there was a sudden

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explosion like the discharge of a cannon

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and the thing disappeared entirely

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with the disappearance of the strange

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phenomenon i felt a shock like the first

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one i had felt and at the same time i

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gained control of my limbs

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i hastened to the house told my wife

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what i had seen and she thought i was

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crazy but upon my insisting she

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consented to accompany me to investigate

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the matter

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you can imagine our surprise upon

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reaching the barn to find a covert with

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a remarkable network resembling large

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ropes of ice

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they appear to pass around the building

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in exactly the way the fiery monster had

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it was not ice however but seemed to be

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more of a crystal for it would not melt

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even when we held a flame to it and when

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struck with a hatchet it simply gave a

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dullish sound and did not break

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upon entering the barn we were amazed as

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two good horses stood in their stalls

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and movable

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they were alive but neither could move a

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muscle they seem to be paralyzed and

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stood there more like statues than

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anything else

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they were warm and breathed all right

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but aside from this you could not tell

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i applied the whip and they never

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flinched the dog that sleeps in the barn

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was dead and appeared completely

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petrified

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he was lying on the ground with his head

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on his paws just like he was sleeping

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when i left home this afternoon

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everything was just as i have described

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viewed short snouted snake like creature

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fort myers florida

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i'm a department director for a county

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in south florida

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i was traveling with another director to

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a meeting we were on palm beach

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boulevard

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state route 80 near the ramp to i-75

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a traffic accident was blocking two of

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the three westbound lanes of state route

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80 and traffic was backed up and moving

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very slowly

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to my right was a small lake while the

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general area is heavily populated the

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lake connects to the colusahechi river

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and eventually to the gulf of mexico on

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the other side of the river is a large

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wildlife refuge

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while sitting in traffic my companion

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and i noticed a strange disturbance on

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the lake

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i first thought it was a fish jumping

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however the disturbance grew

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she suggested it was a may 18 or dolphin

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however we ruled this out as maynay t's

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don't rise this high above the water

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and there was no evidence of the dorsal

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fin what we saw appear to be something

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like a very large snake

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i would estimate that it was close to

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the diameter of a telephone pole

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though probably a little narrower and

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could have been as much as 40 feet long

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as sometimes it would disappear and at

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other times it appeared as if it had

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multiple parts of its body rising out of

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the water at the same time

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it looked almost like a very large snake

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until it stuck his head out of the water

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the head did not look like a snake so it

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appeared to have a shorts now

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i did not see any fins but my companion

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said she was certain she saw one finn

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i thought the color two of the body was

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dark gray but the head appeared to be

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brown

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it was approximately 400 feet away from

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us throughout the siding

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and it remained circling around one area

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eventually traffic cleared and we had to

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drive on

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i have lived in florida for over 20

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years my companion has lived in south

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florida all of her life

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she and her husband have an offshore

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boat and often go fishing far out into

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the gulf

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neither of us have ever seen anything

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snake-like humanoid in the bathtub back

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in 2012

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i went to the dominican republic to

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spend time with my parents

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i'm a very social guy so i made friends

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with a lot of the dominicans as well as

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haitians in the neighborhood

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one night i was hanging out with my new

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friends and one of them decided to tell

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us what had just happened to a girl who

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we all recognized from the area

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she was a prostitute however in the

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dominican republic that's a way of

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living for some women

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so others know what they do for work

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anyway the story went like this

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the girl was working a couple nights ago

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in a tourist area called sasua

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there she met a man from europe who

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wanted her to spend the night with him

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and she agreed prior to that they were

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enjoying the night

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drinking and partying at a bar after

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drinking lots of beers they left the bar

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and headed for the man's place

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when they got to his place they had sex

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multiple times

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and she fell asleep but woke up in the

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middle of the night because she

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didn't want to stay until the morning

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however she wanted to get paid for her

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services

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so she looked around but the man was not

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in the bed with her

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she thought he was testing her to see if

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she was a thief and would go through his

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things

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so she decided to leave the bedroom and

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go looking for him

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she heard the shower running and decided

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to go into the bathroom

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when she got inside the bathroom she saw

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a huge snake-like humanoid laying in the

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bathtub

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she was so terrified that she screamed

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and bolted out of the house for getting

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her clothes

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and ran all the way back to her house in

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the middle of the night naked

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this girl i recognized and she did not

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want to talk about the incident

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and she was so traumatized that she

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cbt

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visited by a snake-haired being i was

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working as an information technology

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contractor for mgm studios during the

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year

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it was a lot of fun working there

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getting to see movie props such as the

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stargate was an extra bonus

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i was staying at the georgian hotel in

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santa monica during a major renovation

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having worked at mgm for a month my

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contract was coming to an end

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during my last night at the hotel i woke

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up suddenly at approximately 3 a.m

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via the light from the window and the

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night light in the room

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i could see something floating in the

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middle of the room

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it was the head of something i've never

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seen and never want to see again

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it was grotesque a man's head with

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snakes his hair

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its skin which looked to be dark green

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seemed to be moving with smaller snakes

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as i watched it it moved its lips as if

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it was trying to talk to me

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but i couldn't hear anything i could see

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the back of its head in the mirror on

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the wall in front of me

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i really don't know how i knew to say

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this but i told him

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it wasn't welcome and it had to leave

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after saying this a few more times

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it just slowly faded away i got up and

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turned on the lights in the room

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working for mgm i thought maybe one of

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the guys i was working with was playing

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a joke on me

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i checked the whole room for anything

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that could produce this head image

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but i found nothing needless to say i

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didn't go back to sleep

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when the time came to check out later

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that morning i was too embarrassed to

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say anything

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heading into work one last time i did

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ask the guys

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if they knew anything about it they all

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said no

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and promised me they would never do

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anything so cool

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one of them did tell me that the hotel

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was in fact haunted

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this incident has left me wondering just

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what it was i saw that night

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i think it might have been a demon

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looking for someone to possess this is

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lon

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so you get notification when we upload

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new first person encounters

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we have many more to come very soon and

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by the way if you have a suggestion