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lost time and unexplained events

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i have been stewing on this story for a

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while this takes place in new york

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finger lakes region during the

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mid-summer it was my best friend's last

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day at his old house

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which was filled with weird crap i've

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experienced stuff there and have a few

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experiences that can be boiled down to

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ghosts

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all the way to feeling like my life was

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in danger which is why i refused to

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spend the night there as that was when

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the feeling

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came so this was their last day at the

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old house getting all their stuff to

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their new house

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i was helping them that day all i

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remember from that day is walking in the

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house and seeing the windows filled with

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dead flies

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like more than i thought could be in a

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house and then driving to their new

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house at night which had to be at least

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eight hours of missing time i was

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confused and i asked them

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where are we i was told we are in

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nowhere town on the way to the new house

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i said but we never got the rest of your

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stuff my friend's brother looked at me

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concerned and said yeah we did what

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happened i said

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and was just told they would tell me

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later this is a story best to come from

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their mouth

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as i cannot remember it was just eight

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hours proof

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gone and only their word on what

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happened all they said was

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i was very quiet the whole time when

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everything went down in the house

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we're driving and noticed that there

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were no other cars on the road

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which is strange as we are going through

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quite a few small towns

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and it was still early in the night on a

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friday the little brother mentions this

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and as soon as he does

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a bunch of cars come around the corner

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at this point

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it's just circumstantial but there will

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be a pattern we keep driving and we

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notice that all the houses are

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completely empty like

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lights are on but we see nothing in them

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no furniture

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nothing i mentioned this in boom next

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house

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we noticed people just standing in the

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window staring at our car

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we noticed this in the next three or

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four houses at this point we are pooping

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bricks

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and noticed that this drive was taking

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way too long they had only moved a few

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towns over

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and this drive was taking well over an

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hour it feels like we have been driving

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in a cornfield for a while

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my friend says what the f is going on we

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should almost be there by now

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lo and behold the cornfield ends and we

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recognize where we are again

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seeing a pattern yet because i didn't

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and i said something that i regret to

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this day

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man what other weirdness is going to

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happen tonight as soon as it came out of

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my mouth

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i knew i messed up and my friend and his

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brother started yelling at me

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saying why would i say that and we get

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into a yelling match

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we never argue my friend slams on the

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brakes

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in front of us is what i can only

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describe as a big cat

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like the size of a person with a head of

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an owl this whatever it was struck so

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much damn fear into the three of us

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his little brother a 20 year old dude

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who played football just started crying

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and i was on the edge

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like i was going insane this wasn't

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making sense and i was having a mental

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gymnastics show trying to figure this

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out

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my friend just stared at it until he

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said someone grabbed their phone

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his battery was dead from the time he

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was in the old house

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this woke me up and i went to grab my

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phone and miss whatever ran into the

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field into the darkness as soon as i

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started pulling it out

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so we finally get to the new house we

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pull in the driveway and back into their

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parking space

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when his brother says what the hell is

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that we look up and see

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what i can say look like a pure white

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bigfoot crawling around like a spider

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it has red eyes and it just crawls away

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to the forest

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we sit in the car for 45 minutes until

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their mother arrives

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no drugs or alcohol were taken that

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night well not until after we got into

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the new house

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the best logical conclusion i can come

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to is there was a carbon monoxide leak

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in the old house

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and we were having a group loose nation

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this is by far the weirdest day of my

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life

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i mention this now because my friends

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said the new owners of the old house

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have a for sale sign on it

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they were there for less than two years

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i was told they had a thriving daycare

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there for about a year and a half

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unexplained limping humanoid scene in

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western michigan

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so this all just happened less than an

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hour ago and i'm still freaking out

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but here goes nothing me and this friend

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of mine mel

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not his real name usually spend our

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nights together around a campfire or

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out in the woods doing various things

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tonight we decided to go fishing out of

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chaox on a river here in west michigan

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after we got on the water it was rather

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peaceful

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we could hear foxes and fish were coming

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right up to the boat

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we were shooting the bull for maybe 20

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minutes before we hit this bend

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mel had brought a friend we'll call

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colin colin was ahead of us

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and said he could hear singing we all

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stopped our chaos and listened

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silence for 30 seconds then all of a

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sudden we hear this scream

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it started high pitch almost like a bell

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and would end in these screams of

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torture

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we hurried our way back to shore not too

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long after

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now this is the part that still has meow

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anxiety filled

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while we were loading up the kayaks into

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mel's truck we could still hear this

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screaming

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i felt like it kept getting closer by

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the time everything was packed up i

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heard it again this time sounding no

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more than a quarter mile up the road

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mel and i hopped into his truck calling

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in his and headed home

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as we were about to pull off this dirt

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road onto the main road

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i saw on the side of the road this

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humanoid creature hunched over

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then long gray hair covering its face

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almost to its knees

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and it walked with a strong and i mean

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strong limp

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i freaked out and told mel he hadn't

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seen anything but he felt like all of

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his energy

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had left his body and he almost blew the

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stop sign we were passing

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i told my fiance two days ago i felt

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like i was going to see a creature i

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couldn't comprehend

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and i feel it happened tonight i'm

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definitely not sleeping tonight

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i'd like to get to the bottom of what i

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saw tr

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large muscular creature and euphocene in

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mac in noc county michigan

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one night this past winter i was driving

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on i-75

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a couple hundred yards south of the bay

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road overpass in mackinac county

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michigan

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i noticed something moved near the

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highway reflectors thinking it was a

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deer i turned on the bright lights and

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watched for it to cross the road

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as i approached it i noticed that what i

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thought was the reflectors on the

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highway were orange and then it blinked

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on and off like an eye

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thinking what the heck is that i sped up

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to get closer

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as i got closer i could see the

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silhouette of the animal it was sitting

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like a dog its head was even with the

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reflectors

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it stood on all fours and turned and

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walked down in the ditch then up a

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little incline

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then turned and looked at my truck it

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turned back to the highway

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walked on all fours to the shoulder of

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the blacktop looked at the truck again

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with those orange eyes

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the eyes were huge it then jumped to

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within a foot or two of the center line

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and then the next jump landed in the

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grass on the shoulder of the road

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i was probably like 100 feet from it

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this animal was rippling in muscles

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and looked like it weighed around 500

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pounds if not more

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its hair which covered its body looked

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short and its head was huge with hardly

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no neck

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after i passed where it crossed i hit

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the brakes as there were no cars on the

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highway and started to back up

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as i got close to the spot where it

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crossed i suddenly felt fear and thought

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what the hell am i doing

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i put the truck back and drive and began

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to leave as i was rolling the window up

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i glanced back and noticed a light

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bright like a floodlight ascending into

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the sky at a high rate of speed

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it was at an angle of about one o'clock

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and in just a few seconds was out of

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sight

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something else that was strange was

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there were not any light rays trailing

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it

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terrifying cryptic creature encountered

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along the osable river in michigan

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i was hacking along the osable river in

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michigan during the summer of 1999.

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this is in the counties of the skoda

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alcona and iosco

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i remember one of my most scariest

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encounters with the wilderness

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while walking east down along the river

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around one hour prior to dusk i heard

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what to my ears to be

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a wolf howl i have seen wolf prince and

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seen wolves at my home in long lake

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michigan but never have i heard a howl

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so deep and almost human-like in my life

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i got spooked and set up camp and made a

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fire larger than most due to my fear

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at dusk i heard that the howling was

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getting closer directly across the river

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i had heard stories of the wolfman from

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native powwows and in my family folklore

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covering the whole usa

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but never have i personally seen what i

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saw that night or the next day

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that night after eating beef barley stew

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from my canned good collection

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i laid down by the fire with my huge

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folding knife closely gripped by my

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chest

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i was watching and listening to the

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surrounding wood lying for about 30

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when the average night noises stopped to

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this me meant two things

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either something had spooked the local

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animals and that it made me

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very uneasy i looked out away from the

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fire and shot the fire away from my ice

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using the unarmed hand

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i looked across the river which was only

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about 100 meters across from my fire

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that is when i saw the most unnerving

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sight ever on the sand was a creature

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standing maybe larger than the average

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so black bear with black fur

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large long skull and yellow reflecting

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eyes like the wolf

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i closed my eyes and hoped i was

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imagining things and then it gave out

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the howl again

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i open my eyes and it ran up the bank

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and disappeared into the night

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as it ran it didn't run on all fours

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like a bear nor wolf

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unlike the local bigfoot it wasn't full

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upright like a human or primate

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i was so scared that i slept the rest of

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that night in a damn tree about twenty

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foot off the ground

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it took me three hours and praying to

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easing my fears so i could sleep

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