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possible thunderbird encounter on pike

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on the independence day holiday my

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family had a big bash this year

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my aunt and her husband even showed up

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they shared with me a fascinating story

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about 10 or so years ago they were

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fishing on a small lake called pike lake

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in wisconsin

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they were on a rowboat when a heavy

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storm shelf moved in

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they said it was supposed to stay north

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of them but it shifted and began to move

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over the lake

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the first thing they noticed was the

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temperature drop by what felt like 30

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degrees

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soon after all the birds flew out in a

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massive swarm all at once

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that's when they knew to get the hell

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off the lake it got eerily silent

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calm before the storm and they started

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to row in towards shore

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soon the wind picked up and i'm told the

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water was super choppy but it was like

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pitch black

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the caps almost crystal-like tornado

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sirens start to ring and they're

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struggling against the waves to get back

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to shore

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luckily the owner of the resort they

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were staying at happened to be nearby to

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help pull them into safety.th e sky goes

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and a tornado touched down about five

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miles east from them

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once it cleared up they went back out on

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the lake and they wrote this lily pad

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patch

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my aunt's husband said he's casting and

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looking at this tree

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as they drift closer towards it he said

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the tree just did not look right

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he couldn't put his finger on it when

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they're about 10 feet from the shoreline

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and the tree

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a head turned slowly a massive curved

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beak stood out to him

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then it drops from the tree and spreads

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its wings they say the span was massive

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at least 15 to 16 feet he screams to my

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aunt

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look at the size of this thing it swoops

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over them close

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enough to see the detailed veins on the

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feathers they said it was a dark grey

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with a purple

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sheen to it as it flew off it didn't

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flap its wings like a typical bird

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trying to attain lift

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it was very slow and steady and they

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could hear the whoosh whoosh with each

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flap

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to this day they swear to this account

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they said they know for sure it wasn't a

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heron or sand crane

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the curved beak was more aligned to some

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kind of hawk

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but it was bigger than any hawk they'd

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ever seen including eagles when i

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mentioned that their story and

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description reminded me of the

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thunderbird

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my aunt's husband seemed kind of like

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something finally clicked as if he'd

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never considered that before

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i pulled up a picture of some native

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american totems with a thunderbird

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present and i could see the color drain

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from his face

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i swipe to an artist's rendition of what

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one may look like

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and he says you know i've never

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considered that

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but i swear that's what it had to be it

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looked almost like that's exactly

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just slightly different color i'd never

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seen anything like that before or since

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now i'm not saying that what they saw

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wasn't something explainable or

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misidentified

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however their sincerity and knowledge of

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the local wildlife they frequently fish

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in the area

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compels me to believe they definitely

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saw something that was a bit out of the

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ordinary

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huge birds citing new kent county

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virginia i was driving west on new kent

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highway

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just before route 106 in virginia

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around 8 30 a.m driving under the speed

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limit of 45

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yes i'm one of those people and i came

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around a bend and slowed down more

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because about 30 yards ahead of the car

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a huge bird was in the center of the

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road

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straddling the dotted line with its back

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to me nukant is basically a swamp with

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islands of high ground

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because of the terrain housing

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properties are kind of jammed together

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on high ground

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with lots and lots of alternating hill

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steep ravine wooded land of the swampy

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kind between

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we have all kinds of big birds in our

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area bald eagles

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ospreys herons turkey vultures all kinds

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of hawks wild turkeys

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several kinds of geese etc so seeing a

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bird in the road is no real surprise

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what made me stop the car 12 foot away

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from it was the fact the dang thing's

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head was taller than my hood

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i could feel myself starting to grin

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that grin we do when we just cannot

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believe what we are seeing

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and suspected j okay when it opened its

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wings

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i won't tell you what i said then you

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just use your imagination

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i was on a two-lane country road with

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gravel shoulders

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this thing's wingtips were touching

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gravel on both sides with two

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slow-motion swoops

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my window was down radio off and i

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actually heard its wings pushing the air

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it did make a slow swash whoop sound it

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was up and blotting out everything else

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in my windshield

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bank left on a wingtip literally

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completely vertical with a full view

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with the whole back of its body

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and glided into the woods between the

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trees i remember craning my head over

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the steering wheel and up to see all of

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it as it banked

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i have no idea how long i sat there in

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the middle of the road with my mouth

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totally blank mentally feeling like i

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had been slapped silly

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the only word that surfaced was

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thunderbird

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now like most american kids i had heard

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of thunderbirds but honestly

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i had never given a single thought as to

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what they would look like

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but that was the word that surfaced i

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supposed

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if you had asked me before that day i

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would have drawn a mcmac totem pole

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style thing

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this was not that when i finally cruised

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past where it had cut through the woods

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you can believe i was looking for it no

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i immediately called my man feeling

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silly and not mentioning what i thought

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and asked what burden vi had a 15 foot

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i wasn't brave enough to tell him it was

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more like 20 foot

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he said none the california condor but

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none here

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to his credit he didn't try to tell me i

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hadn't seen what i was describing

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merely suggested that it may have seemed

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bigger than it really was due to

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proximity

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but here's the thing my beloved

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grandfather was a mountain man

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a lifelong hunter and naturalist he

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would take us camping my whole childhood

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teaching us about wildlife from up close

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he taught me how to estimate an animal

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size from surrounding markers

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and you can't get more specific than a

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road span

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so what the heck did i see it was dark

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colored

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looked a dark charcoal color while on

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the road but its feathers were a rusty

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red brown when it launched into the

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its tail was a long triangle with a very

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slight point on the end

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center like a hawks it swings it swings

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let me just say its wings were just

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unbelievable

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i had a hard time looking at both at the

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same time i had to look from one to the

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other

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they weren't shaped like a hawks more

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like a seagulls

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if you can picture it its body was

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torpedo shaped

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no neck to speak of and a flat head due

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to the angle

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i didn't see its face or beak and when i

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could see it bank

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i was honestly trying to take in the

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wings and couldn't tell you anything

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about the shape of the head in flight

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though i think if it had a long neck and

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extended it in flight

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i would have noticed the impression i

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got of the legs were short and stubby

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i didn't see the feet it's been sitting

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there in the back of my mind

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bugging the hell out of me what was it

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i've been trying to talk myself out of

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having seen it

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i didn't try to look it up because that

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would make it real does that

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make sense tonight i finally decided to

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try a search online

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largest bird in virginia wingspans of

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virginia birds

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kind of searches nothing to match the

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man

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always direct and honest finally said

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search thunderbird

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feeling sheepish i did every description

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of modern thunderbird sighting sounds

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like what i saw

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go ahead laugh i don't blame you

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you weren't there a week ago i would

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have done the same

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gargantua encrypted bird encounter sir

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this is my statement that you requested

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after our telephone conversation

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on monday december 15th at 6 45 pm

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dark ies was traveling on the airport

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road near the new kent county airport

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this section of road went by the new

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kent trash collection

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center the road is bordered by woods on

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both sides

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as i approached this location i noticed

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something large

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and dark on the road very near the trash

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collection lot

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i hit my brakes and came within 50 feet

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of what appeared to be a huge

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bird like i told you on the telephone

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when i say huge

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i mean something of unbelievable size

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first of all

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it had the overall shape of an eagle it

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definitely had talons which were lighter

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in color

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it also had beak which seemed too large

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and long for its face

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the overall color was dark i'd say black

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the height was at least eight foot

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probably more as it bobbed up and down

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it may have been eating something when i

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approached it its head moved toward the

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direction of my car

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and made a grunting sound it turned away

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from me

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and the long tail with feathers swung

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around in my direction

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the wings which extended across the road

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unfurled as it lifted off the surface

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the wings were massive but like i said

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reached past the width of the road

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i told you 25 feet on the telephone i

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still believe that is a correct estimate

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i searched monster birds and found your

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telephone number and email

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i looked at different images of eagles

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and hawks online

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but there was nothing that closely

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resembled this bird

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pterosaur thunderbird in walworth new

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york hope this finds you well

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i wanted to share this story with you

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because i would really like to see

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if it can be identified i'm in upstate

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new york

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woolworth in wayne county 10 miles east

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of rochester new york

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last sunday evening i was at our school

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track talking while my daughter was a

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cheerleading practice in the gym

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our community is very rural so the track

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is at the back of the school complex

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and surrounded by woods and fields thus

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very dark at night

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i was listening to a podcast through my

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earbuds while jogging but happened to

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notice a low-flying helicopter in the

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backfield

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traveling along eddie road it seemed to

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go back and forth a couple of times

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and that's when i noticed it had

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searchlights trained on the ground

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it also landed in the field for about 10

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minutes i took the earbuds out and

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listened for a minute but didn't hear or

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see anything that made me think i should

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leave the area so i continued to jog

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the helicopter eventually took back off

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and flew away seemingly towards the city

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and airport

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soon after i started to hear this sound

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coming from the field across city road

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it was about a football field's linked

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from me to where the sound seemed to be

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coming from

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i quickly turned off the podcast and

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opened the voice memo app on my iphone

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to record

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for some reason it only recorded 24

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seconds it was just 8 pm at this point

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so i ran back to my car an additional

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half to full football field's length

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from where the sound was coming from

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because the girls were getting out of

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practice i got into my car to listen

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and make sure i had captured the sound

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on the recording and i had

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at this point my daughter got into the

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car when she opened the door

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i could still hear it even though we

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were surrounded by lots of teenage girls

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and their parents picking them up

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i have played this recording for a

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number of people both wildlife experts

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and paranormal cryptid investigators

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but so far there isn't anyone who can

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identify it what i can say

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and the reason i keep talking about the

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distance is that it had to be very big

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some people have not been able to open

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it on their computers it does sound

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bird-like and one other person suggested

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the thunderbird to me

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we do have many large birds of prey here

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but none that make this particular cry

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and are that loud indicating a larger

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sid

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