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black humanoid the warning on the door

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last month

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my husband and i finally bought our

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dream house it's on the edge of a large

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forest

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and i love it it's a little paradise

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hidden by the large pine trees that grow

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on the premises i honestly don't know

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where my backyard ends and the forest

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starts

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when i lie in bed and let the sounds of

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the forest sing me to sleep

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i feel truly at peace that house is

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everything i ever dreamed of

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i'm a musician and usually i work from

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home so for me the transition out of new

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york city

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and into the country wasn't too big my

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husband however

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had to quit his job he gave notice last

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week and still has one week to go

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we had to leave our old apartment a few

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days ago so for the time he stays with a

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friend

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will i have already moved to our new

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house this week

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it would just be me and our two dogs now

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this situation by itself is not for the

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faint-hearted the woods can be scary

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especially at night and it gets pretty

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lonely out there but as faye will have

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this week some strange things have

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started to happen it all started on

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sunday

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i was unpacking boxes of our books and

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cds when by accident

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i opened a box of christmas decorations

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my husband and i had decided for our

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unused stuff

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to be stored the basement as it was just

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a cement hole anyway

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a cold windowless room not much bigger

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than a walk-in closet

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i walked down the wooden stairs and

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dropped the box in a corner

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when i noticed there was a small hatch

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on the wall under the staircase

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initially i got really excited as i

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thought it was a safe or something

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but then i noticed there was only latch

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on it to lock it from the outside

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i wondered if it could be a door but the

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opening was quite narrow

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a small person such as myself would

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maybe fit

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but say my husband would have trouble

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fitting through

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stepping closer i noticed a small plaque

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that said

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keep shut at all times i opened it

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anyway there really wasn't anything to

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see

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though it was really dark inside and the

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light from the basement

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was way too dim to light it at all from

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inside came a clicking or snapping kind

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of noise

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not quite rhythmic but frequent enough

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that i thought it maybe was some type of

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machine

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i didn't dare sticking my head or limbs

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in for fear of getting electrocuted or

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cut in half

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so i shut the hatch and resolved to take

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a look when i unpacked my flashlight

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the following days things got pretty

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weird on monday the dogs were going nuts

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as soon as the first one stopped barking

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the other would start again

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they were just barking into nothing dark

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corners of the ceilings and rooms that

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were lit

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tuesday the dogs fortunately had quieted

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down

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however that night while making dinner

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in the kitchen i heard the same clicking

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that came from a space behind the hatch

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it originated from the corner of the

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living room that was only barely

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illuminated by the light from the

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kitchen

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i approached quietly but when i was

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about to flip the switch

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one of the dogs flew past me and barked

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at whatever it was that made the noise

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and the noise stop

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i turned on the light but nothing was

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there when i called my husband

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that night i told him i thought we had

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an infestation of some sort

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then at night things got really weird i

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was in bed

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sleeping soundly when i woke up from one

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of the dogs scratching the door from

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outside the bedroom

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i cringe as i heard his nails drag

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across the fresh paint but i didn't let

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it in

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almost immediately i drifted back to

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sleep that morning

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one of the dogs decided to pull me out

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of my slumber by aggressively licking my

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face

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i gruggily pushed it off and pulled the

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sheets over my face

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when i remembered the scratching i

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cursed and hastily got up to check if

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he'd ruined the door

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but then i noticed both the dogs were in

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my bedroom whatever it scratched the

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door last night was not one of my dogs

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oh and it ruined the door by the way

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nice also when i went down for breakfast

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i noticed the bowl of dog food was

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completely empty

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even though i just fulfilled it the

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night before when i called my husband

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that evening i told him i thought we had

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an infestation of something big

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you might think that i would have been

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scared at this point but i hadn't quite

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connected the dots and we live in an old

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house

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so i figured anything was possible after

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calling my husband i sat down with a

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book

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and a glass of wine out on the porch

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despite it being november

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the weather this week was quite pleasant

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and i love feeling the cold breeze

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across my cheeks as i'm tucked under a

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warm blanket

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i hadn't really noticed how exhausting

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this week had been but not 10 minutes

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into reading i fell asleep

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it must have been past midnight when i

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woke up from the motion activated lights

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in the backyard switching on

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half asleep i turned to look and what i

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saw shocked me wide awake

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about 30 feet away stood a tall slender

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humanoid figure

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it was hunched over as it drank from the

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bird bath we had just put in the garden

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a few days ago

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for a few seconds i just sat there

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frozen in fear watching a drink

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the creature had long thin limbs and the

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skin was pitch black

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like a shadow that just rose from the

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pavement and became a person

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it seemed emaciated the bones were

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sticking out so far under its dry skin

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to look as if they were gonna pop out

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and when it rose up his face god that

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face will haunt me forever

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his clouded gray eyes lay way too deep

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in its skull

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the worst part though was the mouth it

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was so big

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and it had so many teeth and it was

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somehow contorted in what almost seemed

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to be a smile

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and it was looking right at me for a

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second i thought that was the end of me

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but then it just backed away into the

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darkness as it sunk into the shadows had

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become immediately invisible

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i heard the leaves wrestle further into

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the woods and it was gone

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i locked myself in the dogs in the

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bathroom and quietly cried until sunrise

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i eventually gathered up the courage to

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get out that was this morning

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i called my husband and told him

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everything he said he'd come over asap

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he should be here before dinner i

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decided to unpack some more boxes today

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to take my mind off of it all but while

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putting more boxes in the basement

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to my horror i discovered the hatch was

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all the way open

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i definitely closed it sunday i'm 100

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sure i must not have locked it whatever

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was in there

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a known creature worries residents in

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southeastern minnesota

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i had a very scary experience with

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something that might have been a weird

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creature cryptid thing

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this happened very recently i believe

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about three days ago

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on the 1st of august 2020 so i was at my

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girlfriend's house for the weekend which

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i'm at her house pretty much every

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weekend friday through sunday

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so that in and of itself wasn't out of

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the usual we both recently started

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college

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so she still currently lives with both

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her mom and dad and two younger brothers

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it was between 3 40 a.m and 4 15 a.m

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when the actual creepy stuff began

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everyone else in the house was asleep

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except for my girlfriend and i since we

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always tend to stay up late playing

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video games or watching movies

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we had just finished watching a movie

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and we were getting ready to go to sleep

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i was getting changed into shorts and a

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t-shirt to sleep in

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and my girlfriend went to the kitchen to

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get us both a glass of water

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since her room can get extremely hot and

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stuffy during the summer

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so after getting changed i was just

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chilling on the bean bag in her room

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waiting for her to get back at this

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point i should explain the basic layout

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of where she lives or this next part

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could get confusing

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so her house is about eight minutes out

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of city limits and she has a long

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driveway that goes from the road up a

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hill that leads to her house

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her house is surrounded by trees and

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fairly dense forest

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and her nearest neighbors are a good

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couple minutes away

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at the end of her driveway is a motion

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sensor that when activated by movement

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then makes three loud beeps inside the

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house her dad is a fairly high ranking

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military man

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so he definitely takes precautions and

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safety measures to ensure his family's

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safety

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so like i said before she was in the

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kitchen alone between three and four am

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and i was still in her bedroom her

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kitchen is down the hallway and through

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the living room from where her bedroom

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so she should have been back within just

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a minute or two

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she was taking at least triple the usual

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amount of time

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and right before i was going to head to

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the kitchen to check on her

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she walked around the hallway corner

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with a worried look on her face

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she can be spooked pretty easily so i

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wasn't that alarmed at first

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she handed me the water and then started

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to quickly explain why she had taken so

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long

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she pretty much said that while she was

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at the kitchen sink filling up water

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she heard a whining sound from outside

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the two windows next to the sink

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she figured it was one of her two dogs

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and decided to go to the garage to check

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on them

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they were both curled up in their kennel

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when she opened the door

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asleep and had only just been woken up

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by her turning the light on to check on

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them

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she told me at that point she was pretty

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confused and slightly uneasy

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she walked back into the kitchen and

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heard this really deep weird bark

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coming again from somewhere outside the

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kitchen windows

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and please note that it was three or

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four am so it's nearly pitch black

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outside

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especially since the dense trees around

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their house block out a lot of moonlight

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she told me she couldn't see anything

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and she hurried back to the room to tell

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me

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i was slightly skeptical at first since

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i assumed it was in fact just the dogs

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and that my girlfriend was just really

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tired and tripping out

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so i agree to follow her back to the

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kitchen at first i heard nothing for a

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good two minutes

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so i decided to try and recreate what

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she had done

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i walk in turn on the sink and wait

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after another two minutes go by

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i hear the same freaky whining sound

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coming from outside the windows

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it sounded so much like a wounded animal

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i had her turn the lights on in the

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garage again

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which slightly lit up the area outside

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the windows

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but again no sign of any animals or

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anything

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she turns off the light and we hear the

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whining sound getting farther away

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almost as if the creature had fled up

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the hill near the kitchen and towards

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the forest

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that was when we realized that it was

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scared or sensitive to the lights

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so we left the kitchen and went back to

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her room at this point i was pretty

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spooked and i wanted to make sure that

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whatever it was

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had been scared off for good so we go

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back into the kitchen after a few

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minutes

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both armed with decently sized knives

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that my girlfriend has in her room for

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protection

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five minutes go by in the kitchen and

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it's just silent

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but then the whining starts up again and

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then a weird sad barking sound

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like something imitating an injured

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animal was maybe 10 feet outside the

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kitchen windows

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and in that moment i realized something

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there's no reason some creature would

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try to imitate injured animal sounds

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unless it wanted to lure us out and

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cause us harm

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so i get slightly pissed off at it and i

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start yelling at it to go away

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it goes silent and i hear very slight

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movement outside the windows

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and then a weird sound almost as if

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something was moving alongside the wall

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ride under the window

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then whatever it was lets out this

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really disturbing and unnatural

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sound almost like a loud groaning growl

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hybrid

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and let me tell you my girlfriend and i

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looked at each other and just sprinted

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out of the kitchen without a single word

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we hid in her room until we passed out

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at some point around five or six am

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we had talked it over listened to a ton

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of animal noises

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and not a single one got anywhere close

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to that final unnatural sound

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i wouldn't even be able to accurately

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mimic the sound

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it was so eerie and haunting and i can

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still hear it in my head so we did some

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research the next day

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and there are a few known possibilities

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that we came up with

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werewolf skinwalker or some type of

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shapeshifter perhaps

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we looked around outside in the morning

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and there was no blood and no tracks

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so definitely not an injured animal

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however on the hill about 10 feet in

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front of the kitchen windows

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we saw too heavy and dents in the ground

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and then flattened grass leading up

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we decided to tell one of my

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girlfriend's brothers about our

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experience

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so that he could help test something we

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had one person go inside to the kitchen

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sink near the windows

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and the others walk around in various

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different places near the windows making

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sounds

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to try and triangulate where the

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creature had been standing

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we concluded it was at one point no more

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than five feet from the windows

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and then at another point had fled up

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the hill which matched with the trampled

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grass and indents leading up the hill

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farther up the hill there's a path that

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branches and one part of the path is

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fairly abandoned and overgrown

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nobody had walked there in at least two

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years and i followed it to the end

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and kept going a little farther looking

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for tracks

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i did manage to find something

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interesting three foot tall ferns and

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brambles almost completely flattened and

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a few twigs snapped perfectly in half

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as if something decently large had

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walked through that area in a hurry

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and it seemed very recent we then

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decided to tell my girlfriend's parents

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about it

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and her dad seemed especially interested

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he told us that the wood panels on their

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pump house had been torn off within the

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last couple days

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he then took one of their dogs into the

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woods and we assume he went to check for

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any signs

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he came back and about two days later he

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installed a camera right next to the

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kitchen windows where we heard those

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sounds

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and again he is a pretty high ranking

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military man and he 100

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believed that something was there that

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night so if anyone has any input

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thoughts or explanations that would be

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