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the artifact from the Northwest Georgia

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Mountains David Lloyd contacted me

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through the redacted website on

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September first 2014 he's a college

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student in his early 20s the initial

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message was long but essentially he

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wanted to share a story about a bizarre

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series of events that occurred to him

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his friends during the previous few

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months David and his friends April and

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Brandon were camping for the weekend in

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the Northwest Georgia Mountains this was

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approximately three months before he

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contacted me one of those nights they

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were sitting around a campfire when they

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noticed an eerie green strobing light

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illuminating the forest roughly 75 feet

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away from them pulsing intensified for

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10 seconds then abruptly stopped they

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look at each other kind of freaking out

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at this point but they were more curious

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than scared so David in April walks

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slowly toward the direction where the

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light had been Brandon was too nervous

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so he stayed by the fire

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the two braver friends got to the area

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where they thought the light must have

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been but they didn't see anything out of

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the ordinary he was completely dark and

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there was no moon that night so they

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were scanning all around relying on the

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life in their flashlights April noticed

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an opening in the site of a small rocky

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hill this little cave was covered by

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trees and brush she only noticed it

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because she saw something shimmer when

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she moved her light they pushed some of

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the brush aside and knelt down to look

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inside they both saw what looked like an

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emerald crystal a smooth green shimmery

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rock before David could stop her April

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reached in and grabbed it they both

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thought it was going to light up or

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something but nothing happened they

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examined it with their flashlights and

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saw that it was completely smooth on one

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side but the other side had engraved

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symbols like hieroglyphics April threw

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it into her backpack and they returned

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to camp the following night the three

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friends were sitting around the campfire

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again and probably around the same time

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as the previous night they saw that

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eerie green strobing but this time it

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was coming from April's backpack the

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artifact continued strange glowing every

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night at the same time David sent a

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letter to the archaeology department at

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West makin University thinking someone

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there might be able to identify or

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explain the object he received a reply a

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week later requesting that he mailed the

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artifact to the University so they could

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examine it and conduct testing Daniel

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and his friends were thrilled that the

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university was interested and they were

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happy to know that they might find out

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what this weird glowing stone was he

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gave April the address provided by the

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professor in the archaeology department

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and she promptly shipped the artifact to

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the University from her local UPS store

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two weeks went by and after hearing

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nothing from the university David called

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his contact in the archaeology

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department to get an update

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it wasn't good news the professor

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informed David that they were still

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waiting to receive the artifact they had

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just assumed that David hadn't gotten

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around to mailing it yet after that

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frustrating and confusing news David

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called April and told her to check the

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packages tracking number on the UPS

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website that didn't help the tracking

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number didn't work the website returned

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an error message stating that tracking

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information could not be displayed for

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the selected shipment and to call UPS

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for assistance April walk to that UPS

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store where she mailed a package to find

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out why it hadn't been delivered to the

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University and hopefully to find its

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whereabouts the teenage associate behind

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the counter looked at April's recede and

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punched the tracking number into the

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computer he looks confused for a few

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seconds then informed her that there was

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a notation in the computer at Homeland

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Security had flagged the shipment and

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seized the package as soon as she was

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outside the UPS store April got both

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David and Brandon on a video call to

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tell them about the seizure of their

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package by the feds naturally they were

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pretty weirded out by that and a little

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nervous too but interestingly Brandon

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the guy he was too afraid to go with

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David and April to investigate the

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strobing green light in the woods felt

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pissed off and he wanted to confront the

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feds and reclaim the artifact he told

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April and David that he was going to

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stop by the local Homeland Security

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office and demand an explanation David

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and April tried to talk him out of it

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but Brandon was adamant that was the

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last time they saw Brandon

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nobody knows what happened but brendan

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hasn't been seen or heard from in more

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than two years around the same time that

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Brandon went missing maybe a little

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before that April developed a burn or

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rash on both of her hands it got

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progressively worse and she also started

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experiencing health issues lots of

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nausea and vomiting the doctors

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concluded that her condition was likely

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due to radiation exposure she died two

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weeks later Brandon contacted me because

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he wanted redacted to tell a story but

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he also wanted to know if we had ever

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heard of anything like the smooth green

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rock like object with symbols on one

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side like the artifact he and his

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friends found in the woods he was also

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hopeful that we might be able to track

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down the artifact and facilitate the

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testing he April and Brandon attempted

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to have done to figure out what the hell

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it was his story did sound pretty crazy

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especially with the conspiratorial

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aspects but i did some basic

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investigating and i was able to confirm

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that Brandon did mysteriously go missing

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I also confirmed that April died shortly

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after that of course the associates at

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the UPS store had no useful information

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I can actually get a response from a

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spokesperson at Homeland Security but

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that response simply stated that they

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had no record of a C's package from the

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person place or time in question so

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unfortunately that's where the story of

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the artifact in the Northwest Georgia

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Mountains ends