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I Encountered _The Rake_ _ Creepypasta · History Dark

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  Speaker 1: what happens. Now, turn down the lights, get comfortable, and
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  Speaker 1: let's begin tonight's story. My father told me a story once.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget it, for a few reasons. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's the first story he ever told me as a child.
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  Speaker 1: It's also the story of how my grandfather died. But honestly,
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  Speaker 1: that isn't the reason. You hear stories on TV. Or
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you overhear something in a public place. People talk
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  Speaker 1: about ghosts and aliens and you think to yourself that
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  Speaker 1: ain't real. They're making it up or they're mistaken or
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  Speaker 1: they're crazy or something like that. You just can't believe
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  Speaker 1: it until something happens. Something that brings it all together
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  Speaker 1: connects the dots in a way you didn't think of before.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it happens to you Maybe you hear the same
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  Speaker 1: story again and again happening to different people. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: take long for the world to become a lot bigger
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  Speaker 1: than you thought it was. As I said, this is
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  Speaker 1: a story my father told me but I never believed it.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he swore up and down it was true.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't until I started clicking around the internet that
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  Speaker 1: I started to believe. I began to hear other stories
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  Speaker 1: just like the one my father told me It didn't
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  Speaker 1: take me long to believe in the rake. That's not
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  Speaker 1: what my father called it, of course. He's never used
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  Speaker 1: the internet in his life. He wouldn't know what the
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  Speaker 1: consensus had taken to naming it. When he chose to
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  Speaker 1: call it something other than it, or that thing, he
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  Speaker 1: called it Skinwalker. After an old Navajo tale, his grandfather
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  Speaker 1: told him. But, I'll tell you the story the way
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  Speaker 1: he told it to me. We were out hunting one night,
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  Speaker 1: he'd tell me. Coyotes. We'd kill them for 50 bucks
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  Speaker 1: a skin. They lived on a dairy farm in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: They'd kill calves sometimes. We'd do it every night because
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  Speaker 1: we needed the money. Sometimes, while we were out, we'd
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  Speaker 1: come across a deer and kill it. Our landlord didn't mind.
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  Speaker 1: It could feed our family for a few nights and
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  Speaker 1: save us some money. Anyway, we were done making our
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  Speaker 1: rounds and heading home, walking, because we didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: car or some four-wheeler back then. We'd cut through the woods.
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  Speaker 1: That's when we came up on it. Blood. Everywhere. Splattered
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  Speaker 1: on the trees, in the grass, in the creek. Everywhere. Everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: At first, we figured it was a pack of coyotes.
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  Speaker 1: We'd seen it sometimes. They can't scavenge and start hunting
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  Speaker 1: deer or cattle. The worst was when they bred with
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  Speaker 1: feral dogs. But this wasn't like that. See, when a
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  Speaker 1: pack of dogs or wolves or coyotes attack something, they
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  Speaker 1: do it right. They'll pick off one that's weak, or sick,
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  Speaker 1: or old, or just small. They'd hunt it, draw it
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  Speaker 1: into a corner, someplace they can't get out of, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll run it right to the biggest one, the alpha.
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  Speaker 1: And that deer will never see that alpha. It might
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  Speaker 1: hear it, but it won't see it. It'll just notice
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  Speaker 1: that its throat's gone, and then it'll drop dead. It's quick,
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  Speaker 1: it's clean. That wasn't what happened here. Something had run
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  Speaker 1: up on a den of deer. Coyotes won't attack a den.
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  Speaker 1: Wolves neither. Because they get too much of a fight.
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  Speaker 1: There were three, I think. Three bodies. Just torn apart.
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  Speaker 1: You'd see a head here. A leg here. A torso there.
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  Speaker 1: Predators don't do that. They don't leave behind scraps. What
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  Speaker 1: had done this hadn't done it for food. It had
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  Speaker 1: done it for fun. But we didn't know that. We
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  Speaker 1: see a bunch of carcasses and think it's something we've
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  Speaker 1: got to take care of. I remember my dad telling
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  Speaker 1: me to go home. He thought it was a pack
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  Speaker 1: of feral dogs. But I wasn't leaving him. And I
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  Speaker 1: damn sure wasn't walking through two miles of woods alone.
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  Speaker 1: with nothing but a. 22 and a pocket knife. He
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  Speaker 1: was only 13 at the time, so a. 22 rifle
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  Speaker 1: was about the only gun he could reliably use. Dad
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  Speaker 1: had the shotgun, and I wasn't going anywhere without it.
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  Speaker 1: It took me a while to convince him, but finally,
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  Speaker 1: we began tracking whatever did that. It wasn't hard either,
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  Speaker 1: we just followed the blood. Either that thing bled a
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  Speaker 1: deer before it got away, or it dragged one for
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  Speaker 1: a mile, I don't know. I know that I'd never
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  Speaker 1: seen my dad scared before that night. We started hearing noises.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in lots of woods in my life. I've
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  Speaker 1: been all over the world, and ain't never heard noises
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  Speaker 1: like I heard that night. I heard things screaming. Heard
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  Speaker 1: deer and fox screaming. and raccoons and birds. Just scared.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind, this is maybe twelve or one o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Except the fox and some birds. Nothing was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: even be awake. But they weren't just awake. They were moving.
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  Speaker 1: I saw flocks of birds that night fly straight into
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  Speaker 1: trees just trying to get out of there. We came
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  Speaker 1: up on a pack of coyotes and nearly shot a couple,
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  Speaker 1: thinking it was what we were looking for. But then
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  Speaker 1: we saw. They were running towards us. They ran right
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  Speaker 1: past us, didn't even notice. Then some deer did the same.
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  Speaker 1: Then some rabbits, squirrels, foxes, even a couple of wild hogs.
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  Speaker 1: These things were supposed to be eating each other, and
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  Speaker 1: the only thing they cared about was getting out of there.
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  Speaker 1: We should have put it together. But maybe, whatever we
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  Speaker 1: were tracking, it wasn't something we were supposed to see.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't something we could kill. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why we didn't just go home. I guess we were curious.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was my dad's nature. To go towards trouble.
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  Speaker 1: To fight. And knowing what I knew about my father
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  Speaker 1: did during the war, my nature was to stay close
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  Speaker 1: to him. We finally get into an open valley. It
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  Speaker 1: was normally a soy field, but it wasn't in season,
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  Speaker 1: so it was just flat dirt. We saw the tracks then.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the animals fleeing the forest had paved
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  Speaker 1: over the land. But where that deer blood was, nothing
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  Speaker 1: had taken a single step. Like they were leaving it
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  Speaker 1: for us to find. The tracks were shallow, Whatever it
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  Speaker 1: was couldn't have weighed more than a hundred pounds, but
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  Speaker 1: that didn't mean much. A bobcat weighing forty pounds wet
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  Speaker 1: nearly tore out my damn throat once. All that means
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  Speaker 1: is it's quick and hard to hit. So we follow
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  Speaker 1: the tracks, and it doesn't take us long to find
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  Speaker 1: where it is. There's this old schoolhouse that sits on
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  Speaker 1: top of a hill. Half of it had been ripped
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  Speaker 1: out by a tornado, but no one lived there. not
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. We caught homeless people in there sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: or druggies looking for a safe place to shoot up.
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  Speaker 1: We figured maybe that was it. Maybe it was some
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  Speaker 1: sick kid riding a high. But we didn't think that
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  Speaker 1: for too long. We get within 50 yards, and we
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  Speaker 1: hear this noise. A screeching kind of sound. It was
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  Speaker 1: sort of made up of two different sounds. One was
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  Speaker 1: a high-pitched screech, another was a low-pitched growl. It was
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  Speaker 1: making both at the same time. We get within 20 yards,
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  Speaker 1: and we hear this sound. I can remember thinking it
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  Speaker 1: sounded like paper being torn apart, while someone was swinging
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  Speaker 1: water in a bucket, back and forth. Dad looks at me,
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  Speaker 1: kneels down, and whispers, I gotta stay behind him. because
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  Speaker 1: we're about to corner him. Any animal will fight when
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  Speaker 1: it's cornered, especially when it's a predator. But we can
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  Speaker 1: tell by the tracks it's just one. He tells me
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  Speaker 1: it's probably a single, feral dog, probably rabid. The plan's
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  Speaker 1: to sneak up on it while it's eating, shoot it,
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  Speaker 1: keep shooting it till it don't move anymore, then slit
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  Speaker 1: its throat. If it gets to Dad, it's my job
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  Speaker 1: to shoot it. or stab it to get it off
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  Speaker 1: of him. So he walks up, and I'm right behind him,
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  Speaker 1: just a tad to his side, so I can see
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I wish to this day I hadn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was leaning over a carcass, tearing off its flesh,
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  Speaker 1: throwing what it didn't nibble at aside. There's blood all
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  Speaker 1: over the brick, glistening in the moonlight. It's pale white,
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  Speaker 1: human looking, but not quite human. It had arms and
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  Speaker 1: legs like a human, but it sat like a monkey,
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  Speaker 1: hunched over. Its hands weren't normal. It had long fingers,
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  Speaker 1: with claws at the end. So we see that, and
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  Speaker 1: my dad hesitates. He wasn't about to fire on a person.
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  Speaker 1: So he clears his throat to try to get it
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  Speaker 1: to turn around. I swear to God, all the noise
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  Speaker 1: just ceased. I ain't ever heard true silence before that,
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  Speaker 1: and not after it. But for two seconds, nothing, nothing
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  Speaker 1: made any noise. Which made it all the louder when
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  Speaker 1: it turned around, let out this shrill cry, and jumped
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  Speaker 1: on Dad. He got a shot off. I think he missed.
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  Speaker 1: If he hit the thing, it didn't mind. But it
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  Speaker 1: was on him, tearing parts of him off. I start
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  Speaker 1: shooting it with a. 22, point blank, but it barely
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  Speaker 1: bled the thing. I got off five rounds, and then
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  Speaker 1: I started hitting it with the gun butt. But it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't budging. It didn't even register that I was there.
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  Speaker 1: It clawed at my dad taking off bits of his flesh.
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  Speaker 1: It started on his torso, ripping off the skin, and
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  Speaker 1: then it moved up. It tore off his throat. It
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  Speaker 1: tore off his nose, his eyes. It scalped him. Then
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  Speaker 1: it started digging in and ripped off the bottom half
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  Speaker 1: of his jaw, the little bones, and that tube in
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  Speaker 1: your neck. Then his ribs. His ribs. I don't exactly
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  Speaker 1: remember what happened. But somehow, my dad's knife ends up
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  Speaker 1: in this thing's shoulder. And my dad ends up on
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  Speaker 1: my back. I'm running. And by God, I'm running faster
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  Speaker 1: than I'd ever run before or after. And it's following me.
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  Speaker 1: I end up back in the woods, opposite the ones
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  Speaker 1: we'd been in. I'm heading towards my landlord's house, because
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  Speaker 1: it's half a mile away. I can hear this thing
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  Speaker 1: screeching and moaning. I hear the tree branches crack and
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  Speaker 1: get thrown around. It sounds like someone's taking an axe
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  Speaker 1: to every single tree I pass. It's cracking so loud
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  Speaker 1: and often, but I just ain't looking back. Finally, I
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  Speaker 1: trip into gravel. I look up, and there's my landlord
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of his buddies, drinking around a campfire.
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  Speaker 1: I scream and cry, and they come over. I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: them to call an ambulance, and he looks at me,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll never forget what he said. What's that on
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  Speaker 1: your back? he asked me. Just as he said it,
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  Speaker 1: he saw one of those god-awful flannel shirts my dad
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  Speaker 1: wore everywhere. It was what was left of him. Most
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  Speaker 1: of his head, his torso, but nothing after the waist Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: we hear it, screeching. He grabs me, and my dad
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  Speaker 1: gets thrown on the ground. I'm fighting him, crying, because
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  Speaker 1: I think we can still save him somehow. But my
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  Speaker 1: dad had been gone before I ever picked him up.
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  Speaker 1: He has to pick me up and throw me inside
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  Speaker 1: before I come with him. He and his buddies, we're
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  Speaker 1: all inside, and they're locking doors and getting guns. The
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  Speaker 1: landlord's asking me, what happened, what happened? I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to tell him. He pieced enough of it
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  Speaker 1: all together to understand that there was something dangerous there.
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  Speaker 1: All the lights in the house are on and someone
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  Speaker 1: calls the cops. They'll be there, but in 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We look outside and see it walk in front of
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  Speaker 1: the fire they'd made. Don't know what it is, but
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  Speaker 1: one of them says it looks like an ape Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: something goes through the window. We shoot at it, but
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  Speaker 1: it ain't the thing. It's my landlord's dog. Just the body, though.
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  Speaker 1: No head or legs. We start pushing things in front
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  Speaker 1: of the doors and windows when we hear something in
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  Speaker 1: the garage. I remember one of his friends saying that
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  Speaker 1: the doors were open. We hear metal and glass just
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  Speaker 1: getting ripped apart. we put a couch and a TV
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  Speaker 1: in front of the door to the garage. It banged
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  Speaker 1: around some more, but then, it got quiet. Not silent,
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  Speaker 1: like it was before. We could hear it move around some,
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  Speaker 1: and the guys were talking, making sure the guns were ready.
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  Speaker 1: Someone hands me a pistol. No sooner than I cock
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  Speaker 1: the hammer back, did we hear something shatter upstairs. Then,
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  Speaker 1: We heard it screech again. Except now, it was louder.
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  Speaker 1: And it didn't echo and fade out. Because it was inside.
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  Speaker 1: We all rushed to the one door leading upstairs. And
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  Speaker 1: we got to it, just as that thing did. It
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  Speaker 1: opened it just a bit. And four or five men
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  Speaker 1: just slammed into it. It got its hand through. Someone
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  Speaker 1: with a shotgun took care of that. put the barrel
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  Speaker 1: right up to its wrist and pulled the trigger. Cut
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  Speaker 1: its hand off, clean. That only pissed it off, though.
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  Speaker 1: It started pushing on that door, clawing. We were on
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  Speaker 1: one side, pushing as best we could, and it was
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  Speaker 1: on the other, doing the same. That wood just wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to hold till someone tells us to keep our
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  Speaker 1: heads down. Suddenly, the top half of the door It's
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  Speaker 1: just gone. My ears are ringing and there are splinters everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Two or three of them just unloaded on the top
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  Speaker 1: of that door. I don't really know where it went
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  Speaker 1: after that. The police got there. I was still glued
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  Speaker 1: to that door. What was left of it. The sun
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  Speaker 1: was up before they got me off of it. They
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  Speaker 1: put me in a hospital for a while. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people talked to me. but I didn't talk back.
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  Speaker 1: Not for a long, long time. When I got back home,
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  Speaker 1: I got a job from the landlord, working on the farm.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't talk much, not about the thing. But I
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  Speaker 1: signed up for the army when I was 19, and
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  Speaker 1: he sat me down to drink some scotch as a send-off.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him right away what the police told him.
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  Speaker 1: The story they went with was a wild animal, Probably
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  Speaker 1: a wolf, or maybe a bear that had somehow migrated north.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him how they could say that when they
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  Speaker 1: had the hand. He looked at me, stunned. He tells
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  Speaker 1: me that hand never made it back to the station.
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  Speaker 1: The cop who had it in his car wrecked, drove
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  Speaker 1: into a tree, died on impact. The hand was never found,
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  Speaker 1: probably taken away by an animal. The cops, when they'd
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged the hand existed at all, said it was simply
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  Speaker 1: the paw of a bear that looked like a human hand.
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  Speaker 1: I never talked to the landlord again. He went missing
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  Speaker 1: when I was in Basing. The cops never found him.
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  Speaker 1: They said he owed some people some money and just
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  Speaker 1: ran away. But I don't think it's that simple. I
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  Speaker 1: never went back to those woods. I wouldn't. even if
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  Speaker 1: I had the whole goddamn US Army in my back.
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  Speaker 1: But that was a lie. When my mother died, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think my father felt he had anything left, and
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  Speaker 1: that he might as well settle some old scores. He
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  Speaker 1: went to those woods, and never came back. The FBI
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  Speaker 1: was called. They did a show for everyone involved, but
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  Speaker 1: I knew they weren't really looking. I had to get
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  Speaker 1: one drunk and slip him a few fifties, before he
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  Speaker 1: finally told me that they get a few calls about
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  Speaker 1: those woods every year. about someone up and vanishing but
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  Speaker 1: that was all he wanted to tell me before he
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  Speaker 1: got up and left with the rest of his team
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  Speaker 1: he wrote the rake onto a napkin I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what it meant until I searched for it on the
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  Speaker 1: internet honestly I would have rather not known. And if
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