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The Battle For Skunk River · HOLOSKY PODCAST

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the winter of 1884, a farmer and Iowa began losing something rather unusual.
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[SPEAKER_01]: His hogs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One by one they vanish from a supposedly secure pin with no broken fences, no signs of a struggle, and not even a sound from his watchdog.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when the farmer finally decided to spend the night watching his livestock, he discovered something far more terrifying than a simple thief, something was crawling out of the South Skunk River, something with jaws powerful enough to snatch a 300-pound hog, skinned thick enough to withstand a barrage of bullets, and a reported length of more than 80 feet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What happened next would bring hundreds of armed men, a cannon, and a riverbank soaked in blood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the real mystery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This monster was truly killed that day, where did its remains go?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And why does the evidence seem to vanish almost as mysteriously as the hogs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Holocaust?
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the battle for Skunk River.
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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cryptidy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that a word?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cryptidy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I looked it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just looked it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's real.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kyle has an encyclopedia of knowledge within his brain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I use Chad GPD.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Me, G. God.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is definitely real.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if there's so much of a cryptid encounters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is kind of a folklore story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter because it's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it sounds awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is the battle for Skunk River.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like it's right up caught.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like if Kyle was alive in the 80s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am dead.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kyle was alive in the 1980s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He would be on the Skunk River Posse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that I would own a cannon if I lived in the 1980s.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wait till you hear what they load the cannon with because they figured a 12 pound cannon ball wouldn't do what they wanted it to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's my favorite part of the story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of story, this one begins in November 1884.
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[SPEAKER_01]: On a farm located about 5 to 10 miles from the city of Asuka, Lusa, Iowa situated not too far from the South Skunk River.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This particular farm was owned by a man named Mr. James Wright.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Wright was a hog farmer, and at the time it was said that he owned about a hundred hogs prior to the incident before what's coming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's also noted that his hogs ranged in size from about 250 to almost 400 pounds, and in the pin where they were kept, it was about 130 feet away from the edge of the skunk river.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The hogs designated pin was surrounded by thick barbed wire fence that he'd built by hand and they had these huge massive timber posts about every six feet around the perimeter to keep the hogs in, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The only way into the pin was said to be a single point entry located at the opposite side of the river.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Scardog was a bulldog, just wanted him to watch over his hogs, drive away any potential threats that got close, any predators, they would approach the fence, they got past the guard dog and they still had the fence to get through all in all I'd say his livestock on the right farm were pretty much cap out of harm's way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I don't think, at this point, it would matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I kind of, I kind of get that from the previous description, however, aren't bulldogs like short and fat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess it depends on, I guess it depends on what kind of bulldogs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: English bulldogs kind of shortened stocky, French bulldogs aren't that big.
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[SPEAKER_01]: American bulldogs can be big.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can they?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I just feel like it's not a good pick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He should have gotten Godzilla.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That sounds like it'd be a little bit more appropriate for whatever this is being 80 feet long and took a fucking cannon to put her down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Possibly put her down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, they were safe until the night of November 14th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because whenever Mr. Wright woke up, went out to make his rounds, counting the head of the hogs and he realized that one of his massive hogs was missing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So upon checking the area, he went and did his rounds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fence is still fully intact.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, no secondary exit where the hog could have escaped, there were no tracks, there were, there was no, like, blood, there was, there was nothing, the gate was still latched, the hog had just seemed to vanish into thin air.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He also noted that at no point during the night, did his bulldog freak out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, whatever happened had to be pretty stealthy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say that's a, it's interesting, because he's got a hundred large animals in a pin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't make any noises.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no tracks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was waiting for maybe a hole on the fence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nope, none of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dog doesn't make a noise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I just, you know, back to my point, you picked the wrong guard dog, bro.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you should've done, you should've got you a fucking trollaw.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cause then my fuggers park at everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just lead it to the river.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It would have felt the wind just tickled its ear and it would have barked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just been barking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but nothing, nothing from the other hog, nothing from the guard dog and again there was no signs of any sort of like altercation within the pin or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing that was missing and then was wrong was that the hog was gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The surrounding area was searched to know a veil and other farmers in the area had not seen or heard of the large pig.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So there was nothing right could do except kind of move on with his farmly duties and hope that it would eventually return.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the following night into the morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Farmer right, a woke in hopes of seeing his missing hog wandering around outside of his farm again near the pen, trying to get in there's companions trying to get in where he knows he's going to get food.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fortunately, this is not the case.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And instead of gaining his missing hog, he had lost another one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The circumstances surrounding the animal were identical to the first zero disturbances.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It also appeared to have vanished just the same as the first one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At this point, Farmer Wright is obviously pissed because Hogs aren't cheap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If it's 1884, and nobody has any money in 1884, you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't afford to lose your meal tickets here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we set out again to search for not only his first, but his second hog.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As he did, he met up with his fellow farmers on to see if they had any information, but just as before, he did not get any of the answers that he wanted.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we had to return to his farm now two hogs down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the day he continued on,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tonight, and back today, and when the sun came back up the next morning, Armour Rider Woke, they find yet another hog missing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The full process repeated without change, and he was no closer to figuring out what was going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he did the first morning he woke up missing a hog.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Found himself in the middle of what would be the greatest mystery of his life, and he was bound to determine to figure out what was going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how long it took him to do so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Fast forward to December 4th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Armour Wright is now missing a total of 20 hogs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, damn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it's getting not only is it, it's in them in the pocketbook.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at that point, I kind of feel like as impossible as it would be, I feel like I would be like somebody has to be taken these.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like somebody has to be somehow stealing my hogs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: which I was kind of getting that to see was like, in my brain, that's former right was perusing the other farms, talking to the farmers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he was scouting out, trying to check and see if somebody was, yeah, he can do this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, cranking his hogs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is different.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So now he's tried everything pretty much everything he can do and to no avail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He decides to give it one last shot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he cannot solve the mystery, they loses one more hog during the night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's made the decision to pack it up sell that farm damn buy a new one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He just thrown in the towel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's bleeding money at this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, at least he's like a man discipline.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just like, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm losing money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fuck this place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he said before someone else will get another one of my hogs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll just I'll leave.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll stand on business.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, OG.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That evening farmer right bundles up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and decides to spend the night out door near the river's edge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In order to keep an eye on the hog pin, from a different angle of where his house is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He grabs his lantern, he grabs his rifle, and he calls for his loyal bulldog to come with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The two make their way toward the area, partially concealed by thick brush and trees, and they settle in for the night to watch over the pin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The farm set is covered in darkness,
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[SPEAKER_01]: all seemed normal as it would be on a December night nioa and he's counting the hours by.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Farmerite growing more tired as the night passes with nothing going on, begins to drift off with his dog by a side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Only sounds that are breaking through the silence are the sounds of his hogs just rummaging around in their pins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: None of those noises are enough to keep sleep away though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So soon the farmer falls asleep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The remainder of the night passed by like normal nothing out of the ordinary occurred around the farm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was noticeable enough to rouse the farmer from a slumber.
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[SPEAKER_01]: for all purposes, both the man in the Bulldog had a very peaceful sleep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But then, as the sun began to rise, the sound of splashing started once again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The former, just kind of waking up, shaking off the sleep of the night, standing up against a tree, he's kind of wiping the sleep out of his eyes in the direction of the river, and he was instantly shocked to wake by what he saw.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because from out of the river and onto the bank came an absolutely massive creature with a long neck, a thick body, and huge teeth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dessie, that's what the description sounds like if Nessie was gigantic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think Nessie is gigantic.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I've never seen Nessie, so I can't make an assumption.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, that's huge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's actually insanely huge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's fucking massive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How long is the semi-truck?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, all the trailers are 53 feet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, probably close.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not 80, but probably close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you're looking at a, you're looking at a semi-truck size Loch Ness Monster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That sucks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can understand why you need a cannon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The beast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that somebody in the nearby area has a fucking cannon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the best.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let me see, how big is this in my truck and trailer?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna guess like 65 feet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 70 to 72 feet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So bigger than this in my truck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just by basketball hoop.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the beast, which Farmer Wright had never once seen in the area, slowly move forward on four legs out of the river and towards the hog pit, appearing to try to implement some sort of sneaking tactic, the giant creature continued forward quietly and quote at a snail's pace with its head and neck held high, not giving any indication of its intent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The hog obviously, not showing any concern at the approaching danger, continued about their business without a care in the world.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The creature whose bulky body was now only a few feet away from the board of fence, slowly rose onto its back legs, and stood silent and motionless with its head neck held high above the pin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Armour Wright, who was still concealed beneath the thick trees and brush, watched silently with his hand wrapped tightly around the mouth of the dog in order to prevent it from giving away their location and hiding spot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Without any indication, the large creature shot its head down into the pin, opened its large, two-filled mouth, and picked up a 300-pound hog from below.
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[SPEAKER_01]: With the speed and ferocity of what can only be compared to that of a bear trap, the bee snap that's jaws around the body of the hog, and the unlucky swine went immediately limp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The giant creature then quickly shot it's head back high up over the pin and then lowered itself back onto all four legs and began to move backwards away from the fence.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The limp body of the dead hog disappeared within the large mouth and in an instant it was gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: pairing satisfied with its meal, the giant creature quickly turned its head in the direction of the river and began to trot back to the safety of the muddy water.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Within just a few seconds, it'd be streets the water's edge and disappeared with a large splash and just like that, it was gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The entire sightings lasted only a few minutes as it was over for both farmer right and as it was over, both farmer right in his bulldog, ran out of the bushes and backed
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we just witnessed what was taking its walks and it sucks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's mind blowing that none of the hogs made any noises.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They just, they just, hey, they're just like, man, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is the guy that's eating all of our friends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't that make it a deal?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, dude, you had a rifle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm probably taking a shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, although it is a, it's like a broad source.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With teeth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of scary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's we get into like the descriptions of the creature?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's She busted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell ya.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Back at the farmhouse, he takes some time to get his bearings about what he just saw.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He heads into the city of oscalusa to just tell the authorities what he just happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What he's seen crawl out of the river and devour his hogs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Once there a crowd naturally began to form around the farmer as he described in detail, the monster he had witnessed with his own eyes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Skunk River Monster was described by farmer Wright as being nearly 78 feet long from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The estimated link of the neck was 18 feet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The distance between the four legs and the hind legs was 40 feet, and the tail was believed to be about 20.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The creature's legs were described as being three feet long and were roughly as thick as a grown man's body.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The diameter of the body appeared to be around four to five feet while walking the creature appeared to stand about seven to eight feet tall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was definitely really long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like a walking snake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which is gross.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's where it starts to suck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It can't be really fast though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a short stubby little legs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's why he's got to be stealthy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: True.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like a lock ninja monster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That has a good ring to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Or is Everett used to call it when he was little the Brock Les monster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Which is infinitely scarier than any other crypto that I know of would be 100% Brock Lesnar cross with the Loch Ness Monster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's terrifying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Former right said that the teeth looked as if they were 17 inches long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was unknown if the skin was scaly or just looked incredibly rough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of feel like that might be subtle over exaggeration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a long tooth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a super long tooth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and to have a mouthful of it is almost too fee yeah it would you think it way as head down as long as not yeah how do you do anything with two foot teeth uh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and when I was looking this up, there was only like two sources.
24:16
[SPEAKER_01]: One of them was the Pine Baron Institute, and the other one was Thunderbirdphoto.com, and I think Thunderbirdphoto used a lot of the Pine Baron Institute as a source.
24:29
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you know, we're just believing.
24:32
[SPEAKER_01]: We're believing in far more right.
24:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's real.
24:36
[SPEAKER_01]: So the crowd gathered, nobody knew whether to believe him, or laugh at him, or wonder.
24:42
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way that anybody believed him unless somebody else has seen this thing.
24:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Former rise has been hitting grandpa's cough syrup, or what was it?
24:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was a bold choice to go to the police with it.
24:53
[SPEAKER_00]: That's bold.
24:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'd say I would just went back to my original plan just to sell the place and leave, especially at that time.
25:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what I mean.
25:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm out.
25:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's 1880s.
25:10
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, they think there's the more they started talking to them, the more people are like, you know what?
25:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he really didn't see something because the farmer was like if you don't believe me come to the farm and watch come to the farm and see this thing eat my hogs And he assured them that They If they didn't see with their own eyes, then you can call him a liar, you know, to come out Watch what happens and if nothing happens, then you know, I'll fuck off So the farmer let everybody know he gave him this address right there.
25:45
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like here it is
25:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Come and see, but he went back by himself.
25:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Figure out how to rid his property of this giant 80 foot minutes.
25:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's again such a weird thought process.
26:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, if my house keep going missing, Larry, I'm out here, bud.
26:09
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm out of here.
26:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Let him meet 20 more and see what happens.
26:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but then
26:14
[SPEAKER_00]: one night he sees massive broadsource and a condo monster and he's like killing it broke a brown condo yeah product condo he's like I'm killing it I mean I guess like the hell story big be a gnarly wall mount that's probably stinking he's like wall mount
26:39
[SPEAKER_01]: It's funny you say that because it gets weird.
26:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
26:45
[SPEAKER_01]: So it goes back home by himself thinking, what am I going to do?
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody was just kind of blew me off.
26:52
[SPEAKER_01]: When I told them about the giant creature, but within the hour, apparently nobody else could loose a anything else going on that day because about 40 to 50 minutes on horseback arrived at the farm weapons in hand.
27:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only after their arrival of the 40, around 100 plus more men armed to the teeth arrived on foot to also help Linda hand and bringing down the monster, it would turn the right farm into its own personal buffet.
27:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I have stoked that there may have been a time in our history.
27:38
[SPEAKER_00]: or people, even if it's just out of pure boredom, they're like, you know what, I'm going to see this Bronoconda.
27:50
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they also have the wherewithal where they're like, you know what, even though it's probably not real.
27:58
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go ahead and bring my gun.
28:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Just think it's in this real, just in case.
28:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I had just almost 200 men show up there like, hey, we're checking out, we're gonna slay the Bronoconda tonight.
28:12
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's so cool because that was, that was what, 150 years ago almost.
28:19
[SPEAKER_01]: 100, yeah.
28:22
[SPEAKER_01]: and they did that but also in the lake worth episode the lake worth monster episode they got a posse together when i think it's awesome it's such a it's it'd be such a cool time to be alive they're not enough posse anymore there's not enough posse you know there's not enough posse is when it comes they'd bring back posse's if there was a posse uh there was acidity we have the we have the
28:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Shout out to his wubububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububububub
29:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Just gun-toting amateur monsters or hunters, supposed it up on the river banks of the South Skunk River.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The mid on foot stood equal distances apart, almost like fence posts, so they wouldn't miss anything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Swimming by the river, while the mid on horseback did a patrol up and down the river, up and down the river.
29:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, still not fully as sure what they were going to see because it sounded so crazy.
29:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, after about two hours, they did see something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Spotted roughly a mile away from the farm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the men spotted would appear to be the back of a large creature slowly moving through the water.
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[SPEAKER_01]: immediately recognizing what he was witnessing as if something that's not normal or an animal that should be in the river.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This man shouted for every available man within shouting distance to hurried toward his location with a rifle's loaded, aimed taken, several men fired multiple shots at the creature's back as it moves slowly through the water.
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[SPEAKER_01]: After the smoke cleared, it was apparent that none of the shots had managed to pierce through the thick skin of the creature.
30:43
[SPEAKER_00]: So now why are all cryptid's bulletproof?
30:49
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a worst.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's absolute worst.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand how every damn cryptid is always bulletproof.
30:59
[SPEAKER_01]: using the wrong kind of bullet should use a silver bullet probably bronoconda's are susceptible to silver bullets or you just pack a cannon full of dynamite and shoot that at the bronoconda you're not far off we'll get that yeah so did not break the skin of the creature but what it did do
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[SPEAKER_01]: is cause the creature to change direction and move slowly toward the bank of the river.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The same bank that they were all standing on.
31:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
31:36
[SPEAKER_01]: So he said stop shooting me or I'm going to eat you.
31:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Did they continue to shoot?
31:45
[SPEAKER_01]: We're about to find out.
31:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
31:47
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're all standing there at the
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[SPEAKER_01]: methodically, closer and closer to where they were standing.
32:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though only small portion of its back could be seen above the surface, those who were looking at it, claimed to be hypnotized by the simple fact that they were gazing upon a monster.
32:16
[SPEAKER_00]: see I thought that was going to go different road.
32:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought they were actually hypnotized.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wish.
32:21
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was like, you know, I don't want suggested that earlier when it was eating the animals and there were no noises at all.
32:31
[SPEAKER_00]: The pigs were just like, yeah, whatever eat me.
32:34
[SPEAKER_00]: This is literally what I was bred to do.
32:36
[SPEAKER_00]: So
32:37
[SPEAKER_01]: If there's one thing worse than a brana conda, it's a brana conda hypnotist.
32:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
32:44
[SPEAKER_01]: That makes us.
32:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
32:47
[UNKNOWN]: That sucks.
32:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Its eyes just turn into the spirals.
32:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
32:51
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the size spirals.
32:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It took on those little short legs up and used a pendulum.
32:56
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
32:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
32:58
[SPEAKER_01]: You're getting very sleepy.
33:01
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to jump in my mouth.
33:04
[SPEAKER_01]: So realizing that the men were just kind of standing there as this giant creature was swimming toward them.
33:13
[SPEAKER_01]: A man on horseback by the name of William T Smith wrote up in front of the group in order to snap them out of it and push them away from the water's edge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately for William T Smith in doing so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He put himself between the men and the creature.
33:34
[SPEAKER_00]: That sounds smart.
33:35
[SPEAKER_01]: No, because without warning, much like having occurred at the hog bin, the creature's large head and neck shot forward from under the water and snapped the head of the horse ridden by Mr. Smith.
33:47
[SPEAKER_01]: With an incredible strength, the horse was lifted off the bank by the creature and pulled forward into the water.
33:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Smith, who at the time was holding onto the reins of the horse prior to the unfortunate attack, was taken right along with it, lucky for him, though, a few moments prior to the incident, another man on horseback by the name of John Aiken had ridden up alongside him.
34:09
[SPEAKER_01]: As the unlucky horse was made into a quick meal for the creature, Aiken reached out and grabbed on to the leg of Smith when the horse was lifted, Aiken pulled Smith off of
34:24
[SPEAKER_01]: They said they could see the flesh being ripped from the neck and the body of the horse as the creature's gigantic 17-inch teeth sunk into it.
34:36
[SPEAKER_01]: They could hear bones cracking before the creature pulled it under the water.
34:41
[SPEAKER_01]: And the men watched in horror as it pulled the horse below the surface and completely disappeared from view.
34:50
[SPEAKER_01]: See what from having one witness having a hundred witnesses.
34:55
[SPEAKER_00]: that's significant.
34:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
34:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
35:00
[SPEAKER_01]: But because the actual body of the creature could not be seen, it didn't mean the men on shore couldn't follow it.
35:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Larger ripples and splashes on the surface clearly indicated where the creature was going and everybody could keep a target on it.
35:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Knowing what kind of danger the creature ultimately possessed, every available man on shore with a
35:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Both rifles and revolvers were kept on a steady onslaught upon the creature, and at one point it was estimated that nearly 10,000 shots had been fired at the creature.
35:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I love whoever's originally telling the story.
35:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that something like this didn't happen.
35:46
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm going to say that somebody exaggerated a couple of these details.
35:52
[SPEAKER_01]: There was, there was quite so much a gunfire that the people thought that the Civil War had started again in Oskarlusa.
36:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
36:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say the only way that you're really achieving that is if you had like some galling guns.
36:06
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
36:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Beer just hammering.
36:10
[SPEAKER_00]: 10,000 rounds is a lot.
36:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
36:13
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot.
36:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Not to mention,
36:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to believe that at least one of them in the group, when these men start just firing 10,000 rounds, one of them would be like, hey guys, real quick, did we forget that it's bullproof?
36:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we're just kind of, at this point we're just making noise, yeah, we need to rethink our approach here.
36:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's exactly where we are because when the smoke had cleared and the ammo ran low, the men on shore can see that no shot had penetrated the thick skin of the beast.
36:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that it also just stood there and got trapped.
36:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is like what you.
36:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm I'm full.
36:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I just ate your horse.
37:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what you guys are doing.
37:02
[SPEAKER_01]: What your problem is.
37:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause it doesn't have modern age galling guns.
37:07
[SPEAKER_00]: If these guys are firing rifles and revolvers, you know, while it would take to shoot 10,000 rounds, yeah.
37:13
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be a long, fucking time.
37:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm just such a swimming around.
37:18
[SPEAKER_00]: These guys are just, they're just dragging a trailer full of ammo that they have to hand load into a six shooter, just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and then they got to play hang on a second.
37:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And they did that to completely 10,000 rounds.
37:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope so.
37:34
[SPEAKER_01]: If he do.
37:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope so.
37:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that occasion?
37:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope the creatures is like dragon the horse head in the water, just mocking them.
37:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, get close, I dare you.
37:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
37:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Get close.
37:47
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, well, it's don't work.
37:49
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was at that moment, they knew that the size of their weapons were no use against the 80 foot behemoth.
37:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Realization left them with only one option.
38:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Time to get bigger guns.
38:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
38:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So at three p.m. At three p.m. Word was sent back to oscalusa that a large weapon was needed at the right farm in order to take care of the monster problem.
38:21
[SPEAKER_00]: At 4 p.m., I love that they just like it.
38:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Until they go to their version of a tactical nuke.
38:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like cannon.
38:30
[SPEAKER_01]: At 4 p.m., in roll the 12 pound cannon.
38:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
38:36
[SPEAKER_01]: That means it fired a 12 pound cannon ball.
38:38
[SPEAKER_01]: The cannon didn't weigh 12 pounds.
38:42
[SPEAKER_01]: But they didn't bring cannon balls.
38:47
[SPEAKER_01]: They had.
38:49
[SPEAKER_01]: a whiskey barrel full of railroad spikes.
38:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's made of cannon shotgun.
38:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's terrifying.
39:01
[SPEAKER_00]: That is terrifying.
39:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Just giant nails for abnormal.
39:05
[SPEAKER_01]: They're making a pipe bomb.
39:08
[SPEAKER_00]: That's dude, I was gonna, I literally almost said that earlier whenever I suggested the dynamite because after we use said that, I'm like,
39:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Like my head instantly went to just giant by-bomb.
39:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so the cannon was led by a man referred to in all the accounts as Captain Wilbur.
39:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
39:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Captain Wilbur loaded the cannon full of powder and packed that bitch full of railroad spikes.
39:40
[SPEAKER_01]: That is so scary.
39:45
[SPEAKER_01]: It was drug toward the edge of the river in firing position after being brought up to speed on the current situation regarding the creature and from having first hand knowledge of the battle leading to the leading this 23rd Indiana battery in the Atlanta campaign during the Civil War.
40:07
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's got some merit under his belt.
40:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Wilbur knew the enemy in the water was not going to willingly come near shore after after enduring a constant attack for the past few hours.
40:18
[SPEAKER_01]: So in order to bring the beast in, Captain Wilbur ordered the men along the river to retreat.
40:26
[SPEAKER_01]: But instead of leaving completely, they were told to back up just enough so that they were no longer visible to the creature in the water.
40:34
[SPEAKER_01]: After they all advocated from the shoreline out of sight,
40:38
[SPEAKER_01]: The small impromptu army hunkered down and waited.
40:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Finally, after about an hour and a half, the creature made its presence known yet again.
40:49
[SPEAKER_01]: When its large back broke the surface of the water, Captain Wilber watched as a large beast made its way through the river and approached what appeared to be a decent sized sand bar about 40 feet away.
41:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Making an assumption that the creature was going to try and pass over the show, the captain ordered the cannon aimed at the particular area and notified the gunner to be ready to fire.
41:15
[SPEAKER_01]: The men watched anxiously as at the water with sharp focus and hoped that the captain was correct in his assumption because they would probably only get one opportunity to do this right.
41:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Captain Wilbur was correct.
41:32
[SPEAKER_01]: The creature had fully committed to exiting the water and climbing up and over the Ray's Sandbar, thus putting itself in direct line of fire of the railroad spike filled cannon.
41:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Without any hesitation, OG Wilbur pulled the gun or the fire.
41:52
[SPEAKER_01]: For the blast of smoke and a huge explosion, the cannon shot forward a barrage of railroad spikes
42:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Almost immediately the beast let out a whale and began to thrash around in the sand.
42:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Sand and water flew into the air with every hit from the powerful, with every hit from its powerful tail, blood poured out from the deep wound behind its front leg, slowly turning the sand bar in the river red.
42:19
[SPEAKER_01]: After a few minutes it appeared that all remnants of life had faded from the creature
42:31
[SPEAKER_01]: fully confident that the monster was no more.
42:36
[SPEAKER_01]: The captain called in order to team of 24 oxen to pull the large body of the monster out of the river and on to dry land.
42:45
[SPEAKER_01]: With chains wrapped around its head neck and behind its front legs, the powerful herd of oxen slowly pulled the beast out of the river and on to solid ground.
42:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Blood continued to pour out of the wound,
42:58
[SPEAKER_01]: as the creature's body was pulled through the sand.
43:04
[SPEAKER_01]: So this eventually stopped obviously because the creature's heart stopped beating.
43:10
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was recognized through the county that the citizens of Oskalus had officially killed a monster.
43:17
[SPEAKER_01]: But the body of the beast now able to be seen accurate measurements could officially be taken.
43:23
[SPEAKER_01]: on the scene to document the size and appearance of the creature was a doctor huntsman and and man by the name of Al Swam.
43:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Together the men took notes regarding both the outside appearance of the creature as well as the state of the internal organs.
43:39
[SPEAKER_01]: When the examination was complete, the men were in possession of what was considered to be the most accurate information on a monster up to that point.
43:49
[SPEAKER_01]: The entire overall length of the creature was noted as being 81 feet long from tip of the nose to tip of the tail.
43:56
[SPEAKER_01]: The distance from the four legs to the nose was 21 feet.
44:00
[SPEAKER_01]: The distance between the four legs and the hind legs was 40 feet.
44:05
[SPEAKER_01]: The distance from the hind leg to the tip of the tail another 20 feet.
44:10
[SPEAKER_01]: The skin was noted as being like that of a gigantic lizard.
44:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Incredibly thick, dark gray and color.
44:17
[SPEAKER_01]: The teeth were measured at 17 and a half inches long, and were like those of an alligator.
44:24
[SPEAKER_01]: During the him checking out its internal organs, it was said that the heart of the creature weighed 80 pounds and possessed four chambers.
44:35
[SPEAKER_01]: The lungs and other organs looked remarkably similar to other known reptiles except exponentially larger.
44:44
[SPEAKER_01]: The creature appeared to be strictly an air breather, but from the testimony of the witnesses and noticeable size of the lungs, it was able to hold its breath underwater for extended periods of time.
44:55
[SPEAKER_01]: A quick examination proved the assumption that no bullets had pierced through the thick skin, and the only wounds present were of the railroad spikes shot from the cannon.
45:14
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a big art, and I love that our oral farmer buddy accurately nailed how big the teeth were.
45:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Estimations were dead on.
45:28
[SPEAKER_01]: He was ironed up because the house was about 17, 17 and a half inches there, but yeah, now get your profile.
45:37
[SPEAKER_00]: They're beefy at the base.
45:45
[SPEAKER_00]: It was teased it like a alligator and they're so cute.
45:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that puts the base of the tooth like the size of my wrist.
45:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
45:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
45:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is ridiculous.
45:57
[SPEAKER_00]: It's big tooth.
45:59
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a fucking me grinder.
46:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at how heavy it's.
46:06
[SPEAKER_01]: It's got a long ass neck, but a head that weighs six tons.
46:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
46:10
[SPEAKER_01]: It's ergonomically incorrect.
46:13
[SPEAKER_01]: anatomically incorrect well he's bullcrews though he's bullcrews so no matter buddy he rare roads bike proof no i like the innovation yeah i like they're like we're not going to waste a cannonball on this bring me a keg full of rare roads bikes terrifying box shot baby they got they got it in the heart though and right behind the front legs
46:41
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a monster hunter.
46:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was just going to say that.
46:43
[SPEAKER_01]: After Wilbur monster hunter, yeah, after the examination by Huntsman and Swam was complete the job of skinning the creature commenced.
46:54
[SPEAKER_01]: The plan was to send the monsters hide to an oscalusa taxidermist and have the creature stuffed.
47:00
[SPEAKER_01]: When that was complete, the specimen would then be sent to the Academy of Natural Sciences located in Philadelphia for display.
47:06
[SPEAKER_01]: The skeleton of the creature would be preserved separately and wired for display in Oskalusa.
47:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, the city wanted to hold on to the trophy and commemoration of what was without a doubt the most famous battle to ever take place in Iowa.
47:21
[SPEAKER_01]: So when all was said and done, the two displays were packaged up and sent to their final locations to be enjoyed by curious onlookers for years to come.
47:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Except we all know that that didn't happen.
47:35
[SPEAKER_00]: So what did happen?
47:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Because every time you send something to a museum, it disappears.
47:43
[SPEAKER_00]: The Academy of Phonium intercepted it.
47:45
[SPEAKER_01]: The Academy for Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
47:49
[SPEAKER_01]: which was the ultimate destination for the stuffed body of the Skunk River monster, lists no such acquisition from 1884 to 1886.
48:00
[SPEAKER_01]: The closest thing was a Mosesaurus and a crocodile vertebrae and a tooth from a hyposaurus and extinct crocodilian that was found in New Jersey and acquired by the Academy in 84.
48:16
[SPEAKER_01]: So the creature never ended up at the academy for natural sciences.
48:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I don't know a whole lot of like paranormal or from the 1800s.
48:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they were intercepting skeletons and shit back then.
48:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably because there was a time when freelance writers would come through towns and newspapers would hire them to make up fictional stories in order to sell papers.
49:10
[SPEAKER_01]: which happened a lot, and through some investigative work at either the Pimera Institute or the people at Thunderbird photo, they found out that old Al Swam was actually the owner and editor of the newspaper in Osculosa.
49:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
49:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Dang it.
49:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Dang it.
49:35
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's no definite confirmation that it's a no no.
49:43
[SPEAKER_01]: So the major myths, I found this interesting, they put this little blurb in there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The major myths giving for the skunk river monster, if they're taking a face of value, there are prehistoric animals that have sort of anatomical parallels, but none of them reach the size that the skunk river monster was reported to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have the dyno sucus, which is a giant alligator,
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[SPEAKER_01]: dinosaur relative.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There was all over North America that normally got between 30 and 40 feet in length.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it would also attack the same way and bushing other animals out of the edge of the water.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It did not happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Aside from aside from them legitimately measuring it, that's pretty
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I could definitely understand someone outside of the measurements.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Guestimating that a 50 foot dinosaur is 80 feet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, you know, if we were to see a 50 foot monster and not know, it's actual length.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we could easily be like he was 100 foot long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the biggest thing I've ever seen in my life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, I'm not sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not as good as the farmer where I can as eyeball how big the teeth are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the dyno sucas was basically you just you take a crocodile and you make it huge and that's what you get where this monster had the long neck and Oh, so they were just true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they did say that they believed that the dyno sucas's Skin is similar to that of what the skunk river monster skin was
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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be thick and have these like half circle bony plates underneath its skin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it would probably be pretty impenetrable to a lot of the weapons that were out in 1884.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd make boots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that'd be sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe some of Nor boots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be that would be sick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, what else, they're the Boni Plates, the newspaper talked about the monster possessing an air-breathing animal's fortune bird heart, uh, I could not rule out Crocodilian, unlike the three chambered hearts and most reptiles crocodiles and alligators have four chambered hearts, so that also kind of lines up at Dinosukus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, then I noted that this era, as we talked about, was not, you know, lacks of giant monsters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: John Meade, who broke the story in Iowa, Newton's Harold on November 21, talked about other creatures that were seen the same, the summer prior.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's quoted by saying, it seems more than probable that the animal captures in South Skunk River near Ausgalus so this week was the same one seeing during the past summer at Vicksburg and at Cairo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's home is no doubt far south in the lower Mississippi or even the Gulf of Mexico, and it's probably a crocodile of gigantic size.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What caused it to come up this far, the river this far north, more than likely, is conjectural.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What Mead is talking about was July 17, the Vixberg Chronicle, regarding a wild, a quote wild rumor about a hundred foot crocodile that emerged about 10 miles upriver from Vixberg, carrying away an eating two boys, one 12 and the other 14.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He also cited the September 12 article in the Cairo Post,
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[SPEAKER_01]: which they're assuming is Cairo Illinois, about a riverboat named the Clipper, which was crossing by the ferry landing when it was violently attacked by a water monster estimated by the passengers to be 150 feet long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the boat was violently shaken and it was feared by the captain that it would cap size.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Furious and powerful were the motions of the monster when it first struck the boat, the report read.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So these stories were kind of common, I guess, especially the year that this happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's almost like, I don't know, it's hard to like lean one way or the other because if you lean that the story is true, this could be the same creature moving it's why up the Mississippi, because I'm pretty sure the skunk river is a tributary of the Mississippi.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you lean the other way where they're right in these fantastical stories, anyway, if in July, this was written about the giant crocodile eating the boys and the papers took off, and you move up a little bit to Cairo, write about it attacking a boat and the papers take off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why not do it one greater where we kill the monster that killed the boys, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But in some research, people did discover that there was a man by the name of J.E.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wright, that owned 110 acre farm, right on the banks of the river, less than 10 miles from
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[SPEAKER_01]: certain parts of the story line up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, if there's one, if there's a possibility of large unknown animals, aquatic monsters are easily believable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: pre-historic things survived.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's reality.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those things actually happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if a fucking turtle can do it, it's okay, I'm Megaladon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to remind me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the night shift to tell you my little blurb about giant squids that I discovered that I forgot to talk about in the last night shift.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to make you throw up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I already don't like water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't Google estimated number of giant squids.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome because you'll hate it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Keep in mind these things were not photographed or videoed until 2004.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just rumors that they existed and beaks they pulled from sperm whale's stomachs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, you go way back in time on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: there's old books written about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was considered folklore forever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Giants could the giant squid is not reality, even though these guys were drawn on pictures of it and their journals and shit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just so happens that one day, which I mean, because there's no way that you would, those are made up at this point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No,
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[SPEAKER_00]: because you're not going to accurately doodle a giant squid, not ever seeing anything resembling that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they were pulling beaks out of the sides of boats and shit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which is insane.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like I said, the it is extremely believable that a massive creature could be illumined around in the water.
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[SPEAKER_01]: yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I do think if there's a giant like like Kyle said we're talking about massive creatures they're gonna be water creatures.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how deep the skunk river is but I guess he wasn't like he was a long boy not really like a thick boy you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if he had the ability to navigate between fresh and salt water then it's not a problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, and the miss, we know the miss is hundreds and hundred defeated at places, so yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When there's monster cafes to get caught in that river, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: if if the lockness monster can exist in the locks, you know something big and exist in the river.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, there's now their rumors, kind of modern-day folklore, if you will, that people, scuba divers have seen catfish to size a car.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They could literally swallow us whole.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's that a lot, especially.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But just disgusting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People diving around the dams and
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[SPEAKER_01]: underwater welders and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would freak out seeing a catfish to size of a car.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'd shoot it with a cannon filled the row roads bikes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, could you imagine being down there to weld?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you're like, you look over and there's just a giant silhouette that moves past you just.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, my mouth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, something brushes by you and you look around and just like this wall of
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm gone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just weld my eyes shut.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so, so yeah, that's the, uh, that's the skunk river monster alcohol.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not in our list story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not really any evidence that it existed, but there is the first hand accounts that it existed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want evidence that says it didn't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: True.
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[SPEAKER_01]: God's got a point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, most of that came directly from me there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thunderbird photo dot com or the primary institute dot com they did really good research on you can check them out and they got a bunch more anecdotes about If it was a hoax what could possibly be the fuel of the hoax there was like this whole big political thing going on with like wanting to reroute the river and all this shit so
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[SPEAKER_01]: over there I'm just here to put story out and go check them out see see if what they've put together makes sense in your brain if it was a giant political hoax which I hope not yeah because I love monsters and cryptids more than politics now you're going to try to go catch a river monster Jeremy Wade's back yeah
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know we got to put him on to this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And say, hey, didn't he go look for Loch Nascals there?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's caught everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's caught everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully he's trying to fish it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Be awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that'd be sick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But on that note, thanks for hanging out with us tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, today, it'll be today when you listen to this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's tonight for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for choosing us again, Holocult.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody had a good Halloween.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And until we meet again, stay safe, stay weird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Got a battle in 80-foot river monster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Remember to pack your cannon full railroad spikes because we why not?
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[SPEAKER_01]: This point why not?