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Teen TERRORIZED by creature in forest · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: There's a good reason why so many movies that are
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Speaker 1: designed to be scary are set in the woods, really
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Speaker 1: the woods at night, and go even further, most of
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Speaker 1: them are like a cabin in the woods at night. Right.
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Speaker 1: It's because being in the woods at night, as human beings,
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Speaker 1: checks a lot of fear boxes. You have the isolation factor.
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Speaker 1: You're far away from society that scares us. We don't
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Speaker 1: want to be isolated. You feel more vulnerable that way.
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Speaker 1: You know, it checks the darkness fear factor, as humans
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Speaker 1: were mostly afraid of the dark, so you don't know
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Speaker 1: what's around you or what's looking at you. Now you
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Speaker 1: don't have the advantage of you know, city lights beaming in.
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Speaker 1: You're kind of probably removed from lots of light pollution,
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Speaker 1: so you're kind of like in total darkness. And I
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Speaker 1: think the third fear check in the box would be
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Speaker 1: the fact that it's easy to hide in the forest.
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Speaker 1: You don't know what's watching you because there's trees everywhere.
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Speaker 1: You have animals, predators potentially, or even predatory humans that
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Speaker 1: could be hiding at every turn. Hollywood has picked up
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Speaker 1: on that and made bunch of movies of you know,
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Speaker 1: old cabin in the woods trope where somebody's isolated and
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Speaker 1: scared in the woods. Because it works, it's something that
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Speaker 1: we are afraid of. And so today's story starts off
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Speaker 1: a lot like all the other kind of cliche cabin
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Speaker 1: in the woods scary stories, but this one it's different.
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Speaker 1: This one scared the heck out of me because as
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Speaker 1: I read the account of what happened in this cabin
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Speaker 1: in the woods, I imagine myself being in this guy's
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Speaker 1: position and thinking about the psychological trauma that this would
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Speaker 1: have on you. And I've actually had a literal cabin
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Speaker 1: in the woods scary experience, and you can check it out.
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Speaker 1: It's what I saw in my room still haunts me.
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Speaker 1: You can check it out. It's my own cabin in
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Speaker 1: the woods story. But having been through something like that,
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Speaker 1: I was able to put myself in this guy's position,
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Speaker 1: and this story terrifies me. So as you're listening to
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Speaker 1: today's story, try to put yourself in this guy's position
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Speaker 1: and think to yourself, what would you have done. But
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. In twenty ten, a seventeen
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Speaker 1: year old boy is devastated to find out that his
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Speaker 1: father had suddenly passed away, and it really sent shockwaves
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Speaker 1: through the whole family, not only because now they're grieving
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Speaker 1: the loss of their father, their husband, but because so
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Speaker 1: much of their daily lives they spent together. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is a very close family. And one of the
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Speaker 1: things that they like to do as a family was
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Speaker 1: they owned a cabin. It was around Mount Bachelor and Oregon,
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Speaker 1: this beautiful mountain where you and go snowboarding and skiing.
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Speaker 1: They had this family cabin up there where in the
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Speaker 1: winter time, this family would spend a lot of time there.
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Speaker 1: They would go up there as a family, spend time
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Speaker 1: there as a family. It was this wonderful retreat. And
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Speaker 1: as they're trying to settle the estate, of their husband,
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Speaker 1: their father. They're trying to figure out what they want
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Speaker 1: to do with this cabin because all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: this place that you know, used to bring them so
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Speaker 1: much joy and was a place of very fond memories,
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Speaker 1: suddenly felt kind of hollow, you know, it just would
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Speaker 1: never be the same. And so they decided that they
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Speaker 1: were actually going to sell this cabin. And the seventeen
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Speaker 1: year old boy was just really upset about this. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's he was very close to his father. He had
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Speaker 1: some very fond memories of going hunting and skiing snowboarding
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Speaker 1: with his dad at this cabin. And so once the
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Speaker 1: cabin was actually put up for sale by this boy's mother,
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Speaker 1: he asked, if you know, before they actually sell it,
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Speaker 1: could he spend some time up there. I guess paying
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Speaker 1: his respects in a way to his but he just
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Speaker 1: wanted one more opportunity to spend some time in that cabin.
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Speaker 1: And his mom said, go for it. You know, take
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Speaker 1: as many days as you want go up and hang
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Speaker 1: out in the cabin, but when you come back, we
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Speaker 1: are going to sell the place. So his father had
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Speaker 1: actually willed to his son his vehicle, and so the
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Speaker 1: seventeen year old boy loads up his father's car. He
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Speaker 1: goes out and he buys some snacks and drinks, heads
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Speaker 1: up to the cabin in Oregon with the family dog,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Midnight. And his plan was just to
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Speaker 1: go up to this cabin and basically try to enjoy
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Speaker 1: being in this space one last time. Don't think about
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Speaker 1: it as this place that now has no meaning because
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Speaker 1: his father had died, but rather a place that he
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Speaker 1: wanted one last positive memory before it was forever gone
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Speaker 1: from their family. And so he gets up there, makes
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Speaker 1: his way to the cabin, and he settles in for
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Speaker 1: what turned out to be an abbreviated stay at the cabin.
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Speaker 1: So in order to understand the story, we need to
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the layout of the cabin itself.
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Speaker 1: The cabin was two stories and it was built into
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Speaker 1: a mountain bachelor in organ and so the back half
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Speaker 1: of the cabin was kind of settled into the mountain,
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Speaker 1: so there were no windows save a little sliver of
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Speaker 1: window that fed into the bathroom actually in the back
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Speaker 1: of the cabin. The front of the cabin was this beautiful,
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Speaker 1: you know, double decker cabin with you know windows on
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Speaker 1: the second floor that fed into the master bedroom. On
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Speaker 1: the second floor, there was a walk out balcony that
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Speaker 1: kind of jutted out a few feet from the second
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Speaker 1: deck the first floor you could see in through with
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Speaker 1: all these beautiful windows. There was a sitting area like
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Speaker 1: a living room and a TV, and then a small
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Speaker 1: kitchen as well. So the cabin was built in an
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Speaker 1: area that was heavily forested, so they had to clear out,
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Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of trees to even build this
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Speaker 1: cabin when the family had this built years and years ago,
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Speaker 1: and so they really only cleared away the front section
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Speaker 1: of trees so that there was a clear shot to
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Speaker 1: the house, but the sides in the back were very
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Speaker 1: heavily forested with these huge tall pine trees, and they
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Speaker 1: basically had this little tiny driveway that fed in through
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Speaker 1: all the trees, and you had this one kind of
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Speaker 1: clearing in front of the cabin. So if you were
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Speaker 1: on the second floor of the cabin where there's the
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Speaker 1: master bedroom, there's a bed up there and you were
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Speaker 1: looking out that window, you'd be looking over the balcony
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Speaker 1: out into a clearing basically, but there's a tree line,
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Speaker 1: you know, one hundred yards past that clearing that's very dense.
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Speaker 1: And there's actually a couple of trees, fairly fairly prominent
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Speaker 1: trees that are sitting in front of the cabin that
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Speaker 1: they did not cut down, one of which for the story,
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Speaker 1: we'll call it the sitting tree. Parallel to the ground,
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Speaker 1: about twenty feet up was this beautiful branch that looked
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Speaker 1: perfect for a whole bunch of people sitting on it.
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Speaker 1: But it was twenty feet above the ground and there
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Speaker 1: wasn't really any way to climb up to it, and
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Speaker 1: no one was trying to climb this tree. But there's
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Speaker 1: this tree that basically has a seat if you will,
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Speaker 1: Like the branch is like a seat that is looking
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Speaker 1: directly into the cabin. That's going to matter later in
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Speaker 1: the story. So clearing in front of the cabin with
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Speaker 1: this one kind of sitting tree and in a very
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Speaker 1: dense forest three hundred and sixty degrees beyond, you know
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Speaker 1: that one clearing. So when the seventeen year old gets
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Speaker 1: to the cabin, he goes inside, he puts the strinths
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Speaker 1: in the fridge, puts the snacks on the counter, he
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Speaker 1: hooks up his PlayStation to the TV, and he's just
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Speaker 1: like having a great time. His dog Midnight is roaming
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Speaker 1: around and enjoying being at the cabin, and you know,
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Speaker 1: he's having a great time. And over the course of
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Speaker 1: the first two days that he was there, it was
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Speaker 1: everything he hoped it would be. It was. It was
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Speaker 1: like he was bonding with his father one last time.
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Speaker 1: It was a peaceful time that he was there. He
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Speaker 1: was happy to be there, and he was just enjoying himself,
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Speaker 1: eating snacks and playing video games for a couple of days.
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Speaker 1: He actually left a couple times to go snowboarding too,
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Speaker 1: But on the third day that he was there, things
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Speaker 1: started to get pretty weird. So on the third day
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Speaker 1: when he got up, it had snowed dramatically the night before,
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Speaker 1: a couple of feet of snow on the ground, still
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Speaker 1: snowing pretty heavily, and he's like, you know, I just
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Speaker 1: don't feel like brushing off my car and trying to
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Speaker 1: go to the store or go to the slopes to
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Speaker 1: go snowboarding. I'm just gonna basically be shut in for
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Speaker 1: the day. And he was excited about it. He's like, great,
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Speaker 1: me and my dog Midnight can bomb around the inside
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Speaker 1: and play some more video games and need some more
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Speaker 1: snacks and do whatever. Midday that day, Midnight needed to apee,
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Speaker 1: so he went outside with Midnight and let Midnight run
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Speaker 1: around and go to the bathroom. And while he's out
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Speaker 1: there with his dog, he notices there are some footprints
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Speaker 1: in the snow that looked relatively fresh. And this is
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Speaker 1: the first time that he's left his cabin that day,
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Speaker 1: so they aren't his and his neighbors were pretty far away,
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Speaker 1: and he figured that they were older that they were
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Speaker 1: probably not going to be trucking around the woods. So
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Speaker 1: he's thinking to himself, I wonder who made these footprints,
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Speaker 1: and he's looking at them, and they started in the woods,
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Speaker 1: so the woods are not that far away from where
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Speaker 1: he is. He's in a relatively small clearing just in
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Speaker 1: front of his cabin, but he can tell these fresh
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Speaker 1: footprints have come out of the woods and they're basically
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Speaker 1: right in front of this clearing, and he notices that
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Speaker 1: they bank around and go to the back of his
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Speaker 1: cabin and kind of go up onto the mountain, and
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Speaker 1: he kind of just starts walking and following the footprints
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Speaker 1: a bit and they kind of disappear up on the
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Speaker 1: mountain behind his cabin. And he's not overly concerned or anything,
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Speaker 1: but he definitely takes note that more than likely somebody
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Speaker 1: was walking around his cabin. Maybe it was someone who
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Speaker 1: got lost, maybe it was a neighbor. I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: rationalizing it. He's thinking, you know what, it can't have
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Speaker 1: been anything too serious. Obviously, they didn't knock on my door,
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Speaker 1: they didn't need anything, and so he kind of writes
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Speaker 1: it up. So that night, he stays up late playing
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Speaker 1: video games and his dog is sleeping next to his chair,
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Speaker 1: and at some point he's tired and he wants to
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Speaker 1: go to bed, so he draws all the curtains so
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Speaker 1: blackout curtains around the downstairs, shuts all the blinds, and
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Speaker 1: locks all the windows, all the doors, and heads upstairs
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Speaker 1: to the lofted second floor where the master bedroom is.
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Speaker 1: He gets in bed, turns off all the lights. Everything's locked,
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Speaker 1: everything shut. The dog climbs into bed, and the dog
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Speaker 1: would sleep up near his head, and suddenly the dog
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Speaker 1: jumps up still on the bed and looks at the
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Speaker 1: stairs leading downstairs to the front door, and its ears
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Speaker 1: are perked up. He heard something, and it wasn't unusual
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Speaker 1: for the dog to be a little jumpy, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe it heard something. He wasn't overtly concerned. But when
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Speaker 1: Midnight the dog jumps off the bed and sprints downstairs
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Speaker 1: after having this sudden alertness, and he's listening now he
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Speaker 1: is a little bit worried. He's thinking, well, I saw
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Speaker 1: footsteps yesterday walking around my cabin, and now it's the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night and my dog is downstairs acting
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Speaker 1: like it's heard something. And he hears the dog Midnight
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Speaker 1: pacing around the downstairs like back and forth, back and forth,
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Speaker 1: back and forth. Every indication is the dog wants to
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Speaker 1: go outside. That's the noise, is that he's picking up
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Speaker 1: that signal from the dog. And so finally, even though
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Speaker 1: he's feeling a little bit unnerved by this, he decides
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Speaker 1: to go down and see what Midnight wants. And so
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Speaker 1: Midnight is by the door, ears perked up, very eager
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Speaker 1: to go outside. It's pacing, you know, and he thinks,
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Speaker 1: you know what, she just needs to go to the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: And so he opens the door with Midnight and he
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Speaker 1: goes outside, and he expects his dog to pee, but
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Speaker 1: Midnight doesn't need to pee. Midnight starts kind of stalking
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Speaker 1: around the corner and looking out across the clearing towards
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Speaker 1: the sitting tree in that direction, and it just stops
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Speaker 1: and it's looking at something very intently, as if it's
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Speaker 1: spotted an animal or something in the woods. And so
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Speaker 1: the boy is looking at the dog, and he's kind
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Speaker 1: of trying to encourage the dog to do its business
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Speaker 1: and then go back in the cabin. And he's starting
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Speaker 1: to feel really uncomfortable. He's looking around. He's thinking like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, Like I'm a little
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Speaker 1: bit concerned now. And he's sensing that Midnight is going
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Speaker 1: at some point to try to take off after whatever
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Speaker 1: she sees in the woods, and so preemptively he grabs
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Speaker 1: Midnight and says all right, drags mid Night back in
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Speaker 1: the house and shuts the door and locks it, and
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Speaker 1: takes one last look out the window of the door
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Speaker 1: and just kind of looks out of me. It's dark
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Speaker 1: asn't a light or anything, and he's like, man, that's creepy.
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Speaker 1: Locks it, shuts the blinds, confirms everything downstairs is locked,
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Speaker 1: you know, does a sanity check to make sure everything
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Speaker 1: is locked, and goes back upstairs with Midnight. Midnight, did
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Speaker 1: I want to go back upstairs? He had to practically
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Speaker 1: drag her back upstairs, and then when they did get
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Speaker 1: back in bed midnight, refused to get in bed, but
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Speaker 1: instead stood next to the bed looking at the stairs,
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Speaker 1: wanting to go downstairs, periodically looking back at him, and
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Speaker 1: then down at the stairs midnight wanted to go back outside.
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Speaker 1: So he's laying there in bed and he's taking full
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Speaker 1: stock of the fact that his dog is very much
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Speaker 1: on edge, but he's trying to fall back asleep, trying
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Speaker 1: to convince himself that nothing weird is going on. And
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Speaker 1: after about thirty minutes of that and being unsuccessful and
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Speaker 1: falling asleep. As he's laying there, it's silent, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, he hears footsteps on his roof. Now
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Speaker 1: the roof is right above his head. I mean he's
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Speaker 1: on the second floor. There is no attic, the roof
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Speaker 1: is right there, and he hears about six footsteps, and
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Speaker 1: he actually described that it's as something with hoofs and
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Speaker 1: his dog instantly looks up as well, and they're both
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Speaker 1: watching the ceiling as what sounds like hooves walking along
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Speaker 1: the roof of this cabin, And it was so distinctive
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Speaker 1: that immediately what he's thinking to himself as how could
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Speaker 1: a deer or a moose or something get on the
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Speaker 1: roof of the house. There is no way unless you, like,
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Speaker 1: leapt from a tree or had a ladder for you
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Speaker 1: to get on the roof. And how did we not
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Speaker 1: hear if they leapt from a tree or a ladder? Even,
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Speaker 1: how didn't we hear a loud slamming sound when they
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Speaker 1: first landed on the roof, Like it's as if they've
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Speaker 1: been there for a while and we just didn't know.
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Speaker 1: And so then the footsteps stop, And at this point,
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Speaker 1: the dog stops looking at the roof and goes right
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Speaker 1: to the balcony, which is shut. There's a door shut
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Speaker 1: to the balcony, and this curtain's drawn against the balcony,
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Speaker 1: so he can't see what's out there. And so the
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Speaker 1: seventeen year old boy is sitting in his bed and
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Speaker 1: he's like, oh, I don't want to see what's on
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Speaker 1: the porch. And he even says, and it's right up
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Speaker 1: about this that he's like, you know, I'm a pretty
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Speaker 1: tough guy, but I am in the middle of the woods,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, totally isolated, like I
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Speaker 1: almost don't want to know what's going on. Outside. I
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Speaker 1: just want to pretend it's not happening. But at some
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Speaker 1: point he musters the courage to go out on the balcony,
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Speaker 1: and so he walks over very timidly to the door
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Speaker 1: and midnight's there, ready to go outside. He takes a
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Speaker 1: deep breath and he slides open the blackout curtains, but
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Speaker 1: there's no light outside and there's no light inside, so
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Speaker 1: it's just kind of darkness and he can barely make
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Speaker 1: out even just the snow that's on the balcony right
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Speaker 1: in front of him. And he takes a deep breath
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Speaker 1: and he unlocks the door and he opens it up,
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Speaker 1: and the first thing he does is he turns and
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Speaker 1: he looks up at the roof to see if there's
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Speaker 1: a deer or a moose or something on the roof.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing up there, and he's kind of peering around
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Speaker 1: and he can't even see footprints up there. So in
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Speaker 1: a way, he's kind of relieved, right Like I must
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Speaker 1: have been imagining that he had a flashlight. And so
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Speaker 1: at this point he's looking back at his roof of
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Speaker 1: his cabin and he shines the light real quick, and
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Speaker 1: it's totally dark out right. So this light goes very
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Speaker 1: far and he sees nothing and the dog. At this
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Speaker 1: point he can hear the dog making kind of some
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Speaker 1: commotion below him. It's angling itself to look out in
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Speaker 1: the direction of the sitting tree and out towards that
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Speaker 1: tree line where the dog had originally and fixated on
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Speaker 1: something in the tree line. And so, just doing his diligence,
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Speaker 1: the seventeen year old scans from the top of the roof,
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Speaker 1: where he sees nothing. He starts scanning over to the
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Speaker 1: side of the house right like this is the direction
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Speaker 1: of the sitting tree. He's looking over here and he's looking.
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Speaker 1: He's scanning the tree line, just looking for anything that
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Speaker 1: might have been on the roof. And he's looking and
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Speaker 1: he's looking, and he's looking, and then he gets to
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Speaker 1: the sitting tree and his flashlight stops on a man
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Speaker 1: crouched on that perch twenty feet off the ground on
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Speaker 1: the sitting tree, who looked very tall. He had his
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Speaker 1: hands holding onto the branch right above him, and his
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Speaker 1: mouth is open and he's holding onto the branch and
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Speaker 1: he's looking directly at the boy, unblinking, one hundred percent
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Speaker 1: focused on him. He's less than fifty yards away from
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Speaker 1: him at this point, and it took him a second,
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Speaker 1: the seventeen year old, to register what his flashlight was
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Speaker 1: pointed at, and he panics and he drops it, and
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Speaker 1: the dog reacts to the drop flat flashlight too, and
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Speaker 1: because he's alone out here, he needs to protect himself,
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Speaker 1: so he scoops that light back up and he shines
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Speaker 1: it one more time to see, like, holy cal like
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Speaker 1: what did I just see? And the guy on the
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Speaker 1: branch is now gone and he scans the ground there's nothing,
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Speaker 1: and he's terrified at this point, so grabs his dog,
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Speaker 1: throws Midnight back into the cabin, runs back in, shuts
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Speaker 1: the door, locks it close to the blinds, turns off
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Speaker 1: his light, and literally gets back in bed with his dog.
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Speaker 1: And he's now basically cowering on the bed. So at
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Speaker 1: this point they're sitting on the bed. Midnight is no
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Speaker 1: longer acting like she wants to go outside. I think
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Speaker 1: she's picking out potentially on the on the paranoia. Okay,
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Speaker 1: at this point, the boy and his dog are sitting
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Speaker 1: on the bed and they're both scared. At this point, Midnight,
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Speaker 1: you know, was fearsome while she was outside, but now
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Speaker 1: that she's back inside, she doesn't want to go near
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Speaker 1: the door either. She's rubbing up against him. She doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to go anywhere, and they're sitting there, and the
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Speaker 1: boy all he's thinking to himself is did I really
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Speaker 1: just see that it looked like an unnaturally tall man?
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Speaker 1: How did he get in the tree that's twenty feet
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Speaker 1: off the ground. You know there's no way to get
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Speaker 1: up into the tree. And why was it sitting there
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Speaker 1: with its mouth open staring at me? And who was
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Speaker 1: on the roof? Was anything on the roof? And if
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Speaker 1: this thing can get twenty feet up into a tree,
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Speaker 1: it certainly can get on the roof of my cabin,
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Speaker 1: I would imagine. But what was it? So he's having
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Speaker 1: this type of thought process, and he's realizing too that
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Speaker 1: it's not that late in the night. He still has
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Speaker 1: hours until the sun's gonna come up. And as he's
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Speaker 1: basically panicking and feeding off his own paranoia, and it's
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Speaker 1: getting worse and worse by the second, he hears tapping
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Speaker 1: on the door on the front door of his cabin,
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Speaker 1: and his heart sinks, and he and his dog kind
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Speaker 1: of look in the direction of the tapping, and he
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Speaker 1: knows he's not gonna go open the door. He knows
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Speaker 1: the door is locked. He knows everything is locked. He's
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Speaker 1: panicking that maybe it wasn't, but he knows he locked it.
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Speaker 1: And the tapping just sounds like a finger tapping on
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Speaker 1: the window. And at some point the tapping stops, and
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Speaker 1: he thinks, Okay, maybe they'll just go away. And then
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Speaker 1: he hears what sounds like footsteps outside, and then tapping
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Speaker 1: begins on the side of his cabin, not the front
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Speaker 1: door anymore, like the wall of the cabin. Now it's
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Speaker 1: a little bit louder. The tapping continues up the side
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Speaker 1: of the house and then it stops, and he's sitting
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Speaker 1: there and he's thinking, whatever this is is walking around
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Speaker 1: my cabin. And then he hears tapping on the little
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Speaker 1: slit that is the window that feeds into the bathroom
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Speaker 1: that's right behind the bedroom that he's in right now,
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Speaker 1: so it six feet away, maybe ten feet away. Whatever
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Speaker 1: this thing is is now literally just a small paned
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Speaker 1: glass away tapping on the glass. And so now he's
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Speaker 1: petrified and he's just hoping that this thing goes away.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't. It goes to the other side of the
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Speaker 1: cabin and starts tapping in the wall on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the cabin and makes it all the way
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Speaker 1: back to the front or it begins tapping on the
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Speaker 1: glass of the front window, back to the door, and
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Speaker 1: he's just thinking, like, whatever this is is walking around
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Speaker 1: my cabin tapping all over my cabin, and all the
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Speaker 1: tapping stops, and his heart's racing. It's the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night. He's he's in the middle of the woods
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Speaker 1: somewhere he's totally isolated. And then it's like his worst
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Speaker 1: nightmare comes true. He hears footsteps on his balcony and
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Speaker 1: then tapping right on the big sliding glass doors of
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Speaker 1: the door leading out to the balcony, and he knows
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Speaker 1: that right behind a blackout curtain and a pane of
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Speaker 1: glass is this tall man more than likely who's right
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Speaker 1: on his balcony. And then tapping on the balcony goes
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Speaker 1: on and on and on, and then all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden it stops, and he's just waiting for it to
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Speaker 1: open the door and come inside, but it doesn't. Instead,
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Speaker 1: it goes on the roof and it starts tapping on
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Speaker 1: the roof directly above him, and the tapping continues all night,
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Speaker 1: and so finally the sun comes up. He hasn't slept
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Speaker 1: all night, and he finally gets the courage to go
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Speaker 1: over to the balcony and open up the curtains and
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Speaker 1: see what's out there. And when he does, there is
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Speaker 1: nothing out there, but there's footprints, as if someone had
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Speaker 1: been pacing on the balcony all night. He opens it
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Speaker 1: up and finally just jumps out and looks up on
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Speaker 1: his roof. There's nothing on his roof. He can see
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Speaker 1: all these footprints on his roof. Look down and it's
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Speaker 1: up a racetrack of footprints all around his house. Someone
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Speaker 1: had been basically stalking his house all night. And then
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Speaker 1: the footsteps retreat all the way to the sitting tree
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Speaker 1: and then go back into the woods. He packed up
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Speaker 1: his stuff, he left, and he couldn't have been happier
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Speaker 1: that the family sold that cabin because he was never
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Speaker 1: going to go back. So to this day, he has
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Speaker 1: no idea what it was. And even if it was
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Speaker 1: just a person who was tapping on your windows and
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Speaker 1: your walls, and you and your roof and your balcony,
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Speaker 1: even who was just a human being doing that, that
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Speaker 1: would be horrifying, let alone if it was something else,
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Speaker 1: something paranormal, and so if you want to check out
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Speaker 1: my video about my experience, it's on my channel called
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Speaker 1: what I Saw in My Room Still Haunts Me. It's
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Speaker 1: eerily similar to the one that I just described as
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Speaker 1: this seventeen year old in organ and so I'd love
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Speaker 1: to hear in the comments what you think was doing
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Speaker 1: all that tapping and if it's possible that was just
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Speaker 1: some person screwing with this poor kid, or maybe it
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Speaker 1: was something else. So in the comments, and I'll try
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