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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories that all
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Speaker 1: center around creatures. The first story you'll hear is sort
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Speaker 1: On the evening of December twenty fourth, two thousand and one,
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Speaker 1: a forty eight year old businessman named Kevin Butler was
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Speaker 1: in his kitchen inside of his home.
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Speaker 2: In Dallas, Texas, preparing food. The following day.
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Speaker 1: He was going to bring this food to a Christmas
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Speaker 1: party at his friend's house. And as Kevin was preparing
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Speaker 1: this food, he heard his friend Larry, who spent a
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Speaker 1: lot of time at his house, called to him from
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Speaker 1: down the hall. Now, Kevin didn't really hear what Larry wanted,
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Speaker 1: but he could tell from the tone of his voice that,
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Speaker 1: you know, he wanted him to come over there right now.
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Speaker 1: And so Kevin said, okay, you know, I'll be there
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Speaker 1: in a second. But then after washing off his hands
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Speaker 1: and beginning to walk down the hall to go see Larry,
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Speaker 1: Kevin heard another sound that stopped him in his tracks.
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Speaker 1: He heard the sound of two men's voices coming from
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Speaker 1: outside of his house. The men sounded drunk, and they
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Speaker 1: sounded like they were literally in his front yard. And
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Speaker 1: also Kevin thought he recognized the voices, and so instinctively
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Speaker 1: Kevin flew over the door and whipped it open, and
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Speaker 1: sure enough, it was Johnny Sarna, one of Kevin's former employees,
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Speaker 1: and Daniel Torres, who was Johnny's half brother. These were
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Speaker 1: the two men he thought he heard outside, and here
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Speaker 1: they are, And even though Kevin was expecting to see
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Speaker 1: them when he opened the door, it was like seeing
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Speaker 1: them in real life was just totally scendiary. Kevin was
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Speaker 1: immediately so mad. For several months, Kevin and Johnny had
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Speaker 1: been in this very public feud over money, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: Johnny at one point had he been tried to steal
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Speaker 1: from Kevin by forging a check. And so now Kevin
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Speaker 1: looked right at Johnny and Daniel and goes, oh, what
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Speaker 1: are you guys here to steal from me again? And
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Speaker 1: in response, Johnny didn't say anything, He just charged forward
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Speaker 1: and punched Kevin square in the face. Kevin was so
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Speaker 1: stunned that he practically fell over, and then before he
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Speaker 1: could do anything, Johnny and Daniel had pummeled him to
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Speaker 1: the ground and were kicking and punching him, and then
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Speaker 1: they dragged him further into his house and slammed the
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Speaker 1: door behind him.
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Speaker 2: Kevin continued to try to get away, but he just couldn't.
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Speaker 1: One of the brothers was holding him down, and then
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Speaker 1: before long one of the others had gone off and
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Speaker 1: come back with electrical cord and they tied him up.
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Speaker 1: And then once Kevin literally was fully bound and couldn't
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Speaker 1: go anywhere, the brothers went into the kitchen got knives,
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Speaker 1: came back, and they began stabbing Kevin over and over
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Speaker 1: and over again. And as all this commotion was happening
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Speaker 1: out in the living room, Kevin's friend Larry, who was
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Speaker 1: right down the hall, heard the whole thing. He heard
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Speaker 1: the sound of you know, the two drunk guys coming in.
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Speaker 1: He heard the sound of Kevin clearly being attacked, and
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Speaker 1: at first, you know, Larry was terrified and didn't know
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Speaker 1: what to do. But as he heard the sound of
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Speaker 1: Kevin screaming out for help, Larry jumped into action and
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Speaker 1: he flew down the hallway and he charged out there,
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Speaker 1: and he saw Daniel still on top of Kevin, stabbing him,
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Speaker 1: and Larry just went right after Daniel. Now Larry was
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Speaker 1: unarmed and really didn't stand much of a chance to
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Speaker 1: begin with, but he did whatever he could to try
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Speaker 1: to get Daniel off. He began biting and scratching him
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Speaker 1: and doing whatever he could, but it just it wasn't enough,
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Speaker 1: and eventually Daniel overpowered Larry, and then before long, Johnny
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Speaker 1: and Daniel were not just stabbing Kevin, but were also
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Speaker 1: stabbing Larry. And so in the end, both Kevin and Larry,
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Speaker 1: the two friends, were stabbed to death. And then after
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Speaker 1: they were dead, Johnny and Daniel.
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Speaker 2: Fled the scene.
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Speaker 1: But what the two half brothers didn't know was that
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Speaker 1: even though they had just killed Larry, Larry had actually
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Speaker 1: just made sure those two brothers would get caught because
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Speaker 1: when Larry tried to fight Daniel off, he had literally
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Speaker 1: bit Daniel and gotten Daniel's blood on his mouth. And ultimately,
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Speaker 1: when the police showed up, they took the blood from
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Speaker 1: Larry's mouth and that was DNA evidence and it led
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Speaker 1: them right to Daniel, and so Daniel and Johnny were
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Speaker 1: soon arrested and charged with murder. However, they were only
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Speaker 1: charged with one murder, and that's because during the attack,
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Speaker 1: when Larry flew down the hall to try to protect Kevin, well,
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Speaker 1: he literally flew because Larry was not a person. Larry
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Speaker 1: was Kevin's pet cockatoo and he was named after Larry Bird.
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Speaker 1: Kevin had adopted Larry two years earlier and the two
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Speaker 1: had become like best friends. And so when Larry hurd
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Speaker 1: his best friend Kevin being attacked, he flew in to
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Speaker 1: try to help, and he wound up clawing and pecking
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Speaker 1: at Daniel's head, ultimately getting Daniel's blood on his beak.
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Speaker 2: Which led to their arrest.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Torres and Johnny Serna were both ultimately convicted of
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Speaker 1: murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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Speaker 1: At six thirty pm on July twenty ninth, twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: a fifteen year old girl named Talia de Villa Diaz
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Speaker 1: stood right outside her back door of her house, staring
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Speaker 1: out at the thick, dense, shaft we rainforest that was
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Speaker 1: her backyard. Talia lived in a tiny, isolated village in
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Speaker 1: Peru that was literally in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
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Speaker 1: So as she was looking out, I mean, she would
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Speaker 1: have seen these huge tropical trees and heard the sound
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Speaker 1: of howler monkeys and exotic birds and animals moving all about,
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Speaker 1: and the air would have been really thick and humid,
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Speaker 1: but she wasn't thinking about any of that. Instead, she
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Speaker 1: was focused on this grapefruit tree that was only a
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Speaker 1: few yards away from her house. She wanted to go
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Speaker 1: get a grapefruit and bring it inside and make juice
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Speaker 1: for her family. However, Talia was scared, and she was
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Speaker 1: scared for two reasons. The first reason was this was
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Speaker 1: the Amazon, an inherently dangerous place, especially at night. There
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Speaker 1: were loads of predators out there, like snakes and jaguars.
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Speaker 1: But the other reason she was scared was that she
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Speaker 1: was worried there could actually be something worse out in
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Speaker 1: the rainforests, worse than any predator she.
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Speaker 2: Was used to.
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Speaker 1: And that was because over the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: people in Talia's village had been claiming they were seeing
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Speaker 1: these shadowy figures lurking in the tree with these bright
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Speaker 1: green eyes that would occasionally seem like they were hunting
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Speaker 1: the people of the village, like anytime they went out.
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Speaker 1: It was like these figures were kind of lurking off
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Speaker 1: in the distance, but nobody knew what they were. The
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Speaker 1: rumor around the village was that these shadowy figures were
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Speaker 1: actually pellakaras, which translates literally to face peelers. People in
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Speaker 1: Talia's village believed that Pellakaras were foreigners who would kidnap
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Speaker 1: locals and cut their throats and peel the skin of
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Speaker 1: their face off and then sell their body fat on
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Speaker 1: the black market. And the locals were so freaked out
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Speaker 1: that pelakaras could be around that they began performing nightly
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Speaker 1: patrols to keep the villagers safe. So Talia again was
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Speaker 1: very scared to even leave her house at this point,
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Speaker 1: but she was also trying to be reasonable. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she'd gone out and gotten a grapefruit many times in
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Speaker 1: the past. This was not some new behavior, you know.
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Speaker 1: So she's looking out and she sees the grapefruit tree
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Speaker 1: and she knows there's a nightly patrol out right now,
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Speaker 1: and I only have to go a few yards and
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Speaker 1: get the fruit and get right back in the house.
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Speaker 1: Like how big of a deal could this possibly be?
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Speaker 1: And so after taking one more look around and not
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Speaker 1: seeing anybody or hearing anything that was out of place,
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Speaker 1: she took a breath and then rushed out to the tree.
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Speaker 1: She grabbed a grapefruit, and as she was turning around,
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Speaker 1: she froze because her worst nightmare had just been realized.
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Speaker 1: Now standing between her and her back door were these
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Speaker 1: two hulking, dark figures, and one of them was like
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Speaker 1: so tall it was practically the size of a tree.
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Speaker 2: And they both had these.
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Speaker 1: Piercing, glowing green eyes, and they were looking right at Talia,
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Speaker 1: and Talia was so instantaneously petrified that all she could
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Speaker 1: do was just stand there and stare back into their
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Speaker 1: green eyes. And as she did, she began to notice
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Speaker 1: that their faces were grotesquely elongated, almost like they had
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Speaker 1: masks on. And then before Talia could do anything, the
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Speaker 1: really tall one began sort of gliding towards her, not
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Speaker 1: stepping towards her, but literally almost hovering off the ground
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Speaker 1: towards Talia. And then suddenly Talia was being grabbed thrown
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Speaker 1: to the ground, and the instant Talia hit the ground,
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Speaker 1: these two figures descended on her and pinned her there,
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Speaker 1: and then one of them reached down and pressed their
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Speaker 1: hand over her mouth and her nose, and she couldn't breathe.
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Speaker 1: And then she sees the other one is holding what
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Speaker 1: looked like a box cutter or a knife, and they
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Speaker 1: put it right up to her neck, and suddenly it's
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Speaker 1: like Talia understands these are Pelikaras, they're gonna slit her throat,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna kill her, and so she has this sudden
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Speaker 1: burst of energy and she manages to push them off
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Speaker 1: of her, and when she did, their hand came off
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Speaker 1: her mouth, and she streamed out for help, and she
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Speaker 1: heard somewhere in the village voices yelling back to her,
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Speaker 1: and then she heard footsteps and she knew it was
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Speaker 1: the Night Patrol coming to save her. And so at
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Speaker 1: this point, the figures released Talia, and she scrambled to
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Speaker 1: her feet and immediately ran towards her house, right as
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Speaker 1: the Night Patrol came bounding into her yard, and one
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Speaker 1: of the men had a gun and he raised it
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Speaker 1: and began shooting in the direction of the figures, and Talia,
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Speaker 1: you know, she's totally panicked, and she turns around and
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Speaker 1: she looks at her attackers, and she's expecting them to
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Speaker 1: be fleeing into the rainforest, but instead, these dark figures
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Speaker 1: they were like levitating in the sky, and they were
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Speaker 1: looking down at Talia and the Night Patrol with their
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Speaker 1: glowing green eyes as they literally began to levitate into
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Speaker 1: the sky and the whole time, the night patrols firing
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Speaker 1: repeatedly at these things, and they just drifted off into
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Speaker 1: the night and disappeared. Talia ultimately would not suffer any
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Speaker 1: physical injuries from this encounter, but mentally she was a wreck,
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Speaker 1: and frankly, so was the rest of the people in
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Speaker 1: her village, especially those who were on the night patrol
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Speaker 1: and with Talia witnessed these figures with green eyes flying
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Speaker 1: away into the sky. I mean, the fear in this
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Speaker 1: village following this encounter was through the roof. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: ultimately the Peruvian government would get involved after this encounter
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Speaker 1: and they would investigate to try to figure out, you know,
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Speaker 1: what happened to Talia, and they would ultimately conclude that
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Speaker 1: there was an illegal mining operation happening somewhere in the rainforest,
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Speaker 1: and some of these miners, in an effort to gere
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Speaker 1: people away from coming anywhere near their operation, they got
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Speaker 1: their hands on jetpacks, wore armor and masks, and then
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Speaker 1: went into villages like Talia's and basically pretended to be
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Speaker 1: aliens and then did you know, fly off on their jetpacks.
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Speaker 1: That is the official story as of right now. However,
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Speaker 1: people like Talia and the other people in our village,
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Speaker 1: and many other people who live in the Amazon rainforest
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Speaker 1: who have come in contact with these figures with green eyes,
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Speaker 1: they say those are no miners. Those are either pellakaras
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Speaker 1: or they are creatures from another world. On the afternoon
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Speaker 1: of May twenty first, nineteen seventy four, a thirty nine
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Speaker 1: year old man named Pelargomez walked through a forest in Argentina,
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Speaker 1: and his hand was a machete and an axe, and
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Speaker 1: as he walked, he used the machete to clear brush,
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Speaker 1: and then eventually he reached this huge tree and he
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Speaker 1: put the machete down and gripped his axe and got
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Speaker 1: ready to chop it down. However, before Pilar took his
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Speaker 1: first swing, he looked up and he noticed, pretty high
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Speaker 1: up on this tree were these very deep claw marks
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Speaker 1: right into the bark of the tree. Now, at first
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Speaker 1: he thought, oh, that's got to be a bear's claw marks.
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Speaker 1: But the more he looked at it, the more he
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Speaker 1: realized that would have been an enormous bear to leave
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Speaker 1: marks like those. I mean, these are deep and wide
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Speaker 1: claw marks. Now, Pillar was a professional lumberjack and he
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Speaker 1: actually lived in this section of forest. He owned this
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Speaker 1: plot of the forest. His cabin was only a few
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Speaker 1: yards away, and he was used to coming in contact
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Speaker 1: with the wildlife like bears. Now his friends and family
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Speaker 1: thought he was crazy for living out here. I mean,
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Speaker 1: his neighbors were miles away, he didn't have a phone
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Speaker 1: or a car. He lived totally alone, and so in
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Speaker 1: virtue of living in this isolated forest, Polar routinely came
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Speaker 1: across animals that lived out here, like bears, and it
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Speaker 1: didn't really frighten him. He sort of understood that's part
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Speaker 1: of living out here. But he knew his friends and
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Speaker 1: family thought he was totally crazy for living out here,
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Speaker 1: and not just because it was so isolated, not just
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Speaker 1: because he didn't have a car or a phone and
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Speaker 1: was totally alone basically twenty four to seven, but because,
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Speaker 1: according to local legend, this particular forest was effectively haunted.
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Speaker 1: There were these apparent unnatural, huge creatures that roamed this
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Speaker 1: forest and would prey on people like pillar. But Pilar
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Speaker 1: didn't believe in any of that nonsense. He knew that,
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Speaker 1: you know, as he looked at these claw marks, this
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Speaker 1: has to be a bear. This is not some huge,
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Speaker 1: unnatural creature that's completely made up. And so Pilar just
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Speaker 1: went ahead and began cutting this tree down, and right
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Speaker 1: as this tree smashed into the ground, making a thundering boom,
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Speaker 1: at the exact same moment, basically right behind Polar, he
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Speaker 1: heard this horrible growling noise like a huge animal was
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Speaker 1: basically coming up right behind him, and so Pilar he
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Speaker 1: whipped around and looked, but there was nothing there. It
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Speaker 1: was just a wide open forest. Everywhere he looked, it
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Speaker 1: was just trees, nothing else. And so Pilar began to
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Speaker 1: think to himself, did I even hear that? I mean,
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Speaker 1: could I really have just been hearing the sound of
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Speaker 1: the tree hitting the ground that somehow also sounded like
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Speaker 1: a growl behind me? Like, am I, you know, psyching
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Speaker 1: myself out here? My creating stories in my head because
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about those claw marks?
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Speaker 2: And he was like, you know what, it's all going
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Speaker 2: to be in my head.
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Speaker 1: I didn't hear anything. I'm all alone out here. I'm safe,
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Speaker 1: I'm good. And so Pilar just got back to work
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Speaker 1: processing this tree. For the next couple of hours. He
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Speaker 1: didn't see or hear anything strange. He just continued to
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Speaker 1: chop this tree into smaller pieces and then he would
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Speaker 1: carry those pieces right over to his cabin, which again
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Speaker 1: was not far away, and he stacked up this huge
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Speaker 1: pile of lumber right beside the side of his cabin.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, when the tree was all processed and
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Speaker 1: Pilar was back in his cabin, he realized he was
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Speaker 1: pretty hungry. At this point, it was getting dark outside
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Speaker 1: and it was time for dinner. Typically, Polar would eat
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Speaker 1: his dinner outside. He enjoyed listening to the crickets and
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Speaker 1: just feeling the warm night air, and tonight was no excit.
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Speaker 1: So he grabbed some stew from the night before he
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Speaker 1: went outside, and outside he had this table that was
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Speaker 1: right next to his cabin, and then just be on
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Speaker 1: the table, farther away from the cabin was this wood stove,
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Speaker 1: and so he got the wood stove going and then
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Speaker 1: he put his stew on the stove to warm up,
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Speaker 1: and then he sat down at the table and he
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Speaker 1: just sat there enjoying the night, waiting for his food
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Speaker 1: to be done. And as Pilar just sat there relaxing,
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Speaker 1: he suddenly realized that he couldn't hear any crickets. They
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Speaker 1: had gone completely silent. And then as he looked around
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Speaker 1: at the dark forest, he realized the forest was actually silent.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there was no noise whatsoever. The only noise
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Speaker 1: was his stove. And Pilar knew that the only time
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Speaker 1: the forest got this way was if there was some
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Speaker 1: big predator around. And so right away Pilar thought back
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Speaker 1: to the claw marks in the tree and you know
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Speaker 1: that growling sound that he wasn't sure if he heard
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Speaker 1: or not, and he's thinking, you know, maybe the bear
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Speaker 1: is back. And so Pilar scanned the tree line, you know,
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Speaker 1: trying to see movement, but there was nothing. It was
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Speaker 1: just deadly silent and just a dark forest in all directions.
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Speaker 1: And so, feeling really unsettled, Pillar decided he should just
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Speaker 1: go back inside his cabin and eat in.
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Speaker 2: There where it was more safe.
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Speaker 1: And so Pilar stood up and he walked towards his
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Speaker 1: cabin and he was about to go inside when he
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Speaker 1: remembered he had left the stove on with the stew on.
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Speaker 2: Top warming up.
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Speaker 1: And so he turned back around and he looked out
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Speaker 1: at the dark forest and it's still totally silent.
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Speaker 2: He can't see any movement.
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Speaker 1: Then as quick as he could, he walked past the
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Speaker 1: table out to the stove. He shut the bence in
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Speaker 1: the stove, and he was about to grab the stew
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Speaker 1: to go back inside with it when something really powerful
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Speaker 1: struck him in the back, knocking the wind out of him.
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Speaker 1: And then before he could react, he looked down and
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Speaker 1: he saw this massive, furry arm with sharp claws reaching
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Speaker 1: around him, pulling at his midsection. It was the bear,
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Speaker 1: and so immediately Polar began thrashing, trying to get away,
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Speaker 1: and he managed to kind of stumble forward, and his
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Speaker 1: machete was on the ground near the stove, and he
17:52
Speaker 1: fumbles down. He grabs the machete and he wheels around
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Speaker 1: to strike this bear to get rid of it. But
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Speaker 1: the second he saw the bear, he realized it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a bear, and instinctively he knew he just had to run,
18:06
Speaker 1: and so he turned and began sprinting towards that lumber
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Speaker 1: pile he had cut up before, right next to his cabin.
18:11
Speaker 1: Then as he was scrambling up this pile, he could
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Speaker 1: hear the sound of this thing running towards him, and
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Speaker 1: then he felt another explosion on the side of his head.
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Speaker 1: And even though he now has been wounded, probably gravely,
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Speaker 1: it was like all adrenaline and he kept going up
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Speaker 1: the lumber pile, and he clambered onto the roof of
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Speaker 1: his cabin. Then he turned around, getting ready to fight
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Speaker 1: as best as he could whatever this thing was.
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Speaker 2: But when he looked out, this thing was just gone.
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Speaker 1: The forest was deadly silent again and there was nothing
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Speaker 1: out there. And so as he's sitting there kind of
18:39
Speaker 1: looking around waiting for this thing to pop back up again,
18:42
Speaker 1: he reached up and he felt the side of his
18:43
Speaker 1: head and his ear was missing. This thing had ripped
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Speaker 1: his ear off when it hit him in the side
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Speaker 1: of the head. Polar would remain on the roof of
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Speaker 1: his cabin all night, just constantly scanning looking for this
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Speaker 1: bear creature to return, but it didn't. The forest just
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Speaker 1: remained totally silent and nothing happened all night, and then
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Speaker 1: finally in the morning, when the sun began to come up,
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Speaker 1: the forest kind of went back to normal. And at
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Speaker 1: that point, Pilar he's kind of delirious from blood loss
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Speaker 1: and the impact to his head, and he knew he
19:12
Speaker 1: just had to get out of here and go get help,
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Speaker 1: and so he climbed off the roof and then he
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Speaker 1: ran about a mile to the nearest building, which was
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Speaker 1: this woodworking shop, and when he got there, there were
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Speaker 1: a couple of people there and when they saw the
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Speaker 1: state Pilar was in, they didn't need to be told
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Speaker 1: that he needed to go to the hospital. They just
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Speaker 1: instinctively put him in the car and drove him there.
19:30
Speaker 1: After Pillar was stabilized and his wound was treated, and
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Speaker 1: he was sort of in recovery at the hospital, the
19:35
Speaker 1: police showed up to interview him to see what happened,
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Speaker 1: and Pilar would tell them the story about how, you know,
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Speaker 1: the day before he had seen those claw marks in
19:42
Speaker 1: the tree, and then he had heard that loud growling
19:44
Speaker 1: sound behind him, or so he thought, and then that night,
19:48
Speaker 1: you know, this bear had attacked him at his cabin.
19:50
Speaker 1: And he said at some point he'd broken away and
19:52
Speaker 1: grabbed the machete, and he turned to defend himself and
19:56
Speaker 1: he got a good look at this bear and it
19:58
Speaker 1: was at least six feet tall. It was black, hair,
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Speaker 1: had sharp claws. I mean, it was every bit a bear,
20:04
Speaker 1: except its face. It wasn't a bear's face. It was
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Speaker 1: a human face. Now to this point, as Pilar was
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Speaker 1: telling his story, one of the police officers was taking notes.
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Speaker 1: You know, everything Pilar said. He was writing it down
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Speaker 1: but when Pilar began talking about the bear with the
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Speaker 1: human face, the officer just stopped taking notes, and the
20:22
Speaker 1: officer said, you know that can't be true. You know
20:24
Speaker 1: there aren't any bears with human faces. But Pilar, you know,
20:28
Speaker 1: he's like a rugged lumberjack who lives in the forest
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Speaker 1: by himself, and he's telling these officers. I know how
20:35
Speaker 1: crazy this sounds. I know it's not realistic, but I'm
20:38
Speaker 1: telling you what I saw is this bear with a
20:41
Speaker 1: human face. That's what I saw. But the officer, just
20:44
Speaker 1: one percent did not believe him, and ultimately this went
20:48
Speaker 1: down as simply a bear attack and that was it.
20:50
Speaker 2: The case was closed.
20:51
Speaker 1: However, despite what the police said, since the attack on Pillar,
20:55
Speaker 1: there have been at least thirty people who have come
20:58
Speaker 1: forward to say they either firsthand or we're attacked by
21:03
Speaker 1: this bear like creature with a human face in that forest.
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Speaker 1: In Argentina, sightings are so common that locals even came
21:10
Speaker 1: up with a name for this creature. They call it
21:12
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