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The WORST way to find out you’re not alone in the forest · Crime and Horror

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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 in Dallas, Texas,
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Speaker 1: preparing food.
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Speaker 2: 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 2: He heard the.
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Speaker 1: Sound of two men's voices coming from outside of his house.
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Speaker 1: The men sounded drunk, and they sounded like they were
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Speaker 1: literally in his front yard. And also Kevin thought he
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Speaker 1: recognized the voices, and so instinctively Kevin flew over the
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Speaker 1: door and whipped it open, and sure enough, it was
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Speaker 1: Johnny Sarna, one of Kevin's former employees, and Daniel Torres,
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Speaker 1: who was Johnny's half brother. These were the two men
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Speaker 1: he thought he heard outside, and here they are, And
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Speaker 1: even though Kevin was expecting to see them when he
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Speaker 1: opened the door, it was like seeing them in real
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Speaker 1: life was just totally in scendiary.
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Speaker 2: Kevin was immediately so mad.
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Speaker 1: For several months, Kevin and Johnny had been in this
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Speaker 1: very public feud over money, and in fact, Johnny at
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Speaker 1: one point had even tried to steal from Kevin by
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Speaker 1: forging a check.
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Speaker 2: 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.
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Speaker 2: And as all this.
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Speaker 1: Commotion was happening out in the living room, Kevin's friend Larry,
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Speaker 1: who was right down the hall, heard the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: He heard the sound of you know, the two drunk
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Speaker 1: guys coming in. He heard the sound of Kevin clearly
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Speaker 1: being attacked, and at first, you know, Larry was terrified
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Speaker 1: and didn't know what to do. But as he heard
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Speaker 1: the sound of Kevin screaming out for help, Larry jumped
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Speaker 1: into action and he flew down the hallway and he
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Speaker 1: charged out there, and he saw Daniel still on top
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Speaker 1: of Kevin, stabbing him, and Larry just went right after Daniel.
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Speaker 1: Now Larry was unarmed and really didn't stand much of
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Speaker 1: a chance to begin with, but he did whatever he
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Speaker 1: could to try to get Daniel off. He began biting
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Speaker 1: and scratching him and doing whatever he could, but it
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Speaker 1: just it wasn't enough, and eventually Daniel overpowered Larry, and
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Speaker 1: then before long, Johnny and Daniel were not just stabbing Kevin,
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Speaker 1: but were also stabbing Larry. And so in the end,
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Speaker 1: both Kevin and Larry, the two friends, were stabbed to death.
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Speaker 1: And then after they were dead, Johnny and Daniel fled
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Speaker 1: the scene. But what the two half brothers didn't know
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Speaker 1: was that even though they had just killed Larry, Larry
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Speaker 1: had actually just made sure those two brothers would get
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Speaker 1: caught because when Larry tried to fight Daniel off, he
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Speaker 1: had literally bit Daniel and gotten Daniel's blood on his mouth.
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Speaker 1: And ultimately, when the police showed up, they took the
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Speaker 1: blood from Larry's mouth and that was DNA evidence and
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Speaker 1: it led them right to Daniel, and so Daniel and
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Speaker 1: Johnny were soon arrested and.
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Speaker 2: Charged with murder.
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Speaker 1: However, they were only charged with one murder, and that's
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Speaker 1: because during the attack, when Larry flew down the hall
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Speaker 1: to try to protect Kevin, well, he literally flew because
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Speaker 1: Larry was not a person. Larry was Kevin's pet cockatoo
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Speaker 1: and he was named after Larry Bird. Kevin had adopted
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Speaker 1: Larry two years earlier and the two had become like
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Speaker 1: best friends. And so when Larry hurd his best friend
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Speaker 1: Kevin being attacked, he flew in to try to help,
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Speaker 1: and he wound up clawing and pecking at Daniel's head,
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Speaker 1: ultimately getting Daniel's blood on his beak, which.
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Speaker 2: Led to their arrest.
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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 Diez
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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 shadow to 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 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 pelikaras 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. So she's
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Speaker 1: looking out and she sees the grapefruit tree and she
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Speaker 1: knows there's a nightly patrol out right now, and I
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Speaker 1: only have to go a few yards and get the
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Speaker 1: fruit and get right back in the house.
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Speaker 2: 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 like,
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Speaker 1: Talia understands these are pellikaras, 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 gear
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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 Talias and basically pretended to be aliens.
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Speaker 1: And then did you fly off on their jetpacks. That
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Speaker 1: is the official story as of right now. However, people
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Speaker 1: like Talia and the other people in our village, and
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Speaker 1: many other people who live in the Amazon rainforest who
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Speaker 1: 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 Polar Gomez walked through a forest
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Speaker 1: in Argentina, and his hand was.
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Speaker 2: A machete and an axe, and as he.
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Speaker 1: Walked to use the machete to clear brush, and then
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Speaker 1: eventually he reached this huge tree and he put the
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Speaker 1: machete down, gripped his axe, and got ready to chop
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Speaker 1: it down. However, before Polar took his first swing, he
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Speaker 1: looked up and he noticed, pretty high up on this
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Speaker 1: tree were these very deep claw marks right into the
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Speaker 1: bark of the tree. Now, at first he thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be a bear's claw marks. But the
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Speaker 1: more he looked at it, the more he realized that
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Speaker 1: would have been an enormous bear to leave marks like those.
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Speaker 2: I mean, these are deep and wide claw marks.
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Speaker 1: Now, Pilar was a professional lumberjack and he actually lived
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Speaker 1: in this section of forest. He owned this plot of
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Speaker 1: the forest, his cabin was only a few yards away,
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Speaker 1: and he was used to coming in contact with the
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Speaker 1: wildlife like bears. Now his friends and family thought he
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Speaker 1: was crazy for living out here. I mean, his neighbors
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Speaker 1: were miles away, he didn't have a phone or a car.
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Speaker 1: He lived totally alone. And so in virtue of living
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Speaker 1: in this isolated forest, Pillar routinely came across animals that
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Speaker 1: lived out here, like bears, and it didn't really frighten him.
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Speaker 2: He sort of understood that's part of living out here.
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Speaker 1: But he knew his friends and family thought he was
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Speaker 1: totally crazy for living out here, and not just because
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Speaker 1: it was so isolated, not just because he didn't have
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Speaker 1: a car or a phone and was totally alone basically
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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, but because, according to local legend,
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Speaker 1: this particular forest was effectively haunted. There were these apparent unnatural,
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Speaker 1: huge creatures that roamed this forest and would prey on
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Speaker 1: people like Pillar. But Pilar didn't believe in any of
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Speaker 1: that nonsense. He knew that, you know, as he looked
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Speaker 1: at these claw marks, this.
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Speaker 2: Has to be a bear.
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Speaker 1: This is not some huge, unnatural creature that's completely made up.
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Speaker 1: And so Pillar just went ahead and began cutting this
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Speaker 1: tree down, and right as this tree smashed into the ground,
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Speaker 1: making a thundering boom, at the exact same moment, basically
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Speaker 1: right behind Polar, he heard this horrible growling noise like
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Speaker 1: a huge animal was basically coming up right behind him,
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Speaker 1: and so Pilar he whipped around and looked, but there
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Speaker 1: was nothing there. It was just a wide open forest.
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Speaker 1: Everywhere he looked, it was just trees, nothing else. And
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Speaker 1: so Pilar began to think to himself, did I even
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Speaker 1: hear that? I mean, could I really have just been
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Speaker 1: hearing the sound of the tree hitting the ground that
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Speaker 1: somehow also sounded like a growl behind me? Like, am I,
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Speaker 1: you know, psyching myself out here? My creating stories in
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Speaker 1: my head because I'm thinking about.
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Speaker 2: Those claw marks? And He's like, you know what it's
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Speaker 2: all going 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 ecpit,
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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 and enjoying the night, waiting for his
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Speaker 1: food 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.
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Speaker 2: Maybe the bear is back.
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Speaker 1: And so Pilar scanned the tree line, you know, trying
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Speaker 1: to see movement, but there was nothing. It was just
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Speaker 1: deadly silent and just a dark forest in all directions,
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Speaker 1: and so, feeling really unsettled, Pilar decided he should just
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Speaker 1: go back inside his cabin and eat in there where
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Speaker 1: it was more safe. And so Pilar stood up and
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Speaker 1: he walked towards his cabin and he was about to
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Speaker 1: go inside when he remembered he had left the stove
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Speaker 1: on with the stew on top warming up. And so
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Speaker 1: he turned back around and he looked out at the
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Speaker 1: 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 vents from
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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 2: And then before he could react, he looked down and
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Speaker 2: he saw this massive.
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Speaker 1: Furry arm with sharp claws reaching around him, pulling at
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Speaker 1: his midsection. It was the bear, and so immediately Polar
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Speaker 1: began thrashing, trying to get away, and he managed to
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Speaker 1: kind of stumble forward and his machete.
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Speaker 2: He was on the ground near the stove, and he
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Speaker 2: fumbles down.
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Speaker 1: He grabs the machete and he wheels around to strike
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Speaker 1: this bear to get rid of it. But the second
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Speaker 1: he saw the bear, he realized it wasn't a bear,
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Speaker 1: and instinctively he knew he just had to run, and
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Speaker 1: so he turned and began sprinting towards that lumber pile
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Speaker 1: he had cut up before, right next to his cabin.
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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
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Speaker 1: looking around waiting for this thing to pop back up again,
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Speaker 1: he reached up and he felt the side of his
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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 sil 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
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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 Polar 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.
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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
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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
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Speaker 1: the tree, and then he had heard that loud growling
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Speaker 1: sound behind him, or so he thought, and then that night,
19:48
Speaker 1: you know, this bear.
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Speaker 2: Had attacked him at his cabin.
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Speaker 1: And he said at some point he'd broken away and
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Speaker 1: grabbed the machete and he turned to defend himself and
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Speaker 1: he got a good look at this bear, and it
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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,
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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 Pallar began talking about the bear with the
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Speaker 1: human face. The officer just stopped taking notes, and the
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Speaker 1: officer said, you know that can't be true. You know
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Speaker 1: there aren't any bears with human faces. But Pilar, you know,
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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
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Speaker 1: crazy this sounds. I know it's not realistic, but I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you what I saw is this bear with a
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Speaker 1: human face.
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Speaker 2: That's what I saw. But the officer, just.
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Speaker 1: One percent did not believe him, and ultimately this went
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Speaker 1: down as simply a bear attack and that was it.
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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
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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
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