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LE001 What Lurks in Obedska Bara? A Serbian Wilderness Horror Story · The Eye of Jupiter Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so this first story comes to us from Vladimir,
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  Speaker 1: and it's called Vladimir's Encounter in the Obdeska Bara. So
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  Speaker 1: I looked this up on Google, and the Obdeska Bara
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  Speaker 1: is a nature reserve in northern Serbia, and it's very remote,
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  Speaker 1: very large, a lot of swamps, and difficult terrain to traverse.
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  Speaker 1: And Vladimir said he needed to reach out and get
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  Speaker 1: his story out there because no one believes him. So, Vladimir,
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate the fact that you decided... uh, to
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  Speaker 1: choose me to help you get your story out. So
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  Speaker 1: here we go. It's going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: mistakes in here, but you know, it's the first time around.
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  Speaker 1: Let's try. So hello, Mr. Franklin or hello, Thomas is
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  Speaker 1: as he wrote it. Uh, thank you very much. I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate your time. I am 40 years old and
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  Speaker 1: I have always loved hiking and being in nature. I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy long hikes, spending time and resting in the forest.
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  Speaker 1: I am not a deer hunter and I have never
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  Speaker 1: had a hunting license. I carried a rifle wherever I
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  Speaker 1: could because I liked having it with me, but I
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  Speaker 1: always was very careful and responsible with weapons. My late
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  Speaker 1: father was a policeman, and he taught me from an
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  Speaker 1: early age how important it is to handle weapons safely.
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  Speaker 1: He also taught me how to shoot accurately. I never
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  Speaker 1: had the heart to kill an animal for sport, so
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  Speaker 1: I was never a hunter. I simply liked carrying a
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  Speaker 1: rifle with me when I went into the wilderness. All right. So,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Here we go. Into the wilderness. Before
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  Speaker 1: this experience, I believed in, I never believed, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: before this experience, I never believed in things like Bigfoot, werewolves,
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  Speaker 1: or dogmen. To me, they were just fairy tales from television.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up, I heard stories several times about strange creatures
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  Speaker 1: here in the Balkans, but I have always laughed at
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  Speaker 1: those stories. I thought they were just the wild imagination
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  Speaker 1: of old people. Oh boy, was I wrong. After my experience,
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  Speaker 1: I realized how ignorant I had been. I never went
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  Speaker 1: as far into the forest. I never went that far
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  Speaker 1: into the forest again. My whole attitude towards the wilderness changed.
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  Speaker 1: I became much more cautious until eventually it became difficult
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  Speaker 1: for me to even go into the forest. Alright, dude.
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  Speaker 1: My story happened in 2012 in the Abdeskavara Nature Reserve,
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  Speaker 1: which is a part of the I hope I get
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  Speaker 1: this pronounced, Zavaskia area. It is an incredibly rich environment.
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  Speaker 1: It is very old. The forest is mostly oak with
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  Speaker 1: enormous ancient trees. There are areas that are almost inaccessible
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  Speaker 1: to people. You can only reach them on foot, and
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  Speaker 1: very few people go that far because the vegetation is
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  Speaker 1: extremely dense and thick, or thick and dense, however you
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  Speaker 1: want to say that. So the forest is surrounded by swamps.
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  Speaker 1: and areas of quicksand. There is also a river that
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  Speaker 1: branches through the vegetation, creating waterways of different sizes. On this,
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  Speaker 1: or on that particular day, I had all my equipment
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  Speaker 1: with me, including a good knife, a high caliber rifle.
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  Speaker 1: I did not have a hunting license, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: I was not supposed to be carrying a rifle. I
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  Speaker 1: simply did not want to be in that environment without it,
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  Speaker 1: so I hid it Inside my sleeping bag. All right.
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  Speaker 1: A friend drove me to the reserve. We agreed that
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  Speaker 1: he would pick me up when I called him. And
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  Speaker 1: when I returned to the starting point, I hiked for
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  Speaker 1: about six hours. For most of that time, everything was peaceful.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the beauty of the forest and listened to
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  Speaker 1: the birds singing high in the trees. In some places,
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  Speaker 1: I saw small animals, insects, and larvae. but gradually something changed.
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  Speaker 1: The sounds of the forest began to disappear. All right,
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  Speaker 1: take a little drink of water here. So it continues.
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  Speaker 1: It was getting darker. By around seven in the evening,
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  Speaker 1: the forest was so dense that very little light could
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  Speaker 1: penetrate the trees. I decided to stop, make a fire,
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  Speaker 1: and prepare some food. The voice was, The fire was burning,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, the fire was burning and I began gathering wood.
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  Speaker 1: I was looking for something thick enough to keep the
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  Speaker 1: fire going when I suddenly heard something. It was coming
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  Speaker 1: from a short distance away. I heard a rumbling, like
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  Speaker 1: I heard a running step. Then came a heavy thump.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded almost like the step of a horse, but
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  Speaker 1: somehow it sounded to me as though whatever was approaching
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  Speaker 1: was running on two legs and Uh, fear immediately took over.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's scroll this up. I hurried back through
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  Speaker 1: the fire. I threw the thick piece of wood into
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  Speaker 1: the flames and grabbed my rifle. The fire created enough
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  Speaker 1: light to see several meters or meters around me. My
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  Speaker 1: flashlight was lying nearby. And when I picked it up,
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  Speaker 1: the beam illuminated the area. I will never forget that flashlight.
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  Speaker 1: It was shining directly in front of me. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember thinking that, uh, that anything approaching could clearly see
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  Speaker 1: where I was. All right. But I was almost paralyzed.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was happening so quickly. I could hear something move
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  Speaker 1: through the thick vegetation only a few meters away. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Then the undergrowth suddenly exploded something large and dark rushing
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  Speaker 1: through the vegetation. I was, uh, it was moving incredibly fast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm scrolling here, guys, so deal with me. Or bear
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  Speaker 1: with me, better said. Deal with me. Very egotistical. Anyhow.
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  Speaker 1: It ran in a zigzag pattern. Wow. There it is.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, Al. Al Santorica. Go check out that episode.
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  Speaker 1: It ran in a zigzag pattern moving from left to
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  Speaker 1: right several times before finally coming into view. Wow, that's
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  Speaker 1: fucking scary, dude. Even now, when I remember it, the
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  Speaker 1: first thing that comes to my mind is a gorilla
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  Speaker 1: breaking through the dense vegetation. But it wasn't a gorilla.
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  Speaker 1: It was bent down all the way towards the ground,
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  Speaker 1: but it was not walking on its front legs. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed almost as if it were scratching or reaching forward.
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  Speaker 1: I immediately realized that I was looking at something that
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  Speaker 1: I had never seen before. It had very black hair.
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  Speaker 1: Then I saw its eyes. Okay. They were dark, sparkling,
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  Speaker 1: watery eyes. They reminded me of the eyes of a
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  Speaker 1: cow when you approach it. It had long ears that
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  Speaker 1: bent backwards, and suddenly they straightened up. For a moment,
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  Speaker 1: they looked almost like pointed antennas, but they were definitely ears.
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  Speaker 1: It had a long... wet muzzle with long nostrils. Its
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  Speaker 1: mouth was closed, but I could, I could clearly see
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  Speaker 1: several teeth protruding from the upper jaw. The upper canine
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  Speaker 1: teeth were especially noticeable. They looked extremely long, perhaps around
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  Speaker 1: two inches. Then I saw his front legs. They were
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  Speaker 1: incredibly long and looked like, like, like, uh, arms and
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  Speaker 1: hands apart. than animal legs. Okay, so they look like
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  Speaker 1: arms and hands. They look more human-like. All right. I
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  Speaker 1: could see what appeared to be long fingers with claws.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there were five. I couldn't tell. But one thing
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  Speaker 1: was for certain. They were not paws. It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: he's experiencing a dog man here of sorts. All right.
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  Speaker 1: And then I fired. He fired his rifle. I was terrified.
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  Speaker 1: I felt as though I was about to faint. My
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  Speaker 1: legs became numb and felt as if they were buried
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  Speaker 1: in the ground. I aimed at the center of the body.
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  Speaker 1: Everything happened in an instant. My brain could barely process
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  Speaker 1: that what I was seeing because of fear and stress.
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  Speaker 1: I am completely convinced that if I had not fired,
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  Speaker 1: it would have attacked me. Holy crap, dude. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's roll stroll up here. It hit. I hit it
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  Speaker 1: at close range. The creature rolled to the side. It
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  Speaker 1: bounced toward my left side and then fired again, possibly
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  Speaker 1: two or three more times. And then for a fraction
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  Speaker 1: of a second, I saw something else. A small bushy tail.
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  Speaker 1: As the creature rolled, I also saw those abnormally long
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  Speaker 1: front limbs grabbing and striking at the ground as it
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  Speaker 1: tried to escape. Then something happened and looked completely unnatural.
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  Speaker 1: It pushed itself away with its legs and suddenly broke
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  Speaker 1: through the leaves and branches in the opposite direction. It
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  Speaker 1: moved at incredible speed. The vegetation was shaking violently as
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  Speaker 1: it disappeared. Then I heard a short scream. I was
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  Speaker 1: completely exhausted. Okay, a little drink of water. Ah, H2O.
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  Speaker 1: That's high quality H2O. I was shaking and sweating and
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  Speaker 1: I could barely make it through the night. But the
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  Speaker 1: real shock came afterward. I was convinced it would come back.
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  Speaker 1: I was wet, exhausted, and shaking. My mouth was completely dry.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, I was quietly sobbing, trying to catch
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  Speaker 1: my breath and figure out what I was going to
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  Speaker 1: do next. I barely managed to pack my things, but
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  Speaker 1: I was afraid to leave. I kept thinking, what if
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  Speaker 1: this thing comes back? or finds me on the road? Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, I even thought about digging a hole
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  Speaker 1: and burying myself so I could hide. Holy crap, dude.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man. I kept wondering what I had encountered. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Was it possible that I had come across some unknown
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  Speaker 1: animal That looked like a werewolf. Even drinking. That seemed ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Oh even thinking. Excuse me. Even thinking that seemed ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Right man. And then I wondered. Who could I possibly
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  Speaker 1: tell about this. If I survived. I stayed. I stayed nearby.
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  Speaker 1: And covered myself with branches and leaves. I also. I
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  Speaker 1: also wondered whether the creature had died. After I had
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  Speaker 1: shot it. I had been. Using a powerful ammunition, the.
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  Speaker 1: 338mm Lapua. Anyone, you can go ahead and write in
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  Speaker 1: the comments below if you know what that is. And
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  Speaker 1: I believed I had hit it at least three times.
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  Speaker 1: This creature was huge. From what I could tell, it
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  Speaker 1: was about five and a half feet tall at the
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  Speaker 1: shoulder and or head level. When bent over roughly up
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  Speaker 1: to my chin. It was extremely powerful looking and disturbing
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  Speaker 1: in all and in its overall shape. So it was
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  Speaker 1: just disturbing looking. All right. The strangest thing was this posture.
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  Speaker 1: It never once stood completely upright, but it was walking,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't walking on all four legs either. It
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  Speaker 1: had a very strange, intimidating posture. It was, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: it was much wider than a dog. It was much
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  Speaker 1: wider than a dog, much wider than any dog I
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  Speaker 1: had ever seen. So perhaps, okay, perhaps three times as wide.
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  Speaker 1: Its back was massive, almost like that of a wild boar.
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  Speaker 1: Because it remained bent over, its back appeared to have
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  Speaker 1: a hump. Its ears extended perhaps 20 centimeters, then suddenly
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  Speaker 1: stood upright. Its back's legs were much shorter than its
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  Speaker 1: front limbs. but they were shaped more like the legs
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  Speaker 1: of a dog. I had heard that other people in
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  Speaker 1: that area had heard such strange sounds and perhaps had
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  Speaker 1: even caught glimpses of something unusual before or after the encounter.
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  Speaker 1: But on this day, I have never heard of anyone
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  Speaker 1: finding or seeing this creature. Okay, I'm going to drink
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  Speaker 1: a water. It feels like I'm there, man. perhaps there
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  Speaker 1: is a simple reason for that. People rarely go that
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  Speaker 1: far into this forest. The terrain is incredibly difficult, thick,
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  Speaker 1: and dangerous. I believe I was approximately seven to eight
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  Speaker 1: miles into the forest when this happened. I also know
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  Speaker 1: that many German soldiers disappeared during World War II. The
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  Speaker 1: region is known for its dangerous living mud and or quicksand,
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  Speaker 1: which Really does exist. It actually exists. Wow. This is
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  Speaker 1: a crazy place. There are also unexplored openings and ancient
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  Speaker 1: underground tunnels that can sometimes be discovered when the water
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  Speaker 1: levels in the swamps go down. Wow. Okay. I'm in Mexico, guys.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hear this kind of stuff until I
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  Speaker 1: get myself my own studio. Whatever I encountered that day,
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  Speaker 1: I had never forgotten it. I will never forget what
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  Speaker 1: I encountered that day. Okay. Remember, this is being translated
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  Speaker 1: from his language. Before that experience, I laughed at stories
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  Speaker 1: about creatures like Bigfoot, Dogman, and Werewolves. Afterward, I can
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  Speaker 1: never look at the forest the same way again. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much, Tom, for your response and for the
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  Speaker 1: precious time you spent listening to me. If you are
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  Speaker 1: interested in any other details, feel free to ask. You're
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  Speaker 1: also welcome to use my name and location. With respect
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  Speaker 1: and brotherly kindness, Vladimir. Thank you so much, Vladimir. If
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  Speaker 1: you guys have any questions, go ahead and write them
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  Speaker 1: in the comments and I'll reach out to Vladimir and
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a discussion in the comments below. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you guys enjoyed this first story. I'm not quite sure
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  Speaker 1: when I'm going to call this yet, but I enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: it nonetheless. And thank you so very much, Vladimir, for
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  Speaker 1: reaching out to me. And if you guys want to
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and reach out to me and you want
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: me to tell your story, but you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: come on air in a normal podcast, You can do
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  Speaker 1: so at the eye of Jupiter podcast at gmail.com. The
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  Speaker 1: eye of Jupiter podcast at gmail.com. Everything lowercase. And I
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  Speaker 1: will do this for you as well. All right, guys.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that one. Bye.