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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • UNEXPLAINED Encounters · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, we have a very special bonus video for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's a collection of five horrifying stories that I'll have
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. In early July of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty three, mister and Missus Huggin, along with their three
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  Speaker 1: young daughters left their home in Winnipeg, Canada for a
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  Speaker 1: six week summer vacation. They were headed to the girl's
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  Speaker 1: grandparents' summer cabin in Wade, Ontario, which is one of
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  Speaker 1: the more remote and wild sections of Ontario. Their cabin
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  Speaker 1: was right in the middle of this huge swampy forest
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  Speaker 1: and they were not too far from one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest lakes in Ontario called Fox Lake. The family arrived
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  Speaker 1: late on July fourth, so they didn't do anything when
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  Speaker 1: they arrived. They just hung out at the cabin, and
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  Speaker 1: then early the next day, all the adults decided they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to take the girls to Fox Lake for the day,
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  Speaker 1: so they began gathering all the supplies they would need
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  Speaker 1: while the three girls played outside the cabin. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: no neighbors or anybody else anywhere near this cabin, and
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  Speaker 1: so it was totally normal to have the girls just
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  Speaker 1: play outside. They were not concerned about them getting taken
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  Speaker 1: or something, and so the two older girls played in
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  Speaker 1: the front yard of the cabin and Geraldine, the five
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  Speaker 1: year old, was playing on the side of the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: so the two girls in front couldn't see Geraldine and
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  Speaker 1: the adults they were keeping their eye on all three girls,
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  Speaker 1: but they were mostly just kind of going in and
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  Speaker 1: out of the cabin and getting their stuff together. Periodically
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  Speaker 1: poking their head out, but the girls were fine. At
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  Speaker 1: ten am that morning, the parents had finally packed up
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  Speaker 1: the car and they were ready to collect the girls
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  Speaker 1: to head over to the lake, and so they went outside.
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  Speaker 1: They got the two girls that were out front, and
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  Speaker 1: they went to the side of the house and they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find Geraldine. Now they weren't worried because where could
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  Speaker 1: she have gone, And so they walked around the house.
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  Speaker 1: They're yelling for Geraldine, and they asked the two girls,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have you seen Geraldine? Where'd she go? And
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  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we don't know. She was just over
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the house a minute ago. And
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  Speaker 1: so they can't find her outside, and so they go
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  Speaker 1: in the cabin, thinking she must have gone in there
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  Speaker 1: because that's the only place she could be. But after
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly looking through the cabin and not finding her, they
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  Speaker 1: started to get a little bit more worried. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: the adults start talking to each other and they're saying,
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  Speaker 1: did anybody see Geraldine in the past couple of minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Anybody seen her? And they all said, yeah, I poked
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  Speaker 1: my head out the window and I saw her within
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  Speaker 1: the past ten minutes. Right on the side of the cab,
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  Speaker 1: and so they all agreed with in the past ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes they had seen her right outside the cabin. So
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  Speaker 1: they're alarmed they can't find her, but they're thinking, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna find her. So they go back outside and they're
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  Speaker 1: looking around and they're yelling for her. Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: such a remote section of Ontario that there's really no
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  Speaker 1: noise pollution and sound travels really, really well, and so
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  Speaker 1: when they were yelling her name, it was booming through
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  Speaker 1: the woods. And even if Geraldine had sprinted for ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes away from the cabin, she still easily would have
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  Speaker 1: been with an earshot and all she had to do
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  Speaker 1: was just, you know, yell back and they would see her.
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  Speaker 1: But she didn't yell back, and there was no sign
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  Speaker 1: of her anywhere, and so at this point the family
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  Speaker 1: is panicking and so they call the police. The police
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  Speaker 1: show up and they're looking around, thinking, we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to search this very effectively on our own.
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  Speaker 1: This is a huge, wild, remote section of Canada, and
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  Speaker 1: so they called in some professional trackers that were familiar
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  Speaker 1: with this area to come in and help them with
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  Speaker 1: their search. They also called the Army in Winnipeg to
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  Speaker 1: send over some people to assist as well, but as
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  Speaker 1: soon as the search started, the skies opened up and
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  Speaker 1: dumped rain all over the entire area, basically washing away
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  Speaker 1: any footprints that they could have used to potentially find her.
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  Speaker 1: As the day wore on and the sun was starting
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  Speaker 1: to set and there was still no sign of Geraldine,
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  Speaker 1: her father said something to the searchers that was intended
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  Speaker 1: to help them find his daughter, but it was just
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  Speaker 1: this incredibly heartbreaking comment. And what he told them was
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  Speaker 1: his daughter was afraid of the dark, and that once
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  Speaker 1: it got dark out in the woods here, she's just
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  Speaker 1: going to sit down and cry, and so that will
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  Speaker 1: stop her from moving farther away from us, hopefully, and
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  Speaker 1: we should be able to find her. But they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And for three days they looked everywhere for her and
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  Speaker 1: there was no trace of her. And to make matters
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  Speaker 1: even worse is the weather had been really rainy and cold,
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  Speaker 1: not below freezing temperatures, but close like in the forty
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  Speaker 1: degree fahrenheit range, and she just had a light shirt
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  Speaker 1: and shorts on. She was not prepared for the weather.
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  Speaker 1: On the evening of the third day, they found footprints
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  Speaker 1: that they believed to be Geraldine's high up on this
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  Speaker 1: ledge and some moss overlooking Fox Lake, and the footprints
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  Speaker 1: indicated that this child, which was probably Geraldine, was looking
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  Speaker 1: out over the lake and then turned around and walked
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  Speaker 1: away from the ledge down into the swamp where her
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  Speaker 1: footprints dissipate. And so the search effort was pushed to
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  Speaker 1: the swamp and they had thousands of people that are
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  Speaker 1: combing through this mosquito infested bush to look for this girl,
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  Speaker 1: and once again there's nothing. Then on the seventh day
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  Speaker 1: of the search, they find another set of footprints in
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  Speaker 1: the swamp around the area where they were looking for Geraldine.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't Geraldine's footprints because they were these huge
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  Speaker 1: prints that if it was a human print, they would
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  Speaker 1: need to be an enormous human being or these prints
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  Speaker 1: belonged to some enormous animal, but they were unable to
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  Speaker 1: determine what animal it was. At this point, although there's
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  Speaker 1: not really any real evidence connecting that print to Geraldine,
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  Speaker 1: people are starting to suspect that whoever left this print,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever left this print, has something to do with
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  Speaker 1: whatever happened to Geraldine. Two days later, so nine days
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  Speaker 1: after Geraldine has gone missing. Some of the professional trackers
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  Speaker 1: were two and a half mile away from where that
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  Speaker 1: large print was found in that swamp and where Geraldine's
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  Speaker 1: footprints were found. Upon that ledge, they found a piece
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  Speaker 1: of her plaid shirt two and a half miles away
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  Speaker 1: on the eastern shore of another lake called Long Lake,
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  Speaker 1: and so they pushed the search effort over to that
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  Speaker 1: section of Long Lake and within twenty four hours they
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  Speaker 1: would find Geraldine's remains. The scene where Geraldine was found
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  Speaker 1: was bizarre. There was very little left of Geraldine, and
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  Speaker 1: from what was left, it was clear there had been
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  Speaker 1: significant animal predation, and so initial thoughts were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she must have been attacked by wolves, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: what killed her. But upon closer inspection, they saw that
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  Speaker 1: her clothing had not been torn and there was no
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  Speaker 1: blood on her clothes. So the animal predation had most
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  Speaker 1: likely occurred after she was deceased, because they would have
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  Speaker 1: been able to pick around the clothing, whereas if it
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  Speaker 1: had been a wolf attack, they would have cut right
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  Speaker 1: through the clothes and there would be marks that obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she was attacked by animals. But Geraldine's remains
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  Speaker 1: appeared to have been dragged out of a nearby meadow
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  Speaker 1: to where she was ultimately located, and so they followed
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  Speaker 1: the dragline into this meadow and it led them to
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  Speaker 1: this opening where all the grass had been matted down.
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  Speaker 1: An investigator said it looked like something big had been
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  Speaker 1: laying there, and they speculated that that might have been
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  Speaker 1: the area where Geraldine had been killed. And then afterwards
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  Speaker 1: animals had dragged her over to where she was found.
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  Speaker 1: And so investigators are like, well, we found that large
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  Speaker 1: footprint in the swamp on the seventh day, in the
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  Speaker 1: same area where we had found Geraldine's footprints, and we
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  Speaker 1: thought they might be connected. And now we're finding a large,
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  Speaker 1: what appears to be body print in this meadow that's
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  Speaker 1: right near where Geraldine's remains have been found. And so
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  Speaker 1: probably whoever or whatever left that print in the swamp
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  Speaker 1: is the same one that left this print here in
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  Speaker 1: the meadow, and therefore is probably Geraldine's killer. But this
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  Speaker 1: left investigators with two theories that didn't really make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: The first one was, Okay, these prints, the swamp print
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  Speaker 1: and this body print belonged to an enormous person like
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  Speaker 1: a giant who ran up to the cabin, and a
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  Speaker 1: ducted Geraldine and ran off and no one saw them
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  Speaker 1: or heard them, And for weeks they've managed to totally
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  Speaker 1: evade capture despite being again an enormous person lumbering through
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  Speaker 1: the forest. So that seemed really unlikely one that this
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  Speaker 1: giant person even existed, and two that if this giant
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  Speaker 1: person existed, how could they not get caught. They're so
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  Speaker 1: big running through the forest, they would be easy to spot.
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  Speaker 1: But if you rule out the enormous person theory, you're
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  Speaker 1: left with the enormous predator theory, which does make more
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  Speaker 1: sense on the surface, because there are enormous predators that
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  Speaker 1: have attacked humans, so that does happen. But when they
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  Speaker 1: looked at her remains, they ruled out a wolf attack,
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  Speaker 1: and really they ruled out animal attacks. But if this
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  Speaker 1: is an enormous predator, how did it kill Geraldine? The
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  Speaker 1: family was told that unfortunately, because there wasn't enough left
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  Speaker 1: of her, they weren't able to determine a cause of death,
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  Speaker 1: and so their best guess is she was probably mauled
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  Speaker 1: by wild animals. But they would even level with the
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  Speaker 1: family and I honestly, we don't know what did this.
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  Speaker 1: As many of you may know, Aside from telling stories
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  Speaker 1: on this YouTube channel, I also tell stories on my podcast,
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  Speaker 1: the Mister Ballin Podcast Strange, Dark and Mysterious Stories. But
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  Speaker 1: all of them fall into the strange, dark and mysterious category.
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  Speaker 1: For example, if you're into baffling and horrifying medical mysteries,
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  Speaker 1: well you should go check out my other podcast called
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  Speaker 1: Mister Balin's Medical Mysteries. Or maybe you want to hear
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  Speaker 1: from some other voices within our studio, like Luke Lamana.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Lamana is a military veteran. He has a super iconic,
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  Speaker 1: really deep radio voice, and he has two shows. One
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  Speaker 1: is called Wartime Stories, where he basically looks at strange,
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  Speaker 1: dark and mysterious wartime stories, and his other show is
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  Speaker 1: called Redacted, where he looks at information that used to
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  Speaker 1: beied and he dives into it with his military expertise
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  Speaker 1: and experience and he basically shows you the lies and
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  Speaker 1: secrets and half truths that the most powerful institutions in
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  Speaker 1: the world have been keeping from us. We also have
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  Speaker 1: shows that are just playing creepy and unsettling, like Bedtime
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  Speaker 1: Stories hosted by Richard Will where he dives into the supernatural,
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  Speaker 1: encryptids and mysterious deaths. I mean, basically his whole kind
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  Speaker 1: of niche is things that keep you up at night.
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  Speaker 1: And then two other shows that fall into that sort
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  Speaker 1: of unsettling, creepy vibe are Late Nights with Nexpo hosted
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  Speaker 1: by the famous YouTuber Nextpo, where he dives into true, crazy,
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  Speaker 1: scary stories. And then we also have another show called
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  Speaker 1: Runfuol hosted by Rodney Barnes, and Rodney is like an
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  Speaker 1: icon in the horror genre at large, and on his show,
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  Speaker 1: he just dives into this wild, chilling lore like horror lore.
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  Speaker 1: People love that show. Or if you're a history buff
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  Speaker 1: He's great, great voice, he's a very thorough host. Those
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  Speaker 1: now enjoy. In twenty ten, Jan mccabee was living with
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  Speaker 1: her husband Bruce, in a town called Lima, Ohio, which
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  Speaker 1: is approximately eighty miles southwest of Lake Erie. While Jan
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  Speaker 1: had built a successful career as a booking agent for musicians, bands,
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  Speaker 1: and entertainers, her real passion was deer hunting. So on
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  Speaker 1: September twenty ninth of that year, right after deer hunting
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  Speaker 1: season had opened in Ohio, Jan decided to go out
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  Speaker 1: on a hunt. That morning had been cold and damp
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  Speaker 1: and gray, but by that afternoon, when Jam was getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, oh the temperatures had risen and the
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  Speaker 1: sun had come out. Jan's preferred method of hunting was
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  Speaker 1: to sit and watch from a tree stand, which is
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  Speaker 1: a ladder that you put in the woods that sits
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  Speaker 1: about fifteen feet high. She would sit up there with
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  Speaker 1: her bow and arrow and wait to take a shot.
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  Speaker 1: When a deer came by around five pm that day,
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  Speaker 1: she told Bruce she was leaving, and she made it
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  Speaker 1: to a tree stand by about five thirty. The forest
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  Speaker 1: she was going to be hunting in was one she
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  Speaker 1: was very familiar with, and it was not very remote.
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  Speaker 1: There were a couple houses just outside the woods. There
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  Speaker 1: were some agricultural areas, and her nephew actually went to
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  Speaker 1: high school just a mile north of these woods. But
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  Speaker 1: from the tree stand where she was sitting, all she
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  Speaker 1: could see around her was trees. Shortly after Jan sat down,
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  Speaker 1: she started texting with one of her friends on her BlackBerry,
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  Speaker 1: and periodically she poke her head up and look for deer.
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  Speaker 1: There weren't any, and then she'd go back to texting.
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  Speaker 1: The whole time this is happening, Jan can hear birds
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  Speaker 1: and crickets and squirrels and all the sounds of the
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  Speaker 1: forest all around her. A little after six pm, her
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  Speaker 1: texting conversation with her friend reached a natural conclusion, and
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  Speaker 1: so she went back to just kind of sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the tree stand looking around. By about six twenty pms,
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  Speaker 1: she still hadn't seen any deer and she was starting
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  Speaker 1: to get bored, so she decided she would take a selfie.
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  Speaker 1: She picked up her BlackBerry, she took the selfie, and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as she was done, she became aware that
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  Speaker 1: the forest had suddenly gone completely quiet. No more squirrels,
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  Speaker 1: no more birds, do more crickets, just complete silence. And
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  Speaker 1: she knew as a hunter the only time this happened
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  Speaker 1: was when a large predator was in the area and
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  Speaker 1: all the other animals went quiet. But Jan would later
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  Speaker 1: say there was just something different about this silence. It
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  Speaker 1: was so sudden and so complete that it scared her,
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  Speaker 1: and she wound up sending another text message to that
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  Speaker 1: friends she'd been texting earlier that said the woods just
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  Speaker 1: went completely silent, very odd. As soon as Jan hit
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  Speaker 1: stemmed on that text message and lowered her phone, she
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  Speaker 1: immediately became aware of something about twenty feet away in
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  Speaker 1: the tree that was right across from her, and she
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  Speaker 1: said it was the most unusual and terrifying thing she
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  Speaker 1: had ever seen. Moving left to right through the branches
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  Speaker 1: was this thing that she described as like a visual distortion.
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  Speaker 1: She said, it was like looking across pavement on a
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  Speaker 1: really hot day and seeing that mirage, except this one
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  Speaker 1: looked like it was alive, like it had mass, like
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  Speaker 1: it was a see through person that had been wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in saran wrapped. And so Jan thinks it's a floater
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  Speaker 1: in her eyes, and so she rubs her eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: when she looks up, this thing has now moved down
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  Speaker 1: a branch closer to her and has stopped like it's
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  Speaker 1: perched on the branch staring at her. And Jan's horrified,
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  Speaker 1: but she knows she wants to document it, so she
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  Speaker 1: grabs her phone and she raises it up and she
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  Speaker 1: takes a picture on her BlackBerry right as this thing
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  Speaker 1: kind of disappears behind the tree and vanishes. Just seconds
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  Speaker 1: after this thing disappeared, all the sounds in the forest
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  Speaker 1: came back, the birds, squirrels, the crickets. It was all
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  Speaker 1: back to normal. But Jan was really shaken up because
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  Speaker 1: she just could not make sense of what she just saw.
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  Speaker 1: So she just continued to stare in the general direction
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  Speaker 1: of where this thing was for several minutes until finally
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  Speaker 1: she felt like it was safe again, at which point
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  Speaker 1: she brought her phone up to look at the pictures
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  Speaker 1: she had taken. When she looked at it, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like a blurry mess, and so she thought, up, I
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  Speaker 1: blew it, I put my hand over it, or my
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  Speaker 1: hair got in the way of it or something. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time she's thinking to herself, but my
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  Speaker 1: hair didn't get in the way of it, and I
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  Speaker 1: very clearly held it out in front of me, and
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  Speaker 1: know that I was looking at my phone when I
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  Speaker 1: took it, and I had a clear shot of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't really understand how this photo got so
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  Speaker 1: messed up. But after looking at the picture for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, she started to kind of laugh at herself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the idea that she had just seen a
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  Speaker 1: saran wrap person running through the treetops. You know, she
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  Speaker 1: just felt like that that didn't happen. It must have
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  Speaker 1: been in my head. And as for this picture, I
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  Speaker 1: probably just blocked the lens and that's it. That night,
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  Speaker 1: when Jane got back to her house, she did not
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  Speaker 1: tell her husband, Bruce, about what happened to her in
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  Speaker 1: the tree stand, because again she's telling herself it was
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  Speaker 1: all in her head. They have dinner, they clean up,
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  Speaker 1: they sit down in the living room and they're both
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  Speaker 1: on their phones and they're just kind of scrolling through
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the Internet and their emails. And at some point Bruce
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: reacts to something he's reading. He makes a sound, and
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: jan hears him and says, oh, what are you looking at?
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: And he said, you know, I just got a really
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: interesting email from our nephew, you know, the one that
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: goes to school down the road. He said that today
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: they were outside for band practice and at some point
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: all of them turned to look at the forest and
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: there was a bright circular light that was kind of
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: hovering in the forest, and I guess they all stared
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: at it for about five or ten seconds, and then
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: at some point the light kind of went back into
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the forest, and they didn't know what to make of it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: And I guess one of his classmates said that a
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: year before, the exact same thing happened, and it apparently
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: scared their instructors so badly that they canceled rehearsal and
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: went inside because of it. As Jan is listening to
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: her husband read this email, she's sitting up and her
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: hardest racing, And as soon as he finishes, she says,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: what time did he say that happened? Bruce picked up
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: how intensely she was asking him, and so he looked
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: at the email, looked back at his wife, and was like,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: it was between seven fifty and eight. Why. At this point,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Jan revealed everything that had happened to her while she
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: was hunting, you know, seeing that visual distortion in the
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: trees that looked like a figure of some kind, and
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: she would tell him that the forest she was in
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: was the same one their nephew was claiming to have
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: seen this circular light floating inside of She told him
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: she tried to take a picture of the thing she saw,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: but the picture didn't come out. But her husband, who
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: he was an optical physicist and therefore an expert at
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: analyzing a picture, said here, let me take a look
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: at it. As soon as he looked at the image,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the first thing he asked her was, well, did your
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: hair get in front of the lens? And she said no,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I was holding it about a foot away from my head,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and my hair was in a ponytail in a ball cap,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: so that can't be my hair. And so he looked
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: at it again and he asked her, well, did you
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: put your finger over the lens? Maybe? And she said, yeah,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: I might have. I don't think I did, but it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: certainly possible. And so, not really thinking much of this picture,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: he decides before giving the phone back to just check
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: the resolution of the image, because whenever he would examine
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a picture, that was something he would do, and he
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: discovered an anomaly. It turns out Jan's BlackBerry was only
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: capable of taking pictures in three distinct resolutions. Basically, the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: size of the image could only come in small, medium,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: or large. And this picture she had taken of this
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: thing she saw in the trees was a resolution size
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that was not small, medium, or large. It was some
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: random size that the phone was actually not capable of producing.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: And so he asked his wife, like, did you even
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: nick your resolution settings? And she said, no, I don't
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: even know how to do that. So Bruce looked at
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the other couple of pictures she had taken that day,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: and all of those fell into the small, medium, or
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: large resolution size. It was just this one picture that
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: was a total anomaly. And so Bruce was suddenly really
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: intrigued by this image and by his wife's story, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: so he continued to study the image, and he kept
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: asking his wife questions about, you know, how she was
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: positioned in the tree stand, and where the sun was,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and how far away this thing was and everything about
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the whole layout. And eventually Bruce started conducting experiments to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: see if he could duplicate this image his wife had created,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and he got pretty scientific about it then he could
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: not duplicate it ultimately because Bruce trusts his wife did
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: not alter the photo in any way, and he trusts
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: his wife as being truthful about what she experienced in
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the tree stand. You know what she saw, and based
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: on his years of being an optical physicist, Bruce believes
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: whatever was in the trees distorted this image. That even
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: if she had put her finger over the lens, which
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: he doesn't think she did and she doesn't think she did,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the picture resolution was altered in such way that something
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: had to have an effect on it. There was a
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: third party effect on this picture. Somewhere out in the
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Sierra Abauda Mountain range lies a small hunting camp that's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: been there since the nineteen fifties. Despite its fame, only
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a handful of people know exactly where this camp is.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: But even if you were given explicit directions on how
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to get there, you might just walk past it because
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it's tucked away in the middle of the woods up
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: on this mountain. It's just a small fire pit, a
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: couple of logs around it, another log set up for
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: cutting wood, and there's some paths that have been beaten
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: down over the years from its occupants, but it's pretty
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: much unremarkable. According to camp members. The fastest way to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: get to the site is by horseback, and it's approximately
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: eight miles and it's through very rugged terrain on this mountain,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and it includes a four thousand foot elevation game. However,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: this eight mile trail is not marked and every year
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: it changes flight lightly because trees will fall along the way,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: changing the topography. Ron Moorehead, who's one of the four
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: original camp members, laments the fact that anybody knows anything
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: about this campsite. He wishes they could have kept it
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a secret, but he knew that wasn't an option after
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: what they discovered there in late nineteen seventy one. In
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: early nineteen seventy one, Ron was a young man and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: he was invited out for the first time to the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Sierra Camp by the three founding members. When Ron got there,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: he fell in love. It was this beautiful, natural, pristine
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: wilderness that overlooked this amazing valley, and they're surrounded by
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: these huge white fir trees. There's a freshwater stream that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: trickled by, and in terms of hunting, the deer were plentiful.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Ron said this campsite was the closest to Heaven he
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: thinks he'll ever get. The only real drawback of the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: site was the large bear population, but they always had
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: guns on them, and they built the shelter out of
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: heavy fallen timbers that they could go inside, shut the door,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and they'd be protected from the bears until they left.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: When there wasn't a bear threat, they slept on the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: ground intense In late nineteen sets seventy one, Ron came
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: back to the camp with the other three founding members.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: They'd had a great day of hunting, and they were
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: standing around the campfire just chatting with each other when
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: they started hearing a grunting sound not far away from
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: them in the forest. Now, typically, whenever a bear came
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: to their campsite, it was usually at night, and they
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: would hear it grunting somewhere off in the forest, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: as soon as they heard it, they would stop and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: they would listen to kind of confirm it was a bear,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and if it was, they would go inside of their
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: shelter and they would wait for it to leave. But
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: this time, when they stopped to listen to confirm it
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: was a bear, the sound they heard next was something
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: they had never heard before, and it was so frightening
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: they almost fell over each other running to get inside
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of the shelter. It was like a whooping sound you
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: would expect from an ape, except instead of a series
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of whoops like you would expect from an ape, it
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was one loud whoop and then silence, and then another
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: creature somewhere else made a responding whoop that sounded different
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: than the first. There was at least two creatures that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: were basically speaking to each other out in the forest,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: out of view. Ron would say. As these creatures were
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: howling and whooping at each other out in the forest,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the men were huddled around inside of the shelter looking
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: at each other like what is that? Has anybody heard
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that sound before? And nobody knew what it was. And
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: after a little while they heard these creatures running towards
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the camp. They were pretty well off, but they heard
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: these heavy footsteps approaching. Then, so Ron and the others
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: they put themselves up against these slats inside of the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: shelter where they could look out in the direction where
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: these creatures were. And they're staring out just past the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: light of their campfire, into the dark forest, and they
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: hear these things running, running, running, and they stop. They
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: don't come into the clearing. It's like they're just outside
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of where they could see. And then their tone completely changes.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: These creatures, which are now one on one side of
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the camp and one on the other, begins speaking to
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: each other in a language that almost sounds human, but
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it was nonsensical. It sounded like an imitation of a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: human language, but not human. And so Ron and the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: others are terrified, and they're just staring through the slats,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: waiting to see this creature that's going to emerge at
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: some point, but it never does. Instead, the creatures continue
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to stay outside of the light, and they move around
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: behind their shelter, out of view, and so Ron and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the others moved to the very middle of their shelter
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to get as far away from the walls as they
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: can because there are breaks in the walls, and then
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: they're worried one of these things is going to reach
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: through and grab them. But finally, after hours of these
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: creatures running around the perimeter of their camp communicating in
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: this totally otherworldly language, they started whooping again and ran off,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and for the rest of the night, Ron and the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: other three stayed right in that shelter. The next day,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: when the sun came up, the men were out of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that camp as fast as they could. These are hard,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: rugged men, and they were very shaken up by this experience,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and they tried to talk about it, but there was
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: just no way to describe what they were hearing and experiencing,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and so they just decided they just wanted to get
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: out of there as fast as possible and they'll deal
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: with this later. But as soon as they got out
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of the woods and back to their homes, they didn't
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: talk about it anymore. Except Ron became obsessed with whatever
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it was that was making that sound. He so desperately
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: wanted to find out what it was, and so he
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: convinced the other three members to come with him and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: go back to the campsite. Except this time Ron was
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: going to bring an audio recorder and he was going
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: to try to capture some audio of these creatures. And
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: so the four men went back to the campsite. They
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: didn't even hunt that day. They stayed right near the campsite.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: They made this big fire, and they're all just kind
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of nervously sitting there waiting, kind of hoping it happens.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: And also hoping it doesn't happen, And at some point
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: in the evening, Ron said he heard footsteps way out
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the forest, and they sounded like
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: they were running towards the camp. The four men sprint
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: inside the shelter, lock it behind them, and Ron turns
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: on the audio recorder. Now, before you listen to this
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: famous recording, here are its bona fides. After being recorded,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Ron sent it to doctor R. Lynn Curlin, who was
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wyoming,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and he and his team analyzed it and they concluded
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: that one it was unaltered, so it's not been edited.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It's not been doctored in any way. It's an authentic
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: audio recording. And two, whatever was making the sounds could
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: not have been a man because their vocal range was
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: dramatically higher and lower than that of a human's. The
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: doctor said, based on average pitch and tracked length, the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: creature that was making the sound most likely was between
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: seven foot three and eight feet tall. In addition to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the doctor Curlin examination, a crypto linguist expert named Scott
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Nelson also pointed out that it would have been nearly impossible.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy one for Ron or any of the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: other hunters to dub the sound of their voices, which
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: are on the recording, over the sounds that these creatures
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: were making. Because a couple times in the recording you
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: hear both sets of voices happening at once. That's something
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: you couldn't have done in nineteen seventy one. Despite numerous
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: attempts to debunk this recording, it still stands as a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: legitimate unedited recording, although what they were recording is still
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a mystery. Have a listen hm that who could do?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: M m m m m m. There's two of 'em
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: across the creek at the Big Rocks. It's how hard
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: act to fall. He sounds like he talks to others
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and they talk to each other. Yeah, wo like that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I just seen the rights that. Shortly after this recording
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: was made, Ron stopped hunting at this camp. However, over
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the years he has been back several times because he's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: obsessed with trying to find out what's out in the forest.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: But he says to this day he still has no idea.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: In two thousand and five, Eric Martin was working in
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a paper mill in Maine and he'd been working at
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: this paper mill for twenty years, and he was reaching
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: up to get something on a shelf when he threw
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: his back out, and in fact, he'd slipped a number
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of discs, and it ultimately meant he was not able
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to work anymore. He was going to be disabled, and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: so he's suddenly out of work. His wife, Shelley Martin,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: was not working at the time, but when he couldn't work,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: she needed to get a job. And so Shelley, who
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: had not worked in a long time, was able through
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: some connections, to land a job in her hometown in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Maine called Palmyra. Palmyra was a very small rural community.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I mean we're talking maybe twelve hundred people that lived there.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: They also had a seventeen year old daughter named Chelsea,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: who was not eager to go, but it was the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: only place they could afford, and so they had to go. Luckily,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: because Paulmyra was such a cheap place to live relative
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to where they had been living that for less money,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: they actually ended up getting a bigger piece of property
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: than they had lived in before. It's this beautiful farmhouse
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that sat on a whole bunch of acreage, but it
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: was incredibly isolated. You had to go down this bumpy
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: access road to get to their long driveway, and then
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: once you were on the property, you'd look out. Then
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it was just a full three hundred and sixty degrees,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: a very dense forest that virtually no one was in.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: There was no nature trails, it was just dark, dense
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: forest everywhere you looked. So, even though no one's that
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: happy about it, they end up moving into this farmhouse
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and as they're unpacking their truck, Eric picks up one
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of his many rifles that he owned. Eric came from
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a long line of hunters. He loved to hunt. It
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: was his favorite thing to do, and he had a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of guns he kept. And as he's carrying
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the rifle into the house, Shelley says, oh, no, we're
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: not keeping the guns in the house. You have a barn.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: You're gonna put your guns in there. This had always
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: been a point of contention for them in their marriage.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Shelley just didn't feel safe having guns in the house,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: especially having kids in there, and so ultimately Eric agrees, okay, fine,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I won't put my guns in the house. I'll put
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: them in the barn. And so he went in the barn,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and he and his son Sean, who had come out
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to help him, they built this gun case for all
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of his rifles. It was very heavy duty. They put
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: it in the barn and then they locked that and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: then locked the barn itself, so they were totally secure
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in the barn, but definitely not readily accessible. Over that
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: first year, Shelley and Eric developed this ritual where at
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the end of the day they would go out on
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the front porch of their farmhouse and look out onto
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the front yard and they would drink coffee. It was
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: something they both looked forward to, and virtually every night
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they did this, and so almost exactly a year after
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: moving in. It was in early two thousand and six.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Shelley and Eric are sitting on their front porch and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: joining their coffee. They're chatting and Shelley thinks she sees
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: something in the woods. Now you have to understand the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: layout and how far away they are from the woods
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to get a sense of what they were seeing. Right
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in front of their porch was a gravel road where
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: they parked their cars about twenty meters away from their house.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: To the left is their barn, and beyond the barn.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Basically straight out from the porch is this huge open
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: field where there's no trees or anything. It was like
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: open grazing area. And then way beyond the field was
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the beginning of this tree line of this really dense forest.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: So we're talking at least a couple hundred meters away
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: where she sees these lights, and she described it as
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: like a pulsating light. It did not look like a
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: car or some sort of vehicle. Not to mention, there
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: was no road out straight ahead from their porch. It
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: was just a dense forest where there was absolutely no
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: one that should have been in there. Eric immediately when
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: he sees the lights, he thinks there's a poacher on
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: his property, someone illegally hunting on his property, and so
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: he gets Sean, his son, who did not live with
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: them but was staying the night that night. He gets
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: them to come outside and say, hey, think that's a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: poacher down there at the edge of our tree line,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and Sean's like, I don't know. Maybe. Eric decides that
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: he wants to go tell this person to leave his property,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and so he asked Sean to come with him. They
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: figured they would just get to the edge of the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: property and yell out, hey, this is private property. You
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: need to leave. As they're walking across the field and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: they're getting closer to the tree line, the lights, those
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: pulsating lights begin to fade and disappear back into the woods,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and they get all the way up to the tree
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: line and they can't see any lights at all. Even
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: though at this point, standing on the edge of the forest,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Eric and Sean are fairly confident that this poacher has left,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: they decide just to be sure, let's walk a little
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: ways into the woods, even though it's totally dark. We're
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: not going to get lost. We'll walk a little ways
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: into the woods and just continue to yell this is
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: private property. So they really do leave. And so they
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: begin walking, and it's a very dense forest, lots of
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: low hanging limbs. It's not somewhere that's easy to walk.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: There's no walking trails or anything like that. And they walk,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you know, ten fifteen meters into the woods, and then
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: they hear what sounds like someone walking parallel to them,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: maybe fifteen meters away from them on their left, and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: they both stop and they look. They didn't want to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: take any chance that they were being stalked by a predator,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and so they thought, you know what, the lights are gone.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what animal this is. Let's just get
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: out of here. About a month goes by and Nathan,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: who is Chelsea's boyfriend, was staying with the family at
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the farm and it was the first nice spring day.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a very dark and dreary winter.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Main winters tend to be that way, and so that weekend,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Nathan and Chelsea decide let's go walk around the woods.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So they take the two family dogs and they start
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: walking across that big field in front of the house
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: into the forest, the same area where Sean and Eric
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: have been looking for those lights and then heard what
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: sounded like an animal that was near them. And so
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: at first Chelsea has the dogs on leashes, but they
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: get to the forest and she lets them off their
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: leash to let them go run around and go crazy
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: because they've been cooped up because of the winter time
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: as well. The two dogs instantly take off running for
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: about one hundred meters and then they come to a
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: dead stop right outside this big mound. It looks like
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a dirt mound, but they get up close to it
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and they can tell that it's actually more like a den.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: There are these huge pieces of wood that have been
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: leaned into like a lean to type structure, with moss
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and dirt and grasp put all over the outside. I mean,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: it looks like a very intentionally made mound. And there's
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a circular hole that's been created right on the front
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of it. And the dogs have stopped right outside and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: they're poking their heads in and smelling into this hole.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And Nathan and Chelsea are looking at this thinking, who
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: did this? Is this like a hunter's thing? Is this
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: something a hunter might make? Would an animal make this?
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: This seems really big for some animal to make this,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: but it definitely was made on purpose, whatever it is.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: And so Nathan he just kind of looks down into
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: this den, but it's totally dark, and he thinks he
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: hears growling coming from inside of the dent, and so
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: without any hesitation, he goes, we got to go. I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: don't know what's living in there where we got to go.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And so they take the dogs, they put them back
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: on leashes, and then two of them get out of
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the forest as quickly as they can. When Nathan and
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Chelsea came back to the house, they told Eric and Shelley,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and actually Sean was there too, and they said, hey,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: we found this stand of some kind out in the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: middle of the woods, basically straight out from your front porch.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: And that's when Eric and Seawan said, well, about a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: month ago, we were out in that same area and
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: we could have sworn we heard some animals stalking us.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: A couple of months go by and Eric and Shelley
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: are sitting on their front porch having their coffee ritual,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and there was just this low mist that kind of
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: hung over the entire field. And as they're sitting there,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: they're commenting on how creepy it was. And what started
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: as just kind of a friendly discussion about the general
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: creepiness took a turn when they realized that they couldn't
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: hear any wildlife, no crickets, no animals, no anything. And
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: normally at night, because they were out here all the time,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: it was humming with life. And so Shelley had this
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: high powered flashlight that she always had out with her
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: and she starts scanning the property, not knowing what she's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: looking for, but it just seemed really odd that they
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: couldn't hear any wildlife. But after she scans across the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: whole field. She doesn't see anything, and so she puts
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: her flashlight down and just starts talking to Eric about
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: whatever they normally talked about over coffee at night. Eric
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: would say in numerous interviews that for whatever reason, when
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: she put that flashlight down, he suddenly felt like they
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: were in danger. He's looking out, he doesn't see anything,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he says, you know what,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: we got to go inside. I don't know what it is,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: but we got to go inside. And Shelley's like, come on,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I want to stay out of here for a little
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: bit longer. We'll go in in a few minutes. And
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Eric stands up and he's like, no, go inside, and
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: he tries to grab her to kind of push her
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: into the house, and she's kind of fighting against him,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Shelley stops and she goes,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: did you hear that? And Eric immediately knew that whatever
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: it was, it's the reason he had that sudden feeling
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: of being in danger. Eric turns around and he can't
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: see anything because it's too dark. Shelley grabs her flash
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: leg and she begins scanning the tree line and she
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: gets to the field and gets halfway across the field
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: right in front of them, and she stops because right
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the field are three creatures that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: look like wolves, these huge creatures that are looking right
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: at them. Two others join them, So there's five wolf
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: like creatures that are staring at them right from the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: middle of their field. She says to Eric, what are
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: those And Eric, who's an experienced hunter, he has no idea.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: He goes, I think they're bears. It could be wolves.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: We get to go inside, and so Shelley's just holding
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the light and they start charging directly at her, so
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: fast that she wasn't able to keep the light on them.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: They were already halfway across the field. They go inside,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: they shut the door and they lock it, and without
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: saying a word, the two of them make their rounds
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: across the entire bottom floor. Lock every window, close every blind,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: make sure everything is shut. There was something different about
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: these five creatures the way they started running towards them.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: It just felt like they were targeting Eric and Shelley,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and so even after the house had been secured, they
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: didn't feel safe. And so they're standing in the middle
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of their cabin and Eric's saying, my guns are in
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the barn. I can't we have no protection. And Shelley
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: is like, whatever you do, do not go out there.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: We don't know what these are. Could be a bear,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: it could be a wolf, we don't know. Don't go
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: out there. Shelley goes upstairs, she shuts off all the lights,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: she makes sure all the windows are shut, and then
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: she goes to Chelsea's room, her daughter, and she wakes
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: her up and she says, hey, come here, do you
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: gotta look at this? And they go to the window
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and they kind of like poke their head into the
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: window because they don't want to like totally open it
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: up and stare out because they don't want the creatures
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: to see them. But they're kind of poking their head
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: out the window, and she's like, look, and standing on
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the gravel are these five creatures that are just standing
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: in a row, looking directly at the house. It was
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: like they were waiting for them to come out the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: front door. They were just patiently standing there looking at
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the house. It did not look like normal animal behavior
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: at all. And as she's looking, one of the animals
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: looks up at Shelley in the window, and the creature
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: stands on its two legs. It gets on its hind
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: legs and looks at her, and Shelley gasps and falls
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: over because the creature's like eight feet tall, and so
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Shelley's on the ground looking at Chelsea, and she can't
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: believe what she just saw. It's like her brain can't
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: process that this creature one had even seen her. They
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: barely had their head up in the window, but that
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: it stood on its hind legs, that it was so big.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: What are they doing sitting in a row right on
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the on the outside of the house, waiting for us?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: What's going on here? And so Shelley tells Chelsea, get
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: in your bed, don't go to your windows, don't leave
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: this room. And that's when Shelley also remembers that she
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: hasn't heard her two dogs, and she's worried they might
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: be outside, and so she starts quietly walking all on
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the top floor looking for her dogs. She's calling to
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: her two dogs and they don't come out. Goes into
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the master bedroom and finds her two dogs hiding in
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the corner of the room next to each other, like
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: they're startled by whatever it is outside. Meanwhile, Eric was
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: pacing downstairs, thinking he needed to go to the barn
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and he needed to get his guns to protect the family.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: But he knew that between his own disability, he can
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: barely walk very fast and he'd have to unlock the barn,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: and then he'd have to pull down the gun case
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: unlock that. All the while he's exposed to these animals
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: that are out there, and so the next best thing
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: in his mind is maybe he could run outside, get
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: in his truck, and back the truck up to the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: front door, and then he could get his wife and
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: his daughter to come out, jump in the car, and
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: they could drive away. So he just goes to the
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: window and he pulls the blinds aside to look outside,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: and those five creatures are now gone. They're not sitting
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: on the gravel path right in front of the house.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know where they are, but they're not in
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: front of the house, and so he closes the blinds
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: and he's like, well, I don't know where they are.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: It's too dangerous to go out there. He starts pacing
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: some more, and he goes back to look and he
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: sees them back in the field where they first saw them.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: All five. He can see all five. They're facing the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: house still, but he can see them because the moon
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: has now popped through and he's got illumination on the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: field and he can see all five. And he's like, Okay,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: maybe if I just keep my eye on them, I
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: can open the door, run out, get the car, back
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: it up without them seeing me. And so, without telling Shelley,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: he opens the door and he goes onto the front
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: porch and he sees them out in the field. He's
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: got a good line of sight on them, quiet as
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: he can. He walks down the steps. He makes his
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: way over to his truck, which is about ten meters away,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and as he's getting closer and closer to his truck,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: he's got his eye on the creatures that are in
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the field. They haven't moved, They apparently haven't seen him.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: He gets to the driver's side of his truck and
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: he's got his keys out and he's kind of fumbling
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: to hit the unlocked button, and then his motion sensor
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: light kicks on and he's so on edge being out there.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: When the light kicks on, he drops his keys because
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: he's so startled. And the first thing he does, he
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: looks towards the field, and he sees that one of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the five creatures is now standing on its hind legs
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: looking at him directly. Before he even bends down to
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: get his keys, he sees them all running towards him.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: He reaches down, he grabs his keys. He runs back
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: to the house as fast as he can, and he
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: gets inside and slams it right as he can. Hear
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: them crossing the gravel right in front of the house,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and he hears them bound onto the porch and start
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: running around the wrap around porch. He's too scared to
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: even look in the windows, so he ducks down to
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: get out of view. Shelley, who is upstairs, can hear
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: everything going on, and she yells Eric what's going on,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and he goes, stay up there, stay up there, Shelley,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Eric Chelsea. Everyone's just frozen waiting, knowing that these creatures
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: are right on the other side, walking along his wraparound porch.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: And after a while he hears the footsteps of these
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: creatures leave the porch and go back onto the gravel area.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: At some point he pokes his head up and he
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: looks and all five are sitting there, just facing the house,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: waiting for them to come out of the house. So
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: he scurries up the stairs to where Shelley and Chelsea
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: are and they just are so scared. So they decide
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: they got to call the police. If nothing else, the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: police will drive up their vehicle might scare away these creatures.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: But on the phone, Shelley lets on that what they're
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: really scared about is some thing on their property. In fact,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: it's five creatures things running around outside their property. And
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: immediately the police officer who's responding to this, he's like,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: all right, well, are you sure it's not a moose?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Are you sure it's not a bear? And finally she's like, no,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: can you please just come over here, and he's like, listen, ma'am,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: just keep your door shut, keep your windows shut, and
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be fine. And ultimately that's how the
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: call ends. They're on their own. The family felt helpless,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and Eric especially felt really frustrated because he can't protect
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: his family. He doesn't have a weapon, he can't get
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to his vehicle. They're just trapped, and so they decide
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the only thing we can do is barricade ourselves inside
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: of the house. And so for the next thirty minutes.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: They put heavy furniture in front of all the doors
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: and the windows. They blocked everything as best as they could.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: They got kitchen knives, and they got an axe that
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: they had inside to chop some wood. As they go upstairs,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: they lock themselves in the master bedroom with their weapons
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and their dogs, and they get on the bed and
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: they just decide, all we can do is wait until
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: the sun comes up. During the time they were barricading
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: their house, they would look out from time to time
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and they would see the five creatures just sitting on
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: that gravel area right in front of their house, just
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: waiting for them. When they finally went upstairs and barricaded
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: themselves in that room, they immediately heard the creatures move
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: off of the gravel, and they heard a couple of
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: them at least walk onto the porch and start pacing
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: around the porch. And it's totally silent besides the sounds
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: of these creatures, and they were clearly communicating with each other.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: They were bumping into walls and then they were howling
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: at each other. There was clear communication happening where they
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: were trying to coordinate some sort of attack on the family. Now,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the way the house was set up is there was
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: a second floor roof, and then the first floor was
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: a little bit wider than the second floor and had
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: its own kind of separate roof. And after a while
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: the creatures stopped walking on the porch. They left the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: porch and it's just silence, and then they would hear
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: them jump onto that first roof. The scary thing about
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: this is that if you walked around the roof, you
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: could actually look into the second floor windows. And so
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: they're laying there and periodically they'd be looking out their window.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: There was windows on either side of the room they
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: were in, but there was a thin curtain between them
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and the window, and so from time to time, these
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: creatures would walk past their windows and they would stop.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: They'd put their paws up onto the window and they
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: would look inside, but there was a very thin sheet
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: between them and the glass, so they couldn't they couldn't
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: see the creature, and the creature couldn't see them. All night,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: they're listening to these creatures running around, and sometimes they'd
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: hear really about scratching, like they had figured something out
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: and they were trying to burrow their way into the house.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: But after a whole night. At this they never actually
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: broke the glass, They never got inside the house. As
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: the sun started to come up in the morning, the
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: creatures jumped off the roof and they could hear them
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: running away, and for about an hour they didn't hear
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: anything outside. The suns come up and they felt safe again,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and so they left their room, they'd go downstairs, and
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: they finally open it up, and all over their property
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: are signs of huge creatures that had been in their property,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: massive footprints with huge claws at the air. They found
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: tufts of hair that had gotten caught on fence posts,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: and even scarier as they found all these points on
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the house, in particular on the second floor when they
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: were walking on that roof, where there was clear markings
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: that they had tried to burrow into the house. There
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: were these deep seated scratch marks into the side of
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the house. The front door had been scratched apart. I mean,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: it was very clear that whatever these creatures were, they
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: were trying to get into the house, but they had
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: just been unsuccessful. This experience was so traumatic for the
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: family that they sold the house and they moved very
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: quickly after that, and they have not experienced anything like
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: that since they left. In two thousand and four, wildland
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: firefighters were called into a forest in central Idaho to
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: combat in emerging fire. By the time the crew arrived
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: at this forest, it was clear this fire was spreading
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: a lot faster than they anticipated. As a result, Mike,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: who was the assistant superintendent basically the second in command
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of this particular crew, he said he was going to
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: hop on the ATV and drive off way ahead of
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: them to see if they needed to spread out farther
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to stop this fire. So Mike hops on an ATV
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: and he takes off down this ancient looking logging road
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: that probably hasn't seen a vehicle or a person in decades.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Mike had made it about a half mile down this
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: trail when he noticed out of the corner of his
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: eye a bobcat was running perpendicular to him, straight out
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: of the forest as if it was going to cross
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: the road, about one hundred feet in front of him.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Mike comes to a stop and thinks, this bobcat doesn't
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: know I'm here. It probably is not used to seeing people.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: It's going to come out into this trail, see me
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: get spooked and run away. But instead this bobcat runs
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: directly into the middle of the road, turns and faces
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Mike in a very aggressive posture. Mike is shocked at
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: what he's seeing because he knows bobcats are notoriously elusive
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and they're nocturnal, So for this thing to be out
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: in the daytime and to be intentionally blocking his path
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and standing there aggressively like it's going to attack him
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: was so out of the ordinary. So the two of
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: them are just looking at each other, not moving for
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: about ten seconds until this bobcat opens its mouth and
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: then begins screaming like a person. It did not seem
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: like the right sound for what he was looking at,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: he said, more than scary, it was just intensely weird.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: And just as quickly as this bobcat has arrived, it
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: stops screaming, turns and runs to a tree, sprints up
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  Speaker 1: the tree, and climbs onto this branch that happens to
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: be perched right over the trail he's on. And Mike's
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: looking up at this bobcat that's right over this trail,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: and he knows, if I'm going to continue going down
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: this trail, I have to go under this screaming Bobcat.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Although totally freaked out, he knew he needed to keep
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: going down this trail, and he's thinking to himself, you
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: know what, this bobcat is probably just scared of me,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: and that was its reaction, as bizarre as it was.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: And so he throws his ATV in gear and he
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: starts only moving down the trail the whole time, keeping
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: his eye on the Bobcat, making sure it doesn't show
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: any sign like it's going to leap off onto him.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: And as he got closer and closer, he just gunned
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: it and sped underneath the branch, and luckily it didn't
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: jump down on him. And as he got a little
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: bit farther away, he turned up to look, and the
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Bobcat had turned around and was still watching him very intently,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: sitting on this branch. Mike makes it about another half
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: mile down the road before he sees something else that's
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: very strange. He sees a cabin. It's this little tiny
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: cabin that's tucked away in the woods, and he's thinking
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: to himself, I'm on federal land. There aren't supposed to
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: be any private structures here, and he figures, even if
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: this is illegal, I do need to stop and make
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: sure no one's in there, because there's this huge fire
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: coming this way, And so he parks his ATV and
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: he starts walking off the trail towards his cabin, and
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: as he gets closer, he can tell it's not only
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: a very old cabin, but it's almost certainly abandoned, because
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: they can see all these slats that have been put
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: over all of the windows, like it's been boarded up.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: But when he got up close, he noticed something strange.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: The door itself into this cabin was not boarded up,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: and the doorknob was missing, and in its place was
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: this shiny silver chain link that was thread through the
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: opening where there should have been a doorknob around a
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: wooden post that was right outside the door, basically a
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: makeshift lock because there was no doorknob to it. And
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: he's thinking, how weird it is that in the middle
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: of this forest, on an old ancient logging road that
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: clearly no one goes down where bobcats are running around freely,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: that there would be this new chain here, which indicates
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: someone must have been here recently. And so he bends
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: down to look through the space that was still there
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: from where the doorknob should have been, and he looks
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: inside and he can't really see anything, and so he
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: takes his flashlight and he shines it in and he
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: can't believe what he's looking at. There's all this furniture
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: inside this tiny little cabin in the middle of nowhere,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and it's all upside down, and he's just totally creeped out.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: So he puts the flashlight away and kind of backs up,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and he starts walking back towards the road, and he
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: can't help it, but the whole time he's looking over
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: his shoulder back at the cabin, like someone's going to
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: emerge from outside of this cabin. He gets to the
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: road and by the time he's there, he's running. He
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: jumps on his ATV, he whips it around, and he
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: starts blazing back up the logging road back towards his crew,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and when he turns the corner to where that Bobcat was,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: he sees there is now a Native American woman standing
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the path. She's wearing this tattered
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: white nightgown. She's barefoot, and she's standing in the same
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: spot he saw that bobcat, and she's looking at him
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: as if she's expecting him, like she's been tipped off
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: that he's going to be here, and he stops about
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: one hundred feet away from her, and now he's officially
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: freaked out. He's still looking over his shoulder towards that
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: cabin because now everything is just totally weird to him.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And before he has a chance to do anything, this
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: woman lets out a scream, a blood curdling scream that
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: is identical to the Bobcat's scream, and so Mike is
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: totally unnerved by this. Everything about this day has really
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: gone sideways, says. This woman is screaming at the top
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: of her lungs, and then suddenly she stops. Mike's still
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: just standing there, like what's going on, and she runs
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: to the same tree the Bobcat had climbed earlier, and
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: she climbs up this tree and gets onto the branch
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: where the Bobcat was and perchaes like an animal on
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: the branch looking at Mike. And now, just like the Bobcat,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Mike is going to have to drive right underneath this
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: woman who was perched over the trail, and so he
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: throws his ATV in gear and he starts driving, and
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: he's staring at this woman and now her mouth is
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: just open like she's about to scream again. And as
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: soon as he got close, he gunned it and went
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: right underneath her. And he turned around after he got
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: some distance away from her, and she's still on the
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: branch now turned around facing him. As he drives away,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: he goes back. He tells the crew what he saw,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: and as much as they all want to go back
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: and see this woman and see this cabin, they know
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: they can't. They got to fight this fire, and so
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: ultimately they do that and then they leave. A couple
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: of days later, Mike was in a bar in the
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: town right near the forest they had just been in
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: fighting that fire, and Mike had seen the woman and
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: the cabin, and he struck up a conversation with a
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: local and he said, hey, do you know of any
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: buildings that are in that section of the forest, And
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the guy kind of laughed and he was like, you know,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: the only building I ever heard of out there was
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: apparently some cabin where some crazy lady thought of herself
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: as a witch, and she apparently had a bobcat for
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: a pet, and so we as kids were just told
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: to stay away from there. So besides that, I don't know.
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