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Fortean Fifty - Illinois · HOLOSKY PODCAST

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[SPEAKER_00]: holocult were home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're back with the 40 and 50, and this time we're right at the hollow layers from porch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good ol' Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Love it or hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's what we call home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Illinois is no slouch when it comes to cryptids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's always been in the top five for big foot sightings, and I know we've covered a few interresting cases here, like the Chicago Mothman, the Mad Gasser of Matoon, and even in an interview about a curious sighting
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back with the creature lurking in the swamps of Southern Illinois, a towering black cloaked figure that hops throughout it in Illinois town, reptilian beast seemed beside a quarry, followed the very next night by a silent craft that seemed to shoot straight into the sky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are giant owls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wolf headed humanoids, flying creatures, invisible beings, frog-like monsters, and even old newspaper accounts of giants buried beneath Illinois soil.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of these stories are decades old, some are remarkably recent, and tonight we're going to find out just how weird Illinois is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the Holosky Podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are your host, I'm Stephen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Kyle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome in to another episode of 40 and 50.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or we like to pick a state, go an alphabetical order, unless it's a y.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Talk about some weird stuff that goes on there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As I said in the intro, we've already covered a bunch of Illinois stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably because we live here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That makes it easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've done Chicago Mothman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've done Mad Gasser, but too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've done them, filled the horror.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mad Gasser was a good one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that one a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just digging through the internet and found some new accounts of people experience in different things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I use a whole bunch of different sources, lawn stricklers, Phantom of Monsters is a great resource.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anybody that doesn't fuck with that needs to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're into these kind of things, go and check it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to start off with Cryptid because who don't like Cryptids?
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[SPEAKER_01]: everyone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone likes cryptids far more than I ever gave a credit for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's Illinois's got its fair share.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Illinois is a strange place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the understatement of the century.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently it's the most hated state right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, because there's too many cryptids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's just, that's just what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We do have an infestation of cryptids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we did, I think we did a show on a little way cryptids, which when I did it, I did mention this cryptid and I'll never not mention it because it's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the total bottoms monster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thuddle Bottom's monster is legendary creature said doing habit a swampy area north of Harrisburg Illinois on the sailing river watershed usually described as ape-like and hairy with a long snout similar to an ant eater dang it's like a big foot ant eater yeah a big eater hell yeah ant foot I like ant foot the big eater of the Thuddle Bottom's monster legend is familiar
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[SPEAKER_00]: Two generations of the sailing county residents, former Harrisburg police chief, Gary Crabtree told the Harrisburg daily register that his department received approximately 50 reports over 28 years of an unidentified beast in the area of Northwest Harrisburg.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some reporting a creature with two legs, others with four, and most described it as having a long, almost anti-eater-like snout.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 50 reports is...
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[SPEAKER_00]: especially if they all say has got any to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because that's that's hard to mess up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would I would agree with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see that long.
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[SPEAKER_01]: snap and you know yeah you know there's there's not much getting around that don't the outside of an elephant you're not gonna really elephant foot and I mean you're gonna know the difference between an anteater and elephant yeah there's a pretty big difference there if you don't
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[SPEAKER_00]: We should probably do it on you, learn your animals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, don't, don't, don't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Remain, remain challenged, blissfully ignorant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just enjoy life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On August 6, 1963, the Harrisburg Daily Register reported what seemed to be the first report of the creature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sailing County Sheriff James L. Thompson spent a busy night last night starting about 11 pm and ending at 4.30 a.m.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Sheriff said he ran across the youth at total bottoms at around 11 p.m. Young man was armed with a rifle and told Thompson that there was a monster on the loose in the bottoms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He said it was eight feet long, four feet high and had a nose like an an eater.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Young man put his rifle in his car and left and later Thompson ran across the dozen boys,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their share of soon dispersed the boys and sent them home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A local resident named Virgil Smith told the register, he believes the creature's not a monster out of myth, but is an actual animal, quote, released by the federal government.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: 1969.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dude.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Virgil knows.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Send it out of fucking government, and either.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's legendary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that thing is going to do not a lot of damage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unless it's armed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, which there's no evidence that he's packing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's packing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's packing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's packing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in armor and armed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, dang.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really think about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the federal government, Smith said the creature was a hairy primate that stood on two legs and was not scared of humans, adding that one couple reported that the animal walked right up to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Smith also claimed that a former employee of the U.S. Department of Anger agriculture confirmed to him that the Department had launched a private investigation into the total bottom's monster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The earliest reports of the creature date back to 1960 by teenagers who used the local area as a make-out spot, and by hunters who had made frantic calls to the police after seeing the creature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Smith claimed in 2010 that the monster could have been, quote, an actual animal released by the federal government, which had since died, but not elaborate, but did not elaborate due to lack of further evidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: interviewed in 2022, he explained that he had discovered that the Mount Vernon Zoo, and neighboring Jefferson County, have been shut now by federal investigators around the time of the Harrisburg sightings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Zoo's unidentified owner was ordered to re-home his animals within two days, but according to friends and family interviewed by Smith, he insisted
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[SPEAKER_00]: that he had released them in various parts of southern Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, one of the animals he released was allegedly, quote, a giant anider from Africa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In quote, the description of the of which Smith feels matches the title bottoms monster accurately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if he can prove it, it makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can prove it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do love the fact that they were like, hey, um,
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[SPEAKER_01]: he do some of these animals and he's like let him have a go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, and he's like, I got some form and he just opened all the cages.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There reminds me, and I'm pretty sure I've told the story before, but it reminds me whenever I was trimming trees and I was out working one day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Up north somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would say is around can't and I'm in this tall grass like up to my waist And I'm I'm I'm using a chainsaw with ear protection and I just hear a fucking roar Salad good damn T-Rex
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I took off running, come to find out, it was Lion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it was Lion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I didn't realize that right down the road, some fucking dude had genuinely pissed us with big cats in him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The realization of that is so scary.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because then my mind was playing it back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I was standing in grass like I was on the
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I could have been a lion just stalking me in the grass.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that's the last thing you expect to hear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The middle of the woods and Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you think that, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He definitely scared the diseases out of me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the last thing I would anticipate to see is a 10 foot long anator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So our anators known for walking around on their hind legs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're the zoologist.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never talked to one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have the last entry, anorator, anorator?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Antford that I talked to and BGT what's the name of that I don't make an onion last one I talked to said No, I don't walk around too late.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but it might Maybe they the it hills really tall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has to get on that makes sense, but if it's a 10 foot ant hill That's a big ant hill big ants.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm definitely dodging that ant foot 100%
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[SPEAKER_00]: of moving backwards in time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We go to an article I found actually in a book about giants, but I can't remember who did it, but they pulled the article from the Chicago Tribune from August 10th, 1892.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hunters find stone tablet under tree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought you'd like this one, so I put her in here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds dope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A remark this is, quote, does it directly from the newspaper.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A remarkable discovery was recently made in a field a few miles from the harp in the historic county of Hancock and Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wyman Huston and Daniel Love it, we're chasing a ground squirrel on the farm of Huston.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When the dog trailed the squirrel
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[SPEAKER_00]: which was easily pushed over by one of the men in grabbing the squirrel the old stomp was taken out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And under its roots, we're found two sandstone tablets, about 10 inches by 11 inches, and a quarter of an inch to a half an inch thick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The tablets lay one upon the other, and the sides of that face contain strange inscriptions in Roman-like capital letters that have been cut into the stone with some sharp instrument.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The men brought the tablets to the harp, where they were inspected by several antiquarians, but none of them could decipher the inscriptions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Huston allowed the stones, I'm sorry, messed up, to be forwarded to where-
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[SPEAKER_00]: in Washington, D.C., where they were held for scientific investigation and never gave back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The authorities of the Smithsonian Institution state that the find is a remarkable one, and that they hope to throw some light upon the meaning of the lettering etched upon the tablets but so far, they were unable to do so, or at least they have not announced the results of the discovery that they have made.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would have drove to the Smithsonian and smacked someone, and it's a giving my stones back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because I started writing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I legitimately chased a fucking squirrel, pushed over a stump and found him parents square, not even Roman tapots, I don't even know what was written on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These are going on my mantle.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I started doing an episode on North American Giants, but I
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[SPEAKER_00]: haven't had the amount of time to put the research in that I want to put in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're working on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's wild.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if I did it, it would be so cool to find those tablets.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be fucking rad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not giving them away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Remember when you found the petroglyphs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's fucking sick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it took pictures of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I didn't give them away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, you can't give them the, especially if they're,
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[SPEAKER_00]: that I want to check the library of the Vatican.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I got to go somewhere, the basement of the Smithsonian's real fucking clothes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take one of the other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm serious too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I've ever found something cool and the government's like, hey, uh, come on, can we like borrow that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll give it back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go, no.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm going with him and on top of that, you're gonna pay me $100.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're gonna have to pay me to hang out with my cool find.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, and then at night when I'm tired I'm taking him home with me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a bunch of books on I'm the American giants and it's crazy Listen, I'm doing talk to them talk about
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[SPEAKER_00]: giant artifacts and they were talking about a stone axe that was found somewhere in Illinois and it weigh in just over like 10 pounds or something and the one that Dylan found is over 11 pounds and the guy who wrote the book who co-wrote the book human also contacted me to ask me about the axe which is awesome we're just fucking crazy it's these famous fucking crazy
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just saying he's famous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's nothing to do with the rest of the show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying it is cool Now we move on to Cole County with the Cole County hopper It sounds terrifying which is kind of like Illinois's own spring heel jack I was wondering about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was wondering about that I don't think we did one specifically on spring heel jack But we did do one on entities and he was in there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do remember he was at least in in that episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah
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[SPEAKER_00]: And rule cold county Illinois two separate witnesses, decades apart described what may be one of the strangest humanoids reports ever tied to matoon and Charleston area, which is also weird that the gas are also came from matoon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The figure was said to be extremely tall, impossibly thin and cloaked in black.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and moving not by walking, but by rapid, powerful hops that seem to defy normal body mechanics.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gross.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was told about a very strange sighting that took place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is from fandoms and monsters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Quote, I was told about a very strange sighting that took place in Cole County, Illinois near Matoon Charleston.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The description stuck with me immediately because it did not sound like an ordinary person, an animal, or even an unusual kind of humanoid report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The woman told me that in 2012, she saw something cross the road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On North County Road, 1,200 east about a mile south of Illinois, Route 16.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She described it as a towering being around 8 to 9 feet tall, extremely skinny, and dressed in what looked like a black hooded cloak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What unsettled her the most was the way that
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[SPEAKER_00]: It did not walk, it crossed the road by hopping, leaping high, and fast in a way that seemed completely unnatural.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then I heard from another witness, who said she and her husband had seen what appeared to be the same kind of being back in 1989, roughly eight to ten miles from the airtight bridge area.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She said it was early in the morning around 5am.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Still fairly dark as she drove the work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her headlights lit up the figure as across the road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She said the thing was upright and appeared to jump about three feet into the air with each motion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It did this over and over in such rapid succession that it was almost a blur.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet it still progressed forward slowly because it had to make so many jumps to get across the road.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just picture it jumping straight up and down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do you yelled out the door?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You almost got three feet here at that time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like it's like slender man, rabbit version.
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[SPEAKER_01]: freakishly tall and unnaturally skinny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll get to weirder and then it just hops everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She estimated that it leaped hundreds of times to get across the road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's your good?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like it was at zero forward moment, I'm just jumping up and down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there was also a description that it was powerful jumps.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So is he just like hoppin' high as fuck?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Three feet there?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, what shook her the most was that she never saw the bend in its knees.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The movement looked amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't getting anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's just straight up and down like a pogo stick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What shook her the most was she never saw the knees, been the movement looked mechanically wrong, almost impossible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was as if the body was lifting and dropping without the normal structure of muscle and joint movement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want everybody home to try it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, see how long?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jump without bending your knees.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And how long it takes you to cross the Tulane highway?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't do it in the highway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you right now, you're all gonna get a kick out of it.
21:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Jump without bending your knees.
21:51
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hilarious.
21:54
[SPEAKER_01]: We used to do it when we were kids.
21:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So you are the colds County?
21:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I probably am.
21:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Makes sense, man.
22:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it really does.
22:01
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not eight feet tall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also not a rascal firing, but here we are.
22:07
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's fair.
22:09
[SPEAKER_00]: She also noticed that its shoulders were unusually high.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So high that she wondered if something like folded wings may have been hidden beneath the cloak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It never turned toward her, so she never saw a face.
22:20
[SPEAKER_00]: The hood covered the head, and once it reached the far side of the road, it vanished into the trees.
22:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Grust creepy.
22:30
[SPEAKER_00]: This creepy.
22:32
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that particular one is it just bouncing up and down.
22:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Super fast as no forward moment.
22:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hundreds of jumps in it past the good maybe it reminds me of like Our stick man in counter episode.
22:46
[SPEAKER_01]: That's weird.
22:47
[SPEAKER_01]: It's except that he just jumps without Ben in his knees Which is a very not aficient way of Getting across the road your feet are gonna get sore
22:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, his legs were probably the long AF, considering he's nine feet tall, he could probably could have cleared that road in like two steps.
23:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and if he had wings, it could have just flew over also true.
23:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, also true.
23:13
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I don't know, maybe maybe he was just playing around being dumb, because the
23:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Overall movement speed, he's not getting very far at a time.
23:27
[SPEAKER_00]: No, if it takes hundreds, and she said, plural, hundreds of jumps.
23:34
[SPEAKER_00]: It reminds me like in my brain a video game glitching out.
23:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it would be easy to track the thing.
23:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I ain't getting very far.
23:42
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
23:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, I like my odds fighting it because it's not moving fast.
23:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine this, what the thing was thinking?
23:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's in the road, a car's come at it.
23:51
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I should get the fuck out of here.
23:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh shit.
23:54
[SPEAKER_00]: 700 jumps later, he just passes the yellow line.
23:56
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, oh shit.
23:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh shit.
23:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Please don't hit me.
23:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Please don't hit me.
24:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what do we got next?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Reptilian UFO sighting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
24:06
[SPEAKER_00]: You should have growville annoying.
24:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, my girlfriend and I were fishing at Stone Quarry in Sugar Grove, Illinois on May 5, 1988.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The quarry was mostly surrounded by cornfields, with some small patches of light forest and shrubbery nearby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The sun had just gone down, and since we were behind the stone walls inside the small quarry, it was getting darker a little faster than it would have in the open.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On one side of the quarry, the stone wall rose about 40 feet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was the side we were facing while we fished.
24:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Behind us, the ground gradually rose toward a cornfield, edged by shrubs and small trees.
24:42
[SPEAKER_00]: The tree and shrub line was about 15 to 20 yards behind us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We were sitting at the edge of the water thinking about packing up when all the sudden we heard a very loud roar.
24:51
[SPEAKER_00]: that reminds me of Kyle's.
24:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, loud.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It made us both jump up instantly.
24:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it roared or howled again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could see the outline of a creature with the large head and large eyes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I grabbed my flashlight and shined it toward the creature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Its eyes were very large, oval shaped, and greenish orange.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then it roared again and I could see very large predator-like teeth.
25:15
[SPEAKER_00]: the creature moved through the trees and shrubs so fast that we could not see it in motion.
25:20
[SPEAKER_00]: One moment it was in one spot and the next it was somewhere else.
25:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it roared again.
25:25
[SPEAKER_00]: The sound it made was unlike anything I'd ever heard from any animal on this planet, especially in Illinois.
25:32
[SPEAKER_00]: I can still mimic the sound it made, it was very scary.
25:36
[SPEAKER_00]: At its closest, the creature was maybe 10 yards from us and had us further probably 50 yards away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The eyes reminded me of a large reptile.
25:44
[SPEAKER_00]: The next day I went back to the quarry with my friend to see if I could find any signs of whatever weird encounter.
25:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I look for tracks, broken limbs, or anything else that might show where it had been, but I found nothing.
25:56
[SPEAKER_00]: My buddy and I started fishing, we've been there for about an hour, when suddenly it started getting dark again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We packed up and began walking back the short path toward my Jeep, when both of us suddenly stopped in our tracks, coming across the cornfield that tree top level was a craft.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It had several lights on it, along with one large light that shone down on us for a few seconds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The craft made a 45 degree turn and exited the atmosphere in the blink of an eye.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The craft made no sound at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We were pretty much surrounded by the stone quarry, and it was so quiet that we could have heard a pin drop on the other side, but the craft made absolutely no sound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty weird.
26:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's also to my recollection, one of the first times I've heard that reptilian things roar.
26:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I kind of make sense, but at the same time, I don't think I've ever heard that description before.
26:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Either way, eerily reminiscent of my story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I probably, it wasn't lying in my case.
27:03
[SPEAKER_01]: It was probably a reptilian that I just didn't see.
27:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
27:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Terrifying.
27:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Or a feline being, which is terrifying.
27:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not into that either.
27:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Why do aliens like fucking people
27:23
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but it is a commonality, isn't it?
27:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell yeah, it is.
27:27
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really strange.
27:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Pasca google guys for fishing.
27:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it could be isolation, but it's definitely, it's definitely strange.
27:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that's something to do with it.
27:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually other by yourself, or just a couple people.
27:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
27:40
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people like to fish at night when it's getting dark, and I don't know why aliens just abduct people at night.
27:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said.
27:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Also we're, also weird.
27:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Not that it's, I know people are going to be like, it's not always at night.
27:50
[SPEAKER_00]: There's this case, there's this case, but a lot of times.
27:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Most of the time.
27:53
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a night.
27:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Most of the time.
27:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
27:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
27:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is not a good encounter.
28:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not trying to get chased out of my fish and spot by angry reptilian.
28:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Overlord.
28:10
[SPEAKER_01]: No, with sharp teeth.
28:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I do love that they got ran off by the reptilian and then the next day They went back looking for when they didn't mind like we're just gonna fish.
28:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's give a fish I mean that's something I would do and if I saw him just throw a spinner bait at him Yeah, just a wing chatter bait
28:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I am curious if they had any of the like stereotypical UFO abduction tropes happen to them after they saw the craft and it shown a lie on them because they're pretty missing time like if the UFO's gonna shine a lot on you probably took you let's be honest
28:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in a greens, which brings me into a question for you and the listeners that listeners can't answer, but it's something you can think about.
28:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell us in the chat.
29:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, would you rather be taken by the reptilians or the graze?
29:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I was thinking about this, you know, because I know what's his name, what's the blower grush went on, Rogan, and I keep seeing little snippets on reels about him
29:21
[SPEAKER_01]: the reptilians in the gray's battle and they're enemies fight one another with the like the reptilians have a up or hand there.
29:29
[SPEAKER_00]: And off me personally kind of signed with the reptilians because I you'd really be taken by the reptilians.
29:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I oh this is a different question.
29:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather not be taking my either one of them.
29:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Well yeah I'm just saying
29:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm going gray.
29:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I ain't trying to be taken by reptilians.
29:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Riplands have a way harder to meaner about them.
29:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, they have sharp teeth.
29:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
29:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Usually when things have sharp teeth, it's not good for us.
30:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what would I rather be taking by yes the grace because I'm going to fight them and I feel like I have a way better chance fighting them than the reptilian if I was in an intergalactic war between the two Well, yeah, you're going to want to be on the reptilian side just like a dropkick the grace well that and I feel like Reptilians are going to beat them up
30:24
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to beat them up.
30:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so yeah, and then we then we just play tactics there.
30:29
[SPEAKER_01]: We let that war rage Their reptiles eventually beat the grays, but by By engaging in that war, the reptiles are going to be spit and then we jump on the reptilians and stuff out.
30:42
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the two for one.
30:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, simple signs.
30:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're good at that stuff.
30:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Simple.
30:50
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm definitely going with the grays.
30:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though they do questionable things, you know, but I don't want to be eaten.
31:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
31:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the reptilians have a way way worse record in dealing with people.
31:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there are fans of like cutting up and stuff like that.
31:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
31:14
[SPEAKER_00]: But
31:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the enemy of my enemy.
31:21
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also my enemy.
31:23
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Chabby GT.
31:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Chabby GT was my enemy doing all right moving on.
31:32
[SPEAKER_00]: They probably got abducted.
31:34
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
31:34
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going back to some some.
31:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully they got a fish.
31:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're probably also like he think about it.
31:40
[SPEAKER_00]: The fish is probably thinking it's getting abducted.
31:42
[SPEAKER_00]: We're just getting caught.
31:43
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a whole thing.
31:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool circle.
31:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.
31:46
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going back to.
31:48
[SPEAKER_00]: The New York Sun Times, December 15th, 1886.
31:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Giant found was steel-envolved.
31:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
31:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, amount near Liverpool, Liverpool, Illinois was recently opened, and several skeletons of very large men were found.
32:07
[SPEAKER_00]: The skulls were so large that they would go over an ordinary man's head covering it to the shoulders.
32:15
[SPEAKER_00]: There was also found a small steel animal, perfect in form, and so hard that a file made a little impression on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also was found to set a false teeth, made of copper and ivory, large enough for a giant and of excellent workmanship.
32:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and love letters that gold teeth got them, got them champers.
32:36
[SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.
32:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Ivory, elephant tusk and gold copper champers.
32:45
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many, that's awesome.
32:49
[SPEAKER_00]: So many newspaper articles.
32:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you get his dentures and wear them?
32:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I wouldn't fit in my mouth.
32:56
[SPEAKER_01]: You could try though.
32:57
[SPEAKER_00]: If his skulls going over my head, his jaw is going to do like this.
33:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't be so rational just answer the question.
33:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you wearing a wearing a giant gold grill?
33:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
33:10
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, cool.
33:10
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I wanted.
33:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to try.
33:13
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I wanted.
33:14
[SPEAKER_00]: If I can only get two teeth in, I'm going to try.
33:19
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't try.
33:20
[SPEAKER_01]: He just tape him to the outside of your face.
33:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just make a chain out of the headwork, too.
33:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's going to be that big anyway.
33:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
33:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw in one of those books, I had a photograph of a jaw that was found in one of the mounds, and they had the jaw placed underneath the regular human's jaw.
33:42
[SPEAKER_00]: And then just completely encapsulated it.
33:44
[SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy.
33:46
[SPEAKER_01]: There's there's articles about 20 footers, bro.
33:49
[SPEAKER_01]: it's not 20 footers.
33:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I believe it.
33:52
[SPEAKER_01]: It's awesome.
33:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also crazy that it's a part of our history maybe that, you know, the world is like, yeah, they're not going to learn about this.
34:04
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going, I was going hard doing MBA stats.
34:08
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, how many players are over seven half feet tall in the MBA ever?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not many.
34:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Nine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: nine not many and they're like 2,000 articles from the late 1800s early 1900s of them find in 20 footers not all 20 footers over eight feet tall 2000 articles it got the entire history of the NBA you have nine men that are seven and a half foot tall well it's a good thing that giant stars still around because that's all
34:43
[SPEAKER_00]: with the grills.
34:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, I'd watch it.
34:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
34:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he was an ancient NBA player.
34:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the fact that he had a grill.
34:53
[SPEAKER_01]: That's sick.
34:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's fucking awesome.
34:56
[SPEAKER_01]: He probably beat up the elephant.
34:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Stolen's tooth or just carve the trunk into teeth.
35:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
35:04
[SPEAKER_01]: And then found cool shiny stuff and was like, I'm gonna add this to my teeth too.
35:08
[SPEAKER_00]: She liked that.
35:10
[SPEAKER_00]: makes me feel so much more that these things aren't just like exaggerated new stories to get people by the paper because why the what what part in your brain makes that part up.
35:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I found I found this false pacet of false teeth.
35:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Giant size false teeth.
35:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're ivory and copper.
35:31
[SPEAKER_01]: which is fucking cool awesome and there was an endo with him which is another weird little meniskeul.
35:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah he's making his teeth hammered out the car.
35:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
35:40
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the grill maker.
35:42
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the grill sergeant.
35:44
[SPEAKER_00]: He was basically Paul Wall.
35:45
[SPEAKER_00]: He was selling everybody grills.
35:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Call him George Foreman because he's selling everybody grills.
35:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Damn.
35:54
[SPEAKER_00]: We solved it.
35:55
[SPEAKER_00]: We solved the North American Diamond.
35:57
[SPEAKER_01]: We did.
35:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a George Foreman.
36:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I wish I would add a grill.
36:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Me too.
36:04
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
36:05
[SPEAKER_01]: One day, all skyo by a squirrels.
36:08
[SPEAKER_00]: One day, aspiration.
36:10
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got to have dreams, ladies and gentlemen.
36:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
36:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Got something to have something to work toward.
36:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Just for tread water.
36:17
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
36:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of water, I'd like, how do you like that for a segue?
36:21
[SPEAKER_01]: That was good.
36:21
[SPEAKER_00]: The central Illinois frog, man.
36:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Facebook's a little weird.
36:30
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
36:32
[SPEAKER_00]: How big is he?
36:33
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to find out.
36:34
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
36:34
[SPEAKER_00]: So the witness says some friends and I decided to visit a nearby nature preserve and campground to pitch our tents and spend a couple evenings together.
36:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Gathered around the campfire to talk about our lives and where we're all at the moment.
36:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds like a great idea, right?
36:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Up to that point, I probably going camping five or six times before experiencing this quote, cataclysmic event.
36:56
[SPEAKER_00]: What happened to me that night completely changed my opinion about, and my willingness to go camping in the Illinois woods at night.
37:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Once the fire was lit and the launchers were set up around it, the festivities began.
37:08
[SPEAKER_00]: The bear was cold, warm friends, and a fun, then the fun part cool stories sounds like a hallmark greeting card.
37:17
[SPEAKER_00]: doesn't it?
37:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Along with drinking several beers, of course comes the need to relieve ourselves in the woods.
37:23
[SPEAKER_00]: There was no shiny bathroom, no stinky outhouse, just a natural open air experience.
37:29
[SPEAKER_00]: During one of these trips to relieve myself, my world turned upside down.
37:33
[SPEAKER_00]: I was about halfway done when I heard the rustling of leaves just beyond the reach of my flashlight.
37:38
[SPEAKER_00]: then I saw some movement.
37:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I figured it might be a deer or something.
37:42
[SPEAKER_00]: So I raised my flashlight toward it and that's when I had my WTF moment.
37:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Standing there illuminated by my flashlight was a freaky looking creature that I didn't recognize.
37:54
[SPEAKER_00]: It a glistening, rubbery looking brown skin, similar to that
37:59
[SPEAKER_00]: but it appeared a human-like standing on its hind legs at roughly about five feet tall.
38:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Its beady eyes were like black orbs, about the size of tennis balls, and when they blinked, they seemed to retract straight down into the deep, wrinkled fold to top its head.
38:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly it bolted, and I watch as it flung itself wildly from tree trunk to tree trunk, leaving a slimy stringy residue on everything that it touched.
38:27
[SPEAKER_00]: was left behind almost resembled dripping liquid hunting.
38:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally, as a momentarily rested near the base of a large oak tree, it twisted and contorted its entire body slowly squeezing itself into a seemingly tiny knot hole, much like the way an octopus was slithered into a small crevice on a coral bed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If that wasn't freaky enough, because I stood there in the forest, trembling, and the dead silence and stillness of that night, I could clearly hear the disturbing sounds of its bones crunching and cracking, as well as its muscles and ligaments tearing as it methodically folded into itself before finally pushing itself into the knot hole.
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[SPEAKER_00]: deep into the heart of the tree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The very last thing I remember seeing before it disappeared all together was it seemingly winking at me in a bizarre and surrealistic way, waving its 12-inch long, gangly articulated fingers hypnotically up and down at me as if to say goodbye.
39:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck that, that sucks.
39:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Dude found a real-life battle-toe.
39:37
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's way out of the winks and waves as it's imagine it's own body of new tree, that's as right now most disturbing thing of the night, yeah, the visual of that right there that
39:54
[SPEAKER_01]: It is winking and waving as it's crunching its own body is fucking disturbing.
40:02
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just listening to it Hot bones crunching and shit.
40:06
[SPEAKER_01]: That rose Just snail trail and everywhere.
40:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's Yucky.
40:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh That's a yucky cryptid.
40:15
[SPEAKER_01]: It is it makes you want like
40:19
[SPEAKER_01]: If that's real, it makes you wonder, what the fuck is out there?
40:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and where did the sandwich go in a tree apparently?
40:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, but where did he go from there?
40:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Did he just hang out in the tree?
40:36
[SPEAKER_00]: And if these things can manipulate and morph themselves outside of their physical realm,
40:45
[SPEAKER_00]: It's no wonder we can't find any evidence of them.
40:47
[SPEAKER_01]: True.
40:48
[SPEAKER_01]: It makes me feel like one of those hollow earth moments for some reason, you know?
40:56
[SPEAKER_01]: It just shoves itself into a tree, which is a doorway to the underworld.
41:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you hear big foot encounters where people will watch them duck behind a tree and disappear.
41:09
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
41:10
[SPEAKER_01]: And people are like, oh, because they shove themselves in a hole.
41:14
[SPEAKER_00]: probably shapeshifted into a raccoon.
41:18
[SPEAKER_00]: What's smaller than a raccoon, a chipmunk?
41:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, chipmunk.
41:21
[SPEAKER_01]: June just took on some squeeze into places.
41:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Turned itself into a moth.
41:25
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know.
41:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never seen this slamming frogman, snail trail fog, frogman.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it makes you wonder how many big flits you've taken out for every mosquito that you swatted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, or how many trees you walk past, they're just stuffed full of frogman and bigfoot gross, just stuffed to the burn, I feel like bigfoot would eat frogman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is slimy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, people do like frog legs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You frog leg guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, probably.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Me too, are you froggy guy though?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not the biggest fan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my no.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Taste a little pondy most of the time, I've had more fishy than... No, I just feel like I'm drinking out of a pond when I eat them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of weird.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like fish chicken.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the, yeah, it's like slimy fish chicken.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need him up there there, man, I'm probably.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd probably try one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If they were the size of the five foot tall, slimy frogman, I'd probably still try it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here to devour every species.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of, I'm doing good on these segues.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of species, how about the giant owl, a valsipil annoying, nope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alsep, alsep, somebody will correct me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure of it because.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what people do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what people do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the early morning hours of October 26, 2018, a season over the road, trucking team encountered something completely unexpected while returning to their yard in Alciple, Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But began as a routine drive ended with the close range confrontation of unexplained screams that still trouble said witnesses years later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We were on our way to park our truck at the yard after being on the road for two weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As we approached the railroad track crossing, we noticed something standing in the middle of the road, and initially thought it was a homeless person walking along the tracks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We turned on the high intensity lights, and to our surprise, it was not a homeless person.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This figure looked like a large owl, with what appeared to be feathers, a flat round face, and large eyes that reflected the LED lights from our truck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The creature seemed to lunge at us while trying to cover its eyes with its left arms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I honked the air horn and the beast turned its back to us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Took a couple steps and then took off and flew into the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We were left in complete shock as we watched it disappear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After a minute or two of waiting for it to return, we continued into the yard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We parked our truck and we were walking toward our car when suddenly we heard was sounded like a scream followed by another and then silence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We heard to our car and left for home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's now the first giant owl sighting we've heard in Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we've had listener encounters, listener, send us encounters of giant owls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I might remember correctly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It makes me wonder which I'm sure it's not a thing, but it is strange how us as humans be it that it's rare, but as humans and a species that supposedly have all done this planet, we do have anomalous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: people from time to time, like freaks that are, you know, insanely bill or they are nine foot tall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have these one-offs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Robert Wildo does it happen frequently enough in in other forms of nature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: like a giant owl.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's kind of what a mask it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm assuming that it doesn't happen because we don't ever really hear about it, but it does make you wonder, you know, yeah, like why couldn't they have, and I'm not saying a nine foot owl, but like a like an hour
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you get animals born with two heads, multiple eggs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel like that that like there is human giganticism.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't feel like it's that far fetched for there to be possible animal giganticism.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of what I'm wondering if it happens in nature itself, and if it does, why don't we really have a documentation for that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh no, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because that would explain- And amologists.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could explain some of these bizarre encounters like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But, like I said, it's not so it's cryptid, it's creepy.
46:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I would be free.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm freaked out by and it did have arms.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, true.
46:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm freaked out by just regular sized owls If there's owls big enough to pick me up and carry me off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm definitely freaked out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it was obviously an alien.
46:53
[SPEAKER_01]: True.
46:53
[SPEAKER_01]: True.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's obviously great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Either way, you can definitely pick me up and carry me off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not about that life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, not about that life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
47:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Next up, we've got the bull valley monster, possibly the beast of Bray Road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A woodstock Illinois man is walking to his friend's home late at night when he is stalked and later observed,
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[SPEAKER_00]: quote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the time of the incident, in the summer of 2017, I lived in Woodstock, Illinois, a suburb, a suburb of northwest Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was about half an hour away from the Wisconsin border.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This cryptid has been called by different names since the late 60s,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was known locally as the Bol Valley monster on the Illinois side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I recall my uncle speaking about it when I was 12.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He seemed nervous even talking about it, but he never saw it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The general public probably knows it, or them as the beast of Bray Road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the time I worked a night shift so all my days off, I was a night owl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That night, a friend had invited me over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was nearly 11 at night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I crossed the highway and got on this bike trail near the train tracks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To the left of me was this large field, and on my right, train tracks in the highway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After I got to the point where some trees covered the field, I got this weird feeling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All the sudden I heard movement in the trees, and thought it was a deer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps because
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[SPEAKER_00]: The smaller trees isn't moved forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My first instinct was to give it some room to pass until I heard this growl, and my thought was, oh no, a badger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then a second later it hit me that this was at least as large as a deer and moving through the tree branches, and it was not a badger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then it growled about 10 times louder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it was moving my way faster in breaking the branches off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I immediately turned it ran across the train track, onto the highway, not even looking to see if any cars were coming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once I hit the other side of the street, I didn't stop running for about 50 feet and turn my head and saw about three cars headed my way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I looked across the road and I could see a crouching, humanoid shape with a wolf's head profile.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a hint of bright red eyes seen in the darkness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was at least seven feet tall, hiding between two train cars and watching me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed to be scared to be seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I ran and did not stop running for about three blocks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't stop until I reached a well lit area where there was a cluster of factories and a closed auto store.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even then I didn't feel safe until I reached the old downtown area.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I slowed my pace and walked, blocked my friend's house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All the time I was trying to absorb what had happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a bipedal animal that probably stopped me long before it charged me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I will say that I did sense it.
50:04
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the weirdest thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The sense of an easiness that preceded it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That and the loud growl was very inhuman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I got to my friend's house, and he had his front door open.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He asked if I was all right, and I pushed past him, grabbed two beers from the case that we didn't finish the night before and said, man, sit down.
50:23
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to believe this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we spent the rest of that night talking about my encounter, we were throwing out all the theories about what it could actually be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if it might be able to walk through dimensions, and that's why no corpses of these things are profound, this was something that I would say is unclassifiable.
50:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not trying to have that encounter.
50:49
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I do, I mean, it would make sense that it could be the beast of Bray Road because it would make complete sense of those things have migration patterns and, you know, it's totally, I find that totally plausible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that it's stalked him is a very, very eerie feeling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: which is a kind of that beats the purpose of stalking at that point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wonder if some people wouldn't.
51:29
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it that they say Bigfoot has in for sound?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if some people are in tune with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: More so than other people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would assume so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think so too.
51:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
51:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Being a little more sensitive to it than the majority of people, I could definitely see that.
51:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I say tigers use it in chess why some people get eaten by tigers and some people don't probably because they don't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No shit.
51:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that.
51:51
[SPEAKER_01]: How does tigers utilize in for Sandy, you know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
51:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how to Google it.
51:55
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm pretty sure large cats do.
51:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.
51:59
[SPEAKER_01]: What see that makes me want to what the purpose of the emphasis does it disorient you a little bit I don't know let's go to Google everyone talk amongst yourself as well because now I'm curious I may be making that up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean if you are then it's okay Yes, large big cats like tigers and lions can produce and hear emphasis on low frequencies Sounds below the hearing range of 20 hertz
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[SPEAKER_00]: Humans and other animals often cannot hear these ultra-low frequencies in their ears, but they can physically feel them as vibrations in the chest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for sound travels for miles and penetrates all at objects like dense forests and bones helping big cats communicate over large territories, research shows big cats can detect these low frequencies and use them to send environmental threats and locate calls from other cats, so almost like a echolocation kind of thing, it's weird and then you, the people some people can feel it, we solved it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what I mean that does now that makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I could go and see if it, see if it has the ability to like this orient you because I feel like that is a part of him for sound where I could will almost disorient you to a degree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's thinking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and for some kind of disorient people, primarily when it's presented in high intensities or specific resonant frequencies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While in for sound, soundwave below 20 Hertz is typically beneath the threshold of contrast human hearing, it physically vibrates tissues and organs of the body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, it can.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, because you think about that, if it has the ability
53:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly what it just says I'm saying he definitely make you disoriented and it'll fuck up your equilibrium stuff like that Low frequency sound waves can directly stimulate the Autolith organs and semi-circular canals of the inner ear which are responsible for balance Yeah, how you go could cause audio vestibule vestibule your symptoms like dizziness vertigo and nausea.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why yeah, that's why in first time would fuck with you because it'll sign this it'll fuck up that inner ear I only know that because I do have problems with my One of my inner ears on my left side and it'll make me lightheaded and make me dizzy It made me feel all types of fucked up and that's what gets what comes from and I started after you saw the lion and there was Yeah, I mean you're not wrong, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: time frames low-wide, but you know, whatever, it's lasting in for sound.
54:45
[SPEAKER_00]: It said it could travel for miles.
54:46
[SPEAKER_00]: It's still in for sounding you right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably.
54:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
54:50
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all disagree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We solved it.
54:52
[SPEAKER_01]: We did solve it.
54:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It is interesting, though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it definitely makes a lot more sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if a big foot or dog man or even a big cat,
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[SPEAKER_01]: was able to consciously utilize and for sound in that manner of, like, a manner of attack, you could fuck some shit up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.
55:17
[SPEAKER_01]: You're basically, you're kind of like crippling your prey to a degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 100%.
55:21
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's almost like a spider's venom or something that kind of puts you at a severe disadvantage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: dizzy and disoriented you're going to want to sit down.
55:31
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to be nauseous.
55:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're going to sit down and then guess what dog man eats you a big foot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tears you live from limb.
55:39
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not cool.
55:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they're apex predators.
55:44
[SPEAKER_01]: But it also makes it.
55:45
[SPEAKER_01]: It's also awesome that
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[SPEAKER_01]: when you hear people say things like I felt its presence before that could 100% be the cause of it that these entities are somehow, even if they're unknowingly creating and for sound, but it could it could lead to an explanation as to why people feel things before they see them or they feel it and they don't ever see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and there's a pool that some people can maybe tune into that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we should tune into that if you're in the woods and you start to feel weird, probably an apex predator around run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Get the get out of there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
56:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Got one last one here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gonna end on a Chicago Chicago dinosaur kind of thing,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And over to Lynn Park, Illinois woman described an encounter with a terrasore like creature that attempted to grab her small dog in the front yard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This report was received by long-strictler, Banham's Monsters, quote, hello.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw flying creature last night, October 19, 2022, in front of my house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I live in Oberlin Park, Illinois, and lived in the same house about 16 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd see a coyote once every couple of years in the winter, and a few foxes here and there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Two months ago I started to see a coyote with hybrid creature at least twice a week, which is not normal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm unable to walk my dogs like I normally do because the hybrid creature coming face to face with me in chasing me away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Last night, I was with my dogs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the front, only since I can't take them around anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One dog was leashed, and the other was grazing the grass a few feet away for me, while I was standing on the porch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A creature with no fur, no feathers, gray brownish color, long legs with an extra long tail, swaying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: swept down in an attempt to grab my unleash dog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The creature saw me and flapped its leather like wings once and wrapped its wing around its body in an attempt to conceal itself from me as it glided off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While gliding away, it dropped some liquid waste and a lot of it landed in the grass, so I wasn't able to see the color of texture.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This happened about 10 p.m.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was super freaked out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not trying to interact with the dinosaurs from Chicago.
58:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that all the cryptids in Illinois are leaving snail trails.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty disturbing.
58:25
[SPEAKER_00]: We even some residue where they're at and where they're going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like slime or it's like slime or fruit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got the echo plasma leaking out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they call it these days.
58:39
[SPEAKER_00]: He he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's gross.
59:00
[SPEAKER_00]: It's gross.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And one off dinosaur sightings are bizarre.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even especially in, if it, I just picture it being in Chicago like the, actually in Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like it would be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, that says it's in Kansas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nailed it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Overland Park in Lennoy is southwest suburb of Chicago about 25 miles from the city center.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's there.
59:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, BGT is overland parking in Chicago.
59:36
[SPEAKER_01]: It has dinosaurs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's sick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the new Chicago Jurassic Park.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
59:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I got I doing these lead me in a lot of directions for other possible episodes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's cool Chicago dinosaur episode incoming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even better.
1:00:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Even better.
1:00:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I just got to get it figured out.
1:00:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I found a lot of I found a lot of reports of people seeing a very specific
1:00:15
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we dealt with enough of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, very specific creature and it's awesome.
1:00:24
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna put that one together, too.
1:00:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a giant episode, I got all these episodes, I got a hundred episodes with about five hearts.
1:00:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go Megaladon.
1:00:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the Megaladon of Kane Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just lives in the sewers.
1:00:44
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be ensuers.
1:00:45
[SPEAKER_00]: There would be snail trails.
1:00:47
[SPEAKER_01]: It'd be a huge megalodon.
1:00:49
[SPEAKER_00]: That's yucky.
1:00:51
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, that's your 40 and 50 for this week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like good ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol' ol'
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just be careful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that we're gonna wrap it up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for hanging out with us tonight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today, this week, getting you through the work week, check started our socials, and thanks for kicking it with us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We appreciate you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Till we meet again, stay safe, stay weird, and think twice before you interact with any Illinois snail trails.