More Weird Creatures

I found some more weird creatures to go along with last week's show. Things like the Blemmyae, who have their faces on their chest. The Adlet, a human with the body of a dog. The Nuckelavee is a demon from Northern Scotland. More creatures to keep an eye out for.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Are you Are you coming to the tree? Well, they
stung up a man who will say she murdered. True,
strange things have happened that now stronger would be the
free mind. Ma, I'm holling true.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey, welcome to the show. I'm your host, Chris James.
My cat is I bawling the mic again? Already? Come
here there. She won't stay in my lap because that's
not what she wants to do. Coffee is the best

(00:54):
thing since hot water. I like coffee and my coffee
no additives, no weird flavors. I do order some bacon
flavored coffee one time. It was weird. You're expecting a
taste of coffee and you get bacon instead. I love

(01:16):
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If you can't get there. From there, go to Organicmancoffeetrike
Dot shop get coffee that tastes like coffee. I mentioned
watching Dead Like Me last week the TV show that
Arn't Bell loved to watch. We binged the show on

(02:05):
YouTube and we got to the last episode, the season
two episode fifteen. This was twenty nine shows. They had
planned to make a third season. The show was highly rated.
The fans loved it, Art Bell loved it. The cast

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liked being a part of such a weird and different program. Well,
the folks who think they know what people really like
decided the show was not what folks needed to watch,
and they canceled it. These are the same folks who,
as soon as a TV show becomes popular, flood the

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market with similar and not as good shows. There's always
the guys who says, in every group of investigators, I
don't believe it, no evidence will convince them that it's true.
Every single group of investigators, they have to have that
one numb skull who says he doesn't believe anything. I

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don't know why, but that's the Hollywood formula. If you
watch Small Town Monsters, which is an independent film company,
is it seth Breedlove. They don't have any skeptics on
the program. They have cryptid folks who are into cryptids.

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They interview people who are into cryptids. They talk to
people who have seen cryptids. No skeptics need apply. Well,
after five years of not having Dead Like Me as
a TV show, folks in Hollywood decided they were going

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to make a movie, which they did Dead Like Me
Life After Death. We watched it, but it was lacking something,
a lot of somethings to begin with. Mandy Pittempkin wasn't
in the show. He said, nay nay. Apparently he read

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the script and didn't like it. They'd never explained what
happened to Rube. They never told how he died. When
he died, there were all kinds of clues. Of course,
he looked like a bank robber, looked like he may
have gotten killed in a bank robbery. But all the

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other members of the cast, they always showed us what
happened and how they died. Roxy got choked to death
with a legwarmer. What a way to go. I guess
it beats you hit in the head with a toilet seat.
But well, it was a cool show and we liked it.
Not for kids, but still the show had a message,

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not preaching about life, but suggesting things. Well, now that
we don't have a show to watch at night, my
wife said, Hey, let's watch Wings, about the two brothers
that fly an airplane service out of what's the name
of that weird little island, Nantucket. That's it. So we

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popped in Wings and we watched a couple of episodes.
What they did was they compressed them together. They made
one long show out of three or four episodes. Right
towards the end, when the show hadn't really finished yet,
suddenly a youngish Asian man I'm going to guess late

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on his early thirties, pops up on the screen and
you can see the way his eyes are moving. He's
watching the screen in front of him, and I don't
think he realized that he was on the show, especially
when he started to pick his nose. This ran for

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about i'm going to guess five maybe seven minutes at
the end of the episode that we were watching. Never
saw the end of that episode, just watched some young
Asian man pick his nose. Now you could see there
were people in the background also doing other things. Fortunately

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nobody did anything too strange. Well, we watched a couple
more episodes of Wings, and guess what, Towards the end
of each episode, suddenly bam, there he was picking his
nose and staring into the screen. We haven't watched any
more episodes in a while. It's just kind of weird

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to see that sort of thing. I did a show
last week, Weird Creatures, and you don't like doing two
part shows. It's not my thing. Last week, when I
was preparing this show, I opened up my browser to
start working, and I saw a whole bunch of new

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creatures that I hadn't gotten to yet. I read about
a creature, I get the information, I tap up my
show notes, and by the time I reach about six thousand,
six hundred words, I have a show. Well, all of
a sudden, here's all these other creatures I hadn't talked about.

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So I thought, why not, I'll just make another Weird
Creatures show, not part two, just some more of the same.
Bli Meya were a group of men and women mentioned
in ancient and medieval history. They had a very distinctive

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look in that they had no heads, not like the
headless horsemen of Texas, but their heads were set in
the middle of their chest. Other than that, the blimy
looked pretty much human. Two arms, two legs, a body
with a face on it. Oh that and the fact

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that some of them were twelve feet tall. Back in
ancient Greece, the scholars wrote about encounters in distant lands
with these headless beings. Explorers told of running into these
strange creatures, who also had a tendency to eat people.

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The Blimy were cannibals. Would a being from a different
group which is not having a head be considered the
same species as us? If not, they would not be cannibals. Well,
the explorers and the scholars said they were so. There

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on a few occasions, these headless beings were said to
have heads, but could pull them down into their chests.
When encountering dangerous situations, the head would slide down and
the shoulders would move up. The folks doing the viewing
might have thought this was what was happening, or they
may have seen it. The BlimE Ay were also called Blimis,

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chest eyes or stenothhalami. That would be the boys in
the white lab coats, saying that, or would they be
the boys in the white togas. As people would move
about the world, they would run into others who looked
very much like them. Everyone knew what a person would

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look like other than skin tone and maybe the eye shape.
When the visitors ran into beings that looked so different,
they described what they saw. A lot of historians like
to say our ancestors were only overly imaginative, or they
were downright lying fools. The whole idea of modern folks

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being superior to those people is trying to make us
look good. Well, in some folks eyes, you never make
yourself look good trying to make others look bad. Try
telling that to the folks who think they have all
the answers. If some traveler way back a few thousand

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years ago ran into someone with his face in the
middle of his chest, what could he possibly have seen?
That wasn't someone with their face in the middle of
their chest. If this local individual had drawn a face
on his chest, what about the thing up above his shoulders?

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Where did that go? The Blimey were believed to have
lived along the Nile River, but they were later said
to have inhabited an island somewhere in that same general area.
Some say that they moved to India, or perhaps they
had come from there. Some believed the Blimey were aliens

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beings from outer space. Others believed they were normal humans
with extremely high shoulders due to some deformity or modification
done to them when they were children. You know the
old I'm going to change my child's looks by shoving
his head down into his chest trick. The Blimy may

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have been people who inhabited an area that we now
know as Soudan. The city was large and well protected,
with well fortified towers and walls. The culture of the
Blimy was almost the same as Morodic Moriotic culture. The

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Moriotic period, the later phase of rule by the Kushite kings,
is named after the royal burial ground in Moray. In
the third century BC, the royal cemetery was moved from Napaka,
as was one of the major centers of Kushite state.

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According to the Greek scholar Procopius, the Blimey worshiped Priapus,
the Rustic Greek fertility god, and Osiris, the god of
the after life as well as death. He also mentioned

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that they often made human sacrifices offered to the sun.
The medical term or condition known as a priapism comes
from that name. A priapism is when you're manly parts
standard attention way too long to a point that becomes painful,

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sometimes caused by a head or spinal injury. It's not
the kind of thing you want to find in a
person who's been in a really bad car accident. It
is not a good thing. In some accounts, the Blimey
originated in lower regions of Nubia. These beings were believed

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to be headless monsters, with their eyes and mouths on
their upper torso. They were first mentioned in Herodotus's work
The Histories as early as two thousand, five hundred years ago.
Thumb believed the Blimy inhabited the western region of Libya,

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which was thickly wooded at the time, hilly and teeming
with wildlife. The area was also home to many other
strange creatures, such as dog headed men, gigantic snakes, and
horned donkeys. Although Herodotus had written about the Blimy, he

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hadn't a actually given them the name. He only described
what he had seen. The name was given by someone else.
The Greek historian and philosopher Strabo mentioned the name Blimey's
in his work The Geography. According to him, the Blimey

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weren't bizarre looking monsters, but were a tribe that inhabited
the lower regions of Nubia. A Pliny, the Roman writer,
equated to them with the headless creatures that were mentioned
by Herodotus. A Pliny stated the blimy had no heads
and that they had their eyes and their mouths in

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their chest. The Blimey appeared once again in the Travels
of Sir John Mendeville, a fourteenth century work, which describes
them as cursed folks with no heads, a foul attitude,
and their eyes on their shoulders. According to Mandeville, these

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creatures weren't from Africa, but from Asia. Sir Walter Raleigh,
the English explorer, also described strange creatures that resembled the blimy.
According to his writings, they were called Ewapanauma. He agreed
with Mandeville's report of the creatures having their eyes in

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their shoulders, and he stated that their mouths were located
between their breaths breasts the epi wan Uppa no map
yeah hippowan Oma. Those creatures were also said to have
long hair that grew backwards between their shoulder blades, and

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the men had beards that grew down to their feet.
Unlike the other historians, Raleigh stated these headless beings lived
in South America. What I find interesting is these creatures
were seen in many parts of the world. How could

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so many travelers and explorers all mistakenly imagine seeing the
same thing. Their descriptions were almost the same. A few inconsistencies,
but hey, look at the people of the world. Could
there have been a race of people, beings, creatures without

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heads living on our planet and whatever happened to them?
The Adlet or Equdellet are a race of creatures spoken
of by the Inuit of Greenland, the Labradors, and the
Hudson Bay coasts. The name refers to Inland Native American tribes.

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It also denotes a humanoid dog legged tribe. The lower
part of the body of a canine and the upper
part is human, unlike a dog man. All let are
able to run extremely fast, and anytime there's an encounter

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between them and a man, the man is going to lose.
They are taller than normal people, and in some stories
they're cannibals. Inuit from Labrador used the term adlet. A
tribes west of the Hudson Bay area used the word equadulet.

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Too many letters in that name equagdulet. The monstrous race
begotten by the Adlet was identified with Inland Native Americans
by the Labrador and Hudson Bay tribes. Inuit from Greenland
and Baffin Bay, which had no Native American neighbors, used

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the term to refer to the half human half canine creatures.
The Inuit of Greenland tell some stories as those in
Baffin Bay. The story of the Girl and the Dog.
A young woman called Nivorasiang, which translates as the girl

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lived with her father sevoor Kong. He had decided that
she had decided that she was not going to marry anyone,
no matter what her father said. Sounds like a teenager today.
After rejecting all of her suitors, she married a dog,

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a Jurkong, who had white body with red spots. Of
their ten children, five were dogs and the others were
ad let. Half dog, half human. Since a jurikong doesn't

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go hunting, and all of those children were hungry, it
fell on said jurikong to pro vide for this noisy household.
Can you imagine ten huge puppies that were barking and
howling all the time, feed us. At last, he puts

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them into a boat and he carries them off to
a small island, telling a Jurakong to come and get
meat every day. Novera Song hangs a pair of boots
around his neck and he swims ashore, but Savorikong, instead
of giving him meat, fills the boots with rocks, which

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causes a Kirije a Jyrokong to drown. In revenge, Novera
Sang ascends the young dogs over to naw her father's
feet and hands off. He in return kicks her overboard
when she happened to be in his boat, and when

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she's hanging from the gun all he cuts her fingers off,
which then fall into the ocean, turning into whales and seals.
The story doesn't mention how he was able to kick
her overboard lacking any feet to kick with, or how
he cut anything off as seeing as he didn't have

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any hands. Navias Song is scared that her father might
kill the adelette, so she sends them inland and from
them a lot of people sprang forth. The young dogs
she sends across the ocean in a makeshift boat, and

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they arrive beyond the sea, where they turned into the
Scandinavian people. Now there was a difference between the dog
kids and the half dog kids, even though they all
came from the same place. The dogs somehow became Scandinavians,

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and maybe because of their white coloration. Let's face it,
those folks do need some more sunlight. I've run into
a few people from that part of the world, and boy,
how doy they call me a white guy. The dogs
are sent overseas and they will return as white Scandinavians

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to bring things favorable to the Inuit, whereas the Adlette
swift runners with an aggressive disposition, become a kind of
an inland spirit to be kept away from by offering
themselves to the Nordics, the local tribes would benefit from

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goods brought from northern Europe. This is a kind of
an off take on the cargo colts found in the
South Pacific. Right after World War II came to a close,
The islands were used by the military as jumping off
points on their way to Japan. The locals were given
all kinds of things that they had never seen by

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these mysterious visitors who arrived from the sky. Once the
war was over, most of these small islands were abandoned
by the military. The folks there built pretend air strips
with planes made out of wood in order to entice
the visitors to come back. The Inuit daughters served as

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mediators in obtaining their desired goods. The locals were economically
dependent on the mechanically superior products supplied by the Scandinavian whalers.
There was no way of making a steel knife by
the Inuits, and they didn't have any trees, so they

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couldn't make anything out of wood. It all had to
be brought by the whalers and obtained by trading one
thing for another. The story bates back long before any
Scandinavians arrived in the area. The story must have been

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adopted into including them. Somebody modified the account for the
coming of the Scandinavians aka the Nords, the Decali, the
indigenous people of British Columbia Decal. I did a show
about them, and now I can't pronounce the darn name

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de Kella Well. The indigenous folks of British Columbia tell
a number of similar stories. In one of those, a
woman suspects that she is being violated by a nightly visitor,
and she sets a kind of a trap for him.
She gets a small bag filled of vermilion paint, and

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she keeps it by her bed. In the middle of
the night, in total darkness, she awakens to unwanted advances,
grabs the bag and dumps it on her attacker. The
next day, she identifies him as being a huge dog

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and later gives birth to four puppies. Now, don't get
all white coat on me. I know this can't happen.
It's a legend. Similar stories, both about the adelette and
the woman who married a dog, are told in Siberia
on the other side of the Bearing Straits, among the

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Chukchi in natives. Many tales were told by the Smith
sound Eskimo as Inuk from South Sound, who was in
New York City in the winter of eighteen ninety seven
and eighteen ninety eight, published by A. L. Cromber for
the Journal of American Folklore. According to the Inuit, two Tornets,

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another race from Inuit lore, find themselves among savage, cannibalistic adlet.
They sneak out at night, and as they're leaving, they
cut the thongs on the adlet's sledges that fasten the
crossbars to the runners. The dogs start barking, but as
the adlet mount their sledges, the runners fall off, and

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the tornet get away. The same Smith's Sound Eskimo also
told a variant of the adlet's story related by Boaz
in the Central Eskimo. In this version, the tornet are
the woman's offspring as well, but Kroebert remarks that they

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are ordinarily not connected with this tale. Other stories told
of the smith Sound Eskimo, such as the Origins of
the nor Wall, which is also contained also contained Murderous Adlette.
I wonder if when this guy was visiting New York
in the wintertime, if you walked around in just his

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shirt and pants. The John Kirk guy I know from
Bigfoot community. We're standing up in Jefferson, Texas, and it
is freezing out. I've got on everything, wool hat, scarf, gloves,
a sweater, a jacket. He's standing there in a T

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shirt enjoying the sungshine. Of course, he's from British Columbia,
so he likes the cold. I can't stand it. I
haven't talked to him in a while. He was going
to visit the Headless Valley. I hope he goes, but
I also hope he carries a couple of guns and
axes and other people that have guns and takes extreme caution.

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Don't want to lose the man. The word police have
come out saying that we're not supposed to call them eskimos.
Once again, we're being told what we can say. Soon
this will be followed by what we can think. Eskimo
refers to a member of any of several indigenous people

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inhabiting Northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and southern Siberia, and traditionally
living by hunting seal and other Arctic animals, as well
as birds and fish. I don't get all offended when
somebody calls me a gringo or a honky. I don't
know why other people do. In Inuit folklore from Point Barrow, Alaska,

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they have a story of a dog named a Selu
who plays a central role in their origin story. A
Selu is bound to a steak, but he manages to
free himself by going through it. After gaining his freedom,
he enters a dwelling where he has his way with

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a woman. This seems to be a lot of this
sort of thing going on in the Inuit history. This
union results in offspring who are both human and canine.
The dog man is a humanoid looking creature, but he
has the head of a dog. These Eskimos stories involve

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a dog with a human upper half. Why the same
story is found all over the world in the Arctic
Circle makes me wonder just how much of it might
be based on true facts. A couple of young ladies
were driving through Niagara Falls, Ontario. As they were passing

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a house, a huge dog looking creature was spotted in
a ditch. This thing looked almost human, except it was
a dog's body. It was bigger than any man should
have been, and as soon as the car passed, it
dashed into the trees. They both swore it was not

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any kind of an animal that they knew of, but
it wasn't human either. They returned to their home in Thorold, Ontario,
where a young man who just happens to be one
of them's brother came running into the house. He slammed
the door pressed his back to it. After a few seconds,

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he began peeking out the window looking for something. He
told his family he was walking home from his friend's
house when he heard a growl from something huge. He
looked behind him and he saw a huge white thing
standing on the far side of the street. It looked
just like what his sister had seen a while ago

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in Niagara Falls, about two miles to their east. Having
two sightings of the same creature, the pair got online
and did some search. They found articles about the adlet
and the images looked just like what they had seen.
The family are descendants of Algonquin and Micmac tribes, which

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is said to have a lot to do with their
being able to see these cryptid creatures. The knuckle Lavae
is a horse like demon from Orcadian folklore that combines
horse and human elements. It is found in the extreme

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northern parts of Scotland. The knuckle Lavae is a sea creature,
but it comes ashore on occasion, causing all manner of
trouble for the locals. Orcadian folklore had a strong Scandinavian influence,
and it may be that the Knucklava is a composite

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of a water horse from Celtic mythology and a creature
imported by the Norse. There are no descriptions on how
the Knucklave looks when it's out at sea, only the
horse demon that is seen on land. Maybe a couple
hundred years ago or so an islander named Thomas. It's

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spelled very oddly, and I don't even think it's pronounced Thomas,
but that's what I'm gonna go with because that's kind
of how it looks. Tammas Thomas. He said that he
survived a confrontation with the beast, and after much coaxing,

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he gave his description of the monster. This is the
only known first hand to count. According to Thomas, the
knuck Lava has a man's torso attached to a horse's back,
as if it were a rider. The male torso has
no legs, but its arms can reach all the way

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to the ground from its position atop the body. The
legs of which the horse's legs have fins like appendages.
The torso has an extremely large head, maybe as much
as three feet in diameter, and it has one huge

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eye in the center of its forehead. This creature emits
a toxic vapor, and it can do all kinds of
bad things if you inhale it. A particularly gruesome detail
is that the knacka lave has no skin. You can

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see black blood coursing through its veins. The pale sinews
and the powerful muscles are visible as a pulsating mass
the nicolave breath. The nicolave's breath was thought to wilt
crops and sicken livestock, and it was considered responsible for

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epidemics and droughts. Seaweed burning to create what is known
as well kelp. Seaweed burning was created to make kelp.
It began in Stransey in seventeen twenty two. The product

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was called soda ash and it was an alkaline mainly
used to treat acidic soil, although as time went on
its commercial importance in soap and glass manufacturing increased. The
pungent smoke emitted through the process was believed to enrage
the nickelavae, resulting in a a wild rampage of plague,

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the death of cattle and the destruction of crops. The
nicolavee was said to have infected horses on Stronsee with
a deadly disease known as mortichine to demonstrate its fury,
in exact, its revenge against the Islanders for burning seaweed.

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I tried looking up mortichine and all I could find
was its a disease among horses found on Stronzi or
It's an island in some video game. The infection spread
to all the islands involved in this industry. The creature
was also blamed for prolonged periods of abnormally low rainfall,

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leading to water shortages and poor harvests. The Nickeolavae is
the most malevolent of the demons in and around the
Scottish Islands, without any redeeming characteristics at all. The only
entity able to control it is the Mither of the

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Sea or the Mother of the Sea, an ancient spirit
of Orcadian mythology who keeps the Nukolavee confined during the
summer months. In common with other mythical sea monsters, with
a possible exception of Chalpe and the Noogles of Shetland.

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It is unable to wade through fresh flowing water, so
if the creature is chasing you, head for a stream.
A Thomas managed to escape the Nicolavee after he inadvertently
splashed it with water from the lock that he was alongside.
This briefly distracted the monster, allowing Thomas to run over

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to a nearby channel of fresh water and swim to
the other side for safety. The name means devil of
the sea, although it's only when the Nikolave is asure
that it spreads its terror. Fishermen have told of encountering
the Nicolave while out at sea, but their descriptions have

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been lost to time. Only Thomas's account was ever written down.
Goblins are found in just about every culture in one
form or another. The names are different, but the general
description is usually the same or close. Goblins are mischievous

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and usually pretty nasty, vindictive, and greedy creatures whose main
purpose is to cause trouble for us humans. This is
the most common type according to European folklore. There is
a smaller population of goblins, however, that possess a gentler,
more neutral temperament. Some even like helping out us humans.

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All goblins are rumored to have various kinds of special abilities,
often to the magical nature. Some goblins possess more fairy
like powers, similar to those of witches or warlocks. Other
types of goblins have more demonic abilities, only they use

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their magic to do harm. Many people associate the goblins
with trolls, as they have an undesirable appearance and are
not the most beneficial of creatures, but benevolent of creatures,
unlike trolls, who are said to reside under bridges or
in the forests. Goblins typically make home for themselves in

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the mountains, just waiting for an opportunity to steal high
valued items such as gold and jewelry. Are most prevalent
in Northwest Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and the United States.
The name goblin is said to derive from the Old

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French spelling goblin. It is also rumored to have German, Greek,
and Latin roots, with a general negative connotation. Goblins were
first popularized in tales of the Middle Ages. These creatures
are generally found scattered throughout the most foreboding mountains and

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deep within the darkest mines. There are some of the
most malicious, dangerous navel creatures known to folklore, just waiting
for an opportunity to steal your most prized possessions. A
goblin roamed the earth in a variety of different forms
and statues, and is not exactly what you would call

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a human's best friend. Statuses not status. Goblins are known
for having rather unruly hair a green colored skin. There
are ten There were ten basic types of goblins in history,
but people keep adding to the number. The troll have

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the ability to transform into a human like form. However,
they were usually small in stature and kind of ugly
in appearance. I used to work with a couple of
people like that. Coueballs are more like stereotypical goblins, looking
similar to the house familiar known as Adobe. Just because

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you saw it in a movie doesn't mean they invented it.
Some of the more malevolent types tend to be known
as goblins. Bobgoblin are known for their dark, shaggy hair
and are most closely related to mythical creatures known as brownies.
They mean no harm and are widely known for their

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sense of humor. Hobgoblins also tend to have better relationship
with us humans. If you're lost in the woods and
you find a hobgoblin, they'll more than likely help you out.
The knocker is a similar form of goblin, both in
temperament and appearance. He takes up residence in mines and

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often will befriend the miners working alongside them. The book
by the same name as the Tommy Knockers give them
a bad image. A lot of miners consider Tommy Knockers
to be a spirit miner working a fellow worker that

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may have come from a lost miner. If men hear
the sound of knocking inside the walls of the mines,
it means there's going to be a collapse and it's
time to get out. The tommy knockers are warning them
something bad is about to happen. The Puka is also

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similar to a goblin in its attitude, but it takes
the form of a dark black horse. Another black, all
but very small subs race of goblins is the bogie.
The Bogie is extremely difficult to kill due to its size.
The friendliest goblin is known as the hog boon, as

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some say it doesn't even look like or act like
a goblin at all. The Tingu is another sub race
that sometimes mimics the appearance of a Chinese dog like demon,
but more often takes the form of a bird. Buddhists
respect the tingus as guardian spirits despite their demonic nature.

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The klikan Zora derives from the Greek mythology and has
a very long, thin appearance. The calc sioux is a
type of goblin different from most others as it resides
in the sea and it looks like a mermaid. Unlike
the mermaid, the chalksious are very dangerous and unpleasant. They

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may try to eat you. While visiting with Elmer Lucky
Sutton at his farmhouse and a small town named Kelly,
August twenty one, nineteen fifty five, Billy Ray Taylor from
Pennsylvania went outside to the well to collect water. As

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he stood there by the well, something streaked across the
sky caught his attention. Taylor described the silvery object as
really bright, with an exhaust all the colors of the
rainbow panicked. He led inside, and he told the others,
which included his wife and the Sutton family, he had

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just seen a ufo. In a mockumentary about this incident,
the people doing the show portray the Sutton and the
Taylor family sitting around drinking moonshine, because that's what country
folk do. They drink booze and ce UFOs. The high

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and mighty skeptics who live in the big city mostly
made fun of the whole incident instead of looking into
what actually happened. Taylor recalls he hadn't heard an explosion,
just a hissing noise As the object landed somewhere beyond
the farmhouse. Nobody took Taylor seriously until the dogs began

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to bark. Someone or something was approaching the house. Outside
in the yard, a strange small creatures were moving towards
the house. These invaders had round, oversized heads, long arms
with talons that nearly touched the ground. Everything about them

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seemed to shimmer and glow in the darkness. Their eyes
had yellowish light coming from them, and their bodies glinted
like they were made of silver metal. Sutton and Taylor
grabbed their guns. When one of these creatures pressed its
face against the window, they started to shoot. Instead of

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falling over dead, the creature vanished. Over the next few hours,
the aliens drew closer, and then they would retreat. They
jumped up onto the trees whenever the humans would shoot
at them, or they would climb up on the roof.
They'd be heard running around up there. One reached down

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and grabbed Taylor by the hair. Finally, when all seemed quiet,
the family ran for the cars and drove into town.
They went to the police station and filed a report.
Four city police officers, including the Chief of Police Russell Greenwell,
drove out to the Sutton farmhouse to see what was

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going on. Aliens or not. The crowd at the police
station had seemed genuinely terrified. One man had a pulse
of one hundred and forty beats a minute. These aren't
the kind of people who normally run to the police
for help. Greenwell noted the police searched the area around

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the house, but they found no sign of any kinds
of alien creatures. They searched the woods where Taylor had
seen the UFO, but there was nothing out of the ordinary.
A check of the inside of the house showed expended
shells from rifles, shotguns, and pistols. There were holes in

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all of the screens, and a few in the walls
and the ceiling. One of the police officers said he
believed Taylor and Sutton's story. Sergeant Frank Dudas was not
among the officers who visited the Sutton farmhouse, but he
had had his own alien encounter the summer before. Dudas

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and another officer reported seeing three flying saucers. He said,
I think the whole story is entirely plausible. I know
I saw the saucers. If I saw them, the Kelly
story most certainly could be true. According to the same article,

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some other officers were reluctant to give their opinions, but
they all kind of seemed to believe it. One of
the people at the house that night, Glennie Lankford, described
what she had seen. The aliens looked like a five
gallon gas can with a head on top and small legs.

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It had a shimmering, bright metal look to its body.
Police who responded to the scene agreed that it did
not appear as if anyone had been drinking. Only people
that were miles away from the scene ever mentioned booze
or hallucinations. In other words, those people the nasty, noisy,

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negative naysayers. More than fifty years after the Kelly Hopkinsville encounter,
the truth about what happened is more elusive than ever.
What hasn't stopped people from wondering and celebrating what might
have happened on that hot August night. They now have

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a Kelly Hopkinsville Goblin Festival every year. Pennsylvania is the
home of the Goblin Scarecrow. This creature is described as
a demonic looking scarecrow with tattered clothing stuffed with thousands

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of creepy crawley insects. These are held together in the
shape of a man by sheer demonic force of will.
He sounds kind of like the Ugie Boogeyman from Nightmare
Before Christmas, only smaller. It has gloves that form claws
and a jackal lantern for a head with features that

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can actually move and teeth that bite. Vic vic Hermanson,
you live in Pennsylvania, how about take a look see
if you can find this creature. You can do a
trailer Trash Terror's episode about it. The first reported sighting

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of the Goblin Scarecrow was sometime nineteen fifties in Potter County.
It is possible sightings go back further, but if you
don't tell anyone and nobody writes it down, it may
as well have never happened. If you were to have
an encounter or a sighting of some really weird thing,

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you have to write it down, not on a computer file.
Those things get lost all the time. A paper notebook
is what you need. Give as much information as you
can describe the time of day, when and where it happened.
Was there anybody else around? Did you smell anything odd

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or feel anything like electricity or a weird wind that
just came up out of nowhere? Go into as much
detail as you can, and then put the notebook away
someplace safe, someplace you can find it later. I know
way too many folks who can't find their notebooks today

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telling about the things they saw years ago. But another thing,
if you write it down, even if you can't find
your notebook, just the writing of it will enhance your
ability to remember things later, if nothing else. Once you
move on from this life, your family might find your

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notebook and they'll have a whole new perspective on you
and your life. A deer hunters first saw the Goblin
scarecrow as they were out looking for game. This terrified
looking creature came running at them, making with long, loud
howling sound. They shot at it, but all the bullets

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did was pass right through the body. Worms and beetles
appeared in the bullet holes. That incident was reported almost
seventy years ago. Since then, the creature has traveled throughout
the state of Pennsylvania, sometimes being spotted as far south

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as Bucks County in the Pennsylvania Wilds, It seems to
mostly stick to the northernmost parts of the state. Sightings
of the Goblin scarecrow have been reported in McKean, Tioga,
and Elk Counties. At times the goblin scarecrow chases and

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attacks people, and at other times it simply stands there,
screams like a banshee and howls before disappearing into the night.
All four counties are remote, having forested areas. All of
them have a lot of dark woods, of prime spaces
for equipted to hide in and a scary legend to

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grow to some extent. All four counties were settled by
people coming down from the north. Settlers from New York,
New England and Maine were some of the earliest folks
living in these areas. Twenty thirteen, local officials insist that

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pupils at the Lushumbi Primary, Basayumbe Primary, Bozha Secondary and
the Tokway Secondary schools, all in Madabeland mada be Yeah
Matta Belleland South Province, have been terrorized by goblins. Many

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parents have stopped sending their children to school mada Beleland.
Yes it's in Zimbabwe. The headmaster of one of the
schools told the state controlled Chronicle newspaper, the whole school
is being affected. We cannot continue operating under such an environment.

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When the attacks started, pupils ran amok. They started screaming
and panicking and eventually the whole school was running. Beliefs
in goblins and witchcraft persist in many parts of rural
Zimbabwe through though practicing witchcraft is an arrestable offense. If

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you are accused of being a witch in Zimbabwe, you're
gonna wind up in jail and stand trial. If you're lucky,
you'll get off. Goblin sightings are taken seriously, both both
in the state and private. Press photos are rare, though
one published in a government paper around two years ago

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showed a kind of a doll like object that appeared
to be handmade and it was said to be moving
about on its own. A Harari businessman made the headlines
when he appealed to the Vice President, Joyce say Mujuru

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to help him remove goblins from his gold mine in Shambra,
which is in central Zimbabwe. Chief Mazuku said some villagers
who lived close to the Talkway Secondary School have said
that they hear strange noises coming from the building at night.
On some occasions, villagers who have passed by the school

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during odd hours have reported seeing strange objects looking out
of the windows. The headmaster said the Education Minister has
been informed of the infestation. Halloween is not widely celebrated
in Zimbabwe, so this is not some kind of a

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celebratory prank. This next encounter took place in the UK
August twenty eighth, twenty eighteen, at about four a m.
The witness was awake early to get a jump on
the day. The bedroom looked out onto a garden in
the back yard. As the witnews was sitting on the

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edge of the bed, something caught their eye. Well actually
it caught both eyes, but that's not how we talk.
Movement and sound was coming from the garden. The plants
were being shook about as something was moving rapidly through them.
There came a high pitched sound that was like a

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fe female fox who is trying to attract a date.
As the witness watched the glowing figure, a glowing figure
appeared at the edge of the back deck. The thing
was bright orange, about one foot tall and shaped like
a human. It seemed to jump from point to point

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like it was teleporting, but in clear view, it ran
directly to where the crashing sound had been happening, and
then the noise stopped. The witness was convinced that this
creature was a goblin. What it was looking for under
the deck or why it ran at the unknown thing
in the garden is a mystery. The dundae sounds an

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awful lot like a goblin, depending on who you talk to.
Back in the early days of Laredo on San Bernardo,
close to where the Pan American Hotel sits today, there
was a hand pump used by the folks in the
neighborhood to collect water. Kids didn't much like having to
get water late at night because a dwende hung out

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near the pump. This creature had a huge hat with
a bell hanging from it that when it rang, it
sounded like a funeral dirge. Nobody's mentioned seeing this creature lately,
but then there are a lot of homeless people out
there that kind of look like dwende. On expanded perspectives,

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Cam and Kyle have talked about what they have called
the trash bag dwende. You see something that looks like
a trash bag being blown along the street, just a
plastic bag that somebody threw away. As you watch, it
turns into a small human looking creature a dwende. I

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shared this next story with them and I decided I'm
going to use it on my own show as well.
It's also in one of my books. I met Vanessa
at the Poor Vita Tattoo Festival. I was there to
sell books and hunt down stories for my next book,
I Have No Tattoos. She listened to me talking about

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the Laredo Paranormal Research Society and their visit to Marfa.
While there, the LPRs team would point a laser at
a ghost light. As soon as the beam hit the light,
it would fade away. Once the laser was turned away,
the light would pop back into view. The account I

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was telling sparked a memory of sorts. Here is her
story the way she told it to me. The Marpha
lights disappearing when lights were pointed at them reminded me
of something strange I once encountered a few years ago.
My mother and I were coming back late from a

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couple of errands. We live on one of the ranches
just outside of the city limits on three point fifty nine,
and once you pass the Country's Store, the city traffic
dies down and you see the dark entrance to the
colonias and lots of junkyards. While we were passing one

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of the Junkyards by Los Altas. That night, I noticed
something several feet ahead where the highway bends. It was white,
and although not glowing, it was small and clearly visible,
unlike other small creatures that dart across the road with
eyeshine at night and aren't visible until the headlights hit

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them head on. It was too small to be a
dog or a coyote, and cats aren't too common in
our area. Rabbits don't usually wander onto the main streets,
and not to mention, it was a white, semi opaque figure,
pretty different from your average brown white tails. But it

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seemed the right size, and it seemed to be running
kind of like a rabbit. Although it was doing the
motions of running, it was more of a slow glide
that wasn't actually touching the road. I glanced over at
my mom to see if she was seeing this strange

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white silhouette running furiously but not covering much ground across
the highway. She was deeply immersed in a phone call
with a comadre, and anyone knows, getting in the middle
of your mom and her gossip was more trouble than worth.
I didn't want to take my eyes off the thing

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for too long, so I glanced to the car dashboard
to check the time. It was a let thirty. We
were still a ways away, and the thing was barely
approaching the halfway point across the highway, still furiously running
like a rabbit, but gliding slowly. I was already trying
to make excuses as to what I was seeing tired.

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I was twenty one at the time, and I was
used to staying up way later than that with no problem,
and had been on hours long road trips several times.
But I never hallucinated as a result, especially as the
passenger a white plastic bag being tossed around by the wind.

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But the silhouette looked so much like a rabbit, and
I have never seen a bag mimic the motions of
running feet so perfectly and repeatedly. We were approaching the
bend and the headlights would soon eliminate whatever was trying
desperately to cross the street. I leaned forward, hoping I

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wouldn't run it over, but as soon as the headlights
hit it, it vanished. I looked back to be sure
we hadn't run over it, but there was nothing. I
will always remember the way it was so clear there
several feet still away from the car, and how it
disappeared before my eyes like papered to water, as if

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the light overwhelmed it. Every time we crossed this part
of the road at night I think about it. It
has never happened again. And of course, immediately after the
thing vanished three feet away from the road, it desperately
wanted to cross. My mother's call finished, and she asked

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what I was leaning over for. She missed the whole thing. Unfortunately,
if it was a ghost, I admit I'm a bit
disappointed that my first experience was roadkill and that it
was translucent white like a cartoon ghost. Hope you enjoyed

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tonight's show. If you did, tell people they should be
listening to Strange Things with Chris James as well. Tell
people at the checkout line in the grocery store, tell
people you work with, Tell people you don't even know,
tell them what they're missing until next Saturday. This is

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Chris James for Strange Things.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Are you are you coming to the tree?

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Shut up a man who says murder true things have
happened that stranger would it be if one meant at
mid night in the hanging tree

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Mm hm