Texas Beasties

We have some strange beasts here in the Lone Star State. Things like a white bison. To the Indians this is considered a sign of things improving. The Black Dog of Hanging Rock is scary, but no one has died seeing it. We have our very own Tatzelwurm, maybe related to the one in the Alps. There are a lot of weird creatures to be seen or heard here in Texas.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Are you coming to the true well Shapa Ma who
says she murdered, True strong things have happened that no
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Chris James. Coffee
can be grown in Texas, but mostly in the southern
regions or right along the coast. There's not a lot
of commercial coffee coming from here because it's too hot

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and too dry. That's why Organic Coffee Trick buys from
all over the world, but not from Texas. The best
coffee in the universe can be yours by driving over
or walking or maybe riding your bike, which I've done anyway,

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going to the Organic Man Coffee Trike and getting some
Oh yes, the best coffee in the world in the
universe can be yours by going to four or five
is zero one McPherson here in Laredo, or for the

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rest of y'all, you can go to Organicman Coffee Trike
Dot Shop. Your taste buds will thank you. The other
day I saw a little girl in an odd kind
of dress, something from the eighteen hundreds. She was walking

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by my house, looking towards the windows. As she vanished
from sight I got to thinking maybe that was Annabelle
Lee out looking for a new podcast to work on.
Trailer Trash Terrors has been off the air for four

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months now. I guess the creepy little girl is looking
for new home. Either that or Trailer Trash Terrors is
going to have to do some shows here quick. I'm
running out of things to listen to give me a home.

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We're the Buffalo Room. Well that would be in Africa.
We don't have buffalo in the US. Do you have bison?
A bison in buffalo belong to different genera within the
bovid Bovidia family. I hate these names from the scientific crowd.

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North American and European bison or wisen belong to the
genus bison true buffalo, including the African cape and the
Asian water buffalo, which belonged to an entirely different genera. Genetically,
bison are more closely related to cattle than the true buffalo.

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This toxonomic distinction is important because it highlights that, despite
physical similarities, that these animals evolved separately and developed different
adaptations to their respective environments. The misnomer in North America,

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where bison are commonly called buffalo dates back to early
European settlers who saw a resemblance between bison and the
buffalo that they knew from the old world. And this
is right up there with turkeys, the birds, not the people. Oh,

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I must say, I put my art bell coffee cup
back on the shelf. Every time the cats looked at it,
I got paranoid that they were going to cause a
dastardly deed. I really like that cup. I have it
sitting on the shelf where anybody in the kitchen will
see it. There was a time when bison covered the

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prairie landscape of the American West. The herds that roamed
that area were upwards in the numbers of thirty to
sixty million at their peace. They were so plentiful that
early Spanish explorers said they were like the fish in
the sea. Bison wore a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem,

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which means that they played a pivotal role in the
healthy function of the Great Plains. Their migration and grazing
allowed the fauna and the flora to flourish by reducing
dead vegetation and allowing for new growth. They also helped

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fertilize the area by all that poo that they had
gotten from eating grass. This in turn allowed other species
to find the food that they needed to thrive. Bison
were such a central part of the culture of the
Indians of the Texas Prairies they were incorporated into their

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myths and leftsigeons. After the Civil War, settlers began to
push westward in greater numbers, bison became a target. Bison
were a source of food for these settlers, but more significantly,
they were a tool to be used against the Indians.

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Bison were so vital to their diet that if they
cleared the land of these animals, they would clear the
land of the Indians. Thus began what is known as
the Great Slaughter. The US military sent west to ready

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the frontier for expansion. They were commanded by General Sherman
and Sheridan. If you know your history, you'll recognize those
two names. This was the same Sherman who used cruel
measures against the South during the Civil War. He'd used

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what was called scorched earth, and he literally burned and
destroyed everything in his path. But whether it was military, civilian,
or natural. He would advocate for the scorched earth policy

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when it came to the Indians as well. In a
letter from Sherman to Sheridan eighteen sixty eight, Sherman observed
that as long as the bison roamed the planes, the
US military and the settlers would come into conflict with
the Indians. He said, I think it would be wise

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to invite all sportsmen of England and America this fall
for a grand buffalo Yes, he was confused as to
what these animals were. A buffalo hunt, A Sherman wrote,
and make one grand sweep of them all. Beside the

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ambitions of the manifest destiny, there was a financial incentive
to the hunt. Around eighteen seventy a bison heard heard hide.
A bison hide could fetch around three dollars and fifty cents.
That was nearly eighty dollars in today's money. It was

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relatively easy to stalk and hunt. They could be taken
with a round of ammunition that cost twenty five cents,
which would be about six dollars today. Within months, the
race was on urged on by an economic depression of
the eighteen seventy three that saw many more people heading

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west looking for an easy way to make a buck.
Thousands of bison hunters arrived, most able to kill as
many as fifty animals in a day. Trains passing through
the prairies would have men hanging out of the windows
with rifles shooting at the herds as they passed. So

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many bison were killed that the market for the hides dropped. Unfortunately,
that did not stop the killing. Bison were shot and
left to rot on the ground. Where the sight of
a bison herd once symbolized at the open frontier, now

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it was the bison's skull that symbolized the area. Soon,
by eighteen eighty eight, it was estimated there were as
few as a thousand bison remaining in North America. The

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sheer scale of killing eventually pricked the moral conscience of
some Americans. Eighteen seventy five, Congress passed a bill attempting
to protect the bison, but President Grant refused to sign it.
A few Western ranchers took pity on the calves that

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they'd seen. Among them were Charles and Mary Anne Goodnight.
In eighteen seventy eight, the good Night Herd the good
Knights began herding some orphaned calves, and they let them
roam on their land These calves would become the core
of the good Night Herd, and within a few years

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they grew to about two hundred. Mary Anne Goodnight could
not have known the full scale of her service to
the conservation when she urged her husband to do something
with these poor animals. The good Knights were one of
five ranchers who protected small herds of bison. Today, those

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five herds make up the foundations stock of all the
bison in North America. Without them, the American bison would
have vanished from the earth. The good Knight's conservation efforts
were largely forgotten for about one hundred years. Then, in

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the twentieth century, wildlife conservationists Wolfgang Fry learned about the
bison that still roamed on the Ja Ranch, and he
asked the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to steady these animals.
They learned through genetic testing that the bison descendants of

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the good Night Herd were perhaps the last remaining Southern
Plains bison. Bison were made to conserve bison, Plans were
made to conserve the species and ensure their survival. The
Ja Ranch donated the herd to the Texas Parks and

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Wildlife which moved them to cap Rock Canyon State Park
in nineteen ninety seven. The preserved prairies of cap Rock
Canyon allowed the herds to return to some of the
last remaining untouched acreage of habitat that their ancestors ancestors

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once roamed across for thousands of years. My tongue is
fighting with the roof of my mouth for some reason. Today,
the Caprock Canyon Bison Herd plays an important role in
the ongoing conservation of American bison. The goal of the

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state's bison conservation is to re establish the animals as
the keystone species within the Texas Prairie ecosystem. Park visitors
can encounter these large, majestic creatures that once teetered on
the brink of extinction but are now celebrated as a

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central part of the history and the heritage of the West.
If you're going to look at these big animals, do
not pet the fluffy cows. Bison will stand there and
let you walk right up to them and suddenly turn

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and you're going to find yourself hanging from one of
their horns. This is right up there with folks wanting
to have their photos taken with any wild animals, bears especially.
Some people are just too crazy uninformed to actually be

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allowed out on their own. Don't pet the fluffy cows
or you're going to wind up on the six o'clock
news and people are not going to feel sorry for you.
Don't do it. Just because bison do not have a

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warning label stuck to their tails doesn't mean they're not dangerous.
I think these warning labels have gotten a little out
of hand. The ghost bison is a rare albino that
is considered a sacred and spiritual animal by many Indian tribes.

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Feather not Dot. It is believed that the ghost bison
is a messenger between the living and the dead. There
was a ghost bison spotted in Yellowstone I believe it
was this year. Visitors to the park reported sightings of
this rare creature, which is said to bring good luck

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and fortune to anyone that sees it. The white bison
calf is said to be one in ten million occurrence.
It was spotted in Lamar Valley area of the park.
It's located in the northwest corner. A being an all
white animal and a herd of dark elders has given

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this calf the name spirit bison or ghost bison. White
bison are seen as sacred by several Native American tribes. However,
some believe that they might be a symbol of evil.
According to the Ozark Valley Bison Farms in Arkansas. Did

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you see the nineteen seventy seven movie The White Buffalo?
Wild Bill Hickock played by Charles Bronson is hunted haunted
by his dreams of a giant white buffalo, so he
travels the west looking for this beast. Along the way,

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Hickock meets the great Lakota warrior Crazy Horse played by
will Sampson, who is also searching the planes for this
giant white buffalo because it had killed his daughter. Hickock
and Crazy Horse team up to kill this elusive beast.

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It's a quite a movie. The rare color could be
result of albinoism, a genetic condition in which animals lack pigmentation,
or it could be from Lycina lucism during those scientists,

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lucism in which an animal has some pigmentation but is
still white. The legend of the white buffalo calf woman.
The Indians didn't call them buffalo. They called them tatanka
or Inawa. But that is too hard for me to say,

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so I'll go with buffalo. She tells how the people
had lost their ability to communicate with the Creator spirit.
The Creator sent the sacred White Calf Woman to teach
the people how to pray with the pipe. With the pipe,
there were seven sacred ceremonies given for the people to

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abide to ensure a future of harmony, peace and balance.
White Calf Woman told the people she would again return
for the sacred bundle that she had left with them. Eventually,
the Indians who have picked up on what the white
men called these creatures, so yes, they would have called

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them buffalo instead of bison or to tanka. A lot
of Indians were forced to no longer use their own language.
With the return of the white Buffalo, it is a
sign that prayers are being heard, that the sacred pipe

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is being honored, and that the promise of prophecies are
being fulfilled. White Buffalo signals a time of a bunchdants
and plenty, kind of like making America great again. Maybe
the Black Dog of Hanging Rock is a legend here

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in the Texas Hill Country. I tried to find out
a lot more about the Black Dog but I was
bombarded by accounts of the Black Dog of Hanging Hills
in Connecticut. No matter what I typed, I was redirected
to Connecticut because the search engines know far better what

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I'm looking for than I do. After spending several hours,
I just decided to go with what few things I
could find. The Black Dog of Hanging Rock is a
famous legend, but few have heard of it outside of
our state. This creature is said to have hunted haunted

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the area around Hanging Rock, which is a natural rock
formation located in the Texas Hill Country. According to legend,
the black Dog is a large black canine with glowing
red eyes that appears at night and terrorizes travelers, hunters,

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and anybody in the area. The creature said to be
a ghost of a dog that was possibly killed by
a group of hunters many years ago. In British folklore,
the black dog is a supernatural entity that often associated
with death and the devil. It is believed the black

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Dog is a guardian of the underworld and that it
appears to warn people of impending danger. According to legend,
the black dog is seen as a large spectral hound
with glowing red eyes and shaggy fur. It is said
to roam the countryside, especially at night. He was often

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associated with crossroads, graveyards, and other places of death and transformation.
One of the most famous British dogs is the black Shuck.
It is believed that those who see black Shuck will
die within a year. The Texas black Dog has all

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the earmarks of being the same kind of creature, or
close enough to it, as the British legends. I could
find very little about it, and what I could find
was somewhat redundant. The Enchanted Rock is a huge red
granite dome in southwest Yano County, about twenty miles north

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of Fredericksburg, and has long been the center of various legends.
The local Comanche and Tonkawa Indians both feared and revered
the rock, and were said to offer sacrifices at its base.
A one Indian tradition holds that a band of warriors

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defended themselves on the rock from attacks of other Indians.
The warriors, however, were finally overcome and killed. Since then,
Enchanted Rock has been haunted by their ghosts. Another legend
tells of an Indian princess who threw herself off of

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the rock when she saw that her people were being
slaughtered by enemy Indians. Now her spirit is said to
haunt the rock as well. Another tale is of a
spirit of an Indian chief who was doomed to walk
the summit forever as punishment for sacrificing his daughter. The

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indentations on the rock summit are his footsteps, his footprints.
I've seen them, and they look just like footprints going
around the face of the rock. They crossed the summit trail,
and they're somewhat hard to miss. You'll see people standing

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there staring at them, wondering how the heck could any
footprints be formed in the solid granite, Yet there they are.
There's a story of a white woman who was kidnapped
by Indians but escaped and lived on Enchanted Rock, where

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her screams were said to be audible at night. The
Indian legends of the haunting of Enchanted Rock are bolstered
by the way the rock glitters on a clear night,
especially after it rains, and by the creaking noises that
you'll hear as the rock cools after a warm day.

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If you stand at the base of the rock, you'll
hear all kinds of strange sounds. There's a story of
Spanish explorers who believed that there was a huge deposit
of silver underneath the rock. They also dug gold mines nearby.

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Some early Texans believed that the Lost Bowie mines were
in the vicinity west of Enchanted Rock. Some gold has
been mined near the rock, but there's not enough there
to make it commercially commercially profitable. One of the most
endearing and romantic stories involving Enchanted Rock is that a

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young Spanish soldier, Don Jesus Navarro and his rescue of
the Indian maiden Rosa. Navarro supposedly came from Materey to
San Jose E Miguel de a Goyo Mission in San Antonio.
Why do they have to have such long names? He

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arrived in seventeen fifty. At the mission, he met and
fell in love with Rosa, the Christian daughter of the
Indian chief to Juan. Rosa was kidnapped by a band
of comanches bent on sacrificing her to the spirits of
the Enchanted Rock. Her daring lover followed them and managed

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to rescue her, and as she was about to be
burned at the stake. Comanches did set folks on fire,
but I couldn't find anything that involved human sacrifice. The
people being torched were usually prisoners. This is how things

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were done back then. No human sacrifices, but lots of
burning at the stake. Eighteen thirty one, the Texas Rangers,
under the command of Captain John Coffee Hayes, were surveying
the area. John Coffee, but spell different? Now, what was it?

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He said? Coffee like the drink, only spelled different. Well,
his last name was Hayes, but I like his middle
name better. Well. He was off on his own one
day when he encountered some not so friendly Comanches who
turned a hostile eye towards this white devil. Coffee fled

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towards enchanted rock and he clombed the trail to the summit,
where he took cover and proceeded to hold off the
locals for three hours. The comanches decided that this was
getting them nowhere, and they left. On one of our
many visits to the rock, we had a psychic with us.

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She said there was an old Indian sitting by the
entry to the rock summit trail. She told he told
her that he was there to watch the trail. A
few words of warning if you want to try your
luck at climbing Enchanted Rock, the trail is steep and

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you have to have some good hiking shoes or boots.
There's no water anywhere along the trail, so you'd best
bring your own, and lots of it. It gets hot
up on top, after all, you're closer to the sun.
There's hardly anywhere to get shade from the sun once

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you get up there, other than the cave. Don't go
in unless you are not glasgrophobic. It is very tight.
If you stay until sunset, which is spectacular, it gets dark,
a very dark. You are going to need a flashlight

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or two to find your way back down. There are
no lights on the rock. On another visit, me and
my wife had gotten to the top of the rock
and we sat there and we watched the sunset, which
Laga said is spectacular. Some little kid aways from us

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yelled do it again, which I don't think is going
to happen for about another twenty four hours. Once it
was over, I pulled a couple of flashlights out of
my camelback, one for each of us. I also put
my headlight on and we started down the trail. As

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we're walking along, I just said to my wife, I
wonder if there are any rattlesnakes on the rock. Before
my wife could answer, we heard the buzzing sound followed
by a scream. I checked to be sure my wife
was in a safe spot, and then I ran back
up a few yards to where this pair of women were.

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One of them was laying on her back on the ground.
They had been startled by a snake and one of
them tripped trying to back up in the dark. She
was trying to avoid the sharp end. I checked her
over and there were no fang marks. I handed them
one of my flashlights and I told them they could

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keep it. It was just a cheap plastic light, and
then I proceeded back down to where my wife was. Yes,
there are bity snakes on the rock, so watch out
for them. This is their home, so you'd best be
a good guest. We use walking sticks to probe the shadows.

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A snake will usually move away from you unless it
is startled or cornered. Just listen for the buzz You
just have to move a few feet further away. Rattlesnakes
can only strike about maybe two or three feet and
that's it. A mysterious creature was caught on a trail

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camera in the Rio Grande Valley. Photographs showed a mammal
like creature against the backdrop of trees, and it was
at night. The folks at Texas Parks and Wildlife had
no idea what this creature was. The photo was given
to the department by a park visitor, and the exact

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location where it was taken in the Rio grand Valley
was unclear, meaning that the park officials could not go
to the area and look for any tracks or possibly
the creature itself. A few people have said that this
is nothing more than a badger, badger, badger, badger, badger,

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a snake, a snake. I hope some of you' all
know what that was. Mushroom, mushroom. If you don't know
what I'm talking about, just simply go to YouTube and
type in badger, badger, badger and sit back and enjoy.
You can send it to anybody you want to annoy

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the heck out of I looked at the image of
the creature and it did kind of look a bit
like a badger, but the markings weren't there. The animal
is all pretty much one color. I'm no animal expert,
but I did stay at a holiday and express last night.

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Another social media user suggested that it was a cappy barrel,
a large rodent does walk on all fours, while others
have said that this was a cross between badger and
something else. One poster said it was maybe a possum
and a raccoon combined. I don't know of possums and

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raccoons ever mating, but that would be an interesting looking creature.
Did you know that if you have possums living in
your yard, you won't have any ticks. Possums eat ticks.
They also are very very rarely carrying rabies. Now they

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will act like they're sick. They'll let drool run from
their mouths and saliva and spit and blow bubbles, and
they look crazy. They look like they've got rabies. That's
just an act. It's to make people stay away from them.
But that's possums for you. Possums are cool. A possum

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wearing a fez would be really cool. No, I'm not
wearing mafees today, but right there. The tatsel worm is
a legendary creature that has been a part of the
Alpine folklore for centuries. It is often described as a
lizard like creature with a serpent like body and the

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head of a cat. The creature is said to have
either fur or scales, depending on who you listen to.
They sometimes have forelegs and usually just two with claws
just like a cat. Like a cat, the tatsel worms

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also known as the stolen worm or the stole worm
in some areas. According to the legends, the tatsel worm
is a knock eternal creature that lives in the mountainous
areas and preys on other animals. It is said to
be solitary and it avoids humans. The tatsil worm is

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also known for its powerful clawed forelimbs that gives it
an extremely feline appearance. The creature's origins are shrouded in mystery,
but some believe that it is a real life creature.
Some accounts describe it as being up to seven feet
long with a cylindrical body and a wide head. Its

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eyes are huge, and it is supposed to somewhat resemble
a cat. The body is often described as being covered
in fine scales or fur, depending like I said. Despite
its appearance, the tatselworm is not known to be aggressive
towards humans. It is said to be a shy creature

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that avoids US people, probably because it knows what will
probably happen bang, and then it'll be stuffed and put
on display somewhere. The Texas tatsel worm is encrypted reportedly
sighted in the state's western area near the Davis Mountains.

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This creature's described as a lizard like crater with long
coiled body and a very fierce reputation. While sightings of
the Texas tatsel worm are rare, locals and tourists do
continue searching for evidence of its existence and now for

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something completely different. Well something to think about. House Cats
have those weird snakelike eyeballs. They get really thin when
in bright light. Other cats, tigers, jaguar lions they have

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round eyes that when they constrict in the light, they
continue to be round. House Cats and snakes have those
slit pupils. Cats also have long, slinky bodies, unless they
live in a house with a crazy cat lady, in

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which case they're round in lumpy. Why is the house
cat the only one with eyes like a snake? Could
this have something to do with the tatseelworm. Maybe Odessa
is out in West Texas, not to be mistaken for

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the town of West Texas, which is twenty miles north
of Waco. So you've got West Texas the town, and
West Texas the area. The Odessa meteor Crater is an
impact this area five hundred and fifty feet across, which

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is located southwest of the city. There's about one hundred
and twenty thousand people living in Odessa. The guy that
went to basic training with me was from Odessa. Coach
coach Hennigan. I wonder if he's still out there. He
was thirty when we went to basic training. The local

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emergency medical service has had an unusual set of patients.
Over about a one and a half year period, six
people were treated for bytes, mostly to the legs, but
a few also to the arms. What makes these bites
so unusual is the victims all said they were attacked

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by a creature with flaming teeth. Anytime a patient has
an unbelievable account for their injuries, a blood sample is
taken and checked for any kind of illicit drugs, medications,
or excessive alcohol. Four of the six did test positive

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for very minor traces of different substances. It did not
explain their injuries. The marks left by the incisors that's
the front, top, and the bottom teeth were very long,
a four to six inches long. A coyote does have

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some long canines, but not the incisors. The teeth marks
did not match with any known animals from the area
or from the planet. As far as they knew, all
of these wounds had been catterized, as if touched by
some extreme heat. Considering the accounts of Flaming Teeth, the

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whole incident falls outside anything science can explain. All the
patients had been treated and questioned by different EMTs and doctors.
Flaming Teeth was a giant who eate men on the
Fiji Archipelago. He was so large that his teeth were

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full sized wooden logs that were always burning. He was
the first person on Fiji to cook his food, which
he did while chewing. This is the only other story
I could find with anything to do with Flaming Teeth.

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I've tried finding any thing more about the injuries, but
it's not the kind of thing that most medics will
talk to the people they don't know about, and no
the hospitals don't want to talk to me either. The
Krokata is a globally distributed mythical dog wolf originating in

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India and Ethiopia. The Krokota Krakota has the body of
an extremely large dog, sometimes as big as a mule
or a small horse. Its head resembles that of a hyena,
and it has cloven hoofs, a horse like mane, and

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a tail like a lion. Its fur ranges in color
from orange yellow to brownish black, and it can include
spots or stripes resembling a hyena or a tiger. It
is sometimes depicted without teeth, but with bones kind of

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like an elephant's jawbone inside an elephant's mouth that is
used to crush its prey. The Kota has the ability
to mimic human speech, and it uses this power to
lure its victims to it, usually by pretending to be
somebody in trouble. The creature often uses a voice that

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the victim recognizes, and sometimes calls the victims by name,
or they'll include other personal information in its cry for help.
This ability is mentioned at a lot of cryptid cases.
The Lechoosa doppelgangers skin walkers changelings all have the ability

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to mimic human voices, and they use this to lure
folks into their trap. One of the most common is
the sound of a baby crying. As the would be
rescuer follows the cry for help, it keeps moving further away.
This happened to us one night down by al Siniso,

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very cold night. One of the aliens that we caught
said that she had heard a woman crying in the
river just south of where we were at. We loaded
the aliens up into a van and then we went
looking for this woman in distress. Now, surprisingly, in our

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group there's about six of us, only one person would
hear the crying at a time, and they would always say, oh,
it's just a little farther down the river. We would
move a little farther down the river. Another member of
our group would hear the crying. They would say, yes,
it's just a little farther, It's just a little farther. Finally,

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we decided we're not going to do this anymore. We
turned around. It took us over thirty minutes to walk
back to our vehicles. A woman crying in the river.
Was it La llachusa or something else. Lalyorona maybe don't know.

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The Krokota has no unusual powers other than its ability
to sound like a person that you know. It's easy
to kill. You can use any kind of a weapon
on it. It's not bulletproof, you don't need silver bullets.
But it is a very big dog and it can

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mimic voices. Several years ago, I was listening to Expanded
Perspectives with Cam Hale and Kyle Filson. They were talking
about one of their listeners who had seen what he
said was a hyena while hunting on a ranch south
of Laredo. I got a hold of Kyle and I

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asked him who this person was, and he tried searching
their emails, but he couldn't find the guy's contact information.
I get a few emails about the show. Those two
get thousands a week, so they couldn't find the info.

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Just a while ago, Cam and Kyle were on Ducks
Unlimited and they were talking about a hunter who had
seen a weird white creature a kind of like a
pale crawler a sneaking about in the area that he
was hunting. The hunter decided it was best to get
the heck out of there, and as he was leaving,

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he heard the sound of a woman calling for help.
He looked back and the sound was coming from the crawler.
A Hill Country Village woman spotted something she's never seen
before in her backyard. She says that it looked like

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a hyena and a small mountain lion. Hill Country Village
is just south of San Antonio. Tina colleague said she's
seen coyotes, foxes, and raccoons in her yard. What she
saw was a brown creature that looked like a mix

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between a hyena and a mountain lion. Now, I hear
it all the time from experts. Certain animals cannot mate,
but therefore all sightings are either hoaxes or made by idiots.
Lions and hyenas cannot mix. Just because it looks like

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a cross between a mountain lion and a hyaena does
not mean that that is what it is. That is
what it looks like, just like how the scientists keep
saying that lizards and humans cannot mate. Therefore all those

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sightings of lizard men cannot be true. Lizard men are
not the sons or the daughters of a night of
too much drinking. No, they look like a cross between
a lizard demand, but that doesn't mean that that's what
they are. Some of the boys in the White Lab

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Coats will go to any lengths to deny the existence
of any creatures that are not listed on their acceptable
creatures list. They also have an acceptable scientific research list
and a list of laughing points to be used against
anyone that says otherwise. There is a list of forbidden

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subjects which includes just about everything. Nineteen oh one, Raymie
Arland was living in Marble Falls, which is west of Austin.
One evening, her mother sent the girl out to gather
the family sheep, which were grazing nearby. As her mother

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went about the normal duties of a housewife, which was
just about everything else, she heard Raymie scream. Fearing for
her daughter's life, the woman raced out the door. She
heard more screaming with the sounds of a mountain lion

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mixed in. Thinking Raymie had encountered a mountain lion attacking
its sheep or sheep, the mother dashed back into the house,
grabbed a gun, and charged to the rescue. Never get
between a mother and her kid, no matter what the species.

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She searched the area, but she could find no sign
of her daughter. The mother went back to round up
a posse. Folks combed the woods throughout the night, but
they found no sign of Raymie, not even a single
drop of blood or any of her clothing, no sign whatsoever.

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The day after her disappearance, a searcher came upon a young,
disheveled girl who was aimlessly wandering through the woods. It
was Raymie. The hunter helped her home where her relieved
mother was waiting. Raymie recovered from her ordeal, and she
told everybody about her encounter with the bear King. Raymie

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was tending the sheep and making her way along a
trail when a large black bear suddenly appeared in front
of her. This bear wanted nothing to do with the girl,
and it sprinted away. Then a curious looking animal, running
on all fours, sprang out of the chapparral onto the trail.

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This was no bear. Raymie thought it looked somewhat human.
She remembered a kickapoo legend about the bear King. This
creature grabbed the girl, glared into her eyes, and let
go with a horrid yell sounded just like a mountain lion.

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Raymie thought this creature was about to tear her to pieces,
but instead it threw her over one shoulder and raced
away into the hills. Running on two legs, the creature
carried Ramie for miles until it reached its lair, a nasty,

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horrible smelling cave tucked away where a few people would
ever find it. Raymie believed this was it, We're all
gonna die. When the bear King tossed her into the
corner on the ground, she leaped to her feet and
raced towards the entrance. However, the bear King whacked her

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over the head, knocking her unconscious. When she came to
the bear King was curled up asleep. She very carefully,
very quietly, crept along the cave floor, managed to get
past the bear King and made good her escape. A

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group of hunters headed out towards the hills after hearing
the young girl's story. They were intent on killing this beast.
They found the bear King and they confronted it. The
creature stood up to the hunters, snapped and grinding its
teeth while beating its chest. That doesn't sound like any

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bear I've ever seen. They opened fire, and down went
the Bear King. What was now laying at their feet
looked half human, half bear, an animal unknown to them
or anyone they knew. Some cryptozoologists speculate that it may

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have been a bigfoot. We'll probably never know for sure,
because well, that was a long time ago. There is
a Kickapoo legend, but the tribe was not known to
have lived in the Marble Falls area. The Kickapoo did

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travel through Texas on their migration from the Midwest in
New Mexico. It is possible that they perhaps had run
into this creature while passing through the area, and then
they continued to talk about this thing, passing it down
from generation to generation. They seem to have avoided this

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particular area, perhaps because of stories of the creature. The
Horizon City Monster sounds a lot like a bigfoot encounter
as well. There are a few trees and no place
to hide a huge hair covered beast in that neck
of the woods which there's no woods. Horizon City is

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in Ala Passo County. There are stories about a huge,
hairy creature that roams the desert to the east of town.
Sicilia Montaignees had a sighting in two thousand and one.
Mon Is a retired secretary and she moved to Horizon

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City from al Paso. She has seen the creature, known
locally as the Horizon City Monster, on two separate occasions.
The first was when she was still living in town.
She was driving along the highway when she spotted a
hairy figure crouching over a dead coyote on the side

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of the road. As she got closer to the entity,
she was somewhat surprised when it stood up on its
hind legs. Well, it stood up on two legs. She
swears the creature was initially taller than the mound behind it.
It began walking up the mound, and then when it

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got to the top, it began to go lower into
the ground with each step, as if going down a
subterranean trail of some kind. It eventually vanished below the mound.
Montanez didn't actually see it disappear into the ground, but

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she is sure that that's what has happened. There must
have been a cave entrance somewhere. She left the scene
before deciding to investigate, so she came back the next
day and looked around. She saw that the coyotes' body
was gone, and she did not see any footprints. But

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like I said, it was the next day, the wind
does blow a lot. Montanya's remembered there had been an
old newspaper article that she had seen from nineteen seventy
five edition of the El Paso Times, which talked about
a group of teenagers who had witnessed a gorilla like

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creature near Horizon City golf course. Bill Rutherford was a
deputy sheriff at the time, and he recalled investigating the incident.
He eventually became the Horizon City's first police chief nineteen
eighty eight, and he later retired after ten years. Horizon

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City Police Chief Tony Aguilar was the town's chief in
two thousand and three when the article was written. He
said he had never received any reports involving Bigfoot like creatures,
but he had recorded some reports of meteorites landing in
the desert meteorites or UFOs. Montanias said the creature must

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live in an extensive caves system beneath the city, but
Phil Goodell, a geology professor at the University of Texas
in El Paso, said that the ground there is the
wrong kind for caves to have formed. Montanas was able

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to talk to an unnamed law enforcement official who had
investigated the creature and he had developed a bit of
a profile. She said the officer had told her the
creature had glowing red eyes like a cat, and that
they were naturally herbervarous, but had been forced to exanguinate

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small animals and eat their organs due to a lack
of vegetation in the area. Montania said that her daughter
did not believe a word of this story until she
saw it as well. Local witnesses says that this monster
in question is seven to eight feet tall, with broad

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shoulders and in a loongated head. Montania's added that the
entities have very short hair and are a faded brownish
maroon color. Their mouths resemble more like a bulldog. Other
witnesses has attested to the creature can be seen late

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at night around Lake El Paso area. Others say that
they have heard the creature, admitting humming sounds when they're
driving through East Lake Boulevard, and they can tell when
the monster is near because of the horrible smell. In
the summer two thousand and twenty one, the cast of

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El Paso's Viva Media Group were preparing for a performance
in the mckelligan Amphitheater up in Franklin Mountains. It was
a group of about thirty to thirty five actors. They
began hearsting two days before the big event. While some
cast members were in the changing rooms, the rest were

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on stage going through their roles. At about seven pm,
they heard the sound of a huge creature screaming at
the top of its lungs. The howling got everyone's tension
as it went on several times. When then was followed
by other screams nearby. There was no way that this

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was any mountain lion. It was just way too loud
to make matters worse, the sound was being buffeted along
the canyon walls around them. The cast members kind of
freaked out, not sure if they should run or not.
One of the members decided to look into the sounds

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only after it was no longer being howled. They found
several news accounts of people with similar stories both sounds
and sightings. This creature is said to look like an
atypical bigfoot. The Beast of Bear Creek sounds an awful

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lot like a werewolf. Texas and Louisiana have quite a
tradition of were wolf, wolves and other shape shifting creatures.
Older residents of the Texas Hill Country are familiar with
the story of the Beast of Bear Creek. It is
widely believed among the early settlers of Kimball County that

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an old Indian shaman he was the last survivor of
his tribe, had the ability to change from a normal
human into that of a large wolf. The old medicine
man is said that he was seeking revenge on the
white men who had devastated his tribe, so he would

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transform into his wolf persona, roaming the countryside at night,
killing everything from livestock to settlers who were caught out
in the dark. Tales of the shape shift are and
skinwalker permeated the folklore of many Indian tribes. But what

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makes this particular example unusual is that many of the
white settlers of Kimball County, in particular there is near
the town of Kleio, believe that these stories are true,
so much so that the image of the Beast of
Bear Creek, a monster well known in the area, was

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immortalized by being carved into the rock wall.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
N Q.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Patterson lived in Kimball County during the time that the
Beast of Bear Creek was running around the countryside. He
was a man of many talents. One time he had
served as the county treasurer, a judge, and a tombstone carver.
He was a stonecutter and a sculptor, for which he

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is remembered to this day. Patterson was unable to satisfy
his artistic bent by carving tombstones, so he took the
carving figures into the limestone cliffs and the bluffs around
a Bear Creek. Of the many images created by Patterson,

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one in particular is quite well known. It is called
the Cleo Face due to its proximity to the small town.
The large carving depicts a strange, fierce creature. The figure
looks to be human and animal at the same time.

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The nose is broad and protrudes more like a muzzle.
The lips of the creature are crowback and a vicious
snarl revealing its fans. The carving was quite large and
became very well known in the region. Many came to
the conclusion that this was a representation of the old

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Shaman in his wolf Guys the Beast of Bear Creek.
No one knows for sure if Patterson has actually seen
the monster himself, or if he had simply carved it
based on the sightings of others. Now a lot of
folks are wanting to go looking, even if they don't

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believe a word of any of these stories. The funny
thing is, as it gets dark and their cars get
farther away, suddenly every little sound in the woods is
probably encryptid. Maybe this is the whole thing about watching
horror movies. You get that heart pounding sensation and a

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super wild thrill, and then you can walk away from it,
or maybe not. You might want a few stories to
tell later on, but you don't want any souvenirs to
begin with. We have a lot of biting things that
like to hang out in the woods. We also have

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lots of ticks. If you walk around outside, check yourself,
check yourself carefully. That includes places that you can't see.
You're looking for small bumps that weren't there earlier. Ticks
are literally blood sucking fiends. Okay, they don't actually suck blood,

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they lap it up, but they still drink your blood.
I believe we have Plumb Island to thank for lime disease,
which is what you get from tick bites. Never ever
go wandering around in the brush without some form of
protection like chester More says, pray, prepare, and pack heat

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being something that goes bang. I have a nine millimeter
that I carry all the time when I'm not in
the house, but in the brush. I carry in nineteen eleven,
Slow in Fat wins that race. There are feral hogs
all over the country that will see you not as

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a possible threat, but as their next meal. You won't
look so cool missing one leg because you chose to
feed the hogs instead of shoot them. There are also
two legged monsters that aren't actually cryptids, people who will
kill you for the fun of it. They might decide

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they want your shoes or your backpack, or they just
don't think you should be alive. If you meet somebody
on the trail that's a bit too inquisitive about where
you're going or who you you might be with, just
be polite, but make hasty way away from them. If

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you are packing heat, it had better not be in
your backpack or unloaded. Waving an unloaded pistol is silly.
Waving a loaded pistol is silly as well, but at
least it's not empty. If you do carry a pistol,

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you need to have practiced using it. We used to
go to the range every quarter for twenty six and
a half years. I've been to the range probably several
hundred times because I was also with the SRT. I
still try to get a few practice days in when

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I can, but that ain't cheap anymore. The government doesn't
pay me to shoot, so I have to pay for
it myself. Joy tonight's show. If you did tell other
people they should be listening to Strange Things with Chris James.

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If you don't like the show, why are you still
listening until next Saturday? This is me? Are you?

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Are you coming to the truth?

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
John Up?

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Who will say she murdered?

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
True?

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Jonge? Things have happened that no stone at menm domhulling
truth