4. Frozen | True Strange Scary Stories, Ghost Stories & Paranormal Stories

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to the Strange Stories, Untitled
by Anonymous.

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Sorry for the long post, but the
back story is necessary.

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I work overnight as an RN on a
pediatric ICU floor.

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Most of our patients are
sedated, paralyzed, tracheostomy

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and ventilator dependent,
etcetera.

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One side of the floor is where
our acute trauma kids go, severe

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accidents, drownings, etcetera
and the other side is where our

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chronic kids go.
These are usually the kids that

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are termed are frequent Flyers.
When they're not in the

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hospital, they live at a
facility that provides 24 hour

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medical care.
Once they get discharged, it's

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only a matter of time before
they're back, usually two to

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three weeks, usually due to
respiratory failure.

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Most of them do not have parents
that visit or call.

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They just lay there staring at
the ceiling and get their

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medications and tube feedings.
It's very depressing on that

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side.
One of my patients was a chronic

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kid.
She was five years old.

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Her medical history was
incredibly complex.

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She was trach and ventilator
dependent.

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She was delayed but she was with
it so to speak.

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Every time she was readmitted to
our floor and I had her as a

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patient, she would smile the
biggest smile when I'd walk in

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at the start of my shift.
I made it a point to sing her

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songs and make her smile.
Since she had a trach and was

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hooked to the vent, she wasn't
able to make noise, so when she

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would cry it was silent and you
would just see the tears

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streaming down her face.
She absolutely loved the movie

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Frozen.
It always made her stop crying.

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If I would walk in and the movie
was finished, she would tug on

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the sleeve of my scrub to play
it again and I would.

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That was our thing.
I didn't mind being on the

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chronic side as much when she
was there.

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I care for all of my patients,
but she held a special spot and

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I believe she knew it.
She was discharged back to the

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medical facility she lived at.
It had been a while since she

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came back this time, maybe two
to three months.

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But when she did, she looked
bad.

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Worse than ever.
She required way more oxygen

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than her usual baseline.
This time she had lost a lot of

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weight.
She was already very small for

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her age.
Her eyes were sunken.

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It hurt me to see her that way.
I did my dances and my songs and

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she didn't smile.
I would talk to her and she

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wouldn't react.
She wasn't really tracking and

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following with her eyes.
She wasn't herself anymore.

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She was clearly deteriorating,
this was expected due to the

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multiple congenital issues she
was suffering from, but still it

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was hard to watch.
She was there a few weeks and

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her prognosis was pretty poor.
My last shift with her she was

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hardly able to raise her arm,
but she did just to tug on my

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sleeve so I could put frozen on,
so I did.

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It was otherwise a regular
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I went home and slept and woke
up just in time to come back for

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my next shift.
I was expecting to get my same

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patient assignment and I saw I
had the same room number but the

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name was different.
There was someone else in her

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room.
I asked what happened and their

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faces all fell as they told me
she had coded in the morning and

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they weren't able to get her
back.

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She passed away.
I wasn't there.

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I was totally devastated.
I held it together and I didn't

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cry, but this shift had a
heaviness to it.

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I was really sad and just felt
like I was drifting from room to

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room the whole night.
Fast forward to three.

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AMI needed to go into that room
to start the new patient's tube

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feed.
There was nothing on the TV, but

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the patient was awake.
I put on the movie Coco so he

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would at least have some
background noise.

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As I was starting the pump I
felt the hairs on the back of my

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neck stand up and I had
goosebumps down my arms.

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Just as I was about to turn to
leave I felt it. 2 tugs on my

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sleeve.
I froze in place.

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At first I felt really afraid,
but then I got the most

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overwhelming rush of emotion all
at once.

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I ran to the bathroom and I
cried so hard it took me a while

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to gather myself.
I splashed water on my face and

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went back to my desk to chart,
trying to shake off what had

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happened and just tell myself it
was impossible.

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My grief was causing me to
imagine things.

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At 4:00 AM, exactly 1 hour
later, the feed was done.

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I went to the room and I paused
at the doorway.

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Frozen was playing.
I had only put cocoa on one hour

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ago.
It couldn't have been finished.

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I stood there in disbelief.
I've never really had anything

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paranormal happen to me before,
but in that moment I had the

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warmest feeling.
I just knew she was trying to

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tell me she was OK or something.
I can't explain it but it made

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me smile.
I've been in that room plenty of

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time since and nothing weird has
ever happened again.

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It only happened that one night
she passed.

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It's almost like she was saying
goodbye, and I'm glad.

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I would be sad if even in the
afterlife she was confined to a

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hospital room.
I like to think that wherever

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she is, she's free to walk and
laugh and watch Frozen on

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repeat.
Anonymous.

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That story, I, I was so
emotional reading it.

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I, I don't know if it, I don't
know if you can hear it.

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I wasn't sure I was going to be
able to make it through that

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narration without just bursting
into tears.

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I mean, I was emotional the
first time I read it.

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I was emotional the second time
I read it, and I was emotional

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actually actively narrating it.
That was so sad.

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And yet I know that you got a
lot of comfort and probably

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closure, you know, from feeling
that familiar, those familiar

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tugs on your sleeve as she
wanted to watch Frozen.

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That's just so sad.
And those kids are just there

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alone, without anyone there for
them except, you know, you or,

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you know, your fellow nurses.
And you know, of course she was

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special to you.
Of course she was.

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Of course she was special to
you.

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She sounds like she was so
special.

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And it sounds like you made such
a huge impact on her life.

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And I know that she was so
grateful for you.

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And Oh my God, I'm getting
emotional again and just talking

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about this.
Oh, my God.

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So, you know, sorry everybody if
you're also crying.

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Actually, I'm not sorry at all
because this was such a

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beautiful, touching story that I
am glad if you guys are also

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crying.
So anonymous, you know, you're

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doing such an amazing job.
I don't know how you do it.

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The sheer amount of just
emotional trauma, the depth of

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emotional trauma that you have
probably experienced in your job

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dealing with these, you know,
poor sick kids.

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Just I don't know how you do it,
but, you know, thank you.

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Thank you for doing that.
Thank you for being there for

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them.
Thank you for being there for

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her and making her smile and
just being that, you know, light

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that she needed.
And thank you so much for

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letting me share your beautiful
story.

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What did I see?
Repeated sightings interacting

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with me more.
What is going on by Ogre Ogre?

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I had some more weird shit
happen last night.

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I took my two dogs for walks.
I normally walk Fenn Large all

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black German Shepherd toward the
park where I have had these

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experiences and I walk Booger
Chee Terrier mix the other

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direction toward downtown.
On my walk with Fenn about a

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block away in the direction I
was headed, I saw three or 4

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deer calmly walking toward the
park.

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Most nights where something
weird happens to me start like

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this.
The deer seemed completely

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unbothered by me as I
approached.

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They kept walking toward the
park, but stopped every few

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steps to look back at me, as if
they wanted me to follow them.

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Then as Fenn and I reached where
the deer were, I noticed about

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10 or more other deer waiting as
well.

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They all start walking together,
calm but still looking back at

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me.
Every few feet on my way toward

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the park, I smell the stench of
rotting meat.

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I know the smell very well, as I
used to be a butcher.

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It was strong, like someone
plugged my nostrils with rotting

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ground meat or something.
At the same time I smell this

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stench, I get the chills.
Finn's hair stands up and he

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gets more nervous.
I can feel the air around me get

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colder as we continue walking.
I look down an alleyway that

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cuts the block in half and if
you would walk down the dark

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alley would spit you out where I
eventually walk back home.

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I was two blocks away from the
park.

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When you reach the park you can
either turn around and walk down

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the same Rd., you can continue
into the park, or you can

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continue on the road which turns
left.

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Looking down that alleyway you
are looking at the part of the

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road that continues left, which
is the way I take every night on

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my way back home.
What I saw I tried to convince

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myself wasn't real.
Or maybe I just saw something

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else and my brain tried to
convince me it was this.

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A large, muscular, pale hairless
creature that was moving fast,

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so fast I could barely see it.
I saw the motion down the alley

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about two blocks away.
The exit of the alley on that

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side has a street light directly
above it.

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It wasn't standing still, it was
moving, and it was moving fast.

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The only reason I'm positive
what I saw wasn't deer or

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something normal is because of
something I saw later that night

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that I will write about when I
talk about my walk with Booger.

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It solidified that what I saw
was something I was not supposed

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to see.
In the meantime, I convinced

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myself I was making stuff up and
being a pussy.

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As we approached the tree line
of the park, the large group of

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deer moved to the side of the
street where the neighborhood

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is.
While I'm on the side with the

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tree line, I noticed something
in the clearing.

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A lone deer separate from the
large group across the street

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staring directly at me.
I have my flashlight pointed at

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him and I even hung up my call
with my wife to use my phone to

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take video of this moment.
This lone deer doesn't even have

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the micro movements from
breathing the other deer across

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the street.
We're constantly readjusting.

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You might be thinking to
yourself.

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Oh yeah, deer do that with
bright lights shining at them.

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Deer in headlights always act
like that.

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Just wait.
Fen starts to pull very hard and

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acts anxious, nearly knocking me
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I turn to look across the street
towards the large group of deer

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for at most 3 seconds before
quickly turning around to face

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the lone deer again.
In those three seconds, that

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lone deer is easily 30 feet
closer to me, still not moving,

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staring directly at me.
I have this on video, I have

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pictures.
I felt weird, I felt unsafe.

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I've lived in rural Iowa my
whole life.

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I am and have always lived
outdoors.

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This didn't feel normal, I was
scared.

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I back away while shining my
light of the deer.

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Once I get a block or so away he
finally turns around and calmly

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walks into the tree line.
The whole way home I feel like

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I'm being stalked, not just
watched but like something is

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following me now.
I went home and sat for a bit

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and tried to talk myself into
believing it was all

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coincidence.
After nearly 20 minutes I

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started to walk Booger, my
smaller chi mix.

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The entire walk was nice and
very enjoyable actually.

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I had my earbuds in and was
talking to my wife about what I

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saw in a joking way.
Man I'm such a pussy I really

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scared myself for no reason.
I said.

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At the end of the walk I turned
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As I leave from the garage on
our walks I stopped speaking

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from what I saw on the opposite
end of the alley.

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My wife heard me stop.
I want to preface this with I

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did not have any substances
including alcohol for weeks up

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to that point.
The most I ever do in that

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department is a few beers or
I'll use some weed to ease

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anxiety if life is getting hard.
I have no mental conditions that

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will cause me to hallucinate.
The most I have is a personality

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disorder resulting from trauma
that I've been overcoming

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quickly.
This last year I saw two large,

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muscular, pale hairless
creatures walking like apes at

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the end of the alley.
The same thing I thought I saw

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with Fenn this time.
Not going fast, much closer, and

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it felt intentional.
I saw them walk across the

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street very slowly, staring
directly at me.

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These were not deer.
They didn't have long faces like

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deer.
They didn't have fur or tails.

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They didn't walk like deer.
They weren't slender like a

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deer.
My first thought was honestly

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that I was looking at 2 hairless
male lions in the middle of

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Iowa.
I stood there paralyzed with

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fear well after they had left my
sight. 15 seconds later I

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finally get the courage to walk
the few feet into the garage.

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When I take my first step, I see
a third one slowly meandering

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across the street staring at me.
Booger noticed him too and

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started growling.
I ran to the door and watched

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the garage shut all the way the
entire night.

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Fenn guarded the bedroom door.
He never does that.

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He sat staring at the door all
night.

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Booger stared at the windows all
night.

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He never does that either.
This happened to me yesterday

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night, Monday, May 13th, 2024.
I don't know what to think.

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Hooker, I hope that you do not
work for the tourist board of

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Boone, IA because I got to tell
you, I have no interest in ever

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visiting your state after
reading your stories.

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For anyone curious, Ogre Ogre
did share a link with a YouTube

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video that he took from that
night of this story, and you can

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find the link to that in the
show notes if you want to watch

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it yourself.
You'll see two glowing yellow

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dots and those are the well, I
was going to say they're dear

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eyes, but I guess we don't know
that That's a deer.

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It might be a not deer, which is
a whole nother Internet rabbit

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hole for you all to go down.
If you are not familiar with the

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not deer, I saw in the comments
that some people do think that

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maybe this is a not deer.
Other people think this is a

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crawler.
I mean, I don't want it to be

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any of these things.
I want this to just be a sick

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mangy deer.
I know there's others.

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There's, there's got to be all
different kinds of dear

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illnesses, you know, that make
them act erratically and want to

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get closer to you and your giant
German shepherd Fen.

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You know, I mean, certainly
there has to be something that

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has an act, a rational
explanation.

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What this actually reminds me
of, I have not seen anything

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like this in my life, But what
this actually reminds me of is

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one night I was driving.
It was dark.

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I was in an unfamiliar
neighborhood, not quite lost but

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not quite confident in where I
was driving.

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I was alone in the car.
I had my lights on, very

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residential.
I'm driving down the street and

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in front of me I see this
horrifying sight that I mean my,

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my blood ran cold.
I, I, I just felt terrified.

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Instantly, before I even knew
what I was looking at, my brain

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told me you are in danger.
This is dangerous.

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This is something's wrong.
And what I saw I can only

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explain as an decrepit old
withered woman in a white gown

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flowing behind her long black
stringy hair.

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Just absolutely terrifying and
riding a unicycle toward me.

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I know it sounds ridiculous, but
that is what my brain told me my

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eyes were seeing.
And I was just frozen in fear

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for a split second before I
realized that what I was looking

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at was just someone wearing
white riding a bike.

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A normal bike with two wheels,
not one.

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The point is, it was just a
completely, totally normal human

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being riding a totally normal
bicycle.

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But for some reason, my eyes
told me that night that I was

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seeing this absolutely
terrifying apparition on a

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unicycle coming toward me.
So I'm sure you know why I'm

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saying that.
I know that Finn is obviously

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seeing something and reacting to
it, and I saw the video that you

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posted and something with
glowing eyes definitely got

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closer to you.
But I also hope for your sake

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that maybe your brain is doing
to you what mine did to me, and

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I was sober at the time as well,
that that happened.

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I don't know why it did that to
me.

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I don't know why it would
conjure that image, but you

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know, maybe yours was doing that
as well.

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I, you know, it doesn't sound
like it based on your story, but

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wouldn't it be nice if you could
just look back at this and laugh

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and say ha ha ha, my brain was
just playing tricks on me and

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there aren't actually horrible
cryptids of unknown origin

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stalking me and my dogs.
Wouldn't that be nice?

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Thank you to Anonymous and Ogre
Ogre for submitting your

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stories, and thank you so much
for stopping by for such a

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lovely spooky time.
You're always welcome here.

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It's perfect timing, really.
Looks like the rain just

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stopped.
Now remember, if any of the

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strangeness scared you, remind
yourself that you can feel

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afraid and not be in danger.
You're safe here with me.

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Until next time.
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and narrated by me.
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