National Park Encounter + Haunted Hospital | True Spooky Stories from Reddit | Ep #21

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Thank you and now on to the
strange stories possible

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encounters from a Michigan
nature park worker by Hawkeye.

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For my safety, I do not want to
reveal which park system I work

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for, but it is important to the
story that I, female, 19, work

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at a position at a Michigan
nature park not entirely

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dissimilar to that of a park
Ranger.

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My job duties usually include
manning the entry booth and

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locking up the buildings at
night, and although not a usual

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duty, sometimes they ask me to
walk or take a park vehicle

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through some of the trails.
As I am on the younger side but

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still have several years of
experience at the park, I'm a

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relatively experienced
outdoorsman.

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I've had some odd things happen
to me while on the job that I

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can't quite explain.
I'm decently well versed in some

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areas of the paranormal, and
although not entirely relevant,

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it's of note that I am also a
Norse Pagan as part of a family

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belief and often wear protective
symbols as well.

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And to be honest, I've started
wearing them more since these

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odd things have been happening.
I've tried looking into it

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myself, but overall I'm
overwhelmed and not sure where

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to look.
So a friend suggested I ask a

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forum like this about my
experience.

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There are two things in
particular I want to ask about.

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Thing one, I usually work the
night shift, and this night in

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particular it was raining a lot
and the conditions were getting

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unsafe.
I was posted out in the booth,

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which is multiple miles from the
office, so when things took a

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turn for the worse, my boss
radioed me back.

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Some people who don't spend a
lot of time in the woods don't

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realize how dark deep woods can
get, much less in the dark at

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night.
But I had both a flashlight and

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the light from the booth which
gave me probably 30 feet of

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visibility.
And when I went to grab my stuff

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so I can lock up the booth and
get to my car, I swore I saw

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something that moved very human
like but moved in a really odd

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way.
Like the only way I can describe

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it is if a horse deer hybrid
tried to run like a person but

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there were no people out there
and it was most definitely not a

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deer.
I'm probably not describing it

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in the best way, but it was very
off so I got to my car ASAP and

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it didn't start right away.
A bit odd but not entirely out

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of character for my car.
But when I turned the key a

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second time, I saw something out
of the corner of my eye and it

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looked like whatever it was had
gotten closer.

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The drive goes without incident,
but I'm still off about what I

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saw, and when I get closer I
radio in to see if they need me

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to pick anyone up and the radio
doesn't work right.

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Which was very out of character.
These radios are designed to

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work in awful conditions, and I
was the closest I'd been to any

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sort of signal in a while.
I chalked it up to the weather

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and pulled into the office, but
as I do something runs past me.

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I did not get a good look at
what it was, but it was not a

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person and I'm telling you,
there's not an animal in that

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woods that I know of that looks
like either of the things I saw

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and I just can't seem to shake
it thing to.

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This happened more recently and
is what prompted me to finally

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reach out to a forum of some
kind.

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I was walking the trails for
security purposes close to

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closing.
We close around 11:00 PM and

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start a final walk around 9:00
PM.

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We do this to make sure no one's
stuck on the trail or hurt so

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they aren't stuck overnight when
there's fewer staff and none

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that patrol those trails.
So I was walking one of our

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trails and I was pretty deep in
woods already as I'm a fairly

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fast hiker and this is a trail I
know well.

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I was already about a 2 miles
into the trail when things start

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to get weird.
I hear a noise off in the

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distance and at first I thought
it could be a coyote or an owl,

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so I pressed on.
Coyotes stay off the trails

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won't go after people unless
they have dogs, and dogs are

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banned in the woods here and
they know when we do our sweeps,

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so I was not concerned.
But then the noises got weirder.

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I'm used to the sounds of the
woods and I know the area and

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the wildlife very well, and I
have never once in my life heard

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that sound before.
It didn't come from any animal I

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recognize, and it most
definitely was not human.

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I've never aborted A sweep
before, even when I've had

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coyotes nearby, but it did not
feel right and I got out of

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there.
We are allowed to use our

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judgement in these cases.
If anyone has any idea what

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either of these things could be,
please let me know.

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I really appreciate it.
Thank you, Hawkeye, for that

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horrifying story.
It's funny because I say

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horrifying because that would
not be a job that I would want

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to do.
But I bet there's people

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listening that are thinking that
sounds like a good job.

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Like, how do I, how do I get
that job?

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Where do I apply?
Nope, I'm good.

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It sounds like a horror movie,
honestly, like it sounds like

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the setting.
I can just picture it.

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Everything that you were
describing I was picturing very

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vividly in my mind, especially,
you know, it's being so dark and

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how you were saying like people
don't realize how dark the the

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woods are like the forest is.
I believe that I I don't know.

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I don't go outside unless it's
absolutely necessary or, you

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know, it's like there's a blood
ritual that needs to happen and

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it's a full moon.
OK, that's different.

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But I, you know, I, I don't need
to know how.

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I don't want to know how dark
the woods get really, really far

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out away from civilization.
Although, see, now I'm talking

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myself into it because that
actually does sound.

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That does sound good.
That sounds amazing.

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So in the story Hawkeye mentions
using some protective symbols

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and I wanted to know more about
that.

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So I deemed her and what she
said was that personally she

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uses OK, I'm trying.
This is a Nordic word.

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I feel like there's a lot of
Nordic or at least Northern

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European words that I end up
stumbling across in this

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podcast, so I'm going to try my
best.

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I did Google it, but I have two
different sources telling me two

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different ways, so we're going
to try it.

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Vague Visir, which is spelled V
e.g.

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VISIR, but that first I has a
little accent going off to the

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right, so vague V seer.
And what that symbol is is a

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Nordic compass.
So it's Icelandic magical

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tradition and the name
translates to signpost or

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wayfinder.
And so Hawkeye uses that for

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protection while traveling.
Good for, you know, finding your

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way.
And I guess she's traveling all

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the time in her job because
that's what you do when you're

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just hiking around outdoors.
I would love to learn more, but

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we're going to jump back to the
story.

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OK?
So just knowing that those are

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the symbols that she's using for
protection.

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Hopefully they worked out for
her and that's why she lived to

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tell the tale.
Hawkeye, this figure that you

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see, and I love how you
described it.

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I say love meaning it's
horrifying and super scary.

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If if I had seen it, I hope I
would have been half as good at

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describing what you saw as you
were.

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So how it was sort of like a
person but definitely not, but

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more like a mutated horse slash
deer, but not a deer.

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And I bet that people listening
or thinking, oh, it's a not

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deer.
I don't think so though.

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I thought immediately I was
like, people are going to think

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this is a not deer because the
story literally says not a deer.

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But I don't think so.
I don't think so.

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And there was some conversation
in the thread that Hawkeye

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originally posted and there was
back and forth, someone said, is

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it Bigfoot, which spoiler alert,
we have some Bigfoot stories

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coming up very soon.
But you know, they're going, is

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it Bigfoot or is it this one
particular bird?

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Because this one kind of bird.
And you know what, hold on.

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I got to look up the kind of
bird.

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OK, the bird is a Wilson's
snipe.

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They said it.
They suggested that it could be

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the winnowing of a Wilson's
snipe.

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And so now you know what I got
to do.

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Now I got to go and see what
does that sound like?

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OK, I have to say, although this
is spooky, in no way does it

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sound like what I was picturing
from Hawkeye's description,

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which is something like an owl
crossed with a coyote.

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Here it is spooky, but not
right.

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I feel like any outdoors woman
worth her salt, which Hawkeye

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seems to be, would absolutely
know that that is a Wilson's

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snipe.
A duh, duh.

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Everybody knows the winnowing
call of a Wilson snipe, so

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clearly that's not what it was,
but people were speculating.

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Is it this?
Is it that, and you know, if

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anyone, I don't have to even be
an outdoorsman to kind of know

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what that means when you say
like I'm familiar with the

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sounds about of of the outdoors
where I work.

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Because look, I'm going to tie
this back to when you have a cat

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or cats or dogs or kids, OK,
Sure.

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If you have something in your
home that makes different sounds

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than you do, you know them and
then they kind of become

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background noise, right?
So if something is different, it

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really stands out because you're
used to the noises that they

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normally make.
And now there's been a noise and

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you go hold on a second, that's
not my cat, or like, that's not

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my neighbor, or that's not my
dog or my child.

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So I completely understand that
what what she's saying in the

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story is, I heard something and
I know that it's not something

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I'm familiar with.
I'm very familiar with

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everything around here.
It's not like I'm

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misunderstanding what a sound
is.

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So it's not something that she's
already heard before.

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It's not something that is
native to the area.

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And she also went further in the
post to say it.

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It sounded kind of like a dog,
but like, not like a dog.

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More hollow actually.
OK, actually, she doesn't say

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dog.
She says canine.

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And then I think that's
specifically referring to a

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coyote.
So she's saying it didn't it

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wasn't a coyote.
It kind of sounded like a

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coyote.
And this is what's really spooky

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is that it sounded more like
something imitating a coyote in

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a messed up way.
And that's the sound that it

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made, which is so scary.
OK.

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So OK, it's not a it's not a not
deer, but this takes place in

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Michigan.
And so today I learned about the

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Michigan Dog Man.
Now for those uninitiated like

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myself, the Michigan Dog Man is
also known as the Michigan

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werewolf.
Now I don't think it is a

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werewolf, but you could be
forgiven for thinking that it is

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a werewolf.
And I'll tell you why because

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this is the description of the
Michigan Dog Man.

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It's described as 7 foot tall,
blue eyed or amber eyed bipedal

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canine like animal with the
torso of a man and a fearsome

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howl.
According to legends, they

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appear in a 10 year cycle that
falls on years ending in seven.

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Which so does that mean they
showed up again like in 2017 and

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then they'll go away again?
And this is like cicadas.

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Anyway, here's here's the key
part.

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The key part is that the
Michigan dog man, or I guess dog

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men can be deterred by clapping
loudly.

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So just, you know, maybe you
don't need Hawkeye.

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Maybe you don't need protective
sigils.

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Maybe you just need to clap
really loudly.

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I mean, maybe, maybe that's all
you need to do.

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And then you won't have to worry
about the dog man anymore.

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You know, also, here's the
thing.

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I'm reading that description of.
I'm reading that description of

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what the dog man looks like.
And all I'm thinking is like,

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book talk would be a fan.
Book talk is into it.

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They're ready.
I mean, yeah, I don't even

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think, I don't even think you
need to be a monster romance

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girly to be into that.
Because what is it?

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You know, I mean, what?
He's how tall is he?

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He's over 6, but he's 7 feet
tall.

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So I mean, maybe, you know,
maybe my true calling in life is

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to be a matchmaker, like a
supernatural paranormal

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matchmaker.
And Hawkeye, you know, are you

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single?
Are you, are you looking for a

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Michigan dog man?
Is that are you open to that?

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Because if you're not totally
understand, I'm sure someone

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else will be.
So if, if, if anyone's listening

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and you're single and you're
thinking, oh, Michigan dog man,

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like, OK, I'm ready, then just
go ahead.

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Send me an e-mail at
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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And you know, I'll see you.
I'll see what we can make

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happen.
In the meantime, though,

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Hawkeye, you know, please stay
safe.

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I know that you're already very
capable and that you take a lot

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of precautions.
And I trust that you know what

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you're doing because you're a
professional.

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But do please stay safe out
there.

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And if anyone has any sightings
of any sort of dog men,

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regardless of whether they have
romantic interest in them or

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not, or if you have your own
scary unexplained stories that

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happen in a National Park, for
instance.

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Or if you just have any thoughts
on this story, maybe you've seen

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something similar and you want
to just, you know, chime in,

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please also feel free to e-mail
me.

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And Hawkeye, thank you so much
for letting me Share your story,

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My experience at the hospital by
Ted.

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I am a clinical laboratory
scientist working in the

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hospital laboratory.
I love my job working behind the

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scenes to provide the doctors
the data that they need to

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diagnose and treat patients.
I usually work the night shift

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because I like the hours and I
have more time for my family

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during the day.
One night I was in the pathology

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grossing room cutting up a piece
of tissue.

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The hospital morgue is also in
this room.

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I was concentrating on my work
when suddenly a few plastic

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slide holders and clamps came
flying out of the cabinet behind

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me across the room and hit the
opposite wall.

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I couldn't rationalize it to an
animal because these things flew

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out of the open cabinet instead
of just falling down.

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I couldn't leave in the middle
of my work so I just said out

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loud, I'm working here.
I finished up as quickly as I

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could and ran out of there.
I was also a specialist in blood

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banking and transfusion.
It was a busy night and I was

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having a checklist in my head of
what I needed to do next.

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I was totally in the zone.
I opened the refrigerator with

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the glass doors to retrieve a
unit of blood when I swung the

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door closed.
I saw a dark figure in black

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scrubs sitting on the counter in
the corner behind me, crossing

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his arms and looking down.
I couldn't see his face because

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his body was completely black.
I was on autopilot mode so I

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didn't process what I saw until
a couple of seconds later.

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I turned around and saw that
there was no one in the corner.

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In fact I was the only person in
the blood bank.

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I ran outside to tell my Co
worker what just happened.

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The hairs on my arms were raised
and there were goosebumps all

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over.
Before this occurrence I would

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see phantom lab coats in my
peripheral vision, even

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occasionally disembodied size or
someone calling my name.

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But I chalked it up to just me
being sleepy and tired.

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I was neither of those when I
saw the dark figure.

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I've changed a few jobs since
then without any other

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incidents.
At my newest job however, a

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month into it I saw and felt a
male presence watching me work.

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I thought it was my Co worker
coming to check on me but when I

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turned around to say hi there
was no one there.

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I am certain he will continue to
manifest himself to me in the

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times ahead.
Ted, as usual, thank you so much

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for letting me read so many of
your hair raising stories

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because this one, you know, you
just, you just ride out the bat.

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You're working in the morgue.
You know, it's like, oh, I work

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in the hospital laboratory.
Oh, that also happens to be in

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the morgue.
Like as if, Ted, as if you don't

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see enough scary shit, you're
going to go and you're going to

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work in a morgue.
Do you want to see this stuff?

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I feel like I feel like Ted, I
feel like parts of you want to

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want to be experiencing this
stuff or you would not take a

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job in a morgue.
Come on.

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That's so scary.
I have no interest in working in

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a morgue.
None.

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You know, actually, the two jobs
described in this episode in

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particular are two would be two
nightmare jobs for me.

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I'm good.
I'm so glad that y'all like your

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jobs so that I don't have to do
them.

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OK, so the first one when you're
in the morgue, stuff comes

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flying out of the cabinet and
hits the opposite wall.

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OK OK, so you can rationalize
like you were saying, like, was

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it an animal?
No, unless it's like super

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strong animal that is also
silent and invisible.

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And then I guess maybe it could
be an animal if that kind of

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animal existed.
I think I just described a

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ghost, which is not technically
an animal.

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So like you, I'm I'm struggling
to rationalize and I always do

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when stories mention things that
fly across the room and hit the

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wall.
I feel like there's a lot of

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different ways that you can
explain things falling or like

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maybe going a little bit of a
distance, but like across the

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room and hitting a wall.
I know I don't know how you, I

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don't know how you explain that.
And I do love especially how

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you're like, I'm working here
and just to let them know I'm

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working here, like don't make me
leave.

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I can't leave.
I need my paycheck.

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So please stop bothering me
while I'm working.

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Spirit in the morgue.
Guess that's the message there.

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The thing is, and I know I'm a
broken record here, but here's

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the thing, not everybody listens
to every episode.

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And this may be someone's first
episode, in which case I am not

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yet a broken record.
So I am going to take the

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opportunity to say one of the
other ways that you could

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rationalize something flying
across a room and hitting a wall

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would be that it didn't actually
do that, that there was a

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hallucination involved.
And as a reminder, again, don't

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worry, I'm not a broken record
to some people, only certain

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people.
The thing about hallucinations

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is that you don't actually have
to be mentally unwell.

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You don't have to be
schizophrenic.

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You can just be, you know,
really tired, which I see is one

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of the things that you've even
thought about and you're very

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mindful about, about those
things.

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Like, I guess I'm just tired if
this is happening.

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Maybe I'm just too stressed.
Of course, those are reasons why

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someone could hallucinate.
Also, you know, carbon monoxide

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poisoning.
I don't know what's going down

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in that morgue.
Maybe there's other things you

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don't mold.
Maybe there's.

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OK.
Sure.

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Sure.
Sure.

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Sure.
But if those things were

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actually on the floor and no one
was in there and no one was

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pranking you.
Yeah.

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I don't know how you explain
those things flying across the

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room in a morgue.
I can't get over the morgue.

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OK.
So in this this next part of the

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story, though, you're not in a
morgue, which is good, but there

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is still something scary
happening to you because these

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things just follow you, Ted.
So you're totally in the zone,

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You're focused.
And I know exactly what you

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mean.
Like you are completely wrapped

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up in what you're doing, and you
see something out of the corner

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of your eye and you're like, I
will address this thing later.

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Like you're seeing a person.
They're sitting there.

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They're watching you.
You're even thinking, I can see

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the outline of this person
having their arms crossed.

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Like that's how much detail that
your brain is telling you you're

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seeing.
And OK, great.

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And now you're done.
And you turn around to see who's

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sitting there watching you like
a weirdo.

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And oh, there's no one there.
Oh, there's no one there.

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Oh, in fact, actually, not only
is there no one there, but

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there's no one in the entire
building.

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I am alone.
I'm alone here in the building.

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What?
That's terrifying.

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How did you how did you stay?
Like how how did you stay here?

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I guess, like I said, if this is
happening to you, regardless of

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where you work, I guess it
doesn't matter where you go.

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But I would have been completely
freaked out as well, especially

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you know how how you were saying
you were even hearing people say

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your name or like voices say
your name or like disembodied

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sighs like, or is it more like
wistful or like longing?

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Like like which one?
But both are scary if they're

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disembodied.
Anything disembodied that you

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don't know where it's coming
from, also scary.

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I'm glad that, you know, you
haven't had these incidents

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everywhere that you work.
But then apparently at your new

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job, at your new job, there's a
presence and a masculine

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presence watching you work,
which is not ideal.

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I think, you know, it's not.
I don't have to tell you, you

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know, selfishly it's ideal for
me because that might mean that

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I get a story about this
presence if something else

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happens.
But for you, I kind of just, I

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kind of just want to break for
you, if that's what you want for

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yourself.
You know what, Ted?

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This is what I'm going to say.
If you don't want to break and

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you actually, you know, you kind
of enjoy this, then I hope you

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have more experiences, so long
as they're not dangerous.

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But if you are sick and tired of
this, then I really hope that

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you don't have another
experience like this ever again.

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And for anyone listening, maybe
this is your first time

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listening.
Maybe this is your second time.

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Ted has submitted to me a
wonderful collection of stories.

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So if you, like Ted, have had a
lot of weird stuff happened to

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you and you fancy writing it all
down, then you too can have a

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bunch of your stories read here
on the show.

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I would be forever undyingly
grateful for that, like I am to

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Ted.
Thank you, Ted, and to every

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single person who allows me to
read their story on the show.

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So if you're interested in
submitting one or more stories,

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you can just go ahead and e-mail
those to

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com, or
you can jump on my website,

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madamstrangeways.com, and you
can submit it there.

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Thanks in advance.
Thank you so much for joining me

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for such a lovely spooky time.
Remember, you can feel afraid

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and not be in danger.
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Or I mean, just send me an

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I'd appreciate it.

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Until next time.

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It seemed like a potential sort.