Oct. 27, 2025
Strangetober Macabre Minisode #6 | True Paranormal Stories for Halloween
All October long, Madame Strangeways celebrates Strangetober and Strangeoween with bonus mini episodes of spooky paranormal stories for Halloween! These macabre minisodes are narrations only, no commentary, but full episodes will still be released every other Wednesday as usual.
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Cover artwork by: Andrea Giselle Roldán at @cultofteddy
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Welcome back stranger, to
another mini Strangeoween
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episode with me, Madam
Strangeways.
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I'm celebrating all strange
tober long with bonus mini
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00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,200
episodes.
These macabre minisodes will be
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00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,680
story narrations only, but every
other Wednesday I'll still
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00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,080
release a main episode with my
usual commentary after the
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story, including dragging you
kicking and screaming down
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00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,680
endless rabbit holes.
Obviously, before we get to our
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00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,600
true strange story, just a
quick, quick reminder.
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00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,520
If you're ingesting a whole lot
more scary content lately and
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00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,280
you find yourself scared and
wide awake at 3:00 in the
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00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,880
morning, say just as an example,
remember that you can feel
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afraid and not be in danger.
You're safe here, probably.
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00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:48,600
And a special spectral shout out
to my Patreon patrons who helped
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00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,880
make the podcast possible.
TJ Hotter of Tapes of
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00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:57,760
Trepidation podcast G Man music
Ted, Keith and Tori, thank you
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00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,920
to my Fiendish 5 for supporting
the show.
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00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,280
Now it sounds like it's about to
rain hellcats and hell hounds
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00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,840
out there, so you know what that
means.
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On to the true strange O Ween
stories here on Madam Strange
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Ways.
I work at a haunted nursing home
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by Sam.
I just recently got a job doing
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night shift at a retirement
center close to my house.
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One of the first things someone
told me was that New Hall was
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haunted.
For clarification, about two
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years ago there was this guy
living at the nursing home that
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liked to help around the place a
lot, and one day he asked a
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worker if he could borrow the
water hose the day that they
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were spraying off the patios,
and the worker agreed since the
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guy usually sprayed off the
patio near his room.
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Well, an hour went by and the
workers had gone about their
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duties, not even thinking about
the request until an hour later.
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The boss noted that the man
hadn't returned the hose yet, so
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they went to find him.
They found him hanging from a
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tree in the backyard, but since
his death, they swear up and
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down he haunts the hall.
Every worker in residence swears
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they've seen him, even the ones
who don't believe in the
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paranormal.
But a few days ago, on my first
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night working there, I was
cleaning the windows around
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midnight on the hall the man
used to live on when I looked up
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and saw the reflection of a man
standing behind me, watching me.
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I turned around and no one was
there.
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Everyone else was asleep,
residence or not, near the hall
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Co worker.
Fast forward to a few hours ago,
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me and a Co worker were taking
our break around 3:00 AM, the
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both of us talking in the
parking lot when she looked away
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from the road for 1/2 a second,
turned back to the road and
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completely froze and gestured
for me to come look.
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Standing in the middle of the
road was a tall black figure,
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taller than even me and I'm 6
foot 2.
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I'd wager it was about a head
taller than me.
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It was just standing in the
middle of the road.
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We couldn't tell if it was
staring at us or if it was
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staring down the road.
We both stared at the figure for
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a good minute or two.
When it started walking down the
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road.
I followed it thinking it might
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be one of the residents trying
to leave in the middle of the
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night.
But when I got to the road, it
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was gone.
It wasn't walking down the road.
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It wasn't walking down the other
Rd. connected to it and it
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didn't go into a house as I
would have heard the door open
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and shut and it wasn't fast or
close enough to reach the end of
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the road in the three seconds it
took me to go through the
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parking lot to the road.
What freaked us both out was
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when talking about it we
realized two things.
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One, it didn't stand like you'd
expect a human to stand.
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It was all stiff and everything
and it just seemed to be wrong
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in a way I couldn't figure out.
Two, we both realized later, we
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didn't see any arms on it.
We didn't see any arms when it
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was standing still, and we
didn't see arms when it walked
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off.
I think I just had a close
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encounter with the big guy by
Brimble 660.
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So as the title says, literally
as of 10 minutes before making
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this post, I'm almost positive I
had an encounter with a Bigfoot.
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I live in Missouri, Henry County
to be exact, and I live out in
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the sticks.
I have three dogs that I take
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outside so they can do their
business before they go to bed.
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Charlie my Chihuahua, Roxy my
red heeler, blue heeler and
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border collie mix, and Gizmo my
Shih tzu.
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I have them on collars that have
a beeper, beeper and vibrate and
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vibrate buttons so they don't
run off well.
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As I'm taking them out and
making sure they do their thing,
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I notice movement out of the
corner of my eye.
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I have a headlamp on and I move
my head to where I caught the
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movement.
I didn't think much of it
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because it's normally a deer
raccoon or something of the
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like.
What I saw though, was nothing
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I'd ever seen before.
I couldn't get a good judgement
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on how tall it was, but its eyes
were level with where the
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branches started to branch out
of the trunk of the tree, which
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is pretty high up.
If I had to guess I'd say like 7
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or 8 feet in the air.
This is also near where we have
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burn barrels for trash, which is
why my dogs were over there.
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I could only see the eyes at
first as they gave off a
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reflection of the light that
shined at it a deep red.
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I kept looking back at them to
make sure they didn't move.
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After a few seconds of looking
away and back at the eyes, it
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began to try and circle around
the area.
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From the tree I first saw the
eyes, it moved 15 steps to
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another bundle of trees.
I know how many steps not only
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because I've walked that, but
because I could hear each step
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it took.
Then it moved behind the burn
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barrels and then it began to
walk behind the shed we had
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that's next to it as it was
beginning.
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The circle is when I got a good
look at this thing.
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It had a dark muddy brown coat
of matted hair.
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The hair almost looked like it
had spots of red in it.
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Not like ginger red, but like
blood red.
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Its hands and torso were the
largest I've ever seen on
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something bipedal.
It looked like it had shiny
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black claws or fingers.
Then as it started getting
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closer, I could hear it
grunting, almost like a mix of a
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pissed off bull and a deep
guttural human grunt.
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As soon as I heard that, I hit
the vibrate button on my dogs.
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They knew that meant to come
home and follow me into the
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house.
I got them in the house, grabbed
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my 20 gauge, loaded it, and
stepped outside again to at the
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very least scare whatever I saw
off.
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I looked around shouting at
whatever it was to leave, and as
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I got closer to the burn barrels
I could hear the grunting and
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the thudding of its footsteps
retreating.
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This all happened right before I
was going to bed and literally
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10 minutes before I started
typing this all out.
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I like to think of myself as a
pretty cool minded guy, but this
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experience literally has me
shaking and cowering.
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I don't know what I saw, but I
know for sure it wasn't a bear
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because we don't have bears in
any of the counties I live near.
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Thank you for joining me for
more true strange stories of the
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unexplained.
Remember that you can feel
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afraid and not be in danger.
You're safe here with me,
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probably.
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a rating on Spotify or Apple, or
tell your friends and foes about
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the show.
It would mean the world to me.
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The underworld, obviously.
I mean, come on.
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Was that not?
Was that not clear?
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You can submit your own true
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strange story at
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it to
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See you soon, she said
ominously.
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Welcome back stranger, to
another mini Strangeoween
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00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,000
episode with me, Madam
Strangeways.
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00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:12,280
I'm celebrating all strange
tober long with bonus mini
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00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,200
episodes.
These macabre minisodes will be
5
00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,680
story narrations only, but every
other Wednesday I'll still
6
00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,080
release a main episode with my
usual commentary after the
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00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:25,840
story, including dragging you
kicking and screaming down
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00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,680
endless rabbit holes.
Obviously, before we get to our
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00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,600
true strange story, just a
quick, quick reminder.
10
00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,520
If you're ingesting a whole lot
more scary content lately and
11
00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,280
you find yourself scared and
wide awake at 3:00 in the
12
00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,880
morning, say just as an example,
remember that you can feel
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00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,320
afraid and not be in danger.
You're safe here, probably.
14
00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:48,600
And a special spectral shout out
to my Patreon patrons who helped
15
00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,880
make the podcast possible.
TJ Hotter of Tapes of
16
00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:57,760
Trepidation podcast G Man music
Ted, Keith and Tori, thank you
17
00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,920
to my Fiendish 5 for supporting
the show.
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00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,280
Now it sounds like it's about to
rain hellcats and hell hounds
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00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,840
out there, so you know what that
means.
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00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:11,360
On to the true strange O Ween
stories here on Madam Strange
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Ways.
I work at a haunted nursing home
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by Sam.
I just recently got a job doing
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night shift at a retirement
center close to my house.
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One of the first things someone
told me was that New Hall was
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haunted.
For clarification, about two
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00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,200
years ago there was this guy
living at the nursing home that
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liked to help around the place a
lot, and one day he asked a
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00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,680
worker if he could borrow the
water hose the day that they
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00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,400
were spraying off the patios,
and the worker agreed since the
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00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,280
guy usually sprayed off the
patio near his room.
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Well, an hour went by and the
workers had gone about their
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duties, not even thinking about
the request until an hour later.
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The boss noted that the man
hadn't returned the hose yet, so
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they went to find him.
They found him hanging from a
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tree in the backyard, but since
his death, they swear up and
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down he haunts the hall.
Every worker in residence swears
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they've seen him, even the ones
who don't believe in the
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paranormal.
But a few days ago, on my first
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night working there, I was
cleaning the windows around
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midnight on the hall the man
used to live on when I looked up
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and saw the reflection of a man
standing behind me, watching me.
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I turned around and no one was
there.
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Everyone else was asleep,
residence or not, near the hall
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Co worker.
Fast forward to a few hours ago,
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me and a Co worker were taking
our break around 3:00 AM, the
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both of us talking in the
parking lot when she looked away
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from the road for 1/2 a second,
turned back to the road and
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completely froze and gestured
for me to come look.
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Standing in the middle of the
road was a tall black figure,
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taller than even me and I'm 6
foot 2.
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I'd wager it was about a head
taller than me.
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It was just standing in the
middle of the road.
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We couldn't tell if it was
staring at us or if it was
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staring down the road.
We both stared at the figure for
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a good minute or two.
When it started walking down the
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road.
I followed it thinking it might
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be one of the residents trying
to leave in the middle of the
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night.
But when I got to the road, it
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was gone.
It wasn't walking down the road.
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It wasn't walking down the other
Rd. connected to it and it
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didn't go into a house as I
would have heard the door open
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and shut and it wasn't fast or
close enough to reach the end of
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the road in the three seconds it
took me to go through the
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parking lot to the road.
What freaked us both out was
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when talking about it we
realized two things.
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One, it didn't stand like you'd
expect a human to stand.
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It was all stiff and everything
and it just seemed to be wrong
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in a way I couldn't figure out.
Two, we both realized later, we
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didn't see any arms on it.
We didn't see any arms when it
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was standing still, and we
didn't see arms when it walked
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off.
I think I just had a close
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encounter with the big guy by
Brimble 660.
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So as the title says, literally
as of 10 minutes before making
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this post, I'm almost positive I
had an encounter with a Bigfoot.
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I live in Missouri, Henry County
to be exact, and I live out in
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the sticks.
I have three dogs that I take
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outside so they can do their
business before they go to bed.
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Charlie my Chihuahua, Roxy my
red heeler, blue heeler and
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border collie mix, and Gizmo my
Shih tzu.
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I have them on collars that have
a beeper, beeper and vibrate and
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vibrate buttons so they don't
run off well.
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As I'm taking them out and
making sure they do their thing,
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I notice movement out of the
corner of my eye.
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I have a headlamp on and I move
my head to where I caught the
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movement.
I didn't think much of it
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because it's normally a deer
raccoon or something of the
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like.
What I saw though, was nothing
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I'd ever seen before.
I couldn't get a good judgement
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on how tall it was, but its eyes
were level with where the
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branches started to branch out
of the trunk of the tree, which
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is pretty high up.
If I had to guess I'd say like 7
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or 8 feet in the air.
This is also near where we have
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burn barrels for trash, which is
why my dogs were over there.
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I could only see the eyes at
first as they gave off a
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reflection of the light that
shined at it a deep red.
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I kept looking back at them to
make sure they didn't move.
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After a few seconds of looking
away and back at the eyes, it
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began to try and circle around
the area.
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From the tree I first saw the
eyes, it moved 15 steps to
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another bundle of trees.
I know how many steps not only
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because I've walked that, but
because I could hear each step
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it took.
Then it moved behind the burn
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barrels and then it began to
walk behind the shed we had
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that's next to it as it was
beginning.
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The circle is when I got a good
look at this thing.
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It had a dark muddy brown coat
of matted hair.
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The hair almost looked like it
had spots of red in it.
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Not like ginger red, but like
blood red.
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Its hands and torso were the
largest I've ever seen on
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something bipedal.
It looked like it had shiny
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black claws or fingers.
Then as it started getting
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closer, I could hear it
grunting, almost like a mix of a
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pissed off bull and a deep
guttural human grunt.
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As soon as I heard that, I hit
the vibrate button on my dogs.
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They knew that meant to come
home and follow me into the
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house.
I got them in the house, grabbed
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my 20 gauge, loaded it, and
stepped outside again to at the
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very least scare whatever I saw
off.
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I looked around shouting at
whatever it was to leave, and as
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I got closer to the burn barrels
I could hear the grunting and
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the thudding of its footsteps
retreating.
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This all happened right before I
was going to bed and literally
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10 minutes before I started
typing this all out.
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I like to think of myself as a
pretty cool minded guy, but this
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experience literally has me
shaking and cowering.
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I don't know what I saw, but I
know for sure it wasn't a bear
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because we don't have bears in
any of the counties I live near.
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Thank you for joining me for
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unexplained.
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See you soon, she said
ominously.