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Hello and welcome to the program
UFO Warning. 

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And this episode we're talking 
about the Ozark Blue Man. 

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That's correct, the Ozark Blue 
Man. 

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Now this is a Cryptid down there
in the Ozarks. 

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I think it's similar to Bigfoot 
perhaps, but more human like. 

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We can find the definition over 
here at cryptids.fandom.com. 

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Title Ozark Blue Man. 
The Ozark Blue Man was a wild 

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man like creature reported to 
roam the remote wooded hills 

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around the Ozarks. 
The creature was infrequently 

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seen but his presence felt as 
far back as the 1860s. 

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Looking to chase and kill, he 
carried a wooden club, his huge 

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hand through large boulders and 
feasted upon livestock. 

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Periodic appearances sent locals
spinning into a tizzy and brave 

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men searching the woods and 
caused enough excitement to last

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until the next sighting. 
It was the Blue Man of Spring 

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Creek. 
It is a genuine Ozark legend, 

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and if the testimony of scores 
of men during all these years is

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to be accepted, the legend is 
absolutely true, reported the 

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Springfield Leader in 1924. 
The name allegedly came from 

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Blue Saul Collins, the 1st man 
to see him. 

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That sighting supposedly took 
place in 1865 and was recounted 

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in the Springfield Republican in
1915 and the early spring of 

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1865. 
Blue Saul Collins was hunting on

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the divide between North Fork 
and Spring Creek. 

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A light snow had fall the night 
before. 

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The woodland seemed to be 
covered by admirable tracks, 

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tricky tracks, deer tracks, 
rabbit, fox and Coon tracks, big

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and little tracks, but most 
conspicuous were the tracks that

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resembled somewhat those of a 
bear. 

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Blue Soul was a hunter without 
fear and believing the bigger 

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the game the better the hunt. 
He followed the long broad 

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tracks with a claw like 
impressions in the in the soft 

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snow. 
After following the trail for 

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several hours over the North 
Fork, Indian and Spring Creek 

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hills, Saul suddenly came upon 
the object of his search on the 

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north slope of Twin Mountain. 
Saul looked up, jumped out of 

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the path of several descending 
boulders and Wren. 

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He had seen an object, 
unmistakably human, though 

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strongly resembling a vicious 
animal, hurling huge boulders at

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him down the steep hillside. 
Newspapers reported periodic 

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encounters in the years that 
followed. 

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The experiences weren't only 
tied to Douglas County. 

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At other times, he was 
supposedly seen in counties such

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as Ozark. 
And how the Blue Man was 

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described as Neanderthal like 
and wearing primitive animal 

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skin clothing while wielding a 
wooden club. 

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Sightings often reported the 
creature leaving Bigfoot like 

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prints. 
And then it has a bunch of these

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different articles you can take 
a look at. 

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So this is something that was 
going on back in the late 1800s,

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early 1900s, and you know, from 
like 1915 on, we started to have

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these written reports talking 
about what people had seen out 

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there in the deep woods of the 
Ozarks. 

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If these folks were just 
imagining these things, it's 

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hard to believe they go to the 
trouble having it printed up. 

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So I found this article on 
thelibrary.org and I'll have the

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link over at Kofi. 
It says Blue Man of Spring 

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Creek. 
Published October 13th, 2019. 

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Submitted by Renee. 
The story of the Blue Man of 

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Spring Creek has been current in
the rough region in the eastern 

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part of Douglas County, Missouri
for 60 years. 

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It is a genuine Ozark legend, 
and if the testimony of Scourgs 

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and men during all these years 
is to be accepted, the legend is

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absolutely true. 
So begins a long tale of 

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sightings of the Blue Man. 
The article printed in the 

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Springfield Leader in the 
November of 1924 begins in 1865 

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when a hunter, Saul Collins, was
hunting between the Big North 

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Fork and Spring Creek. 
He was tracking game and saw 

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tracks that he thought were a 
bear. 

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After following the tracks for 
hours and while climbing a 

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mountain, he barely had time to 
leap behind a tree as a boulder 

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came rolling down the mountain 
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A second boulder followed the 
1st, and a third boulder crashed

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into the tree with such force 
that the boulder shattered. 

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When he peered around the tree, 
he saw on the hillside a 

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gigantic figure shaped like an 
immense man, stark naked except 

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for the skin of some animal 
around its waist and other 

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wrappings of skin around its 
feet. 

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The creature was covered from 
head to foot with a tightly 

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curling coat of short black 
hair, which, as the sun struck 

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upon it, took on a dark blue 
hue. 

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Collins always claimed that the 
giant was not less than 9 feet 

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tall. 
The giant threw one more rock 

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that also shattered against the 
tree and he made the hills echo 

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with an ear splitting scream. 
More terrifying than ever came 

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from any wild beast that roams 
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That was enough for Collins, who
took to his heels and fled for 

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his life. 
For several days, Collins and 

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his neighbors tracked the Blue 
Man and many caught glimpses of 

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him, but he was never caught. 
It was believed that the Blue 

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Man was responsible for the 
disappearance of many sheep and 

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pigs. 
After a week or two of terror, 

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the creature disappeared. 
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spreading sightings of the Blue 
Man along the Big Fork, and then

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he disappeared completely 
between 1890 and 1911. 

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Then suddenly he was back, and 
more men than ever tried to hunt

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him down. 
They thought they had found his 

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din in a remote valley, but the 
man had disappeared as before. 

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Well, this thing almost sounds 
like a Bigfoot to me, the way 

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he's kind of just moving so 
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Now, the fact they say here that
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1911, it could just be that he 
was seen, but it just wasn't 

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reported. 
One explanation is given by old 

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Uncle Jerry Hildebrand, who 
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County in 1820 and who died 
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He used to tell the following 
story, which she had been told 

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by, which had been told by him 
by yet older residents of the 

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hills. 
Some years before the American 

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Revolution, while Missouri was 
still part of the French colony 

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of Louisiana, a French fur 
trader came into the Ozarks, 

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bringing with him a very 
beautiful Spanish woman. 

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The trader, soon tired of his 
fair companion, bartered her to 

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an Indian chief for a goodly 
package of furs, and slipped 

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away, leaving the woman a 
captive. 

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The poor woman thus abandoned in
the wilderness, lost her reason 

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and lived for years a demented 
creature of the woods from her 

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spring, a race of people half 
Spanish, half Indian. 

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They never mingled with either 
French or Indians, but hid away 

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in remote and inaccessible 
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numbers and were known to exist 
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When the pioneer settlers poured
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1840, the strange half breed 
race disappeared and it was 

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generally supposed by those who 
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they migrated into more remote 
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wilderness. 
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Arkansas were thought to be the 
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to. 
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last of their race, came the 
Blue Man of Spring Creek. 

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Leader, November 17th, 1924. 
We can kind of see it in a 

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normalcy bias for these things. 
Clerk back in the 1920s, people 

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are presented with something 
they don't understand and they 

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kind of naturally weave a story 
around it. 

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The cartoon representation of a 
Blue Man Hunt appeared in the 

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News Leader October 3rd, 1965 in
the Good Old Days column. 

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If you love legends, ghost 
stories and tales of horror, 

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check out the programs available
at the Library of the horror 

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events this weekend. 
That's pretty cool. 

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Pretty neat story. 
And I want to follow us up and 

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just do a couple more sightings 
on in Arkansas and compare these

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to some of the Bigfoot reports 
that we have down there now, 

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bfro.net, and that's Bigfoot 
Field Researchers Organization. 

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They've got just one of the 
coolest sites around, I think, 

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and you can go over there. 
It's really easy to search. 

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I'll put the link at the Kofi 
site and they'll give you county

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by county references to what 
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And this is from 2007. 
It says the seasons of fall, the

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month of November. 
Now, this is Missouri, Ozark 

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County, so we're talking about 
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Location details, it says I have
to find the information in 

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Brixie, Missouri. 
When I was living in Brixie, 

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Missouri, I lived out in the 
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We had woods all around us and 
the houses were also spaced out.

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We had a good sized pond in our 
yard and a lot of deer and other

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animals came through to drink 
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One night me and my now 
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It was the middle of the night 
when I was woken up by the sound

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of my rabbit that was in a big 
dog kennel on the porch that was

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covered to keep the rabbit from 
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The kennel was right outside the
front door and under a window 

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where my bed was. 
I had a clearview of the front 

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door and the window. 
When I woke there was a big dark

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figure in the window. 
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I don't know what it was but I 
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coyote, a deer, or a bear. 
My dogs that I had there that I 

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still have will bark at anything
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One was laying on the sofa like 
she was trying to hide something

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she has never done before and 
hasn't done since that night. 

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I now live in Texas and I would 
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have ever got reports out of 
Missouri or if I'm the first 

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one. 
I don't know what it was for 

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sure but I think it was a 
Bigfoot. 

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Wow that's pretty Wildman. 
That poor rabbit sitting out 

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there on the back porch. 
Also notice it says for a few 

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months we had a few of my ex 
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aunt's horses out in a field out
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There were a few times it was 
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scaring them. 
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Both times it happened it was at
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start going nuts, running all 
over the place and just freaking

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out. 
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around dogs and deer were seen a
few times in with the horses and

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they never messed with them. 
However, what was around them 

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those nights they did not like 
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Man that's pretty wild. 
Thinking the same might have 

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been slipping up there just kind
of mosing around where the 

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horses rat it. 
Says other witnesses. 

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My ex boss was with me but 
didn't get to see it. 

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It was gone in a matter of 
seconds. 

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It says no. 
I never really thought to ask 

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because I didn't want people 
laughing at me. 

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So they hadn't talked to other 
people about this time and 

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conditions. 
It was between 12:00 and 2:00 

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AM. 
It was a little chilly out with 

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a clear night sky. 
It was dark inside and out. 

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Tell us that the environment, 
there was a lot of forest with a

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lot of good food and water. 
A little past the old Brixey 

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Post office and there was an old
diner right across the road 

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where the house is and where the
sighting happened and there is a

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nature reserve right down the 
road. 

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Sounds like it had lots and lots
of habitat now. 

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They did a follow up 
investigation. 

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These guys are always cool about
this. 

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It says follow follow up 
investigation reported by BFRO 

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investigator Carter Bouchard. 
I spoke with a witness who was a

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bit reluctant to speak with me. 
She actually hung up on me 

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thinking of someone calling to 
make fun of her. 

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After we spoke for a bit, she 
relaxed and recounted the nice 

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events. 
The cage or kennel her rabbit 

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was in was being rattled around 
by something she felt it was 

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trying to get to the rabbit. 
It was a kennel for a larger dog

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and she had moved the rabbit 
from its usual pin to its big 

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kennel on the front porch to 
keep it from the wind. 

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You know, you kind of wonder 
maybe this thing was just 

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messing with it too, kind of 
have all the fun. 

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It was very cold and this was 
actually the first night she had

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put the rabbit in the kennel and
whatever it was was slamming the

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kennel around pretty good. 
Her two dogs, who usually bark 

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at anything were dead silent and
frozen. 

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A place Her bedroom window is 
right next to the front door 

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where the kennel was and she had
a direct sight line to the front

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of the house. 
She saw a massive creature just 

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standing in the front window 
looking in. 

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She saw the head and shoulders 
from her bed which is about 15 

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to 20 feet from the window. 
Her porch is 3 feet off the 

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ground and the creature had 
moved off the porch and was 

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standing in front of the window 
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With her porch being 3 feet off 
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another three to four feet high.
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to be 7 foot plus she felt like 
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30 seconds to a minute. 
They just stared at each other 

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during this entire event. 
She was trying to awaken her now

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ex-husband and when he finally 
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He saw nothing. 
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single yard light up on a 
telephone pole which backlit the

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creature. 
Light was about 30 feet up a 

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foam pole and at least 50 to 60 
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The situation with the horses 
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her place as a favour. 
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seen them in their normal 
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peaceful, not afraid of dogs or 
other animals. 

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Yet when they got to her place, 
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spooking them. 
She could not say it was a 

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Bigfoot or any other animal that
was speaking them. 

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Just that being at her place 
made them very skittish. 

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Soon after this incident, she 
divorced and moved to Texas. 

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And it's got a picture of the 
investigator down here. 

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They just do such great detail 
on this bfro.net site. 

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I mean, these guys, they, they 
really got it together. 

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Now this last one here also 
comes from BFRO, Bigfoot 

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Research organization, Bigfoot 
Field Research organization. 

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Another great one. 
This is from says approximately 

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1985 season winner State of 
Missouri Ozark County. 

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Location details from Hwy. 60 E 
from Springfield, MO Take 

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highway 5 S to Hwy. 95 N and 
it's approximately 6 miles then 

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left County Road. 
Can't remember the number of the

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road. 
Nearest town Gainesville nearest

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Rd. 
Hwy. 95. 

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And I did have to do a little 
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make it easier to read. 
The experiencer tells us I was 

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just a kid when I saw it. 
I was sitting in the back of an 

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old shaved citation that was 
pretty new at the time. 

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My uncle was driving, my aunt 
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my little cousin, who was around
four or five, was sitting in the

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back seat with me. 
We were coming home, I believe 

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from visiting family or 
something. 

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My aunt and uncle live down this
old dirt Rd. about two miles 

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long. 
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which was on the left, there was
an old dry branch or Creek that 

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ran across the road. 
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to cross over it, so you had to 
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Directly to the right of the 
Creek was an old driveway 

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leading to an abandoned house 
that no one had lived in for 

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years. 
It was dark, so naturally we had

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the headlights on. 
As my uncle began slowing down 

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to pass over the rough gravel, 
something in the corner of my 

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eye came into view. 
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not loudly because we were 
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Something that looked to be 
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I know I was 10 or 11 and as a 
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Came across the branch which led
out of the old driveway. 

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So you see this Bigfoot just 
sauntering across this dry Creek

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there. 
It must have really been 

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something. 
It wasn't running, but walking 

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briskly and it came directly in 
front of the car. 

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We all just stared as if it were
some dream. 

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It was swinging its arms a 
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not even there. 
It walked across the Creek and 

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cross the Watergate. 
I don't remember if it went 

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under or over, but what I do 
remember is that the branch had 

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washed out the Bank of my 
uncle's yard. 

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His perimeter fence was quite 
tall if you were standing in the

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dry Creek. 
And this bright red haired thing

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jumped over from the bed of the 
branch like it was nothing and 

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into my uncle's yard. 
While so he's saying that this 

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thing was pretty tall as fence 
was, but this creature Bigfoot, 

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whatever it was, it just jumped 
up out of this Creek bed over 

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this tall fence just like it was
nothing not not something a 

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human really even be able to 
think about doing. 

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Mind you, we were still watching
from the car. 

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We could see it walk up through 
the yard and up the hill until 

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we lost sight of it with the 
headlights. 

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My uncle turned into the 
driveway and we all looked and 

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we all locked the doors. 
My aunt and uncle did the count 

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of three thing and we opened the
doors and ran inside the house. 

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Once inside my uncle got his 
hunting rifle out and we went 

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outside with his floodlight to 
look for it. 

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On his way back he tripped on 
the cord which came unplugged. 

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Then he yelled and got up and 
ran into the house and locked 

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the door. 
To this day if you ask him about

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what he saw he will say he saw 
something but doesn't know what 

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it was or that somebody was 
playing a joke on us. 

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My aunt will tell you that she 
saw Bigfoot and so will I. 

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My little cousin was too small 
to remember much, but I remember

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to this day I don't go out into 
the woods without a weapon to 

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the best of my ability. 
This is what it looked like. 

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It was around 7 to 8 feet tall, 
completely covered in red hair 

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and one feature I remember is 
that his arms looked almost as 

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long as his legs. 
It was not afraid of us. 

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Also, at the time there was a 
man who I do not remember but 

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who lived in the area and was at
the local store in Sutter, 

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Missouri. 
He was telling everyone that he 

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had seen Bigfoot and no one 
believed him. 

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So none of us ever made much 
mention of it except a family or

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close friends. 
But I believe I know what I saw.

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Wow that is really impactful. 
What a cool story. 

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Goes on down here. 
Says it seems like my uncle the 

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next day could see footprints in
his yard but I don't remember my

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uncle and aunt and me and my 
little cousin. 

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We're all witnesses and he says 
that's it except for the man a 

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month earlier claiming to have 
seen Bigfoot, which no one 

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believed. 
Tells us that this happened 

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around midnight and that there 
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environment. 
Goes on as his follow up 

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investigation report by 
Investigator Stanley Courtney. 

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I spoke with both the witnesses 
and his aunt by phone. 

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Although he was young at the 
time, the witness remembered 

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many of the same details as his 
aunt. 

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The aunt added that there was a 
bright moon and they could see 

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rather well with the headlights 
on. 

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The animal appeared thin with a 
rounded head, long arms having 

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brownish red hair extending past
his waist. 

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She stated that it acted as if 
it was startled and walked 

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arched over, kind of leaning as 
it left, swinging its arms. 

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Wow, it's almost kind of a sad 
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So there we have this kind of a 
target rich area down there in 

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the Ozarks where there's a Blue 
Man or whether it's Bigfoot, you

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have this heavily forested area 
with lots of remote places to go

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out and look for these things at
and lots of cool sightings. 

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Whether it's 18601960 or 2024, 
they're still seeing these large

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bipedal cryptids down there in 
the Ozarks. 

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Until next time, this is UFO 
warning over and out.