Feb. 20, 2026

What Happened Seven Miles Up Salmon Creek in Oakridge, Oregon | MEMBERS ONLY PREVIEW

In this members-only episode, we bring you a preview of multiple firsthand encounters that stretch from the swamps of Florida to the forests of Oregon and the mountains of Idaho.

A routine fishing trip in a remote Florida wildlife management area turns into a ground-shaking charge through thick brush… followed by a chilling clap that receives a deliberate response from deep within the swamp. A late-night drive in that same area ends with a snapped branch striking a vehicle and heavy footsteps closing in fast.

We also hear about a towering figure discovered near a strange backwoods structure in Oregon, massive birds seen during wildfire season, eerie vocalizations near Hoodoo Mountain, and unexplained lights in the sky witnessed while living off-grid.

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And I was like when we went and we climbed

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up that butte and we saw something that we thought

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was a bear that ended up being what I can only.

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Describe as a sasquatch.

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He's like, no, I saw a big we saw a

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big elk And I was like, what are you talking about?

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He's like yeah, But the weird part was it's antlers

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were like a moose. I'm like, are you kidding me?

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What are you talking about? This makes that makes no sense.

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So I don't know if it was something that he

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did to deal with what he's seen, but there was

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no elk with moose antlers up on top of that.

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Butte that was.

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Really strange to me.

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And I talked to him a few years back and

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I brought it up again and it's like, didn't phase him.

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He said same thing, laughed about it. So whatever happened

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within himself or influence from the creature, he does not

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recollect it like like we do. You know, I've I've

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seen a lot of creatures being in an Oregon and hunting,

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and I know what an elk looks like. And we

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did not experience an elk and that was that was

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the extent of it.

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My goodness. That's the kind of individual that I think

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would be very interesting for hypnosis. Absolutely, I've thought that

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to see to see if if there's something where he

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just buried those memories deep and remembers it a certain way. Now,

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my goodness, have you been back to that area ever

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since then? No, not at all.

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Yeah, I the opportunity never never brought me back to it.

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Mm hmm. Okay, my goodness. That is wild. You said

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you're from Oakridge as well.

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Yeah, I'm from Oakridge. I was born in Cottage Grove area.

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And uh yeah, oh man, so.

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I was born in the back of a Volkswagen van

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in Cottage Grove in the parking lot of the hospital.

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It didn't quite make it, dud. Wow, you must have

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you've you've got to have heard things from Oakridge or

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that area. I would guess, yes, yes, so there there

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is heard.

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Oh yeah, so there's some significant things. One thing that

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is a real big talk amongst amongst locals that know

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about it is something known as Christie's Crack, and apparently

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up past oak Ridge, past Huckleberry Flats and whatever that

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lake is in that direction, there's a spot on Google

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Maps where you go to look and there's just a

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big square that's kind of just wided out, the thirty

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plus mile kind of square. That's doesn't have any satellite,

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you know, terrain information about it at all. And apparently

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there once on a time you used to be able

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to drive out there. There's you know, some hot springs

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around that area and stuff too, and there's this this

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crack in the earth that just opens up super narrow

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up top from like six inches to maybe a couple feet, but.

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It's so deep.

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There's people that's that's try to make it to the

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bottom that just never came and back like with climbing equipment,

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you know, putting a beam across and and trying to

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repel down. And I've just the stories I've heard from

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from that area, and it's been closed off I guess

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since the mid nineties.

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I know I've heard of this. It's called uh is

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it called hellhole too or crack in the ground. Yes, No,

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that's something different.

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So there's a couple of names that it's gone by.

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Uh the crack in the ground sounds that sounds like

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something I've heard people say.

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But no, no, that's over by Christmas Valley. I think

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that's right.

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That's why it sounds familiar.

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That is in Christmas Valley. You're right, Yeah, I think

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it's called hell I've hold. I've told I've had some

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friends tell me about it, and they I think they've

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called it hellhole because a lot of people have actually

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gotten seriously hurt in.

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That oh yeah, just swallowed up, gone like beyond the

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beyond the ability to make it to the bottom. You know,

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People's tried dropping down cameras and and whatever else, and

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a lot of weird stuff happens out in that area.

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And as of now, the last time that I was

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going out there with a couple of friends, we're riding

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motorcycles trying to make it out towards that area, and

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there's a pretty significant perimeter that they have up and

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there's just claims that it's like under military operation, like

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a kind of like a base essentially, but there's not

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a whole lot of information about it.

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We were kind of chuckling underneath their breath, so I

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was like, I'm going to clap because I heard you know,

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we're gonna if you clap, you So I clap, and

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I'm not kidding it. Response clap came back about seventy

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five to one hundred feet into the swamp, like probably

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knee deep water to you know, towards our right right

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from that section. So immediately Goosebomp's hair went on both

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of our arms, like we couldn't believe it. I clapped twice.

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It clapped twice, and I clapped three times. That never

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responded again. That was one counter in this certain area.

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I've had another counter in this area as well, but

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that was the significant one where no one's out there.

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We didn't see a single car. You're typing thousands of miles.

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I don't want to give the exact location away because

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I have had many weird encounters and other people have

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claimed to have encounters twenty years ago, ten years ago. Okay,

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I don't want anyone kind of going out there. But

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that's that's the story of it.

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Actually, that's one of the things I love that that detail.

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It comes up a bit in interviews i've done. I've

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even had a person that told me in Northern Georgia,

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they did, do you know there's like the clap clap,

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and then at the end it goes clap clap that one.

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They it's like an old thing from movies. They did

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that and then something responded back with that at the end.

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So was there any weird smells out there?

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So when we got to the dead end where we

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couldn't walk anymore. I mean, we were going to keep going,

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but it's like I said, the swamp started taking over.

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We weren't prepared for that. It was all dry, you know,

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we're fishing the river bed following it, so it's only

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ten feet wide, and it's going and snaked like you know,

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motions all the way back. And then it started getting swamps,

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so we weren't prepared for it. We did started smelling

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something prior, but it you know, people say skunk or whatever.

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It was a musky smell. We contributed at the time

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as just a swamp, you know, because we started really

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getting into some nasty stuff and we were making a

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joke when you know, when it charged us, you felt

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the vibration in the ground it it fell, we could

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feel in our bones like it was no. I didn't

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even look at my buddy. We were in the mid

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cast fishing, and the vibration and the breaking of the

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branches and tree, I mean, it was so much force

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that we didn't even we didn't even look. I just

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immediately started running. I broke my pull and my buddy

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started running, and we ran so far until we were

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our lungs were burning. That's when we slowly walked back.

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Oh my goodness, can you do you mind sharing the

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other thing that you had happen in there? Even though

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you said it, it wasn't so the wasn't too crazy.

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But yeah. So the second and the second weird thing

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that I can't explain is we were in the We

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were in that same area. We love to drive through

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this area at night, so it's a little giveaway if

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people can find a wildlife management open. That's twenty four

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to seven and it was probably two three am. We

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like taking night drives out there every now and then.

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And it was we were coming around this bin and

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there's a river bed on each side and there's just

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a little rock way like a little tunnel that kind

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of drive like a little bridge. And I stopped there

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and the car was still on The car was still

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in drive, and we took out our flashlights and we're

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looking in the water on each side of the vehicle

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because the water dropped straight down. We were looking for snakes,

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you know, anything fun whatever, and this branch broke behind

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us and it hit almost the back of my vehicle.

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And I could tell it was a branch because the

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way it sounded that you can hear the snap of

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this tree lamb, and then this massive thump to where

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the back of our car moved. It was some type

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of animal or person, and then we felt the footsteps boom.

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I mean my head was still out the window when

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I floored the car. I didn't even have enough reaction

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time to put my head back into the vehicle because

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I had the flashlight out and whatever it was we were,

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I told my wife and my friend to turn the

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flashlight around while we were driving. They were so mortified,

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did even want to stick their hand or or or

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hands or head out the window to look behind us.

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Why we were I mean it's only probably ten fifteen

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mile an hour speed limit toward these rocky areas, but

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I was booking fifty sixty. I mean, we were terrified.

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When I get the lights back on, I look ahead,

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maybe sixty feet in front of me, and there were

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a salamander that's so big that it's taking up most

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of the two lanes.

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Of that road. And it was huge, dude.

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It had like and it had like this huge red

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like thing looked almost like a dragon, and I was like,

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I couldn't it took me a second to realize what

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I was looking at. And the thing was just massive salamander,

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no mistaking. And the thing just wandered across the road

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and went down down to the creek there.

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Oh my goodness, how how long would you estimate that

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it was?

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It had to be a better part of like eight feet. Man,

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the thing was gigantic. It's uh. I wouldn't have wanted

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to get close to it. The thing was big enough,

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I think to be.

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To be a worry to be concerned about, you know, yeah, yeah, like.

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I've never seen.

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I've never seen.

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You know, I've seen some pretty big ones that a

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foot and a half, you know, almost two feet, but

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this thing being almost two lanes that is a that

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is a big creature coming up out of the water

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on the land. Oh my god, some some type of

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like some type of like river deity or something. Man,

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it was wild. It is probably one of the most

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coolest things that I've seen.

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No, absolutely, man, Can I ask you one more question

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and then I'll let you go. I apologize, all right,

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I just got I got so many questions for you. Uh.

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One area that a lot of people have I've talked

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to off record that won't go on the podcast. I'm

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trying to remember what the name of it. It's the

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area like you're in oak Ridge, but then you drive

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up north up into the hills west first, well it's

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it's like Westford, but it's in Oakridge. It's called High Prairie.

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Oh yeah, yeah, High Prairie.

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Of course. Have you heard of stuff happening up there too?

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Uh So there's like the famous properties up there that

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are renowned for just high levels of paranormal stuff.

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Oh, you got to tell me about this. I haven't

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heard anything about this yet.

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Oh man, I I I would have, so I would.

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I need to would converse with with my buddies and

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and get some things straight, and I could come back

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another day and and give you actual accounts from these people.

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Wow.

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But uh yeah uh. And I also have some pictures

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from up there too of this property that my girlfriend

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now as she took when she was younger doing photographing

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and stuff and didn't even realize what she caught. But

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in multiple pictures, she has these really awesome images of

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this lady standing up second story window. It's really really neat.

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Oh so, probably like a ghost or something like that.