June 1, 2025

The X Letters EP 1 - Sometimes time just gets away from you.

The X Letters EP 1 - Sometimes time just gets away from you.

An explaination of sorts , and an introduction into what's next. Hope you're doing good out there.



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Transcript
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Hey, everybody, it's standing here. Well where do I start?

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I guess, uh, an explanation of sorts is in order.

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Where did the Kentucky X Files go? The best way

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I can describe that, or the best way I can

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word that, I should say, is that sometimes time just

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gets away from us. And we enjoyed doing the show,

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and we definitely enjoyed, you know, all the topics and

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from the very serious topics all the way down to

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you know, the really lighthearted and fun topics, and then

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sometimes the news just provided enough, you know, for us

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to just get a you know, get a kick out

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of you know. But in the end, I think we

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uh flew too close to the sun. We God, it's

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been a while since I've actually been on the microphone,

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so you have to bear with me here. I think

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we got to a point where nothing was really jumping

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out at us. So at first we said, well, let's

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let's hold off and let's let's wait for something worthy,

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uh and then we'll jump in and we'll do an

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episode about it. But you know, nothing ever really came

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that was powerful enough to get us back into the saddle,

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you know what I mean, like back into the routine.

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We were basically I want to say burnt out. Well,

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you know, maybe maybe that's the closest I can think of,

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you know, or just uninspired.

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I guess.

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We never we never really felt like we ended the

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show properly. And uh, I'm actually not here today to

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end the show for you.

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Actually, uh, in.

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The spirit of the campfire, you know, feeling of the show,

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we're gonna be We're gonna be trudging on, but it's

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gonna be a little different than you remember. Here's what happened.

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So in this year, and it has been a year.

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By the time you hear this, it will have been

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a year since the very last Kentucky X Files episode.

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And in that year, you all never stopped writing in,

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and you reached out and you wrote in and you

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told your stories, and if I'm going to be quite

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honest with you, for the longest time, the stories kind

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of went unread. And then bam, a week ago, I'm

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going through emails and what do I see but a

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pile of stories from people from you. So this new thing,

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this first episode, you're going to see first, You're going

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to see it launched on the Kentucky X Files podcast

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as a way to kind of help you find it.

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The new show is called The X Letters, and it's

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all the emails from you to us telling us what's happened.

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And I thought, you know what, it wouldn't take me

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long to just jump on here, hit record and read

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these letters. So yeah, yeah, remember that though the X Letters,

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that's all you.

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Have to do.

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Go find it on all the streaming and go ahead

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and follow it, and we'll just continue on the campfire

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from there. And uh, I will not say never say

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never that the Kentucky X Files will return, because stranger

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things have happened. But for right now, let's just let's

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just carry on, you know, with with the emails, and uh,

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you're more than welcome to email us at encounters at

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at Kentuckyxfiles dot com and and let me know what

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you think of the episodes, let me know what you're

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what you're thinking, or if you hear something on here

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that sounds familiar to you, go ahead and chime in,

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let me know, and we'll just keep on keeping on

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from there. So without further ado, let's let's dive into

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the first couple of emails, and I guess we'll just

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we'll just kind of play it by year we'll just

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go with the flow from there. Again, I'm pretty rusty.

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It's been a year, so bear with me and hopefully

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you enjoy this.

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Uh.

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Some of these stories are pretty wid some of them

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are kind of kind of scary. But you know the

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whether whether you know the person sending it saw what

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they think they saw or not, they're they're going to

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get their day in court. So here we go. Let's uh,

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let's dive in here. I'm gonna pull up the first

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one here. I've got them, got a big old pile

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of them, so all right, Uh, it looks like this

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was written. Let's see here. Looks like April of last

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year is when this email came through. So let's see

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how it goes. All right, Dear Denny, I know how

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this is gonna sound. I have written and deleted this

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email more times than I can count. My wife told

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me to leave it alone, said the more I think

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about it, the more I'll convinced myself it was real.

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But it was real or it is I'm not really

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sure which tends to use, because I think it's still here.

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I live about six miles outside of a little town

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called Harlan. Nothing out here but trees there's a creek,

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and I jokingly say, there's some ghosts of the old

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coal mines. It's quiet. Well, it was quiet. That's actually

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why I moved out here. I moved here after retiring

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from the railroad. Bear with me, folks, the punctuation in

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some of these is going to be a little wild.

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I bought a little house on the edge of the woods,

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and I figured I'd spend the rest of my life

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fixing it up, doing some fishing, and just not bothering

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anybody or being bothered for that matter. All that changed

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about five weeks ago. It started with the birds. Every morning,

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like clockwork, the woods would be alive with noise. It

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was cardinals, crows, woodpeckers, you name it. But then one

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day it all just stopped. Not quiet like it's about

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the rain. Quiet, I mean dead silence, not even when

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through the trees, no bugs, no frogs, just this thick,

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suffocating stillness. Almost felt like a pressure. It was like

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the whole world out here was just holding its breath.

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That silence had to wait to it and it made

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your ears ring. Well, I told myself it was nothing,

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But the next night I woke up around three am

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to a sound that I can only describe like a

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baby crying in the woods. The first thing I thought

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was coyote, But this wasn't no damn coyote, and it

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sure as hell wasn't no raccoon. It was a soft crying,

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almost like a toddler. It was like a kid lost

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out there. So I went to the porch with a

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flashlight and I called out hello, but I never got nothing.

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I took a few steps towards the tree line, and

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the crying immediately stopped, like someone hit mute. Then I

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heard something snap deep in the woods, not like a

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twig breaking, but like heavy, like a tree falling deliberate.

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I went back inside. I locked the doors, and I

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sat in the kitchen with a loaded pistol and a

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cup of coffee until sunrise. That's become the routine every night,

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the same crying, the same silence, the same feeling like

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someone's watching me. I set up a trail cam. Nothing

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just black frames. It's almost like something was blocking the lens. Well,

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then came the scratching. It started at the back door.

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It was like a slow clawing scratching, like fingernails on

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old wood. When I'd flip the porch light on. There

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was nothing there, no prints, no marks. It was just

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that feeling in my chest like something was waiting. Well,

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my wife came to visit last weekend. I didn't tell

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her any about this. I didn't want to scare She

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was only going to stay one night. Well, about two am,

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she woke up saying, I think there's someone outside the window.

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I grabbed the flashlight and I went to the bedroom.

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Sure enough, something was standing just past the glass. Not

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close enough, not close far enough that I could make

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it out, but tall, taller than me. I'm around six

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to two, and it just stood there. She swears it

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looked like me, but I don't think so. The worst

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part of the whole thing when I stepped outside, there

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was no one there.

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It was just nothing.

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But her side of the bed was soaking wet. It

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smelled like a river water. Well, it's safe to say

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the wife doesn't like visiting the cabin anymore, and I

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don't really blame her. I can't really explain it. But

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whatever it is, maybe one of those bigfoots or something.

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I don't know.

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Maybe it's an alien.

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I don't know.

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Well, I'm not really writing you for attention, Denny. I'm

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just writing because I've listened to your show and I

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know you all take people serious, people who've seen something

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that doesn't really fit into the world.

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Well, that's what this is. I'll tell you what.

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I haven't really slept right up in the cabin ever since.

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I still go up and go fishing, but I don't

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think I'm going to stay the night, so I go

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up during the day, I fish, and I go home.

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I'm thinking about selling the place. Maybe if you read

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this on the show, maybe someone else out there might

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know something too, So please don't use my full name.

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I appreciate you. Thanks, guys. Well, that's an interesting one.

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I don't know that i've I mean I've heard I've

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heard of stuff, you know, in stories like Bigfoot sightings,

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where people were in their cabin and you know, something

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was banging on the walls or throwing rocks.

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At them, things like that.

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I don't know that I've ever heard the scratching thing before.

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So that's that's an interesting one for me. I don't

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know if anybody out there has any anything to add

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to that one. Just send me an email, shoot shoot

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me something, let me know what you think.

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Wow. So I don't know I guess. I guess.

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Let's go, let's do one more see see what we

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can figure out here. All right, looks like this place,

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this one, says dear Denny. There's no date on this one.

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Oh no, there is, Sorry, March fourteenth, twenty twenty four.

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All right, dear Denny. I'm not one for ghost stories.

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I've been driving long haul for about seventeen years, and

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I've seen my fair share of weird stuff.

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Lights in the.

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Skies, shadows on the sh even guys standing dead still

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in the middle of the eye of forty.

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At three am.

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That's crazy. That would be enough to freak me out.

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But nothing shook me like I saw last week on

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Highway seventy two. I was heading westbound, just past the

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Mississippi line, clear night Moon was out road dry. I

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just crossed through Cherokee, and I saw movement in the

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ditch to my right. I thought it was a deer,

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so I slowed down a touch and kept my high

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beams on.

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I always thought that if you kept.

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Your high beams on, they it would stun them and

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they would stay, they would stand where they're at. But

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I don't know what I saw came out of the ditch.

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And onto the shoulder. It was tall and lean, maybe

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seven feet if it was an inch. Looked like a

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damn coyote that got hit by a freight train. And

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it kept walking, mangy fur, long snout, bent legs, arms

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that swung like a man's. But the hands, guys, this

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thing had hands clawed, long fingers and they were too

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long to be normal.

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I asked it.

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I wasn't about to stop, but I couldn't stop looking

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in the mirror. Well that's the thing. This thing kept

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pace with me. I was doing fifty five, then sixty five,

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then pushing seventy, and it was right there, running beside

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my trailer, tongue lolling out, eyes shining like coals. Every

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few seconds, i'd dropped down to all fours. Oh, every

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few seconds it would drop down to all fours I

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misread that, then pop up like a like it was stretching.

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I kept hoping it would veer off or get bored,

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but it didn't. It stayed with me for twelve miles. Finally,

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just past the gravel turn off, it feered back into

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the woods. It was gone like smoke. I pulled up

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to the next truck stop and set there for a

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good hour, hands shaking and hearts pounding. I didn't say

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a word to nobody, and I didn't sleep in my

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cab that night.

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Since then, I've talked to.

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Three maybe three maybe four other drivers that say they've

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seen something near that same stretch. One guy called it

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a skin walker. Another guy called it the Alabama wolf.

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Me.

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I really don't give a shit what name you give it.

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All I know is that that was no animal. That

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thing was smiling at me. I think it was enjoying itself. Well,

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I changed routes. I don't run that one anymore, and

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if anyone ever listens to this, I highly suggest they

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don't run it either, telling them to keep their foots

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to the pedal, the door's locked, and keep on a going.

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There's something out there that don't mind being seen. Thank you, Balt. Wow,

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that's that's pretty wild. I guess that definitely. I mean

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that sounds like very very similar to dog man stuff

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i've heard, or even skin walker stuff i've heard. Keeping

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pace at seventy miles an hour. That's knowing. For me,

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that's crazy, Like, how the hell would you even react

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to that? That's nuts? And I don't blame him. I

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don't if you changed routes, I don't blame. I'm a

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truck driver too, And if I say, if I saw

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some ship like that, I would definitely be uh, I'd

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probably be putting in some uh some you know, some

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applications for other stuff and just get out of that altogether. Yeah,

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So I'm going to go ahead and take a break here,

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and uh, I tell you what, guys, thanks for listening

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to this, and let me know, email me, let me

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know what you think encounters at ky x files dot com.

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Like I said, again, this is going to be called

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the X Letters. It's going to be on its own thing.

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So I wanted the first episode to be here just

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to kind of give you guys a you know, like

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a heads up, Hey, here's where the here's where the

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stuff's happening at.

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So yeah, we'll.

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See you over there and definitely give us a follower

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or whatever, you know what I mean. And I'll keep

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uploading them. So take care of each other out there.

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