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Welcome to Paranormal Night.
Shift your home for all things
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that go bump in the dark and
you’re a fan.
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Stories told here.
Today’s story is about cryptids.
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Every town has their own urban
legend, myth, creature that
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lives in the woods.
But what causes these stories?
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They surely have to be based on
some sort of reality.
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Somebody sells something once,
right?
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Joey writes in.
It was late one September
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evening.
I was driving home from work on
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a road where we have these
legends, right?
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It’s where the devil lives.
Everybody in my town knows the
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story.
It’s where these four crossroads
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meet in the middle of nowhere
and the roads just kind of go on
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forever.
I mean, that’s the story they
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told us.
I always went that way because
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it was faster, but I’ve never
been that way at night.
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I forgot how dark it was.
It’s old farmland, whole bunch
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of cornfields and barns,
scarecrows during the day that
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you can see from the road.
But this night I started to see
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something.
It felt like something was
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watching my car, but I was going
as fast as I could, 6070 miles
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an hour.
You know those little stoplight
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towns?
You go as fast as you go or as
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fast as you can until you get
caught.
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But I I swear it’s like out of
the corner of my eye I saw
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something, something running,
keeping pace with the car, like
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a dog or a creature.
I started to remember the
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stories that I was told as as a
kid.
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Don’t stop at the crossroads.
If you stop at the crossroads,
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it’ll catch you.
Don’t stop at the crossroads.
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In fact, in our town, there had
been many a wreck at the
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crossroads because people
wouldn’t stop.
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Allegedly, if you stop at the
crossroads, it will get you.
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Whatever it is will finally
catch you.
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I thought it was silly.
Nobody believes in any of this
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stuff.
But here I was, a grown man,
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driving as fast as I could
because it felt like something
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was chasing me.
The crossroads was coming up and
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I knew I needed to slow down
because, well, it’s a stoplight.
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You have to stop, right?
But it still it felt like
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something was chasing me.
I could.
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I could keep seeing, I couldn’t
make anything out.
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But it felt like something was
chasing me.
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The crossroads was right ahead,
and I decided that I needed to
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stop.
I stopped at the crossroads just
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long enough to hit the brakes,
right?
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And that’s when I saw it.
In the middle of the crossroads.
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This, this beast, this dog like
werewolf.
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That was so silly.
I I know it.
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I feel bad doing it, but I speed
through and I I hit whatever it
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was.
This was all so silly.
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It was all made-up.
It was late and and I had to
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just believe that it was late.
I hit whatever it was and when I
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got home I I saw there, there
was stuff on the car.
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There was there was blood on the
car.
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Clearly I’d hit something.
I decided that I would go back
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that morning in the light.
If I hit a deer or something,
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clearly it would be on the side
of the road.
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When I drove there at the
crossroads in daylight, I I
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didn’t see anything at all.
There was nothing on the side of
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the road.
I I felt weird.
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It just didn’t make sense to me.
I hit something.
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I know that I hit something and
whatever I hit, going as fast as
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I did it would be somewhere,
right?
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Decided that I needed to do my
own investigation.
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I waited until the next night.
I was going to go down the road
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again.
The urban legend says that if
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you stop at the crossroads,
it’ll show up.
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I drove down the road, still
heavy, having this eerie, eerie,
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heavy feeling over me.
When I got to the crossroads, I
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I stopped.
Sure enough, there it was again.
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This, this beast.
I I began to freak out because
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it started to charge my car.
I I I felt it.
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It hit my car.
It was on my roof.
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I I flung around as quick as I
could, driving to try to shake
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this thing loose.
This was all a figment of my
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imagination.
This.
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This couldn’t be real.
I got home and and there it was,
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Claw marks in the hood of my
car.
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I had encountered something.
I called a friend of mine who
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works at an animal shelter.
I had him come and look at the
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claw marks that are in my car.
He said there’s there’s no way a
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regular dog could do that with
those claw marks in it.
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The dog would have to be 6-7
feet tall.
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I just don’t go down that road
anymore.
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But were these urban legends
true?
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It happened to me.
You.
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I couldn’t believe these legends
as a kid, but once it happens,
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it’s there.
Where the urban legends actually
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just legends or our parents
warning us from their
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experiences.
I know that I’m going to tell my
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story and I hope that nobody
stops at the crossroads.