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Hi, this is Christina and Carmen. And this is another
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episode of a Spooky Towns, a podcast for all things
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as spooky true crime Latin America. And oh, I was like,
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you're like getting worse at these intros. I don't know what.
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I didn't think that was that bad. Maybe it's just
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me right now, I don't know. I think you has
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been a bitch right now. Just because I told you
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to hurry up doesn't mean I'm being a bitch. You're right,
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it was not your best intro. Okay, you're right, you're right.
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Let me redo it. No, make you more upset. Your
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eye shadow looks cute. Thanks. I wanted to be on
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theme for Christmas. I love it. What does your Christmas
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water say? It says the struggle is real? And then
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it has Santa like that's you right now. He's like
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stuck and the fireplace. Yeah, I'm stuck in the metaphoric
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fireplace of hell. You are? Yeah? Mine is just Darth Vader. Nice. Yeah, Okay,
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well today we have some cryptids yeah, and some that
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we've never heard of. When I thought we had them all,
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I'm like, of course we didn't. There's always more, of
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course not. Yeah, yeah, and I have a very infuriating
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depressent case. Ohn. Yeah. But first before all that, we
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have a listeners story and if you want to send
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We love receiving your story, so please send them in.
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All right, are you ready to read this one? Yeah?
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So this is from the discord from alo Vera. I
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was around seven years old. I don't remember much of
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my childhood, but this is one of my most vivid memories.
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I was having a sleepover at my cousin's house, nothing
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new at that time. My aunt helped my mom a
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lot with babysitting and whatnot. The apartment complex they lived
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in at the time is owned by my grandpa, so
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I've always had family live in it and would spend
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a lot of time there as a kid. I remember
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going asleep one night and woke up sometime in the
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middle of the night, and it was that kind of
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state where you're half asleep, half awake. I started seeing
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it will look like black smoke coming out of the closet.
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I thought that was weird, so I blinked, and after
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it quickly started moving towards me. That's when I rubbed
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my eyes, and when I opened them, the black smoke
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had turned into the shape of a little girl. Oh no,
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for a second, she stood in front of the closet
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entrance and then started moving her way towards me. I
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didn't see her feet moving. Instead, I saw her floating.
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Her apparition was also glitching or moving in slow motion.
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I remember it all felt very slow. When she got
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close enough to me, a wave of fear overcame me
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and I shut my eyes to avoid seeing her up close.
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When I opened my eyes, she was gone. Years later,
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another aunt moved in there. She's been there for fifteen
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years now and has shared many paranormal experiences with us.
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Apparently a little girl haunts the apartment and is frequently
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heard and seen. Knowing this since shows down my spine.
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But at least I know I wasn't crazy when I
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saw her. That is so creepy, But also, yeah, that's
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like validation that you weren't crazy. You did see a
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little girl. Like, it's not just you, it's the whole family. Also,
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tell your aunt to send us her stories. Yeah please,
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wow that Yeah, that's that was creepy. Thank you so
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much for setting that in. Do you want to start? Yeah,
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let's get into these cryptids. So first up, we have
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a dire dan deo. Soo was first spotted in nineteen
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eighty one by an indigenous hunter named Ditson Sosa, who
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belonged to the Beemon tribe native to Venezuela. Theo is
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described as a cryptid cat with long things, maroon fur,
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large claws, and said to look like an extinct sabertooth tiger.
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The cryptid is known to be timid and mostly survives
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off eating danta, which is why the locals named it
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El Dio. It's like an ant eater. It says to pyrus,
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to pirris, to pirrus. Yeah, that's what it says. According
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to Sosa, he spotted the cryptid during the dry season
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in nineteen ninety one while on a three day hunting
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trip up the Carau River in Venezuela. Sos That claims
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the large cat was long thinged. The short tailed, unpatterned
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cat the size of a jaguar and emerged from a
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thicket to drink from a pool of water. The animal
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appeared stealthily and vanished cautiously. People who Sosa spoke to
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about his sighting were intrigued by what he saw and
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were determined to figure out what he saw. So one
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individual showed Sosa a photo of a samelodon, which is
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a sabertooth tiger, which Sosa said look like the animal
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he saw, which is impossible since that species of a
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tiger is extinct and last from the Earth about ten
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thousand years ago. Another sighting also happened just before nineteen
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ninety six, but it's unclear if it was an Ecuador
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or Columbia. The person who spotted the large cat like
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cryptid was a French traveler named Piquet. I feel like
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it's probably pronounced different, but I don't know Piquette, Piquet, Piquet.
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It's spelled p i c q u e t cut
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piquet anyway, Piquette who told? Peter? Who told? Peter Mathison,
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an American novelist, wilderness writer, and one time CIA agent.
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He told Peter that he spotted a large cat with
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large things and roaming the wilderness for a minute. Peter
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believed that perhaps Piquett might have spotted a prehistoric animal
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that has been instinct for several years, but then came
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to the conclusion that Piquett most likely confused a large
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creature with another animal. Cryptozoologists Gustavo Sanchez Rometo also heard
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similar stories from locals when he visited Venezuela's Kanaima National Park.
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Ometo passed on what he heard to fame the British
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zoologists and cryptozologist Carl Schucker, who was wary about believing
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the story he was told since he also knew that
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cybertooth tigers have long been extinct. According to Sugar, the
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only or chikar I don't know, remember what I said
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last time? Anyway, According to the Sky, the only way
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this type of animal could survive in South America is
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if perhaps it was a smaller version of the prehistoric
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animal that might be living in the remote mountains and
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cloudy areas of South America where they can come camouflage
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with its surroundings, which might be possible. In twenty seventeen,
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a resident of Madre de Diosperu named David Anahill told
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explorer Bill Gibbons that a large brown sabertooth cat was
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known to exist in the northern and central forests. You know,
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this could be encrypted, or this could be a scentant
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of a long time extinct sabertooth tiger. So yeah, and
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there's so much that we don't know. Yeah, like one
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hundred percent could be uh, I mean how many stories
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are there of like indigenous people seeing don't know what
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is it called? Like for some indigenous groups in like
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the North America region have stories like oral traditional stories
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that they have passed on of living with some not
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like you know, the dinosaurs dinosaurs, but some sort of dinosaur.
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And for the longest time, scientists were like, that's not possible.
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Humans and dinosaurs did not co exist. And then like
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two ish years ago, there was evidence that there was
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some indigenous groups that did coexist with some some sort
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of dinosaurs. Basically, oh really, yeah, wow, I never heard
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that new piece of science. Yeah. I came across it
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on TikTok Oh And it's real because I remember seeing
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indigenous creators were like, see, our people have said these
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stories forever, and now here's this scientific, scientific study that
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says this. So it's like, it's not that far fetched
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to me that there's a distant relative of a savor toooth. Yep,
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there and people are seeing it, but they don't know
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what they're seeing. So like this the cryptid interesting. Interesting.
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So our next cryptid is uku Mad. Have you heard
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of it? No? Okay? So eluku Mad is a giant
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humanoid cryptid known for terrorizing northern Argentina and Chile terrorist okay.
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The locals have nicknamed the cryptid uku Mad after its
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howls that allegedly sound like the creature is screaming. Ooh,
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I don't know, okay, I don't know how to say it.
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Please ooh ooh ooh, I don't know. Maybe it's uh
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uho okay or ooh ooh ooh ooh. Sorry sorry people, Yeah,
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we're sorry. The bear like humanoid has been described as
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being around five feet seven inches tall. Okay, short king,
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Yeah to me, that's tall to us anyone any Yeah
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that's to everyone else that's short, but yeah okay. So yeah,
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the uku Mad is like five feet seven inches tall
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with thick hair, small eyes. Okay, I was like, wow,
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thick care okay, as I say, thick hair, big little
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beady eyes. Okay, No, I don't like it anymore. Yeah, No,
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huge arms and legs and it's a local plant known
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as bayo to survive okay vegetarian. The ucu mad was
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first sighted in nineteen fifty eight by a group of
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campers in it Angle, Chile. Actually I don't know if
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it's it Angkole or dangle, but there it was there, Chile.
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The campers told authorities that they saw would look like
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a half man, half ape in the wilderness. Surprisingly, the
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authorities took the report seriously and sent police to investigate
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the area. One why You witness named Carlos Manuel Soto
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told police that he had seen a large man covered
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in hair well in the Cordilleras. Prior to this iowaness account,
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geologists found seventeen inch long human like footprints on the
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Argentine side of the Andes and in Las Alta, Argentina,
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in both nineteen fifty six in nineteen fifty seven, So
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seventeen inch human like footprints. That's like obviously over a
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foot well yeah foot, yeah, yeah, pretty big, pretty big.
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After the findings, Dolor Grande locals began to tell newspaper
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reporters that eerie sounds could be heard from the Kuruguru
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Mountains on a nightly basis. These noises caused many sleepless
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nights for many residents who believe the sounds were coming
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from the Ukumar. In twenty twenty two, the Argentine newspaper
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A Tribuno Salta conducted an interview with a Ba Kiano,
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who lives and works the land in El gardin Argentina,
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which is a rural area in the province of Santa
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and here's told reporters. I heard something walking closer towards me,
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and then from the corner of my eye, I saw
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a dark figure step out from behind the bushes. When
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I turned around to stare at it, it was only
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five meters away from me, and well, to be honest,
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I didn't know what to do. All I did was
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step behind a tree and point my weapon at it.
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I was trying to decide if I should shoot or not,
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so I stood there with my weapon pointing at it
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for a little while, when suddenly the creature started to
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retreat at the very moment that I had my weapon
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pointed at it. I was not scared, but after the
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interaction I was a bit shaken up and felt like
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something continued to follow me. I couldn't get the creature's
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image out of my mind. So I turned back again
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and there it was, but this time about fifty meters away.
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I didn't want to risk interacting with it, so I
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kept walking. It looked like a large animal, and it
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looked similar to a monkey, but at the same time
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it also looked like a human. It also had a
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lot of black fur, and it had colored eyes. Some
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people love that, yeah, shockingly, Damos claims he saw the
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creature three more times after that. Oh my god, it
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was It liked him, yeah, I guess, so he wanted
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to be seen by him well. And he also claimed
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to see the female version of the creatures. So he
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saw two of them. Oh there's more than one. I
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thought it okay, there's a boy and a girl, and
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then they fell in love. According to Ramost, the female
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Gumar looked a bit similar dinner and had lighter colored fur.
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Damo said he and a few others also went in
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search of the creatures a few years later after the
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initial sighting, and came across what looked like the creatures
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home hidden in caves in the mountains. He was never
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aggressive towards me, but I heard from other locals that
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at times he has been aggressive towards them. One time,
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I was fishing with a friend when we saw what
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looked like a dog sitting on a rock and that
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we were approaching by the water. As we got closer
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to it and instead began to look like a lion
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or a bear to me. Then all of a sudden,
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it stood up and I realized it was the ukuma.
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I warned my friend so he could be cautious, but
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he got startled and scared the creature off, who ran
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up the hill. We thought the coast was clear, but
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then the creature threw a big rock at my friend
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from the top of the mountain. It moved really fast.
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I was not expecting that, and then almost also said,
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I'm convinced the creature only bothers those who bother it.
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But if you leave it alone, it'll leave you alone.
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That sounds right. I was gonna before you said it
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through the rock, I was gonna say, see, it's more
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scared of us than we are of it. And then
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it threw the rock, and I was like, never mind,
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but the friend startled it so kind of the friends
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started it. True. True, you're right, You're right. When asked
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if he's open to seeing the creature again, Ramos told
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a reporter that, unlike other times, he would like to
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bring a camera with him next time he goes looking
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for the Yukumaar so he could stamp a picture of
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it and prove to everyone that it's real. And somehow
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that camera is just going to fail. Oh yeah, but yeah,
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that's it. That's the Oh my god. I don't say
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the cryptids like crap, the crap like damn at least
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like what you're reading. I am, what's going on? Those