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Miles from shore, alone in an ice fishing hut during
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a snow storm. He woke to something knocking at the door.
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Then the walls started pounding from every side, and by
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morning the snow outside held tracks that made even less
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sense than the night before. What's that you want to
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be scared? He Come with me. You will experience tales
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over our room, ghosts and death own. It is not
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recommended for the week at art listeners in the dark,
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It's more fun at that way way. This is Weekly Speaking,
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Hello my Spookyes, it's Wednesday, and you know what that means.
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It's time for a little spooky in your weekly, and
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tonight we have a brand new author making his Weekly
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Spooky debut, Gary d Up in Toronto. But before we
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get to that, I want to mention I'll be making
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some appearances around Ohio in case you want to meet
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me in person, although I'm not as scary in real life.
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I'll be at the Cinema Wasteland Convention in Cleveland, Ohio,
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April tenth through twelfth. You can do a little googling
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to find the place, but I'll be there all weekend.
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Come by and say hi, maybe even buy a movie.
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That'd be nice, And the following weekend on April eighteenth
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and nineteenth, I'll be at the Oddities and Curiosities Expo
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in Columbus, Ohio. I'll be a guest of Terror Vision
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Records and Graveface Records. And by the way, several of
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you Spooky's actually discovered this show because you met me
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at the Oddities and Curiosities Expo. It's a place just
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maggoty with Spooky. So if you get a chance, please
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stop on buy say hey, I'd love to see it.
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get two bonus episodes for your trouble. But now, as
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for tonight, there are some sounds that should never reach
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you when you're completely alone, not when you're trapped inside
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a tiny shack on a frozen lake, not when the
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wind is howling, the snow is piling up and the
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nearest safe place is miles away. Because if something knocks
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on your door out there in the middle of the night,
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you really have to wonder what could possibly be standing
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on the other side, And do you really want to
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find out Knock knock? By Gary d Up in Ontario.
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Hi there. My name's Gary and I'm located in Ontario, Canada,
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and I've been an avid fisherman as well as salesmen
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of various different things for many years now. And with
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that being said, that doesn't mean that I'm now going
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to try to sell you on this story that I'm
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about to tell you, as I'm sure that after hearing it,
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there will likely be a few of you who will
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tell me that you're not buying what I'm selling. Hey,
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that's totally okay and fine by me, because in the end,
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all that really matters is that I know that it happened,
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and I'm the one still having to deal with the
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after effects. And as you're gonna find out shortly, it's
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not like I'm claiming to have seen a ten foot
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tall fire breathing three headed demon with glowing red eyes
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and antlers sprouting out from the sides of its head.
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But what I did experience that night was every bit
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as freaky, bizarre and disturbing, and yes, it scared the
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crap out of me. Bottom line being that some experiences
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are just far, far stranger than others, and this is
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definitely one of them. So, without further ado, let's get
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into my story. Back when I was a teenager and
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pretty much throughout my twenties and thirties, I was quite
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the avid fisherman. I fished throughout the spring, summer and fall,
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but also did my fair share of fishing through the
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ice during winter. Over the years, I rented ice fishing
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huts on many different frozen lakes all across Ontario, including
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some with names like Temegami, Nipissing, Jumping Caribou Cross in Simcoe,
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And to be honest with you, it was really more
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about the journey than it was about the destination. There
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was just something about sitting all alone in a remote
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location somewhere and then being forced to deal with nothing
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but your own thoughts that I found kind of therapeutic.
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And if I caught fish, which I usually did, that
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was secondary and a bonus or cherry on top. And
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as luck would have it, it was late one night
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on one of these midwinter ice fishing excursions when the
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only frigid ice water flowing wasn't located just below the
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ice under my feet, but was also trickling down the
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center of my spine. I'd rented a six by six
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by six foot tall at its highest peak fish hut
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also known as an ice hut or ice shanty from
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a small time hut rental operator located on a sizeable
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lake up here in Ontario. This guy, Tyler, had four
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of his huts set up in the shallows for those
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fishermen targeting northern pike and yellow perch, and then I
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think there were like another four huts located about five
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miles out in about sixty to seventy feet of water
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for those wanting to catch the deeper dwelling lake trout
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and whitefish. With regards to the fish hut itself, it
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had a good sized propane tanks wrapped and mounted firmly
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to the outside wall, with copper piping feeding it into
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the hut then connecting to a small heater which was
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there to keep me warm. So basically there to potentially
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keep me from freezing to death. I gotta say the
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accommodation was pretty crappy, with there just being two wide
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and very hard wooden planks, one located on each side,
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which were covered with a very thin and barely padded
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kind of cheap pleather material, which I'm guessing was there
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to make it waterproof. And last, but not least, of course,
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there was a large exposed hole which had been drilled
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in the ice right between the two benches. And yeah,
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I know what you're thinking. Yes, it was uncomfortable as hell,
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especially if you're going to be sitting there in that
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same damn spot for over fourteen hours straight. Shit, that's
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longer than it takes to fly the five thousand miles
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from JFK in New York to Honolulu, Hawaii. Anyway, on
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this particular ice fishing trip, I was gonna be fishing
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all alone, and on top of that, I was going
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to be pulling an all nighter. That meant being dropped
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off at my hut by snowmobile at around four thirty
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or so in the afternoon and then not being picked
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up again until about seven the next morning. Yeah. I
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know some of you are probably rolling your eyes right now,
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as you're sitting in your car, a bus, the subway,
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a plane or a train, or maybe even just sitting
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in your favorite chair at home or laying in bed,
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you're probably thinking out loud, are you freaking out of
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your mind? Dude? Why the hell would you even do that? Actually,
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it's just another humans idea of having fun. But you
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won't find me out there bungee jumping, hang gliding, or
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climbing a mountain just because it's there. We all have
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our vices, hobbies and addictions, and this just happens to
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be mine. So once I got dropped off at my hut,
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Tyler then double checked the propane tank to make sure
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it was full, and he also checked my heater just
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to ensure that it was working. He then loaded me
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up with a bucket of live minnows to use his bait,
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wished me luck, jumped back on his snowmobile, and then
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headed back to shore. What he did tell me though,
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just before leaving, which honestly kind of freaked me out
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at least a bit, was that, as far as he knew,
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I was going to be the only one fishing out
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here in this small cluster of deep water fish huts tonight,
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so I would be truly out here all alone. I
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shut the door and slid the bolt across to locket,
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and then got down to business getting all my gear
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ready for fishing, as I heard the sound of Tyler's
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snowmobile getting quieter and quieter as he headed back into shore.
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Once I settled in, over the next few hours, I
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caught a few fish, ate a sandwich, had a drink,
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not alcoholic, and then just kinda laid back to try
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and get some sleep. And over time I could hear
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the wind really picking up outside, blowing stronger and stronger.
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So I popped open the front door for a second
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and saw that it was snowing really hard. Great, I
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was now in the middle of a bloody snowstorm. I'd
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probably knotted off for maybe like an hour and a
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half or so when I suddenly heard this on the
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side of the hut, which made me jump straight up
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out of my sleep. My heart was pounding like a jackhammer.
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I figured, because of the high winds, a random piece
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of ice probably just slammed up against the wall, and
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then a few minutes later another loud thud, and then
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another and another. It must have happened at least a
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couple dozen times, and literally sounded like it was hailing
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golf balls outside, and I'm thinking to myself, like, what
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the actual fuck? I looked at my watch and saw
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that it was after midnight. I drank from my bottle
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of water, and then just sat there listening to the
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howling of the crazy wind outside, which sounded a lot
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like a runaway freight train would one that was heading
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straight to hell. And just as I was starting to
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fall asleep again, I hear another thud, but this time
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it was much much louder. Just the sheer shock of
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hearing this super loud bang, I felt like my heart
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had suddenly hit the ejector seat button and had shot
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itself up into my throat. I can't remember exactly how
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long it was quiet after that, meaning only hearing the
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sound of the raging winds and snow storm outside, before
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the shit decided to really hit the fan. At some point,
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as I sat there, just kind of all dopey and
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half asleep, and amidst all of the howling wind, the
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weirdest thing happened rhythmically and methodically. I heard, plain as day,
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a slow and loud knock knock knock at my door.
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What the hell? I look at my watch again and
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see that it's now like to thirty in the morning.
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I yell out, Hello, Hello, who is it? I get
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no reply. My heart's racing, and I'm thinking to myself, Okay,
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I'm sitting here all alone, in the pitch dark, in
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the middle of the night, in this tiny little wooden
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ice shack, like five miles out from shore and in
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the middle of a frozen lake. And now suddenly, randomly,
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there's somebody knocking on my front door. Really so not
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thirty seconds after that first knock, I hear it again,
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that slow metronome like knock, knock, knock, This time, stupidly,
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I opened the door a tiny bit to take a
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look and scream at the top of my lungs, who
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is it, who's out there? What do you want? At
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this point, my head is spinning, just trying to make
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sense of what's going on. But then a possible explanation
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suddenly pops inside my head. I'm thinking, okay, maybe because
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of this terrible snowstorm and knowing that I'm sitting out
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here all alone, Tyler got worried about me, so he
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came out here to pick me up and bring me
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safely back to shore. Then suddenly again I hear that
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same rhythmic knock, knock, knock, So I slide the door
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lock across and open it just a crack and yell
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Tyler is that you. No response again, Tyler is that
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you out there? Nothing? And then I realize I don't
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see a snowmobile anywhere near the front of the hut,
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so I quickly shut the door and relock it. And
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now I've completely lost it psychologically. I'm basically shitting my
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pants in panic mode, wondering what the fuck is actually
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going on. For like maybe the next twenty minutes or so,
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the knocking stops, and I'm finally able to enjoy some peace.
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But then, completely out of the blue, I suddenly hear
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a crazy barrage of very loud, irregular knocking sounds coming
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from all four walls of my hut. It's like a
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group of escaped lunatics from a nearby asylum is playing
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the fist and knuckle bongos together on the walls of
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my hut at the same time. Come on, I try
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to look out my tiny plexiglass window, but it's completely
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fogged over with condensation because of how freezing cold it
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is outside compared to how warm it is in the hut.
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I quickly wipe it away, but then I see that
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the outside of the window is completely caked with snow
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from that wicked snowstorm going on. The sporadic, staccato type
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hammering just continues on and on, and the psychological stress
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is making me feel like both my heart and head
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are about to explode. I scream as loud as I
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possibly can, Who the fuck are you and what the
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fuck do you want? Please let me alone. This does nothing,
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no response, and the knocking seems to be getting louder.
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This is so screwed up. None of this makes any sense.
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The knock knocking on my hut continues for like I
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don't know, at least a minute or two, when all
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of a sudden, just like that, it completely stops. And
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now all I can hear is the loud, howling wind
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and my fast, heavy breathing. I sit slouched over with
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my head in my hands and look down at my
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watch to see it's now almost three point thirty in
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the morning. I've barely gotten any sleep, and at this
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point my heart's racing and pounding in my chest so