Thank you for joining me and welcome to Paranormal Mysteries. It's great to be back.

I'm your host, Nick Ryan. On tonight's episode, I'll be taking a look at a Hunter's encounter

with a bizarre creature, odd experiences in the forests of Michigan, and much, much more.

But before we start tonight's show, I want to thank John, Clay, Wanda, Rebecca, Slopman,

Mike, and Kayla for their support and generosity. Whether following and sharing the podcast or donating

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And with that in mind, tonight's first encounter comes to us from Kelly.

Kelly says, I just recently found your podcast and thought, what the hell, why not?

So many paranormal stories from random socks being thrown across my bedroom when I was 10,

up to my hairbrush standing up by itself in the bathroom at age 22.

I've been followed by this thing. I don't even know what it is for God only knows how long.

I guess things started at the Bond Falls camping trip, so let's turn back time almost 16 years ago

when I was 10 years old. My mom met this guy a year or two before. He was really awesome,

a truck driver. He got me whatever I wanted. I didn't even know what Derek Queen was when he met us.

He had a particularly large family, but his nieces and nephews were my age, so it all worked out

pretty well. Well, one weekend he had a family reunion-type camping trip that we were going on at

Bond Falls in Michigan. It was a secluded camp with a private beach area, and they rented out four

or five sites, and the other two or three sites were not in use. Well, all the adults decided to go

to the store about 10 minutes up the road for a beer trip, and they left my mom another girl with a

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