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While the military is a mixing pot of different personality types, it should be no surprise

that many of the men who serve are the

rough and rugged types, the kind of guys who would rather spend their weekends out in the woods

than doing anything else. One of the reasons people in the military seem to bump into,

shall we say, odd things, is because they are often deployed to places where civilized people

don't tend to go. But even places back home in the U.S. are just as remote. The Appalachian Mountains,

for instance. I once saw a map of all the locations where people have gone missing in the United

States, and overlaid on top of that map

was another kind of map, a map of all the cave systems in the U.S. Both pieces of information

seem to coincide, the location of the cave systems and missing persons. Maybe some people

just got hurt and couldn't get themselves back out. Or maybe, the map clearly

implies, it was some thing that hurt them. What you're about to hear are two stories from two

veterans. One, a Marine who served in Iraq, the other who served during the 1980s and was possibly a soldier,

although his branch of service was not stated. Both of these men grew up in the woods,

and both of these men, after encountering something terrifying, say that they don't enjoy the woods

like they used to.

These are true stories of two veterans who believe that they were maliciously stalked and hunted by something massive that could mimic the sounds of other animals.

The I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories. Oh wait

That's the oldest trick in the book

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