This episode is brought to you by my newest supporters, Gail and Mark.

Thank you for making the show possible.

When I uploaded my very first episode on May 6th of 2017, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

I just knew that I wanted to share the unexplained with a larger audience than just my family and friends, but I could have never imagined that

after seven years I'd still be here.

And I definitely never expected to be creating my 400th episode.

But here we are. And it's all been made possible because of you.

So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. The first time it happened I was sleeping and woke up because I felt a hand on my leg and I realized that I couldn't move.

And he come across this object on the ground,

which was the shape of a flying saucer.

So he jumped out of his pickup and went down there,

and there was four beings laying on the ground.

When I raised my head back up, I was turning my head and out of my peripheral vision, I seen something hop to a tree.

And it was tall, about 7 8 foot tall, and it was black, real hairy, like a gorilla. A couple of days ago I asked my Patreon members what their favorite

episodes were from the past seven years and many of you mentioned the Black-Eyed

kids as well as my from the forest series. So tonight I'd like to

revisit these topics and share some new experiences that I've come across and I'd

like to begin with the phenomenon of the black-eyed children.

I first covered the black-eyed kids or be-e-Ks in my third episode in May of 2017,

when I discussed what many people believed to be the origin story.

As you may remember, the subject was brought more prominently into the public eye,

when in 1998, a reporter in Abilene, Texas by the name of Brian Bethel,

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