Tonight, I'm going to share one of the most credible alien abduction stories ever.

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notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into tonight's story. Around 3.30 p.m. on October 25th, 1974, a 41-year-old man named Carl Higden drove his work truck along a paved road in the Medicine Bow National Forest, which was this huge nature preserve in southern Wyoming.

Carl had taken off early from his job on an oil rig to go elk hunting in this

preserve, and now he was heading towards this very specific area in the national forest called

McMarty Canyon that he had heard was really good for elk hunting. As Carl drove, he found himself

looking around at the evergreen trees and the snow-capped mountains in the distance,

and he just felt this total sense of calm come over him. He was a very rugged outdoorsman,

and there was really nothing he loved more than spending time out in nature all along.

And so for a little while, he was just enjoying himself, driving along until eventually the paved road he was on gave way to this long rocky trail.

And Carl, he didn't want to damage the truck he was driving since it actually belonged to the company he worked for.

So he wound up pulling over and getting out, and then he just grabbed all his stuff, and continued walking on the trail by foot.

The hike along this trail was not only pretty rocky and rough, but it was also predominantly uphill,

and so it didn't take long before Carl was having trouble breathing.

And not just because it was physically taxing, but also because when he was younger, he had tuberculosis, which had left

his lungs really riddled with scar tissue that did make it harder to breathe, especially when he

was exerting himself. But, you know, Carl continued on, and every few minutes, he would just

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