The President

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You. The Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us.

I am your guide, Derek Hayes.

And I'd like to welcome everyone to a very special holiday episode of Monsters Among Us,

sponsored by the thrilling new podcast, Blood Ties. But more on that in a little while. Before we get too far into this, I want to drop a warning

to parents out there. One particular call may give away a holiday spoiler. You may not be ready to disclose.

I'll give you a heads up before I play that call, but use your discretion.

So to kick this thing off, we're going to start out on a cold December day in the Houston, Texas area.

The following was submitted by Chris in the state of Texas.

Hi, this is Chris in Houston, and I have a story about an encounter I had with shadow people while I was living in Sealy, Texas.

It was the winter of 95, I believe it was December, and it was really windy outside.

I was 17 years old, and I smoked at the time.

Yeah, I know bad habit, but I had walked outside to go and have a cigarette.

And I put this, and I went to light up the cigarette, and when it's windy, you kind of lean down in order to light it so that the wind doesn't hit, doesn't blow out the flames from the lighter.

And when I bent down to light the cigarette, I lit it up, and I looked up, and there was a shadow figure that charged me.

Like, it was really fast.

As a matter of fact, it was so fast, I saw it.

It was in my face.

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