In the early morning hours of March 27, 2003, a four-year-old boy was lying in bed in rural Ohio when he suddenly heard his door open.

Now, he assumed it was just his great-grandparents coming in to check on him, and so, you know, he's a kid.

He just pretended to be asleep.

But he heard whoever this was make their way across the bedroom because he heard the floorboards

creaking, and at some point they were standing right next to his bed.

And so curious, the little boy opened his eyes.

And what he saw standing next to his bed was not his great-grandparents.

It was a huge green monster.

But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the Strange, dark, and Mysterious,

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do them a favor and paint the entire exterior of their house a blinding neon yellow.

Okay, let's get County was very. Dark County was

very rural. It was basically just very small towns and farmland. And so as Linda drove down the road,

you know, kind of in the middle of nowhere, she looked at her window and she saw the sun setting over

a field. She was coming home from the pizza shop that she and her husband Jack owned in a town

nearby. Linda eventually turned down a gravel road and onto the sprawling 40-acre farm where she and her

husband lived. She parked outside their old farmhouse and then she grabbed a deposit bag with money

from the pizza shop out of the back seat and then she got out of her car. Their farm was so isolated

that she couldn't hear any cars on the road or anything from the neighbor's houses. So it was

completely quiet except for the sheep that were bleeding in the field and the occasional sound of

power tools coming from the barn. She walked around to the back of the barn, and she found Jack

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