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5 min readThe creature that stole the deer from the Georgia woods was tall, pale, and skeletal, with claws long enough to drag a full-grown buck. The 14-year-old narrator saw it through a window at 3:30 AM, standing outside the hunting lodge where she and her cousins were staying. She had been woken by the sound of something heavy being dragged through the leaves, accompanied by the smell of rotting meat—the same smell she had encountered earlier that day at a taxidermy shop, where the owner had mentioned that something in the forest was "getting" the animals. The episode collects four first-person accounts of encounters with things that do not fit into any known category of animal or human, each one building a case that the world contains predators we are not meant to understand.
The Georgia Woods and the Thing That Takes Deer
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:39) **Something's Getting Them** - A 14-year-old girl recalls a hunting trip to her uncle's remote Georgia lodge, where the family is warned not to go outside after dark.
- 2 (15:31) **The Hunt and the Confrontation** - The creature steals a freshly killed buck, confirming it is real, and later taps at the window, forcing the family to flee.
- 3 (22:29) **The Ligre Family** - A man in a small German village finds a family of four horrifically mutilated in their car, killed by an unknown creature.
- 4 (35:26) **I Still Think About My Unborn Brother** - A skeptical teenager is confronted by a girl who claims to see ghosts and reveals a secret about his family he never told anyone.
- 5 (40:31) **Sleep Paralysis and the Churchyard** - After seeing a child in a churchyard at midnight, the narrator experiences a terrifying sleep paralysis episode involving a strange boy.
- 6 (45:02) **You Can't Escape Death** - A group of teenagers goes camping at an abandoned mental hospital, where they encounter faceless, naked figures that stalk them through the night.
- 7 (57:14) **What I Thought Was Another Night at the Shop** - A mechanic working late at his shop is stalked by a creature that destroys his car and forces him to hide in a crate.
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Show Notes
A family stays at their Uncle's for a little hunting staycation. But they soon discover they're not the only ones hunting, or being hunted, out there.
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