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Dark Cast Network indie pods with the Dark Sign Lake
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Crescent located in the Olympic National Forest in the northwestern
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part of Washington State. The lake has a long history
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of tales and legends, but this true crime story of
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the Beloved Lady of the Lake is a tragic and
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bizarre case file on the already existing stack. Hallie Illingworth
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was a waitress working at the Lake Crescent Tavern. She
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was a Kentucky farm girl looking for a new beginning
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in the Evergreen State. She had married a man named
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Montgomery J. Illingworth, known casually as Monty, who was a
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beer truck driver and known.
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To be a ladies man.
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Their marriage was volatile, and just five months in a
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fight broke out that was so fierce the police had
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to be called to break it up. Unfortunately, Hallie went
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missing shortly before Christmas in nineteen thirty seven after she
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didn't show up for work. July sixth, nineteen forty, a
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few fishermen were out on Lake Crescent trying to get
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a bite from the local fish when they discovered something
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wild and gruesome on the surface of the lake near
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Sledgehammer Point. They found something wrapped in blankets floating on
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the top of the water. Inside those blankets, they would
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find the body of a faceless woman that had been
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hogtied prior to being placed in the blanket. It was
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unknown how long she had been there, but it was
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apparent the body itself had undergone a startling transformation. In
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a bizarre chemical transformation, the flesh had turned into a
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soap like substance that could be scooped away like ivory soap?
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Who was she? And how did this happen?
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Sub creeps and welcome to Creepy Confidential. Is Mothman really
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a supernatural force predicting impending doom? Did Apollo eleven really
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land on the moon in nineteen sixty nine? Did you
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find out if that was a cult that was living
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just two doors down that you waved to every single
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day when you got your mail. If these are the
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things you ponder when you should be sleeping, then I
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you're resident Weirdo Wisconsin. I open case files on my
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Some stories have.
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Been lost with time, others are perhaps still happening today
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in your local communities, right up under your very creepy noses.
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So get ready, creeps, it's Creepy Confidential. Before we get
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Silverbridge Coffee Company is truly a homegrown Ohio business. This awesome,
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woman owned and family run business has become one of
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the favorites around these parts and we have it on
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The founder started roasting beans in their home on a
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popcorn machine as a hobby, and according to their bio
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on their website, they would share samples with friends and
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family in Ohio.
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So in so many.
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Divisions its related to mothmaan now follow Now they're from Gallopolis,
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I hope I said that correct. It's a hop, skip
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and a jump from Point Pleasant and the company is
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named Silverbridge.
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I wonder if they did that intentionally.
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The Silverbridge right collapsed in Point Pleasant and.
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We all know who lives there. Mothman.
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Today's episode is including a feature for the blend Snow
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Angel Caramel, hazel Nut Vanilla and coconut. I enjoy non
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flavored coffee usually, but this one had coconut and hazel nut,
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and I had a delightfully paranormal experience while drinking this
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Hot or cold is good. Remember, Creeps, our coffees of
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back in the businesses that help make our daily lives
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better is important to us. Silverbridge Coffee dot com or
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here in Ohio where we are, I can find it
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in Kroger Meyer and Giant Eagle. It's as if the
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Great Mothman made our dreams come true.
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On that one.
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Another side note, The first time I spotted Silverbridge and
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tried it was at Oasis Coffee on the way to
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Hawking Hills. It's an absolute treasure, this little place off
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the side of the road that you'd have coffee flights.
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They are outstanding, a little sweet, but oh so fun.
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The little loft up above when you walk in, Chef's
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kiss for sitting in there and having a cup of Joe.
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Just another little shout out for a local spot. If
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you're around us. The link to Silverbridge will be on
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our socials and sites pinned to the top. Give this
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one a try. Creeps, they ship and they're local to
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hear in Ohio, so absolutely creeptastic.
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Now onto the show Subcreeps.
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Today's case file is one that caught my eye when
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I was the lead as a paranormal investigator in two
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thousand and eight. I was living in Silverdale, Washington and
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our team was researching local haunted locations. The Lady of
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the Lake is not your run of the mill murder investigation.
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As the creep Nation knows by now, when we cover
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true crime, it has to have a little extra, something odd.
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As the Great Molder once said, let's just say this
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case has a distinct smell to it, a certain paranormal bouquet.
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This case checks all the boxes murder, deceit, claims of
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a haunting, and of course, the scientific creepy cherry on
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the top of this case is the human remains that
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were discovered years later completely subpontified due to the perfect
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conditions of the gorgeous surroundings of Lake Crescent. So hold
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on to your hats, because this one is an interesting one.
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The serene Lake Crescent is located deep in the Olympic Peninsula,
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among the deep green and lush moss surroundings of the
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Olympic Mountains.
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It's postcard worthy.
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It's stunning, I'm telling you. And yet this place when
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you're there, and actually when you're hiking up in that area,
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I don't know who else might have been out there,
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but I'm telling you, it also has an eerie and
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haunting feeling, like when the sun's behind the clouds, it's chilly,
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and the misty rain covers everything in this kind of
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watery blanket. The lake itself has a presence when you
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approach it, and oddly, it has no smell of algae
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like an average lake. Like you walk up to your
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run of the lake, you can kind of smell it
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before you're at the edge.
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Of the lake.
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When you put your hands in the water of Lake Crescent,
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it's glacier cold, and it is crystal clear, no floaties, nothing,
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and it almost seems blue. And this is all caused
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by a lack of nitrogen in the water, which inhibits
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the growth of algae and other bacterias that we usually
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encounter at a normal lake. Now remember all that information
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for what is to come. Now to this day, the
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Great Natives claim that the lake is a living bee,
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and sometimes a malicious one. Local tails state that the
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column refuse to cross the glacier carved lake by canoe
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because evil spirits would snatch them to the icy depths.
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For years, the locals claim the lake actually had no
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bottom at all, and some even swore that they spotted
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sea monsters in the bright blue ripples. A piece of
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native legend states Lake Crescent was created by the god
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of Storm King. Angered by the fighting between the Clellum
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and the Quilli Hoot tribes, he hurled a boulder at them,
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killing the warriors. The lake is said to still hold
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the spirits of those souls, and that the lake will
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never let them go. Upon this discovery, it is apparent
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that Lake Crescent has an interesting long history, even before
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the tragic events of the Lady of the Lake. Halle
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Latham Illingworth was born in Kentucky January eighth, nineteen o one,
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to a hard working farm couple in Greenville, Kentucky. After
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two failed marriages, she had moved to the Olympic Peninsula
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about three years earlier. As a young adult, Hallie repeatedly
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moved west, searching for a better life. She ended up
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working at the Lake Crescent Tavern known now as the
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Lake Crescent Lodge and is still there to this day,
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by the way, and this is where she met Montgomery
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Jay Illingworth, known around town as Monty. He was a
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beer truck driver and a known ladies man.
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What I don't understand is what was what was the appeal?
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Why? Uh? Anyway?
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I just think about that part, you know, like people
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are getting bad relationships, I mean love bit in bad
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relationships with why if you.
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Know that, stay away?
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But the two met at the tavern and he would
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become her third husband in hopes that he would be
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the one. They were married June sixteenth, nineteen thirty six,
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and from the beginning the two had a volatile relationship.
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Five months into their marriage, the couple would get into
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a fight just before dawn that was so fierce that
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the police had to be called to break it up.
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Hallie shut up for work at the restaurant with bruises
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on her face and arms and sometimes even black eyes. Then,
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shortly before Christmas in nineteen thirty seven, she suddenly went missing.
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She didn't show up for her shift at work, and
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no one heard from her. He had told friends and
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family that she had run off with another man, but
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months went by where her family had not heard from
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her nor seen her. Monty doubled down and stated she
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was indeed still alive, and gave a date of when
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he had supposedly seen her last. Apparently unbothered by his
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wife's disappearance, he packed up and moved to Long Beach, California,
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with a woman named Eleanor Pearson, who just happened to
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be the daughter of a very wealthy timber magnet, which
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was and is a big business up in that area.
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He had met her in Poor Angelis and reportedly he
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was seeing her romantically prior.
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To Hallie's disappearance.
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With all that, he even filed for divorce, and as
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if the circumstances weren't suspicious already, he stated incompatibility on
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the divorce papers, not desertion. Almost three years had gone
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by when on July sixth, nineteen forty two men were
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fishing near Sledgehammer Point when they noticed something large and
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oddly shaped floating on the surface. They would find a
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gruesome discovery. The large floating object was blankets, and inside
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of those blankets were the.
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Remains of a woman.
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She had been hogtied with heavy rope, and it was
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apparent she had been strangled. The corpse was wearing a
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green wool dress, undergarments and silk stockings. The most startling
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part of this discovery of the woman's body was the
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actual condition of her body. Her date and time of
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death was unknown. However, the body had undergone a bizarre transformation.
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The entirety of her flesh had turned into a soap
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like substance that could be literally scooped away like putty.
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Her body was taken into Port Angelis, where a young
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medical student named Harlan McNutt examined the body. He noted
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on his exam that the upper part of the face,
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upper lip, and nose were gone. Her hands had been
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exposed in the water, so the tips of the fingers
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were gone. There was no way to get fingerprints and
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no way to tell what this poor woman had originally