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  • 8/24/2024
Jud Crandall recounts the chilling story of Tim Baterman, who was returned dead from Vietnam, and then returned from the | dG1fY1Z5X2pYcTJ5LVU
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00:00Some of the older folks around here, they can tell you the story about that Baterman boy.
00:15Went by Tim by the time things got real bad. Oh, we always knew him as Timmy.
00:25Got himself drafted for Vietnam.
00:34Timmy didn't last too long in those jungles.
00:39That war, it was chewing through our men fast.
00:44They'd sent little Timmy back in a pinewood box before the spring snow melted off.
00:51Two weeks later, I see Timmy Baterman walking up Bear Creek Road.
00:57I almost crashed my truck right into the fence. I was rubbernecking so hard.
01:03It was him. Clear as day.
01:08Same damn Timmy half the town came out to pay respects to if they put him in the ground.
01:15Yeah, I knew what his daddy Bill had done. We all saw how broke up he was from the news.
01:26We knew about that place back in the woods.
01:34Even if we swore never to talk about it out loud, no matter how much we talked about it,
01:41even if we swore never to talk about it out loud,
01:45no matter how hard Bill and Mary tried to keep their boy locked up, Timmy liked to walk.
01:54And if you talked to him, well, he'd answer you, just not necessarily the things you wanted to hear.
02:02Timmy knew stuff, all the stuff people wanted to hide, and it started to break the town apart.
02:11He could just look at you and see everything bad inside. What's more is, he enjoyed it.
02:25Not long after that, the Bedouin house caught fire and burned down.
02:35They found the whole family inside.
02:40Coroner said the heat was so bad it was hard to identify the bodies. And one of them
02:48appeared to have been dead for almost a month.
02:52And that was the Bedouins.

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