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my skin crept ("(...) zoologist, John MacKinnon. In 1970, while on Borneo he stumbled upon a series of unusual, small, human-like footprints. He said: "I stopped dead. My skin crept and I felt a strong desire to head home…farther ahead I saw tracks and went to examine them. I found two dozen footprints in all. I was uneasy when I found them, and I didn't want to follow them and find out what was at the end of the trail. I knew that no animal we know about could make those tracks."  mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver); sent shivers up one's spine (мурашки бегают <забегали, побежали, поползли, пошли> по спине <по коже, по телу> мурашки бегают по спине от волнения, от страха ... По спине мурашки забегали. (А. Чехов.): And in 1933, the Inverness Courier published the terrifying account of a couple named Aldie and John Mackay who’d been driving along Loch Ness in the April of that year. It's enough to send shivers up your spine... entrepreneur.com ART Vancouver); give sb. goosebumps (Kolbaba related stories of incredible coincidences, such as a doctor who specialized in microsurgery in order to attach severed limbs. He arrived by chance at a hospital just in time to save the hands of a woman who was the granddaughter of a man who had coincidentally and unknowingly kept the surgeon from possibly committing suicide. The woman was later able to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. (...) When writing his book, Kolbaba said he chose "the stories that gave me goosebumps or made me cry." coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
