[ there's a momentary pause before dipper answers, because as well-intentioned as yu seems to be, the ever-present, nagging mantra of "trust no one" runs in the back of dipper's mind and reminds him not to say too much to someone he just met. he doesn't know anything about this guy, after all. and while knowing the things dipper did back home wouldn't prove as useful here, he'd still rather be cautious with his secrets. ]

We were staying in a small town in Oregon over the summer with our great uncle, and it turned out a looooot of really, really weird phenomena went on there. We've really run the gamut. Gnomes, dinosaurs, bottomless pits, zombies, ghosts, sentient video games, time travel...to name a few.