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"It smelled really bad, and this is one of the details everyone always mentions when asked about it. It’s really terrifying as a kid to hear about it."
I received the following account:
"Hi. I’m from the Jones’s Chapel area in Cullman, Alabama. While growing up, my family and our neighbors swore there was a creature called the Black Thing: a man-like creature covered in hair with long arms. It would whistle and approach my mom and her siblings. I’ve seen pictures of its footprints and heard something howl loudly as a kid. My dad and a few other people who married into our family swear they have also seen it. Some of them have divorced my family members (including my dad from my mom). They still insist it exists, so it’s not just some family jokes the older people play on the kids (why would you continue telling a lie as part of a family legend when you’re no longer part of the family?).
I’m 36 now. Even one of my uncles on my dad’s side said he saw it when he was with my dad one day. I’m at the age where I could be told the truth if it were some kind of joke played on my younger cousins.
Different people have told the same story and got all the details right, like a camping trip where it appeared or a day spent working in the garden when it tried to snatch one of my aunts as a child. One story involves a sleepover where my mom and her friends heard something at the window, scratching and whistling. They thought it was my uncle playing a joke, but he came into the room when everyone started screaming, as my mother tells it.
They think it learned to whistle because my grandpa was always whistling around his farm, trying to lure one of my aunts or uncles away.
It smelled really bad, and this is one of the details everyone always mentions when asked about it. It’s really terrifying as a kid to hear about it.
People have come from all over the country to hunt it and have found footprints and long, coarse hair on trails." Z
NOTE: I'm familiar with the Alabama 'White Thang,' but this is the first time that I heard of the 'Black Thing." Lon
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