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Hey, Hey folks, good evening and welcome to Phantoms of Monsters Radio, where the veil between the known and the unknown
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is lifted one story at a time. I welcome you and all our listeners as well as the
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first timers in the chat. I u I hope that you find tonight's subject and
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reports interesting. Now, uh, the Appalachian Mountains, long
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veiled in mystery and folklore, have once again delivered a chilling bounty of unexplained encounters. From the deep
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howls of Kentucky to the misty ridges of North Georgia and the wilds of western
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North Carolina, these recent and historical witness
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eyewitness reports stitched together a patchwork of terror, primal awe, and
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ancient whispers. Locals and longtime residents, many deeply rooted in the region for
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generations, are speaking out about what they've seen, felt, and feared.
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Among the reports are chilling descriptions of upright wolf-like beings, pale gray humanoids with
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unnatural cadence and behavior and massive white furred creatures
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resembling a crypted Sasquatch. In multiple accounts, glowing yellow
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eyes pierce the darkness and the sounds of babies crying or guttural humanlike
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screams lure the unsuspecting into dangerous territory. These aren't just
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isolated tales. Multiple witnesses, sometimes years apart, describe nearly
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identical experiences, suggesting a persistent, possibly interdimensional
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presence. One story centers around a family picnic
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interrupted by a bipeedal whiteird creature seen hurling tree limbs in
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frustration. Another follows a retired teacher who repeatedly en encountered a
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massive black panther accompanied by a kitten creatures denied by wildlife
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officials baked the native lore. Other reports involve battling uh vanishing
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cattle, strange power draining zones in areas so heavy with dread that seasoned
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hunters and outdoorsmen refuse to return. These aren't the tales of thrillseeking
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adventures or out of town or spooked by backcountry sounds. These are the
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confessions of rural families, local government officials, hunters, and children who have grown up side by side
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with the forest. And many of them now believe they've glimpsed the side of Appalachia that's not only ancient, but
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to become a Phantoms Monsters Insider today. Now, the first account, the witness
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states, "These two incidents occurred nearly a decade apart, and for obvious reasons, I cannot guarantee they are
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related. However, it seems reasonable to at least entertain that idea."
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The first story takes place at my cousin's trailer a few houses down from mine. We live in a rural town at the
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foot of the Appalachia Mountains in southwest Virginia, surrounded by plenty of forest. One night, we were playing
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hideand seek and everything was going well until I tagged my cousin, making him the seeker. He hated seeking, so
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instead of playing the game, he decided to quit and sit on the front porch. It was around midnight, maybe a bit
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earlier, and and naturally, it was pitch black outside, perfect for scaring someone.
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My cousin's friend, my brother, and I devised a plan to get revenge on my cousin for being a sore loser. We
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decided to lure him to the edge of the forest where my brother would jump out at him. A very simple plan for a couple
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of dumb 13 years olds, but we were deter determined.
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We managed to convince my cousin that noises were coming from the woods. So, he reluctantly joined us in the
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investigation. I mean, joined us to investigate. As we walked along the edge of the
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forest, I noticed something moving inside and my cousin's friend and I exchanged grins, thinking it was my
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brother. Then, out of nowhere, my brother burst the side of my cousin's trailer,
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screaming and roaring, sending us all in a panic. He got us so good that we completely
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forgot about the noise coming from the forest, which could no longer be attributed to him.
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As we were laughing about the scare, we suddenly heard a horrifying noise coming from the depths of the forest behind us.
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It sounded like a man screaming for help. The pitch gradually changed, and to this day, I swear it said, "Help."
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After about 5 seconds of those humanlike screams, it transformed into the most guttural roar I've ever heard. It was
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chilling. We ran inside and my cousin opened the blinds to the window. It was
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then that we noticed the haunting sight of a full moon shouting above us. Yes,
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we couldn't figure out what we could have made what could have made that noise. Now, there are farms around. It
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could have been a cow make being attacked by coyus or something else typical of rural America.
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But I've never heard anything like this before or since. Now, jump forward about nine years to 2013.
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One late night while driving home from work, I spotted two bright orange eyes peering at me from the side of the dark
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road. I thought it might have been a fox or a dog, but as I got closer, I realized it was no average fox or dog.
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It was a massive wolflike creature. This animal was so tall on all fours that it
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seemed almost as tall as my car. Its back legs were long and muscular, almost
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kangaroo like, while the front legs were short and thin. It dashed across the road in front of my car, jumping the
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fence to the left of the road with incredible ease. When I got home, I casually told my family that I had
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finally seen the werewolf that made that noise so many years ago. I don't necessarily believe that it's an actual
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werewolf, but I can't honestly say that it isn't. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy these strange stories. keeping
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keen eye out on the full moon nights.
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Now, this next account, the witness states, "This was back in the days when cars are a luxury few could afford in
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the Appalachian region of North Georgia. My greatgrandfather's friend was
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relatively well off by the standards of the time and owned a horse. One hot summer day, we decided to ride
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his horse along the lonely stretch of state highway that cut through the countryside.
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The road divided an old farm property in half. On the left side stood a barn, and
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on the right side was an old farmhouse that had been abandoned for several years. Surrounding the property were
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tall, swinging cornfields. As he approached the farmhouse, he suddenly felt an eerie sense of unease,
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but didn't think much of it until he heard a baby crying from inside the house.
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There was no car in the driveway, no open door, and no lights on. He wondered if the crying baby indicated that
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someone, a young mother on the run, or perhaps a kidnapper, was hiding inside. Concerned, he rode his horse up to the
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driveway, tied it off, and walked up the walkway toward the front door.
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He was halfway to the house when the crying abruptly stopped. He paused and just as he did, the sound started again,
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but this time it was coming from the barn. Assuming it was just the wind, he retraced his steps and headed back
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across the highway, leaving his horse behind as he made his way through the corn toward the barn. As he was about
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halfway there, he glanced up and saw nothing unusual inside. But just then, the crying stopped again. Moments later,
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it resumed. this time coming from the house. In a sudden burst of fear, he rushed
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back through the corn to his horse. He was acting agitated, nighing, and stomping, which was unlike the gentle
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older horse. My great-grandfather's friend later told my grandfather that it was the only time in the horse's life
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that he had the spirit to gallop away, and it did so without any further coaxing.
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Now, this next account, the witness states, "When I was in seventh grade in Eastern Tennessee, I was outside with my
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dog, lying on a dirt mountain, watching the clouds to pass the time. It was
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around 5:30 p.m. when my dog started barking and pulling at her leash. We
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lived in the countryside, surrounded by woods on one side of our house. I tried to call my beagle, but she kept
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insisting. I stood up and looked in the direction she was focused on and said, "Look, there isn't anything there." As I
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spoke, a large black creature with a canned body sprinted out of the woods.
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The creature had thin fur that was so black it appeared to have pearlescent hue to it with almost a purple tint. Its
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eyes were mid-shade of yellow. The creature's legs were crooked backward and its hands were long and slender. It
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stood about 7 feet tall on its highind legs. Then it dropped to all fours. Its back had an aggressive hunch, yet it
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moved with fluid grace. Every step seemed pre-calculated. As it sprinted,
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it tilted its head toward me as if aware of my presence, but indifferent to it.
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Then, without much effort, it jumped over a 4-foot cattle fence. Now, as a senior in high school, I had
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another experience. Just last summer, I was working with my with my father in
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his shed where he worked on motors and various projects. I had left my phone
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inside, and since my friend was staying the night, we headed back down to the shed to retrieve it. It was around 1000
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p.m. pitch black in the same time of year as my previous encounter. While standing outside the front of the
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shed, trying to fit the key into the keyhole, we heard a rustling sound coming from the brush in the woods. It
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was faint, resembling the sound of a breeze moving through the leaves.
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Both my friend and I heard it, so we turned our flashlights toward the bush, wanted to see the pitch black shape
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standing among the light foliage. The yellow eyes haunt me every time I
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recall that moment. My friend said, "You see that right?" At that point, I had already started sprinting towards the
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house. Seeing that creature and realizing was just watching us completely shattered my
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composure. It was so silent. I had a mental breakdown as soon as I stepped inside the house. I've never reacted so
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intensely to anything before. From then on, every time I went into the woods, I felt as if something was watching me. I
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know this sounds crazy and I understand that people don't believe me. It's been difficult to share this experience and
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this is the first time I've ever tried to reach out in search of similar encounters.
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Now, not too long ago, I received a telephone call from TWW,
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who was a retired teacher and well-credentialed local government employee who had also involved in social
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work in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Now, TWW had been a reader of Phantoms
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of Monsters for some time, had watched my video presentations, so he felt comfortable reaching out to
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me about his encounters. Beginning in the spring of 2004, TWW
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sensed that something was watching him when he took his pitbull outside to do its business during the early morning.
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His dog was watching or acting nervous and walking and excuse me and waking
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TWW. So he obliged and accompanied the dog outdoors. Living in the foothills of western North
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Carolina mountains, there's natural pres predators that inhabit the area and he was always armed with a pistol.
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So, one particular early morning while walking along his driveway with his dog, he noticed what he initially thought was
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a black plastic trash bag at the end of the driveway. Now, TWW found this
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unusual because none of his neighbors lived nearby and he and his wife maintained a tidy residence.
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As he approached the object, it began to move, then rise off the driveway, ultimately transforming into a large
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black panther with bright yellow eyes. A panther kitten accompanied the big cat.
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At that moment, his dog cowered behind TWW. After lifting itself off the driveway, the black panther and the
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kitten slowly retreated into the brush. On subsequent occasions, TWW saw the
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same black panther and kitten on multiple early mornings between 3 and 4:00 a.m. Concerned, he contacted the
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North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to inquire about the crypted feline and was informed that there are
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no such species of black panther inhabiting North Carolina. Later, as a social worker, TWW learned
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from a supervisor that multiple caregivers had ceased assisting an older woman living in the nearby mountains.
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They were alarmed by sightings of large black panthers during their visits. The supervisor asked TWW if he would visit
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the location. So TWW recalled that his father had previously mentioned encountering black
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panthers while hunting. On several occasions, the hunters claimed to have shot at these big cats, insisting that
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they had hit them, but the creatures showed no effect. Due to the continued sightings in his
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father's account, TWW suspected that these encounters might be related to portal openings or other unknown un
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supernatural phenomena. He noted that multiple indigenous
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tribes, particularly the Cherokee and Ohari people, historically inhabited the area and suspected that these creatures
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might be associated with tribal lore and religion manifesting as a result of these practices.
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Before the Black Panther activity, there had been regular instances of loud booms emanating from the foothills and
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surrounding area, leading TWW to wonder if there was a connection. Now, as a faithful Christian, TWW
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decided to take matters in his own hand. He tells me that one early morning, he
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again observed the black panther and kitten. He prayed, rebuked the creature, and asked to leave his property and not
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return in the future. And since that night, the Black Panther has not been seen.
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Now, I informed TWW that I would make inquiries about his claims. Many of my
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ancestors lived in Mitchell County, North Carolina, and I've heard numerous stories of crypted sightings throughout
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my life, and the southern Appalachian people, both indigenous and settlers, have passed down many intriguing tales
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of encounters with unknown creatures and other supernatural events which have continued into modern times.
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If you are interested in researching these tribal peoples and traditions, you can find resources like indigenous
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peoples of North Carolina website which is very helpful.
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I hope the sound's coming pretty good. I had some issues with the internet earlier, but we'll keep on going here.
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This next witness states, "Hello. When I was little, my family owned a cabin on a lake in rural Appalachian uh Kentucky.
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I was quite It was quite remote at the time, though it had become more heavily developed over the past 10 years.
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Whenever we visited the cabin, we often went for picnics in a huge field at the edge of a farmer's property. Now, one
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day, we set up our picnic spot at the crest of a very steep hill. At the
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bottom of the hill, the the field met the tree line of a large forest. Now, I was too young to remember everything
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that happened, but this is what my sister and parents told me.
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Now, while we were sitting in the field eating, my dad heard a loud banging come from the bottom of the hill where the trees met the field.
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He walked to the crest of the hill and saw an enormous white creature standing on two feet, taking large logs and
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throwing them over his head to bang him against tree trunks, creating a loud noise.
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He showed my mom and she saw it too. We decided to pack up and leave because
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they were creeped out by the sight. Now, my parents are very sane and rational people, so they never really talked
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about it out of fear of sounding insane. No one wants to claim they saw a Bigfoot.
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So about four years ago, we were having Christmas with my aunt and her family who also frequented the cabin at the
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same lake. We started talking about the cabin and sharing memories when my aunt
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mentioned she had an unbelievable story she had never shared with anyone besides my uncle.
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She would often go blackberry picking in the fall to make her wild blackberry jam.
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One day, she thought she saw a bear in the distance eating blackberries, which scared her. However, she continued
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picking and watching it for a while. Eventually, the creature she thought was a bear stood up, revealing its white
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coat of hair and walked again away on two legs into the woods. Naturally, we
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immediately shared our story, and everyone was in awe that we had seen the same thing around the same time in the
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late 1980s. I decided to do a little research and it turns out there were numerous sightings
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of this creature in the late 1980s. Someone was so convinced that what he
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saw was a Bigfoot that he dedicated the rest of his life to finding it again. If you look it up, you'll find numerous
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reports of people who saw this creature around the time my family did. Now, I'm
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not sure I believe that this person found Bigfoot again, but he claims he encountered three of them together. two
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large brown ones, one with thick and one with thick white fur, which matches the
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exact description confirmed independent upon my parents and my aunt. I don't know. I don't really know what
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to think. The irrational part of me knows this probably wasn't a Bigfoot, but I respect my family's sanity and
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intellect, and everyone was convinced that that they what they saw was not a
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bear. It was covered in thick white fur and walked on two legs. I'm uncertain of
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how that can be explained away.
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Now, I recently received an account from a colleague in Frankfurt, Kentucky, who
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investigated an incident regard uh involving missing cattle. He forwarded
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an original email from 2019 that he received from the client, and to this day, there has been no resolution
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regarding the missing cattle. So, the email read, "My husband and I live on a family farm of about 100 acres
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where we raised cattle. My dad grew up here and my grandpa lived and worked this land until the day he died.
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I know every inch of it and have never felt scared walking the farm or surrounding land. A few months ago, one
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of our cattle disappeared. She had a calf and if you're familiar with cattle, you know, it's pretty unusual for a cow
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to leave her calf. Our fam, our farm is located in the Appalachian foothills of
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Kentucky, which has quite a few hollers. We figured the cow must have gone down
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into the hollard and died in the brush somewhere or wandered into a neighbor's field. My husband searched diligently,
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but never found her. Nobody, no trace. Absolutely no evidence of that cow.
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Now, on the day she went missing, there were also strange spots in the grass on of the field where the ground was
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flattened, almost like something had pressed down on it. Oddly, two vehicles ran out of
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gas right near these spots. I thought it was just weird, spooky coincidence until
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today. Today, my favorite cow also went m missing. My husband's sister and I spent
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about 5 hours searching for her. We combed through every inch of the fields, searching the hollers and checked the
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neighbors fields. There was no sign of her. She also had a calf and was known
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for being a good mother, so it was perplexing that she was gone while the calf remained there.
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I initially thought she had wandered into the neighbors of cornfield or possibly been stolen, which seemed
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strange since she was an older cow and the only one missing. While searching for the missing cow
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around 6:30 to 7 pm, my sister and I decided to check a piece of land we
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don't own. It juts in between our two fields and is almost is mostly wooden uh
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wooded, excuse me, bordered by bordered by a barbed wire fence. I knew our cows
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sometimes crossed over, so I just wanted to look there. My sister and I are both in our late 20s
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and grew up exploring the woods. We hunted, climbed waterfalls, dodged snakes, and pulled ticks off ourselves.
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At that moment, nothing scared us, or so I thought. I crossed over the barred wire, but my sister hesitated and stayed
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back, which was unusual for her. I teased her for being cautious, reminding her I'd been there before, and it
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wouldn't lead her into any danger. Yet, she continued to stall, and I eventually
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got short with her and told her to come on. She crossed the fence but kept stopping.
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When I finally caught up to her, I started feeling uneasy. The only way I can describe it is it felt dark. My
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sister complained she couldn't hear me even though I was speaking loudly and was only 2 feet away at most.
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We finally decided to turn around and quickly leave the area. Once we crossed back over the barb wire, the bad feeling
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dissipated. A few hours later, my sister went home feeling unusually tired. I texted her to
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ask if she thought the woods felt all. She responded saying she was terrified the whole time. Here's a quote from her
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text. It was like we were going down a dark path to nowhere. I like to explore,
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but it didn't feel right. It gives me chills and almost makes me cry thinking about it. So, I just told myself it was
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I was psyching myself out. It was right when we passed the fence
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like we were somewhere we shouldn't have been. I was scared. I trust you and
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everything, but of course, but the feeling I got standing and looking into the woods was telling me not to go, not
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to cross the fence. The further we went, the worse it got with the dark shadow of
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something screaming at my insides telling me to go back. Afterwards, I had
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a heavy feeling that made me so tired. Now, this all happened. This all
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happened this evening, and we still haven't found the cow or any sign of her. I feel a lingering sense of dread
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from being in those woods, and I find myself feeling jumpy and exhausted. I was advised to reach out because I
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believe something supernatural or otherwise is happening. I can honestly say I've never experienced anything like
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this in my life, and I've never seen my sister so scared, which made me even
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more uneasy. Now, as I mentioned earlier, after 5 years,
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there had been no trace of the missing cattle, and the client remains cautious
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about the wooded area surrounded by the bar barbwire fence. Despite extensive research and investigation, no tangible
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evidence beyond strange feelings reported by the owner and the investigator have ever been discovered.
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So, this incident took place in the summer of 2003 when I was 13 years old during one of my
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stays at a YMCA camp in North Georgia near Lake M. One evening, I was assigned the task of
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cleaning up the rifle range away from the camp because the counselors hadn't done it due to a thunderstorm.
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As I w was walking up to the range, I heard some rustling, but didn't think much of it since we were in the Blue
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Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian. I walked onto the new range platform and
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started picking up brass shells I could find. Now, after a few minutes, I continued
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hearing rustling near a tree trunk. At first, I shrugged it off and then I noticed that the sound resembled
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footsteps, not like those of a deer or other normal forest critter.
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I also heard some odd chattering that I assume was coming from the fellow from a fellow camper. I walked toward the trail
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leading to the field, realizing the noise was indeed coming from the direction of the tree trunk.
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Now, as I approached the tree, I saw what appeared to be a pale gray human-like being rifling through the
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underbrush and mumbling in a raspy voice with an odd cadence.
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I cautiously moved closer and accidentally kicked the pine cone, which made a significant noise as it traveled
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through the undergrowth. The thing turned to look at me. It had dark, sunken black eyes, thin lips, and a
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normall-looking human nose, and patches of hair. What struck me the most was it
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shocked expression at look seeing me. We locked eyes for what felt like an
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attorney. It then stepped back bipedily with about 10 steps while all while
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maintaining eye contact with me, dropped on all fours and ran into the forest.
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Naturally, I was terrified and ran back to my cabin to tell my counselors. They all joined me as we walked back to the
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range to investigate. We found barefoot prints and candy wrappers scattered around, but they dismissed it all as my
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Now, this next account, the witness states, "This is not a report about a flying
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craft. Instead, it's a personal account of an experience that happened to me and a coworker on a warm summer night that
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changed my perspective. We were working the late shift at a
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restaurant on June 1st, 1997. Now, after our shift ended in the early morning
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hours, we talked in the parking lot and tossed around a football I had in the car for a while.
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I was driving him to his house in Madison. As we traveled down US 119 near
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South Charleston, West Virginia, we noticed that there was never any traffic on the road at that hour. Typically, we
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would stop at the gas station, but to our surprise, the 24-hour gas station was closed. We speculated that the clerk
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was probably taking a nap. Now, as we continued driving, I suddenly remarked that the car was on the wrong
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side of the road. It its lights were off and it was parked
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facing us on the four-lane road. My coworker mentioned that his dad used to work at a nearby coal mine. And after
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that, I sort of blacked out. When I came to, I realized our car was going about 10 mph on a 55 mph road. The gas pedal
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was no longer pressed down. I asked him what had happened, but he couldn't remember what he was he was saying. I
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pointed out our low speed in the strange position of the parked car, and he commented that it felt weird and he felt
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funny. Now, we spent the rest of the drive home talking about something else. Now, when
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we arrived at his house, I noticed that the sun was starting to rise. I remarked that it wasn't time for sunrise yet. He
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agreed and we both assumed the time must have changed. His wife told us that the
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time changed in the summer and thought it was crazy. Being a young adult living
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at home, I called my mom to inform her that I'd be late. Somehow, we had lost
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45 minutes to an hour that night. The next day at work, my coworker refused to
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talk about it and tried to brush it off as a joke. Now, years later, I ran into him again
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and asked about that night. He said, "I don't know what happened to us out there, but something did."
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I can assure you that it was a genuine experience and we were both afraid to discuss it. Over time, I've forgotten
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the exact date and times of when we left work and arrived at his house. One thing I know for sure is that the lost hour of
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my life had did happen and I don't wish to feel that way again.
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So folks, if you have any questions or any comments or anything, feel free to comment and let me know. Put it up there
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and uh Kevin will send it over to me.
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Uh, race fan, if you're suffering from lost time and you your butt hurts, then you were
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abducted. Uh, I I don't necessarily believe all that, but I I guess in some cases that
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may be true, but uh,
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you know, I I I have had a lot of lost time. uh reports come into me over the
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years and um I I I do truly do believe some of them are abductees.
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Uh, but I think there could be other instances, possibly portals or something happening or, you know, I don't know,
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maybe even a medical thing. Who knows?
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Let's see. Paranormalism net, have you seen any reports or photographs of black
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panther type creatures with humanlike faces? You know, I had I had a a large feline
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sighting down in Florida. I remember years ago. Uh it was bipedal, too, and it had a
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human face. But other than that, as far as Black Panthers, I I don't know.
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Alistister B. Lawn, do you still go on ghost investigations? Yeah, if there's a
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case um it's not too far from me, I'll go. I mean, I do several ca I've done
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several cases around here where I live at, even many in Gettysburg over the years. I don't always report them. I
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mean, you know, most times it it it's usually just something
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that's not even paranormal. Uh, but occasionally I'll get something, but yeah, I I do cases all the time.
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Abdalah is the aliens phenomena related to the
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antichrist in Yend days. I have no idea. Uh
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if anybody has any thoughts on that, put it up there in the chat. But uh I don't
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I don't I don't know if it does or not. I I personally don't believe it does, but who knows?
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Uh, let's see. Kurt W75, what your thoughts on a gifting chair
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for Bigfoot Lon? I've heard for and against it. I just wanted to see what
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I don't have much issue with the gifting though. I have never used it. I mean, I' I've
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been on investigations where others have. Um, this investigation I'm uh involved
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with with uh Tim I mean uh Dave Scott and Tim James out in BC.
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Uh they are gifting and something keeps taking and bringing things back even
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while they're there. So I I don't think it's a Bigfoot but it
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may be something else. Um, but I don't, you know, I I really don't have much
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thought about gifting. I I, you know, I have heard people discuss it and talk about it. I know there's several
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investigators that don't even think about doing it. Um, but I I have I have
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been a part of teams that have done it.
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Can Squatch, any reports from hikers or campers on the Appalachian Trail years ago? There were a few murders on there.
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Yeah, I mean there have been um I know here in Pennsylvania there have been at least two of them over the years. Uh
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people go missing. Uh down in uh Virginia in the uh George Washington National
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Forest, there have been some incidents. I know at least one death there and uh
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another missing person. It does happen. Um I I don't know what the date was.
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That one in Pennsylvania was up near uh Duchanan up near Harrisburg
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where just before it goes across the um the walkway over across the the the
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river across the Suscuana, but that was many years ago.
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I I I'd say to anybody and Mara who's in the chat who's one of the moderators, I
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think she'd agree. You just watch yourself when you're out there. and it doesn't seem right. Take heed.
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Don Moore, do you think that one creature was a crawler rake or maybe the pulloff creature which is 7 to 8 to 11
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feet no hair and fast like a crawler? Uh, it could have been I,
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you know, this whole crawler phenomena is just it's just so strange to me. Even though
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I wrote about it, I I still don't understand it, but we still get reports. Um,
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I I I definitely feel they're supernatural. I don't think they're but I think they're also, you know, corore
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corporeal as well. I mean, there there is some flesh and blood involved there. I mean, it's a physical being.
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Are they portal travelers? Possibly. Are they, you know, what are they? We just don't know. Um, but
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it it still confounds me.
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Paula S. Lon, great stories tonight. Why do you suppose Appalachia has so much activity? It's so congested there with
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cryptids. Um, those mountains, I mean, from Georgia up
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to Maine have always had a lot of activity. I It's just embedded in the area. I mean, uh, even during the Civil
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War, there were reports of strange things in those mountains. I had family that lived in those mountains, and they
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reported a lot of weird things. There were a lot of stories that came out of there. I had no idea. It's just like a
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lot of other places that are hotspots. Could it be an energy source? Could it be a magnetic or geomagnetic source
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that's causing this? I don't know. It's possible. Um, you know, I think just like
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Gettysburg, I think that there's a geomagnetic reason why so much activity is there.
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So, um, it could be that, but it's just like a lot of other places, you know, the
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Appalachians and even the Blue Ridge and and and South Ridge in Pennsylvania going up into the Laurel Highlands.
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There are a lot of places there are a lot of um a lot of weird activity but it usually
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involves mountains and and valleys.
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Paranormalism net has there been any evidence of actual lycanthropy human
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transformation into an animal involved in dog men or werewolf sightings in present day?
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Well, nothing that can be proven. I mean, there are a lot of theories. Um,
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I I think around here in particular, here in P South Central Pennsylvania, in
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particularly down in Maryland, um, there have been some weird sightings of
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cryptic. In fact, we're working on one now, which happened uh near Columbia,
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Maryland. And there have been several sightings of this aggressive
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crypted canine. one broke into a house and another one that and when I get my blog back I'll write about it but um
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it it happened in near an apartment complex in Colombia and this um
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this woman saw it while she had her dog out and this creature was white in
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color. It was about 78 foot tall and uh she backed up and got into her home back
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into her apartment and the thing followed her and tried to get into the door.
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So um you know this is something we're looking into. I talked to the witness, Rissa
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talked to the witness. She's going out there uh and uh investigated as well. So
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this is going to be something we're going to be looking into a little bit more. And I'm familiar with the area because I used to work near there. So,
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uh, yeah, I know that area pretty well. Can any weird cave stories from
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Appalachia? Yeah. Uh, in, uh, southwest Virginia, there
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have been some sightings in some of the caves of, um, what people would call
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feral humans, possibly crawler humanoids. There have been a couple of
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those. Um but southwest southwest Virginia even
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into the other side into West Virginia there's a lot of caves there a lot of caverns in that area too. So, um,
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you know, you can almost find anything I I I believe in in one of those areas, but, uh, there have been some sightings
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of some type of humanoids.
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Magnus Lon, are you familiar with Pennsylvania German folklore of the hexen wolf? Yes, I am. Thoughts on this
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and the duo and upright canines historically? Well, what happened was um you know when
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the uh Pennsylvania Dutch for the most part or the later Germans who had come
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into Pennsylvania and Lancaster and York County and other areas, they uh they set
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their farms up, but many of them eventually moved down into Maryland in um in Frederick,
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Alageney County, and some were also in Carroll County, Washington County. But anyway,
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over the years there have been what they these crypted canine sightings and the name they gave it was the duo and it's
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something I've talked about before. We've had several sightings. It's they're still continuing on.
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The hexen wolf that's another name they give it. Um
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but it it's traditional. I mean it's something that you know I think a lot of
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people when they saw something weird like that thought back to the old world where you know of course there were a
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lot of werewolf tales and the hex and wolf tales and things is that so um but
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Frederick County in particular has had a lot of sightings and it's it's mostly farmers and those sightings go back into
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peace. Do you know of a human being saved by a Bigfoot? Yeah, I've had a couple of
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accounts of people saying they were saved by Bigfoot. Um,
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couple kids who say that Bigfoot saved them when they got lost in the forest.
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You hear a lot of different tales. Uh, do I believe them? Yeah, I think there's a possibility.
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Um, many times these are female Bigfoot according to the witnesses or if it's a
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kid in particular and I guess that maternal instinct kicks in with them and uh but there have been cases over the
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years I mean throughout in particular the United States. So, um, yeah,
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there have been I had a I had a um I had a report given to me from New Mexico
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near the Texas border where a uh a female Navajo lady um
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had an encounter with uh she was what happened was she was on an old porch of
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a house that was behind her residence and it was abandoned house and the porch
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itself had a lot of loose boards and nails and stuff and she was walking on there barefoot and ripped her foot up
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with on a nail or a board and she was sitting there crying and this Bigfoot
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according to her reached out, picked her up and carried her home. Um, and I've heard similar stories in
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the past as well. So, uh, yeah, there there's some stories out there.
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Can Squatch any fair or little people folklore from the European settlers in Appalachia?
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Well, you know, the early settlers in Appalachia, particularly in West Virginia and a little bit further down
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into uh northern uh North Carolina. Most of those were
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Scots. there was a lot of Scots that uh moved in there uh at the turn of the
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century and and you know that's I think all well there's a lot there was a lot of Germans as well but there were a lot
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of Scots do I you know and you do hear a lot of stories about fa and and little people
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and is it something that's indicative of their culture I I guess it probably could but I have heard the stories I
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mean you know um and in fact some of the sighting
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near Point Pleasant in Mason County of the Moth Man also included some small
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humanoid sightings, occasional sightings that people would report as well. So, I
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mean, is it connected to the moth manager, connected to some something else? I don't know. But there have been
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Alistister B line, any thought on our stories of witch encounters?
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Yeah, over I mean there have been a lot of witch encounters particularly around here. I mean you know you hear them all
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the time. Um my colleague Rissa, she has
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looked into a lot of that historical wise of the region. Um,
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you know, I I Pennsylvania I I don't think you can go too far without tripping over a witch or a witch story.
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So, uh, but there have been a lot of reports over the years.
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Anything else, folks?
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