Thank you for joining me and welcome. I'm your host, Nick Ryan.
This episode is brought to you by my newest supporters Kimberly, Candas and Molly.
Thank you so much for making the show possible. Our first experience of
the night is short but fascinating and it comes to us from John. And
John's experience is called shadow Wolf. John says, Hello, Hellove, your
podcast and I have had some unexplained experiences. I'm from a farm in the
Peak District, located in England. I was about seven at the time and
it was midsummer. The farm is located on around seventy acres and there's a
nice hill that overlooks most of the farm. I used to sit there for
hours and just admire the view. One day, I was watching the sunset
when I noticed something was moving in the tree line. As my eyes were
drawn to it, a big, shadowy wolf appeared. It stood still for
a while, looking in the opposite direction down the hill, and then I
heard one of my brothers call my name. At this moment, this wolf
turned its head and looked straight at me, and it had blue, fiery
eyes. My brother then called my name again and it ran straight up the
tree line and into the woods. I ran down the hill to see if
he had seen this wolf before, but that was when he told me that
there are no wolves left in England and we've never spoken about it again.
If anyone knows what this means or what I saw, please let me know.
Thank you for listening. Our next experience of the Night comes to us
from Phoenix, and their experience is called Unidentified Creature. Hey, Nick,
this isn't going to be very long, but here we go. This happened
late last year while I was living alone in the country, and the mother
of my child called me saying that my daughter wanted mc donald's. It was
ten thirty p m. But since my daughter wanted it, I was willing
to go. So I got dressed and went out to my front door.
And as soon as I opened the front door, I heard something with huge
wings fly away right above me, as if it was waiting for me to
go outside. I looked up into the sky to see what it was,
but there was nothing but the moon and the stars. A few seconds later,
I heard something hit the ground about twenty feet away from me. But
because of where I live, there are no street lights, so I just
stared in that direction until I saw two yellow eyes that were about five feet
off the ground and they were staring back at me. As soon as this
thing and I made eye contact, it let out a huge screech, so
I turned right back around and I went back into my house. I'm not
the type of person to be scared of paranormal things, since I've seen shadow
figures since I was four, but this just didn't feel right, because I
felt like it was waiting for me. If you know anything or anyone that
could reach out to me that might have an idea of what this could have
been, that would be great. Love the podcast and thank you. If
anyone has any idea what Phoenix saw, please reach out to me and I'll
get you in touch with them. Our next Experience of the Night comes to
us from Wembley, and Wembley's encounter is called Cryptid Coyote. Wembley says,
Hi, Nick, I'm enamored with your podcast and I found it just a
few days ago, and I have a story to share that happened very recently.
The spring was closing in on summer here in southern Georgia, and one
afternoon I was out riding my lawnmower and cutting the center of my long gravel
and grass driveway. It's out in the country with lots of woods around,
the kind of area where deer are common, and you know that you also
might hear a woodpecker or two, but there's no bear, elk, wildcats,
et cetera. So as I was moving slowly down the driveway, an
animal shot out unexpectedly from my left. My first knee jerk reaction was that
it was a deer, but a fraction of a second later I knew it
was no deer. It was deer colored and solid grayish brown. Had to
tail, but there was no variation in the collar. It clipped along at
a trot, and without stopping, it turned its head to me and then
disappeared into the woods on the right. I sow it for only three or
four seconds, but what registered astonished me. It was shaped like a large
dog. It was well proportioned, but with a snout as long as a
crocodiles. I was just speechless. Later, I got on the web to
look at coyotes, and it turns out that they are significantly different from this
animal. Coyotes have bushy tails, whereas this thing's tail was thin, and
coyotes have various colors in their coats, but this was solid. Most obvious
was the difference in leg length. Coyotes have long, spinly legs that don't
always seem to be proportional, but this dog creature was very well proportioned.
I asked Wembley if they could elaborate on what the creature looked like, and
Wembley said this. The most stunning thing about the animal was that it trotted
along my path without skipping a beat. It had no fear and no aggression
either. It turned to look at me, but it didn't stop. It
just kept going. I've never seen it again. I don't know what it
was. It was dear colored, that is, it was gray as deer
are in winter, and it was larger than a dog, but it wasn't
frighteningly huge. My heart did skip a beat, though, because I think
the primitive brain knew instantly that this was unusual. The coat was short from
head to tail to legs, but there was no bushy fur. As I
said, the snout was frightening because you knew right away that it was longer
than it should be. I'd say that it was ten or twelve inches long,
whereas with a coyote it would be about eight inches. As a horse
rider, I have seen coyotes a couple of times and they have always been
ragged, undernourished, sloppy fur, and even dirty. However, this animal
looked healthy, clean, and well fed. But it was definitely not domesticated.
It was not a dog. Our next bizarre beast experience comes to us
from Caitlin, and Caitlyn's experience is called skin Walker. This story I'm about
to share happened on July twenty sixth of twenty twenty two. For a little
content before we start, this happened at my grandpa and Grandma's house. They
live in the Oklahoma countryside. I've been going to their house since I was
very little, and I've never experienced anything like this since they raised cows as
well like many other people around them. So me and my family had gone
to my grandparents' house for a little bit. I had been outside playing on
the swings when I heard a sound. It wasn't quite like a cow,
but it also wasn't like anything else I had ever heard, and it sounded
to be in distress. I initially did think that it was a cow,
and of course I thought nothing of it, and I decided to look around
for this cow. The only reason I did this was because there wouldn't have
been any cows close enough for me to hear, unless, of course,
it had gotten out. So I walked down the road and out into the
middle of the field, and I saw what looked like a cow and a
deer mixed but not quite. Then suddenly it made a sound again, and
it snapped its head in my direction. But only then did I realize that
it was standing on two legs. Right then, my fight or flight response
kicked in, and I walked slowly inside, pretending as if I saw nothing.
Once I got inside, I for whatever reason, still thought that it
must be a cow, and I got my grandpa. I asked him to
come outside because I thought that a cow was loose. So we get outside
and I take him to the spot. But this animal is gone. Now.
Mind you, there were no trees in the vicinity, and while cows
aren't necessarily slow, they're also not fast enough to get to the trees that
were around in the time that I got my grandpa. At this point,
he told me that I was probably just seeing things and that I had heard
a cow from down the road, but keep in mind that these cows were
almost a mile away. I knew that what I had seen was not a
cow, and it was the one making those strange noises. And I still
to this day am very scared to be outside by myself. I had always
been a afraid of going outside by myself, and I think that was my
intuition telling me that there were and still are things that lurk out there that
I don't want to see. Tonight's list of bizarre beasts wouldn't be complete without
at least one involving Bigfoot. And I came across this particular story on Mysterious
Universe, and it's entitled the Big Blue Man. The article says, this
first account comes from the Ozarks, a vast mountainous region spanning Missouri, Arkansas,
Oklahoma, and the southeastern tip of Kansas, which is full of legends
and strange mysteries. The story begins in the winter of eighteen sixty five,
when a veteran hunter named Saul Collins went deer hunting in a place called Spring
Creek and he came across bear like footprints. Collins was highly knowledgeable about bear
tracks, but this one was unlike anything that he had ever seen before.
The footprints weren't just large, they were oddly shaped and had strange markings along
them that looked like they were made by large claws. The footprints aroused the
hunter's curiosity. A light snow had fallen the night before, making it easy
for Collins, a veteran tracker, to follow the tracks. The footprints snaked
through the wilderness until they reached the northern slopes of Upper Twin Mountain. In
Its here where Collins learns that these were not the footprints of a bear,
but something much stranger. As Collins followed the footprints up the slope, he
heard a noise above him. Two boulders then rolled down the slope, and
as he struggled to avoid them, he briefly caught a glimpse of a giant
figure. The creature was completely covered in short, curly black hair that seemed
to take on an odd, deep dark blue colour when it was exposed to
direct sunlight. Collins described the creature as huge, no less than ten feet
tall and covered in thick muscle. The beast apparently also carried a large club,
which it swung in the air, before setting the weapon aside and then
picking up another rock and throwing it at the frightened hunter. Collins ran away
as fast as he could, and as soon as he returned to town,
he gathered other hunters and went in search of the creature. For several days,
Collins and his group tracked the Big Blue Man, who was said to
have been seen several times, and the group found sheep skins, pig skins,
parts of dog skins, many bones, feathers, as well as other
items that were possibly kills by the beast. At one point, they found
a burrow filled with the remains of a feast, but they were unable to
capture or shoot whatever it was that had caused this mayhem. Not long after
this first encounter with the Big Blue Man, other locals reported seeing the creature
as well, or even hearing its blood curdling roar echoing through the night.
The incident caused a bit of hysteria at the time, and newspapers were filled
with the reports of new sightings and encounters with a strange creature. However,
their popularity gradually faded and the Big Blue Man was completely forgotten. In eighteen
seventy four, the beast resurfaced and sightings were once again reported on the news,
and more hunters began looking for it. An article in the Ridge Runner
magazine said this. The next time the Big Blue Man was seen was when
O. C. Collins was searching for two lost lambs. He discovered the
creature at Spring Creek, which was four miles from Old Houghton. Two days
later, Cap Turner came across the Big Blue Man catching fish by hand at
Indian Creek. The creature chased Turner down a steep hill brandishing a huge axe,
and a few days later, a man by the name of cal Alslop
followed the Big Blue Man into a cave. As he stumbled through the darkness,
he found what appeared to be dried sheep's fur, which were the remains
of what had been feeding the Big Blue Man. He was also seen one
more time after escaping his pursuers in a cave, and at Abba Crossing it
was seen catching crayfish from under rocks and apparently eating their tails. By November
fifteenth of nineteen twenty four, fear was widespread in northern Howell and Douglas Counties
from tatter Hill to collins Ford. From Blue back to Abba crossing people were
looking for the Big Blue Man. Cattle were not allowed to graze, sheep
were guarded by rifle wielding herdsmen, and livestock were confined. At night,
people armed with rifles and shotguns scoured the area for the Big Blue Man of
Spring Creek. At some point, apparently some of these hunters also found the
monster's den and fired shots at it, and one report states that some hunters
actually managed to drive the monster into the trees, always mentioning its bizarre blue
color. Apparently, though no actual physical evidence could ever be obtained. After
the next series of sightings, the Big the Blue Man disappeared again, only
to reappear in subsequent years. This time, more reports of missing animals were
received, and it was also noted that the creature appeared to be in poor
health. One such report was published in the Washington Times, which said this
six weeks ago, a farmer noticed that two of his lambs had not returned
home with the rest of his flock. He searched the hillsides and eventually found
their bloody fur in a hollow that was deep in the forest. The next
day, he saw the Big Blue Man running over a pig in the woods.
Since then, several farmers have seen the creature. His blue black coat
was now described as being iron gray. His limbs aren't as muscular as they
once were, but few hardy Ozark mountain folk would want to risk fighting this
terrifying creature alone. Another article published in the Sentinel describes an incident in which
two boys saw the big Blue Man come out of the ground and begin chasing
sheep. According to the ar article, they actually succeeded in capturing the Big
Blue Man, and the article says this. The boys acted as guides and
when they arrived at the site, they found a log and an entrance into
the ground that seemed to be well used. One of the men had the
courage to push a lantern into the cave, which was of considerable size.
They entered the room, where they saw a man crouching at the back of
the cave. He was wearing nothing except a loincloth made of something like animal
skin. His body was completely covered in short, bluish hair, and his
head was covered with the two foot clump of hair. The wild man tried
to run away, but was caught and handed over to the authorities. He
was unable to speak. Wool, hair, bones, and feathers were scattered
deep inside the cave. There was no evidence that he had cooked any of
his food. After this, sightings did continue, but they started to become
a little more rare. That was until nineteen twenty five, when the phenomenon
was revived. That year, a postmaster received a question in a newspaper clipping
from a California man about the legend, and part of the answer was published
in the Nevada Daily News in March of nineteen twenty five, which said this,
The enclosed clippings state the facts. However, although this man is now
dead, many of his children are now living in the wild on the banks
of Spring Creek. All of them are blue. They live naked and feed
on wild animals such as bears, feral cats, and mountain lions, which
they devour raw. Many of them are seven to eight feet tall and weigh
between three hundred and five hundred pounds, and they are often seen carrying young
horses or even cows on their shoulders as they go to burrows or large caves
to live in. While bigfoot sightings continue to this day throughout the Ozarks,
the big Blue Man of Spring Creek seemingly disappeared after the mid nineteen hundreds.
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I'll be right back after these brief messages. Our next mysterious creature report also
comes from the same article, and to be honest, it's one that I
wasn't familiar with until tonight, and I thought that you'd enjoy it. The
article says this, The thick swamps of Florida can be a spooky place,
to say the least, tangled with cypress trees, vines and brush, clouded
with mosquitoes, and infested by all manner of insects and snakes. When the
sun goes down, the swamps come alive, with sounds not always immediately identifiable
These include shrieks and squawks from unknown sources, casting this place further into an
eerie ambiance that invites tales of strange monsters prowling its darkest recesses. One of
these is supposedly a hulking thing that wades through the waters and crashes through everything
in its path, a glowing eyed beast known only as the moss man.
The creature in question gets its strange name from its rather unique appearance, humanoid,
bipedal than standing about seven feet tall. At first, it may sound
like a hairy hominid such as Bigfoot, but all of the odd details make
it all even stranger. The Mossman earns its unusual name from the copious amounts
of foliage and grass that seems to either grow upon it or to be intertwined
and entangled in its hair, making it have a green cast to it and
helping to camouflage it nearly perfectly. Some sightings even say that it was first
mistaken for an overgrown tree or log before it suddenly stood up to walk off
through the swamp. The eyes are also said to glow an amber or reddish
hue, with some reports even claiming that they have an almost hypnotic quality to
them. According to some local lore, the mossman has allegedly been encountered in
these wetland wildernesses since at least the eighteen hundreds. One such report from this
era is that of a large manlike beast with a rank odor and covered with
swamp grass. This creature had been terrorizing the swamps in the area of Clay
County and raiding rabbit pens and the livestock of residents, which prompted a local
sheriff called Sheriff Peeler to organize an armed posse of men expressly for the purpose
of hunting it down. They apparently spent several weeks logging through the muck,
dodging alligators in venomous snakes in search of it, but without success. Other
strange reports of the time sometimes described fishermen being menaced or even attacked by an
apelike brute with leaves and branches covering it. Another even earlier legend might have
sprung from the presence of the creature. According to this particular tale, in
the fifteen hundreds, Spanish conquistadors supposedly killed and beheaded a local native girl.
They allegedly then placed the girl's head in a nearby tree. In response,
the girl's family and her tribe called on their most powerful medicine man, who
then used his magic to call upon the spirits of the swamp to seek out
vengeance, after which the girl's head grew to be part of the wilderness and
took on a human form of weeds, branches, and other vegetation, going
on to hunt down any Spaniards that she could find. In some variations of
this story, a witch doctor in later years created his own gollum of foliage
to keep the Spanish away, and it continues to prowl the swamps to this
day. While these reports and legends are interesting, the moss man truly made
its debut in the public consciousness in nineteen seventy eight. In this year,
a couple claimed that they had been taking a leisurely stroll along the beach in
the city of Boca Ratone, which was right up along the Everglade swampland,
and this is when they spotted something odd lying there upon the sand by a
rocky outcropping. As they drew closer, they saw that it appeared to be
a person in a raincoat sprawled out face down, However, as they passed
it, what they had at first taken to be a man eventually stood up
to stare at them with billful, glowing red eyes, and they could see
that this was no human being. The interesting detail is that what they had
thought was a raincoat was actually nothing of the sort, and was in fact
what looked like a twisted mat of thick moss, grass and leafy foliage.
The couple fled for their lives as it loomed, glaring at them with those
fires eyes. When they went back later to investigate, there was apparently some
Spanish moss strewn about where the creature had been, but there was no sign
of the beast itself. The most famous of these reports comes from nineteen eighty,
when an elderly couple was visiting Red Reef Park, a sixty seven acre
coastal nature preserve. The couple purportedly had been hiking through the scenic area when
they saw a green object through the trees upon a branch. The woman approached,
thinking that it was some type of swamp bird perched upon a mossy tree,
but this bird then turned around and showed itself to be the fierce looking
face of the moss man. At this point, she realized that what she
initially thought was a tree was actually this creature's enormous body. The terrified woman
had apparently been so close at this time that she genuinely feared for her life.
However, the creature turned back around and loped off into the wilderness.
There have been sporadic sightings of the mind most Man ever since, with the
counts describing what seems to be a flesh and blood animal, or on other
occasions claiming that the thing is more ghostly or demonic in nature, with it
being able to appear or disappear at will, or to even shroud itself in
a cloud of mist. Considering the details of the reports, theories have abounded
on what the creature could be. Some believe it to be some sort of
Bigfoot like creature, either covered with vegetation that is grown upon it, or
intentionally covering itself with this foliage as a form of camouflage in order to allow
it to blend into its environment. Others think that it's some sort of humanoid
plant, a forest spirit, an interdimensional entity, an alien, or perhaps
even an avatar of the swamp taking a humanoid form. More rational explanations are
that it's merely a trick of the light on the trees, a hunter in
a gilly suit, or possibly just an urban legend. Whatever it may be,
the legend of the mysterious Moss Man continue to live on. To read
the full article for yourself, please visit the link in the show notes.
Our last encounter with a strange entity comes to us from Sean and Shawn's experience
is called something Scary. Sean says, I love your podcast and I'm really
glad I found it. I haven't heard anything like this yet, but I
do have a lot of episodes to catch up on. This experience took place
on August thirty, first of twenty twenty three, during the blue moon.
I live in northeast Washington State, and my Hispanic and Native American heritage believes
that what I saw was a weendigo. I was having a bad day and
I was upset, and I decided to take a drive to the lake to
sit under the moon and meditate. I was highly emotional, depressed, overwhelmed,
and arguing with both my son and my husband. I drove a couple
miles outside of town and stayed in the in the car for about five minutes.
I then got out to sit on a rock that overlooked the lake.
I remember sitting there on the rock, listening to the waves lapping the shore
and yelling at the moon while texting responses to both my husband and my son.
The next thing that I remember was hearing a few buzzing pulses in my
head and ears, as well as twigs breaking, which eventually morphed into squeals
like it was some sort of a small bird or mammal. That's what snapped
me out of it. I kept hearing these squeals as I slowly got up
and tried to focus on the area the noises were coming from. At this
point, I felt clear headed and I had no more anger as I had
before. I slowly turned and walked to the truck as quickly and quietly as
I could, as I felt a distinct urgency to hurry. I touched the
door button to unlock the truck, and I climbed in. While looking out
the passenger window, I saw a hulking, black scribble like form hunched over,
but it was making its way up the rocks and toward my truck.
I then quickly started the engine and I rolled up the window and I locked
the doors. I then drove home, and I was scared to death that
it would follow me. As I bring tonight's episode to an end, I'd
like to thank John, Phoenix, Caitlin, and Sean for coming forward with
their experiences. And if you'd like to share your encounter with a bizarre beast
or unknown creature, or learn more about supporting the show, you can find
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