Speaker 1: Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
Speaker 1: on here, something just cause my dog. Something killed your dog,
Speaker 1: my dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm
Speaker 1: really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
Speaker 1: the fence and he was dead. And once you hit
Speaker 1: the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
Speaker 1: saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what
Speaker 1: are you putting? We got some wonder or something prowling
Speaker 1: around out here? Did you see what it was? Or
Speaker 1: was it was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through
Speaker 1: the window now and I don't see anything. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go outside, Jesus Quice, you better hello. Hit
Speaker 1: theboddy out here, quin, I'm out there. I thought of
Speaker 1: a bench about tick forty nine. I don't know. Easy
Speaker 1: ann out there? Yeah, I'm walking right hey.
Speaker 2: Tonight's episode takes us back into familiar ground, the South
Speaker 2: Mountains of North Carolina. Joining me once again is Jerry,
Speaker 2: or as he's known on TikTok Kaser Rebel, a voice
Speaker 2: many of you already recognize. Jerry's been on the show before,
Speaker 2: sharing his own powerful encounters, but his journey didn't stop there.
Speaker 2: Since then, Jerry's continued gathering incredible first hand encounter stories
Speaker 2: from people throughout the South Mountains, stories that are raw,
Speaker 2: personal and impossible to ignore. He's become a trusted listener
Speaker 2: and storyteller for folks who've experienced something they can't quite explain,
Speaker 2: and many of these encounters are now being shared on
Speaker 2: his TikTok channel j R. Millwood, which I've linked for
Speaker 2: you in the show notes. Be sure to head over
Speaker 2: there and give him a followup. But for now, sit back, relax,
Speaker 2: and enjoy these chilling, fascinating encounter stories from the South
Speaker 2: Mountains of North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, Casa Rebel here, Welcome to a special series
Speaker 3: of episodes from my series The Strange and Unexplained Phenomena
Speaker 3: of the South Mountains, North Carolina. You're going to want
Speaker 3: to watch this to the very end, especially those of
Speaker 3: you who was with me on the live last night.
Speaker 3: We talked about a lot of this last night, But
Speaker 3: the end of this episode tonight, I'm gonna come through
Speaker 3: and deliver what I promised you I would deliver it
Speaker 3: with something we didn't talk about last night.
Speaker 4: So hang in there with me, only my cup of tea.
Speaker 3: Is I simply interview witnesses, I collect their stories, and
Speaker 3: then I share those with you. For what I'm doing
Speaker 3: tonight and for the next couple of episodes is I
Speaker 3: have done research mainly Internet, but also have researched some books,
Speaker 3: especially the BFRO website. You can go on there and
Speaker 3: use BFRO website. That's big Foot Field of Researchers organization.
Speaker 3: You can pick a state and each state is broken
Speaker 3: down by counties and you can go county by county
Speaker 3: and read reports to your heart is fulfilled. Also, as usual,
Speaker 3: I used the bigfootcase Book, updated edition. You can get
Speaker 3: that off the internet a number of places, to include Amazon.
Speaker 3: So these are all reports that I had nothing whatsoever
Speaker 3: to do with. These were people I didn't know that
Speaker 3: made reports to sources that I have no connection with.
Speaker 3: And I'm dedicating tonight's episode with all the possible sarcasm
Speaker 3: I can muster to a certain smartmouth who said that
Speaker 3: this phenomenon did not exist until I came into the area. So,
Speaker 3: without further ado, let's go back to nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three. In that time free so BFRO report
Speaker 3: and it's near place here in the South Mountains of
Speaker 3: Cleeveland County called Butler None, a man who was a
Speaker 3: lifelottle hunter and outdoorsman was hunting a ridge in the
Speaker 3: Butler Nabb area area, and he happened to look up
Speaker 3: and on the ridge across from him, he saw at
Speaker 3: about a distance of four hundred yards something that at
Speaker 3: first he thought was a bear. But it became very
Speaker 3: obvious to him that it was no bear because the
Speaker 3: creature he was observing had been walking a great long
Speaker 3: distance on two legs.
Speaker 4: Now, if you know anything.
Speaker 3: About bears, they will get up very briefly and walk
Speaker 3: on their hall legs, but it's not comfortable to the bear,
Speaker 3: and they are not very efficient moving in that manner.
Speaker 3: They're going to drop down and walk on all fours
Speaker 3: ninety nine point nine percent of the time. This creature
Speaker 3: this man was watching, he described it at being over
Speaker 3: seven feet tall in darkened color. Now, he said that
Speaker 3: as he watched the creature, it stopped and it started
Speaker 3: doing something very mysterious. He said, it started messing with
Speaker 3: the tree bredge. He couldn't tell what it was doing,
Speaker 3: And I suppose that's going to remain a mystery forever.
Speaker 3: Of knowing what that was doing with that trelium. But
Speaker 3: then the creature just turned and walked over the ridge
Speaker 3: and disappeared over on the other side. So some people
Speaker 3: that might sound like a simple encounter was out a
Speaker 3: lot of frills, But I assure you that every encounter
Speaker 3: like that deeply impacts the witness And in this case,
Speaker 3: this lifelong entripid outdoorsman, for the rest of his life
Speaker 3: swore off ever going to that area again to heart.
Speaker 4: And that's a.
Speaker 3: Common thing that I have found with witnesses that I've interviewed,
Speaker 3: and witnesses that I have seen interviewed on documentaries and
Speaker 3: in books. However brief their encounter was, it caused them
Speaker 3: to stop going to a certain area. Normally, you're outdoors people,
Speaker 3: your hunters are very intrepid, not a lot scarce. But
Speaker 3: when they swear all going and hunting a perfectly good,
Speaker 3: good area.
Speaker 4: That tells me a lot.
Speaker 3: Now, I will to say that in the winter of
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy eight, in the nineteen si which is a
Speaker 3: special time in the history of this phenomena, here in
Speaker 3: the South Mountains area, there was an entire cluster many
Speaker 3: encounters that was recorded and I'm not going to just
Speaker 3: spend a minute and a half or two minutes talking
Speaker 3: about that. There was too many things happened. It was
Speaker 3: very complicated. There was some skulduggery involved. So we're going
Speaker 3: to give that whole thing. It's on episode and we're
Speaker 3: going to skip over that for now. But it was
Speaker 3: during that time period that our creatures here gained the
Speaker 3: nickname nobbies.
Speaker 2: Now, as Jerry just mentioned, the big foot in and
Speaker 2: around the South Mountains is called Knobby. So I thought
Speaker 2: I would break in here real quick and give you
Speaker 2: some context before we go any further. If you've ever
Speaker 2: wondered where that name actually comes from, here's the story.
Speaker 2: Back in the nineteen seventies, sightings of a large ape
Speaker 2: like creature started popping up in a very specific part
Speaker 2: of Cleveland County, North Carolina. These encounters weren't scattered all
Speaker 2: over the place. They were concentrated around a geographical feature
Speaker 2: called Carpenter's Knob, which sits north of King's Mountain in
Speaker 2: the South Mountains region. Now, if you're not familiar with
Speaker 2: the area, the terrain there is known for its rolling
Speaker 2: hills and distinctive elevated formations that locals refer to as knobs.
Speaker 2: So when folks started seeing this big, hairy creature wandering
Speaker 2: around near Carpenter's Knob, well, it didn't take long for
Speaker 2: a nickname to stick. They started calling him Noobby. The
Speaker 2: creature in the landscape became linked in the minds of
Speaker 2: the people who lived there, and unlike the generic term
Speaker 2: bigfoot that gets thrown around everywhere, Nobby became something uniquely theirs,
Speaker 2: a local legend with a local name tied directly to
Speaker 2: the land where those first encounters took place. To this day,
Speaker 2: the residents of Cleveland County still share stories about Nobby,
Speaker 2: and they take a certain pride in their home grown cryptid.
Speaker 2: It's not just bigfoot to them. It's their bigfoot, all right. Now,
Speaker 2: let's get back to Jerry and more encounter stories from
Speaker 2: the South Mountains.
Speaker 3: Well, let's jump ahead to March of nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 3: Rutherford County, North Carolina, near a place called bat Cave,
Speaker 3: just twenty five minutes up the road, thirty minutes from
Speaker 3: me or so, but certainly within the range of the
Speaker 3: South Mountains. There was two fishermen, and this comes from
Speaker 3: Bfr there was two fishermen fishing the broad river in
Speaker 3: a sparsely populated area. Fisherman number one saw a creature,
Speaker 3: suddenly looked up, saw a creature washing him from the
Speaker 3: other side of the river. And he said that this
Speaker 3: went on for five or ten seconds, which in that
Speaker 3: particular circumstance can seem like it in the moment, it
Speaker 3: seem like it lasts for outsh Imagine locking eyes with
Speaker 3: some creature who you just looked up and suddenly there
Speaker 3: was this thing looking at you.
Speaker 4: He said.
Speaker 3: It then just simply walked behind a laurel thicket and disappeared.
Speaker 3: But he could hear it walking in the thicket, which
Speaker 3: tells me it was a large general. He described it
Speaker 3: as six to eight feet tall. And here was an
Speaker 3: interesting thing, lean and not bulky. Now that goes contrary
Speaker 3: to almost every description that the eyewitness has ever given.
Speaker 3: Normally the very big specimen's robust physical shape.
Speaker 4: But this one was lean and not bulky, and that
Speaker 4: caught my attention.
Speaker 3: And then I saw his description of its coloration, that
Speaker 3: it was dark brown but had gray hair, also, which
Speaker 3: tells me it was an aging creature. Perhaps it had
Speaker 3: disease or was nearing the end of its life. But
Speaker 3: fisherman number two, who was about fifty feet away, had
Speaker 3: a different vantage point, and he said that he watched
Speaker 3: the creature sick or not, effortlessly walk up the side
Speaker 3: of the mountain on the opposite side of Gray Rick,
Speaker 3: hidden one of the thickets. And I would certainly like
Speaker 3: to talk to these two witnesses. That would be great.
Speaker 3: I believe every word of it, but I would certainly
Speaker 3: enjoy a conversation with him. So if either one of
Speaker 3: your we're watching this episode, reach out to me. Now,
Speaker 3: to those of you who watched a live last night,
Speaker 3: in tonight's episode, was something we didn't talk about last night.
Speaker 3: This comes all the way up to October of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one. We're skipping in time. We're skipping ahead, but
Speaker 3: we'll go back and we'll finish our chronological discussion of sightings.
Speaker 4: October twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Two hunters riding four wheelers in this area along part
Speaker 3: of the Broad River. The man on the lead four
Speaker 3: wheeler could hear something over the sound of his engine,
Speaker 3: and it compelled him to stop and shut his engine
Speaker 3: off into listen, and then he was able to very
Speaker 3: clearly hear this noise and understand what it was. No
Speaker 3: longer impeded by the sound of the engine of that vehicle.
Speaker 3: He said, it was this long, howling noise that started
Speaker 3: out deep frequencied below, and then it rose in pitch
Speaker 3: and also rose in volume, and it cycled through that twice,
Speaker 3: and he said it shook him up just terribly. And
Speaker 3: he heard his him coming up behind him on the
Speaker 3: other four wheeler, catching up with him, and he turned
Speaker 3: around and was frantically waving his hands like that, and
Speaker 3: then he put his hands out telling his friend to stop.
Speaker 3: He wanted his friend to stop immediately, and his friend
Speaker 3: slowed down and was coming closer and closer to him,
Speaker 3: and suddenly his friend got this shocked, surprised look on
Speaker 3: his face, his eyes again big. He immediately started pointing behind.
Speaker 3: So we're trying to get his friend to turn around
Speaker 3: and look behind him, and there behind him stood this
Speaker 3: seven to eight foot creature they estimated to be over
Speaker 3: four five hundred pounds, and then it was just looking
Speaker 3: at him, and then suddenly turned walked through the river
Speaker 3: without his head ever going completely underneath, and then disappeared
Speaker 3: in the woods on the other side. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: some more creepy North Carolina apple Achian Foothills big Foot sighting.
Speaker 3: So let me take you back to October of two
Speaker 3: thousand and one Burke County, North Caroline A near the
Speaker 3: town of Mornings. This report comes to us from bfro's
Speaker 3: online resources. There were three campers watching strange lights in
Speaker 3: that area, and they were trying to determine if these
Speaker 3: lights were explainable or if perhaps they were witnessing the
Speaker 3: infamous Brown Mountain lights. But their concentration was broken. They
Speaker 3: heard a very odd and I.
Speaker 4: Presume chilling noise.
Speaker 3: It was a long lasting screen, lasting for several minutes,
Speaker 3: and the witnesses described it as sounding like yodeling. Now
Speaker 3: that comparison has been made before, and I for one
Speaker 3: can't think of any North American wildlife that makes a
Speaker 3: yodling light nighttime sound.
Speaker 4: And I want to point out before.
Speaker 3: We move on, that this area they were in was,
Speaker 3: in fact, as I alluded to earlier, known for strange light,
Speaker 3: a trait that is consistent in the Appalachian Mountains and
Speaker 3: certainly in the South Mountains, Mountain Range and the periphery
Speaker 3: in and around the South Mountains. There is definitely some
Speaker 3: kind of relationship between strange lights and bigfoot or cryptid reports.
Speaker 3: Witnesses testimonies across the board bear that app Let's jump
Speaker 3: ahead to the summer of two thousand and six here
Speaker 3: in Cleveland County, my home county, near the town of
Speaker 3: King's Mountain, North Carolina, about eight thirty in the evening,
Speaker 3: and this comes to us from BFRO and their online resources.
Speaker 3: Oneman was standing at her kitchen window about eight thirty
Speaker 3: at night, washing her hands, and her husband testifies that
Speaker 3: all of a sudden he heard her yell, what the hell
Speaker 3: was at She saw a creature. She saw the head
Speaker 3: and shoulders of that creature go by the window. Now,
Speaker 3: the next day they determined that due to the height,
Speaker 3: the window was above the ground and it was a
Speaker 3: good distance off the ground. In order for his wife
Speaker 3: to have been able to see that creature through the window,
Speaker 3: it would have had have been at least ten foot tall. Now,
Speaker 3: the husband also found a twenty to thirty foot green
Speaker 3: or living sapling that had been snapped over at about
Speaker 3: three foot high. In the world of cryptid investigations, we
Speaker 3: call those tree breaks. It takes a tremendous amount of
Speaker 3: force to be able to snap a living tree of
Speaker 3: that size. One more interesting note, this couple has a
Speaker 3: creek on their property that feeds the Broad River. My
Speaker 3: mind immediately went back to the legend of Voggie Crue,
Speaker 3: the great movie of the nineteen seventies, the granddaddy of
Speaker 3: all the big foot films. If you haven't seen it,
Speaker 3: you need to, you're missing out. But in that movie
Speaker 3: there was a famous quote, he always travels the creeks. Now,
Speaker 3: I can tell you in interviews with some of the
Speaker 3: old timers around here and with my experiences, the same
Speaker 3: is true here, and eyewitness testimonies across the board tells
Speaker 3: us that they do, indeed always travel to creeks.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll be
Speaker 2: right back after these messages.
Speaker 3: So if you got a creak along your property, then
Speaker 3: you're in a wooded area, you might want to pay attention.
Speaker 3: Lockdow County two thousand and eight a family who had
Speaker 3: a long history of cryptid activity at their home, prior
Speaker 3: history of screams, wooden knocks, but one night one of
Speaker 3: the witnesses got the sensation of being watched. Now, I
Speaker 3: think most of us can relate to that. I certainly can't.
Speaker 3: Not only in the woods, or at night outside, but
Speaker 3: in my own home, getting that sensation of being watched.
Speaker 3: It's some kind of a sixth sense that us humans have.
Speaker 3: We stepped outside and we heard a series of tree knocks.
Speaker 3: So we picked up a piece of wood and made
Speaker 3: his own tree knock, and was immediately answered by yet
Speaker 3: another tree knock.
Speaker 4: Now a tree knock, for those of you who don't know.
Speaker 3: You take a stick, a wooden stick and hit a tree,
Speaker 3: or take two wooden objects and hit them together, and
Speaker 3: you've got a wood knock.
Speaker 4: Then there was a rock.
Speaker 3: Throwing incidents here on this property. Witness heard rocks hitting
Speaker 3: the metal roof of his house. Then he caught a
Speaker 3: glimpse of something gray moving toward him, Now a gray
Speaker 3: colored creature, probably an aging creature, probably not just a
Speaker 3: different color, but aging. But he saw a gray creature.
Speaker 3: And then the next day he found some footprints in
Speaker 3: a dirt bank, and that night he heard howling continue
Speaker 3: for a while.
Speaker 4: But here's where it got tricky.
Speaker 3: Not only did this man here pounding on his walls
Speaker 3: outside that night. Now I don't mind saying I am
Speaker 3: a witness to having that happen in a structure that
Speaker 3: I was in and that's happened more than once. Not
Speaker 3: a comforting sound, especially coming at twelve or one o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning when he was sound asleep, but he
Speaker 3: a so heard pounding on the roof of his house.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and nine, McDowell County, Northchuline. Another report, this
Speaker 3: brought to us by the online resources of BFRO. It's
Speaker 3: a man driving on Highway two twenty six in McDowell County,
Speaker 3: and it was around two am and he saw something dark,
Speaker 3: a creature ahead, and it had been crossing the road,
Speaker 3: was walking on two legs, and as he slowed and got.
Speaker 4: Closer to it him, it stopped.
Speaker 3: He described the creature as walking slumped over at an angle,
Speaker 3: having its arms and hands hanging down to about the
Speaker 3: knee level, and that it was had reddish brown, dark fur,
Speaker 3: and it was very stout and thick in both its
Speaker 3: upper body and its legs, six to seven feet tall.
Speaker 3: But here's where it gets interesting. When the creature looked
Speaker 3: for the headlights of the car, its eyes shone yellow.
Speaker 3: Normally with a big foot sighting at night and you
Speaker 3: have eye shine its grain or its red, but in
Speaker 3: this case it was a yellow shade. That's very interested.
Speaker 3: Any of you that have insight on that drop it
Speaker 3: into comments. The other interesting thing about this is that
Speaker 3: this creature stopped and didn't run, and then calmly walked
Speaker 3: across the road and into a field and disappear.
Speaker 4: Now the witness is not just an ordinary witness.
Speaker 3: He was a park ranger, a retired fark ranger, and
Speaker 3: so he knows the woods, both daytime woods and nighttime woods,
Speaker 3: and he got the feeling, he got the instinct that
Speaker 3: the creature had laid down in that field to get
Speaker 3: out of the line of sight and hide. So, for
Speaker 3: all you folks that watched the live a couple Sunday
Speaker 3: nights ago, I promised you that in each of these
Speaker 3: episodes of our chronological listing of bigfoot sightings in this area,
Speaker 3: that I would give you something new bonus if you will.
Speaker 3: August two thousand, a family of four was camping in
Speaker 3: the South Mountains on a piece of privately held land,
Speaker 3: and after dark they were roasting hot dogs over the fire.
Speaker 3: They began to hear a series of very strange noises,
Speaker 3: and the father told me that he just knew absolutely
Speaker 3: that these noises were not being made by native wildlife.
Speaker 3: First there was a series of sounds from multiple sources
Speaker 3: in the same direction of what was described as shouted chatter.
Speaker 3: Then off to the west they started hearing clear tree knocks.
Speaker 3: Then from the direction of the shouted chatter, they heard
Speaker 3: more tree knocks. The family betted down in their tents.
Speaker 3: Mom and dad in their tent and the eight year
Speaker 3: old son and twelve year old daughter in the adjacent tent.
Speaker 3: In the wee hours of the morning, Amen, Dad were.
Speaker 4: Awakened by the kids, who were very upset.
Speaker 3: We're still talking about cryptid encounters as reported by iowaness
Speaker 3: is here in the western North Carolina Foothills region, specifically
Speaker 3: in and around the South Mountains Mountain Range area. We
Speaker 3: are up to June twenty ten, and we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about what we call the Peeler incident. Now, mister
Speaker 3: Peeler was a man that lived northwest of the town
Speaker 3: of Cajia, North Carolina, and the events of that day
Speaker 3: made international news. A mister Peeler a man who lived
Speaker 3: a mountain man type of lifestyle, very private minded, his
Speaker 3: own business, very reclusive, didn't bother anybody. The encounter to
Speaker 3: him was so serious that he did something that not
Speaker 3: many people living the lifestyle that he lived would do,
Speaker 3: and that is to notify the police. But he did that,
Speaker 3: and there was a report to this day on file
Speaker 3: with the Cleveland County Sheriff's office, and they investigated and
Speaker 3: they treated it very seriously. But on this particular day,
Speaker 3: he heard screeching and he heard grunning noises coming from
Speaker 3: out on his property. He went out, he saw a creature.
Speaker 3: He described this creature as extremely tall, with gray and
Speaker 3: white hair, and in places the hair was very long.
Speaker 3: The most remarkable thing about his description was that he
Speaker 3: counted six fingers on each chin, and that is not
Speaker 3: unheard of in reports of cryptis from around this country
Speaker 3: and from around the world. But it also jives with
Speaker 3: the tales even going back to antiquity of giant beings
Speaker 3: who had six digits on each chin. Mister Peeler caught
Speaker 3: a hard time from a lot of people. He was
Speaker 3: very open with law enforcement, he was very open with
Speaker 3: the news media, and a lot of us took him seriously.
Speaker 3: That a lot of people made fun of him and
Speaker 3: shame on them. But that day, when he went out
Speaker 3: saw the creature, it appeared to him that it was
Speaker 3: menacing his dogs. So he faced off with the creature
Speaker 3: and he picked up a stick and he yelled at it,
Speaker 3: and the creature went away without further incident. And too
Speaker 3: my knowledge, he hasn't had any more incidents. If he has,
Speaker 3: he's kept him to himself. And I don't blame, but
Speaker 3: I believe him. Now, moving up to March twenty eleven,
Speaker 3: we're in the Cleveland Rutherford County area right there in
Speaker 3: the South Mountains at the South Mountain State Park, South
Speaker 3: Mountain Gameland, and we have a retired Navy petty officer
Speaker 3: who was the witness that day, and he also got
Speaker 3: a video of this incident. He was there in a
Speaker 3: remote area thickly wooded both sides of the road in
Speaker 3: a creature came out of a field through some briers
Speaker 3: and some bushes and crossed the road in front of him.
Speaker 4: He described the creature as.
Speaker 3: Seven feet tall, and he also was close enough, and
Speaker 3: he said, fifteen to twenty feet away that he detected
Speaker 3: a very foul odor. He said that the creature threw
Speaker 3: up his hands and snarled at him. Now he was
Speaker 3: close enough to see everything to include the genitalia of
Speaker 3: this creature, and it was a male. It had a limp.
Speaker 3: He could see clearly every part of this creature's body.
Speaker 3: It was massive, thick, and stout. But of course there
Speaker 3: was an academic whose name I won't even call, but
Speaker 3: it was the typically arrogant response. When this academic saw
Speaker 3: the video, he said, and I'm not sure where he
Speaker 3: got this, but it was somebody that was dressed up
Speaker 3: as a creature, wearing blue jeans. Typical academic scientific response,
Speaker 3: just completely dismiss eyewitness encounters, dismiss the evidence. But I,
Speaker 3: for one, I believe the Navy beety officer what he
Speaker 3: saw was what he said he saw. I'll also mentioned
Speaker 3: that the area that he had his sighting was an
Speaker 3: area a hotspot from my previous investigations of sightings of
Speaker 3: these creatures. Now, in June of twenty thirteen, driving late
Speaker 3: at night, a man saw a reddish brown creature standing
Speaker 3: behind a guardrail. It had very long hair, very tall.
Speaker 3: It's facial features were somewhat human like, but that it
Speaker 3: had a slight brow ridge across the top of its size.
Speaker 3: Remarkably enough, in the same general area. Two weeks prior
Speaker 3: to this, he was fishing and he heard some noise,
Speaker 3: heard some sounds of limbs breaking, and also some woodenknocks
Speaker 3: there at the fishing part that he was at, and
Speaker 3: he heard strange house. Now he observed the creature come
Speaker 3: and jump off of about an eight foot cliff and
Speaker 3: landed in the lake, and it appeared to be thrashing
Speaker 3: around with something like it was trying to catch another animal.
Speaker 3: It was so much motion going on he couldn't quite tell.
Speaker 3: But again, very long hair, very tall, and facial features
Speaker 3: that did not quite appear human. And it had that
Speaker 3: tail tale bridge going across the brow of its face.
Speaker 3: In October of twenty nineteen, a gentleman by the name
Speaker 3: of Joe Scarborough, an electrician and this made the newswire,
Speaker 3: was doing some work behind a home outside of Caser,
Speaker 3: North Carolina, again my hometown. And these tracks that he
Speaker 3: found that day were thirteen to fourteen inches long. Now,
Speaker 3: they were extremely fresh, and evidently mister Scarborough's an experienced outdoorsman,
Speaker 3: experience turner, and he noticed that the small plants were
Speaker 3: embedded still lighing down in the tracks, meaning that the
Speaker 3: tracts were so fresh that those plants had not yet
Speaker 3: had a.
Speaker 4: Chance to rebound.
Speaker 3: Now, mister Scarborough went out later to cap out in
Speaker 3: the area, and I am trying to reach mister Scarborough
Speaker 3: to see what.
Speaker 4: If anything, that he experienced after that.
Speaker 3: This man, a professional who put everything on the line
Speaker 3: to come forward and tell authorities as well as the
Speaker 3: news media that he had found these tracts, and of
Speaker 3: course he took pictures off and I'm very interested to know. So,
Speaker 3: mister Scarborough, if you hear about this, reach out to me,
Speaker 3: my friend. I want to hear your entire story, and
Speaker 3: I believe every word of it and I'm interested in
Speaker 3: your experience now, as I've done in the previous two episodes.
Speaker 3: For those of you that watched The Life where we
Speaker 3: went over all of this already, I promised you a
Speaker 3: fresh story at the end of each episode. So last
Speaker 3: week we left off with a family that was camping
Speaker 3: here in the South Mountains area.
Speaker 4: After sundown.
Speaker 3: They were doing the typical capping things that a family
Speaker 3: would do.
Speaker 4: They begin to hear noises. They begin to put it in.
Speaker 3: Their words, a shouted chatter. They couldn't make out the
Speaker 3: words because it didn't sound like England. Then they heard
Speaker 3: a clear wood knock. Now more of the odd shouted
Speaker 3: chatter sounds were heard on and off mixed with the
Speaker 3: short house. The dad plainly knew that to him, it
Speaker 3: just didn't seem like any kind of wildlife that was
Speaker 3: native of this area. He wasn't Davy Crockett, according to
Speaker 3: his own estimation, but that he knew enough about the
Speaker 3: wildlife in western North Carolina to know what he was
Speaker 3: hearing wasn't attributable to any nold wildlife at any rate.
Speaker 3: The family betted down in their tents and mom and
Speaker 3: dad had their tent and there was eight year old
Speaker 3: son and twelve year old daughter who had their tent,
Speaker 3: and the wee hours of the morning, they were awakened
Speaker 3: by the eight year old and the twelve year old.
Speaker 3: They were frantic and wanted to sleep in the tent.
Speaker 3: The eight year old was crying. He said that he
Speaker 3: heard monkey noises coming from outside their tent, grunning in
Speaker 3: something walking outside. He woke his sister up and she
Speaker 3: heard the sounds too, and the sounds were getting closer
Speaker 3: and closer. They didn't have the rain skirt on the
Speaker 3: top of the tent, and the twelve year old daughter
Speaker 3: peeked up and looked out toward the woods, and she
Speaker 3: saw the silhouette of what she said was a giant monster.
Speaker 3: They woke the parents up, they got in the tent
Speaker 3: with them, and the family rode out the night in fear.
Speaker 3: The next morning they packed up and left. As I've
Speaker 3: talked about a virtually all of the episodes that I
Speaker 3: have done on my show that started in October of
Speaker 3: this past year, here in western North Carolina we have
Speaker 3: massive areas of deep wilderness that covers a variety of terrain.
Speaker 3: And here in western North Carolina life can be easily
Speaker 3: sustained from small forms all the way up the large forms.
Speaker 3: And we know that in western North Carolina that it
Speaker 3: can definitely sustain the unknowned and the darker side of life.
Speaker 3: But Western North Carolina is not the only part of
Speaker 3: the Carolinas that is known to harbor the things that
Speaker 3: go bump in the nag. Western North Carolina is not
Speaker 3: the only area of the Carolinas where something may step
Speaker 3: out from behind a tree in the middle of the
Speaker 3: deep woods and dead stare you. In Western North Carolina
Speaker 3: is not the only part of the Carolinas where you
Speaker 3: may find yourself traveling down a desolate stretch of road
Speaker 3: when suddenly the unknown appears out of the woodline. And
Speaker 3: crosses the road in front of you. See, the fact
Speaker 3: of the matter is there's plenty of areas in the
Speaker 3: coastal area is of North Carolina and South Carolina that
Speaker 3: harbor cryptids. We're going to talk about many of those
Speaker 3: encounters over the coming who knows how many weeks, depending
Speaker 3: on how many stories that folks send.
Speaker 4: Me to add to what I already have. Jump in
Speaker 4: and hang on.
Speaker 3: I think that you're going to be fascinated, sometimes scared,
Speaker 3: but we're definitely going to have an enjoyable ride talking
Speaker 3: about the cryptids of eastern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina.
Speaker 3: The first experience that I'm going to share with you
Speaker 3: in this new series occurred right here Onslow County, North Carolina,
Speaker 3: and it was first cataloged by BFRO, the Big Foot
Speaker 3: Field Researchers Organization, and it takes us all the way
Speaker 3: back to October of nineteen sixty five. Now, so many
Speaker 3: areas of the coast of Carolina's can accurately be called
Speaker 3: a sportsman's parents. But on this clear October morning in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five, a fifteen year old boy made a decision.
Speaker 4: He found himself in a situation.
Speaker 3: Where one minute he was in an area that could
Speaker 3: be called a paradise, only to quickly and unexpectedly transition
Speaker 3: into what we could accurately call a kid's nightmare.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. Will be
Speaker 2: right back after these messages.
Speaker 3: Now, Onslough County covers about nine hundred and five square miles,
Speaker 3: plenty of wilderness, plenty of the different kinds of waterways
Speaker 3: and water features you find in eastern North Carolina, to
Speaker 3: include swamps. Oslow County is also the home to Camp
Speaker 3: La Jeune Marine Corps base. It's on Camp Lagoun where
Speaker 3: all of this occurred. Now, on that particular morning, this
Speaker 3: young fifteen year old boy decided that he was going
Speaker 3: to skip school and he was going to go explore
Speaker 3: one of the more remote areas of Campbelagen. I'm sure
Speaker 3: he was carefree and happy, knowing the rule the worst
Speaker 3: day in the woods is better than the best day
Speaker 3: at school or at work. At least, still something like
Speaker 3: this happens now. As he wandered along, seeing the sights
Speaker 3: of nature, he decided at one point to cut through
Speaker 3: a more densely wooded area, and as he did so,
Speaker 3: shortly into that densely wooded area, he noticed something very strange.
Speaker 3: All of the sounds of nature have gone dead quiet,
Speaker 3: total silence. Now, that's an uncomfortable feeling into people who
Speaker 3: are experienced in the woods, and I don't know if
Speaker 3: this young man was that experienced, but generally that means
Speaker 3: that an apex predator is present. But in addition to
Speaker 3: having to deal with this sudden and complete silence, he
Speaker 3: became overwashed by that very eerie feeling that he was
Speaker 3: being watched, very uncomfortable feeling, where every hair on your
Speaker 3: neck stands up, every hair or your arms stands up.
Speaker 3: You've got this strain almost electric sensation. You don't know
Speaker 3: what direction to look at, you don't know what's happening.
Speaker 3: You just know that you're feeling very uncomfortable and very awkward.
Speaker 3: And as he stood there, he noticed the source of
Speaker 3: this uneings and at first he thought it was a deer.
Speaker 3: He saw something in the undergrowth, But as he intensely
Speaker 3: stared into this dense eastern North Carolina foliage, he quickly
Speaker 3: figured out that what he was seeing was no deer.
Speaker 3: What he was seeing was some type of unknown creature.
Speaker 3: He said it was massive, eight to ten feet tall,
Speaker 3: covered in hair on two feet and he said, this
Speaker 3: creature was moving so quickly. The sound of this thing
Speaker 3: bullying its way through the trees in the foliage was thunderous.
Speaker 3: He would later say that he was amazed that something
Speaker 3: that big could move that quickly, And I wonder if
Speaker 3: he didn't do some math in his head as he
Speaker 3: stood there, and that mass that I would have done
Speaker 3: would have been, if something that big can move that
Speaker 3: quick then surely it can overtake me and then do
Speaker 3: with me.
Speaker 4: As at least I would.
Speaker 3: Have been terrified, And he said later said the only
Speaker 3: thing I could do was step there, completely powerless, but
Speaker 3: just stand there and watch this thing. Finally, the sound
Speaker 3: of it crashing through the trees in the undergrowth dissipated,
Speaker 3: and it seemed to have disappeared. Now, had I been him,
Speaker 3: I would have been thinking a lot of things. Is
Speaker 3: it really gone? How far did it go? Did it
Speaker 3: stop and conceal itself? And is it gonna stop me
Speaker 3: or follow me? Does it have plans for me? But
Speaker 3: as he was in this trance like state where all
Speaker 3: he do was just standing place in the face of
Speaker 3: this apparent danger, the sound of nature resumed and he
Speaker 3: said that kind of brought him out of it. And
Speaker 3: when he came out of it, he moved out of
Speaker 3: the area, and he moved out quickly, and it was
Speaker 3: years before he told anybody what had happened to him.
Speaker 3: But he never returned to that area again. I will
Speaker 3: tell you about the encounter had by three young Marines
Speaker 3: in Carteret County, North Carolina, in May of nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 3: as well as some other experiences. But the three young
Speaker 3: Marines had the type of encounter that is the type
Speaker 3: that intrigues me the most as a researcher. I'd like
Speaker 3: to say that I'm dedicating this series of episodes to
Speaker 3: my friend Houndog that lives down there on the eastern
Speaker 3: end of North Carolina. Been a great friend to me.
Speaker 3: I appreciate all of you, and I will see you
Speaker 3: next time.
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