WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.000 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.120 on here, something just cause my dog. Something killed your dog, 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:08.960 my dog. We're flying through the air over the tree. 4 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.640 I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.120 really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.800 the fence and he was dead. And once you hit 7 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:19.679 the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I 8 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:38.320 saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:42.960 are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling 10 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:51.920 around out here? Did you see what it was? 11 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:52.240 Or was it was? 12 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:54.719 Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now 13 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:58.600 and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside. Jesus, 14 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:05.120 quice you better, or hello, get somebody out here. What 15 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:07.000 one on out there? It's thought of a bitch of 16 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.159 about sixty fort nine. I don't know easy out there. 17 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.799 Yeah, I'm looking right out tonight. 18 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:15.040 I want to share with you some encounters that people 19 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.680 have between nineteen seventy eight into nineteen seventy nine, a 20 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:21.760 series of encounters that would go on to captivate an 21 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.560 entire town, an entire area with fear. 22 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:26.760 And this fear was brought on by an. 23 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.760 Unknold creature that would howl and wail and scream into 24 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.920 the night, a creature who, during hours of darkness in 25 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:39.439 the shadows, would trowl and stalk around people's properties, a 26 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.400 creature that would kill animals, and a creature that was 27 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:47.079 bold enough to sometimes show itself during daytime hours. These 28 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.760 incidents occurred in and around my hometown of Kazer in 29 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:54.239 North Carolina, which sits at the very base of the 30 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:58.359 South Mountains mountain range under thousand acres of wilderness here 31 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.560 in the foothills of western Odclina, and many believes that 32 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:06.359 this all started during this timeframe, near a place called 33 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.360 Coffiner's Knob, which sets at the eastern end of the 34 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:14.039 South Mountains. On this cold December morning of nineteen seventy eight, 35 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.439 a lady eighty eight years of age by the name 36 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:20.319 of Miss Minnie Cook would have an encounter that she 37 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:21.039 never forgot. 38 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:23.319 She heard her dogs outside barking. 39 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.120 It was clear they was upset about, so so she 40 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:30.280 went out to investigate. She saw a large, black hair 41 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:33.120 covered creature, and at first she didn't know what to 42 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:35.560 make of it because it appeared to be down on 43 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:39.400 all fours until it stood up and it stared her 44 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.319 down from that day forward, miss Cook wouldn't go outside 45 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.800 unless she was rible to rifle, and she went on 46 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.599 record as saying that she wished she had never saw it, 47 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.240 and that she hoped she never saw it again, and 48 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.960 that anyone else that saw this creature would feel the 49 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.759 same as she did. But miss Cook was merely the 50 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.919 first person to report such an encounter. 51 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:03.159 I've interviewed many people over. 52 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.199 The past four and a half to five years, and 53 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:10.879 I am thoroughly convinced that these encounters were already occurring before. 54 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:14.639 We're seeing this creature, and we're certainly hearing this creature, 55 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:19.120 which was the most commonly reported thing, these frightening howls 56 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:22.439 in the dead of night, terrifying high pitched screams and 57 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:26.800 grunning noises, and these weird howls that would end in 58 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:32.919 a crescendo of yodling lonesome whales, bellowing yells like a 59 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:34.039 bull bellowing. 60 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.039 And as a witness of these type of sounds. 61 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.240 In the dead of night, I will assure you that 62 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:44.159 it invokes a hair raising fear, knowing that something is 63 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.240 out there that's capable of making these sounds that are 64 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:51.919 not attributable to any known wildlife. Matter of fact, the 65 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.639 things that I've heard echoing off of these mountains and 66 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.680 echoing in these creek bottoms, and these hollers still echo 67 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:00.960 in my mind to this day. 68 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:01.680 Now. 69 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.360 The reported sightings during this time frame, near as I 70 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:06.800 can figure, were upwards of. 71 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.159 Around eighteen or twenty. 72 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.319 But many others, no doubt, had experiences, whether it was 73 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:17.560 the vocalizations or finding footprints or actual sightings of the creature. 74 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:22.279 But here's the thing, the fact that multiple people went 75 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:26.839 on record and reported all of these encounters, it speaks 76 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:27.639 volumes to me. 77 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.920 The folks around here are mountain foothills people. 78 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:37.480 They are people that value privacy, that value self reliance, 79 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:42.600 and frankly, there's an enduring mistrust of authority, high reluctance 80 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.319 to reach out to the authorities, to the government for 81 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.000 any reason whatsoever. So the fact that so many people 82 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:51.759 did reach out and make reports and talk to the 83 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:56.160 press tells me that they were worried and afraid in 84 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.000 that ever reaching out for help. So let's talk about 85 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.079 some of these incidents. Start with Miss Sally White. On 86 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:06.079 January sixteenth of nineteen seventy nine, she heard her dogs 87 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.160 barking ferociously like miss Minnie Cook, she was keenly aware 88 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:12.360 that something was wrong. 89 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:14.000 Now that's a common thing. 90 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.759 The dogs alert you first, So if you live out 91 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.720 near the deep wilderness, it behooves you to pay attention. 92 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.680 To your dogs and your animals, so they may very 93 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.399 well tip you off to something that's about to happen. 94 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.000 But miss White went out to investigate, and there she 95 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:35.319 saw it, a large black creature walking on two legs, 96 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:38.439 and she reported the incident. But come to find out, 97 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.600 it was not her first time. She had two previous 98 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.879 sightings of this creature that she did not report, but 99 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.920 finally with the third sighting, it compelled her to reach 100 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.319 out and notify the authorities and to tell people about it. 101 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:55.040 Also during this time period, a gentleman by the name 102 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.759 of mister Forrest Price founded. 103 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:01.040 One of his goats dead, and the goat died in 104 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:02.319 a horrible fashion. 105 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.360 It had a broken neck, something that we've seen around 106 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.720 here mainly with deer finding deer in the middle of 107 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:14.519 nowhere that had its neck snapped, ribs fractured, legs broken. 108 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:19.319 But mister Price had noticed several nights prior that something 109 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.399 had been stalking his property and prowling around. It was 110 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.959 upsetting his animals. As a matter of fact, it upset 111 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:29.680 his mule so bad that the mule broke the rope 112 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.079 that it was tethered with and ran off in fright. 113 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.439 But he also found footprints, and then there was his 114 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:40.279 brother Sammy, and mister Sammy Price had a day when 115 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:45.879 he heard these scary vocalizations, these sounds, these screams, and 116 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:50.040 then along about dark he saw it. He saw this hairy, 117 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.759 upright creature and at a distance he was able to 118 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.199 observe it for about fifteen minutes, and the creature finally 119 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:00.360 went out of sight. But all night long he had 120 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.879 to hear that creature screaming at a highly. He said, 121 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.160 he nodded off to sleep. At one point, then there 122 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.279 was a scream that was so loud. 123 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.360 And so close that before he knew it, he had 124 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.319 come up out of the bedroom was standing on the floor. 125 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:15.680 The night finally ended, but the creature wasn't through. It 126 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.519 wasn't through with him and his family. The next day 127 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.079 he was gone, and his wife began to hear these 128 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:26.240 terrible sounds, and she went outside and they're off in 129 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.120 the distance in the soybean field. She saw this creature, 130 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:33.240 this hairy creature that many described it looking somewhat human like. 131 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:35.959 She saw it, and it was in the field and 132 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.959 it appeared to be foraging for food. January fifteenth, nineteen 133 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:43.120 seventy nine, a lady by the name of Gay Smith 134 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.720 and her two sisters was traveling Old Highway ten, very 135 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.879 close to where I lived, and her sister Wanda, started 136 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.120 screaming all of a sudden, and then it took several 137 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.800 moments for her to explain what she was so upset about. 138 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.319 She said, I saw a monster, and the. 139 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:01.839 Ladies remarkably turned the car around and went back to 140 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.560 the side. There was a farm pond on the far 141 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.000 end of the pond. On the dam, there was this hairy, 142 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.879 humanoid looking creature that was squatting and had something white, 143 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:16.199 either a dead bird. They thought it might be a bag, 144 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.279 or they wasn't sure. Gay Smith got out of the car. 145 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:22.279 She started walking towards the creature and got to within 146 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.120 one hundred and fifty feet of it. The creature got 147 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.680 up and then walked down the other side of the 148 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.919 dam and disappeared. The time period of nineteen seventy eight 149 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:37.399 into nineteen seventy nine was a particularly unsettling and fearful 150 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:40.480 time for the residents in and around the South Mountains 151 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:43.120 mountain range of western North Carolina, which is part of 152 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:47.240 the Appalachan Foothills, and also for the residents in and 153 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:51.080 around my hometown of Kaser. Either was a creature that 154 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:56.159 was stalking and prowling, sometimes thing in the shatters, sometimes 155 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:00.000 fully stepping out to reveal itself during hours of day 156 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:04.679 time as well as nighttime. A creature who was killing animals, 157 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.120 creature who was very fond of making all of these 158 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:15.159 terrifying noises, wailing and screaming and yelling into the night. 159 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:20.039 These encounters were coming in from different directions. They weren't 160 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.240 just from one small area within the South Mountains area, 161 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:27.799 and Kaser seemed to be the epicenter of all of 162 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.639 the important for me to point out to you right 163 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.840 now that the people of this area were then and 164 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:38.000 still are a hardy, resilient breed of Mountain foothills speak, 165 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.679 the people who can handle problems, of people who can 166 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:44.399 handle fear, but also of people who give a healthy 167 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:49.519 amount of respect to that which is unknown, unexplained, and mysterious. 168 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.159 During this time period, people were afraid. Now I'm going 169 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.360 to point out to you at this point, now that 170 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:59.639 I've completely finished my research, it's far more appropriate to 171 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:03.360 say creatures for with an unexpected twist that you're not 172 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.679 going to see coming, and we're going to get to that. 173 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.159 I had described to you an encounter had by a 174 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.919 fellow named Sammy Price, and also a separate encounter that 175 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.360 his wife had in two days after his sighting, he 176 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.679 ventured into the woods, a gutsy move if you asked me, 177 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.759 and mister Price found what he believed was the den 178 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.919 of one of these creatures. The tail tale footprints was 179 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:28.120 in and around the area of the den, not unlike 180 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:30.639 footprints that had been found in other areas of the 181 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:34.200 South Mountains. But when he looked inside he saw the 182 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:37.840 hairs of different animals, So evidently this wasn't just a 183 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.320 place of rest for the creature, but a place where 184 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.360 it would bring back its prey to dine upon it. 185 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:47.720 During this time period, as the days went on, people 186 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:52.360 continue to have experiences, whether it be hearing the horrible 187 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:56.360 noises or seeing this creature. This creature described as large 188 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.919 and stout, black in color, hairy, walking, or. 189 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:01.159 On two legs. 190 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:06.200 The reports were numerous, but only a few officially came 191 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.799 forward and talked to the authorities, and fury Hat talked 192 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:12.279 to the media. But I ran across a newspaper article 193 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:14.159 where a fellow by. 194 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:15.080 The name of R. M. 195 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:18.879 Newton was interviewed. Now, mister Newton owned a small country 196 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.639 store near the community of Teluca, which is here in 197 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.840 the South Mountains area, very close to Cuckner's Knob. You 198 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.240 may not realize it, but a country store, small country 199 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.200 store in a rural area is more than just a 200 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:33.440 place to buy your supplies and your groceries. It's a 201 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:36.679 community hub. It's a gathering place. It's a source of 202 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:38.480 information and a source. 203 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.960 For the news that may be happening in that community 204 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:42.960 at any given time. 205 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.960 This is remarkable to me. Mister Newton reported that just 206 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:49.480 in the last few days of nineteen seventy eight into 207 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:52.440 just the first few days of nineteen seventy nine, about 208 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:55.840 a week's time period, the head talked to at least 209 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:59.240 twenty four people who told him they had an encounter 210 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.200 or that a family or loved one had an encounter 211 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.840 with this creek. That tells us that is more evidence 212 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.360 that the statements made by me and other researchers that 213 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:15.840 the actual encounters far out numbered. They were afforded encounters 214 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:19.960 by a great factor, mister Eldridge Cook, who was the 215 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:23.519 son of Many Cook. Many Cook being probably the most 216 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.000 famous figure during all of this that was going on 217 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:29.360 in this town period. But he certainly kept his finger 218 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.240 on the faults of his small community. Over here Coppner's job, 219 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.440 and he talked to many people who reported seeing this creature. 220 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:39.000 There were some that reported that the creature or creatures 221 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:44.240 were cited in the apple orchard near Coppner's job with impunity, 222 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.919 picking apples and standing there. There's the different types of. 223 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:51.440 Sightings we have, the nighttime signings, and often the nighttime 224 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:55.159 sightings involved a roadside sighting where the creature may be 225 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:56.399 standing by the road. 226 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.519 Or crossing the road, or very near the road. And 227 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:04.159 I found an encounter that particularly struck a nerve with me. 228 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:07.360 It was Felling by the name of mister Wayne Earl. 229 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.639 He and his wife were driving late at night on 230 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:14.200 the porch of his father's house. They saw a figure 231 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.360 or a shadow as the headlights lit the porch up. 232 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:21.639 It wasn't just any figure or any shadow, it was 233 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.960 one of these creatures. Now what it was doing on 234 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.159 that porch. She knows, but I think it was probably 235 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.120 trying to peer in the windows. People of Appalachia have 236 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.080 some rules, and a big one is you close your 237 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:33.919 curtains that night. 238 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:37.480 We'll go to the extent of pinning them shut because 239 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.200 the mountain people, the foothills people do not want the 240 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.919 unknown peering in through their windows while they're in the 241 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.399 privacy of their own home. We certainly don't want a 242 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.840 set of red eyes looking upon us while we sleep 243 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.919 in our bed. Horrible night time encounter that. 244 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.320 Affected people for the rest of their lives, but also 245 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:02.279 they come encounters equally affected people for the rest of 246 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:05.840 their lives. Want I ran across she was a very 247 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:08.279 credible witness, the wife of the deputy sheriff here in 248 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.799 Cleveland County. But she was driving near the old Methodist 249 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.480 campground there by the pond. Walking along the bank was 250 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:20.080 one of these creatures called black Harry walking on two feet. 251 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.360 We find that the descriptions of this creature are these 252 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.639 creatures for the most part, and we're going to talk 253 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:32.399 about that later, but these descriptions were remarkably consistent, same 254 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:36.960 general size, same general way. It lends further credibility to 255 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.799 the whole thing, despite what the skeptics will say. And 256 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:42.360 we're gonna touch on that as well. There was a 257 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:46.080 gentleman by the name of Ben Morris. Daytime sightning very 258 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.000 deeply affected him. And it sounds simple, but if you 259 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.799 put yourself in his shoes and understand how he felt 260 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.840 writing daytime in his car there by the road, climbing 261 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.159 a bank one of these creatures the bank on two feet, 262 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:04.679 and stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. 263 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:07.320 We'll be right back after these messages. 264 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:13.840 And mister Morrison was actually ridiculed by a skeptic after 265 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.200 that happened. There was a reporter by the name of 266 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.000 Robert Williams, and I remain charly grateful to mister Williams. 267 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.399 May he rest in peace. He is actually the one 268 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.559 who is credited with giving our South Mountains Bigfoot its nickname, 269 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:31.840 which is Nobby. We call them Nobby or Nobby's. 270 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:31.840 To this day. 271 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:34.039 There was names that the old folks used to call 272 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:39.759 them Booger's, false mo wapus, but ever since the late seventies, 273 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:42.840 Nobby has stuck. I ran across an interview that he 274 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:48.120 did with a hunter whose name was Taylor Falls now 275 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.440 mister Falls went on record as engaging one day during 276 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.360 the summer of nineteen seventy eight in the illegal deer hunt. 277 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.840 He said that a buck stepped out and he raised 278 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:03.519 his right before he could take a shot, his creature 279 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:08.080 stepped out between him and the buck deer, and this man, 280 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.759 who loved hunting so very much that he was willing 281 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.039 to break the law and possibly get in trouble to 282 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:14.399 do it. 283 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.200 From that day forward, swore off. Honting swore off going 284 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:19.000 into the woods. 285 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.360 In the late spring of nineteen seventy eight, the same 286 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.759 reporter interview to man who was fishing in one of 287 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.879 the many waterways of the South Mountains, and there, in 288 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:34.159 the quiet, calm stillness of the river or the creek, 289 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:38.799 the unknown had stepped out of the deep woods, and 290 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:43.039 people were seeing the unknown on a regular basis. When 291 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.279 they weren't seeing the unknown, they were hearing the unknown. 292 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:51.279 This area has always been nulled for strange and unexplained phenomena, 293 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.000 weird things, that's called odd things. That's got the old 294 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.559 ghost cryptids, lights in the woods, lights in the sky. 295 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:01.600 But during this time period, many different people from many 296 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:06.079 different areas within the South Mountains periphery were reporty seeing 297 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:11.000 creatures tall, covered in black hair, looking somewhat like a 298 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:15.519 looking somewhat like a man. In these screams and these yells, 299 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:19.079 and these hollers and whales that people were hearing all 300 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:20.240 hours of the day. 301 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:23.440 People were being frightened, especially at night. 302 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:25.599 When you hear these strange sounds that come out of 303 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:30.000 these mountains at night, echoing off of every tree in 304 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.279 the holler, in the creek bottoms. It'll terrify even the 305 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.079 strongest person and make you not bull be outside, or 306 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:37.880 make you not buller be in the woods. 307 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.559 That's what they were dealing with, and people were worried 308 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:41.079 and scared. 309 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:43.880 Speaking of a reporter by the name of Robert Williams, 310 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.319 and I am again I want to say this eternally 311 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:49.680 grateful for his work because he preserved some of the 312 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:54.640 eye witnesses accounts, he preserved history in his newspaper articles. 313 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.279 Mister Williams interviewed officially, it was in the South Mountains 314 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.880 area of fishing one day out of the woods stepped 315 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:06.200 one of these creatures, same description, big, tall, covered in 316 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:10.279 black hair, and as quickly as the creature appeared, it 317 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:11.839 disappeared back into the woods. 318 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:14.319 But our fisherman did. 319 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.240 A strange and I would have to say bold thing, 320 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:21.279 because he went back to that same spot the next 321 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:22.960 day with a fire arm. 322 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:25.759 Why he did it's probably lost to history. 323 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:28.920 But he waited it out and the creature made an appearance, 324 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:30.359 and he took a shot at the creature. 325 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.000 But whether he hit it or not, it may be 326 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:33.759 lost to history. 327 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.519 I find no record of any type of interview after 328 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:39.519 the day that he took a shot at the creature. 329 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:41.839 He may have shot at it because he told someone 330 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.519 about his experience and they made fun of him or 331 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:46.680 didn't believe him, and he wanted to go get the evidence. 332 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:49.599 Who knows, your guess is as good as one. An 333 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:52.880 air account that I ran across ten am one morning. 334 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:55.720 A lady named Miss Argill was writing up the road, 335 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.119 and I know the exact road. I'm not going to 336 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:01.359 mention the exact place. But she saw what she thought 337 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:05.440 was a large black dog. She slowed down. According to 338 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.039 her testimony, it took to about thirty miles an hour. 339 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.680 She realized that it wasn't a flood dog. 340 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.720 She said that this thing running on all fours. She 341 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:16.960 never said if it raised up on two feet or not, 342 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.000 and that's going to be an important thing later, but 343 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:23.319 that it was able to look into her window. She 344 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:25.720 went home and she told her husband, and he said, 345 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:29.559 don't tell anybody, they'll think you're crazy. Of course she did. 346 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:33.200 It affected her deeply, and she went on the record 347 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:35.279 as saying how deeply it affected her. 348 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.240 And it's a common thing. I've talked to many witnesses 349 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:40.400 over the past four or five years. 350 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:42.799 There was a lot of people out there that won't 351 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:45.839 come forward at all because to this day, even though 352 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:49.240 this happened all as many years ago, they don't want 353 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:53.599 to be called crazy or ostracized. If everyone came forward 354 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.519 that had experiences, whether it been in that time period 355 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:58.920 or any other, because this area has been null for 356 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:03.359 cryptid activity, if everybody came forward that had encounters, I 357 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.960 could probably do a whole boatload of episodes of just 358 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:11.799 eyewitness encounters for who knows how long. Now we're going 359 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:14.480 to get back to miss connight, But I wanted to 360 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.880 get to the twist in the story, the thing that 361 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:19.680 I didn't see coming, you say. A friend of mine 362 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:24.480 named Dwight Campbell of Sasquatch Greecon found an old documentary 363 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.160 that a man named John Alexander of Tennessee. Did he 364 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.079 came into this area and he interviewed many eyewitnesses, and it. 365 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.119 Was preserved on camera. 366 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:35.039 In particular, there was a witness that I had read 367 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:38.400 about by the name of mister Ferrell Shuk. Its full 368 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:42.039 page picture appears in the A big Footcase Book, the 369 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:45.519 updated edition, but it just said that he saw the 370 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:49.759 creature and always assumed it was talking about a sasquatch. 371 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:53.359 But mister Shuk was interviewed on camera in the course 372 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:57.599 of this documentary. He reported that one Saturday in the afternoon, 373 00:20:57.720 --> 00:20:59.519 he went out to feed his cows in out of 374 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.720 the woods. This creature on all fours, black and big, 375 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:07.480 and it went to a ditch and it picked up 376 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.279 a chicken that was dead that mister Schuk had discarded, 377 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:13.200 grabbed it by its mouth, and then went back into 378 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:17.599 the woods. Mister Schuck didn't see a bigfoot. That wasn't 379 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:20.920 the only thing rolling and stalking this area during that 380 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:21.599 time period. 381 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:24.640 It was a large. 382 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:30.680 Black panther the Appalachian Mountains in general. Many people, including myself, 383 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.519 have made reports of seeing these black panthers, but apparently 384 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.240 the one that mister Schuk saw and most likely miss 385 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.720 Knight saw was a big black pet. Mister Schuk went 386 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:44.519 as far as setting a trap for it. Whether he 387 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.279 caught anything that may be lost to history as well, 388 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:50.039 unless somebody out there knows something and if you do, 389 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.680 reach out to me. So during this time period, it 390 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:57.799 was enough to have these upright hairy creatures walking around 391 00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:59.839 that looked kind of like a man kind like an 392 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:05.359 At the same time people were seeing a big, oversized 393 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:09.680 black panther. The vocalizations reported during this time period. Now, 394 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:11.839 I want to point out that a researcher came into 395 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.799 this area named Jim Hollingsworth and he played recordings from 396 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:20.160 out in the Pacific Northwest and some people identified those 397 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.680 sasquatch sounds that were recorded in that part of the 398 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:25.960 country and said, yeah, that's pretty much what I heard. 399 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:30.720 But there was the vocalizations people heard. Perhaps the most 400 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:34.400 terrifying of the vocalizations, and that was this screaming sound 401 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:36.839