Speaker 1: A little bumper music from my friends who listened in Mexico.
Speaker 1: Can I see us put uscachas to podcast? No, I
Speaker 1: don't speak Spanish. I looked it up on Google, but
Speaker 1: I do hope you enjoyed this podcast. All right, here
Speaker 1: we go. This email is titled the Mount Vernon Monster
Speaker 1: and then there's a hyphen and it says deer impaled
Speaker 1: on a metal fence post. Here is a story about
Speaker 1: a cryptid that terrorized an area right near George Washington's
Speaker 1: historic farm, Mount Vernon way back in the late nineteen seventies.
Speaker 1: I lived about two to three miles, as the crow flies,
Speaker 1: from where these events happened at that time. While I
Speaker 1: never saw it, I did see and hear evidence of it,
Speaker 1: including a deer impaled on a metal fence post less
Speaker 1: than one hundred yards from my house. Now, I've done
Speaker 1: a lot of research into this, and I've been able
Speaker 1: to piece together some very interesting evidence, both from what
Speaker 1: I saw and experienced as well as from others. From
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight until nineteen seventy nine, nocturnal screams were
Speaker 1: heard from a patch of woods one mile from the
Speaker 1: historic home of George Washington, and there was at least
Speaker 1: one sighting in that area of a creature six feet
Speaker 1: tall and covered with hair. Thelma Crisp saw it. See
Speaker 1: the link to the Washington Post article. Children were scared
Speaker 1: to death, and dogs went nuts barking, and people were
Speaker 1: freaked out. By May of nineteen seventy nine, Fairfax County
Speaker 1: Police had had enough, so they brought out a park
Speaker 1: police chopper with search lights and they searched one hundred
Speaker 1: acres of woods bordering Union Farm with six policemen with
Speaker 1: radios in the woods ready to signal the chopper, but
Speaker 1: they never found anything. This created such a stir that
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine, The Washington Post wrote an article
Speaker 1: on it. I'm going to mention a few links through
Speaker 1: this man's research in his email to me. They're all
Speaker 1: going to be linked in the description below. You guys
Speaker 1: can go read them. In addition, here is audio of
Speaker 1: the actual screams recorded in nineteen eighty. Go to the
Speaker 1: end of the interview and there are multiple recordings of it.
Speaker 1: Go to the one hour, twenty minute and fifty two
Speaker 1: second mark. There'll be a YouTube link in the description.
Speaker 1: Police didn't want to talk about it. Many people claimed
Speaker 1: it was a hoax, some kids with a sound system
Speaker 1: back in the woods. They said, well, here's an account
Speaker 1: from someone who lived right in that area and had
Speaker 1: a direct encounter with it, which proves this was no hoax.
Speaker 1: Well it was. There's no hoax. There was something there
Speaker 1: in the woods. For a while. They used to go
Speaker 1: down there two or three times a week with another friend.
Speaker 1: I would never go alone. I first heard about it
Speaker 1: while reading the Alexandria Gazette in nineteen seventy nine, and
Speaker 1: the first time I went out there to check it
Speaker 1: out was in nineteen eighty three. I was nineteen years
Speaker 1: old at that time. My buddy and I went out
Speaker 1: in the woods to listen for something, and we stayed
Speaker 1: in the woods for thirty minutes, but we didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1: And then we went back to the car and got
Speaker 1: in and turned the engine on because it was chilly out.
Speaker 1: The police came down to see what we were doing
Speaker 1: in three separate squad cars. The officer asked us what
Speaker 1: we were doing there. My buddy told him that we
Speaker 1: were there to listen for that monster. This officer had
Speaker 1: a good chuckle, and he told us that he personally
Speaker 1: didn't believe in it, but that his partner did, and
Speaker 1: just as that came out of his mouth, there was
Speaker 1: a horrific scream from one hundred feet away told us
Speaker 1: to get out of there, and at that point he
Speaker 1: ran to a squad car and he raced down Union
Speaker 1: Farm Road and through the gate of the old Union
Speaker 1: Farm with the other squad cars following him. They had
Speaker 1: their spotlights on in every direction. Well, we left immediately.
Speaker 1: On another night, I was down there with four other
Speaker 1: friends of mine. We were hanging out on a little
Speaker 1: bridge just at the entrance to the old Union Farm property.
Speaker 1: We were playing twenty questions just to pass the time,
Speaker 1: and I kept hearing these strange knocks of wood on
Speaker 1: wood every few minutes. I don't think the other guys
Speaker 1: paid attention to it, but I heard it three separate times.
Speaker 1: I told my buddies that I kept hearing the knocks,
Speaker 1: and after saying, hey, guys, that's the third time I've
Speaker 1: heard that sound, this thing is screaming at us. It
Speaker 1: was the most horrific scream I've ever heard, and it
Speaker 1: was about twenty five or thirty feet from us. The
Speaker 1: most harrowing part was that we had to run right
Speaker 1: by it to get to the car, and as we
Speaker 1: were running past it to the car, it screamed again,
Speaker 1: and the scream was totally enveloping, and it felt as
Speaker 1: if it would knock you over. Well, at that point
Speaker 1: I was about ten or twelve feet away from it,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you this was no speaker or
Speaker 1: person that can scream like that. This was a low,
Speaker 1: guttural scream that came from the belly and up through
Speaker 1: the chest, and it was nothing I have ever heard before.
Speaker 1: I've been out in the woods my entire life. A
Speaker 1: hunt and I camp and I fish, and there's no
Speaker 1: animal that can make that kind of sound. And that
Speaker 1: particular evening, only two of us were believers up until
Speaker 1: that point, and after that night, all five of us
Speaker 1: were believers in this creature. Well, that was the scariest
Speaker 1: night of my life, and I'll never forget it. There
Speaker 1: were other occasions that we would go out there and listen,
Speaker 1: and we actually heard it yelling several times, but never
Speaker 1: at a close range. Again. It tossed rocks at me
Speaker 1: and my buddy once, and we even saw its breath
Speaker 1: on a really cold evening right at the tree line
Speaker 1: on a golf course. Now, people can be skeptics all
Speaker 1: they want. That's their choice. But when you experience something
Speaker 1: like my friends and I did, well, you never forget it.
Speaker 1: You question a lot of your former beliefs. That's the
Speaker 1: end of the quote. Here are a pattern of things
Speaker 1: that happened in this wilderness area, some of which I
Speaker 1: saw and heard, says the writer, including a deer impaled
Speaker 1: on a metal fence post. And there are other incidents
Speaker 1: from friends that I knew, and another incident in a
Speaker 1: densely wooded area of Fort belfour belf b E l
Speaker 1: v O R. I don't know how to say that
Speaker 1: from that time period, and it was recently posted on
Speaker 1: the BFRO website. All of this evidence proves that this
Speaker 1: was not a hoax, that there was some kind of
Speaker 1: cryptic in this area. And I lived on the treeline
Speaker 1: of a dense wilderness area two or three miles as
Speaker 1: the crow flies, northwest of where Union Farm Road is,
Speaker 1: which is where all of these screams and both sidings happened. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a wilderness area about seven miles long and
Speaker 1: three miles wide in places, and was very close to
Speaker 1: Mount Vernon on the eastern side. The northeastern section is
Speaker 1: Hunty Meadows Park, which is a two square mile swamp,
Speaker 1: and the southwestern side is part of the US Army
Speaker 1: base at Fort Bell whatever that word Bell b E
Speaker 1: l V or Belvaux Bell bellv A, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And it's more hilly in terrain, and it's four or
Speaker 1: five miles long. So this area was flanked on the
Speaker 1: eastern side by Route one. As you drove south on
Speaker 1: Route one, there were even more square miles of dense
Speaker 1: woods broken up here in there by two lane roads
Speaker 1: and a couple of neighborhoods going all the way down
Speaker 1: to Mason Neck Wildlife Refuge on the Potomac River. At
Speaker 1: the time, me and my friends were completely unaware of
Speaker 1: any sightings or activity outside of what we saw and experienced,
Speaker 1: And as I pointed out earlier, I didn't even find
Speaker 1: out about the Mount Vernon Monster until recently. While we
Speaker 1: were a bit mystified at the things we experienced. For
Speaker 1: the most part, we dismissed the idea of Bigfoot or
Speaker 1: dog Man because it was less than twenty miles from Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And when I heard of the Mount Vernon
Speaker 1: Monster accounts in a BFR report from that time period,
Speaker 1: it was an AHA moment for me. And from here
Speaker 1: he lists out several experiences and I'm just going to
Speaker 1: read them word for word, because these are real. These
Speaker 1: are really cool. Number one nineteen seventy five seventy six.
Speaker 1: We had just moved into a neighborhood which bordered the
Speaker 1: west side out of where Hunting Meadows Park and Fort
Speaker 1: Belvoir meet. That year, I found what looked like a
Speaker 1: lean to shelter in a densely wooded area near the Fort,
Speaker 1: over towards the backside of Woodlong Plantation near Mount Vernon.
Speaker 1: It was a tree that had been snapped over about
Speaker 1: eight feet up, with rather large logs piled up against it.
Speaker 1: I didn't see any marks, no axe marks. Also found
Speaker 1: a pile of deer bones in a different area near
Speaker 1: the fort that was within one mile of my house.
Speaker 1: Number two nineteen seventy five seventy six. A friend of
Speaker 1: mine who lived one block over from where I lived,
Speaker 1: but right on the tree line, had his rabbit hutches
Speaker 1: ripped apart one night and the rabbits were gone and
Speaker 1: left a blood trail going into the woods. There are
Speaker 1: no bears in the area, and this was thirty five
Speaker 1: years before coy wolves showed up. His family was from Oregon.
Speaker 1: He thought it was a bigfoot, but I just laughed
Speaker 1: at him. I absolutely believe bigfoot existed, but that was
Speaker 1: only in remote areas, or so I thought. Number three
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six. I had a terrifying experience way back
Speaker 1: in the woods one night when I was cutting through
Speaker 1: a densely wooded area in the forts. I'm going to
Speaker 1: stop this video and I'm going to look up how
Speaker 1: to pronounce this fort Just you guys, hang on just second, Okay.
Speaker 1: I just ran about three Google pronouncement videos, and it's
Speaker 1: pronounced in several different ways bevoir in Europe and beilva
Speaker 1: in the United States. From now on, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to call it fort B. So let's go back to
Speaker 1: number three and start over. Nineteen seventy six. I had
Speaker 1: a terrifying experience way back in the woods one night
Speaker 1: when I was cutting through a densely wooded area and
Speaker 1: fort B on an old dirt road to get home.
Speaker 1: And while I didn't see anything, it was a typical encounter.
Speaker 1: The feeling of dread cam over me, like I was
Speaker 1: being watched from the tree line. And then I heard
Speaker 1: a loud crack, and when I walked, I could hear
Speaker 1: movement behind the tree line when I stopped, and then
Speaker 1: it would stop, But whatever it was did not follow me.
Speaker 1: Number four nineteen seventy six through nineteen seventy seven. Some
Speaker 1: friends were back in the woods one night, fifty yards
Speaker 1: from where the rabbit hutches were raided, when something very
Speaker 1: large came crashing through the woods like a bulldozer. It
Speaker 1: was grunting and growling, and it knocked over a rotten tree.
Speaker 1: They didn't see it because there was no moon that night,
Speaker 1: and they nearly wet their pants as they fled out
Speaker 1: of the woods in terror. Number five nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 1: The BFRO website had a report filed a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago from an MP who was stationed at Davidson
Speaker 1: Army Airfield in nineteen seventy seven. He heard this thing
Speaker 1: crashing through the woods like a bulldozer and actually saw
Speaker 1: its red eyes. Back in the woods one night after
Speaker 1: a herd of deer stampeded past his guard shack. A
Speaker 1: terrified motorist pulled up to his guard shack that night
Speaker 1: and said he almost hit a rather large, hairy creature
Speaker 1: with red eyes, and there were other sightings in the
Speaker 1: area at that time. Here is that report. He gives
Speaker 1: the length. The link is in the description. This was
Speaker 1: the southern end of the wilderness section of Fort b
Speaker 1: where these other things happened, and about two miles from
Speaker 1: the habitat I found. This is number six. In nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven, one night I heard the most bizarre vocalization
Speaker 1: I've ever heard in the woods, and it was coming
Speaker 1: from just behind the tree line near my house. I
Speaker 1: knew it wasn't an owl, a fox, et cetera. It
Speaker 1: did sound a little like some of the more uncommon
Speaker 1: loon vocalizations, but this was way too big to be
Speaker 1: a and the sound started off way lower than a loon.
Speaker 1: Number seven. It was a morning in nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 1: or nineteen eighty, and we noticed a deer that had
Speaker 1: been impaled on a four foot tall, flat topped metal
Speaker 1: fence post. We were mystified at how this deer managed
Speaker 1: to impale itself on a flat top metal fence post,
Speaker 1: but it never occurred to us that it was a
Speaker 1: cryptid warning for us to stay out of its territory.
Speaker 1: None of us had ever heard anything about the Mount
Speaker 1: Vernon Monster because we lived way over on the northwest
Speaker 1: side of the swamp. Number eight, in my opinion, whatever,
Speaker 1: this was moved out by the mid nineteen eighties for
Speaker 1: two main reasons, the combination of Fort B construction on
Speaker 1: satellite monitoring sites and managed deer hunts to thin the
Speaker 1: deer population. My guess is that it followed the Potomac
Speaker 1: River south in nineteen eighty five nineteen eighty six, I
Speaker 1: did find what looked like another lean to shelter, except
Speaker 1: this time it was within three hundred yards of where
Speaker 1: the deer had been impaled, and it looked like it
Speaker 1: hadn't been used in years. And he says, if you
Speaker 1: want to call me to discuss, here's my number. I
Speaker 1: got this email back in I think it was April
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, and I'm just now getting to it,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if the man would even want
Speaker 1: to talk to me. Now I don't really do interviews anymore,
Speaker 1: namely because everybody, every single person I tried to interview,
Speaker 1: does not have Internet or they don't have any way
Speaker 1: to communicate with me other than with a cell phone.
Speaker 1: The audio was so bad on those I just gave up.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find anybody to do an interview with through Skype, Facebook, whatever,
Speaker 1: so that doesn't really have anything to do with the story.
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you to call him and interview him.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you he does not have I'm kind of
Speaker 1: internet communication thing or whatever, so I'm not gonna call him.
Speaker 1: But I thought this was fascinating right up near Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Just three or four miles from Mount Vernon,
Speaker 1: and this is a documented series of encounters that people
Speaker 1: have in the Northeast, which is not very common. You
Speaker 1: don't hear about these monster encounters in that area. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was worthy sharing with you guys because
Speaker 1: I found it very interesting, and I hope you guys
Speaker 1: liked it.