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Alright. So the exact boundaries

4:08

of the Appalachian Mountains are up for

4:10

debate. The history

4:12

culture and folklore across

4:15

this mountain range are pretty

4:17

similar but they are also

4:20

a lot different depending on whether

4:22

you're from North, Central, or South

4:24

Appalachia. They stretched

4:26

from the Canadian province of

4:28

Newfoundland and Labrador

4:31

to Northern Alabama and Georgia. This

4:34

mountain range parallels the eastern

4:36

coast of North America for nearly

4:39

two thousand miles. It's

4:41

one of the oldest mountain systems

4:44

on Earth. It was formed roughly four

4:46

hundred and eighty million years ago.

4:48

And the mountains are over five

4:50

times as old as the Rocky Mountains.

4:53

Because they are so old, they

4:56

think that erosion has taken

4:58

down a lot of the peaks, and some

5:00

people believe that a lot

5:02

of these big huge peaks were once

5:04

taller than the Himalay is in Mount Everest,

5:07

so very old mountain range there.

5:09

The great smoky mountains in Tennessee and North

5:12

Carolina have some of the tallest

5:14

peaks And the

5:16

backbone of this system, which is the Blue

5:18

Ridge Mountains, stretches from Georgia

5:20

all the way north to Pennsylvania. It

5:23

was originally settled by Native Americans

5:25

and later the Scots Irish, English,

5:28

German, and Polish immigrants. These

5:31

hills and how green it was

5:33

reminded a lot of the immigrants of

5:36

their homelands like the

5:38

Scottish Highlands and Ireland and

5:41

places like that. Because

5:43

of the dense forest, it provided

5:46

a lot of building materials. There

5:48

is a lot of fresh food,

5:50

game animals. You

5:52

had all these rivers and streams

5:54

that are filled with fish, So it was

5:56

a good place for settlers to go

5:59

if they wanted to essentially thrive

6:01

in a way. But

6:03

when these settlers got there, they

6:06

had no fucking clue, you

6:08

know, what was going on. They have all

6:10

this dense forest They're not

6:12

from there. They have natives

6:15

speaking a really weird language.

6:17

They have really weird customs, and they're not used

6:19

to any of this shit. So when

6:22

it would turn tonight, the forest would

6:24

be very loud. There would

6:26

be all these weird unknown sounds

6:29

So whatever the immigrants

6:31

heard or saw in the dark, that's

6:34

some of the stories and

6:36

superstitions and legends and folklore

6:38

that kind of worked their

6:40

way into the storytelling

6:43

factor because they didn't have TV.

6:45

You know, they didn't have cellphones, so

6:47

telling stories was a form of entertainment.

6:50

A lot of this culture and folklore

6:53

they had used to help build the community

6:55

spirit And so they had communal

6:58

activities like corn shucking, house

7:00

raising, log rolling, that

7:02

was bringing all these different types of people

7:04

together. The mountain dances

7:06

were the most popular gathering

7:09

spots at the time, and they were called play parties.

7:12

They would do that because a lot

7:14

of the churches did not approve of dancing

7:16

at the time. So, like, any

7:18

any person or fuck it. I'm dancing, you

7:20

know. It's kinda like a footloose thing. Except

7:23

back in like the seventeen eighteen hundreds.

7:26

When they would do these play parties,

7:29

the musicians would play like narrative

7:31

folk songs. And they would be focused

7:33

ons of local legends, they

7:35

would be fairy tales, they would be ghost stories,

7:38

and they would incorporate that into

7:40

the music. There is a popular

7:42

Appalachian ghost story called the ghost of Fiddler's

7:44

rock, and it is about an unlucky fiddler

7:47

at one of these parties. So

7:49

like I said, they incorporated all this stuff

7:51

together. So many ghost story

7:54

songs, superstitions, folkrammades were

7:56

considered Appalachian folklore they

7:59

can actually be traced back to

8:01

places like Scotland or Ireland.

8:04

Settlers would share their stories

8:07

of of Scottish Haynes and Irish

8:09

fairies, and they

8:11

would adapt them into Appalachian

8:14

stories over the course of different

8:16

generations, so these stories would

8:18

be constantly changing and evolving. And

8:22

the fact that Appalachia, physically

8:24

and culturally, they they were isolated,

8:27

and they still are to this day. A

8:29

lot of their folklore traditions still

8:32

thrive into the twenty first century because

8:35

of that. They also had old

8:37

world traditions that was

8:39

sometimes known as Appalachian Granny

8:42

Magic or folk magic. A

8:44

lot of those home remedies were incorporated

8:47

through that by use of herbs

8:50

and roots and all

8:52

kinds of different things. So like

8:54

I said, it's like a whole melting pot of

8:56

different cultures. But

8:58

because of that they created their own

9:00

culture. Now there were

9:03

fights between the Cherokee's that

9:05

would happen from time to time, but

9:07

a lot of the early settlers and

9:10

the Native Americans, they all learn to coexist.

9:13

And the Cherokee were only most prominent

9:15

in southern Appalachia. I

9:17

mean, they kind of trailed up a little bit, but

9:19

southern Appalachia is definitely known for

9:22

Cherokee. And even

9:24

some Cherokee's joint forces with the

9:26

US against pro British tribes

9:29

during the War of eighteen twelve. The

9:32

civil war also affected Appalachia

9:34

quite a bit because Appalachian

9:37

people just wanted to be left the

9:40

fuck alone. Okay? They did not wanna

9:42

be bothered. They were

9:44

actually split up between North Central

9:46

and South Appalachia. But for

9:48

the most part, Like most

9:51

of the deep Appalachian people they just

9:53

didn't wanna be fucked with, they co existed

9:55

with all kinds of different cultures and

9:57

races and everything like that and they're

9:59

like, you know, just just leave us

10:01

the fuck alone. But robbers

10:04

and guarilla fighters from both sides,

10:07

which would be the North and the South, they

10:09

would steal their livestock. They'd steal their

10:11

food. They'd burn their farms down.

10:14

They would terrorize all the women and children

10:16

who were left behind. And

10:18

children were often kidnapped

10:21

and forced to serve as lookouts on

10:24

mountain ridges for either side.

10:26

So it was a yeah.

10:28

They they just wanted to be left alone

10:30

and that was not happening. The

10:34

Apple Adkins didn't trust the North

10:36

or the South. Neither one of

10:38

them because they saw a

10:40

lot of shit they didn't wanna see come from

10:42

both sides, so they didn't trust anything.

10:45

So because of that, a lot of these smaller

10:47

communities just isolated

10:50

themselves even more from the outside

10:52

world. Because you had

10:54

the War of eighteen twelve, the

10:57

revolutionary war, you had the civil

10:59

war, all the Appalachian folk,

11:02

they don't forget this shit. You know what

11:04

I mean? They do not forget. So

11:07

A lot of the storytellers would

11:09

spend ghost stories about

11:12

eternally damned and suffering soldiers

11:14

from both sides. That was a big thing and

11:16

still is. In Georgia, the

11:18

stories of the hellhole and

11:21

the legendary green eyes, which

11:24

is known as old green eyes, those were

11:27

two tales that were told

11:29

a lot. And old green eyes was also

11:31

known as green eyes of chikamaga.

11:34

As I had previously mentioned, a lot

11:36

of these Apple action folk became

11:38

their own doctors and their own pharmacists

11:40

because of the fact that

11:43

they had carried a lot of these traditions down,

11:45

and they did not trust people

11:47

from the outside. They would use herbs,

11:50

tonics, roots, they would treat everything

11:52

from typhoid fever to measles. Now

11:54

because of this, the mortality rate

11:57

was really really high. Alright? So

12:01

ended up not being the best

12:03

thing in the world, but they did not care.

12:06

So because they were so I isolated,

12:09

they were their own people. They did their own thing.

12:12

That inspired a lot of people

12:14

to carry on and create all these stories

12:16

that were focused on strange and supernatural

12:19

because they're surrounded from all sides

12:22

by this super dense forest and

12:24

you had all these stories going

12:26

and carrying on and evolving over

12:29

the course of hundreds of years.

12:31

Now imagine that you're living in

12:34

rural Appalachia over a hundred

12:36

years ago, the only entertainment you have

12:38

is storytelling. So you

12:40

might hear stories about ghosts, some

12:43

spooky, You might

12:45

have heard a story from one

12:47

of the natives living in

12:49

your town or your little section

12:52

of the world there in Appalachia. These

12:54

tails, like I said, get passed down from generation

12:57

to generation. And they're

12:59

often believed to be inspired

13:02

by personal experiences with

13:05

the unexplained. I mean, if you

13:07

think about it, if you've ever stopped

13:09

yourself before walking under a ladder,

13:11

or held your breath when you're passing a cemetery,

13:14

you know, you speed up on a mountain road

13:16

at night because you think you see glowing

13:18

red eyes in the woods. These are all

13:21

Focalur from Appalachia, and we will

13:23

get into a lot of other superstitions towards

13:25

the end. But let's

13:27

get into some fun stuff. We're gonna talk about

13:29

ghost stories and legends. If

13:32

you ask Southern Apple legends,

13:35

if they believe in ghosts, they will

13:37

say no. But

13:40

these communities were very

13:42

isolated at a certain point in time.

13:44

They're starting to get out a little bit more

13:47

The thing was is these legends or these

13:49

ghost stories would often teach

13:52

you something. There was always a

13:54

lesson to be learned within them.

13:56

Sometimes that makes more sense than others, but

13:59

let's get to the first one. And this one is

14:01

the first ghost of Bristol. The

14:04

book of ghosts of Bristol, haunting

14:06

tales from the Twin Cities by VN

14:09

Bud Phillips, features ghost stories

14:11

and lore of the local region, and

14:13

relates an intriguing tale of

14:16

an early ghost in Bristol.

14:18

And the story is set in eighteen

14:20

fifty four and features man by the

14:22

name of John H. Moore, who

14:25

owned a store and a small smokehouse

14:27

that was located near Lee and

14:29

Moore Street's in Bristol. So

14:32

while he's preparing to open this new store,

14:34

the family made arrangements to dig a new

14:37

well. One morning, missus

14:39

Moore went to the Smoke House with

14:41

a butcher knife and was alarmed

14:43

to see the apparition of

14:46

what appeared to be a native American

14:48

spirit who was advancing towards

14:50

her as if to attack her.

14:53

The spirit disappeared and was never seen

14:55

again, and the knife also disappeared

14:57

after the incident. Missus Moore

15:00

then protested the digging of the new

15:02

well. She said that the spirit

15:04

she saw was a warning not to

15:06

disturb the area. So

15:08

John Moore, her husband, is like,

15:11

you're superstitious. This is dumb.

15:13

And he just proceeded with the digging

15:15

and sure is shit. After

15:17

the well was dug, a native American

15:20

grave was found on the site.

15:22

And according to the author, Phillips, This

15:25

is the first recorded ghost

15:27

story in Bristol. Here's

15:29

one I know a lot of you are familiar

15:31

with. And it's a story that I am

15:34

surprised I have never done an episode about

15:36

this is the bell witch. And

15:38

the story of the bell witch is

15:41

extremely popular, and it began

15:43

in Robertson County, Tennessee. The

15:46

legend centers around the Bell family, the

15:49

Bell Witch, who was thought to be a woman named

15:51

Kate Bats was supposedly cheated

15:53

in a land purchase by John Bell,

15:55

who was the patriarch of the Bell family.

15:57

And Bell was a very successful farmer,

16:00

so he owned a lot of land, a lot of livestock,

16:02

all that stuff. He had a lot of pool

16:04

in town, if that makes sense.

16:07

And the hauntings were between eighteen

16:09

seventeen and eighteen twenty one.

16:12

The first notable events began

16:14

when Bell saw a strange creature in the

16:16

field Also during

16:18

this time, unfamiliar noises in

16:20

the house started occurring and the family began

16:22

to experience terrifying hauntings, including

16:25

voices, various afflictions

16:28

being pinched or hit by an

16:30

invisible entity and a lot

16:32

more outside of that. The bell

16:34

witch would show up disguised as an animal

16:36

sometimes, such as a dog or

16:39

a bird, and then would also terrorize

16:41

the family that way. And she

16:43

would often focus on John's daughter,

16:45

Betsy Bell, and

16:47

would pull the sheets off her bed, physically

16:50

harm her with kicks, punches, and scratches,

16:53

And John Bell grew so concerned

16:55

by the escalating

16:58

violence that he shared his story

17:00

with a family friend named James Johnston.

17:03

So after Johnston experienced the

17:06

spirit firsthand, word

17:08

of this spread quick. This

17:10

story eventually became famous enough

17:12

to reach General Andrew Jackson.

17:15

Now according to legend, Jack sent in

17:17

his party set up their tents outside

17:19

the Bell home. One man claiming

17:22

that he had knowledge of how to deal

17:24

with witches and was bragging about

17:26

his silver bullets and how they

17:29

were keeping the witch, you know, away from

17:31

them and away from the house that night.

17:33

The other shit didn't work to punish

17:35

him, the witch set her sights on

17:37

this particular man and gave him a

17:39

beating that had Jackson's

17:42

men begging to leave the premises.

17:46

Now John Bell died mysteriously in

17:48

eighteen twenty and it is claimed

17:51

that he was poisoned by the witch.

17:53

But the bell witch continued to

17:55

haunt the family even after his death.

17:58

She forced Betsy to break off her engagement

18:01

with a dude named Joshua Gardner before

18:03

eventually disappearing for good. Now

18:05

some stories claim that she promised

18:08

to return to haunt John Bell's

18:10

direct descendants in nineteen thirty

18:12

five. But there were no

18:14

reports by Nashville physician,

18:17

doctor Charles Bailey Bell. If

18:20

you want to, you can go

18:22

visit the historic Bell Witch cave,

18:25

which is located in Adams, Tennessee.

18:29

Next up on the list is the Brown Mountain Lights.

18:31

This is cool because at

18:33

the end of this episode, I have an interview

18:36

with a guy who, just

18:38

recently, like, a month ago,

18:41

just stayed around Brown

18:43

Mountain, and I interviewed him because he

18:45

saw these lights and he is like the

18:47

interview is so cool. It's about forty minutes

18:50

long, so it's it's additional. I don't

18:52

know if I'll tack it on to the end of this episode.

18:54

Or just do it separately. I'm

18:56

not sure yet. We'll see how long this episode is.

18:58

But it is a cool interview.

19:01

And this dude was like there were a couple times. He's

19:03

like, dude, I reached out, man. He and

19:05

he tried debunking it, and he gives

19:07

you he's very descriptive of

19:09

the scene and the wind and where he

19:11

was and what he was doing and everything like that.

19:13

So. It's a good interview. But the

19:15

brown mountain lights, they are

19:17

known as a supernatural phenomenon with

19:20

Cherokee origins. Now

19:23

these lights are found in the Blue Ridge

19:25

Mountains of North Carolina in Burke County,

19:28

and this is in the Pisca

19:30

National Forest. I

19:33

did not look up how to pronounce Pisca,

19:36

but, you know, if I took the

19:38

time to look up every pronunciation I'd

19:40

take another week during this episode. Now

19:43

locals and tourists both

19:46

have reported glowing orb like lights

19:49

in blue, white, orange, and red

19:51

hovering approximately fifteen

19:53

feet off the ground in the area

19:55

near Morgantown, North Carolina. The

19:58

first recorded sighting of the brown mountain lights

20:00

happened in seventeen seventy one

20:02

when German engineer John

20:04

William Girard de Bray wrote

20:07

about seeing the lights in his journal.

20:10

Now his written account stated that

20:12

he saw the lights at a consistent

20:14

time every night. And this

20:16

led a lot of people to believe he was actually

20:19

seeing train lights in the distance. But

20:22

recorded accounts of the Brown Mountain light

20:24

sightings happened throughout the twentieth century

20:26

as well, especially as

20:29

the Loonville area gained access

20:31

to electricity. So while

20:33

these reported sightings of the colorful lights

20:35

are known for their inconsistency, the

20:38

lights are typically seen at night, especially

20:40

after a rainfall. The

20:42

Brown Mountain overlook, Wiseman's

20:45

view overlook, and Lost Cove

20:47

Cliff's overlook are the most popular

20:49

places to see them. All are located

20:52

off North Carolina 105

20:54

South or North Carolina one eighty

20:56

one near Asheville and Boone

20:59

and offer great scenic vistas

21:02

at any time of day. I'm

21:04

pretty sure I copied these notes

21:06

from the travel guide

21:09

because you don't see seen it vistas.

21:12

But these stories

21:14

about these lights have been going on for

21:16

centuries. Alright? No

21:18

one has been able to find out

21:20

what is causing the event. There

21:23

have been multiple versions of

21:25

the origin story throughout the years

21:27

though. One legend tells

21:29

of a brutal battle between two

21:31

native American tribes on Brown which

21:34

left many dead on the battlefield. In

21:36

the evenings, a lot of the women

21:38

went searching for their sons, husbands, brothers,

21:41

fathers, and they would use torchlight to

21:43

guide them. A lot of people claim

21:45

that the lights seen today are the spirits

21:48

of the women still searching for their loved

21:50

ones. Another origin

21:52

story comes from the nineteenth century. And

21:55

this story claims that the lights were the

21:57

spirit of a young woman who was

21:59

murdered by her husband. That's

22:01

all. No details or nothing. Then

22:04

we have a third one. This is

22:06

from a country music song in the early nineteen

22:08

fifties, a version of the story

22:10

tells of a man who went

22:12

hunting on the mountain and never returned home.

22:15

In this story, one of the man's

22:17

slaves was sent to search for

22:20

the missing man, but neither were ever

22:22

seen again, and the lights are said to be the

22:24

light of the lantern used to

22:26

continue the search beyond the grave. Even

22:29

the US geological survey

22:31

investigated the myths surrounding the

22:33

lights, and in nineteen twenty two, they

22:35

published an extensive report concluding

22:39

that the lights were a combination of automobile

22:41

and locomotive lights, light

22:44

from natural brush fire or

22:46

light emitted from other explainable

22:49

sources. I can

22:51

tell you right now. That is like the

22:53

greatest scientific explanation ever.

22:55

They're just like, well, it's gotta be one of these

22:58

six things or something else explainable.

23:00

You know? It's like they couldn't even narrow

23:02

it down. Now while

23:04

the study might be correct for the time,

23:07

the legend dates back much

23:09

further than the time of automobiles or

23:11

locomotives or trains or

23:13

anything like that. They go all the way

23:16

back to the days of the old covered wagon,

23:18

which tells people that you know

23:20

what, this shit has been around

23:23

a lot longer than that. Now even

23:25

though sightings of the lights are now a rarity,

23:27

a lot of people still go to the mountain

23:29

to try to see them for themselves.

23:32

And the interview I got, he actually

23:34

saw them. And it was it's pretty good

23:36

pretty good story. Another crazy

23:39

legend is of the moon eyed people.

23:42

So according to both Appalachian folktales

23:45

and Cherokee legend, a

23:47

group of pale skinned humanoids called

23:49

the moon eyed people might be hiding

23:51

somewhere in the Appalachian range.

23:54

Typically, they are associated with

23:56

the small town of Murphy, North Carolina.

23:59

The moon eyed people are the short

24:01

stout white skinned people

24:04

with big beards and large blue

24:06

eyes. And their eyes apparently are

24:08

so sensitive to the sun that they remained

24:10

nocturnal. Which is why they're

24:13

called the moon eyed people. Legend

24:15

says that the local native American

24:18

tribes waited for the full moon to drive

24:20

the moonlight people from their underground

24:22

caves. And the bright light made

24:24

them weak, which forced them to flee

24:27

into other parts of Appalachia for good.

24:30

Moon eyed people were considered to be

24:32

a distinctively separate race

24:34

of people rather than supernatural

24:37

beings. The moonlight people

24:39

were most likely just European settlers,

24:42

but what makes the legend so weird

24:44

is that it dates back hundreds of

24:46

years before. The Americas

24:49

were even discovered by white people

24:51

because Like I said,

24:53

this is not only an Appalachian legend,

24:55

this is a Cherokee legend as well

24:58

that goes back hundreds of years. So

25:01

Are the moon eyed people different,

25:03

you know, Appalachian scary story?

25:06

Were they European settlers? Who

25:08

knows? Today, though,

25:10

there are exhibits on the moon eyed

25:12

people, and they can be found at the

25:14

Cherokee County historical museum

25:17

in Murphy, North Carolina. There

25:19

is a three foot tall sculpture of

25:21

two conjoined figures thought

25:23

to represent moon eyed people which

25:26

was found in the early eighteen forties

25:29

And Fort Mountain, which

25:31

is a Georgia State Park, contains the

25:33

ruins of an eight hundred and fifty

25:35

foot long stonewall that

25:37

is said to have been constructed by

25:40

the moon eyed people.

25:42

So I

25:44

don't know.

25:46

This one have to give specific credit

25:49

because it comes from horror obsessive

25:51

dot com and the article

25:53

was titled Appalachian Go Stories,

25:55

and it was written by Sarah Sigfried.

25:59

And the reason I have to give individual credit

26:01

is because some of these stories

26:03

are directly handed

26:05

down to her through her family.

26:07

So, Sarah Sigfried, we

26:10

do appreciate these stories. She

26:12

hails from the rural mountains of Virginia.

26:15

She enjoys horror movies and

26:17

ghost stories since childhood. Man,

26:20

Sarah, I'm pretty sure we all can agree.

26:22

lot of my listeners would be friends with you.

26:24

But one of the stories that details

26:26

in this article is called the casualties of

26:29

war. So Southwest Virginia

26:31

saw battles during the American Civil

26:33

War. A lot of battles. A

26:35

lot of communities have stories of hidden

26:38

treasures, ghosts soldiers, things

26:40

like that. Her community has several

26:42

of the stories. And one of

26:44

those is Crockett's Cove,

26:47

which saw one of those battles. And

26:49

it's known as the Battle of the Cove. And it

26:52

was fought on May tenth eighteen sixty

26:54

four. The union troops passed through

26:56

the cove, and the small

26:58

country church was transformed into

27:00

a field hospital. Wounded soldiers

27:03

retreated there by people with

27:05

very little understanding of germs and

27:07

sanitation. So a shell

27:09

load of people ended up dying. Now

27:11

in the nineteen tens, a young man in Crockett's

27:14

cove was looking for a missing

27:16

cow. He went into the woods

27:18

after he heard a noise, and he was hoping

27:20

that his cow was there. He saw a

27:23

man leaning up against a tree holding his

27:25

stomach with blood soaking through

27:27

his jacket. And the stranger

27:29

looks at him and says, help me. And

27:31

he calls out to this boy and the boy agreed

27:33

to help him. And he ran back to his

27:35

farm as fast as he could and he's trying

27:37

to get help and he returned with a bunch of guys

27:39

and they were going to carry this wounded guy

27:42

out of the woods. But they could not

27:44

find the guy, and there was no sign of

27:46

him anywhere. So everybody is

27:48

like, listen kid, why are you bullshitting

27:50

us? And the boy says, I wasn't lying.

27:53

There had been a man in the woods

27:55

bleeding, and they asked him to describe

27:58

the wounded man. He described a

28:00

man wearing a dark blue suit with

28:02

black boots and a satchel over his

28:04

torso. And what the boy had described

28:06

was a union soldier. The

28:08

wounded soldier was seen several

28:11

times in the woods by different people

28:13

after that. Some people who saw

28:15

him were hunting some were

28:17

foraging for SASSA FRAS, others were

28:19

just exploring the woods. And

28:22

apparently, the soldier is still

28:24

out there. Because he has never

28:26

made his way back home to his family.

28:29

So, Crockett's Cove, I

28:32

don't know. I might have to do a ghost hunt down there

28:34

sometime. This next story

28:36

is a pretty good one and also comes

28:39

from Sarah Siegfried. And this is

28:41

known as the treasure hunt. So

28:43

in this same cove, there is

28:45

a home with a lot of stories

28:47

attached to it. There was a family

28:49

that built a huge home in the area

28:51

that would be known as Kraken's Cove.

28:53

And during the civil war, when the family heard that

28:55

soldiers could be on their way to that area,

28:58

they bury their silver and some other

29:00

wealth near the house to prevent

29:03

them from stealing their stuff. And

29:05

for some reason that we do not know,

29:07

no one ever retrieved the items after

29:10

the war and they ended up becoming lost.

29:13

And maybe the person who hid

29:15

the treasure died before they could actually

29:17

go back and dig it back up.

29:19

So this story got passed down into family

29:22

lore. And there were a lot of communities

29:24

with similar stories. Was

29:26

there really a treasure? Did anybody find

29:28

it? They just sayin' that shit?

29:31

We don't know. But in the nineteen sixties,

29:33

the same family owned the property

29:36

and some descendants thought it would be

29:38

fun to go look for the family

29:40

treasure. They got some shovels,

29:42

some beer, and a metal detector. As

29:45

they began to search for the treasure,

29:48

they started feeling a sense of dread

29:50

and uneasiness. They

29:53

began to think that what they were doing

29:55

was wrong. They basically shook

29:57

it off as, you know,

30:00

them just feeling weird and they

30:02

continued on with their search. But

30:04

they also began to talk to

30:06

each other about these weird sensations

30:08

and feelings they were having. So

30:11

one of the family members saw

30:13

the hair on his arms began to

30:15

stand up, and he felt like he was being

30:17

watched. But he continued searching

30:20

but he still felt like somebody was staring

30:22

at him. He tried to ignore that

30:24

feeling, but then he looked back at

30:26

the house and saw someone in an upstairs

30:29

window. Watching him. Now

30:31

at this point in time, nobody is supposed to

30:33

be in the house because they were all out

30:35

on the grounds with him looking

30:37

for this treasure. So

30:40

the whole group stopped their search for treasure

30:42

and they ended up searching the house

30:45

for this person they saw on the window, but they

30:47

found nobody in there. There

30:49

was no intruder inside. So

30:52

they go back out to the field. And

30:54

their metal detectors stopped working

30:56

at that point. So they decided

30:58

that it would probably just be best

31:01

not to continue with their little

31:03

treasure hunt. So

31:05

later on that night, one of the people in

31:07

that group ended up falling over the

31:09

railing on the grand spiral staircase.

31:13

He only had bumps and bruises. He

31:15

didn't die, but he insisted that he

31:17

had not fallen, but somebody had

31:19

pushed him. Alright.

31:21

A little bit out there. Now years

31:23

later, in the nineteen eighties, the

31:25

home was unoccupied. So

31:28

what happens when we find an abandoned house

31:31

on a nice big property in the nineteen

31:33

eighties and you ain't got shit to do? You're a

31:35

teenager. You're gonna go explore that shit.

31:37

So one night in the eighties, several

31:39

teens decided it would be fun to sneak

31:42

inside and look around. When they

31:44

crept up the front porch stairs, And

31:46

this was a muma at night. They found the

31:48

front door was open for them, and they

31:50

stopped. And they started daring

31:52

each other to go inside. So

31:55

one of them decides, I'm not as scared of this

31:57

shit, and he just goes right in.

32:00

And all of a sudden a large a

32:02

really loud sound from the porch

32:04

roof made everybody scream and run

32:06

back out. So they heard

32:09

another of their friends outside laughing.

32:11

And they just kinda assumed that

32:14

he was throwing some handful of

32:16

rock onto the roof or something like that.

32:18

So everybody just kind of laughed

32:20

it off and they chilled for a minute. Right

32:23

about then, a different member of this teenage

32:25

group pointed to an upstairs window and

32:27

started screaming. So

32:29

the group hears him screaming and they're like,

32:32

oh, here we go. Somebody's fucking with us

32:34

again. But he's pointing up

32:36

at this window And the rest

32:38

of the group looks up at the window, and

32:41

they all freaked out. They're

32:43

running away from their screaming, tripping over

32:45

each other trying to get to the car and get the hell out

32:47

of there. Apparently, there was a

32:49

man standing in the window watching them.

32:52

In the same window, the treasure

32:54

hunters spotted a man twenty years

32:56

earlier. A widower lives

32:58

there now. He was married to a woman who

33:01

was connected to the original family's

33:03

descendants. He has

33:05

quiet nights of building

33:07

model airplanes and has friends over occasionally

33:10

to play cards. He says

33:12

he is not troubled by any spirits.

33:14

He doesn't believe in ghosts, and he loves

33:16

the house. Him and his wife

33:18

had restored the home to the

33:21

former beauty of it during

33:24

the years that they lived there, the

33:26

descendants actually gather there for family

33:28

reunions. And no

33:31

one has looked for that treasure lately, so

33:33

maybe it's still out there. I don't know.

33:35

Alright. Before we keep going,

33:38

to the snake charmer, the haunted

33:40

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So this story is the snake charmer.

35:30

The story came to this woman

35:33

Sarah who wrote the article from her

35:35

elderly grandparents who heard it from

35:37

their aged relatives. Which

35:40

would place the origins of this story

35:42

in the early nineteenth century.

35:44

In the small community of slate

35:47

Spring Branch, There was a family

35:49

with a bunch of kids. One

35:51

of the kids started to act a little

35:53

weird. She grew

35:55

weak and had fever dreams. And

35:58

each night, she would go out to the

36:00

front porch after supper was

36:02

served. She continued to

36:04

behave strangely, and the parents

36:06

were concerned and curious about

36:08

what was happening. Her parents followed

36:10

her and peeped outside and saw

36:12

her feeding milk and cornbread

36:15

to a snake that had raised its head

36:18

through a not hole in the porch

36:20

floor. So the adults

36:22

freaked out. They hurried back inside, and

36:25

they're sitting there talking about

36:27

what they need to do. The

36:29

parents had heard of this sort of thing before,

36:31

and it was of snakes

36:33

being able to charm people into

36:36

doing their bidding for them. And

36:38

the father decided to kill the snake

36:40

to stop the charm. And

36:43

they were ready the next night. After

36:45

supper, the little girl rushed outside

36:48

to feed the snake, and the father followed

36:50

quietly. As

36:52

he was out there, the snake raised his head

36:54

through the hole for his meal, and

36:57

the father grabbed the snake and

36:59

cut off its head as fast as he

37:01

could. But as he did that, he

37:03

heard a thump. And when he was

37:05

finished dealing with the snake he looked

37:08

away, he saw his daughter lying

37:10

dead on the porch. Some

37:12

unbreakable bond had been forged

37:15

between the snake and the little girl

37:17

because she had been charmed. Alright.

37:20

Next up, we have the haunted church.

37:23

Mount Olive Methodist Church is

37:26

in the small community of Austinville.

37:29

For decades, teenagers have gone to the

37:31

church after dark to wait for a phenomenon

37:33

that is still unexplained. It

37:36

has said that giant ball of light can be seen

37:38

floating over the road into the church

37:41

and down the aisle. Some say the ball

37:43

of light is connected to a resident

37:45

of the church cementary. The

37:47

story was a popular local legend

37:50

that has died off and then resurface

37:52

several times as new generations learn

37:55

about it. The small community surrounding

37:57

the church deals with the traffic of

37:59

curiosity seekers for a period of

38:01

time and then sees all of the

38:03

people just kind of go away and everything

38:05

calmed down again. Several

38:08

people have tried to duplicate the ball of light.

38:10

They suspect it could be a reflection

38:12

of oncoming headlights or a view

38:15

of the moon. Despite

38:17

efforts to recreate the lights and explain

38:19

it away, No one has

38:21

been able to do so. Teens

38:24

would sit in the parking lot waiting to see the

38:26

lights or visiting with one another

38:29

and would experience something else.

38:31

Several have reported hearing a tap

38:33

tap tap on their cars. Others have

38:36

felt their car being shaken by something

38:38

unseen. A nineteen

38:40

seventy seven newspaper article in

38:42

the Desert Sun tied a busy

38:44

ghost haunts the small Virginia Church

38:47

describes the haunting. That

38:49

article is actually very easy to find

38:52

if you want to look it up. Next

38:54

on the list, we have old green eyes.

38:57

This is a ghost who is said to haunt the battlefield

39:00

in various farms ranging from a confederate

39:03

soldier to a green eyed Panther. This

39:05

has been a part of Chikamaga battlefield

39:08

lore. Since the last shot was fired

39:10

at a bloody battle that claimed thirty

39:12

four thousand casualties on

39:15

September nineteenth and twentieth, eighteen

39:18

sixty three. The tales

39:20

of green eyes and other phantom

39:22

sightings stem from the soldiers who lived

39:24

through the civil war. Green

39:27

eyes is rumored to be a man who lost

39:29

his head to a cannonball, and he's

39:31

frantically searching the battlefield at night

39:33

for his dislocated body. One

39:36

of the earliest ghost sightings shortly after

39:38

the civil war ended is documented in

39:40

Susie Blalock McDaniel's book

39:43

called the official history of Catoosa

39:45

County. Jim Carlock,

39:47

an early resident of the Post Oak Community

39:50

writes in McDaniel book about returning

39:52

home from a centennial celebration on

39:54

Market Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee

39:57

in eighteen seventy six. This

39:59

was just thirteen years after

40:02

the battle. Carlock writes,

40:04

did you ever see a ghost? They

40:06

used to see them on the Chickamauga battlefields

40:09

just after the war. So Carlock

40:12

goes on to write that while passing

40:14

through the battlefield or near it The

40:16

exact location is unknown.

40:19

It was dark and there were no houses

40:21

nearby when he and his friend spotted

40:23

something ten feet high with a

40:25

big one head. He

40:27

said that him and his companions

40:30

were any wagon and mister Shields was

40:32

riding horseback. Carlock

40:34

said shields rode up and hit the ghost,

40:37

and a baby cried out, and the

40:39

ghost said, let me alone. He

40:41

said the entity appeared to be

40:43

a ghostly apparition of a

40:45

black woman with a bundle of clothes

40:47

on her head. But the civil

40:49

war is not the only source

40:52

of death that may have imprisoned

40:54

all these spirits at the battlefield. The

40:57

hill behind Wilder Tower

40:59

saw the deaths of many soldiers mainly

41:02

from typhoid fever. This was

41:04

during their training and encampment on

41:06

the battlefield in preparation for

41:08

the Spanish American war. According

41:11

to various sources, Other tales

41:13

claim green eyes existed before the

41:15

civil war and circulated among

41:17

the soldiers during the fighting. Or

41:19

that the spirit existed as early as

41:21

the Native American occupation of the land

41:24

where the battlefield is now located.

41:27

Fort Oglethorpe resident Denise

41:30

Smith said she encountered a ghostly

41:32

being with green eyes on a cold foggy night

41:34

in the park in nineteen eighty. Smith

41:37

said she had just gotten off work at

41:39

the Crystal Restaurant in Fort Oglethorpe

41:42

and was taking a shortcut to the park

41:44

on her way home on CLEO Drive.

41:47

She was driving really slow through

41:49

the fog. She was about a half

41:51

mile from Wilder Tower. She

41:54

said it was raining and foggy,

41:56

so I was going real slow. I

41:58

was going through the s curve past wilder

42:00

tower when I saw something big in the

42:02

road about eye level, and

42:04

all I could see were these big green eyes.

42:07

It was so foggy I couldn't see a body.

42:10

I got closer and it just disappeared. Smith

42:13

said she always thought the tale of the ghostly

42:15

green eyed beast was a myth and

42:17

never would have believed in a million years.

42:20

But she now says she won't

42:22

step foot in the park after nightfall.

42:26

Another woman named Laura Gilstrap who

42:28

is a lifelong Fort Oglethorpe

42:30

president, said that

42:32

when she was sixteen years old in nineteen

42:35

ninety, She and about ten of

42:37

her friends were enjoying a hay ride inside

42:39

the battlefield when the unexpected

42:41

happened. She said around

42:43

dusk, the group decided to take a

42:45

break around Wilder Tower.

42:48

Often the field near the tower, they

42:50

saw a flaming torch that would disappear,

42:53

then it would mysteriously reappear

42:55

again. Suddenly, the kids heard

42:58

a horse's hoof beats and

43:00

a skeleton in a Confederate soldier's

43:02

uniform appeared to dismount from

43:04

a ghostly horse with green eyes.

43:07

She said the skeleton constantly repeated

43:09

the name Amy before

43:12

disappearing for good. Another

43:15

man named David Lester, who's

43:17

a civil war enthusiast and reenactor,

43:19

said about five years ago. He and

43:21

some of his fellow reenactors were camping

43:24

out at the battlefield as part of

43:26

Living History Days, which is an

43:28

event that gives park visitors a first

43:30

hand look at how soldiers lived during

43:32

the war. Lester said

43:34

several of his friends had

43:37

wandered into a neighboring camp to

43:39

say hello to their fellow soldiers. The

43:41

men talked with the neighboring campers for

43:44

several hours before returning to their

43:46

camp to sleep for the night. The next

43:48

morning, the men went back to the camp to

43:50

wish them a good morning and see how they were getting

43:53

along, but they were gone. And there

43:55

was no sign of their camp fire

43:57

from the night before for and not one

43:59

trace of any human occupation at

44:01

the site. Next up, we

44:03

have the Black Dog and there

44:07

are a lot of different stories

44:09

and origins with the black dog.

44:12

Alright? This traces

44:14

its roots back to old Europe,

44:17

where the most famous was the

44:19

spirit called Shuck. So

44:21

old Chuck was a spirit who was said to only

44:24

appear either before a death or

44:26

only to those who would soon die.

44:28

Nothing would get him to leave because

44:31

he must wait for his owner, which is

44:33

death, which is a trait

44:35

shared with the white phantom dogs

44:37

in Appalachia. That either sit

44:39

outside homes or follow people

44:41

around. The Black Dog is thought

44:43

to be the primary animal form

44:46

of the devil himself, which would be the

44:48

hound. These large black

44:50

spirit dogs are described as being larger

44:52

than an normal dog with glowing red

44:54

or yellow eyes and they smell

44:56

like rotten eggs. The

44:59

legends extend from the British

45:01

Isles where they often had different

45:03

forms such as being headless, having

45:05

human faces, or walking on their hind

45:08

legs. There are lot

45:10

of stories One of them is

45:13

the Black Dog that appeared at a church

45:15

and took two lives in Bunge,

45:17

Suffolk, in fifteen fifty

45:20

seven. Blackdogs also

45:22

have their benevolent side as well,

45:25

stories of protecting gravyards walking

45:27

lost people out of a dense forest or simply

45:30

keeping guard over people from thieves

45:32

or other threats. One

45:34

story is of the black dog

45:36

of the Blue Ridge. And

45:38

here's that story. In Virginia,

45:41

there's a pass that was much travel

45:43

by people going to Bedford County and

45:45

by visitors to Mineral Springs

45:47

in the vicinity. In the years

45:50

sixteen eighty three, the report

45:52

was spread that at the wildest

45:54

part of the trail. In this past,

45:56

there appeared at sunset a great

45:58

black dog who, with majestic

46:01

tread, walked in a listening

46:03

attitude about two hundred feet

46:06

and then turned and walked back. So

46:08

he passed back and forth like a centennial

46:11

on guard always appearing at sunset

46:13

to keep his nightly vigil and disappearing

46:16

again at dawn. And so the whispering

46:18

went with baited breath from

46:21

one to another until it had traveled

46:23

from one end of the state to the other.

46:26

Parties of young cavaliers were made up

46:28

to watch for the Black dog. A lot

46:31

of people saw him. Some believed

46:33

him to be a veritable

46:35

dog sent by some master to watch.

46:37

Others believed him to be a witch dog.

46:40

A party decided to go through the pass

46:42

at night, well armed, and see

46:44

if the dog would attack them. Choosing

46:47

a knight when the moon was full, they mounted

46:49

good horses and sallied forth. Each

46:52

saw a great dog larger

46:54

than any dog they had ever

46:56

seen before, and they

46:58

ended up riding forward. But what

47:00

they didn't count on was

47:02

their horses being scared. When they

47:04

approached the dog, the horses started getting

47:06

freaked out, and the party was unable

47:09

to force their horses to take the pass

47:11

again until after daylight. Then

47:14

they were laughed at by their comrades to

47:16

whom they told their experiences to.

47:19

Then they decided to lie and ambush

47:21

and kill the dog and bring it

47:24

to all the friends that didn't believe them

47:26

and kept making fun of them. So the

47:28

next night, all these guys

47:30

hide behind all these rocks and bushes

47:32

with guns in their hands and they're ready to

47:34

kill this thing. And as the last

47:36

ray of sunlight, started going

47:39

down over the highest peak of the Blue Ridge,

47:41

the Black Dog appeared at the lower end

47:43

of this walk and started walking Majestically

47:46

toward them. When he came

47:48

opposite of them, every gun

47:50

fired. When the smoke cleared away,

47:52

the great dog was turning

47:54

at the end of his walk. And he was

47:57

acting like he was totally oblivious

48:00

to the presence of all these people who just

48:03

shot the shit out of them. So

48:05

they started firing their guns again. And

48:07

still, this dog just keeps walking. So

48:10

then all these hunters and then all these dudes

48:12

just start getting freaked out, and

48:14

they just took off. And

48:17

that black dog just kept on doing

48:19

what he was doing. So

48:22

seven years later, there's

48:24

this woman who comes over

48:26

from the old country and she's trying

48:28

to find her husband who eight

48:30

years before had come to make a home

48:32

for her in the new land

48:35

in America. And she traced

48:37

him to Bedford County. And from

48:39

there, all trace of him was lost. A

48:41

lot of them remembered this tall

48:43

handsome guy and his dog. Then

48:47

she starts hearing this story

48:49

of this big black dog that

48:52

occupies the mountain pass. And

48:54

she pleaded with all these people to take her

48:57

to see him. And she was saying that

48:59

if he was her husband's dog,

49:01

he would know her. So

49:04

they make up this party. And

49:06

before night, they arrived at this gap.

49:09

And the lady dismounted her horse and

49:11

walked to the place where the nightly watch

49:13

was kept by the a dog. And as

49:16

the night starts falling, the

49:18

party starts falling back

49:20

from the trail. And they're leaving this lady

49:23

alone. They're like, hey, you

49:25

know, we lead you out here. We're not fucking

49:27

with this dog, but you can do your thing.

49:30

So the sun starts going down a little

49:32

bit more and the dog appears and

49:34

walked right up to this lady. The

49:36

dog laid its head on her lap

49:38

for a moment then turned and walked

49:40

a short way from the trail looking

49:43

back to see that she was following

49:45

him. This dog led her until

49:47

he paused by a large rock

49:50

where he gently scratched at the ground.

49:52

And they gave out a long howl

49:55

and then disappeared. The

49:57

lady called the party tour and asked them

49:59

to dig. And because none of these

50:01

dudes wanted to screw with it and they didn't

50:03

have any shovels or anything like that,

50:06

A lot of them wouldn't help her, but she refused

50:08

to leave. So one of the people rode

50:10

back to help her. When they

50:12

dug below the surface, they found the skeleton

50:14

of a man and the hair and bones

50:16

of a big black dog. They

50:19

found a seal ring on the hand of the

50:21

man and a heraldic embroidery

50:23

and silk that the wife recognized,

50:26

she removed the bones for proper burial

50:29

and returned to her home. It

50:31

was never known who had

50:33

killed the man. But from that

50:35

time, the big black dog never

50:38

showed up again because he had done

50:40

his job. That's just

50:42

one of these stories. There are so many. So

50:45

the black dogs that protect the graveyards

50:47

were called the church grim. In the

50:49

British Isles, it used to be a custom

50:51

to have a dog buried alive

50:54

under a church to protect the cemetery

50:56

from witches, thieves, and even the

50:58

Neville. One story

51:00

collected in Lincolnshire by

51:02

Ethan Rodkin is about the Hope

51:05

Bogart. BEL HOPE WAS

51:07

A FARM WHERE A NURSE HAD BEEN WORKING.

51:10

THE CHILDREN SHE HAD BEEN CARING FOR MENTIONED

51:12

THAT SHE HAD A LONG WALK HOME THAT NIGHT

51:14

and wondered what she might do

51:17

if the Black Dog BoGuard appeared.

51:19

And she told them playfully that she'd

51:21

put him in her pocket. Later

51:24

on, on that walk home, the

51:26

report says the dog appeared

51:28

and was running around this woman saying,

51:31

put me in your pocket put me in your

51:33

pocket. So, oh,

51:36

man. I guess that's here's here's

51:38

another one. Here's another one. Like I said, there's

51:40

a bunch of different stories concerning a black

51:42

dog. The black dog and Appalachia

51:45

also has some of the same beliefs around

51:47

it like a black cat. It was

51:49

bad luck for a black dog

51:51

to howl during a wedding, which

51:54

meant that the couple were going to

51:56

face doom. It was bad luck for

51:58

it to cross your path. If you saw a black

52:00

dog walking away from you, it

52:02

meant death because it was

52:04

walking off with your soul. Its

52:07

fur, bones, and blood, and meat

52:09

were also used to heal, much

52:11

like the black cat. Grease

52:13

from a black dog that was dude

52:16

and applied during the Dark of the

52:18

Moon was an old cure for

52:20

rheumatism. A more humane

52:22

way was to sleep with a dog for

52:24

three nights past Sunday, so

52:26

you would start on Friday night, and

52:29

the dog was said to absorb the rheumatism

52:31

for you. The blood of a

52:33

black dog taken from the tip of the

52:35

tail was wiped over the doorway to

52:37

keep out paints and other bogeards. And

52:40

this was possibly a branching

52:42

off of the Black Dog's role

52:44

as a protector. When you were

52:46

doing a conjuring, You

52:48

carry the fur of a black dog

52:50

taken from between the ears and none

52:52

of your enemies can mess with you. Hair

52:55

from the tip of the tail. As long as

52:57

the tail is exceptionally long, we'll

52:59

ensure you will be slick and

53:01

lucky in all that you do.

53:04

So those

53:06

are some of the ghost stories. Now

53:09

we get to get into some of the

53:11

cryptids and creatures. And

53:13

of course, the first one being

53:16

the world famous Big Foot, a whole

53:18

fucking sass watch. So

53:20

all these stories of wild men in the

53:22

woods state back to ancient times,

53:25

and that would include indigenous cultures

53:27

and medieval Europe. But the legend

53:29

of Bigfoot, which is a very

53:31

common figure in mountain folklore, it

53:34

began in nineteen fifty eight in Humboldt

53:36

County, California. Jerry

53:38

Crew, a logging company employee,

53:41

discovered a set of extra large footprints

53:43

in Six Rivers National Park, A

53:46

bunch of rumors spread really quickly

53:48

through the company where the name Big

53:50

Foot soon caught on. Prior

53:53

to the twentieth century, Bigfoot was

53:55

known by names like Sasquatch, which

53:58

is a salish word meaning

54:00

wildman or YETI. Which

54:02

is in Himalayan folklore. The

54:05

Sassquatch was a hairy creature known

54:07

for bellowing, stealing livestock, and

54:10

shaking trees. Many

54:12

other indigenous tribes had their own version

54:14

of a large hairy monster, but the myth of

54:16

the SaaS watch was the first to be recorded

54:18

by European settlers. Since

54:20

the mid eighteen hundreds, thousands

54:23

of big foot sightings have been reported

54:25

all over the United States, and that

54:27

would include dozens of reported

54:29

sightings in the North Georgia Mountains.

54:32

Today, you can go celebrate this Appalachian

54:35

Monster at the Big Foot Festival in

54:37

Marion, North Carolina. At

54:39

this annual festival, you can

54:41

expect educational panels,

54:43

a big foot calling contest, a

54:46

costume contest, and a big

54:48

foot themed food. I

54:50

am really fucking curious to

54:52

know. You know what? Maybe I'll go there sometime.

54:55

Check it out. I'm not much into big foot

54:57

or SaaS watching any of that,

54:59

but I don't know. I'd go check it out.

55:02

I'm sure it's a fun time. Next,

55:04

we have the Flatwoods Monster,

55:07

which is another popular myth and

55:09

Appalachian folklore, the Flatwoods

55:11

monster originated in Braxton

55:14

County, West Virginia. On

55:16

September twelfth nineteen fifty two,

55:18

a few guys named Eddie May,

55:20

Freddie May, Neil Nunnley, and

55:22

Tommy Hayr were playing at

55:24

Flatwoods Elementary when they spotted

55:27

a light shooting across the sky.

55:29

On their way to go see what that light was,

55:32

the boy stopped to tell their mother, Kathleen

55:34

May, who asked National Guardsman,

55:36

Eugene Lemmon, to escort

55:39

and join the boys on their little trip.

55:42

When they arrived at the site of the light's

55:44

crash, they saw a pulsing red

55:46

light and a ten foot tall creature with

55:48

twisted hands and a glowing green face

55:51

that seemed to levitate off the ground.

55:53

When the creature started hissing at them,

55:55

they all took off running. The event

55:58

made local and national news

56:00

and even prompted an official US

56:03

Air Force inquiry Today,

56:06

tourists come out from all over the country

56:08

to visit the home of the Flatwoods Monster.

56:11

To learn more about this scary

56:13

story, you can visit Flatwoods

56:15

Monster Museum in Sutton, West

56:18

Virginia. Next up,

56:20

we have My favorite,

56:23

The mothman, made famous

56:25

by a nineteen ninety seven episode of

56:27

the X Files and the two thousand

56:29

two film the mothman prophecies.

56:32

I'm just gonna say right now, way

56:34

famous before that. But the mothman

56:36

is a creature with broad wings

56:39

red eyes who originated in Point

56:41

Pleasant West Virginia. The

56:43

story of the mothman began on

56:45

November fifteenth nineteen sixty

56:47

six. Two couples, Roger

56:50

and Linda Scarborough, and

56:52

Steve and Mary Mallett reported

56:54

seeing a large flying humanoid with

56:57

a ten foot wing span and glowing

56:59

red eyes following their car.

57:02

Similar reports came in over the

57:04

next few days, and the sensational story

57:06

was soon picked up by a local newspaper.

57:09

Mason County Sheriff George Johnson

57:12

believed it to be a large bird because the

57:14

stories fit the description of a Sand

57:16

Hill crane, which has a

57:18

red forehead and wing spans

57:21

recorded up to seven feet seven

57:23

inches. On December fifteenth

57:25

nineteen sixty seven over a year

57:28

later, the mothman was credited

57:30

for the collapse of the Silver Bridge which

57:32

killed forty six people. For

57:34

more information on this infamous Appalachian

57:37

monster, go visit the mothman museum

57:39

in Point Pleasant where you can take a

57:42

selfie with the massive mothman statue

57:44

displayed outside. And

57:46

you can also celebrate the Appalachian

57:48

myth. At the annual

57:50

mothman festival, which typically

57:53

happens on the third weekend in September.

57:56

And I am going to tell you Right now, I've

57:58

been to Point Pleasant more than once, and

58:00

I most definitely have selfies

58:02

with that stature.

58:05

I wanna I have a lot of selfies with

58:07

that statue. Everybody in the

58:09

Facebook group has seen those.

58:12

I do get made fun of a lot for that.

58:14

But anyway, I don't care. Next

58:17

up, we have what is called the

58:19

Wampus cap. The Wampus

58:21

cat, also known as the Cherokee

58:24

death cat, is a large cat similar

58:26

to a mountain lion or cougar, with

58:28

a tan yellow fur, six legs,

58:30

and a large yellow eyes. The

58:33

legend says that a Cherokee female

58:35

was cursed by a tribal elders

58:37

for witnessing a sacred pre

58:39

hunt ceremony. She had

58:41

hid under the pelt of a large cat

58:43

and got turned into the half

58:46

woman, half beast that we hear about

58:48

in this Appalachian myth. Forever

58:51

left to wander alone through the mountains,

58:53

the wampus cat acts out in anger

58:56

at being cut off from her former life.

58:58

She's known for standing on her hind legs

59:00

and using her supernatural powers

59:02

to drive her victims to insanity. Now

59:06

despite being a story about Cherokee

59:08

people, the Wampus cat folk lore

59:10

did not originate with the Cherokee

59:13

people. Instead, the name

59:15

came from the Goldsboro News

59:17

Argus newspaper in North Carolina.

59:20

In nineteen sixty four, a Harry

59:22

eight man who, this kinda sounds

59:24

like bigfoot, was reported to be roaming

59:26

around US seventy. The

59:29

newspaper named the mysterious creature,

59:31

the wampus cat, and the name just

59:33

stuck. The name

59:35

likely derives from the word catawampus.

59:38

Which is a mountain folklore saying that

59:40

describes a bogeyman or something

59:43

that has gone badly. Strange

59:45

ways of brewing, which has locations in

59:47

Richmond and Fredericksburg, Virginia,

59:49

brews a beer named after the Wampus

59:52

Cat, and it is called the

59:54

Wampus Cat Triple IPA.

59:56

And of course, it has to be an

59:59

IPA which basically is a beer that

1:00:01

tastes like cat piss anyway. So

1:00:05

definitely not gonna be trying that.

1:00:08

Next up, we have the Wolfman, which

1:00:10

is a large canine esque

1:00:12

mammal. That roams the

1:00:14

hills near Wolf County, Kentucky. Believe

1:00:17

to weigh in at five hundred pounds

1:00:19

and stand taller than seven feet high,

1:00:22

the Wolfman has fur similar

1:00:24

to a or a gorilla. It

1:00:26

is believed to live in caves and has

1:00:28

been seen around the area since

1:00:31

the nineteen seventies. Then

1:00:33

we have the Smoke Wolf, which is a

1:00:36

solid black wolf and

1:00:38

it is a massive canine with Isa's

1:00:40

red as the sun. One witness who

1:00:42

has heard Smoke Wolf's Howl and

1:00:45

scream at night on his property describes

1:00:47

them as pure evil, noting

1:00:50

that they for fun. The only

1:00:52

thing known to deter a smoke wolf is

1:00:54

the sound of rattling chains. Next

1:00:58

up, we got the Grafton monster. The

1:01:00

Grafton monster was first spotted

1:01:02

in West Virginia in the nineteen fifties

1:01:04

and is described as a massive

1:01:07

bipedal creature with short

1:01:09

fur. It's estimated to weigh

1:01:11

between a thousand and fifteen hundred

1:01:13

pounds and boast broad shoulders, and

1:01:16

its head sits low and front of

1:01:18

its body making it appear headless

1:01:20

from behind. It is

1:01:22

believed to also eat

1:01:24

livestock. Then

1:01:26

we have the Ravenmacher. Now

1:01:29

according to Cherokee Legend, the

1:01:31

Ravenmacher is a shape shifting bigfoot

1:01:34

standing seven feet tall with a black

1:01:36

fur in solid white eyes. This

1:01:38

type of bigfoot is believed to inhabit

1:01:40

southwest Virginia and is able

1:01:42

to shift into any animal and

1:01:44

can also take on the appearance of an

1:01:47

old man or woman. In

1:01:49

its human form, the Ravenmacher can

1:01:52

lure among unsuspecting people

1:01:54

and eat their hearts from their chest

1:01:56

without ever leaving a mark.

1:01:59

Next up, we have the

1:02:02

silver giant. The

1:02:04

silver giant is similar to a bear

1:02:06

and can run as easily on two

1:02:08

legs as a can on four. Wind

1:02:10

standing. It is between nine and

1:02:13

eleven feet tall. While

1:02:15

its fur is generally dark, it has

1:02:17

a silver streak of hair running down

1:02:19

its back. And that

1:02:21

was all the information I had on that one.

1:02:24

And then we have the Cherokee death

1:02:26

cat. This is cat like

1:02:28

beast that is said to look like a

1:02:30

lion and measures approximately four

1:02:33

feet tall at its front shoulder.

1:02:35

And nine feet long from head

1:02:37

to tail. The creature can leap

1:02:39

extremely far and is also an

1:02:41

expert climber when it comes

1:02:43

to trees. It feeds on large

1:02:46

livestock like cows and horses

1:02:48

and focuses its attack directly

1:02:50

on their jugular veins. And

1:02:53

the last one we have are called

1:02:56

Grimms. These red eyed beasts

1:02:58

guard some Appalachian cemeteries. Legion

1:03:01

has it that settlers throughout the region

1:03:04

believed that burying the family dog

1:03:06

alive in the cemetery would mean the

1:03:08

dog's spirit would morph into a

1:03:10

grim. A black dog with

1:03:12

red eyes and that the dog would

1:03:14

then protect the graveyard. So

1:03:18

pretty interesting stuff right there, all kinds

1:03:20

of cryptids, and I know there's so many

1:03:22

more. But like I said, it's a I

1:03:24

was trying to choose the some

1:03:26

of the more popular ones, but also some of the

1:03:28

lesser known ones. And yeah.

1:03:31

This one is gonna be a fun one because

1:03:33

this is Appalachian superstitions. And

1:03:36

I can tell you right now, dude,

1:03:38

I do probably

1:03:41

more than half of these and I

1:03:43

never knew where they originated from,

1:03:46

and you will probably think the same

1:03:48

thing once I tell you some of them. It's

1:03:51

funny because I was telling my coworker

1:03:53

Bonnie that I work with, she's,

1:03:55

like, seventy five or seventy six and

1:03:58

I was telling her about some of these. I'm like, have you ever

1:04:00

heard of these? And she's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. I've

1:04:02

heard of that. I've heard of that for sure.

1:04:04

So definitely interesting. First,

1:04:07

we're gonna take a quick break. You can either

1:04:09

hit that fast forward button. Go grab

1:04:11

another drink either way. I'll meet you back here

1:04:13

in a few minutes. Alright.

1:04:17

Here we go. And ax

1:04:19

placed under the bed of a birthing

1:04:21

mother would kill the pain. Never

1:04:24

close a knife you didn't open or

1:04:26

you'll have bad luck for seven years. That

1:04:29

one is one that I have always

1:04:31

gone by since I was a kid. Always

1:04:34

keep a penny in your washer. Always

1:04:37

go out the same door you came in.

1:04:40

Eat black eyed peas or

1:04:42

collard green with HOGGEL on

1:04:44

New Year's Day. Don't wash

1:04:46

clothes on New Year's Day or you will

1:04:48

wash a family member out.

1:04:51

That one I never do laundry

1:04:54

on Sundays or New Year's

1:04:56

Day. Don't sleep on

1:04:58

New Year's. Don't do any

1:05:01

canning or gardening on your period.

1:05:04

Plant your crops under the full moon.

1:05:07

Don't walk under a ladder. If you

1:05:09

find yourself under one, don't turn

1:05:11

around. Just back up. Don't

1:05:14

let anyone sweep under your

1:05:16

feet. Never give someone

1:05:19

a set of knives as a gift.

1:05:21

If you give them to newlyweds, it

1:05:24

will cut their love. If

1:05:26

a black cat crosses your path,

1:05:28

turn and go a different way. Never

1:05:31

repay salt that you have borrowed.

1:05:34

If a bad storm is coming, put

1:05:36

a two edged ax into a stump

1:05:38

facing the storm. To ensure

1:05:40

the storm goes around you. If

1:05:43

you spill salt, throw a pinch over

1:05:45

your left shoulder so you won't have bad

1:05:47

luck. When you drop your

1:05:49

fork, it means a woman is

1:05:51

coming to visit. If you drop a

1:05:53

knife, a man is coming to visit.

1:05:56

Don't cut your baby's hair before their

1:05:59

first birthday. Your baby

1:06:01

has to fall off the bed before their

1:06:03

first birthday. Run

1:06:05

a chicken over your baby to keep

1:06:08

it from getting chicken pox. Don't

1:06:11

let a pregnant woman see a dead

1:06:13

person. Or the baby will have

1:06:15

a birthmark. If cows

1:06:17

are laying down or leaves are upside

1:06:19

down, it's going to rain. The

1:06:21

leaves being upside down is a real thing. That's

1:06:23

how we always tell. Hang a

1:06:26

horseshoe upside down to keep

1:06:28

good luck from running out. Wear

1:06:30

a buck eye in your bra to

1:06:32

ward off rheumatism. Hold

1:06:35

your breath when you pass a cemetery, or

1:06:38

you'll be the next one to die. If

1:06:41

you see a white horse, you'll have good

1:06:43

luck. Hold your

1:06:45

feet up when you're crossing a railroad

1:06:47

track or you'll lose your boyfriend. If

1:06:50

you're walking with someone, you have

1:06:52

to go on the same side of a post

1:06:54

or obstacle or it will break your

1:06:57

friendship. Do not wash

1:06:59

clothes on Sunday. If your

1:07:01

nose is itching, it means company

1:07:03

is coming. Open the

1:07:05

windows when someone dies and cover

1:07:07

the mirrors so that their soul can

1:07:10

leave. Hang

1:07:12

a mirror by the door to protect

1:07:14

against evil. Never

1:07:16

leave a rocking chair, rocking, or

1:07:18

you will invite spirits. And

1:07:22

there we go. So because

1:07:24

of the length of this particular episode,

1:07:28

I am going to put out the

1:07:30

interview with Shane on a separate

1:07:32

episode probably tomorrow. It's

1:07:34

like I said, Shane is the guy who I talked to

1:07:37

He witnessed the Brown Mountain Lights just like

1:07:39

a month ago. Super cool interview. I think

1:07:42

you guys will like it, but I think I'm just gonna do

1:07:44

it separately because this is a long enough episode.

1:07:47

So let me credit a couple sources

1:07:49

here. We got Blueridge Mountains

1:07:51

travel guide, Appalachian folklore

1:07:53

monsters and superstitions, March

1:07:56

eighteenth, two thousand twenty two written

1:07:58

by Amy Lewis. Next,

1:08:00

we have the Appalachian ghost tales

1:08:02

and stories written October thirteenth

1:08:04

two thousand eighteen. We also

1:08:06

have the moonlet road dot com.

1:08:09

Then we have ten mountain monsters

1:08:11

found lurking in Appalachia, an

1:08:13

article written by Beth Braden, And

1:08:16

finally, holy stones and

1:08:18

iron bones, black dogs and

1:08:20

Appalachian folklore, which is a blog.

1:08:23

So I hope you guys

1:08:26

enjoyed this episode. If

1:08:29

you want to stick around for some reviews,

1:08:32

you are more than welcome to. First,

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let me give some information

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here. If you want follow me on social

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find. I do have a TikTok.

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I can't honestly remember what it's named because I don't

1:09:01

get on TikTok very much, but I do have a TikTok

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as well. I think it's mysterious circumstances. But

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I can't remember the exact name. If

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you wanna email me, you can hit me at

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at gmail dot com. Facebook,

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you have to answer the questions. Otherwise, it won't

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let you in. Sorry. Or the admin

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won't let you in, actually. And

1:09:26

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1:09:28

new Facebook page. When

1:09:31

I took a break from Facebook the last time,

1:09:33

they decided to go ahead and just delete

1:09:35

my fucking Facebook page for the podcast.

1:09:37

So I just waited a few months

1:09:39

and decided to make a new one. So if you wanna

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go like the Facebook page, just

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type in mysterious circumstances podcast,

1:09:46

you and find it like the page. Let's

1:09:49

get on with some of these reviews here.

1:09:52

Alright. Let's see what we got here.

1:09:55

This one is from. Looks

1:09:58

like rock Roxie Mountain Bob

1:10:00

says, wow, wow, wow. I am in my

1:10:02

fifties and I had never listened to podcasts.

1:10:05

I had a road trip into I did to try

1:10:07

one out, and I thought I it would be like

1:10:09

an audiobook. I was completely

1:10:11

sucked into Justin's conversation, and

1:10:14

I'm so impressed by his genuineness His

1:10:16

knowledge that would only come through hours

1:10:18

of research and preparation and it is

1:10:20

complete professionalism. Oh,

1:10:24

yeah, man. I you know, I'm professional

1:10:26

to an extent. I specifically

1:10:28

enjoy feeling like we were just sitting

1:10:31

at a table, drinking a beer while he is just

1:10:33

telling me a story. I'm hooked. I've

1:10:35

been listening now to blood dust too besides

1:10:37

mysterious circumstance. And listen as much

1:10:39

as I can and sometimes repeat

1:10:41

episodes. I've

1:10:43

tried a few other folks out but

1:10:46

keep coming back to adjusting creation because

1:10:48

I compare everything else to him now

1:10:50

and they just don't stack up.

1:10:52

If I had tried out anyone other than Justin,

1:10:54

I probably would have clicked the show off.

1:10:57

So I'm thankful for the great entertainment

1:10:59

and intellectual stimulation you

1:11:02

are providing your listeners. If

1:11:05

you ever come towards Charlotte, North

1:11:07

Carolina to do a show or investigation, let

1:11:09

me know. I'll buy you a beer or 5L0LA

1:11:13

grateful fan, Bob j. I

1:11:15

tell you what, Bob. I'm pretty sure

1:11:17

we are friends on Facebook now. I think you sent

1:11:19

me a friend request. Dude Charlotte,

1:11:21

North Carolina, my guy. I would

1:11:24

fucking love to go there. And to be honest

1:11:26

with you, I'd go there just for like a weekend

1:11:28

trip at some point, man. I don't know

1:11:30

about a live show, but I'll still have

1:11:33

five or ten or twelve beers with you,

1:11:35

and we can talk four hours,

1:11:37

dude, because I have a lot of

1:11:39

random fucking knowledge in my brain

1:11:41

at this point, but I

1:11:43

always appreciate people taking the time

1:11:46

to leave to leave reviews. So thank

1:11:48

you very much, Bob. I appreciate man.

1:11:51

I'm really glad you're liking the podcast. Next

1:11:54

up, we got duda Man nineteen

1:11:57

seventy nine. Says love

1:11:59

it. I recently found this podcast. We're looking

1:12:01

for episodes about Jesse James, and now I'm

1:12:03

hooked. Justin is an amazing host with just

1:12:05

enough humor and personal opinions sprinkled

1:12:07

in to keep it fun. Hell

1:12:09

yeah, dude. That was a great series, man.

1:12:11

It was one of my favorite series. It was Jesse James.

1:12:15

Next up, we got smithers

1:12:18

seventy seven. I

1:12:20

love the podcast. I love listening to

1:12:22

a podcast at work. Helps me

1:12:24

get through my day and always keeps things interesting.

1:12:27

Feels like I'm hanging out with Justin

1:12:29

and seems like a guy I'd love to get a beer with.

1:12:32

I'll be honest, I am pretty fun to drink with

1:12:34

for the most part. Keep up the

1:12:36

great work. PS would love for you to

1:12:38

roast me like a one star. Okay.

1:12:42

Here's the deal. I

1:12:44

didn't know what to say to that

1:12:47

because I'm like, Alright.

1:12:49

Like I got a five star review, but

1:12:51

he once roasted like a one star.

1:12:54

So what I did was I

1:12:57

posted that in my Facebook group

1:12:59

and asked for a little bit of help.

1:13:02

And here is what people came up

1:13:04

with The roasting is not

1:13:07

what it usually is, but I think it

1:13:09

kind of fits this scenario. So

1:13:12

let's see what we got here.

1:13:15

Where Jose says, I would seriously

1:13:17

be concerned about this person's sensibilities,

1:13:20

judgment, and questionable life choices.

1:13:22

I mean, Justin, Wouldn't you

1:13:24

be worried about you if

1:13:26

you wanted to hang out with you? And

1:13:30

it's like, yeah. Yeah. Christina

1:13:34

says, we've all heard Justin roast someone

1:13:36

before. If you've been around long enough,

1:13:38

then you know that this could be brutal.

1:13:40

Justin, I would proceed with caution on this

1:13:42

one. Tammy says,

1:13:44

I don't know. I think I do some research just

1:13:46

in style and find out about this person and

1:13:48

then proceed to roasting. Clayton

1:13:52

says, roast him up a little, but he seems like

1:13:54

a cool dude. Matthew says, bra,

1:13:57

like you'd have a beer with stupid plebe,

1:13:59

come on. Only last podcast

1:14:02

on the left drops that fucking low.

1:14:06

Keith says comments seemed fine until

1:14:08

the roasting suggestion. I don't know. Does that

1:14:10

mean something different in the US than what it does

1:14:12

here? Chuck

1:14:15

says make it weird, make it awkward, Watch

1:14:17

some roast jokes. You got this. Think about

1:14:19

us playing pool drinking beer rocking out.

1:14:23

And then Kathy says, Actually, this

1:14:25

guy sounds fun. So

1:14:28

that's that's about all I got,

1:14:30

man. It's not too hardcore roasting, but

1:14:33

you will actually here one here

1:14:36

in a few minutes if that's what

1:14:38

you're into because I

1:14:40

do have a nice little

1:14:42

one star review. And for

1:14:44

the love of God, you guys are never

1:14:47

going to guess what it concerns. This

1:14:49

one is from Kevin 7845.

1:14:52

I've been listening several months now, best

1:14:54

podcast out there in my opinion. Just

1:14:56

listen to the Wild Bill interview. It was great.

1:14:58

I hope there will be more. Kevin,

1:15:01

yeah, there actually will be more Bill

1:15:03

reached out to me last

1:15:05

week and wanted to talk about some

1:15:07

more stuff. Apparently, the person

1:15:09

that he's at had a bunch more killings

1:15:11

and murders

1:15:13

and shit. So, yeah, that's

1:15:16

what we're gonna do, man. I'm gonna have them back

1:15:18

on here very soon.

1:15:21

And definitely do another interview. And thank

1:15:23

you very much for that five star. This

1:15:25

one is Zenbeginner

1:15:27

thirty three. Good show

1:15:30

overall. I enjoy the show

1:15:32

for the most part, but the constant cussing

1:15:34

gets old quick. That's a two star

1:15:36

right there. He did give me a pity star

1:15:39

as we know the two star reviews pity stars.

1:15:42

Listens and beginner. I don't know if you're

1:15:44

a female or male But

1:15:49

there's this cool fucking thing at the

1:15:51

beginning of the podcast called the disclaimer.

1:15:54

That literally tells you there's going

1:15:56

to be cussing. Then there's

1:15:58

this really other cool thing

1:16:00

and it's a big giant fucking

1:16:02

e right next to

1:16:05

the episodes that there is heavy

1:16:07

cutting in. The e stands

1:16:09

for explicit. I'm not

1:16:11

sure if you're familiar with that word. You can

1:16:13

Google it if you want. Then besides that,

1:16:16

if you actually read the podcast

1:16:18

description, there's this

1:16:20

thing right at the top

1:16:23

at the beginning in

1:16:25

all capital letters surrounded

1:16:27

by asterisks. That

1:16:30

says explicit language. Now,

1:16:35

I'm fucking sure that you are

1:16:38

an intelligent part, well, I mean, half

1:16:40

ass. If you can leave a fucking review,

1:16:43

I'm thinking that you can read.

1:16:45

I mean, you can write. Obviously, or at least

1:16:47

type for that matter. You're probably one of

1:16:49

those people who can't even fucking read or write

1:16:51

cursive. That's kinda what I'm thinking.

1:16:54

But I mean,

1:16:56

to a fucking

1:16:58

read, you know. You don't even have to fucking

1:17:00

read. You can listen to the disclaimer at the beginning

1:17:02

of the fucking episode. Anyway,

1:17:06

I don't even know what to say about reviews

1:17:08

like that anymore. It's like, are you fucking kidding

1:17:10

me at this point? I have literally

1:17:12

been doing this for almost seven fucking

1:17:15

years in a month. Almost exactly a month,

1:17:17

it'll be seven fucking years. And

1:17:19

people still just don't fucking get it.

1:17:21

Anyway, moving on, We have

1:17:24

a lovely 9185

1:17:26

star's favorite podcast.

1:17:28

Keep up the good work. Oh,

1:17:31

man. This one right here. Five

1:17:33

stars P226 sigg.

1:17:36

Hell yeah. It gets me through the

1:17:38

day. I found this podcast,

1:17:40

while I found a blood and dust, I listened to

1:17:42

it while I'm at work, and it's how

1:17:44

I get through a boring day. Dude,

1:17:47

I tell you what, I don't listen to much podcasts

1:17:51

or many podcasts I should say. I

1:17:53

am a fucking audio drama freak.

1:17:55

Like, it's TV for your fucking

1:17:57

ears, man. Like, I listen

1:18:00

to a lot of fucking audio dramas. I've

1:18:03

thought about making one before, but

1:18:05

yeah, I just don't have time for that shit.

1:18:07

But there's a couple of podcasts I

1:18:09

list too though, but I do appreciate that

1:18:11

and I'm glad I can get you through the day. This

1:18:14

one is funny. Oh my body says

1:18:17

five stars, great podcast. Only podcast

1:18:20

I can relax and fall asleep too. Keep

1:18:22

it up. Hell yeah. Next

1:18:25

up, we got J

1:18:28

d Dodger. Very interesting.

1:18:30

I have tried many podcasts. I rate them

1:18:32

by the voice mostly. I enjoy

1:18:34

listening to Justin. Doesn't bother me. He uses

1:18:37

some four letter words. He does his

1:18:39

research and is just as baffled

1:18:41

at what happens to the person as

1:18:43

I am. I really enjoy your podcast.

1:18:46

Keep up the good work, Justin, sincerely

1:18:48

JDF. Helly

1:18:50

Edge, JDF. I'm telling you, well, man, my

1:18:52

reactions are pretty fucking real, you know.

1:18:55

Because that's why I picked these cases because they're

1:18:57

fucking weird. Or their

1:18:59

fun when, you know, one or the other. Next

1:19:01

up, we have missus b

1:19:04

l, the literal best.

1:19:06

I love this show. Justin, you're amazing.

1:19:08

Your show is so well done. The conversational style.

1:19:11

It's like an old friend or cousin telling

1:19:13

you a compelling story. Your topics

1:19:15

are varied and always intriguing. I

1:19:18

can and do listen for hours.

1:19:20

Also, your roasting of battery views has

1:19:22

me rolling laughing. Keep on being

1:19:24

awesome. Love you. I tell you

1:19:26

what, missus BLI love you too.

1:19:29

And I hope you I

1:19:31

hope you have a great day. Whatever time

1:19:33

you're listening, I hope you have a great day.

1:19:36

Next up, we have r

1:19:39

Roberts, 516, please

1:19:41

don't change a thing. I love the fact they can't

1:19:43

label this podcast as true crime history

1:19:45

or paranormal. It's a great mixture

1:19:48

of it all and keeps everything from being

1:19:50

repetitive and boring. Your topics

1:19:52

and content is so interesting. The

1:19:54

f bombs float by without me noticing.

1:19:57

Thanks for the hours of non political entertainment.

1:20:00

As for your haters, they need to stay on their

1:20:02

couch drinking their buttermilk while watching

1:20:04

Mattlock. Keep doing what you're doing.

1:20:08

Yeah. I like that

1:20:10

review because you have a very

1:20:12

good point. They really can't

1:20:14

label me in any specific genre

1:20:17

because I do a little

1:20:19

bit of everything. And if I find someone interesting,

1:20:21

I'm gonna do it. I love paranormal.

1:20:24

I love history. I love crime. As

1:20:26

long as it's unsolved, you know? Even some

1:20:28

of the weirder salt ones. Next

1:20:31

one, I'm not sure how to

1:20:34

take this one. This is

1:20:36

from fucking July, so they

1:20:38

probably don't know how this it's a

1:20:40

five star review. Okay? And

1:20:43

it says m n fanatic, which I'm assuming

1:20:45

is Minnesota fanatic. And it

1:20:47

says me. Not

1:20:50

a show for me, but I've listened to a few episodes.

1:20:52

Too much rambling and repeating self,

1:20:55

Guests are usually way too quiet, got

1:20:57

tired of getting my ears blown out,

1:20:59

just didn't hear half the conversation

1:21:01

story, or story. I love a

1:21:03

little slash in there when there's a co

1:21:05

host. Don't mind the profanity at all.

1:21:07

Host is usually quite shocked to learn a case

1:21:10

has already been covered. There's

1:21:12

millions of podcasts covering True Crime. The

1:21:14

shocking part is if only one or two cover

1:21:16

a case. I'm

1:21:18

telling you what, man. I hope

1:21:20

you hit that fucking five star button

1:21:22

by accident because I would fucking

1:21:25

destroy this goddamn review. Yeah.

1:21:29

I don't know what fucking episodes you listen

1:21:32

to or how long ago I fucking

1:21:34

made

1:21:34

them. Man.

1:21:37

I

1:21:38

wanna go off on that one, but they did give me

1:21:40

five stars. But Minnesota

1:21:42

anakin really fucking need to branch

1:21:44

out and listen to way more episodes, dude,

1:21:47

or do that, whatever the fuck.

1:21:49

I don't know. I think you're kinda fucking slow.

1:21:52

I mean, like I said, I started this podcast

1:21:54

seven years ago when there weren't millions

1:21:57

of podcasts. Some of you don't

1:21:59

remember that long ago. I get it. Because

1:22:01

I'm pretty sure this person's like a fucking teenager

1:22:04

or something. I never

1:22:06

shocked when a case has been covered by somebody

1:22:08

else. Right? And if I was,

1:22:10

it was in the beginning at some point

1:22:12

in time. So next

1:22:15

up, we got five

1:22:17

stars from Beach Boy fifty

1:22:19

one. Love it. Justin's a

1:22:21

fantastic researcher. His presentation

1:22:24

of each subject is excellent. I'm sixty

1:22:26

five years old and have always been a history buff.

1:22:28

His research on Jesse James and Billy

1:22:30

the kid was eye opening for this old

1:22:32

man. I tell you what, Beach Boy fifty one.

1:22:34

You were fucking awesome dude. And

1:22:36

like I said, Billy the Kid probably hands

1:22:38

down. If I had top three favorite

1:22:40

episodes, or series

1:22:43

for that matter. Dude, Billy, the

1:22:45

kid is up there. That was crazy.

1:22:47

Awesome. I don't listen to my own episodes

1:22:50

ever. There's

1:22:52

maybe a dozen I've listened to

1:22:54

after I edit and put them out and that one

1:22:57

is a great series. I

1:22:59

don't know if I've read this one. This one

1:23:01

is d t keeper, two stars,

1:23:03

why the profanity, not great,

1:23:05

but not a bad show. But

1:23:08

I'm almost to the point of not listening

1:23:10

anymore because I don't think I can

1:23:12

stand anymore of the needless,

1:23:15

highly distracting, immature profanity.

1:23:19

Come on, man. Exclamation

1:23:21

point. Well, I'm

1:23:23

gonna tell you the same thing I told the other motherfucker.

1:23:27

Okay? If you take

1:23:29

the time to listen

1:23:32

to a disclaimer to read the

1:23:34

podcast description. To

1:23:37

look at the episodes, I have a great big fucking

1:23:39

e right next to him. You

1:23:42

will know, there is profanity in this

1:23:44

podcast. I don't know to tell you.

1:23:46

I mean, my heart bleeds for you right now.

1:23:48

There's a good chance I might lose

1:23:50

sleep over the fact you can't handle the profanity.

1:23:53

And I will be the first one to say. Some

1:23:55

episodes have more than others. There's also

1:23:57

episodes where I don't curse at all.

1:24:00

Like, when I do episodes with Roseanne, doesn't

1:24:02

like cursing on her podcast. I don't curse.

1:24:04

You know, it's pretty simple. You

1:24:06

know, if I'm into it, it's just gonna

1:24:08

happen. Dude, here's the deal. If my eighty seven

1:24:11

year old grandma can fucking get around it,

1:24:13

she don't care, she doesn't

1:24:15

say anything. You know what I mean? She's eighty

1:24:17

seven, dude. That's an old country woman

1:24:20

right there. You will be okay.

1:24:22

I promise you that. I promise

1:24:24

you. But anyway, that's

1:24:26

all I got for you. I love you guys. Thank

1:24:28

you for tuning in. I appreciate everybody

1:24:31

being understanding about my

1:24:33

a unruly episode

1:24:35

schedule right now. Full disclosure back

1:24:38

in early November actually my birthday

1:24:41

on November fourth. My dad was diagnosed

1:24:43

with a very rare, very aggressive

1:24:45

terminal cancer, and it has

1:24:47

been a roller coaster of fucking life

1:24:49

man for the last four or five months.

1:24:52

We're all trying to deal with it and maintain

1:24:54

and we're all working together as

1:24:57

a family and we're trying to enjoy

1:24:59

as much as we can at this

1:25:01

point in time. I really don't like talking

1:25:03

about it. People on my social media,

1:25:06

personal social media, you know, they know what's

1:25:08

going on. I'm not gonna, like, start

1:25:10

talking about it right now because I'm I'm gonna

1:25:12

start getting upset. But you

1:25:15

know, that's that's why

1:25:18

my episodes have been very, very sporadic.

1:25:20

I've gone, like, you know, five, six weeks without

1:25:22

putting out an episode. Got lot of shit going

1:25:24

on. You know what I mean? But I appreciate everybody

1:25:27

being understanding. I appreciate everybody that

1:25:29

is donated to my dad's medical

1:25:31

bills to help out and everything like that

1:25:33

as well. Honest to god

1:25:35

means the fucking world of me, man.

1:25:37

Like all these people who have never met me in

1:25:39

person want to help me and

1:25:41

my family out. And I

1:25:44

just can't thank all of you enough. I fucking

1:25:46

love you guys so much and, like, this is why

1:25:49

I do what I do. I've always I've

1:25:51

always prided myself on the fact that this

1:25:53

podcast, I try to bring people

1:25:55

together even though they might not be into the

1:25:57

same genres or the same topics. Or

1:26:00

from a city or a country here,

1:26:02

whatever the case is. Like, we

1:26:05

all have similarities. We all come together.

1:26:07

We have a good time. We try to enjoy life.

1:26:09

All these people who have reached

1:26:11

out and taken the time and, like, donated

1:26:14

to my dad's cause. I really, really

1:26:16

cannot thank you guys enough. I fucking

1:26:18

love you. For all the other listeners

1:26:20

out there who did not know that, who aren't part

1:26:22

of like the Facebook group or don't follow

1:26:24

me really on social media. That's

1:26:27

that's a lot of the shit going on and why

1:26:30

my episodes of, you know, taking a little

1:26:32

bit of time sometimes. You know, I gotta take care of

1:26:34

myself. I got kids. And,

1:26:36

you know, they're going through it too. It's

1:26:38

just been a rough patch, you know.

1:26:41

It's life sometimes, I suppose. But

1:26:44

I just wanted to to give a shout out

1:26:46

to all you guys and and just say I appreciate

1:26:49

you guys for being patient

1:26:51

and understanding and so caring

1:26:54

during these last few months.

1:26:57

So Love you guys.

1:26:59

And until next time, I'll see you on the flip

1:27:01

side.