In September 1903, the quiet farming town of Van Meter, Iowa became the stage for one of the most credible and terrifying cryptid encounters in American history. For five consecutive nights, townspeople reported a winged creatureunlike anything they’d ever seen — an enormous being with leathery bat-like wings and a glowing horn on its headthat emitted a blinding beam of light powerful enough to pierce the darkness.

This wasn’t the tale of drunkards or overactive imaginations. The witnesses included the town doctor, the bank cashier who later became mayor, and multiple respected businessmen — credible, level-headed citizens with everything to lose and nothing to gain by reporting what they saw.The creature stood eight to nine feet tall, with smooth skin, a blunt horn, and glowing eyes, described consistently by multiple witnesses.

 Even more disturbing, it appeared immune to bullets. Dr. Alcott fired five shots at close range without effect. Clarence Dunn opened fire through a bank window. O.V. White shot at the creature while it perched atop a telephone pole. Nothing slowed it down. The confrontation reached its climax when an armed mob tracked the being to an abandoned coal mine at the edge of town. There, they discovered not one creature—but two.

A larger and a smaller entity emerged from the shaft, seemingly impervious to the barrage of gunfire that followed. The townsfolk, terrified beyond reason, sealed the mine entrance with brick and mortar, entombing the unknown visitors deep underground.

This episode examines every documented event from those five nights and explores the enduring mystery of the Van Meter Visitor — a creature that continues to defy explanation more than a century later. From pterosaurs and demonsto extraterrestrial beings and underground species, we dig into every theory — and why none can explain all the evidence.

In this Halloween special from Paranormal World Productions, we head deep into the frozen wilderness of Alaska for a story where myth and terror collide.

After forty-five years of running from her murderous brother, Laurie Strode retreats to a remote cabin fifteen miles from her nearest neighbor—hoping the endless wilderness can finally offer peace. But this land holds secrets of its own.

When rocks crash against her walls in the night and haunting vocalizations echo through the valley, Laurie realizes she’s not alone. Something ancient watches from the treeline—a Sasquatch, massive and intelligent, drawn to her isolation.

An uneasy coexistence forms between two survivors the world refuses to believe in… until Michael Myers finds her again. On Halloween night, Alaska becomes a battleground between human trauma, primal instinct, and unstoppable evil. This haunting episode explores survival, isolation, and the strange kinship between beings who exist outside the normal world. When pure evil meets primal fury, the result is brutal, tragic, and unforgettable.

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Join us where the cold is colder, the dark is deeper, and sometimes the monsters in the wild are the only ones who can save us from the monsters that follow us home.

In the summer of 1978, Minerva, Ohio became ground zero for one of the most credible Bigfoot encounters ever investigated — the now-legendary Minerva Monster case. The Cayton family’s reports of a large, hair-covered creature on their property drew law enforcement, journalists, and national attention that forever changed their quiet lives.

But what most people don’t know is that the Caytons weren’t the only ones seeing something extraordinary that summer. Just two miles away, another family on Byard Road was living through their own nightmare — a series of encounters they never reported, never shared, and never wanted to relive.This is their story — told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl who watched the impossible unfold in the cornfield behind her home.

While the world focused on the Caytons, this family locked their doors at sunset, fortified their windows, and prayed the shapes moving through the stalks wouldn’t come any closer. She spent her nights at her bedroom window, notebook in hand, documenting what she saw — towering, upright figures that moved with intelligence, communicated in low tones, and showed both power and something that felt unsettlingly human. 

Night after night, she recorded their behavior, trying to understand what her family was living through while the rest of the town looked the other way.As the visits continued, fear became routine. Her brother’s nightmares worsened, her parents grew more withdrawn, and the cornfield became a place no one dared to enter.

When three of the creatures finally appeared together in the yard, everything changed — and silence was no longer enough to protect them.

This is the story that was never told — the encounters that stayed off the record while the media swarmed the Cayton home. It’s a haunting, deeply human look at what happens when legends step out of the woods and into ordinary lives, and when a family’s quiet resilience is tested by something the world still struggles to explain.

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In the summer of 2005, six fourteen-year-old Boy Scouts from South Carolina set out to prove they were ready for anything. It was supposed to be their final challenge before aging out of the troop—a week-long wilderness survival test in the Francis Marion National Forest, just northeast of Charleston.

Their scoutmaster dropped them at a remote trailhead with only the essentials: a map, a compass, and an emergency radio. No adults. No safety nets. Just a simple plan—hike eight miles into the backcountry, set up a primitive camp, and spend a week living off the skills they'd spent years developing. For the first day or so, everything went according to plan. The boys found a quiet clearing by a creek—secluded, serene, and perfect. 

They pitched their tents, made camp, and laughed about how easy this was going to be.Then came the second night. The woods fell silent—eerily silent. Then came the howls. Deep, resonant, impossible to place. What began as strange noises quickly escalated into something far more sinister. Over the next two nights, the scouts endured a terrifying series of events that shook their confidence and stripped away any sense of safety. Footsteps circled their tents after midnight—heavy, deliberate.

 Their food bag, strung high in a tree for bear safety, was ripped down like it was nothing. One tent was pushed in by something large enough to leave massive handprints in the fabric. Rocks the size of baseballs were hurled at them from the darkness with enough force to strip bark from nearby trees. A thick, musky odor hung in the air. And through it all, they saw them—huge, hair-covered figures moving just beyond the tree line.

The breaking point came on the third night. Seven pairs of glowing eyes appeared around the campfire—eyes at least eight feet off the ground, unmoving, unblinking, and far too intelligent to be mistaken for animals. The message was clear: you don’t belong here.

At first light, the boys made the call to leave—three days early. But getting out wasn’t simple. Whatever was out there followed them the entire hike back. One scout saw a massive figure standing in broad daylight in the middle of a creek—impossible to mistake or explain away. Later, their path was blocked entirely by the largest creature yet, forcing them to cut through dense brush to escape.

This is a firsthand account from one of those scouts—now in his thirties—finally breaking the silence on an experience that’s haunted all six of them for nearly two decades. Officially, it was just another uneventful primitive campout. But unofficially? It was three days of something stalking them. Watching them. Controlling whether they left… or didn’t.They made a pact to keep it quiet, afraid of being laughed at or called liars.

 But now, for the first time, one of them is telling the truth about what really happened in those woods.This is the real story of what drove six confident Boy Scouts out of the forest—early, terrified, and forever changed.

Deep within the misty forests of the Olympic Peninsula, where the trees whisper and the shadows move with ancient purpose, a young Sasquatch named Koda takes his first breath — and his first steps into a world on the brink of change.

In this special episode, Brian King-Sharp, host of Sasquatch Odyssey, Backwoods Bigfoot Stories, Disturbing, History, The Gulty Files, and author of Born Wild: Koda’s Odyssey – Volume One, invites you to journey into the hidden realm of the Sasquatch like never before. Told through their eyes, this story brings to life the clans, families, and struggles of a people fighting to preserve their way of life against encroaching human threats — and darker forces rising from within their own kind. You’ll meet unforgettable characters — from the wise leaders of the Hoh Clan to the fierce and loyal Kabota and Asha — as their lives intertwine in a saga of survival, family, and discovery. This is more than just a story about mysterious creatures in the forest. It’s a story about us — about love, loss, belonging, and what it truly means to protect what we hold dear.

In this exclusive preview, you’ll hear the first seven chapters of the brand-new audiobook version of Born Wild: Koda’s Odyssey, brought to life with over seven hours of powerful narration and emotional storytelling that will pull you deep into Koda’s world.

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Tonight on Backwoods Bigfoot Stories, we head deep into the haunted woods of rural Alabama — a place where family, legacy, and terror collide.In the summer of 1995, a struggling family inherited more than just forty acres of untouched woodland.

After losing his job at the paper mill, a man packed up his wife, Sarah, and their twelve-year-old son, Tyler, and moved them into his late grandfather’s abandoned cabin, hoping for a fresh start far from mounting debts and dwindling opportunities. But as they soon discovered, some inheritances come with a terrible price — and some places should have been left empty forever.What began as small disturbances — mysterious rocks hitting the roof in the dead of night — quickly escalated into something beyond comprehension.

The family found themselves under siege by massive, intelligent beings that had claimed those ancient woods long before humans ever set foot there.For nearly three decades, the man who lived through it kept his story buried. But now, after twenty-seven years of silence, he’s ready to tell what really happened during those horrifying weeks — when enormous hands slapped against the cabin walls, when red eyes watched from the darkness outside his son’s window, and when voices that no human throat could form whispered threats through the trees.

This isn’t just another Bigfoot encounter. It’s a story of survival, of territory violated, and of ancient rules broken. Drawing from newspaper reports dating back to the 1950s and scattered local testimonies, we uncover why certain areas in the deep Alabama backwoods remain untouched by development — and why locals still speak in whispers about the old Tillman place. In this chilling episode, you’ll hear his testimony — a warning passed down through time to anyone who might inherit an old property in the woods. Because in those forgotten corners of Alabama’s wilderness, the Old Ones still walk. 

They still watch. And they still play their terrible games with anyone foolish enough to enter their domain. Some gifts are curses in disguise. Some monsters are patient enough to let you go — knowing they can always come back for you later.

So settle in and listen close. This is “The Inheritance.”
After hearing it, you’ll never look at the woods the same way again.

This episode dives into one of the world’s most enduring mysteries — the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. It begins in a small school library in Summerville, Georgia, where a seven-year-old boy discovers a grainy black-and-white photo of a long-necked creature rising from dark Scottish waters.

That image ignites a lifelong fascination with the unknown.We explore the geological wonder of Loch Ness — a glacier-carved chasm holding more freshwater than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Its depths plunge over seven hundred feet into near-total darkness, creating the perfect cradle for mystery. From ancient Pictish carvings and Highland folklore to the 7th-century account of Saint Columba’s “water beast,” the story traces centuries of myth and fear. 

When a new road opened along the loch in 1933, modern sightings erupted — transforming a quiet Scottish valley into a global phenomenon. The account of George Spicer and his wife encountering something vast on the road ignited headlines and speculation of surviving dinosaurs.

At the center stands the infamous Surgeon’s Photograph — the elegant, serpentine silhouette that defined a legend for decades. We revisit its publication, its global fame, and the shocking revelation of the hoax behind it — a tale of revenge, ingenuity, and humanity’s craving for wonder.Across nine decades, scientists have scoured Loch Ness with sonar, cameras, and environmental DNA. 

From Tim Dinsdale’s footage to Operation Deepscan and the most recent DNA surveys, the evidence remains elusive — yet the witnesses persist. Lawyers, sailors, police officers, and scientists describe what they saw: something real, something unknown. We break down every major hypothesis — from plesiosaurs and eels to waves, logs, and psychological perception — exploring why no explanation fully satisfies. 

Beyond biology and science, Nessie’s legend endures as a cultural mirror, revealing our need for mystery and meaning.Ultimately, this episode isn’t just about what may lurk beneath those dark waters — it’s about why we look. It’s about wonder, belief, and the human hunger for the unexplained. 

The Loch Ness Monster may or may not exist, but its legend reminds us that the world is still vast, still strange, and still capable of mystery.

In this episode, we head down to the humid backroads of Bishopville, South Carolina — a small town that, in the summer of 1988, became the epicenter of one of America’s strangest and most terrifying cryptid encounters.It all began just after midnight on June 29, 1988. Seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis was driving home from work when a flat tire on a lonely stretch of road near Scape Ore Swamp changed his life forever.

What he saw that night — a seven-foot-tall, red-eyed creature covered in scales — would ignite a media firestorm, terrify an entire community, and give birth to a legend that still haunts the South to this day.In this episode, we walk through the chilling events that followed Davis’s encounter — from cars found mauled and bitten through their metal panels to dozens of frightened residents reporting the same thing: something alive in the swamp that shouldn’t exist. You’ll hear about the Ford owned by Tom and Mary Waye, covered in claw marks and bite impressions that defied explanation, and how Sheriff Liston Truesdale’s investigation — including plaster casts of massive three-toed footprints — gave the mystery credibility it had never had before.

We also dig into what came after. From the eerie silence that fell over Lee County in the years that followed, to the shocking 2008 attack on Bob and Dixie Rawson’s van that reignited local fears. Then, we fast-forward to 2015, when a supposed church sighting made international headlines — and the 2017 solar eclipse, when the Lizard Man “returned” to social media with his own tongue-in-cheek Twitter account.But this episode isn’t just about the headlines. We share never-before-heard witness accounts — from a nurse who stayed silent for thirty years, to a group of Marines whose encounter during night training was quietly buried by their commanding officers.

We even touch on the tragic fate of Christopher Davis himself, whose 2009 murder left unanswered questions and an unsettling sense that the full truth of that night died with him.We’ll explore the theories too — from cryptozoologists who link the Lizard Man to prehistoric reptiles like Carnufex carolinensis, to skeptics who blame misidentifications, hoaxes, or even environmental contamination. You’ll hear from researchers, scientists, and folklorists who all offer their take on what really happened — and why this legend still holds power decades later.We also look at how the Lizard Man changed Bishopville forever.

Once a quiet rural community, the town now proudly embraces its monster — from annual festivals and roadside attractions to a permanent exhibit in the South Carolina Cotton Museum. What started as fear became folklore, and eventually, a piece of Southern culture.T oday, the investigation continues with modern tools — from thermal drones to environmental DNA testing — as researchers try to solve a mystery that refuses to die. And with new sightings still being reported as recently as 2023, some wonder if the creature that terrorized Bishopville all those years ago never really left.

This episode takes you into the heart of South Carolina’s most enduring monster mystery — one that’s part folklore, part fear, and part very real experience for those who lived through it.So, if you ever find yourself driving near Scape Ore Swamp after dark… remember Christopher Davis. Remember the red eyes in the darkness. And maybe, just maybe, change that tire in the daylight. Because once you hear this episode, you’ll never look at a swamp the same way again.

What happens when two seasoned hunters head deep into the north Georgia mountains looking for a problem bear—and stumble onto something they can’t explain? This story has been buried for more than forty years. Now, for the first time, one of the only two men who lived through it is ready to talk about what really happened in the fall of 1983.It all started in a quiet corner of north Georgia where dogs began disappearing, cattle were turning up dead, and the locals were convinced a rogue bear was to blame.

 But not everything lined up. There were strange howls echoing through the valleys at night, and tracks that looked almost like bear prints—but not quite. Even the livestock were acting nervous in ways old ranchers couldn’t make sense of. That’s when two lifelong friends decided enough was enough. They packed up their rifles and gear and hiked into the backcountry determined to find whatever was responsible. What they discovered on that October hunt would change them forever—and bind them to a secret they carried for decades. This story comes straight from one of those men. He’s in his seventies now, and after his hunting partner passed away in 2019, he decided it was finally time to talk. He’s not looking for fame or attention—he just wants to tell the truth before it dies with him.

As he tells it, the deeper they pushed into the forest, the stranger things became. A deer carcass was wedged high in a tree—nearly twenty feet up—with its neck twisted completely backward. Enormous footprints appeared in soft mud, too wide and too deep to belong to any known animal. Trees were bent and splintered, clawed and gouged as if something massive had moved through. And then… came the moment that still haunts him to this day. The face-to-face encounter with something that, by all accounts, shouldn’t exist. What makes this account so gripping is its honesty. 

There’s no embellishment, no dramatics—just the plain words of a man who’s lived with the memory for over forty years. It’s a story about what happens when ordinary people come up against something extraordinary, and how that kind of truth can weigh on a person for the rest of their life.He doesn’t ask you to believe him. He just wants to tell you what he saw—and let you decide for yourself.

So settle in. We’re heading back to the north Georgia wilderness, 1983. 

Two hunters went into the mountains looking for a bear. What they found was something much bigger—something that walked upright—and something that’s been hiding in those woods long before any of us ever set foot there. This is his story. This is what happened. And after more than four decades of silence, it’s finally being told.

In the winter of 1913, the remote settlement of Traverspine in Labrador’s Mealy Mountains became the stage for one of Canada’s most enduring mysteries. Families living on the edge of survival reported nightly visits from a towering, white-maned creature that left enormous footprints, rattled cabins, and fought sled dogs with terrifying strength.

Known as the Traverspine Gorilla, it would haunt the region’s history for over a century. What makes this story remarkable is not just the fear it inspired, but the credibility of those who documented it. Doctors Harry Paddon and Wilfred Grenfell, wildlife biologist Bruce S. Wright, and later explorer Adam Shoalts all investigated, recording consistent testimony and baffling physical evidence. From bloodstained snow to 12-inch two-toed tracks, the case defied easy dismissal.

In this episode, we relive the Michelin family’s terrifying encounters, the hunts and ambushes that failed to corner the beast, and the theories that followed—bear, moose, exotic animal, or something science has yet to name. We’ll explore how extreme isolation and brutal frontier life shaped perception, and why credible witnesses still insisted this was no ordinary animal.

The Traverspine mystery has been retold in journals, memoirs, and books for over a hundred years. Even today, travelers to the Mealy Mountains speak of strange voices in the night and the unsettling feeling of being watched. The whisper lingers in the wilderness—reminding us that some places still hold secrets, and some stories refuse to die.

Camp Crystal Lake has long stood abandoned, its bloody history etched into the memories of all who grew up hearing the stories: the boy who drowned, the grieving mother who lost her mind, and the masked killer who rose from the depths to exact vengeance on anyone foolish enough to trespass.

When seven teenagers venture into the ruins of the infamous camp at the start of summer vacation, they expect to find nothing more than decaying cabins and ghost stories to take home. Instead, they awaken something far darker.

As night falls, the shadows come alive with the presence of Jason Voorhees himself, his unrelenting rage spilling once again across the grounds of the cursed lake.

But Jason is not the only predator stalking these woods. Far older eyes watch the carnage unfold—eyes belonging to the Sasquatch, ancient guardians who have roamed these forests since long before human footsteps disturbed the earth. 

They have witnessed decades of blood at Crystal Lake with quiet detachment, but tonight, their silence will break.When the Sasquatch intervene to save two boys from Jason’s rampage, it is not mercy that drives them but necessity. They know what the teenagers do not: every disappearance invites search parties, helicopters, thermal scans, and tracking dogs.

 Too much human attention threatens their existence, and so balance must be restored by any means necessary.What follows is a collision of legends—a battle of monsters bound by ancient instincts, hidden laws, and territories marked in blood.

For the terrified survivors, the forest becomes a maze of horrors where every shadow holds a choice: fall to Jason’s blade, stumble into the wrath of the Sasquatch, or discover the grim truth of why these creatures hide from mankind.

The story does not end with the night. One year later, the survivors are pulled back into a conflict that stretches beyond their worst nightmares, forced into uneasy alliance with the very monsters they once fled. Together, they must confront something far older, far darker, and far more dangerous than either Jason or the Sasquatch.

Prepare yourself for a descent into the deep woods, where myths bleed into reality, where monsters protect by destroying, and where the real horror isn’t what hunts you—it’s what decides to let you live. 

Best experienced in complete darkness with headphones… though you may want to keep a light close. Some stories have a way of following you home.

Blackwood Gorge looks like paradise on a postcard—towering firs, crystal streams, and endless trails. But beneath the beauty lies something older than legend, something that’s been watching the woods for longer than humans have walked them. For years, hikers have vanished here, leaving behind only impossible clues: backpacks hanging twenty feet up in the trees, footprints far too large to belong to any man, and wood knocks that echo like warnings in the dark.

This is the story of The Huntsman—a serial killer who believed the wilderness would hide his crimes. But Blackwood Gorge was already claimed by another predator, one that knows the difference between the innocent and the guilty. As the body count grows and desperation sets in, the hunter becomes the hunted, and the forest delivers justice in the only way it knows how: primal, ancient, and merciless.


⚠️ Listener Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence, murder, psychological terror, and death. It deals with predatory behavior and with forms of justice that exist outside human law. There are scenes of intense fear, bodily harm, and primal horror that may be deeply disturbing to some listeners. This content is absolutely not suitable for younger listeners. If you have children nearby, please use headphones or save this for another time. If you’re sensitive to descriptions of violence or death—or if you’re listening alone in an isolated place—you may want to consider whether this is the right story for you tonight. Listener discretion is strongly advised.


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This episode is all about the chilling deathbed confession of Clyde, an 82-year-old West Virginia mountain man who, after forty years of silence, reveals the night he crossed paths with something ancient—and deadly. In 1983, deep on Beartown Ridge, Clyde’s life became entangled with a wounded Sasquatch whose rage and desperation had turned it from a hidden legend into a relentless predator.

Told through the lens of a lengthy, almost desperate email to a stranger, Clyde’s story weaves generations of Appalachian folklore with a harrowing first-hand account of survival. It begins with eerie tales passed down from his grandfather—stories of glowing-eyed creatures prowling the ridgelines since 1902—and builds to a terrifying truth: a bear hunter’s shot in 1981 didn’t just wound a Sasquatch, it unleashed a predator that stalked the hollows, perhaps even claiming the lives of missing children.

Clyde’s account avoids the usual Bigfoot clichés. Instead, it paints a disturbing portrait of intelligence and intent—a creature limping from an old wound, calculating every move, and watching with an almost human hunger in its eyes. His final confrontation, where he was forced to fire again and again just to survive, left more than scars. It left a lifetime of guilt.

But this is more than a survival tale. Clyde believes his actions shattered an unspoken balance between the Sasquatch and the mountain folk, triggering a wave of encounters and disappearances that still haunt the region.

His confession is not just a warning but a reckoning—one that suggests the mountains remember every trespass, and that some wounds, once inflicted, can never truly heal.

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In the shadow of Vermont's Glastenbury Mountain lies one of New England's most enduring mysteries, a dark chapter in American history that begins with a simple walk in the woods that ended in oblivion. On November 12, 1945, Middie Rivers, a 74-year-old hunting guide who knew the wilderness like the back of his weathered hands, told his companions he'd walk ahead to their camp. He never arrived. His disappearance would mark the beginning of a five-year period during which five people would vanish in the same remote area of southwestern Vermont, leaving behind grieving families, baffled search parties, and questions that remain unanswered to this day.

This episode delves deep into the haunting history of what author Joseph Citro would later christen the Bennington Triangle, exploring not just the famous disappearances but the centuries of strangeness that preceded them. 

We begin with the ancient Abenaki people, who considered the mountain cursed and warned of a place where the four winds met in eternal struggle, where a malevolent stone could swallow the unwary whole. Their oral traditions speak of the mountain as sacred and dangerous in equal measure, a dwelling place of their god Tabaldak and home to creatures that walked upright like men but were something altogether different. The narrative traces the doomed attempts at settlement from Benning Wentworth's blind charter in 1761 through the brutal logging era that briefly brought prosperity and violence to the mountain. 

We examine the murders that stained the settlement's history, including the chilling 1892 killing of John Crowley by Henry McDowell, who claimed voices in his head commanded him to kill, and who later escaped from a mental hospital to vanish as completely as the mountain's later victims. The story follows Glastenbury's transformation from a rough logging town to a failed tourist resort, destroyed by flooding after just one season, and ultimately to Vermont's first unincorporated town, legally erased from existence in 1937.The heart of our investigation focuses on the five disappearances that would make the Bennington Triangle infamous. 

We explore each case in detail, from Paula Welden, the Bennington College sophomore whose vanishing in a bright red jacket inspired massive searches and the creation of the Vermont State Police, to James Tedford, whose impossible disappearance from a moving bus full of witnesses defies all rational explanation. 

We examine young Paul Jepson, the special needs child who spoke of nothing but the mountains for days before vanishing from his mother's truck, and Frieda Langer, the experienced hiker whose body mysteriously appeared seven months later in an area that had been thoroughly searched.Throughout the narrative, we weave together the various theories that have emerged over the decades to explain these disappearances.

From the possibility of a serial killer stalking the mountain trails to indigenous legends of the Bennington Monster, from interdimensional portals and time slips to the more prosaic but no less terrifying reality of a wilderness that simply doesn't want human presence. We explore how the mountain's unusual geology, with its disorienting wind patterns and hidden sinkholes, might create natural traps that could swallow hikers without a trace.

The episode also examines the cultural impact of the Bennington Triangle, from Shirley Jackson's psychological horror novel "Hangsaman" to modern paranormal investigations and the continuing reports of strange experiences on Glastenbury Mountain. We discuss contemporary encounters, including hikers who report inexplicable disorientation, time distortions, and the overwhelming feeling of being watched by something in the dense forest.

We also take a look at recent incidents like the 2008 case of Robert Singley, who became lost on the same trail where Paula Welden vanished despite...

Tonight journey into the heart of northeastern Utah's most enigmatic location, where for centuries the impossible has been commonplace. This comprehensive exploration of Skinwalker Ranch traces its mysterious history from ancient Native American warnings about cursed ground through to today's cutting-edge scientific investigations.

We examine the terrifying experiences of the Sherman family whose encounters with bulletproof wolves and vanishing cattle brought modern attention to the ranch, and follow the multi-million dollar investigation launched by billionaire Robert Bigelow that documented phenomena defying our understanding of physics.

We also get into how the ranch has become a focal point for government interest, including classified military programs studying its potential for breakthrough technologies and threats to national security. Under current owner Brandon Fugal's stewardship, new discoveries continue to challenge our fundamental assumptions about reality, from the detection of metamaterials with impossible properties to the documentation of portals opening to other dimensions.

We explore the profound human cost of investigating these phenomena, including mysterious injuries, psychological impacts, and the disturbing "hitchhiker effect" that follows researchers home.This episode weaves together eyewitness accounts, scientific data, and indigenous knowledge to present the most complete picture yet of a place that exists at the intersection of science and the supernatural.

 Whether the phenomena represent interdimensional incursions, time anomalies, or something beyond our current ability to comprehend, Skinwalker Ranch stands as humanity's most confounding mystery and perhaps our gateway to understanding that we are not alone in a universe far stranger than we ever imagined.

In this haunting episode, we present a forty-year-old confession from an anonymous Marine who encountered something in the Northern California wilderness that changed his life forever. During a routine training exercise in the Marble Mountain Wilderness in 1983, six Marines came face to face with creatures that shouldn't exist, leading to a violent confrontation that would haunt the sole narrator for the rest of his days.

 His account, shared here for the first time since his death, details not just the encounter itself but the decades of guilt, nightmares, and questions that followed. From mysterious howls in the night to massive footprints around their camp, from the intelligence in the creature's eyes to the anguish of a mother holding her child while looking at her dead mate, this story challenges everything we think we know about what lives in our forests.

The Marine's testimony doesn't end with that terrible day in California. Years later, during a hunting trip in Alaska, he would have another encounter, this one peaceful but no less profound, that would cement his belief that these beings deserve to be left alone. His plea from beyond the grave is simple but powerful: let them be. But the story doesn't end there. In an epilogue, a researcher who has spent almost forty years investigating these creatures and conducting nearly a thousand interviews reflects on receiving the Marine's account and what it means for those who seek the truth. Should the existence of these beings be proven to science, potentially dooming them to exploitation and extinction?

Or should their secret be kept while their habitat disappears around them? The researcher's struggle with this impossible choice reveals that sometimes the most profound mysteries are not about finding answers, but about learning to live with the weight of questions that may have no right answer.This episode contains mature themes including violence, death, and explores the moral complexity of humanity's relationship with the unknown.

In the ancient mountains of Western North Carolina, where emeralds hide in weathered stone and mist cloaks valleys older than memory, something watches from the shadows. This episode explores the legend of the Boojum, a massive, hair-covered recluse that has haunted these hills since before the Cherokee walked the ridges.

Part Bigfoot, part treasure guardian, and wholly mysterious, the Boojum collects gems with the eye of a connoisseur and the strength to tear trees from the ground.Our story begins with a shaken geologist stumbling into a Burnsville diner with an impossible tale, then reaches back through centuries of encounters.

From Cherokee oral traditions that speak of Nun'Yunu'Wi's cousin who left garnets at the doors of newborns, to Civil War soldiers fleeing in terror from a creature that seemed to forbid violence in its domain, to modern-day scientists discovering inexplicable forest gardens tended by an unknown hand, we trace the evolution of a legend that refuses to fade.

Drawing from historical accounts, family journals, and the testimony of a secret network of protectors known as the Keepers, we explore  what happens when ancient mystery collides with the modern world of GPS tracking and thermal drones.

In an age where every square foot of earth can be photographed from space, the Boojum reminds us that some things are more valuable when they remain hidden, and that wonder itself might be worth protecting.


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In April 1977, four teenagers in the quiet town of Dover, Massachusetts encountered something that would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Over the course of just 26 hours, multiple witnesses independently reported seeing a bizarre creature with glowing eyes, a massive watermelon-shaped head, and long, tendril-like fingers crawling along the town's ancient stone walls.

This isn't a legend from centuries past or a story passed down through generations—this happened within living memory, to credible witnesses whose testimonies have never wavered. Join us as we explore the terrifying encounters that began with seventeen-year-old Bill Bartlett's late-night drive down Farm Street and ended with Abby Brabham's screams of terror on Springdale Avenue. 

We'll examine the immediate investigation led by renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, the theories that have attempted to explain these sightings, and the lasting impact on a community that learned that monsters might be more than just stories. From Dover's dark colonial history of devil sightings in the 1600s to its proximity to Massachusetts' paranormal hotspot known as the Bridgewater Triangle, we'll place these encounters in the broader context of New England's tradition of the unexplained. 

Through detailed witness accounts, investigator interviews, and expert analysis, we reconstruct those two terrifying nights when something impossible crawled out of the darkness and into the headlines.The Dover Demon has never been explained, never been debunked, and never been seen again—at least, not officially. But on quiet nights in Dover, when the moon is thin and the shadows grow long, locals still drive a little faster past those old stone walls, knowing that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

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In the shadow of the ancient Appalachian Mountains, where morning mist clings to valleys older than memory, something walks on two legs that shouldn't exist. Tonight's bone-chilling episode takes you deep into the heart of America's most enduring mystery, beginning with a terrifying encounter from 1879 when the Henderson family of Craig County, Virginia came face to face with an eight-foot-tall nightmare peering through their kitchen window.

This was no bear, no trick of the light, but something with eyes that held an intelligence both ancient and terrible. We journey back through centuries of horror, starting with the Cherokee people who knew these mountains harbored Tsul'Kalu, the slant-eyed giant with seven fingers on each massive hand. Their legends speak not of a simple beast but of a being with disturbing intelligence, one that could take human brides and transform into the horrifying Raven Mocker, capable of stealing hearts from living victims without leaving a single mark. 

These weren't campfire stories but warnings passed down with the deadly seriousness of survival knowledge, including the haunting tale of a Cherokee woman whose mysterious suitor turned out to be something that had to fold itself to fit inside her dwelling, its head scraping the rafters while its feet touched the opposite wall. As European settlers pushed into the wilderness, they encountered their own nightmares. We reveal the suppressed military records from the Civil War, when both Union and Confederate soldiers witnessed a massive figure walking among the battlefield dead at Droop Mountain, tenderly checking bodies and carrying wounded soldiers to safety with inhuman strength. 

The lumber camps of the late 1800s became theaters of terror, particularly the 1909 incident at Spruce Knob where something systematically destroyed an entire logging operation with its bare hands, tearing apart steam engines and leaving a message written in twisted metal and shattered wood that couldn't be clearer: leave these mountains or die.

The modern era brought no relief from the terror. In 1959, a one-room schoolhouse in Buchanan County became a prison of fear when something tried every door and window while eight children and their teacher huddled in terror, watching massive fingers with yellowed nails reach through a partially open window. The creature's face appeared at each window in turn, ancient and terrible, with glowing yellow eyes that showed an intelligence that made its interest in the children all the more horrifying.

The creation of the Appalachian Trail opened a new chapter of encounters, with experienced hikers and military veterans reduced to cowering in their tents as something massive circled their camps, attempting to speak in sounds that almost formed words, as if desperately trying to communicate across an impossible divide. The 1976 case of former Marine David Carpenter, who abandoned his thru-hike after something rehung his food bag fifteen feet higher than humanly possible, demonstrates that even hardened soldiers found themselves outmatched by whatever walks these ridges.

We explore the modern explosion of sightings, including the 2006 Hungry Mother State Park incidents witnessed by multiple families, where a creature showed particular interest in tents containing children, approaching with a curiosity that parents found more terrifying than any aggression. The narrative reaches into the digital age with thermal drone footage from 2023 showing multiple bipedal heat signatures moving through the forest canopy, communicating with each other using vocalizations that linguistic experts claim show patterns consistent with language structure.

Throughout this journey into darkness, we hear from the witnesses themselves, from nineteenth-century German settlers who watched in horror as something lifted entire roof structures off cabins, to modern researchers like Jeff...

Journey into the heart of Kentucky's most terrifying legend with this comprehensive exploration of the Pope Lick Monster, a cryptid that has haunted Louisville for over eight decades.

This ten-thousand-word narrative traces the evolution of a local legend that refuses to remain merely legendary, examining documented encounters, mysterious deaths, and the increasingly disturbing pattern of events surrounding the Norfolk Southern Railway trestle that spans Pope Lick Creek.

Our investigation begins in the 1940s with the first recorded sightings of a creature that defies biological explanation—a seven-foot-tall hybrid of man and goat that stalks the shadows beneath the railroad bridge. 

Through meticulous research of historical records, witness testimonies, and investigative reports, we explore how what started as whispered folklore has evolved into something far more complex and terrifying. The narrative examines multiple origin theories, from a circus train disaster in the early 1900s to the curse of a Depression-era sheep herder, each attempting to explain the impossible existence of this creature.

The story takes a dark turn as we document the deaths and disappearances associated with the trestle, including the tragic fate of teenagers who dared to cross the bridge, the mysterious three-day disappearance of university student Jennifer Walsh in 1984, and the recent vanishing of seventeen people in 2024. We analyze the disturbing pattern that emerges from these incidents, particularly the reports of victims being "called" or "invited" by the creature through dreams and visions.

Special attention is given to the scientific investigations that have attempted to understand the phenomenon, including Dr. Lawrence Kingston's 1968 expedition that recorded unexplained acoustic anomalies and hormonal markers, and the 2008 University of Kentucky study that discovered pre-Columbian cave paintings depicting the creature beneath the trestle. The narrative also explores the controversial DNA evidence collected from the caves that shows markers from both human and caprine sources, along with genetic sequences that match no known terrestrial life form.The digital age has brought new dimensions to the Pope Lick Monster phenomenon, from the 2018 mass sighting witnessed by over 300 Louisville residents to the final livestream of paranormal investigator Derek Matthews, who jumped from the trestle while fifty thousand viewers watched in horror.

 We examine how the creature appears to be adapting to modern technology, including reports of it mimicking human voices in phone calls and learning from social media content posted by its victims.Four primary theories are explored to explain the creature's existence. The interdimensional hypothesis suggests the monster is a visitor from a parallel dimension, manifesting at a weak point between worlds. The genetic experiment theory points to classified military documents referencing "Operation Chimera" and escaped specimens from caprine-human hybridization trials in the 1940s.

The tulpa theory proposes the creature is a manifestation of collective human fear and belief, while the ancient entity theory, supported by indigenous oral traditions and pre-Columbian artifacts, suggests something far older and more terrifying has dwelt in this area since before recorded history.Recent developments have attracted federal attention, with a joint task force comprising the FBI, CDC, and Department of Defense establishing operations in Louisville in 2024. Leaked documents suggest the government has been monitoring "Biological Anomaly PL-1" since 1953, with multiple failed attempts to capture or eliminate the entity.

The escalating situation, including seventeen missing persons in 2024 alone, has raised concerns about what investigators cryptically refer to as "potential multiplication events."The narrative draws from over eighty...