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In June 2024, a woman in Columbia, Maryland, took her dogs out for a routine late-night walk—only to find herself locking eyes with an 8-foot-tall, white-furred entity lurking at the edge of a powerline field. It didn’t growl. It didn’t charge. She just watched. When she retreated into her apartment and locked the door, the knob rattled seconds later. A silent message was delivered: You are not alone. That same month, new reports have surfaced from Alabama, West Virginia, Oregon, and North Carolina—dozens of them—each describing eerily similar encounters with upright, canine-like beings.
Are we truly facing a rise in cryptid canine activity? Or are we simply becoming more aware—more connected—through the digital lens of our curiosity and fear? In tonight’s presentation, we’ll explore the possibility that something fundamental is happening… but also ask the more complex questions. Are we witnessing a surge of actual phenomena—or a modern myth evolving in real time?
Let’s begin by walking the timeline: From historic Rougarou tales whispered in Louisiana’s swamps, to the snarling beast that shattered a kitchen door in Clarksville, Maryland, to a man in Oregon who swears a creature watched him release a mouse into the woods before vanishing into the trees. These accounts span generations and geography—but now, they’re being shared faster, louder, and more often than ever. Could social media, Reddit threads, YouTube videos, and even AI-generated visuals be shaping our perception? Could the so-called "Digital Dogman" be a modern folklore fed by virality, deepfakes, and algorithmic belief bubbles?
At the same time, there are real-world shifts that can’t be ignored. Wildlife habitats are shrinking. Climate extremes are forcing animals into new territories. The post-pandemic boom in hiking, camping, and rural living has driven humans into areas we once left alone. More people may be simply encountering what’s always been there—or misinterpreting what they want to believe is there. And let’s not forget the psychological factors: heightened global anxiety, uncertainty, and our deep-rooted tendency to anthropomorphize shadows in the dark.
Still, we can’t dismiss the sincerity of the people coming forward. Whether it’s a mistake, a trick of the light, or something we haven’t yet classified—what matters is that witnesses are being shaken to their core. And that demands our attention. So tonight, we look at it all: the genuine reports, the hoaxes, the social media influence, the science, the speculation—and the enduring mystery. Stay with me. And if you’ve seen something you can’t explain, I want to hear from you.
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Heat.
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Hey folks, good evening and welcome to Fams and Monsters. radio, where the veil between the known and the unknown is
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lifted one story at a time. I welcome you and our listeners, including first time chat participants.
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I hope you find tonight's subject and reports interesting.
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Now, um, in July of last year, 2024, a
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woman in Columbia, Maryland, took her dogs out for a routine late night walk
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only to find herself look locking eyes with an 8- foot tall white furred entity
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lurking at the edge of a power line field. It didn't growl. It didn't charge. She just watched.
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And when she retreated into her apartment and locked the door, the knob rattled seconds later. A silent message
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was delivered. You're not alone. That same month, new reports surfaced
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from Alabama, West Virginia, Oregon, North Carolina, dozens of them
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describing slimmer encounters with upright canine-like beings. Now, are we truly facing a rise in
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crypted canine activity or are we just simply becoming more aware or more connected uh through the digital lens
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over curiosity and fear? In tonight's presentation, we'll explore the
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possibility that something fundamental is happening, but also ask the more complex questions. Are we witnessing a
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surge of actual phenomena or a modern myth evolving in real time?
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So, uh, let's begin by walking the timeline. From historic Rugaroo tales
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whispered in the Louisiana swamps to the snarling beast that shattered a kitchen
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door in Clarksville, Maryland, to a man in Oregon who swears a creature watched him release a mouse into the woods
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before vanishing into the trees. These accounts span generations and
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geography, but now they're being shared faster, louder, and often than ever.
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More often than ever. So, could social media, Reddit threads, YouTube videos,
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and even AI generator visuals be shaping our perception?
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Well, at the same time, there are real tur real world shifts that can't be
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ignored. Wildlife habitats are shrinking. The uh post pandemic boom in
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hiking, camping, and rural living has driven humans into areas once left alone. More people may be simply
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encountering what's always been there or misinterpreting what they want to believe is there.
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And let's not forget the psychological factors, heightened global anxiety, uncertainty, and our deeprooted
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tendencies to uh and through more mortify, you
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know, these shadows in the dark. Still, we can't dismiss the sincerity of people
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coming forward. Whether it's a mistake, a trickular light, or something we've yet
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classified, what matters is that witnesses are being shaken to the core.
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And that demands our attention. So tonight, we look at it all. The genuine reports, possibly the hoaxes, the social
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media influence, the science, the speculation, and the enduring mystery.
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So stay with me. And if you've seen something that you can't explain, I want to hear about it from you as well.
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but I'll keep everybody updated. So, crypted canine search dogman
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sightings are spiking, but why now? Uh, do these investigations reveal a
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deeper pattern? Now, alongside my colleague, Rissa Miller, we've compiled two of the most
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compelling and disturbing crypted canine encounters we've investigated to date.
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Now, one took place in the rural edges of Clarksville, Maryland, and I've talked about it for about a year or so
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now, but I've gone a little more in depth with it. And the other under a full moon in nearby Columbia, Maryland.
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Are are these incidents related? Well, let's talk about the first incident, the Clarksville encounter.
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Um, in early 2021, a veteran Baltimore Police Department detective working out
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of the Northern District had a night he'll never forget. Now retired and living alone in Howard County, Maryland,
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the uh officer had the habit of working late at his home office. But on this
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night around 2 am, something outside interrupted his focus. He heard a deep,
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heavy thud, like something massive hitting the ground right outside the kitchen.
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He stepped into the hallway, alert, and the noise stopped, like whatever was
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out there knew it was being watched. Quietly and cautiously, he opened the
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kitchen door and came face to face with a towering figure on the patio.
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It was a 7- foot tall creature covered in light gray hair with a long snout full of jagged teeth. Its yellow eyes
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locked onto his and then it lunged, hissing. He slammed the door and rushed back to
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his office and drew his weapon. But it wasn't over. The creature broke
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in. It tore through the kitchen. Glass shattered. Furniture scraped.
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Heavy footballs echoed as it moved, snorting and growling.
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When he peaked out to face it, the creature locked eyes again, but instead of attacking, it went silent, then
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bolted out the door. Later inspection revealed claw marks and
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damage throughout the kitchen and dining room. He showed me photos, but wouldn't allow them to be released. And though he
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hasn't seen the creature since, he's certain it still roams nearby.
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Now, this area is just steps away from the middle Puxen environmental area, a
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uh a known corridor for unexplained activity, Bigfoot, crypted canines, and more.
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So, is this related to something that happened just last summer uh about 11 miles east
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of uh where this previous encounter happened? Well, fast forward to the
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summer solstice weekend, June 22nd, 2024. A woman named M, an insurance
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investigator, was gaming a home with her dogs need when her dogs needed to go
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out. It was around 1:30 in the morning, a full strawberry moon shining above.
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She stepped outside behind her apartment at Tamer Meadow in Columbia, Maryland,
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near a power line field maintain maintained by BG&. At first, she thought she saw a deer,
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but then it stood up. It was something else. Towering at about
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eight foot, covered in white or ashen gray fur was with massive amber eyes. This creature made direct eye contact
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with her. Its long arms reached past its knees. Its ears twitched independently
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and its tail moved like a cat's coiled and calculating.
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Her dogs froze, one violently shaking. Despite her fear, M stood tall.
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Recalling how hikers handle mountain lines, she projected her intent. Protect her dogs. Don't run. Don't show
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weakness. She backs slowly into her apartment, locked the door, and collapsed with her
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dogs.
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Moments later, the door knob rattled, but the creature didn't force entry. It
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didn't vocalize. It simply left. Now, she's never never been the same
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since. And her younger dog avoids going outside. She instal flood lights. Uh
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well, the apartments install flood lights. She avoids being outdoors after dark and is still compulsively
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she still compulsively checks her windows. What's more, this field connects to the
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Papskco Valley State Park, home to decades of sightings of a creature known
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as the Papsco Hower, a large often bipedal wolflike beast described with
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eerie intelligence. Now, her encounter may be the most
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detailed and emotionally charged report of the Howard to date.
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So, we look at the patterns and possibilities here. Now, when we look at the cases side by side, the Clarksville
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and Colombia case, the patterns do emerge clearly. Both happened between
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1:30 and 2:00 a.m. Both featured 8 to 9 foot pipeedal canines with light or
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white fur. Both creatures showed a startling degree of sentence, calculating and observant.
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One was aggressive and destructive, the other held back, seemingly reading the
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witness. One left behind physical damage, the other psychological scars.
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And both occurred near major park corridors, the middle Puxen environmental area and the Pavasco
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Valley State Park. These trails, forest, and utility easements may serve as a
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hidden migration route for something not yet acknowledged by science.
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Now, these encounters are not isolated. They represent a growing pattern we've
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seen across central Maryland, Piedmont, and beyond. Intelligent upright canines
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uh appearing where wilderness meets suburbia. Are these the guardians of the land? as
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some indigenous traditions suggest, or are they something far older,
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something watching, waiting, assessing us? For now, we just don't know.
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But if you live in these areas, keep your eyes open after midnight and maybe think twice before stepping outside
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alone. Now, we had another incident that
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occurred on the night of Friday, June 6th, 2025. And this was forwarded to me
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by Rissa. And uh she came up with this report uh
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as a result of it. It was a human night on Friday, July, I mean June 6th, 2025,
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just a month ago. A real quiet uh family farm north of Mount Joy,
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Pennsylvania was broken by the chilling, unforgettable event. This is in Lancaster County,
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Pennsylvania. The witness, whom we'll call C,
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had joined relatives and her young children for an overnight stay at a longtime family property at Rafo
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Township. Though the farmer had downsized over the years, the old barn and paddic still
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stood. The air was thick, overcast, almost like a storm might be rolling in.
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The moon, though, still waxing gibas, gave little light through the haze. Now,
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around 10 p.m., she stepped outside after the the goats and sheep, which are mostly pets, began to panic.
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Concerned that a coyote or wild dog had approached, she grabs the the large magite flashlight kept near the back
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door. But as she neared the animals, the noise stopped.
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All was still, unnaturally still. That's when a wave of nausea hit her,
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accompanied by a creepy dread. Standing just beyond the fence line
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opposite the barn was a tall, dark figure. In the overlapping light of the porch, barn bulb, and flashlight beam, C
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froze. It wasn't a man. It couldn't be. The silhouette was far too large. An
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upright furco covered creature seven to eight foot tall with pointed ears, a long snout, and amber eyes that locked
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with hers. It didn't flinch under the light. It didn't flee. It regarded her almost
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curiously and intelligently. She remembers stories told by older
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family members, tales of the hexen wolf, a German witch wolf whispered about in the old Pennsylvania Dutch lore.
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Though skeptical of such things, her instincts screamed, "This was no ordinary animal." The creature made no
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sound. Not even as it turned and walked away, crossing a gravel driveway in
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complete silence. That detail would stay with her. No crunching, no shuffling. It moved
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gracefully, fluidly, as if it wasn't entirely grounded in this world. And by
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the time she recovered enough to move, it was gone. She ran inside waking her uncle who came
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outside armed. Together they secured the animals and checked the area. But the entity had
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vanished leaving no tracks not even a in the damp ground.
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Now that night she didn't sleep. She stood watch at the window haunting haunted by what she had seen. The next
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day brought rain and more questions but no answers, no evidence, no explanation,
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just an unshakable fear. She didn't tell her children, fearing
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the nightmares it might bring. But she couldn't stop herself. Insomnia, dread,
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and paranoia followed. She feared it might find her again. Importantly, C is not a crypted
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follower, nor someone drawn to the paranormal lore. She's a medical professional grounded in science, not
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superstition. Yet, she knows what she saw. Now, this case bears hallmarks
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consistent with other upright canine encounters in Pennsylvania, particularly the black fur, pointed ears, amber,
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yellow amber eyes, and eerie intelligence that have been reported.
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The detail of silent movement on gravel is chilling but recurring theme in high
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strange areas. The mention of the hex hexon wolf w with its roots in the
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Pennsylvania Dutch lore adds more layer. Could this be a folkloric arc archetype
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or returning it returning in modern form? A residual entity from ancestral
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belief systems or something far stranger, interdimensional, intelligent,
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and watching? The witness hopes that by sharing her stories, others who remain silent might
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come forward, too. Because the forest of Pennsylvania may still hold secrets
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passed down from centuries of whispered stories. And some of them, it seems,
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still walk upright under the cover of night.
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So, I've got another one here from a witness who states to me, "Hello, I want to report disturbing activity around my
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residence over the past two weeks. I hope you can provide some insight into
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what we're dealing with. I live in a rural area of uh southwestern excuse me southeastern
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Oklahoma a few miles from Tahiti Tina Tahina excuse me. I've lived here for
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all my 48 years. I've never experienced anything strange in this area before.
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On June 1st at about 10:30 p.m. I was on my back porch reading the newspaper. My
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husband was getting ready to leave for work. My porch faces a large wooded area about 800 feet or so from the lake. I
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have a small yard and the edge of the woods is about 50 feet from the house.
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My husband walked out the back door, said goodbye, and walked to his truck. As soon as he pulled away, I heard a
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loud shrill sound coming from the direction of the lake. It reminded me of a pig squealing, but it was much more
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audible and scarier. I didn't get up from my chair as I looked towards the woods. Now, after a
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few minutes, I heard something heavy walking through the woods. It was something or someone on two legs.
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It was so dark that I I couldn't even see anything. Suddenly, three deer burst out of the woods and ran along the
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house. I thought they caused the noise, so I got up and walked into the house.
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Most nights after I come home from work around 8:30 p.m., I eat dinner and then go out on the porch to read the
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newspaper. Ever since that first night, I've heard the same shrill sound on four other
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occasions. My husband sat with me a few times, and he was surprised by the noise.
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He's been a hunter always adult life, but he had no idea what made those sounds.
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So, the next Tuesday night, I was sitting on a porch talking to my daughter on the phone. My husband was
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working that night. It was around 10:45 p.m. I had a strange feeling most of the
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evening and kept my gaze focused towards the woods. I was about ready to get up and walk
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into the house after ending the call. But then I noticed a pair of bright yellow eyes looking at me from the
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woods. It was only a few feet into the brush and the eyes were at least 7 feet from
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the ground. I ran into the kitchen, quickly closed doors and locked it. I
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turned off the lights inside, but the porch light was still on and the edge of the woods was slightly illuminated.
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Now, as I peaked out the window above the sink, I noticed a tall, huge, dark
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figure standing in the back of the yard. The eyes still shone brightly and were looking in my direction. As I continued
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to watch, my eyes adjusted to the low light, and I then noticed the long, thick arms with fingers and long nails.
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I recognized the long snout and long, pointed ears. Then, suddenly, I turned and ran into the woods. It was gone. I
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was trembling because I had no idea what I had just seen. I called my daughter back and told her, my son-in-law, and
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she immediately came over and spent the night. He brought his rifle with him.
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The next morning, I told my husband what I had seen. He's part Osage Indian and
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believes in animal spirits, but was confused by this thing I described.
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He told me that it might be a trickster spirit, and if we ignore it, it won't bother us. I'm not so sure I believe
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that. This didn't look like a spirit and resembled a huge dark coyote walking on
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two legs. Have you heard of anything like this? Please contact me. I'd like to ask you a
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few questions. Well, I did call the witness and tried to answer her questions. Uh, she has not been able to
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see tracks or any other evidence. Uh, she heard the shrill sound two nights ago before I contact her before
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she went to bed. And her husband contacted the authorities, but she said that
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um that he was just make making inquiries wanting to show if there had been any other reports.
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It seems they refused to give out any information. Now, her neighbors have not noticed anything unusual, but she told
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me that they were elderly and rar rarely went outside.
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I asked her to keep me informed of further incidents. So, we'll see what comes up.
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So, this next witness states, "Hello, Lon. I came across your site after
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searching for a creature I saw in the spring of 2016 in southeast Louisiana near Franklin.
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My son, 12 years old at the time, and I were traveling on back highways at about 1000 p.m.
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We started going around this curve to the right and another car was coming in the opposite direction. So, I did my
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headlights. That's when I saw it. This thing was about 8 foot tall standing on the right
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side of the road. It was looking at the other the other car and as it passed it turned to look
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in our direction crouched down into a sprinter stance.
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Its hair fur color were dirty white which covered most of the body. It was
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humanlike in the upper torso. I'm not sure about the bottom half. The head was
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wolflike and large with dirty white mane that that was thick and running down its
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back. The encounter only lasted about 10 seconds. I only focused on the top.
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It was Its waist was relatively thin with defined humanlike musculature.
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Had its ears back like a cat. Its eyes were bright yellow. Its mouth was wide
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open and full of sharp teeth and long canines. My son claims it had inverted knees like
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a dog. I referred to it as a were dog. The fur color and other attributes match
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the descriptions of the rugaroo which I was familiar with in the tales told me by my grandfather
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but we saw it less than 10 miles as a crow flies from a house and this is a bit disconcerting.
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There was a sighting of a similar upright creature a few years ago about three miles from where we had our
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encounter. Now, this is uh this is very description
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is is very close to what we get from rugaroo sightings, which I've had several coming out of Louisiana over the
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years. So, um maybe there is something to the legend.
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So, a man in North Alabama has been seeing a variety of strange creatures recently. An orangey wolf-like being was
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spotted watching him through a window. So, I was contacted by the witness
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uh who was asking for additional information. He asked me, "I've always had weird experiences, but
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it's ghost or strange animals. I just always seem to it just always
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seems to follow my family and me. We recently moved into a old farmhouse just off the main road near Guntersville,
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Alabama. The house has 88 acres of land and only four people, including us, live on or
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near the land. When we first moved in, nothing abnormal
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happened. It was just a small house that seemed like a new start for all of us.
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Now, after a month of living there, we started hearing strange noises outside at night, but nothing too serious.
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One night, we decided to have a fire and drink some beer. Well, a few other guys who were there that night decided to do
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some night fishing. And while fishing in a pond that was maybe a mile into the
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woods, we started hearing screaming. We just think that it was one of the girls back at the house. So, we went
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headed back and uh on our way back, we started noticing that there were no more sounds.
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No sounds of nature, no birds, no crickets, nothing. So, we stopped to
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listen. And as we do this, we hear the sounds of chains rushing towards us.
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As he gets maybe 15 foot away, I point a gun at where the sound was coming from
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and fire fire a shot into the ground a couple of inches from it. After a minute
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passes, the chain sound rushed toward the house. Nothing happened after that until we all went inside and started
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going to bed. We all hear a female scream again, but behind it is a deep distorted laugh.
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Now, after that, nothing happened. But three weeks later, my dad and I were fishing out at the impound late in the
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afternoon. As it inches closer to dusk, we notice three pale white animals on the opposite
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side of the pond. But as soon as we see the animals, they run. Instead of running on all fours, they jump up on
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their high legs and lead 8 foot into a tree, then hop from the tree to tree.
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As we see this, we decide to head back home. But on the way back, we hear the trees start rustling and it keeps
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getting closer and closer until we get to the house and lock the doors. I decided to set up cameras in the woods
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and around the house. At first, I don't get anything, just deer coyote. But one
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night, the camera close to the house is moved for an hour and then moved back.
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Now, nothing came of that until one night recently. After a long day of working, I decided to play a video game
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with a few friends. At about 11 p.m., I heard two taps, but I ignored them,
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thinking they were coming from the game. It continued until 2:00 a.m. Periodically, every 5 minutes to two
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consecutive taps would happen. I finally took my headphones off and heard it at
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the window. When I looked, I saw orange eyes 7 feet off the ground. After two
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minutes of staring at each other, it moved closer to the wind and smiled at me with blood stained daggers for teeth.
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Its face looked like a pale wolf-like face with some decay around the side of its head and neck. After doing this, it
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backs away, then leaves. Now, every night, something happens. Like tonight, as I'm writing this, it
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rushed onto the porch and clawed the door. As it's doing this, it's belling out a
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laugh that's almost sounds like a deranged madman crossed with a hyena.
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Now, at this point, I'm not sure what to think. Are we being hunted?
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Now, that's a fascinating account. I don't know what they ran into. Um,
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description of the creature at the the window is interesting. I've received a variety of harrowing encounters from
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crypt the wolves and upright canines for the past five or so years around the
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Birmingham North Alabama area and we do have a team down there have been looking
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into this during that period of time. So um I have shared a few of the um some of
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the evidence and some of the audio and um video evidence with the team but so
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far I just haven't released anything. But it's interesting. I don't know what's really going on. Uh some of the
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investigators have had encounters with these creatures before, but um we're trying to figure out what has been going
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on in that South Birmingham area.
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Now, a West Virginia woman states that she had encountered two werewolves near her property along uh West Virginia 5 in
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the little Kawa River. It's a very harrowing incident. So, um, she states,
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"One night in the summer of 2022, I was out along the road that goes past my house.
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We're in a pretty rural area here along West Virginia 5, which parallels the Little Conway River from Elizabeth to
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Grantsville, but the animals here are always the same."
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Until the late 1990s, the state DNR let coyotes loose and in the early 1980s,
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wild turkey. Now they're releasing wild elk. Yet,
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there are no sightings of these creatures. I have heard black panthers and even seen two dead kittens. At my
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friend's house, her dad had chased and and treated the kittens, but the mother got away. To this day, West Virginia DNR
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refuses to state that black panthers exist in West Virginia.
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That night, I saw something I never thought I'd see. Two giant wolves that
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were bigger than anything I had seen before. I know people who own wolves, and I have been around them. When they
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left on vacation, I even fed their pet wolves, so I I know how big they can get. But these were no regular wolves.
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These are twice my size and they gave this eerie feeling. They walked off the hillside and came out of the foggy mist.
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Their eyes had this glow of yellow even before I turned my phone's flashlight on them. Yes, I had my phone in hand. Why
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no pictures? Because I was scared. Scared stiff and was just able to look and see these two wolves with one being
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smaller than the other. Both were very skinny. Skinny, hippie, or one could say
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bony. Gray with black colored markings around its eyes and ears. Brown down its back
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and a gray bushy tail. Tail as long as my leg. The heads were way bigger than
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their my own. Glowing yellow eyes looking right at me and slowly walking
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past me. Both were moving together and moving their heads when needed to keep
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me in view. Then they crossed the road and disappeared into the riverbank.
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Across the river on the hillside were coyotes barking and yapping. That was until those two wolves crossed the river
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to their side. Dead quiet then. No noise at all. No bugs, no birds, no
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coyotes. When my heart started again, I ran as fast as my leg carry me.
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No wolves here in West Virginia, huh? Not here. That would have been bought
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here by pets. These two were no pets. I think the smallest, the one closest to
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me was a female. I also feel she protected me from the male, the biggest one. She nudged him to go on, and I
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thank her for that. He would have killed me easily. They both could have bit my throat. It's
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not too often I venture out further than my yard nowadays.
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This property has many supernatural events happening here, but that night I truthfully feel we had a werewolf and
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its mate. I know what I saw and it scared me so bad that I had become afraid of the
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dark. Even on my property that I grew up on, it has changed me in ways I can't
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explain. I have become more nature-minded. I worship nature and the power she holds. If it weren't for her,
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I wouldn't be here today. I know these creatures exist, and I give them a wide path of travel, always respected and
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mindful of their presence.
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Now, this next account, and I want to thank those who have uh been contributing. I see Alexis. I know some
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other ones have as well, and I'll I'll try to get to them and mention them later.
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Hi, I was born and raised in North New Jersey.
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My boyfriend and close friends love to explore mysterious locations throughout the state.
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One day I found an exciting area is located in Trenton, New Jersey. It was an abandoned child orphanage and it also
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used to operate as an insane asylum. It was late at night, maybe after 1000
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p.m., and we were following the GPS to the location, hoping not to run into police or have to deal with being run
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off. We wanted to get inside the buildings. It was known when it was open as a Trenton Psychiatric Hospital.
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As we drove past the side of the actual orphanage, my mind was not on finding cryptog creature, but rather on
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assessing the security. Suddenly, out of the absolute nowhere, I saw this dark, blacker than black, what I would only
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describe as a canine-shaped body. But when I saw it, the thing was in the middle of jumping out of a view next to
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the side of the road. All I was able to see entirely was the lower half of this thing from mid torso
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to the tail. As it leaked out of the sight, it scared the crap out of me.
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What stuck out of in my mind was the tail. This thing had a tail like a fox's tail, but it was bushy and large.
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But New Jersey doesn't have foxes. Well, I've later learned that they have, but certainly not black foxes.
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This animal was more massive than a large dog and much larger than a coyote.
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Like I said, it was not I was not out that evening with this in mind. I was
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out on a ghost hunt. I turned to my boyfriend who was driving and asked if
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he had seen what I saw. He did not, which makes sense because the thing was
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on the side of the road and it was dark. I never saw the face of the upper half.
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It leaped from the side of the road into the brush next to the building. It was on all floors. But New Jersey doesn't
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have wolves or anything that fits that description. Now, I Googled all the native animals in New Jersey. Nothing
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was like that that I saw. If I witnessed this thing in another more rural state,
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I would have to keep an open mind, but New Jersey doesn't have native animals that had that type of description.
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I had never seen a dog man or even a Bigfoot, but I have no doubt they exist.
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But I sometimes wonder if that's what I saw. Some kind of dog man or crypted or
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canine creature. I know I wasn't seeing things. It was blacker than the blackness of the night. It scared the
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Jesus out of me. Well, I have had several
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crypted canine reports in the um in the Pine Barons area over the years.
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Now, some people say, "Well, it's of course it's the uh Jersey Devil or something else." I don't know what it
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is, but there have been some pretty interesting sightings of something that's described as a crypted canine.
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The fact this was up around Trenton and closer to the river, closer to the
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Del River and further north is interesting. But we have had accounts of
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these creatures being in abandoned areas before. So, who knows?
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Now, a western North Carolina resident contacted me concerning an encounter that they had with an unknown canine
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creature. And after researching the encounter, the witness believes it was a dog man.
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So, this is what the witness tells me. I have read several your reports from Western North Carolina and thought that
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I would contact you. I had an encounter last summer while on break at work during a slow part of the
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night. I live and work in Mitchell County, which is in western North Carolina. This
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is a county that you have written about since you you have family from there and you're aware of the varied wildlife.
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I would take a short drive to a park near my workplace that had a lot of wildlife.
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I like to watch the occasional raccoon or fox breaking the woodline.
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The park backs up into a rather large creek and the area is devoid of artificial light as the darkness of the
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woods does not spook me or make me jumping. I was raised in the mountains and I enjoyed the solitude.
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On this night, there were no normal night sounds such as crickets or frogs. I also found it strange that all the
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wildlife seemed to be gone from the area. This bothered me a bit. I decide
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to leave some dog food on the edge of the woodline, hoping to entice a peculiar family, peculiar family of
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raccoons out so I could see what they, you know, see what they were okay and
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see if they were still there. I didn't see a gray fox that would hang around that area. This fox would come out
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within a few feet of me, meander around, and retreat back into the woods. Now, after walking near the woods with the
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food, I heard a deep growl come from the edge of the woods. I had never listened to the animal growl with such intensity
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or so profoundly. I could feel the vibration of a growl hitting my face and inside my chest. I knew it wasn't a
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bear. Those sounds I'm familiar with. I dumped the food in the ground with one hard drop, hoping that whatever was in
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the woods would just take off. I backed away with my head down until I reached my truck. My instincts told me to drive
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away, so I did. But I decided to go back about an hour later.
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I was now curious as to what this creature was. I parked in the same place and this time walked to the back of the
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truck to grab a smoke. While standing there, I observed a dark mass come
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across the road and disappear into the overgrown open field with wild blackberry bushes and grass.
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I do have a sharp eye and I was able to discern some details. I can only describe this creature as a
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hybrid canine. It was on all fours, but it did not appear natural. It moved very
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quickly with fluid motions. The gate was weird as well, like the front legs were pulling its body forward. It almost had
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a human-like movement to it, as if it could stand on two legs if needed. The
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long back was hunched, and the snout was long, but it fit its body.
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What struck me most were its ears, which were large and folded back. The legs almost had muscle mass. My background
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working with dogs told me that this was something very unusual. I just know that it was there one minute
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and gone the next. Now, when daylight came, I drove back to the location and
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looked for tracks and but listened to my gut and did not enter. For several months, I didn't tell anyone about it. I
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started searching the internet for what I for what I had seen. I I wondered if it had been a hybrid that had escaped.
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I found several online sites, but none seemed to come close to what I had seen.
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Then I came across a picture of a dog man. I later spoke with a few of my
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co-workers. Of course, they told me that it was a bear or large domestic dog, but
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a few of them told them did acknowledge that the wildlife in area had been disappearing for a while.
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I don't speak about it because of ridicule, but I I do know what I saw and
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heard and how many instincts reacted to it.
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So, folks, that's the last account. If you have any questions, please put
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them up there and uh let me know and uh we'll see what we can come up with.
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Put them in all put all your questions in caps, too. It easier to find.
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Uh real truth, I've read a few stories on Fams of Monsters about mermaids
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through the years. What's your view on them? Oh jeez. I don't know what to think about the mermaids. Um,
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I've also, you know, I've als I've heard a lot of different stories. I hear about ocean mermaids, ocean female humanoids
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with tails. And then water sprites along rivers in Africa and other
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uh rural locations. I even heard stories in um in New Mexico
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near some of the Bigfoot areas on the Sanan River about humanoids that seem to
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hang around the rocks. I don't know what to think about it, honestly. I I've
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heard a bunch of different stories. I've heard the legends. I I don't know what to make of it.
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Damn it. You hear of stories of Dogman being inside your house without any
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windows or doors being broken. Is Dog Man supernatural? It very well could be.
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I I believe most cryptos are supernatural or have supernatural aspects to them. And you know, being
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corporal and also being non-caporeal, I mean
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flesh and blood and non flesh and blood. Um, I think for the most part they do have
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the abilities to move in and out of different worlds or different levels.
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Um, but um, I I think of that with with Bigfoot, Moth Man, and other crypts as
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well as Dog Man. You know, I've had several accounts where people had been in the woods or had been walking their
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dogs or such and something would suddenly manifest itself out of nowhere.
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Yeah, they could be supernatural. I I believe that's that could be very well true.
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Audacious Amber, when were the Maryland encounters, please and thank you. Uh the one was in the summer of 2021.
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Uh and the other which was the Clarksville encounter and the other one
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was just last summer in June uh 2024.
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But this is something that we've been having. I mean, Maryland in particular, the Duo sightings or Hex and Wolf or
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whatever you want to call them. I mean, they've been they've been happening throughout the state for years,
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particularly um in in the western counties, but
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mostly kind of between the Piedmont and the mountains and stuff. Uh Frederick
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County, Washington County, uh Howard County. Now, uh, areas that
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the Patabco Valley State Park is located in, which is Carol County, Baltimore, and, um, and Howard County. So, uh,
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yeah, these these creatures have been been seen and reported over the years.
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Alistister B. Lon, do you have any encounters that are on video you can post or too unbelievable? I
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I've had supposed encounters that I've seen f you know videos of I don't know
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you know the AI is so good now it's it's hard to really distinguish that now if you're talking about canids or cryptic
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cannids or crypted canines it's hard to tell. Um some of them do too look too
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good to be true. Um I there was one picture or a photograph of one in Carol
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County years and years ago. Uh middle Middletown, Maryland, which is in
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Carroll County. No, that's Frederick, excuse me, Frederick County. So uh yeah, I've seen that. There have been others,
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but you know, it's hard to tell. It really
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is.
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Trying to look at the name here. Ozvoid dog.
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Did you see that interview of the witness of a dog man in North Argentina? Any thoughts? There have been several in
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Argentina. I mean, there have been a lot of sightings. And I I don't know which one you're talking I think you're talking about the one that was on the
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farm. uh that video and there was a video or picture or something. I don't know what
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it was. It it did look can can but who knows? I'm not sure what it was, but I
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know what you're talking about. We've had several reports of these crypted canines in in Brazil and in um Argentina
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over the years, and they have been showing up more and more recently. So, I don't know.
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Paranormalism Net. Have other cryptos been reporting the areas of dolman studies? Rarely.
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Rarely. Um
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I I can't I can't even recall any be honest with you. Uh I've
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there have been sightings of maybe Bigfoot and and encrypted canines in the
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same area but at different times. But as far as possibly being related, not
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really. Uh, we did have um a case we were looking into in um
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in Cecil County, Maryland around Port Tobacco and uh possible Do
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Man activity, but there was UFOs as well as Bigfoot reported in an area as well.
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It was a farm area uh at a a horse ranch. I haven't heard anything out of
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there since. I I did we did get a video of a UFO quite an extensive video of a
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UFO around there as well but uh no we don't we don't really have much
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association with other cryptids
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can squatch why canines
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is is there human canine connection any reports of feline crippage Yeah, we we occasionally get a a feline crypted
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sighting, especially down in Florida. We've had a few down there. Um
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but um I don't know. You know, this whole crypted canine phenomena,
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you know, we probably have more questions about that than anything else that we've talked about. I mean, even
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Bigfoot or even Moth Man. I mean, it's it's something that traditionally has happened over year, many many years,
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even into the last century, especially here in Pennsylvania in in Maryland. But, um, we just know don't
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know a whole lot about it. Are these some type of um thought form manifestations because of the lore
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involved? You know, many of the witnesses early on were people from the old country,
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especially Pennsylvania Dutch are are are people who who were born in in
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central Europe and migrated over to the United States and of course had heard the stories of the Hexen wolf and the
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werewolves and all that. Uh did they actually see one here? I don't know. But
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some of the scriptions are are pretty harrowing. So maybe they did,
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but they continue to this day. Monica Davies,
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uh, do you think Dogman are related to the Nephleum?
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You know, I've heard that comparison with Bigfoot. I don't know if it's even I don't know if there is a connection.
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Uh, I honestly I I don't necessarily
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attribute anything to Nephilim since that's something we don't even know even existed. I mean, it comes out of the
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Bible, but did it actually exist? Uh, I don't know. And I mean, I'm I'm going to
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tell you I don't know because I don't know. Uh, you know, all I can do is kind of give you my my estimation of what it
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is and what others have told me and what I have researched over the years, but uh, I don't know if there's any
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connection at all.
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Uh, Dag Name, do you think that Dogman does not want to hurt you? It just wants
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to scare you. Yeah, I think that may be something to that. Why?
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Thunder, but um, you know, they do they do kind of keep their ground. They do stand their ground. Uh
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they very rarely attack in these two instances in Maryland where they the one busted into the house and the other one
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was rattling on the door knob. That's rare. That is very rare. And in fact, those
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two instances are probably the only two like that that I've ever received.
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So, um maybe it's the same creature, maybe it's something attributed to certain
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I don't know certain races of these creatures or or what you whatever want to call but uh
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Yep. I don't know.
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Jean Ljon, have you heard of any of the flying creatures in the area of Enid,
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Oklahoma? I'd have to look. Um, I can't recall anything in Oklahoma as far as
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being a a wing wing crypted. I'm sure there have been sightings
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somewhere down the line, but that's something I had to look back into the archives.
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Leech the spicy lizard. Do you think dog men could be an off
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branch of Sasquatch in some way? What's the strangest place you heard a K9 crypt that's being seen at? I guess it's a
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possibility it could be related. I doubt it, but I guess it could be. They do try to stay away from each other from some
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of the evidence that we've received over the years. Um,
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I don't know. I I you know, that's hard to answer. What was the second part of that question again? Can you put it back
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up, Kevin? What's the strangest place you strangest place you heard a canine crypted canines
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being seen at? Well, any uh
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any urban area would be strange to me. I mean, you know, we have had sightings of
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them reported to us of being in in abandoned locations, but we've also had
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abandoned locations that have been inhabited by supposed Bigfoot as well and wing wing crypted wing humanoids.
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So, uh, honestly, nothing surprises me anymore.
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Alexis Chast Chaston, what paranormal entity have you followed frightens people most?
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Oh, I think I think the crypted canines are probably the most frightening. Um, they're just I guess the look and the
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unpredictability about them is the biggest part of it. Um,
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but honestly, anything that you see or have an encounter with that you don't know what it is and has some always
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carries some fear factor to it.
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Can squatch and reports a dog manhabitation. Um,
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you might want to talk to or or or check in with um
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Carter Buchard. He he has uh some clients of his I think in Kansas who had
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some habituation with um some possible crypines. I think
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reported his as well. So uh I don't know but Carter would would have would have
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that. Uh you may want to write him. He's on Facebook. He's on the team as well. So, but I know he did mention it to me
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and he did send me a report a while back.
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Jose Sanchez, have um Dogman ever been seen in Russia, especially in snowy
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environments? I don't know. I um
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usually what we get out of out of Russia or in in Central Europe or Northern
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Europe, excuse me, Central Asia, Northern Asia or or um Bigfoot like
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sightings, Yeti or urine or or other creatures, crypted
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canines, not so much. Not so much.
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Gene Ljon, what flying creature has hooves on his feet? Thank you for your time. Um, supposedly
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the um, the Jersey Devil has hooves and is winged. Um,
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there have been sightings of unknown creatures that possibly had wings and and hooves as well. We had something
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that showed up outside of York, Pennsylvania about
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about a dozen years ago. Got a partial camera shot of it uh of a a uh trail
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camera of the Who's and possible possibly
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some type of wing structure, but that would be all that I know of.
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Audacious Amber. I've heard many times on other channels of them trying to
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rattle handles and and get in. Quite common. Are you talking about crypted canines?
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Maybe they did. I don't know. Those only the ones I got are the only two that I have seen now. Yeah. Of course, people
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talk about them trying to get into door doorways and rattle handles. I've heard
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that with Bigfoot as well and other creatures. So, um, but even a dog can kind of get up on his
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high legs and and kind of rattle a, uh, a door handle or a door knob as well.
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So, uh,
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James Michael, do Bigfoot usually have green eye shine like dog men have amber?
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Is there anything associated to certain colors? Green eye shine. I don't normally run
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across green eye shine or any cryptids. Um we had a couple as far as the winged humanoids.
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Um most of the time the the um the dog I mean excuse me the the Bigfoot are kind
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of an amber color sometimes even red.
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Odacious Amber. Did you hear the Bulmer City encounter at an apartment complex? I think I did not. If you can give me a
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reference to it, I'll look into it.
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