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UNEXPLAINED ALABAMA: Compelling Encounters, Disembodied Voices, & Beasts in the Trees and Skies
Sep 19, 2026
A towering figure in Bankhead National Forest. Orange eyes outside a farmhouse near Guntersville. A silent winged humanoid above the University of Alabama. And voices calling “Come inside” from a dark drainage tunnel in Mobile.
Tonight on Phantoms & Monster Radio, UNEXPLAINED ALABAMA brings together eight unsettling accounts of unusual creatures, mysterious lights, and encounters that witnesses say changed the way they see the world.
In this presentation:
• Two encounters on the same stretch of road near Auburn: a massive, maned canine and a silent three-light object.
• A fisherman’s frightening encounter with a dark-haired figure in Bankhead National Forest.
• A pale, long-limbed humanoid watching from behind a tree in north-central Alabama.
• Recurring disturbances and a wolf-like visitor at a farmhouse near Guntersville.
• A huge, leathery winged animal reported near Big Creek Lake outside Mobile.
• A student’s sighting of a silent winged humanoid over Tuscaloosa.
• A reported reptilian visitor at an isolated farm; the location is unspecified in the supplied account.
• A 1989 Mobile drainage-tunnel encounter involving strange voices, glowing eyes, and an unusually dressed family.
These are witness narratives presented for discussion, not independently verified events. Creature identifications and proposed connections reflect the interpretations described in the accounts.
Which report stayed with you? Have you witnessed something unexplained in Alabama? Share your experience in the comments, including the approximate location, date, and what you directly observed.
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Hey folks, welcome to Phantoms and
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Monsters Radio.
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A quiet road near Auburn. A fishing
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trail in Bankhead National Forest. A
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university campus after midnight. A
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drainage tunnel in Mobile. Ordinary
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places until someone sees something they
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can't explain. Now, tonight we're
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traveling through Alabama by way of
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eight accounts involving strange
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creatures, silent shapes overhead, and
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encounters that left witnesses
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questioning
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what they had just what had just
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happened to them.
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Some describe a single moment that
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stayed with them for decades and others
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[snorts] describe a a series of
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disturbances that followed them all the
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way to their door.
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Welcome to Fannon's Monsters Radio. This
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is Unexplained Alabama.
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Now, these accounts are presented as the
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witnesses described them. Their
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interpretations are part of their
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stories, and the material collected for
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this program does not independently
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establish what they encountered.
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Now, as you listen, pay attention to the
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details. What each person actually saw,
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what they heard, and what they concluded
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afterward.
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Now, we begin with a man driving to work
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at night. On one stretch of road near
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Auburn, he reported two very different
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encounters about a month apart. One
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crossed the road in front of him and the
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other one passed overhead.
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Now, the witness stated, "I want to
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share something with you. I'm 71 years
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old and I've done a lot of security
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guard work. Now, when I was working, I
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would leave for work at about 9:00 at
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night. There was one stretch of road in
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Alabama where something happened that I
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still have trouble talking about. I had
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always been something of a believer, but
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I had never seen anything so solid."
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Now, one night at about 9:30, I saw
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three lights approaching.
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My first thought was that it was a man
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who lived nearby and kept an ultralight
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aircraft in a field. And I remember
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thinking, "What is this idiot doing out
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there with an ultral light at night?"
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But it kept coming.
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I slowed down, although I never stopped.
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The object went right over me. It had
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three lights and seemed to be about the
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size of an ultra light, but there was no
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sound.
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It was about as high above me as two
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telephone poles. It went right across
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the road and drifted out of sight.
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There was nothing behind it but the dark
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black sky and those three lights. Now, a
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month before that, at the exact same
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spot, I had slammed on my brakes to
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avoid hitting what first doll was a dog,
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but it was huge.
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It had something like a lion's mane,
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while the rest of the body looked more
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like a dog. It reminded me of those
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videos where someone dresses a dog up to
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look like a lion.
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This animal was coming from the same
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direction the triangular thing would
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later come from.
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It crossed the road, went up to the
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fence on the other side, and disappeared
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to the south.
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Now, I would compare to the big St.
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Bernard, except it seemed about twice
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that size. It looked at me, then
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continued across the road toward the
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fence, and after that it was gone. Now,
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both encounters happened at the same
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place at about the same time of night
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because I was following the same work
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schedule.
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I don't know whether they were
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connected. I don't know whether they
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were it was something about that
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particular location. I even questioned
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whether something had happened to my own
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mind.
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I told a couple people when I got to
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work, but I felt like they thought I was
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crazy. I live about 250 mi from there
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now, down on the Gulf Coast. These
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encounters happened in the middle of the
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state, not far from Auburn, Alabama.
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Now, the witness connected those
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experiences through a location in his
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nightly routine.
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Whether there was any relationship
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between them remains an open question,
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but our next account takes us off the
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road and into Bankhead National Forest.
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The person who submitted it described
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himself as an outdoorsman. He hunted,
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fished, and spent much of his time in
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the woods. Then one evening, something
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happened that kept him from returning to
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a favorite fishing spot.
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He tells me, "I had a sighting when I
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was 18 years old, about 5 years before
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sharing this account.
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For a long time, I kept it to myself.
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Eventually, I told my dad while we were
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on our way to work, and he said he had
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seen something like it as well. He told
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me there was something in the woods at
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Bankhead National Forest in the Winston
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area of Alabama."
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Now, other than my dad, I had only told
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my fiance about it.
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The experience really frightened me, and
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I'm an outdoorsman. I hunt, fish, and
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spend most of my time in the woods. And
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on that particular day, I had gone
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waiting and fishing.
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My buddy usually went with me, but he
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couldn't come because his wife and son
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were sick. It was a beautiful day, so I
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went alone.
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I had a good day and caught a lot of
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fish.
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By late evening, rather than fight my
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way back upstream, I decided to take the
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trail. It's about a mile and a half back
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to my truck. As I walked, I developed an
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unnerving feeling that I was being
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watched or stalked. I stopped. Every
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hair on my body seemed to be standing
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up, and I had goosebumps all over.
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Also noticed a musty fishlike odor.
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I began scanning near the area, trying
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to figure out whether there was a
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predator nearby and what I should do. At
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the same time, I wondered whether I was
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just getting frightened by some harmless
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animal.
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It was nearly dark by then, although I
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could still see fairly well.
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I looked through the tree line. That was
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when I saw it.
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I looked again to make sure I was
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actually seeing what I thought I was
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seeing. It appeared to be hiding behind
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a tree, holding or grabbing the trunk. I
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made eye contact with it and became
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extremely frightened. I had never seen
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anything like it. The creature appeared
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to be every bit of 9 ft tall and I was
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and it was covered in dark hair. I
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started to panic. My breathing became
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short the way it does when you're
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terrified and I slowly began backing
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away.
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Then the creature stepped out from
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behind the tree. It seemed agitated. It
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let out a loud growl and as soon as that
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happened, I turned and ran down the
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trail as fast as I could and I didn't
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stop.
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Somewhere along the way, I dropped my
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fishing pole and tackle box. I don't
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remember dropping them. When I reached
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the parking lot, I jumped in my truck
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and started it. I wanted to get out of
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there immediately. Then I heard the
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creature again. This time, it made a
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loud whooping sound.
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I drove away as quick as I could. I
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still haven't returned to that location.
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I never believed in cryptic creatures
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before that and I hope I never see it
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again. Now, my dad told me that he once
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witnessed a man-like creature running
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through that area. He said across the
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road in only two steps.
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There is something in that forest and it
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was a frightening situation to
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experience alone. I believe I
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encountered a Bigfoot, but I had never
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heard of them acting aggressively or
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growling,
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a smell, a feeling of being watched, a
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figure partially concealed by a tree.
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Those details formed the beginning of
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the fisherman's encounter. Now, in the
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next account, a group was walking
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familiar trails on private land in North
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Central Alabama.
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Before anyone reported seeing something
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unusual, two dogs stopped behaving
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normally.
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And when one member of the group looked
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into the trees, she saw something she
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chose not to describe until they were
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safely back at the house.
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A witness says, "My two friends, who are
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married couple and I were walking on my
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family's land in North Central Alabama.
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The property is about 170 acres, heavily
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wooded with pines and hardwoods,
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[clears throat] and has many trails
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running through it.
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It was already dark, but my friends
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wanted me to take them for a walk.
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A couple of neighbors dogs followed us.
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A hound and a great Pyrenees. They
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We walked south, then east toward my
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camping area. We were hanging out at the
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campsite when something changed behind
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us, further back down along the trail we
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had just used. The dogs started acting
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strangely. We looked back and saw them
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come out of the woods to our left and
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stand on the trail. Now, the great
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Pyrenees began growling very low and
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seemed defensive. The hound is
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usually a goofball, but even he seemed
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disturbed by something. Now, both dogs
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were staring west
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back down on the trail. At that point, I
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immediately felt that something was
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strange and serious. It was ominous.
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I have learned to trust my gut when
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something feels threatening in the
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woods. I told my friends we'd better get
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back to the house. To make sure they
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understood, I added now.
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We started heading west on the trail. If
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I remember correctly, the dogs had
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already moved away from them.
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Away by then. As we walked, I looked
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back and saw my friend's wife looking
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into the woods off the trail. She
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staggered backwards a few steps. Her
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husband had walked ahead, so I asked
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what was wrong. This was the same area
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where the dogs had been growling. She
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said, "I'll tell you when we get back. I
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don't want to scare him."
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Her husband easily spooked, so she kept
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quiet until we returned to the house.
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When we got back, I asked her what she
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had seen. She said she had felt the need
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to look off the trail into the trees.
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And when she did, she saw something
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halfway behind a tree looking at her.
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We were all wearing headlamps. She
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described it as humanlike, pale or
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whitish with an ovalsized shed head.
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It appeared to be crouching and it had
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very long limbs. She kept stressing how
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skinny it was, especially the limbs. She
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said it had a surprised look on its
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face, almost as though it had not
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expected us to be there. And my friends
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and relatives and I used those trails
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regularly, but usually during the day,
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and according to her, the thing was
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bobbing back and forth in a creepy way.
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It would move its head behind a tree,
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then rhythmically sway its head and
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shoulders back into the view to look at
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her again.
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She said it did not seem aggressive at
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that moment, but it looked scary. Later,
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I showed her the famous trail cam image
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or trail camera image often associated
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online with the rake or whatever this
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thing is supposed to be.
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What? When she saw it, she looked
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shocked and nodded. Yes. But she made it
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clear that what she had seen was not
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exactly the same. The next night, I was
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on the back porch when I heard a very
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shrill, freaky scream coming from the
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woods.
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I don't know whether the scream and the
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sighting are related, but I have lived
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in the the country for most of my life
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and I never heard anything like that
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before. Multiple strange things have
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happened around here, but this is the
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only incident I know of involving that
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particular creature.
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Now, in that account, only one member of
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the group reportedly saw the figure. The
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comparison was an online image came
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afterward, and she said that the
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resemblance was imperfect. But the next
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report involves an old farmhouse near uh
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Guntersville.
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What began as strange noises outside
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reportedly developed into a series of
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encounters around a pond, in the trees,
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and eventually at a bedroom window.
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The witness state,
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"I've always had weird experiences,
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whether they involved ghost or strange
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animals. This seemed to follow my family
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and me. We recently moved into an old
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farmhouse just off the main road near
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Gunnersville,
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Alabama. The house sits on 88 acres.
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Only four people, including us, live or
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on or near it. Now, when we first moved
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in, nothing abnormal happened. It was a
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small house, and it felt like a new
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start for all of us. After about a
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month, we started hearing strange noises
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outside at night, but nothing too
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serious. But one night, we decided to
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have a fire and drink some beer.
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A few of us went night fishing at a pond
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about a mile into the woods. While we
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were fishing, we started hearing
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screaming.
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We thought it was one of the girls back
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at the house, so we headed back. On the
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way, we noticed that there were no other
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sounds, no birds, no crickets, nothing.
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We stopped to listen. Then, we heard
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what sounded like chains rushing towards
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us.
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When it seemed to be about 15t away, I
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pointed a gun toward where I thought the
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noise was coming from and fired a shot
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into the ground near that spot. After
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about a minute, the chain sounds rushed
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toward the house. Nothing else happened
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until we went inside and started getting
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ready for bed.
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Then we all heard a female scream again.
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Behind it was a deep distorted laugh.
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After that, things were quiet for about
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three weeks. Then my dad and I were
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fishing at the pond late one afternoon.
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And as dusk approached, we noticed three
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pale white animals on the opposite side
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of the water. And as soon as we noticed
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them, they ran. But instead of running
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away on all fours, they jumped onto
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their hind legs, leaped about 8 foot
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into the trees, and began moving from
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tree to tree. We decided to head home.
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On the way back, we heard the trees
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rustling.
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The sound kept getting closer and closer
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until we reached the house and locked
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the doors. I decided to put cameras in
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the woods and around the house. Now, at
16:54
first, I got nothing unusual, just deer
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and coyotes.
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One night, a camera near the house was
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moved for an hour and then moved back.
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Nothing came of that. Then, one night
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recently, after a long day of work, I
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decided to play a video game with a few
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friends. At about 11:00, I heard two
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taps. I ignored them, thinking they were
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part of the game. But the tapping
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continued until about 2 in the morning.
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Roughly every 5 minutes, there would be
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two consecutive taps.
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I finally took off my headphones. The
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sound was coming from my window. When I
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looked, I saw orange eyes about 7 ft off
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the ground. We stared at each other for
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about 2 minutes. Then it moved closer to
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the window and smiled at me. Its teeth
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looked like blood stained daggers. His
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face was pale and wolflike with what
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appeared to be decay along the side of
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its head and neck. After that, it backed
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away and left. Now, something happens
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every night. Tonight, as I'm writing
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this, it rushed onto the porch and
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clawed at the door. And as it did, it
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let out a laugh that sounded like a
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deranged man crossed with a hyena.
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At this point, I'm not sure what to
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think. Are we being hunted?
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Now, that account was signed with the
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initial S. The accompanying editorial
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note states that a variety of harrowing
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crypted wolf or upright canine
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encounters had been received from the
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Birmingham and North Alabama areas over
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preceding few years. These are
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investigations that we've been part of
18:32
on our team for about five years now.
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Those additional reports are not
18:37
included here. So that observation
18:39
remains separate from this witness's
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account.
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The Gunnerville report describes ver
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several different sounds and appearances
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over time. Whether they share single
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calls is unresolved.
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Now for the next encounter, we move
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south to the outskirts of Mobile.
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It happened around midday in the spring
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of 2001. The witness is driving to
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college when an unfamiliar sound
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overhead prompted a stop. Then a shadow
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covered the car and the road.
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The witness tells me, "Sir, what I saw
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that day changed my life, and I had
19:14
never made an official report until
19:16
sharing this account. Around midday in
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the spring of 2001, I left home to
19:20
attend my college classes. We lived
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[clears throat] down a single lane dirt
19:24
road on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama
19:27
near a large water reservoir called Big
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Creek Lake. It was a beautiful day, so I
19:33
had the windows down. The radio was off
19:35
and I was driving slowly because of the
19:37
dirt road.
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I heard a strange noise overhead coming
19:42
toward me. It caught my attention enough
19:45
that I stopped the car and tried to see
19:46
what it was. Now, we lived near a Coast
19:49
Guard base, so helicopters and other
19:51
small aircraft were not unusual.
19:54
But when I heard the noise again, I
19:56
realized it was unlike anything I'd ever
19:57
heard. And as I leaned my head out the
20:00
open window, a shadow covered my car and
20:03
the entire road. Above me was the
20:06
underside of a dark gray leathery
20:09
animal. Its sleek, muscular body carried
20:12
two enormous bony wings. It soared over
20:15
me at a very low height just above the
20:17
treeine. Its body came to a point. I'm
20:21
unsure whether it had a tail or whether
20:24
its legs were aligned with its body. In
20:26
an instant, the shadow was gone. The
20:29
surrounding trees swallowed the animal
20:31
from sight. But I heard the noise again.
20:35
That was when I realized what I believed
20:37
I was hearing. The sound of air being
20:39
moved by two gigantic by those gigantic
20:42
wings.
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I heard them flap a couple more times
20:46
with that seemed like an impossible
20:48
weight between each beat.
20:52
Then there was nothing. I sat there in
20:54
disbelief. My life had never been the
20:57
same.
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I believe that anything is possible in
21:01
this weird world. I know what I saw and
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I'll never forget it. These things are
21:07
real.
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Now, the Big Creek Lake witness
21:10
described a leathery animal and the
21:12
sound of enormous wings moving air. But
21:15
the next witness described something
21:16
with a more humanlike shape moving in
21:19
complete silence.
21:21
The location was the University of
21:23
Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
21:25
It was early morning and a student had
21:27
stopped on the quad to look at the
21:29
stars.
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The witness states, "A few years ago, I
21:36
was attending the University of Alabama,
21:37
Tuscaloosa."
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One night around 2 or 3 in the morning,
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I was walking back to my dorm when I
21:44
noticed how clear and beautiful the sky
21:46
looked. The stars were out on full
21:48
force.
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I decided to lie on my back in the quad
21:53
for a few minutes and take it all in,
21:55
thinking about the size of the universe
21:57
and how small we really were.
22:02
While I was lying there, everything
22:03
changed in an instant. Out of nowhere, I
22:07
saw a huge blackwing figure moving above
22:09
me, perhaps 75 to 100 yards overhead.
22:14
It flew swiftly across the sky in
22:16
complete silence. And at first I tried
22:18
to tell myself it was a bird. But the
22:20
longer I looked, the less that made
22:22
sense.
22:25
What I was seeing looked more like a man
22:27
with wings or some kind of angelic or
22:29
humanoid form. Nothing about it felt
22:32
comforting. It seemed impossible. Yet,
22:35
it was right there above me. I stood up
22:38
immediately and kept watching as it
22:40
moved away.
22:42
I remember staring in that direction
22:44
trying to reassure myself that I wasn't
22:47
losing my mind. I watched it until it
22:49
disappeared.
22:51
I ran over to a man in a nearby parking
22:53
lot, asked him whether he had seen it.
22:56
He had not been looking up. That didn't
22:58
surprise me. The thing had been silent
23:00
and dark, visible mostly as a moving
23:03
silhouette against the night sky.
23:06
If you weren't already looking that
23:08
right direction, you would have missed
23:09
it.
23:10
I was shaking for the next week. The
23:14
following day, I decided to test
23:15
something. And at the time, I used an
23:17
experimental app that worked like a
23:19
local chat room where nearby people
23:21
could post messages.
23:24
It was active around Tuscaloosa.
23:27
I posted a simple question asking
23:29
whether anyone had seen anything strange
23:31
around 2 or 3 in the morning that night.
23:34
I was careful. I did not mention the
23:37
sky. I did not mention a winged figure.
23:40
It did not mention a humanoid shape. I
23:42
gave no descriptive details. That was
23:46
what made the response so unnerving. One
23:49
person replied that they had seen a
23:51
large winged figure flying silently
23:53
through the night with big red eyes.
23:56
Reading that gave me chills. I remember
23:59
wondering whether the person was joking
24:00
or exaggerating.
24:02
But then several more people described
24:04
the same general thing I had seen. a
24:06
large winged figure either flying or
24:08
standing nearby.
24:10
One person even claimed it had been
24:12
standing in front of a building staring
24:14
with red laser-like eyes. Now, I didn't
24:17
personally see the red eyes,
24:19
but what stayed weight with me was the
24:21
shape, the size, and the silence, and
24:23
the fact that other people began
24:25
describing the same kind of being
24:26
without me giving them any details.
24:30
For me, that was enough to feel that I
24:32
had seen something real, even though I
24:35
still couldn't explain it. Afterward, I
24:38
started reading about redeyed winged
24:40
humanoid sightings.
24:42
I eventually concluded that what I had
24:44
encountered was very similar to what
24:46
people call the moth man. Now, around
24:48
the same time, I remember taking a less
24:50
traveled path under an overpass
24:54
and noticed moth themed graffiti
24:58
that added to the strange feeling
24:59
surrounding the experience.
25:02
When I told my roommates a few other
25:04
people, they acted as though I had been
25:06
drunk or I was crazy. So, I mostly kept
25:09
the story to myself, but I know what I
25:11
saw.
25:14
That encounter changed the way I look at
25:16
reality. It forced me to recognize how
25:18
little we truly understand. We build
25:22
machines, weapons, towers, and all kinds
25:24
of things that make us feel advanced.
25:27
But none of that means we understand the
25:31
planet we live on, much less the larger
25:33
universe around us.
25:36
Now, that distinction matters. The
25:38
student reported seeing a dark winged
25:40
silhouette. The red eyes came from
25:43
responses the student says appeared
25:45
afterwards. And those messages are not
25:48
included with the report.
25:51
Now, our next account moves from an
25:52
observation in the sky to a claimed
25:55
encounter inside a home.
25:58
The collection places the story.
26:01
The collection places the story among
26:03
the Alabama reports, but the witness
26:06
does not name a town or state in the
26:08
supplied text. Its location remains to
26:10
be confirmed.
26:13
It begins with lights over a farm and I
26:16
will state I went back and looked. It is
26:18
definitely from Alabama.
26:23
Witness states I live alone on a farm.
26:26
One night I was outside walking the
26:28
perimeter of my property when I noticed
26:30
a series of lights moving across the
26:32
sky.
26:34
They were not blinking like aircraft.
26:36
They were steady and deliberate. I
26:39
watched them for a moment. Then one of
26:40
the lights suddenly stopped. Something
26:43
dropped from it. It looked like a pot or
26:46
capsule descending toward the tree line.
26:50
That was when the fear hit me. I ran
26:53
into the house and locked the doors. I
26:54
told myself I was overreacting.
26:57
But the next morning, I woke up and
26:59
immediately sensed something was wrong.
27:01
I felt watched.
27:04
I raised my head and saw a figure
27:05
sitting at the foot of my bed.
27:08
It was reptilian. Its skin was lime
27:11
green. It stood about 6 foot tall and
27:13
had a muscular build. Its face had a lid
27:16
lizard-like snout and large purple eyes.
27:20
It wore black clothing from the neck
27:22
down and a belt lined with small devices
27:24
or instruments. It spoke to me in
27:27
English, but its voice carried a deep
27:30
hiss beneath the words. It said, "I mean
27:34
you no harm, warming.
27:36
I only seek to explore your world and
27:38
its life forms. I am only a male scout.
27:42
I'm looking for samples.
27:44
I asked how it was speaking to me and
27:46
where it came from. It replied, "You
27:49
hear only the tongue, you understand. I
27:51
cannot say too much. Maybe I take a
27:54
sample from your hair."
27:56
I didn't feel threatened.
27:59
I felt strangely calm and curious. I
28:02
said, "Okay, yes." It stepped closer and
28:06
placed its hand on my head.
28:09
Its skin was cold and scaly. It plucked
28:13
it plucked a strand of my hair and
28:15
placed it inside a small cylinder
28:17
attached to its belt. Then it said,
28:19
"Thank you. My overlord will be
28:21
pleased." And it vanished.
28:25
The spot on my head where it had touched
28:27
me became numb.
28:29
Since that morning, I have felt as
28:31
though I'm fighting off a persistent
28:33
cold. I kept wondering whether the
28:35
lights I saw in the reptilian were
28:37
connected. I also wonder whether it will
28:41
return.
28:43
Now, that witness described the
28:44
conversation, physical contact, and an
28:46
abrupt disappearance, and the account
28:48
offers no additional evidence that would
28:50
let us determine what occurred.
28:54
Now, our final story returns us to
28:56
Mobile. In 1989,
28:59
two boys were exploring a drainage ditch
29:02
on their skateboards when they reached
29:03
the pair of dark tunnels.
29:06
What happened there stayed with the
29:08
narrator for years. It began with a
29:10
voice inviting them inside.
29:15
Now, the witness says, "I know this
29:17
story sounds unbelievable if you weren't
29:19
there, but it happened.
29:21
It remained one of the strangest
29:23
incidents in my life. What makes it
29:25
especially important to me is that my
29:27
friend Sam was there and witnessed the
29:30
same thing. In 1989, when I was in
29:33
seventh grade, my mother was transferred
29:35
to Mobile, Alabama. My brothers and I
29:38
skateboarded all the time. One place we
29:41
like to ride was a concrete drainage
29:43
ditch a few blocks from our house.
29:46
Now, from the bottom of the ditch to the
29:48
ground above, I estimated was about 7t
29:50
high. One day, Sam and I decided to
29:53
follow the ditch into the woods to see
29:55
where it ended.
29:57
We rode for quite a while, going further
29:59
and further away from the house.
30:03
Set into that wall were two tunnels,
30:05
each one 5 ft in diameter. Both were
30:08
blocked by yellow horizontal bars.
30:11
Beyond the bars, the tunnels were
30:13
completely black.
30:16
We stood quietly for maybe 30 seconds
30:18
trying to decide whether we were brave
30:20
enough to climb over and go inside.
30:24
Then we heard a voice from the tunnel on
30:26
the right. Come inside.
30:29
We froze. Then more voices joined in.
30:32
They kept saying things like come inside
30:35
and come join us.
30:38
And at the same time, we heard what
30:39
sounded like a shrill reed instrument
30:42
being played somewhere inside the
30:43
tunnel.
30:45
We didn't move. We stood there scared
30:48
and unable to do anything.
30:50
Then things became even stranger. Inside
30:53
that same tunnel, we saw five sets of
30:55
glowing eyes.
30:57
They were an intense whitish yellow
30:59
color. They moved up and down as though
31:02
whoever they belonged to was walking
31:05
toward us. I remember feeling absolute
31:08
dread.
31:10
At that point, my memory seems to break.
31:13
The next thing I clearly remember was
31:15
five people standing outside the tunnel
31:17
in front of us.
31:19
They appeared to be a family, an adult
31:21
man and woman along with three children.
31:25
Every one of them was blonde and
31:26
blue-eyed.
31:28
They were neatly dressed almost like a
31:30
suburban family on the way to church.
31:32
Each had a bicycle.
31:35
That was one of the oddest parts. I
31:38
don't remember seeing them bring those
31:39
bicycles over the yellow bars, which
31:41
would not have been easy. The adult man
31:44
held out a small rectangular object. I
31:48
couldn't tell what it was. He said, "The
31:50
next time you hear this, you'll know
31:52
it's us." I assume he meant the
31:54
instrument sound he had heard inside the
31:56
tunnel.
31:58
After that, we got on our bikes and rode
32:01
away. Now, Sam and I talked about the
32:03
incident for a long time afterward.
32:07
We went over it again and again and
32:09
comparing what we had seen and heard and
32:12
I am convinced that if he had not been
32:15
there, I would eventually have tried to
32:16
dismiss much of it as my imagination.
32:19
Other strange things were connected to
32:21
that place, too.
32:23
The very first day we moved to Mobile,
32:25
my mother drove us past that ditch.
32:29
My brothers and I immediately knew we
32:31
wanted to skate there. Later, when we
32:33
returned, we found scattered animal
32:35
parts on the ditch floor. They looked
32:38
like parts of a fairly large animal,
32:40
perhaps something the size of a big dog.
32:43
There was no skin, no hair, and no
32:45
blood, just muscle senue and bone.
32:48
Another thing that stood out to me at
32:50
the time was how many kids in town
32:53
talked about devil worshippers.
32:57
I'm not a religious person, but I found
32:58
it strange that so many children seem
33:00
fascinated by the satanic side of the
33:03
occult, even at a young age.
33:06
As for the figures in the tunnel, once
33:08
they came into the daylight, they look
33:10
completely human.
33:12
The man and woman appeared to be in
33:13
their mid30s. The children seemed to be
33:15
one boy and two girls, ranging from
33:17
about 12 years old down to six. Their
33:20
eyes did not glow outside. They were
33:23
dressed unusually well for people who
33:25
had been in a sewer tunnel.
33:28
That only made the scene feel more
33:30
unnatural.
33:31
I paid particular attention to the
33:33
youngest girl. I couldn't understand why
33:36
a family with a child that young would
33:38
be down there.
33:40
She had dark circles under her eyes. My
33:43
immediate thought was that she looked
33:44
drugged or exhausted.
33:47
My personal feeling has always been that
33:50
these people were human occultists
33:52
engaged in some kind of ritual or
33:54
ceremonial act when we arrived.
33:57
It felt like we had interrupted
33:59
something.
34:00
That's just still my best guess.
34:08
Now, the next time you hear this, you'll
34:10
know it's us. That sentence gives the
34:12
Mobile account its lingering unease. The
34:15
narrator describes a gap in his
34:17
recollection followed by five people
34:19
standing in the daylight with bicycles.
34:22
He believed that they were involved in
34:24
an occult ceremony. That was his
34:26
interpretation. Their identities, their
34:29
reason for being in the tunnel and the
34:30
source of the sound remains unknown.
34:33
Now, across tonight's collection, the
34:36
witnesses describe very different
34:38
experiences.
34:40
A massive mangaed animal crossing a
34:42
road. A dark-haired figure stepping out
34:45
from behind a tree. A pale face watching
34:48
from the woods. Orange eyes outside a
34:51
farmhouse window.
34:53
Enormous wings passing over a car. A
34:56
silent silhouette above a university
34:58
campus. A visitor at the foot of the
35:01
bed. And voices calling from the
35:03
darkness beneath Mobile.
35:06
We should consider each account on its
35:08
own details. A resemblance between
35:11
stories can raise an interesting
35:12
question, but it does not establish the
35:15
same thing cause them.
35:18
What comes through repeatedly is how
35:20
strongly these experiences affected the
35:22
people describing them. Several said
35:25
they stayed quiet because they expected
35:27
ridicule. Others returned to the memory
35:29
again and again trying to understand it.
35:32
That leaves us with listen carefully,
35:35
asking useful questions, and keeping
35:38
observations separate from
35:39
interpretation.
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36:43
Michelle,
36:45
why is such ominous beings when there
36:48
are stories of both positive and
36:50
negative interactions?
36:53
That's a good question.
36:57
Uh, I don't know. I don't know how to
36:58
answer that.
37:01
Um it's an excellent question. Why as
37:04
such ominous beings
37:08
when there are stories of both positive
37:10
and negative interactions?
37:14
I don't know. I don't know how to answer
37:16
that.
37:22
Alice staring. Could pale crawlers be
37:25
skin walkers without animal skin? Um,
37:32
I I guess maybe it could be, but for the
37:35
most part, the pale crawlers
37:40
don't seem to be similar to any
37:45
skinw walker type creature.
37:48
Um, even though
37:50
skinwalkers are are witches
37:54
or human witches that supposedly
37:56
transform and many times they they wear
37:59
animal skins, but
38:02
I don't think it has anything to do with
38:04
pale crawlers. Um, you know, the pale
38:06
crawler phenomena is is is really an
38:09
enigma. I I have no idea what these
38:11
things are. I really don't. I, you know,
38:13
like again, I wrote the book. I wrote a
38:15
book about it. I went into a lot of
38:18
detail. I presented a lot of scenarios,
38:22
but
38:24
I'm still not convinced of what they
38:26
really are.
38:33
Damn it. Have you ever had an expedition
38:35
with your crew to the land between the
38:37
lakes? Um, some of the folks on my team
38:40
have been there. I was there many, many
38:43
moons ago, um, back in
38:48
the early 1990s,
38:50
but as far as having a teen expedition,
38:52
no, we haven't we haven't done that.
38:57
uh you know since we're so scattered now
39:00
look we have we have a bunch of folks
39:01
who live in this area
39:04
uh and other parts of Pennsylvania and
39:06
occasionally we get together for
39:07
something you know but
39:10
uh we have people a lot of different
39:12
places
39:14
and uh for us to get together to do
39:17
anything it's kind of hard to do you
39:19
know because we're so scattered out but
39:21
um maybe one day I you know honestly I
39:24
would like to have um I would like to
39:27
have some type of get together here in
39:29
in Gettysburg or somewhere around this
39:32
area. We've talked about that countless
39:34
times. Um that may be something good at
39:38
some point, but uh right now we're uh
39:41
we're just too scattered.
39:47
Michelle, do you think Alabama has such
39:49
a wide variety of crypted site? Why do
39:51
you think they have such a wide crypted
39:53
sites? You know,
39:55
I don't know. It's, you know, what some
39:59
of the areas where people have seen
40:02
these things or where they reported them
40:05
are very dense areas. Uh, many of them
40:08
have a lot of water around them, have a
40:10
lot of terrain that's hard to get
40:12
through.
40:14
Uh
40:15
the investigators I work with, Brandon
40:18
Med Meadows and um Charles Henderson, um
40:23
they have been working with me for about
40:27
four or five years and they have been
40:29
going out on expeditions and they've
40:31
been documenting a lot of different
40:33
sightings. Uh mostly upright type
40:36
creatures, Bigfoot or or crypted
40:38
canines. Uh we also had a possible
40:42
sighting and a mutilation caused by a
40:45
winged humanoid from the description we
40:48
were given. You know, Alabama is one of
40:50
those states that a lot of people just
40:52
discount sightings and that there's it's
40:55
not a place where people report
40:57
sightings.
40:59
You know, I have found that to be
41:01
completely opposite. We we have some
41:05
very interesting recordings
41:09
uh visual and audio that we've been
41:11
collecting for several years now.
41:14
But until we get more information as to
41:16
what they're encountering and what
41:18
people are reporting,
41:20
I I just have been very reluctant to to
41:25
uh release any of that. Maybe at some
41:27
point we will. I don't know. You know, I
41:29
have um I have thought about going down
41:31
there at some point and and kind of
41:35
taking a look at some of the areas where
41:37
they have been having these
41:39
investigations.
41:41
I tell you, some of the stories that
41:43
have come out of there are pretty
41:45
creepy.
41:47
And a lot of it involves the um
41:52
uh the Creek Indians that used to live
41:54
in the area. Well, I guess some still
41:56
do, but I mean as far as the the mounds
41:58
cuz they have burial mounds and they
42:01
have areas there where a lot of um they
42:03
lived in areas where a lot of crypted
42:04
activity is seen and and and mentioned.
42:08
So, um I don't know. I think Alabama is
42:11
one of those states that's going to
42:14
become more and more prevalent in the
42:17
crypto world.
42:19
So, uh, all I can say is just wait and
42:22
see what develops and, uh, if we get
42:25
something that we believe is
42:28
good enough to present, we will do that.
42:33
Michelle, why
42:36
why as such ominous beings like
42:39
reptilian
42:40
when there are stories of both positive
42:42
and negative interactions?
42:47
I don't know how to answer that one
42:49
either. Honestly, I um
42:53
you know, the reptilian interactions and
42:56
I know Michelle has been
42:59
she's an experiencer with this. Um
43:06
very rarely we get a positive
43:07
interaction, but it's not as bad as some
43:11
people make it out to be. Now I I go
43:14
back to David Ehart
43:16
and his interaction with the um the
43:19
reptilian that was assigned to him to
43:22
show him the underground areas and and
43:24
come through the portals through his
43:26
home and such.
43:30
It it was a tense
43:33
encounter every time. I mean this thing
43:36
literally told David that he didn't like
43:38
him that he didn't like humans. But he
43:41
was instructed to show him around and to
43:44
escort him to certain areas and show him
43:46
certain things. Now, I guess you can
43:49
take that any way you want to. Uh,
43:53
occasionally we will get a a positive
43:56
type of interaction, but it's it is
43:59
rare.
44:01
So, uh, you did hear one tonight. So,
44:04
there you go.
44:12
BB Moa Michelle.
44:14
The person's vibe when meeting the being
44:16
or cryptids may determine the outcome of
44:20
the interaction. I guess that could be I
44:23
I guess [laughter]
44:25
I guess if they've got a respectful
44:28
manner to them, they will treat you as
44:30
you treated them instead of a human
44:32
screaming and trying to get away and
44:34
fighting off and such. I don't know.
44:37
But honestly, most of the reptilian
44:39
accounts that I I I hear of involve
44:42
either abductions.
44:44
Very rarely is it something other than
44:46
abduction scenario and most times there
44:49
are other beings around them. Now,
44:52
um, again, I go back to David and what
44:55
he had described me over the years that,
44:58
um,
45:01
they, the reptilians seem to be
45:04
overlords to a lot of different other
45:06
species, even including humans. And if
45:09
you read my book, it's in there that
45:12
where they kept other alien beings,
45:16
other species of creatures and such as
45:19
slaves. or to do manual work for them.
45:23
Um, even David told me that they use
45:25
some of them for food. I don't know how
45:27
true that is, but he saw a lot of
45:30
different things that I do have
45:32
described in the book. I mean,
45:34
especially when they did experimentation
45:36
and did disposal of human bodies.
45:40
Uh, that might sound a bit forward, but
45:43
uh, that's what I have been told. And
45:45
he's not the only one to tell me that.
45:51
Michelle, do you think their angelic or
45:54
human form with wings at the University
45:56
of Alabama could have been a demonic
45:59
being or some sort or do you think it
46:01
was a Mo Man sighting? That's hard
46:04
[snorts] to tell. It could I guess it
46:06
could have been a Mo Man sighting. You
46:08
know, the red eyes is usually associated
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with the moth man. But again, again, you
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know, you hear people talk about
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supposed demonic beings who have red
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eyes as well.
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Uh, you know, many times people describe
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the demons as uh being winged or some
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type of drago type creature.
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I don't know. It I I guess it could have
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been. Um, it seemed a little more
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malevolent than just seeing a moth man
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or a normal or regular normal. Normal is
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not the right word. Another winged
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humanoid
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uh that was being seen. So I I I really
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don't I really don't know. Um but I
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guess it could be
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can of all the paranormal if all of the
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paranormal is connected or a different
47:05
manifestation of the same thing. a
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trickster spirit per se. What do you
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think
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this the is the aim or reason the
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trickster spirit interacts with humans?
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Well,
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I guess that's pretty subjective. I I
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don't know. Um
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we thought, you know, f when we first
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had the um encounters reported in in
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Chicago in the Chicagoland area, we
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didn't know what we were dealing with.
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We didn't know if we were dealing
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malevolent beings or
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beings that just showed up
47:42
for a non-specific reason. I mean, it
47:45
every every instance it seemed like
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these things wanted to be seen. They
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wanted to be recognized, but they only
47:51
did it for brief periods of time.
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Uh
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some people took some encounters as
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confrontational.
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very rarely was it um an attack type
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thing.
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You know, I wish I wish I I could come
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up with more explanation of that
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phenomena. I mean, God, we looked into
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it for almost 14 15 years, and we we
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still just don't understand why they
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showed up. And of course, now we're not
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getting reports uh like we did then. We
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could get one occasionally, but
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it just seems like the oddball that
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comes up once in a while. So, it's, you
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know, hopefully
48:35
these things will show up in other
48:37
places at some point where we can get a
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little more information. I mean, the
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Chicago sightings were very interesting,
48:45
but we just don't know what we're
48:46
dealing with or we're dealing with. You
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know, I get a we get a lot of um winged
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humanoid sightings in other places as
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well.
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And many times it's very similar to what
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had happened in Chicago, but
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there's no defining reason for any of
49:05
the uh any of the encounters.
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Um we even asked we even asked our
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witnesses that why do you think it was
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why do you think it showed up? Is there
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something that you had done in a
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previously that may have caused this
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thing to either look for you or to be in
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your presence? Could they sense
49:26
something? Did you sense something? Did
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you draw it to you somehow?
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We just really haven't had any inkling
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as to why those happen. Um
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unfortunately you know many times we
49:44
just can't come up with all the answers
49:46
and you know we we speculate
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you know that's just human nature and we
49:52
try to find reasons why these things
49:55
happen
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but for the most part it's it's just
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something that you know we speculate on.
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So um I don't know. I I I I can't really
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tell you why they show up the way they
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do and what their intentions are. Do I
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think they have an agenda? I would think
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so, but I don't know exactly what it is.
50:18
So, um and they're not coming forward
50:20
and telling this. So, uh they gave us no
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indication as to why
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they did show up, not only in Chicago,
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but in other places as well.
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Anything
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else, folks?
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Okay. Well, I want to thank you again
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for joining me this evening. I'm
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grateful for your continued interest and
50:51
support of this channel. So until the
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next time, please remain observant,
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trust your instincts,
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and please remember that the world
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around us may be far stranger than we've
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any of us have been led to believe. So
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until next week, have a nice evening,
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have a great weekend, see you next
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Friday, and good night.
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