Darkcast Network Presents: Wicked Intentions-Monster Mash

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Hello everyone, and welcome to Wicked
Week here at dark Cast Network. I'm

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Jackie Morante, host and producer of
Cause of Death one hundred seconds to midnight,

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and I'm going to be your host
for today's episode of dark Cast Network's

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Wicked Week. As sure as coffee
shops are serving up some punkin spice everything

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dark Cast Network loves spooky season.
The topic today is monster mash stories of

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cryptids. So grab someone to cuddle
up with and take a listen. We're

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going to get into the most relatable
cryptid. You know, I don't know

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I really relate with this guy.
You know, I get it, Squank,

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I do not relate. You do
not relate. You never felt self

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conscious? I mean maybe a little, but not really. No, maybe

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like when I was a teenager when
everybody does well anyway, everybody but Jordan

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at some point has everybody if we're
at some point just to the extent of

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this guy. Okay, he is
a little dramatic. I guess everyone's felt

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a little self conscious about the way
they look, but the Squank takes it

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to the next level. The Squonk
is a folkloric creature said to live in

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the hemlock forest of northern Pennsylvania,
damn well. Hemlock. Legends of squanks

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originated in the late nineteenth century,
during a period of Pennsylvania's history when timber

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and hunting industries were of the utmost
importance. The legend states that a creature's

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skin is loose and ill fitting and
covered in warts and moles. I mean,

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I don't know. Sometimes I look
in the mirror and I'm like,

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so this is thirty seven, Like
I get just I get it. My

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skin's getting loose. I'm telling you
right now, you can't avoid it.

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It's good. The alternative is death. That's true. That's true. I'm

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found. Yeah, it's fine to
be a little squonkish. Sometimes the thing

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that isn't fine is how the squonk
handles his outward appearance. Because I'd venture

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to guess that the squonk is a
really nice dude. Like I think they're

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really nice. Sounds great personality,
Yeah, and like just they don't even

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give themselves a chance. They don't
even try. No. Well. The

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first written account of the squonk was
from the nineteen to ten book Fearsome Creatures

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of the lumber Woods by William T. Cox. Good Old Billy tacocks.

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The book states the squonk is a
very retiring disposition, generally traveling about at

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twilight and dusk. Because of its
misfitting skin, which is covered in warts

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and moles, it is always unhappy. Hunters who are hunters who are good

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at tracking are able to follow a
squonk by its tear stained trail. For

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the animal weeps constantly, like you
know, I've been there, and well,

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see, I feel like you're relating
a little bit more. It's a

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snail trail of tears that you leave. Oh gross. Well, anyways,

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when cornered an escape seems impossible,
or when surprised and frightened, it may

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even dissolve itself into tears. Same. See, that's sad, so sad.

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We should be that sad. I'll
be happy, be happy. But

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he gets surprised and frightened and he
doesn't. He hasn't been given the tools.

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Okay, like I see a therapist, I take medication, I stay

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hydrated, gopher walks every day.
The squawk's not doing these things. He

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doesn't know how to be proactive.
No, he only goes out at not

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that this really detrimental self image because
he's not giving himself. A chance is

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the problem, that's right. And
sunlight makes you happy, it does,

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it does, bottom and d and
he only comes out at night. So

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well, there you go, I
know, hanging out with Spicy Michayla,

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Saucy Mile and all the other nocturnal
critters. That's right. I guess they

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don't really need sunlight. Huh.
I guess not. They're nocturnal critters like

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me. Wow, they need the
moonlight. Later, Retelling is elaborate a

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little more, saying that squanks traveled
slowest or not at all on moonlit nights

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to avoid catching a glimpse of their
ugly reflection illuminated in a body of water.

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Those poor things. You shouldn't feel
so bad about yourself. Be proud

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of who you are, right,
Like, I might see myself and then

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I'll fucking die because I'll just melt
into my own tears. Like what a

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Come on, guys, find some
therapy. Talk it out, you know,

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take an inventory of like the people
and squanks who love you, right,

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what about them? What about them? If you're a squank out there

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and you're listening to this and you're
like afraid, right us? Creepytop is

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at Gmail dot com. Let us
know we reach out. We'd love to

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hear from you. We'll tell you
you're pretty. Yeah, you're you're beautiful.

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Hunter is looking to catch one of
these guys supposedly have their best shot

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on frosty moonlit nights, although it's
probably not super difficult since most accounts describe

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them as slow and kind of dumb. Bomp boom, oh, these poor

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little guys. And despite them being
kind of slow and kind of dumb and

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kind of ugly and warty and you
know, sloppy, they're notoriously difficult to

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claim as a hunting prize, so
they're hard to catch. Multiple accounts,

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however, tell of individuals who have
successfully caught one, and then they check

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their sacks. Later, their little
squawk kidnapping sack. You know, they

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find out that the squonk cried so
hard that it blubbered itself into a pubble,

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a puddle, a pubble, blubbered
into a pubble. It cried itself

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to damn old just wetness. Yeah
okay, and I don't imagine that it

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comes back from that, no,
but essentially sacrifices itself whenever it gets scared.

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It's like, fuck it I'm done
and like cries till it dies.

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Oh and then you can't prove that
you had it, no, because you

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just have a wet ass sack.
Wow, that's sad. I had a

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context. That is such a weird
thing. If someone ever brings you just

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a wet sack, you know what
it was. It was a squawk,

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It surely was. It was a
squawk. Well, if you feel like

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celebrating these ugly depressed little creatures,
you can. Every August in Johnstown,

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Pennsylvania, hans Slavonia, there is
a big festival to honor the Squonk.

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Squanka Palooza is an all ages festival
celebrating the squonk and other creatures of Appalachian

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folklore and cryptozoology. That's pretty rad. Poor little guy O. I know,

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I just kind of feel back for
him. I know me too.

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I love him so much though,
yeah, he like I just I want

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to check in on him, Like
I really want to go like find all

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the squanks and just be like,
hey, friend, eh, don't be

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so sad, don't be so self
conscious. You know guys, all you

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squawks look the same. Yeah,
I want to use prettier than the other

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whatever band together that's right. I'm
sure in a group they are formidable.

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See, I mean there's power in
numbers. Go on, there surely is,

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yes, And you know, if
you're a human listening to this,

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don't go get a squonk kidnapping sack
like that's horrible. Don't don't put a

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squonk in it. Like if you
see one, if you're lucky enough to

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see one, just a document that
you saw it, observe it from afar.

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Tell it it's beautiful. Yeah,
to it and be like, hey,

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he's sexy. What up? What
you're doing? Later? I really

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like your style? Maybe not that, And the squank is like, yeah,

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you want to watch Netflix in my
place later? I don't know.

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He probably just start crolling. Well, you're not gonna watch anything sad with

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him. You gotta watch like,
I don't know, a comedy. Okay.

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Well, clearly he experiences emotions very
like deeply and passionately. So I

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feel like the squank would actually be
a great lover, might be the best

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out of all the cryptids. You
went away off base with this. Well,

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I'm just saying that he feels emotions
very deeply. I'm yeahs saying sex,

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you creep I mean like a paramour, like a partner, like somebody

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who you could you're the one who
just made it sex. I'm not talking

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about fucking a squawk. I'm talking
about having one as a partner I love

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so deeply. They'd take good carrier
of feelings in your heart because they're so

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sensitive themselves. They would have that
empathy. They'd be like, well,

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I don't want to hurt your feelings
because you might, you know, cry

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yourself into a puddle. I understand
what you're saying. However, the original

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phrasing by calling them a lover.
Sorry, I thought we weren't doing phrasing

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anymore. Hi. I'm Milana,
I'm Kelsey, and we're from Castles and

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Cryptids, and today I'm going to
tell Kelsey all about the Scottish cryptid called

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the knucklebe H. Very excited.
I have to say, this is one

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of my favorite cryptids I've ever come
across. It's just a super metal looking

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It's yeah, it's really cool and
creepy. It's from I think it's called

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Orcadian folklore, which means it's from
the Orkneys, which it is. The

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Orkneys are islands off the northern coast
of Scotland, so it's like in these

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remote islands, but it lives in
the salt water, the cold Atlantic salt

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water, and its name is said
to mean devil of the sea. Oh

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yeah, that's kind of cool.
And this devil of the sea is a

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later corruption of the Orcadian name.
I think it's knuckle v just by how

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it's spelled. But it's like with
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which looks more like knuckle right knuckle. Yeah, I can see why it

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would involve knuckles. It's very creepy. I don't yes, so I will

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describe it in just a moment for
you guys to get a good picture.

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In summer months, it's kept at
bay like literally by this goddess known as

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Mither of the sea, so like
mother of the sea. And it has

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toxic breath that can wither crops,
cause drought and even disease and plague in

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livestock and humans. The only defense
against them really is their hatred of one

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specific smell, which is the smell
of burning seaweed to create help. Oh

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that's what it hates. Weird.
So yes, they could be said to

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resemble a sort of you might say, a headless Horseman if maybe instead of

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it being headless, it was skinless
and had a grotesque head, and the

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horse head also had one giant,
single red eye. Yeah, it reminds

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me of the I don't know if
it ever went into the US. It

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was a big thing in Canada here
for a long time, the Body Worlds

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exhibit that would go around and that
showed like human musculature and ligaments and everything,

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and then they also had animals,
like horses just like this that you

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could see basically what they would look
like without skin. I didn't know they

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had horses. Yeah, I remember
them having a horse, and I think

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maybe a couple other animals, not
too many, but very creepy. We

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donated bodies, which is also pretty
grotesque. Yeah, so most of the

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stuff what it actually is, I
guess they do like cross sections. Those

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are the real bodies, But everything
else that's on display is models that they

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took. So they would have like
a body donated, they would do whatever

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they needed to, like probably skin
it and like do that kind of stuff,

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and then they would take mole and
then they would make them like out

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of that would Yeah. Yeah,
so some of it, some of it

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is bodies. The rest of it
is like molds of bodies that were made

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from bodies that were like donated,
I guess. But yeah, it's still

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very creepy. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, that's this very much as

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that. Look it's just missing the
skin. It's got all the muscles,

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everything, so creepy physical. Here's
a description from a site all about the

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folklore of the Orkney Islands, and
it says, from the few recorded descriptions

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of the Knuckleave, we learned that
his head was similar to that of a

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man, only ten times larger.
He had an incredibly wide mouth that jutted

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out like a pig snout, and
a single red eye that burned with a

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red flame. Hairless. His body
was also skinless, its entire surface appearing

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like raw and living flesh. It
was said that his thick black blood could

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be seen coursing through his veins as
his sinewy muscles writhed with every movement he

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made. His long ape like arms
hung down to the ground, and from

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his gaping mouth spewed a foul,
black reek. Gross. Yeah, I

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see the knuckles dragging on the ground. I mean, of course, this

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is the place in the world,
like you know, Celtic folklores where like

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Halloween was berthed from because like there, Yeah, DIDs are just so extra.

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They are always like horse creatures that
can kill you and are super awful.

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Yeah yeah, and it just concluded
with all and all, not a

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pleasant sight to encounter on some lonely
stretch of coastline. So yeah, if

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it's not clear, the creature is
like merged at the point of its joining,

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like sort of a Siamese twin.
I don't know, I didn't notice

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that at first. I thought it
did have legs and still looked like a

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person with long arms sitting on a
horse. But I realized after no,

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he doesn't have legs. He's just
a torso with arms and a head on

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the back of a horse. Yeah, so like almost like a centaur.

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But no, it's kind of just
like a man's so jetting out from the

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back of a horse. Yeah,
it's grezzy. Some Yeah, some sources

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says he's a large head on two
small arms. I don't know if that

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means he has no torso, but
that sounds even worse. Yeah. So

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yeah. The only thing they hate
really is that seaweed. That's the one

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thing you can do to kind of
get rid of them, and they would

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always gather the seaweed from the shores
and lay it up to dry above the

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high water mark, and then they
would like burn it in stone line hits

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until landed it with this white powderly
kelp, and it's ash was always rich

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in nutrients and used as fertilizers,
so that's probably why they were burning it.

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But also the Folkalo said that he
hated the smell of this burning it,

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and he becomes so enraged if he
smells it, and he takes out

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his wrath on whole herds of cattle. Either herds of cattle or the horses

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of Stronse seemed to be his two
particular targets. Yeah, like those horses

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in particular, he's like, fuck
you. So and Stronse happened to be

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the island where Kelp had first been
burned in the Orkneys, so that may

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be why. And then when kelp
was burned anywhere in the Orkneyes, the

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horses on Stanse would be afflicted with
a strange disease called mortachine from there where

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it would spread all through the aisles. So that kind of sucks. But

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there's one more thing that it hates. Actually, you have one more trick

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up your sleeve. It hates fresh
water. Okay, I guess, I

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guess because it lives in saltwater.
You know. Fresh water is like it's

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kryptonite. Weird. Yeah, so
you can definitely use this to your advantage.

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Some advice. If one is chasing
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much like some vampire war I think
it's it's just unable to follow you across

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the oh. Okay, yeah,
you can't go across like still water or

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moving water. Sometimes there's running water, I think. Yeah. Yeah,

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and it's incapable of being on land
at all when it's raining. So like,

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go and jump in those puddles because
you're safe when there's fresh water coming

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from the sky. Okay. But
yeah, definitely those are that's good to

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keep in mind because they are totally
evil and malevolent. They're not your tricksters.

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They exists simply to plague the lives
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area. And it said were it
not for a mither of the sea in

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the summer and like the rains in
the winter, that they would have been

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driven out of the land long ago. Wow. Yeah, This is a

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story called Tamas and the knuckleavy.
So it goes like this, Tamas like

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his namesake Tam o' shanter, which
is from a poem called Tam Shanter by

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Robert Burns about a dude named Tam
who meets a coven of witches. So

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that's pretty cool too, Yeah,
Scottish poets, I mean all right.

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Tamas like his namesake Tama Shanter,
was out late one night. It was,

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though moonless, a fine starlit night. Tamas's Tamas's road lay close by

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the seashore, and as he entered
a part of the road that was hemmed

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in on one side by the sea
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water lock, he saw some huge
object object in front of and moving towards

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him. What was he to do? He was sure it was no earthly

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thing that was steadily coming towards him. He could not go to either side,

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and to turn his back to an
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the most dangerous position of all.
So Tammy said to himself, the Lord

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be a boot me and take care
of me as I moved on no evil

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intent this night. Tammy was always
regarded as rough and fool hardy. Anyway,

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he determined as the best of two
evils to face the foe, and

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so walked resolutely yet slowly forward.
He soon discovered, to his horror that

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the gruesome creature approaching him was none
other than the dreaded Knucklevy, the most

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cruel and malignant of all uncanny beings
that trouble mankind. The lower part of

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this terrible monster, as seen by
Tammy, was like a great horse,

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with flappers like fins about its legs, with a mouth as wide as a

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whale's, from which came breath like
steam from a brewing kettle. He had

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but one eye, and that as
red as fire. On him, sat,

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or rather seemed to grow from his
back a huge man with no legs

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and arms that reached nearly to the
ground. His head was as big as

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a clew of simmons. Don't know
what that means, sorry, And this

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head, huge head, kept rolling
from one shoulder to the other, as

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if it meant to tumble off.
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all was that the monster was skinless. This utter want of skin adding much

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to the terrific appearance of the creature's
naked body. The whole surface of its

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showing only red raw flesh, in
which Tammy saw blood black as tar,

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running through yellow veins, and great
white sinews thick as horse tethers, twisting,

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stretching, and contracting as the monster
moved. Tammy went slowly on in

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mortal terror, his hair on end, a cold sensation like a film of

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ice between his scalp and his skull, and a cold sweat bursting from every

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port. But he knew it was
useless to flee, and he said,

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if he had to die, he
would rather see who killed him than die

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with his back to the foe and
all his terror. Tammy remembered what he

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had heard of Nucklavie's dislike of fresh
water, and therefore took that side of

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the road nearest to the lock.
The awful moment came when the lower head

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of the monster got abreast of Tammy. The mouth of the monster yawned like

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a bottomless pit. Tammy found its
hot, breath like fire on his face.

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The long arms were stretched out to
seize the unhappy man. To avoid,

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if possible, the monster's clutch,
Tammy swerved as near he could to

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the lock, and doing so,
one of his feet went into the lock,

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splashing up some water on the fore
leg of the monster whereat. The

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horse gave a snort like thunder and
shied over to the other side of the

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road, and Tammy felt the wind
of Knucklevy's clutches as he narrowly escaped the

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monster's grip. Tammy saw his opportunity
and ran with all his might and sore

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need had he to run, for
Knuckleavy had turned and was galloping after him

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and bellowing with a sound like the
roaring of the sea. In front of

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Tammy lay a rivulete through which the
surplus water of the lock found its way

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to the sea, and Tammy knew
if he could only cross the running water

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he was safe, so he strained
every nerve. As he reached the near

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bank, another clutch was made at
him by the long arms. Tammy made

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a desperate spring and reached the other
side, leaving his bonnet in the monster's

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clutches. Knucklevy gave a wild,
unearthly yell of disappointed rage as Tammy fell

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senseless on the safe side of the
water, and the tail of Tamis and

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the Knucklavy escape narrow escape. There
right at the end, narrowly escaped the

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Knucklevy. Yeah, he shit in
my pants. Yeah it looks really creepy.

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I don't like it. Yeah,
it's definitely worthy of the castle's encryptids.

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Good name, yes, for sure, all right, and hopefully worthy

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of this lovely Halloween Halloween episode.
So catch you next time. Keep a

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cryptic Thanks for listening. Bye Halloween. It's right on the corner, and

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by that I mean tomorrow, spooky
friend. I'm Keeley, the host of

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Missy Mysteries podcast. It's a podcast
that covers both true crime and panormal topics,

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focusing on historical and unsolved crimes,
and today, on Halloween Eve,

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I am helping feel this monster filled
episode with the Californian creature, the Fresno

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Nightcrawler. Jumping back to November fifth, two thousand and seven, a man

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in Josse had just had a awful
experience with people stealing items from his property.

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In order to get some comfort and
hopefully catch the people if they come

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back, he had set up cameras. One camera was in the driveway and

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the other was near his front door. Being an older surveillance system, it

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would record directly to a VHS system
connected to a monitor near Jose's bed.

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On the night of November fifth,
Jose's dog started to bark at something in

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the front yard on edge from the
thefts. He took the opportunity to use

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his new system and rushed to his
room to see what was happening in his

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front yard. This is when he
witnessed an odd creature moving across his front

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yard. The creature was short at
only three foot nine inches, and most

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of its body was made up of
leg with no visible head or arms.

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It was extremely thin and wobbly.
To me, it looked like a pair

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of walking, white, stretchy highwaysted
bell bottoms. It also reminds me a

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bit of art from Monsters University,
the Purple Fuzzy leg Monster, or most

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recently, people have found that the
creature is similar to the characters from the

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among Us game. Jose, who
was seeing this creature in real time,

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was so confused by what he just
saw he ran to wake his sleeping brother

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so he could see it too.
Jose's brother tried looking out the front curtains

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but didn't see anything. Together,
they woke up the rest of his family

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to review what Jose just saw on
the surveillance system, and because they knew

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they would lose this. When they
went back, Jose pulled out a camera

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to record the screen, and this
is when they all saw what he had

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just saw, a strange creature we
now know as a Fresno nightcrawler walking across

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the front yard. A paranormal investigator, Victor Gomacho, who first took on

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this case, claims that the night
this happened, Jose's brother went outside and

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found a small footprint on the tile
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Jose was terrified after seeing what he
saw for two weeks after, he

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refused to leave his home. In
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his family contacted a local Spanish speaking
TV station called Univision to help get

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some answers. This station then contacted
Victor Camacho, a paranormal investigator and host

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of a Spanish speaking paranormal radio show
that talked about paranormal encounters in crippets in

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Mexico and America called Los Disbelatos in
December of two thousand and seven. The

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station was hoping Victor could help them
turn this footage into an alien story,

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but unfortunately the initial footage was just
too bad. Of equality and nothing could

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be done till February of two thousand
and eight, when Jose was finally ready

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to talk about what he experienced.
After Jose reached out, Victor was able

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to come to Jose's home where he
was able to talk to the neighbors and

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his family. He was able to
get it interview with Jose and the family

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members that were involved in this sighting. He was even able to bring in

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a team who was able to recover
the original video from Jose's direct system,

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which is a video we can see
today and obviously throughout the time others have

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tried to improve its quality, so
there are many other videos out there.

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After his experiences with Jose and his
family, Victor felt like he could say

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this was a real encounter Jose had. Sadly, Jose passed away in a

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car accident by the time Victor tried
to reach out again to revisit the encounter,

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but the claims in the footage of
the Fresnel Nightcrawler has not stopped.

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Only a short time later, in
twenty eleven, security at Yosemite National Park

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in sold cameras in an effort to
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Instead, of vandals, though the
security cameras picked up on some of

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the best footage we have of the
Fresno Nightcrawlers. In this video, there

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are two of these nightcrawlers walking across
the park, but unlike Hosea's Nightcrawlers,

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these Nightcrawlers looked almost as if they
were drunk people trying to get home from

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the bar, just trying not to
fall with every single step they took.

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Since two thousand and seven and twenty
eleven, many have claimed to have encounters

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with Fresno Nightcrawlers, some even saying
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In twenty seventeen, a man in
Poland claimed to have an encounter with the

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nightcrawler, and in twenty twenty a
couple in Billings, Montana, release footage

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from their homes camera. But these
claims don't seem to be as valid as

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the original two videos, and they
are often ignored by fans of the Fresno

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Nightcrawlers. Since the original video took
over the Internet, paranormal shows, and

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even the news, the night Crawlers
have become a beloved cryptid of California,

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so beloved that you can find plushies
of Freso nightcrawlers little trinkets and clothes with

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pictures of them. They have also
been depicted in horror games and the subjects

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of heavy investigations from those trying to
find out if the cryptids are a hooz.

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Before I leave you to hear about
other creepy monsters, just a few

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things people believe the Froso nightcrawler may
be is a new species of primates,

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deers standing on their two hoofs,
actual pants on a wire, a bird

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like a crane just walking, a
person walking in big pants and a stilt.

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But my favorite as a believer is
that they are cute but also creepy

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aliens. And if we're getting spooky
for Halloween, who doesn't love a good

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alien encounter sub creeps. This is
Noel, the resident Weirdo Wisconsinine of Creepy

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Confidential. I open case files on
my favorite cryptids, cults, conspiracies,

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and other worldly creepy Join me today
as I take you on a journey of

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one of the most famous and sometimes
feared cryptids of the world. Mothman.

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November sixteenth, nineteen sixty six,
point Pleasant West, Virginia. Roger and

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Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Malette
are out cruising in Roger's black nineteen fifty

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seven Chevy to a location known as
the TNT Area. This area is a

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local hangout spot and a place known
for people to drag, race and show

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off their cars. The two couples
are driving along next to the North Power

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Plant when all of the sudden,
they noticed two bright, glowing red eyes

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that reflect in the car's headlights.
It was then that they noticed these glowing

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red orbs belonged to a creature.
A tall, winged, manlike humanoid creature

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appears to be moving around the side
of the building. The creature appears to

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be wobbling, but not running,
around the building's perimeter. Linda would later

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describe the body as six to seven
feet tall, half man, half creature

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with muscular legs. The creature also
appeared to have large wings tucked behind its

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back. Frightened, they take off
towards Route sixty two, Linda shouting from

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the back to hurry, Roger accelerates
around the bend. They all look up

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just in time to see the winged
creature by a large billboard as it spreads

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its wings and takes off straight into
the air, completely terrified. They are

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all screaming at each other faster faster
as they see the creature come into focus,

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swooping and swaying through the back window
behind the roaring Chevy. As they

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accelerate down the dirt road. They
accelerate to speeds of over one hundred miles

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per hour and may could not outrun
it. They hear the sound of wings

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scraping on the metal as they drive
as fast as they can down the dirt

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road. Mary would later state she
could hear sounds resembling a mouse squeaking during

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the encounter. Eventually, they sped
away from this creature as they reached the

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end of Point Pleasant. Suddenly,
the creature disappears into a field as they

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flee into town. When they reached
town, they stopped at a local convenience

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store, trying to laugh off what
had happened, but Linda suggested that they

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go to the police. A brief
thought was to return to the site to

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see if the creature was still there. However, with much too collective fear,

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they decided not to go back.
They drove back into town and gave

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their story to the local sheriff.
At first, the sheriff didn't believe them,

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but he knew that they weren't trouble
makers. He took their story down,

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and then they all went back out
to the TNT area together. The

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story goes that while they found no
mothman, the sheriff did hear odd sounds

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and strange static disturbances coming from his
police radio. The witnesses said they saw

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circling shadows and a cloud of dust
kick up in the adjacent coal yard.

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Too scared to go home, they
all stayed in Scarberry's trailer that night,

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lights on, and no sleep was
had by not a single person in the

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party. The next day, the
sheriff held a press conference and the paper

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started to print their stories. Two
local newspapers published the first major headlines.

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The first headline read couple see man
sized bird creature something, while another local

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headline read winged, red eyed thing
chases point couples across countryside. The publication

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would become the start of one of
West Virginia's most well known cryptids, in

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fact, one of the most recognizable
cryptids of the United States, Mothman.

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What's wild is this incredible instance with
the racing fifty seven Chevy is not the

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00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:15.240
first sighting of the famous mothman three
days earlier. On November twelfth, nineteen

402
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sixty six, in Clindenon, West
Virginia, near the Elk River trail,

403
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:25.160
Kenneth Duncan was digging a grave for
his father in law with four other individuals.

404
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.359
While digging, they spotted something strange. Glancing up from their work,

405
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:37.839
they noticed something huge soaring over their
heads. A human like figure flew out

406
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:45.160
of some surrounding woods and glided over
their heads. We need to discuss this

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00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:51.519
TNT area in Point Pleasant, West
Virginia. The area was originally used for

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00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:57.400
making ammunition during World War Two.
By the sixties it was just an abandoned

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00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:04.039
area. However, these contaminants were
seeping into the ground. Not only that,

410
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:10.719
but an abandoned power plant was also
nearby. Additionally, noteworthy is that

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00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:17.400
in nineteen seventy nine, the Wildlife
Area fishermen reported red water seepage at the

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00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:24.440
site of the residual contaminants from the
TNT and DNT areas. Could it be

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00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:30.599
that this once toxic area became abandoned
and then fueled by the energy produced by

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00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:37.800
a local power plant, could have
created this creature. Time marched forward from

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00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:45.199
the initial sighting. November fifteenth,
nineteen sixty seven, tragedy strikes again in

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00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:52.360
Point Pleasant. The Silver Bridge collapsed
under the weight of rush hour traffic going

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00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:58.519
over the Ohio River. Forty six
people died that day and two people were

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00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:04.199
never found. The collapse was caused
by the failure of a single eyebar in

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00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:10.440
the suspension chain. Some say on
the Faithful Day mothman was spotted near by.

420
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:17.119
The speculation is that he was either
a harbinger of impending death or that

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00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:22.480
he caused the collapse. Also something
to note was on that day. Prior

422
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:30.280
to the incident, paranormal activity apparently
spiked potential UFO sightings, and an individual

423
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:36.480
now known as Injured Cold a k
a. The Smiling Man appeared for the

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00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:44.679
first time in noted history. Poltergeiss
and bizarre light phenomenon also happened right before

425
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:50.599
the bridge collapsed. Was he a
warning or the cause? Since the chase

426
00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:54.320
in the nineteen fifty seven Chevy,
there have been many other sightings that should

427
00:35:54.320 --> 00:36:00.679
be noted. He has been spotted
before Chernobyl, the nine to eleven tragedy,

428
00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:07.280
the Interstate bridge collapse in Minnesota,
and before the swine flew outbreak in

429
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:14.760
Mexico. Next time you are exploring
the wondrous woods of West Virginia, if

430
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:19.519
you see a pair of glowing red
eyes in the forests, it might just

431
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:24.400
be the Great Mothman. Hi,
guys, I'm Courtney, host of the

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00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:30.119
Book of the Dead podcast, a
true crime podcast that focuses on lesser known

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00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.679
crimes. Today, I have for
you a different story, a legend that

434
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:38.239
has endured in New Jersey for hundreds
of years, A story that some believe

435
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:45.800
is pure fact and others believe is
pure fiction. This is the story of

436
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:52.039
the Jersey Devil. According to legend, in seventeen thirty five, a Pines

437
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:58.000
resident known as Mother Leeds found herself
pregnant for the thirteenth time. The Leeds

438
00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:04.000
family was not a wealthy family,
exacerbated by the fact that Mother Leeds's husband

439
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:08.599
was a known alcoholic and drank the
family's money away. Pushed to the point

440
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:15.159
of exasperation to be found pregnant again, she cursed this child to the heavens,

441
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:21.840
proclaiming let this one be a devil. Mother Leads would soon forget about

442
00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:24.440
the curse she placed upon her child, but the powers that be did not.

443
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.679
Mother Leads finally went into labor a
few months later on a very very

444
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:37.800
stormy night with tumultuous, tumultuous weather. Her children and her husband secluded themselves

445
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.519
in a separate room, giving her
privacy as she labored with her midwives.

446
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:45.800
According to legend, the birth went
smoothly and she delivered a happy, healthy

447
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:51.920
baby. But things would not stay
like that. Within minutes of being born,

448
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:57.920
Mother leeds wish came to fruition.
The baby started to change, morphing

449
00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:02.719
into an abomination straight from the depths
of hell. The crying baby began growing

450
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:09.159
at an alarming rate. Horns grew
from its head, talon like claws burst

451
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:15.760
from the tips of its fingers,
leathery wings sprang from his back, and

452
00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:22.920
thick black hair and feathers consumed his
body. Its eyes glowed red, and

453
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:28.480
this monstrous creature's head began to change
into that of a horse. His legs

454
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:34.239
elongated and grew hoofs, and once
the transformation was complete, this monstrous being

455
00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:38.639
savagely attacked his own mother, then
turned its attention to the rest of the

456
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:46.480
horrified horrified midwives and attacked them as
well, leaving no survivors. The monster

457
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:51.239
burst through the door of the next
room, where its own father and siblings

458
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.400
were, and to their horror,
it attacked them as well, maiming some

459
00:38:55.000 --> 00:39:02.000
killing others, before letting out a
terrifying cry and flying up into the chimney.

460
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.519
It destroyed everything in its wake,
leaving a pile of destruction. It

461
00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:13.920
destroyed everything in its wake as it
made its escape, terrifying the residence of

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00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:17.920
the Pine baron that managed to escape. To this day, the creature,

463
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:22.760
that has gone by different names over
the years, such as the Leads Devil

464
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:29.559
and the Jersey Devil, claims the
Pine Barrens as its own and terrorizes anybody

465
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:37.320
who was unfortunate enough to cross its
path. Since the eighteenth century, residents

466
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:44.880
have reported unearthly whales emanating from the
forests and bogs, and how their farm

467
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:49.960
animals would be left slaughtered in the
morning with no apparent cause. Some say

468
00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:55.119
the Jersey Devil's reach is even farther
than the Pine Barrens, with reports of

469
00:39:55.159 --> 00:40:01.000
attacks in Camden and Philadelphia, and
even as as recently is the nineteen hundreds.

470
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:07.199
Residents from all over have reported seeing
this terrifying creature, with it allegedly

471
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:15.039
going on a rampage in January of
nineteen oh nine, but since that rampage

472
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.559
no one has reported seeing it since, at least not to that degree.

473
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:23.039
But the tale of the Jersey Devil
has spread beyond the Pine barrens and has

474
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:29.719
been embraced by all of New Jersey
as the stuff of legend. Some say

475
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:34.880
that the Jersey Devil is very,
very real and very dangerous, and there

476
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:38.360
have been reports over the years of
encounters with the devil. Some say that

477
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:44.440
they have found strange tracks in the
sandy soil the pine barrens. Some say

478
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:46.960
that they are the footprints of a
strange bird, or possibly that of a

479
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:52.039
horse that walks on two legs,
And every once in a while there will

480
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:55.519
be a report of a sighting the
Jersey Devil. Some say now that it

481
00:40:55.559 --> 00:41:00.760
has the body of a kangaroo,
the head of a dog, the face

482
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:07.559
of a horse, massive leathery wings, deer like antlers, and a reptilian

483
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.519
tale with intimidating cross But whether or
not these reports are true doesn't matter,

484
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.480
because if the Devil is real,
one thing is for certain. The devil

485
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:23.039
lurks in New Jersey and it is
here to stay. Hey, Hey,

486
00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:28.400
this is autumn from Autumn'sodities. Here's
an urban legend that's set right down the

487
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:31.719
road from my house, and it
hits very close to home. If you've

488
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:37.280
listened to My Tales from the podcast
host episode, you will immediately see why

489
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:43.519
the Bluegrass State is big on history, with plenty of local lore and legends

490
00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:46.920
mixed in. One of the most
infamous and chilling legends in Kentucky that has

491
00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:52.360
continued to be passed down through generations
is that of the Pope Lick Monster.

492
00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.440
The Pope Lick Monster, or goat
Man, as he's colloquially referred to,

493
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:02.559
is a beast that's part man,
part goat, and part sheep. Doane

494
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:07.599
that up, but I guess it's
thirds hopefully. He's reported to live beneath

495
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:13.039
a railroad trestle bridge that's over Kentucky's
Pope Lick Creek, a location that's seen

496
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:17.000
more than its fair share of tragedy
throughout the years, just outside Louisville in

497
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:22.480
eastern Jefferson County. That's the county
that I live in. The Norfolk Southern

498
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:27.679
Railroad runs right through the parklands of
Floyd Fork, and it's in this particular

499
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:32.519
stretch of trestle that the pope Lick
Monster is said to reside. In most

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00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:37.679
accounts, the pope Lick Monster,
named obviously after the creek below his little

501
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:43.400
trestle, appears as a human goat
hybrid with a grotesquely deformed body of a

502
00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:49.239
man. It has powerful, fur
covered goat legs, an alabaster skinned face

503
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:54.079
with an aqualine nose, and wide
set eyes. Short sharp horns prue,

504
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:59.639
short sharp horns protrude from its forehead, nestled in some long, greasy hair

505
00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:04.440
that matches the color of the fur
on the legs. Because fashion, it's

506
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.320
called fashion, Brandon, look it
up. Numerous urban legends exist about the

507
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:13.719
creature's origins and the method it employs
to claim its victims. According to some

508
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:19.599
accounts, the creature uses hypnosis or
voice mimicry. I hate that to lure

509
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:24.719
trespassers to the trestle to their death
by oncoming train. Other stories claim the

510
00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:30.199
monster jumps down from the trestle and
onto the roots of passing cars. Please

511
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:35.760
don't like, don't don't involve property. Leave that out of it. Yet.

512
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:39.360
Other legends tell that it attacks its
victims with a blood stained axe.

513
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.000
I haven't heard that one. Actually, that was a new one for me.

514
00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:46.119
It's also been said that the very
sight of the creature is so unsettling

515
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:50.599
that those who see it while walking
across the high trestle, they just go

516
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:52.320
ahead and they jump right off.
They're like, well, I've seen that,

517
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:55.480
and now I gotta go. I
just gotta jump right off this bridge.

518
00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:00.679
Other legends explain the creature's origins,
including that it is indeed a human

519
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:07.639
goat hybrid. It was a circus
break allegedly who vowed revenge after being mistreated.

520
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:12.159
In another version, the creature escaped
after a train derailed on the trestle.

521
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:16.360
This version actually links the Public Monster
to the legend of the Ghost Train,

522
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:22.000
which has also been sighted on the
trestle. Another version claims that the

523
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:28.280
monster is really the twisted reincarnation of
a farmer who sacrificed goats in exchange for

524
00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:31.280
satanic powers. I was gonna say, that's like one of the all time

525
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:36.880
greatest backfires. You're like, I
want some power, like some sweet,

526
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:39.679
sweet power, and the Devil's like, sure, I'll make you powerful,

527
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:44.039
but you gotta be a goat man. Like damn it, I should have

528
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:50.079
been more specific with my wish.
The Public Monster is believed by most to

529
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:53.960
exist in the realm of myth and
legend. I personally know several people who

530
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:58.119
have had encounters with it. I
have not myself, but I also am

531
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:00.760
not going to go down and like
haul it out on its own trestle.

532
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:06.400
You know that's disrespectful, and I
would understand whatever reaction it had. The

533
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:09.960
infamous Popelic train trestle has become a
favorite spot for kids. It's very unfortunate,

534
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:15.079
especially those conducting bravery tests when someone
dares them to climb the trestle,

535
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:22.280
and this has not always ended well
as you can imagine. There's a misconception

536
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:27.159
that the Popelic trestle is abandoned and
no longer in use, when in reality,

537
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:31.679
the bridge carries a major rail artery
into Louisville. Heavy freight trains cross

538
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:37.039
the bridge several times a day,
making it far too easy for someone to

539
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:42.800
get caught atop it while an oncoming
train barrels down. Several people have died

540
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:46.519
on or near the train trestle at
Pope Creek in pursuit of the Popelic Monster

541
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:52.519
legend. In nineteen eighty eight,
seventeen year old Jack JC charles Baum.

542
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:54.960
The second was hit and killed by
a train, and another young man was

543
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.800
injured while trying to cross the trestle. In nineteen ninety four, a man

544
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:04.440
was killed by a train after his
ATV overturned on the trestle, trapping him

545
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.400
on the track. In two thousand, a nineteen year old fell to his

546
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:13.679
death after encountering a train, and
on April twenty third, twenty sixteen,

547
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:17.440
a twenty six year old tourist named
Raquel, she was from Ohio, died

548
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:22.239
after being hit by a train while
searching for the monster, and her boyfriend

549
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:27.480
survived by hanging on the side of
a trestle. And if that wasn't true,

550
00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:30.199
I would be like, that's a
movie that's like gone too far.

551
00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:35.960
On May twenty six, twenty nineteen, Savannah Bright was pronounced dead at the

552
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.840
scene after she and another teenage girl
were on the tracks near the Pope Lick

553
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:45.039
Trestle. Her unidentified companion was taken
to University of Louisville Hospital. The monster

554
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:51.079
was the subject of a nineteen eighty
eight film by Louisville filmmaker Ron Schildneck called

555
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:54.920
The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster. The sixteen Minutes, six thousand dollars

556
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.760
film, It's a decent budget,
premiered on December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty

557
00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:04.320
eight. Most of the film was
shot at the public trestle, but scenes

558
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:08.159
showing characters up on the trestle were
shot on another location where trains weren't coming

559
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:10.880
through all the time and where you
weren't like high up in the air and

560
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:15.679
have to hang off the side of
a bridge to escape a train. Norfolk

561
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.880
Southern Railway or Norfolk I don't really
know how you say it, officials,

562
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.559
I don't really care. Again,
listen to tales from the podcast episode I

563
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:28.400
Don't Like This Railway for a reason. They say they were very upset about

564
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.679
the film, as they thought it
would encourage dark tourists to visit the trestles.

565
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:37.840
They found one scene in particular very
misleading and dangerous. In the scene,

566
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.599
the main character, a high school
student, narrowly escapes an approaching train

567
00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:45.800
by hanging off the side of the
trestle. In reality, you have to

568
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:49.559
be pretty freaking strong to hang on
for the five to seven minutes it takes

569
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.440
for a long train to clear the
seven hundred and seventy two foot or two

570
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:59.119
hundred and thirty five meter trestle.
The tourist's boyfriend from Ohio. He was

571
00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:00.360
able to do it, but I
don't know. It must have been pretty

572
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:05.800
freaking strong, or the adrenaline was
really going. In addition to the vibrations

573
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:09.119
from the train that are so strong, the ground beneath the trestle shakes as

574
00:48:09.159 --> 00:48:12.719
the train passes, So I mean, you have to be super freaking strong

575
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:15.079
to hold on, And even if
you were, it's not to say that

576
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:20.840
the vibrations from this massive, freaking
train wouldn't just knock you off of it.

577
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:23.960
If you live nearby like I do, don't be tempted to see the

578
00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:30.079
goat man for yourself. Norfolk Southern
Railway has urged the citizens not to climb

579
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.760
the trestle, threatening trespassers with the
rest. But if you really want to

580
00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:37.559
say if he's real, the safest
option is to just drive under the bridge,

581
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.039
you know, if you don't care
about your car getting a dent in

582
00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:44.079
it. There's a street that runs
right underneath it, and many eyewitnesses have

583
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:49.480
claimed that the monster has jumped on
their car or chased them away. While

584
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:52.239
the legend is kind of fun to
talk about, it's kind of fun,

585
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:57.199
it's kind of sad. I absolutely
do not recommend putting yourself in danger to

586
00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:00.320
see for yourself if this legend is
true. I certainly won't be and I

587
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.719
live really close by. I just
don't miss with things like that, you

588
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:07.280
know what I mean. I love
to talk about it, but I'm not

589
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.239
like, Hey, I'm going to
go see if this thing that is,

590
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:14.760
you know, a monster and pissed
off is real. I'm going to go

591
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.480
to its home and like taunt it. It's not a good idea. I'm

592
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:21.000
not going to do it. I
recommend you don't either, but we can

593
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:23.960
still talk about it and you know, have fun with it. Well.

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00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:29.119
I appreciate you listening, and remember, if it's creepy and weird, you'll

595
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:36.639
find it here. Thank you for
joining us for dark Cast Networks. Wicked

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Week. Tomorrow will be our final
installment Halloween Traditions. I'm Jackie Morante from

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Cause of Death. One hundred Seconds
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