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Terrifying Encounters with Cryptids - 1 Hour · Mystery Archives Episodes

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A troubling and terrifying conflict in and of itself.
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The Vietnam War cost many lives, but those who died didn't always
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stay dead. Or so according to some men who
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fought it. These are a few stories in
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particular that poses terrifying and creepy question.
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Were the dead coming back to life and the deep jungles of
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Vietnam. While carrying out their duty,
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Marines in Vietnam would often try to recruit locals to help
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guide them in the area of operations.
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In some areas, however, the locals were fearful of going
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into the densest, darkest parts of the jungle.
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The reason, they found, was the local superstition that phantoms
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called the Maw supposedly occupied the trees there.
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Locals also warned the US troops that reanimated corpses awaited
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them in the trees because these moth phantoms would possess the
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bodies of the dead. The Marines, of course, shrugged
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the stories off as folklore, since Vietnam was a very
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spiritual place. They had heard many stories from
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the superstitious local folk, so at this point it was almost
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laughable to them. Starting in 1965, however, it
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allegedly became very real. American troops in the jungles
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of Vietnam began reporting seeing ghostly apparitions
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moving supernaturally through the trees.
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Others reported Fang creatures with black eyes that would try
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and kidnap and consume unsuspecting troops.
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In one encounter, the beasts were found to be bulletproof.
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Over 400 rounds were fired at the creatures, and none of them
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seem to be fazed by what would have annihilated any other
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mortal being. In several other instances, it
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was found that the corpses of the freshly killed Viet Cong
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were coming back to life. It didn't matter what time of
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day it was, the corpses. Lived by both day and night.
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They chained several of them up for high command to observe and
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decide a way. Forward and after observing the
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reanimated corpses, their eyes wide and flesh rotting yet still
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living and hungering for me, they decided to conduct several
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morbid experiments and finally a decision was made.
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Since the triple canopy jungle kept the sunlight from hitting
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them, the military's top brass decided to get rid of it.
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Besides cloaking an elusive enemy while they were alive,
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they were now dealing with supernatural forces beyond their
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understanding. And this is supposedly why the
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US military developed Agent Orange and Napalm.
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Agent Orange to kill the top canopy and napalm to annihilate
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anything that could be left standing, dead or alive, and
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anything that survived. Both of these weapons would be
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finished off by the flamethrowers.
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Another creepy tale comes from a man who lived one of the most
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dangerous jobs in all of the US military during the Vietnam War,
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being an army tunnel rat. For those of you who don't know,
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the army tunnel rats were troops who would crawl into NVA and
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Vietcong tunnels to eradicate the troops that hid below the
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surface. These tunnels often
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interconnected for 10s of miles, housing both troops, munitions,
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food and apparently secret weapons.
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It was one of the war's most dangerous jobs, crawling around
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in the dark, avoiding booby traps and trying to kill the
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enemy before they killed you. This tunnel Rab was crawling
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into the deepest tunnel he had ever seen, along with his
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partner. When they finally arrived in the
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main room, they were astonished that no booby traps were set and
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an oil lamp was still lit. The only thing they found was a
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tarp, but when they moved the tarp they revealed a set of
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stone stairs moving deeper underground.
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The stairs were odd, definitely not built by VC, They looked
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centuries old. The two men cautiously climbed
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down the stairs, guns drawn. When they came upon another
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tarp. Cautiously, the rats moved the
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tarp with their pistols and fixed their flashlights on, 10
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or so VC. But these VC had blank faces
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looking off into space, bodies rocking back and forth, and
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their eyes were a solid black color.
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The men waved their flashlights and weapons in their faces, but
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nothing stopped their rocking motion.
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They now observed that their weapons were rusted in a pile in
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the corner, and at the head of the room was a golden icon of a
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naked woman, except the lower half of her body featured 8
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tentacles instead of human legs. One of the men felt compelled to
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touch the statue, but right before he made contact he was
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stopped by his partner. Shortly after this they came to
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a consensus that they needed to leave.
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They decided to rig the room in the entrance with C4 and bail as
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fast as possible. But as they were leaving, they
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began to hear a woman's voice call out to them asking them to
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stay. After exiting the whole, the
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tunnel was bombed and collapsed. The incident went unreported due
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to the strange nature of it all and not wanting to risk any
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embarrassment or their mental state being called into
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question. So that's a few interesting
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stories I came across. What are your thoughts on the
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whole thing? Were zombies taking out troops
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in the deep jungles of Vietnam during the war?
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Were the VC worshipping some kind of strange ancient deity?
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Let me know down in the comments below.
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I personally think anything is possible, but it could just be
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really well constructed folklore or short stories.
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I tried to find some official documents but couldn't find any,
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but it's still made for some entertainment nonetheless.
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I also wanted to give a shout out to of Sundered's son.
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He's the artist that made some of the stills for this video.
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I'll go ahead and leave a link here for his channel.
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Make sure to go check him out. I know he's got some new videos
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coming out here pretty soon. Don't forget to like this video
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new upload. In the Appalachian hills of West
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Virginia, three boys witnessed a bright object streak across the
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sky and crash into a nearby field.
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Upon witnessing this strange event, they ran to one of the
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boys homes and reported the incident to their parents.
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What followed as one of the strangest extraterrestrial
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encounters ever recorded? Today we will be discussing the
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Flatwoods Monster here on Mystery Archives.
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on September 12th, 1952 in Flatwoods, WV, a small
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Appalachian town of 300 people. At the time, the May brothers Ed
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and Freddie had been playing in their schoolyard with their
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friend Tommy Higher. The boys then witnessed a bright
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red light streak across the sky and crash on a nearby farm.
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After seeing the object crash, the boys rushed to the May home
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to report what they had seen to Missus May.
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Taking the children's claim is credible.
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Missus May then escorted the boys back to where they had seen
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the object crash. By this time, other onlookers
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had joined the search party as well, including several other
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neighborhood children with their parents and the farmer whose
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land. The object had crashed on the
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crew could spot smoke rising out of the field along with a
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strobing. Or pulsating red light once they
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were about. 50 feet away from the site, they could see that
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there was a large burning object sticking out of the ground.
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One of the people's dogs broke away and began barking and
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running towards the light. It promptly returned moments
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later, shaking with its tail between its legs.
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They soon began to smell and see an odd mist, a mist that made
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their eyes and noses burn. As they move forward towards the
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object, they noticed two small lights over to the left of the
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fire. The farmer shine his flashlight
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towards them and this light revealed a strange and
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terrifying looking creature. Among the onlookers was an army
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soldier who would later describe the creature as being at least
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10 feet tall with a blood red body and a green face that
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seemed to glow. He also said that the creature
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may have had claws for hands. It was too hard to tell with how
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dense the noxious mist was at the time.
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When the creature was illuminated, it emitted an ear
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piercing shriek and began hissing at the search part as it
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slowly but. Menacingly began to glide
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towards them. Fearing for their lives, the
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group fled the field in utter panic.
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Upon returning home, Missus May contacted the local sheriff as
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well as a news reporter. Both contacted parties, then
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conducted several interviews with those originally present.
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The sheriff, along with his deputy, returned to the site
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later that night in search of the creature, but nothing was
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found except for a charred hole in the ground.
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As well as a sickening burnt metallic odor still prevailing,
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Early the next morning a reporter visited the site of the
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encounter for a second time and discovered 2 tracks in the mud
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as well as traces of a thick black liquid.
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He immediately reported them as being possible signs of a saucer
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landing. That wasn't the end of the
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monster, however. Just two days after the original
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siding, another siding took place that would later become
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synonymous with the creature. A couple was taking a leisurely
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drive through the mountains of Frametown, West Virginia, at
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dusk when they experienced a similar horror.
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Their car suddenly stalled. And they were forced to pull
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over onto the shoulder of the road while attempting to figure
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out what was wrong with the engine.
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They were greeted with a putrid, sulfuric odor.
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As they searched around as to what could be the cause of the
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smell, they spotted a. Creature in the brush, just feet
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away from their vehicle. The woman screamed at the side
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of the monster as it began to glide towards them.
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Panicked, the couple ran back into their vehicle.
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Locked the doors and began to attempt to start the car.
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As the creatures circled their vehicle attempting to attack the
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occupants inside, they managed to start their vehicle and race
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back off into town. In a later interview, the
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creature. Was described as having a blood
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red body, reptilian in appearance, along with a green
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glowing face. The couple also described a
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strange mist that blanketed the area for a good mile or so, and
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that this mist was filled with strange electrical charges that
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could be seen like small flickers of lightning as they
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drove through it. After the stories were published
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in the local newspaper, they soon made it onto the national
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stage and for a short time terrified both natives and the
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rest of the country alike. The terror also supposedly
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prompted the government to conduct an investigation of
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their own. The original author of the
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articles was a man named Gray. Barker, who would later become a
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prominent UFO writer. Barker claimed that two men,
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dressed in all black, visited his office several weeks after
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he had written the articles about the monster.
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And the local paper. These men in black described
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themselves as magazine writers and were insistent that Barker
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provide all information he had on the.
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Creature Barker later stated that these men would not
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disclose the magazine they worked for and only referred to
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themselves with numbers in regards to their identity.
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After providing the little details he had about the initial
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encounters, he was then told to not write any more articles
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about the creature or else the men disappeared after their
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meeting with Barker and the creature has not been spotted
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since those days in 1952. So was the monster real?
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Given that there were at least a total of 8 to 10 eyewitnesses
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who saw the monster, one being an army soldier, it certainly
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makes one ask the question. UFO sightings were becoming very
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prevalent during this time in American history, and with so
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many things being seen in the sky, surely there may have been
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something more to the story. If it wasn't something tangible,
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it would have had to have been a very cleverly hatched
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conspiracy, perhaps to put a small town on the map.
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This is certainly plausible, but considering that it took decades
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for the small town to embrace the creature and once so feared,
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and also considering that the town even today has less
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residence than it did in 1952, it seems rather unlikely.
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But what do you think? Make sure to let us know down in
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the comments. Below, don't forget to like this
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new. Upload They have lived on the
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Earth for millions of years, an ancient type of life, older than
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humankind. We take them for granted as we
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pass by them on the sidewalks and parks, and eat them as food.
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Our seemingly benign neighbors of the vegetable Kingdom are an
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essential part of life. However, some legends suggest
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that the innocent green leaves of plants may hide something
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more sinister. It was 1874 when German explorer
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Carl Leche was combing through the jungles of Madagascar when
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he encountered A horrifying sight.
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He had found a local tribe known as the Makoto, and they appeared
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to be in the process of performing a ritual.
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A woman laying trance tied up and at her feet was a strange
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tree. All lay still when suddenly the
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tree sprung to life, its limbs flailed like snakes and the
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woman screamed. They wrapped around her body and
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pulled her into the midst where she was eaten alive as a human
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sacrifice. This account, as terrifying as
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it is, was a hoax allegedly written by Edmund Spencer and
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published in The New York World on April 26th, 1874.
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Though this tale was discredited, Chase Osborne, a
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former governor of Michigan, claimed in his book that the
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tale was well known in Madagascar.
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He stated. I don't know whether the Tiger's
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tree really exists or whether the blood curdling stories are
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pure myth. Its story serves enough of a
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purpose if it interests you, and one of the least known spots of
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the. World the year was 1891 when Mr.
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Dunstan, a naturalist from New Orleans, had spent almost two
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years in Central America. He had been busy gathering
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specimens and one of the swamps surrounding the Great Lakes of
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Nicaragua. He heard his dog cry in the
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distance as if it was in pain. He ran to the spot of the sound
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to find his dog covered in a web of roots.
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The network of fibers clung to the animal with countless small
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sucker like mouths which tore away skin and flesh before being
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removed. The native men who were
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assisting Mr. Dunstan were horrified by the plant, which
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they referred to as the Devil's Snare.
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This story appeared as an article in Lucifer magazine in
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September of the same year, and much like the previous story, it
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is believed to be fake. In the 1887 book Sea and Land,
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author JW Buell described a plant native to Africa and
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Central America called the Yativio.
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This name came from the hissing sound which the plant would
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make, similar to the Spanish phrase yativo, meaning I see
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you. It supposedly had poisonous
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spines that resembled snakes that would grab any and all
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animals that would come near it. However, this story has never
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been confirmed. So are man eating plants real?
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Aside from the many depictions in movies, books and television,
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only legends and hoaxes hint at the possibility of vegetation
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capable of eating human beings alive.
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True carnivorous plants do exist, however, and consume
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insects in horrific ways and have for thousands of years.
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Our Earth's history is extensive and it is possible that there
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are many species which have not yet been discovered.
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Perhaps in the primordial past plants existed which were large
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enough to trap and even eat our distant ancestors.
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Maybe in some far off corner of our planet and some deep and
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unexplored jungle, there is a plant that could swallow you
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whole. But what do you think?
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Thank you SO. Much for watching and have
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yourself a wonderful Have you ever had the sense that
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something bad was going to happen right before it did?
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Did you perhaps see anything? Strange Signs and omens before
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catastrophe have existed for centuries.
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Sometimes these hints of the future are found in the heavens,
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and other times they take the form of a dark and foreboding
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spirit. One such creature has captured
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the attention of the public consciousness since it was cited
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in the 1960s. Some speculate that it never
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existed, while others see it as a demon that has heralded
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disasters from all over the world throughout the years.
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Today we will be discovering the unexplained by delving into the
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mystery of the Mothman. Here on Mystery Archives,
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the night approached quickly as five men dug a grave in Clinton
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in West Virginia during their exertion.
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They looked up to witness a dark shadow flying in the sky just
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above the tree line. The men later described it as a
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brown winged creature and insisted that what they saw was
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not a bird. Three days later, on November
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15th of 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, WV enjoyed
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a leisurely night time drive. Their outing of choice was a
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zone locally known as the TNT area.
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The region received this title due to its history of the site
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as a former World War 2 munitions plant.
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Roger and Linda Scarberry sat in front of their 1957 Chevy, with
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Steve and Mary Mallett accompanying them in the back
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seat. Their watches ticked close to
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midnight as the car's headlamps fell upon the shadows ahead of
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them. The light revealed a large Gray
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winged. Creature with demonic red.
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Eyes perched at the tree line screaming, they speed as the.
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Creature took off into the air after them.
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The trees and roads blurred as the speedometer approached 100
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mph. They gasped as they discovered
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that this unholy monster kept up at a supernatural pace.
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The couples reached the edge of town with no sign of the
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creature as they began to discuss amongst themselves what
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they had seen. They soon noticed the beast
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beside the road and the beast took off into the air where it
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disappeared. They hurried and reported the
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encounter to the local sheriff deputy and they described the
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beast as a large flying man with 10 foot wings.
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The deputy and the couples held a press conference where they
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shared their story and it was at this time that the Cryptid
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received its iconic name, the Mothman.
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For the next 13 months, after the initial sightings, the
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Mothman would be seen over 100 times.
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In addition, there were witnesses who claimed to be
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harassed by the men in black who threatened them to not talk
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about the creature. These sightings seem to escalate
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until December 15th of 1967. Drivers aboard the Sterling
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Silver Bridge found themselves in a cold rush hour.
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Bumper to bumper. Traffic clogged the 1928
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structure to a frigate halt. Soon people began to feel like
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something was very wrong. The metal shuttered and the
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bridge finally collapsed, plunging many people into the
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icy river below. 46 of them in total, would lose their lives
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and tube. The victims would never be found
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again, but would become known as the Silver Bridge.
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Collapse was the worst bridge accident in American history at
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the time. The Silver Bridge had been
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nearly 40 years old. It was poorly maintained and had
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been carrying large loads far beyond what it was designed to
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support. An investigation of the bridge
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discovered the cause of a small .1 inch defect in the 13th steel
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pin eye bar on the bridge that had been improperly
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manufactured. What is strange about this event
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is the presence of several omens prior to its collapse.
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Several people had nightmares of people floating down the river
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and Christmas packages floating in the water.
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Even stranger, there was said to be sightings of the Mothman near
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the bridge right before the incident.
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Afterwards, however, the creature seemed.
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To vanish, Explanations for the Mothman range from skeptical to
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bizarre. Wildlife biologist Robert L
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Smith told reporters that the sightings all fit the
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description of the Sandhill Crane, a large American crane
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almost as tall as a man with a 7 foot long wingspan featuring
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reddish coloring around its eyes.
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Others believed it was an alien, citing the appearance of the Men
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in Black and the strange figure who deserves a video of his own
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known as Andrew Colt. Some believed it to be a demon
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or spirit, pointing to the wings, humanoid features and red
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eyes. Among the more interesting
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theories is the Mothman is the manifestation of a 200 year old
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curse. The legend says that when Chief
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Kornstalk and his son were killed by American colonist on
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November 10th, 1777, he placed a curse upon that land in which he
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died. Since that day, strange events
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have occurred in the area, such as a monument erected in honor
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of the colonists being. Destroyed by lightning twice as
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well as the first sighting of the Mothman is said to have
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occurred on January of 1926 when the Zion Ti dam in China
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collapsed, releasing nearly 40 billion gallons of water to the
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surrounding farms, killing over 15,000 people.
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Earlier in the month, locals had described a man dragon that
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could be seen hovering over the dam right before it collapsed.
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And on September 10th of 1978, a group of miners were heading to
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work in Freiburg, Germany when they were confronted by a
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strange sighting a creature with huge wings, no head and glowing
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red eyes in its chest. The beast let out a horrible
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shriek and the men ran. An hour later the mine collapsed
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and in another instance during 1985 when many of the plant
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workers and citizens of Chernobyl, Ukraine saw a large
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bird like creature with the body of a man flying around the
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nuclear facility, some claimed it had red eyes.
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On April 26th of 1986, the same creature was spotted by the
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Chernobyl catastrophe days before the events of 911 in
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2001. Here in the United States,
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several people said they saw a strange creature flying near the
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Twin Towers, and in another instance in June 2007, Rothman
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sightings occurred near the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis.
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A month later, the bridge collapsed, killing thirteen
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people and injuring 145 others. And in the most recent sighting
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in Fukushima, Japan. Two witnesses outside of
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Fukushima power plant heard a loud screech.
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And saw a red winged creature atop.
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Of the plant. any of these claims the truth?
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Plenty of sightings can be claimed, but no tangible
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evidence has emerged of the creature beyond eyewitness
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accounts and the folklore surrounding the monster.
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We may never know what people saw during the November nights
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in Virginia, but the memory of the Mothman still flaps its
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wings above the hearts and minds of the town of Point Pleasant.
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If you find yourself there, you might see the sculpture of a
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Mothman, or maybe you might just catch a glimpse of the legend
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itself. But what do you think?
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Is the Mothman real or just coincidental superstition?
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Have you ever seen a human face on a doll that seemed off?
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That even though all the ingredients of a face were
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there, it just didn't quite feel right?
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During the 1960s in West Virginia, at the same time
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period of the Mothman sightings, a man encountered a strange
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humanoid being with a disturbing grin that shook him to his core.
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On today's episode of Discover the Unexplained, we will be
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diving into the uncanny valley. As
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on October 16th, 1966, two young boys named Martin and James
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talked as they. Made their way through 4th St.
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and New Jersey. Their conversation stopped when
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James eyes froze on something behind Martin.
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James asked who's that guy standing behind you?
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They both look towards a chain link fence and behind it stood
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an unnaturally tall bald man wearing a metallic like suit.
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He had no ears or nose. The man looked at them with
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intense and inhuman eyes before he grinned.
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Feeling terror, they both ran from the man, who chased them
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down until they managed to escape.
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Just a few weeks later, Woodrow Darenberger drove his truck on
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Interstate 77 in Parkersburg, WV Suddenly, he heard a crash, and
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he slammed on his brakes as an unidentified vehicle landed in
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front of him. He described the object as like
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an old fashioned kerosene lamp chimney flaring at both ends,
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narrowing down to a small neck and then enlarging in a Gray
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bulge in the center. The vehicle shined a bright
29:55
light that blinded Darenberger, and he saw the dark shape of a
29:59
man materialize out of the craft and the man approached his truck
30:03
window. Darenberger stated that he
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looked like an ordinary man. 6 feet tall, probably around 35 or
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so, with all of her tan skin, dark brown hair, and a metallic
30:17
coat. The man grinned intensely
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through his window at Darenberger, and he heard a
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voice in his head. Say, roll down your window, I
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want to talk to you. During their conversation, the
30:30
man never moved his mouth out of the grin or physically talked.
30:35
All of his messages were spoken directly into Darenberger's
30:38
head. The man introduced himself as
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Andrew Colt and said that he meant no harm.
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He was interested in learning about our planet and their talk
30:48
lasted for about 10 minutes and Colt said we eat, we breathe, we
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sleep and we even bleed as you do before heading back to his
30:59
craft, Colt then told Darenberger.
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We will see you again in his report to the.
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Police Darenberger described him as courteous and friendly, and
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as it happens, this would not be the last time that Cold would
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visit him. For the next month, Darenberger
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claimed he was visited by Cold many more times, and at one
31:24
point Cold even took him onto his spaceship and to his home
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planet, Lanulos and the Ganymede star Cluster.
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He stated that they wore no clothes on the planet.
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Cold said that his people had lived on the planet for about
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125 to 175 Earth years. Cold would also appear at
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Woodrow 's front door. His wife and children even knew
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that he was paying him visits and they too would come forward,
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saying they saw cold as well as other strange.
31:55
Beings. Woodrow 's wife would later
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state that these beings were much like us.
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They travelled in everyday cars, dressed in everyday clothes, but
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were not human in origin. During the same period in Point
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Pleasant WV, the Lily family had been reporting poltergeist
32:13
activity in their home, such as diamond shaped lights.
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Linda Lily was sleeping one night and awoke to see a man
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standing over her. She said it was a man, a big
32:24
man, very broad. I couldn't see his face very
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well, but I could see that he was grinning at me.
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He walked around the bed and stood right over me.
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I screamed again and hid under the covers, and when I looked
32:39
again he was gone. Why do beings like injured cold
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frighten us? Why would a smile fill us with a
32:47
sense of fear or dread? This phenomena is known as the
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Uncanny valley, and it occurs when something is close to being
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authentically human, but falls just short enough to unsettle
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us. This very phenomena could be a
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clue as to the nature of cold and beings like him.
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They're human like forms being a facade, a mask just convincing
33:12
enough to disarm but not convincing enough to fool our
33:17
instincts. Like with all UFO and alien
33:23
encounters, skepticism and claims of fraud are abound when
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it comes to sightings If injured cold.
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However, multiple witnesses corroborated Woodrow's original
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encounter on I-77, and some even claimed to witness the craft
33:39
near his home as well. Woodrow's motives and
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credibility have been called into question since 1966, but it
33:47
is interesting to note that the publicity of the event did not
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provide Woodrow with any positive consequences.
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He suffered a divorce harassing phone.
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Calls. Job loss, friend loss,
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trespassing, ridicule, embarrassment, and depression.
34:05
He often felt like he was being watched or that his phones were
34:08
being tapped. His writings would often
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disappear from his locked house and letters he would send would
34:17
never reach their destination. Crowds would also often gather
34:21
in his driveway to catch a glimpse of cold, and at 1.2, men
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with rifles stalked his home in order to catch the mysterious
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visitor. I would like to introduce my
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cohort in this venture, Mr. Ronald Maines, who is the
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General Manager of WTAPTV and Radio and we are here to ask
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this gentleman questions and we will be asking questions for the
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next half hour to 25 minutes. Our guest is Mr. Dernberger,
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Route #2, Mineral Wells, WV. Mr. Dunn Burger has a very
35:00
interesting story to tell us this evening.
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I will give you a thumbnail sketch.
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To begin with, Whether or not you believe in unidentified
35:11
flying objects or not is not the point.
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Whether you believe in what you hear or see on this program is
35:18
not the point. We are here to talk to a man
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that allegedly did make contact with such an object within the
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Parkersburg area. Last evening, November the 2nd,
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1966, at approximately 7:25 PM, the incident allegedly took
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place on Interstate Hwy. 77 near the interchange of Route #47.
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This gentleman is a salesman in the area.
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He has been a resident of the area for the past 50 years and
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he has given us permission to interview him and to show his
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face and to call him by name. This in itself takes a lot of
35:57
initiative. And to be very plain, a lot of
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know how. Mr. Denberger, in your own
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words, would you please relate what happened last night?
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Well, I was. I am a salesman and I drive a
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truck. And last night, shortly after
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7:00, I was coming from Marietta.
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OH, coming down Interstate 77. And just before I came to the
36:26
intersection of drop 47, there was a car past me, overtaking me
36:33
from behind and following closely Behind this car was this
36:40
unidentified flying object, and there's a car ahead or the car
36:44
behind past me. This object was following close
36:49
behind it and it swerved directly in front of my truck
36:52
turning crosswise. And when it turned crosswise, it
36:56
slowed down. It started slowing not abruptly
36:59
or too fast, but it gave me plenty of time to step on my
37:03
brakes and slow down with it. But it forced me to come to a
37:06
complete stop. As soon as I had stopped, there
37:11
was a door opened in the side of this vehicle and this man
37:16
stepped out and came directly to me or came to the truck.
37:22
He walked to the right hand side of the truck.
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And he told me to roll down the window.
37:26
He asked me to roll down the window on my right hand side of
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my truck. And I had done what he asked.
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And this man stood there and he he first asked me what I was
37:38
called and I knew he meant my name and I told him my name.
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And then he asked me, he said, why are you frightened?
37:47
He said. Don't be frightened.
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We wish you no harm. And he said, we mean you no
37:52
harm, we wish you only happiness.
37:55
And I told him my name. And when I told him my name, he
37:59
said he was called cold. That was the name that he was
38:04
called by. And again he told me not to be
38:09
frightened, which I was. I was, I was very frightened.
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And as far as I can understand. This was all mental.
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There was no spoken words from him.
38:23
I knew what he was asking me, but yet he stood there and his
38:28
mouth did not move. He had a smile on his face.
38:32
He was, he appeared very courteous and friendly and after
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I talked with him a while, he told me he would see me.
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He said we will see you again, and he left in his vehicle.
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Woodrow would eventually go to a psychiatrist for an assessment
38:57
and left with a clean bill of health.
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Funnily enough, the same doctor would later receive a telepathic
39:04
communication and called himself.
39:09
Woodrow would eventually contribute his stories to an
39:12
author, and they would be published in a 1971 book titled
39:16
Visitors from Lunalos. Woodrow would move away to
39:19
escape his past when passing away in 1990 at the age of 74.
39:25
He never denied his earlier claims, but likely as a result
39:29
of lifetime of hardship, he simply stopped talking about
39:33
them. So who is this injured colt?
39:40
A humanoid alien, a shapeshifter, A hoax, or a demon
39:46
or spirit. We may never truly know the
39:49
answer to the identity of this being, but what we do know is
39:54
that Darenberger and others certainly encountered something
39:57
sinister and, in spite of a reassuring smile, filled
40:02
witnesses with dread and fear. It is in situations like this
40:08
that we must be thankful that our instincts can often save us
40:11
from trusting. Dangerous.
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People. That hide malevolence behind a
40:16
friendly grin. So, was injured cold, real?
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Maybe, maybe not. But beware, because you might
40:27
just find yourself in a similar situation, whether it's walking
40:31
with a friend, driving your car, or sleeping in your own bed.
40:37
If you ever see a man with a grin, that chills you to the
40:40
bone. You may have just seen injured
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cold. Thank you guys so much for
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watching yet another episode of Discover the Unexplained.
40:55
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And until next time, this has been Cody here at Mystery
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Archives. There are many places which
41:24
harbor darkness, otherworldly entities that live in the
41:28
shadows, watching and stalking until the time is right.
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This is a story about one of those such places that housed a
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violent and terrifying entity. Today here on Mystery Archives
41:44
we will be examining the legend of the Bell Witch.
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In the early 1800s, a man named John Bell moved with his family
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from North Carolina to Red River, Tennessee.
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He purchased some land in a large house for his growing
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family and over the years acquired more land for a total
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of 328 acres. During those years, Bell was not
42:24
only busy with his family and his local Community Church.
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But was also hard at work clearing fields.
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To make them viable for planting crops, one day in 1817, John
42:36
Bell was inspecting one of his cornfields when he encountered a
42:39
strange looking animal sitting in the middle of a cornrow.
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As he walked closer, he stopped dead in his tracks.
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He had never seen an animal like this one.
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It had the body of a dog, but the head of a rabbit.
42:53
He shot several times at the animal, but it's seemingly
42:56
vanished, although creeped out. John dismissed the event and
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continued on with his day. He and his family sat down and
43:05
had dinner, and then shortly after began to get ready for
43:09
bed. As the family laid down their
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heads to sleep, they were startled by loud banging sounds
43:16
on the outside walls of their log house, gun in hand.
43:21
John Bell ran outside to discover the source of the
43:24
noise, only to discover that there was nothing there that he
43:28
could see. Things were, as a matter of
43:31
fact, unsettlingly quiet, almost silent outside of the cabin,
43:38
trying to return to his senses. John reassured his family and
43:42
they proceeded to return to bed. However, this would be far from
43:47
the bells last restless night. The mysterious sounds returned
43:52
the next night just as the bells were attempting to sleep.
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John. And now his sons as well.
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Rushed outside to apprehend whoever or.
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Whatever was causing the disruption but again they were
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unable to find anything in the weeks that.
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Followed the bell. Children began waking up
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frightened. They complained to their parents
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that rats were gnawing at their bedposts and shaking their beds.
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Not long after this, the children also complained that
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their bed covers were being pulled from them and their
44:26
pillows. Being thrown across the room by
44:29
something they couldn't see. As time went on, the bells began
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hearing faint whispering voices, which, too weak to understand,
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sounded like a feeble old woman singing hymns.
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The encounters further escalated when the Bell's youngest
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daughter, Betsy, began experiencing brutal abuse at the
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hands of an invisible entity. It would pull her hair and slap
44:56
her relentlessly, often leaving welts and handprints on her face
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and body. The disturbances, which John
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Bell told his family to keep a secret, eventually escalated to
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such a point that he decided to share his family trouble with
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his closest friend and neighbor, James Johnston.
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Johnston and his wife spent the night at the Bell home.
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Where they were subjected to the same terrifying activity that
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the bells had experienced after having their bed covers removed
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and slapped repeatedly, Johnston sprang out of his bed and
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screamed. And the name of the Lord, Who
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are you and what do you want? There was no response.
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What started as a whisper? Strengthened over time to the
45:46
point to where it was loud and unmistakable.
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The voice sang hymns, quoted scripture, and even carried on
45:54
intelligent conversations. This included even once quoting
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word for word. Two sermons that were preached
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at the same time on the same day.
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News of the supernatural happenings soon spread outside
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of the settlement, even to Nashville, where then Major
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General Andrew Jackson took a keen interest.
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John Bell and his older sons had fought under General Jackson.
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In the Battle of New Orleans in 1819, Jackson decided to visit
46:24
the Bell Farm to see what was really going on for himself.
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As he approached the Bell Farm with a party of several men,
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well groomed horses, and a wagon, the wagon suddenly
46:35
stopped and the horses couldn't pull it.
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After several minutes of cursing and trying to coax the horses
46:42
into pulling the wagon, Jackson proclaimed by the Eternal Boys
46:47
that must be the Bell Witch. This remark was preceded by a
46:51
disembodied female voice that told Jackson that he could
46:54
proceed and that she would see him again later that evening.
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The wagon then was able to be moved again and Jackson and his
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party made their way to the Bell home, where Jackson proceeded to
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have a long discussion about a wide range of topics, including
47:10
the paranormal activity. One of the men in Jackson's
47:13
party was a supposed witch tamer.
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He proclaimed this while brandishing a small shiny pistol
47:19
filled with 1 silver bullet, and said that nothing was happening
47:23
because of the entity's fear of him.
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Only seconds after this statement left the man's mouth,
47:28
he began to jerk violently, his body shifting in different
47:32
directions. He was then thrown out the front
47:35
door as everyone in the house heard a loud female voice curse
47:39
the man as a fraud. Now terrified, Jackson's men
47:44
begged to leave the Bell Farm. But Jackson, on the other hand,
47:47
insisted on staying so that he could ascertain if the phenomena
47:51
was real or not. The men, including Jackson,
47:55
spent the night, and what happened isn't clear that the
47:58
crew left very early the following morning and headed
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back to Nashville. And although it wasn't
48:04
officially documented, Jackson would later write that he would
48:08
rather fight the British and New Orleans than to have to fight
48:12
the Bell Wedge. The paranormal activity
48:15
continued to plague the family for years to come.
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It notably caused Betsy Bell, the Bell's eldest daughter, to
48:21
call off her engagement amongst other notable interactions, and
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on December 20th, 1820, John Bell had slipped into a coma and
48:32
took his last breath. The following day, the family
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found a small vial of unidentified liquid in the
48:38
cupboard. John Bell Junior gave some to
48:42
one of the family's cats. Which died within a matter of
48:45
seconds. The entity then spoke up and
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said I gave old Jack a big dose of that last night and it fixed
48:52
him up. John Bell Junior then threw the
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vial into the fireplace where it burst into a bright bluish
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flame. John Bell was then formally laid
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to rest just days later. That wasn't the end of the
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visitations, however, in April of 1821.
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The entity visited John Bell's widow Lucy and told her that it
49:14
would return every seven years and seven years to the day.
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It did return for the first time and visited with John Bell
49:23
Junior. The creature discussed a wide
49:25
range of topics from the origin of life, civilization and more.
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It was even said to predict things like the Civil War and
49:34
both. World Wars, among others.
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This would be the last time the entity was heard from.
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After a promise to visit the most direct descendant of John
49:43
Bell in 107 years, the year was 1935 and the closest living
49:49
relative was Doctor Charles Bailey Bell.
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Charles did write a. Book about the Bell witch, but
49:54
never recorded any such visitation and never would.
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The entity that plugged the Bell family and the Red River
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settlement over 200 years ago is often blamed for strange and
50:06
unexplainable manifestations. That occur near the Old Bell
50:10
Farm today. The faint sounds of people
50:12
talking, children playing and even an old woman whispering
50:17
have been reported alongside seeing ghostly figures and lit
50:21
candles and an empty field for the settlement once was.
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The Cave, located near the property is said to have
50:29
originally housed the witch that plagued the bells.
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Visions of a ghostly woman have been seen over the years since
50:36
John Bell's demise. Since no one who witnessed the
50:47
apparition of the Bell Witch is alive today, we can't ever know
50:51
for sure what happened on that large stretch of land.
50:54
But the pages of history still whisper the frightening tale,
50:57
and the legend lives on. Have you ever asked?
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Yourself if monsters truly exist, have you ever wondered
51:12
how one might become a monster? In the cold forests of North
51:16
America, Native American folklore describes a dark and
51:20
monstrous spirit that was once human, and it tells of how
51:25
others might be transformed into the same terrifying creature.
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Join us on this episode of Discover the Unexplained as we
51:34
go into the woods of the Wendigo here on Mystery Archives.
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I scoured the forest, searching for any firewood that I could
52:02
find. Before I could grab a large
52:05
enough bundle, the bushes behind me rustled.
52:09
My hair stood on end and I heard my name being called, but I
52:13
couldn't figure out which direction it was coming from.
52:18
The voice sounded like my sister, but she just recently
52:22
left the camping trip, not even an hour ago.
52:26
The voice sounded wrong, like an animal trying to copy a human.
52:31
I dropped the bundle and I sprinted as fast as I could.
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Something crunched the twigs and leaves just behind me, dogging
52:41
my every step. I could feel a breath on the
52:44
back of my neck. And when I finally reached the
52:47
campsite is when the footsteps stopped.
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When I turned back around, I found nothing.
52:56
It was evening when me and my parents finally left the
52:59
campsite, and I looked back from our car window and saw a figure
53:03
standing at the tree lion staring at me with ghostly eyes.
53:09
It had dark skin stretched over its body, almost like a corpse.
53:14
But when I blinked. That vanished into thin air.
53:21
There have been many such stories reported by those who
53:24
have claimed to have encountered this mysterious creature known
53:28
as the Wendigo. The Wendigo originates from
53:31
Native American folklore in both Canada and the northern United
53:35
States, is a creature associated with famine, winter death, and
53:42
cannibalism. The native ethnographer.
53:45
Basil Johnston described the creature as such.
53:49
The Wendigo was gone to the point of emaciation, its
53:53
desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones, with its bones
53:57
pushing out over its skin, its complexion the ash Gray of
54:02
death, and its eyes pushed back deep into its sockets.
54:08
The Wendigo looked like a skeleton recently descended from
54:12
a grave. What lips it had were tattered.
54:15
And bloody, unclean and suffering from superations of
54:19
the flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of
54:24
death and corruption. The beast's desire for human
54:27
flesh can never be satisfied, for they are said to grow in
54:31
proportion to every victim they devour, and they are always
54:35
hungry. But how are Wendigo's born?
54:39
What horrible process could produce such a man eating
54:41
monstrosity of supernatural origin?
54:45
The answer may be found in the hearts of those that Wendigo has
54:48
claimed, both in story and in reality.
54:54
The year was 1879, and for Saskatchewan, Canada, those who
55:00
knew Swift Runner described him as a likable and trustworthy man
55:04
who loved his family and was especially fond of his six
55:08
children. He originally was a guide for
55:11
the Northwest Mounted Police. Was relieved of this position as
55:16
a result of his alcoholism. After being expelled from his
55:20
community, he ventured into the wilderness with his family in
55:24
the winter of 1878. When Swift returned from the
55:29
harsh winter in 1879 without his family, he was questioned on
55:33
their whereabouts and one witness stated he said I could
55:38
not expect to see any of his family because he was the only
55:41
one left. During the winter, he hadn't
55:45
been able to find any food, so slowly but surely, all his
55:50
relatives had starved to death. Yet Swift Runner looked neither
55:54
malnourished or starved, and without a proper explanation of
55:59
his family's absence, his in laws got in touch with the
56:02
mounted police. The police questioned him and
56:06
forced him to lead them back to the winter campsite once there.
56:11
He directed them to an undisturbed grave in the snow,
56:14
where they found the remains of his oldest son, who Swift Runner
56:18
had said died during the winter. However, one thing that was not
56:23
so readily explained were the scattered human bones all over
56:26
the site. Soon he revealed the events that
56:30
took place during the fateful winter in 1878.
56:36
At first, he received terrible. Dreams where the Wendigo
56:38
attacked him. Trying to convince him to
56:41
consume his family, he fought back for a time, but eventually
56:47
he felt the spirit creep over his mind and take control.
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Soon, Swift Runner was no more. There was only Wendigo finally
56:58
in control. The Wendigo killed and ate his
57:01
wife. Then the Spirit killed the rest
57:03
of his family and hung his young infant before devouring all of
57:08
them. He was only 25 miles from food
57:11
supplies and would later admit that he did it purely for the
57:15
enjoyment of consuming human flesh.
57:19
Horrified and disgusted by this revelation, the mounted police
57:23
arrested Swift Runner and he was tried, found guilty and
57:27
sentenced to death by hanging. On December 20th, Swift stood on
57:32
the scaffold and said I could kill myself with a tomahawk.
57:36
He offered. Save the hangman further
57:39
trouble, This event marked the first formal execution in
57:43
Western Canada as a result of cases of cannibalism like that
57:48
of Swift Runner. Some have coined the term
57:50
Wendigo psychosis as a possible explanation for the culture
57:54
bound phenomena of sudden cannibalism among some native
57:58
peoples, though this has been met with criticism and even
58:03
outright mockery. But is it mere psychosis?
58:10
Or is there truly something supernatural present within
58:13
these tales? The Wendigo has haunted pop
58:18
culture for decades, with its familiar antlers popping up in
58:21
horror movies and video games alike.
58:25
But is the Wendigo real? Encounters with the creature
58:28
have been posted on sites like Reddit with even more eyewitness
58:32
testimonies like these, but neither can be confirmed easily.
58:36
And all have similar elements to that of other frightening
58:39
creatures said to haunt the forest of the world.
58:43
Other creatures such as dogmen, goatmen, and even skinwalkers.
58:49
The feeling of being watched of that of a strange emaciated
58:52
creature makes sighting of these beings almost demonic in nature.
58:57
Whether they are truly physical beings or spirits capable of
59:01
possession is anyone's guess, one thing that is for certain.
59:06
Is that the Wendigo originates from folklore, where its
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presence describes a taboo against greed, gluttony, and
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cannibalism among tribes. That certainly would have a good
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reason to prevent their existence.
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Early contact with these tribes from European settlers even
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compared the Wendigo to that of a similar creature of their own
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folklore, the werewolf, but similar to that of the werewolf.
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Can we say that such an otherworldly monster really
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exists? Or is it just another way of
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illustrating the beast that dwells within man himself?
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Perhaps some things will just have to stay unexplained.