Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9eVDbiBn30 this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! The squonk, or Lacrimacorpus dissolvens, is noted as “Probably the homeliest animal in the world, and knows it” [1]. Much of our information on the squonk comes from two volumes on Appalachian and upper-midwestern lumberlore,…
Category: Cryptids
Possible Mothman Sighting – Floyd County, Virginia, 2019
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AL6j-8GNPA this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! For today’s story we’ve been sent another Mothman sighting. This one from Virginia, in Floyd County. This is the first time we’ve been sent a Mothman sighting from Virginia, and us both being from Virginia we were…
Flatwoods Monster Sighting – Heaters, WV, Sep 1952
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FjrthIQmnc this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! This is another Flatwoods Monster sighting sent to us by our friends at The Flatwoods Monster Museum. The Flatwoods Monster is one of our favorite cryptids. It reportedly took place a few days before the more famous…
Mothman Sighting – Gallipolis OH Nov 1967
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyJ6Umw0uM this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! Today’s story was sent to me by a friend of mine that lives in Gallipolis, OH named Amy. For those unfamiliar with the area Gallipolis is right across the bridge from Point Pleasant. It is…
The Story of the Ogua
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDMK6LYQWs this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! This cryptid is one that just kept coming up and I always forgot to cover it. I first heard of this one from our good buddy The Best Virginian. It’s also known as the Rivesville Monster or…
Possible Bigfoot Sighting – Bedford VA 1978
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9AqwcByPE this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! This story of a possible bigfoot sighting was sent to us by a fan who requested that we refer to her as “SW”. I was born in Roanoke, but when I was maybe 11 or…
Possible Mothman Sighting Cairo West Virginia July 17th 2022
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7mu5ZJxgy4 this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! For today’s story we have a possible Mothman encounter story sent in by Natasha. This one is particularly interesting because it’s a very recent Mothman sighting in West Virginia and her friend got a photo! I hope…
The Story of Wood Booger
Wood Booger is really just another name for Bigfoot used in the Southwest Virginia area, notably in Norton City and Wise County. According to a newspaper from The Old Post on November 24, 1892, the creature was given the name Wood Booger after the Boogeyman, because it was rumored to carry off children who wandered…
Jessieville, Arkansas Possible Mothman Sighting
For this week’s story, given the popularity of Mothman, I decided to reach out to our friends at The Mothman Museum. This story is the first of about 22 sighting stories sent to us by the museum. The encounter happened in Arkansas, but I decided to go ahead and use it since Mothman is well…
2011 Bigfoot Sighting – Clingmans Dome, Tennessee
This is a sighting that stood out to me for two reasons. One, this is an area I have visited before, it is a common and popular hiking destination for folks who are not looking for paranormal experiences. Two, the sighting was not by a lone hiker. In the video you see a large group…