- The Siren of the French Broad
The French Broad River, is a river that starts off around Transylvania County North Carolina, and flows into Tennessee near Knoxville. There’s a legend with this river that goes back as far as the 1840’s. It’s said a beautiful woman with dark hair will come to nearby men in their dreams for days, until they…
- The Giant Leech of Murphy North Carolina
There’s a spot near Murphy NC called “The Leech Place” (We actually did a video of it here on Spooky Appalachia) by the indigenous Cherokee people that lived there, where something very dangerous and strange can be found. The spot in question is right before the Valley River joins the Hiwassee. There’s a thin ledge…
- The Vampire Beast of Bladenboro
Bladenboro is a small town located in SouthEastern North Carolina. Surrounded by swamps and forests. Looking at it today, most wouldn’t think it was the location for one of the greatest string of monster sightings North Carolina has ever seen! On the night of December 29th, 1953 a woman heard the people next door’s dogs…
- Lake Norman Monster
Lake Normon, built in the 1960’s is the largest manmade lake in North Carolina. It spans 4 countries and around 34 miles. Before it became a lake, it was originally home to the indigenous people of the Catawba Tribe. Later settlers built towns there, cemeteries and there was even a battlefield there. Some folks think…
- The Slate Belt Owlman
This week I was sent a story a bit out of the norm. The fan who sent this came across this story that was posted on a Facebook group for the Slate Belt area in Pennsylvania. It’s about a creature referred to there as The Slate Belt Owl Man. The sighting took place in March…
- The Virginia Devil Monkey
Listen to us tell this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUWg82f3UQ4?si=yyEV9TCiRWpEI1ty&t=431 I first heard of the Virginia Devil Monkey while reading the book “Monsters of Virginia: Mysterious Creatures in The Old Dominion” by L.B. Taylor Jr. It caught my attention because a lot of the incidents occurred very close to where I spent the first few…
- Chesapeake Bay Serpent “Chessie”
Listen to us tell this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUWg82f3UQ4?si=TYYKKYdzfP-gp289&t=140 It seems like every state with large lakes or bodies of water has a giant water cryptid. This one is kind of shared with Maryland. It’s the Chesapeake Bay Serpent also known as Chessie. It’s said be about 30-35 feet long, and has been sighting…
- The White Thang
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=FP3V5TLYKVSvFMC-&t=1136 This crpytid seems to be Alabama’s most famous one! If you search around online you’ll find tons and tons of sights going back to the 1930s.The creature is said to look a lot like Bigfoot in appearance. Some even say it’s Bigfoot’s albino cousin. It’s said…
- Huggin Molly
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=PHmBzaz8eswRDPtB&t=990 Huggin Molly is often described as a 7ft tall creature that is as big around as a bale of cotton, and dressed in all black who roams the streets of Abbeville. It’s said that if she sees you out alone at night she will chase you…
- Falkville Metal Man
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=KHyYQhzqnwIgfSK2&t=594 On a night in October of 1973, Flakville Alabama’s young chief of police Jeff Greenshaw got a call about a UFO just outside town. From a frantic caller, he thought to himself he was just dealing with an idiot but when he got to the scene things…
- The Wolf-Woman of Mobile Alabama
Audio version of this story, as well as some other Alabama cryptid stories on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=PXdrXzhSLHcPC9vo&t=200 During April, 1971 folks living in Mobile, Alabama and surrounding areas, had sightings of a strange and bizarre cryptic creature. This short lived sighting spurred the legend of the Wolf Woman of Mobile. One of the first sightings…
- The Story of The Grafton Monster
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5Co49dH-I&t=165s Hey folks, I’m your host Jimmy and welcome to Spooky Appalachia! For this week I know it’s been a while since I’ve covered a story that I’ve written and researched, I’ve had so many awesome stories sent in by you all that I wanted to get…
- Encounter with The Mysterious Mothman (Maryland, 2002)
This week we have a story from a fan in Maryland who thinks he may have encountered The Mothman or a similar creature back in 2002. Howdy Spooky Appalachia! I came across your YouTube channel from the Mothman Sightings Facebook group and think I may have encountered it or a similar creature back in 2002….
- Mothman Encounter in North Augusta, South Carolina
Hello Spooky Appalachia, I watched your show about the NC Mothman sighting earlier today and wanted to share my own. My story was about two years ago (2021) in South Carolina, near Savannah River in Georgia. My daughter and I were sitting in our living room when we heard something BIG land on our metal…
- 1920s Booger Attack
This week, we have another awesome story sent in to us by our friend Steve Alligator Horse. This is one told to him by his aunt about a postal worker who was attacked on his route. It took place in Kentucky back in the 1920s. I remember my aunt Eugena’s story about the mailman who…
- Yowie Sighting in Lyonville Township (December 2013)
This week we have a story sent in by one of our patrons who may have had a Yowie sighting when he lived in Australia back in 2013. I was walking the old Woodend Logging Rail Line that has been converted into a walking trail. This path runs through the Wombat National Forest. It dead…
- Encounter with Green Eyes in Chickamauga (1973)
This is a story about an encounter with Green Eyes from Chickamauga Battlefield straight from my uncle in his own words. It was 1973, and I was working two jobs to help my mother with some bills and pay my own bills, and I was saving up for the new Chevy Nova that came out…
- Booger Encounter in Wayne County, Kentucky (1930)
This week’s story was sent in to us by a fan who heard this story that took place back in the 1930’s from his aunt. It happened in Wayne County, Kentucky. Aunt Pat described being on the slope of a mountain digging ginseng. She was sitting down on the forest floor digging roots when something…
- Possible Mothman Sighting in Mattapan Square Massachusetts (May 2012)
This week’s fan-submitted story was actually sent to us by the Mothman Museum! It’s of a sighting someone had in Mattapan Square, Massachusetts, back in May of 2012. My girlfriend and I witnessed an unexplained object or creature on the roof of a building in Mattapan Square back in May of 2012. We work for…
- Mothman Sighting on a Long Country Road (2007)
This week we have a story from a fan of our Mothman Sightings Facebook group who sent in—you guessed it— a Flatwoods Monster sightings story! I’m kidding. Here’s the Mothman sighting story. I remember in 2007 or so when I was about 14, my mom came home from a night shift at work, and she…
- Possible Mothman Encounter at Mount Healthy, Ohio in 1960s
This week’s story was sent in to us by a fan who may have had an encounter with Mothman in Mount Healthy, Ohio back in the 1960s! My family moved to Mount Healthy Ohio around the mid-sixties, and before I had started second grade. I was six and a half years old then. My father…
- The Story of The Virginia Devil Monkey
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsv-mBSEX74 this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! I first heard of the Virginia Devil Monkey while reading the book “Monsters of Virginia: Mysterious Creatures in The Old Dominion” by L.B. Taylor Jr. It caught my attention because a lot of the incidents occurred…
- The Story of Vegetable Man
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5Co49dH-I&t=491s This week, we are taking a look at the odd story of The Vegetable Man from Fairmont, West Virginia. One hot July day 1968 a young man by the name of Jennings Fredrick who was around 19 years old at the time, had gone woodchuck hunting near…
- The Squonk: A Creature of Pennsylvania Lumberlore
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,…
- 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 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 Hoult Monster. The Ogua is a freshwater cryptid that is…
- 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=BiG7nU011BY 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…
- 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…
- The Story of Mothman Part 2
Listen to me read this one on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ms5Co49dH-I?si=vGORNakTNTa0aaxO&t=1064 If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out Part 1 on this story! This story is one of the more famous ones and is known as the one that started Mothman’s popularity and gave the creature its name. It comes from Point Pleasant, West Virginia,…
- The Story of Bigfoot
Perhaps the most famous cryptid of all time is Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Normally, I like to do a “Story of…” post before I start posting stories and sightings of these creatures. It has been tough to track down one source of the first story; there are many opinions on where it all began. So, I…
- Possible Mothman Sighting from Southern Michigan in 2019
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/8wogG0vCweI this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! This week we have a story from Lori, with a possible Mothman Sighting from Southern Michigan back in 2019. It’s a pretty exciting story and I’m happy to be able to share it here. Also check out…
- The Story Of The Mothman
Listen to me read this one on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ms5Co49dH-I?si=vGORNakTNTa0aaxO&t=1064 If you have never heard of it, the Mothman is a creature made famous by encounters in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Several eyewitnesses have described it as a human-shaped and sized creature with bird-like wings and feathers. Its most distinguishing feature is its reflective red eyes….
- The Story Of The Flatwoods Monster
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ms5Co49dH-I?si=5873pC6nJTX1UsR3&t=1585 On September 12th, 1952 around 7:00 o’clock on a Friday evening, a group of young boys consisting of Eugene Lemon (17), Neil Nunley (14), Eddie May (13), Freddie May (10) and Ronnie Shaver, also 10, were playing football on the lawn of Flatwoods Elementary School. Suddenly, the…
The French Broad River, is a river that starts off around Transylvania County North Carolina, and flows into Tennessee near Knoxville. There’s a legend with this river that goes back as far as the 1840’s. It’s said a beautiful woman with dark hair will come to nearby men in their dreams for days, until they…
There’s a spot near Murphy NC called “The Leech Place” (We actually did a video of it here on Spooky Appalachia) by the indigenous Cherokee people that lived there, where something very dangerous and strange can be found. The spot in question is right before the Valley River joins the Hiwassee. There’s a thin ledge…
Bladenboro is a small town located in SouthEastern North Carolina. Surrounded by swamps and forests. Looking at it today, most wouldn’t think it was the location for one of the greatest string of monster sightings North Carolina has ever seen! On the night of December 29th, 1953 a woman heard the people next door’s dogs…
Lake Normon, built in the 1960’s is the largest manmade lake in North Carolina. It spans 4 countries and around 34 miles. Before it became a lake, it was originally home to the indigenous people of the Catawba Tribe. Later settlers built towns there, cemeteries and there was even a battlefield there. Some folks think…
This week I was sent a story a bit out of the norm. The fan who sent this came across this story that was posted on a Facebook group for the Slate Belt area in Pennsylvania. It’s about a creature referred to there as The Slate Belt Owl Man. The sighting took place in March…
Listen to us tell this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUWg82f3UQ4?si=yyEV9TCiRWpEI1ty&t=431 I first heard of the Virginia Devil Monkey while reading the book “Monsters of Virginia: Mysterious Creatures in The Old Dominion” by L.B. Taylor Jr. It caught my attention because a lot of the incidents occurred very close to where I spent the first few…
Listen to us tell this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUWg82f3UQ4?si=TYYKKYdzfP-gp289&t=140 It seems like every state with large lakes or bodies of water has a giant water cryptid. This one is kind of shared with Maryland. It’s the Chesapeake Bay Serpent also known as Chessie. It’s said be about 30-35 feet long, and has been sighting…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=FP3V5TLYKVSvFMC-&t=1136 This crpytid seems to be Alabama’s most famous one! If you search around online you’ll find tons and tons of sights going back to the 1930s.The creature is said to look a lot like Bigfoot in appearance. Some even say it’s Bigfoot’s albino cousin. It’s said…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=PHmBzaz8eswRDPtB&t=990 Huggin Molly is often described as a 7ft tall creature that is as big around as a bale of cotton, and dressed in all black who roams the streets of Abbeville. It’s said that if she sees you out alone at night she will chase you…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=KHyYQhzqnwIgfSK2&t=594 On a night in October of 1973, Flakville Alabama’s young chief of police Jeff Greenshaw got a call about a UFO just outside town. From a frantic caller, he thought to himself he was just dealing with an idiot but when he got to the scene things…
Audio version of this story, as well as some other Alabama cryptid stories on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/cyiv8OqOuuU?si=PXdrXzhSLHcPC9vo&t=200 During April, 1971 folks living in Mobile, Alabama and surrounding areas, had sightings of a strange and bizarre cryptic creature. This short lived sighting spurred the legend of the Wolf Woman of Mobile. One of the first sightings…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5Co49dH-I&t=165s Hey folks, I’m your host Jimmy and welcome to Spooky Appalachia! For this week I know it’s been a while since I’ve covered a story that I’ve written and researched, I’ve had so many awesome stories sent in by you all that I wanted to get…
This week we have a story from a fan in Maryland who thinks he may have encountered The Mothman or a similar creature back in 2002. Howdy Spooky Appalachia! I came across your YouTube channel from the Mothman Sightings Facebook group and think I may have encountered it or a similar creature back in 2002….
Hello Spooky Appalachia, I watched your show about the NC Mothman sighting earlier today and wanted to share my own. My story was about two years ago (2021) in South Carolina, near Savannah River in Georgia. My daughter and I were sitting in our living room when we heard something BIG land on our metal…
This week, we have another awesome story sent in to us by our friend Steve Alligator Horse. This is one told to him by his aunt about a postal worker who was attacked on his route. It took place in Kentucky back in the 1920s. I remember my aunt Eugena’s story about the mailman who…
This week we have a story sent in by one of our patrons who may have had a Yowie sighting when he lived in Australia back in 2013. I was walking the old Woodend Logging Rail Line that has been converted into a walking trail. This path runs through the Wombat National Forest. It dead…
This is a story about an encounter with Green Eyes from Chickamauga Battlefield straight from my uncle in his own words. It was 1973, and I was working two jobs to help my mother with some bills and pay my own bills, and I was saving up for the new Chevy Nova that came out…
This week’s story was sent in to us by a fan who heard this story that took place back in the 1930’s from his aunt. It happened in Wayne County, Kentucky. Aunt Pat described being on the slope of a mountain digging ginseng. She was sitting down on the forest floor digging roots when something…
This week’s fan-submitted story was actually sent to us by the Mothman Museum! It’s of a sighting someone had in Mattapan Square, Massachusetts, back in May of 2012. My girlfriend and I witnessed an unexplained object or creature on the roof of a building in Mattapan Square back in May of 2012. We work for…
This week we have a story from a fan of our Mothman Sightings Facebook group who sent in—you guessed it— a Flatwoods Monster sightings story! I’m kidding. Here’s the Mothman sighting story. I remember in 2007 or so when I was about 14, my mom came home from a night shift at work, and she…
This week’s story was sent in to us by a fan who may have had an encounter with Mothman in Mount Healthy, Ohio back in the 1960s! My family moved to Mount Healthy Ohio around the mid-sixties, and before I had started second grade. I was six and a half years old then. My father…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsv-mBSEX74 this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! I first heard of the Virginia Devil Monkey while reading the book “Monsters of Virginia: Mysterious Creatures in The Old Dominion” by L.B. Taylor Jr. It caught my attention because a lot of the incidents occurred…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5Co49dH-I&t=491s This week, we are taking a look at the odd story of The Vegetable Man from Fairmont, West Virginia. One hot July day 1968 a young man by the name of Jennings Fredrick who was around 19 years old at the time, had gone woodchuck hunting near…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDMK6LYQWs 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 Hoult Monster. The Ogua is a freshwater cryptid that is…
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…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiG7nU011BY 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…
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…
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…
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…
Listen to me read this one on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ms5Co49dH-I?si=vGORNakTNTa0aaxO&t=1064 If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out Part 1 on this story! This story is one of the more famous ones and is known as the one that started Mothman’s popularity and gave the creature its name. It comes from Point Pleasant, West Virginia,…
Perhaps the most famous cryptid of all time is Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Normally, I like to do a “Story of…” post before I start posting stories and sightings of these creatures. It has been tough to track down one source of the first story; there are many opinions on where it all began. So, I…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/8wogG0vCweI this can also be found Spotify and most other podcast platforms! This week we have a story from Lori, with a possible Mothman Sighting from Southern Michigan back in 2019. It’s a pretty exciting story and I’m happy to be able to share it here. Also check out…
Audio version of this story on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ms5Co49dH-I?si=5873pC6nJTX1UsR3&t=1585 On September 12th, 1952 around 7:00 o’clock on a Friday evening, a group of young boys consisting of Eugene Lemon (17), Neil Nunley (14), Eddie May (13), Freddie May (10) and Ronnie Shaver, also 10, were playing football on the lawn of Flatwoods Elementary School. Suddenly, the…