Ducks Unlimited Podcast

For this special Halloween episode, the Ducks Unlimited Podcast trades studio mics for a campfire under the stars. With s’mores in hand and coyotes howling in the distance, the crew shares some of the creepiest stories ever submitted by listeners. Whether it’s a mysterious creature crawling through cornfields, a haunted farmhouse door, or a five-foot caterpillar in the woods, these tales are sure to give you chills. Tune in for laughs, scares, and a whole lot of outdoor storytelling.

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VO:

Can we do a mic check, please? Everybody, welcome back to the Ducks Unlimited podcast. I'm your host, Chris Jennings. I'm your host, doctor Mike Brazier. My name is John Gordon.

VO:

I'll be your host. And I'm your host, Katie Burke. Welcome to the Ducks Unlimited podcast.

Matt Harrison:

Hey, everyone. We are back to the Ducks Unlimited podcast, and we traded in the podcast mics for this Starry Moonlight Campfire setting, and we have some awesome stories coming your way with the one and only, Kyle and Kown, Mr. Clay Baird, and fellas, are you all ready to tell some stories?

Kyle:

I think so.

Cam:

What? Oh, yeah.

Matt Harrison:

I think so.

Matt Harrison:

I think we've got some fun ones for for this evening.

Kyle:

I'm excited. Some some real good ones.

Matt Harrison:

I'm already scared.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. If you see a empty chair over here, just just carry on. Okay? Yeah.

Cam:

Yeah. We get almost lost Matt down the hill.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. Yep. So super excited to be out. Yeah. Decided to take the podcast episode to an outside setting where we

Cam:

I like it.

Matt Harrison:

Around the campfire, campfire setting to tell some good I like it. And crazy stories.

Kyle:

I'm excited. You know, it's that time of year again. It's Halloween. What better place than time to tell some scary stories?

Kyle:

One of the first ones I wanna talk about was sent to DU when we asked the listeners to send their stories in, And this fella, he's a retired military policeman who was in the army, and he's currently a policeman now. And he works in a small town in Texas. He didn't say the name, and he said it's only got a population of about 900, and it's only him and one of the patrol car at night. He works overnights, 6PM to 6AM.

Kyle:

And he said on his typical workday, he'll take breaks in and during the night, and he'll go down an isolated spot. He's got a couple different spots all over town, and he'll pull over and do some paperwork in the peace, in solace. And he said on this one particular evening, was nice night out. It was a cool breeze, so he went to this spot he always goes to, parked the car, opened the doors up, just feel the breeze. It was just catching up on, like, a crash report or something, you know.

Kyle:

He had some peace and quiet and looked at the starry sky, and he said, now on the right side of this patrol car was just an open field, and there's houses, but they're a long ways away, like, probably a quarter of a mile away. And on the left side of the patrol car is a big cornfield that stalk's about six foot tall. And he said, well, you know, he's just out there minding his own business, typing up this report, and he starts hearing a car alarm go off, but it sounds like it's coming from the the cornfield. And he's like, so it's like a honking sound, like five honks in a row, then it stops, doesn't think nothing of it. He said it goes off again, and he starts wondering, well, man, I don't think there's a car over there.

Kyle:

It should be a lot farther. So he said he gets on, like, Google Maps or something, and he looks, and he's like, oh, yeah. There's some houses, but they're pretty far away. He keeps working, and then he says it starts getting quiet out. He notices that all the crickets quit chirping, all the cicadas and locusts, anything like that.

Kyle:

It just starts going eerily quiet. Breeze is still blowing, and he hears something scream, help, and it sounds like it's a woman's voice. And he was like, man, am I imagining things? And he looks out there, keeps working. He says he hears this screeching sound again, but this time it's like getting closer.

Kyle:

So he starts he turns on the lights in the patrol car, not the flashing ones, but the light up the curb and all around, and he's got like a spotlight. And he's shining it there in the the cornfield, and he said he can see something moving through the corn. Can't see what it is, but he can see the stalks moving, and it's coming towards him. And he keeps watching it. He's like, what in the world?

Kyle:

You know, is that a cow or a deer or something? Like, what's what's going on? He said he keeps watching it, and he finally sees movement, but he can see like a physical form, and it starts coming out of the corn, and it looks humanoid in shape. It's crawling on all fours, and he said it looks like a naked person. It's pale, enunciated.

Kyle:

You can see the bones, the skeletal structure. It's real skinny. It's got impossibly long arms. Just looks weird. He says its face, he'll never forget the solid black eyes, and it had it was noseless, the two holes where the nose should be.

Kyle:

And he said the thing is coming at him, and then it sees him seeing it, and it just like freezes. And he said he locks eyes with it. Now, it must not have been too long, but he said it felt like an eternity, and he just they just stared at one another, and then the thing like hissed or made some crazy sound, and it like slowly and meticulously turned around, crawled back into the corn, and he was like, well, what was that? He said the skin on the thing looked like wet elephant skin.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah.

Kyle:

Like it looked like it was moist, and he didn't know what it

Cam:

More nail crawlers. Yeah.

Kyle:

That's a nail crawler. He watched it, and he kept watching where it went, making hoping it didn't come back, you know, and he rolled his windows up, and he's like, man, I'm not doing my field work out here. He said he drove to like a Circle K down the street and finished his work, and he says that story he's never told but just a few close friends and his wife, and he's never come public before till now. And he said he still thinks about it, and even sending the story and gives him chills because he doesn't know what he saw, and it was only years afterwards. And he he said he saw our clips on TikTok or somewhere, and then that's when he heard other recreation stories of pale crawlers, rakes, skinwalkers, and he was like, man, that's what I

Matt Harrison:

saw.

Cam:

So this whole time he had no idea that other people had seen something like that.

Kyle:

It's the typical story.

Matt Harrison:

Someone does that sound like to y'all?

Kyle:

Sounds like the typical pale crawling Yeah. Sightings that you hear. People describe the same thing.

Cam:

It's like what we've heard in the thermal stories. Yeah.

Matt Harrison:

I think that's not

Kyle:

a pale crawler, bro. Yeah.

Matt Harrison:

That's a

Cam:

It's coming to get them. It's coming to get them.

Matt Harrison:

Alright. Fair elm.

Kyle:

I found those yeah. And now you got me freaked out. What's back there? I'm

Matt Harrison:

gonna sit this way, Phil. He's gonna go on the other side.

Kyle:

Put your

Cam:

chair did kinda sound like a scream. Yeah.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. So we don't know what those

Kyle:

what those stories are, but I mean, of and more and more people are at least reporting that they've seen something tonight.

Cam:

And we've gotten them, a lot of them. Like, are numerous pale crawler stories. It seems like it's building. Yeah. And I don't know if it's because more and more people are finding out that other people have seen it, or if it's they're ramping up.

Cam:

Yes. Is there movement? Like, I don't know what's going on.

Clay Baird:

I think people are empowered to tell their story when they hear other people telling

Kyle:

it. Yeah. When they feel like they're not alone. Right? Yeah.

Kyle:

And that's so cool that this has become a safe space for people to share.

Matt Harrison:

You know what's interesting to me too, the stories, some of the stories submitted. A good bit are law enforcement. Yeah. Yeah.

Kyle:

I sure do.

Matt Harrison:

You know, because they're out at hours that typically people aren't out, you know. Right.

Cam:

And they're attentive.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. They know what's going on around Yeah.

Cam:

You're watching all the time. Yeah. Or other times where you might just drive by it normally, he's picking up on it, he's keying in on it because he's trained to.

Matt Harrison:

Transitional awareness.

Cam:

It changes everything.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. And they also deal with a lot of the darker side of life. So I wonder if that maybe there's something that's They're tuned into

Cam:

it or something. Yeah. Maybe you're

Kyle:

He said he's not gonna lie. He thought about skinning his smoke wagon he had with him because And letting it Just He was feeling a little uneasy. Yeah. But

Cam:

It would be hard not to panic. Straight up, it'd be hard not to panic. Oh my god. To flip on a spotlight after hearing something like that and just whip it, and it's right there. It would be very, very difficult not to just lose everything at that moment.

Clay Baird:

Yeah. I mean, go back to work after that.

Clay Baird:

Yeah. Like that night, he just finished his paperwork Scratch it

Cam:

off. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

Kyle:

Well, when I was younger, of course, it wasn't legal to carry one, but I mean, I never carried a sidearm. But after doing this for so long and hearing all the stories, I'd never go in the woods without my Glock or my CZs.

Cam:

Yeah. You gotta have something with you. Yeah. Just because of something like that. Or I got one for you.

Cam:

We got one sent to us that took place in Florida. A man named Timothy sent it to us. Took place in Florida, not to him, but to, like, one of his good friends and another friend. Tim said, his buddy named Zeke and this other guy he didn't give me anybody's name, but apparently, Zeke and this other dude were big time fishermen all through Florida. They loved it, obsessed over it.

Cam:

And I guess talking around the way fishermen do, you end up getting honey hole spots like any outdoorsman does. Right. And a fellow told him, he's like, look, kinda drew him a rough map. He said, if you take the boat out in the swamps, you gotta cut up all this way, you'll come to a big lake, and it's just kinda

Kyle:

stuck out there. He said

Cam:

the fishing is fantastic. He's like, not many people know about it. Go up in there, have your fun, the whole thing.

Matt Harrison:

So he said they waited a few days, and then Zeke and

Cam:

his buddy were like, alright. Now it's time. We're going up. So they load everything up and go. And he said it was like two hours winding through all that stuff to get up to this lake.

Cam:

He said they got up there. It wasn't as big as, of course, that they had thought, but he goes, man, we start hitting the water, and we start catching fish. And now that he said the man had told us he hadn't been up there in a while, but he said whenever he was there, he caught really nice fish. Zeke said they weren't catching those fish. They were catching small fish.

Cam:

The smoke got me. So Zeke, him and his buddy are catching fish, and it's not a burden. They're just catching little ones. He said, this goes on for probably close to an hour. He said, they're getting completely just like, it's fun, but we're catching fingerlings like little one pound fish.

Cam:

Where's the good fish? He said, all of a sudden, the biting quits, everything stops, around the water gets still. It's like what you talked about. He said, the sound didn't go away, but everything got still. He said, they're about 30 yards from a little it looks like a little bowl that's washed up in that lake.

Cam:

He said, at this moment, you can see the water move. He's like, oh, maybe there's fish over

Kyle:

there. Right? Yeah.

Cam:

So they're watching. He says, as the water starts moving, then up on the bank starts moving, and mud and everything over there starts moving. And he's like, they freeze. What are we looking at? Zeke describes a snapping turtle, and he says it's the size of the hood of a pickup.

Kyle:

Cool. He said As see its

Cam:

head come out of the water.

Kyle:

Yeah. It looks like a Gamma turtle.

Cam:

He said he saw its head come up, and then it kinda lifted itself up. And he said when it did, at first, he said, thought it was just impossible mud. Right? It's just covered in mud for a second.

Matt Harrison:

And he's like, but no.

Cam:

You could see the edge of the shell, the whole thing. He said it was the size of the hood of his pickup that stood up in that thing. And he said it just kinda made its way back off into the water, slid down, and was gone. He said we reeled in, turned the boat around, and left. He goes, I don't know if it had any effect on the lake, that that's the reason that they never caught big fish, that the only thing up there was little bitty fish.

Cam:

He said, I don't know if the guy that gave him the map and told him all

Matt Harrison:

that even had any idea it was

Cam:

there, or if the guy and this is one thing Tim pointed out, was pretty interesting. He said, I don't know if Zeke ever asked the guy about the turtle. I'm wondering if the old man that gave him the the map knew it was there and sent some other people to see if they saw it. Like, to kinda confirm, like, did you have anything weird happen up there? And the dude's like, yeah, man.

Cam:

A turtle that was this big come up out of the water. Yeah. Just we always talk about random animals, you know, that you see or something. Yeah. And it just the idea of it, and I don't know why it makes sense in Florida.

Cam:

Like, why do I believe? I don't know why it's easy. Like, I could see a giant turtle be there. But, yeah, he said it didn't nothing. It wasn't scared, just a giant turtle.

Kyle:

Well, they always talk about how old some of those turtles can live, the snapping turtles. Like, some of

Cam:

them And they couple 100 in size. Right? Like, I've seen some big ones, but I'm not talking something the size of a fire pit. We're talking huge.

Matt Harrison:

That's unbelievable. Yeah.

Clay Baird:

That reminds me of the story you guys told, I don't know if it was last time or the time before, about the centipede that dragged the deer down a

Kyle:

Yeah.

Clay Baird:

Some of these things are just much bigger. They mutated?

Kyle:

Yeah. Are they older? Yeah. They getting some toxic goos like the Ninja Turtles?

Cam:

Yeah. What happened? I

Kyle:

don't know. Right?

Clay Baird:

It grew up around some power lines.

Kyle:

Yeah. What what caused it? It's Wi Fi. Yes. Cell towers are doing it to them.

Cam:

Making giant Like you said,

Matt Harrison:

though, being from Florida, like

Cam:

It it fits. I don't know why in my mind I'm like, I could see that. Like, I I wouldn't be surprised. It always that story instantly made me think of the stories that took place in the fifties in The Congo when they were talking about flying the planes and seeing giant anaconda. Yeah.

Cam:

They're talking like 50 footers out there.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. Got to

Kyle:

see a photograph where, like, a Belgian helicopter pilot you can look it up online, where it's, like, flying over The Congo or something, and he saw a ginormous snake. He took a picture of it, and

Matt Harrison:

he's like, man, it looked like

Kyle:

it was a 100 foot long.

Cam:

The the better of the the rest of the story is when he came back, he claims it reared up, And as it reared up, he said the the whole head of the thing was probably 20 foot up into the air Oh

Kyle:

my god. As it picked up.

Cam:

You're talking about a snake that would be like this thick. Yeah. I mean I don't wanna see that.

Kyle:

And Florida's overridden with snakes now.

Cam:

Yeah. Those kind of snakes. Species. Yeah.

Kyle:

Yeah. I bet a

Cam:

snapping turtle that size could put a hurting on those snakes.

Matt Harrison:

Ain't no doubt.

Kyle:

I bet you're right. You know, while you were telling that story, it reminded me of a story I heard that was sent to us. I don't remember exactly what state it took place in, but it was somewhere in the Northwest. I think it was Idaho, but I'm not certain. Well, there was these two guys in their early twenties, and they were good friends.

Kyle:

The guy telling the story, his best friend's name was Matt, and they'd been hunting like most of us most of their life. And they had this particular spot where they always went, and he said it was early deer season, and they had tree stands, and they were a couple 100 yards apart, so they couldn't see each other. And where they were at, lousy cell phone signal, so they couldn't text each other, they couldn't call each other. But where they parked their pickup trucks, they kind of made it their routine that, you know, when we head on out of here, how long do think you're going to sit? Know, and they'd agree, well, I'll I'll I'll leave an hour after sunrise.

Kyle:

I'll come back, or, you know, the opposite. Once it gets dark, you know, thirty minutes after it's dark, I'm probably gonna head back unless there's some action or something, you know, you can only see so far. They said it was really densely wooded, so it gets dark earlier than it would if you were just in a pasture. So they went hunting this one evening. They were like, alright.

Kyle:

Good luck. I'll see you here at the truck, you know, thirty minutes after dark. Alright. Cool. They go and they sit, and it's a typical night.

Kyle:

Doesn't really see anything, the guy telling the story. And he's like, alright. Well, it's the time to get down. He said he climbs down, and he goes back to the pickup trucks, and he's waiting on Matt. He said, goes by, and Matt's not showing up.

Kyle:

You know? You know, just like you, Matt. Mean, like, there's no telling what you're doing. You're always sidetracked.

Cam:

You know?

Kyle:

So he's like, man, Matt's sidetracked somewhere. I don't know what maybe he shot something. Maybe that's what's got him held up. Maybe I should go help him. Maybe he's tracking something.

Kyle:

Go help Matt. Maybe I'll help gut it or or whatever. So he goes heading towards Matt's stand. And by this time, it's completely dark, so he's gotta use his headlamp. Well, he gets to Matt's stand, and Matt's not in it.

Kyle:

And he's like, well

Cam:

That's never

Kyle:

He starts calling his name like, hey, Matt. Matt, you out here? You know, are you alright? Did you get something? No reply.

Kyle:

So he starts walking around, and he's looking for blood or footprints or anything that would lead me to believe that maybe Matt shot something out there tracking it, you know. Man, he don't see nothing. Well, he, you know, looks at his phone again, still no signal. So I can't text him. I can't call him.

Kyle:

He just starts walking around the woods and calling his name every once in

Cam:

while, like, hey. Are you there? Are you there?

Kyle:

Matt, what are you? Are you hurt? Are you hurt, buddy? You know, holler to me. Silence.

Kyle:

So he ends up walking around for, like, three hours, and he's like, now it's, like, coming up on ten p. M. I don't know where Matt's at.

Cam:

He's starting to get

Matt Harrison:

real Starting to get worried.

Cam:

At this point.

Kyle:

So he's like, I don't know. He just said, I got this overwhelming sensation to just go this direction. He's like, I

Matt Harrison:

could go any direction because I don't

Kyle:

know where you're but I got this overwhelming feeling to go this direction. So he's like, well, I'm gonna start heading that direction. He said he starts going down this path. He ain't never been down it before, or at least he doesn't recognize it in the dark, and he says he's going through, and all of a sudden he comes to this the woods start to open up a little bit, and there's a clearing in the middle of this forest, and he said, it's a perfect circle. And in the circle, he can see something, but it's still kind of far away with his headlamp it won't reach.

Kyle:

So he starts walking to the circle, and as he gets closer to the circle, he sees what looks like his buddy Matt sitting in the center of the circle, like hunched over. And so he he's like, Matt, are you alright? No response, no movement, no nothing. So he walks in. He says, soon as he crosses the barrier where that circle starts, it's like sticking your head underwater.

Kyle:

He's like, all the sound went away. It was like, you know, like, things sound different when you're underwater. He's like, it was I could feel the pressure, the denseness. Something was different. He said he backed up out of the circle, and everything returned to normal.

Kyle:

And he was like, do what? As Matt would say. He walked back in the circle, same sensation. He's like, man, I don't know. I started sending this real bad feeling.

Kyle:

So he just walks over to his friend and shakes him, and he says when he does that, Matt comes to. And he's like, Matt, what are you doing? He's like, where I don't know. Where am I? He's like, you're sitting in the middle of the circle.

Kyle:

I've been looking for you for hours. He's like, let's get out of here. He picks his buddy Matt up. His mat is kinda like out of it. Like, he's woozy.

Kyle:

Like, he looks drunk or something. He drags him out of the circle, all the sounds return, and he's like, what what were you doing? And Matt's, you know, slowly coming out of this daze he's in, and he's like, man, I don't know. He's like, I was hunting, and I just I thought I heard something calling to me, and I had this sensation to go this direction, so I climbed down out of my stand, and I kept walking down this path, and he's like, I don't really remember anything else. Something kept luring me luring me this way, and he's like, well, don't know.

Kyle:

Where's your where's your where's your gun? He was like, man, I don't know. So they go back to the trucks. Matt, by this time, he doesn't really know what happened, he's not groggy anymore, and he's just like, man, I don't know what that was. They go home.

Kyle:

Well, the next day, not Matt, but the guy that saved Matt tells his dad this story, he was like, well, I wanna go out there with you, and I want you to look at this circle. So his dad's like, okay. Yeah. Take me out there. So they go out there.

Kyle:

It's like midday. They start heading down. They get to Matt's stand, and the guy remembers kinda where he walked and where he found Matt. They keep walking down the same path. They don't find a circle.

Kyle:

Can't find it. They said, well, maybe I took the maybe I took the wrong step. So they look around, and they look for hours. They cannot find this circle, and so to this day, they don't know what that was, and the guy's like, look, man. I've heard all the missing hunting stories from David Pilates.

Kyle:

I've heard the things online. I've heard other podcasts talking about it. I've heard of time slips, portals. Goes That's

Matt Harrison:

not very smart.

Kyle:

I don't know what that was.

Matt Harrison:

Going after the call.

Cam:

You had a little

Kyle:

bit

Cam:

But

Kyle:

we experienced something, and it was like, we can't explain it. And they he never talked about not hunting anymore. Like, I think they continue to hunt. I don't think they hunt there, But you hear the sightings like that.

Matt Harrison:

That's the first thing I thought of was missing four one. One of

Kyle:

those Because a of the cases,

Cam:

they talk

Matt Harrison:

come back up.

Kyle:

People are, like, in a daze. Like, they don't they don't know what they're doing.

Cam:

It's

Matt Harrison:

like a pocket where there's just another dimension or the veil is a little thinner there or something.

Kyle:

Yeah. He was

Cam:

just The Fae realm.

Kyle:

Yeah. Wadded up Something weird. Middle of that circle. He said it was like a 30 foot diameter circle, perfectly circle. He said if you looked up in the trees, the branches didn't even

Matt Harrison:

So it was like but

Kyle:

they're Just green grass.

Matt Harrison:

But then they went back to the circle in there.

Kyle:

Couldn't find it. Couldn't find it. Went back the next day and they couldn't find the circle.

Cam:

Said it was gone. Guess he's pretty sure he walked in

Kyle:

the same circle. He said they looked for

Matt Harrison:

a while. And if they hunted those woods, I'm sure they knew

Cam:

where they were.

Kyle:

Exactly. Especially in the daylight, you

Cam:

would know, like, look, I can narrow it down pretty close to where it's gonna be in this area, and it's not there.

Kyle:

Is that like an alternate timeline they were on for that afternoon? What was the

Matt Harrison:

We need another log on this spot. Is deserves

Cam:

another log. I I want

Matt Harrison:

some more light. Yeah. Yeah.

Kyle:

Didn't like that noise back there.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. Did y'all hear that?

Cam:

We got what was the one where we had the the fellow that sent us a story about hiking when he was walking, it like turned to smoke, and he couldn't hear, and it looked like the remember it was like near the wildfires?

Kyle:

Yeah. I think that was I think it was Pennsylvania, but maybe it was California. Were you talking about the ones with the the forest towers?

Cam:

Yeah. And then it was like

Kyle:

It was him and his girlfriend that

Cam:

had hike. Yeah.

Kyle:

And he said they, like, came to this they walked this area a lot. They hike on it. I guess it's like a national forest, like a trail or something, and they walked they saw this fog settle on the field, and the trail went directly into that fog, and they went into the fog, no big deal, and when they came out of the fog, everything looked different. Mhmm. Like, the fire towers looked like old, like, they looked like they had aged a 100 years, They had like a grime and film all over them, and it was like they were somewhere else.

Cam:

The upside down.

Kyle:

Yeah. Yeah.

Cam:

Something something

Kyle:

like that.

Cam:

Some crazy idea, but I

Kyle:

don't remember the rest of the details. I remember because what I remember is they couldn't hear anything.

Cam:

It was there was no sound. There was smell of smoke. And they couldn't solve Everything, yeah. And it was all like it had burned off and then just been left untouched for years. And it took a bit before they could find their way back.

Cam:

And when they come back out of it, he was like it was just like where they left. It was sunny and nice

Kyle:

and Yeah. Inside there was gloomy and dark. And then

Cam:

when they he said they got out, you know, kinda got when the the fog or whatever it was was gone, it was all back to the way it was. Yeah. He's like, it was all exactly the way it was. Like, none of it we don't know how they got over to it. I got one that's that's creepy that doesn't really have to do with, you know, crossing over the veil, but it's more of something I think would be interesting to see.

Cam:

We got a story from a woman named Mary Ann. Mary Ann tells a story that took place in in Washington at the in the foothills of Mount Rainier. Her and her boyfriend and one of his friends and some others, like his girlfriend, several of them decided to go on a camping trip, and it was mainly to go, from what it sounds like, not really where they were gonna hunt in the area, but they all liked to hunt. So they decided they were gonna go and camp and then go glass, just go see what they could see, deer, elk, whatever they can find. Right?

Cam:

So they found a good spot, and she says that they were gonna come back later that evening to glass. Her and her boyfriend and and one of his friends, they got their camos on, grabbed the glass, headed out. She said they're walking down on a logging road, and the first thing that she noticed is that all the tree limbs at a certain height were broke, but not off, just snapped and turned in a certain direction. And so the first thing I thought of was like, okay, a logging truck went down. Right?

Cam:

Something went down. It had the whole deal broken But and drugged them she said there was no broken limbs on the ground and no tracks. So she was like, well, that's kinda weird. I don't know what would it's no big deal. Goes on.

Cam:

They get set up on this little ridge. She said there's a creek down below them, and they're looking off about a 125 yards or so into this little clearing. And he said she said it was great. As the light then it starts getting a little later and a little later, she said it's just dark enough where you can see movement, but you can't really make out what it is. But you start hearing she said, we started hearing a deer.

Cam:

Like, you could tell it's a deer. It's running, runs through. She said, it comes in front down there in that area, and it stops. She said you could hear it breathing, but it's also, like, blowing. Like, it's so scared this deer is just having a meltdown.

Cam:

She said around this point, if you were looking at the deer straight on, and that's her 12:00, she was like, at 10:00 and 02:00, we saw dull flashes of blue light. She said probably 80 yards or so, 90 yards past where that that deer was in that area. Now she said it's so far. You can't make out what it is. But she said, we saw a little pulse of light.

Cam:

That was it. She said, a few more minutes goes by or maybe and it's she probably wasn't even that long. Maybe a minute. This deer is running side to side down to you. She can't really see it.

Kyle:

They can't see it. They can just hear it.

Cam:

They hear things moving. She said, then we hear some type of chatter. And I always wonder if it was the Sierra sounds, and if you don't, they'll, you know, just see it. She didn't say what it was, just chatter. She said at this moment, her boyfriend's buddy decided it would be a good idea to let out a howl.

Cam:

I don't know if it was, like, the Bigfoot howl or just whatever.

Matt Harrison:

This sounds like something happened.

Cam:

Right? Just like now it's fun. That and so he cuts out this howl. She said within seconds, the one at 10:00 lets out a howl. Something from that where that light was calls back.

Cam:

The one at 02:00 calls back. She said at that moment in the creek below, she said it's right down below their feet. There's a game trail down in there that you could see was kinda coming up. She hears rocks hit the water, and she said, all you see is something big rise up down below us by that game trail. She said it was around that time we said, let's dip.

Cam:

Yep. We're all gonna go. She said they headed back down. She goes, we got the feeling as we stand up, dread. She said this feeling that we interrupted something, and whatever it is we interrupted is now aggravated at us, because she said you could feel the weight of, like, uneasiness settle on them.

Cam:

She said they made it about 60 yards, 70 yards down back down the logging road with their headlamps. She said we're we're moving pretty quick. This point, she said they see one track in that logging road that she said is a 15 inch foot Oh

Matt Harrison:

my goodness.

Cam:

She said, pretty wide and 15 inches long. We're bringing in the song dogs, y'all. So she said they wait till the next morning. Next morning, they get up and they go back down there, her and the boyfriend, and and they hang up flagging tape where they heard and where they think they heard and saw those sounds. They put flagging tape up and all that stuff, looking for other tracks.

Cam:

No big deal. She said the following weekend, her and her boyfriend and her daughter decide we're gonna go back out in the day, midday, and we're gonna get up and glass. We wanna go see where it was what happened last week. She said as they get there, none of the flagging is up. Limbs are broke off where the flagging was.

Cam:

The whole thing looks like it's been ransacked where they went and walked down in there and disturbed whatever it was the week before. Now she said, I don't know, because they didn't see anything other than some giant shadow moving. But she goes, I don't know. What else could it be that was making those sounds? And she said, seemed to be intelligently corralling a white tailed deer towards a creek or a river with two pushing it in and one on the river or on the other side.

Cam:

If it was to get in it, then boom. Like driving it and bottlenecking it to it.

Matt Harrison:

I wanna know why the limbs were cut.

Cam:

Yeah. Who knows what that right? It's just was it something that maybe an old logging truck did it way back and then it just put

Matt Harrison:

a finger

Kyle:

on that.

Cam:

You would think. Yeah. Is it that thing? What is it going down and marking it? Because we get tales, and there's a lot of stories of stuff where they limb and tree breaks where they're up top high at a certain way.

Cam:

They just break the tops off of old trees. I mean, I have no idea. I don't know what it could have possibly been about. But it made that story instantly keyed one where we had a guy on the show that had done some interviews, Gary, and he had interviewed a lot of of Bigfoot witnesses, and he had talked to a man that was probably only maybe an hour south of where we live right now. And it was the old fella's wife had actually contacted Gary and said, I need you to come talk to my husband.

Cam:

You need somebody to

Kyle:

talk

Cam:

to. Old fella was, of course, was back in the early 2000s. This guy was, I think, mid to late 70s at the time. Old cowboy. Did not care for any of this.

Cam:

The wife finally made him tell it, so this is what he told. And this is what Gary shared with us, is the old man decided to go down during the deer season.

Matt Harrison:

He was gonna go. He had the feeders going.

Kyle:

He wanted to go shoot a pig.

Cam:

So he said, I'm gonna go down there and just kill a hog. So he went and climbed up in his rifle stand. It probably wasn't too high, know, given his age. He probably wasn't climbing up in a big tower stand. So he hopped up in the box.

Cam:

He said he was there. Starts getting late. Feeder goes off. Here come the pigs. Pigs come in.

Cam:

They're feeding. He told Gary that what he witnessed was movement that at first he thought was a big cat because of the way it moved. He said what it turned

Kyle:

out to

Cam:

be was a Sasquatch, was some on all fours, but not on his knees, like your hands and feet, like your spider crawling, right, moving under these cedars, moved under those cedars while those pigs were feeding. And he said, it was insane to witness it lunge out, grab one of those pigs, smack it to kill it, pulled part of its leg off, threw it over its shoulder, and just took off walking with it. And this old fella, that's What do

Matt Harrison:

you even do? Well, that's

Cam:

that was it. Is he was and that's what Gary said, what did you do? He goes, what what could I do? He said, I just sat there and watched it in complete disbelief. He goes, that's the reason he didn't

Kyle:

wanna tell anybody. Right? It's just

Cam:

like, who's gonna believe this?

Kyle:

Ruin your pants. That's what you do.

Cam:

Yeah. I mean, it's you and he climbed down, went to the house, and that was it, and he and he told and this is a fella that had been a rancher and a cowboy his entire life, been out there in the woods the whole time, and was like, I don't know that I'm gonna go back out there.

Kyle:

Because he's like, I don't even

Cam:

know if my rifle would knock it down if I hit it. He said, this thing was massive, but moved like a cat. Was on it and

Kyle:

gone. No.

Matt Harrison:

Just the spider crawling always creeps me out when you hear these stories. Like, you you could there's so many people that tell these stories where you're like, yeah, maybe it was a Sasquatch, maybe it was something else. There's nothing else that big that could do the spider crawl.

Cam:

Not like that. Yeah. Imagine like starting linemen in the NFL moving like that, and then something bigger than Negative. Right? Where you're like,

Kyle:

how is that possible?

Matt Harrison:

And how quick they are.

Cam:

Yes. And even the old fellow even said there was no sound. The pigs had no idea. Nothing even knew it was there. It was like, it just happened to be.

Cam:

Now I know people that have killed mountain lions around feeders during bow season. Be sitting there, and you just have a mountain lion come in because it's hunting the feeder the way you are. It knows something's gonna come there, and it'll feed. One of them passing through just so may be so happen to be there. I can't imagine sitting there and be like Yeah.

Cam:

Didn't I think you

Kyle:

told us a story where our buddy of yours was like stalking something.

Matt Harrison:

Yes. He was turkey hunting. And he was in he was in some crazy thick wooded area. And he was on this turkey, and he heard the turkey gobbling, and he got close, but he got to a spot where he had to get on his hands and knees. And he said he was crawling through the woods, and the turkey would gobble.

Matt Harrison:

He's like, oh, I'm getting I'm getting closer. And as he was getting closer, he was like, oh, I'm right here on the turkey. Well, about that time, he hears something crawling right beside him, and he turns and looked. And he said from me to cam is this panther doing the same thing he's doing after the turkey. But look.

Matt Harrison:

He said he's looking at the panther. Panther looks over here. Back.

Kyle:

And, like, that's it. My life's

Matt Harrison:

takes the deep breath

Kyle:

Here we go.

Matt Harrison:

Turns and looks back, and it's gone.

Kyle:

Secured it as

Matt Harrison:

much as a security alert. Heard it leave, never saw it leave, didn't sit out his peripheral, but by the time he looked back, he was gone, couldn't find it, but he's he he

Cam:

Don't feel like turkey hunting so much anymore.

Kyle:

Nope. I don't want to charge the next one.

Cam:

Yeah. Exactly.

Matt Harrison:

Exactly. Could you imagine?

Kyle:

Yeah. You're like, oh. I've never seen one.

Cam:

No. I don't wanna see one

Matt Harrison:

But imagine you're stalking the same thing he's stalking. Makes you think you've probably been around him, though. Oh, a 100%.

Kyle:

A 100

Cam:

Oh, the boat This when

Matt Harrison:

is God's honest truth, and I'm sure we have some listeners that's had this experience before, but I've been literally turkey hunting before, and you either coyotes

Cam:

Oh, yeah.

Matt Harrison:

Come in, or bobcats will be stalking in, because you know bobcats get turkeys all time. They love them. But they'll come in just, I mean, they're hunting.

Cam:

Turkey's good. And Turkey's good.

Matt Harrison:

So I mean, no telling how many we've had encounters with that we have no idea are right behind us, beside us. I mean, y'all just heard this back here, all these coyotes.

Kyle:

Yeah. Kicked off. Yeah. Was great. Yeah.

Cam:

It was great.

Kyle:

Well, when you were telling that story about an impossibly large and strong whatever it was that took the pig, reminded me of a story we got years ago. This fellow lived in Kansas City, Missouri, and his grandfather owned some land not too far away, a 100 miles or so, and he him and his sisters, they would spend a couple months every summer out there. And he said his parents would drop them off, and he didn't know what his sisters did. They played and helped out Memaw, but he got to help his grandpa do all the haying and stuff, and he it was a highlight of his year because he got to drive all the cool tractors and stuff. So he said he was out there helping his grandpa, and they hauled a bunch of hay, and they had the bales, big square bales, the big ones, out in the field.

Kyle:

They put them in the field, you know? And the day's work was done, and it was not a big deal. They had supper and went to bed, and he said the next morning he got up and had some breakfast and saw his grandfather staring out the window looking into the field. And he said he just had a weird look on his face, and he watched him for a few minutes. And he was like, you know, granddad, what are you looking at?

Kyle:

And he said, you don't see it, do you? And he said he looked out the window. I said, no. I don't I don't see it. He's like, they've moved.

Kyle:

And he's like, what's moved? He said, the square bales. They've moved a couple feet from where we put them. And he was like, do what? He's like, yeah.

Kyle:

Yeah. He's like, I didn't know. He said the next day they spent the day doing work and mending fences and stuff, and regular night went to bed, and he got up. Sure enough, he looked in the field, and the bales this time had moved like a 100 feet from where they were. And they were not just moving as a bunch, they were taking some kind of form, shape, and he was like, well, first of all, why would somebody come out here and move these bales?

Kyle:

How would they move them all and us not hear it? Like, what was the point? Well, this continued for a couple days. It wouldn't happen every night, but every every third night or so, they'd get up and the bales would be moved again, couple 100 feet. And he said his grandpa looked real worried, real worried.

Kyle:

Wouldn't tell him what, you know, what he thought it was. So he started feeling bad for his granddad because he could tell he was upset. So he said, well, tonight, I'm gonna get my shotgun, a pot of coffee, and I'm gonna sit on the front porch. My god, and

Cam:

I'm gonna

Matt Harrison:

see who's stand I'm stand

Kyle:

out who's messing with my

Cam:

You're gonna put them in the barn if you're gonna move them. Mean, if you're gonna put your hands Put them on the trail. Least get them in the barn or get them near Yeah.

Kyle:

Well and he said before he sat out on the porch, they started moving. They started taking a shape, and they started making what looked kinda like a crude circle around the farmhouse with the farmhouse being in the middle of the circle. But we're talking a large circle, like 100 a 100 yards by 100 yards big. Anyway, so he sat on the porch. He's like, I got a plan.

Kyle:

I'm gonna find out who's doing this. He said he sat there

Cam:

for hours It's turbaned off.

Kyle:

Hours and hours, and, you know, he was getting sleepy. He was pretty late, started, you know, nodding off, and then he said he heard this sound, like this calamity, this sound he couldn't identify coming from the bushes on one side of the hayfield. So he's like, oh, yeah. Here it comes. Here comes the guys.

Matt Harrison:

And he said it was like Here we go. Full moon, but

Kyle:

it was light enough to where you could see if people were out in the field. You know what I mean? Like, they would look dark. But he

Matt Harrison:

said he saw something come out

Kyle:

of the of the brush line there, and he said, whatever it was, it was tall. He said it probably was eight feet tall. He said it had long arms and had long legs. It looked dark. He couldn't see, you know, couldn't see what it was.

Kyle:

It looked dark. But he watched it come across the pasture, and it picked up a bale with ease and moved it to a spot it wanted. And he just sat there and watched it for a while, and he was like, I don't know I don't know what to do. I don't know if to get my grandpa. I don't know if I should go try to shoot this thing.

Kyle:

He said it freaked him out. And so he went in the house, didn't do anything. He got up in the morning, and he told his grandpa. He's like, listen, man. I gotta tell you something.

Kyle:

He's like, I know what's moving those veils. I hate I saw it last night. This would be a hard talk

Cam:

to have with your granddad. I mean, seriously, like, to be like, hey, grandpa,

Kyle:

I gotta Yeah. So his grandpa said, like he said his grandpa had a really worried look on his face, and he's like, come out here to the barn. I wanna have a talk with you. So he's like, uh-oh. I'm in trouble.

Kyle:

You know, because I didn't really ask to use the shotgun and all that. Just did it on my own trying to, you know, get my grandpa's back. And he said his grandpa took him in the barn, and he said, I'm gonna tell you something. I don't want you to ever tell anybody else. He said, I've seen this before, but it was years and years ago when I was young.

Kyle:

And he's like, the hay bales would be moving. And he's like, my dad, I wanted to help him out. And so when the thing would move the hay bales, I would move them back and stack them where we wanted them. And he said his dad came out the next day and said, did you move those bales back to

Matt Harrison:

where we had them?

Kyle:

And he said, yeah. He said, don't do that. He said, do not you just leave them where they leave them. Do not touch it. And he asked this.

Kyle:

This was his grandfather asking his dad Yeah. What is it? And he goes, we don't know. He said, every, like, fifty, sixty years this happens. And he's like, whatever it is, it's clearly marking like a boundary or a line that it doesn't want us to cross.

Kyle:

So wherever it leaves them, do not cross the line. Not ever. And his grandpa, the boys that's telling the story, his grandpa said, I never thought I would see something like that again until this started happening, and I'm pretty much telling you the same thing.

Matt Harrison:

Just leave

Kyle:

it alone. Just leave it alone. And he said, a couple weeks later, his parents picked him up, took him home for the summer. A couple years after that, grandpa died and sold the ranch, sold the farm. So he doesn't know that in forty years from now, something's gonna happen again.

Kyle:

Who knows?

Cam:

Turned back up.

Kyle:

But we don't know what that was. He doesn't know what it is either.

Matt Harrison:

The hay bales were moving. And the hay bales Seems generational. I mean, mean, it seems like there's there's migration.

Kyle:

Me of nothing like what it looked like, but remember the movies Jeepers Creepers where, like, every twenty six years it comes back Yeah.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. It would come back.

Kyle:

Terrorizes people? Something like that.

Cam:

Well, if

Matt Harrison:

I was that kid, I'd have bailed. Yeah. Bailed that.

Kyle:

He doesn't give an exact age

Matt Harrison:

of how

Cam:

old was.

Kyle:

You know? This this kid, but I don't know if that means he's 16 or This guy.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. I'd stuck a piece of hay in my hat and headed out.

Cam:

Dude, that would just be so unsettling. The thing that makes it the most unsettling isn't maybe seeing it as much as probably it but the fact that your grandfather Yeah. Right? Like, the man that you You looked looked up up to. To Yeah.

Cam:

Tech is the man of the day. The unstoppable force, right, is your granddad, and he's like, don't you I'm scared. Granddad, if you're scared, I'm terrified at this point. Right? What am I gonna do?

Kyle:

Yeah. Yeah. It's bad. Bad story.

Matt Harrison:

Well, I think that's a good point for us to stop and make a s'more, don't you?

Kyle:

Okay. I'm always down for s'mores.

Cam:

We got some s'more what?

Matt Harrison:

You want some s'more stories? We got s'more stories coming up. Stories. We got s'more stories coming straight up right after the s'mores. We'll be back to you in a minute.

Kyle:

A minute? I like it.

Matt Harrison:

Stay tuned to the Ducks Unlimited podcast sponsored by Purina Pro Plan and Bird Dog Whiskey after these messages.

Cam:

Here we

Matt Harrison:

go. Y'all ready? Yep.

Cam:

And we're back with bellies full of s'mores. That's right. We're back with more of the haunted hunting club.

Kyle:

I

Cam:

hope you get to see a little behind the scenes, and I hope you all get to check out some bloopers because it's been an interesting evening, to put it lightly, around here. I'm gonna keep it interesting because I've got a story. As long as we're gonna keep it creepy, talking about seeing real creepy things, we got a message, email sent to us by a fellow named Edgar. Edgar, thank you. He was in North Carolina doing a little hiking back in 2021, he said.

Cam:

He says in there, he openly admits. He said, I was not in a good place. I needed to get away and just spend some time in the outdoors. Right? And just clear my head.

Cam:

So he said, went out to the place that he always goes. I think it was near I wanna say Greensville,

Kyle:

I believe is where he said.

Cam:

So he goes to the spot. He likes to go. He hikes up, sets up camp. He said the first night he was there, totally uneventful. He said just a beautiful evening in the woods, no no clouds in the sky.

Cam:

He said it was actually a great evening. He said so he was really amped for the next morning. So he pops up about 05:30, grabs all of his gear. He said he had a spot he wanted to get to, and he was gonna hang out up there, I guess, most of day and then come back to camp that evening. He said he'd been hiking a few hours.

Cam:

You know, sun's up. It's coming up pretty good. He said this time, of course, it's uphill. He's making a good uphill hike. He said it's kicking his butt, and he's huffing.

Cam:

He's puffing, of course. So he finds a little spot that it slopes off and levels. So he's like, I'm just gonna stop right here. So he stops. He's standing there catching his breath, and he notices movement.

Cam:

He said, I look down in this little bottom, and I see a dog. And he's like, well, somebody brought their pup and just left it out here. He's like, well, that's kinda sad. So he's watching the dog, and he notices that it's coming towards him. So he's like, well, we're gonna find out what kind of pup it is.

Cam:

He says, as the dog is closing the distance, you can only imagine what it turns into. He says, starts making its way up the hill towards him, kind of not directly towards him, just a little bit in front. He says, as it comes to crest into the ridge, the dog stands up. He said, when it comes to full height, it's about seven foot tall. Oh my goodness.

Cam:

It's standing a 100 feet from him. He said, all I can do when I realize what it is is he's like, I'm kinda leaned up by a tree, a little bit of a shade. He said, I just freeze. All I can think is if I don't move, if I don't acknowledge

Kyle:

it It

Cam:

won't see me. It won't see me. He said, so I'm not moving. I'm just staring directly at this dog man, this giant werewolf. And he said, this thing stands in the trail for a split second and then slowly turns his head to look directly at it.

Cam:

He said, I lock eyes with it, and there's no fear. He said, I didn't feel threatened. I didn't feel what he has come to learn other people report saying or feeling. He said, what it was felt is like this thing. He said, it almost felt like it was talking to me without saying it.

Cam:

Like, I just felt this. It was intensely curious as to not only what I was, but what I was doing there. He said it was just studying me. As it studied me, he said, noticed it starts slowly making its way around and then into the tree line, and he lost of it. He said the minute it went out of sight, he said, I felt something like complete exhaustion wash over me.

Cam:

I don't know if it was shock. I don't know what it was, but he said it washed over me. I thought I was gonna be So he sat down, got him a drink of water right there in the trail, just kinda caught himself, took a knee, got him a drink of water, said, you know what? I think that's enough hiking for the day. Turns around, goes all the way back down to to camp.

Cam:

Didn't leave just yet. Goes back to camp. He said, I kinda gather myself. I make me a meal. I finish it.

Cam:

He said, it still felt like I was in a daze of, like, what did I just experience? Packed everything up,

Kyle:

loaded it all back up,

Cam:

and he said within an hour I was gone, headed back home. He said, I've not been back out to that area, but he said, I don't know what it was, but unlike other stories, he said, it actually helped me. He said it I changed my life. I changed everything about my whole, like, focus in life, and everything got right back on the right track. He said, I don't know if it was something that was there to do that, if it was the interaction.

Kyle:

Said, I

Cam:

have no idea. But he said, I was less than a hundred foot from a seven foot tall werewolf, and it changed my life for the better.

Kyle:

It's like a paranormal scared straight. That's exactly

Cam:

exactly what it is. Yeah. If a seven foot tall werewolf doesn't make you get in line, I don't know

Kyle:

what Yeah. What would?

Cam:

Yeah. What's gonna what's gonna make it work?

Kyle:

I got one. This was sent to me a couple years ago, and it's pretty interesting because it opened my eyes to something I didn't think was possible. So there was this young couple. They got married, and they were living in an apartment, and they were saving their money. Then about three years later, they had enough money to buy their first home.

Kyle:

They bought this beautiful farmhouse that they really liked on the outskirts of town, and the guy said, well, his wife really likes to decorate. I mean, she that's her that's her passion. She's, like, great at it. She's always coming home with new decorations, and it's seasonal, right? For every season, she's got all the decorations, which means he has to help.

Cam:

I think everybody

Kyle:

married knows you gotta you gotta help. So he's constantly changing the stuff out. Well, now you gotta get the Christmas stuff down. This and that. She loved the house.

Kyle:

She thought it was perfect except for one thing. He said his wife had it in his mind that she did not like the front door. He was like, what do you mean? There's nothing wrong with it. She's like, yeah.

Kyle:

Don't look right. Yep. It don't fit the house. And he was like, what are you what are you talking about? It's fine.

Kyle:

You know, typical guy thing. Yeah. Does it close as fine. Right? No air

Cam:

gets out. Does it lock?

Kyle:

You wanna change the color? And she's like, no. That's not what I want. I want

Cam:

It fits just perfect. Yeah.

Kyle:

I want an old style farmhouse door, not a replica. Like, I want a real one from, like, the early twentieth century, maybe late nineteenth century. And he's like, okay. Whatever. So they proceed to start looking for an old door.

Kyle:

So they start going to all these antique shops and all these flea markets and all these yard sales and estate sales, and it just drags on for, like, six months. She never finds nothing she likes. You know? Like, when I go shopping, I know I need jeans. I go in, pick out the size, walk out.

Kyle:

My wife, you could be there for three hours. I'm like, you don't see nothing you like? Same kind of deal. So at this time, this is this is what his fate is. Well, he said, one particular day, nothing special.

Kyle:

They go to this estate sale, and it's on an old farm. He said they look around, don't really see anything they like, and they're to leave, and an old man in, like, overalls comes up, and he said, well, did you go look in the barn? And they're like, no, sir. He's like, well, everything in there is for sale too, so long before you leave, go down there and take a look. And he's like, well, alright.

Kyle:

So him and his wife, they go down in the barn, and there's a few knickknacks and old things in there. I don't know who passed away, you know, and there was this old barn I mean, front door, not a barn door. Old front door. It was perfect. The eureka moment.

Kyle:

His wife was like, that's it. That's what I've had pictured in my head. I gotta have it. Gotta have it. He's like, thank God she finally found you.

Cam:

Right? Good.

Kyle:

So he goes to the old man in the overalls. He's like, hey. My wife really likes that door. How much do want for You know? And he's like, oh, it's gonna hurt the checkbook.

Kyle:

He's like, I'll take $45 for it. And he's like, dude, sold. Can't believe his luck. Right? So they buy it.

Kyle:

And he's like, man, I'm gonna get to work on it the next day. So the next day, you know, he sands it, he restains it, gets it hung. His wife is thrilled. It's perfect. It's perfect.

Kyle:

Take a picture in front of me, in front of

Cam:

the door, you know,

Kyle:

taking pictures of the door, posting it on stuff. Loves the door. Everything's fine. Well, one night, five or six nights later, he said he woke up in the middle of the night, and he heard like a doorknob rattling. And he was like, man, I'm having a weird dream or something.

Kyle:

So he laid back down, then he said he heard it again. So he got up and went in the kitchen, and he heard it again, and he was like, man, it's coming from the front door. So he goes to the front door, and he checks it, and no, it's locked. It's shut. It's fine.

Kyle:

He's like, man, I'm losing my mind. So he goes back to bed. He said, it ain't two or three nights later, same scenario. And this keeps going on. And he's like, I started looking at my security cameras.

Kyle:

There ain't nobody at the front door twisting the knob. So then it starts getting progressively worse. They'll be sound asleep, and they'll hear that front door slam shut, like, hard, enough to wake everybody in the house up.

Cam:

After it was already closed and locked Oh, yeah. For the

Kyle:

So he would get up, go in there and check it, door's locked, shut. He's like, what the heck? They would do it again a couple days later. They'd hear it in the middle of the night. Well, it just started getting worse, the guy's starting to get annoyed now, he's like, man, I'm gonna get out here because now it's slamming two or three, five times a night.

Kyle:

He's like, I'm not getting any sleep. I'm tired at work. Like, this I'm suffering from this. Can I get my $45 back? Yeah.

Kyle:

He's like, I'm gonna sit in a chair right here, and I'm gonna watch that door. Now he watches it. Well, the night he sits down and watches it, guess what? Nothing happens. Right?

Kyle:

So he buys some security cameras off Amazon or something, and he sets it up pointing at the door. He says he hears the door slam. He gets up. He's excited like, yes. I'm gonna see what happens.

Kyle:

Goes to check the camera, like this SD card was corrupted. Didn't capture what was on it. He tried different cameras just like I had with trail cameras.

Matt Harrison:

I ain't even found a good one yet.

Kyle:

They never they never deliver with promise. Right? Didn't tell you the amount of money I've sunk in those things.

Cam:

And he

Kyle:

can't capture it. And if he sits out there, it doesn't do it. So he's set up, and one day he just can't take it no more, and he tells his wife. He's like, it's the it's the darn door. I'm telling you.

Kyle:

There's something with that door. I'm getting rid of it. And he said he took it off the hinges, took it in the backyard, and he burned the door. His wife was upset, but she kinda understood. He said, I'll buy you any door you want.

Kyle:

I don't care what it costs.

Cam:

Just not that one.

Kyle:

So they just went to a hardware store and got a replica looking farm door, he put it on there, and he said they ain't never had a problem since. So he thinks, for whatever reason, that door was haunted. And I'm like, can that even be a thing? Absolutely. Maybe that's why it was in the barn.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. That's why I let

Cam:

it go so cheap. Here's the other thing. Bucks. I'm like, please take that door off my hands.

Matt Harrison:

It's almost like the door whatever what was attached to the door had already called out to her. She had something in her mind already.

Kyle:

Yes. See, I did.

Matt Harrison:

And then there was a eureka moment once she saw it, and it was like, we made a match.

Kyle:

A haunted

Matt Harrison:

door. Found a home.

Cam:

The door fell.

Matt Harrison:

Why was that door in the barn in

Cam:

the first place?

Kyle:

Don't know.

Cam:

It wouldn't stay close.

Matt Harrison:

Right? Oh, no.

Kyle:

I don't

Matt Harrison:

know why.

Kyle:

No antique in my house.

Cam:

I mean, do you think No. About I don't wanna bring anything

Matt Harrison:

I don't even know why you go to night two with the door in the house.

Cam:

Right. After the first night, you're like, wait a minute.

Kyle:

Yeah. You think it was in disbelief? There's there's tons of

Matt Harrison:

stories of objects like that being I mean, there's museums full of

Kyle:

Yeah.

Matt Harrison:

Haunted objects, right? Yeah. They've attached you know, a spirit or something has attached itself to it.

Kyle:

Like a doll or Yeah. Teddy bear. Ah, okay.

Matt Harrison:

Wedding dress That's Lorraine wedding dress. A whole had a whole museum.

Kyle:

Yeah. Wouldn't get there.

Cam:

Uh-uh. I'm not going there.

Matt Harrison:

Y'all can have that.

Cam:

I'm not going there.

Kyle:

Nope.

Cam:

I don't want something to try to tag along. That's what Kyle and I have always talked about. Yeah, we've been I'll go look for Bigfoot if you want me to, it'll be fun, but I'm never going ghost hunting because ghosts can hide anywhere, Bigfoot can't hide in the back of your truck. Yep. Like, you're gonna check your back seat and be like, bro,

Matt Harrison:

come on.

Cam:

You can ride up front. Let's talk. If you dust off. Yeah, but a ghost, you'd just be like, there's four demons in the back laughing. Like, don't need that.

Cam:

Don't need any of that in my life. We were talking about you brought up the giant, like dragging the deer off and all that stuff. And I wanted to tell you then because we got one sent to us that you're gonna enjoy. And it's it's crazy, but it's not one of those where you're like, that could have never happened. This is just a strange thing.

Cam:

I got a message from a guy named Steve. Steve said when he and his best bud, Kevin, were back in college together in the University of Tennessee back in 2001, so they decided, I think it was after their sophomore or junior year in college, that they wanted to go do a little hiking one summer when they were out on the AT. So they decided to go down to Georgia and come up into Tennessee or somewhere right around in that area because of some fishing. They were gonna do fishing. They were gonna take binoculars.

Cam:

He said it about a two and a half week stroll, I think one of them's girlfriend was gonna restock them. It wasn't anything crazy. They were just like, this is what we're gonna do. We just wanna fish and have some fun. He said about five days into the trip, they'd been fishing and having a great time.

Cam:

He said they would set, find valleys, find what they could look, any pastures they could watch, anything, get their glass, and just look for animals and all that, and that's how they'd been even chilling around. He said it was early one day, early aft evening. He said we'd sit down, made a little meal, found a little spot to watch. He said we're glassing. We've seen a few things, not much.

Cam:

And he said all of a sudden, see movement. And he said it's probably two or 300 yards away. They're glassy. They're like, what is that? And what Steve said he saw was a four to five foot long caterpillar.

Cam:

He said this thing come out of, like, a stack of stumps or whatnot up on. He said it looked like it was as big around as a utility pole and about five And foot he said all we did

Kyle:

he said, I watched it.

Cam:

It didn't say a word. He said, we probably only got to see it for about twenty to thirty seconds. He said, I'm glassing it. I watch it come out of the because he's I he said, I guess what I caught was movement coming up out of this stack of logs. He said, as it come up out, you could see this is a tree.

Cam:

This is the the root end, and this thing is massive. Crawled across it, over it, kinda went up a little hill, he said, and went down over like a little ridge, and they lost it. And he said, I didn't six foot long? He said about five four to five foot, as big around as a utility pole, caterpillar.

Matt Harrison:

Oh, caterpillars already kinda creep me out.

Cam:

Strange. Right? So he said he didn't see anything

Kyle:

Maybe that's what the moth man starts at. That's how before there you go. Yeah.

Cam:

There we go. Maybe that's what he was doing. Right?

Matt Harrison:

That'd be a good Starts

Kyle:

as a caterpillar.

Matt Harrison:

They took you to a matching shark bait.

Kyle:

A five foot. Five foot.

Cam:

Yeah. He said he didn't say anything to his buddy. He just watched it. Well, he kinda like, oh, and he looks over. His buddy's watching it.

Cam:

He's like, did you see that? And he was like his buddy's like, yo, Kevin.

Matt Harrison:

Like, it yeah. He's like, what was it?

Cam:

He goes, well, looked like a caterpillar. And that's all

Matt Harrison:

Really, Kevin.

Cam:

That's all he would say about it. He said, we continued. The the rest of the entire hack had a great time. Never spoke about it. He said, we never brought it up.

Cam:

Nothing was ever talked about again. He said, it wasn't until years later.

Matt Harrison:

They talked about it.

Cam:

Kevin brought it up.

Kyle:

He said

Cam:

that's what reminded me to send this in, is Kevin brought up one time. He said we were like, do

Kyle:

you remember that big caterpillar we saw?

Cam:

And he's like Steve's like, how could I forget it? It's a five foot long caterpillar. It's like, bro, I'm different than Yeah.

Matt Harrison:

Doesn't ring a bell.

Cam:

Yeah. Right. Like, no. Don't remember that. When did you say that was?

Cam:

Think about the cocoon.

Matt Harrison:

Yeah. Right? And it's just moving around in that cocoon hanging from a

Kyle:

Oh. Huge

Cam:

Well, my thing is still like what we talked about with the snapping turtles. How does it get that big? Yeah. Where did it come from? Like, there's no way possible.

Cam:

What is that? But he was like, you don't see a caterpillar at 300 yards. No. You don't see it at 30 yards and pretend

Matt Harrison:

it's 300. 300 yards.

Cam:

Exactly. So he was like, what is that thing? As they start watching bro, I don't have no idea.

Matt Harrison:

It's all prehistoric. Right? Like Yes. There are records of things being that large

Cam:

back then. Which brings up a good point like we have discussed. Is it an overlap? Is it like a an echo from

Matt Harrison:

the past?

Cam:

Is that what that is? And it's not really there. You're just caught. A glitch in

Kyle:

the nature. A Yeah. I got one more, and we'll get out of here. So in 1900 in Kentucky, there was this bizarre family of nine that moved into this old house, oblong, strange looking house, up on a ridge that overhung the Kentucky River. And he said the people that moved in there were odd, and they they kind of kept to themselves.

Kyle:

Anybody that would go by there, stroll by at night, or walking by there in a path or something, they never saw any lights on in the house. They never saw any smoke coming out of the chimney. And it sounded oftentimes like something large was falling into the river below, like a big boulder or something big splashing. Didn't think of it. And they said these people, they never had any guests over.

Kyle:

They kept to themselves. No one ever hardly saw them. But Every once in a while, they would go to town, but only separately, like not all nine would go, one out of just one. Only one. He said they were just strange.

Kyle:

He said that they dressed weird. They always wore gloves and long coats. They had unusually pointy and large noses, recessed chins. They were very pale, and they had very high pitched voices. They would only buy when they came to town, they would only buy the bare necessities, but what they bought the most of was grain, and they all did this every time.

Kyle:

So in this small town back then, rumors started flying, and people got to wondering what was going on. They noticed that they had built a small family cemetery back behind the house, and they'd make tombstones out of, like, you know, just river rock. Well, there'd be two or three headstones, and a couple weeks later, there'd be six. A couple weeks later, there'd be 12. But nobody was missing from the family as far as they knew, and there were no missing people around.

Kyle:

And this went on until the graveyard swelled to 50 headstones, and a lot of the guys in town started to get alerted and alarmed, they started talking amongst themselves, and they decided that they were going to form a posse, I guess, and go find out what's going on. So 50 men volunteered to go out there, and they were going to go at night, and they were going to split into two groups. One was going to approach the house from one side of the front yard, The other half was gonna approach the house from the backyard. Well, they waited till it was a moon moonlit night so they could see. And as they were getting to the house, they almost got there, and they said nine large birds took flight from the roof of the house.

Kyle:

And they're like, okay. What was that? Anyways, they knocked on the door, and no one came, and they kicked the door in, and they went in there. And they said when they got in there, there was no furniture, there was no clothes, no tools, none of the necessities that people would need to live in a house. He said what there was was all this debris and what looked like giant straw nests, and they were like, what is going on?

Kyle:

The next day, they went and exhumed a couple of the graves, like 15, I think, And what they found in those graves was tiny human skeletons, but they had two extra bones on their shoulder, and their bones were hollow like bird bones, and their skulls weren't shaped right, and they were like, man, this is this is demonic. This is something unnatural. So they burned the house down, and nobody ever saw them again. And apparently, this place is still there, people go and try to find it, the remains of what where where it stood, the foundation. And they said even now when you go there, there always seems to be, for whatever reason, lots of large birds in the trees, and they seem reluctant to leave.

Kyle:

And so I guess these were like hybrid bird people.

Cam:

What could that have been?

Matt Harrison:

I don't wanna know.

Cam:

What could that have been?

Matt Harrison:

I'd rather not know.

Cam:

Jeepers creepers.

Matt Harrison:

That's what I was saying.

Cam:

Right. There we go again with

Matt Harrison:

a I need to be a windshield in that town.

Kyle:

Yeah. Apparently, it's in the folklore. Like, the woman that said it said her great grandmother told her that story. That is Wow.

Matt Harrison:

That is so crazy.

Kyle:

I'm not sure where in Kentucky. I bet you could look it up. Yeah. I think it's literally called the Byrd family. So Mhmm.

Kyle:

Food for thought.

Matt Harrison:

Well, with that story, I think that puts a bow on.

Kyle:

There we go.

Matt Harrison:

I think that's one time. Kyle and Cam Yeah, man. It's been a blast. Thanks so much.

Kyle:

Thanks for me here.

Cam:

Great time.

Matt Harrison:

Clay, thanks for everybody that's behind the cameras right now for making this possible. It's been a lot of work out here getting this set up. Thank you all so much. It's been a great time.

Cam:

This has been awesome.

Matt Harrison:

Hopefully, listeners have enjoyed it just as much, and same time next year? Same time next year. Same time next year. Send us some stories too. Right?

Matt Harrison:

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Cam:

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Matt Harrison:

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Cam:

Yeah.

Matt Harrison:

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Kyle:

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Matt Harrison:

Easy to find.

Kyle:

Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween, y'all.

Matt Harrison:

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