As a southerner, I do know about some of these creatures, but the scariest thing to find in the forests here is a hunter who had one too many Coors Lights
I’m from TN and a fun fact - not far from where the White Bluff Screamer story happened is a place nicknamed Werewolf Springs located in Montgomery Bell State Park. There are stories about the place that go back to the 1800’s. Also a county or two over is Adams where the famous Bell Witch haunting allegedly took place. Very peculiar place in my opinion.
Etowah Tennessee right here mcminn county...the hollow i grew up in was haunted by Cherokee spirits n civil war soldiers..i swear i was stalked by a sasquatch one time in renegar hollow..i heard a loud whistle and it felt like a finger dotting me between my eyes..my dogs hair stood up on her back she growled n took off running..so did i haha
It's very interesting to me that you mention the Alabama white thing. I grew up in east central Alabama and stories about the "white thing" were told to me many times by my father, grandfather and many others in our small town. What I was told though differs a little from your description in that the white thing described to me was not like a sasquatch but was actually a beast with the head of a mountain lion the body of a bear and of course solid white. It terrorized our little town with screams at night and coming up onto peoples' porches and scratching on the doors. Many a dog and cat disappeared when it was around. The other part of the story about it is that it didn't linger in one place too long but had a multi-year cycle travelling north into Tennessee, back down the east coast and then back through Alabama. I could go on and on but I won't bore you. Great video that brings back good memories of campfire tales. Thanks!
I used to live in Murray County Georgia which isn't too far from the Tennessee and Alabama borders and i swear to God with my hand on a stack of bibles when i was very young like 13-14 i saw this thing, it was white and tall and stood on two legs, and it was eating from a pear tree, in the middle of the trailer park, not but 100 feet away from me, could have been closer I don't really remember but it was down a small hill. And i didn't see its face or if i did I can't really remember sorry.
Always a pleasure to see a FoL video upload. This ones a topic I find fascinating (as a hardcore sceptic with a thirst for folktales and sightings.) and am always pleased to see covered. Time to settle in with a morning coffee and give it a watch!
I've heard owls at night, I couldn't tell you what breed, but they do sound like a woman screaming. That would fit the description of the creature moving around and even being joined in by more than one.
I was wondering if he was going to mention the wampus cat when I saw the video posted. My granddaddy used to tell my brother and I about it to scare us and keep us from getting into things we shouldn’t.
I was born in Baton Rouge and have lived most of my life here but grew up on my dad’s family farm in Amite County Mississippi just a few miles over the MS/LA state line. The official name of the community is called Street but we always called it Ducktown as some of the earliest settlers in the area had the last name of Duck. I was always told to watch out for the “Ducktown Booger”! He will get you if you ain’t careful! I think it may come from the scream of a panther or technically the mountain lion. When I was in my twenties back around 1992-1993, I was driving on highway 67 just north of Clinton, LA and saw a mountain lion sniffing at a dead armadillo on the shoulder of the road. It was one huge cat tan in color with a tail just as long as its body. It was quite magnificent. I’ll never forget it.
foxes can also scream and sound much like a mountain lion. i remember the first time i heard one, i thought a deranged woman was pacing through the woods behind my house screaming like a lunatic. later i connected it to the red fox i saw by the treeline a week earlier
It's hilarious to me that there is a town just called "Street". The people who made it said "yeah its just a street here literally nothing else to name it for"
@@thezackast2752 we always found it a bit humorous as well. It’s just a small community and not incorporated or anything. I would have to double check but pretty sure Street was the last name of an early settler.
Bud please give us another nations documentary. Been watching since you made your English history video. You have some of the best docs on YT please make more!!!
i’ve seen the marfa lights before. there’s an observatory off the side of the road facing the mountain they’re usually on. we didn’t see anything utill about 20 minutes after dark, and they were very visible after that. we left when the lights started getting closer and closer to the road lol
Thank you for yet another fantastic video. This made for appropriately atmospheric listening while I was working in the woods, lol. These stories of the unexplained are fascinating, and you do a great job telling them. God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Oh my gosh you unlocked a very old memory of mine When I was younger and my grandparents lived in Dalton, GA my granddad would tell me and my cousins to go to sleep otherwise old green eyes would get us. I’ll have to mention it to him sometime, see if he remembers too.
I’ve seen Ol’ Green Eyes before. I live just outside of Chattanooga Tennessee & so the Chickamauga Battlefield is very nearby & so naturally me & a few friends went down there. We couldn’t make out any form but the green eyes definitely stood out & all 4 of us saw them.
@@lizetholguin1623 There’s really not much more to tell. A group of 4 silly teenagers went down to the Chickamauga Battlefield around dusk & headed towards “Green Eye’s Tower” (I honestly have no clue what the tower’s actually named) & we sat there talking crap & waiting hoping to see the spectral green eyes everyone’s heard so much about. After about an hour of waiting, my now husband but then boyfriend spotted something he said would “have to be that damn ghost’s eyes” & so we all look over to the edge of the wood line where he’d pointed & sure enough, there were 2 glowing green spots that were the distance apart a set of eyes’d be. After we stood there staring in silence, the “eyes” (idk what they are, maybe they’re ghost eyes, maybe there’s some other explanation, idk) rose up from where they were until they were up towards the tops of some pretty tall trees. I always have to tell this part bc so many times I’ve been told that what we witnessed was the reflection from what few “street lights” they’ve got dotted round the park bouncing off of deer’s eyes. Deer aren’t capable of climbing in a way that’d make how & where we watched those green spots elevate up to the tree tops. Not to mention, I’ve been an avid deer hunter before & I still get out there a few times each season so I’ve seen how light reflects off a deer’s eyes in the otherwise darkness of night multiple times & not once did it look similar enough to the glowing green orbs of light we saw down there in N. Georgia that summer night in my later teen yrs.
Probably my favorite piece of non-compliant lore for the skunk-ape is that both in the years and time of year when the sightings increased greatly was the time when my grandfather would say that he'd take a vacation to the Florida wilderness and camp out in un-owned forest property and going full wild-man mode, smelling like unwashed and dirty man and hollering at any hikers and chasing them around. Which basically means!!! There is a non-zero chance A sighting was actually just my gramps!😂
These stories remind me of a book i read many years ago supposedly of all true stories. One happened during the war between the States. After a battle and the wounded and dead were on the battlefield a crawling disheveled figure with glowing green eyes crawled among the fallen bodies and was seen crawling on top of a body (presumably wounded but alive). It was assumed to be drinking the blood of the Soldier. This creature was never caught but was seen on various battlefield s all over the South. Has anyone else heard of this or read that book? It was decades ago but i still recall that horrible creature.
It’s wild, I grew up in deep southwest Louisiana, surrounded by marsh, woods, and farmland. When I was a kid, swear to this day there was a wolf-looking creature looking directly into my window late one night but it looked like the height of a freakin person standing . Ran to my parents room, my dad ran outside with a gun and swore he saw something jump the fence (6 feet, higher than what a regular wolf could jump). He swore it was just a large wolf and the men went hunting for months in the area. Had no idea we had an urban legend about such a creature.
I thought i saw a Carolina black panther when we used to love near the SE NC swamps but it turned out to be a GIANT black cat. I think. It was def a cat of some kind & huge, all black with a long tail that hung down. Footprints were as big as my hands. Glad it wasn't one of these guys. Word of advice: stay outta swamps at night. Ijs.
We had a black panther in Florida a few years ago, it was killing people's cattle and and other animals it was creating so much problems until hunters was trying to do anything to capture or kill it, a friend of ours that hunting asked us if we want to go with him to hunt it, and I'm like nope, got better s*** to do did then to hunt a big black cat at night, but that was the first time I ever heard about a black panther in Florida .
You should look up Aurora Texas, and their UFO crash site legend from 1897. I think that one is interesting as it's an early UFO report, way before Roswell. You should also look up the Blue Ridge Mountains Lights. I've never seen them myself and a lot of people think it's gas releasing but it's an interesting phenomenon
I’m a 52 yr old who’s lived in the Chattanooga area all my life and have been to Chickamauga Battlefield Park countless times. When my brother-in-law (a pretty serious fellow) was in his late teens, he and a friend were illegally in the park very late at night, hanging around the tower, and they both saw & heard what he swore “had to be” Old Green Eyes and it scared the absolute living 💩 out of them both. Personally, I strongly suspect there’s been so much blood spilled on the land, so much death, violence and suffering there, that it possible tore a hole in the veil between dimensions, and some extremely dark entities sometimes enter there to feed upon the loosh that stains the land to this very day. Also, we shouldn’t overlook the fact that the Trail Of Tears also went through this region, and there are stories about some very scary sightings in and around Red Clay State Park…
@@lorchid23 I live in Birchwood myself, very close to the Cherokee Removal Memorial Park which has a gorgeous view from atop a very high bluff of where the Hiawassee River meets the Tennessee River. The entrance to that is just a few seconds before you get to the boat ramp that used to be our only way across the river to Dayton via Blythe’s Ferry. It was a major camp through there during the Trail of Tears & they were transported across the river via ferry there (ran by the Blythes even back then up until they built the bridge on Hwy 60 that opened in 93 or 94 when I was in my early teens) & there’s a lot of crazy things ppl have reported seeing, hearing, feeling up there. I myself go there several times a week sometimes but I’ve never had any odd experiences myself. That boat ramp the ferry used to use is also where that Meigs Co sheriff’s deputy recently drove into the river w a woman (who I knew pretty well) handcuffed in the backseat and both of them drowned. That entire story is very suspicious to me bc the area is not complicated to learn at all. There aren’t very many roads up this way. He arrested her on the Hwy 60 bridge between Birchwood & Dayton. To get to the Meigs Co jail which is about a 45-an hr drive from there, the quickest & easiest route would be 60 all the way to Hwy 58 where he’d make a left onto 58 headed north, stay on that for the 40ish min drive to Decatur & then it’s one turn onto the rd the jail is on then turn into the jail parking lot. Where he drove straight into the water w a handcuffed passenger stuck in the back of a police cruiser w no way to roll her windows down or open the door since neither can be done from the back (I understand why that is) was so close to the bridge & makes absolutely zero sense. Bc instead of going straight to 58, instead only about .25 mile after being off the bridge, he’d have to take a left onto a side road & about a mile down it, he could’ve went right which would’ve taken him down a very curvy backroad that would’ve got him to 58 hwy further north than the 58/60 junction so had he intended to do that, it makes no sense either bc it’s nowhere near to being faster due to how slow you have to drive bc of how the road is. He went left instead which leads me to believe he was going to that boat ramp which is always empty late at night, likely for some nefarious reason but that’s speculation on my part. That left should’ve set off alarm bells that he was heading right back to the river that he’d just left when leaving the bridge. It’s about a mile or just a bit less to the boat ramp which is fairly well lit up w street lights & some lights on the pier they’ve built there, not to mention his own headlights so how he couldn’t see that he was about to drive wide open straight into the river, I can not comprehend at all. I really don’t even have a point other than just wanting to discuss how crazy that horrible incident was for both of them I imagine. I do wonder every now & then if the area’s negative energy from all that’s occurred there might have had something to do with their tragic deaths. Obviously I have no way of figuring it out but it doesn’t prevent me from wondering.
Top tier as always! A good mix of different phenomena and types of stories. I wasn't aware of Old Green Eyes or the White Bluff Screamer; I'll definitely need to look further into those ones. And I live in Georgia, close to the Chickamauga Battlefield, so I should actually visit and look for Old Green Eyes myself. And, y'know, learn about the history and all. The Screamer... if there's any truth to the story, it's always possible that the witnesses were hearing an owl. There are owls that sound bizarrely close to human screams and probably have inspired ghost stories all over the world. Did an owl kill a whole family? That's a bit more on the debatable side.
About the screamer, this really happened to me - I live in Massachusetts, I was out in my garage smoking a cigarette. I heard my cat outside, figured he was killing a chipmunk or something (this was at night btw) like he usually does. Then I hear a scream. Not a fox or owl or anything, this sounded like a man yelling "Raaaaahhh!" Like the most primal warcry you can imagine. It was LOUD. So I ran the fuck inside (the garage was being redone and didnt have a man door at the time, just a hole in the wall) and figured that was it. A while later I was calmed down and went out for a smoke again and something SLAMMED on the side of my garage, it was a HUGE bang. I just kinda put my butt out and walked back inside, I did not feel the need to go out and find what it was lol. Im not saying this was a paranormal encounter, but something that screams like a man was in my front yard getting pestered by my cat and screamed, then slammed on my garage when I went back out. It was probably looking at my through the window, thats why it slammed when I was out there, I have never thought about that until writing this right now and shit that is creepy lmao. I actually got a bit of a chill just now
@@damiencouturee6240you know it could have been a screaming man if that story is true and many reasons for why he is screaming could cause a loud frash as he tried to run inside prolly towards where you did because he prolly saw you go in my thoughts is prolly a gang killing someone of your in that kind of neighbourhood
@@Electromatlc I live in the middle of the woods lol. It's not impossible that it was a person but seeing as there were no cars around and that there's nowhere to go around here its *extremely* unlikely it was some guy. The nearest gas station, which is also the nearest business of any kind to me is 3.5 miles away, just as an example of what my areas like. No sidewalks on my road or anything because there's no pedestrian traffic whatsoever.
Back when there were a LOT more traveling circuses with animal acts, many of them used to stay in Florida over the winter months. I tend to chalk up any weird animal/creature sightings down there, especially primates, to escapees that have adapted.
just a few days ago i had a conversation with david shealy the skunkape hunter. he’s a real nice guy and seems like he genuinely believes what he says. if you’re ever in the everglades pay him a visit at the skunk ape research center!
I was born and raised in Florida I've lived here for 36 years, my parents have lived here even longer, mom 59 years and Dad 65 plus years, grandparents lived here 80 and 90 plus years before they passed, and in all that time I have never in my life heard anyone talk about a skunk ape , not in North Florida, not in Central Florida, and not in South Florida, believe me when I say this, if there was ever a skunk ape in Florida it would be sitting on somebody's grill or wall by now .
in the summer and fall of 1977. in the iron mt. area . we had ( something ) . running around in the woods making a whooping sound. and moving very fast. even the old timers had no idea what it was.this was in VA.
Just figured I’d throw it out there, I was given a brand new iPhone 15 for my birthday this year and just last weekend I was filming my niece’s dance recital for my sister (specifically because I had the newest phone with the best camera) and I couldn’t help but notice that even with this thing, at the distance of only like 30 feet in broad daylight, her face was really not all that clear, and I decided that these cameras really aren’t all that great at range after all
Funny thing about the Skunk Ape is that it seems to follow Bergmann's Rule, being smaller than the more northern Sasquatch. The alleged range of the animal has also been pushed south as population growth in the state applied pressure on the supposed creature. A good example of another (verified) animal that follows these same rules and trends is the Florida Panther. Whether real or not, it's funny how the S.A. follows rules concerning large mammals in general.
I was born and raised in Dickson Tennessee. Still live here. Spent a ton of time in white bluff. I haven't heard of the screamer in YEARS!!! Had a friend that I used to stay the night with in White Bluff, all the time when I was a kid. He'd tell me the story of the screamer every now and then.
Great video, I'm pretty sure the marfa lights are a refraction of headlights so in other words a mirage. It's just the perfect geography for this, it can't be Will-o-the-wisps because those only spawn from marshy conditions (caused by two byproducts created by anaerobic bacteria in the swamp muck) they're always a dull blueish color too. The only other ghost lights are caused by electricity in some way, shape or form.
❤ I live just a few miles away, and yes, most of the lights are a refraction of headlights as vehicles drive on the highway toward Presidio, Texas. The real Marfa Lights are seen, however. These are orbs that change color and separate I to smaller orbs. There have also been many recorded sightings from before the highway was built and way before vehicles were in the area. There are also stories that were told by the local Native Tribes of these sightings. That said, we are located in a dry desert, the Chihuahuan Desert. There are minerals and mining activity. In any case, these are a real phenomenon.
One of my great aunts told me a story about something they saw that is similar to Green Eyes except this figure had red eyes and like the Green Eyes stood tall and its body was completely shadowed and smooth. They saw this near Dothan Alabama in the 60's.
I have mixed feelings about the skinwalker ranch case. There are so many testimonies that is has to be SOMETHING that they're all observing, and so many people have been there to investigate. But their evidence is very poor, so it's frustrating.
China has yaren Australia has Yohwie japan has hibagon Russia has elmasti etc etc. i was stationed at MCB 29 Palms in the 80s and we were warned about yucca man (being in the yucca vally) which I never saw. All are described like bigfoot.
I am from south Louisiana in the suburbs of New Orleans. My town runs into the swamps from Lake Pontchartrains spillway and I swear the Rougarou is real. However it’s more like a big foot or skunk ape. I know hunters that have had encounters with it. Just be very careful if you find yourself in the swamps and bayous of South Louisiana day or night, we have gators, snakes, bears, cougars have been seen here and last but not least we have the Rougarou aka big foot aka skunk ape!!
I seen old greens I think . But it was in Pickens Co Georgia. I swear. It was very tall had whitish color but it was behind a tree . When I shined my flashlight it would duck the raise when I took it off. Beside was another one but it was small and didn't raise . But them green eyes shined. Freaked me out bad. Well actually scared the hell out of me
My moms from Dallas, TX and one popular legend there was The Ghost of White Rock or the lady of the lake if you’ve ever seen the TV show supernatural like the first episode of the first season is based off that legend.
Odd that you didn't show the video of the Skunk Ape moving through the marsh. I have seen it. As someone who has spent plenty of time in that environment, I can attest that it was moving through that marsh grass faster than any human could, even without a gorilla suit on.
Great video, even if some of the Sasquatch information is outdated. There are at least four new recent videos in High-def of Sasquatch. Teo of which can be seen on the show, "Paranormal Caught on Camera." Thanks.
I lived in Houma for 8 years. According to the locals, the rougarou can also take on the form of an alligator, a large dog, a horse, and a few other animals. It's not just a werewolf and is more dangerous because of its ability to mimic other animals that a person might be more likely to approach.
As far as the Skunk Ape goes, my theory is they're descended from escapees of the times when circuses used to summer there who went indigenous. We have had two known feral chimpanzee colonies with breeding populations here
As a southerner, I do know about some of these creatures, but the scariest thing to find in the forests here is a hunter who had one too many Coors Lights
To many coors might get you shot, to many bud lights you don't wanna know what they'll do to ya.
you mean natty lite
@@steffen7478 nah coors
Don’t be talkin bout Shane like that!
Sounds formidable. But no match for the nekkid banjo player imo!
I’m fairly sure you could find most of these outside of a 7/11 at 4 AM
No doubt....
Theirs actually video evidence lol and it's not grainy UFO footage
Waffle House
7/11 in the south?
Circle K
It’s where weird things happen
I’m from TN and a fun fact - not far from where the White Bluff Screamer story happened is a place nicknamed Werewolf Springs located in Montgomery Bell State Park. There are stories about the place that go back to the 1800’s. Also a county or two over is Adams where the famous Bell Witch haunting allegedly took place. Very peculiar place in my opinion.
can u share some of them please,that s very interesting
❤ Rugaroo OCD skin walkers.
Etowah Tennessee right here mcminn county...the hollow i grew up in was haunted by Cherokee spirits n civil war soldiers..i swear i was stalked by a sasquatch one time in renegar hollow..i heard a loud whistle and it felt like a finger dotting me between my eyes..my dogs hair stood up on her back she growled n took off running..so did i haha
@@adamhawkins3036dude I live in riceville tn, I've never heard of that. Need to check it out
They're in TN.
I'm always glad to see an in depth video on southern US cryptids as that is where I'm from. Most videos aren't even of this quality
Finally, I know why The Count from Sesame Street counts everything. "One...ah,ah,ah..."
I've been waiting for this since you uploaded that couples alien story. Your cryptid videos are mint.
Thank you!
Another fine addition to my collection. Glad to see you returning to this sort of thing, dude.
I've missed your videos about such topics.I love them!!!
Thank you!
It's very interesting to me that you mention the Alabama white thing. I grew up in east central Alabama and stories about the "white thing" were told to me many times by my father, grandfather and many others in our small town. What I was told though differs a little from your description in that the white thing described to me was not like a sasquatch but was actually a beast with the head of a mountain lion the body of a bear and of course solid white. It terrorized our little town with screams at night and coming up onto peoples' porches and scratching on the doors. Many a dog and cat disappeared when it was around. The other part of the story about it is that it didn't linger in one place too long but had a multi-year cycle travelling north into Tennessee, back down the east coast and then back through Alabama. I could go on and on but I won't bore you. Great video that brings back good memories of campfire tales. Thanks!
I'm from decatur and I heard the same stories. My grandpa swears up and down he saw it on a fishing trip
I used to live in Murray County Georgia which isn't too far from the Tennessee and Alabama borders and i swear to God with my hand on a stack of bibles when i was very young like 13-14 i saw this thing, it was white and tall and stood on two legs, and it was eating from a pear tree, in the middle of the trailer park, not but 100 feet away from me, could have been closer I don't really remember but it was down a small hill. And i didn't see its face or if i did I can't really remember sorry.
You wouldn't be boring us at all.
@@arlenedavis5770 Thank you!
@@timbennett7211Seriously when you get the chance can you elaborate please. This is so cool
Always a pleasure to see a FoL video upload.
This ones a topic I find fascinating (as a hardcore sceptic with a thirst for folktales and sightings.) and am always pleased to see covered.
Time to settle in with a morning coffee and give it a watch!
I've heard owls at night, I couldn't tell you what breed, but they do sound like a woman screaming. That would fit the description of the creature moving around and even being joined in by more than one.
Screech owls sound really scary. That fits the description of it.
Barn owls can make a terrifying cry as well as screech owls
I think uhh mountain lions also make that noise while mating?
@@MySmith1984mountain lions do make some horrifying scream sounds at night. we hear them a lot during certain times of the year
Could have been a rake
Best collection of lore bits I've heard about the _loup garou_ I've heard so far.
The White Bluff Screamer sounds possibly like the Wampus Cat which is female and a kind of werepanther.
I was wondering if he was going to mention the wampus cat when I saw the video posted. My granddaddy used to tell my brother and I about it to scare us and keep us from getting into things we shouldn’t.
New to this channel but I find the topics captivating and informative, which is hard to find on TH-cam these days 👏🏻🖤
I was born in Baton Rouge and have lived most of my life here but grew up on my dad’s family farm in Amite County Mississippi just a few miles over the MS/LA state line. The official name of the community is called Street but we always called it Ducktown as some of the earliest settlers in the area had the last name of Duck. I was always told to watch out for the “Ducktown Booger”! He will get you if you ain’t careful! I think it may come from the scream of a panther or technically the mountain lion. When I was in my twenties back around 1992-1993, I was driving on highway 67 just north of Clinton, LA and saw a mountain lion sniffing at a dead armadillo on the shoulder of the road. It was one huge cat tan in color with a tail just as long as its body. It was quite magnificent. I’ll never forget it.
foxes can also scream and sound much like a mountain lion. i remember the first time i heard one, i thought a deranged woman was pacing through the woods behind my house screaming like a lunatic. later i connected it to the red fox i saw by the treeline a week earlier
It's hilarious to me that there is a town just called "Street". The people who made it said "yeah its just a street here literally nothing else to name it for"
@@thezackast2752 we always found it a bit humorous as well. It’s just a small community and not incorporated or anything. I would have to double check but pretty sure Street was the last name of an early settler.
Your Rod Serlingesque narration is amazingly accurate and very well received...if i may be so bold.
You may
The first immigrants Frence.
Bud please give us another nations documentary. Been watching since you made your English history video. You have some of the best docs on YT please make more!!!
i’ve seen the marfa lights before. there’s an observatory off the side of the road facing the mountain they’re usually on. we didn’t see anything utill about 20 minutes after dark, and they were very visible after that. we left when the lights started getting closer and closer to the road lol
Thank you for yet another fantastic video. This made for appropriately atmospheric listening while I was working in the woods, lol. These stories of the unexplained are fascinating, and you do a great job telling them.
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Oh my gosh you unlocked a very old memory of mine
When I was younger and my grandparents lived in Dalton, GA my granddad would tell me and my cousins to go to sleep otherwise old green eyes would get us. I’ll have to mention it to him sometime, see if he remembers too.
I’ve seen Ol’ Green Eyes before. I live just outside of Chattanooga Tennessee & so the Chickamauga Battlefield is very nearby & so naturally me & a few friends went down there. We couldn’t make out any form but the green eyes definitely stood out & all 4 of us saw them.
Can you tell us more about this sighting?
@@lizetholguin1623 There’s really not much more to tell. A group of 4 silly teenagers went down to the Chickamauga Battlefield around dusk & headed towards “Green Eye’s Tower” (I honestly have no clue what the tower’s actually named) & we sat there talking crap & waiting hoping to see the spectral green eyes everyone’s heard so much about. After about an hour of waiting, my now husband but then boyfriend spotted something he said would “have to be that damn ghost’s eyes” & so we all look over to the edge of the wood line where he’d pointed & sure enough, there were 2 glowing green spots that were the distance apart a set of eyes’d be. After we stood there staring in silence, the “eyes” (idk what they are, maybe they’re ghost eyes, maybe there’s some other explanation, idk) rose up from where they were until they were up towards the tops of some pretty tall trees. I always have to tell this part bc so many times I’ve been told that what we witnessed was the reflection from what few “street lights” they’ve got dotted round the park bouncing off of deer’s eyes. Deer aren’t capable of climbing in a way that’d make how & where we watched those green spots elevate up to the tree tops. Not to mention, I’ve been an avid deer hunter before & I still get out there a few times each season so I’ve seen how light reflects off a deer’s eyes in the otherwise darkness of night multiple times & not once did it look similar enough to the glowing green orbs of light we saw down there in N. Georgia that summer night in my later teen yrs.
@@lizetholguin1623you in is green eyes sound like any animal on 4 legs
This Documentary deserves way more likes than it has 👍👍
I live in the mountains of NE Alabama. I've seen many weird things. Anyone who spends time outdoors usually does.
What have you seen?
@akristen4971 probably my friends drunk uncle he lives in the same area
Always interesting to see stuff about my home region.
I once encountered Florida Man.
Mother of god! How did you survive?
Get well soon.
I am Floriduhman
@@lukelee7967 that’s the thing,
He didn’t
He was turned into a Florida Man too
You poor soul..
Probably my favorite piece of non-compliant lore for the skunk-ape is that both in the years and time of year when the sightings increased greatly was the time when my grandfather would say that he'd take a vacation to the Florida wilderness and camp out in un-owned forest property and going full wild-man mode, smelling like unwashed and dirty man and hollering at any hikers and chasing them around.
Which basically means!!! There is a non-zero chance A sighting was actually just my gramps!😂
Dude I wish I had seen this as soon as it came out I absolutely love this series
📙✨ *Chapters:*
0:36 _The Rougarou_ / Louisiana
6:07 _White Bluff Screamer_ / Tennessee
12:27 _Old Green Eyes_ / Georgia
19:41 _Skunk Ape_ / Florida
33:42 _Marfa Lights_ / Texas
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I love your videos. High quality and researched well.
Yessss, will listen to this while i work
I like these folklore type videos! You're one of the only channels that does this type of thing
These stories remind me of a book i read many years ago supposedly of all true stories. One happened during the war between the States. After a battle and the wounded and dead were on the battlefield a crawling disheveled figure with glowing green eyes crawled among the fallen bodies and was seen crawling on top of a body (presumably wounded but alive). It was assumed to be drinking the blood of the Soldier. This creature was never caught but was seen on various battlefield s all over the South. Has anyone else heard of this or read that book? It was decades ago but i still recall that horrible creature.
Look up Old Green Eyes
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Always a pleasure round the campfire
My husband used to see these when our neighborhood was built. We we early in the development and I guess it was displaced. He called it a “Tha-hat”
saw the marfa lights, they were awesome! they were bright yellow and one zipped back and forth across the desert.
❤ I love that you saw them. I live close by and yes, these are so neat to see, dancing and separating.
@@lizetholguin1623 wow thats so cool! i'd love to come back there someday. beautiful little town!
@PHUZface1 it is definitely a beautiful area, with our closeness to Big Bend National Park.
Love your vids. I'm looking forward to the second part of the history of Italy. These paranormal videos are some of my favorites.
It’s wild, I grew up in deep southwest Louisiana, surrounded by marsh, woods, and farmland.
When I was a kid, swear to this day there was a wolf-looking creature looking directly into my window late one night but it looked like the height of a freakin person standing .
Ran to my parents room, my dad ran outside with a gun and swore he saw something jump the fence (6 feet, higher than what a regular wolf could jump).
He swore it was just a large wolf and the men went hunting for months in the area.
Had no idea we had an urban legend about such a creature.
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😮 Legends exist because there is truth behind them.
Loup Garou are much less common than dogmen/cynocephaly down here. I’m right next to the dogmen capital of the south. Definitely real
They have mystery lights like that in North Carolina on Brown Mountain
I live a few miles away from the sighting of the Marfa Lights area. Can you tell me more about the ones in your area?
@@lizetholguin1623 wendigoon has a pretty good video on it
35:00 these lights were mentioned in a song by the band parliament "have you ever seen such a sight in yo life those bright green lights"
I thought i saw a Carolina black panther when we used to love near the SE NC swamps but it turned out to be a GIANT black cat. I think. It was def a cat of some kind & huge, all black with a long tail that hung down. Footprints were as big as my hands. Glad it wasn't one of these guys. Word of advice: stay outta swamps at night. Ijs.
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We had a black panther in Florida a few years ago, it was killing people's cattle and and other animals it was creating so much problems until hunters was trying to do anything to capture or kill it, a friend of ours that hunting asked us if we want to go with him to hunt it, and I'm like nope, got better s*** to do did then to hunt a big black cat at night, but that was the first time I ever heard about a black panther in Florida .
Hey were you fm around the Great Dismal Swamp?
@@ht3261 I think so. 😱
You should look up Aurora Texas, and their UFO crash site legend from 1897. I think that one is interesting as it's an early UFO report, way before Roswell.
You should also look up the Blue Ridge Mountains Lights. I've never seen them myself and a lot of people think it's gas releasing but it's an interesting phenomenon
I’m a 52 yr old who’s lived in the Chattanooga area all my life and have been to Chickamauga Battlefield Park countless times. When my brother-in-law (a pretty serious fellow) was in his late teens, he and a friend were illegally in the park very late at night, hanging around the tower, and they both saw & heard what he swore “had to be” Old Green Eyes and it scared the absolute living 💩 out of them both.
Personally, I strongly suspect there’s been so much blood spilled on the land, so much death, violence and suffering there, that it possible tore a hole in the veil between dimensions, and some extremely dark entities sometimes enter there to feed upon the loosh that stains the land to this very day.
Also, we shouldn’t overlook the fact that the Trail Of Tears also went through this region, and there are stories about some very scary sightings in and around Red Clay State Park…
@@lorchid23 I live in Birchwood myself, very close to the Cherokee Removal Memorial Park which has a gorgeous view from atop a very high bluff of where the Hiawassee River meets the Tennessee River. The entrance to that is just a few seconds before you get to the boat ramp that used to be our only way across the river to Dayton via Blythe’s Ferry. It was a major camp through there during the Trail of Tears & they were transported across the river via ferry there (ran by the Blythes even back then up until they built the bridge on Hwy 60 that opened in 93 or 94 when I was in my early teens) & there’s a lot of crazy things ppl have reported seeing, hearing, feeling up there. I myself go there several times a week sometimes but I’ve never had any odd experiences myself.
That boat ramp the ferry used to use is also where that Meigs Co sheriff’s deputy recently drove into the river w a woman (who I knew pretty well) handcuffed in the backseat and both of them drowned. That entire story is very suspicious to me bc the area is not complicated to learn at all. There aren’t very many roads up this way. He arrested her on the Hwy 60 bridge between Birchwood & Dayton. To get to the Meigs Co jail which is about a 45-an hr drive from there, the quickest & easiest route would be 60 all the way to Hwy 58 where he’d make a left onto 58 headed north, stay on that for the 40ish min drive to Decatur & then it’s one turn onto the rd the jail is on then turn into the jail parking lot.
Where he drove straight into the water w a handcuffed passenger stuck in the back of a police cruiser w no way to roll her windows down or open the door since neither can be done from the back (I understand why that is) was so close to the bridge & makes absolutely zero sense. Bc instead of going straight to 58, instead only about .25 mile after being off the bridge, he’d have to take a left onto a side road & about a mile down it, he could’ve went right which would’ve taken him down a very curvy backroad that would’ve got him to 58 hwy further north than the 58/60 junction so had he intended to do that, it makes no sense either bc it’s nowhere near to being faster due to how slow you have to drive bc of how the road is. He went left instead which leads me to believe he was going to that boat ramp which is always empty late at night, likely for some nefarious reason but that’s speculation on my part. That left should’ve set off alarm bells that he was heading right back to the river that he’d just left when leaving the bridge. It’s about a mile or just a bit less to the boat ramp which is fairly well lit up w street lights & some lights on the pier they’ve built there, not to mention his own headlights so how he couldn’t see that he was about to drive wide open straight into the river, I can not comprehend at all.
I really don’t even have a point other than just wanting to discuss how crazy that horrible incident was for both of them I imagine. I do wonder every now & then if the area’s negative energy from all that’s occurred there might have had something to do with their tragic deaths. Obviously I have no way of figuring it out but it doesn’t prevent me from wondering.
Top tier as always! A good mix of different phenomena and types of stories. I wasn't aware of Old Green Eyes or the White Bluff Screamer; I'll definitely need to look further into those ones. And I live in Georgia, close to the Chickamauga Battlefield, so I should actually visit and look for Old Green Eyes myself. And, y'know, learn about the history and all.
The Screamer... if there's any truth to the story, it's always possible that the witnesses were hearing an owl. There are owls that sound bizarrely close to human screams and probably have inspired ghost stories all over the world. Did an owl kill a whole family? That's a bit more on the debatable side.
About the screamer, this really happened to me - I live in Massachusetts, I was out in my garage smoking a cigarette. I heard my cat outside, figured he was killing a chipmunk or something (this was at night btw) like he usually does. Then I hear a scream. Not a fox or owl or anything, this sounded like a man yelling "Raaaaahhh!" Like the most primal warcry you can imagine. It was LOUD. So I ran the fuck inside (the garage was being redone and didnt have a man door at the time, just a hole in the wall) and figured that was it. A while later I was calmed down and went out for a smoke again and something SLAMMED on the side of my garage, it was a HUGE bang. I just kinda put my butt out and walked back inside, I did not feel the need to go out and find what it was lol.
Im not saying this was a paranormal encounter, but something that screams like a man was in my front yard getting pestered by my cat and screamed, then slammed on my garage when I went back out. It was probably looking at my through the window, thats why it slammed when I was out there, I have never thought about that until writing this right now and shit that is creepy lmao. I actually got a bit of a chill just now
@@damiencouturee6240thank you for sharing
@@damiencouturee6240 That's a scary encounter.
@@damiencouturee6240you know it could have been a screaming man if that story is true and many reasons for why he is screaming could cause a loud frash as he tried to run inside prolly towards where you did because he prolly saw you go in my thoughts is prolly a gang killing someone of your in that kind of neighbourhood
@@Electromatlc I live in the middle of the woods lol. It's not impossible that it was a person but seeing as there were no cars around and that there's nowhere to go around here its *extremely* unlikely it was some guy.
The nearest gas station, which is also the nearest business of any kind to me is 3.5 miles away, just as an example of what my areas like. No sidewalks on my road or anything because there's no pedestrian traffic whatsoever.
Back when there were a LOT more traveling circuses with animal acts, many of them used to stay in Florida over the winter months. I tend to chalk up any weird animal/creature sightings down there, especially primates, to escapees that have adapted.
Please do a vid on the mythical creatures of India!! I love this series it's so comprehensive!
just a few days ago i had a conversation with david shealy the skunkape hunter. he’s a real nice guy and seems like he genuinely believes what he says. if you’re ever in the everglades pay him a visit at the skunk ape research center!
My son's girlfriend is one of these so called mythical creatures...
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😂😂😂 so sorry bro 😂
...dad?
She goes to another school. You wouldn't know her!
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Really well made video, I aspire to have this skill some day, thank you
Just discovered your channel. I'm a fan! Keep up your great content.
I heard about the Shunk Ape from the Animal Planet show Animal X a thrilling exciting show documenting paranormal cryptids globally.
I was born and raised in Florida I've lived here for 36 years, my parents have lived here even longer, mom 59 years and Dad 65 plus years, grandparents lived here 80 and 90 plus years before they passed, and in all that time I have never in my life heard anyone talk about a skunk ape , not in North Florida, not in Central Florida, and not in South Florida, believe me when I say this, if there was ever a skunk ape in Florida it would be sitting on somebody's grill or wall by now .
I don't even live in Florida and I've heard of it.
Great channel .
in the summer and fall of 1977. in the iron mt. area . we had ( something ) . running around in the woods making a whooping sound. and moving very fast. even the old timers had no idea what it was.this was in VA.
Just figured I’d throw it out there, I was given a brand new iPhone 15 for my birthday this year and just last weekend I was filming my niece’s dance recital for my sister (specifically because I had the newest phone with the best camera) and I couldn’t help but notice that even with this thing, at the distance of only like 30 feet in broad daylight, her face was really not all that clear, and I decided that these cameras really aren’t all that great at range after all
Love these mythical ceeature/cryptid vids by you.
Your voice sounds just a little like Dr. Evil, and it makes me happy. 😁
Funny thing about the Skunk Ape is that it seems to follow Bergmann's Rule, being smaller than the more northern Sasquatch. The alleged range of the animal has also been pushed south as population growth in the state applied pressure on the supposed creature. A good example of another (verified) animal that follows these same rules and trends is the Florida Panther. Whether real or not, it's funny how the S.A. follows rules concerning large mammals in general.
Saved this one for the beginning of fall, LETS GOO
We have the same lights here in North Carolina
Just binging these videos. Living in Asia, I would love to see one centred on here!
Can’t count to 13 but knows when 101 nights have passed. 🐺
I was born and raised in Dickson Tennessee. Still live here. Spent a ton of time in white bluff. I haven't heard of the screamer in YEARS!!! Had a friend that I used to stay the night with in White Bluff, all the time when I was a kid. He'd tell me the story of the screamer every now and then.
I visit the Chickamauga battlefield pretty often and I can tell you those woods have a peculiar heaviness...
Perfect video to watch with breakfast.
Thanks I have comic I want to write about the supernatural creatures and haunts of the south and this really help!!
There are scientifically documented ways for geological activity to release energy in the form of light. Piezoelectricity for example.
Do a Documentary video on Valentines Day, St.Patricks Day, St. Nicholas Day, and Easter.
Interesting content thanks for sharing
Great video, I'm pretty sure the marfa lights are a refraction of headlights so in other words a mirage. It's just the perfect geography for this, it can't be Will-o-the-wisps because those only spawn from marshy conditions (caused by two byproducts created by anaerobic bacteria in the swamp muck) they're always a dull blueish color too. The only other ghost lights are caused by electricity in some way, shape or form.
❤ I live just a few miles away, and yes, most of the lights are a refraction of headlights as vehicles drive on the highway toward Presidio, Texas. The real Marfa Lights are seen, however. These are orbs that change color and separate I to smaller orbs. There have also been many recorded sightings from before the highway was built and way before vehicles were in the area. There are also stories that were told by the local Native Tribes of these sightings. That said, we are located in a dry desert, the Chihuahuan Desert. There are minerals and mining activity. In any case, these are a real phenomenon.
One of my great aunts told me a story about something they saw that is similar to Green Eyes except this figure had red eyes and like the Green Eyes stood tall and its body was completely shadowed and smooth. They saw this near Dothan Alabama in the 60's.
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Welp, time for another campfire binge with the boys 🔥
thank you for the video
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I hope you do an African entry at some point, great content as per usual sir!
Oh my gosh! I find it incredible that people actually believed these myths. Wow.
Could listen to you say Rougarou all day 😍🥹
i was ITCHING for some cryptid content and was sad i already watched everything on the campfire playlist and then i see this ;-;
Good video
I have mixed feelings about the skinwalker ranch case. There are so many testimonies that is has to be SOMETHING that they're all observing, and so many people have been there to investigate. But their evidence is very poor, so it's frustrating.
Do you have more videos like this in the pipelines?
This man sounds like the narrator of the Twilight zone and I love it.❤❤
i’ve missed theses videos there my favorite 🤩
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Poor grammar is why the chineez are better at everything except gender reveal parties than amuricans
China has yaren Australia has Yohwie japan has hibagon Russia has elmasti etc etc. i was stationed at MCB 29 Palms in the 80s and we were warned about yucca man (being in the yucca vally) which I never saw. All are described like bigfoot.
The Yowie, from what I've heard, is more like a big cat thing than a bigfoot.
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I'm surprised the mountain men from Deliverance didn't make the list.
That was just a movie right? Not a true story?
excellent
A bobcat or panther will sound like a screaming woman
I am from south Louisiana in the suburbs of New Orleans. My town runs into the swamps from Lake Pontchartrains spillway and I swear the Rougarou is real. However it’s more like a big foot or skunk ape. I know hunters that have had encounters with it. Just be very careful if you find yourself in the swamps and bayous of South Louisiana day or night, we have gators, snakes, bears, cougars have been seen here and last but not least we have the Rougarou aka big foot aka skunk ape!!
I seen old greens I think . But it was in Pickens Co Georgia. I swear. It was very tall had whitish color but it was behind a tree . When I shined my flashlight it would duck the raise when I took it off. Beside was another one but it was small and didn't raise . But them green eyes shined. Freaked me out bad. Well actually scared the hell out of me
My moms from Dallas, TX and one popular legend there was The Ghost of White Rock or the lady of the lake if you’ve ever seen the TV show supernatural like the first episode of the first season is based off that legend.
Surprisingly joe nichol didn’t say the skunk ape is an owl.
Odd that you didn't show the video of the Skunk Ape moving through the marsh. I have seen it. As someone who has spent plenty of time in that environment, I can attest that it was moving through that marsh grass faster than any human could, even without a gorilla suit on.
Great video, even if some of the Sasquatch information is outdated. There are at least four new recent videos in High-def of Sasquatch. Teo of which can be seen on the show, "Paranormal Caught on Camera." Thanks.
I wonder why in the one pic of the presumed skunk ape why no one ever brings up the eye shine in the back ground
I lived in Houma for 8 years. According to the locals, the rougarou can also take on the form of an alligator, a large dog, a horse, and a few other animals. It's not just a werewolf and is more dangerous because of its ability to mimic other animals that a person might be more likely to approach.
As far as the Skunk Ape goes, my theory is they're descended from escapees of the times when circuses used to summer there who went indigenous. We have had two known feral chimpanzee colonies with breeding populations here
Do one of the cryptids of Spain next!