Creepy - Day 20 - No Wolves in the Stillwood

Starting point is 00:00:04 This is creepy. A podcast dedicated to sharing the most famous, chilling and disturbing creepypastas and urban legends in the world. Whether these stories truly happened, or are simply fabrications is for you to decide. These stories may contain graphic depictions of violence and explicit language. Listener discretion is advised. Creepy presents the 31 days of horror. Day 20 No wolves in the still wood.

Starting point is 00:00:50 The gray wolves of Virginia were made extinct over 100 years ago. According to regular surveys by the National Forestry Service, no sign of any such animal has been found since 1900. The occasional reports of large predators, just effort at dusk or late at night, usually by the occasional hiker or party of campers in the still wood, residents of Laurel, Ethiopia, nearest the woods like myself, no better than to try.

Starting point is 00:01:19 Receive the same tired reply from animal control. There are no wolves in the still wood. When a pet gets lost in the dark of the still wood never returns, or worse is found, mauled, and blamed false. on the usual suspects, foxes, wild dogs, or teenagers with too much time and too little compassion. A few years back when the Bradley's, a little family brand new to the falls, had the boy David go missing from their own backyard, never finding more than scraps of his jacket and a little

Starting point is 00:01:54 blood at the edge of the forest, the official response was adamant. This was a kidnapping, not an animal attack. Old timers like me just shook her heads and muttered to our own. ourselves. There are no wolves in the stillwood. So, if you want to sleep at night this close to the forest, keep your doors locked tight and your shutters closed fast, if just to buy some peace of mind, to stop you from catching a glimpse of the stillwood late at night, and should you somehow find yourself walking near, or God forbid, through the wood some evening, head home as quick as you can.

Starting point is 00:02:37 Try to ignore the sounds of the night wind, howling as it does. It will only make your imagination run wild after all. And should you see what cannot be polychrome eyes shining through the mists from the underbrush or somehow in the branches above, should you be blessed enough to make it safely home? Take what comfort you can in this thought.

Starting point is 00:03:04 There are no wolves in the stillwood. Welcome to the Drift and Ramble podcast. Each episode will explore true stories and American legends. From the pages of history, we'll look at the people, places, and events that help shape a nation. The Windigo's appearance is often signaled by sudden cold and wind. And though it can take many forms, it's most often described as a giant creature with prodigious strength and incredible speed. Tall, pale, gaunt, almost a skeleton. The windago has human qualities, but inhuman abilities. And while we call this apparition by its Native American name,

Starting point is 00:04:23 the phenomenon occurs in almost every culture around the globe. In Arab countries, the creature is known as a ghoul, and a simple YouTube video search brought up a video of one of these creatures terrorizing a young cameraman in Iraq. The Japanese have a creature called Jikininki, or roughly translated, human-eating ghost. With stories dating back before the 20th century, this corpse-eating ghost carries many similarities to the Windigo legend. In European countries, the ogre was said to be insufferably hungry

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Creepy - Day 20 - No Wolves in the Stillwood

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