Middle-aged opinion - Appellation, Mountains

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

Today we talk about the appellation Mountains and all of their secrets from Bigfoot to the goat man to Colts and anything else strange that’s happening there I have to say that after reading the stories we decided we will never visit the appellation Mountains as it feels terrifying! We hope you enjoyed today’s episode. This is episode 50

Wow, what do you think of that? I think, don't you think of that? Well I think that girl has got everything that she deserves. Shut the fuck up. So how's your week been? Alright. As sad as it is, I've literally counted down this week. I'm like, only four more Mondays to go.

Only four more Fridays to go. Until you break up. Yeah, it's time that... Yeah, it's erm... It's um it's been alright it's the way it has been alright it has been alright we just had a good day yesterday I know on the way to taking Harry to college I was like why is everyone in fucking pajamas literally the amount of kids in pajamas yeah we had quite a few yeah because the parents are like I'm not paying for that. Yeah, and yeah

No, everyone's a lot. I thought I thought And then I went to her is it well booked? Are you in I don't know. I thought you ain't gonna get college then Hmm I Don't know whether to get rid of that house or not. I Think you're asking the wrong person. Why is that? Because it's got dolls in there? Possibly. Or because it just freaks me out. I don't know. How funny? Because it's a Victorian house maybe. I don't know. I just don't like dolls houses. I don't think I ever had one either. I never had one. That's why I got one because I wanted one but I'm over

it now. I don't play with it. I don't think I ever wanted one.. I never had one, that's why I got one, because I wanted one, but I'm over it now. No, I don't think I ever wanted one. I don't pay with it. I don't think I ever wanted one. There's nowhere to put it either, it's like so big. I mean, it's lovely. I'll give it away, I won't sell it or chuck it, do you know what I mean? If I could put it somewhere, like before it went on top of the unit, that was fine, but now it's just like in the way.

Can't you put it in with Paul? Oh damn. Yeah, put a shelf up in there and put it in with Paul. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, it's just like a useless object now, isn't it? At first I was like, oh, now I'm not going to. I'm going to do it up, make it lovely. Yeah, I mean I half did it and then I moved on with my life and now I just want my nice books with

bookends and that's it so anyway yeah yeah so I think it's got a go I need to give it I just don't know oh maybe yeah Linda's grand daughter might want it I don't think it's a young doll's house I think you have to be a bit older it fully opens at the back it's a two up two down there's no stairs so you've got So you got a float. Right dad. Yeah. Like you do. So yeah I was trying to set you up babe but they never gave me a definite answer. They just wanted to know if we were lesbians.

I think if I said yes, you'd have a date. And then I said to Andrew, I said because he's the youngest one and I was like, are you single? He went, no I'm married. I was like, oh, I could see you two together. How happy are you?

Not even, no. On a scale of one to ten. Yeah. But the other two are managers of the company though, so a bit older though. I'm still alright. Yeah. I mean don't you want a bit of fun? No, because I'm still in my social slump.

Still? I'm like literally yesterday when I went out in the garden. The sun this week has been nice, like being outside, I've actually enjoyed that. So I think in the next couple of weeks I may be a little bit more myself. Earlier I was like fit and endemic. Yeah, yeah, just I need some rays on my face. I don't mean a man called Ray, I mean the sun. I mean like the name turns me off.

A man called Rayman. Ray. You'd be honest with me. Raymond. Raymond. I mean that's even worse isn't it? Sorry if your name is Raymond. I'm sure you're wonderful.

The only Raymond I know is Rayman. That's Rayman? No, his name's Raymond. Oh I don't know if I've seen it. You've not seen Rain Man? I think I've seen Calypso. It's excellent. It's one of the best films I've ever seen. Although I do like Tom Cruise. He's an artistic guy, isn't he? Yeah. He's a genius. Mathematical. Yes. I do like Tom Cruise. I think he's handsome as well. You don't think he's handsome? No.

He's not ugly. He's not ugly. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I don't think I would either. But I don't think he's like, well he's all into Scientology, isn't he? Bit of a crazy one. Yeah, I wouldn't. For the podcast, I've actually got some definition of the Appalachian Mountains for us before

we go into it because I thought that would be interesting for people to know about why they are so fucked up and I'm never going there just so you know. Wow, that's saying something, isn't it? I was scared last night. I mean, my initial, what the Appalachian Mountains were, it's, they've got so much history, they're historical, they're the oldest mountains. That's what I looked up, and I, and I got some other stuff, but it's like.

In itself, that, you do imagine how green it is, how beautiful, how natural it is. Yeah, I saw some photos. And, I mean, the photos are amazing. Yeah. They make you want to go. The only thing that makes me truly believe is first of all the vast amount of people

that talk about the shit that's going on up there and the similarities in people's stories. That makes me, I do believe stuff. I believe stuff, but for me to get scared reading something says a lot. It means it's a good read. It says a lot. Somebody's a good writer. Shall we introduce? Shall we just relax for the rest of the evening? Are they staying? Who? Your boys? No. No, you're picking them up. And where's the dog? I left him there. She was gonna come. But she was having the best time

ever. I thought, never leave her. Okay. Okay. I'm going. Right, I'm trying to think if there's anything else that I've forgotten to tell you. Oh yeah, can't get that coat now. What coat? I left you a voice note. I can't get it. Me, honestly, I watched one, the one I sent you about the guy going, like what people were doing and it's just the reals and reals. That was it, I was in that rabbit hole. I watched so many of them.

I was on our... Was that really sad? Yeah, no, I did as well, but I was on our... Still secretly one. There's something else as well. So I was on our Facebook, middle aged opinion, you know, Facebook, do join. But I was on there and then I come across the group. And I was like, there's an actual group on Facebook.

And then I went in it and they're like, oh, look at this dickhead. And I'm like, I can never, I can never have one now. I really like the dry robes. I've not been in it now. I really like them. And I get their first, their first initial meaning was, you know, for those, the sea swimmers and the lake swimmers.

I think they're a nice coat. I get it. And then I get it. I completely understand that they're furry inside so it dries you off but they're like waterproof on the outside because that makes sense in case, you know, who wants to be drying off and getting wet at the same time if it rained. It makes complete sense. And then... Yeah.

I thought they were just coats. When they were slating them him I understood again the ones where they were going oh here's a dry robe being worn under an umbrella but okay it's a dry robe you didn't need the umbrella. But still I've never come across a hate group. I used to belong to one on my face about eyebrows. I was fully into that and then people who were like I did my own nails. I was fully into that. So I didn't comment and stuff but I was like hee hee hee. But a coat and there was another one as well that I come across and I was like I can't get that now I really, I really want them

because I can't have people taking pictures of me and putting it on the internet because in my head I'm like we're going to get a dry robe and we're going to go butt leans and we're going to go and swim in the sea and I'm going to put my dry robe on no not now but I'm by the sea swim in the sea if you want to get one you do you but I'm not going to be on the Facebook group if I, if she ends up on the Facebook group I'm going to get one, you do you, but I'm not gonna be on the Facebook group. If I, if she ends up on the Facebook group, I'm gonna post it all on our social media. I'd be like, I know her.

Dry robe, wanker. I love them though. Why are they so like... I don't get it. I don't know why they're hating so much. They're a coat, right? I mean, they're hating too much. I do... To me, it's a winter coat. Their purpose was for swimmers.

Yeah. That was their main initial purpose, and I get it. But why can't we all jump on that bandwagon and have a really warm, fluffy coat? We're not allowed to now. That keeps you warm. No, it's, we can't. It's gone, The moment's gone.

It's passed. One of the girls at work's got one and I love it. Does she wear it? Yeah. Take a photo. Because in the winter, she's standing there with just her coat on and I'm like, I've got two coats on. Take a picture and post her on Facebook.

I mean, I would never think to take a picture of someone. I don't think she's a dry robe wanker. I don't think people are wankers that wear them. I want one as well. First of all, they're too expensive. But second of all, I can't now. I can't end up on Facebook. Unless we use it as a fashion and change the whole meaning.

I feel like, we get one and we put ourselves on Facebook. But come for our bitch. Okay, with welly boots. Okay, with welly boots. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just welly boots. In a field, because obviously we're going to get tough mother ones. I mean they are beautiful.

They're well nice. Hot pink on the inside, an army on the outside. I know, I saw them and I was like, oh my god, and then I saw the price tag and I was like... Yeah. No. One can't afford that. But yeah, so there's been a few things that I've seen lately and I'm just like, that feels mean.

That feels mean. That feels mean. Well, you are getting old. Why, because I'm nice. Because you're like, that's mean. It's because I'm not due on. Normally I'm like, ah. I'm not right in the middle of the cycle, I'm in a good mood.

I'm telling you, and being out in the sun babe has done something to my brain. The sun is good. I went for my medication check-up, did I tell you? The doctors? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he goes, how's that? And I was like, well, I don't want to wrap the car around a tree, so I'm going to say it's all good. He was

like, started typing. And then I thought, oh god, if that's going to turn up with the men in white coats. But no, it did. Not yet. I actually feel good. Everything takes ages. What kind of priority is it? A couple of months. You know, my life's work is all right. I feel like I'm ready for the half term. Yeah, no, no, no. I'm all right at the moment. I'm not sure. When do yours break up? I've got four weeks. Four weeks? Yeah. I'm not sure with the kids. Which my last week before the half term, I was just like, I've got nothing. I've got nothing left. I think the kids go off on their own as well.

I always used to know when it was coming up half term. Yeah. Mine were like, miserable. I had nothing left for them. Yeah. Please. Stop. Please don't do this in front of me because I can't, I can't sympathize. Yeah. I have nothing.

Nothing left for you. Nothing. It would be nice to be near, um, The beach. The beach, or in a forest, one or the other, where we could have a fire. Yeah, after this, we're not gonna wanna be near fire. We're not going to the Appalachian Mountains.

No, I choose beach, beach. Have you ever watched Cabin in the Woods? No Fucking Cabin in the Woods mate, you should watch that Why? Why? Why? Why would I? They choose who's gonna kill them It's excellent No

There is That one, I think I said it to you Where the... They're like, don't let him in You know the one I think I was saying last time I was around him Where they got diverted and they went round and round and wherever they kept going through. You're talking about from? I don't fucking know.

But they're like, don't let them in. They're knocking on the window with this grin. I'm like, I'm so fucking confused. And then the little girl opens the window, mate. See, I don't see that bit because it's only the little clips. That was cool. It. Yeah it's a good it's a good it's a good program. Oh I also noticed talking of which um my glasses in the last podcast I've got that reflection and that's what I said to you that's why I don't like wearing them unless I'm driving. My other glasses. What ones?

What did you have on? I've got so... look at how many glasses are in this room. Which one of the 20? Those ones up there, up there on the coasters you gave me. Those. They've got a coating on, specifically to stop the lights when I'm driving. But I've got a glare on these. Not in the podcast. But they like block out. But are anti-glare. Yeah. So that is like a film on there or something that they were like recommended and I was like yeah why not? And you're like no. Well I saw them on the podcast and I was like. Why didn't I notice? I don't know. Because I don't really care. Because as I watch it and then I start to fall asleep

Do you? What when you're editing? I'm like how did you fall asleep? We're hilarious It's turning into I'm putting podcasts on to go to bed to and that's what's happening I'm trying to edit and I'm like oh you're gonna have to do it earlier. Yeah This is cozy. I really enjoy how many have I got? Have I got three or four? Hold on. I was just like what have I saved that story from? When did we do strange encounters? Oh, no. Yeah, that was before. Yeah. I'm not I've read that but that's not for today

Have I got three or four? I've got four saved. What am I saying? Yeah, I really enjoyed seeing all these TikToks. I've had a really good giggle. So we're uploading another one tonight. Oh yeah. And then I definitely want to do a scare thing. Right, are we ready? They can't help us. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah. Hello everyone and welcome to Middle Aged Opinion. I'm your host Ellie. And I'm your host Emily. And today we are looking at the Appalachian Mountains. I'm excited about this one. Ellie's really excited about this one. It's actually shit her her up which means something serious because she doesn't get... I'm never going there. Which means I really don't want to do this because I haven't

slapped. I had shivers, made shivers. So before we get into it I just want to say because I said that I went on Google because I wanted to know a little bit about the Appalachian Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains are often associated with supernatural legends and a sense of mystery due to the age and isolation. They offer folklore and unexplained offence so that was cool. Then it's got the landscape. The Appalachian mountains are extremely old, having formed billions of years ago, and this contributes towards the sense of mystery itself to the location.

And then you've got isolation and danger, folklore, unexplained events, these are all the things that are reported from them. Yeah did you see any of the controversial arguments about whether they're actually mountains or just hills? Like people are petty. Yes, they are hills. Do you think? Yes. Why? Because the people that live there refer to them as hills and if they live there and they say they're Hills and their hills I Don't know maybe you're like they're over a certain height makes me man

I was just gonna say surely I was just gonna say but I'm not so they're not that I know what that high is Like, you know, you're an inch over you're a mountain. I could just I don't I don't know I don't know. I would probably go by did mountains and hills they were like why why we are in palace that's what I mean is this is this an argument we're having some of the most frequent throat throat laws and legends it's very different frequent fright forever the bone lady oh gee I story The first one we're going to be covering are the Bone Lady. Oh geez. A story about a supernatural figure who roams the mountains warning travelers of danger. Well she sounds friendly. Yeah, well she's giving you a warning.

She's like, get out before I get you. Your favorite, Skinwalkers. A supernatural being. There was one on, oh, oh, he just gave me a shivoke. See? Like because there was this guy he was on his phone and he was filming he's like I'm in the car park my car is locked, his car was fucking locked. He's like my girlfriend is at home I just spoke with her and his girlfriend or I figure off was knocking on the door

saying leg me in. And then she's like banging. I'm like I've got to say a story. Yeah I've never going there. Don't bother inviting. Listen, why did he sit there? Well, I would have just rode away as it's no time to film this. A supernatural being said to haunt haunt haunt the Appalachian Mountains described as a tall dark Creature with sharp teeth. Do you know, I've got to leave here after. I'm going to die.

Yeah, I'm not even going to walk into the car after. You're wild. After I read them again. Bye. Then you've got brown mountain lights, unexplained lights that appear on the mountain tops, often associated with paranormal activity and then you've got the bell witch. A story of a woman who was alleged, tortured and is a supernatural

entity, I've just got another chill, and is said to still haunt the area. Why is she a bell witch? Is she like ringing a bell or is that just sort of the area she was from? That's all I got. This is literally Google has given. I don't really wanna know. After your question, I'm now gonna say mountains

because everything is referred to as mountains. So are you happy for me to start? Oh please do go first. So three of mine are very long. I'm just giving you a heads up. Again, let me just open my drink now. Yeah, but one is very short and that shits me up. Yeah, I've got a couple of shorter ones.

Yes, but they were so good. I read through specifically because I wanted ones that I could flow through and that made sense but weren't 17 paragraphs. That's fucking wrong. I just wanna let you guys know, as you most of our listeners know, I'm dyslexic and I've never sat down and read a whole book, but since doing this, I feel like I could. I've just got to find a book that's fucking interesting.

Even my mum's like, both your readings got better. I'm like, yes mum. Yeah. It's the pre-reading. Although last week's episode I think because most of you know that I've had builders and you can see that I've had the walls done and that and my head was so scrambled with the chaos that I was even though I pre-read I was still struggling to like get it out and get it, you know, get the brain fucking functioning. Yeah, your space was being like, in the...

It was. I mean, don't get me wrong, like, if I, I can't remember the name of the company, but I will find the name of the company and anyone in Surrey, I definitely recommend them. They were professional, quick and the work's really good. So... Happy all around yeah anyway moving on you happy for me stop yes yes yes right please let me tell you what I saw in the Appalachian Mountains oh man I saved that one I knew you would that

was the first one right I'm gonna take it off okay you got enough yeah I've got six yes I do well I always go a couple more because I always worry that we'll get a couple of the same. Normally I say four because I think we'll have one the same, but never two. But this was the very first one when I searched, so I thought you might have it, but I read it and it's so good.

Okay, hello all. Hey. Hi. Being haunted. Right. Hello all. Originally Originally I'm from West Virginia. I moved around between the Appalachian and the Midwest some as a kid. Between the ages of 10 and 13, I lived in rural Kentucky in the foothills of one of the oldest mountain ranges on the planet. I lived with my dad and my grands. We lived in what we call a holler.

Think of it like a cul-de-sac in between a set of foothills. We lived in the middle of the neighborhood with nothing but family on both sides. No one lived across from us or behind us because of the foothills. When I moved in, my grand had some rules I had to follow at the time I chalked it up to hillbilly stranger danger.

I mean, I get that. Yep. There were things like, don't mess around with the wild animals. Don't go out into the woods alone. Then they got a little weirder. Don't whistle, if you hear your name don't answer and don't go to it and if you see someone in the woods you might know no you didn't and just come home. This experience happened in August when I was 11 years old. My dad and I moved mode path, hold on, my dad and I had a mode path through the tall grass and berry bushes to

the left of the double wide we lived in. I don't know what a double wide is, I thought maybe a trailer, but I could be wrong. We camped out there a lot because it was close enough that we could check on grams. Now, when you're in the woods, things are louder than you think. You have animal life, bug chatter, wind through the trees and the grass. There was a stream that ran along the road you could easily hear.

That night we added a campfire to the list. My dad decided to go back up to the house about a quarter of a mile to get, I know I thought that as well, to get more beer and to check on grams. Before he left he told me to not... Stay here and don't talk to strangers. Yeah. He told me to not mess with the fire. After a few minutes of watching the fire, things started to get quiet, like real quiet. The wind had all but stopped. Bugs and animals were all gone and the stream sounded like it was miles away. Someone turned it off. were all gone and the stream sounded like it was miles away. I was getting uncomfortable even though I'd been left at the campsite before. Then I started to

smell and taste it was in the back of my throat out of nowhere this awful metal-y tang. After a few more moments, my dad came back, he had, he was mad right away. He said he could smell burning metal coming up the trail. He accused me of tossing the beer cans in the fire. I told him that I didn't and even pointed to the fire to prove it. He said that there was a storm coming in and that we needed to go back home and he let it go. We left the tent and started our way back. Now the very cool but very weird thing about lightning in the woods, this dent, is that when the light hits it lights up everything in the middle of the day well up until the front of the trees so I'm assuming like a it lights

up like day to the front of the trees after the first set of trees is pitch black there are no street lights and unless you have lights on your property it's completely black. So it's pitch black. Lightly raining and other than the dim lights from the house and windows there's nothing. I'm eating watermelon as one does in August in the mountains and when the first cap of lightning hits everything is bright as it can be after the second passes it's black as pitch can be. Next cap of lightning comes and that's when I kind of see it on the porch past the yard

over the stream past the road and the ditch on the the stream, past the road and the ditch, on the other side, just past the first line of trees, I could see a silhouette of it. Then it goes dark. This is also when I can't start to taste, he means can, when I can start to taste the same awful burning metal. I'm not really sure what I saw, so I just kind of stay still. It's a few moments before the lightning hits again from the figure is now closer. Standing side by side to the trees, then it's back again. I'm standing now, not sure what to do. It's been 20 years to this day and I've tried but I can never fully describe what I saw. The things head wasn't portioned to its body. The arms were too long for the torso. It didn't fit right. It was like if you ask a blind person to draw what a person looked like

It just didn't look correct This is when my whole body started Once the lightning hit again, the thing is standing in the middle of the road Not wanting to see the thing get any closer I go inside myamps is doing the dishes and ask... He waited for the first clap of lightning before he thought, shit, I'm going to move now.

Yeah, I'm going in. No, no, no. My gramps is doing the dishes and ask why I'm inside. I tell her I think I saw something. She almost immediately gets my dad on his feet telling him to shut up and lock all the doors and the windows immediately. My dad, bit drunk, obliges. That night I sleep with her. The next day we discover the tent down, the tent door is torn off. It didn't look, it didn't look like an animal had done it. Things weren't cut or

shredded but looked like someone had pulled it apart. My uncle who lived a mile or so up had eight chickens killed, heads gone, no blood. The next few weeks all the kids had to wait for the bus with an adult. My dad had to... fuck off. My dad had to be late for work for almost three weeks. Any time I tried to talk about it the subject got changed. I figured I was a kid and it wasn't important or real. It wasn't until years later I finally understood. I was in my early twenties and some cousins were in town for Halloween. As I was telling this story, my aunt got irritated with me saying, don't you tell them that, don't you put evil on them. After I couldn't help but think back on the times I tried

to talk about it and I was shunned. My kid mind not realizing it wasn't as simple as a subject change but they actively shushed me. Once I started dipping my toes in Reddit I realized that there was a name for this fucking thing. The name, my auntie had called it that day at the party and the other people that had seen it, the Goat Man. What bothers me the most is how to this day I couldn't describe any further, nor how I ever tasted that awful burning metallic taste.

So friends, if you ever find yourselves in the foothills of Kentucky, please remember Graham's rules. Well I can't whistle so I'm alright. You can't whistle at all? I can't whistle. Well, but I'm sucking in as he's dead. He said, I can't whistle. I can do that. What do you think? I think he stood there too long. Run. I also think with all these rules, what kind of dad gone,

FLECH, SO COOL! And then says, wait here, that's weird. Like, like he didn't want to un-alive him. Well after this story I went down a whole fucking rabbit hole didn't I? Of course you did. I mean I've just got another shiver. Er, yeah I don't... I believe him. Camp within a proximity, which is what they've done. The garden, right? Yeah, I don't

Camp within a proximity which is what they've done. The garden right? Like on the doorstep Like the porch In fact don't, I mean Don't go outside when it's dark Any videos I've seen the rule tends to be don't leave your curtains open do not whistle do I mean these rules are literally everybody who lives there and goes on TikTok or any other videos these are like set rules so whatever possess them to go let's go camping is it's mental to me but the top comment

I can't even believe he allowed three claps of bloody lightning and he watched this thing get closer. The first one would have been a bit like what the fuck did I see? The second one I'm like nah. Gone. First one straight in. My mind would be like what was that? That's been like that day you went swimming. I probably would have gone in the first one, but I wouldn't have been like what was that? But no. I think I've always been a curious person, so I think having that set of rules, my mind would have been like why though? Let me just try.

What do you mean? I'm like don't give her any alcohol, she will whistle. I hear what are you going to do about it to the goat band? Double dog day. Who's going to stop me? Literally. any alcohol she will whistle. I hear what you can do about it to the goat man. Double dog day. Who's gonna stop me? Literally like that day when I licked the screen in McDonald's and then got Covid. I went don't touch that and I was like don't tell me how to live. So this comment, the goat man is very real. Skinwalkers are also very real. Skinwalkers

can only semi-morph into animals. They won't fully resemble them. The goat man is different. They are imitant. I don't know what that means, change the reality of the group by making them question how many were in the group. They imitate, that's the fucking word, they imitate, change the reality of the group. I swear I heard one in the woods in East Texas, it sounded like a childhood friend except I wasn't a child and my friend was dead. When we were kids I almost followed its voice. I'm not going to bother reading anymore because obviously everyone is now like yeah that's real that's real and I was just like fucking boof. Scary as fuck right? Yeah I mean the first one had me babe and then I

went well I went with it not fully because then I came out of it but my next one is very it's along the same thing a very very long one you see I'm still scrolling yes yeah but um over to you, my love. Yeah. I've got, honestly. My one's definitely a little bit shorter. This one is shorter than that. Okay. Well, so I'm going to give you another long one. I do hope you got a long one. I have, I think. I definitely did because I had that one. If not, we get all your long ones in. Short ones. Anyway. Yeah, yeah, you're not a man.

I live in the Appalachian Mountains and I broke one of the rules. See? Fucking rules. My name is Jake and I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and I know all the rules and I broke one a month ago ever since I keep feeling watched. I'm 24 years old and a month ago I was drinking while on call with my best friend and he was also drinking. His mother recently died of a heart attack he was feeling down. It was about one in the morning I locked all the doors and closed my blinds.

He was talking about maybe coming over. I wish I said no, but I was drunk and not in the right state of mind. He hangs up and I wait. Around 15 minutes later, I hear a knock. I forgot to text him and confirm. I go to open the door and see nothing. I yell out his name. You there? Nothing but wind howling. The forest was awfully quiet. I shut the door and go back inside. Minutes go by and I get a weird gut feeling it was all a haze with

it was all a haze was it 30 or 15 minutes sorry I was drunk out of my mind I'm surprised I remembered what happened for what seemed like forever my phone chimes Jasper yo almost there be there in 10 minutes I look at the text and feel my heart drop what the fuck did I just do I nearly had a panic attack I heard Jasper's voice calling out from outside it sounded like a faint call in the wind I began to hear taps on the windows all around. I really don't know what it is but I've been hearing whispers in the other rooms and footsteps and knocks. For my friend I called him, told him to go back home and we will remain on call for the rest of the night. I explained the

whole situation to him. Hell fucking no. So does that mean he let something in? Yes. That's what I'm saying babe or he almost fucking let something in because that's the vibe I was getting. I was getting that these things. I'm not sure do you know like the whole I've seen it where I've seen like people put them on there on their tic-tacs and whatever where someone's knocking at the door saying it's me it's me it's me let him in they're like like you're sitting next to me like it isn't you yeah if they open that door what is actually there that's what I'm saying Is it going to be the tall, skinny, long-armed, weird looking thing that's going to just like, I don't know, absorbing to them?

Or is it like nothing but you've opened a door and you've let an entity of some sort in for it to be in that room? Because that's what I'm saying, right? So when I read the first story, that is when I did my Google, right? And I didn't really, because I thought it was like I've heard the skinwalkers or these things that appear to know you. Like that's the majority of what I've heard.

They're there and they know you, do you know what I mean? But nothing from I opened it and this is what happened to me since. Exactly. Or what they saw. I didn't realise that some of the shit that's going on is literally spirits. I didn't realise. I mean, obviously I know, like, I believe in spirits.

You all must know by now that I do, because that's a lot of our podcasts that we do sometimes. But I didn't realise that these malicious shit is going on, do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like supernatural shit, but also spirit shit is there and it's messing with people. I didn't realise, I thought it was literally more skin walkers, not Bigfoot, but you know, potentially Bigfoot. It seems like there's a lot of it as well. And that's what I'm saying, like I, until last night, although I've always been fascinating,

that's why I said to you, I really want to do it, I wasn't aware just how, and that's it, it scared me to the point where I was like, I will never go there, ever. No. So my top comment was, I grew up in these mountains too. You need to sage clean your house. The quicker the better. Keep a wet rag with you while you do it to be safe. What's a wet rag about?

I've no idea. Have you ever heard that? No. Also, don't focus on it. The more you focus on it, the more you give it energy. It isn't in your house yet completely, just by opening the door. You would have to invite it in.

Okay. Answering its cause gives it energy. Telling someone who has negative energy, attach them to them to come in would invite it in. Okay, that night that's giving vampire. Yeah, someone said keep a wet rag with you, like never heard this. Should we let me quickly Google see if I can get anything up so we can just explain to

others. Oh the wet rag is about when you're sageing because some sage is really dry and it can make sparks. Okay okay. So a lot of them have wooden cabins and stuff like a lot of them have. Yeah okay yeah yeah that. Okay, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. So for me, I've always said to you, like, with spirit specifically for me in my head, I've always said, like, don't answer it, even if it was like my mum. I wouldn't answer because I don't know if that's really my mum. Yeah. But I think, you know, he opened the door because he thought his mate was there, babe, and I think that person's right. It doesn't automatically mean that you've invited that in because you've all answered the door and you've gone where are you? Do you know what I mean? And then

you've closed the door and you freaked yourself out so he didn't actually engage or be like who's there? Who? You know what I mean? That none of that happened and he really tried to move on after that and And that's what I say to you, like if you ever have a, this is just what I believe, if you have a thing and something fucking weird's going on, no it's not. I don't know why I've always been like that,

because I just think, you know, the more, I'm not gonna read the next goat story, by the way. I'm gonna read this one next, because it's made me want to after your one this is my shortest one okay yeah can anyone identify what I experienced in the Appalachian mountains the way I read it like I'm reading a ghost story to kids I really get into shit like this. Right. This scared me. Yeah. So I've been seeking around in some Facebook groups to try and see if anyone can identify what happened

to me. So I figured I would ask Reddit. I've been hit with the overwhelming skinwalker comments however someone notified me that there are no skinwalkers in the Appalachian Mountains so please tell me what do you think? Has anybody experienced anything similar? I cannot find anything online about it and maybe someone is there that could tell me if they've heard of it. So I live in the Appalachian Mountains and twice since moving here I've witnessed something strange through my windows two separate occasions where it looks like someone I know but it's not because of their eyes, they're off. Almost like they're too big to be human eyes and that they're almost bulging.

First one was my dad and the other was a guy who I was talking to. I know for a fact that neither of them would have been staring at me through my window. Weird. Yeah. First time I was laying in bed and my dad was staring just through the window, my whole body, in between some bushes. Second time, which years later, was in a different room and the foundation is taller to my land being on the incline. I got up to close my window and before I actually got to it I got a weird feeling as if something was there luring, behold, I was looking in its eyes

and it was staring up at me, never acknowledging either because I'm not dumb, but does anybody have any idea of what it could be? It's been bugging me for years. Oh bugging me, just bugging me. What the fuck? Ellie, I would cry. This story, and the thing is, I was like, if there was something there and I was like

doing something near the window and I looked up and there was something looking, staring at you, like right there, just fucking, just standing in between bushes, staring at you. I am. Just fucking I'm just standing in between bushes staring at you. That's I am telling you I was so scared. I'll be like, please But I think I would scream I think I don't think I would be I'd run around locking everything like I did last night And there was nobody staring at me, but I pulled the curtains and I'm looking at you Fucking thing mate every fucking thing mate.

Every single thing in this house was locked up last night. I was terrified. I think I said the one, but there was a group of, there was a guy, he was doing some building work and his face was probably this far away from the window, but there was a face on the other side of the window and he was like, he was calling, but he was still like, they were like locked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he was calling and they've come, like the other guys are coming in like, he was calling, but he was still like, they were like locked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he was calling and they've come,

like the other guys are coming in like, what's the matter? And he didn't seem staged, like he didn't. Right, right. And they're like, what the, and he was like, you can see this, all right? And they're like, come away from it. And he's like, go and lock the house, lock the house. And then they've gone, but this face did not move and he didn't move and they were just engaged in this stare and I'm like

I don't know if I would be because this this blow I'll get onto the comments in a minute But this bloke knew that it was not a human Right because the eyes were off so I don't know like part of me thinks this face wasn't human that's what I'm saying that weird white honestly even I can't cope with this fucking topic right and I can cope with everything but if I was and if I was say you know you're just going to fucking get something off the windowsill or draw your curtains and And I saw something that did, that I knew weren't human, but looked like a human.

I don't know if I would very calmly pretend that I hadn't seen it and walk around making sure everything was locked very calmly, getting my rosemary beads off the fucking side and praying to God that I don't fucking die. I just don't, I think I'd have a heart attack.

I'm telling ya. I would, I would be so scared. I would be so scared. Please can I move in with you? You sound so scared. I don't know, it seems attached to you, Emily. I feel like we're podcast over. I can't be on my own.

Right, so I can't remember if I like this chop comment or not because it's quite long but I can't remember who it's this or that because obviously then I started to read on. Right, Skinwalkers is a clutch, all internet term that people use for any sort of spook that people encounter in the woods obviously. For fuck's sake. Skinwalker is a very- Does it make you feel like you live right by some woods? No. I've never been scared- Doesn't it now? I mean maybe, because I run through the woods

as well. Maybe things are going to be slightly different. Right, anyway. Skinwalker is a very pacific thing, which is like black magic predictor, I don't really understand what that means, in a certain culture that can alter their form. You're not going to find them in places like the Appalachian mountain. What you saw was most likely just the run-of-the-mill boogeyman oh yeah because we've got this box of the mill box down i was like um i.e yeah don't like saying boogeyman fear-based paranormal entity when i tell you i was scared last night, I ain't fucking lying babe, they often live in kind of remote areas.

This person's like, yeah, never mind! That are devolved of light. They feed off of your fear, which is why they do spooky stuff like peek at you through your windows. Peek at you? And knock on your door, etc. Oh, like,, hee hee hee, as he runs away. Me I'm chasing people up the stairs. Let's look through the windows, hee hee hee. Paranormal things can often have weird intentions

with your subconscious, which is why they can appear to you as somebody that you know, but things being off slightly, like it's not the perfect fit to what you what the person is they they're trying to imitate as. The different person might have perceived them as looking completely different and yes people And yes, people will often feel them because they see them, like a sense of being watched, a feeling of dread, or like you're some place you're not supposed to be. This particular spook inhabits areas surrounding your house. You can like put up the paranormal fencing to ward them off and make them aware Well like what you do for the foxes that they're not welcome

That they're not welcome What? Fuck off I don't feel like I want to listen to this silly person Well I feel like this person is just talking like it's a normal thing yeah it's just to the point he's like yeah they're around my area all the time yeah I often walk the dog and see them I'm going through the bed I've got I've got I've got what they fucking pentagrams and I'm just like bruv where

do you live just your your local boogie man. I honestly, that fucking scared the shit out of me. No, I'm not okay with what that would do. Yeah. No. Yeah. Okay, you're next. If you've got two little ones, do two little ones.

I've got a big one. I've got a big-ish one. It's not my biggest one. It's big-ish. Dirty bitch, that's what she said. It's not my biggest one. It's a big ish. You dirty bitch, that's what she said. It's not my biggest. I had to make me laugh. I'm like, oh! I've got this one and then I'm going to do the smaller one.

So we're definitely not going there. If we went during the daytime. Don't think I'd even go. And we stuck to a really open footpath. There is none. I would consider having a little look. But the fear of being lost and not being able to get back. Sticking to a footpath. Okay, I just.

That is the only way you'd ever get me in there. I feel like I, even then, I feel like I cannot go to this place. There's something wrong with these mountains and I don't know why. Yeah they're not normal are they? Yeah but whatever a normal mountain is. Well they've got to live somewhere, your bookie man's got to live somewhere. Well clearly wherever this other bloke lives it's like yeah yeah all you've got to do is look for a place for us. We've got foxes. We've got foxes around here. That fox thing, my neighbour's gotten up there and I can hear it every time I walk past. It hurts my ears. It hurts. I've said to her, it hurts, it makes me feel sick. Yeah, when I walk the dog, there's one little front garden

and I'm like, fuck, they just hurt. Does it make you feel sick? As I go, I'm going to hear them like, ugh, and I can feel it in my body. Yeah, that's what I mean. I'm like, ugh. She went, can you hear that? I said, I can't talk to you, you're going to have to turn it off. It hurts my teeth. It's literally, literally making me feel sick. Yeah, it makes me sad I don't like it. Okay, so I'll read it. Night in the Appalachians Not for me No, so they've got it under Experience. I mean, it's not an experience. You know some people just go camping up there. They're like, oh, yeah

I mean one of the story that I've decided I's not an experience. You know some people just go camping up there. They're like, oh yeah, don't, I mean, the story that I've decided I'm not gonna read tonight because I'm gonna do my last long one and I'm done, right? Do you know who I think would just go here and not give a shit? Who? Michelle. Yeah, probably.

Is it, is it? Oh, it's my miss. You know, mate, it is what it is. And we're like, same old. It's eating your arm. Yeah, what you do? It is, it is. No worries. Honestly, I think she

would have no scare, like there's nothing that bothers her. That story, I have to like just give you the lowdown before you go into your story. So that story, because when I read my first one, The Goat Man, that is when obviously I searched it and this woman, right, it's like yeah, I go camping all the time in the Appalachian Mountains All that they're just a certain outskirt of it that it just is a little bit It's foot trails and stuff people do it. Yeah, so she basically she's on she's on the trail It's me seeing pictures. They're beautiful. It's gorgeous. Absolutely Breath-taking but not breathtaking in the sense that it takes your breath. I mean well So she's really she's gone camping, right?

And during the day, she's too far now gone to turn back. To turn back. Right, because she's traveled too long. Yeah, yeah, she's got to camp and you're not meant to travel at night. And she fucking sees it and smells it with the same description of the fucking disgusting, rotting meat like metallic

disgusting smell as that other bloke and um long story short she can't and it fucking taunts her all night she gets out but before she went on the walk my whole body again before she went she said that she kept having this feeling that she shouldn't do it, she shouldn't go on the thing, but she went... What did I say last time? Listen to that sixth sense. We have it for a reason people. And she's all like, oh, never mind! And my whole body is saying don't do it.

She's lucky. I nearly got run over today, I'm near... but I'm still gonna go. There's no signs here that say don't do it. She was lucky because all night, she didn't see the fucking wink and then as soon as it got away, because obviously it's like whatever it's meant to be, this thing, it's gone away enough and she got out

and I just thought to myself, what the fuck is wrong with you? Well, they were right as well. Yeah, well enough. She's like, the story starts where my dad said that I shouldn't do things alone because I'm a girl but I proved them wrong and I get that like I'm very like that I'm like don't tell me because I'm a girl I can't do that but in this case I feel like let's not go camping in a fucking forest where weirdos are. On your own it's nothing

it's not even about being a girl it it's don't do it on your own. Yeah, take a mate, at least if you're gonna die, you died together, fuck's sake. Yeah, you're not alone. Remember that time we died together? Yeah. Twice. Yeah, fucking hell. You got eaten first, Misha's like, yeah!

It is what it is. It is what it is. Or no, that that Michelle would go, Yeah man, I'm great! Same old. Yeah, aw, we miss you Michelle. We do. I hope you watch this.

Well she sees our Facebook. Excuse me. I see it sometimes, she definitely looks on there. We should hashtag her in it. Hashtag! Hashtag Michelle come back! Come back! Bye bye bye bye bye.

Ba da bye bye bye. That's a good song. Anyway, sorry. Not in the Appalachians. No thanks. Experience is what it's got a little label. So, my girlfriend and her friends invited me to stay at a small cabin

Airbnb in the Appalachian mountains. Oh fair play, I'd do that. Near Seven Devils. Probably wouldn't do that. The idea was just to go up there to enjoy some snow tubing and then some light drinking hot tub and board games in the cabin afterwards. What?

I don't know if I wanna go to this place with you, Clause now. No, just any cabin now. Go on, that's why I'm saying cabin near the beach, not in the fucking woods. Okay, it's gonna have to be the beach. It's gonna have to be the beach. You're getting me in the woods. Okay. Well, you're right. In the daytime. Yeah, yeah. So the cabin was pretty high up in the mountain and the drive up to it was kind of scary. Single car length road for the most part, no railings on the side of the road. So if you were on the side of the truck, which we'd a four-wheel drive to make the drive up, drive up thank goodness, it was a sheer drop on that side. Sure if we drove off the road we'd

likely be stopped by some trees on the way down. Yay! But still, yeah, but still a bit nerve-racking. Another thing was some of the trees on the trail had faces on them for decoration. I think they were supposed to look cute but they just looked kind of unnerving for most of us. What the fuck? kind of unnerving for most of us. The fuck? I really should have taken pictures but was too anxious during the climb. The cabin itself was almost at the top of the mountain and fairly small. A small living room with a very tiny and narrow kitchen and two bedrooms. Hot tub on the lower porch because the cabin itself was basically on the second floor.

So you had to go up a stairway to get into it. Key to the cabin was in a lock box, so no special door lock option. Just an old fashioned cabin. It just isn't how to know. We came back after snow tubing and dinner, but others drank enough to get buzzed while I only had a glass of wine since I had a condition that makes it dangerous to get too much alcohol into my system. We had that relatively sober.

Enjoying the hot tub as planned, witnessed a beautiful beautiful shooting star, then played board games after until around 1 a.m. and we all went to bed. I woke up a little after 4 a.m. because I was suddenly sweating and then I felt kind of unsettled. I decided I needed to go to the bathroom so I got up. I left the bathroom and nothing seemed to miss so I used... I left the bedroom sorry and nothing seemed to miss so I I used the bathroom. When I left the bathroom the front door was wide open. Naturally I felt immediately uneasy but again this was a small cabin so there was nowhere for any

intruder to hide. I could easily see the entire interior of the cabin from the tiny hallway. I decided maybe the last person through the door last night after the hot tub didn't fully close the door and locked it appropriately because there is a sign by the door that says close door firmly and it was fairly windy outside. I mean that wind was howling out there. So I go over to the door and close it, making sure that it's firmly enough in the doorway to fully lock it. I even jiggle the handle a few times and try to see if it will open when locked. It doesn't budge, so I start to head back to the... I feel like I'm going to...

I know, so I'm just... I'm getting shivers all down my body. start to head back to the room then I hear the door rattle a little bit and I turn around and stare at it I watch the lock itself turn and then the door opens and it doesn't slam open from the wind it just slowly swung open I stayed extremely still because of the course because of course that was crazy of course sweaty pants. My fucking gods. The door has a huge clear window on it with no curtains I'm really sure that's a rule That there should be curtains the cabin in the woods babe In in in these words though. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah, there is there is the rule. Yeah

Already broke fucking that's what happens when you visit places. You've got read the rules Already broke fucking that's what happens when you visit places. It's terrible. You've got to read the rules Well, they were already set up weren't they really the fail. There was no curtain. But they didn't even read the rules anyway the door had a huge clear window On it with no curtains and a big window beside it that also doesn't have curtains. The fuck! And there was absolutely no one on the other side of it. There's no way someone could have ducked out of the view

either and hurried away from the door after pushing it open either, because it would have had to make a lot of noise hurrying down the steps to get off the walkway. Like I said, it was an old fashioned door. So, as well as, as well as with a simple lock and knob, no electronic buttons or anything to unlock

or lock by buttons or remotely. I can never go into the Appalachian Mountains. After getting the nerve to close the door again and lock in it firmly, nothing else happened that night. I couldn't really go back to sleep because I was just too scared to do so. The following morning I told the others about it and they were pretty spooked too. But otherwise, glad we were all staying there one night. Only one night, thank God.

Before we packed up the truck to leave, there was this strange knocking noise coming from the surrounding woods. Not like someone knocking on a wall or door. It was a deep, hollow sounding knock that only knocked twice, stopped for a while, and then could, and then would do it again. Maybe it was just trees knocking together,

but after what happened earlier, it's the morning. What fucking trees knocked together? It was a little unsettling. I love that they're only explaining this as being unsettling But these two trees were knocking together Do you know any trees that knock together? Knocking trees Don't you know about it?

Haram! What the fuck was that? Knocking trees What was that? Wait I'm not finished. Wait wait. You would have all been fucking away. It would have been me though when I found that door. It would have been me but guess what? I wouldn't have closed that door. I would have gone nowhere near that door. I would have been like how to the north. So yeah, so yeah, I'm from Florida and thought I've experienced other paranormal activity before but that was the most physical thing I've experienced before and I've definitely heard plenty of stories about odd occurrences in the Appalachians.

In a way, I'm glad I experienced something but I'll never forget the fear I felt. After all my first thought was an intruder, so something or something and it would have been pretty bad being up there so high by ourselves. If we'd had any reason to run we could have easily fallen off a cliff or something in the pitch black darkness outside. So same as you, first thing I would have done would have been to scream all of your names. Yeah I would not have walked into that door and closed it. I would have banged on your bedroom door. Twice.

Never. Never, never, never. Not after watching the handle turn open. There is no fucking way. But he's walked to the bathroom. Yeah. And it weren't open. But he's come out the bathroom and it's open.

I feel like I missed that bit. So he just didn't notice it open. He didn't notice it but you would... The way he's explaining how small this cabin was, you would have seen it. But he said where he stood in that hallway you could see the whole... Everybody would have been awake. Everybody would have been awake. Everyone. All night long. Yeah. And it burst like... Don't you fucking sleep. Wake up! Don't you fucking touch me! Don't you fucking sleep!

First light... Outta there. Fucking outta there. Outta there. Outta there. We would've all sat in the same room with all the fucking lights on, curtain's drawn, and a fucking knife in my hands. There ain't no way. Ugh.

Nope. No. Come on, gimme the top comment. Right. Interesting story. It could have been a ghost. Curious, if you told the owner of the place about this problem, I'd imagine they may have had issues with the door being open a lot. My second guess is that it was an old lock being rattled by the howling winds.

You're a prat. Shut the fuck up. I hate when people try and rationalise stuff. That's me. That's usually me trying to rationalise. No way. But that, you cannot rationalise closing a door, making sure it's properly closed, walking away and looking at watching the handle turn. No. There is no way. A turning handle. No. The wind would not turn a handle. Never. My whole body is like, I'm like cold mate. Anyone come up with anything else that's not annoying? OP replied to it saying, didn't tell the owner but who knows maybe my friend who booked the Airbnb Airbnb did in the review it's funny because they kept a cabin journal for guests to put stuff in and I thumbed through it curious if anything interesting had happened to other people

but none of them mentioned any issues with the door just said they enjoyed the hot tub and the views of the stars at the night. Nothing else. But I also know people don't like to share these stories often because they don't want to sing crazy. I'm not ruling out completely that it was just a bad door but it was pretty creepy watching the lock twist over in the in the unlock position Before the door opened again. I'm not I'm no look expert Expert so I really don't know how normal that is very bad lock. It's not

Normal it would never fucking happen. Maybe it is No, otherwise I wouldn't be living here any longer. Fucking hell. I think entities pick up on your emotions and or if you're not showing respect and understanding. What did he do wrong? He went and got up for a piss. For your emotions, you're more looking

for an exciting experience for yourself. I think you will have a more negative experience. More entities want to feel respected just like us. Seeking to understand and expand your knowledge brings forth more confidence and what are you talking about? There was nothing to suspect about what they did. He got up and went for a pee. Like relax. They went snowboarding, they came home, they did the hot tub, they played games indoors. They don't seem to have been disrespectful.

Anyway. Anyway. Okay. It's not for me. So I'm coming out of paranormal and just into other weird shit that goes on in the Appalachian Mountains. Okay.

This scared the life out of me and is yet another reason I will never be going there. You ready? Yeah. My girlfriend and I were chased by a satanic cult in the Appalachian of West Virginia. Was chased. Chased. This is just another reason that I'm not even gonna do the daytime trail. I'm never fucking going there. This happened in the summer of 2017 so not that long ago. My girlfriend and I are from St. Err sorry brain freeze are from Canada. We

both attended University there and decided to take a road trip through the United States to celebrate our graduation. Our destination was Miami, Florida. Her family owns a condo near the beach so we had a free place to stay. I'll go there guys. We decided to drive instead of fly because we wanted to see a bit of the country drunk as well, like wet in my lungs. And we were planning on making multiple stops. Sounds great. I mean I'd love to do something like that, just not there. The first part of the road trip was

wonderful experience. We went shopping in Buffalo, then made our way down to Pittsboro and managed to catch a pirate's game. However, once we hit West Virginia, things changed. It was nothing but endless wildness and a few small towns spiked in between. I mean, to me that sounds gorgeous. We had plans to meet, again, we had plans to meet up with some friends for dinner in Charlotte, North Carolina. So we wanted to get through West Virginia ASAP. We only made stops when absolutely necessary had to.

We ended up stopping to gas at a pretty remote stop My girlfriend and I got out of the car. I started pumping gas and she Went inside to use the West West room where? Rest room and Snack rest room and pick up some snack. Where's room? That's what they have in the appellation. Literally what I said. Where's room? My tank was about half full

when I heard a voice behind me say, y'all lost? I don't know why I had to do that. Y'all lost. I looked behind me and saw a middle-aged white man with long messy brown hair that reached down to his shoulders and an unkempt beard, which had dashes of gray and what looked to be

drops of dried up mucus. I know, I didn't do that. What a picture. Yeah, his clothes were torn and dirty and he smelled like a mixture of beard sweat, pee didn't do that. What a picture. Yeah. His clothes were torn and dirty, and he smelled like a mixture of beer, sweat, pee, and feces. Are you lost? Fucking hell.

He was a little overweight, but pretty tall. I'm six foot, and he was about four inches taller than I am. Wow. The teeth he had. The minimal teeth he had. I mean, I enjoyed the root. he had. The teeth he still had left were yellow and brownish. On his right cheek, just under his eye was a tattoo of some kind of pentagram. I'm pretty into YouTube videos about true crime and cults so I was able to recognise that pretty quickly.

He was standing very close to my face to the point where the smell of his breath was making me dizzy so I backed up. No sir, just passing through I nervously said. Not too often we see tourists passing through these parts, he responded. Where you all headed? Mind your business. Whip your tooth. As he said this, he moved even closer than he was before.

I had my back against my car and I couldn't move any further. I wanted to get away from this guy as quickly as possible, but the car was still filling up with gas and my girlfriend was still inside the gas station. I didn't want this dude to know where we were really going, so I told him I was visiting family in Kentucky and they were expecting us. After I said this, he chuckled and had a

weird half smile, opened his mouth just wide enough for me to get a look at his teeth again. I will never forget that face. His bloodshot eyes were staring deep into my soul. He let out a weird and sinister laugh. How lovely he said, I'll see you kids around. Then he walked away. I was very relieved that he had walked away but also terrified for the last remarks. I didn't even see him when he pulled up to the gas station. So how did he know that I wasn't alone?

I figured he must have been watching my girlfriend and I when we arrived. The car was finally filled up and I saw my girlfriend walking towards the car with bags of snacks for the road. I noticed the weird guy was still at the gas station. He was a few pumps away from us, leaning up against an old red pickup truck. But to my utter discomfort, he wasn't alone. There were two other men and a woman,

There were two other men and a woman, which making them a group of four. The two men were just as big as he was, but they had shaved heads. One of them was wearing a dirty white tank top and the other didn't have a shirt on at all. The woman was shorter, about 5'5". She was very skinny with heavy bags under her eyes and long blonde hair. It wasn't me. You haven't got long blonde hair? No.

No. It wasn't me. Or bags under your eyes anyway. Massively. They all looked like they were living in the woods for at least the past 10 years. They were staring and pointing at us, talking amongst themselves. As soon as my girlfriend got to the car, I urgently told her to get in. I'm usually a pretty calm guy, so when my girlfriend noticed that I was kind of freaked

out, she knew something was up. We quickly entered the car, I locked the doors and I began hauling us out of the gas station. As we pulled around the red truck to exit, I noticed that there was another pentagram painted on the hood. I also noticed the skull of a goat or ram that was on their windshield. The four people began getting into their truck as they saw us leaving. I knew that they were gonna follow us as soon as we left.

I explained the situation to my girlfriend as we were speeding away from the gas station. We were zooming down the road and I looked in the rear view mirror as I expected the red truck was behind us. I sped up even more and they did too. I made a left and they did too. I made a U-turn and they did as well. My girlfriend managed to get reception at a dial 911. We gave the operator our location and they gave us directions to the nearest police station. The operator also asked for the license plate that they didn't have any on the truck.

Once we were off the phone with them, my girlfriend stuck her cell phone outside of the window and started pointing to it, letting the creeps know that we had called the cops. They finally got the message and stopped following us. We arrived to the police station and filled out a report. We gave the description of the truck and the suspects. The investigator said that they would call us if they had any more information. We were extremely shaken but also relieved. All we wanted to do at this point was get the hell out of West Virginia. We thought we had shaken the group for good but unfortunately we were wrong. We decided to drive through the night to cover as much ground as possible.

The area of the Appalachian Mountains we were in had no streetlights and you could only see what my headlights allowed me to see. Everything was fine until I noticed two headlights in my rear-view mirror. At first I didn't think anything of it but I kept an eye on them. The headlights got closer and closer until they were tailgating us. To my complete shock and horror, it was the same red truck from the gas station. These people had somehow found us again and were right behind us. It's them I yelled. My girlfriend began to freak out and dialed the police again. I floored the gas pedal not even knowing what was

10 meters in front of me. All we cared about was escaping. We got a mile up the road until my girlfriend yelled, watch out! There were three dead cows blocking the narrow road. I slammed on the brakes, the red truck right behind us and we couldn't go forward. We knew that we had fallen into the trap. All of a sudden a naked man wearing a goat mask started out of the woods and began hitting our car with what looked like a large axe. The naked man got on the hood of our car and started making sheep noises. My girlfriend was still on the phone with 911 but all she could do was scream. The people behind us got out of the red truck and began walking towards the car.

Two of them had rifles and one of them had a large machete. I know, I knew what I had to do. I put the car into reverse and floored it. The naked man fell off the car. We smashed into the truck and managed to knock it into a ditch. After the truck was out of the way, I pulled the fastest U-turn of my life and we got out of there. The people were yelling all kinds of obscenities at us and we drove away. I drove as fast as I could away from these people until I finally arrived in town and filled out another police report. My girlfriend and I were uninjured thankfully, but we were extremely traumatised. The car was still driveable after that, so we were able to get the fuck out of West Virginia

the next morning. The entire experience made me and my girlfriend scared to do any more road trips at all. I still called the local police department in West Virginia once in a while to see if they have any leads on these people but so far they have not been found or anything else. The fact that these people were able to find us after we went to the police station and had driven that far away still scares and baffles me to this day. Who knows what kind of sick and twisted things that the cult had planned for us if they'd managed to catch us. Stay safe out

there everyone. Go. There was nothing to say. We're not ever going there. I'm never going. That scared me as well. We're never going. I feel like that's worse than the ghost. That's what it reminded me of. That is like, but that's so there is a story that and I haven't watched all of that either. But that wasn't the only one like that so there's a story that I didn't bother saving because the person had a listen it was like I wrote it a lot of spelling mistakes, and it was very difficult to get through. I did, but it would have been difficult to read.

And again, it was another cult in the, I mean, my whole body is like, what the fuck is going on in these mountains? I mean, these, they're so dense, though, people and communities. People go missing, never to be found again. But that's what I'm saying, there's communities there that they couldn't know about.

The police are not interested, they ain't going in there. So they are not going in there. They are not interested about what you just said. They ain't going in there. What are they gonna say to him? They want you to work with your family. No, someone's taking the piss. Right.

So, I'm not reading Tom's comment. I mean, it's funny, but I'm just, I'm not reading it. He's like, that's my cousin, bruv. But anyway, I'm so freaked out by this. Like, what if the cops were part of it? So that's where my mind went as well, because how the fuck did they know that they'd left and where they were going right and they were probably sat in a

bypass with their lights off and they never noticed them. But you know in some of these yeah in some of these. To keep them quiet yeah you can have them. That's what I'm saying. Don't bring yourselves into the town. So the Hills Have Eyes is actually loosely based on real events of a cult that lived, like they lived in this place and then they'd capture people and a lot of people in town and whatever knew and just let it go on. Do you see what I'm saying? As long as they didn't come into town.

Yeah, you should really look up the real story of the Hill's Have Eyes. It's like all fucking messed up. But anyway. I like to live in my little bubble. I'm bringing you out of it. I like the bubble. What happens if the cops were part of it. I like the bubble. What happens if the cops were part of it?

How they found you? Because you told the cops where you were heading, am I right? This is super creepy. And then a few people like, this is what I was thinking. Because my mind did go there. I live in West Virginia. Lucky I've never seen anything like this fuck.

And then somebody said this sounds like the movie Wrong Turn. Yes. Yeah. And I mean there is, fucking I mean like there's someone here with a story about a different cult. I just, I just... what the fuck is going on in these... in this place? I can never fucking go... I'd rather talk to a skinwalker than fucking be captured by some sort of fucking inbred cult that don't brush their teeth or wash their hair. I just... That's the last of your fucking memories. Brushin' their hair with you. I don't know, if he's got one tooth I'm going to be really upset by that. You get what I'm saying babe, I just like, it's bad enough the shit that's going on there because of the ancient history and all this sort of thing. It's like there's a curse on the place.

Do you know what I mean? Like that's, that's the stuff I've read and the history of them is like it might because they're like It's one of the oldest places on earth or surely every place on earth is one of the oldest places on earth every forest I just think these the people that are Found there. Yeah, I don't mean the dead people. I mean the people who are Living there dwelling there existing there. I Don't know why they want, why they want to do things like that. I don't know.

The normal people that live near the Epple Lake, I mean I get the appeal, right? So you're in this place and all around you is nothing, it's beautiful and quiet. It's tranquil. I get that, I get that. Living off of Mother Nature, you're growing your own veg. It's wonderful. I can imagine if I was born there,

I'd probably live like this. But your neighbor is a fucking cannibal. It's not the neighbor you want. But my point is, is it's not the Navy want but my point is is it something about the Appalachian mountains that is making all these cults and everything do you see what I'm saying is there something there that you if you're drawn into it it sends you another way do you see what I'm saying I think maybe they're just eating too many magic restrooms you know they're eating off

the lands and actually it's poison. And it's sending people to Dulale. Okay. That's me being rational. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, yeah, yeah, listen, I mean, that could be like a thing, but the whole thing is just like,

I have a heart attack. My real rational issue is you don't live there. Yeah. That's as rational as you get. You... I feel like if you do live there, you ain't in danger. I think the fact that they were passing through and they knew that those people didn't live there. Do you see what I'm saying?

Yeah. Like they 100% knew that. That's because they had their teeth. They were like, you go to a dentist. I like your teeth. I could do a couple of teeth. I'm going to keep them. I could do a like the teeth. I've got a keen neck.

Right, you finish us off with this fucking horrible subject. Right. My Appalachian Trowel ghost story. Ooh. This is a real story that I experienced back in 2016. If it doesn't follow the rules of the subreddit, then by all means, Meruvi, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sorry.

Let me lay out the backgrounds. I am in the South, the South hiking. I am in the South hiking the Appalachian Trail. I am Unsure of the exact location. See that's what you fucked up. That's your first problem. Well, the first problem is going Your second is I don't know actually where you are in the Appalachian Trail. Yeah, right. It was between Uh, oh Right. It was between, oh right, here we go, Pezberg VA and Johnson City TN. Okay.

I mean, I don't know how far away they are from each other. It means nothing to me. It means nothing. Yeah. I tried doing some research and couldn't find much information other than the Bell Witch and that... Don't.

And that is the opposite side of the Tennessee. This has been tearing me apart for the last four years. So I'm hiking along with my true kiker buddy. It is a clear day and no sign of rain, nothing but blue skies. We are pretty distant from any town or even road for that matter. The forest is clear of under bush and nothing but bare trees. We could easily see beyond 300 yards. About 150 to 200 yards away, up on the hill, we both saw a brunette woman gazing off into the distance, not looking towards us. She was wearing a white gown possibly a simple wedding dress This is extremely odd for this area. So my power myself called out loudly to her Hey, ma'am, are you lost? I don't know why I got to do with that was quite good for you

That was quite great. Thank you. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four I'm actually quite impressed for once I don't know if I'm bad to do it again though yeah the woman keeps her torso and shoulders still and jerks her head towards us oh that sounds well no it's just that isn't it yeah that's normal jerk so like either it's a quick movement isn't it the speed and angle of her head turn should have broken her neck okay yeah we don't like that she let out a sharp ear piercing scream oh no almost like a banshee from those old stories we ran as fast as we could

with our packs out of there as we are running away the wind picks up heavily nearly nearly hurricane levels branches are snapping and we even heard a tree fall in the distance. The rain started pouring sideways rain strong wind I know the weather can change like a dim in the mountains but this just felt different like we were cold from 80 plus degrees to nearly 60 or less with wind chill that was constant. Other hikers were caught in the rain as well. They were as confused as we were with the unexplained change in weather. We couldn't tell them what we saw.

We couldn't even explain it to each other. We both knew we had saw her. We both knew we had seen her. We continued on the trail and never mentioned it. If any of you have ever heard of similar experiences in this area, please share. I want to try and identify this ghost or whatever it was. Could it have been some crazy prank and a weather coincidence? I don't know. Yeah. I asked a couple of ghost stories subreddits and they were mostly baffled. Hoping some appellation trail expertise and applique- fucking hell.

Application. Application. I think I'm saying it wrong now law could help out. So my theory is Banshee. It sounds very much. Because I did see other stories and the Appalachian mountains about Banshees but Banshees generally and that would explain the weather to me as well because obviously banshees are said to um feed on um broken hearts okay yeah so they are meant to like if you've got a broken heart that is how they can then kill you with your broken heart. It's the scream, but people that are broken hearted, it affects differently.

But I don't know, this is just my take on it. I am only saying that because of the weather, the winds, the storm, the way that it followed them. Do you see what I'm saying? It's like it followed them, like a warning, but that's just my, just another, you know, on the list of never going there. Do you know, there's too many ghosty ghoulies living all in one place.

The fuck? So what are people on Reddit saying? Tale to the note. Oh, someone gave a really long ass story to just add to it, but it wasn't actually at the application. Oh, maybe not then. Put us some skippin' that. Yeah.

Um, that is too creepy. Glad you made it out okay. The fact that they followed you the whole time is frightening. What's your best guess as to who, oh no, she's talking about the girl's other thing. Oh. I don't know. Oh, what? She's not interested in the main story.

No, she's gone on to somebody else's story. I have a story too. Very scary experience, especially by myself. Talking about everybody else's story, but his, man, that's a hell of a story. I had a lot of particularly creepy dreams. Both times I hiked through Southern Virginia. One incident I vividly remember was staying

in a rundown motel with my brother and our dog. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a figure very similar to what you're describing standing in the foot of my brother's bed looking out the window. She then turned, walked towards my bed and looked at me and my dog who was sleeping at the foot of my bed. And this point I was basically shitting myself so I closed my eyes and didn't open them again. I didn't the dog wake up? in our room that night and didn't want to scare me so he didn't say anything. Why didn't the dog wake up? Interesting because what I know about banshees as well, I've seen the thing on it before.

I remember reading something when I was really young. Dogs react. Dogs hear the banshee before the huge so basically the theory she's not screaming that's what i say she's looking she's looking out the window yeah but she's freaking me out so because right so banshees are said to go for people with broken so banshees are made banshees by having their heart broken betrayal like proper devast like proper devastation, they'd be like, that's turned them. It's broken heart.

Yeah, but it's turned them to hurt others. So. Yes, because they're so angry and bitter. Right. So the theory is a banshee can scream and a dog can scream, right? So a dog would hear the scream, but me and you wouldn't hear the scream necessarily. But if we've got a broken heart, we'd attract that back, I'll just spat on you,

we'd attract the banshee to us, and we would then hear the scream when it got to us. Not when it's calling to find its victim, because that is like the radar, I believe. This is the, it's just another reason that we are never what are we not doing? Going here. We're never going there So I mean if we went now, I would have been dead with a banshee. This is big I mean, I've got so much saliva

This has been one of the one of my favorite episodes because even all that Halloween stuff babe. I've never favorite episodes because even all that Halloween stuff babe I've never Banshees do not cause misfortune they weep for those whom whom misfortune is about to be fought before okay so they are a harbinger of disaster but not the cause. If it was a banshee it was there because the sudden shift in weather was going to kill someone although frightening she may have saved your life. See that's an interesting tape I quite like that. That makes me feel a bit better. Then Opie says damn interesting perspective. If that is the case, I'm thankful, but not as, not any less frightens. That is a really nice take on what I've seen before on a Banshee.

See, but Banshees are not said to be evil, but they never said that. No, Banshees aren't supposed to be evil. No, but they do also, they can. They feed off of it. Yeah, but for example, it's not like they want to hurt that person that has the pain, the broken heart, whatever, but they can convert that person into a said banshee.

But not feeding it where they kill someone. No, it's the energy. If you're generating it, yeah, it can turn that person. It's that energy. Yeah. But yeah. So I really enjoyed today's podcast because I've actually been frightened for once. Yay I get to go home now in the dark. We hope that you enjoy this because I obviously the more data we get the more we know that you like cheating people that almost die on tinder dates these are your these are where our hits are coming from I mean you guys really do get off on other

people's misfortune yeah funny funnier podcasts not so popular anything to do with death disaster whatever people seem to like but I get it like this subject for me It's been great tonight. Like I've really enjoyed tonight's but I always enjoy our podcasts But like me my favorite episode still is what's been inside me It's just fucking vile. Why am I reading this at 2 a.m. In the dark? That was literally me. That was literally me. And I was just like what is wrong with me. You guys are scaring the fucking shit out of me. Yeah. I live remote. I'm like no. I can watch the ecstasy tonight and then turn the lights off and go to sleep. No. But after reading my stories for tonight, right,

so I get, I need a pee. So you get out, the fucking hall lights on, the bathroom light, normally I wouldn't do all that, I'd just go for a pee, because it's literally A to B, but no, I couldn't last night, I was cold, I was scared, I locked up, I never look up, and I was just like, mate, shouldn't really tell you but I don't always look up, should I? No one's found me yet I don't feel like we've got a stalker yet come on

people. Okay so conclusion yes and the Appalachian Trail seems like a no-go. Yeah Look at pictures on I mean, I mean they're absolutely stunning and of course it much listen There must be something great about it because there's so many people that you've got But of course there is it's beautiful. Yeah, it's so It's part of nature. It's gorgeous. I still feel like I wanna look further into what is the cause of all of this. Because it confuses me when it says the oldest, maybe they mean one of the untouched oldest places on Earth. Because you all think Earth is Earth, right?

No. You don't think Earth is Earth? Yeah, Earth is Earth, but the way mountains and hills are formed, so when they're saying oldest they're saying it's one of the first forms of mountains like where the the peninsulas have hit and and it's vastly untouched as well and yeah apparently the mountains happen quickly as well. so like the ground shifts quickly I want to know how big what did I read I read applications are among the oldest mountains on earth born of powerful upheavals within a terrestrial crust,

and, terrestrial is top-layer crust, and sculpted by the ceaseless action of water upon the surface. So they, basically they happen really quickly in comparison to how other mountains and hills are covered out. I understand, yeah, right. So 1,500 miles, so that would be for anyone that understands kilometers,

that is 2,400, for me, miles make more sense. The length span, like I just said, is 1,500. Location, it runs from the eastern coast of North America The length span, like I just said, is 1,500 location. It runs from the eastern coast of North America, from Alabama, in the United States of the Newfoundland in Canada. So it's fucking big. It's massive.

Highest point. The highest peak is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina, reaching 6,684 feet. I mean, it only takes us 9 hours and 25 minutes if we wanted to fly to Nashville. I mean, part of me is like, would I go and visit? I'm never going to say never, because that could be a really cool fucking podcast we're here camping oh no no no no no no no no no no my kids I love them so you know what we got we got the smoky mountains Mountains, Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway. It's made up of so many different...

So trail, the Appalachian Trail, a popular hiking route, spans approximately 2,190 miles. Yeah, I mean, through 14 states. I can understand why people do it. Cause you're like, you can visit all those states. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I mean, try and put a picture up if you can. Yeah, I will. Just to show people. That's some really pretty pictures.

Listen, it's beautiful. Look at that. I'd love to see that. I feel like the safest way to do the application. Is a helicopter. Is a helicopter. Over, but once the helicopter goes down. Yeah, because then I get all like Jurassic World vibes,

you know. That's what I'm saying. You're gonna fly over and then suddenly, because of where you are. Especially if some banshee just starts fucking screaming yeah all your equipment zones out and you crash and no one will ever find you. I feel like I'm not gonna be able to get in the helicopter with you. I mean listen look at that I know it's beautiful it's absolutely stunning but you know what there's plenty of other national parks we can visit when we won't die. I mean it's beautiful. It's absolutely stunning. But you know what, there's plenty of other national parks we can visit when it won't die. Pictures of the Appalachian people who literally just look like everybody else.

Do they? Do they though? They do. These are old pictures. They just... Do they though? Okay, maybe not. But yeah. Do they though? Yeah I mean of course they're just gonna put the worst on the internet but yeah man I just good luck to you all and we hope you've enjoyed today's episode because I have personally I've really enjoyed today's. It's been great

you have to get out now and turn it off. So please like, follow and subscribe. Like, follow and subscribe. We hope that, because I'm not posting every day of like clips and that. Obviously I post that we've released a new pod, but we hope you're enjoying our little TikToks as well that we're releasing on YouTube and that. We're having a lot of fun. We are. It is funny. Yeah, it's fine. So we're done. I'm like, I'm drained. They're like, I can't, I can't cope.

So each week, we, on Saturdays now, my Saturdays, we now do a lot of TikToks and then Fridays we try and get two in, but today we've only managed one. So... Yeah, you didn't need to know that, you're still going to be cutting. I like telling them everything. I like getting them in the loop. You can turn it off now. They don't care. They do. I feel like they do though. They don't. I feel like they just want to listen to us gossiping to each other, not you being like, so this is what I'm doing on Friday. This is what we're doing on Friday, and on Saturday, and then on the day. It's fucking massive, look. Honestly, it's huge. It's absolutely huge. Yeah, no, it's enough.

I mean, my life would be right next to that fucking coal. Like, this is definitely somewhere where if you're gonna be murdered, that's where you're gonna be left. Yeah, yeah, you'll never, never, ever be found. You'll never be found again. No, because some fucker's gonna find you and go take you're gonna be left. Yeah, yeah, you'll never, never, ever be found. You'll never be found again. No. Because some fucker's gonna find you and go take you home and eat you.

Yeah, so I ain't got time to be eating that week. I'm busy. Oh no. No! All right, turn her off. Turn her off. I've got to go pee in a second. I enjoyed that.

Who's that? Oh, it's me. Why are you there? Because someone did a FaceTime but it was back in January so I'm like that hmmm. Who FaceTimed me then? It wasn't me. I think this is. Our Australian friends of mine. Oh my. Oh my. It's just the word Australia and not off I go. I hope you can't see my toes in it. Well you just can't eat hell. Like you do. Ow! Oh, I'm 1-7 now. Why is it so popular? I'm so fucking old.

Don't agree with me. Oh sorry. No, you're the same age. No, you're not. Although, I did send you the Golden Girl things. It makes me feel better. I feel like we're aging better. I got a pain. I'm so stuck. I tell you, I haven't got very good blood I control these days.