This Paranormal Life - #010 Hunting the Vampire Beast Of Bladenboro

Episode Date: June 6, 2017

In 1953 a small town was terrorised by what would come to be known as the Vampire Beast of Bladenboro. Was the creature a large bobcat? Or something much, much more sinister... Find out as Rory Powers and Kit Grier join the hunt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are mirrors actually a portal to another dimension? Are our shadows trying to assassinate us? These are some of the questions that you will find the answer to on This Paranormal Life! Caw caw! Caw caw! Welcome to the podcast. My name is Roy Powers. I'm your host for today, joined by Kit Greer. How you doing, Kit?

I'm doing good. I'm really hot. It's really warm in this house. It's really warm in this house. It's another beautiful day in sunny london and my radiate my heating system's kind of broken so yeah has it just been like cranked all year yes and this is the first hot day uh we were just talking about how scary it would be if your shadow was actually trying to assassinate you yeah peter pan style little like evil bitch shadow but then i was gonna say because your shadow is not always behind you either so yeah he's one step ahead of you ready to trip you up and make you the shadow that would be it

the shadow would be jealous of your like 3d body wouldn't he yeah like totally jealous or maybe we're the shadow to the shot now we're getting too far away from it i'm gonna move on welcome to this paranormal life this is a paranormal podcast where every week we look at a new case study of paranormal activity and as professional paranormal investigators come to a conclusion as to whether or not that case is real. We've studied it all, folks. From Bigfoot to Sasquatch to Lizardmen to aliens. We've done it all. We've seen it all. We've had sex with it all.

It's part of the job. 500 cases. Yet to be one real now today our story is about the beast sorry the vampire beast big difference there's a difference the vampire beast of bladenborough that's not a real place. It is. It is. It is absolutely a real place. North Carolina, Bladenboro. Okay. Our story begins in North Carolina in 1954. All right.

Take us there. We're going back in the machine. Jazz. Was there the prohibition? I don't know. The prohibition. Yeah. Bathtub gin.

It's the 29th of December. It's approaching Christmas. 29th of December. It's approaching Christmas. 29th of December? 20... Shit. This was Rory last Christmas. Rory, you didn't get anyone gifts. Christmas is like January, right?

It's after Christmas. It's after Christmas. It's nearly the new year. In the small woodland town of Bladenborough. Still not real. Continue. It's real. If I say it enough times

it is real it's like bloody mary and a local farmer who uh we'll call joe is out walking with his dogs now it's a beautiful night clear skies bright stars full moon question mark i don't actually know if it was red sky demons on earth drain um but farmer joe is having a lovely evening stroll when all of a sudden oh he hears a low sinister growl coming from the dogs no not his dogs farmer jo Joe is stricken with fear His dogs even seem afraid Whoa But one of them The bravest of them all

Or maybe the most foolish Chad The bravest dog of all A freaking jock dog A tough mother f***er of a dog He did wrestling in college Until he threw his shoulder But he always knew he could go pro

He tore his ACL He had the stem cell shot Calls his stepson a little bitch Until he threw his shoulder, but he always knew he could go pro. He tore his ACL. Now he drinks. He had the stem cell shot. Calls his stepson a little bitch. Chat, we'll call him Chad. Chad the dog. Chad the dog. Reluctantly approached the bushes where the noise originated.

As Farmer Joe's dog approached the bushes, the growling became louder and more aggressive. No. What is this? What's happening? Run. Leave the dogs. You can buy new dogs. Belling became louder and more aggressive. No. What is this? What's happening? Run. Leave the dogs. You can buy new dogs.

All of a sudden, out of the shadows stretched two razor sharp claws. Whoa! And a pair of teeth that could only belong to a vampire. All of a sudden, Joe watched as his dog was slashed and dragged into the bushes. Oh, Christ. Fearing for his own life, Farmer Joe turned andashed and dragged into the bushes. Oh, Christ. Fearing for his own life, Farmer Joe turned and fled, running through the woods. That's right, Joe. Desperate to get back to the house, he returned home and locked his doors.

He's safe for the night. Uh-huh. What are our immediate thoughts here? What are we dealing with? This is terrifying. I'm shivering in my booties. Gries granted i spooked the story up a bit that was a dramatic it's actually a pretty dry it's a children's book it's a fairy tale that was a pig it was a wolfie huffed and puffed i got a little carried away with the claws sure

with the slashing and the blades. What are we thinking? So we've talked previously on this podcast about the legend of the goat man. He killed dogs. He was out in the woods, but he had an axe. Well, yeah, a bladey axe. And hooves. We're dealing with claws here. We're dealing with vampire teeth.

How do you know the vampire teeth? What is the difference between a vampire tooth and a tooth? I guess some sort of holes for siphoning the blood yeah sharp what are those called incisors incisors sharp incisors but then i guess a lot of cat-like creatures have sharp incisors um i think he was also wearing a tall collar and a cape he had like that widow's peak like bad hairline. Oh yeah, of course. The kind of black M head. He erected from a coffin before he quickly grabbed the dog. I'm on board.

So later on, it's New Year's Day. It's three days later. Two more dogs have been found dead. Oh my god. Joe's starting to panic. This is getting a little bit strange. Now both creatures had their heads crushed and were drained of blood. Oh, Christ.

There's some really grisly stuff. I actually had to choose to cut some out of this because it was just like, it was like, okay, this dog was killed in this way. This dog was killed in this way. I was like, I don't need to know all this. It's like, now we're moving on to the goats. Well, this one was gutted for me. I'm like, oh, jeez.

I don't even know any of this. It was horrible. And ladies and gentlemen, you can find that content in this Paranormal Life. Too hot for TV edition. After the watershed. It's just like violent language. Then this motherfucking dog came out of the fucking woods. Over the next couple of days in Bladenboro, it was more than just. Can we just talk a bladenborough i mean it's kind of in the name bladenborough was born to have some sort of paranormal activity in a

place like imagine just like you know moving out of your hometown and just like you just pin on the map bladenborough sounds good right behind devil's Creek and Slashville, Carolina. Yeah, it was more than just dogs that went missing. All right? We're talking rabbits. We're talking goats. Babies. Pigs.

And often the creatures would be found with all of the blood drained from their bodies. We've talked before about cattle mutilations. This isn't too far removed. No, it's a similar case where you're seeing animals over a very short period of time, mutilated and drained of blood. Yeah. As if they're being harvested. Yeah.

They're all dead. Blood's been sucked out. They look like little raisins with legs. Now, all of this has happened in under a week. Just little beef jerky's left. So the town is starting to get worried. Because how long before this thing gets a taste for human blood? Which we all know is the most delicious blood of all.

It's the one filled with Coca-Cola, sugar syrup. Sugary sweets. Yeah. Tato cheese and onion. Super tender, just from like lying on the couch all day. Oh my God. Humans are so delicious. So what do you do in this situation?

Well, the mayor of the town, Mayor WG Fussell. That's not real either. Now he obviously wants to quieten down all the rumors. Keep everyone in control. You want to rumors keep everyone in control you want to get elected next term you want to get this on the down low you do you want to be vamp want to have vampire killings in the low fifth percentile a hundred do you think when obama ran for president he was bragging that he was gonna bring back the vampire beast of course he didn't so he obviously wants to quieten down all the rumors and he assures the citizens that everything is okay.

And they believe that it was. Until late at night in Bladenboro, a mother by the name of, let's hope this name is more believable. Let's go. Mrs. C.E. Kinlaw. Okay. That's pretty good. She had put her kids to bed,

and afterwards she walked outside onto her porch to get some fresh air. And that's when she saw it. A large, dark beast strolling towards her on all fours. Oh, God. It had the warped and twisted face of a cat, the body of a dog, and the teeth of...

Was this CatDog? Nickelodeon's CatDog? Cat cat dog did not have vampire teeth that's not canon did cat dog ever open its mouth either mouth which one of them was the butthole for cat dog because presumably they had a lot of questions that was a weird cartoon it was really weird there was a lot of weird cartoons back in the day face of a cat body of a dog teeth of a vampire body ultimate combo that's really small uh i guess a big dog it's not like a tiny great then like a scooby-doo of itself what we're dealing with here is is like a almost like a werewolf yeah i would say oh that's fair okay because i think when people think vampire they

think like we joke like a dracula suck your going to suck your blood. But no, this is like a little werewolf beast. A werewolf beast vampire demon. Mrs. Kinlaw let out a terrified scream and ran inside. Upon hearing the commotion, her husband, Charles Kinlaw, grabbed his shotgun and ran outside. It's hunting season, motherfucker. It's time. Two motherfucker. It's time. Two fangs in his neck. Charles tripped on the driftwood

and shot himself in the face. Tumbling down the stairs, taking out every member of the family with each round. Ironically, Charles became the ultimate beast. Shit.

But when Charles reached the the yard the only thing left was the giant cat-like paw prints around his yard wow so this is interesting as well because once again yes we have a paranormal uh experience we have evidence left behind of the creature it's's not just testimony. That's true. We have actual evidence. So newspapers came around, police came around, and they got pictures of the paw prints, which were like a cat's, but a lot wider. Right. And deeper into the dirt to imply that this is quite a heavyset creature. Did someone, at some point, I'm imagining this whole story,

did some people ever speculate that maybe this was a mountain lion because mountain lions and creatures like that i don't know if they exist in that part of the world but they have been known to nab people yeah i don't think mountain lions at this point did not exist in north carolina okay but i think there was rumors of uh coyotes and bobcats okay okay but but i understand so it's bigger than a bobcat big this thing's jacked okay was packet it's actually kind of hot yeah i don't think about it i haven't even gone on to his dick yet but like abs yeah like big abs like ripped barrel chested he had like 20k on instagram followers he was promoting some sort of fit tea some sort of cat fit tea he was doing like a tea talks or something he called it a detox he's actually got a workshop next week in london i'm

thinking of going yeah it's all about like innovating online and doing like digital marketing i love the idea yeah going on youtube and there's an ad that pops up before your video and it's just the vampire beast in his garage yep that's my ferrari back there you know what i love blood you know what i love more than goat's blood my teas my green herbal teas uh also with the promo code uh vampire you can get 20 off squarespace your first website if you need a website for luring uh children and other uh blood-filled beasts why is he a redneck why is why is the werewolf a redneck uh so at this point this is interesting because now at this point we have a clear description of the animal uh we have hundreds of animals missing and we know now that this isn't

just someone going around wrecking goats and yeah it's not a person this isn't a person anymore and this begins a new chapter in the story my favorite chapter that i'm calling the hunt i'm gonna kick in like some country some country music here and some sound of like people loading shotguns and like getting ready to go out for the hunt yeah now this is the 1950s so rumors spread quickly because no one has anything else to do no one's got anything on you think rumors spread fast now oh my god back in those days this thing's like wild this thing was like a kardashian of the vampire world okay it was front page news freaking handing out pepsis to all the police officers handing out goat's blood to the front line, trying to shut this hunt down. A hunting party of like 200 men.

This vampire comes out of the bushes with a little ice-cooled glass of goat's blood. The sheriff puts it on, starts a sniper rifle. Allow me, damn. A peace offering from the beast itself. So, the rumors are spreading like wildfire. Everyone's talking about the beast now mayor wg fuss i've said fuss well this time but i originally said fossil i think it's fossil fossil before yeah let me let me just double check it is fossil so everyone's talking about

the beast now mayor wg fossil has now completely flipped. Instead of keeping things quiet, he wants huge groups of hunters to come out and track down... He's messaging every freaking world leader that will listen. Women, children, he's putting guns in their hands. War effort. They all need to come out so that they can kill the murderous vampire beast. Wow. He's sending these memos out to local papers.

It reaches papers in New york that's how far this thing goes so the hunt is broken down into a couple of nights okay so the first night police chief roy foreza half a dozen brave youths and eight other officers went out in search for the creature but they turned up empty-handed wow Wow, okay. That's night one. On the second night, word is spreading. More than 500 people showed up to join the hunt. We sent out it, and it didn't really cut it. We need more! Should we multiply that by 40?

Give the kids guns. That's what I'm saying from the start! Use them as bait. but sir i use them as bait i like the idea that like the the the mayor of the time didn't even believe in in the in the beast he just wanted to arm children it's been his ploy the whole time yeah so 500 people went out searching restlessly through the forests and the swamp still found nothing oh damn on the third day news is getting out there more than 800 people arrived in played bro more people is not the answer i like the idea that they're just like at no point do they accept that it's not like not i know real they're like okay i guess it was some wild animal they're like it's out there

it's undergrowing let's start digging i say we start digging trevor you and the boys take the sky we're taking the ground you take up we'll take down these are gonna be some very rural country people um so at this point we've got hunters as far off as arizona who have traveled just to bladenborough that's because they've heard about they've literally heard that there's a vampire going around the city killing animals and of course if you have spare time spare cash oh my god you want to be the person to kill a vampire that's incredible i'd be right this is like a grateful dead concert but of the paranormal world, it's just attracting all the hunters from around the country.

Exactly. I'm doing this beast. You'd be world famous. Now, unfortunately, instead of a successful hunt, this was chaos. It was essentially hundreds of men in the swamps at night

drinking, killing literally anything that moved. They murdered hundreds of animals over the period of this hunt uh on the fourth day another 1 000 people showed up to the hunt at this point the town had actually gone insane everyone was carrying a gun it wasn't safe to go out at night not even because of the vampire beasts but because you would have been shot anything like a dog or a cat you were dead any facial hair shot long nails shot drinking dark minto from a cup more than three shot dead so during this entire process hunters were literally bringing in roadkill and dead coyotes to the mayor and police chief foreza claiming that it was the beast and demanding a reward

i drunk with these man so drunk i've got the beast squirrel that is a crow that's a crow jerry can you go into yet another crow yeah the 50th how much for the beast yeah nothing because it's a crow it just tosses it into a pile of hundreds of crows we brought its den that's a bird's nest i found a beast still in its egg in egg form we cannot accept this okay would you mind if I scrambled the beast egg? You can take the X. And had it on toast with a side of beast bacon? Do you have any hot sauce for this beast I'm about to eat?

This is what it's come down to. Drunken hunters dropping roadkill on the mayor's desk. I bet he regrets that one. Although, for sure, to come back to drunken hunters dropping roadkill on the mayor's desk i bet he regrets that one although for sure to come back to the election definitely the highest approval rating of any mayor i mean they probably doubled the population of this time oh absolutely well this is part of it is that i think there are rumors that throughout this whole experience the mayor was really not helping with um clarifying like breaking down the myth from the reality so he was really part of the team that was building it up to be this vampire monster right even telling going as far as like tell newspapers like oh yeah there's spooky things in the woods like kind of like fanning that flame um but what we're gonna find out is obviously what's happened is that it's gone

way too far now you'd hope uh that the police chief foressa would be like with the mayor and be a bit more sensible about this absolutely not at one point the chief wanted to chain up animals as bait jurassic park style literally he wanted to chain dogs in the woods to lure the creature out until a humane society in north carolina were forced to step in and stop him i'm imagining that in this group of like 2 000 drunken hunters there's about like 50 of the beasts just also with pitchforks but no one's noticing they're just in such a fervor yeah they're kind of like getting close to their little den it's like i heard the beast lived in this direction the blood from his fangs

nice nice work antonio you heard the man like antonio's like 12 foot high hunched over with like a little girl's head in his backpack. I'll tell you what, Fibonacci is an incredible hunter. I also heard the beast was really cool and had a huge dick. Yeah, I think I heard that too, Antonio. The way I kind of think of police chief Forresta is is you know in those apocalypse movies where you always have the person playing the

role of the military chief where the scientists come in and they're like look we know how to beat this guy we have to use these weapons

in this formula very straightforward and the police chief goes I know how to solve it it's called napalm lots and lots of napalm

in a little place called Vietnam here's some science for you splitting an atom how's that to deal It's called napalm. Lots and lots of napalm. We used it in a little place called Vietnam. Here's some science for you. Splitting an atom. How's that to deal with your beasts? Fire kills shit. So, Faresa nuked Bladenborough.

Bladenborough, also known as Hiroshima. So, meanwhile, while the hunt's going on and the mayor is panicking, local Bladenboro farmer named Luther Davis has joined the hunt for the vampire beast. Of course. Now, obviously, with all these professional hunters out there in the woods, the chance of Luther actually finding the monster was pretty slim. But nonetheless, he set out into the swamp. A brave gent.

Very brave gent very brave gent or a fool trudging through the muddy waters he drowned in the swamp immediately he found the only case of quicksand in north carolina almost immediately why did it have to be quicksand trudging through the muddy waters and through the thick bushes luther searched deep into the swamp where the other hunters hadn't gone before he knew it he heard strange noises echoing through the trees the sound of rustling branches and clinking metal was this the vampire beast we haven't heard of metal being involved in the story it's true unless this is a ghost man chains this is one paid beast just the clinking of 24 carats so luther followed the sounds deep into the swamp until he found the source of it lying there on the ground with its leg locked in a bear trap oh my god luther had found a bobcat

just a regular old probably rabies infested bobcat that must be the yeah like the only time that you come across like a like a wild beast and you're like relieved that it's you know what i mean it's like if you ever come across like a wild animal it's always it's going to be an intense situation yeah how you react to each other but that's like he thought he thought it was going to be dracula yes but it was it was a wild it was a bobcat and not even like a free bobcat a trapped bobcat yeah so obviously you know he's like a farmer he's a nice guy you think he would let the bobcat go no he shot it in the head killed it better be safe you know you don't know if that thing you don't know what kind

of shape shift maybe he can shape shift yeah i don't want to say that that actually was the demon are you the mayor at this point look it's funny you should mention that because again things had gotten so out of control uh that the mayor needed to find a way to shut down the hunt wow even he had turned his back on it at this point oh absolutely he's panicking because he he knows it's only a matter of time before a hunter shoots a hairy child in the face yeah for sure it's it's imminent at this point so um luther what he does is with the bobcat because he's like all the other drunken hunters out there in the woods goes to the mayor and lays the bobcat down on the mayor's table so

convinced and then he's like i i killed him i killed i did shoot it i shout it and instead of the mayor being like yeah okay brilliant this is a squirrel the mayor sees an out here what he says is congratulations mr luther you've killed the beast whoa because this is like the biggest thing that's been brought in probably yeah it's because it's quite a large bobcat uh so what the mayor does is he strings it up in the middle of the town and takes a photo with the body beside it uh with a sign that says the beast of bladenborough everyone go home please today basically that goes out to papers across the world the beast is dead oh my god it's been hunted i have brought with me kit uh-huh a photo whoa the actual the actual photo that was uh put to the papers um it's a tomcat this is the freaking tomcat this is the beast that was brought uh to the mayor by luther with the message below

so i'm handing you the the page now wow there's a piece of history god this is i mean this is borderline a watercolor this thing's so old it's very washed out yeah i really blew up the jpeg as they say oh christ that's no cat that's a tiny man this is terrifying it's kind of for people listening it's kind of they seem it's two men this is obviously uh the the mayor um it's a mayor on the right yeah and and davis on the left and they're holding up this bobcat in a kind of like boxer's victory pose but the the cat's obviously pained and kind of anguished kind of screaming little like face yeah it looks very human it's quite disturbing it is but ultimately that doesn't match the descriptions that people have seen it doesn't match the weight of the creature that has left the

prince it's ultimately they're stretching it out so it looks big they really are they're straight up like medieval torture devising this yeah i mean so for reference they're stretching this thing out like by its paws and it's still it's only like waist height really that is not the beast. It's not the beast. But it was enough to end the hunt. And coincidentally enough, after the forest had been completely destroyed of wildlife, sightings and reports of the creature dipped massively. All right. In fact, almost entirely.

Almost, you say? You almost think that they did get the beast but they didn't so sightings of the creature died down after the hunt and the beast of bladenborough became no more than a legend that is until 2007 today. I'm the beast. Rory's brought in a cage. So in Lexington, North Carolina, 60 goats were found dead. 60? 60 goats.

Oh my god. That's too many goats. Is this beast of a freaking machine gun? Well, most suspicious of all, they weren't just dead. They'd all had the blood drained from their little goat bodies not again then later 30 miles away in greensboro another farmer loses all of his goats in the exact same way is the beast back it sounds like it 30 miles is quite far 30 miles is really far yeah he's got a Segway. I really think he's got a Segway.

He's got some sort of glider apparatus. Well, also, the Beast has a hoverboard. A Swagway. And one of those little spinners. And a vape. He's blending in with modern day civilization. Very ahead of his time actually yeah he really likes the the cherry the cherry vape

so later in north carolina october 2007 which is what is this now 60 years later almost 60 years later bill robinson is at his home several miles from bladenborough it's late in the afternoon you think you'd be safe several miles away yeah but not with the swagway beast he knows no no boundaries he's about to get ready for dinner when his son approaches him and says dad there's something wrong with ray ray now ray ray is the name of their pit bull. Okay. Not like their uncle or something. The name of their pit bull.

Little Ray Ray. Okay. So Bill goes out the back door to check on the dog, and immediately he can tell that something's wrong. The dog is lying motionless on the ground. Oh, no. Bill picks his dog up and immediately notices he's a lot lighter than he usually is.

It's because the blood has been drained from him. Looks like a bit of a raisin today. Little raisin ray, right? It's been drained by a vampire beast, presumably. Can you imagine how scary that would be? You lift up your pet and it's a freaking raisin of itself it's and also like bill robinson yeah he's he's he's an elderly man he has a kid but he wouldn't have been alive or around for the original sightings yeah he doesn't know what this is exactly

it would be terrifying so bill being the good dog owner that he is grabs a shovel and gives the dog a proper burial maybe some candles a church hymn or something maybe put his favorite chew toy on the grave say a little prayer good night sweet ray ray we heart we lest we knew we hardly knew you yeah he laid him in the ground uh opened uh opened some snacks distributed the snacks i'm sure it was a him in the ground, opened some snacks, distributed the snacks. I'm sure it was a heartfelt. Put on a movie in the background. I'm not entirely sure what the funeral was. But they pay their respects and they go to bed.

Uh-huh. But the next day, Bill makes a horrifying discovery. When he leaves his house, he discovers that Ray Ray's body was back in the yard. Oh, my God. Lying in the exact same spot where he died. Whoa. Later, Bill Robinson found out that Ray Ray's death was linked with over 10 more dog deaths in the area.

Whoa. And when he left the house to look for who or what could have dragged the body back to his house, he found tracks in the dirt. Tracks that matched the exact same tracks found 50 years ago in Bladenborough. Good lord. Boom.

This cat's old as hell. He's back. That's insane. That's 2017. No swag way, Trav. 2017. It's real, it's now! Get the guns!

Give the children guns! Yeah, I mean, for real, the only reason why this hasn't happened to us is because we don't have pets. But if we had pets... I was going to say guns. If we had guns... This thing would know to stay away.

2007, that's dangerously recent. That's really recent. And that was one of the latest cases. And this is in the same locale. Several miles out of bladenborough but still north carolina in all of north carolina i i mentioned a couple different locations but there's a lot of i think it's they span over 200 miles these random animal killings so this thing can borderline fly yeah it can teleport it's a flying demon i mean wolf ghost to be honest

i think there's such a span of time between these sightings that it could be anywhere first off uh-huh what type of paranormal professionally speaking what time of type of paranormal creature do you think we're dealing with here because we're it's kind of a mix yeah it's it's been described as the where the vampire beast of blade and burrow yeah and so what do we have there that's just it's like a cat-like monster that sucks blood yeah so we're kind of looking at a werewolf but werewolves don't suck blood right as far as i'm they just they just want to wreck shit they just want to is there anything real that drinks blood? I mean, like... Mosquitoes. Yeah, insects do it.

Mosquitoes and spiders, things like that, they drink blood. Luther saw a beast with one of its legs and wings trapped in the bear trap. The bear trap was the size of a paper clip. Yeah, there's not a lot of actual creatures that drink creatures that drink blood as far as i know isn't that interesting it is pretty much little tiny ones little bugs i guess like because this is what puts it across from other creatures coyotes bobcats they're more vicious they bite in they chew they eat they don't crush skulls and drink blood yeah so it's kind of a weird combination it's like you have to be big enough to actually brutally crush this thing but then also drink its blood dainty enough

to sip the blood yeah to not want to even eat it just like sip on it what a waste what a freaking waste ray ray's body's unused i know maybe they buried it and the beast was like guys it's perfectly good meat look i'll drag it back out for you guys i'm doing your favor here yeah i only want the blood i'm not i'm not greedy that's interesting yeah so definitely odd not not your traditional vampire case no of or your traditional beast case no it's so it's such a strange occurrence that's why i actually found this one really interesting and it is interesting that it is um tied to such a specific locale this this something i go for those ones i like those ones yeah yeah very specific locations that it hasn't caught on elsewhere in terms of a conclusion where do you think you are lying

on the side of this because we have we have testimonies and we have a lot of stories, but they're all from the 1950s. And we've already seen the mayor flip-flop three times on whether this is real, whether this is fake. You know what it's like. These stories get blown out of proportion. I mean, I've just seen him pose with a bobcat. I'm not really taking much of what he has to say.

Slaving a bobcat was'm not i'm not really taking much of what he has to say slaving a bobcat was a beast yeah just to end the onslaught of wildlife that he had initiated i know people think you know the the the era of trump is bad at the moment i mean they were taking pictures with slaying bobcats yeah back. Things were different. Very different. They just wanted to make Bladenborough great again. Yeah. By killing the beasts.

Make Bladenborough keep its blood again. Yeah. So you know what I mean? We're lacking in a lot of the key factors in terms of believability, which is like DNA, photographs video yeah real life testimonies murder but it's kind of you know but with some of the paranormal cases that we come across there are i mean take uh you know we talked about cattle mutilations let's look at other ufo phenomena look at crop circles yeah and that's one that yes this is a very odd phenomenon but

it is very possible for a human to be able to do that and then you look at motives why would they do that exactly well they would do it to mess with people but this is one that i mean do we have kind of a a plausible sort of scientific rational solution other than i mean i feel like paranormal hoaxes are more of a kind of modern media thing yeah absolutely it's hard to imagine 1950s who's gaining anything exactly from traveling around traveling 30 miles apart yeah to slip a goat's throat and then be like and then it's almost sunrise and it was supposed to be in delaware to make those crop circles oh god yeah yeah it's kind of hard to imagine i'm really uh really out of pocket for this one i wonder when this is gonna start paying off i mean he's traveling by greyhound like that it's only yeah i know what you mean there's literally like there's nothing to gain from this yeah there's nothing to gain from this oh oh oh oh the vampire's niggling in your foot

what if it what if it was the mayor the tourism's slow he wants to drum up excitement about the town he starts going around in the night he starts slitting throats he's in there with the police chief wow so there he's like the police chief is like yeah no ititting throats he's in there with the police chief wow so there he's like the police chief is like yeah no it's definitely a beast he's going around at night slitting throats killing cows killing goats all of a sudden he starts this hunt because he's like oh guys did you hear that it's hunted where i'm the town i'm the mayor of yeah all of a sudden now you've got thousands of people filling the shops and hotels and bars it's granted it went a bit gun mad and then as you say he then realizes what he's done he has to take take the foot off

the pedal unfortunately at that point the police chief has forgotten that it is a hoax and he wants to use his own bullshit at this point he's gone full rambo out in the forest like he's he's to the beast yeah chief you have to come back your family are worried about you he drank first blood so the question now is is that more likely than there is a vampire cat dog beast roaming south carolina to this day potentially and in terms of a conclusion i'm gonna say yeah that is more likely yeah that the mayor just completely hoaxed uh a paranormal beast in the woods yeah so unfortunately in terms of the beast of bladenborough we're both saying no we're saying no which kind of sucks because it was an

interesting case but i think the lack of evidence here the lack of hard-hitting dna and stories is gonna chalk it up to a no i mean what what they lacked in science they made up for in bloodthirsty masses yeah and they didn't find anything it is funny that they like the best part of the story is the hunt yeah not the actual like killings at all but the hunt i know it does feel like a real um horror movie cliche it's like really if you think about it we were the beasts all along who's the real beast here it was us it was us credits roll um vampire beast comes on screen as a credit show winks at the camera you hear the thriller laugh so in terms of that latest mystery that's a double no unfortunately but thank you for joining us

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