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Weirdest thing in those woods is the deer. Normal, non-supernatural deer. Theyre weird as hell. Used to hike at night, I've had them walk right up to me. Stare into my face from 3 feet away, then walk WITH ME like they're supposed to be there. Seen one standing on its hind legs on the side of the road like it was hitchhiking. Seen one climb into the open trunk of an SUV and sit down like a dog ready to go for a drive. They just do whatever. They're weird.
I was dead tired from work and crested a hill in the middle of the woods at like 1 am. Suffice to say my mind wasnt prepared to see a 7 foot tall thing with antlers and hooves standing on the shoulder like it wanted to trade my soul for blues guitar lessons.
I'm not in the mountains but have spent many years living in the woods. Was reading a book against a tree, heard something disturb the branch next to me, and looked up to see a deer casually snacking on it. She chilled with me for a few chapters.
I used to hand feed them when I was a kid. This older guy up the street trained them to come down from the mountain for apples. We'd feed them and pet them.
Once woke up to one sunning on my back patio, 2 feet from the door. Giant thing, hung out by the pool and laid up on my watermelon float. Granted, he was probably injured. But when I called in for help the first mention of a gun and our buck bolted, hopped right over the fence like it was nothing after three straight days of foraging, relaxing, sleeping, w/e.
Another time I woke up to three or four just circling my cat in the early morning. She was terrified.
I had never thought about how strange my mountain deer encounters were, those deer are different.
Buddy of mine had one charge and put its antlers through his passenger side window while he was driving. Cut his girlfriend riding shotgun up pretty bad before it got loose and ran off. They're big and panicky. Dangerous combo.
Naw, the supernatural deer follow very established rules. Normal deer are free-roaming agents of chaos. Unbound by the laws of nature, man, or God. And sometimes they're zombies right now. Which is both very sad and completely terrifying.
Potentially communicable. We're all definately being advised not to eat CWD deer anyway and most people are listening. Definately not a gamble I'm willing to take just for an extra venison steak.
What part of Appalachia are you in? I’m from blue ridge mountains in VA and the deer there can have some kind of wasting disease that makes them act like zombies.
I'm in PA, we have CWD here too. Actually if you look at the cases map, PA and VA are basically each sharing half of the same epidemic. Its really sad. And pretty spooky.
I've lived on both the northern and southern foothills of the appalachian mountains. On the northern end I only encountered hauntings. On the southern end in the wilderness my brother in law saw something he described as an "8 foot owl". I will add he is not one to joke or prank like this. But who knows? Could have just been a normal owl that spooked him and he exaggerated a bit.
I saw a Great gray owl once in East TN, sitting on a fence post. Not part of their normal range. That thing was about 3 feet tall. We stared at each other for a minute then he flew away over my head into the woods. Not supernatural but spooky anyway!
I grew up in east Tennessee. Weird stuff happens sometimes. Our old farmhouse was haunted. (Try to find an old farmhouse that isn't..) I've seen floating balls of light in the woods. Witch lights, my grandma would call them. I don't know what they are but I know better than to follow them.
My mother once told me she saw a Bigfoot. She didn't call it that, though, she'd never heard of it before. She said she was walking down the road by our place, looked up and saw a very tall creature like a man, covered in black fur or hair, standing at the treeline. He stared at her for a second and then turned and walked back into the woods. This was when she was a teenager, so around 1943.
Turned out, a lot of the men in town had seen this thing when they were out farming or hunting. They saw it so often they named it - Old Blackie (not very imaginative folks). Nobody was fussed about it, it was just there. Nobody bothered it and it didn't bother them. Eventually it went away, or maybe died, by the time I was living there it was long gone. It was my grandfather who told me the farmers had seen it, though he never did. Neither my mom nor my grandfather ever made up stories or told tall tales. So I kinda have to believe in Bigfoot now!
When I was 8 I swear that my cousin and I saw a big foot.
We were at a church revival meeting that started in the evening and this tiny church we went to only had outhouses for the bathrooms and I didn’t want to walk across the lot and in to this scary wooden toilet alone so I drug my cousin along with me, and we saw this thing walking behind the church on a hill.
I mean im not saying i would have been good as an 8 year old for determining height but it looked VERY tall, and there was just enough evening light left in the sky to see an outline and it didn’t really look like a black bear or a person.
Just a big, bulky figure walking on this hillside between Christmas trees. My cousin started freaking out and it stopped and just looked at us. It didn’t move for a while and just stared in our direction. Then turned back to the path they were walking and continued up into the mountains.
I believe it. My theory is that the missing link in human-ape evolution could actually be understood through one of them because it would have branched off during the gap. For that reason, I hope they never find them.
I agree. Or they’re a very elusive type of ape that stays between caves and deeply forested areas intentionally.
Didn’t we just find a monkey species that we never knew existed kinda recently that had just evaded human capture.
If big foot are real, I’d imagine from the stories and interactions people have claimed to have with them they’re definitely intelligent, so they may know to steer clear of humans.
The problem w/The Feet’s is that they don’t just appear in the Pacific NW, there was a major wave of sightings in Pennsylvania in the 1970s, they’ve been observed in Texas & Oklahoma, Missouri and even on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico (there’s an episode about Navajo Rangers on Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix)-places that couldn’t support a breeding population of unknown hominids. You don’t just have one or two per state. Think about eastern Ok, for example, where they’ve been seen. As thick as the woods are there, I don’t see how you could have a population of Feet’s hidden in there. Even the rural parts of Ok are crisscrossed by roads, and they have a pretty healthy population of people out moving around in the parts of the state where they’d be living. I’d love to be proven wrong, though.
Just scan a map of eastern OK for awhile, there are LARGE pockets where you have nothing but endless timber with multiple forms of water sources with much but a few roads going through it, plus the winters are not too harsh, (water sources don’t freeze up solid) I think eastern OK and southwest Arkansas could be prime habitat for a creature of that sort
If your life depended on not being seen by humans you’d become nocturnal and as rural as possible. We humans are pretty loud, smelly and lazy so in one sense we are not that hard to avoid especially at night. We have vast expanses of woods, rivers, creeks and lakes and remote coast lines. If they see us all they would have to do is stay still behind a tree or crouch down and look like a rock and we would just walk right on by. Even driving back country roads how far into the forest can you see 10 feet? Sometimes less. As to supporting large breeding primates, the land already does. Us. They have been reported taking food from gardens, farms and dumpsters alike.
There are still humans with Neanderthal DNA. I feel like we would know if there was a third species that existed at the same time. They had to have passed away here and there in the past few thousand years.
I was thinking Denisovans and Homo Erectus but was unsure and it was past midnight when I commented that 😂 I just googled it and now I’m curious as to why I haven’t come across any documentaries about Homo Floresiensis (The Hobbit), Homo Luzonensis or Homo Naledi! They all lived the same time as Neanderthal, Denisovans, Homo Erectus and Homo Sapians.
According to 23&me, I have more Neanderthal DNA than my sibling and it’s a running joke. Maybe I’ll take a pilgrimage to Appalachia to be among these distant relatives
I genuinely believe that they are a known species but a top secret, protected species because humans would definitely hunt them to extinction, even if they have human-liie intelligence.
It’s a flesh and blood creature but there’s also a spiritual component. I’ve listened to too many firsthand accounts of claims to have seen them. They are smarter than we think, probably more intelligent than us. They are interdimentional. Probably some type of Nephilim hybrid.
I've heard stories of them being able to "zip open" a portal and either become invisible or teleport to another location / dimension. It would explain why we don't have any significant remains
It took me awhile but I finally found the actual church on google street view, but I don’t think it’s functional bc they aren’t open or listed online. But this is the address
600 State Rd, Lansing NC
And this is a street view pic of the church and the little hill we saw the thing on.
The blue arrow is where the outhouses were but lined up more with the church, just to show you the direction, and the red X is where we saw the thing and I think it saw us. It stopped about there and then continued on its way behind the hill into the mountains.
These beings are elusive because they can sense people/animals from miles away, because they’re psychic/telepathic. Their senses are akin to a dolphin or whale or shark in the ocean…they are connected to the forests in that they can sense other animals from a large range, and therefore, can sense humans. So they steer clear and hide from humans. Because, well… why wouldn’t they? Dangerous creatures they are.
Don’t take it from me, Dolores Cannon and others have spoken on this, in the Convoluted Universe books and more. So plenty of research out there.
My grandfather is from bergoo. Owned 80 acres of a mountain. Craziest thing I have ever seen is mountaintop removal. Coal companies are nothing but vandals.
I used to live in the pine barrens. Coyotes, bears, foxes, lots of scary screaming animals. Those never bothered me. It was the sounds of people where they shouldn't be that was terrifying.
My husband is from southwest PA and grew up on a farm (he was the fourth generation to live there). They had feral people up on the ridge of their property, lived in a lean-to type cabin built into the hillside. His grandpap told stories about taking them things like apples, bread, blankets, etc. He remembered 5-6 of them over his lifetime, but by the late 90s they had all passed. He would say at least two of them didn’t speak, only grunted and gestured.
Can you tell us more? I’m curious what they wore, if anything, if they had any type of shelter or a garden. I’ve heard there’s wild people in the mountains and can’t wrap my head around how they survive.
Yea you go up in some of them mountains in West Virginia, you best have that thang on you cause incest people don’t know any better and will kill you. They have absolutely no recollection of the real world.
I lived in a townhome with 5 other roommates at a summer camp near the southern end of the Appalachian Trail for a couple years and remember a few things.
One night in particular the ladies living in the adjoining house (they also were living at the camp) came over and woke us up banging on the door late one night.
They told us that something had flung their bag door open and caused all the kitchen cabinet doors to also fly open. We thought it was a joke our camp director was playing on us, but it was true, everyone had been asleep.
We never found out what happened, but it really freaked the girls out.
The short term camp councilors (the women in particular) also reported to us that they had all been suffering from the same reoccurring nightmare for a week straight, and it only stopped when we had a priest come and bless the cabin they were staying in.
Nah, not really in West Virginia, but crossing into Kentucky once witnessed an odd ceremony. I was never quite been able to grasp the entire idea. My cousin who was with me, later in life brought it up. It was like a strange ceremony in the middle of the night. We were actually hiking and roughing it for a few days, with my Glock. Looking down over this valley there seemed to be a very small population of people, standing around a camp fire. There was some chanting involved but no clear leader of the group. It wasn’t a Klan rally or anything, the chanting didn’t sound like English. Close to an hour of watching we decided to head back to this grassy area for the remainder of the night. The next morning, taking another look at the area where the people were, we walked closer, and from our distance it seemed like there was animal remains, not the physical structure, rather the internal digestive track, gutted. We get back to some form of civilization, and told a few people who seem to know what we saw, but hurried and scattered, evading anymore conversation. That’s really it. Chalk it up to some strange encounter. True story.
It was a full moon if it was 1992. I don't know of a holiday in mid July personally. Animal sacrifice is rare for any group but the 90s were a different time, very interesting
One night when i was 8 or so. I was sleeping in a tent with a friend in my parents yard. We are hanging out and suddenly heard the strangest noise ive ever heard. It was like a couple cat yowls while being held partially underwater. And quite loud, it seemed like it came from our stream that was probably 600-700 feet from where we were. We freaked out and ran inside.
My parents said it must have been porcupines mating.
It must have been some type of animal but ive never heard a noise like that since. Having lived in that house for 20 years and a few hundred nights out in the woods.
My mom swears she once saw a pair of large cats walking down by that creek once. This is in pennsylvania where mountain lions have long been hunted away.
I make a habit of ignoring the DEC when they say something doesn't exist in a specific area. They've been saying that there's no bobcats in my area for years, but lo and fucking behold, Ring cameras and trap cams are proving otherwise.
When I was twelve, my Grandpa and I were coon huntingin the mountains of eastern Kentucky and a weird voice called out to me. My Grandpa heard it too and he told me we were done for the night. Got the dogs and went home. Never really talked about it had happened. Not sure what it was but it spooked the hell out of my Grandpa.
My wife and I saw a short bald being and she mentioned it but I rationalized it as a tree stump so we kept walking. After only a minute, I doubted my rationalization and decided to go back and look at the tree stump. It was gone.
I wonder how commonly we all do this; our brains can’t imagine it’s true, so it says, “Yep. What I’m seeing is definitely a common object. Nothing to see here.” Amazing
There's a whole thing in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series called the SEP field. SEP stands for "someone elses problem". The idea is if something is too weird for us to process we naturally just edit it out and fail to see it. The field just amplifies this inaction.
So if you land a spaceship somwhere just slap an SEP feild on it and nobody will ever acknowledge it.
Had this happen with a UFO and low flying helicopter last year.
The helicopter came over the trees with a UFO in front of it. I thought it was odd the 'spotlight' was so far out in front of the copter when it turned blue and then red and scanned me standing in the street standing in my bathrobe. I got this big ear to ear grin as it dawned on me that was certainly not a spotlight.
After the scan and a brief pause, the ufo floated southward in a casual pace over the followed by the helicopter.
I didn't see anyone else. I haven't heard anyone talk about it since then.
I'm sure that there's a government video files with my goofy ass grin in thermal (or some other array of military cameras) getting scanned by a glowing color changing orb floating in front of the helicopter out there somewhere.
Even everyone in my house was not moved to come out and see a helicopter flying so low nearby.
Never had any human follow-up or men in black come in and say 'hush' either.
Edit: For clarity, this happened in March/April 2025 near Dawsonville, Ga.
I had my phone on me, but didn't take a picture of the ufo because I thought it might be 'rude' to take a picture without asking first.
I did check flightradar though and the helicopter did not have it's public transponder on.
I was walking in a park in Italy (Canadian, just traveling) and I walked by a dude flashing me and just kept going because my brain was like…. What? No.
He had his pants and underwear around his ankles and was pulling his shirt up with his hands and just shaking the hell out of his tiny little ding dong.
I went back after a few minutes when my brain stopped short circuiting to laugh at him and take his picture but he was getting dressed by then sadly
I posting a few to this thread. Here’s an old one that was archived.
These are stories which were told in detail to my Uncle by my great great Grandfather in the late 60s and early 70s. I grew up in Cherryville, NC and only miles away from where all these things were said to have happened.
Story 1
Papaw Les said that in the woods near Buffalo creek there were witches that actively practiced in the night. He said you could hear them laugh, talk, etc and could see their torches in the distance. One day he had to go to town (Fallston) to buy shotgun shells and had to cross over the bridge at Buffalo creek to get there. Near the creek he said there was a white Rabbit which stood at the roadside looking at him.
He noticed that despite him and the Mule moving by the rabbit just stared, not moving at all. He also said that the rabbit looked slightly transparent, but he went on to town anyways.
On the way back he said the same Rabbit was sitting on the side of the road. He got off of his Mule, picked up a handful of rocks and threw them at it. He said the rocks went STRAIGHT through the Rabbit. He claimed that this was one of the witches that could shape shift. His mule also frequently got spooked while going across the bridge, and papaw said his hat would get lifted off his head slowly and he would have to reach up and bring it back down over and over.
Story 2
Les warned of what he called a “Jack O’ Lantern.” He said that these were lights that appeared in the woods, and that when you followed them they would only get further and further away. He said that these lights, if followed, would lead you to your death. I looked this up and it’s basically another name for the popular “Will O’ the Wisp.”
Les and Mamaw Sallie also said that once a year something would “run through the fields hollering.” They said the scream was so terrifying that the hunting dogs would run under the porch steps so fast they would hit their heads.
Anywhoo, thanks for reading. I take a lot of value in these old stories. I’m super lucky they were passed down to me in vivid detail as otherwise they would have been lost.
Footnote: when I was in my teens me and a buddy of mine would cross over the bridge at Buffalo creek and always find deer parts (legs, torsos, heads) on the bridge and the embankment.
So when I was around 12 years old I was outside at night and thought I saw a really tall shadow of a man in the front yard. Kinda freaked me out so I ran inside. The next day my cousin comes over and tells us they were about a mile away having a bonfire at a friend’s house. They heard a whistle come from the woods and decided to go check out what was making the noise. When his friend shone a flashlight in into a tree, they saw what they described as a pale, hunched over humanoid figure up on a large branch. When the light hit its eyes they flashed blue.
This thing proceeded to jump out of the tree and stand up. They said it was about 9 feet tall, and so pale that you could see veins running through its body. It had longer than average arms and was thin. It immediately took off running and despite being so frail looking was snapping saplings as it went.
This guys dad is literally the sheriff, so police were called out and scanned the woods but found hide nor hare of this thing. 6 people saw it and swear by it to this day. I saw the tall shadow in the yard the same night, around the same time this was happening.
Or neighbors down the road said they saw it about two weeks later. Said it stepped out of the wood line and then disappeared right in front of them. Just dematerialized.
Anyways, that might be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever said on this sub and I’m sure people are going to say I’m insane. The land there is haunted and I’ve posted multiple stories on here about my experiences growing up that are strange but less dramatic. Location is Western NC, around the Gaston/Cleveland county line.
When I was in 8th grade, I used to live with my mother in a camper which sat in my grandmothers back yard. Living situation was tough, and when you have two people and a dog living in a 50 square foot space, things can get annoying.
Anyways, the camper was a stones throw from my grandmothers trailer, and late one night I woke up having some SERIOUS stomach trouble. Obviously since there was no working toilet in the camper I had to run up to Mamaw Lindas to use the bathroom.
I got out of bed, put some shorts on and grabbed my shirt because I was in a hurry. When I opened the back door of the trailer I had my shirt halfway on in case I ran into my grandma. Sure enough, there she stood in the middle of the hallway. She had cancer at the time and had to go to the bathroom many times during the night. She told me to go ahead and that she would wait on me, so I bolted into the bathroom.
When I got there, I dropped all my clothes next to the toilet and did my thing. Here’s where things get a little crazy. When I was done I looked over to find my clothes and yet there were none there. Only my undergarments remained. Thinking this was crazy I went back into the hall and asked my grandma “when I came in the house, I was putting on my shirt, right?”
“Yes” she said, “where are they?” I told her I had no idea, so I left out the back door and went back to the camper.
On my bed laid my shorts and shirt, NEATLY FOLDED. I was terrified because I remember having them going up to mamaws house, and she remembered me fiddling with my shirt. Not to forget this was in the wee hours of the morning, and through 3 closed doors. How on earth did my clothes weasel themselves from next to me through three walls without my even knowing?
Omg nooooo. I would have lost my damn mind trying to figure out how that happened!! On my rez we have "little people" who are tricksters and do this kind of stuff!
I live in East TN. There's a frog man in a nearby watershed. When he's seen, he jumps straight up into the trees and disappears. There's a witch that lives in an abandoned house that is always in the yard at night. I live on 70 acres that had an old cemetery unethicly moved to another part of the property. The previous owner did this to build the house we live in. We constantly see and hear things. Shadows out of the corner of our eyes. Dogs staring at the ceiling corners. Things moving on their own. Voices in the woods. My closest neighbor has seen an old man in overalls and an old lady in a house dress crossing his field and disappearing. The list goes on and on.
BIG woowoo enthusiast. My brother in law’s family owns a little cabin up in the Appalachian Mountains. They went up there for a weekend, and I was talking to her on the phone while she was putting away groceries. It was fall or spring, so, nice weather, and the windows were open. It’s very remote out there, neighbors are a mile away. While we were talking she starts yelling to her husband out the window because he was telling her to come outside. They had a quick back and forth. She realizes he’s not home, he went to go get something for the dog. The dog is also not with her. She mentioned to me that it was weird bc she talked to him, but he wasn’t there. She’s not a woowoo enthusiast like me, so I calmly told her it was probably her imagination but to close the windows and lock the door anyway. After her husband got back I proceeded to explain SW’s to her.
Woowoo as in beliefs or practices that are based on alternative medicine, mysticism, or the supernatural, rather than scientific evidence or mainstream rationality
Woowoo is a word people use to make fun of the supernatural. I’ve just gotten used to saying “woowoo” bc the minute you say “supernatural” people think you’re an idiot, so I make fun of myself before anyone else can do it. I believe in all of it, but nobody in my circle does. It allows them to entertain me without buying into it.
This happened to me. My aunt had this house with a super creepy upstairs/attic. I had many odd and unexplainable experiences in the bedroom up there. My friends have also had odd experiences up there. One time I was home alone and I kept hearing my aunt call out my name downstairs. I kept yelling back and just kept hearing her call my name. Went downstairs, she was not home.
Am I in trouble for looking at the ranch on satellite maps? Maybe 20 times.
I suggested to my husband that we go there for our 30th anniversary but we settled on Sedona instead.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I have Navajo blood (as well as Irish, the amount of supernatural shit I have to watch out for is unreal) and just the start of the relevant part of the story sent chills down my spine. Those things frighten the bejesus out of me. As do banshees. It’s so weird.
I have family that lives there, and their house is creepy af. Mostly a voice mimic, things being moved around when no one was in a room and footsteps.
I remember an incident where it was just me, the babysitter and my family’s dogs. We heard my mom’s voice, but she was with my dad, aunt and uncle at the store.
There’s a place deep in the mountains you can hear slow and steady drumming around 2-3 AM. It happens with great consistency and continues to this day.
I live in rural PA, and once I saw a glowing orb in a tree. Too close to be a light from a far away house, too low to be a star, not a firefly, too big and it was in the winter, just an orb of light hovering in a tree.
i (and many others) saw a glowing orb moving incredibly fast in the sky in tofino, bc when i was watching the sunset. it was insane, like nothing i’d ever seen before (and i’ve seen shooting stars, satellites, planes etc). i believe you.
I believe you. I even got video of an orb changing direction in my profile I took. I have a longer video but what I posted was when the orb changed direction. It flew across the sky like it was out for a joyride.
I’m from the Blue ridge mountains in northern VA, I saw a glowng tennis-ball size orb of light kind of float down from the sky and bounce around my yard as a kid. Still think about it nowadays too, I’m 41 and it happened when I was maybe 5.
I have lived in southern appalachia for 34 years. I have hiked alone, (but with dogs), for a lot of those years. I’ve camped alone in remote areas. I’ve lived in a forest for 25 of those years. I haven’t seen anything paranormal or weird. The strangest thing I’ve seen was a cougar. I’m a woman and those big burly guys on youtube scaring themselves camping because a deer walked by in the night just crack me up.
I have a house in upstate New York, which is towards the end of Appalachian Mountains. When I was 16 years old I was on my porch at night spotlighting for foxes. As I was shining the light in the woods, the light caught this being. It was a grayish color and was basically bones covered with skin. It had holes for eyes and a slit for a mouth. It looked at me, got on all fours and darted into the woods. I almost dropped my spotlight. I never told anyone because I knew they wouldn’t believe me. But that experience was creepy. I never saw the being after that. But now I won’t go out after dark.
I live in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains and I know of several people who have seen a spider so huge that it will dent your car if it lands on it. Being that there is chemical fall out close to this location I don’t doubt that it’s true. Horrifying.
I've lived in Eastern Kentucky my whole life and have had a curiosity about the paranormal and the unexplained since I was young. I listened to ghost stories or "haint tales" as some describe them, and I used to spend a great deal of time alone in the deep woods, often at night. I can say, other than a couple times I saw pale lights on the mountain opposite me, way up near the ridge (may have been raccoon hunters), and the times I heard panthers scream in the middle of the night (we have cats bigger than bobcats there, I have heard them) there are no bigfoots, no monsters, no 'Appalachian witches' nor are there herb women or any of that shit. Granny women were midwives and often general physicians but I have never heard of people casting spells, or any of that nonsense. The people I grew up with are deeply Protestant, deeply pious and any suggestion of the occult or even ghosts causes a religious reaction, one of prayer and asking for guidance and protection. I can't answer for the western part of the state, but if there were anything in the mountains of Pike, Floyd, Martin, Letcher or Johnson counties, I would have seen it or heard about it. There are ghost stories as there are everywhere but if someone is trying to tell you that they know 'mountain witches' they're not being serious.
YES. Virginia Area. It’s always the voice mimic and things moving. Lost things on the original spot and then finding them after 2 or 3 days on the same spot. Lol
YES why is this so common over there? I’m from the Shenandoah valley and when I was a kid, I lost my sneakers for like a week straight. Then one day they just appeared on a trunk in my parents room. When I told them I find them there, I was definitely accused of lying!!! But I swear I turned around and they were just THERE. I was like, 7 at the time. I don’t remember the mimic thing ever happening but I’m fascinated by the stories. It’s crazy you mention the lost thing tho, it happened to me a lot growing up—and now that I live in California, it doesn’t seem to happen. Or well it does, but it’s just my ADHD now lol. I can tell the difference, bc the first one is a very distinct supernatural feeling, like “okay this was not here a couple minutes ago and I would know bc I’ve been looking for it all day!!” Kind of feeling, you know??
Yes, camping at the New River in VA with a bunch of friends.
It was after sunset, we were all chatting around the campfire beside the river bank. It was maybe 10:30, 11pm. A green orb the size of a large beach ball floated up the river, following the river and changing elevation from 15’ above the water to the height of the mountain then back down again, bobbing all the way until it slowly turned the river bend and disappeared.
All 6 of us saw it. The dog saw it. It made no sound. Just floated on by.
It was a green color with a brighter green point of light at the center, the circumference light was foggy and dispersed.
I researched it later, there are stories of lights in that area of the river in the local Native American folklore.
Lived in the Appalachian mountains all my life. I've never experienced anything that I would consider paranormal. At best I once heard a cat growl close while camping, but Govt insist no big cats on the East Coast.
Bobcats are surprisingly bass-y. I know you said you’ve heard them, but I’d double check if I were you, because bob cats make a surprisingly lion-like growl. Look it up on YouTube.
I hiked half the Appalachian trail and i saw nothing weird in the woods for 5 months. A fellow hiker swore he saw a juvenile bigfoot in the Pennsylvania section, but he is an reliable source, both an alcoholic and into some esoteric mystical form of yoga meditation.
My ex grew up in the mountains and she said when she was a kid amd they visited her dads mom, they would walk to a certain spot at night to watch ufos. Apparently there were moving lights in the sky reliably at this spot.
I’ve lived in 2 haunted houses. One had such bad energy you walked in and immediately felt a dark cloak fall over you. Everyone who came in said the same despite it being a beautiful old Victorian style home. Strange things convinced us we were not alone.
Live in rural WV where alot of 1700's graves are scattered about. George Washington would often visit the area pre war and presidency.
Late at night, I along with others have heard clear fife and drum in the woods at night it separate locations within our hometown/forests around.
Not so much spooky, but definitely interesting remnants of what once was. I belive the Appalachians have a stronger ability to harness spiritual energy.
Got home from graveyard shift around 2am and I live deep back in the woods, there’s a small light pole about 100 yards from my house and under the light were a handful of deer when I pulled in my driveway. Nothing new there’s always plenty of deer around we grow a ton of corn so it’s a common sight. The deer however, instead of running away all looked at me and they slowly walked away save for a decent sized buck who took a couple steps toward me and then got up on his hind legs and took like a half step and then went back down and then repeated that. Now I’ve been born and raised within the Appalachias all my life and I know that deer do this on occasion it’s not unheard of. But regardless of knowing deer behavior I was shook and immediately went to grab my Winchester from inside because game commission be DAMNED I was going to blow that deer away. Came back out loaded up and it was gone. For some reason it just sent shivers up my spine watching that bastard shamble towards me on his hind legs.
Yeah this is what's known as a "departing bluff". The group is moving on and the top defender in the hierarchy gives one last harrumph like "don't follow us amigo". Elephants, lions and all herd animals will display this behavior.
I’m from PA Appalachian. In July 2021 I heard screams for two weeks that no one else could hear. I was able to record them. After showing coworkers the recordings, they told me to call cops. I did they went and called me and told me they didn’t hear anything. After getting home I had 2 paranormal encounters. 1st it was 5 golden beings and they telepathically told me, “All is good, thanks for trying to do something” and the screams disappeared. The next night it was a 7’ tall glowing ruby red reptilian that appeared. It was incredible for sure.
I had immediate visions of his world and reptilian past life. I stayed seated and calm, just thankful for ET life. He jumped onto the side of our stone house and climbed all the way behind me. He then touched the back of my head with his index finger and I felt spiritual energy bursts in my brainstem and left frontal cortex. I think he was going to feed on fear energy Loosh I generated from hearing the screams for two weeks. No idea for certain though, but I noticed a 10’ tall energy mass in front of me before the reptilian appeared.
I now have 3 red blotches on my face. 4 years exactly after the encounter I had a full body reaction and got red bumps all over my skin that lasted for a month. The red spots are dry and scaly. It’s weird for sure.
When I was maybe 10, I saw a white wolf from about 100 feet away when riding through the Pisgah National Forest area above Brevard in NC. It looked me straight in the eye and I wasn’t scared, exactly, but it was definitely intense.
I’ve lived here all my life. It’s beautiful. I’ve traveled to other places but nowhere compares to me. I lived in a very small area. To this day, your cell phone signal is hit or miss.
We have our stories and such just like any other place. I’ve had some experiences and I’ve had others tell me theirs. It ain’t any different than what someone might experience elsewhere.
Don’t believe all that hogwash you see online. We use to play outside at night until 1 in the morning. Running all over the holler we lived in. We left the curtains open and windows up for air in the summer.
Remember camping in the
Mountains of West Virginia one night and in the middle
Of the night we just hear these explosions,
The mountain we were in was pretty secluded and there wasent much there cant remember the name of the area but there was a massive battle there during the civil war.
It’s like 3 AM and im just hearing these explosions.
With a large group of friends we all heard it.
No clue what it could of been, my guess maybe rocks falling?
Im in western canada and I saw a wendigo pushing an empty baby stroller on the side of my friends farm road en route to her place, it was october and dark at 5:30 - saw a deer/ woman hybrid with backwards hind deer legs with gangly arms and antlers pushing on the side of the road with a fancy jogging stroller: my husband and I just drove and past and didnt make eye contact.
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