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[Ominous Music]
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[Footsteps through brush]
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[Karl] Synchronicity is a
meaningful coincidence.
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Basically, it's when these
two events correspond
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in a way that seems highly improbable,
highly unlikely,
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but also deeply meaningful
for that person.
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It relates to some aspect of their life
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in a way that feels significant
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and purposeful and intended.
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Almost by some other kind
of consciousness.
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Now coincidences happen for sure,
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but this is almost
in the realm of deja vu
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where it seems like there's
something more to it,
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particularly when the
synchronicities drop all at once,
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and there's one after another,
after another
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in a way that feels
something else is going on,
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something bigger.
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That's what started this case
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And that's what plagued us
throughout the case.
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In order to trace the synchronicity
back for me,
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we have to go back to the spring of 2016.
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I was finishing up my work
at the Stanley Hotel,
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I was the Resident Paranormal
Investigator there.
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I was shooting a web series
called Spirits of the Stanley
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and the final public paranormal event
that they hosted in April
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was the first time that I met
Greg and Dana Newkirk
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who run the Traveling Museum
of the Paranormal and the Occult,
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a popular blog website
called Week In Weird
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and they're doing a ton of very novel,
very interesting paranormal experiments
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in the broader field in general.
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We became instant friends.
We kept in touch.
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A couple months later, in June,
Dana posted a blog entry on Week in Weird
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about the top five indie paranormal
projects people should check out.
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And she was very kind enough to include
Spirits of the Stanley on the list.
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As I scrolled through the article,
I noticed another post
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about the Euphomet podcast
that Jim Perry puts on.
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In the article,
there was an embedded episode,
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and that one that they chose
was an interview with Greg.
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It was about an hour long interview,
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and it was all about this very bizarre,
strange case of these Kentucky Goblins
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and these weird emails that Greg
had gotten starting in about 2012.
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I didn't get a chance
to listen to it that June,
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but I returned to it in September,
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and I got immediately
enthralled in the story.
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- [Mouse click]
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[Jim Perry]Take us back
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to after you received
that second message from David.
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He describes events that have
pretty much left his family in terror,
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small, hairless entities, and someone
who calls himself "Terry Wriste?"
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[Greg Newkirk]I thought it was a good story,
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but I wasn't totally on board.
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I mean, anyone can write a great story.
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[Perry]Was this ringing a bell with Kentucky?
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Was there evidence that there were mines?
That this was...
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[Greg] The only thing that it seemed
to have anything in common with
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was there were some themes that related
to the Hopkinsville Goblins case
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that happened back in 1955.
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And in 1955, this family
in this farmhouse was besieged
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by these tiny creatures
that they thought were from outer space.
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I got about halfway through the episode,
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paused it, went over to Twitter,
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and I blasted it out.
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[Typing]
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Couple minutes later,
Greg hit me back...
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I wrote him back.
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And then I noticed their Week in Weird
account posted an article
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about the same Kentucky Goblins case.
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Now, thinking that Greg and Dana
had used that as an opportunity
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to plug their page and their website
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because I was talking about it already,
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I hit them back with a post that said
"I see what you did there"
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or something along those lines.
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Greg writes back and says,
"That wasn't us who posted that."
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What he told me was that
it was a random auto-post
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that draws from the entire archive
of different Week in Weird articles
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and posts throughout the day.
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And further, there were 1700 articles
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on Week in Weird,
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that it could have drawn from,
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and there were only two
about this Kentucky Goblins case.
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Greg had recorded that entire interview
six months beforehand
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and it was random that I even clicked
on the blog
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and started listening
to the podcast at the time
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and equally random that
we had this 1 in almost 900 chance
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that their account should post,
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let alone at the time that it did,
right in the middle of me listening to it.
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It felt extremely unlikely,
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and it felt very pointed,
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particularly as I listened
to the end of the episode
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and I realized:
this was a cliffhanger.
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There was more work to be done.
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And not only did I want
to be a part of it,
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I felt supernaturally
called to be a part of it
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by this synchronicity.
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And in the two weeks that followed,
it was a synchronicity storm,
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there was just one after another
after another
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all tangentially relating
to this Kentucky Goblins case.
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So here we are,
almost a year to the date
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after that series of synchronicities
that called me to this case,
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and we're going out to Kentucky...
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And we're going to do our best
to try and figure out what was going on.
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[Greg] When I say that I've investigated
the paranormal for like twenty years,
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I typically just don't even count
the first five
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because it was all stuff based on
things that I'd read
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or things that might've
been on television,
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watched a lot of World's Scariest Places
and stuff like that,
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and based everything
we'd done off of that.
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But eventually,
the longer we were in this--
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Dana and I even met because we ran
rival ghost hunting websites as kids
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and eventually we got together
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and we started to try and think of things
a little bit differently.
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So we come from a pretty hardcore
ghost hunting background.
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That was really what we started out as.
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And then eventually we started
to look into things like bigfoot
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or we'd start to look into things
like UFO sightings
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and then we'd start to get into
people who believed
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that there was some kind
of weird unifying theory
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that mixed all this stuff together.
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And so that's where we've stayed.
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We really strongly believe that
if more paranormal researchers
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would communicate with each other
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from different communities--
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Like ghost hunters don't typically
talk to bigfoot hunters
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and bigfoot hunters don't really talk
to UFO investigators,
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but if they did,
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they'd notice that there's a lot
of weird crossover there.
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So as far as we're concerned,
there's really nothing that's too weird.
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In fact, the weirder, the better.
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[Record player plays]
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[Paper shuffling]
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[Dana Newkirk] I think that...
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I mean, initially,
it started off as a joke.
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Our first kind of adventure
away from ghosts was bigfoot
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and it was as a joke,
again like by accident,
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we went out to have fun with a guy
that we thought was probably crazy
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and he was crazy,
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but he also brought us to places where
we were experiencing legitimate activity
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[Tim Holmes]
You've got five rounds in here.
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[Nick Foust]:
Five rounds...
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- You always save the last one
for yourself...
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- Okay.
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[Dana] It kind of felt the same way
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that it did when we both
first started ghost hunting.
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The first few times that you
experience something
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that you legitimately can't explain,
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it fuels your curiosity and
continues to push you forward.
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[Greg] I think it tends to happen
that the longer
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somebody researches this type of stuff,
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and the more broad that they decide
to cast their net,
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the more they realize things are
so much stranger on an even deeper level.
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So it's anything from:
"Are we causing hauntings with our mind?"
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to "Is bigfoot just the ghost
of a Neaderthalic man?"
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Stuff like that. The longer you do it,
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the more you start to see this stuff
that never quite adds up in popular theory
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but when you start researching
a little bit deeper,
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you start to see people like John Keel,
who believed in window areas
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and that all kinds of stuff came from it.
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And then you start to believe things like:
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"Well, maybe UFOs aren't
coming from outer space,
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maybe they're coming from here,
from another type of dimension."
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And that's the type of stuff
that's really hard to tell people
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and get them to swallow,
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because it's hard enough to tell them
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that there's a giant,
hairy creature in the woods,
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or that there's aliens
coming and abducting people
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and performing experiments
on cows and stuff like that.
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It all just comes from continuing
to follow these rabbit holes,
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and it just gets weirder
and weirder the longer you're in it.
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I think when you start to invite that type
of weird thinking into your life,
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that type of stuff just has a habit
of finding you then.
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And I don't know if that's because
you're paying more attention to it,
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and you're trying to look
for those weird connections,
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or if it's because they're like,
"Oh, somebody's paying attention,
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let's go screw with that guy."
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[Dana] It's nice...
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to be married to someone
who is equally as weird as you are.
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It's always nice,
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especially when both of us have
such huge histories in the paranormal
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because then you can go on all these
weird adventures together.
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Our dynamic is different, and
it changes from case to case
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and from even just subject to subject.
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There are specific things,
like for instance,
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when it comes to UFO research,
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I tend to take a little bit more
of a skeptical stance.
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And that's really just because
it's not my world,
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and I don't know as much
about it as Greg does,
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so I tend to come at it
from an outsider's perspective,
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which makes me analyze people a lot more
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than I would from a ghost perspective,
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which is, I'm all in
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That's where I feel the most comfortable.
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For the most part, Greg tends to go
in to all of the things we investigate
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ready to believe.
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Not in a, like,
"everything's a ghost!"
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or "everything's a bigfoot!"
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It's not necessarily like that,
he's just ready to believe people.
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And I think that I tend to be
a little bit more standoffish.
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So I'm more about observing
how people tell me their stories
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and the nuances of those stories
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and then comparing them to evidence
at the same time.
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So it's good because I think that we will
balance each other out
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and we don't let each other
get too carried away
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because when one starts to go
into a place where "everything's a ghost"
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or "everything's a bigfoot,"
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the other person is there to go,
"Let's reign it in a little bit,
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pull back and look at it."
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And we're good at pulling each other out
of that running around screaming,
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"everything's paranormal!"
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We're pretty good at that
for the most part.
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[Ethereal Music]
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So, I started as a ghost hunter.
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That's what I started doing.
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And the name of my ghost hunting
team when I was a kid
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was Ghost Hunters Incorporated.
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It wasn't because we were incorporated.
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We just thought that it sounded cool.
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We were like 13-years old
and thought it was badass.
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So we were Ghost Hunters Incorporated
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and it was something that we kept up
for the better part of a decade.
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We had this website that we maintained
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and it had all of our adventures on it
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and it was pretty
irreverent to put it lightly.
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We weren't the most serious.
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That's kind of the reason why I say
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I don't really count
the first five years of my history
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because it was basically just kids
screwing around
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in graveyards and
abandoned houses at night.
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There was a point where
I had left my hometown in Pennsylvania
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and I'd moved out to Seattle.
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And that was about the time
when GHI just kind of fell apart.
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And it just kind of died.
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But, with a lot of stuff,
the website just sits there.
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And we didn't really want to kill it
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because it had all of our fun adventures
and stuff like that.
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And one of the things that still just
sat there was an email address.
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And it was for Ghost Hunters Incorporated.
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And I would occasionally check it.
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Like, every few months
I'd give it a check.
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And at this point, it was 2012.
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I was living in Canada,
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was getting ready to go
through Canadian immigration
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(Dana's Canadian),
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and I went to check the email address,
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and there was an email in it
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from this guy
who called himself "David Christie."
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It was this urgent email--
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I think actually if I remember correctly,
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the title was: "Urgent.
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Need Help, Please Advise"
or something like that.
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The email was about how these little
creatures on this man's property
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in a town called Hellier, Kentucky,
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were coming out of mine shafts,
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and they were terrorizing his family.
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And I was like:
"oh, that's different...
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I don't normally get anything like that."
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Especially as a ghost hunter.
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Like, why would this guy email
ghost hunters?
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So I sat there and I thought about it,
and I was like:
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"Alright, the website hasn't been
updated in like seven years,
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does he have the wrong address?"
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I mean, one of the main pictures
on the front of the website
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was a bunch of kids in bowling shirts,
carrying medieval weapons--
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Like, that was our thing!
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We had medieval weapons
and we had torches
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and BB guns and stuff.
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We weren't really...
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We weren't really
the picture of professionalism,
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especially for an honest case.
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So I thought, okay,
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either this guy's got
the wrong email address
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or it's just somebody screwing around.
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So I just wrote an email back
and I was like,
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I think I kind of jokingly said,
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"I'm sorry but I don't really have any
expertise in alien, monster cases,
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but if you want to fill me in
on more details, I'd love to hear it."
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And I thought,
oh, I'll never hear that again.
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Or one of my friends will be like,
"Ah, I did it. It was funny."
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It wasn't too much later that a longer,
like three-page email arrived...
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[David Christie]For the past six months,
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I have been living in a rural home
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located on the border
of West Virginia and Kentucky,
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where my family is
nightly assaulted by creatures
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that I have come to believe
are of an extraterrestrial origin.
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These beings appear to be
the size and stature of a small child,
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devoid of any facial features save for
large, oily eyes and lipless mouths.
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They frighten my children by peering
through their bedroom windows,
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chirping at one another.
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They actively attempt to enter my home
in the middle of the night.
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Last month, they took my dog.
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I believe that they are coming
from an abandoned mine
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located on the edge of my property.
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Though I am armed,
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I'm afraid that I'm far too frightened
to enter the mine by my lonesome
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and cannot convince any
sympathetic friends to accompany me,
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though I cannot blame them.
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I was given your contact information
through a man by the name of Terry Wriste.
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When these disturbances
first began occurring,
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I was only inclined to confide
in a personal friend
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who I knew had fringe interests.
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He offered to share my concerns with a man
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that had dealt with somewhat similar
experiences in pervious years.
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I accepted his offer.
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Within a week,
I was informed that this gentleman
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had long since retired
from pursuits of this kind,
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but was willing to provide me with
contacts who may be willing to help.
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This is how I came to contact you.
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I do not have any answer to why,
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other than a referral and
a recommendation from a gentleman
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I do not know personally.
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I was under the impression
that you would answer that question.
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Most of Pike County is made up
of small towns and rural communities.
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It is not uncommon to go days
without seeing my closest neighbors.
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I moved to this area
for the peace and quiet.
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I have received neither.
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I have lived in this area for
just under seven months
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and in that time,
the majority of the harassment
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has occurred within the past three.
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I did not become aware of any strangeness
until early December,
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although that is only when I began
to keep a record of these events.
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At first it was merely strange tracks
in the snow around my home.
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I had initially imagined that
they were some kind of animal,
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though it closely resembled a human
footprint, minus the heel.
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At that time, I was under the impression
that it was simply a single creature.
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It wasn't until weeks later
that I began to suspect
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that I was dealing with a number
of what I thought
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were individuals hazing me
upon my arrival to the area.
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In the weeks leading up to this
particular evening,
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I had awoken to find my shed doors
open on several occasions,
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many of my children's toys
missing or moved
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and my yard in general disarray.
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The second week of January,
I am having breakfast with my family
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when my five-year-old daughter begins
talking about the kids without hair.
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When my wife inquired about these kids,
334
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she informed us that she had spent
the previous night
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watching them play in the yard.
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As you can imagine,
this was some concern.
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00:20:31,813 --> 00:20:34,448
I asked my daughter
what these kids looked like.
338
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She told me they were bald like Grandpa,
and weren't wearing any clothes.
339
00:20:39,108 --> 00:20:42,821
The very same day I found the wreath
that hangs inside our rear porch
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stuffed into our mailbox.
341
00:20:44,952 --> 00:20:49,542
I purchased and installed motion-activated
floodlights the following day
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and for a time, the problem ceased.
343
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It wasn't until the end of February
that our daughter informed us
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that the bald kids had returned.
345
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:01,391
I was awoken to the sound
of my daughter screaming.
346
00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:05,346
I rushed to her bedroom only to meet her
halfway down the hall.
347
00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:09,517
When my wife and I were finally able to
calm her down enough to speak,
348
00:21:09,518 --> 00:21:12,897
she told us that the kids were trying
to peer into her window,
349
00:21:12,932 --> 00:21:16,276
but they couldn't reach
and instead had taken to tapping on it.
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She hasn't slept in her own bedroom since.
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Almost every day for the following week,
352
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I would find some evidence
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00:21:23,365 --> 00:21:27,075
that something or someone
had been on my property
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the previous night.
355
00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:31,371
On Wednesday, the seventh of March,
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I finally witnessed the kids
without hair for myself.
357
00:21:35,078 --> 00:21:38,387
The dog woke me up around 1:30 a.m.,
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scratching at the back door
and whimpering to be let out.
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00:21:41,842 --> 00:21:45,762
I noticed that the motion floodlight
was on and went to the kitchen window
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to check that the shed doors
were still closed,
361
00:21:48,223 --> 00:21:52,523
when I realized I could see the shadow
of an individual cast across my lawn.
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00:21:52,811 --> 00:21:55,362
From the angle I was positioned
at the window,
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I could not actually see the source
of the shadow or the floodlights.
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The dog was pacing circles
around the back door,
365
00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:05,699
and I could hear someone rifling
through a box on the porch.
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00:22:05,734 --> 00:22:08,369
Filled with a little more anger
than common sense,
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the only reaction I could muster
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00:22:10,454 --> 00:22:13,338
was to bang loudly on the window
and yell,
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00:22:13,373 --> 00:22:16,793
at which point I heard the screen door
on the porch swing open
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00:22:16,828 --> 00:22:18,677
and slam against the house.
371
00:22:18,712 --> 00:22:22,672
I heard what I can only describe
as chirping at this point.
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00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:25,642
It sounded much like a skunk,
if more guttural.
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I then realized that there were more
than two people on my property.
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00:22:29,681 --> 00:22:33,941
And the shadow, which had been reacting
as if it didn't know which way to run,
375
00:22:33,976 --> 00:22:35,805
was quickly joined by another.
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00:22:35,812 --> 00:22:38,942
For a moment, I watched as the shadows
chirped at one another,
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00:22:38,977 --> 00:22:42,034
when I noticed a figure
out of the corner of my eye.
378
00:22:42,069 --> 00:22:45,819
Standing in the flower bed,
just to the bottom left of my window
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was a small, humanoid figure with silky,
pale skin, completely hairless,
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00:22:51,447 --> 00:22:53,295
standing roughly four feet.
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00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:55,714
It was looking in the direction
of the shadows,
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00:22:55,749 --> 00:22:58,789
and had clearly come from
around the left side of the house,
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00:22:58,794 --> 00:23:00,010
opposite the porch
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00:23:00,045 --> 00:23:02,795
and had not noticed me
as far as I could tell.
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00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:07,008
It's face was devoid of features,
save for large, round eyes,
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00:23:07,010 --> 00:23:10,354
very reminiscent in shape
and color of a birds' eye.
387
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:14,679
It had no nose to speak of
and only a small slit for a mouth.
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00:23:14,684 --> 00:23:17,626
It didn't appear to move its mouth
as it chirped,
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00:23:17,661 --> 00:23:20,530
sounding more as if noises
originated from its throat.
390
00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:26,065
It was most certainly not a wild animal,
and even more certainly not a child.
391
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:28,121
I was too terrified to move,
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00:23:28,156 --> 00:23:30,736
and watched as the creature
hopped to the others,
393
00:23:30,742 --> 00:23:34,662
and together they scrambled into the woods
on the right side of my property.
394
00:23:34,663 --> 00:23:38,063
It was clear that there was
at least five in the group.
395
00:23:38,098 --> 00:23:41,426
I have not mentioned this
particular incident to my wife.
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00:23:41,461 --> 00:23:45,841
The only other person who I have spoken to
about these creatures are yourself
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and the close friend who introduced me
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to our mutual friend, Mr. Wriste.
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[Greg] At that point, I said,
400
00:23:59,354 --> 00:24:02,114
"We'd love to come check it out,
but we need some kind of proof,
401
00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:03,147
we need some kind of evidence
402
00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:04,444
that there's something
actually going on here,
403
00:24:04,479 --> 00:24:05,738
and that you're not just pulling our leg."
404
00:24:07,612 --> 00:24:10,912
And "would you let us film this
if we came out and did it?"
405
00:24:11,408 --> 00:24:12,778
And the guy said,
"Yeah, that's totally fine.
406
00:24:12,784 --> 00:24:15,252
I just want complete anonymity
because I'm a doctor,
407
00:24:15,287 --> 00:24:17,577
and it would hurt my reputation
if any of this stuff got out."
408
00:24:17,873 --> 00:24:21,253
So, my initial response to all of it was...
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You know, I was suspicious.
410
00:24:23,376 --> 00:24:24,336
And I was--
411
00:24:24,921 --> 00:24:25,921
I was kind of like,
"Yeah, okay."
412
00:24:25,922 --> 00:24:28,802
He would read me the emails,
and I would be like, "Okay. Goblins. Sure."
413
00:24:28,837 --> 00:24:30,350
And then when--
I mean--
414
00:24:30,385 --> 00:24:33,555
For me the first time that
I actually stopped and went,
415
00:24:33,590 --> 00:24:36,305
like: "Okay,
this is legitimately strange"
416
00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:39,348
was when we got the pictures.
417
00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:46,648
[Greg] At first I was like,
"holy shit, these are crazy,
418
00:24:46,651 --> 00:24:47,742
these are nuts.
419
00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:48,777
I've never seen anything like it."
420
00:24:48,778 --> 00:24:50,528
But I'm not an outdoorsy person.
421
00:24:50,530 --> 00:24:52,870
I don't know a ton of animal tracks.
422
00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:55,584
So I sent it to every
outdoorsy person--
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00:24:55,619 --> 00:24:57,329
I think, actually,
I posted it to Facebook first.
424
00:24:58,163 --> 00:25:01,173
And was like, "look at this weird stuff
that we're getting.
425
00:25:01,208 --> 00:25:02,746
What in the world are these?"
426
00:25:02,751 --> 00:25:07,381
And a lot of people chimed in saying,
"Maybe it's an emu...
427
00:25:07,416 --> 00:25:08,670
But that's really strange.
428
00:25:08,673 --> 00:25:11,053
I don't know why there'd be an emu
at this place,
429
00:25:11,088 --> 00:25:13,643
and their pacing isn't proper."
430
00:25:13,678 --> 00:25:17,388
But a lot of the bigfoot hunters
that I know started to go:
431
00:25:17,390 --> 00:25:19,663
"What's really interesting about this is
432
00:25:19,698 --> 00:25:21,936
these all look like they have dermal ridges."
433
00:25:21,937 --> 00:25:26,857
And dermal ridges are basically
like fingerprints for feet and hands.
434
00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:29,778
They're like the crease lines in the feet
435
00:25:29,813 --> 00:25:32,068
and they're extremely hard to fake.
436
00:25:32,072 --> 00:25:35,992
So whatever was leaving these actually
had some creases in the foot,
437
00:25:36,027 --> 00:25:37,083
these dermal ridges.
438
00:25:37,118 --> 00:25:39,658
So, it was a fleshy footprint,
439
00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:41,373
which means it wouldn't have been an emu,
440
00:25:41,408 --> 00:25:43,131
because I think they have talons.
441
00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:46,206
And it kind of just looked
like fat fingers.
442
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:48,171
Like three fat fingers.
443
00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,430
After that point, I was like, okay,
444
00:25:50,465 --> 00:25:53,085
maybe there is something
really strange going on here.
445
00:25:53,426 --> 00:25:56,966
The emails were weirdly written.
446
00:25:56,972 --> 00:26:01,233
They felt... almost like...
447
00:26:01,268 --> 00:26:03,443
It's strange going back
and re-reading them
448
00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:08,271
because for me, when I do read them,
they almost feel a little...
449
00:26:08,306 --> 00:26:13,065
Like there's something completely off
about whoever is writing it.
450
00:26:13,071 --> 00:26:17,831
It almost for me felt like someone
trying to get us to go somewhere,
451
00:26:17,866 --> 00:26:20,156
and that was setting off alarms.
452
00:26:20,453 --> 00:26:23,793
So yeah, when we did get the pictures,
453
00:26:23,828 --> 00:26:26,334
I didn't lose that kind of fear
454
00:26:26,369 --> 00:26:28,840
that was innately already there,
455
00:26:29,254 --> 00:26:30,424
but then I was curious.
456
00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:32,681
[Greg] So I sent him another email
457
00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:37,096
and I said, "Yeah, okay,
you got my attention. We're into this.
458
00:26:37,131 --> 00:26:39,255
How do you want to go about this?"
459
00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:40,730
Because I was in Canada at the time.
460
00:26:40,765 --> 00:26:43,975
Going to Kentucky wasn't
an easy trip for me.
461
00:26:45,061 --> 00:26:48,021
I wasn't even allowed to leave the country
while I was going through immigration.
462
00:26:48,189 --> 00:26:51,609
So I told him, "We're definitely
interested in doing this.
463
00:26:53,069 --> 00:26:55,109
Are you still going to be there?
464
00:26:55,113 --> 00:26:58,095
Are you going to be able to take pictures
of more stuff?
465
00:26:58,130 --> 00:27:01,077
I need something that shows
how big the footprints are."
466
00:27:01,112 --> 00:27:02,947
Because you can't really tell
how big they are.
467
00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:07,040
And I think it was three--
two or three months later,
468
00:27:07,042 --> 00:27:10,212
he emails back and says
"I had to flee the house.
469
00:27:10,247 --> 00:27:11,501
I'm sorry I haven't been in touch.
470
00:27:11,504 --> 00:27:14,174
I had to move my family out.
Things just got too crazy.
471
00:27:14,209 --> 00:27:16,094
We just don't feel safe here."
472
00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:19,385
And he said, "I'm going to be
going back to the house,
473
00:27:19,387 --> 00:27:21,217
I will take more photographs
474
00:27:21,222 --> 00:27:22,647
if I can find anything else,
475
00:27:22,682 --> 00:27:26,732
and I'll do my best to show you
how big everything is.
476
00:27:26,767 --> 00:27:29,308
I'll be there for like
three or four nights.
477
00:27:29,314 --> 00:27:31,484
I'm going back to collect
all of our stuff."
478
00:27:31,519 --> 00:27:33,443
I think it was with his brother-in-law.
479
00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:36,317
And sure enough,
couple days later,
480
00:27:36,321 --> 00:27:37,741
another series of photos come in,
481
00:27:39,157 --> 00:27:40,907
and they're the same type of footprint.
482
00:27:41,284 --> 00:27:43,454
They look like they were
taken somewhere else.
483
00:27:43,953 --> 00:27:46,293
But they had a measuring stick next to it.
484
00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:51,378
And it showed that they were like
half the size of a regular human footprint.
485
00:27:51,413 --> 00:27:53,378
So they were tiny
and they were kind of round.
486
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:57,010
They didn't look like they had
any kind of heel on them.
487
00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:00,969
And also attached were a series
of really dark photographs
488
00:28:00,970 --> 00:28:03,520
that he claimed were of
the creatures themselves
489
00:28:03,555 --> 00:28:05,515
that he had taken from his back porch.
490
00:28:07,602 --> 00:28:08,772
[Greg] Like, it doesn't...
491
00:28:09,604 --> 00:28:10,864
Yeah, it's nothing.
492
00:28:12,399 --> 00:28:14,109
One of them we just kind of
threw out immediately
493
00:28:14,144 --> 00:28:15,586
because you can't really see anything.
494
00:28:15,621 --> 00:28:17,824
It almost looks like a big round thing
495
00:28:17,859 --> 00:28:20,028
with like two big black eyes possibly?
496
00:28:21,366 --> 00:28:23,736
But the other ones
were a little more interesting.
497
00:28:23,743 --> 00:28:26,793
[Greg] That one
looks like a fucking "gray" alien.
498
00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:29,255
One of them looked like the side profile
499
00:28:29,290 --> 00:28:32,590
of a typical extraterrestrial
"gray" that you'd see.
500
00:28:33,044 --> 00:28:36,554
Shoulder. Eye. High cheekbones.
501
00:28:37,173 --> 00:28:38,264
That one, to me...
502
00:28:38,299 --> 00:28:40,179
Again, it could be anything...
503
00:28:43,054 --> 00:28:47,024
Because that's like a profile
shot of an extraterrestrial.
504
00:28:47,434 --> 00:28:48,984
That's what that looks like.
505
00:28:49,811 --> 00:28:55,231
And then the other one looked like
something was leaning around a tree.
506
00:28:55,650 --> 00:28:58,610
And it was really hard to make out
what size it was.
507
00:28:58,611 --> 00:29:02,121
But you could see that whatever it was
had a completely bald head,
508
00:29:02,156 --> 00:29:04,695
wasn't wearing any
kind of clothes to speak of,
509
00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:07,836
it was a kind of weird
whitish, yellowish color.
510
00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:11,921
You could see what looks like a shoulder
and a hand reaching out.
511
00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:17,457
[Karl] It's like, why is it glowing?
512
00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:19,047
[Greg] I know.
513
00:29:19,382 --> 00:29:22,762
Which was an interesting detail
of the original Hopkinsville case
514
00:29:22,797 --> 00:29:23,761
is they glowed.
515
00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:24,722
[Karl] Mm-hm.
516
00:29:28,141 --> 00:29:29,181
I was like:
[Claps]
517
00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:30,191
I'm in. We're going.
518
00:29:30,226 --> 00:29:31,556
We're gonna go check this thing out.
519
00:29:31,561 --> 00:29:32,691
We're gonna put everything on hold.
520
00:29:32,726 --> 00:29:33,687
This is crazy.
521
00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:36,072
I have no idea what this could be.
522
00:29:36,107 --> 00:29:37,815
But if this guy is serious...
523
00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:40,900
I don't think we're equipped
to blow up a mine
524
00:29:40,904 --> 00:29:41,870
But,
525
00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:43,235
I definitely want to go check this out,
526
00:29:43,239 --> 00:29:45,489
especially if we can video
all of this stuff.
527
00:29:46,034 --> 00:29:48,044
And I said, "Yeah, that's it.
We'll come down.
528
00:29:48,079 --> 00:29:48,696
We'll check it out."
529
00:29:48,703 --> 00:29:49,703
And...
530
00:29:49,704 --> 00:29:50,670
[Makes zip noise]
531
00:29:50,705 --> 00:29:51,705
Never heard from him again.
532
00:29:51,998 --> 00:29:52,998
And that was the end.
533
00:30:03,885 --> 00:30:07,385
[Theme song plays moodily]
534
00:30:22,237 --> 00:30:23,907
[Greg] So I posted this stuff
to my Facebook page
535
00:30:23,942 --> 00:30:25,985
and people were like, just freaking out.
536
00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,700
We kind of unofficially put together
what we called
537
00:30:28,701 --> 00:30:30,460
The Alien Cave Base Task Force
538
00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:32,365
which was going to be
just a big group of people
539
00:30:32,372 --> 00:30:33,372
and we were going to go down
540
00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:34,373
and we were going to find these things
541
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:36,544
and we were figure out
what was going on.
542
00:30:38,127 --> 00:30:42,417
And then I decided to write an article
about it for Week in Weird.
543
00:30:42,924 --> 00:30:44,974
And it was one of those
further calls where it was like:
544
00:30:46,010 --> 00:30:49,010
"Can anyone tell me something
that sounds similar to this?"
545
00:30:49,305 --> 00:30:51,595
And the only thing that we found
546
00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:53,349
that really kind of matched
up with everything
547
00:30:53,351 --> 00:30:56,861
was an old sighting that
happened in Hopkinsville,
548
00:30:56,896 --> 00:30:59,065
the other end of Kentucky,
549
00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:01,065
back in 1955.
550
00:31:01,568 --> 00:31:05,698
And in this case, it was an entire
family of people, living in a farmhouse--
551
00:31:05,733 --> 00:31:07,237
I think there were eleven people.
552
00:31:07,490 --> 00:31:10,410
And there was a UFO sighting
that happened.
553
00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:13,962
It was witnessed by police officers.
554
00:31:13,997 --> 00:31:16,577
One of the most well-documented
UFO cases ever,
555
00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:20,043
especially in terms of
extraterrestrial encounters,
556
00:31:20,044 --> 00:31:24,054
because so many credible witnesses
saw these things and drew these things
557
00:31:24,089 --> 00:31:26,588
and gave credible testimonies.
558
00:31:27,051 --> 00:31:29,301
Eleven people in a farmhouse
559
00:31:29,679 --> 00:31:31,969
said that after this UFO crashed
560
00:31:31,973 --> 00:31:33,813
not too far from their land,
561
00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:36,980
these little creatures that were
about 3-feet tall,
562
00:31:37,687 --> 00:31:41,357
showed up at the house,
were looking in the windows
563
00:31:41,392 --> 00:31:43,083
especially at the children,
564
00:31:43,118 --> 00:31:44,775
were showing up in the doorway,
565
00:31:45,278 --> 00:31:46,703
just freaking everybody out.
566
00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:49,158
And they actually fired
at these creatures.
567
00:31:49,407 --> 00:31:51,907
And they ended up fleeing.
568
00:31:52,744 --> 00:31:55,920
It was a media circus at this point.
569
00:31:55,955 --> 00:31:59,415
Tons of people were camping out
in this family's lawn,
570
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:02,247
trying to figure out what
these things were.
571
00:32:02,253 --> 00:32:03,678
They dubbed them "goblins"
572
00:32:03,713 --> 00:32:06,553
because back then they didn't
really know what to call them.
573
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:11,220
The only thing that was weird
is these things had these big ears
574
00:32:11,255 --> 00:32:13,770
that the ones that this David guy,
575
00:32:15,099 --> 00:32:16,679
he didn't describe any ears on them.
576
00:32:16,684 --> 00:32:19,354
He just said that they had these
kind of bald, round heads.
577
00:32:19,562 --> 00:32:23,362
But, in some of the early drawings
by the police officers,
578
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:27,489
they look like they were wearing
goggles and headpieces.
579
00:32:27,524 --> 00:32:30,697
So those ears might not
have even been ears at all,
580
00:32:30,698 --> 00:32:31,738
they could have been something different.
581
00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:34,081
And if you remove those
and take them away,
582
00:32:34,116 --> 00:32:35,077
everything fits:
583
00:32:35,578 --> 00:32:38,288
They look the same,
they were interested in the children,
584
00:32:38,289 --> 00:32:42,039
they were terrorizing a farmhouse
585
00:32:42,043 --> 00:32:43,923
in the middle of nowhere, in Kentucky.
586
00:32:44,379 --> 00:32:47,379
But, it was in the complete
opposite end of the state.
587
00:32:47,924 --> 00:32:51,014
So, we thought,
well that's the closest thing
588
00:32:51,049 --> 00:32:52,382
that we can find to something like this,
589
00:32:52,417 --> 00:32:53,715
so there's a precedent for this stuff,
590
00:32:54,430 --> 00:32:56,270
there's a precedent for it
happening in Kentucky.
591
00:32:56,305 --> 00:32:59,305
Sure, there's like 60 years
in-between them,
592
00:32:59,310 --> 00:33:00,600
and a few hundred miles, but...
593
00:33:01,062 --> 00:33:02,692
maybe it's these Kentucky Goblins.
594
00:33:02,814 --> 00:33:03,904
And that's as far as we got.
595
00:33:05,733 --> 00:33:08,544
The guy that told David to contact us,
596
00:33:08,579 --> 00:33:11,356
apparently had a mutual friend of ours
597
00:33:11,364 --> 00:33:13,744
whose name was Terry Wriste.
598
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:15,365
The name doesn't even sound real.
599
00:33:15,368 --> 00:33:17,788
Like, when you're reading it,
it sounds like a normal name,
600
00:33:17,823 --> 00:33:18,787
but when you say it out loud,
601
00:33:18,788 --> 00:33:19,788
"Terry Wriste,"
602
00:33:20,039 --> 00:33:21,039
it's "terrorist."
603
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,000
It's obviously like a pseudonym
of some kind.
604
00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:25,746
And I wracked my brain to think like,
605
00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:27,402
"Do I know anybody who uses this?
606
00:33:27,437 --> 00:33:29,052
Is this somebody's online handle?
607
00:33:29,087 --> 00:33:30,048
Is it anybody I know?"
608
00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:32,800
I couldn't figure out anybody
who would use it,
609
00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:35,638
especially in this day and age, right?
610
00:33:36,097 --> 00:33:39,057
And so I started to Google "Terry Wriste."
611
00:33:40,101 --> 00:33:43,521
The only hit that I would get
for that name
612
00:33:43,556 --> 00:33:45,981
came from a really weird,
613
00:33:45,982 --> 00:33:52,742
obscure book about using magic rituals
to summon extraterrestrials.
614
00:33:53,156 --> 00:33:55,486
And it was by a guy by the name
of Allen Greenfield,
615
00:33:55,992 --> 00:33:58,412
who was an occultist
and also a UFO investigator.
616
00:33:58,447 --> 00:34:00,201
It was from 1994.
617
00:34:00,204 --> 00:34:02,714
It was calledSecret Cipher of the UFOnauts
618
00:34:03,499 --> 00:34:07,399
And nothing in the book
mentions Terry Wriste
619
00:34:07,434 --> 00:34:11,264
until the appendix
in the back of the book,
620
00:34:11,299 --> 00:34:14,179
because there's like a 3-4 page
interview with this guy,
621
00:34:14,214 --> 00:34:16,717
who goes by the pseudonym
"Terry R. Wriste."
622
00:34:16,721 --> 00:34:21,060
And it was all about this guy
who claimed that
623
00:34:21,095 --> 00:34:25,361
him and a bunch of
other Vietnam veterans,
624
00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:28,646
they went around to
different underground bases
625
00:34:28,649 --> 00:34:32,994
where there were extraterrestrials,
had set up shop
626
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:35,949
and they would go in there
and basically clean them out.
627
00:34:36,449 --> 00:34:40,159
So they were kind of like a real
Alien Cave Base Task Force.
628
00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:46,334
But again, as crazy as that sounded,
this whole book,
629
00:34:46,369 --> 00:34:48,134
this Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts
630
00:34:48,461 --> 00:34:50,761
was presented as complete fact.
631
00:34:50,796 --> 00:34:52,045
And it was all about using
632
00:34:52,131 --> 00:34:53,761
occult rituals
633
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,220
to contact extraterrestrials.
634
00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:00,388
And it just seemed strange
that this whole thing
635
00:35:00,389 --> 00:35:04,400
about these crazy, fantastical,
cave explorations
636
00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:10,895
by ass-kicking alien cave base task force
Vietnam vets
637
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:13,322
would be in there
if it wasn't relevant somehow.
638
00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:18,200
And that was the only reference
to a Terry Wriste I could find.
639
00:35:18,235 --> 00:35:19,619
And it was from 1994.
640
00:35:37,176 --> 00:35:38,506
[Dana]So, at this point,
641
00:35:38,511 --> 00:35:41,220
we had started working
on another project.
642
00:35:41,255 --> 00:35:43,930
[Greg]We were doing a little web series
643
00:35:43,933 --> 00:35:47,151
and we went out to
Brown Mountain, North Carolina.
644
00:35:47,186 --> 00:35:50,056
[Dana] Part of the project was,
you know, these experiments,
645
00:35:50,064 --> 00:35:51,572
asking these big questions like
646
00:35:51,607 --> 00:35:53,607
"Can you get abducted by aliens?"
647
00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:58,204
So yeah, we went to a place
that technically
648
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,239
we should have been able to be
abducted by aliens.
649
00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:02,139
[Greg]So we went to Brown Mountain.
650
00:36:02,174 --> 00:36:04,001
Didn't get abducted by aliens.
651
00:36:04,036 --> 00:36:05,956
But a friend of ours,
Micah Hanks, said,
652
00:36:05,991 --> 00:36:07,615
"Hey, while you're out here,
653
00:36:07,623 --> 00:36:11,211
there's something really cool that
I think I should show you guys.
654
00:36:11,246 --> 00:36:14,800
A psychic told me that there's
an entrance to an underground base
655
00:36:14,835 --> 00:36:17,297
where aliens have set up shop."
656
00:36:17,550 --> 00:36:19,684
And we were immediately like,
657
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,429
"Oh god, this reminds us of the goblins.
658
00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:23,771
We've got to go check this thing out."
659
00:36:23,806 --> 00:36:28,686
Now you've heard stories, clearly,
that there are underground bases
660
00:36:28,721 --> 00:36:30,856
somewhere here in these mountains?
661
00:36:30,891 --> 00:36:31,475
[Micah Hanks] Yeah.
662
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,110
As a matter of fact, one of the popular
legends is that there's one
663
00:36:34,145 --> 00:36:36,858
mostly associated with the
Brown Mountain area,
664
00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:38,821
which is just of back over behind us,
665
00:36:38,856 --> 00:36:39,821
we're on Table Rock right now.
666
00:36:39,822 --> 00:36:43,532
But a lot of the stories are that there
are indeed rumblings and happenings
667
00:36:43,534 --> 00:36:45,793
right here under Table Rock,
where we are right now
668
00:36:45,828 --> 00:36:48,963
One of the best stories that I heard
years and years ago
669
00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:51,918
was from a man, he was a UFO investigator
here in the region,
670
00:36:51,953 --> 00:36:54,708
who had said that he had been
contacted by people
671
00:36:54,712 --> 00:36:56,922
who had kept talking about
the military presence
672
00:36:56,923 --> 00:36:59,131
at Brown Mountain and
in the Linville Gorge
673
00:36:59,166 --> 00:37:01,340
and furthermore that a
psychic had told him
674
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,514
that there was an entrance to a base
675
00:37:02,549 --> 00:37:03,511
right under this mountain.
676
00:37:03,512 --> 00:37:07,142
And so I kind of, you know,
took that with a grain of salt,
677
00:37:07,177 --> 00:37:09,351
but in truth, with all the cave
openings and entrances
678
00:37:09,352 --> 00:37:10,852
like the one I brought you through
679
00:37:10,853 --> 00:37:13,446
to get to this majestic vantage
here on Table Rock,
680
00:37:13,481 --> 00:37:16,296
in my opinion, if there was any place
that you'd want to hide
681
00:37:16,331 --> 00:37:19,111
something like that, this would be
ideal for it, wouldn't it?
682
00:37:19,487 --> 00:37:22,567
So he led us on this crazy path
that went down,
683
00:37:22,573 --> 00:37:24,373
around the side of the mountain,
684
00:37:24,492 --> 00:37:26,242
and then just as the
psychic had predicted,
685
00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:28,377
there were these two big pillars,
686
00:37:28,412 --> 00:37:30,292
and then between the pillars
was the entrance to this cave.
687
00:37:30,706 --> 00:37:34,336
We are now at the entrance
of the cave here.
688
00:37:34,627 --> 00:37:36,377
But I know that there are
people that are convinced
689
00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:37,379
that the Brown Mountain Lights
690
00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:41,508
emanate from a UFOlogical
kind of phenomena of some sort
691
00:37:41,543 --> 00:37:45,636
and then of course that there is
a base under Table Rock
692
00:37:45,638 --> 00:37:46,428
and so for all we know,
693
00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:51,390
we're entering the lower extremities
of that base right now.
694
00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:55,403
[Greg] And it went in a fair amount,
695
00:37:55,438 --> 00:37:56,398
but once we got in there,
696
00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:59,819
you could see that there was this
big rock slab that had kind of--
697
00:37:59,854 --> 00:38:01,319
It almost looked like it had
just been placed there.
698
00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:03,784
And it looked weird enough
for you to go, like,
699
00:38:03,819 --> 00:38:04,781
"that shouldn't be there."
700
00:38:04,782 --> 00:38:07,242
That didn't just like,
fall off that mountain,
701
00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:09,163
and perfectly slide into this hole
702
00:38:09,198 --> 00:38:10,371
that is a cave,
703
00:38:11,497 --> 00:38:14,167
You know, that a couple of us
tried to actually get into it.
704
00:38:14,202 --> 00:38:15,166
And you could see kind of through it.
705
00:38:15,167 --> 00:38:18,837
It wasn't like a perfect square,
like a door, but...
706
00:38:19,630 --> 00:38:22,680
it was enough that
the shape of it was strange.
707
00:38:23,926 --> 00:38:26,296
[Micah] If you stand right here,
you can feel the air moving down
708
00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:27,264
through the chimney.
709
00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:30,555
[Greg] Look at that!
710
00:38:30,558 --> 00:38:32,348
That looks like that was
placed there, doesn't it?
711
00:38:32,351 --> 00:38:34,101
[Micah] That's what I said
when I first came here.
712
00:38:34,103 --> 00:38:36,863
That rock, it juts out at you.
It's just really weird.
713
00:38:37,773 --> 00:38:39,283
You know, you can see back up
to the chimney.
714
00:38:39,318 --> 00:38:41,935
It's a surreal environment,
you know?
715
00:38:43,863 --> 00:38:46,283
You know, all jokes about
alien cave bases aside --
716
00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:48,283
Now watch, I'm going to
turn over some rock,
717
00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:50,294
and then a panel is going to open,
and there's going to be a stairway
718
00:38:50,329 --> 00:38:51,446
and an alien waiting for us
719
00:38:52,413 --> 00:38:54,583
[Greg] What do you guys think?
[Dana] This is amazing.
720
00:38:55,166 --> 00:38:57,416
- Do you think that this is the
entrance to an alien cave?
721
00:38:57,585 --> 00:38:59,495
- Do you know what?
If there was an entrance...
722
00:38:59,503 --> 00:39:00,503
[Micah] Hey can get a light over here
real quick, you guys?
723
00:39:00,504 --> 00:39:01,054
[Dana] Yeah.
724
00:39:01,088 --> 00:39:02,513
Here, grab this big guy.
725
00:39:02,548 --> 00:39:04,298
[Micah] Your mind will play tricks on you...
726
00:39:05,718 --> 00:39:07,718
[Muffled talking]
727
00:39:10,973 --> 00:39:11,683
[Dana] You'd have to--
728
00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:14,814
I wonder if you'd have to climb up
over that rock right there,
729
00:39:15,269 --> 00:39:17,269
...on the top.
Because there's definitely an opening
730
00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:18,654
big enough for a body up there.
731
00:39:18,689 --> 00:39:20,649
[Micah] I never even looked at that.
732
00:39:20,684 --> 00:39:21,649
Is there though?
733
00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:23,236
[Dana] Well,
it looks like you'd have to...
734
00:39:25,529 --> 00:39:29,239
[Greg] Terry Wriste talked about three
different entrances into these cave bases,
735
00:39:29,241 --> 00:39:32,451
and one of them was on
Brown Mountain in North Carolina.
736
00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:35,003
We could have been standing
in that entrance right then.
737
00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:36,829
But we couldn't get any further,
738
00:39:36,832 --> 00:39:38,922
so there was nothing much we could do.
739
00:39:41,128 --> 00:39:44,088
[Dana] And so again,
it's kind of like that idea of trusting
740
00:39:44,090 --> 00:39:45,090
and just going with it.
741
00:39:45,091 --> 00:39:47,975
Because it might sound absurd,
but at the end of the day,
742
00:39:48,010 --> 00:39:50,180
we were all standing in front of a cave
that looked like the entrance
743
00:39:50,215 --> 00:39:52,772
to what could have been
an underground base,
744
00:39:52,807 --> 00:39:55,637
and there was a big, huge,
giant slab of rock there
745
00:39:55,643 --> 00:39:57,353
stopping us from being able to get inside.
746
00:40:03,234 --> 00:40:06,704
It wasn't too long after we'd
returned from all these trips
747
00:40:06,739 --> 00:40:08,735
that we got an email...
748
00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:11,909
from a guy who was going
by the name
749
00:40:11,944 --> 00:40:13,949
"Terry Wriste."
750
00:40:16,956 --> 00:40:18,326
And it said,
751
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:21,166
"Why did you stop when you were so close?
752
00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:24,169
I have something for you. One week."
753
00:40:24,380 --> 00:40:26,220
And it was like, weird and misspelled.
754
00:40:26,632 --> 00:40:29,092
There was this really strange
kind of cadence to it.
755
00:40:29,844 --> 00:40:32,764
At that point, I'm like, okay,
somebody is fucking with me at this point.
756
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,732
It was all lower-case.
Everything was strange about it.
757
00:40:37,393 --> 00:40:41,563
Whether or not this is involved
in the original emails from David or not,
758
00:40:41,564 --> 00:40:42,530
somebody is messing with me.
759
00:40:42,565 --> 00:40:45,185
Because a lot of the information
about the goblins
760
00:40:45,192 --> 00:40:46,862
that we'd had at this point
was on the internet.
761
00:40:47,361 --> 00:40:48,901
Because we'd written
a little post about it.
762
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:51,657
Sure enough, a week later,
763
00:40:51,692 --> 00:40:53,075
another email comes in.
764
00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:57,619
This one read,
765
00:40:57,997 --> 00:41:00,172
"Hellier was just a symptom.
766
00:41:00,207 --> 00:41:05,587
The Ink and Black are isolated still
and third order MIA.
767
00:41:05,963 --> 00:41:08,843
Bare in mind, for every door closed,
768
00:41:08,878 --> 00:41:10,516
a window must be opened.
769
00:41:10,551 --> 00:41:12,971
The door is closed.
The window is open.
770
00:41:13,006 --> 00:41:14,600
Use the numbers."
771
00:41:15,848 --> 00:41:17,428
Right off the bat,
this one struck us
772
00:41:17,433 --> 00:41:19,643
because he specifically
mentions "Hellier."
773
00:41:20,102 --> 00:41:24,022
But in all of our postings, we never once
released the name of David's town.
774
00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:25,653
So there's no way
he should have known that.
775
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,860
And the attachment was a photograph.
776
00:41:29,862 --> 00:41:31,952
And it was a photograph
of a slip of paper
777
00:41:32,114 --> 00:41:34,334
that had a whole mess of numbers on it.
778
00:41:34,950 --> 00:41:39,500
The numbers--
I think there were sixteen numbers.
779
00:41:40,706 --> 00:41:44,166
And, as with everything else,
I put it on Facebook and I said,
780
00:41:44,168 --> 00:41:45,378
"What the heck is this?"
781
00:41:46,295 --> 00:41:48,625
One of my friends
immediately pointed out,
782
00:41:48,631 --> 00:41:50,261
"Oh that's a credit card number."
783
00:41:50,674 --> 00:41:53,339
And I thought, oh, geez,
so I should pull it down
784
00:41:53,374 --> 00:41:56,005
because who knows whose
credit card number this was.
785
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:57,890
That's when somebody else pointed out:
786
00:41:58,474 --> 00:42:00,274
"No, those are GPS coordinates."
787
00:42:00,309 --> 00:42:03,689
And at that point,
I had this cold chill run down my spine
788
00:42:03,724 --> 00:42:06,727
because when I put them into a GPS,
789
00:42:08,150 --> 00:42:09,575
they actually pointed
790
00:42:09,610 --> 00:42:11,150
right to where this cave was--
791
00:42:11,153 --> 00:42:14,038
or at least, the similar
vicinity of this cave
792
00:42:14,073 --> 00:42:16,453
in North Carolina that
Micah Hanks had taken us to.
793
00:42:16,951 --> 00:42:22,001
I mean, there's literally only one or two
people who should have known that,
794
00:42:22,036 --> 00:42:23,997
the exact spot where we were.
795
00:42:23,999 --> 00:42:25,789
That's weird. And...
796
00:42:26,877 --> 00:42:28,497
that freaked me out.
797
00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:32,131
Whoever it was knew
we were there at this cave.
798
00:42:32,132 --> 00:42:35,052
Very few people knew where we were
going or what we were doing.
799
00:42:35,302 --> 00:42:38,472
As far as I know, only Micah
really knew where this cave was.
800
00:42:39,056 --> 00:42:41,266
It was actually really frightening
801
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:43,097
because we both kind of
looked at each other like,
802
00:42:43,102 --> 00:42:44,610
"what is actually going on?"
803
00:42:44,645 --> 00:42:48,975
It kind of made a lot of the other
stuff seem more concrete,
804
00:42:48,983 --> 00:42:54,283
which in retrospect for me
specifically was a bit upsetting.
805
00:42:55,781 --> 00:42:59,291
The only thing that this was
similar to that I could find
806
00:42:59,451 --> 00:43:03,661
was letters that were sent to John Keel.
807
00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:07,084
Most people know John Keel because
he wrote The Mothman Prophecies.
808
00:43:07,376 --> 00:43:10,496
He was the guy who popularized
the Mothman sightings.
809
00:43:10,796 --> 00:43:12,416
There was a lot of really
weird high strangeness
810
00:43:12,423 --> 00:43:13,423
that happened around that,
811
00:43:13,424 --> 00:43:15,304
a lot of really
strange coincidences,
812
00:43:15,551 --> 00:43:19,101
and he was the guy who
made that what it is.
813
00:43:19,555 --> 00:43:23,305
But he had a lot of really interesting
theories that I'm really into,
814
00:43:23,392 --> 00:43:25,522
which are that there are window areas
815
00:43:25,978 --> 00:43:27,518
and in these window areas,
816
00:43:27,855 --> 00:43:30,515
things can come in and out
a little more easily:
817
00:43:30,524 --> 00:43:31,991
The veil is thinner.
818
00:43:32,026 --> 00:43:35,446
UFOs aren't coming from outer space,
they're coming from here,
819
00:43:35,481 --> 00:43:36,446
from another dimension.
820
00:43:36,447 --> 00:43:39,777
As are most of the creatures
that we run into in cryptozoology,
821
00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:42,159
extraterrestrials, that kind of stuff.
822
00:43:42,745 --> 00:43:45,495
He used to get letters
from these people
823
00:43:45,497 --> 00:43:47,417
who called themselves
The International Bankers.
824
00:43:48,167 --> 00:43:52,377
And they came from weird postmarked
places in other countries.
825
00:43:52,504 --> 00:43:54,847
Sometimes they didn't even have
a postmark on them,
826
00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:57,892
They were just sent through the mail
without any postmarking.
827
00:43:57,927 --> 00:43:59,385
Sometimes they just showed up
in his mailbox.
828
00:43:59,678 --> 00:44:03,558
But they were the same kind of
weird misspellings,
829
00:44:03,593 --> 00:44:05,927
almost purposeful misspellings of things.
830
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:08,193
But they were super direct in
831
00:44:08,228 --> 00:44:09,903
"you need to stop doing what you're doing.
832
00:44:09,938 --> 00:44:12,438
You need to stop looking into
what you're looking into."
833
00:44:12,691 --> 00:44:14,611
But it was weird because
this read differently.
834
00:44:14,646 --> 00:44:15,990
It said "why did you stop?"
835
00:44:16,528 --> 00:44:18,028
Not, "Stop."
836
00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:19,530
"Why did you stop?
837
00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:21,993
Here's GPS Coordinates.
838
00:44:22,028 --> 00:44:23,584
Go find the window.
839
00:44:23,619 --> 00:44:25,539
The door is closed.
Go find the window."
840
00:44:28,248 --> 00:44:29,498
[Laughs]
841
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,800
[Hellier theme plays slowly]
842
00:44:38,258 --> 00:44:41,138
[Greg] We continued to look around
and look into this type of stuff,
843
00:44:41,173 --> 00:44:42,756
and occasionally something would pop up
844
00:44:42,763 --> 00:44:43,763
or someone would say,
845
00:44:43,764 --> 00:44:48,064
"Oh, the story that you guys shared,
something like this happened
846
00:44:48,099 --> 00:44:50,980
to my grandfather, and
he called them ‘the Gobsows'"
847
00:44:51,397 --> 00:44:56,987
or "my grandparents used to tell me about
the ‘holler goblins' in eastern Kentucky..."
848
00:44:57,695 --> 00:45:00,275
So little things kept popping up
here and there,
849
00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:02,318
but no matter what we would do,
850
00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:05,743
we never heard back from Terry Wriste,
851
00:45:05,744 --> 00:45:07,544
we never heard back from David.
852
00:45:07,955 --> 00:45:10,075
[Moody Theme Song]
853
00:45:10,874 --> 00:45:14,214
Really interesting thing happened
about a year and a half ago.
854
00:45:14,503 --> 00:45:18,931
We got into contact with
Geraldine Sutton-Stith,
855
00:45:18,966 --> 00:45:24,346
who is one of the last relatives
of the Sutton family
856
00:45:24,381 --> 00:45:25,846
who lived in the farmhouse,
857
00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:29,938
her father was Lucky, who actually
shot at one of these goblins.
858
00:45:30,352 --> 00:45:36,482
There's two living relatives of hers
that were present for the case,
859
00:45:36,483 --> 00:45:38,033
but they refuse to talk about it.
860
00:45:38,068 --> 00:45:41,408
She said that they were just made fun of
way too much in the media.
861
00:45:41,697 --> 00:45:46,697
So Geraldine has taken it upon herself
to keep sharing stories about this
862
00:45:46,702 --> 00:45:48,412
and to keep that story alive.
863
00:45:48,746 --> 00:45:52,956
And I just... There was...
864
00:45:52,958 --> 00:45:55,592
All this stuff with caves
and the goblins...
865
00:45:55,627 --> 00:45:58,877
that kept coming up:
monsters in the Appalachians,
866
00:45:58,881 --> 00:46:00,556
they would come out of caves,
867
00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:03,891
people were meeting strange
little creatures in caves...
868
00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:09,348
Turns out, the Mammoth Cave System
sits right below the center of Kentucky,
869
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:14,189
runs almost the stretch from Hopkinsville
all the way over to Hellier,
870
00:46:14,224 --> 00:46:16,898
and then all the way up
through the Appalachians.
871
00:46:17,983 --> 00:46:23,783
And there could be a way
that this is all connected.
872
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:25,831
So I asked Geraldine and I said,
873
00:46:25,866 --> 00:46:27,616
"You know, I realize
this is a weird question,
874
00:46:29,036 --> 00:46:33,666
do you remember at the farm house,
where this stuff crashed,
875
00:46:33,701 --> 00:46:35,455
and where all these sightings took place,
876
00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:38,093
were there any caves
nearby the farm house?
877
00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:39,086
Is the farmhouse still there?
878
00:46:39,087 --> 00:46:40,257
Could I come out and see it?"
879
00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:42,383
The farmhouse was long gone.
880
00:46:42,716 --> 00:46:44,850
The property was owned by somebody else.
881
00:46:44,885 --> 00:46:47,135
And she wasn't sure
that there were any caves.
882
00:46:47,137 --> 00:46:50,057
But she was really good friends
with people from the town,
883
00:46:50,092 --> 00:46:52,847
and she said that she would ask.
884
00:46:53,393 --> 00:46:55,353
A day or two later,
she got back and she goes,
885
00:46:55,354 --> 00:46:56,320
"You know what's really interesting,
886
00:46:56,355 --> 00:47:01,105
there's a big cave right next to
where this thing crashed.
887
00:47:01,276 --> 00:47:03,526
The cave system runs
all the way through there
888
00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:05,989
and connects to the
Mammoth Cave system."
889
00:47:06,698 --> 00:47:08,492
And I was like, "holy cow!
890
00:47:08,527 --> 00:47:10,286
This is all connected!"
891
00:47:10,494 --> 00:47:13,624
But as we continued to plot these out,
we started to notice that
892
00:47:13,659 --> 00:47:15,372
there is a theme that occurs.
893
00:47:15,374 --> 00:47:21,264
And it's not just goblins stuff.
It's very similar stuff.
894
00:47:21,299 --> 00:47:23,795
And it pops up all through
the Mammoth Cave System,
895
00:47:23,799 --> 00:47:25,839
all the way through
the Appalachians,
896
00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:28,143
even up as far as Vermont,
897
00:47:28,178 --> 00:47:30,928
there are all of these stories
about people seeing these things
898
00:47:30,931 --> 00:47:32,221
in and around caves.
899
00:47:32,224 --> 00:47:33,524
A lot of them have
three-toed footprints,
900
00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:37,099
a lot of them look kind of
like the same type of deal,
901
00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:41,864
some of them look like a variation
of an extraterrestrial creature.
902
00:47:42,568 --> 00:47:44,201
But they've all given
them different names
903
00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:48,526
because regionally they'd never
heard of the Hopkinsville stuff,
904
00:47:48,532 --> 00:47:51,166
so some of them call them Tommyknockers,
905
00:47:51,201 --> 00:47:56,081
that are in the mines and get disturbed
when there's these big loud sounds,
906
00:47:56,116 --> 00:47:57,541
and it sounds like dudes are mining.
907
00:47:58,625 --> 00:47:59,625
So we started to think,
908
00:47:59,626 --> 00:48:02,956
"What if it was never extraterrestrials
to begin with?
909
00:48:04,339 --> 00:48:06,169
What if it was something that
was in these caves
910
00:48:06,174 --> 00:48:07,184
and dwelled in these caves?"
911
00:48:07,926 --> 00:48:09,886
They all fit, the whole thing fits!
912
00:48:09,887 --> 00:48:10,887
The map is there,
913
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,428
you can look at the map, you can see
914
00:48:12,431 --> 00:48:15,641
these black spots that
just fit this whole trail.
915
00:48:17,477 --> 00:48:21,397
From the fifties on, there have
been all of these sightings
916
00:48:21,398 --> 00:48:23,398
and all of these people are
giving them different names
917
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,900
and they don't think that
they're related because
918
00:48:24,902 --> 00:48:25,902
they don't have an option.
919
00:48:26,028 --> 00:48:27,568
They don't know
that this stuff is going on.
920
00:48:29,448 --> 00:48:31,081
The other thing that led us to believe
921
00:48:31,116 --> 00:48:36,286
that there's even more
credibility to this theory was...
922
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,580
A production company that
wanted to shoot this
923
00:48:39,708 --> 00:48:41,418
project with us about the goblins,
924
00:48:42,336 --> 00:48:43,260
it was like a one-off thing,
925
00:48:43,295 --> 00:48:46,375
it was never supposed to be
made for public consumption;
926
00:48:46,381 --> 00:48:47,381
it was just to sell the show.
927
00:48:47,382 --> 00:48:48,342
It was a sizzle reel.
928
00:48:49,301 --> 00:48:52,761
They'd found the stuff that we'd
written about the goblins,
929
00:48:52,763 --> 00:48:54,103
and thought, "Well this is perfect.
930
00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:56,766
This is just weird,
931
00:48:56,767 --> 00:48:59,307
this is interesting.
We've never seen this before."
932
00:48:59,853 --> 00:49:01,023
And they said,
"Would you guys be interested
933
00:49:01,058 --> 00:49:02,821
in being part of the sizzle reel?
934
00:49:02,856 --> 00:49:06,646
It's just for internal use.
No one's going to see it.
935
00:49:06,652 --> 00:49:08,466
Obviously we don't need to go
out to the actual town,
936
00:49:08,501 --> 00:49:10,280
Obviously we don't need to go
out to the actual town,
937
00:49:10,315 --> 00:49:11,280
we'll meet in the middle."
938
00:49:11,281 --> 00:49:12,621
Because this guy was from Tennessee.
939
00:49:13,283 --> 00:49:16,413
We were like, yeah, you know,
we'll get a free adventure out of it,
940
00:49:16,448 --> 00:49:18,251
it's a weekend,
they'll feed us and put us up.
941
00:49:19,498 --> 00:49:24,051
So we went down to Cave City, Kentucky.
942
00:49:24,086 --> 00:49:27,461
Kind of in the middle of Kentucky.
Middle of the Mammoth Cave system.
943
00:49:27,496 --> 00:49:30,836
It's one of those places where there's
lots of recreational caves
944
00:49:30,842 --> 00:49:34,722
that have been roadside traps
since the 50s and the 60s.
945
00:49:35,138 --> 00:49:38,018
They've got the big dinosaurs and
stuff like that everywhere.
946
00:49:38,558 --> 00:49:41,058
They're all tearing down the cameras
and everything afterwards,
947
00:49:41,061 --> 00:49:43,833
and there had been this little girl
who was riding her bike
948
00:49:43,868 --> 00:49:46,606
back and forth, seeing all the
people with the cameras,
949
00:49:46,608 --> 00:49:47,728
wondering what was going on.
950
00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:52,113
She ended up walking over to Dana and I,
951
00:49:52,114 --> 00:49:54,574
just kind of sitting there killing time
while everybody was breaking down.
952
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:59,908
She said, "That man over there said
you two are monster hunters."
953
00:50:00,122 --> 00:50:03,252
"You guys look for monsters!"
And she was psyched and really excited.
954
00:50:03,583 --> 00:50:06,343
I said, "Yeah. Why,
have you seen any monsters?"
955
00:50:06,461 --> 00:50:07,461
And she said, "Yeah.
956
00:50:07,462 --> 00:50:09,592
My friends and I,
we see them all the time.
957
00:50:09,627 --> 00:50:10,919
And my parents see monsters too."
958
00:50:11,508 --> 00:50:13,258
"Are they scary? Are they under your bed?"
959
00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:14,180
You know, that kind of thing.
960
00:50:14,553 --> 00:50:16,853
And she says, "No!
They come out of the caves!"
961
00:50:17,681 --> 00:50:19,773
And I started to look around immediately,
962
00:50:19,808 --> 00:50:22,688
and I was like, okay,
which producer put her up to this?
963
00:50:22,723 --> 00:50:24,809
Because this is a fun story twist.
964
00:50:24,844 --> 00:50:26,895
Okay, which of the producers did this?
965
00:50:26,898 --> 00:50:28,608
No one's paying any attention.
966
00:50:29,276 --> 00:50:30,776
They're all just tearing
down their equipment.
967
00:50:30,902 --> 00:50:34,322
We're not even wearing
lav mics at this point.
968
00:50:34,357 --> 00:50:36,122
So there's no audio, there's nothing.
969
00:50:36,241 --> 00:50:38,831
We were like, "well can you
draw what they look like?"
970
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:42,496
And so I scramble and found
a piece of paper and got a pen
971
00:50:42,497 --> 00:50:43,917
from the dude behind the counter.
972
00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:46,921
And she started off by drawing their feet,
973
00:50:47,252 --> 00:50:50,592
which was a random detail
that initially I thought,
974
00:50:50,881 --> 00:50:54,261
Okay, now I was 100% sure that
a producer had put her up to it,
975
00:50:54,426 --> 00:50:57,756
because the first thing she drew
was a little three-toed footprint.
976
00:50:59,723 --> 00:51:02,683
And kids drawing feet, they don't
just randomly draw three...
977
00:51:02,768 --> 00:51:07,070
And it's even kind of the same
shape, it's an elongated,
978
00:51:07,105 --> 00:51:11,435
slender in the middle footprint,
with like three bulbs on the top.
979
00:51:11,568 --> 00:51:13,398
I mean, it looks like a kid's drawing,
980
00:51:13,403 --> 00:51:17,493
but it still fits what these
goblin prints look like
981
00:51:17,991 --> 00:51:18,991
I'm freaking out!
982
00:51:18,992 --> 00:51:22,292
And at this point I'm telling everyone,
"Turn the cameras on!
983
00:51:22,327 --> 00:51:23,907
Turn them on!
Bring them over here!
984
00:51:24,998 --> 00:51:28,288
Mics or not, turn them on and watch this!"
985
00:51:28,835 --> 00:51:31,295
And she started talking about
how her parents were like,
986
00:51:31,296 --> 00:51:33,506
"Oh yeah, they tell us not to
go near the mines,
987
00:51:33,507 --> 00:51:35,177
and it's coming from this one
over here,
988
00:51:35,212 --> 00:51:36,175
it's like two streets away."
989
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:41,282
I said, "can you draw what one
of these things looks like?"
990
00:51:41,317 --> 00:51:44,846
And she drew, it looks like a kid's
version of a Kentucky Goblin.
991
00:51:45,268 --> 00:51:48,858
[Dana] There are two completely
fascinating points on it
992
00:51:48,893 --> 00:51:52,565
that she should not have drawn
for any other reason
993
00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:55,487
other than she had legitimately
seen these things.
994
00:51:56,071 --> 00:52:01,831
Often, the Hopkinsville Goblins,
they're often described as
995
00:52:01,866 --> 00:52:03,447
having glassy, large eyes.
996
00:52:03,453 --> 00:52:08,833
Very large, glassy eyes, and very
weird elephant-shaped ears
997
00:52:08,834 --> 00:52:10,550
that protrude from the
sides of their heads.
998
00:52:10,585 --> 00:52:12,995
And she nailed it.
She drew both of those things.
999
00:52:13,004 --> 00:52:16,389
She basically drew an alien face
with those two attributes
1000
00:52:16,424 --> 00:52:21,604
and we were like, "There's no way
a kid would just randomly--
1001
00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:25,057
number one, would draw
a three-toed footprint,
1002
00:52:25,092 --> 00:52:28,475
but draw the face of
the Hopkinsville Goblins,
1003
00:52:28,478 --> 00:52:31,188
there's no reason on the planet for that."
1004
00:52:31,439 --> 00:52:33,073
And at this point I freaked out.
1005
00:52:33,108 --> 00:52:36,148
The fact alone that this little girl,
1006
00:52:36,153 --> 00:52:38,787
not knowing anything about
the Hopkinsville case,
1007
00:52:38,822 --> 00:52:41,832
not knowing anything other
than we were "monster hunters,"
1008
00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:45,575
was able to draw, not
only a three-toed footprint,
1009
00:52:45,579 --> 00:52:50,919
but the head of a creature that looks
exactly like the Kentucky Goblins
1010
00:52:50,954 --> 00:52:52,300
was really strange.
1011
00:52:52,335 --> 00:52:55,375
And it happened smack-dab in the middle
of the Mammoth Cave System.
1012
00:52:55,630 --> 00:52:58,130
The weight of that moment
for us was just like--
1013
00:52:58,133 --> 00:53:00,683
again, another one of those
moments when you're like--
1014
00:53:02,095 --> 00:53:05,925
it aligns everything thats already
happened in a weird perspective
1015
00:53:05,932 --> 00:53:07,774
because you have to kind of
stop and go like,
1016
00:53:07,809 --> 00:53:11,519
"Holy shit, that maybe
actually really happened!"
1017
00:53:12,189 --> 00:53:17,529
It's those moments of gravity
that change the past,
1018
00:53:17,564 --> 00:53:19,737
and change the way that
you looked at stuff.
1019
00:53:19,738 --> 00:53:23,118
And that keeps happening,
those solidifying moments
1020
00:53:23,153 --> 00:53:24,696
where you can't just go,
1021
00:53:24,701 --> 00:53:27,475
"Oh, it was just someone
sending us a stupid email."
1022
00:53:27,510 --> 00:53:30,250
Because it really doesn't
feel like it at this point.
1023
00:53:31,249 --> 00:53:34,301
So, we thought, after
we moved to Cincinnati,
1024
00:53:34,336 --> 00:53:38,756
Hellier is only about 31/2,
4 hours away from here.
1025
00:53:39,716 --> 00:53:42,466
We'd never been there before,
and thought,
1026
00:53:42,469 --> 00:53:44,179
"Well, we're not doing anything,
1027
00:53:44,214 --> 00:53:45,179
we've got a free weekend,
1028
00:53:45,180 --> 00:53:46,180
let's just go.
1029
00:53:46,181 --> 00:53:49,731
Let's just go and let's ask around
and see what we find."
1030
00:53:55,148 --> 00:53:56,648
[Greg] Shocked when we got to this place,
1031
00:53:56,650 --> 00:54:00,280
because you can only tell so much
from looking at a GPS map.
1032
00:54:00,528 --> 00:54:03,330
This place was totally dead.
1033
00:54:03,365 --> 00:54:07,535
Tiny, tiny town, with no cellphone
service there, middle of nowhere.
1034
00:54:08,161 --> 00:54:09,911
Clearly it was like an old mining town.
1035
00:54:10,288 --> 00:54:14,418
They had really one store,
and it was the gas station,
1036
00:54:14,453 --> 00:54:16,997
the grocery store,
and the pizza restaurant.
1037
00:54:17,295 --> 00:54:19,665
And we thought, well that's
as good a place as any to start.
1038
00:54:20,465 --> 00:54:22,675
- I'm going to go ask
about the goblins.
1039
00:54:23,009 --> 00:54:24,299
Dana sat in the car.
1040
00:54:24,844 --> 00:54:25,560
[Door slams]
1041
00:54:25,595 --> 00:54:28,175
And I put a little lapel mic on.
1042
00:54:29,349 --> 00:54:30,349
[Door lock clicks]
1043
00:54:30,517 --> 00:54:32,137
And she shot me from inside the car.
1044
00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:33,352
[Dana chuckles]
1045
00:54:34,062 --> 00:54:37,272
And I went in and I just started asking
people and showing them these pictures.
1046
00:54:38,566 --> 00:54:39,566
[Greg] How's it going?
1047
00:54:39,567 --> 00:54:40,567
[Resident #1] Alright, how are you?
1048
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:41,360
[Greg] Not bad.
1049
00:54:42,279 --> 00:54:43,949
Can I ask you a weird question
while I'm here?
1050
00:54:43,984 --> 00:54:44,907
- Sure
1051
00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:46,655
You ever seen anything
that looks like that?
1052
00:54:47,367 --> 00:54:48,367
[Dana] I was really nervous.
1053
00:54:48,368 --> 00:54:51,328
And when we got there, Greg and I
were looking at each other
1054
00:54:51,454 --> 00:54:54,172
and going like,
"this is probably a bad idea."
1055
00:54:54,207 --> 00:54:57,337
And we were like, "We'll stop at one
or two places, and we'll talk to people."
1056
00:54:57,919 --> 00:55:01,089
And it just opened a whole can of worms.
1057
00:55:01,214 --> 00:55:02,224
[Resident #2] What is it?
1058
00:55:02,257 --> 00:55:03,717
[Greg] That's what I'm
trying to find out, man.
1059
00:55:04,551 --> 00:55:07,011
Before too long, I mean,
it was not even half an hour,
1060
00:55:07,012 --> 00:55:09,594
there were like, a dozen, two dozen
people that had shown up at this place,
1061
00:55:09,629 --> 00:55:12,176
because we were calling people and said,
"hey there's somebody here,
1062
00:55:12,183 --> 00:55:13,483
he's investigating this weird thing."
1063
00:55:14,019 --> 00:55:16,349
And everybody had some kind of story.
1064
00:55:18,690 --> 00:55:19,690
[Resident #3] He's seen bigfoot!
1065
00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:20,858
[Greg] You've seen bigfoot?
1066
00:55:21,192 --> 00:55:21,825
[Resident #4] Yeah.
1067
00:55:21,860 --> 00:55:22,490
[Greg] What was it like?
1068
00:55:23,153 --> 00:55:24,911
[Resident #4] Hopped off the hill,
1069
00:55:24,946 --> 00:55:27,946
ran across the road
in just a couple of steps,
1070
00:55:28,450 --> 00:55:30,125
and it put its hand on the guardrail--
1071
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,660
- No joke?
- And just hopped across and was gone.
1072
00:55:33,872 --> 00:55:36,372
Like it turned and looked at me
and then just hopped and gone.
1073
00:55:36,374 --> 00:55:41,214
It was, ah, I've never said
nothing about this for, I guess years.
1074
00:55:41,249 --> 00:55:43,715
You know, before I'd ever seen anything.
1075
00:55:43,750 --> 00:55:46,182
And other people was,
you know what I mean,
1076
00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:48,393
was saying, "hey, we've
seen something..."
1077
00:55:50,347 --> 00:55:52,967
And they was describing about
the same thing that I was...
1078
00:55:53,224 --> 00:55:57,194
It ranged anywhere from little things
that were running across the street,
1079
00:55:57,604 --> 00:56:01,154
to people saying "oh yeah, we get weird
prints on our property all the time,
1080
00:56:01,189 --> 00:56:02,649
I've got an old mine on my property,
1081
00:56:02,650 --> 00:56:04,900
everybody around here has
old mines on their property."
1082
00:56:05,278 --> 00:56:08,278
And they said, "Oh you know,
it was weird because a few years ago,
1083
00:56:08,281 --> 00:56:10,371
there was this giant UFO."
1084
00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:12,083
And it hovered above the town.
1085
00:56:12,118 --> 00:56:15,288
And they said it hovered there for
hours and hours and hours.
1086
00:56:15,323 --> 00:56:17,498
And they were like,
"it was as big as a jumbo jet.
1087
00:56:17,499 --> 00:56:18,499
This thing was massive."
1088
00:56:19,042 --> 00:56:21,342
[Resident #5] Like I said, years ago
people think you was crazy.
1089
00:56:21,419 --> 00:56:23,839
But we've seen it. You've seen it.
I've seen it.
1090
00:56:23,874 --> 00:56:25,338
My whole family down there'd seen it.
1091
00:56:25,340 --> 00:56:28,260
We watched it. It was there all day long,
right in the middle of the day.
1092
00:56:28,295 --> 00:56:31,049
Seems like it was in October,
about two years ago.
1093
00:56:31,054 --> 00:56:32,474
[Greg] What's the name of the newspaper?
1094
00:56:32,509 --> 00:56:33,972
[Residents] Appalachian News Express.
1095
00:56:33,973 --> 00:56:35,523
[Greg] Appalachian News Express.
1096
00:56:35,558 --> 00:56:36,517
- Yep
- Okay
1097
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:38,728
[Resident #5] It was on the front page.
Thousands of people seen it.
1098
00:56:38,763 --> 00:56:39,478
- mmhm.
1099
00:56:39,479 --> 00:56:42,319
And you could see it pretty good,
it was like a cylinder shape,
1100
00:56:42,354 --> 00:56:44,105
and it wasn't moving,
it was just there.
1101
00:56:44,109 --> 00:56:45,109
[Greg] Wow.
1102
00:56:45,110 --> 00:56:47,990
[Resident #5] Just in the same spot.
And it was there for a long time, man.
1103
00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:49,238
All day, that day.
1104
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:50,199
[Greg] And it just hovered?
1105
00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:54,037
[Resident #5] And it was like
it must've been like spinning
1106
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:59,289
because when it was rotating,
it would catch the sun
1107
00:56:59,290 --> 00:57:00,540
and it would get real bright.
1108
00:57:01,084 --> 00:57:02,094
- [Greg] No joke!
1109
00:57:02,210 --> 00:57:03,170
And as it was rotating, it would go away.
1110
00:57:03,503 --> 00:57:06,093
[Newspaper Reporter] These images,
snapped by Allan Epling
1111
00:57:06,128 --> 00:57:08,629
has the man stumped,
and that's saying something
1112
00:57:08,633 --> 00:57:11,053
coming from a long time
amateur astronomer.
1113
00:57:11,088 --> 00:57:12,435
I know a satellite when I see it.
1114
00:57:12,470 --> 00:57:15,310
I track satellites with my HAM radio
and the telescope.
1115
00:57:15,345 --> 00:57:17,886
But this object is like
nothing he's ever seen.
1116
00:57:17,892 --> 00:57:21,144
For 21/2 hours, he watched and
photographed this object
1117
00:57:21,179 --> 00:57:24,396
as it hung in the air, until
eventually it disappeared.
1118
00:57:24,732 --> 00:57:25,982
And he wasn't alone.
1119
00:57:26,151 --> 00:57:28,464
Police say they received numerous calls
1120
00:57:28,499 --> 00:57:30,778
and Epling found other observers online.
1121
00:57:31,823 --> 00:57:34,913
[Greg] No one knew who David Christie was,
no one had any idea.
1122
00:57:36,870 --> 00:57:38,211
Somebody actually asked, like,
1123
00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,746
"Oh ask this guy,
he's been living here for forever,"
1124
00:57:41,458 --> 00:57:43,078
and this super-old dude was like,
1125
00:57:43,418 --> 00:57:46,128
"I've lived here my whole life,
and I've never heard that name.
1126
00:57:46,129 --> 00:57:47,589
No idea who this guy is."
1127
00:57:48,882 --> 00:57:53,342
We thought okay, well let's go
see if we can find David's house.
1128
00:57:53,344 --> 00:57:54,554
I mean, the town's not big.
1129
00:57:55,388 --> 00:57:59,098
So we drove up this road
and there was a house
1130
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:01,190
sitting there on the left side
of this road...
1131
00:58:02,270 --> 00:58:04,690
[Dana] There's an abandoned house,
all grown up.
1132
00:58:08,902 --> 00:58:09,902
Maybe that's David's House.
1133
00:58:10,570 --> 00:58:13,160
- Oh, my gosh there's a car back
there and everything too...
1134
00:58:15,241 --> 00:58:17,250
- See that could be it!
That could be like--
1135
00:58:17,285 --> 00:58:19,825
But look, it's abandoned,
it looks like it's been abandoned--
1136
00:58:19,829 --> 00:58:21,671
- There's exercise equipment
on the front lawn.
1137
00:58:21,706 --> 00:58:23,076
- It looks like it's been abandoned
for like three years.
1138
00:58:23,082 --> 00:58:25,292
There's a basketball net back there,
that's where kids would be,
1139
00:58:25,877 --> 00:58:27,917
Old fucking Christmas lights still up.
1140
00:58:29,047 --> 00:58:31,757
- There's a shed.
- There's a fucking shed there!
1141
00:58:31,758 --> 00:58:32,718
- Yep
1142
00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:40,314
[Greg] There was a stream nearby,
there were caves nearby. Old mines.
1143
00:58:40,642 --> 00:58:43,735
And it looked like it had been abandoned
for about two or three years.
1144
00:58:43,770 --> 00:58:48,480
Which would have been the time that David
was going through all of this stuff.
1145
00:58:48,983 --> 00:58:54,663
The house still had stuff all on the
front lawn, but no one,
1146
00:58:54,698 --> 00:58:56,526
clearly no one was living there
at the time.
1147
00:58:57,075 --> 00:59:00,945
When we saw this specific house,
it was like a weird--
1148
00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:02,420
Something was just like,
"This is it."
1149
00:59:02,455 --> 00:59:05,785
Like, I felt like chills almost,
looking at it.
1150
00:59:05,792 --> 00:59:09,922
Because it was just like a family home
that had been totally abandoned.
1151
00:59:10,672 --> 00:59:14,589
It creepily still had like kids toys,
and it had the window that
1152
00:59:14,624 --> 00:59:18,506
would have been the window that
they would have been looking in.
1153
00:59:18,513 --> 00:59:22,523
And all of these details that felt right.
1154
00:59:23,184 --> 00:59:26,154
And it felt in my gut
like it was the house.
1155
00:59:26,189 --> 00:59:27,685
It creeped me out.
1156
00:59:29,148 --> 00:59:31,741
So that's as far as we've gotten.
1157
00:59:31,776 --> 00:59:35,736
That's as far as we've
investigated Hellier.
1158
00:59:35,947 --> 00:59:38,907
I've often thought that it meant more...
1159
00:59:38,908 --> 00:59:45,288
It was more about the town,
and that David was one person
1160
00:59:45,290 --> 00:59:48,174
who was experiencing it.
And maybe he left
1161
00:59:48,209 --> 00:59:53,919
and our chances of getting
into David's cave are over
1162
00:59:53,923 --> 00:59:58,013
but it doesn't matter because
we know this caving system exists
1163
00:59:58,048 --> 01:00:00,601
all around that area and all
up and down through Kentucky
1164
01:00:00,636 --> 01:00:02,217
and pretty much halfway
across the country.
1165
01:00:02,473 --> 01:00:06,773
That's one instance of potentially...
1166
01:00:07,145 --> 01:00:08,345
I don't know, thousands of them?
1167
01:00:08,354 --> 01:00:09,696
[Intense music]
1168
01:00:09,731 --> 01:00:13,941
So, for me I've often thought that
it was more kind of egging us on,
1169
01:00:13,943 --> 01:00:16,153
like, "You need to go back.
You have to go back
1170
01:00:16,154 --> 01:00:17,494
and start asking questions."
1171
01:00:17,697 --> 01:00:20,407
So I mean, obviously we have to go.
1172
01:00:21,743 --> 01:00:23,123
There's just no way around it,
1173
01:00:23,158 --> 01:00:23,829
we have to go.
1174
01:00:26,914 --> 01:00:29,214
[Music escalates]
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