1 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,267 IT LOOKED LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN A MAN AND AN ALIEN 2 00:00:10,267 --> 00:00:12,167 WITH WINGS AND RED EYES. 3 00:00:12,167 --> 00:00:13,633 IT SCARED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING 4 00:00:13,633 --> 00:00:15,867 THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. 5 00:00:16,967 --> 00:00:19,033 Cheeks: IT WAS BIG -- TOO BIG TO BE A PERSON. 6 00:00:19,033 --> 00:00:21,833 IT STOOD AT LEAST NINE FOOT TALL. 7 00:00:21,833 --> 00:00:22,900 [ CREATURE GROWLS ] 8 00:00:22,900 --> 00:00:25,833 I MEAN, IT WAS...MASSIVE. 9 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:29,033 Stith: YOU KNOW, IF YOU SEEN SOMETHING FLOATING ON TOP OF THE GROUND, 10 00:00:29,033 --> 00:00:31,733 WOULDN'T YOU, LIKE, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE? 11 00:00:32,467 --> 00:00:34,100 GUYS, GET THE GUNS. 12 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:36,000 Joyce: I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE. 13 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,333 I KNOW IT'S A -- IT'S A BEAST. 14 00:00:40,433 --> 00:00:42,967 NEITHER ONE OF US WERE SURE IF WE WERE GONNA MAKE IT OUT ALIVE. 15 00:00:42,967 --> 00:00:44,100 [ METAL CLACKS ] 16 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:45,400 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 17 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,400 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 18 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,400 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 19 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:56,600 Narrator: THE APPALACHIANS -- 20 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,800 SOME OF THE OLDEST MOUNTAINS ON EARTH. 21 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,567 WITHIN THESE DARK HOLLOWS AND DENSE FORESTS, 22 00:01:04,567 --> 00:01:06,867 AN ANCIENT SPIRIT PREVAILS. 23 00:01:06,867 --> 00:01:09,767 Smith: EVEN SINCE THE SETTLERS CAME HERE, 24 00:01:09,767 --> 00:01:11,800 THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN STRANGE OCCURRENCES. 25 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,067 BEING OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY AROUND ALL OF THE WOODS -- 26 00:01:15,067 --> 00:01:16,433 THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 27 00:01:16,433 --> 00:01:19,233 IT'S THE SURPRISE AROUND A TREE. 28 00:01:19,967 --> 00:01:24,167 OTHER FORMS OF LIFE THAT WE MAYBE DON'T SEE. 29 00:01:24,167 --> 00:01:25,700 Stacey: YOU KNOW, GROWING UP, 30 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:28,467 PEOPLE KIND OF HAVE A NATURAL FEAR OF THE WOODS, 31 00:01:28,467 --> 00:01:30,800 OF NOT KNOWING WHAT'S IN THE WOODS. 32 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:32,667 [ LEAVES RUSTLING ] 33 00:01:39,533 --> 00:01:41,833 Narrator: ALONG MUCH OF THE EASTERN U.S. 34 00:01:41,833 --> 00:01:45,167 ARE THE DARK INLAND FORESTS OF APPALACHIA. 35 00:01:45,167 --> 00:01:49,567 ON ITS WESTERN EDGE WITHIN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, 36 00:01:49,567 --> 00:01:54,200 THE HILLS ARE THICK WITH RUMORS ABOUT A BIZARRE MUTANT BEAST, 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,900 A CROSSOVER BETWEEN MUTTON AND MAN -- 38 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:01,333 A GIANT SHEEP THAT'S GONE SAVAGE. 39 00:02:01,333 --> 00:02:04,300 Noe: YES, IN THIS APPALACHIAN PART OF THE COUNTRY, 40 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:05,567 IT'S BEEN SEEN A LOT. 41 00:02:05,567 --> 00:02:07,833 I WOULDN'T HAVE BELIEVED IT IF I HADN'T SEEN IT. 42 00:02:07,833 --> 00:02:09,700 IT WAS HUGE. IT WAS HUGE. 43 00:02:10,967 --> 00:02:13,067 Guiley: THEY'VE GOT WOOLY HAIR -- 44 00:02:13,067 --> 00:02:14,433 IT'S USUALLY WHITE OR DIRTY WHITE -- 45 00:02:14,433 --> 00:02:16,800 HUGE JAWS AND FANGS, 46 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,233 AND A TAIL THAT USUALLY HAS NO FUR ON IT. 47 00:02:19,233 --> 00:02:23,200 Campbell: WE HAD TO GO DOWN TO THE PUMP HOUSE BY THE RIVER, 48 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,667 AND WE'D FIND DEAD DOGS, WOLVES, 49 00:02:25,667 --> 00:02:28,133 ALL KINDS OF FISH THAT HAD BEEN ATE ON 50 00:02:28,133 --> 00:02:29,933 AND THE BONES LEFT. 51 00:02:29,933 --> 00:02:34,433 WE HAD ALWAYS HEARD NOISES THAT WE JUST COULD NEVER EXPLAIN, 52 00:02:34,433 --> 00:02:35,633 LIKE A GROWL ALMOST, 53 00:02:35,633 --> 00:02:38,200 BUT YOU COULD HEAR THEM FROM LONG DISTANCES. 54 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,100 [ CREATURE GROWLING IN DISTANCE ] 55 00:02:41,967 --> 00:02:44,067 Cheeks: THE WOODS ARE MYSTERIOUS. 56 00:02:44,067 --> 00:02:48,833 PEOPLE STILL WON'T GO OUT REALLY AT NIGHT INTO THE WOODS. 57 00:02:48,833 --> 00:02:51,533 IT'S ONE OF THE FEW THINGS THAT PEOPLE AROUND HERE 58 00:02:51,533 --> 00:02:52,867 WON'T REALLY TALK ABOUT, 59 00:02:52,867 --> 00:02:57,300 BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING OUT THERE 60 00:02:57,300 --> 00:02:59,900 THAT KEEPS THEM ALL INSIDE. 61 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:02,533 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 62 00:03:02,533 --> 00:03:04,567 Narrator: THAT "SOMETHING" IS A CREATURE 63 00:03:04,567 --> 00:03:08,333 THAT'S KNOWN TO LOCALS AS "SHEEPSQUATCH." 64 00:03:08,333 --> 00:03:11,167 THE LEGEND MAY HAVE STARTED LONG AGO... 65 00:03:13,167 --> 00:03:16,567 ...SHEEP HERDERS IMMIGRATING TO APPALACHIA FROM BRITAIN, 66 00:03:16,567 --> 00:03:20,933 BRINGING STORIES OF DEMONS WEARING SHEEP HIDES AND HORNS. 67 00:03:20,933 --> 00:03:25,767 BUT TO THIS VERY DAY, THE BELIEF REMAINS IN FORCE. 68 00:03:25,767 --> 00:03:29,500 SHEEPSQUATCH IS PREDOMINANTLY IN THE WOODS. 69 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:33,400 I FEEL LIKE THAT IT HAS BEEN VERY GOOD AT ELUDING. 70 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:34,733 IT'S HAD TO BE. 71 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:39,800 IT DOES KNOW THAT WE'RE LOOKING, 72 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,333 AND I THINK IT JUST WANTS TO BE LEFT ALONE. 73 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,167 Narrator: SOME CLAIM TO HAVE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE, 74 00:03:50,167 --> 00:03:53,933 AND RECENTLY, TWO ADVENTUROUS BRECKINRIDGE BOYS, 75 00:03:53,933 --> 00:03:56,233 RICKY JOYCE AND DAKOTA CHEEKS, 76 00:03:56,233 --> 00:04:00,800 HAD A SHOWDOWN WITH A SHEEPSQUATCH. 77 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,067 THEY'LL NEVER FORGET IT. 78 00:04:03,067 --> 00:04:06,300 Joyce: WELL, WHEN I TELL MOST PEOPLE I SEEN IT, 79 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:08,433 THEY JUST TELL ME I'M CRAZY, I'M A CRACKPOT. 80 00:04:08,433 --> 00:04:11,533 BUT THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE IN IT. 81 00:04:11,533 --> 00:04:13,467 MAINLY THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE AROUND HERE 82 00:04:13,467 --> 00:04:14,833 ARE THE ONES THAT DON'T CALL ME CRAZY. 83 00:04:17,067 --> 00:04:19,100 Cheeks: IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT ANYBODY THOUGHT ABOUT US. 84 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:23,467 YOU KNOW, WE KNEW, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, WHAT WE SAW. 85 00:04:25,367 --> 00:04:29,933 Narrator: AT 13, DAKOTA MET RICKY JOYCE IN SCHOOL. 86 00:04:29,933 --> 00:04:33,167 THE PAIR HAVE BEEN CLOSE EVER SINCE. 87 00:04:33,167 --> 00:04:37,900 Cheeks: THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A FORM OF TRUST BETWEEN ME AND RICKY, 88 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:39,967 ESPECIALLY THE OLDER WE GET. 89 00:04:39,967 --> 00:04:44,967 YOU KNOW, HE'S RIGHT THERE WITH YOU TILL THE VERY END. 90 00:04:44,967 --> 00:04:47,633 Joyce: WE'RE MORE BROTHERS THAN WE ARE FRIENDS. 91 00:04:47,633 --> 00:04:50,567 HE'S TRUSTWORTHY. HE'S LOYAL. 92 00:04:50,567 --> 00:04:52,667 I'VE NEVER HAD A FRIEND THAT HAD MY BACK LIKE HIM. 93 00:04:54,433 --> 00:04:58,100 Narrator: THAT BOND WOULD BE TESTED ON A WARM SUMMER WEEKEND 94 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:00,533 IN JULY OF 2004. 95 00:05:00,533 --> 00:05:02,233 ON A HUNTING TRIP, 96 00:05:02,233 --> 00:05:04,167 DAKOTA AND RICKY VENTURED 97 00:05:04,167 --> 00:05:06,933 INTO SOME KENTUCKY'S MORE REMOTE TRACKS OF WILDERNESS. 98 00:05:06,933 --> 00:05:08,400 ALL I REALLY NEED IS THIS. 99 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,933 WE GO HUNTING A LOT, BUT THIS TIME, IT WAS A LOT DIFFERENT. 100 00:05:12,933 --> 00:05:15,767 COME ON, LILY. [ PATS KNEE ] 101 00:05:15,767 --> 00:05:19,300 THIS WAS A NIGHT THAT WOULD CHANGE OUR LIVES FOREVER. 102 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,967 Narrator: BASE CAMP FOR THE DEER HUNT -- 103 00:05:25,967 --> 00:05:27,667 RICKY'S GRANDPARENTS' CABIN 104 00:05:27,667 --> 00:05:30,600 AT THE FOOT OF A HUNDRED ACRES OF DENSE TIMBER. 105 00:05:33,067 --> 00:05:34,200 [ DOG WHIMPERS ] 106 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,633 BUT THE FIRST MORNING, 107 00:05:36,633 --> 00:05:41,267 SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH ONE OF RICKY'S DOGS. 108 00:05:41,267 --> 00:05:43,433 AND WE CALLED FOR HER, AND SHE JUST DIDN'T COME. 109 00:05:43,433 --> 00:05:47,700 WHEN WE NOTICED THAT THE DOG WAS LAYING IN A DITCH, 110 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:51,667 WE WALKED OVER, AND THAT'S WHEN WE FOUND HER. 111 00:05:51,667 --> 00:05:55,067 Joyce: IT APPEARED THAT SOMETHING HAD TWISTED ITS HEAD 112 00:05:55,067 --> 00:05:57,133 ALMOST COMPLETELY AROUND. 113 00:05:57,133 --> 00:05:58,867 IT WAS -- IT WAS QUITE A SIGHT. 114 00:05:58,867 --> 00:06:01,867 IT JUST SEEMED KIND OF STRANGE, THOUGH, 115 00:06:01,867 --> 00:06:05,067 THAT SOMETHING JUST HANDLED IT LIKE IT DID. 116 00:06:05,067 --> 00:06:09,433 Cheeks: THERE'S NO ANIMAL UP HERE 117 00:06:09,433 --> 00:06:13,233 THAT CAN GRAB AN ANIMAL 118 00:06:13,233 --> 00:06:15,833 BY ITS CHIN AND THE BACK OF ITS HEAD 119 00:06:15,833 --> 00:06:16,833 AND TWIST IT. 120 00:06:16,833 --> 00:06:19,400 YOU KNOW, NO COYOTE CAN DO IT. 121 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,467 THERE'S NO BEAR AS FAR AS I KNOW UP HERE. 122 00:06:23,467 --> 00:06:27,333 IT BECAME VERY APPARENT THAT WE HAD TO FIND OUT, 123 00:06:27,333 --> 00:06:28,600 YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED. 124 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,333 WHAT GOT HER, AND WHY? 125 00:06:30,333 --> 00:06:34,100 Narrator: ARE THERE CREATURES CAPABLE OF SUCH VIOLENCE 126 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,267 ROAMING THE BACKWOODS OF APPALACHIA? 127 00:06:37,267 --> 00:06:38,400 THE WHITE THINGS. 128 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,700 I HEARD IT WAS HALF MAN AND HALF SHEEP. 129 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:43,300 IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE FACT THAT IT HAS CLAWS. 130 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:45,300 IT HAS HORNS. 131 00:06:45,300 --> 00:06:46,833 LOOK AT THE SHEER SIZE. 132 00:06:46,833 --> 00:06:49,400 YOU KNOW, IT COULD POTENTIALLY 133 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,067 REALLY BE A VERY DANGEROUS THING. 134 00:06:53,067 --> 00:06:56,533 Joyce: BEFORE THE DOG INCIDENT, 135 00:06:56,533 --> 00:06:58,067 FOR MONTHS, WE'D BEEN HEARING NOISES 136 00:06:58,067 --> 00:06:59,533 COMING FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL... 137 00:06:59,533 --> 00:07:01,067 [ CREATURE HOWLING IN DISTANCE ] 138 00:07:01,067 --> 00:07:04,167 ...OR GROWLS AND SCREAMS... 139 00:07:04,167 --> 00:07:07,600 THINGS THAT WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT. 140 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:08,867 WE WENT LOOKING, 141 00:07:08,867 --> 00:07:10,133 TO SEE IF WE COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED, 142 00:07:10,133 --> 00:07:11,933 SEE IF WE COULD FIND TRACKS OF ANYTHING BIG, 143 00:07:11,933 --> 00:07:16,200 ANYTHING THAT COULD HAVE KILLED A 150-POUND DOG LIKE IT DID. 144 00:07:18,567 --> 00:07:22,067 Cheeks: WE DECIDED WE WERE GONNA HOP ON THE FOUR-WHEELERS 145 00:07:22,067 --> 00:07:23,767 AND STAKE OUT THE HILLTOP. 146 00:07:27,333 --> 00:07:31,200 WE ENDED UP GOING TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE PROPERTY... 147 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,533 DUDE, I'M TELLING YOU, IT CAME FROM RIGHT OVER HERE. 148 00:07:33,533 --> 00:07:34,900 ...WHERE NOBODY REALLY GOES. 149 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:36,567 THERE'S NO TRAILS. 150 00:07:36,567 --> 00:07:38,233 WE MAKE A COUPLE LAPS AROUND THE FIELD. 151 00:07:38,233 --> 00:07:42,167 THAT WAY, WE CAN BOTH EASILY SEE WHERE THE FOUR-WHEELER HAS BEEN 152 00:07:42,167 --> 00:07:43,867 SO WE KNOW WHERE TO LOOK. 153 00:07:43,867 --> 00:07:45,500 Stacey: I WAS CONCERNED 154 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:49,067 BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH, 155 00:07:49,067 --> 00:07:52,067 IF THERE WAS POTENTIALLY HARM FOR THEM OUT THERE. 156 00:07:52,067 --> 00:07:57,533 Narrator: THEY SEARCHED THE AREA FOR HOURS, BUT NO CLUES TURNED UP. 157 00:07:57,533 --> 00:08:03,733 EXHAUSTED, THEY RETREATED TO THE FAMILY'S HUNTING CAMPER 158 00:08:03,733 --> 00:08:06,100 SET WITHIN THE HILLSIDE. 159 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:09,700 Joyce: WE ENDED UP STAYING IN THE CAMPER, 160 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:13,433 AND WE STARTED HEARING ALL SORTS OF WEIRD NOISES, 161 00:08:13,433 --> 00:08:14,933 THINGS WALKING AROUND. 162 00:08:14,933 --> 00:08:16,667 [ TWIGS SNAPPING IN DISTANCE ] 163 00:08:16,667 --> 00:08:19,233 WE KNEW A CREATURE WAS CLOSE. 164 00:08:19,233 --> 00:08:20,267 [ DOGS BARKING ] 165 00:08:20,267 --> 00:08:22,267 ABOUT 5:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING, 166 00:08:22,267 --> 00:08:23,833 THE DOGS START BARKING, 167 00:08:23,833 --> 00:08:27,700 AND THEY TAKE OFF RUNNING DOWN THE HILL. 168 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:29,633 WELL, ME AND RICKY SIT THERE 169 00:08:29,633 --> 00:08:32,200 AND A LITTLE HESITANT TO GO OUTSIDE 170 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,767 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER DOGS ARE NOW GONE. 171 00:08:34,767 --> 00:08:36,800 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 172 00:08:43,367 --> 00:08:46,067 Narrator: THE CAMPER THAT SEEMED A SAFE HAVEN 173 00:08:46,067 --> 00:08:49,100 WAS SUDDENLY UNDER ATTACK. 174 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:51,067 SOMETHING ACTUALLY RAN INTO THE TRAILER. 175 00:08:51,067 --> 00:08:53,200 [ CREATURE ROARING ] [ CLATTERING ] 176 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,767 IT KIND OF SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME. 177 00:08:54,767 --> 00:08:57,967 Cheeks: IT LITERALLY SOUNDED LIKE ALL HELL WAS BREAKING LOOSE. 178 00:08:57,967 --> 00:09:01,067 IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU CAN HEAR SOMETHING 179 00:09:01,067 --> 00:09:03,467 PRESSING UP AGAINST THE SIDE 180 00:09:03,467 --> 00:09:08,367 AND YOU CAN KIND OF HEAR THE TENTS START TO BEND. 181 00:09:08,367 --> 00:09:10,967 IT'S JUST THAT WEIRD, EERIE METAL SOUND. 182 00:09:10,967 --> 00:09:13,800 [ METAL CREAKING ] 183 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,400 AND THEN IT WAS JUST FREE FALL. 184 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,433 IT WAS LIKE IT LET GO, AND THEN WE HIT. 185 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:24,833 I WAS TERRIFIED. 186 00:09:24,833 --> 00:09:28,733 I MEAN, THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANYTHING OUT HERE 187 00:09:28,733 --> 00:09:31,933 STRONG ENOUGH TO PUSH A CAMPER LIKE THAT. 188 00:09:31,933 --> 00:09:33,600 WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?! 189 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,300 WHEN IT ACTUALLY MOVED AND TIPPED, 190 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:38,333 I WASN'T SURE WHAT IT WAS. 191 00:09:38,333 --> 00:09:40,600 [ CLATTERING ] 192 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,233 BUT WE KNEW, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, 193 00:09:43,233 --> 00:09:44,600 THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE. 194 00:09:46,967 --> 00:09:48,900 Narrator: THEY HAD STARTED THE DAY AS HUNTERS. 195 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:49,967 [ METAL CLANKS ] 196 00:09:49,967 --> 00:09:51,833 NOW DAKOTA AND RICKY WERE FEELING 197 00:09:51,833 --> 00:09:54,400 THEY WERE THE ONES BEING TRACKED. 198 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,600 NEITHER ONE OF US WERE SURE IF WE WERE GONNA MAKE IT OUT ALIVE. 199 00:10:09,267 --> 00:10:11,567 Narrator: IN JULY OF 2004, 200 00:10:11,567 --> 00:10:13,867 DAKOTA CHEEKS AND RICKY JOYCE 201 00:10:13,867 --> 00:10:17,200 WERE ON A HUNTING TRIP IN THE WOODS OF KENTUCKY. 202 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,500 BUT IT TOOK A HORRIBLE TURN. 203 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:22,933 ONE OF RICKY'S DOGS WAS MYSTERIOUSLY MANGLED. 204 00:10:22,933 --> 00:10:26,433 THEN THEIR CAMPER CAME UNDER ATTACK. 205 00:10:27,433 --> 00:10:29,033 EVERYTHING POINTED 206 00:10:29,033 --> 00:10:31,600 TO APPALACHIA'S BIZARRE HYBRID BEAST -- 207 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,000 SHEEPSQUATCH. 208 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,100 ANYTHING THAT AGGRESSIVE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE HERE. 209 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:38,167 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 210 00:10:38,167 --> 00:10:41,167 IF IT CAN'T COEXIST, IT NEEDS TO GO. 211 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:46,600 Narrator: AT RICKY'S GRANDPARENTS' CABIN, 212 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,667 THEY GATHER MORE AMMUNITION. 213 00:10:48,667 --> 00:10:49,767 I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE. 214 00:10:49,767 --> 00:10:51,533 THIS THING KILLED MY DOG, MAN. 215 00:10:51,533 --> 00:10:54,000 I KNOW IT'S A -- IT'S A BEAST. 216 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,333 WHATEVER IT WAS, IT HAD TO BE HUGE. 217 00:10:57,333 --> 00:10:58,900 Cheeks: WE WERE DETERMINED. 218 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:01,667 TO FIND SOMETHING HAVING THAT MUCH STRENGTH, 219 00:11:01,667 --> 00:11:03,467 IT MADE ME WANT TO FIND IT MORE. 220 00:11:04,867 --> 00:11:07,100 BUT I KNEW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULDN'T JUST GO OUT THERE 221 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:08,233 ON A FOUR-WHEELER 222 00:11:08,233 --> 00:11:11,767 AND EXPECT EVERYTHING TO BE OKAY. 223 00:11:11,767 --> 00:11:15,267 I HAD SOME BEAST THAT LIVED ON MY PROPERTY 224 00:11:15,267 --> 00:11:16,767 THAT KILLED MY DOG ALREADY. 225 00:11:16,767 --> 00:11:18,300 I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. 226 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:20,167 I WAS SCARED THAT IT WAS GONNA COME TO MY HOUSE. 227 00:11:29,167 --> 00:11:30,833 Narrator: WITH GUNS LOADED, 228 00:11:30,833 --> 00:11:35,433 RICKY AND DAKOTA HEAD BACK INTO THE WOODS. 229 00:11:35,433 --> 00:11:39,067 THEY CROSSED THROUGH A CEMETERY AND ENTERED AN OPEN FIELD. 230 00:11:39,067 --> 00:11:42,167 Stacey: YOUR MIND IS TELLING YOU, YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES, 231 00:11:42,167 --> 00:11:43,900 "DON'T LET HIM GO," 232 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:45,233 BUT ULTIMATELY, 233 00:11:45,233 --> 00:11:49,900 YOU BEGIN TO SHARE HIS PASSION OF "GET IT. GET IT." 234 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:50,933 [ CHUCKLES ] 235 00:11:50,933 --> 00:11:53,167 "JUST BE REALLY CAREFUL, BUT GET IT." 236 00:11:56,867 --> 00:11:59,267 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 237 00:12:10,467 --> 00:12:12,667 Joyce: I SEEN SOMETHING STANDING IN THE FIELD, 238 00:12:12,667 --> 00:12:15,833 AND AT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WAS A TREE. 239 00:12:15,833 --> 00:12:16,933 [ CREATURE GROWLS ] 240 00:12:16,933 --> 00:12:18,233 IT WAS TALL, 241 00:12:18,233 --> 00:12:20,767 BUT IT WAS ALSO KIND OF HUNCHED OVER A LITTLE BIT. 242 00:12:20,767 --> 00:12:22,700 IT WAS BIG. IT WAS WHITE. 243 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,933 [ GROWLING CONTINUES ] 244 00:12:25,933 --> 00:12:30,633 AND ITS ARMS WERE LONG, BUT THEY WERE KIND OF OUT LIKE THIS. 245 00:12:30,633 --> 00:12:32,433 AND IT HAD THESE LONG TALONS. 246 00:12:34,233 --> 00:12:36,533 IT WAS TOO BIG TO BE A PERSON. 247 00:12:36,533 --> 00:12:38,967 WHEN IT WAS ON TWO LEGS, 248 00:12:38,967 --> 00:12:41,367 IT STOOD AT LEAST NINE FOOT TALL. 249 00:12:41,367 --> 00:12:44,433 I MEAN, IT WAS...MASSIVE. 250 00:12:44,433 --> 00:12:47,533 WHEN IT NOTICED US, 251 00:12:47,533 --> 00:12:53,633 IT LET OUT THIS JUST UNGODLY, GUT-CURLING GROWL. 252 00:12:53,633 --> 00:12:54,800 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 253 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,267 IT CAME STRAIGHT AT US. 254 00:12:57,267 --> 00:12:58,567 RUN! RUN! 255 00:12:58,567 --> 00:13:01,433 [ GUNSHOTS ] 256 00:13:04,167 --> 00:13:05,967 Joyce: AND WE WERE SHOOTING. 257 00:13:05,967 --> 00:13:07,567 I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HIT ANYTHING, 258 00:13:07,567 --> 00:13:09,333 BUT I REMEMBER COMING BACK TO THE HOUSE 259 00:13:09,333 --> 00:13:10,333 AS FAST AS WE COULD. 260 00:13:10,333 --> 00:13:11,733 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 261 00:13:11,733 --> 00:13:15,533 WE SAW SHEEPSQUATCH. THAT'S WHAT WE SAW. 262 00:13:15,533 --> 00:13:19,300 Narrator: AND THIS WASN'T THE FIRST SHEEPSQUATCH ENCOUNTER. 263 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:21,300 Waldridge: ANYBODY IN THE APPALACHIA REGION 264 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:22,900 COULD EXPERIENCE THESE TYPE OF THINGS. 265 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:26,467 THEY MAY BE OUT HUNTING DEER OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE 266 00:13:26,467 --> 00:13:29,200 AND STUMBLE UPON A CREATURE THAT THEY NEVER SUSPECTED. 267 00:13:30,433 --> 00:13:33,733 I WAS ON MY WAY HOME, COMING DOWN ASHBY LANE, 268 00:13:33,733 --> 00:13:38,133 AND THERE WAS THIS BIG, HAIRY THING STANDING ON THE ROAD, 269 00:13:38,133 --> 00:13:42,933 AND AS I GOT CLOSER, I COULD SEE AN EYE. 270 00:13:42,933 --> 00:13:46,133 I THOUGHT IT WAS A DEER, BUT IT WAS TOO BIG. 271 00:13:46,133 --> 00:13:49,100 SOME KIND OF SHEEP THING WITH HORNS. 272 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:52,500 EVER SINE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, 273 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:54,533 I'VE ALWAYS HEARD STORIES 274 00:13:54,533 --> 00:13:56,100 OF THE CREEPY THINGS IN THE WOODS. 275 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:57,367 I'VE ALWAYS HEARD OF BIGFOOT. 276 00:13:57,367 --> 00:13:59,367 I'VE ALWAYS HEARD OF SHEEPSQUATCH. 277 00:13:59,367 --> 00:14:01,167 EVEN WHEN DANIEL BOONE WAS AROUND, 278 00:14:01,167 --> 00:14:04,333 THEY TALKED ABOUT THIS AREA BEING VERY MYSTERIOUS, 279 00:14:04,333 --> 00:14:06,900 AND THEY WOULD NOT HARDLY VENTURE THERE 280 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:08,367 DUE TO CERTAIN THINGS. 281 00:14:08,367 --> 00:14:10,200 YOU KNOW, I GUESS THEY CALLED IT "THE MYSTERIOUS GROUND" 282 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,300 OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE. 283 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:13,067 SO, IT'S GOT A HISTORY THAT DATES BACK 284 00:14:13,067 --> 00:14:14,833 ALL THE WAY TO NATIVE-AMERICAN TIMES. 285 00:14:14,833 --> 00:14:17,167 Narrator: FROM THEIR DESCRIPTION, 286 00:14:17,167 --> 00:14:21,533 IT'S CLEAR DAKOTA AND RICKY HAD STUMBLED INTO MONSTER COUNTRY. 287 00:14:21,533 --> 00:14:23,367 WATCH IT! RUN! 288 00:14:23,367 --> 00:14:24,500 [ CREATURE GROWLING ] 289 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:26,733 [ GUNSHOTS ] 290 00:14:26,733 --> 00:14:30,167 Joyce: I'VE BEEN IN SOME PRETTY SCARY SITUATIONS, 291 00:14:30,167 --> 00:14:31,167 BUT MOST SITUATIONS, 292 00:14:31,167 --> 00:14:32,267 YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH, 293 00:14:32,267 --> 00:14:33,833 AND THAT ONE, I DIDN'T. 294 00:14:33,833 --> 00:14:35,800 SO, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO REACT. 295 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,100 THAT'S QUITE POSSIBLY THE SCARIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE. 296 00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:43,267 YEAH, MAN. LET'S GET THIS STUFF PACKED. 297 00:14:43,267 --> 00:14:45,567 IT SHOULD TAKE US ABOUT TWO HOURS TO GET THERE. 298 00:14:45,567 --> 00:14:46,833 YEAH. 299 00:14:46,833 --> 00:14:48,100 Cheeks: AS A KID, YOU KNOW, 300 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:51,233 YOU'RE NOT REALLY SURE WHAT'S IN THE DARK. 301 00:14:51,233 --> 00:14:53,933 ONCE YOU SEE WHAT'S JUST BEYOND THE LIGHT 302 00:14:53,933 --> 00:14:57,800 IS WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT ALL YOUR INNOCENCE IS GONE. 303 00:14:59,367 --> 00:15:04,700 Joyce: IT MADE ME BELIEVE IN THE UNBELIEVABLE. 304 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:05,700 I DIDN'T BELIEVE IN MYTHS, 305 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:07,067 I DIDN'T BELIEVE IN WIVES' TALES -- 306 00:15:07,067 --> 00:15:08,267 NONE OF THAT UNTIL I SEEN THAT. 307 00:15:08,267 --> 00:15:10,867 AND AFTER THAT, IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER. 308 00:15:10,867 --> 00:15:13,067 I MEAN, THERE'S THINGS OUT THERE, 309 00:15:13,067 --> 00:15:14,900 AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. 310 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:21,200 Cheeks: I WISH WE COULD HAVE FOUND ITS BODY THAT NIGHT. 311 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,733 BEFORE OUR TIME IS UP -- IT'S DONE -- 312 00:15:26,733 --> 00:15:28,167 IF WE HAVE IT OUR WAY, 313 00:15:28,167 --> 00:15:30,900 WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO DRAG SHEEPSQUATCH 314 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:32,133 OUT OF THESE WOODS. 315 00:15:35,333 --> 00:15:37,767 Narrator: WHILE FOLKS IN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY 316 00:15:37,767 --> 00:15:39,633 ARE FEARING WHAT'S IN THE WOODS, 317 00:15:39,633 --> 00:15:41,900 IN ANOTHER POCKET OF APPALACHIA, 318 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:46,133 THE FEAR IS FOCUSED ON WHAT MIGHT ARRIVE FROM SPACE. 319 00:15:49,267 --> 00:15:53,067 DEEP IN THE HEART OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, 320 00:15:53,067 --> 00:15:56,067 LIES THE RURAL HAMLET OF KELLY. 321 00:16:01,767 --> 00:16:04,967 Morse: KELLY IS A QUIET LITTLE COMMUNITY. 322 00:16:04,967 --> 00:16:07,667 NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE LIVE THERE. 323 00:16:07,667 --> 00:16:10,400 PROBABLY ABOUT MAYBE THREE, FOUR CHURCHES AT THE MOST 324 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:15,500 AND JUST REALLY COMMON COUNTRY FOLK, LIKE ME. 325 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:17,233 NO THEATER. [ LAUGHS ] NOTHING 326 00:16:17,233 --> 00:16:18,500 THERE'S NOT EVEN A GAS STATION THERE. 327 00:16:19,767 --> 00:16:22,867 Narrator: IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS TINY SPECK OF APPALACHIA 328 00:16:22,867 --> 00:16:26,800 LIVES NATIVE GERALDINE SUTTON STITH. 329 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,133 GERALDINE WAS 8 YEARS OLD 330 00:16:28,133 --> 00:16:31,633 WHEN SHE FIRST LEARNED ABOUT A FAMILY SECRET -- 331 00:16:31,633 --> 00:16:35,133 A TERRIFYING ALIEN ENCOUNTER AT THEIR FARMHOUSE 332 00:16:35,133 --> 00:16:37,800 MORE THAN FIVE DECADES AGO. 333 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:42,233 YOU TALK ABOUT ONE LITTLE KID BEING SCARED TO DEATH. 334 00:16:42,233 --> 00:16:43,767 I WAS PETRIFIED. 335 00:16:43,767 --> 00:16:46,400 [ THUNDER CRASHING ] 336 00:16:54,967 --> 00:16:58,667 I WOULD GO AROUND AT NIGHT, CLOSING THE DOORS AND WINDOWS, 337 00:16:58,667 --> 00:17:00,167 THE SHADES, THE CURTAINS -- EVERYTHING -- 338 00:17:00,167 --> 00:17:03,167 AS SOON AS THAT DARKNESS STARTED FALLING. 339 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:09,267 THIS IS THE GREAT AMERICAN HORROR STORY. 340 00:17:09,267 --> 00:17:11,767 GUYS, GET THE GUNS. 341 00:17:29,233 --> 00:17:31,167 Narrator: IN 1955, 342 00:17:31,167 --> 00:17:34,167 ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS U.F.O. INCIDENTS 343 00:17:34,167 --> 00:17:37,300 ALLEGEDLY TOOK PLACE AT THE SUTTON FAMILY FARMHOUSE 344 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:39,167 IN KELLY, KENTUCKY. 345 00:17:39,167 --> 00:17:40,700 Stith: THIS IS WHERE IT HAPPENED. 346 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:44,067 THIS IS THE ACTUAL PROPERTY, THE ACTUAL SPOT -- 347 00:17:44,067 --> 00:17:45,567 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING. 348 00:17:45,567 --> 00:17:48,700 AND SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE, "WOW." 349 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:53,067 I'LL NEVER FORGET THE DAY 350 00:17:53,067 --> 00:17:57,200 THAT I LEARNED MY FATHER'S DEEP, DARK SECRET. 351 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,533 IT'LL BE WITH ME FOREVER. 352 00:17:59,533 --> 00:18:01,933 Narrator: LATE IN THE AFTERNOON, 353 00:18:01,933 --> 00:18:06,467 AT GLENNIE SUTTON'S FARMHOUSE, THE FAMILY WAS SETTLING IN. 354 00:18:06,467 --> 00:18:09,067 THEY ASSUMED THE DAY WAS COMING TO AN END. 355 00:18:09,067 --> 00:18:12,067 IT WAS JUST BEGINNING. 356 00:18:12,067 --> 00:18:15,300 Morse: IT WAS MAMA, DADDY, UNCLE ELMER, 357 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:19,133 AUNT VERA, BILLY RAY TAYLOR, AND I THINK HIS WIFE WAS THERE. 358 00:18:19,133 --> 00:18:22,200 AND IT WAS ME, JOHNNY, AND CATHY, 359 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,300 GRANDMA, CHARLES, LONNIE, AND MARY. 360 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:30,867 AND THAT'S -- YOU KNOW, THAT'S IT. 361 00:18:30,867 --> 00:18:33,400 Stith: IT WAS A HOUSE FULL THAT WEEKEND -- 362 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,733 14 PEOPLE IN THAT LITTLE BITTY HOUSE. 363 00:18:35,733 --> 00:18:38,533 THE ONLY COMMUNICATION WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD THEY HAD 364 00:18:38,533 --> 00:18:39,600 WAS A RADIO. 365 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,433 THEY WERE ALL IN THE HOUSE, 366 00:18:41,433 --> 00:18:43,700 PLAYING CARDS OR DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 367 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:49,367 AND THE OLD HOUND DOG CAME RUNNING ACROSS THE FRONT, 368 00:18:49,367 --> 00:18:50,367 TAIL TUCKED, EARS DOWN. 369 00:18:50,367 --> 00:18:52,800 HE WENT STRAIGHT UNDER THE PORCH. 370 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,300 IT WAS KIND OF EERIE, YOU KNOW? 371 00:18:56,300 --> 00:18:57,733 BUT IT'S LIKE, "OKAY. 372 00:18:57,733 --> 00:19:01,467 MAYBE HE JUST GOT IN SOME BEEHIVE" -- YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. 373 00:19:01,467 --> 00:19:05,267 DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, BUT, OH, MY GOODNESS. 374 00:19:05,267 --> 00:19:08,167 AUGUST 21, 1955, WAS A LIFE-CHANGER 375 00:19:08,167 --> 00:19:10,433 FOR THE SUTTON/LANGFORD FAMILY. 376 00:19:10,433 --> 00:19:11,933 [ DOG BARKING ] 377 00:19:11,933 --> 00:19:14,600 Narrator: IT ALL BEGAN LATER THAT NIGHT. 378 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,200 NOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE AIR-CONDITIONING. 379 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,467 THEY DIDN'T HAVE RUNNING WATER. 380 00:19:19,467 --> 00:19:21,967 SO, ANYWAY, BILLY RAY WENT OUT TO THE WELL 381 00:19:21,967 --> 00:19:23,333 TO GET SOME COLD WATER. 382 00:19:25,433 --> 00:19:26,700 [ PUMP SQUEAKS ] 383 00:19:31,567 --> 00:19:33,267 WELL, HE HEARD SOMETHING, LOOKED UP, 384 00:19:33,267 --> 00:19:37,167 AND HE SEEN THIS OVAL, SILVER OBJECT 385 00:19:37,167 --> 00:19:39,433 GOING ACROSS THE SKY, 386 00:19:39,433 --> 00:19:42,900 COLORS FALLING BEHIND IT. 387 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:44,967 DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, HAD NO CLUE. 388 00:19:44,967 --> 00:19:48,700 RAN INTO THE HOUSE, TOLD EVERYBODY. 389 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:52,500 THEY THOUGHT HE WAS PULLING A JOKE, YOU KNOW? 390 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:56,067 BUT LATER ON, THEY FOUND HE WASN'T JOKING. 391 00:19:56,067 --> 00:19:57,967 SOMETHING WAS OUT THERE. 392 00:19:57,967 --> 00:20:02,367 Narrator: WHEN BILLY RAY AND LUCKY WENT OUTSIDE TO INVESTIGATE, 393 00:20:02,367 --> 00:20:05,200 THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY WERE GONE, 394 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,333 BUT THEY WEREN'T ALONE. 395 00:20:07,333 --> 00:20:10,200 THEY NOTICED THERE WAS SOMETHING 396 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,867 COMING OUT OF WOODS IN THE BACK -- 397 00:20:12,867 --> 00:20:16,133 THREE, THREE 1/2 FOOT TALL, 398 00:20:16,133 --> 00:20:19,867 BIG EARS, BIG EYES, ARMS DOWN TO THE GROUND, 399 00:20:19,867 --> 00:20:22,733 AND IT WAS FLOATING ON TOP OF THE GROUND, LEGS NOT MOVING. 400 00:20:25,133 --> 00:20:32,067 THEY HAD POINTED EARS, CLAW-LIKE HANDS, BEADY-LOOKING, YOU KNOW? 401 00:20:32,067 --> 00:20:34,967 THEY HAD A SLIT FOR A MOUTH. 402 00:20:34,967 --> 00:20:36,967 THEY SAID THEY WERE SILVER-LOOKING, GREEN-LOOKING, 403 00:20:36,967 --> 00:20:39,067 SILVER-PLATED, NICKEL-PLATED. 404 00:20:39,067 --> 00:20:40,100 NICKEL-PLATED'S WHAT THEY CALLED THEM. 405 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:42,167 Stith: THAT WAS AN EERIE THING. 406 00:20:42,167 --> 00:20:44,667 YOU KNOW, IF YOU SEEN SOMETHING FLOATING ON TOP OF THE GROUND, 407 00:20:44,667 --> 00:20:48,400 WOULDN'T YOU, LIKE, YEAH, YOU KNOW, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE? 408 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,600 GUYS, GET THE GUNS. 409 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:51,600 THEY RAN INTO THE HOUSE, 410 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:52,767 AND MY GRANDMOTHER'S LIKE, 411 00:20:52,767 --> 00:20:55,000 "WHAT HAVE Y'ALL GOT OUT THERE TO COOK UP?" 412 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,467 AND HE'S LIKE, "MOM, THERE IS SOMETHING OUT HERE. 413 00:20:57,467 --> 00:20:58,700 I'M NOT LYING." 414 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:00,733 MAMA, I'M NOT LYING. THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE. 415 00:21:00,733 --> 00:21:02,867 SHE KNEW IT WAS REALLY GETTING SERIOUS 416 00:21:02,867 --> 00:21:06,167 WHEN ONE GOT A SHOTGUN, ONE GOT A RIFLE. 417 00:21:06,167 --> 00:21:07,600 Girl: COME ON, GUYS. COME ON. 418 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:12,933 Morse: LONNIE, ME, MY SISTER, AND, I THINK, MY BROTHER 419 00:21:12,933 --> 00:21:14,767 WERE ALL BEHIND THE BUNK BED AT THIS TIME 420 00:21:14,767 --> 00:21:17,633 BECAUSE WE WERE ALL SCARED. 421 00:21:17,633 --> 00:21:19,400 WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN. 422 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,333 WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA TAKE PLACE. 423 00:21:21,333 --> 00:21:22,500 THERE WAS FEAR. 424 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:23,900 THERE WAS FEAR ENOUGH 425 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:25,267 THAT I THINK WE WAS ALL CRYING, 426 00:21:25,267 --> 00:21:26,700 ALL OF US KIDS CRYING. 427 00:22:10,633 --> 00:22:12,100 [ GUN COCKS, GUNSHOT ] 428 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:13,800 ALL OF A SUDDEN, 429 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,467 THERE COMES ONE AS BIG AS YOU COULD BE. 430 00:22:17,467 --> 00:22:19,667 BILLY RAY FIRES AT IT. 431 00:22:19,667 --> 00:22:21,567 [ GLASS SHATTERS ] 432 00:22:21,567 --> 00:22:24,200 JC SHOOTS OFF A ROUND TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE 433 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,667 'CAUSE ONE OF THEM'S PEEKING IN THE WINDOW, 434 00:22:26,667 --> 00:22:28,133 AND THEY'RE JUST HAVING A BATTLE. 435 00:22:28,133 --> 00:22:32,567 THE DARN LITTLE THINGS GET SHOT, THEY DROP, ROLL AWAY, 436 00:22:32,567 --> 00:22:34,600 AND THEN THEY COME BACK. 437 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,067 YEAH! COME ON! 438 00:22:36,067 --> 00:22:37,233 COME ON, JC! 439 00:22:37,233 --> 00:22:38,567 COME ON, BOY. 440 00:22:38,567 --> 00:22:40,067 YEAH! [ LAUGHS ] 441 00:22:40,067 --> 00:22:41,833 THEY WERE COMING AT THE DOORS AND WINDOWS, 442 00:22:41,833 --> 00:22:46,933 LOOKING IN, LIKE THEY WERE WANTING TO COME IN. 443 00:22:46,933 --> 00:22:50,200 YOU'VE GOT CHILDREN THERE. YOU'RE GONNA PROTECT THEM, 444 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,067 AND THAT'S WHAT THOSE COUNTRY BOYS DID. 445 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:57,133 DO IT! 446 00:22:57,133 --> 00:22:59,067 WHOO! 447 00:22:59,067 --> 00:23:00,333 WHOO! 448 00:23:00,333 --> 00:23:02,300 Narrator: FOR THE SUTTONS, 449 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:05,600 MAKING NICE WITH E.T. WASN'T AN OPTION. 450 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,300 THEY FELT UNDER ATTACK. 451 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:10,633 SHOOT FIRST. ASK QUESTIONS LATER. 452 00:23:11,867 --> 00:23:12,933 Stith: IT WAS JUST SCARY. 453 00:23:12,933 --> 00:23:14,267 THEY WERE SCARED. THE KIDS WERE CRYING. 454 00:23:14,267 --> 00:23:16,600 EVERYBODY WAS HYSTERICAL. 455 00:23:18,333 --> 00:23:21,600 Narrator: EVENTUALLY, THE SHOOTING STOPPED. 456 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,733 THE LITTLE GREEN MEN HAD COME AND GONE. 457 00:23:25,733 --> 00:23:30,267 FINALLY, IT GOT QUIET. 458 00:23:30,267 --> 00:23:33,200 MY DAD SAID, "HIT THE TRUCKS." 459 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,500 SO, THEY TOOK OUT, JUMPED IN THE TRUCKS, 460 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,300 HEADED TO HOPKINSVILLE. 461 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:43,067 THERE WAS POLICE OFFICERS THERE. 462 00:23:43,067 --> 00:23:45,233 Narrator: IN THE DARK OF NIGHT, 463 00:23:45,233 --> 00:23:47,800 POLICE OFFICERS HEAD TO THE FARMHOUSE 464 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,133 TO CHECK OUT THE SUTTON'S FANTASTIC STORY. 465 00:23:51,133 --> 00:23:53,400 MY FAMILY HAD A NICE QUIET LIFE. 466 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,467 THEY LOVED THE FARM. 467 00:23:54,467 --> 00:23:56,267 THEY LOVED IT OUT IN THE COUNTRY, 468 00:23:56,267 --> 00:23:58,500 BUT THAT NIGHT CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR THEM. 469 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:01,967 IT WAS NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME AGAIN. 470 00:24:12,067 --> 00:24:17,100 Narrator: IN THE FALL OF 1955 IN THE HILLS OF APPALACHIA, 471 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:20,300 THE SUTTON FAMILY MAINTAINS THAT ALIENS FROM SPACE 472 00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:21,867 DESCENDED ON THEIR FARM. 473 00:24:21,867 --> 00:24:27,300 THEY CAME UNDER ATTACK BY LITTLE GREEN MEN. 474 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:30,400 LOCAL POLICE WERE CALLED IN, BUT BY THAT TIME, 475 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:35,233 HARDLY A TRACE OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS REMAINED. 476 00:24:35,233 --> 00:24:38,333 A COUPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS NOTICED THAT IN THE BACK, 477 00:24:38,333 --> 00:24:40,700 WHERE THEY HAD SHOT ONE OFF THE FENCE, 478 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:45,067 THERE WAS, LIKE, A GLOWING SUBSTANCE ON THE GROUND. 479 00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:48,333 BUT THEY COULDN'T FIND ANY BODIES -- 480 00:24:48,333 --> 00:24:50,600 NO HAIR, NO SKIN, NO BLOOD. 481 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,300 NOTHING TO SHOW THAT ANYTHING WAS ACTUALLY HURT OR KILLED, 482 00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:57,833 EXCEPT THAT THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF GUNFIRE. 483 00:24:59,533 --> 00:25:01,433 Morse: THERE'S BULLET HOLES, THERE'S SHELLS, 484 00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:03,333 CASES ALL OVER THE PLACE. 485 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,133 Narrator: BY MORNING, 486 00:25:08,133 --> 00:25:11,333 WORD OF ALIENS LANDING AT THE SUTTON FARMHOUSE 487 00:25:11,333 --> 00:25:14,133 TRAVELED QUICKLY THROUGHOUT APPALACHIA. 488 00:25:14,133 --> 00:25:17,233 AND I WAS GETTING READY, GOING TO THE 8th GRADE, 489 00:25:17,233 --> 00:25:20,900 AND IT WAS JUST THE BIGGEST THING THAT EVER HIT THIS AREA. 490 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,333 KELLY HAD LITTLE GREEN MEN RUNNING AROUND 491 00:25:24,333 --> 00:25:26,067 AND FLYING SAUCERS. 492 00:25:26,067 --> 00:25:27,733 THAT WAS SOMETHING OUT OF "BUCK ROGERS" 493 00:25:27,733 --> 00:25:30,067 OR "FLASH GORDON" OR "SUPERMAN," 494 00:25:30,067 --> 00:25:32,200 WHICH WAS A BIG THING WITH ALL OF US KIDS. 495 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,800 Narrator: THE SUTTONS WERE ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTED 496 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,400 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. 497 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,067 THEY WOULDN'T BE THE LAST. 498 00:25:39,067 --> 00:25:41,133 Waldridge: THE APPALACHIA AREA 499 00:25:41,133 --> 00:25:43,400 HAS HAD SEVERAL FAMOUS SIGHTINGS. 500 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,833 YOU GET INTO KENTUCKY. 501 00:25:44,833 --> 00:25:48,067 YOU GET INTO THE KELLY LITTLE GREEN MEN SIGHTINGS. 502 00:25:48,067 --> 00:25:50,067 YOU GET U.F.O. SIGHTINGS, ABDUCTIONS THERE. 503 00:25:50,067 --> 00:25:53,667 Narrator: REPORTS OF FLYING SAUCERS 504 00:25:53,667 --> 00:25:56,400 QUICKLY BECAME AN APPALACHIAN PHENOMENON. 505 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,400 Man: WELL, WE WERE COMING UP THE ROAD HERE, 506 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:00,600 AND WE LOOKED AROUND THE CURVE THERE, 507 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,667 AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS A CAR LIGHT. 508 00:26:01,667 --> 00:26:02,733 WHEN WE GOT AROUND IT, 509 00:26:02,733 --> 00:26:04,500 IT WAS THIS BIG ORANGE GLOWING LIGHT. 510 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:08,067 WELL, I FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS AN AIRPLANE, A JET. 511 00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:10,933 FROM WHAT I SAW, IT WAS 6 FEET IN DIAMETER. 512 00:26:10,933 --> 00:26:12,267 AND IT WAS IN A CIRCLE. 513 00:26:12,267 --> 00:26:13,333 REALLY SHOWING ITS TINT TO IT. 514 00:26:13,333 --> 00:26:14,333 Man: WHERE DID IT GO? 515 00:26:14,333 --> 00:26:16,300 IT WENT RIGHT IN THE TREETOP. 516 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:18,200 IT WAS HUGE. 517 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,800 IT GOT ALL KINDS OF STATIC ON THE RADIO, AND THE CAR QUIT. 518 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,933 THEN IT JUST SAILED AWAY. 519 00:26:23,933 --> 00:26:27,200 Narrator: ADDING TO THE AREA'S EXCITEMENT AND FEAR 520 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,767 ABOUT U.F.O.s -- CLASSIFIED MILITARY ACTIVITIES 521 00:26:30,767 --> 00:26:33,533 AT NEARBY FORT CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY, 522 00:26:33,533 --> 00:26:36,333 HOME OF THE 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION 523 00:26:36,333 --> 00:26:39,233 AND THE SECRET NUCLEAR ARSENAL. 524 00:26:39,233 --> 00:26:42,100 FORT CAMPBELL WASN'T VERY FAR AWAY. 525 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:44,200 AND YOU COULD ACTUALLY SEE. 526 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,800 THEY WOULD DO THEIR NIGHT MANEUVERS 527 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,167 AND THE BIG FLARES WOULD GO UP IN THE AIR AT NIGHT. 528 00:26:48,167 --> 00:26:51,133 AND SO EVERY NIGHT, WHEN THEY WOULD DO THE MANEUVERS, 529 00:26:51,133 --> 00:26:52,600 IT WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOSH. 530 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,833 IS IT FORT CAMPBELL, OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE?" 531 00:26:55,833 --> 00:26:58,933 Narrator: FROM THAT FATEFUL NIGHT FORWARD, 532 00:26:58,933 --> 00:27:02,567 THE SUTTON FAMILY BELIEVED IN ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE. 533 00:27:02,567 --> 00:27:06,167 THROUGHOUT APPALACHIA, U.F.O. SIGHTINGS HAVE CONTINUED, 534 00:27:06,167 --> 00:27:11,967 BUT TO THIS VERY DAY, GERALDINE REMAINS WARY OF THEIR RETURN. 535 00:27:11,967 --> 00:27:17,467 Stith: YES. IT DOES PUT A FEAR IN YOU, BIG TIME. 536 00:27:17,467 --> 00:27:21,467 EVEN NOW IF I'M OUT AT NIGHT, I'LL WATCH THE SKY. 537 00:27:21,467 --> 00:27:24,733 IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME. 538 00:27:24,733 --> 00:27:27,567 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE HERE. 539 00:27:27,567 --> 00:27:30,400 THEY'RE HERE. 540 00:27:35,067 --> 00:27:38,600 Narrator: SOME 400 MILES ACROSS APPALACHIA 541 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,633 SITS POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA, 542 00:27:41,633 --> 00:27:44,933 A SMALL TOWN WEDGED INTO A SPIT OF LAND 543 00:27:44,933 --> 00:27:49,067 WHERE THE OHIO AND KANAWHA RIVERS CROSS. 544 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:52,067 ON ANY GIVEN DAY, MAIN STREET BEARS LITTLE EVIDENCE 545 00:27:52,067 --> 00:27:55,467 OF POINT PLEASANT'S DARK SECRET -- 546 00:27:55,467 --> 00:27:59,600 THE TOWN FAMOUS FOR ITS FLYING MONSTER. 547 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,667 Bellamy: THERE WERE KIDS IN CARS WITH THEIR PARENTS WHO SAW IT. 548 00:28:04,667 --> 00:28:07,433 THERE WERE TEENAGERS AT A BONFIRE WHO SAW IT. 549 00:28:07,433 --> 00:28:11,733 THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF SIGHTINGS. 550 00:28:11,733 --> 00:28:14,467 Smith: WE WERE JUST OUT PLAYING IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT, 551 00:28:14,467 --> 00:28:17,133 AND IT LOOKED LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN A MAN AND AN ALIEN 552 00:28:17,133 --> 00:28:19,433 WITH WINGS AND RED EYES. 553 00:28:19,433 --> 00:28:21,167 IT SCARED ME MORE 554 00:28:21,167 --> 00:28:24,500 THAN ANYTHING THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. 555 00:28:26,733 --> 00:28:29,567 Jeffers: GROWING UP HERE IN POINT PLEASANT, 556 00:28:29,567 --> 00:28:32,067 I'VE ALWAYS HEARD ABOUT THE MOTHMAN. 557 00:28:32,067 --> 00:28:35,067 AS YOU'RE GROWING UP AND PEOPLE TELL YOU STUFF, 558 00:28:35,067 --> 00:28:37,400 YOU KNOW, YOU START TO BELIEVE IT. 559 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,533 BUT YOU'VE ALWAYS GOT THAT DOUBT IN YOUR MIND 560 00:28:39,533 --> 00:28:42,867 UNTIL YOU GO AND EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF. 561 00:28:42,867 --> 00:28:47,367 Narrator: IT ALL BEGAN IN THE LATE 1960s 562 00:28:47,367 --> 00:28:51,267 WITH SIGHTINGS OF A MOTHMAN MONSTER. 563 00:28:51,267 --> 00:28:55,400 FIRST, THE LOCATION OF THE SIGHTINGS -- 564 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,067 THE TNT BUNKERS, 565 00:28:57,067 --> 00:29:01,933 A FORMER BOMB-MAKING PLANT BUILT DURING WORLD WAR II. 566 00:29:01,933 --> 00:29:04,367 Bellamy: WELL, THE TNT AREA WAS AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY, 567 00:29:04,367 --> 00:29:06,067 A TOWN WITHIN ITSELF. 568 00:29:06,067 --> 00:29:08,833 YOU CAN STILL SEE MAPS OF IT 569 00:29:08,833 --> 00:29:12,333 AND SEE HOW IT WAS A TOP-SECRET FACILITY FOR MAKING EXPLOSIVES. 570 00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:16,767 BUT THEN THEY LET IT BECOME OVERGROWN, 571 00:29:16,767 --> 00:29:19,067 AND THE BUILDINGS WERE ABANDONED, 572 00:29:19,067 --> 00:29:21,667 AND THE IGLOOS WERE ABANDONED. 573 00:29:24,067 --> 00:29:25,900 Narrator: AFTER THE WAR, 574 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:29,267 THE GOVERNMENT NO LONGER NEEDED THE BUNKERS. 575 00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:30,667 THEY WERE DESERTED, 576 00:29:30,667 --> 00:29:34,067 EXCEPT FOR OCCASIONAL VISITS BY POINT PLEASANT TEENAGERS, 577 00:29:34,067 --> 00:29:37,933 BORED AND LOOKING FOR FUN. 578 00:29:37,933 --> 00:29:41,267 WE USED TO HANG OUT AND PLAY AT THE TNT BUNKERS. 579 00:29:41,267 --> 00:29:44,233 THAT WAS THE ONLY THING TO DO AROUND HERE, 580 00:29:44,233 --> 00:29:45,900 ESPECIALLY DURING THE SUMMER. 581 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:48,167 [ ROCK 'N' ROLL MUSIC PLAYS ] 582 00:29:51,533 --> 00:29:53,633 Narrator: IN THE FALL OF 1967, 583 00:29:53,633 --> 00:29:58,067 HIGH SCHOOL KIDS SNEAKED OFF TO THE TNT BUNKERS FOR A GOOD TIME. 584 00:29:58,067 --> 00:30:01,533 THEY ENCOUNTERED SOMETHING ELSE. 585 00:30:01,533 --> 00:30:04,400 [ WINGS FLAPPING ] 586 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,700 [ SCREAMS ] 587 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,033 RUMORS ABOUT A MOTHMAN SPREAD QUICKLY THROUGH THE TOWN. 588 00:30:16,033 --> 00:30:19,333 THEY WERE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT IT AND REALLY SCARED. 589 00:30:19,333 --> 00:30:20,667 YOU KNOW, THEY HAD TO SEE SOMETHING. 590 00:30:20,667 --> 00:30:23,133 THEY WERE TOO SCARED AND TOO EMOTIONAL 591 00:30:23,133 --> 00:30:24,833 NOT TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING. 592 00:30:24,833 --> 00:30:29,533 AND OF COURSE THAT WAS THE TALK OF EVERYWHERE YOU WENT. 593 00:30:29,533 --> 00:30:32,333 Narrator: WHILE THE TOWN WAS TRADING STORIES, 594 00:30:32,333 --> 00:30:34,933 ONE POINT PLEASANT GIRL CAME FACE-TO-FACE 595 00:30:34,933 --> 00:30:37,600 WITH SOMETHING SHE'LL NEVER FORGET. 596 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,400 Dewitt: I WAS AN INNOCENT TEENAGER 597 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,067 TILL I SAW THOSE RED EYES. 598 00:30:42,067 --> 00:30:45,000 I'VE JUST NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE THEN. 599 00:30:56,300 --> 00:30:59,300 Narrator: POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA. 600 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:02,067 THIS SMALL TOWN OF SOME 4,000 SOULS 601 00:31:02,067 --> 00:31:05,367 WOULD BE AS ORDINARY AS ANY APPALACHIAN TOWN, 602 00:31:05,367 --> 00:31:07,067 EXCEPT FOR ITS MONSTER. 603 00:31:07,067 --> 00:31:10,833 THE LEGEND BEGAN IN THE 1960s. 604 00:31:10,833 --> 00:31:12,933 THE TOWN WAS RIFE WITH RUMORS 605 00:31:12,933 --> 00:31:16,367 ABOUT A FLYING CREATURE WITH GLOWING RED EYES. 606 00:31:16,367 --> 00:31:18,800 Dewitt: I WAS ABOUT 13 OR 14. 607 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,700 WE DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SO-CALLED MOTHMAN 608 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:25,767 TILL THE VERY DAY THAT THE FIRST EYEWITNESS AT SCHOOL 609 00:31:25,767 --> 00:31:27,067 STARTED TELLING IT. 610 00:31:27,067 --> 00:31:31,233 Narrator: FAYE LEPORT GREW UP IN POINT PLEASANT, 611 00:31:31,233 --> 00:31:35,633 DIRT POOR AND ONE OF 14 KIDS. 612 00:31:35,633 --> 00:31:39,567 A FAMILY OUTING TO CHECK OUT THE RUMORS OF THE TNT BUNKERS 613 00:31:39,567 --> 00:31:44,300 BONDED THEM IN A WAY THEY NEVER EXPECTED. 614 00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:46,533 Dewitt: MY BROTHER TOOK US TO A MOVIE, 615 00:31:46,533 --> 00:31:49,167 AND AFTER THE MOVIE, WE WENT DIRECTLY UP THERE 616 00:31:49,167 --> 00:31:52,433 'CAUSE HE WAS GONNA GO FIND IT. 617 00:31:52,433 --> 00:31:55,067 HE WAS GONNA GO UP THERE AND CATCH THAT THING 618 00:31:55,067 --> 00:31:58,467 AND PROVE IT WAS SOME GUYS IN A COSTUME. 619 00:32:01,133 --> 00:32:02,700 [ CHILDREN LAUGHING ] 620 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:06,433 MYSELF -- I WASN'T WORRIED ABOUT REALLY SEEING ANYTHING 621 00:32:06,433 --> 00:32:09,600 'CAUSE I REALLY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN IT EITHER. 622 00:32:11,567 --> 00:32:15,167 Narrator: AS THEY DROVE, THE WEATHER TURNED CHILLY, 623 00:32:15,167 --> 00:32:20,767 THE SKY DARK, WITH ONLY THE MOON TO GUIDE THEIR WAY. 624 00:32:20,767 --> 00:32:23,900 Dewitt: WE WERE DRIVING DOWN THE DRAG STREET 625 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:25,567 TO THE TNT BUNKERS, 626 00:32:25,567 --> 00:32:30,633 AND MY BROTHER KEPT LOOKING OVER TOWARDS ME. 627 00:32:30,633 --> 00:32:31,900 AND THEN HE TURNED BACK, 628 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:33,367 AND THEN HE'D LOOK OVER AT ME AGAIN. 629 00:32:33,367 --> 00:32:34,967 I SAID, "WELL, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" 630 00:32:34,967 --> 00:32:36,767 HE SAID, "WELL, DON'T LOOK, 631 00:32:36,767 --> 00:32:39,200 BUT THERE'S SOMETHING BESIDE THE CAR." 632 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,333 SO I TURNED AND LOOKED, EVEN THOUGH HE TOLD ME NOT TO. 633 00:32:42,333 --> 00:32:43,733 DON'T LOOK! 634 00:32:43,733 --> 00:32:46,667 AND THERE IT WAS RIGHT BESIDE THE WINDOW, 635 00:32:46,667 --> 00:32:49,700 FLYING RIGHT BESIDE THE CAR. 636 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:51,567 WHAT IS THAT?! 637 00:32:51,567 --> 00:32:53,067 GET OUT OF HERE! 638 00:32:53,067 --> 00:32:54,767 GO! 639 00:32:54,767 --> 00:32:56,700 EVERYTHING WAS JUST HAYWIRE. 640 00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:59,200 WE WERE SCARED. 641 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,067 Narrator: THEN THE CAR CAME TO A SCREECHING HALT. 642 00:33:05,633 --> 00:33:09,300 THAT'S WHEN THEY MET MOTHMAN. 643 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,533 THAT THING JUMPED ON THE HOOD OF THE CAR 644 00:33:11,533 --> 00:33:14,300 AND WAS JUST LOOKING AT ME. 645 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,833 WE WERE JUST MORE OR LESS IMMOBILIZED. 646 00:33:20,833 --> 00:33:22,900 AND THE WHOLE TIME, 647 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:26,067 ALL YOU COULD FOCUS ON WAS ITS EYES, 648 00:33:26,067 --> 00:33:27,967 AND THEY WERE JUST SO RED. 649 00:33:29,667 --> 00:33:34,333 IT WAS JUST BEYOND ANY RED YOU COULD EVER FIND. 650 00:33:34,333 --> 00:33:36,600 BUT WHEN IT JUMPED UP... 651 00:33:37,367 --> 00:33:42,167 ...THAT'S WHEN I SAW IT OPEN UP ITS WINGS JUST LIKE AN ANGEL. 652 00:33:42,167 --> 00:33:43,500 THEY WERE THAT BIG. 653 00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:46,767 THEY LOOKED LIKE A BIRD'S WINGS, AND THEY JUST UNFOLDED, 654 00:33:46,767 --> 00:33:48,700 AND IT JUST WENT OVER THEM BUSHES 655 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:51,067 AND INTO THE NIGHT AND WAS GONE. 656 00:33:51,067 --> 00:33:54,900 Narrator: ENCOUNTERING THE DARK-WINGED CREATURE 657 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,333 KNOWN AS MOTHMAN 658 00:33:56,333 --> 00:33:59,067 HAD MADE BELIEVERS OUT OF THE LEPORT FAMILY. 659 00:33:59,067 --> 00:34:06,233 YET EXACTLY WHAT THEY'D SEEN COULD NOT BE RESOLVED. 660 00:34:06,233 --> 00:34:08,067 Dewitt: WE WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY 661 00:34:08,067 --> 00:34:10,633 'CAUSE MY BROTHER WANTED TO GO AND FIND THIS THING, 662 00:34:10,633 --> 00:34:15,367 THIS CREATURE, AND IT WAS BLOCKED OFF BY MILITARY, 663 00:34:15,367 --> 00:34:17,067 AND THEY WOULDN'T ALLOW US IN. 664 00:34:17,067 --> 00:34:19,233 HE TRIED TO GO IN. 665 00:34:19,233 --> 00:34:22,933 THEY WOULDN'T LET HIM, AND THEY GOT VERY STRICT AND FORCEFUL. 666 00:34:22,933 --> 00:34:25,567 "WE DON'T NEED YOUR HELP. APPRECIATE IT." 667 00:34:25,567 --> 00:34:28,133 HE SAID, "BUT JUST TURN AROUND, AND GO ON AND LEAVE, 668 00:34:28,133 --> 00:34:29,500 AND WE'LL TAKE CARE OF IT." 669 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,067 AND MY BROTHER JUST KEPT GOING. 670 00:34:31,067 --> 00:34:33,567 HE SAID, "WELL, I DON'T SEE WHY I CAN'T GO IN THERE 671 00:34:33,567 --> 00:34:36,400 AND HELP Y'ALL FIND THIS 'CAUSE I WANT TO FIND IT MYSELF!" 672 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,367 "WE TOLD YOU TO LEAVE, NOW LEAVE," LIKE SNARLING. 673 00:34:40,367 --> 00:34:42,767 AND I TOLD MY BROTHER. I SAID, "COME ON! 674 00:34:42,767 --> 00:34:45,133 DADDY WOULD KILL US IF HE FOUND OUT WE'RE BACK UP HERE!" 675 00:34:45,133 --> 00:34:46,733 Man: BACK THE VEHICLE UP. LET'S GO. 676 00:34:46,733 --> 00:34:47,900 TURN IT AROUND. LET'S GO. 677 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:51,133 YES, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE OUT THERE, 678 00:34:51,133 --> 00:34:54,767 AND I THOROUGHLY BELIEVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT COVERED IT UP, 679 00:34:54,767 --> 00:34:56,800 AND WITHIN TWO WEEKS THEY LEFT 680 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,900 AND SAID THEY HAD IT AND THEY TOOK CARE OF IT 681 00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:02,600 AND NOBODY NEEDED TO WORRY ANYMORE. 682 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:08,367 WHEN WE EXPERIENCED ALL THIS, TO ME, 683 00:35:08,367 --> 00:35:10,700 IT WAS JUST ANOTHER THING I CHALKED UP 684 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:16,233 AS AN UNEXPLAINABLE EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFETIME. 685 00:35:16,233 --> 00:35:20,733 BUT I KNOW WHAT I'VE SEEN IS ENOUGH THAT IT GIVES ME THE IDEA 686 00:35:20,733 --> 00:35:24,500 THAT WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES THAT'S IN THIS WORLD. 687 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,133 TO THIS DAY, I BELIEVE THAT. 688 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:33,967 Narrator: WHILE THE SIGHTINGS OF THE MOTHMAN 689 00:35:33,967 --> 00:35:36,500 STARTED AT THE TNT BUNKERS, 690 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:41,200 A FEW MONTHS LATER, HE WAS SEEN ON THE SILVER BRIDGE -- 691 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,167 A SUSPENSION TRESTLE THAT LINKS POINT PLEASANT TO OHIO. 692 00:35:44,167 --> 00:35:47,733 Bellamy: THERE WAS A STOP LIGHT RIGHT AT THE FOOT OF THE BRIDGE. 693 00:35:47,733 --> 00:35:49,733 IT WAS MALFUNCTIONED, 694 00:35:49,733 --> 00:35:53,933 AND ALL OF THESE CARS PILED UP ON THE BRIDGE, 695 00:35:53,933 --> 00:35:56,867 AND ONE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED, 696 00:35:56,867 --> 00:36:00,967 AND IT HAD DUMPED ONE HALF OF THE CARS INTO THE RIVER, 697 00:36:00,967 --> 00:36:05,367 AND THEN THE BRIDGE SWUNG BACK AND THE OTHER SIDE COLLAPSED. 698 00:36:05,367 --> 00:36:07,367 WHEN THE CARS WERE FLOATING IN THE RIVER, 699 00:36:07,367 --> 00:36:09,700 THE BRIDGE FELL ON TOP OF THEM AND CRUSHED THEM -- 700 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:11,067 CRUSHED THEM ALL. 701 00:36:11,067 --> 00:36:15,900 IT WAS OVER IN MINUTES. 702 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:18,500 Narrator: IT BEGAN WITH A HAIRLINE CRACK 703 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:21,300 IN A SINGLE "I" BAR. 704 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:25,967 IN THE END, 46 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES -- 705 00:36:25,967 --> 00:36:30,700 THE WORST BRIDGE COLLAPSE IN U.S. HISTORY. 706 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:34,333 Bellamy: FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS WENT DOWN ON THAT BRIDGE. 707 00:36:34,333 --> 00:36:37,233 A LITTLE GIRL IN MY CLASS, 3rd GRADE CLASS, 708 00:36:37,233 --> 00:36:39,967 WENT DOWN ON THE BRIDGE WITH HER MOTHER. 709 00:36:41,567 --> 00:36:44,433 Harris: I DON'T REALLY DISCUSS THE SILVER BRIDGE. 710 00:36:44,433 --> 00:36:46,533 MY FAMILY WAS ON THERE. 711 00:36:46,533 --> 00:36:49,067 DEVASTATED, COMPLETELY CHANGED ME. 712 00:36:49,067 --> 00:36:52,100 AFTER THE BRIDGE FELL, EVERYTHING WAS GLOOM, YOU KNOW. 713 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:55,100 AND EVERYBODY HERE HAD SOMEBODY THERE ON THE BRIDGE. 714 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:58,200 A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THE MOTHMAN WAS HERE 715 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,367 TO WARN US ABOUT THE BRIDGE. 716 00:37:00,367 --> 00:37:02,067 Harris: HE WAS SEEN ON THE BRIDGE 717 00:37:02,067 --> 00:37:03,467 A FEW DAYS BEFORE IT FELL, 718 00:37:03,467 --> 00:37:06,167 BUT LIKE A GOOD OMEN SO -- HE WAS BIG AND UGLY -- 719 00:37:06,167 --> 00:37:08,500 PEOPLE WOULDN'T CROSS IT. 720 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:10,900 Narrator: AFTER THE BRIDGE COLLAPSE, 721 00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:13,933 FEW WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE MOTHMAN. 722 00:37:13,933 --> 00:37:15,833 THE SUBJECT DISAPPEARED, 723 00:37:15,833 --> 00:37:19,367 REPLACED WITH SUSPICIONS THE TOWN WAS CURSED. 724 00:37:19,367 --> 00:37:20,933 Harris: I DON'T REALLY KNOW 725 00:37:20,933 --> 00:37:23,600 WHY EVERYTHING IS ATTRACTED TO POINT PLEASANT, 726 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,233 BUT POINT PLEASANT HAS HAD ITS SHARE AT TIMES 727 00:37:26,233 --> 00:37:28,267 OF A LOT OF BAD THINGS HAPPENING. 728 00:37:29,667 --> 00:37:34,367 I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING VERY ODD 729 00:37:34,367 --> 00:37:36,633 ABOUT THIS AREA, ABOUT THIS PLACE. 730 00:37:36,633 --> 00:37:39,300 I ALSO BELIEVE THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE 731 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:42,100 THAT COME FROM HERE -- THERE IS A DARK CLOUD OVER THEM, 732 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:43,267 NO MATTER WHERE THEY GO. 733 00:37:45,133 --> 00:37:47,500 Bellamy: I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYWHERE ELSE, 734 00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:49,767 BUT I DO KNOW THAT THE PARANORMAL PEOPLE 735 00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:52,367 LOVE TO COME HERE. 736 00:37:52,367 --> 00:37:54,133 THEY NEVER LEAVE DISAPPOINTED. 737 00:38:00,233 --> 00:38:03,533 Narrator: BRETT KIRBY IS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. 738 00:38:03,533 --> 00:38:05,167 IN THE SUMMER OF 2009, 739 00:38:05,167 --> 00:38:08,200 HE ARRIVED TO POINT PLEASANT FOR A VISIT, 740 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,367 SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE LEGENDS OF THE MOTHMAN. 741 00:38:11,367 --> 00:38:14,700 WHEN HE LEFT, HE WAS A BELIEVER. 742 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:17,500 I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO ME OUT THERE. 743 00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:19,167 IT CHANGED MY LIFE. 744 00:38:30,633 --> 00:38:33,733 Narrator: POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA, 745 00:38:33,733 --> 00:38:36,400 WAS THE SETTING OF A DAYTIME DATE 746 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,333 FOR BRETT KIRBY AND JENNIFER JEFFERS, 747 00:38:39,333 --> 00:38:42,100 BUT JUST WHEN THEY THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO OFFER ROMANCE, 748 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:45,533 THEY STUMBLED UPON THE MOTHMAN. 749 00:38:45,533 --> 00:38:47,633 Jeffers: HE HAD NEVER BEEN TO POINT PLEASANT, 750 00:38:47,633 --> 00:38:50,967 AND SO, HE CAME UP HERE ONE DAY, AND I TOOK HIM ON A TOUR. 751 00:38:50,967 --> 00:38:53,467 IT WAS REALLY EXCITING, YOU KNOW, 752 00:38:53,467 --> 00:38:55,133 THAT HE CAME TO SEE ME. 753 00:38:55,133 --> 00:38:58,067 WE WENT TO A FEW DIFFERENT PLACES AROUND POINT PLEASANT, 754 00:38:58,067 --> 00:39:01,367 AND THEN I TOLD HIM -- I WAS LIKE, "THE TNT BUNKERS," 755 00:39:01,367 --> 00:39:03,233 I SAID, YOU KNOW, "THEY'RE OUT THERE." 756 00:39:03,233 --> 00:39:05,800 YOU KNOW, AND HE SAID, "WELL, WHAT IS IT?" 757 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,867 AND I WAS LIKE, "WELL, THEY'RE OLD MILITARY BUNKERS 758 00:39:08,867 --> 00:39:11,233 "THAT THEY USED TO USE, AND, YOU KNOW, 759 00:39:11,233 --> 00:39:13,733 THEY WERE BUILT ON THE INDIAN BURIAL GROUND." 760 00:39:13,733 --> 00:39:14,933 Kirby: SHE WAS JUST TELLING ME THAT IT'S HAUNTED 761 00:39:14,933 --> 00:39:16,067 AND STUFF LIKE THAT. 762 00:39:16,067 --> 00:39:17,333 I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, 763 00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:19,067 IT WOULD PROBABLY BE KIND OF ROMANTIC AND STUFF. 764 00:39:19,067 --> 00:39:22,500 Narrator: AS BRETT AND JENNIFER'S DATE STARTED TO HEAT UP, 765 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:25,400 THEY DECIDED TO CHECK OUT THE TNT BUNKERS, 766 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,367 THE SIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL MOTHMAN ENCOUNTERS. 767 00:39:28,367 --> 00:39:32,333 Jeffers: THE TNT BUNKERS WERE WHERE PEOPLE USED TO GO PARTY. 768 00:39:32,333 --> 00:39:34,200 WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER AND IN SCHOOL, 769 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,767 EVERYBODY ALWAYS WENT OUT THERE, 770 00:39:35,767 --> 00:39:38,133 AND YOU ALWAYS HEARD THE STORIES AND STUFF, 771 00:39:38,133 --> 00:39:39,967 AND THEY ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, COME BACK 772 00:39:39,967 --> 00:39:42,400 WITH, YOU KNOW, "WE HEARD THIS" OR "WE HEARD THAT." 773 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,400 BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE DRUNK. 774 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,267 I NEVER REALLY BELIEVED IT. 775 00:39:50,667 --> 00:39:53,067 Kirby: WE ARRIVED AT THE BUNKERS. 776 00:39:53,067 --> 00:39:55,367 IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 5:30, 6:00. 777 00:39:55,367 --> 00:39:58,967 THE WEATHER WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 75, 80 DEGREES OUTSIDE. 778 00:40:00,067 --> 00:40:02,967 WE WENT THROUGH THREE OF THEM, AND ON OUR WAY BACK, 779 00:40:02,967 --> 00:40:05,433 WE STOPPED BACK TO THE SECOND ONE. 780 00:40:05,433 --> 00:40:08,867 WHEN I WENT BACK INTO IT AND STUFF, 781 00:40:08,867 --> 00:40:11,933 IT FELT LIKE IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 10 DEGREES COOLER 782 00:40:11,933 --> 00:40:14,433 THAN WHAT THE REST OF THE BUNKERS FELT LIKE. 783 00:40:16,233 --> 00:40:18,267 I DID HAVE, LIKE, A REAL EERIE FEELING AND STUFF, 784 00:40:18,267 --> 00:40:22,200 AND THERE WAS JUST A FEELING OF UNEASE FOR SOME REASON. 785 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,500 AND I COULDN'T THINK OF WHY. 786 00:40:28,533 --> 00:40:29,667 Kirby: Wow! 787 00:40:29,667 --> 00:40:32,167 THIS PLACE IS PRETTY NEAT. 788 00:40:32,167 --> 00:40:35,467 Jeffers: AT THAT MOMENT, THERE WAS NO SOUND. 789 00:40:35,467 --> 00:40:37,567 THE ONLY SOUND WAS, LIKE, HIM CLICKING THE PICTURES. 790 00:40:37,567 --> 00:40:40,433 AND THEN HE HAD QUIT CLICKING THE PICTURES, 791 00:40:40,433 --> 00:40:43,233 AND WE WERE STANDING THERE JUST LISTENING. 792 00:40:43,233 --> 00:40:44,600 DO YOU SEE ANYTHING? 793 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,100 IT'S COLD IN HERE. 794 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:50,000 [ SIGHS ] 795 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,300 Kirby: THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN... [ GASPS ] 796 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:53,400 ...SOMETHING JUST, LIKE, GRABBED MY LEG REAL FAST. 797 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,467 I COULD ACTUALLY FEEL THE FINGERS, YOU KNOW, 798 00:40:55,467 --> 00:40:57,767 JUST SOMETHING JUST CLAMP ONTO THE BACK OF MY LEG, 799 00:40:57,767 --> 00:40:59,067 'CAUSE WHEN IT GRABBED ME, 800 00:40:59,067 --> 00:41:01,400 I SPUN AROUND AND LOOKED BEHIND ME 801 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,067 TO SEE IF IT WAS AN ANIMAL 802 00:41:03,067 --> 00:41:05,433 THAT WAS RUNNING AROUND OR SOMETHING. 803 00:41:05,433 --> 00:41:06,533 IT KIND OF CREEPED ME OUT 804 00:41:06,533 --> 00:41:07,967 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. 805 00:41:07,967 --> 00:41:10,267 AND I TOLD JENNIFER -- I GO, "SOMETHING JUST GRABBED MY LEG." 806 00:41:10,267 --> 00:41:13,800 AND SHE WAS ALL, "NO, YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO SCARE ME 807 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,067 AND STUFF," AND I SAID, "NO. 808 00:41:15,067 --> 00:41:16,567 SOMETHING GRABBED MY LEG." 809 00:41:16,567 --> 00:41:19,100 I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOSH. THERE IS SOMETHING HERE." 810 00:41:19,100 --> 00:41:21,733 I SAID, "I'M OUT OF HERE." YOU KNOW, "I GOT TO GO. 811 00:41:21,733 --> 00:41:23,400 "I GOT TO GO. I CAN'T TAKE THIS. 812 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,500 I'M OUT OF HERE." 813 00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:26,133 'CAUSE IT SCARED ME SO BAD. 814 00:41:26,133 --> 00:41:28,067 Kirby: AFTER IT HAPPENED, 815 00:41:28,067 --> 00:41:30,233 I FLASHED A COUPLE, YOU KNOW, QUICK PICTURES 816 00:41:30,233 --> 00:41:31,933 TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING IN THERE WITH US, 817 00:41:31,933 --> 00:41:35,100 SOMETHING LIKE A MOUSE OR A SQUIRREL OR SOMETHING, 818 00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:37,867 JUST TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED. 819 00:41:37,867 --> 00:41:41,300 Jeffers: WE WERE TOTALLY FREAKED OUT. 820 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:44,167 IT WAS JUST SOMETHING THAT I HAD NEVER EXPECTED, 821 00:41:44,167 --> 00:41:45,433 YOU KNOW, TO HAPPEN. 822 00:41:45,433 --> 00:41:50,200 WE RAN BACK TO THE CAR, AND THEN WE TOOK OFF. 823 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:51,933 AND WE WENT BACK TO HIS HOUSE. 824 00:41:51,933 --> 00:41:56,567 AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THE PICTURES ON THE COMPUTER. 825 00:41:56,567 --> 00:41:58,867 HE CAUGHT MY EYE ON ONE OF THEM AND STUFF, 826 00:41:58,867 --> 00:42:01,400 AND WE WENT BACK TO IT. 827 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,433 AND THE PICTURE HAD A -- 828 00:42:04,433 --> 00:42:07,367 TO ME, IT LOOKED LIKE AN APPARITION. 829 00:42:07,367 --> 00:42:09,200 IT HAD, LIKE, THE TORSO 830 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,200 AND, LIKE, LOOKED LIKE AN ARM COMING OFF OF IT. 831 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,333 MY HEART JUST DROPPED BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOSH! 832 00:42:16,333 --> 00:42:17,767 "THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE! 833 00:42:17,767 --> 00:42:20,100 THERE IS SOMETHING THERE!" 834 00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:22,667 Kirby: FIRST SEEING THE PICTURE -- IT BLEW MY MIND. 835 00:42:22,667 --> 00:42:25,500 I HAD ACTUAL EVIDENCE ON MY CAMERA 836 00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:27,067 THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THAT BUNKER 837 00:42:27,067 --> 00:42:29,367 BESIDES ME AND JENNIFER AT THAT TIME, 838 00:42:29,367 --> 00:42:30,667 AND IT BLEW ME AWAY. 839 00:42:30,667 --> 00:42:32,333 Jeffers: IT TURNED ME INTO A BELIEVER 840 00:42:32,333 --> 00:42:36,200 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS HEARD THAT THERE IS DEMONS 841 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,067 THAT WALK UP ON THE EARTH, 842 00:42:38,067 --> 00:42:44,100 BUT I NEVER, YOU KNOW, REALLY EXPERIENCED IT IN MYSELF 843 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:46,333 UNTIL THAT MOMENT. 844 00:42:46,333 --> 00:42:49,667 Narrator: SOME 40 YEARS AGO, 845 00:42:49,667 --> 00:42:53,500 A DARK-WINGED MOTHMAN DESCENDED TO EARTH IN APPALACHIA. 846 00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:55,833 [ SCREAMING ] 847 00:42:55,833 --> 00:42:59,067 SOME WERE TERRIFIED, 848 00:42:59,067 --> 00:43:03,167 BUT IN THE WAKE OF A HORRIFIC BRIDGE COLLAPSE, 849 00:43:03,167 --> 00:43:07,067 THE MONSTER CAME TO BE SEEN AS A MESSENGER, 850 00:43:07,067 --> 00:43:11,333 A PROPHET TO WARN ABOUT IMMINENT DISASTER. 851 00:43:11,333 --> 00:43:13,933 IF A RECENT SIGHTING IS TO BE BELIEVED, 852 00:43:13,933 --> 00:43:16,700 THE CREATURE IS STILL HERE. 853 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:18,067 [ GASPS ] 854 00:43:18,067 --> 00:43:21,067 Jeffers: IT MADE US BOTH BELIEVERS OF THE SPIRITS 855 00:43:21,067 --> 00:43:25,367 AND WHAT, YOU KNOW, CAN HAPPEN THAT WE NEVER BELIEVED WOULD, 856 00:43:25,367 --> 00:43:27,200 'CAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW YOU'LL NEVER FORGET.