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ENGLUND: Hidden away
in news reports

from America's past are tales

so frightening
that they must be true.

I'm Robert Englund.

Join me on a journey
into the dark shadows

of our nation's history
to uncover a trilogy of stories

as terrifying as they are real.

♪♪

A hellish beast terrifies
settlers in the Old West...

It was ridden by the Devil!

[ Low growl ]Aah!

ENGLUND: ...an aging shaman...

...battles evil spirits...

♪♪

...and a family is stalked...

Ruby!

...by a mythic creature.

[ Roar ]

Brace yourself
for "True Terror."

♪♪

Some events are so strange,
so unnatural,

that history has cemented them
in the realm of lore.

Now, this is true of the three
haunting stories

I have for you now,

each one filled with
seemingly impossible details,

yet, according to witnesses,
they were all very real.

So let's begin our journey
in the days of the Old West

where a monstrous evil
was reportedly attacking people,

not an animal or some outlaw

but an otherworldly beast
thirsty for blood.

♪♪

Wade Martin and his wife, Karen,

are among the countless settlers
winning the American West.

Each sunup brings
the same routine --

Karen and her sister, Sarah,
manage the ranch house

while Wade ventures off
to tend their sheep.

I'm off to the pasture.

Hey.
You got enough water?

-Plenty.
-Well, don't be late for supper.

I won't.

[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

[ Thunder rumbling ]

♪♪

I'm going to go grab
the laundry.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ Hoofbeats ]

♪♪

Aah!

[ Growls ]

[ Screaming ]

♪♪

Karen!

Sarah, what happened?
Where's Karen?

♪♪

Karen!

♪♪

Karen?

[ Breathing raggedly ]

♪♪

MURPHY: There are a lot of ways
to die in the West,

but nothing like this
has ever been seen before.

This is not the work
of Apaches or a coyote.

Karen Martin has been
virtually steamrollered.

The local paper reported that
Wade found the woman trampled

and crushed as though a troop
of cavalry had run over her.

♪♪

ENGLUND: Who or what killed
Karen Martin?

[ Screams ]

These questions must be asked,

but can they be answered?

Water.

♪♪

What happened?

A beast...

A beast attacked her.

♪♪

It was red, very tall.

It was ridden by...

the Devil!

[ Sobbing ]

♪♪

It was ridden
by the Devil!

♪♪

KUNTZ: Wade doesn't know what to
make of his sister-in-law's

chilling description,

and the coroner's official
report only deepens the mystery.

His verdict is "death
in some manner unknown."

♪♪

ENGLUND: Whatever the creature
is that killed his wife,

Wade refuses to rest
until he exacts his revenge,

so he sets out
with his best friend, Abel,

not knowing
what they will find.

Whoa.
Whoa.

These tracks are huge,

biggest tracks
I've ever seen in my life.

Whatever it is,
he's breaking that way.

Let's go.

Come on.

It doesn't take
the men long before

they find a trail of blood
leading away from Wade's house,

and they followed it to a mining
cabin a few miles away.

♪♪

♪♪

-He was here.
-He may still be.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Clank ]

♪♪

♪♪

I seen him!
I seen him!

Who?

The Devil.

I looked him straight
in the face.

What a story.

He'd come out of nowhere.

He's all red and snarly,
taller than two horses.

The fella riding it...

he was straight out of hell.

[ Thunder crashes ]

I followed it to the edge
of the valley,

and it run full speed
right up to the cliff,

and it never stopped.

It just kept on running through
the air to the other side.

He didn't stop.

♪♪

He was there...

and then he wasn't.

ENGLUND: Is this old man
mistaken,

perhaps a little crazy?

How could a monster
not only exist

but then vanish into thin air?

That would mean Wade isn't
just chasing a beast.

He's chasing something
supernatural.

MURPHY: For the next few days,
Wade and Abel continued

to search
every corner of the territory,

and as they do,
this phantom animal

and its ghostly rider
continues to terrorize Arizona.

There are so many sightings
that this thing becomes

well-known across
the Old West as the Red Ghost.

While most people are trying
to get away from this beast,

Wade's obsession
with killing it only grows.

Excuse me, ma'am.
Have you see anything peculiar?

Wherever they go,
witnesses claim sightings.

You go that way.
You'll find it.

Yes, ma'am.

But the stories often sound
too incredible to believe.

Some people claim that
the Red Ghost is 30 feet tall.

Others say it has wings,

and one witness swears he saw it
kill and devour a grizzly bear.

MURPHY: No one can be sure
if these reports are true,

exaggerated, or outright lies,
but the effect is the Red Ghost

becomes a legend throughout
America's Southwest.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Distant repeated banging ]

♪♪

Do you hear that?

Yeah. I don't know
what it was, though.

ENGLUND: Take this as a friendly
reminder from me to you.

When it comes to chasing
the supernatural,

you must be careful,
because chances are,

it's going
to find you first.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Footstep ]

♪♪

-Where is it coming from?
-I don't know.

[ Distant growl,
branches snapping ]

♪♪

[ Low growl ]Aah!

♪♪

ENGLUND: A mysterious phantom
called the Red Ghost

is tormenting settlers
all across southern Arizona.

♪♪

And after it killed his wife,
sheepherder Wade Martin

is out for revenge.

With his friend, Abel Thomas
at his side,

Wade's battle suddenly
turns into one for survival...

♪♪

[ Distant growl,
branches snapping ]

...as the creature
is also out for blood.

♪♪

[ Low growl ]

[ Both scream ]

This encounter would scare
most people off,

but it only made them angrier
and more determined.

♪♪

KUNTZ: After that brush
with the beast,

Wade and Abel
somehow muster the courage

to follow the tracks
left behind,

which takes them deep
into the Arizona wilderness.

ENGLUND: Wade Martin has never
walked away from a fight,

and he's not about
to start now.

♪♪

Wade, there's no shame
in going home.

♪♪

But if the Red Ghost
is truly something paranormal,

is it impossible to kill?

[ Distant growl ]

♪♪

There's our ghost.

♪♪

There he goes.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ Animal shrieks ]

♪♪

♪♪

Oof.

[ Scoffs ]
Oh, my God.

MURPHY: The beast
they have killed...

is a camel.

♪♪

How'd a camel get
to the middle of Arizona?

Camels are an intriguing part
of America's Southwest history.

In 1856, the Army imported
them from Egypt

to haul supplies
between desert outposts.

The idea was that camels were
the ultimate pack animal,

better suited
to the desert than horses.

KUNTZ: The experiment was
abandoned in 1866

when railroads made Army
pack animals obsolete,

but an unintended result
of that failed project

meant that there was dozens
of feral camels

roaming around the Southwest
for decades to come.

Oh, disgusting.

ENGLUND: Ah, but a dead camel
doesn't fully explain

the supernatural existence
of the Red Ghost.

That's where the corpse
strapped to his back comes in.

♪♪

KUNTZ: The corpse that was
lashed to the camel's back

remains a mystery to this day.

Some believe that he was
the victim of sadistic bandits

that tied him to the camel

and set him loose in the desert
to die of thirst.

MURPHY: The camel that became
known as the Red Ghost

was probably in constant pain.

These straps that held the body
on had to be tied

so agonizingly tight.

The theory is that this animal
was driven to madness,

attacking people
because of its pain.

ENGLUND: Despite any rational
explanations,

Wade Martin spends the rest
of his life haunted by doubt.

How could a camel
ridden by a corpse explain

all the baffling
eyewitness reports --

that it was 30 feet tall,

flew across canyons,
and could vanish into thin air?

As long as these questions
remain,

how can anyone be certain that
the Red Ghost was of this world

and not from beyond?

Our next story is equally
puzzling.

It's about a Native American
medicine man who is said

to possess the ability
to see invisible spirits,

evil spirits out to kill.

♪♪

Tribal elder Jack Fiddler
is a respected spiritual leader

within his band of Cree Indians,
but he has committed acts

that have shocked
and outraged white civilization.

In the eyes of the Canadian
authorities,

Jack Fiddler is a monster,

and in 1907, they arrest him.

The press condemns him
for committing atrocities.

They said, quote,
"That for cruelty and horror

outrank the grim tales
of the Inquisition."

ENGLUND:
Such a frail and gentle old man.

What evil deed could he have
possibly done?

♪♪

KUNTZ: The events leading to
Fiddler's arrest begin in 1906.

Fiddler is about to perform
one of his most important duties

as a shaman.

It's going to be
a life-and-death battle

between good and evil.

♪♪

[ Both panting ]

[ Roar ]

[ Gasps ]

CLARKE: There is nothing these
young men fear more

than that thing
cornered in the tepee.

[ Growl ]

It's called a wendigo, which is
basically a demonic presence

that feasts on human flesh.

[ Chanting in
native language ]

For the Cree, the only person
powerful enough

to kill a wendigo
is their shaman, Jack Fiddler.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Growling and gasping ]

♪♪

♪♪

Here is the really freaky thing
about wendigos.

They actually take over
the human body of their victim,

and only the shaman
can see through their disguise.

ENGLUND: Jack Fiddler's job is
to protect his people.

This means taking on all
cannibalistic spirits

and stopping them
in their tracks.

[ Roars ]

♪♪

ENGLUND: In 1906, Jack Fiddler,

an old shaman of
the Cree Indians,

is saving his tribe
from wendigos,

a flesh-eating spirit

that inhabits
the bodies of his people.

[ Roars ]

[ Gasps ]

[ Growling and grunting ]

♪♪

[ Noises stop ]

[ Gasps ]

♪♪

♪♪

ENGLUND: With another
wendigo dead,

the legend of Cree medicine man
Jack Fiddler

grows among his people.

Many indigenous tribes
of North America

believed in the existence
of the wendigo.

Descriptions vary, but generally
they're considered evil spirits

or demonic entities
that can possess people

and even transform
into human beings themselves.

They're characterized by
an insatiable hunger

for human flesh,

so any human possessed
by a wendigo

is able to slip in and out
of this state of savagery.

ENGLUND: Although a wendigo
masquerades as human,

its true appearance seems drawn
from our darkest nightmares.

KUNTZ: A wendigo looks like
it's always baring its teeth,

but it's not.

It looks that way because
it's so ravenous

it eats its own lips.

[ Growls ]

No matter how much this hideous
monster devours,

it's always starving.

It sounds crazy to us,
but there are stories

of many Cree tribesmen
that turn cannibal.

One named Swift Runner was found
guilty in a Canadian court

for eating his wife, his mother,
his brother, and six children.

♪♪

ENGLUND: To Fiddler's tribe,
there is no doubt

wendigos exist,
and they are a mortal threat.

♪♪

KUNTZ: Because they can
take human form,

it's not always easy spotting
a wendigo, but as a shaman,

Fiddler has this
very rare talent

for being able to detect them
and destroy them.

♪♪

CLARKE: By 1906, Fiddler
claims to have killed

as many as 14 wendigos.

He's always on the lookout
for these things,

and they're hard to find

because,
according to Cree tradition,

wendigos are
masters of deception.

ENGLUND: Despite his old age,

Fiddler never shrinks
from his duty.

Evil, like fear, can be sensed.

It lingers where something
unholy has happened,

like an echo
after a scream.

Jack Fiddler's search
leads him to a campsite

deep into the Ontario
wilderness...

or at least what's left of it.

♪♪

[ Branches snap ]

♪♪

He has every reason to believe

that this is
the work of a wendigo.

♪♪

♪♪

The evil spirit has left behind
a fragment of his murder weapon,

the tip of a hunting knife.

♪♪

Fiddler follows what he thinks
is the wendigo's trail.

♪♪

It takes him to a remote
trading post.

♪♪

♪♪

ENGLUND: The wendigo is here.

Fiddler knows it.

But he has no idea which
of these men is his target.

The Cree shaman
must smoke it out.

♪♪

[ Speaking native language ]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

CLARKE:
Fiddler demands to inspect
each of the trappers' knives.

Whoever's knife has
a missing tip is the wendigo.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

KUNTZ: At this point,
Fiddler realizes the wendigo

is not one of the men
sitting around the table.

Suddenly, a new threat exists
in that room,

and Fiddler knows
exactly who it is.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Neck cracks ]

♪♪

[ Snarls ]

♪♪

[ Speaks native language ]

ENGLUND:
Jack Fiddler, the Cree shaman,

has cornered a demonic wendigo
in a remote Canadian outpost.

To protect his people, he must
take on the cannibalistic spirit

and destroy it.

[ Snarls ]

♪♪

A week later, Fiddler returns
to his tribal camp,

hoping there are
no more wendigos to kill.

He wants to spend
his final days in peace.

[ Man grunting ]

ENGLUND: But since when has fate
cared about man's plans?

KUNTZ:
A wendigo has invaded the body
of one of Fiddler's nephews.

[ Grunting ]

KUNTZ: So now he faces one
of the toughest decisions

of his life, to kill one of
his own family members.

♪♪

CLARKE: Fiddler would give
anything not to do this again...

♪♪

...but it's his duty.

[ Grunting loudly ]

♪♪

[ Snarls ]

♪♪

♪♪

ENGLUND: For decades, Fiddler's
exploits as a wendigo slayer

have been unknown
by white civilization.

In 1907, word reaches
the Canadian authorities.

What the Cree consider
tribal self-defense,

the government views as murder.

Fiddler is placed under arrest.

The press has a field day.

The newspapers portray Fiddler
as a bloodthirsty lunatic.

One report says that
"the crime was the outcome

of an old savage custom
and was particularly inhuman."

The trial of Jack Fiddler
is said

to begin in the fall of 1907,
but an unexpected event derails

the Canadian authorities' plans
for justice.

♪♪

Not long after he's taken
into custody,

this unassuming old medicine man

slips away
from a neglectful guard...

♪♪

...and takes his own life.

♪♪

ENGLUND: "The wild old ruffian
finished his bloodthirsty career

by strangling himself."

♪♪

Fiddler's death is anything

but the clear-cut case of
suicide it appears to be.

Jack Fiddler dedicated his life
to protecting his people

by killing every wendigo
he encountered.

In his final minutes,

one should believe
his commitment never wavered.

♪♪

[ Snarls ]

♪♪

[ Snarls ]

There are many people who still
believe wendigos walk among us.

Something to keep in mind
if you bump into a stranger

who seems to be studying
you with...

hungry eyes.

Ah, but don't think wendigos are
the only thing you should fear.

Let me tell you about
another curiously human beast,

one perhaps
even more terrifying,

a creature that entered
American lore in the 1860s

and never left.

♪♪

The best hunters can always
sense when their prey is near.

Young Sol Collins is among them.

♪♪

Collins is known around
the Ozarks as "Blue Sol"

because of his sour disposition.

And in 1865,
he sets out following

the biggest set
of bear tracks he's ever seen.

♪♪

[ Owl hooting ]

Sol Collins knows every inch
of these woods

because he's been
hunting here for years,

but on this day,
he's not exactly sure

what kind of creature
he's tracking.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Bird cawing ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Growl ]

♪♪

ENGLUND: There are those who say
seeing is believing.

[ Growling ]

But what is one to think when
they come across a bloodthirsty

monster no one
has ever encountered before?

[ Creature roars ]

♪♪

[ Creature growls ]

ENGLUND: In 1865, a monster
appeared in the Ozark Mountains,

and the first to confront it
was a young hunter, Sol Collins.

MURPHY: He had seen an object
unmistakably human,

though strongly resembling
a vicious animal,

hurling huge boulders
at him down the steep hillside.

"Blue" Sol Collins is
the first person on record

to see the creature,
but he isn't the last.

[ Roars ]

ENGLUND: "On the steep hillside
above him stood

a gigantic figure,
an enormous man,

stark naked except
a breechcloth of animal skin.

The huge body was covered
with long hair,

almost black in color

and as thick
as that of any wild animal."

♪♪

Between 1865 and 1905,

there are at least a dozen
sightings of this creature.

CLARKE: The creature becomes
known as the Blue Man.

Now, some people believe this is
because of the bluish coat.

Truth of the matter is it's
because the first person

to encourage it
was Blue Sol Collins.

♪♪

[ Roars ]

♪♪

ENGLUND: Even the things we fear
most can fade from memory

if they're absent long enough.

A farmer named Jay Taber has
heard whispers

of the Ozarks bogeyman
for years,

but his greatest concern
is life's daily grind.

MURPHY: That fall, two of
Taber's lambs go missing.

Now, with a family that's trying
to keep a farm going,

this was a huge setback.

I will say,
we did lose two sheep.

How?

I don't know.

Whatever it is,
if we don't stop it,

not going to be able
to make it through winter.

[ Bleating ]

MURPHY: The next day, Taber goes
out looking for his lost sheep.

He's not hopeful,
but he'll give it a try.

♪♪

ENGLUND: We all do what we must
to protect what's ours,

but venturing into the unknown
can come with great risk.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

CLARKE: The discovery of
two slaughtered lambs

horrifies Taber.

He knows there's a story
associated

with the slaughter of livestock,

and it's the story
of the Blue Man.

♪♪

In a manner of days,

nearly a third of
Taber's livestock is destroyed.

[ Bleating ]

All the attacks are
absolutely gruesome in nature.

♪♪

ENGLUND: Is there a commonplace
explanation for the killings,

or has a legendary menace
returned to terrorize the Ozarks

once more?

[ Roar, woman screaming ]

♪♪

Ruby!

Ruby!

[ Bleating ]

-Ruby!
-Ruby!

Ruby!

Ruby!

Jay!

[ Panting ]

-Ruby.
-I don't know what it was.

He was giant,
and it looked like a man,

but it was covered in hair.

Ruby's sighting of the creature
verifies that the Blue Man

is living in the woods
near the Taber farm.

We have to do something
before it kills all of us.

ENGLUND: Desperation can take us
down many paths.

Some offer hope, while others,
a dead end.

[ Knock on door ]

♪♪

Understand you have
an animal problem.

CLARKE: The unexpected visitor
is none other

than the legendary trapper
Blue Sol Collins.

COLLINS: You both deserve to
know what you're dealing with.

50 years ago,
when I was a young trapper,

I was out looking for a bear.

I found his tracks,
and I thought,

"I've never seen
anything like this.

I don't know what it is,
but I'm going to find it."

MURPHY: Blue Collins describes,
in great detail,

his encounter
with this hideous beast.

[ Roars ]

♪♪

And then he offers his help
in killing it.

♪♪

In 1915, Collins and Taber
set out to slay

the legendary
Blue Man of the Ozarks.

ENGLUND: How do you kill
something that's rarely seen

and has never been captured?

More importantly, how do you
prevent it from killing you?

♪♪

[ Blue Man growls ]

♪♪

ENGLUND: In 1915,
the legendary Blue Man

prowled the Ozark Mountains,

threatening Missouri's
earlier settlers

and leaving hundreds
of dead animals in its wake.

A farm named Jay Taber
is determined to kill it

with the help of veteran hunter
"Old Blue" Sol Collins.

They scour the hills.

The days are long and the nights
filled with dread.

And, finally, on day three,
they make a daunting discovery.

♪♪

It's fresh.
Look how big it is.

♪♪

[ Blue Man growls ]

♪♪

♪♪

CLARKE: Collins has fashioned
these huge traps

with massive jaws

and an iron chain
attached to a tree

to prevent whatever
he catches from escaping.

♪♪

[ Bird cawing ]

Taber, keep an eye
on the trap.

Six miles into the woods,

they uncover the den
of the beast.

♪♪

♪♪

Home sweet home.

He has clearly lived there
for some time,

and there are disturbingly
humanlike touches.

[ Trap snaps ]

[ Blue man roars ]

There it is.

♪♪

[ Moaning ]

♪♪

ENGLUND: The two hunters
discover

that even mythical beasts

are not immune
to the ravages of old age.

"His blue-gray coat of hair now
is iron-y gray,

and his limbs are not
well-muscled as formerly.

Nevertheless,
it may be safely wagered

that there it not a man among
the sturdy Ozark mountaineers

who would like to risk combat

single-handed

with the fearsome creature."

♪♪

♪♪

Your animals are what
that thing killed.

You do the deed.

♪♪

MURPHY: As Taber looks closely
at the wounded Blue Man,

suddenly all he can see
is the humanlike qualities --

its hands, the expression
on its face, its tears.

[ Moaning ]

MURPHY: And he can't bring
himself to fire at it.

It's crying.

COLLINS: It's a demon
sent to Earth.

Take your shot.

♪♪

Take the shot.

MURPHY:
He doesn't see a monster.

He sees the humanity
inside this creature

because it looks like a man.

♪♪

[ Gunshot ]

What the hell
did you do?

♪♪

Aah!
Aah!

[ Screaming ]

♪♪

CLARKE: Blue Sol Collins
dies that day,

but the beast allows
Taber to escape,

possibly because
of Taber's act of mercy.

[ Blue Man roars ]

♪♪

The Blue Man of the Ozarks
was never captured.

His legacy reminds us
that there's a fine line

between man and beast.

As for these three icons
of American lore,

whether they were too hungry,
too human, or too horrifying,

they will forever remain
the stuff

that nightmares are made of.

Now, try and get some rest
if you can,

but, uh, do come back for our
next descent into true terror.

♪♪

[ Wind whistling ]